After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the invading Japanese army stepped up its sweeping of the base areas in order to achieve the aggressive goal of "feeding the war with war." In particular, after Okamura Ninji became the commander-in-chief of the North China Dispatch Army, he formulated the Sanguang Policy and cage tactics in a vain attempt to eliminate the Eighth Route Army and the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines.
The Japanese army extensively repaired bunkers as support points, and then used the highway as a line to divide the base area into small pieces to limit the mobility of the Eighth Route Army, and then concentrated its forces to repeatedly sweep and annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army.
In October 1943, the 16th Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army was ordered to go to Yan'an, and when passing through the village of HanLuo, Wang Jinshan, the brigade commander of the brigade, found that there were Japanese convoys passing by on the road every day. Just as the underground party got the latest information through the puppet army, the day after tomorrow there was a force of grand princes who wanted to pass through Han Luo Village, and Wang Jinshan decided to kill him, and there was no reason not to eat the meat in his mouth.
It turned out that Okamura Ningji was engaged in the "Mountain Suppression Of Communist Experimental Zone" in this area to explore effective tactics against the Eighth Route Army. The village of Hanluo belonged to the rear of the experimental area, and the Japanese army thought it was safer, the vehicles were frequently mobilized, and there was no strong armed force for escort.
Wang Jinshan personally conducted reconnaissance of the terrain and found that there was a section of the road with cliffs of seven or eight meters high on both sides, and the enemy was not easy to climb but did not prevent our army from rushing down, and then there were large green yarn tents, which was very conducive to the concealment of the troops.
Near the village of Hanluo, there is a large Japanese bunker, stationed in a small group of more than 40 Japanese puppet troops, equipped with light and heavy machine guns, responsible for guarding the smooth flow of the road. Wang Jinshan did not have artillery in his hands, and it might be a little difficult to attack the bunker, but it was still safe to stop them from coming to the rescue.
In the early morning of the 24th, the 16th Regiment entered the ambush position and waited patiently for the Japanese to take the bait. The Japanese convoy usually passes by at 8 o'clock, but today it did not appear on time, and some soldiers began to get anxious, worried about working in vain, and the cadres gently reminded everyone to calm down.
Finally, a group of cars drove from near and far, ten large trucks plus three small cars, it seems that the officer who led the Japanese army is not small, it is a very fat big fish, the soldiers are rubbing their fists, ready to let the Japanese officers enjoy the hospitality of the Eighth Route Army.
When the convoy entered the ambush circle, Wang Jinshan gave an order, and the grenadier first opened fire, destroying the cars at the beginning and end of the convoy, so that the entire convoy had to stop, and then the bullets of the Eighth Route Army rained down, and the tires and windshields of the cars were hit one after another, and they could not drive if they wanted to.
The reaction of this Japanese army was really fast, and they immediately jumped out of the carriage, some lying on the bottom of the car, some rolling into the ditches on the side of the road, and organizing light and heavy machine guns to return fire on the Eighth Route Army. At first glance, they are well-trained old Japanese troops, and they must be dealt with quickly, otherwise when the reinforcements arrive, the battle will be rotten.
More than 30 Japanese troops, organized by officers, attempted to open a gap and break through in the direction of the bunker in Hanliu Village. Wang Jinshan hurriedly asked the reserves to attack and block the enemy's way. Seeing that there was no chance for this group of Japanese troops, they had to retreat to the side of the road to resist.
After hearing the gunshots, the Japanese squad leader in the bunker in Hanluo Village initially planned to go out to the rescue, but they soon found that the scale of the battle was beyond imagination, the Eighth Route Army had at least a few hundred people, and the bunker defenders could only send a dozen or twenty people at most.
But if there is no rescue, the superior will definitely blame himself, which is a dilemma. In the end, the Japanese squad leader decided to send someone to rescue him, but as soon as he encountered resistance, he withdrew, at least to ensure that the bunker would not be taken advantage of by the Eighth Route Army.
The battle lasted for more than an hour, and the reinforcements of the Japanese army did not necessarily come at any time, and Wang Jinshan ordered the grenadiers and heavy machine guns to suppress the enemy's fire, so that the fighters could charge and settle the battle with bayonets as soon as possible.
As the charge horn sounded, the warriors of the 16th Regiment raised their bayonets and guns and pounced on the Japanese troops on the road. Squad leader Zhao Zhenyu jumped down from the cliff with his soldiers, rushed to the heavy machine guns of the Japanese army, stabbed the machine gunners, and then turned the machine guns to open fire on the enemy.
Other fighters blew up cars one by one with cluster grenades and explosive packs, and fought bayonets with the Japanese. The soldiers found that the Japanese military technology was very strong, and there were many pistols, and it seemed that many of them were officers.
The japanese officers were beaten, and the soldiers of the 16th Regiment surrounded one by one, and the bayonet flew up and down, and quickly solved the remaining Japanese troops. By noon (by the end of the war, it was only three small before and after), more than 180 Japanese troops were all annihilated, only 3 escaped, and 1 heavy machine gun, 2 light machine guns, 2 grenadiers, and a large number of Japanese documents were captured.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Wang Jinshan led the 16th Regiment to quickly disappear into the vast green yarn tent, leaving only japanese corpses and car wreckage on the ground. An ambush under the eyes of the Japanese army was successfully completed, but the rich results exceeded the expectations of Wang Jinshan and the soldiers of the 16th Regiment.
It turned out that this Japanese army was an "officer watch group" organized by Okamura Ningji, including 2 squadron leaders and 120 officers at the brigade and squadron level, and the remaining 60 Japanese troops were 1 squad to protect them.
Okamura Ningji was very proud of the "new tactics of the iron rolling three-tier position" he had created, and specially organized the officers of these infantry schools to come to visit and study, hoping that they would bring this method of warfare to various places and kill the prestige of the Eighth Route Army.
Unexpectedly, such a precious "officer watching group" was actually completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army in the model area of suppressing the Communist Party, which was a slap in the face of Okamura Ningji, so how did this expert in suppressing the Communist Party get off the stage?
Okamura sent six reconnaissance planes in the afternoon of the same day to search for the ambushed Eighth Route Army in all directions, and then transferred back two companies from the front. Okamura Ningji ordered the commander of the front line: Even if these two companies are exhausted, they must destroy this Eighth Route Army.
At this time, Wang Jinshan had already crossed the blockade line with his troops and continued to march toward Yan'an, and he did not expect that the ambush battle he had fought with his hand had already turned Okamura Ningji's "new tactics of iron rolling three-tier positions" upside down.
The Japanese troops of the two squadrons and more than a dozen planes swept back and forth several times, and even the shadow of the Eighth Route Army was not seen, so Okamura Ningji had to take out his breath on the Japanese squad leader of the bunker in Hanliu Village, and shot him for dereliction of duty and poor rescue.
Although the scale of the ambush battle in HanLuocun is not large, it is of great significance, and the popular TV series "Bright Sword" is based on the ambush battle of Wang Jinshan and Han Liucun, eliminating hundreds of Japanese officers at a time, even on the frontal battlefield, which is extremely rare.
In the war reports of the Kuomintang troops, the killing of Japanese officers at the level of squadron leader and squad leader is a battle achievement worthy of boasting. The ambush battle in Hanluo Village killed two Japanese wing commanders, which shows how great the results of the battle are, which is equivalent to killing the basic command team of a Japanese brigade. In the entire history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, such a battle is unique.
Hundreds of officers and men of the 16th Regiment walked through the key sweeping areas of the Japanese army, not only did not let the Japanese army notice, but also organized a large-scale ambush battle, proving that the Eighth Route Army, with the cooperation of the underground party and the masses of the people, was fully capable of breaking the Japanese army's cage policy.
Okamura Ningji, an expert in counter-guerrilla warfare, not only had no choice but to take advantage of the Eighth Route Army, but instead let the Eighth Route Army traverse north China, and by the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had grown to 500,000 troops. Chiang Kai-shek later asked Okamura Ningji to be an adviser, was he trying to learn from his failed experience?