On the night of November 31, 1948, the 80th Regiment of the 27th Division of the Ninth Column of the East China Field Army was ordered to advance southwest and pursue the Kuomintang Du Yuming's troops who had fled from Xuzhou.
As the vanguard battalion of the whole regiment, the first battalion, under the leadership of battalion commander Han Dahe, sped towards the target area. In order to prevent the fleeing enemy from being alarmed, the commanders and fighters of the whole battalion quietly marched in the night, trying to avoid making noises.
Under the dim starlight, Hu Guangzhao, a warrior who was walking in the front, suddenly noticed a black shadow in front of him, looking like someone was walking forward.
Hu Guangguang saw that there was no one else around the black shadow, so he rushed up with an arrow step, pulled the bolt of the gun and shouted: "Stop! Don't move! ”
"Spare your life! Grandpa spares his life! Black Shadow heard the sound of gun bolts and immediately sat down on the ground in fright.
"What are you?" Honestly! ”
"I... I am a service soldier of the 200th Division of the Fifth Army..."
As soon as Hu Guangzhao heard the trumpet, he knew that the 200 division had just escaped from Xuzhou, so he shouted, "What are the 200 divisions doing here?" ”
The serviceman saw that the PLA was surrounded by people, so he had to give an honest account: The 200 division fled from Xuzhou along the Xiaoyong Highway, but was pursued by the PLA along the way, and the troops were scattered and turned around like headless flies. Seeing that the situation was so chaotic, he expected that it would be difficult to escape with the large troops, but while everyone else was sleeping, he slipped out alone, and unexpectedly became a prisoner of the People's Liberation Army first.
Hu Guangzhao asked, "Where do everyone else sleep?" How many people are there? ”
The captive pointed his hand to the east, "Just... Just sleep over there... In a wild lake a few miles away, there were more than a thousand people..."
Hu Guangzhao immediately reported the situation given by the prisoners to the battalion commander Han Dahe.
"Haha, these guys are sleeping?" When Han Dahe heard this, he closed his mouth happily, "When is it, and I still have the heart to lie down!" Lao Tzu gives them a pot of ends! ”
Then he issued an order: "The whole battalion is ready for battle, let the Kuomintang service soldier lead the way, and wrap the 'dumplings' of the more than a thousand enemies!" ”
Then he led the whole battalion and quietly touched the wild lake that the captives had spoken of.
The captive did not lie, and more than a thousand enemies were lying in groups of three or five, messing around the edge of the wild lake, covering their heads with coats and covering their faces, and were sleeping!
Han Dahe gave the order in a low voice, asking the first company to block the south of Yehu and the second company to block the north of Yehu, forming a siege, and he personally led the three companies to the middle of the enemy.
Seeing that the enemy was still unconscious, he suddenly shouted, "All assembled!" All set! Hurry up for Lao Tzu! ”
Some of the enemies were awakened by the shouts of Han Dahe, but many others were still sleeping with their heads covered, and Han Dahe asked the warriors to shake the guys awake.
Some guys seemed to be awake, rubbing their eyes and asking, "What is the combination of black lights and blind fires?" Sleep a little longer, and then go when it's dawn! ”
Han Dahe saw that the enemy did not recognize him, and decided to play this drama to the end, deliberately saying: "Sleep a fart!" The communists immediately chased after it! ”
Some soldiers asked like dreams, "Where have the Communists and Communists gone?" Don't you want to wait for the division headquarters to go together? ”
"Divisional headquarters?" Han Dahe pretended to be provoked, and said breathlessly, "His X division headquarters has already slipped away first, and we are still waiting stupidly!" ”
The soldiers also helped one after another: "Yes, the division headquarters has already fled in the southeast direction, so hurry up and line up!" ”
The enemy soldiers reluctantly sat up and followed the Han Dahe river south.
They moved like a collective sleepwalker, but they never expected that the person leading the way was the People's Liberation Army.
Just as the more than a thousand enemy soldiers were lining up to go south, the Second Company had quietly copied it from the north and let the enemy obediently enter the preset fire position of a company.
"Raise your hand and don't kill!" As soon as Han Dahe waved his hand, the commanders and fighters of the first and second companies raised their guns and shouted angrily at the same time, and the enemy soldiers realized that the collective sleepwalking "swam" into the ambush circle and had to obediently surrender their weapons.
In this way, Han Dahe led the whole battalion to capture more than a thousand prisoners without firing a shot.
When Nie Fengzhi, commander of the Ninth Column, learned of the capture of prisoners this time, he could not help but praise Han Dahe, praising him for his wit and flexibility, and for making more than a thousand enemy troops sleepwalk en masse.
After exaggerating Han Dahe, Nie Fengzhi had a clever move: Since the enemy army was so chaotic on the way to rout, our army could completely fish in muddy waters, completely disrupt the enemy army, make Du Yuming even more panicked, and finally achieve the goal of encircling and annihilating this stubborn enemy.
Next, Nie Fengzhi followed this line of thought and made a strange move--sending out several small units, either on horseback or on foot, firing a burst of gunfire when they saw the enemy group or the enemy's camping point, and then turning around and leaving, completely disturbing the enemy's military morale.
Du Yuming's 300,000 troops were stirred up, and many officers and men were close to collapse.
In the end, the Ninth Column and twenty-seventh Division rushed to Mount Mangzhong, cutting off the passage for Du Yuming's group to flee, so that all 300,000 of his men and horses were annihilated by Huaye's army.