"Taihang Wind and Bone"—— Memoirs of Yang Yunxi 45

Do New Year goods and crack down on Japanese Kou

I went for three or four days, just before the Spring Festival, and I was contacted by the commander of a company of the Basic Cadre Regiment, Zhang Zuohui, to fight an ambush. Those who knew the enemy's Taoyuan stronghold had gone to Xia County to transport things for the New Year, and were expected to pass by the road south of the Dashan Cape before dark. The district chief agreed, and quickly ate before heading to the ambush area. This section of the road is hilly, with seven or eight meters high mounds on either side of a depression in the middle, covered with sour date thorns and thatch. Moreover, it is a slow slope to our side. Commander Zhang's team was mostly the main force, and the task assigned to our team was to occupy the enemy area south of the road and block the enemy's way on a height of more than 100 meters.

It was dark and the sun was shining below the horizon. The old man saw the enemy and squirmed like a pig. When they reached the ambush site, they started from the waist according to the predetermined way of playing, and as soon as they pulled the mine, the grenades rattled and the machine guns strafed like a wind. Our party had only one machine gun and hit the enemy head-on. The enemy saw the crux of our position and desperately attacked upwards, trying to occupy the high ground and pass. I saw the enemy rushing up from behind and I said, "Fight down!" With two "lifting guns" made by Yan Xishan, the enemy saw that we were prepared and was shot down. As a result, the enemy rushed under our fire and fled to Taoyuan, and most of them returned to the Yangjialing stronghold on the west side of the road four or five miles. Only two migrant workers sat against the wall, we did not hurt them, they took the initiative to carry dates, fish, fenjiu to us on the mountain, this is the Japanese sent us New Year goods, in the morning everyone ate a meal, the migrant workers happily went back. When Tianming went to the position to clean up the battlefield, there were a lot of pheasants dead on the road, it turned out that they were killed by mines, and there was a strange thing, how to look like the leather shoes with pig's tooth nails worn by the devil. Inexplicably, people are not dead, how can there be shoes? Later, it was learned that the Japanese had a rule that when they could not run when they failed, they had to take off their shoes and wear lightly, which also showed that the Japanese devil's Bushido spirit did not work when it was attacked, and they fled in the same way.