On the second day of the Lunar New Year in 1941, the Second Regiment of the Third Sub-district of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, stationed in the area of Wujiawan Village in Quyang County, Hebei Province, was holding a military-civilian party with the local people when it suddenly received an emergency from the militia: The Japanese army's Dajiang Fangruo troops had set out from the town of Lingshan, 40 miles away, and were advancing northward, and the specific route was unknown.
This Dajiang Fang was an old rival of the Second Regiment.
During the anti-"sweep" in 1940, during the Battle of Wanglinkou in Fuping County, the Second Regiment annihilated a reinforced squadron under Dajiang Fangruo and captured a mountain cannon.
In order to retaliate against the Second Regiment, Oe Fangruo led his troops to sneak attack the military posts and regimental command posts of the Second Regiment. Unexpectedly, their actions were discovered by the sentries of the Second Regiment, and they fired warning shots in time, and Dajiang Fangruo had to flee in a daze.
If the Dajiang side attacked again this time, the regimental commander Xiao Siming (Jiangxi Yongxinren, major general in 1955) immediately instructed the front guard troops to quickly find out the situation and ordered the Lianhuan troops to immediately return to the garrison to stand by.
At eleven o'clock, the scouts came to report: "After the enemy in Dingxian County arrived at Lingshan in more than 20 cars, he had set out to the north, and the specific route of his march was to be investigated. ”
Xiao Siming analyzed that this time the enemy's northward advance was mysterious, and there were more troops, which was likely to be a long-distance attack.
He immediately ordered the battalions to eat before three o'clock in the second half of the night and make all preparations for battle, and ordered the first battalion to strengthen its vigilance in the direction of Zhongzuo and Koukou Villages to prevent the enemy from breaking into the base area from the direction of Yebei Village.
At three o'clock in the morning, Wu Shengrong, commander of the first battalion, reported: "The patrols in Zhongzuo Village and Oral Village have made contact with the enemy, and the enemy's actions are very mysterious. ”
Xiao Siming asked the first battalion to pay close attention to the enemy's movements and prepare to enter the battle at any time.
Based on the experience of fighting the Japanese army over the past few years and the operational characteristics of Dajiang Fangruo, Xiao Siming and political commissar Huang Wenming estimated that the enemy might bombard the area around Wujiawan before dawn, and then gradually compress the encirclement circle against our army, and decided that the battalions would quickly find out the situation and occupy the position with cameras.
Subsequently, Xiao Siming ordered Ding Zhenyue, commander of the second battalion, to quickly send a squad to cover the transfer of the county party committee organs, and asked two messengers to go on horseback first to inform the county party committee organs.
After receiving the order, Zhang Dashan, Yang Gaoying, and two other cavalry communicators immediately galloped to their destinations.
After the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the equipment of the Second Regiment was renewed. The cavalry communicators rode captured Japanese dayangese horses, wore Japanese fur coats, shoes, and Japanese hats.
When Zhang and Yang entered the mouth of Wangjiazhuang Village, the Japanese sentries mistakenly believed that two Japanese officers on horseback had come and did not stop them.
When the two men walked to the village of Wangjiazhuang, they suddenly found that the japanese troops of the brigade were assembling, and realized that they were about to launch a sneak attack on our army, so they quickly turned their horses and ran back.
When they passed through the village pass again, the sentries had already discovered that they were not Japanese officers, so they grabbed Yang Gaoying's coat and pulled it backwards. Yang Gaoying's coat was unbuttoned, and his coat was torn off. Although the men had not yet fallen, the other Japanese troops had rushed to the scene.
Zhang Dashan saw that the situation was urgent, so he crossed the horse and blocked the intersection. He shouted, "Run, go back and report!" ”
Yang Gaoying glanced at Zhang Dashan, gritted his teeth, and beat the horse all the way back to the regiment headquarters to report: "Go fast!" Come on! The enemy is at the door! At this time, Zhang Dashan had already died heroically under the siege of the Japanese army.
Xiao Siming, who had always been calm and resourceful in fighting the war, inquired about the situation and immediately ordered the first battalion to quickly occupy the northeast mountain of Dongshimen; ordered the main forces of the three battalions backed by Qingshan and Hushan to move closer to the regimental headquarters and move with the regiment; and ordered the second battalion and the regiment's direct subordinate units to immediately penetrate.
In addition, he ordered the sixth company to occupy the top of the Upper High Fort and cover the three battalions to insert themselves into the favorable area with the regimental command post; he ordered the fifth company to touch the commanding heights of Wujiawan, disrupt the enemy's deployment, and find out the situation step by step.
The Fifth Company is a company that can fight a hard battle, can attack and defend well, dares to bayonet the red, and in the anti-"sweeping" battle, although the conditions are extremely difficult, it can successfully complete the task.
After receiving the task, company commander Zhang Fusheng immediately led the whole company to quickly and covertly touch the top of the mountain from the left and right flanks of the mountain, give full play to the advantage of being good at fighting and stabbing, and bravely rush into the enemy group.
What a vicious battle!
The second squad leader, Li Changjiang, knows martial arts and is good at assassination, and usually carries a long-bladed dart on his body. He stabbed his fingers and feet, and his fingers and legs stabbed his chest, killing the enemy and killing five Japanese soldiers in a row.
Zhou Zhanshan, Wang Xinrong, Zhao Qing, Li Zhu, and other assassination experts also showed great might, stabbing the enemy's blood-stained military uniforms, and their hearts were terrified.
At this critical juncture, the cooking class was in a hurry and threw the hot dumplings and dumpling soup brought to the position on the enemy's head, making the Japanese army grin its teeth.
After dawn, the enemy bombarded the hilltop ——— regimental reserve command post on the south mountain of Wujiawan with fierce artillery fire, and surrounded it from all directions in a menacing manner.
When the enemy reached the top of the mountain of light, he knew that he had been deceived. Just when the enemy was hesitating, the first battalion was on the north hill of Dongshimen, the second battalion was on the first line of Shanggaobao, and the regimental direct subordinate unit and the third battalion were on the south mountain of Fanjiazhuang, forming a counter-encirclement of the enemy.
The Japanese turned around and frantically attacked the positions of the battalions.
On the hilltop position of the first battalion and three companies, the enemy attacked three times in a row, but was repulsed.
At the front of the main position of the Seventh Company, the enemy did not hesitate to pay a heavy price and sent two squadrons to attack many times, but none of them succeeded.
Another squadron of the Japanese army stormed the positions of the three battalions and ten companies in an attempt to hit the regimental command post, but was beaten even worse by the ten companies.
The militia participating in the war also showed the spirit of being brave and tenacious and not fearing a strong enemy; in addition to coordinating with the troops to complete the tasks of covering the transfer of the masses and clearing the field, they also participated in the battle with the troops.
Li Dianbing and Dong Changqing, captains of the villagers' militia in LentoJiao, skillfully planted mines and blew up the enemy with fear.
After a day of fierce fighting, the enemy suffered heavy casualties. The elaborate encirclement battle was unsuccessful, but instead the Eighth Route Army was surrounded, which made Dajiang Fangruo very frustrated, and he ordered his troops to retreat in the direction of Lingshan after a burst of shelling.
The second battalion followed closely, and the first and second battalions also cooperated. The enemy ran wildly in smoke, receiving continuous blows along the way. When passing through Taipingzhuang, he was violently beaten by twelve companies; when passing through Zhulin Village, he was violently attacked by four companies and militia.
After the front and rear of our army, the Japanese army fled back to Lingshan.
Under the skillful command of the founding major general Xiao Siming, the commanders and fighters of the Second Regiment of the Second Regiment not only smashed the encirclement war carefully planned by the Japanese army, but also carried out counter-encirclement against the Japanese army, and finally won the victory, killing more than 80 Japanese troops.