In the spring of 1940, ma Benzhai, a famous anti-Japanese general, led his troops to rush across the Cangshi Highway and reached Shenxian County, Hebei Province, where he wanted to carry out guerrilla warfare.
Shenxian is a traffic throat area, and the arrival of Ma Benzhai made the local Japanese puppet army very panicked, so they launched a clearance against Ma Benzhai.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the main means of liquidation and suppression of the Japanese army on the Great Plains of North China was to build strongholds everywhere, with artillery towers lined up, and a large number of Japanese puppet troops stationed there, and to dig "traffic ditches" along both sides of the highway.
Traffic ditch is also called road protection ditch, why dig traffic ditch? This was also the product of the Japanese Kou being frightened by the ambush tactics of the Eighth Route Army guerrillas.
When the Japanese troops went out, they had to walk along the road, because as soon as they moved, they would inevitably have cars, horse-drawn carriages (pulling cannons), cavalry, and so on, so they could not go any way like the guerrillas, they had to take the road, so they repeatedly entered the ambush circle set up by the Eighth Route Army, and each time they suffered heavy casualties.
To this end, the Japanese army thought of a way to dig a protective ditch on both sides of the road, so that once they encountered an ambush by the Eighth Route Army, they could quickly find cover.
Therefore, the Japanese army forced the people of Shenxian County to send labor to dig a large protective ditch on both sides of all roads.
The work carried out by our party behind enemy lines in North China is very fruitful, and the broad masses of the people will support and cooperate with the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army; it is reasonable to say that now that the Japanese army is forcing them to dig ditches to deal with the guerrillas, they should be passive and slack, but it is strange that the people in Shenxian County are digging one by one in full swing and working very hard, which makes the Japanese army and the traitors feel very surprised.
However, Xiang Xiang also figured it out later from the large Japanese puppet army, thinking that the common people must be afraid of the prestige of the imperial army, and were frightened by the "great sweep" and "three-light policy" of the imperial army, so they worked hard to save their lives.
In fact, where did they know that the reason why the common people did this was because they had received instructions from Ma Benzhai.
Ma Benzai heard that the Japanese were going to dig a traffic ditch, and knew that it was used against the Eighth Route Army. Let the people sabotage the work? That is the next strategy, the Japanese will definitely take harsh punitive measures to deal with the people, sooner or later the traffic ditch will be completed, then, is there a way to use these traffic ditches for my use? Ma Benzai pondered bitterly.
Ma Benzai joined the warlord army when he was young, served as an officer, and was very familiar with various military fortifications, and he knew very well that the traffic ditch was a trench for the Japanese, so the traffic ditch was shallow, could not cover the soldiers, dug deep, not to mention...
As soon as he thought about it, Ma Benzhai suddenly saw a bright eye: Yes, he dug the traffic ditch deeply!
Therefore, Ma Benzhai secretly instructed the people of Shenxian County to pretend to obey the Japanese puppet army and work hard.
Under the hard work of the common people, the traffic ditch was quickly dug, and the Japanese puppet army was always troubled by the people's passive slack work, digging slowly, and a section of depth and shallowness, but now when I look at it, the digging is fast and good, so I am very satisfied, and I keep giving a thumbs up and praising: "All are good people, and they have done a great job!" ”
As soon as the communication ditch was dug, Ma Benzhai began to move, setting up an ambush in the Kangzhuang area to wait for the Japanese army, while sending a small force to pretend to attack the Anjia village stronghold.
After the Japanese troops in the Anjia village stronghold were besieged, they immediately asked for help, and Hengshui dispatched a large number of Japanese troops to drag mountain artillery to the rescue.
Perhaps because the Japanese army was ambushed too much by the Eighth Route Army, when it was about to reach the ambush circle, it suddenly stopped, fired artillery everywhere, conducted fire reconnaissance, and made sure that it was safe before slowly entering the ambush circle.
As soon as Ma Benzai saw that all the Japanese troops had entered the ambush circle, at the sound of an order, the battle began! The Japanese army was ambushed, but it was not in a hurry, and immediately jumped into the dug protective ditch in an attempt to counterattack with the help of the trench.
Who knew that as soon as they jumped in, these Japanese troops shouted to be deceived!
It turns out that this is Ma Benzai's brilliant plan!
Ma Benzai knew that the Japanese were generally short in stature, so he let the common people dig a little deeper when digging the ditch, and when the Japanese jumped in, they found that they could not reach it at all, and they had to ride on the heads of their companions to shoot outside, and the firepower was suddenly reduced by half!
At this time, Ma Benzai ordered a charge, and the warriors rushed to the edge of the ditch and began to throw grenades inside, but the Japanese inside had no place to hide, and they were blown up and cried, wow!
At this time, Ma Benzai shouted at the inside again: "The Chinese inside have listened well!" If you want to survive, kill the Japanese inside, count your credit, otherwise, continue to eat grenades! ”
It turned out that there were still many puppet soldiers and traitors inside, and when they heard this, they began to turn their guns around and exchange fire with the Japanese Kou.
Only to listen to the ping-pong ping-pong in the trench for a while, the sound of gunfire gradually weakened, Ma Benzai looked over, the Japanese Kou had been completely eliminated, and there were few puppet traitors left.
In this way, Ma Benzai fought a very painful ambush battle, captured a large number of weapons, and greatly increased the strength of the guerrillas.
Later, this story reached the ears of Mr. Zhu, who also clapped his hands and applauded, saying that Ma Benzhai's method was good and worth promoting.