Anyone who has seen "Water Margin" knows that Shui Po Liang Shan, this place became the base of Song Jiang and others in the novel, who held high the banner of "For The Heavenly Path" and wrote a heroic song of the intestines. Of course, in fact, Song Jiang and others did not have such a big position at all, let alone have no base area, which belonged to the crime of wandering. However, this book makes people remember the place of Shuipo Liangshan. Hundreds of years later, Liangshan also experienced the baptism of war in the War of Resistance Against Japan. It was here that the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army annihilated a large Japanese brigade and captured two Italian guns.
After Lin Biao's division commander was mistakenly wounded by the Jin Sui army, he was transferred back to Yan'an and sent to the Soviet Union for treatment, while the main force of the 115th Division, under the leadership of political commissar Luo Ronghuan and acting division commander Chen Guang, advanced into Shandong and created the Shandong Anti-Japanese Base Area and the Shandong Military Region. On August 1, the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), the division headquarters and the masses held a party to celebrate the twelfth anniversary of the founding of the army in Mengjialin, Liangshan, and at 9 a.m. the scouts came to report that more than 600 Japanese troops had set out from Wenshang County to "sweep" the Liangshan area, and Chief Chen Luo decided to eat this isolated enemy according to the terrain analysis and the surrounding enemy situation.
Luo Ronghuan
The enemy who attacked Liangshan was the Japanese 32nd Division Commander Tian Brigade, the commander of the brigade, Toshie Shosa, who was said to be a Member of the Japanese Imperial Family, and in addition to the infantry artillery squad to which the brigade belonged, the unit reinforced a field artillery squad (two Italian guns), most of which were captured by the Japanese Army, and were generally assigned to the garrison division due to ammunition supply problems. The name of the leader of the field artillery squad is also considerable, called Hiroshi Nojiri, and the rank is second lieutenant of artillery.
In order to completely annihilate the enemy, the 115th Division mobilized all the nearby troops, including three battalions of the 686th Regiment, two companies of the Division's Special Service Battalion, a cavalry company directly under the division, and a heavy machine gun company, with a total of more than 600 troops in seven companies, which was almost a one-on-one ratio of strength to the Japanese. The advantage was that the green gauze tents were densely packed for ambushes, and the Japanese did not have information that there were the main forces of the Eighth Route Army in the Liangshan area.
On the morning of August 2, the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), a company of the Eighth Route Army's special service battalion that served as a lure to the enemy engaged the enemy in the village of Qianji, and Nagata Toshie judged that he had encountered the guerrillas, and immediately bombarded with Italian artillery, and the infantry launched an attack. We lured the enemy troops to fight and run, and the Japanese army pursued them until noon and did not see anywhere, and the people were sleepy and lacking, so they camped in Dushan Village and the highlands on the edge of the village at the southern foot of Liangshan Mountain.
Chen Guang
Luo Ronghuan and Chen Guang had been observing the enemy situation at the commanding heights of the rear set, and after determining that there were no other Japanese troops around, they issued an order for a general attack at dark, and the combat units of the 115th Division used the cover of green yarn tents to cover the enemy, and even heard the snoring of the Japanese army. At 8:00 p.m., the battle began, and the three battalions of the 686th Regiment quickly eliminated the Japanese guard troops on the Dushan Heights, and then launched a condescending attack on the village, and the unsuspecting Japanese army fell into chaos.
The machine gun artillery was completely useless in the rear, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and the devils engaged in a fierce street battle and white-knife battle in the village, two hours later both sides suffered heavy casualties, Nagata Toshie led the remnants to retreat to a lime kiln and the courtyard of the big car shop stubbornly resisted, under the bombardment of the Eighth Route Army grenades barely held out until dawn, the desperate Japanese army began to force a breakthrough, the cavalry company of the 115th Division that was waiting in a strict position was basically slashed in the field, Nagata Toshie committed suicide, and two Italian guns were also captured. The 115th Division set a record for the total annihilation of the Japanese army at the same strength.
According to the examination of this "Italian gun" should be the legal system 1897 type 75mm field gun, commonly known as "Law 75", the output of the First World War period was as high as 20,000 pieces, a considerable part of which was provided to the Italian army, after the war, the shrewd Italians sold it to the East, which is the world's first modern rapid-fire gun, with a rate of fire of up to 15 rounds / minute, which belongs to the direct-aiming attack and field weapon on the anti-Japanese battlefield. The disadvantage is that the self-weight is relatively large, the Nagata Brigade was dragged by two artillery vehicles, and the Shandong Eighth Route Army, which is mainly engaged in guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare, obviously does not have this condition, and can only be temporarily buried under the retaliatory sweeping of the Japanese army.