In February 1942, Okamura Ninji mobilized more than 50,000 Kou soldiers and once again launched a sweep against the base areas of northwestern Jin, Taihang, and Taiyue.
The commanders of the enemy's sweep of the northwest of Jin were Major General Maori, commander of the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, and Major General Yan Song, brigade commander of the Independent Mixed 16th Brigade.
The tour group on the northern front, commanded by Major General Maori, set out from Sancha, Wuzhai, Ximafang, and other places, and directly attacked the garrison of the Second Sub-district of the Northwest Military Region of Jin, while the 16th Brigade regiment of the Southern Front, commanded by Major General Maori, set out from Mafang, Wang Shi, and Puming, and directly attacked Xingxian County, where the military region was stationed.
He Long
He Long had already taken precautions, and immediately commanded the main force to turn out of the outer line and actively seek battle behind the enemy lines.
Zhang Zongxun commanded the 358th Brigade to continuously ambush the Japanese Kou transport convoy on the road from Lanxian to Xingxian County; Xu Guangda commanded the troops of the Second Military Subdistrict to attack the enemy strongholds such as Wuzhai, Sancha, and Shenchi one after another; Gao Shiyi, Wang Shangrong, and others commanded the Fourth Military Subdistrict; Guo Peng commanded the Fifth Military Subdistrict; and Han Jun commanded the Eighth Military Subdistrict; and other units actively sought battles in Lishi, Lanxian, Taiyuan, Fenyang, Wenshui, Jiaocheng, and other places, attacking their strongholds and cutting off their transportation.
The enemy pounced on the air one after another, was beaten everywhere, and had no food to continue, and had to flee back to the original nest in early March.
In january, the Northwest Jin Military Region fought hard, fought more than 180 battles, and annihilated nearly 600 enemy troops.
After the defeat of the enemy, he attempted to use the method of sneak attack to capture the Northwest Jin Military Region.
In this year, that is, in early May 1942, Lin Chuan, the commander of the 85th Brigade of the Enemy 69th Division, received a call from the commander of the division, Lin Chuan stood solemnly and upright, and repeatedly shouted "Hello".
Lin Chuan Daisaku said in a low voice, "The commander of the division has just called to warn us that the Imperial Japanese Army's sweep of He Long's troops this time is a big defeat." Now that our army has returned to its stronghold, He Long must have thought that our army, as before, would have to go through a long period of preparation before launching the next sweep. The commander of the division instructed us to take advantage of He Long's paralyzed psychology to break the law of sweeping in the past: Our brigade immediately dispatched a surprise attack on Xingxian County. Now I order the brigade to seize the time to rest for two days, and to prepare for the dispatch in two days. In order to cover up this operation, it was only said that it was a town of annoyance in Jingle County. The above deployment is only known to all the princes present today, and it cannot be revealed to anyone, and the intelligence work of the Eighth Road is very outstanding. ”
After the Lin Chuan brigade rested for a few days, it did indeed take action, recruiting mules and horses from the people, and threatening to sweep up the town of Jingle County.
At this time, in the middle of May 1942, it was precisely the time when the green and yellow were not receiving, stationed in the northwest direction of the Linchuan Brigade, and just as the Linchuan Brigade was attacking Xingxian, the main force of the Jinsui Military Region, the 116th Regiment of the 358th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army in Northern China.
Huang Xinting
The regimental commander was still Huang Xinting, who commanded the Qihui battle, the political commissar was Liao Hansheng at the time of the ambush at Yanmen Pass, and the former regimental commander He Bingyan was now the deputy brigade commander of the 358th Brigade.
The Lin Chuan Brigade was intensively preparing to sweep up, and the information was continuously transmitted to the 716 regimental headquarters stationed at the mouth of the Eastern Boundary River in XingXian County.
Deputy Political Commissar Yan Jinsheng and others gathered around the map to study the enemy situation, but he did not speak, quietly listening to everyone's discussion, but his heart was like a mirror.
It is clear that although Hayashikawa Daisaku is only a Daisa, he is very senior, participated in the Russo-Japanese War, and many of the soldiers who participated in the Russo-Japanese War at the same time as him are already generals. After Lin Chuan Dazuo came to the northwest of Jin, he once acted as the commander of the brigade, this person has been in the battlefield for a long time, the combat experience is very rich, came to the northwest of Jin for two years, has not suffered a major blow, so arrogant and abnormal, as if he is a general who always wins.
Now that the spring sweep has just ended, Lin Chuan has again threatened to sweep up Jingle, to re-offend Jinsui with a tired momentum, to go far away alone, and to be a big taboo for soldiers; this is not what Lin Chuan Dazuo, who is familiar with the art of war, should do, but he is afraid that Lin Chuansheng will attack the west from the east, take advantage of the annoyance, and secretly attack Xingxian County, in an attempt to take advantage of my lack of preparation and encircle and annihilate the Jinsui Military Region where I am stationed in Xingxian County.
Deputy Political Commissar Yan Jinsheng
Yan Jinshan, while thinking, listened to the discussions of other leaders of the regimental headquarters, and seeing that everyone had this view, he said: "My thoughts are the same as everyone else's. Lin Chuan, the old fox, was very cunning, and this dispatch was scheduled to come for the Xingxian Military Region. We must quickly report this situation to the brigade headquarters and at the same time make preparations for battle. Now the second and third battalions of our regiment and the regiment have gone straight out to carry food, and there is only one battalion and one special agent company left in the house. Due to the continuous sweeping of the devils, the supply of troops was difficult, and more than half of the soldiers suffered from night blindness. It was difficult, or impossible, for one battalion of ours to eliminate the seven hundred men of the Lin Chuan Brigade. Now our task is to delay Lin Chuan's actions as much as possible, find out their plans, and wait for other troops of the military region to arrive and surround and annihilate Lin Chuan. Now I ordered a battalion to strengthen its vigilance in the direction of Lan County; and ordered the special agent company stationed at Zashikou to make preparations to block Lin Chuan. ”
After the order was delivered, the special agent company at Zaoshikou immediately prepared for battle.
Waiting to block the soldiers of Lin Chuan's brigade
Sure enough, after the Lin Chuan Brigade moved out, it rushed straight to the direction of Zaoshikou, which was an important intersection leading to Xingxian County.
After Yan Jinshan heard the fierce gunfire from the mouth of the miscellaneous stones at dusk, he immediately ordered the commander of the special agent company Zhou Company: "Resolutely block the enemy and buy time for the organs of the military region to move." ”
In accordance with the orders of the regimental headquarters, the commander of the Zhou Company blocked the Lin Chuan Brigade with a favorable formation at the Zaoshikou.
Lin Chuan saw that the Eighth Route Army was ready, and ordered a small number of troops to be left to entangle with the Eighth Route Army, and the main force bypassed Nanshan and headed west.
Commander Zhou lianchang quickly reported this unexpected situation to Yan Jinsheng by telephone.
Yan Jinsheng was shocked, the enemy changed the route of the march to definitely take Xingxian County, but there were many roads leading to Xingxian County, which road would Lin Chuan take?
Yan Jinshan and the staff officer of the regiment headquarters opened the map to study the enemy's actions, and everyone marked out all the roads leading to Xingxian County, and analyzed and judged that Lin Chuan was eager to seek merit and would definitely take the short road through Lijiazhuang.
Brigade Commander Zhang Zongxun of the 358th Brigade
Yan Jinsheng decided to put a battalion in Lijiazhuang. At this moment, Zhang Zongxun, commander of the 358th Brigade, came to the phone, pointing out that Lin Chuan would go to Lijiazhuang and ordered a battalion to rush to Lijiazhuang together with the reconnaissance company to build a position and block Lin Chuan.
Yan Jinsheng put down the phone and ordered the first battalion to immediately set off and rush to Lijiazhuang to block the enemy, and after receiving the order, the commander of the first battalion, You Haoyang, immediately led the first battalion to Rush to Lijiazhuang at the speed of forced marching, and waited in a strict position.
After the first battalion set off, Yan Jinsheng's heart went up and down, did Lin Chuan go to Li Jiazhuang?
If he doesn't go down this path, it's bad. In the middle of the night, the people in the regimental command post quietly listened to the movements in the direction of Li Jiazhuang, but until the east was green, Li Jiazhuang was still quiet.
Yan Jinshan felt a pang of nervousness in his heart, lin chuan brigade did not go to Li Jiazhuang?
At this moment, a crisp and loud gunshot came from the direction of Li Jiazhuang, followed by the sound of gunfire.
Swim well
Yan Jinsheng grabbed the phone and asked, "Are you good Yang?" How are you doing there?"
You Haoyang excitedly reported on the phone: "Lin Chuan was blocked by my militia all the way, his action was slow, and when he first arrived at Lijiazhuang, I was fighting fiercely with the enemy!" ”
Yan Jinsheng ordered him: "Resolutely hold Lijiazhuang and wait for our large army to arrive to encircle and annihilate Lin Chuan." ”
You Haoyang hurriedly played the ticket: "Rest assured, chief, as long as I am here, Lin Chuan will not be able to pass Li Jiazhuang." ”
A battalion and Lin Chuan fought fiercely at Lijiazhuang, Lin Chuan was anxious to reap the rewards and attacked desperately, the first battalion waited for work and fought steadily, and Lin Chuan's brigade was left with countless corpses, but it still failed to take a step forward.
At this time, suddenly the brigade headquarters called and ordered Yan Jinsheng to withdraw a battalion and let the enemy army enter Zhanxing County.
Yan Jinsheng did not know why the brigade headquarters did this, but the military situation on the battlefield was urgent, and Yan Jinsheng quickly ordered a battalion to withdraw from Lijiazhuang.
Lin Chuan Dazuo was greatly pleased and ordered his troops to attack XingXian without stopping.
Site of the Jinsui Military District Government and the Military Region Headquarters
At dawn on May 17, the devils finally reached the county seat of Xingxian County. The leading organs of the Jinsui Military Region have long been transferred, and Xingxian is already an empty city.
Lin Chuan Dazuo knew the plan, and ordered the troops to withdraw from the city after a short rest, and stationed in Baijiayan, southeast of the city of Xingxian.
He Long learned at the headquarters of the military region that Lin Chuan was stationed in Baijiayan near Yuxing County, so he ordered Zhang Zongxun's 358th Brigade and Hou Junyan's Industrial Guard Brigade to surround and annihilate Lin Chuan's brigade at Baijiayan.
Liao Hansheng
The 358th Brigade under the command of Zhang Zongxun dispatched the strength of three regiments of the whole brigade to Baijiayan, which were the 716th Regiment led by Huang Xinting and Liao Hansheng, the 7th Regiment led by Tang Jinlong and Yang Xiuchuan, and the 8th Regiment led by Liu Bin and Yu Qiuli.
A unit of the Workers' Guard Brigade led by Hou Junyan's brigade commander and political commissar also rushed to Baijiayan and, together with the 358th Brigade, tightly surrounded Lin Chuan.
Lin Chuan found that the eighth route army had arrived and desperately tried to break through, but the eighth route army had occupied the surrounding highlands, and Lin Chuan knew the strength of the eighth route army and commanded the troops to concentrate on attacking the positions of the five companies and seven companies of the 716th Regiment.
In the valley, the sound of gunfire was loud, and soldiers on both sides shouted to kill. The enemy army is a battle of life and death, the charge is extremely brave, and the 716 regiment is as solid as a rock and does not move.
Yan Jinsheng looked at the battlefield with a telescope in the command post and couldn't help but admire The clever calculation of Boss He.
It turned out that He Long considered that Lijiazhuang was very close to the enemy stronghold, and the 716th Regiment had fought hard in Lijiazhuang, and Lin Chuan was likely to retreat back to the stronghold, so when the first battalion was fighting fiercely in Lijiazhuang, He Long ordered the first battalion to withdraw from Lijiazhuang and let Lin Chuan go to Xing County.
This is the central area of the base area, and it is difficult for the Lin Chuan Brigade to escape back to the stronghold, so that our army can completely annihilate the enemy. The arrogant Lin Chuan Daisaku was indeed successful and was surrounded at Baijiayan.
Yan Jinsheng observed the positions of the Fifth and Seventh Companies, and suddenly saw more than a hundred devils quietly crawling from behind the mountain to our army's position.
Yan Jinsheng immediately ordered the sixth company of the regimental reserve to occupy the rear hill and sneak up on the enemy's back. The Sixth Company was ordered to immediately dispatch and sneak up on the devil's back. The devils single-mindedly went to sneak attack the positions of the Fifth Company and the Seventh Company, but they did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would come to sneak up on them, and they were immediately beaten down the hill by the Sixth Company.
After a day of fierce fighting, Lin Chuan's brigade suffered heavy casualties.
After dark, Lin Chuan summoned several squadron commanders and ordered them: "Today the fierce battle was fierce, the Eighth Route Army was tenacious, and we successfully conducted fire reconnaissance." I found that there was a gap in the deployment of the Eighth Route Army, and now the squadrons immediately went back to make preparations, and in an hour I would take you to break through. ”
An hour later, Lin Chuan Daisa, with the remnants of the defeated soldiers, quietly passed through a gap in the encirclement circle of the Eighth Route Army, sneaked out of the encirclement unconsciously and unconsciously, and fled to the stronghold in panic.
Yan Jinsheng waited in the command post with a candle. He was tired from days of fierce fighting, but he didn't want to sleep. Looking out the window, the night was as dark as ink, the encircled enemy troops did not move at all, Yan Jinsheng suddenly felt a sinking in his heart, would Lin Chuan take advantage of the night darkness to break through?
He hurriedly ordered the Night Raiders to go out and capture the enemy.
Tian Jiahui battle map
The night raid team went out, and Yan Jinsheng looked at Bai Jiayan and waited for the gunshots of the night raid. However, the gunshots never rang out.
In the middle of the night, the night raid team returned to report: "The enemy has fled. ”
Yan Jinsheng urgently ordered the troops to blow the horn to pursue, picked up the telephone himself, and urgently reported the news of the enemy's escape to the brigade headquarters.
At this time, the 716 regiment had already gathered urgently, and Yan Jinsheng waved his hand: "Chase! He led the whole regiment in a dark pursuit.
Many of the warriors suffering from night blindness due to nutritional deficiencies were chased by other good-eyed warriors, and finally caught up with the enemy's cover detachment at dawn.
Yan Jinsheng sent a small force to pursue and annihilate the enemy detachment, and the main force continued to advance, chasing until dawn, and found the enemy's brigade, and the 716th Regiment and the Lin Chuan Brigade raced along the two parallel mountain beams of their respective advances.
The 716th Regiment desperately pursued, Lin Chuan Daisa, desperately running away, seeing that in front of it was the tianjiahui village, which was only thirty kilometers away from the enemy's stronghold, and if the enemy ran past the Tianjiahui, it would be difficult to surround and annihilate.
Yan Jinsheng led the team to run while observing the situation on the battlefield. Suddenly a thought flashed in his mind, according to the general marching sequence, the enemy's command organs are in the middle of the line, and now the second battalion is in a position parallel to the enemy's command organs, why not order the second battalion to attack the enemy command organs, so that the enemy's vanguard troops will return to the rescue command organs, is it not possible to drag the enemy down.
Determined to settle down, Yan Jinsheng ordered the trumpeter to blow the trumpet. As soon as the trumpet sounded, the second battalion immediately pounced on the enemy command organ, and the enemy in the front did indeed return to the command organ, and the second battalion launched a fierce battle with the enemy.
Peng Jiashi
At this moment, the three battalions of the 716th Regiment that had gone out to carry grain arrived, and the 21st Regiment of the Workers' Guard Brigade led by Peng Jiashi and Zhang Guiting also arrived. Yan Jinsheng quickly sent staff officers to contact them and join forces to attack the enemy in front of them; he also ordered the first battalion to seize the commanding heights north of Tianjiahui; and ordered the second battalion to withdraw from the battle, seize the commanding heights northeast of Tianjiahui, and cut off the enemy's retreat. Hayashikawa Daisaku ordered the devils to hold on to the existing positions.
At 6:30 p.m., the 358th Brigade Headquarters led the 716th Regiment and the 21st Regiment, which participated in the battle, launched a general attack on the Lin Chuan Brigade.
At this time, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, and the fierce wind swept the sand and stones to pounce on the enemy, and the sound was like a tiger's roar. The sound of the wind and the shouts of the warriors to kill made the devils tremble in fear.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Lin Chuan sneaked away quietly with a few retinues, and the other ghosts were all annihilated in Tianjiahui Village.
In the battle, the 120th Division annihilated more than 600 people of the Lin Chuan Brigade.
The picture sets general Zuo Quan, deputy chief of staff
He Long and Guan Xiangying ordered commendations to the meritorious troops, and an urgent telegram came from Yan'an: General Zuo Quan, deputy chief of staff of the general staff, was martyred in the anti-sweeping campaign at Taihang Mountain.
The deputy chief of staff of Zuo Quan was killed by a cannon while covering the breakthrough of the general organs of the assembly. In the same year, when the enemy Kou swept northwestern Jin, he also sent troops to sweep the Taiyue and Taihang base areas, but both were crushed by the 129th Division.
In May, when the Lin Chuan brigade attacked Xing County, Rikou once again mobilized a large army to focus on sweeping the Taiyue and Taihang districts.
The commander-in-chief of the Japanese North China Dispatch Army, Okamura Ninji
In May 1942, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese North China Dispatch Army, Okamura Ningji, stationed in Changzhi and mobilized 50,000 troops to attack the Taihang Mountains. On May 17, the enemy troops of Jingxing and thousands of enemy troops of Pingding and Xiyang were the first to move forward to Liaoxian County, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
At this time, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was stationed in Matian Town, Liaoxian County.
Immediately after the Japanese sweep began, the headquarters held a military conference to deploy the anti-sweeping struggle.
Zuo Quan, deputy chief of the general staff and deputy commander-in-chief Peng Dehuai
Chief of Staff Ye Jianying was still accompanying the capital Chongqing, assisting Zhou Enlai in leading the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Chongqing Office of the Eighteenth Group Army; Zhu De had already gone to Yan'an to participate in the CCP rectification movement; the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was presided over by Peng Dehuai, deputy commander-in-chief, and Zuo Quan, deputy chief of general staff.
After the enemy troops moved, Zuo Quan held a military conference in the town of Matian to deploy anti-sweeping struggles.
Memorial Hall of the Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Matian
Holding a bare-scraped poplar stick, he walked over to the map, looked solemnly at the chief of the operations section and the staff officers at the meeting, knocked on the table with the poplar stick, and said, "Comrades, now is the meeting." Since the enemy failed to sweep the Taihang area in February, he has now mobilized more than 30,000 troops from the Zhengtai, Tongpu, and Pinghan lines to carry out crazy retaliation. The focus of this enemy's retaliatory sweep is the headquarters of our Eighth Route Army. Our anti-sweep deployment is like this. ”
Schematic of the Great Counteroffensive
Zuo Quan pointed to the map with a small wooden stick and said: "Above the Qingzhang River, the First Line of Qingyunling, Pingding, Xiyang, and the First Line of Yushe and Liaoxian, these two lines, Commander Liu and Commissar Deng, commanded the 129th Division to counterattack the Kou army." The combat tasks from Xiangxian and Licheng to the front line of Qijiguan are under the responsibility of our headquarters. Now, Commander Liu and Political Commissar Deng have begun to command the 129th Division in accordance with the arrangements of the headquarters, and our headquarters must also take immediate action to repel the enemy who has invaded the areas involving the county and Licheng. ”
After the deputy chief of staff of Zuo Quan made combat arrangements, the eighth route army troops in the Taihang Mountains took urgent action and threw themselves into a harsh anti-sweeping struggle.
Deng Xiaoping, political commissar of the 129th Division, and commander of Liu Bocheng's division
Under the command of Liu Bocheng and Political Commissar Deng Xiaoping, the 129th Division inflicted heavy losses on the enemy troops successively at gaoluo town and the town of Trap, and Zeng Shaoshan, commander of the second sub-district of the Taihang Military Region, also dispatched the main force and a number of armed task forces to carry out guerrilla warfare in the rear of the enemy forces in the Xiyang area, pinpointing the commander of the Katayama Brigade who attacked Liaoxian County, so that he had to lead a mixed brigade back to his old nest.
When Okamura heard that the Japanese army had been severely damaged in Changzhi, he could not help but be furious, and mobilized the enemy army to encircle the town of Matian in LiaoXian County from four directions, east, west, south and north, with the intention of destroying the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.
On May 24, wu'an enemy of more than 4,000 people, armed with four heavy artillery, attacked Matian along the Wuda Road.
The 3,000 enemy troops of Changzhi marched east through Lucheng and Licheng, and more than 10,000 enemy troops along the Baijin Road, such as Xiangyuan and Qinxian, attacked Hanbi and Dongtian, east of Xiying, and attacked the vicinity of Matian on May 24.
More than 1,000 enemy troops in Liao County marched north through Licheng on May 24, and the enemy troops on the four roads formed a posture of iron rings.
Okamura Ninji
Okamura was overjoyed and ordered the enemy troops of the four roads to march day and night, attacking the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Matian at the speed of a forced march.
Deputy Chief of Staff Zuo Quan had ordered the headquarters to prepare for a breakthrough, and since the main forces had rushed to the battlefield, the headquarters' guard force had only one garrison company.
But there are the Northern Bureau, the Party School, and the entire rear organs around the headquarters, so how can these organs be transferred?
Zuo Quan and Peng Dehuai discussed for a while and decided to dispatch a garrison company to cover up, and the headquarters and rear organs were immediately transferred.
Left right
Zuo Quan took the initiative to ask for cover with his troops, but Peng Dehuai could not fight with him, so he agreed and organized the transfer of headquarters himself.
The garrison company had already been ordered to prepare for battle, and after receiving Zuo Quan's order, company commander Tang Weicheng immediately went to the headquarters to accept the combat mission.
The sound of gunfire was heard in the distance, but Zuo Quan did not seem to hear it, and he was still wearing a neatly sewn military uniform, and a revolver hung from his belt.
He pulled Tang Wancheng to the table, pointed to the map, and said: "A few days ago, we did not leave, attracting the enemy's heavy troops to our encirclement, and enabling the main forces of our army to jump to the outside line." Now that the enemy has come up, we should leave, and your company is responsible for taking cover, deploying defenses on these positions, blocking the enemy, are you confident?"
Tang Wancheng resoundingly agreed, "Yes, chief, you can rest assured." ”
Zuo Quan patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction and said, "Well, I knew you could block the enemy." Remember, the lives of thousands of people in the rear organs are on our shoulders. ”
Luo Ruiqing
At this time, Luo Ruiqing hurriedly came in and said to Zuo Quan: "The enemy is marching very fast, and he has already reached Matian. ”
Zuo Quan ordered the garrison company: "Immediately occupy the position and cover the breakthrough of the headquarters." You have more than two hundred people, most of whom are old Red Army members and Communists, and I believe that you will be able to accomplish this arduous task. Tell the comrades that the top of the Taihang Mountains should not be shaken. ”
Luo Ruiqing continued Zuo Quan's words of encouragement: "The enemy is dancing with teeth and claws, and on the surface he is fierce, but from the overall situation, they are surrounded by our army and people. ”
Zuo Quan immediately said, "Director Luo is very right, you should leave immediately." ”
Tang Wancheng
According to Zuo Quan's deployment, Tang Wancheng immediately led the garrison company to seize the two hills in front of Matian Town, which just guarded the road where the headquarters was transferred.
As soon as the troops had established their positions, the vanguard of the enemy arrived. Tang Wancheng stood on the top of the mountain and looked out, only to see that the road from Liaoxian to Matian was dusty and smoke was billowing.
As soon as the enemy arrived, they ignored the fatigue of the forced march and immediately launched an attack on the two hilltop positions.
The garrison company used the danger to block the attack and repelled the enemy's charge several times in succession.
Tang Wancheng was about to organize his troops when suddenly a loud motor roared, and a soldier shouted, "Enemy aircraft!" ”
Japanese bombers
Tang Wancheng looked up, and sure enough, several enemy planes flew in to attack, and he loudly ordered: "Hide immediately!" ”
The warriors roared and hid between the boulders and in the trenches.
The plane circled in the air, then swooped down to the hilltop position, fired machine guns, and dropped bombs, fortunately, the terrain on the hill was complicated, and the enemy air raids did not cause much damage.
As soon as the air raid stopped, the enemy charged towards the position again.
Tang Wancheng shouted, "The devil has come up and opened fire!" The warriors entered the position at once, raised their guns and shot at the devils, who rolled down the hill in rows.
Peng Dehuai
Just as the garrison company was stubbornly defending the hilltop position, Peng Dehuai led the headquarters, the Northern Bureau, the North China Xinhua Daily, and other organs to urgently move from the corridors of the two hills.
He Yun, president of Xinhua Daily, led a team of more than 100 newspapers to run through the aisle, and Huang Junjue (female), secretary and director of the manager's department, followed He Yun with the newspaper's account book.
The enemy had already found the besieged Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the Xinhua Daily Newspaper breaking through, and regardless of the casualties, they rushed to the Cross Ridge position under the supervision of the Japanese officers.
Since the founding of the Xinhua Daily in Taihang in North China, the enemy has hated this newspaper to death, and for several years he has tried every means to destroy it, but he has not succeeded, and now it is difficult to surround them with the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, how can they let them escape.
The enemy commander brandished his battle knife and screamed, and the devilish soldiers held their bayonets, roared and screamed, and charged with death.
Tang Wancheng waited for the enemy to approach and ordered: "Fight! "A grenade was poured, and the devil soldier cried wolf.
Several ghost soldiers rushed to the position, and Tang Wancheng jumped out of the fortification with a rifle with a bayonet on it, shouting: "Stab the enemy to death in front of the position!" The soldiers followed the company commander out of the trench and fought with the enemy with bayonets.
Although the devil's assassination technique was skilled, the old Red Army soldiers of Tang Wancheng's garrison company were even more skilled in martial arts, and they sent these enemies to the western sky in a few clicks.
Taking advantage of the gap between battles, Tang Wancheng looked down the hill behind him and saw that the comrades of the rear organs were running through the walkway, but they did not see Zuo Quan. He looked around worriedly, wondering if the deputy chief of staff of the left power had shifted.
Just as he was observing the battlefield uncertainly, a soldier of the Eighth Route Army climbed down from the hillside above with a rolling belt, and Tang Wancheng hurriedly caught it and took a closer look. It turned out to be the guard of the left right! The chief has not left yet.
The guard could not speak, and quickly took out a piece of paper the size of a palm and handed it to Tang Wancheng: "Yes, Tang Company Commander, the order of the chief." ”
Tang Wancheng unfolded a look, only to see that the paper was written: "The headquarters is moving, and I swear to die to ensure safety." Left right. ”
Tang Wancheng's heart sank, and he asked busily, "Where is the fourteenth?"
The guard wiped his sweat and pointed to the hill behind him: "Right there." ”
Tang Wancheng let out an "Oh" and shouted, "Three platoon leaders, you command." With that, he pulled up the guards and ran toward the back hill.
Former residence of General Zuo Quan
Zuo Quan, code-named Number Fourteen, was standing under a walnut tree in front of his detached house, directing the transfer of headquarters and rear organs, holding up a telescope and looking at the battlefield under heavy artillery fire.
Tang Wancheng ran over, stomped his feet, and said, "Chief, why haven't you left yet?" It's a deadly thing. ”
Zuo Quan put down the telescope and said to Tang Wancheng, "You have come just in time." See no, there are still fellow villagers on the mountain over there, quickly send someone to contain the enemy, let the fellow run out. ”
Tang Wancheng asked anxiously, "What about you?" Hurry up; the warriors are all worried about you. ”
Zuo Quan smiled: "I'm not in a hurry, comrade, the lives of thousands of people in the rear organs are on my body, they are not completely transferred out, can I leave?"
Zuo Quan looked at what Tang Wancheng still wanted to say, and ordered, "Okay, you should go back and command the troops." I see very clearly here that you have just fought well, go back and pass on the order to commend the troops. Tell the warriors that it's time to fight the devils. We revolutionary fighters are iron men, and we must suppress the devils and successfully complete the task of covering the transfer of headquarters. ”
Tang Wancheng saluted excitedly and said, "The chief is assured, as long as we are on guard, the devils will not want to move a single hair of the headquarters." ”
A telescope left over from revolutionary history
Tang Wancheng left, and Zuo Quan raised his telescope to observe the battlefield.
After a while, the gunfire stopped.
Zuo Quan wrote a note again, ordering the guards to send it to the chief of the headquarters to lead the team, Wang Section Chief, and asked him to use this gap to direct the rear organs to accelerate the breakthrough.
The guards relayed the order, and Zuo Quan raised his telescope again to observe the position. At this time, the devils had stopped attacking, and there was a rare calm on the battlefield.
Not good! Zuo Quan cried out in his heart.
According to the convention, the devils should step up their attacks, how to stop the attacks instead, and give the Eighth Route Army a chance to rest and breathe, the enemy is definitely engaged in conspiracy. Thinking of this, Zuo Quan's heart tightened, and he raised his telescope to carefully search around the position, and after a while, he put down the telescope and said to himself: "Strange, there is no movement." ”
Unassured, he raised his telescope again to observe.
Cross Ridge anti-sweep immortal monument
Suddenly, a group of the Eighth Route Army appeared in the mirror, carefully removing the thatch on the mountain and crossing the Cross Ridge position.
Strange, from where did such a unit come from, this must be the enemy disguised as a sneak attack, no wonder the devils stopped the frontal attack, it turned out to be engaged in this hand.
Zuo Quan couldn't think of anything else, so he pulled out his revolver and called a guard and asked him to run to the Political Department Guard Company deployed on the mountain pass, so that they could watch out for the enemy sneaking up on my flank.
Zuo Quan resolutely gave the order, and then took the revolver and flew towards the position of the Cross Ridge Garrison Company.
Zuo Quan pointed to the "Eighth Route Army" that was coming across the hillside and said, "The devils have come up disguised as our army, and you are about to seize the mountain bag in front!" ”
Tang Wancheng shouted, "A row, follow me!" He took the mountain bag in front of him with a row and blocked the sneak attack.
At this time, behind a mountain beam on the right side of Cross Ridge, there was a sudden fierce gunshot, and the shells flew overhead with a scream.
The devils disguised themselves as the Eighth Route Army
Zuo Quan understood that after the enemy stopped attacking, he played two tricks, some of the ghosts disguised as the Eighth Route Army to sneak into the position of the garrison company, and the other unit copied behind the garrison company in an attempt to cut off the detachment transferred by the headquarters.
The soldiers heard the gunshots in the back of the side and looked nervous.
Zuo Quan raised his revolver and said loudly: "Comrades, rest assured, I have long expected that the enemy will come to this hand, and I have asked the guard company of the Political Department to occupy the mountain beam in front of the mountain pass, and to hold its troops still, specifically to deal with the enemy's sneak attack, and now they are already blocking the enemy." The warriors listened to this.
Suddenly, a fierce burst of gunfire sounded at the bottom of the mountain, and Zuo Quan held a revolver and loudly ordered: "The enemy is about to charge, ready for battle." ”
As soon as the words fell out, a row of bullets from the ghost soldiers flew overhead, and Zuo Quan pulled the trigger one after another, knocking down several ghost soldiers who rushed up.
The warriors, under the command of Zuo Quan, counterattacked the enemy's charge one after another. On the position, the war was full of flames and shrapnel, and the leader of the left power greatly defeated the enemy's fierce flames and stabilized the position.
The sun was far to the west, and thousands of people from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the rear organs ran out of the enemy's combined attack circle along the middle road and broke through the outer line in three ways.
In order to buy more time, Zuo Quan continued to command the garrison company and the Political Department guard company on the position to block the enemy.
The enemy army of more than a thousand people was blocked by two heroic companies.
The enemy chieftain was very annoyed and ordered heavy artillery to bombard the position of the garrison company, and Zuo Quan hurriedly ordered everyone to hide.
Just at this moment, a shell exploded next to Zuo Quan, the soldiers exclaimed "Fourteen", after the smoke cleared, the soldiers rushed to the place where the shell exploded, the left deputy chief of general staff was gone, only a bright red flower of serving the country smiled in the sunset.
The news of Zuo Quan's martyrdom quickly spread throughout the Taihang Mountains, and the main forces of the Eighth Route Army and local armed forces roared angrily and launched a counterattack against the enemy.
The headquarters and rear organs of the Eighth Route Army, which were transferred through the breakout, continued to move and maneuvered with the enemy.
In order to narrow the target, the various organs were reduced to pieces, scattered and broken through, and drilled out of the enemy's gap.
He Yun, president of North China Xinhua Daily
He Yun, president of the North China Xinhua Daily, gathered all the staff and workers of the company together and said solemnly: "Comrades, although we have jumped out of the enemy's iron ring encirclement, we have not yet completely jumped out of the enemy's big encirclement. ”
Now the headquarters has decided to disperse the breakout, and our newspaper will also disperse. Now that the enemy situation is serious, we may sacrifice at any time, but we would rather die in battle than be taken prisoner. ”
The newspaper employees looked at He Yun and said in unison, "President He, you should give the order." ”
He Yun gritted his teeth and said, "Well, so be it." I took a few people to go first, exploring the way for everyone, and the other comrades scattered and broke through with me. ”
He said to Huang Junjue again: "Junjue, the situation is dangerous, you and the female comrades and a few weak comrades should not leave, hide in a nearby cave." After we have led the enemy away, you will find a way to move. "That's it, that's all there is to it."
radio station
After He Yun's arrangements stopped, he took a radio station and broke through with more than a dozen newspaper cadres.
Since the breakthrough began on May 24, He Yun and the others had not eaten for several days, coupled with continuous marching, everyone was hungry and tired, the marching speed was very slow, and when they walked to the vicinity of Liaoxian County's big and small sheep's horns on May 28, they were discovered by the enemy and immediately surrounded, and He Yun ordered to shoot and block.
It was a battle of great disparity in strength, on the one hand, a dozen weak scholars led by He Yun, and on the other hand, more than a hundred Kou soldiers armed to the teeth.
But He Yun was fearless, shouting while fighting: "Comrades, don't run out of bullets, leave the last bullet for yourself." "The comrades were full of morale and stubbornly resisted the enemy's attack.
Seeing that they were so tenacious, the enemy set up a heavy machine gun to sweep at He Yun, and He Yun and the others were immediately swept down by the rain of bullets and martyred.
After the enemy discovered that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army had broken through, he stepped up the search for the mountain and searched for sporadic personnel of the Eighth Route Army who were not prominent.
The female secretary, Huang Junjue, took in several of the newspaper's scattered cadres and transferred them to a towering stone cave.
More than a hundred enemy Kou searched the mountain and found this stone cave, and immediately shot at it.
Huang Junjue swung his pistol and killed several enemies in a row, and the enemy did not dare to enter the hole.
At this time, the sky was already dark, and the enemy did not dare to enter the cave to search, so they climbed to the top of the mountain from behind the mountain, hoisted the firewood with a rope, blocked the entrance to the cave, and set fire to the cave. Thick smoke rolled into the cave with the fire, and the dozen people in the cave were suddenly grilled by the fire, and the smoke filled the stone cave, making it very difficult to breathe.
Huang Junjue
Huang Junjue coughed in the cave, knowing that he could no longer hold on, and stayed in the cave, not dead or captured. She had already made up her mind not to be taken prisoner and not to be insulted by the devil. Now it was time to test herself, she straightened her hair, and suddenly sped out of the hole.
The devils outside did not expect that the female eighth road in the cave would rush out of the cave, and they were caught off guard for a while, and by the time they woke up, Huang Junjue had already jumped off the cliff, and a long shout echoed in the canyon for a long time.
The news of the heroic martyrdom of Zuo Quan's deputy chief of staff spread throughout the Taihang Mountains.
The troops of the 129th Division, which had been transferred out of the outer line, actively sought to fight on the transport lines of Pinghan, Baijin, Handanchang, and Liaowu.
On May 30, the 385th Brigade set up an ambush in the Suning area of Liaoxian County and annihilated an enemy squadron.
Wei Jie led the new brigade to seek battle at Handan Dadao, and made a surprise attack on the enemy's Kou Changzhi airfield, burning three enemy planes, fourteen cars, and two gasoline depots, which was the second time that the 129th Division attacked the enemy's large airport after the night attack on Yangmingbao Airport led by Chen Xilian in the autumn of 1937.
Other troops and local armed forces cooperated to blow up three enemy trains and capture 25 strongholds.
Sparrow warfare and mine warfare blossomed everywhere, and the enemy was beaten to the point of being overwhelmed and annihilated by more than three thousand people, so they had to end the sweep and return to their old nests.
The Eighteenth Army group took a group photo in front of the tomb of General Zuo Quan
The battle was won, but Zuo Quan's deputy chief of staff was heroically sacrificed, and in order to commemorate this anti-Japanese hero, the CPC Central Committee decided to rename Liao County in southeastern Jin to Zuo Quan County. Peng Dehuai, Liu Bocheng, and Deng Xiaoping presided over the construction of a cemetery for the martyrs.
It was precisely because of the best efforts of many of them, coupled with all the bloody struggles, that we were able to finally win the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan and successfully drive the Japanese Out of our territory.