From May 26 to June 3, 1938, at the Yan'an Anti-Japanese War Research Conference, Mao Zedong delivered a speech entitled "On Protracted War." After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan in an all-round way, along with the ups and downs of the war situation, such arguments as the "theory of subjugation of the country" and the "theory of quick victory" appeared. In this regard, Mao Zedong stressed that as long as the whole nation adheres to the united front and persists in a protracted war, the final victory will inevitably be China's. At the same time, Mao Zedong repeatedly mentioned the importance of guerrilla warfare.
In early 1938, after capturing Changzhi in Shanxi, the Japanese army attempted to rely on the Handan Chang Highway and continue to advance westward. Liu Bocheng, then commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and Deng Xiaoping, political commissar, immediately decided to attack Licheng, an important Japanese garrison on the Handan-Chang Highway, with the 769th Regiment of the 385th Brigade, in order to attract support from the nearby Defenders of Lucheng, and the 386th Brigade led by Chen Geng fought an ambush on the way, and the ambush site was located at Shentouling.
When Chen Geng and his party arrived at ShentouLing, they found that the Handan-Chang Highway did not pass through a ravine as shown on the map, but passed through a mountain beam, and there were only some abandoned fortifications on both sides of the road to cover.
Ambushing at such a close distance is fraught with danger.
In the early morning of 16 March, fighters of the 769th Regiment of the 385th Brigade launched an attack on Le Cheng. It wasn't long before a large Japanese force appeared at one end of the road, but just as the Japanese were about to enter the ambush circle, the cunning Japanese sent a reconnaissance squad to explore the way.
Lu Yong is a professor at the National Defense University
They mainly prevented ambushes on the nearby hills, and he did not expect that there were our ambushes in front of him. Chen Geng's troops laid a particularly good ambush, not allowing the old soil on the fortifications to be moved, and the grass that fell down had to be lifted up.
Unaware of the slightest anomaly of the large Japanese troops, they marched forward with confidence and boldness, and soon entered the ambush range of the Eighth Route Army. The soldiers of the 386th Brigade suddenly launched a close-range raid from both sides of the road, and the powerful weapons and equipment of the Japanese army were suddenly difficult to use.
This fierce battle lasted until 4 p.m., in which the Eighth Route Army killed, wounded, and captured more than 1,500 Japanese troops and captured a large number of military supplies.
In this battle, we fought a brilliant method of warfare and a courageous fighting spirit, and the common people came out, because they saw the hope of victory in the War of Resistance.
In September 1939, as the war in Europe intensified, the Japanese army, which was deeply mired in the quagmire of the Chinese war, wanted to quickly end the war in China. The Japanese planned to capture Nanning, establish an air base there, cut off supply lines in southwest China, and threaten Chongqing, the seat of the Nationalist government. In this battle, the Japanese army sent out the Fifth Division, known as the "Steel Army", and even declared that this was the last battle of the Chinese war.
Soon after, the Japanese captured Nanning and occupied Kunlun Pass, a key point of communication to the interior. To this end, Chiang Kai-shek was determined to regain Nanning, and Kunlun Pass became a military fortress that was determined to win.
Professor, National Defense University
Chiang Kai-shek felt a strong crisis, and he sent his concubine, the Fifth Army, a well-equipped German armament unit. The two most elite troops, the narrow road meets the brave to win.
On December 18, 1939, under the cover of tanks and vehicles, the Chinese army with the Fifth Army as the main force launched a general attack on the Japanese positions in Kunlun Pass.
Seeing that Kunlun Pass could not be attacked for a long time, Du Yuming, commander of the Fifth Army, was very anxious in his heart. Originally, in order to defend Kunlun Pass, the Japanese army built strong bunkers on all sides of the hills, forming a fire cover on Kunlun Pass. Du Yuming's tank troops suddenly lost their role on the mountain.
One by one, the soldiers of the Fifth Army, who had lost the cover of their tanks, rushed up the hill and launched one attack after another on the Japanese pillboxes with their flesh and blood.
Wang Guangya was a witness to the Battle of Kunlun Pass
The crossfire made it impossible for our infantry to attack and sacrificed many people. Late at night, I touched the back of the enemy's bunker, threw the explosive packet inside, and boomed.
On December 31, 1939, the Chinese army successfully took Kunlun Pass and annihilated more than 4,000 Japanese troops. This battle was the first major victory of the Chinese army in the coordinated cooperation of air, artillery, tank, infantry and other services to attack the Japanese army.
With the advent of the stage of strategic stalemate, the Japanese aggressors' attempt to make a quick decision on the Chinese battlefield has been dashed, and the center of gravity of the offensive is gradually shifting from the frontal battlefield to the battlefield behind the enemy.
In early 1941, the Japanese army suddenly carried out a "sweep" of the Central Hebei region. On May 9, a large number of Japanese troops rushed to the village of Daqudi in Lixian County, Hebei Province. Just when the Japanese army was engaged in a fierce street battle with the soldiers of the lixian third sub-district in the village, a large number of fighters suddenly rushed in outside the village, and the Japanese army that was attacked on both sides quickly collapsed and broke through in a hurry.
It turned out that in order to escape the cruel suppression of the Japanese army, the people of Lixian County dug tunnels connecting various parts of the village underground.
With the protection of the tunnels, the anti-Japanese armed forces in Hebei repeatedly attacked the Japanese army, and the prestige of tunnel warfare soon spread in the anti-Japanese battlefield.
In January 1945, Captain Ace Durham of the U.S. Army Observation Group came to Jizhong to investigate. The Japanese troops who received the news suddenly arrived, and Gao Cunxin, then chief of the operations section of the headquarters of the Jizhong Military Region, ordered everyone to enter the tunnel.
The Japanese immediately poured smoke and water into the tunnels in an attempt to force the people out of the tunnels. Gao Cunxin methodically instructed everyone to block the poisonous smoke and divert the water away.
At the same time, the warriors counterattacked by relying on the firing holes hidden under the millstone and near the corners of the wall. More than ten hours passed, the Japanese army continued to suffer casualties, and the Japanese army, which found nothing, had to withdraw in a hurry.
When Durham returned safely to the ground, he learned that the landlord's wife had been severely injured by the Japanese army in order to protect them.
Gao Ling Is the daughter of Gao Cunxin
They asked her about the opening of the hole, and the old lady didn't say anything, and they took a knife and slashed it. She blocked it with her hand, just three fingers down, and the old lady fainted.
With the support of the people, the Eighth Route Army took root in Jizhong, and the mysterious tunnel warfare also made jizhong a strategic place that was never completely controlled by the Japanese army.
The soldiers and the people are the foundation of victory, and this is a national liberation struggle in which all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation work with one heart and one mind, and the Chinese military and people will surely usher in the dawn of victory.
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