In March 1943, the Japanese mobilized more than 6,000 men and launched a surprise attack on the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army.
The Japanese operation was carried out in extreme concealment, and did not allow the reconnaissance personnel of the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army to detect any abnormalities until the enemy was approaching the headquarters of the Seventh Division, and the division headquarters was still holding a meeting.
The Japanese commander saw that the road was unimpeded, and could not help but secretly feel proud: this time the New Fourth Army could be wiped out!
Once the enemy's conspiracy succeeds, then the new Fourth Army's hard-won armed forces in the central Anhui region will be dealt a devastating blow, and the consequences will be unimaginable!
However, people are not as good as heaven, and an unknown soldier of the New Fourth Army stepped forward twice in times of danger, destroying the Encirclement and Annihilation Plan that the Japanese Army was determined to achieve, so that the Troops of the New Fourth Army were saved from the disaster.
On that day, Lin Tianming, the squad leader of the reconnaissance squad of the Independent Regiment of the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army, took two soldiers to the city to buy winter supplies for the troops, and happened to meet this Japanese army on the way.
Lin Tianming found that the enemy cat was scattered in the woods, and immediately realized that they were going to sneak attack the division headquarters and must go back to report as quickly as possible.
He resolutely ordered: "Zhang Jinfu and Tu Chengfu, you two will immediately take a detour back to report to the head of the division, and I will stay here to contain the enemy and buy time for the division to move!" ”
Zhang and Tu were worried that the squad leader would be in danger of life against the enemy alone, and they were unwilling to leave him alone.
"Oh, when is this, you still have mother-in-law!" Don't be wordy, just leave your bullets and grenades behind, hurry up! ”
Zhang and Tu also understood that the situation was urgent, so they had to go according to their words.
When the figure of his comrade-in-arms disappeared into the dense forest, Lin Tianming quickly circled around the enemy's side, hid behind a large rock, and suddenly threw a grenade at the enemy group.
Taking advantage of the explosion of the air wave, Lin Tianming rolled over and rolled behind another stone. When the enemy reacted and strafed at the place where he had just been hiding, he emerged from another place with another grenade.
Lin Tianming was very happy to see that he had blown up five or six Japanese troops. He was like a mischievous mountain monkey, jumping through the dense forest of stone piles with a bungee belt, going up and down for a while, shooting east and west with grenades running in the opposite direction of the division headquarters.
The enemy mistakenly thought that he had encountered the blocking troops of the New Fourth Army, and immediately set off fireworks signals, and several hills also raised fireworks signals.
Lin Tianming almost didn't laugh out loud: Thank you, what you want is your signal, help me notify the division headquarters!
The enemy at the bottom of the mountain formed an arc formation and surrounded it with great strides...
Well, this is not an anti-aircraft gun hitting a mosquito! Lin Tianming saw that he had dragged the enemy for more than half an hour, and felt that the task had been completed, so he patted the grass clippings on his clothes, dropped the dense enemy, took the mountain road he was most familiar with, and ran back to the independent regimental headquarters.
Just after the Japanese fired the signal bomb, the division headquarters and the independent regiment had already sensed the enemy's movements, and immediately began to break through in several ways.
However, the process of breaking through was very unsmooth. The commanders and fighters of the Seventh Division had just embarked on their roads, when the originally clear sky suddenly had dark clouds rolling, the wind was fierce, and the rain was pouring down.
Among them, the independent regiment marched in a hurry all night, and when it was dawn, they found that they had only walked 15 miles, and they met the enemy on a narrow road under a mountain!
Regiment Leader Xiong Yingtang immediately ordered: Seize the favorable terrain of the mountain and fight!
The enemy at the bottom of the hill obviously had no bargain to fish for, and although they were well armed and well armed, row after row pouring up the hill, and shells pouring down the hill like raindrops, they still did not take the hill after many attacks.
The battle was fought from dawn to darkness, and Xiong Yingtang ordered the troops to move quickly at night, otherwise as soon as the enemy reinforcements arrived, there would be no way to leave the mountain.
The whole regiment immediately moved in the direction of Chao Lake, and hundreds of people supported three broken boats and sailed hard to the dark center of the lake.
Unexpectedly, the dangers on the way were continuous, and accidents were pressed one after another to the soldiers of the New Fourth Army who had been fighting for a day and a night, and they were already hungry and cold, and hundreds of people were almost buried in Chaohu Lake.
First, a boat broke, the lake water surged into the cabin, and the hull gradually sank. Xiong Yingtang commanded everyone to squeeze into the other two boats, let go of the leaky boat, and saw that it sank into the inky black lake water in the faint starlight, and the load of the two broken boats was heavier.
None of them spoke, only the sound of the lake lapping against the side of the boat and the rattling of the boat, and their hearts were hanging.
When there were still three miles to go from the shore, the two boats finally could not hold on, the bottom of the boat cracked several openings, and the water quickly filled the cabin and ran aground on the dark shallow beach.
Everyone can't retreat, they can't jump, can't they walk, can't they wait until dawn and be "dumplings" by the devil's motorboat?
The unprecedented predicament drove the entire regiment of commanders and fighters crazy, and the crowd came up with a whole bunch of ideas, but none of them worked.
At this time, someone stepped forward and signed up to swim and asked for help. Xiong Yingtang took a look, and it was Lin Tianming, the reconnaissance squad leader again!
"I'm watery and can swim through!"
This is the way to die for nine lifetimes! Xiong Yingtang pondered, not taking a stance, he did not want this witty warrior to be taken by the lake water. You know, it's February of the lunar calendar, the lake is cold and bone-chilling, and if you don't drown, you will freeze to death!
But apart from this method, there is really no more secure way.
Xiong Yingtang saw that the time was pressing, so he had to grit his teeth and agree to the request of Lin Tianming and the other two soldiers to let them fight for the hope of survival after the regimental headquarters and the three battalion officers.
The waiting time for rescue seemed particularly long, Xiong Yingtang looked at the watch every moment, and it was difficult to wait for the rescue ship of the nest (lake) wu (wei) guerrilla detachment at dawn.
Later, everyone learned that although Lin Tianming had successfully swum past, the other two warriors had died in the lake due to lack of physical strength.
Lin Tianming was really a big man, he swam to the shore, only to get up and take a few steps, he was blown unconscious by the cold wind, just when the people patrolling the Chaowu guerrilla detachment passed by here and found him, in the moonlight saw the "N4A" armband on his arm, and rushed to rescue him.
In this way, hundreds of officers and men of the Independent Regiment of the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army were once again saved from the disaster of annihilation because of Lin Tianming's courageous actions.
Unfortunately, Lin Tianming, who had been promoted to battalion commander, died heroically in the Battle of Laiyang in 1947, causing our army to lose an excellent grass-roots commander.