On September 22, 1939, there was a Chinese superior soldier named Cao Xi in Wang Neighborhood, Changsha, China, who had connected 12 grenades together the night before and placed them on the embankment on the south bank of the Xinqiang River, and then, pulling out the lead line, placing it next to him, and he sat on the embankment, facing the river.
At 4 o'clock at dawn on the 22nd, the Japanese army fired 8,000 shells at Wang Neighborhood with 50 cannons, and after shooting for 3 hours, it blew up Wang Neighborhood, which was only one square mile, into ashes.
At this time, Cao Xi was not dead, still sitting on the river embankment, his fingers hooked with a machine gun, and he watched the river closely. The Japanese troops left the ship one by one, each group of dozens of people, armed with guns and walking toward the river embankment. When a batch came, Cao Xi fired a motive gun to eliminate a batch of them. Luckily, he did not get rid of the U-turn and ran back to the river and fell on the river beach.
In this way, after the Japanese army came in six batches, the seventh batch came over and released poisonous gas everywhere. After 20 minutes, the poison gas dissipated, twenty or thirty Japanese soldiers crawled toward the river embankment, and Cao Xi, who had dodged the poison gas, grasped the lead of the grenade in his hand, and he jumped off the embankment and fell to the ground a little farther away. At this time, the Japanese army had climbed the embankment, Cao Xi calmly drew the lead, and 12 grenades exploded at the same time, and the enemy died only two or three people.
Cao Xi prepared another 12 grenades, and returned to the river embankment, he put the grenades together, slowly walked down again, walked to the place where he fell, and lay down and waited. Sure enough, more than 30 Japanese soldiers came. With a bang, it exploded without leaving a single one. Cao Xi rearranged it again. Twenty or thirty more people were killed. In this way, five groups of enemies were killed before and after.
When the fifth group of enemies died, by this time his grenades had run out. Cao Xi switched to a machine gun and hid his body in the mud heap. After 10 minutes, from the other side of the embankment, 5 Japanese soldiers climbed over. Cao Xi put the machine gun bullets one by one and killed the 5 Japanese soldiers with 5 bullets.
At this time, the part inside Cao Xi's machine gun was stuck, and the plate could not be pulled. The Japanese enemy came one after another, and he did not have time to open the machine gun to find out. Cao Xi was anxious for a while, looked around, and found that two hundred meters away from him, there was a heavy machine gun waiting for him to get it next to a dead body.
He picked up the heavy machine gun and found that it could be used, and there happened to be more than a hundred enemies flocking to him, at this time the Japanese army thought that the Chinese soldiers were dead, and all of them relaxed their vigilance, but Cao Xi suddenly pulled the heavy machine gun and killed more than thirty at once. The remaining sixty or so turned around and fled screaming.
At about 8 o'clock in the morning, the battalion headquarters sent a messenger to tell him that the enemy brigade had reached behind his flank. The battalion commander ordered him to "abandon his position" and return to the battalion headquarters to rest.
Cao Xiting liked the heavy machine gun, and before leaving, he was reluctant to abandon it, so he carried it and followed the messengers in the direction of the battalion headquarters. Halfway through, Cao Xi met the enemy, and the enemy's bullets came from all directions. The heavy machine gun brought by Cao Xi came in handy again. Unfortunately, the messengers were killed in this melee. Cao Xi's life was great, swaying, and triumphantly reached the camp headquarters. The battalion commander gave him a reward and told him that he had killed more than 500 Japanese people before and after.