During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, due to the gap in national strength between China and Japan, the gap between the weapons and equipment of the army was also very large, especially the weapons of the Eighth Route Army were even worse, and most of them depended on the seizure from the Japanese army. Once, the heavy machine guns of the Devil's stronghold were too powerful, and although the Eighth Route Army had poor equipment, it cleverly used a trick to take it.
This story takes place at the end of 1941, when the 14th Regiment of the 5th Brigade of the Jiaodong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army received intelligence and was entrenched in the Japanese stronghold of Yidao Town in Yexian (present-day Laizhou City), and a squad of more than 30 people stationed there was equipped with a Type 92 heavy machine gun, and our army decided to seize this heavy machine gun with clever tactics.
Yidao Town, located on the main traffic road from YeXian to Zhaoyuan and Laiyang, where the Japanese army built a stronghold with the purpose of blocking the passage to control our army and "encroaching" on the base area. The stronghold is located about 100 meters from the village in the southeast corner of Yidao Town, and the wall of the stronghold is 10 meters high, and there are four large bunkers inside.
Among them, the bunkers in the northeast corner, the southeast corner and the southwest corner are all two-story, but the northwest corner bunker is three-story, and the Type 92 heavy machine gun is mounted on the top floor of this bunker, and the firepower directly controls and blocks the passage of the street. A parapet ditch was dug around the outside of the wall, and three additional fortifications were added outside the ditch.
At that time, the Eighth Route Army had no explosives or heavy artillery, and this stronghold was very strong and very well guarded. For the sake of prudence, the 14th Regiment first sent chief of staff Bu Cai to lead Gao Xueren, deputy battalion commander of the 1st Battalion, to yidao town in person, disguised himself and went deep into the tiger's den to reconnoiter for 3 days, deciding that it was only appropriate to take wisdom and not to attack strongly.
Gao Xueren, deputy commander of the first battalion, served as the commando leader, and selected 20 strong soldiers disguised as ordinary people to secretly infiltrate the village of Yidao. At that time, the security chief sent people to the Devil's stronghold every morning to report on the activities of the Eighth Route Army, and the name was "reported to the imperial army for peace." This morning, Gao Xueren, disguised as a baochang, came to the enemy stronghold.
The devil raised his gun and drank to make him stop advancing, and Gao Xueren quickly bowed and laughed and said loudly: "Taijun, there is peace!" The devil lowered the drawbridge and allowed him to get closer. After Gao Xueren crossed the suspension bridge and bowed to the devil, he took out the "Peace Report", and just when the devil reached out to pick him up, Gao Xueren suddenly pounced on the devil and stabbed him, and then led 20 plainclothes men to rush into the enemy stronghold, fired fiercely, and threw grenades.
At this time, the second and third companies lurking in the hometown of the old countrymen rushed into the stronghold under the leadership of Wang Weiguang's instructor and occupied the two pillboxes on the right. Deputy Battalion Commander Gao Xueren led several soldiers to rush into the bunker with the "Type 92" heavy machine gun and moved the Type 92 heavy machine gun out of the stronghold. The Japanese retreated into the last bunker, resisted stubbornly, and threw poison gas bombs. The reinforcements on the outskirts had exchanged fire with the three battalions, and in order to avoid casualties, the chief of staff, Bu Cai, ordered the troops to withdraw from the battle. The battle was quick and decisive, taking only 20 minutes and taking the Type 92 heavy machine gun and several boxes of bullets. Fearing an ambush by the Eighth Route Army, the enemy cowered in the stronghold and did not come out to pursue.