In 1940, the Eighth Route Army fought a victory that they could not even believe. The Eastern Hebei Military Division misjudged the enemy's situation and beat the cavalry of the elite Japanese army, known as the "Flower of Nobility", as a puppet army, and the Eighth Route Army annihilated this cavalry with earth-shattering courage. The cavalry of the Flower of Nobles was annihilated except for two who were captured alive. The Japanese headquarters was furious, and their proud ace cavalry was beaten to the ground. When the Eighth Route Army learned the truth, they couldn't believe it, which greatly boosted the morale of our army. Why did the Eighth Route Army misjudge the enemy's situation? What kind of tactics did they use?
The Japanese army "Flower of Nobility" was mistaken for a puppet army
The cavalry, known as the "flower of nobility", was the heart and soul of the Japanese army, and their predecessor was the Takeshima cavalry, which existed during the shogunate period, and was later formally incorporated into the Japanese army during World War IThe children of various families in Japan,The middle and upper rank officers who served as this cavalry were later promoted to middle and high rank generals of the Japanese army, and even almost all the junior officers and soldiers were from the Japanese aristocracy. This cavalry not only has strong combat effectiveness and rich combat experience, but also has a high level of education and has made outstanding achievements, and is the elite of the army that the Japanese army is proud of, and is the elite of many ordinary Japanese soldiersIdol troops
After World War I, the use of cavalry was gradually replaced by automobiles, so this cavalry was not replenished after the battle was damaged. Although there are only more than 70 people, they are all veterans who enlisted in the army during the First World War and have a lot of combat experience1 person can top 10 people。If this army is encircled, the Japanese army will inevitably come to the rescue quickly, and the importance of this army can be seen, but this army is about to be completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army, what is going on?
At the beginning of 1940,Bao Sen, deputy commander of the Eastern Hebei Army DivisionHe led his troops to Panshan in Jixian County and prepared to make every effort to open up the Panshan anti-Japanese base area. When he arranged everyone's accommodation, he immediately sent two scouts to the county seat of Jixian to inquire about the movements of the Japanese army. The old scout named Yang Zexiao was named Gao Dazhang, although he was only fourteen years old, he was also experienced in a hundred battles, and both of them had a high sensitivity to the enemy. Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves came from a distance, and the two of them found a high placeFrom a distance, I saw that it was a group of cavalry, their direction was towards the Eighth Route Army's Panshan base area, and the two couldn't help but raise their vigilance.
This group of cavalry was obviously sent to reconnoiter the terrain, and although the direction they went to was the general direction of the Panshan base area, they obviously did not know the specific location of the Eighth Route Army's garrison, and they did not expect to encounter the scouts of the Eighth Route Army so coincidentally. The two ran all the way and immediately went back to report the news. Out of breath, the two quickly found Bao Sen and reported what they had seen.
Bao Sen asked them how many enemy troops there were, and Yang Ze replied that there were more than seventy people. According to the description of the two, Bao Sen was so happy that he thought he was doing evil in the neighborhoodPseudo-Mongolian cavalryI sent it to the door, and I slapped the table and said:Hit these bunnies! At that time, according to the reports of the two scouts, Baussen believed that the cavalry wasPseudo-Mongolian cavalry with weak combat effectiveness
The puppet Mongolian cavalry often bluffed and wore the uniforms of the Japanese army to go out for activities, and at that time, there were Japanese cavalry in Jixian County, all of whom came fromPuppet Mongol Union autonomy**sent, but the combat effectiveness is not enough to pose any threat to our army, and now our army's strength is 6 times that of the other side, and it is the main force of the 2 companies of the 12th regiment of the Eighth Route Army, isn't it a very simple matter to destroy a pseudo-Mongolian cavalry?
Bao Sen, the general of the Eighth Route Army, served as the deputy commander of the Eastern Hebei Military Region and the commander of the 12th Regiment. Because of his flexibility and skill in guerrilla warfare, he was regarded as a nightmare by the Japanese puppet army. Everywhere they went, the enemy army was terrified, and many puppet soldiers often cursed each other when they quarreled, "going out to fight and running into the old bag". He also captured alive the cousin of the Japanese emperor and was already famous in North China. So after Bao Sen misjudged the enemy's situation, what tactics did he adopt in the face of the Japanese elite raid?
The "flower of nobility" withered in its entirety
Bao Sen ordered the whole army to set up an ambush near Baicaowa, preparing to annihilate this cavalry team. Because if the cavalry wants to reach the Panshan base area, there is only one road, which is a natural place for our army to ambush. The terrain of Baicaowa is very complex, it is a ravine, and the road in it is very ruggedVery unsuitable for horses to run, and these boulders can be used as cover. However, when Bao Sen ordered the team to surround it, he found that the cavalry coming from the opposite side was not a pseudo-Mongolian cavalry, but a regular army at first glance, and Bao Sen found through the opponent's military flag that this team had actually participated in the First World WarThe elite unit of the Japanese army, Takeshima Odd Soldier.
The situation on the battlefield was reversed in an instant, and the ambush battle turned into a sniper war. In order to ensure the safety of the soldiers stationed there, Bao Sen secretly stabilized his mind and worked with the chief of staff, Zeng KelinThe operational plan was redeployed。The four companies were all used for ambushes, with Bao Sen and Zeng Kelin commanding on both sides of the mountain, while the rest of the forces were quickly moved to the depths of the mountain to hide. When the Wudao cavalry stepped into the encirclement, in factJapanese Commander Takeshima Suda,Signs of ambushes by the Eighth Route Army have been found on both sides of the hillside. But he wished that the Eighth Route Army could all come together so that he could regain his authority.
Baussen said: ".Everyone must calm down and wait for the enemy army to enter our encirclement before fighting! "After the battle began, two squads of soldiers from our army in ambush in the west rushed down from the top of the hill and prepared to throw grenades at the Japanese army, but the Japanese cavalry was very skilled in archery. Before our soldiers could reach the best throwing point, they were all hit by Japanese soldiers on horseback. The reason why the Japanese army was rampant and domineering was due to the eight soldiers who provided cover with heavy machinery, how could our army find a breakthrough?
At this critical moment, Bao Sen keenly noticed that the distance between the two armies was relatively longMachine guns alone simply cannot win the first opportunity。In the rain of bullets, Bao Sen led a five-person squad and quietly walked along the hillside to the flank and rear of the Wudao cavalry. At the same time, the Eighth Route Army in the southeast slope also launched **, and when they were in the middle of a fierce battle, Bao Sen killed at the right time. Taking advantage of the enemy's concentration on the front to fight, he killed six Japanese soldiers armed with heavy machine guns in one fell swoop. Both Bao Sen and Zeng Kelin ordered the soldiers to suppress the fire at the same time, creating opportunities for our sharpshooters.
Most of the spy companies under Bao Sen were sharpshooters, and the Japanese soldiers attacked with machine guns and grenades during the second counterattack, and the Japanese cavalry was completely suppressed, and our sharpshooters took the opportunity to shoot one at a time. The Japanese cavalry who rushed in front continued to fall off their horses, and after more than a dozen casualties in succession, the Japanese army only rushed halfway up the mountain and ended in failure, Takeshima Suda saw that the defeat was already destined to escape with the remaining cavalry, could he escape from the encirclement?
According to Bao Sen's intelligence, this battle was supposed to end quickly, and the enemy was just a few dozen puppet Mongolian stragglers, who were not vulnerable at all. But when the two sides really fought, he found out that these more than 70 people were actually the elite of Japan's famous cavalry. After winning this impossible battle, Bao Sen not only lamented the bravery of the officers and men of the 12th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, but also regretted that he had not made more careful preparations. However, Bao Sen did not wipe out the Japanese army, why is this?The surviving Japanese troops returned to China to repay their kindness
In the summer of 1988, an old Japanese man came to the Panshan Martyrs Cemetery in Tianjin, and the staff in the cemetery received him at that time, and the staff also felt very strange that a Japanese came to the martyrs' cemetery to worship, and the scene was extremely strange. It turned out that this old man was the Japanese soldier Masao Etsuka, who was let go by Bao Sen in the Battle of Baicaowa that year.
After returning to Japan, he lived a reclusive life, and whenever he remembered the sins he had committed in China, he couldn't sleep at night, and when he was in his last years, he made up his mind to go to the ocean to come to the Panshan Martyrs Cemetery to pay respects. He laid a wreath at Bao Sen and inscribed a couplet, the upper of which reads".The bird that frightens the bow, the fish that slips through the net", the following line reads ".The immortal, pay homage to Bao Sen
At that time, the smoke of gunpowder in the Panshan base area in eastern Hebei had not yet faded, and on a piece of scorched earth, there were a pile of Japanese corpses. After fighting all night, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were very tired, but they still couldn't hide their excited expressions on their faces. Except for one of the Wudao cavalry, all 76 enemy troops were annihilated。When cleaning the battlefield, the soldiers found a fish that slipped through the net, a Japanese soldier suddenly rode on horseback, the soldier raised his gun to fight, Bao Sen pressed the gun and said: ".Let him live, let him return to China to report his funeral, and let him know that our heroic sons and daughters in Panshan are not easy to mess with. ”
This Japanese soldier who "came back from the dead" was Masao Tsukakoshi。When he fled all the way and saw no one chasing him, he couldn't help but look back, and at this time, Bao Sen was standing up and watching him escape, and he had no intention of catching him back, making him look extremely cold like a god of war. The deserter was also greatly shocked, and since then he has firmly remembered the name of "Commander Bao". It is worth mentioning that since then, he has made a wish to come back to repay Bao Sen's life-saving grace, and he returned to China again in his old age, just to fulfill the unfulfilled wish of his youth.
Although this battle thoughBecause of the misjudgment of the military situation, there was an oolong。But the influence of the battle was great, and the flower of the nobility that the Japanese army was proud of withered in the grass valley, letCommander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army, Ninji OkamuraHe slapped the table angrily, because almost all of these Japanese cavalry were from Japanese nobles, and he couldn't explain to these families at all. Okamura Ninji lamented one after another"To the east of Hebei is like entering the sea of suffering. ”This battle created a precedent for the total annihilation of the Japanese cavalry squadron in eastern Hebei, and this battle also made Bao Sen and Zeng Kelin famous. It is a pity that in 1942, when inspecting the front-line war, Bao Sen was coldly hit in the chest by the Japanese army and unfortunately died at the age of 31.