On October 13, 1937, the Japanese army provoked a war in Shanxi, trying to penetrate the claws of aggression deep into the central region. In order to defend the peace and stability of the country and the dignity of the country, the soldiers of our army fought fiercely against the Japanese army in the Xinkou area.
The soldiers of our army are far inferior to the Superiority of the Japanese Army in terms of weapons and equipment and strategic terrain. Our army has sent eight regiments to charge this position, but it has always been difficult to conquer, and for a time, the war situation has fallen into a stalemate.
Just as the troops gave the order to retreat, the regimental commander Shi Zebo accurately caught the enemy's loopholes. Ignoring the military orders, he took the liberty of leading the troops to attack, turning the tide of the battle in one fell swoop and taking down this enemy garrison in one fell swoop. Although Shi Hongbo won the battle, he was almost expelled from the company for disobeying military orders.
This daring to say dare to do, bold and resolute regiment leader has quite the style of Li Yunlong in the film and television drama, and then I will take you into the story behind this stubborn and resolute regiment leader, Shi Zebo.
In 1899, Shi Zebo was born into a family of doctors in XianXian County, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, where his father and grandfather were both famous local Langzhong. Shi Zebo's father had high hopes for Shi Zebo, and he hoped that his children could inherit medicine from their father's business and save lives and help the injured. When Shi Zebo was four or five years old, he sent him to the village's private school to learn his homework, becoming the youngest student in the private school.
Although Shi Zebo was very young, his learning ability was so amazing that the teacher could quickly understand and memorize it with just a little nudge from the podium. With excellent academic ability, Shi Zebo was admitted to Hejian County No. 3 Middle School with excellent results. However, a sudden bad news almost ruined Szepo's dream of studying.
With the turmoil of the times and the scuffle of warlords, Shi Zebo's family situation gradually declined. Gradually, the family could not even come up with money for him to continue his studies. In order to reduce the burden on his family, the sensible Shi Zebo voluntarily dropped out of the Third Middle School and transferred to the Baoding Military Academy, which does not charge tuition.
Growing up in the country's most turbulent years, Shi Zebo lived under the smoke of war from an early age. The scuffle of warlords and the artillery fire of the nations have long become sparse and ordinary things, and on the road to growth, Shi Zebo has witnessed too many life-and-death separations caused by war. At this moment, he could finally hold a steel gun in his hand and use his own strength to expel these invaders and oppressors one by one.
In 1922, after graduating from the Baoding Military Academy, Shi Zebo was assigned by his superiors to participate in the operation in the Shanxi region. With the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and the fighting style of daring to fight and dare to do, he has led the soldiers to win more with less and have repeatedly accomplished miraculous feats. In recognition of Shi Zebo's outstanding contributions, his superiors promoted him to the regimental commander of the 412nd Regiment of the Independent Brigade.
On July 7, 1937, the Japanese army forcibly entered Wanping County under the pretext of the loss of soldiers, and after being strictly rejected by our army, the Japanese army immediately launched an attack on Wanping County, massacring the local unarmed poor people. The inhuman atrocities of the Japanese aggressors infuriated the people of the whole country, and the people spontaneously united to unite the front and actively resist Japan.
In October of the same year, the Japanese army provoked a campaign in Xinkou, Shanxi, and they tried to find an entry point in the hinterland of our country, so as to achieve the goal of completely capturing China more quickly. In order to resist the invasion of the Japanese army, defend the territory of the country from being trampled by other countries. China sent elite troops to Xinkou to participate in the war, and in the face of the Japanese army with more advanced weapons and equipment, the soldiers of our army fought with extraordinary difficulty.
The Japanese took the lead in placing their positions on a stone hill near Nanhuaihua, which has a high military strategic significance, and the wild grass and trees on the stone hill can provide a natural barrier for the soldiers, and at the same time, the higher terrain allows the soldiers to know the battle situation. Once this important position was controlled by the enemy for a long time, the consequences were unimaginable, and our commander-in-chief Chen Changjie immediately ordered that at all costs, the enemy army's garrison be conquered and occupied.
Accompanied by loud charge orders, the soldiers of our army were like fierce tigers, armed with steel guns, and rushed to charge at the peak where the Japanese army was located. However, the despicable Japanese army had already left the machine gunners hiding in the woods at any time, and when our soldiers approached the peak, they began to strafe uninterruptedly.
With the roar of machine guns, a large number of soldiers fell, and the air was filled with the smell of blood and smoke. Hao Mengling, commander of the Ninth Army, and Liu Jialin, commander of the division, all died heroically in this battle. The Japanese artillery was still bombarding endlessly, and the bullets were still as dense as raindrops. This group of Japanese troops who have taken full advantage of geography, how should we overcome it?
In the face of one defeat after another, the soldiers of our army still did not give up, they still unswervingly charged into the battle, and did not stop their march because of fear. The battle lasted all day, and eight regiments of fighters were killed here. The officers and men of the Japanese army in high positions regarded the soldiers at the foot of the mountain as living targets, mercilessly shooting and killing.
As the sky grew darker, Shi Zebo stared at the Japanese stationed in the distance and shook his fist. Shi Zebo knew very well that if this place was lost, the entire central hinterland would fall into the hands of these Japanese. However, it is not a good idea to continue to spend time with them in this way, and our fighters have been at a disadvantage for a long time, chased and fought by the enemy, and most of their strength has been depleted. If the enemy's flaws are not found, this war of resistance will undoubtedly be lost.
Shi Zebo looked at the increasingly rampant Japanese army opposite with a telescope and muttered, "I can only gamble." He decided to personally lead his troops to charge the enemy. He selected the elite fighters in the whole regiment and formed a death squad of five hundred people, ready to attack at night. He divided the squad into three detachments, with the first and second squads responsible for attracting the enemy's attention and dispersing the enemy's firepower, and the three squads crawled in the shadows to find opportunities to charge and kill the enemy.
The party took advantage of the darkness to crawl forward, and after reaching the foot of the mountain, the first and second detachments attacked on both sides of the mountain to attract enemy fire. The third detachment took advantage of the situation and drove the enemy out of the high ground with a single blow. The whole operation was clean and tidy, and in less than half an hour from the beginning to the end, the soldiers of our army also cleared and suppressed a large number of strategic materials when cleaning up the battlefield.
Although the battle was won, Szepo did not show much joy. Because a new problem has arisen again, how should this stone mountain be guarded? For the well-armed Japanese invaders, it was indeed an easy position to defend and difficult to attack, because they had high-precision mortars and multiple heavy machine guns.
Our army's weapons and equipment simply cannot do this, and neither the accuracy of our weapons nor the reserves of ammunition can sustain our army's insistence here for a long time. What's more, the Japanese army has suffered a defeat tonight, and will definitely not give up and will definitely send out planes to bomb early tomorrow morning.
After thinking for a long time, Shi Zebo decided to disobey the commander-in-chief's instructions and lead the whole army to withdraw from the position, and when the news reached the command headquarters, the commander Chen Changjie kept cursing Shi Zebo in the command room for cowardice. It was difficult for Chen Changjie to understand why Shi Zebo would make such a choice, and the positions that the whole army had painstakingly seized were abandoned by him.
He immediately ordered that after the entire battle, Szepo should be sent to a military court for punishment. The correspondent who came to deliver the letter informed Shi Zebo of the news, but Shi Zebo was not impressed with Chen Changjie's sentencing. He smiled and said to the correspondent: "Is it not easy for the commander to want this mountain, and why is it such a big liver fire when things are grabbed by hand?" ”
The correspondent looked at Shi Zebo's confident look, and realized that Shi Zebo's actions must have his reasons, so he didn't say anything more. The next morning, as Shi Zebo had predicted, the Japanese troops flew fighter jets and bombarded the mountain, and the grass and trees on the mountain were ignited by grenades, burning a raging fire, and the whole mountain was emitting billowing smoke.
Thanks to Szepo's clever calculations, the entire army survived, and the wildfires on the mountain burned from morning to evening. That night, Shi Zebo informed his soldiers to assemble urgently and lead the team up the hill again, where they built fortifications overnight, dug trenches, and carried supplies. Prepare for tomorrow's Armageddon.
On the third day, the Japanese army launched another attack on this high ground, and the enemy thought that yesterday's artillery fire had already depleted most of our army's combat strength, so they did not launch aircraft to support. The Careless Japanese began to charge after simply firing hastily with submachine guns.
At the same time, on the hill, the soldiers who had already set up machine guns and laid mines were quietly waiting for the arrival of these Japanese invaders. Taking advantage of the terrain, they condescended to strafe the enemy and intercept the enemy's attack.
Although the whole battle situation was very smooth, Shi Zebo did not dare to relax in any way, because he knew that in the rapidly changing battlefield, any accident could lead to a doomed end. He leaned quietly behind the stone, pulled out his binoculars from his belt, and carefully observed the enemy's layout and tactics.
Suddenly, he found that there were several Japanese sneaky soldiers about a kilometer down the hill who did not know what they were doing, and he slowly adjusted the focus and found that not far from the two soldiers was an artillery camp of dozens of armored vehicles and tanks. When Shi Zebo discovered this, he immediately organized the soldiers on the mountain, set up all five captured mortars, and aimed at the direction of the enemy's artillery battalion.
With a command from Shi Zebo, five mortars fired ammunition in the direction of the enemy at the same time, and after a deafening roar, the heavy mechs of the Japanese army became a pile of scrap iron. The Japanese commander, who had been annoyed that his army had been unable to conquer the mountain after many chargees, saw that all the heavy weapons of the army were scrapped at this moment, immediately lost his fighting spirit, and hurriedly ordered a retreat.
Shi Zebo became famous for this battle, and his superiors not only revoked his punishment but also promoted him to a higher position. Someone asked Shi Zebo how he could achieve such a clever calculation, and Shi Zebo replied with a smile: "Military law is not as mysterious as you think, as long as you are not impatient and not arrogant." ”
After the founding of New China in 1949, Chinese people finally lived a peaceful and happy life, and Shi Zebo chose to retire from the army and bid farewell to military life. After leaving the army, he first worked as an accountant in a private brick and tile factory in Taiyuan, Shanxi. Then, as I grew older, my longing for my hometown grew deeper.
In 1952, Shi Zebo left Taiyuan and returned to his hometown in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, where he also inherited his ancestral business and became a Chinese medicine doctor Langzhong. Perhaps because of his talent, this half-monk Mr. Lang Zhong has excellent medical skills, especially good at acupuncture and massage, and has healed many patients by relying on his own skills, and is very famous in the local area.
In 1983, Shi Zebo was repeatedly elected as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference by local government departments for his achievements in killing the enemy on the battlefield in his early years. On September 24, 1986, the Szebo died at home at the age of 87.
Half-life on the battlefield, killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions, fighting for the territory of the country and the future of the nation, half-life hanging pot to save the world, saving the dead and helping the injured, and fulfilling their duties for the health of the people. Although Shi Zebo's identity and career are completely different, his original heart of loyalty to the country and love of peace has not changed.
The revolutionary ancestors are still like this, and we who are the descendants should forge ahead with their original intentions, not forget the road ahead, decorate our youth with struggle and hard work, and compose Chinese songs for our country!