At the junction of Henan and Shandong in 1942, the Eighth Route Army of the Hebei Southern Military Region was arranging offensive deployment. At that time, the Japanese army had already occupied Daming County and the surrounding subsidiary counties, and the Eighth Route Army only occupied a small Yuancheng, so the Eighth Route Army began to gather troops and prepare to capture The county seat of Daming.
However, in the "great sweep" before the Japanese army, our army and the Japanese army launched a fierce battle, and the casualties of our own troops were very heavy, and it would be unrealistic to directly attack the county seat of Daming, so the chief of the Ji'nan Military Region chose to attack the four positions arranged first.
Before launching an attack, the commander of the military region, Chen Zaidao, ordered his cavalry regiment to attack Sungandian around Daimyo at night in an attempt to drive away the Japanese troops. After several hours of fighting, although our army defeated a large number of Japanese troops, it did not drive them away, but made the Japanese army increase its vigilance and increase its strength around it. Later, Chen Zaidao urgently held a pre-war meeting to discuss how to attack the four strongholds that had been discussed earlier.
Because each independent regiment had experienced large and small battles before, there were also casualties in the regiment, and some independent regiments did not even have 1,000 people, so when Chen Zaidao proposed to attack the stronghold of Nanlizhuang first, none of the regimental commanders dared to stand up as the main attacker.
Forced to be helpless, Chen Zaidao ordered the cavalry company to be changed into infantry to participate in the battle, and the horses of the cavalry regiment were given to the local people to feed instead of the soldiers. The other regimental commanders heard that Chen Zaidao had already moved his precious cavalry regiment into battle, and they all said that they would go all out in combat.
The battle began, and the cavalry regiment prepared for a surprise attack in the early hours of the morning. At that time, there were about 700 Japanese ghosts in Nanlizhuang, coupled with the last cavalry regiment's surprise attack, so the Japanese army urgently dispatched some troops to strengthen the surrounding fortifications, and let the soldiers be on duty at night and sleep during the day, so the cavalry regiment chose to attack when the Japanese army was tired of duty.
The three companies of the cavalry regiment attacked first, because the Japanese army was very tired at that time, so our army easily captured the fortifications of the East Gate and occupied the enemy's village gate.
The Japanese army has a lot of fortifications in South Lizhuang, and there are several village gates alone, so when the cavalry company occupied the east gate, other Japanese troops from all walks of life also came, and our army began to engage in encounters with the Japanese army. After two hours of fighting, our army began to slowly approach the west gate, and the independent regiment behind began to advance from the east gate, assisting the cavalry regiment in defeating the enemy in the south, and with this cooperation the main force of the Japanese army was destroyed.
After hearing that our army had won a stage victory, Chen Zaidao was ready to rush to the front line to fight with the soldiers, but was stopped by the political commissar, who said: "Commander, the battle ahead is still very dangerous, who commanded the troops when you went to the front line and were injured?" Chen Zaidao retorted, "The enemy has already been surrounded, so we must eliminate it as soon as possible, and my safety does not need to be taken care of by you." After saying that, he rode to the front line on horseback. At that time, it was planned to take Nanlizhuang in half a day, but after entering the village, the Japanese army used the house bunker to start guerrilla warfare.
But when it comes to guerrilla warfare, our army certainly has more experience than them, so Chen Zaidao sent a cavalry regiment to defend itself at the top of the roof, and then the independent regiment pursued the enemy in the alley. The battle was fierce, the two sides fought back and forth, and in the end it was impossible to tell which side was the enemy and which side was their own, and the commissar had received a shot in the shoulder while charging, and the soldiers took the commissar to a room.
After entering again, I found that it was an infirmary, but looking at so many bottles and cans, the soldiers did not know what they were doing, but just wrapped the wound with bandages and did the work of stopping the bleeding. On the other side, the fighters on the front line were still pursuing the enemy, but because of the disruption, sometimes the enemy had just been eliminated here, and the enemy appeared here again, so the warriors kept fighting around the enemy.
However, slowly the Japanese army gathered together, and coupled with his great understanding of the terrain here, the pace of our army's attack became difficult. Chen Zaidao ordered a change of method, so that everyone could attack from a high place in order to see the specific position of the enemy.
An independent regiment suddenly found that the puppet army was below when it was on the roof, and there were several people behind it, at this time fortunately, the company commander was quick in his eyes, picked up the shield in his hand and ordered the puppet army to put down the gun, and then as there were more and more soldiers on the roof, the puppet army slowly put down the gun and did not dare to resist, and then as the independent regiment continued to investigate, it was found that there were many puppet troops in many houses, because they were not the main Japanese troops, they hid in the house at the beginning of the battle because they were afraid of death, and they did not expect to be discovered by our army.
After a fierce battle, our army successfully took Nansunzhuang, and the remaining Japanese troops also fled to Sungandian. In the subsequent investigation, our army found that these puppet troops were not Chinese, but were sent from Korea, and because of the language barrier, they had to be released.