During the War of Resistance, Luo Ronghuan moved with a cavalry platoon, and suddenly came to report that they were surrounded by five hundred Japanese puppet troops! Luo Ronghuan frowned: "The escort battalion has not yet arrived, this is a serious dereliction of duty!" Let's go now and we'll break through on our own! After saying this, he immediately got on his horse and led his troops to the North Gully Cliff ten miles away.
At that time, the enemy gathered more than 50,000 people and encircled and attacked Yimeng Mountain, where the 115th Division and the Shandong Column were located. Faced with the "iron wall encirclement", Luo Ronghuan, Chen Guang, and others discussed and decided to avoid its sharp edge, negotiate with the enemy, and then seize the opportunity to jump out of the encirclement.
The troops began to jump out of the enemy's encirclement one after another, there were too many troops, it was not easy to coordinate, Luo Ronghuan decided to stay and take care of the aftermath, and in the end, everyone withdrew almost, Luo Ronghuan thought of moving to the coast, and there was only one cavalry platoon with him.
It was already December, it was freezing cold, and the team was walking in the mountains, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed on the mountain road. Walking in front were two plainclothes scouts, dressed in civilian clothes with shell guns pinned to their waists, and the cavalry platoon leader with a cavalry squad, wearing a yellow tweed coat, carrying the same type 38 horse rifle, disguised as a Japanese army, following Luo Ronghuan, who rode a flower zebra and followed by three soldiers. At the end were two cavalry squads, dressed in gray cloth costumes, unhurriedly maintaining a certain distance from each other.
Before Luo Ronghuan set out, considering the strength of a platoon, if it encountered a large enemy force, there might be danger, and the Shandong column specially ordered the nearby troops to send a battalion to escort Luo Ronghuan to move. The escort battalion had to reach Green Cloud Mountain before dawn.
Meet Luo Ronghuan here, and then escort them across the Taiwei Highway to the Yimu River Plain. Luo Ronghuan kept looking at his watch along the way, estimating the time of the rendezvous, the soldiers were fast, and they were still followed by the enemy, and no one could afford the consequences of a later time.
Soon, they arrived near the agreed small mountain village at about seven o'clock. At this time, the scouts came to report that there were no sentries outside the wall, and the inside was also quiet, Luo Ronghuan judged that there might be an accident in the escort battalion, so he decided to let the team go first, eat breakfast and rest, and wait for them.
After the villagers knew that the Eighth Route Army had come, they were very enthusiastic, and the soldiers took out dry food bags and poured them on the table, and there were various kinds of dry food, including dry pancakes, peanut cakes, nest heads, dried sweet potatoes, and so on. The warriors ate with hot water. Suddenly, two gunshots came from not far away. Then there was the sound of machine guns, the explosion of grenadiers. It's the enemy! The soldiers gathered with their guns, and the dry food was not collected.
Luo Ronghuan judged from the sound of gunfire that the battle should take place four or five miles away, it may be that our troops and the enemy have exchanged fire, not necessarily the whereabouts of the team have been discovered. He quickly ordered a squad to quickly seize the small mountain bag on the east side, just in case, the rest of the men led their horses to the north to hide in the mountains and forests, and Luo Ronghuan himself walked up to a high ground and picked up binoculars to observe.
Two plainclothes scouts immediately rode on horseback and ran to the place of fierce fighting, and soon brought back the information. It turned out that the enemy had engaged the escort battalion, and the escort battalion reached Donggu Mountain before dawn, did not continue to advance, but rested in the village, and then set off after dawn, and unexpectedly encountered more than five hundred Japanese puppet troops from the north. The escort battalion immediately occupied the high ground and fought with the enemy. In this way, the road was cut off by the enemy, and the escort battalion could not get out for a while.
After listening, the opening scene occurred. Luo Ronghuan was a little angry, why didn't the escort battalion follow the order and rest after reaching the Green Cloud Mountain. At this time, it was useless to say too much, and Luo Ronghuan immediately ordered the cavalry platoon to set off and go to the North Gou Cliff.
Two heavily armed cavalry marched to the front, and the cavalry occupying the hill to the east also withdrew, and when Luo Ronghuan walked to the north of the pine forest, three warriors were leading his horses. Everyone was about to get on their horses, but the commanding heights of Northridge were occupied by the enemy, and a round of machine guns was fired coldly, and a horse was frightened. Trying to break free of the reins, the warrior could not step on the saddle and was dragged by the horse for more than a dozen steps.
At this time, there was an enemy team on the North Ridge, more than twenty Japanese troops were rushing with guns, the distance between the two sides was less than three hundred meters, and there was only a small earth ditch in the middle, the situation was very urgent!
The soldiers were in a hurry and shouted for Luo Ronghuan to get on the horse, but he did not hurry to look at the Japanese army that was rushing forward: "Don't panic, get ready to barge the shell gun!" Soon, the Japanese climbed up the cliff. Luo Ronghuan shouted, "Fight! The soldiers immediately opened fire, and a string of bullets slammed into the Japanese ranks, and two immediately fell to the ground, and the rest did not dare to rush forward and retreated to the ditch.
At this time, Luo Ronghuan saw that the frightened horse had calmed down, so he shouted: "Get on the horse, retreat!" "Everyone got on their horses, rushed over the pine forest, and ran to the southwest.
After escaping from danger, Luo Ronghuan took out a map and carefully looked at Yishui, Juxian and Rizhao, preparing to pass through the gaps in the encirclement of the Japanese army without the escort of large troops. Soon, a new route was found, and they prepared to bypass the enemy's stronghold and pass through the Yimu River Plain overnight. Shortening the distance to make up for the lost time during the day, at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the gunfire in the southeast gradually stopped, and Luo Ronghuan estimated that the escort battalion was retreating to the northeast.
Without escorting the battalion, Luo Ronghuan decided to wait until the evening to move, the soldiers seized the time, fed the horses grass, and as soon as it was dark, the team slowly walked eastward, took a rough mountain road, walked through the hilly land, the terrain gradually flattened, and the speed of the team gradually accelerated.
At this time, the weather suddenly changed, a whistling north wind blew cold, the moon was hidden, and five fingers could not be seen, fortunately, the two scouts were locals and were familiar with the terrain of this area. That night, the wind was cold, the enemy shrank in the stronghold and did not come out, and the team quietly crossed the Taiwei Highway half a mile away from the stronghold.
After crossing the road, Luo Ronghuan rode on the flower zebra again, let the team accelerate forward, and walked to the Yi River in one breath, everyone got off their horses, led the horses, and walked slowly on the ice. When the river was crossed, it was a plain, and the horses walked cheerfully on it. When the sky was dark, the team came to a small village to camp, and the fellow villagers leaned out one after another, and when they saw that it was the Eighth Route Army, they quickly came out and beckoned everyone to enter.