In the summer of 1942, the Japanese army occupying Fuzhou attempted to sneak from the Baisha area to the Great Lake to assemble, preparing to launch an attack on the Chinese defenders' 80th Division at the garrison in the Great Lake. The Japanese army was each equipped with a squadron in Houtang Village, Dahu Village, and Dachaodian, and the main force was about one brigade gathered in Langguan Village. In terms of forward alert, the Japanese army focused on the edge of the great lake facing Xuefeng, and successively sent search troops to reconnoiter and patrol, and set up mountain artillery to bombard Xuefeng, destroying a corner of Xuefeng Temple.
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The Japanese invaded Fujian
The Japanese army was menacing, and Li Liangrong, commander of the 80th Division, ordered the Overseas Chinese Equipment Regiment to launch an attack and give this enemy a head-on blow. The equipment regiment was composed of overseas Chinese young people who had returned from overseas, many of whom came from rich families, but in order to resist the war and drive away the Japanese devils, they resolutely gave up their comfortable and luxurious life to return to Fujian and took up guns to beat the devils. The overseas Chinese equipment regiment is full of nearly 3,000 people, has a strong will to fight, has a high level of education for soldiers, and has strong combat effectiveness.
After the battle began, the equipment regiment first defeated a squadron of Japanese troops above the head of the Di, and the remnants of the devils rushed to the area of the Great Lake to join the main Japanese forces coming from the big and small North Ridges, trying to reorganize the team and then launch another attack. Division commander Li Liangrong ordered Guo Zhixiong, deputy commander of the Equipment Regiment, to immediately lead his troops over the summits of Guanyin Andangip Mountain (1171 meters above sea level) to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese army. At that time, there was a narrow gap between the two mountains called Zhaitou Gate, and the village below the Zhaitou Gate was Zhaishang Village. Both villages were guarded by Japanese troops and were two forward posts of the Japanese army.
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Temples blown up by the Japanese
In order to completely annihilate the enemy in the Great Lake, the equipment regiment must first capture the two Japanese posts in ZhaitouMen and Zhaishang Village. At dawn on May 25, the officers and men of the equipment regiment quietly touched the upper level of the paddy field and the mountain pass from the north slope of the two mountains to hide, and some troops sneaked into Shangzhai Village, and some troops copied through Zhaishang Village from the Zhaitou Gate. In order to successfully take down the ghosts in the two posts, Deputy Regiment Commander Guo Zhixiong selected more than 20 soldiers who could speak Fuzhou dialect and had strong marksmanship and adaptability to form a commando group to clear the Japanese stronghold.
These more than twenty commandos, all dressed as peasants, pretended to be busy in the spring and left the fields early in the morning, and carried a selection of fruits, vegetables, and other items to the front of the Japanese post. The two most Fuzhou-speaking warriors said to the Japanese soldiers in the outpost, "Taijun, Fruit Mixi Mixi!" "It means that the Japanese people come to eat fruit, and the Japanese soldiers see that they are the local people's voice, and they look like farmers, so they are wary of coming to pick fruits and vegetables."
Japanese army
At this moment, the commandos took out sharp short knives and scythes from their sleeves and under the basket and pounced on the devils, and where the knives fell, the devils were killed 2 people on the spot. The remaining ghost soldiers rushed to the wall, ready to take their guns to fight back, at this time, other commandos disguised as peasants who were working in the fields pounced on them, slashing and killing the 10 ghost soldiers in three strokes and five divisions.
After the Japanese troops in the two strongholds were cleared, Deputy Commander Guo Zhixiong ordered the whole regiment to quickly approach Houtang Village, Dahudian Village, and Dahu Village, and the soldiers ambushed in the corners of the Japanese-occupied Dahu village houses, ready to hear the order and then launch a surprise attack on the Japanese army in three ways.
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Japanese forces in attack
Ten minutes later, Deputy Regiment Commander Guo Zhixiong gave the order to launch an attack, and the soldiers threw more than 10 grenades into the houses occupied by the devils, and the explosions quickly sounded. In an instant, the explosion of grenades and the strafing of machine guns resounded in Dahu Village and Dahudian Village. In Houtang Village, a company of fighters blocked the front and back doors of a house, threw several grenades through the window hole, and killed 5 or 6 devils on the spot. The remaining ghost soldiers desperately closed the gate, the warriors threw grenades and climbed over the wall to enter, and the white-knife battle raged in the courtyard of the houses in Houtang Village.
After a fierce battle, more than 40 devils in Houtang Village were completely annihilated, and more than half of the soldiers of the company of the equipment regiment were damaged. In the village of Great Lakes, the soldiers of the equipment regiment shot fiercely at the Japanese army with machine guns and rifles under the open paddy field in front of them. Part of the Japanese army stubbornly resisted in the village, and some of them sneaked out of the village and went down to the vicinity of the paddy fields to resist. In this open hill of mud field, there were casualties on both sides of the enemy and us, and the Japanese soldiers who were snipe fell into the paddy field, and the blood stained the water in the paddy field red, and only in a ditch more than one meter wide across the paddy field, more than 10 corpses of the devils were left, and the mud and the rubble blown up by the grenades covered the corpses of the devils.
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Japanese troops
In the village of Great Lakes, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, but still closed the door and fought to the death. Deputy Commander Guo ordered the equipment regiment to shrink its strength and concentrate on fighting the Japanese army house by house, and the soldiers did not hesitate to work hard to penetrate the partition wall of the house and directly rush into the courtyard where the devils were entrenched, until all the devils were killed. Zhang Zhisheng, commander of the second company of the first battalion, led the second company to rush into the gate of the enemy's occupied house, and was hit in the forehead by the Japanese army with a round shovel, and his head was broken and bloody on the spot, but he still endured the pain of picking up the axe to kill the enemy, and hacked the ghost soldiers who attacked him with the axe.
Two platoons of Xu Zuyi, commander of the Seventh Company of the Third Battalion, besieged the Japanese Koyama Squadron, trapped the Koyama Squadron in a civilian house, and eliminated all the Japanese soldiers of the Koyama Squadron with machine guns and grenades. Captain Koyama hid in the toilet of the house and tried to get through the hunt. Xu Zuyi ordered the soldiers to drop 2 grenades, captain Koyama was injured on the spot, and the feces in the toilet were drenched. Captain Koyama was angry and annoyed, and finally pulled out his Toyo knife to commit suicide on the edge of the toilet, and a wooden door of the toilet that had been blown into two pieces covered his lower body. After Koyama was killed, Xu Zuyi retrieved documents and pistols from his body, confirming the identity of the Japanese officer.
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concentrate
In the afternoon of the fierce battle, the main force of the Japanese army came to the rescue, and the main force of the Japanese army entrenched in Langguan Village was dispatched. Devil reinforcement ants gather around the Great Lake and engage in fierce battles with the equipment regiment. Commander Li Liangrong immediately sent troops to aid the equipment regiment, but the Japanese firepower was extremely fierce, and the reinforcements could not break through the Japanese peripheral positions. In the battle for the Great Lakes Basin, deputy regimental commander Guo Zhixiong was heroically killed, and company commander Wei Zhengxiang was seriously injured by 7 bullets in his body, and was sent to the rear hospital for rescue before surviving.
When the war situation was glued, the Japanese planes came to the rescue, and the enemy planes bombed and strafed, destroying a separate house in Houtang Village, and the shells fell into the paddy fields of Houtang Village and exploded into muddy water. At about 2:00 p.m., reinforcements sent by Li Liangrong broke through the Japanese positions and defeated the Japanese troops on the periphery one after another. The Japanese army was overwhelmed by the enemy and was no longer able to launch an attack on the hills in the Great Lakes Basin. The Japanese offensive suddenly decreased, and the front line was constantly shrinking, and finally all the Japanese troops shrank in Langguan Village, waiting for the opportunity to break through, and never fired a single shot.
Sniper
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the equipment regiment had run out of ammunition, and although the Japanese army was surrounded, the Japanese troops on the periphery continued to increase their reinforcements, and Li Liangrong's reinforcements could not be sustained for a long time, and once the Japanese army broke through the defensive line and broke into the Great Lake, the consequences would be unimaginable. In order to preserve his living forces, Li Liangrong ordered the troops to quickly withdraw from the battle. After receiving the order, the remaining officers and men of the equipment regiment calmly withdrew from Langguan Village.
The next day, the Japanese troops who had shrunk in Langguan Village sent out to drag back the dead bodies, placed them in two open spaces in Dahudian and Dahu Village, and then moved the furniture and slabs of the common people and set them on fire. On the third day, more than a thousand Japanese troops returned to Fuzhou with their ashes. The Japanese suffered a crushing defeat in the Great Lakes region and were killed almost every time in retaliation during their retreat.
At the Great Lakes store, the Japanese army hacked and killed 6 elderly people, boys and girls during the retreat. In Houtang Village, the Japanese stabbed a middle-aged woman to death and dragged an old woman to the road, and the devils cut off his head and killed an old woman. Near the Zhaitou Gate, the Japanese army also hunted down and killed many men, and the ghosts could not kill the equipment regiment and the Eightieth Division, but could only kill the old and weak women and children in retaliation.
Records of the Japanese Army
At the Battle of the Great Lakes, the Japanese suffered about one brigade casualty, and the equipment regiment suffered nearly three hundred casualties. The local people rumored: "We sacrificed a deputy regimental commander, and the enemy died a death order (squadron leader)." The dead commander, the enemy was originally going to carry back to Fuzhou with a large cabinet, but later did not know why it was cremated. "The rumors of the common people are not accurate, and the Japanese army was killed by a squadron leader, that is, Captain Koyama. But the Battle of the Great Lakes was the worst killed battle since the Japanese invaded South China, dealing a heavy blow to the arrogance of the devils.
In the Battle of the Great Lakes, the Overseas Chinese Equipment Regiment severely damaged the Japanese army, forcing the Japanese captain Koyama to commit suicide, and dealing a heavy blow to the arrogance of the devils. The Japanese army was also deeply afraid of this battle, and the Japanese lieutenant Kobayashi who participated in this battle wrote in his diary: "The Chinese army (overseas Chinese equipment regiment) has a tenacious will to fight, and its combat ability and quality are different from previous armies, they can actually cross the mountain of more than 1100 meters in the night to surprise the imperial army station, and the imperial army was caught off guard!" ”
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monument
To commemorate the victory in this battle, the remains of the fallen warriors were buried in the Great Lake and a monument was built.
[This article is collected by Barnyard Shi Hou to collect anti-war materials, memoirs to sort out and write, errors and omissions, Jingxi readers correct]