Taking advantage of the eighth route army to hold a party, more than 800 Japanese troops launched a sneak attack, resulting in heavy losses for the Japanese army
Introduction: During the War of Resistance Against Japan, in the face of the superiority of the Japanese invaders' troops, the Eighth Route Army, in order to reduce the frontal conflict with the enemy, often used the terrain and mass advantages to adopt guerrilla warfare to negotiate with the Japanese army.
In the Hebei Jizhong region, there was a typical guerrilla warfare campaign of the Eighth Route Army, when the Eighth Route Army had a unit called the 120th Division, and in 1939, in order to meet the needs of the war, they planned to unite with the Eighth Route Army in Hebei to jointly fight against the Japanese army. In order to celebrate the various armies coming together from different places, they held a party to encourage everyone's morale, but they did not expect the Japanese army to suddenly attack, which made it difficult for the Eighth Route Army, which had just finished its arduous march at that time, to adapt.
After fighting with the Eighth Route Army so many times, the Japanese army also began to understand the local battlefield environment and the offensive mode of the Eighth Route Army, and when they found the 120th Division, they had begun to make preparations early, and they also learned that this was a very strong army, so when they went to war, they were already equipped with a large number of heavy weapons, aiming to annihilate the strong army in the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.
However, the Eighth Route Army did not panic, and after they made arrangements in a place called Qihui, they took the method of luring the enemy to go deeper, using a battalion of troops to introduce it into a village, and after all the Japanese troops fell into the encirclement, the 120th Division joined forces with the local army in Jizhong to encircle it.
Since the Japanese army was very smooth sailing when it first started the battle, even if it fell into the encirclement, it did not make it feel desperate. However, as time went on, the Japanese army found that the Number of the Eighth Route Army was getting bigger and bigger, thinking that the other side had more than 10,000 people, and when they realized that something was wrong and tried to concentrate their forces to rush in and out of the encirclement, it was already too late.
Although the Japanese army had the superiority in weapons, the Eighth Route Army changed its strategy in time, changing from frontal blockade to pursuit from rear, so that the Japanese army's weapon superiority was completely lost. Coupled with the Eighth Route Army's improvisation and undaunted sacrifice, after a fierce battle, the Japanese army of more than 800 people was defeated at the cost of total annihilation.
Conclusion: In addition to the Japanese army's lack of understanding of the Eighth Route Army and the idea of a light enemy, what is more important is that they also neglected the local army in Jizhong, although the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong may not be comparable to the 120th Division in terms of strength, but they have long been fighting in the local area, and they have already understood the terrain of Jizhong, and with these people as guidance, combined with the guerrilla warfare that the Eighth Route Army is good at, these people are naturally beaten to the ground.