Since the founding of the Communist Party, it has taken "seeking happiness for the people and rejuvenation for the nation" as the goal of struggle, and for this great cause, countless communists have thrown their heads and spilled their blood and written the next heroic hymn with their own faith on the land of China.
In its resistance against the invading army, the Eighth Route Army engaged the enemy with its highly mobile guerrilla warfare tactics. In order to eliminate the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese invaders repeatedly launched encirclement and suppression operations against the eighth route army's base areas.
In 1943, in order to maintain the war situation in many battlefields, Japan was exhausted, but still did not die, launched a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the base area, in order to cover the retreat of large troops, all the way to the Eighth Route Army and the invaders in the Wang Factory to fight to the death, and finally the army headquarters was surrounded by thousands of Japanese Kou, the commander and political commissar commissioner were all sacrificed.
Choose the break for the cover chief
In 1943, the base areas of the Eighth Route Army blossomed everywhere in the countryside, and the anti-Japanese voices fluttered in the countryside. In order to eradicate the anti-Japanese forces on Chinese soil, the Japanese invaders gathered a cavalry brigade and four elite divisions in late September to carry out a large-scale sweep of our base areas.
In order to preserve the anti-Japanese fire, the Eighth Route Army troops did not choose to confront the Japanese troops, but chose to avoid their sharp edges, dividing the entire unit into three forces to negotiate with the Japanese army and the Japanese puppet army, of which the leader of the first echelon was Zhu Cheng, commander of the military sub-district, and the political commissioner responsible for the ideological work of the soldiers was Yuan Furong.
Commander Zhu Cheng from Wenzhou studied at the Whampoa Military Academy in his early years, and after graduation, he went to Japan to continue his studies, during his studies, he always regarded saving the country as his lofty ambition, and soon after returning to China, he joined the Communist Party of China under the call of faith and led the Eighth Route Army troops to persist in the War of Resistance.
Under the leadership of Zhu Cheng and Yuan Furong, the Fifth Military Region sowed the seeds of the War of Resistance on the land of the motherland and absorbed countless capable people and anti-Japanese heroes from the people.
As an important combat unit, the first echelon led by Zhu Cheng not only had two militia regiments and a cavalry company, but also carried an important radio station.
Unfortunately, even though Zhu Cheng acted extremely carefully, he was still accidentally seized by the enemy, and the first echelon of the Taihang Causeway operation in the factory village area was surrounded by rapidly marching Japanese troops from four directions on the morning of the 28th, and the troops were in a dilemma, and it was imperative to break through the operation.
However, the sacrifice of confronting the enemy head-on is bound to be enormous, and the original intention of the "anti-encirclement and suppression" operation was to preserve the strength of the large troops and retain the anti-Japanese forces to the greatest extent possible.
If you want to preserve the strength of the large troops and successfully break through, the most direct way is to choose a unit as the vanguard, make a gap for the large troops, and then cover the retreat of the large troops.
Such a battle plan seems to have the least overall sacrifice, but the troops selected as the vanguard will inevitably face a long period of combat, and large-scale sacrifices are inevitable, and Zhu Cheng made a decision that no one expected at this time - he decided to take the lead, choose his military region as a cover unit, and personally lead the fighters to fight against the Japanese invaders.
Stuck in trouble
The risk of leaving a cover for this decision is enormous, and in combat, the leader of a unit is like a man's brain, and if there is a problem, the whole army will fall into chaos.
Although the First Militia Regiment and the Twenty-first Militia Regiment and the Cavalry Company in the same echelon all had their own command, if Commander Zhu Cheng was lost, the operations of these three teams would be difficult to coordinate. In the end, Zhu Cheng, who was a lovely soldier like a son, could not bear to let the soldiers sacrifice for himself, and he chose to lead the troops to personally face the battle.
The process of breaking away from the encirclement by the large troops was smooth, and although the Japanese invaders were menacing, Zhu Cheng led the troops to engage in a fierce struggle with the invading army, and finally tore a hole in this airtight encirclement to cover the escape of the large troops from the siege.
The brothers of the First Militia Regiment, the Twenty-first Corps, and the Cavalry Company soon broke through the siege, but the troops responsible for covering the battle were trapped by the Japanese invading army.
At this time, the Japanese invaders had already killed the red eye, and even if they could not bite a piece of flesh from the body of our large troops, they would have to scratch a little skin from this breakthrough cover unit with only a hundred people.
At this time, Zhu Cheng, Yuan Furong, and more than a hundred fighters who covered the breakthrough were surrounded by the enemy in the vicinity of Wangchang Village, and the enemy was outnumbered, and it was difficult to get support in the short term.
After calmly analyzing the situation, Zhu Cheng believed that he should continue to act according to the plan he had previously formulated, capture Wangchang Village, and then rely on the buildings and ammunition of Wangchang Village to engage in a tug-of-war with the enemy.
Unfortunately, this idea had already been seen through by the enemy, and before Zhu Cheng led his troops to Wangchang Village, the enemy had already taken Wangchang Village and laid out heavy troops to seal the road.
After many fierce battles, zhu Cheng's troops only had a little grenade, four machine guns and some rifles left in their hands, and there were not many bullets left, and it was a complete dead end to try to attack.
The warriors had to abandon their plans and quickly evacuate to the vicinity of Zhengzhuang, but unfortunately the difficulties they faced were far less simple than the mistakes in the plan.
Evacuation requires passing through large fields, which, in the midst of war, have no crops sown by the peasants, only clumps of weeds, and walking through such fields is tantamount to completely exposing themselves to the enemy's attack range, one comrade after another falling under the enemy's guns, and the soldiers who can still move can only continue to move forward with their scalps.
Heroic sacrifice
In the process of advancing along the way, Zhu Cheng actually guessed in his heart that his life would soon be over, and he thought that instead of constantly transferring consumption in this way, it was better to fight with the enemy to the end. So, when he found a small courtyard with walls, he quickly led his soldiers to occupy it and decided to fight the enemy here.
This makes a long-abandoned farm yard, the owner of the small yard may have left long ago in the war, and some of the remaining debris is accompanied by flying dust and wanton weeds in the yard, fortunately, the earthen wall of the small courtyard is still quite strong, the wall is more than thirty meters long, and there is a dug small ditch outside the wall, which is undoubtedly a feng shui treasure for holding on to the battle.
The fighters who occupied the courtyard under the command of Zhu Cheng began to dig out gun holes on the earthen wall and build simple military fortifications. At this time, the warriors had already put life and death aside, and they quickly dug trenches and gun holes with bayonets and hands, determined to fight the little devils to the end.
Soon, the japanese invaders' troops poured in from all directions like locusts, and the walls of the courtyard were full of gaps destroyed by artillery fire, but they still stood firm, and the soldiers in the courtyard also stuck behind the earthen walls to block wave after wave of enemy attacks.
After several unsuccessful waves of attacks, the aggressive invaders began to drop poison gas bombs into the small courtyard, but fortunately, several veterans with combat experience in the courtyard reacted quickly and commanded the fighters to avoid the attack.
However, the enemy did not stop there, at noon, a group of invaders rushed into the courtyard, the warriors facilitated the invaders to carry out close hand-to-hand combat, after several rounds of fierce fighting, the small courtyard warriors only more than thirty people remained.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy used mortars to bomb the courtyard again, and the earthen wall of the courtyard finally collapsed without withstanding the heavy blow, and the soldiers were all killed in this attack.
brief summary
The Battle of Wangchang was a fierce battle in the War of Resistance Against Japan, in which the fighters surrounded by the invaders fought with their lives to the last moment, and none of them survived. The day after the fighting ended, the villagers went to the courtyard to check on the situation, and when they saw the corpses on the ground, they were all sad and indignant.
At that time, the Japanese invaders had not gone far, and in order not to attract the attention of the enemy, the villagers had to dig two large pits, bury the bodies of the soldiers, and then erect two stone tablets to express their condolences and condolences.
To this day, these two stone tablets still stand on the land of the motherland, telling the world about the tragic and heroic battle of Wangchang and the revolutionary spirit of the soldiers who will never yield and fight to the end.