In this battle, a platoon commander defected to the enemy and almost put the commander of the military district under siege.
On the evening of June 11, 1942, the village of Zhangshi in Wei County, Hebei Province, was quiet and peaceful. As the name "Palm History" goes, this is a place that makes history and creates miracles. Just a few hours ago, a heroic unit arrived in this small place with only three hundred households, and this heroic unit was the leading organ of the Jizhong Military Region led by Lu Zhengcao and the troops directly under the military region.
In fact, the reason why the Jizhong Military Region was transferred was because not long ago, Okamura Ningci dispatched more than 50,000 people to "sweep" the jizhong base area, and in order to smash the enemy's "sweeping" plan, Lü Zhengcao decided to leave jizhong and move to southern Hebei. Lü Zhengcao ordered the pot to be buried and made rice, and ordered all troops to be highly vigilant and try to avoid engaging the enemy and revealing their whereabouts. However, I am really afraid of what is coming! When the cooking class had just prepared a meal, there was a sudden burst of gunfire in the distance, and Lu Zhengcao looked up at the scattered fires in the sky and couldn't help but frown. "Which unit is this, and what's going on?" Isn't it not to let the enemy fight? Lu Zheng was angry and didn't fight. A scout came running from a distance and said breathlessly, "Chief, our outpost is engaged in an exchange of fire with the enemy. Lu Zheng slapped the table violently and scolded, "Fuck, it's nonsense!" This hit and we were exposed! "Pass on the order, all the troops hurry to eat, be ready to fight, and soon there will be another hard battle to be fought!" Sure enough, shortly after this, the Japanese army gathered a large number of troops and launched an all-out attack on the troops of the Jizhong Military Region, and the position of the Twenty-seventh Regiment was the main position, and it exchanged fire with the enemy head-on, repelling several consecutive attacks of the enemy, and layers of enemy corpses were stacked in front of the position.
The enemy could not defeat the enemy several times in a row, so they launched a political offensive, they forced a fellow villager to send a "letter of persuasion", the letter declared that there were 5,000 imperial troops outside, Lu Zhengcao got the letter, naturally knew that this is just a "blindfold method", if there are really 5,000 people outside, with his combat troops of less than 1,000 people, it is absolutely impossible to persist until now. At noon on the 12th, the enemy's offensive momentum weakened a lot, and Lu Zhengcao immersed himself in the temporary headquarters to study the battle plan, and at this moment, Yuan Xing, the chief of the reconnaissance section, walked into the headquarters. Lu Zhengcao asked, "How is the war on the front line?" "The enemy is organizing a new round of attacks, and I am afraid that a large-scale offensive will not be launched in a short period of time." Yuan Xing replied, "However, there is a very unfavorable news..." Lu Zhengcao's pupils shrunk and he frowned. Yuan Xing said again: "A platoon leader of the 27th Regiment has defected to the enemy..." Lu Zhengcao slammed the table, unable to speak for a long time, he looked at the battle map and said: "Pass on the order, be ready for a larger-scale attack of the enemy!" ”
Lü Zhengcao's mood was very complicated, originally he had already arranged a counter-offensive plan, but the defection of this platoon leader made all his plans fall short, and if this platoon leader told the Japanese army all about the situation in the Jizhong Military Region, the Japanese army would inevitably increase its troops and strike at the Jizhong Military Region. "Now I can only take one step and look at one step..." Lu Zhengcao said with a sigh. However, what Lü Zhengcao did not expect was that the enemy did not launch a larger attack, and even the momentum of the attack was weakened, so there was obviously only one explanation, that is, the Japanese army did not believe what the defective platoon leader said. Lü Zhengcao was overjoyed, which meant that the opportunity for a counter-offensive was ripe, and in the evening, Lü Zhengcao gave the order to counterattack. At ten o'clock that night, the troops of the Jizhong Military Region began to break through head-on, and under the cover of the vanguard troops, the main force rushed out of the enemy's encirclement and marched toward the area of Dadaogou. In this battle, the troops of the Jizhong Military Region annihilated 500 enemy troops at the cost of 46 casualties, which can be called a classic battle in which fewer victories are more.