In 1942, at the difficult moment of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Okamura Ningji, commander of the Japanese North China Army, secretly flew from Beiping to Yantai to deploy a "winter dragnet sweep" of Jiaodong.
According to the "North China Public Security War" compiled by the War History Office of the Japanese Defense Agency, the main goal of this plan is to "annihilate the communist forces of the Jiaodong Military Region based on the Fifth Brigade and the Fifth Detachment of the Shandong Column, restore public order on the Shandong Peninsula, and especially ensure communication between Qingdao and Yantai." ”。 It can be said that if this plan can be successfully completed by Japan, the significance and impact on the entire battlefield are very important.
In addition to the main force of the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade regiment of the Japanese army stationed in Qingdao, there were also the 59th Division regiment stationed in Jinan, the 6th Brigade in Zhangdian and the 7th Independent Mixed Brigade in Huimin, with a total of 15,000 people, 5,000 puppet troops from all over Jiaodong, and 26 ships blocking the coast of the peninsula with 10 aircraft in coordination.
According to the data, in order to strengthen the struggle against the war in jiaodong area, our side announced the establishment of the Jiaodong Military Region on July 1, with a total of 5 regiments. The 13th Regiment (the predecessor of the 1st Jinan Regiment), the 14th Regiment and the 15th Regiment under the jurisdiction of the 5th Brigade were located west of the Yan (Taiwan) Qing (Island) Road. The name of the fifth detachment has been abolished, and the sixteen regiments under its jurisdiction (that is, the predecessor of the "Tashan Hero Regiment") and the seventeenth regiment, directly under the command of the leaders of the military region, are under the command of the military region, and the combat area is in the Hai (Yang) Lai (Yang) border area on the east side of Yanqing Road.
Jiaodong Kangda was stationed in the Asan area of Qixia County. The independent regiments of the three military sub-districts of the East China Sea, the North Sea, and the West Sea have two battalions each with actual strength, and the South China Sea base area is still being opened up and created. At this time, including the county brigades and district squadrons, the total strength of the Jiaodong Military Region was 14,000 people.
In October, the Shandong Column sent a telegram pointing out that the Japanese army's sweep of the base area would inevitably reach Jiaodong, and Okamura Ningji's arrival in Yantai after this was even more certain.
When Japan carried out a 'great sweep' of Jiaodong, Asan first fell into the enemy and encirclement, and Nie Fengzhi, who was the principal at the time, as well as political commissar Liao Haiguang, chief of staff Huang Jingchen, and director of the political office Zhang Yingbo, left in time when the enemy dispatched troops to cast a net, and basically did not suffer any losses.
The anti-university members were basically platoon-level cadres and combat backbones, highly mobile, and also brave and good at fighting, of which the second and fifth teams, staying in the inner line to fight, directly caused a causative blow to this Japanese operation.
After that, the Japanese advanced south across Asan, and Nie Fengzhi led his troops to attack the Fukuyama to Qixia section of the Yanqing Highway one after another, cooperating with the 5th Brigade's anti-"mopping", forcing the Japanese army to draw more than 5,000 troops back to the defense before the first phase of the "sweep" was completed, thus breaking Okamura Ningji's plan.
In 1943, Nie Fengzhi was transferred to the regimental commander of the 13th Regiment of the Jiaodong Military Region, in response to the policy of the puppet army to use roads as a chain and bunkers as a lock. In November, the scouts said: "Report that a company of puppet troops was found in Ye County, transporting supplies to the Japanese army behind the small temple. ”
Nie Fengzhi immediately decided to personally command and eat this company: "Everyone get ready, feel the situation, and ambush the enemy before dawn tomorrow!" “
At 6:00 a.m. the next day, when the puppet army entered Nie Fengzhi's ambush circle, Nie Fengzhi ordered: "Fight! ”
The 6th Company attacked from the east and the 3rd Company from the west, and when they rushed up, they were hit by a fierce blow, and as soon as the puppet army saw that the situation was not right, it immediately ran, but both sides were full of personnel of our army, and in the end, all the total puppet army was annihilated.
After the whole battle, it took less time and great harvest, which was also a very important boost to morale by eliminating a company of puppet troops in the area occupied by the Japanese puppet army.
When I went back, one person said, "I have always heard that Principal Nie can fight before, but I didn't expect to fight an annihilation war with Commander Nie for the first time. ”
After that, Nie Fengzhi fought many guerrilla battles, and by early 1944, decided to attack Heyuan Xixiaogou, which was an important place for Zhao Bao to cooperate with the Japanese army in blocking the anti-Japanese base area.
Before the attack, reconnaissance personnel were sent to explore the situation of the stronghold, and the scouts came back and said: "There are 10 large bunkers in the stronghold, and there are tunnels through each other; the walls and trenches are double-layered; and there are fish scale pits, deer blocks, and barbed wire on the periphery, which are very complicated." “
Nie Fengzhi personally led the backbone to reconnoiter many times, and also did an investigation of the migrant workers who built the fortifications, and it turned out that as early as when Zhao Baoqiang recruited the migrant workers to build the fortifications, Nie Fengzhi sent soldiers to pretend to be ordinary people and were forcibly recruited. Therefore, you can get more perfect information.
Returning, he organized a simulated attack with troops, everything was ready, and on February 18, the battle was launched.
The battle was commanded by Nie Feng, and in addition to the 13th Regiment, there were also 14 regiments and a battalion of the Beihai Independent Regiment, as well as brigade personnel from Laidong and Laixi Counties.
At 16 o'clock on the first month, Prince Shao, the commander of the Xigou Garrison Regiment, celebrated the 100th day of the child, of course, he also wanted to take the opportunity to make some money, so he asked the drama class to sing the drama for 3 days in a row in the stronghold, and the sixteenth was the second day of three days.
Sure enough, under the cover of singing, the 4th Company used 15 minutes to cut off the deer and barbed wire, and broke through two trenches and walls to capture a large bunker. The 7th Company also succeeded in the southeast corner, with the 2rd 3rd Company each capturing a bunker on the wall.
At that time, the leader of the stronghold, after learning the news, rushed to fight, and by the morning of the 19th, the explosion hero Wang Keshan blew up the last two bunkers of the defenders in one fell swoop, except for Wang Zi Shao and a few of his cronies who escaped, the rest were all annihilated.
Commander Xu of the Jiaodong Military Region said: "The real attack and attack of the Jiaodong troops on the fortified areas and attacks began with the West Ditch of Heyuan. ”
This campaign even reversed the situation in which the South China Sea area was attacked from the belly and back, and broke Okamura's plan for a "great sweep"!
Not long after, the news reached Okamura Ninji, and Okamura Ninji angrily scolded!