As far back as the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang had used the "empty city plan" to scare off Sima Yi; in the popular TV series "Indelible Fan" in the previous few years, Li Daben, the head of the Wuyi County Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, had used only one mountain cannon and the only remaining shell to defraud the Xiaowangzhuang stronghold; however, these bridge sections are likely to be fabricated by novelists according to the needs of the plot, after all, no one has really seen it, and it is not true.
In 1944, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the stage of strategic counteroffensive, and Zeng Siyu, the founding lieutenant general and then commander of the Eighth Division of the Jiluyu Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, once "painted a scoop according to the gourd" on the battlefield, and the real director came up with an "air cannon plan" and "attacked" a solid artillery tower of the puppet army with a Type 92 infantry gun without shells, writing a legend.
Founding Lieutenant General Zeng Siyu
In 1940, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered a stalemate stage, the Japanese fascists adopted a policy of "encroachment" in the southwestern region of Shandong Province, built countless bunkers and artillery towers of various sizes around the base areas, and imposed an iron wall and copper fence on the base areas.
At that time, a brigade of the Japanese Fascist 32nd Division was stationed in Yuncheng, with about 400 people, and there were more than 5,000 puppet troops of Liu Bengong, the pseudo-county magistrate of Yuncheng County and the commander of the Yuncheng Garrison Brigade.
Liu Bengong was originally a water bandit leader who was active in the area of Weishan Lake, burning and looting, and doing no evil. In 1938, after the Japanese occupied Jining, Liu Bengong fell with the wind and led his men to defect to the Japanese fascists early, and became the county magistrate of Yuncheng County and the commander of the "Lu Southwest Defense Communist Self-Defense Army", becoming the anti-communist "vanguard".
Relying on the support of Japanese masters, Liu Bengong quickly expanded the team to more than 5,000 people, becoming the largest group of traitors in southwest Lu, stationed in 33 strongholds near Yuncheng County, including Liukou, Chengtun, and Fuzhuang.
This group of puppet troops, armed with their own soldiers and sufficient food, often burned and plundered the base areas, and did bad things to the extreme, and the common people in the base areas suffered unspeakably.
As early as 1940, the Eighth Route Army's southwestern base area was under the idea of Liu Bengong, a fierce puppet army in Yuncheng, and it would be better to kill his arrogance and annihilate him in one fell swoop. However, he attacked several times in a row, because all of Liu Bengong's strongholds were very strong, and with excellent weapons and equipment, the results were not great.
In 1944, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army merged the Luxi Military Region and the Jiluyu Military Region to form the new Jiluyu Military Region, and the Zeng Siyu Department of the Eighth Route Army, which was active in the Yuncheng area of Shandong Province, was reorganized into the Eighth Military Subdistrict of the Jiluyu Military Region, with Zeng Siyu as the commander of the military subdistrict.
In the summer of 1944, Liu Bengong was somewhat overwhelmed, and very arrogantly and arbitrarily sent a letter of challenge to Zeng Siyu, commander of the Eighth Military Subdistrict of the Jiluyu Military Region, with a very "arrogant" tone and obvious provocative intentions, and the gist of the challenge was: I Liu Bengong are fierce and well-equipped, and I can attack the base area at any time, but do you dare to compete with me?
The Eighth Route Army Jiluyu Military Region
In the face of the aggressive challenge book, Zeng Siyu laughed fiercely and thought: I am trying to clean you up, you are sent to the door, come and go without being rude, then I will still use color until you are served.
Zeng Siyu immediately convened a military conference to discuss attacking Liu Bengong, the leader of the largest puppet army in the Yuncheng area, and killing and maiming the puppet army that was indignant.
On August 3, the battle against the stronghold of the puppet army Liu Bengong began. Zeng Siyu ordered his troops to divide the 33 puppet strongholds around Yuncheng, and at the same time sent some troops to serve as reinforcements.
At first, Liu Bengong maintained that his bunkers and turrets were extremely strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, while the Eighth Route Army did not have heavy weapons such as cannons, and could not help himself at all, so he was not afraid.
Unexpectedly, at this time, the Eighth Route Army was no longer what it used to be, and in just a few days, it successfully conquered 32 puppet army strongholds.
It turned out that as early as 1941, the Eighth Route Army in southwest Lu captured a Type 92 infantry gun of the Japanese army, and drew a gourd in the same way, producing corresponding shells and becoming a sharp weapon on the battlefield. You know, the Japanese fascists only had 3 Type 92 infantry guns in the whole territory of Shandong.
The Type 92 infantry gun was made in Germany and was a powerful infantry weapon at the time. All along, the Japanese army has been bombarding the defensive positions of our Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army with such powerful cannons, and the Eighth Route Army in southwest Lu has not suffered less from it.
Now, the situation on the battlefield has taken a sharp turn, and the Eighth Route Army has used Type 92 infantry artillery to bombard the Japanese puppet army.
Unfortunately, however, just as the Eighth Route Army Company had conquered 32 of all 33 strongholds of Liu Bengong's army, leaving only the last, the most heavily defended and most fortified Gaoji stronghold, the Shells of the Type 92 infantry artillery were exhausted.
Gaoji stronghold is a brick and wood fortress fortress that Liu Bengong spent all his efforts to build, the city is high and thick, and there are many hidden firepower nets around it, the firepower is very powerful, easy to defend and difficult to attack, relying solely on infantry charge, it is tantamount to hitting the stone with an egg, even if it can be conquered by chance, it will inevitably cause a large number of casualties.
The warriors were in a hurry, but Zeng Siyu was not in a hurry. Zeng Siyu is not only a fierce general who can fight in battle, but also a thoughtful and brain-wielding Confucian general. When he was meditating and studying countermeasures, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of the famous "empty city plan" in the ancient Three Kingdoms, and suddenly a good strategy appeared in his mind...
Zeng Siyu asked the soldiers to mount the Type 92 infantry gun that had long been out of shells on a very obvious high ground outside the Gaoji stronghold, and placed several ammunition boxes filled with stones next to it, so that the puppet troops inside the stronghold could clearly see this powerful heavy weapon, plus sufficient shells.
At the same time, Zeng Siyu ordered a soldier with a high voice to shout non-stop at the puppet army in the turret, to the effect that: See no, this is a Type 92 infantry gun, I think you have heard of its power, right? One shot can blow up your strongholds into the sky, your 32 strongholds are all flattened by it, not to mention the tragic situation, missing arms and legs, head melon seeds can be fried into meat paste...
While shouting, Zeng Siyu ordered the soldiers to pretend to fill the shells with the empty cannon barrels they had hit, and then aimed the muzzles at the turret to make a posture that was about to open the cannon.
Type 92 infantry gun
Listed as a lookout, seeing this, do you think this scene is familiar? Yes, this is the TV series "Indelible Fan", Li Daben, the commander of the Wuyi County Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, once used the only mountain cannon and the only remaining shell to defraud the bridge section of Xiaowangzhuang's stronghold. Of course, "Indelible Fan" is a TV series with the theme of anti-war, and all the bridges in it are almost made up by the director for the needs of the plot. What you are seeing now is the real scene of the real war of resistance.
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Facing the gun muzzle of the black hole hole, all the puppet troops in the Gaoji stronghold were frightened and stupid, and each of them was scared and frightened, and the timid even wet his pants. Under the leadership of an officer, the puppet army that had completely collapsed in the psychological defense line obediently raised the white flag, walked out of the stronghold in a panic, and surrendered.
The Eighth Route Army did not cost a single shot, and only relied on a Type 92 infantry gun that had no shells and almost became a pile of scrap iron, and successfully took the last stronghold of the traitor Liu Bengong.
At this point, the battle against the puppet army Liu Bengong was victoriously over. During the campaign, the Eighth Route Army conquered 33 puppet army strongholds, annihilated 27 squadrons of the puppet army, totaling more than 2,600 people, liberated more than 600 villages and towns, and expanded the base area by more than 60 Huali.
After that, Liu Bengong, the leader of the puppet army, was no longer able to provoke the Eighth Route Army, and retreated to the county seat of Yuncheng County, not daring to move.
The first cannon made by the Eighth Route Army, imitating the Japanese Type 92 infantry gun
Unfortunately, in 1945, this type 92 infantry gun, which had made great achievements in battle, was accidentally blown up in a battle, two soldiers were killed on the spot, and Zeng Siyu's thigh was also scratched by shrapnel. Later, the technicians of the Eighth Route Army Arsenal successfully copied a Type 92 infantry gun, which not only made many achievements in subsequent battles, but also the first cannon made by the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, which is now in the Collection of the China Military Museum and has become a witness of history.
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