In March 1944, the 7th Regiment lianked 53 bunkers, and the 1st Regiment was ordered to take on the task of blocking the enemy. Reinforcements of the 60th Brigade of the Japanese Kou were surrounded in the village and roamed around the village, and the sharpshooters of the 1st Regiment were focused on the Japanese officers. One of the short Officers of the Japanese Kou was shot and captured, and the other captives confessed: "The short officer is Daisaku Yamazawa." ”
In February 1944, the New Fourth Army formulated a strategy to capture the enemy's heavily guarded axle stronghold. Subsequently, the New Fourth Army held an operational meeting and assigned combat tasks to each part: "The 7th Regiment of the 1st Division was responsible for the task of attacking the axle, the 3rd Division was responsible for the task of countermeasures, and the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division was responsible for fighting for reinforcements, and the total attack time was set for the night of March 4." ”
After several days of preparation, the officers and men of the New Fourth Army were full of confidence and marched to the front line of killing the enemy. However, at dusk, suddenly a northeast wind blew around the bridge, and the sand and dust came with the wind, obscuring people's vision. The dusty weather has an impact on the attack, but it can also be used as cover, taking advantage of the enemy to relax its guard and give the enemy a sudden blow.
On the night of March 4, Commander Liao of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division braved the strong wind and arrived at Lujiatan (located west of cheqiao), a predetermined enemy blockade. The warriors lay in ambush, quietly waiting for the arrival of reinforcements, and ushered in the dawn in the cold wind. In the early morning of March 5, the 7th Regiment had conquered 53 Japanese bunkers. The 3rd Division also sent back good news that it had conquered Zhujiaxuzi in the northwest direction of the bridge, but the enemy had not arrived for a long time.
Commander Liao frowned, worried that the enemy would take a detour, and sent scouts to secretly reconnoiter along the road. At about 3 p.m., the first batch of reinforcements from the Japanese Kou arrived and drove into Zhou Village. Commander Liao ordered: "The 4th Company will move immediately, approaching the enemy and catching the enemy by surprise." ”
The Japanese Kou fired artillery and conducted fire reconnaissance as they walked, and they were only 200 meters away from the 1st Regiment's blocking position. The soldiers of the 4th Company took advantage of the dust and sand and slowly approached the Japanese, and under the order of the commander of the 4th Company, the soldiers began to throw grenades at the enemy group. The first group of reinforcements was attacked, and the empress immediately withdrew and hid in Xiaohan Village.
At about 4:00 p.m., the second group of reinforcements came along the road, and Commander Liao ordered: "6 companies are dispatched to block the enemy along the highway and divide and annihilate the enemy." The 2nd group of reinforcements to the enemy took a truck, and as soon as they arrived near HanCun, the soldiers of the 6th Company rushed out. The 6th Company Commander took the lead in charging and threw grenades at the Japanese trucks, blowing up the Japanese Koutou trucks.
The Japanese were unable to retreat, and the creeps hid everywhere, some shooting, some escaping. The 6th Company took out the momentum of "attacking the Tiger Company", annihilated the remnants of the enemy with one blow, and defeated the second batch of reinforcements. The Japanese reinforcements were blocked, and Yamazawa Daisaku, the commander of the 60th Brigade of the 52nd Brigade of the enemy's 65th Division, entered the Han Village with 2 groups of reinforcements and gathered the remnants again.
At night, Commander Liao decided to "turn passive into active" and took the initiative to launch an attack on Han Village. At the order of Commander Liao, the grenadier platoon of the 1st Regiment quickly opened fire and launched a shelling of the village. The 4th, 5th, and 6th companies attacked the village from all directions and seized the position at the mouth of the village. When rikou saw the New Fourth Army's "divine soldiers descending from heaven", their morale was completely lost, and they all hugged their heads and scurried away.
Commander Liao also ordered: "The sharpshooters of each company are ready, and when they see the Japanese officers in tweed coats, they will kill me immediately." A short, flesh-faced officer was about to escape when he was targeted by sharpshooters of the New Fourth Army and dropped to the ground by a bullet. The short officer fell to the ground and wailed, rolling in pain on the ground, and was captured by the soldiers who rushed into the village.
In the melee white-knife battle, the soldiers of the 1st Regiment overcame the difficulties and completely annihilated the 4 batches of japanese reinforcements. The short officer was tied on a stretcher and delivered to the hospital in the back, still swearing and grinning. After raiding and interrogating the other captives, the other captives confessed: "The short officer who was captured was Daisaku Yamazawa. ”
After Yamazawa was captured, the Japanese sent a fifth group of reinforcements in a vain attempt to rescue the remnants of the Japanese in Han Village, but were blocked by the 1st Regiment of soldiers outside Han Village. In the early morning of the 6th, the 6th group of reinforcements of the Japanese Kou arrived, opened by armored vehicles and tanks, and the special service battalion of the 3rd Division met the enemy. After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the special service battalion blocked the 2-way reinforcements of the Japanese Kou, so that the Japanese Kou could not get close to the bridge.
After the reinforcements of the Japanese 2nd Road were blocked, they feared the same fate as the reinforcements of the first 4 routes, and fled back to the Wantang stronghold. The units of the New Fourth Army fought until the 7th, annihilating nearly a thousand enemy troops, and finally recovering the strategic point of Cheqiao.
