In 1930, at the age of 14, Chu Daming joined the Red Guards and became a little red ghost. He experienced the Red Army's counter-siege and long march, experienced hundreds of battles in his life, fought and died, escaped countless times, his body was covered with scars, and he had extraordinary command skills, becoming one of the most admired fierce generals under Chen Geng.com.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, at the end of 1937, Chu Daming marched east with the Eighth Route Army to the east column and opened up a base area behind enemy lines in the eastern Hebei area of Pinghan Road. Chu Daming followed the troops in the southern expedition to the northern war, and in his early 20s, he had already become an excellent commander and fighter with rich experience and tactical sophistication in our army; he went to the plains to adapt measures to local conditions, actively carried out guerrilla warfare in the plains, invented many new tactics, fought many beautiful battles, and spread his prestige throughout the southern Hebei region.
On the plains, the Japanese puppet army strongholds and artillery towers are lined up, the blockade lines are crisscrossed, and the main content of the guerrilla warfare of the Eighth Route Army is not only anti-sweeping, but also the extraction of strongholds and the end of the artillery tower. In the absence of heavy weapons in the Eighth Route Army, pulling up strongholds and terminal artillery towers was a great test of the command art of commanders and fighters, and Chu Daming constantly invented and improved soil methods, so that one enemy artillery tower after another flew into the sky
。 Among them, the removal of the Cui Family Temple cannon tower is a model that can make the whole army learn from guerrilla warfare in the plains.
It was difficult to gnaw the bones and hand them over to Chu Daming, and the puppet army shouted triumphantly: attack the turret and surrender
In 1939, when the Battle of Cui Jiamiao began, Chu Daming was the battalion commander.
Cui Jia Temple, located on the Dongguang Fucheng Highway line more than ten miles southwest of Dongguang County, is home to a puppet army squadron. On the open ground at the head of the village, the enemy built a four-story artillery tower overlooking a few miles. This stronghold, like a nail, jammed the strategic highway line, is also a barrier for the county seat.
The squadron leader of the puppet army, called Yang Bailing, was a landlord and young master. He graduated from Baoding Normal School, wearing Sven glasses, but he did all the evil things, and the villagers called him "Young Master Yang" in person and called him a "four-eyed dog" behind his back.
Yang Bailing is a hardcore traitor, following the Japanese fox and fake tiger power, burning and looting, raping women, and committing all kinds of evil. Once, walking around the village, seeing the Peugeot women, seeing the color, they took advantage of the night to rape the family, and as a result, the three brothers of the family were in a hurry, and cut him more than a hundred knives on the spot, and then the family fled away. When the puppet army subordinates found him, he was already blurred with blood and flesh, and was urgently sent to the county seat by his subordinates, and he actually survived after being rescued by Japanese military doctors. After the evil was not killed, Yang Bailing not only did not relent, but instead intensified, maliciously retaliated, killed more than a dozen people in the Cui Family Temple, and burned half a street. He believed that the Japanese had saved his life, and even more so he was dead set on the Japanese and obeyed his orders. The underground United Front personnel of the Eighth Route Army contacted him many times to fight for resistance against Japan, but they did not expect to kill even the people who delivered the letters.
For this stronghold and Yang Bailing's pseudo-squadron, the people and the Eighth Route Army hated it to the bone, and the people even went to the east of the Eighth Route Army to petition for the elimination of harm for the people. The Eighth Route Army was determined to get rid of this scourge, but its weapons and terrain were not superior, and the basic cadre regiments of the Fifth Division failed to succeed in their repeated attacks. The leader of the column found Chu Daming.
On October 1, 1939, Chu Daming was ordered to remove the Cui Family Temple Gun Tower. Chu Daming led three companies to approach the stronghold covertly, hiding in the corn stalk crevices of their fellow villagers, and surveying the terrain. From a distance, the cannon tower is surrounded by water on three sides, facing the open land of the village on one side, and within a few hundred meters, there is not even a dirt ridge, ditch, or depression that can be hidden. Even the commander of the Sixth Company and Zhenjiang, who had experienced hundreds of battles, inhaled a cold breath: "My obedience, no wonder the jigan regiment hit the nail three times, this is really a hard bone, it is not easy to open!" ”
Gou Zhengyin, commander of the fourth company: "Old Chu, one has no cannons, two no sappers, it's not easy to get it!" Cui Dongyuan, commander of the Fifth Company, said: "Good nibble still looking for us?" Lao Tzu wants to see if our teeth are hard or our bones are hard! ”
Chu Daming said, "Go back first, and then discuss the method!" ”
At night, Chu Daming and Cui Dongyuan led five companies to take advantage of the night to approach the turret covertly. Who knew that just a few tens of meters ahead, the turret fired three flares, and the dazzling white light illuminated the ground, exposing the soldiers at once. Then, the machine guns of the puppet army began to strafe like a wind, and a long row of soldiers and more than a dozen soldiers in front of them were hit. Chu Daming looked at it badly: "Withdraw! ”
After returning to the battalion headquarters, Chu Daming called a meeting of cadres to discuss tactics and brainstorm ideas. Chu Daming issued an order: "Four companies are guarding the county town on the periphery to help the enemy and fight for reinforcements; six companies are the main attack, five companies are prepared, and the main attack can only be outwitted, and we will think of a way." ”
At dawn, the puppet army in the turret took advantage of it and triumphantly said, "Brothers of the Eighth Road, attack it!" Attack and we will surrender, hahaha! "The soldiers' lungs exploded.
After thinking hard, I finally had to calculate, and I tried and tried to change while fighting
Cadres at all levels brought the ideas of the warriors, Chu Daming pondered bitterly, his brows furrowed, and his mind flashed with his previous combat experience, trying to find treasures from them. Suddenly, my mind flashed and I remembered one thing, when I was fighting the bandits in Fucheng and Jiaohe before, it rained heavily at night, and the backpacks of the sixth company commander and Xiao Lizi, the correspondent of Zhenjiang, were hit by the enemy, and they actually did not penetrate. "Six company commanders, little plum wet backpacks, is there such a thing?" "Oh, yes, yes, how I didn't expect that!" And Zhenjiang patted his head.
When all was said and done, Chu Daming asked people to find a large thick square table of jujube wood, which was covered with five layers of thick quilts and poured with water, and the comrades laughed: "Isn't this our earth tank!" "Behind the table were four muscular warriors, carrying explosive packs, ready to attack. After testing, the "earth tank" bulletproof effect is very good.
Chu Daming ordered light and heavy machine gun fire to cover, blockade the gun holes of the turret, and with a big wave of his hand, ordered the "earth tanks" to advance. The commander of the sixth company kept ordering the soldiers to throw out grenades and blow out billowing smoke and dust, obscuring the view of the turret.
The puppet army of the turret hurriedly shot at the "earth tank", but to no avail, this made them anxious, feeling bad! The anxious Yang Bailing sneaked to the roof and commanded the machine gun to shoot.
Soon, the "earth tank" approached, and suddenly there was a flash of fire, a loud noise, smoke billowing into the sky, and a huge opening was exploded at the bottom of the turret! The soldiers of the Sixth Company shouted, "Surrender your guns and don't kill!" Bravely rushed into the turret, killed the pseudo squadron leader Yang Bailing with one shot, and more than a hundred puppet troops directly surrendered, capturing three machine guns and more than seventy rifles. The soldiers then burned down the turret and stronghold, and the villagers cheered happily.
Chu Daming's "earth tank" caused the military region to compete to emulate it. In battle, Chu Daming became more and more familiar with it, constantly improving, using a three-legged table and installing wheels, and turning flexibly at any time.
In 1941, when the turret of Lutou Town in Chuiyang County was removed, the "earth tank" made another great contribution. A Japanese squad was stationed in the lutou town artillery tower, and when Akiyama Yoshitsuru, an anti-war alliance of the Japanese army in southern Hebei, shouted to persuade him to surrender, the Japanese army directly opened fire.
Brigade Commander Yi Liangpin ordered Chu Daming to attack the stronghold. Chu Daming had already made preparations, pulled out improved "earth tanks", and under the cover of firepower, he specially took the dead end of the artillery tower fire. After approaching, Zhao Guihai, the commander of the second platoon, led two soldiers to lean the forty-six-pound explosive package against the gun tower, pulled the fuse, and the three of them hurriedly jumped into the trench to hide. Unexpectedly, the explosive yield was too fierce, and Zhao Guihai was completely deaf for three days after the battle, and only slowly regained his hearing after a week.
The amount of explosives used was indeed too fierce, the turret was directly uprooted, the bricks and wood were scattered like heavenly women, and the smoke and dust were everywhere for a hundred meters, and more than thirty devils were all sent to the sky by the "earth plane".