In September 1942, in order to further intensify the strangulation of our enemy base areas behind enemy lines in Shandong, the Japanese puppet army mobilized a large army to carry out an even more crazy and cruel autumn sweep of our base areas. Among them, the Japanese troops living in Linyi pointed their main attack spearhead directly at our Linshu anti-Japanese base area.
At the beginning of September, Kobayashi, the commander of the 221st Wing of the Japanese 32nd Division regiment stationed in Linyi, and Ito, an adviser to the Linyi puppet army, mobilized a total of more than 700 Japanese puppet troops from various strongholds along the Lintan Highway, preparing to take advantage of the autumn harvest to carry out the second iron wall siege of our base areas in Linshu and Tancheng areas after the summer sweep, in a vain attempt to destroy the base areas and annihilate the main force of our army, at least to grab grain and destroy our autumn harvest, so as to freeze our soldiers and civilians to death in the cold winter.
The enemy army is still adopting its usual tactic of dividing and attacking together, among which the Japanese puppet army in Linyi is the main force of the sweep, carrying 1 mortar, 2 grenadiers, 2 heavy machine guns, and more than 20 light machine guns, and with cars and carriages ready to grab grain, after leaving the city, they rush straight to the precarious mountain area at the front of our base area.
At that time, the 115th Division of our Eighth Route Army, which was stationed near the Shuhe River, instructed the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade and the government of the Qianshan District to immediately hold a meeting to urgently discuss the battle plan after receiving the information on the main force of the enemy. Although the enemy's main forces and firepower are very strong, if the favorable terrain can be properly used to raid the enemy's marching brigade, the possibility of success is still very large.
The 4th Regiment then immediately dispatched 2 battalions of troops, together with the local unit county brigade, the district squadron, and the nearby militia and guerrillas, arranged ambush circles at the foot of the precarious mountain at the northern foot of Maling Mountain, quietly waiting for the enemy to throw himself into the net. Kobayashi and Ito did not expect that the first stick of our army's anti-sweeping would be firmly struck on their heads.
When the enemy entered our army's ambush circle, our army immediately concentrated its firepower on the enemy's brigade to shoot and drop bombs, and the unsuspecting Japanese puppet army was suddenly in chaos, Kobayashi and Ito, after a flurry of panic, calmed down and began to issue orders continuously, and the Japanese puppet army began to gradually stabilize the formation and quickly adjust.
Subsequently, the Japanese army drove away the puppet army and began to counterattack our army under the cover of fierce fire, in an attempt to seize favorable terrain to cover the main force to withdraw from the ambush circle of our army. Our army relied on the favorable terrain to the attacking Japanese puppet army to deal a heavy blow, Kobayashi was also killed by the sharpshooters of the 4th Regiment when commanding the battle, Ito then took over kobayashi's command of the troops to continue to counterattack our army, but the sharpshooters of our army then accurately hit Ito's neck again, seriously injuring him, the Japanese army lost 2 of the highest commanders in succession, and suddenly lost all morale, hurriedly carried the injured Ito, dropped the carriage and a large number of heavy weights and desperately broke through from the same road, and in the confusion, the Japanese army did not even collect the body of the captain Kobayashi. He fled back to Linyi.
The battle ended in half an hour, and our army killed more than 20 Japanese troops, more than 30 puppet troops, and wounded more than 60 Japanese puppet troops. Our army killed only 1 person each and wounded. In order to psychologically further attack the enemy. After the battle, the local militia collected the body of the Japanese brigade leader Kobayashi and sent it to a nearby stronghold, shouting for the enemy inside to collect the body, and attached a letter that read: "Send the body of the japanese captain Kobayashi to be examined." At the same time, he also warned the Japanese army, "This is the end of the invading army!" ”
Author/Zhou Hongxin