In 1938, the Japanese troops stationed in the Taihang Mountains began to carry out a frenzied sweep of the local residents, not only shooting innocent people, but also raping a large number of women, committing heinous crimes. On February 13, the Japanese army also carried out a terrible massacre in the ancient city of Pingyao, killing more than 1,000 residents in total. Not long after, the Japanese committed the "February 18 Massacre" in Taigu, again killing 300 innocent people and burning more than 1,300 houses. Such a bad deed naturally aroused the anger of our army, so it did not take long for our army to launch a counterattack, killing more than 100 traitors in one night.
At that time, the Qin Lai detachment of the Eighth Route Army immediately began to deal with the atrocities of the Japanese army, and under the leadership of commander Qin Jiwei, the retaliation against the Japanese puppet army soon achieved quite remarkable results. Although the anti-Japanese conditions of our army at that time were quite difficult, and even the basic guns and ammunition could not be guaranteed, our army was not afraid in the slightest, and under such circumstances, Qin Jiwei chose to give full play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, gave up the method of frontal retaliation, and adopted "wisdom" to give play to the superiority of our army to strike at the Japanese puppet army.
Under qin jiwei's arrangement, on the evening of April 2, 1938, our army's capture team was dispatched, and with the cooperation of the military and civilians in ten counties in eastern Taiyuan, a surprise attack on the Japanese army was launched. In just one night, our army killed more than 100 traitors. Moreover, on the corpse of every traitor, the soldiers of our army left a slogan: All those who send messages to the Japanese army will end up with this fate! At the same time, within the jurisdiction of the Qin Lai detachment, more than 70 Japanese puppet army strongholds were completely destroyed by our army in a very short period of time, and more than 260 traitors died directly under the guns of our army. Moreover, it is worth mentioning that in addition to the heavy casualties of the traitors, there are not a few devils who have been killed by our army, and it can be regarded as revenge for the dead people.
It has to be said that Qin Jiwei's revenge operation was quite successful, and after this attack, the Japanese puppet army was also frightened and did not dare to easily offend the Eighth Route Army. What is even more interesting is that because of the fear of being attacked by the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese puppet army did not even dare to go out in the daytime, which can be said to be frightened. Through this campaign, Qin Jiwei's command ability was also vividly displayed, and he also made more achievements in future wars. After the founding of New China, Qin Jiwei was awarded the rank of founding lieutenant general for his outstanding merits.