In 1942, the Japanese puppet army built a stronghold in Zhaoji
In 1942, the Japanese army had the upper hand on the battlefield, their weapons and equipment were well-equipped, and the puppet army played a role for the tiger, and the momentum was fiercely attacking the anti-Japanese base area in northern Jiangsu. In order to cut off the ties between our base areas, the Japanese Kou set up a stronghold in Zhao Ji, Donghai County, where they vigorously arrested the people, built artillery towers, pillboxes, and blockade ditches.
There are five layers of enclosures inside and outside the Zhao Ji stronghold: the first layer is the water enclosure, the second layer is the earth enclosure, the third layer is the wire enclosure, the fourth layer is the sandwich wall enclosure, and the fifth layer is a central bunker. There are four bunkers at the four corners of the fourth layer of the wall enclosure, and there are bunkers with four corners of the tunnel through the earth enclosure outwards, and there is a tunnel through the central bunker. The gate of the entire stronghold is in the middle of the bunker, and in peacetime, the ladder is used to enter and exit, and the ladder is pumped into the bunker in wartime, and the enemy eats and lives in the bunker. Between the sandwich walls and the central bunker, there was an open area without any obstacles, which was not conducive to the attack.
The New Fourth Army attacked Zhao Ji's stronghold twice, but failed to conquer them. The puppet army was arrogant, and the leader of the puppet army asked the Japanese commander for merit and reward, arrogant and arrogant, thinking that the stronghold was impregnable.
Japanese puppet army stronghold
In 1945, the New Fourth Army was determined to remove this cancer
In the early autumn of 1945, the 1st Battalion of the 30th Regiment of the 10th Brigade of the New Fourth Army was instructed by its superiors to attack the Zhao Ji stronghold and remove this tumor.
Before the battle, the New Fourth Army first saluted and then sent a letter to the leaders of the puppet army stationed at the Zhao Ji stronghold to explain the current situation of the War of Resistance, and the Japanese were already grasshoppers after the autumn, and they could not jump for a few days, persuading the puppet army not to want the martyrdom of the Japanese army and asking them to lay down their weapons.
However, these hardcore traitors not only did not surrender, but instead wrote back to the New Fourth Army and scolded the New Fourth Army for only playing tricks, and with a few broken guns, they wanted to make them surrender, which was impossible. He even arrogantly declared that he had crossed the great rivers and seas, and you old people should not come to send them to death.
The arrogance of the puppet army, the chiefs were very angry after reading the reply. The commanders of the brigade and regiment came to the 1st Battalion, held a meeting of cadres at and above the platoon level, and demanded that the 1st Battalion take the Zhaoji stronghold at all costs, eliminate harm for the people, and strike hard at the arrogance of the enemy.
The 1st Company accepted the task of attacking the southeast corner, while the 1st Company gave the assault task to the 1st Platoon.
The New Fourth Army prepares for battle
During the day, they attacked strongly, and after fierce fighting, they took the stronghold
Platoon 1 held a meeting of Zhuge Liang, everyone expressed their opinions, and The 2nd Squad Leader Gao Sheng boldly put forward his personal ideas: "Attack during the day." He explained the reasons: First, if you fight during the day, you can surprise the enemy; second, during the day, the sharpshooter can block the shooting holes of the enemy's bunkers; and third, you can fight one by one.
At present, the New Fourth Army is strong and strong, its weapons and equipment have been improved, its combat effectiveness is strong, and it can give play to its superiority, and its superiors have agreed to the combat plan of attacking during the day.
The battalion decided that the 3 companies would pretend to attack the enemy's stronghold for two nights and paralyze the enemy.
At 8 o'clock in the morning of the third day, the enemy was exhausted by the 3rd Company and was sleeping with his head covered, when the attack cannon of the New Fourth Army sounded, and the soldiers pushed the "big car bridge" into the water fence and built the bridge. Platoon leader Zhang Zhenhua led the entire platoon through quickly, with no casualties, and occupied the second layer of the earth fence.
According to the plan, 2 shifts cut the barbed wire and 1 shift exploded. As soon as the barbed wire was cut, the three fighters of the 1st Demolition Group of the 1st Squad quickly jumped over the barbed wire fence. However, not far from the enemy bunker, two warriors fell, the other wounded, and he pointed his finger at a hole in the front of the bunker, and a machine gun of 1 company immediately sealed the point of fire.
Two packs of explosives exploded the enemy bunker into a small basin and stuffed eight bundles of grenades into eight bundles of grenades, rumbling and exploding, and the gunfire in the bunker was muted, and three groups of fighters quickly entered the tunnel to the bottom of the bunker in the southeast corner of the enemy, the enemy on the upper level of the bunker had become a turtle in an urn, and the shouts of the New Fourth Army to "surrender their guns and not kill, give preferential treatment to prisoners" were deafening, and more than 20 enemies carried white flags, carried guns, and raised their hands to surrender. At this point, the sun was westward, and a row had successfully occupied the first bunker.
The commander of the New Fourth Army personally came to the front line to direct the battle
The follow-up troops entered through the gap, and they opened the way with machine guns and shot through the sandwich wall to the southwest corner. The enemy panicked and fled into the central bunker. In less than an hour, rows one and two occupied bunkers in the southwest and northwest corners. Three rows also soon occupied bunkers in the northeast corner. Only the central bunker remains.
At this time, the brigade and regimental commanders personally came to the front line, and they commanded the troops at the bunker in the southeast corner to attack the central bunker. 1 Company set up machine guns on the four-corner bunker, and the dense bullets sealed all the perforations in the central bunker, and the enemy did not dare to show his head, and rambled aimlessly.
At the order of the commander, the battle of attacking the central bunker began, the warriors came down like fierce tigers, ladders were set up on all sides of the central bunker, grenades were thrown in, explosions were heard one after another, and the enemy ghosts cried wolf howl, shouting one after another: "Don't fight, we surrender!" ”
At the end of the battle, the New Fourth Army eliminated more than 200 puppet troops in the Zhao Ji stronghold, and also captured two small guns, two machine guns, and more than 100 long and short guns.
The New Fourth Army captured the enemy's turret
At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the New Fourth Army was strong and strong, and the team grew to more than 300,000 people. In 1937, the New Fourth Army had just been established, only more than 10,000 people, 6,000 guns, after 8 years of bloody fighting, eliminated a large number of Japanese puppet troops, captured countless guns and ammunition, armed, strong strength.