In September 1943, Italy was defeated and signed the instrument of surrender, and the defeat of the Fascist Front was decided.
Japan, an ally of the Fascist Front, also felt the embarrassment of the war.
The Japanese army, which threatened to conquer China within three months, suffered a serious blow to its internal morale after encountering stubborn resistance from the sons and daughters of China.
Coupled with the long-term war, the Japanese economy showed signs of recession, and anti-war sentiment was high within the Japanese army.
In order to reverse the increasingly decadent situation, the Japanese army gathered tens of thousands of Japanese puppet troops and began to carry out crazy sweeping operations against many anti-Japanese base areas in our country, in a vain attempt to break through our anti-Japanese defense line through carpet combat.
At this time, the army led by Chiang Kai-shek still adhered to the policy of relying on foreign aid to defeat the Japanese army and preserve the strength of the civil war, and did not make a substantial counterattack in the face of the attack launched by the Japanese army.
Unlike Chiang Kai-shek, who fled in the face of serious equipment, our army actively and extensively carried out mass guerrilla warfare and won major victories in the counter-Japanese sweeping operation.
Actively resist the war and defend national sovereignty
In the autumn of 1943, the Sixteenth Brigade of the Sixth Division of the New Fourth Army received instructions from its superiors to take control of the base areas occupied by the Japanese army in only a few tens of days, and extensively mobilized the masses to open up a large number of enemy rear base areas such as Lang (Xi) Guang (De).
In order to consolidate the newly opened base areas and attack the Japanese army, Wang Bicheng and Jiang Weiqing, commanders of the 16th Brigade, decided to conquer the Xinqiao stronghold.
The Second Company of the Special Agent Battalion of the Sixteenth Brigade was ordered to be in danger.
As soon as Rong Keqin, then commander of the Second Company, received the notice, he trotted all the way to the brigade headquarters command office to receive orders.
Rong Keqin
"Erlian Rongke reported to the court."
Outside the door, Rong Keqin could not hide his excitement, and after a few days of idleness in the company, he was idle and panicked, and he waited for a big task, and he was so excited that he shook his fists, and he was stunned that the corners of his mouth laughed and cracked to the root of his ear.
Brigade Commander Wang Bicheng was discussing combat deployment with Jiang Weiqing, when he heard the loud Changzhou dialect behind him, he looked down at the watch in his arms, and it took only five minutes for him to report from the mission to Rong Keqin.
"Comrade Xiao Rong, you are so furious to lead the task, I am afraid that I don't know that the opponent you encountered this time is Lu Yingqi, who is notoriously difficult to bite!"
Wang Bicheng
Wang Bicheng turned around and went out the door, smiling and patting the shoulder of the ai general, this acute Changzhou boy, although he was young, was already a veteran soldier who had participated in the War of Resistance for many years and fought countless victories.
Handing over Lu Yingqi's hot potato to Rong Keqin this time was also a decision he and political commissar Jiang Weiqing had repeatedly considered.
"Please rest assured Comrade Chief, no matter how difficult the bones are, I will definitely give him a gnaw on the light, and vow to die to take the new bridge."
Rong Keqin "snapped" a military salute, the waist pole was straight, and the words of the brigade commander Wang Bicheng completely stimulated his desire to fight.
Since joining the army at the age of eighteen, he has fought countless battles of all sizes, and he has never failed or feared in his life.
"Well, it's good, the boy has a backbone."
Jiang Weiqing took a sip of water, cleared his throat, and said in a serious tone:
"Bone qi returns to the bone, you still have to be mentally prepared, oh, you still have to know the equipment situation on Lu Yingqi's side, and we only have one mortar and three shells now.
"Comrade Chief, please rest assured that when I return to the company headquarters, I will immediately organize a field survey, resolutely take the new bridge, and beat Lu Yingqi down."
Rong Keqin's eyes were shining brightly, and his heart had already begun to plan how to fight.
After lunch, Rong Keqin sneaked into Xinqiao with his deputy company commander and three platoon commanders to investigate the situation of the position, and basically found out the enemy's troop defenses.
After returning to the company, a combat meeting was held overnight to discuss the details of the operation.
Lu Yingqi was armed with the advanced armaments and materials of the puppet army and did not pay attention to the New Fourth Army at all.
Only one company of puppet troops was stationed at The New Bridge, and since the troops had just been stationed, only simple fortifications were built.
At this time, Lu Yingqiwanwan, who was lying in the military headquarters and sleeping soundly, did not expect that he and his company headquarters had quietly entered the list of our army's combat plans.
An elaborate battle plan hatched at a sleepless combat meeting between Rong Keqin and his men.
Rong Keqin divided his men into four parts.
A platoon is responsible for the main attack, led by itself.
The second platoon was used as a reserve team to deal with unexpected accidents, and at any time to receive a platoon to complete the battle plan, led by commander Wang Zelin.
The three platoons were responsible for guarding the mouth of the new bridge and preventing the enemy from breaking through, led by deputy company commander Luo Qiangfa.
Deputy instructor Jiang Zhengliang led the stretcher team to rescue the injured.
The battle time was tentatively set at the enemy's dinner time, and according to the scouts, the enemy's stronghold firepower was the weakest and the best time to attack.
After everything was arranged, the dark sky also turned fish belly.
While ordering his subordinates to sleep, Rong Keqin went to the warehouse alone with an oil lamp to inspect the equipment.
This habit was inherited from the old company commander, before each battle, he would follow the old company commander to the warehouse to check the weapons and equipment, and the old company commander who was born in Xiang mendi would always say to him with a heavy heart, "If you want to do a good job, you must first use it", although you can't understand the meaning of that sentence, but whenever you see these weapons, no matter how difficult the moment, you can survive.
In the dim light, the three-eight-type guns taken from the enemy's hands were polished by the warriors, flashing a faint light, Rong Keqin's heart became unusually firm, and the military trumpets blowing not far away had sounded, and the dawn had arrived.
Falling from the sky, a bonus
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the troops who had already been fully prepared for the attack drove to the new bridge in four directions, and ambushed them less than a hundred meters away from the enemy's fire point, waiting for the opportunity to fight.
At about five o'clock, the enemy began to change their defenses for dinner.
The puppet army of three or three, burping, still chewing food in their mouths, looked a little excited in the face of the urging of the commander of the soldiers, and did not hurry to take the gun handed by the former cloth guard, swearing and grinning in their mouths, looking like a soldier.
This new bridge is not as prosperous as the county, all day long in the face of a few bare small mounds, half of the human population is not seen, some of the veterans who have followed Lu Yingqi to eat and drink spicy, naturally can not stand this bitter day, complaining all over the sky,
Every day shouted to defend the New Fourth Army, but this also kept for more than half a month, even the personal shadow could not be seen, the heart could not help but complain about the fuss on the head, waiting for the commander to turn around and go far, simply crouched down, threw the spear aside, felt out of the pants pocket half a pack of cigarettes bought from the town, lit one, the smoke swirled up, and the mood also relaxed a lot.
"Hey, if you want to have another pair of mahjong, our brothers are happy, it's not bad!"
A soldier with a northern accent was half lying next to a cannon, grinning and revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth.
"Is it a good trick?" It is better to go back to the house and hurt my wife. ”
The sigh of the Sichuan veterans even caused several soldiers around to laugh, and no one noticed the unusual outside.
At five o'clock, after Rong Keqin repeatedly determined the situation of the other side, he decisively turned to the rear, waved the white towel in his hand three times, and signaled to the headquarters to attack according to the signal agreed in advance.
Jiang Weiqing, who had been staying at the command post, saw the signal sent by Rong Keqin and immediately ordered the mortars to aim at the enemy positions and fire.
The three shells of "Snapping" landed accurately on the enemy camp, and for a time the flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the corpses were all over the field.
The puppet army never dreamed that the insignificant New Fourth Army, which they had been talking about for more than half a month, would suddenly launch an attack on this bloody autumn evening and directly kill them.
When the third shell landed on the puppet camp, Rong Keqin had already taken his assault platoon and quickly broke through the scattered front fire points and climbed the roof of the puppet army camp.
When the third shell landed on the puppet army barracks, Lu Yingqi, who had the nickname "Butcher of the Communists", finally eased up from the dinner table, and the New Fourth Army, which he despised to the corner of his eye, had already hit his doorstep.
Pushing away the delicate little aunt in her arms, she snatched a gun from the panicked puppet army and squad, snapped it into the chamber, and scolded in her mouth, "Malabazi, do it with Lao Tzu." "Push open the door and rush out."
Due to a light rain at noon, the moss on the roof tiles was particularly wet and slippery, and Rong Keqin rushed forward with a few soldiers, but he thought about which one of Lu Yingqi's old boy's headquarters was, and he was thinking, but unexpectedly, his feet slipped, and the whole person stepped on a tile and slipped out.
Lu Yingqi, who was preparing to hurry to the headquarters, just walked out of the door, he listened to a loud noise overhead, did not have time to look up, and was directly smashed by a large piece of black flesh falling from the sky, only to feel a suffocation in his chest, his eyes were golden, and he did not catch up with a breath and directly fell to the ground.
A second before passing out, out of the instinct of a soldier, he struck the trigger with unmistakable accuracy.
"Snap" followed closely behind the puppet army followed by the squad looked at the black hole of green smoke on his chest in surprise, and weakly paralyzed.
Ti slipped a head in the army for a few years, and it was difficult to become a follower of the chief, but he did not think of the first few days, but became the unjust boss who died under the musket of the chief.
Looking at the commander who suddenly fell to the ground, and the New Fourth Army that had fallen from the sky, the remnants of the puppet army that had been panicked by the gods were even more collapsed, the sound of gunfire outside was incessant, and on the eaves of the barracks, there were constantly new fourth armies falling from the sky, and the puppet army was wailing and holding its head and scattering away.
In less than half an hour, the strength of a company of the puppet army was annihilated in one fell swoop.
Except for Rong Keqin, who twisted his waist when he fell from the roof and hit Lu Yingqi's chest, the others were intact.
The hapless Lu Yingqi, when he woke up in the prisoner-of-war camp of the Sixteenth Brigade, could not accept such a fact at all.
With four ribs broken and an internal wound, he lay on his bed in the prisoner-of-war camp and cursed every day:
"Which door is this hitting?" There is a kind of fight again, Lao Tzu has not yet seen which person is it, he was smashed, I am pouring which life is moldy! ”
The strange story of Rong Keqin smashing the enemy commander with one foot spread more and more among the troops of the New Fourth Army and the common people, and spread more and more widely.
Some ordinary people even said that Rong Keqin was a heavenly soldier and a heavenly general, and his divine merits were in the world, and even more, he directly gave Rong Keqin a nickname called "Heavenly Divine Legs".
In this Battle of Xinqiao, because of Rong Keqin's miraculous fall, he successfully achieved a brilliant record of zero casualties, and Rong Keqin also won the first merit of the Battle of Xinqiao.
The combat capability of the New Fourth Army was gradually recognized among the common people, laying a good foundation for the creation of other base areas in the future.
literature search:
CNKI: "New Fourth Army Centennial Birthday Stars Rong Keqin and Zhong Qizhen"
Communist Party of China News Network: Memorabilia of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression 1943
Dou Ding Net: "Historical Reflections on International Politics and the Situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China from September 1943 to August 1945", March 2005, Vol. 7, No. 5