When it comes to the War of Resistance, some people will say that this province is powerful, that province is powerful. For example, there is a Liujiazhuang in the northwest of Zhucheng, Shandong, although there are only 100 households and the village is very small, but in the summer of 1944, it also established its own militia.
At that time, in Shandong, Jinji- Luyu, Ji'nan, Jin-Cha-Ji and other areas, there were already anti-Japanese fortresses everywhere, every village had a militia team, and every county had anti-Japanese armed forces. The militia of this village, which had just been formed, had no decent weapons, not even a rifle.
Everyone gathered a few shotguns, three-eyed guns, and a big gun, and a red gun. However, the village soon formed a joint defense militia with more than 20 nearby villages, integrating attack and defense, and when there was a difficulty on one side, the villages rushed to the aid. Moreover, the village itself has very strong walls and bunkers.
All the surrounding villages became anti-Japanese fortress villages, and the Japanese puppet army could not collect grain, and every day they were hungry and panicked. The daily supply has dropped from 1.6 kilograms of grain per person in the past, most of which is rice, to 700 grams a day, more than half of which are millet and potatoes, and the side food has basically disappeared, and it is often withheld and snatched away by veterans, and recruits can only eat the leftovers of veterans.
In March 1945, the Japanese army formed more than 2,000 people, including 100 ghosts, as well as 1,500 Zhang Buyun puppet army, and hundreds of large knife soldiers from the Ten Thousand Immortals Society of the Huidaomen. With 2 infantry guns, 2 heavy machine guns and more than 30 light machine guns, whether it is the strength or firepower, this configuration to hit a village with more than 100 families and dozens of militiamen, is it not hand to hand?
As a result, on March 17, 1945, the Japanese puppet army surrounded Liujiazhuang in the morning, but seven times in a row of charges were shot back by large guns. Then the infantry artillery came up, and a few shells passed, collapsing a section of the thickened wall, and then the puppet army and the Ten Thousand Immortals would rush into the village.
In the village, a fierce street battle broke out, in which Liu Zhong was often guarded in the courtyard, and the puppet army came in with a large knife and slashed down, followed by an earthen grenade. In the end, after the four brothers ran out of ammunition, they committed suicide by jumping into a well together.
In the afternoon, reinforcements arrived, and the militia around 30 miles rushed to Liujiazhuang, and an independent battalion also rushed to Liujiazhuang. The battle lasted 7 hours and annihilated 140 Japanese puppet troops, but Liu Jiazhuang and other villagers also had to sacrifice 106 people.
This battle created more than 2,000 japanese puppet troops, carrying machine guns and cannons, but could not take a record of a small village with only earth guns and earth cannons, and 140 people were killed. This is why, after 44 years, the Japanese army slaughtered fewer villages. Because, under the guidance of the eighth master, the villages have begun to establish a militia and joint defense system. When the Japanese army dared to come and sweep, it resolutely resisted and supported each other. The Japanese puppet army attacked 1 village, and the surrounding villages of dozens of miles came together to provide support.
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