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Speaking of the most proud battles of the Eighth Route Army, one was the initial victory of the Battle of Pingxingguan, and the other was the Battle of Loess Ridge in the Taihang Mountains, which killed Lieutenant General Norihide Abe, the "Flower of Famous Generals" of the Japanese Army, and these two famous battles, a small soldier of the Eighth Route Army named Li Erxi, participated in it, and it was he who personally killed Abe Norihide with a mortar.
Li Erxi was born in 1921 in a poor family in Qizhuang Village, Shangzhai Town, Lingqiu County, Shanxi Province, and his parents died since childhood, so he herded cattle for landlords. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Erxi joined the Eighth Route Army, and then had the honor of participating in the famous First Battle of the Eighth Route Army, the Battle of Pingxingguan.
At that time, Li Erxi, who was only 16 years old, participated in the Stagecoach Ridge Blockade Battle in the Battle of Pingxingguan with the Independent Regiment, and at a young age, he showed the ability to fight bravely and flexibly, and the Independent Regiment won a complete victory, capturing several Japanese mountain artillery and mortars.
In November 1939, Lieutenant General Norihide Abe, commander of the Japanese army, personally led more than 1,500 Japanese troops to seek revenge on the Eighth Route Army in revenge for the encirclement of the Japanese army by yansu cliff of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region.
Nie Rongzhen, commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, took advantage of the Japanese army's eagerness to retaliate, lured the enemy deeper, and led the Japanese army to the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army around the Loess Ridge, preparing to annihilate this arrogant Japanese army in one fell swoop.
On November 7, when the Battle of Loess Ridge began and the two sides were fighting fiercely, Chen Zhengxiang, the commander of the 1st Regiment, and Wang Daobang, the political commissar, used telescopes to discover a courtyard between Loess Ridge and Shangzhuangzi, where Japanese troops came in and out, and many Japanese officers were looking around.
Chen Zhengxiang judged: This is likely to be the command post of the Japanese army!
Immediately ordered the director of communications, Qiu Ronghui, to urgently dispatch the mortar company, and he wanted to destroy the Japanese command post!
Company commanders Yang Jiuping and Li Erxi quickly arrived at the mountain with a cave-type 82 mortar, and Chen Zhengxiang showed them the target and ordered them to destroy the target.
After visually measuring the distance, Yang Jiuping said: "The straight-line distance is 800 meters, within the effective range, to ensure that it is well played." ”
Li Erxi quickly put the fire in place, measured the distance and direction at the fastest speed, adjusted the gun position, and the regimental commander gave an order: Release!
Li Erxi's hand popped up, and four shells hit the target in succession, impartial, and the small courtyard where the Japanese army was located blossomed.
Subsequently, the Japanese army was seen rushing to carry the wounded out, and Abe Norihide was seriously injured on the spot and died 3 hours later.
On November 21, the Japanese Ministry of War announced: "The moment Lieutenant General Abe gave the order in the front yard of this house, an enemy mortar shell flew in and exploded a few steps away from the lieutenant general. Fragments of the shells inflicted dozens of fatal wounds on the lieutenant general's left abdomen and legs. The flowers of the famous generals of the mainland battlefield have withered. ”
At this time, the Eighth Route Army learned that Li Erxi had killed a big Japanese fish. The 18-year-old Li Erxi suddenly became a "sharpshooter".
At the military and civilian congress held by the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region in Tang County, Commander Nie Rongzhen specially rewarded Li Erxi with a pistol, and Commander Yang Chengwu said to Li Erxi: Whoever moves you, you will hit him!
This pistol, which Li Erxi later went to Shaoguan in Guangdong province to do local work, also carried it with him day and night, and almost accompanied him for half a lifetime, and no one dared to move him until the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution" when he handed it in.
After the founding of new China, the mortar that killed Norihide Abe also became a national first-class cultural relic in China, displayed in the China Military Museum.
Li Erxi worked in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province, until his retirement, and on the evening of March 26, 2010, the old hero died at the age of 89 at the North Yue Hospital in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province.
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