At the beginning of the full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang army was defeated like a mountain, but the Eighth Route Army rose to the enemy and fought many good battles such as the victory of Pingxingguan, which shocked China and foreign countries.
In the spring of 1938, the State Council was held in Xiaodongling. **Attend.
Towards the end of the meeting, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army planned to fight an ambush at Xiangtangpu between Shexian in Hebei Province and Dongyangguan in Shanxi.
At this time, the Japanese army occupied Linfen, and the road from Handan to Changzhi to Linfen became an important rear communication line for the Japanese army. ** and others led the troops to look for fighters, and suddenly found that the Xiangtangpu on the Hanchang Highway is a good place to hit the Japanese army, the terrain here is very good, one side is a cliff, not easy to climb, one side is an undulating highland, easy to conceal and attack, ** Strike Festival applauded: "This is an ideal place to fight ambush warfare." ”
So, ** and others decided to ambush the Japanese army in Xiangtangpu.
* The operational plan of the 129th Division was approved. In this battle, *** served as the commander-in-chief of the front.
At the Xiaodongling Conference, the Kuomintang army was almost helpless against the Japanese army. In order to deepen the understanding of friendly generals about the tactics of the Eighth Route Army, ** invited the participants of the conference to go to the high ground near the battlefield to observe the battle on the spot.
On the morning of March 31, when two automobile squadrons belonging to the 14th Division of the Japanese Army entered the ambush circle, the battle immediately began. Under the command of ***, the Eighth Route Army simply and neatly eliminated the enemy car squadron in two hours. Then, the Eighth Route Army repulsed the Japanese reinforcements. In this battle, the Eighth Route Army captured a huge amount, and about 180 or so cars of the two Japanese automobile squadrons were all burned by the Eighth Route Army, most of the more than 170 officers and men of the Japanese convoy were killed, and the Eighth Route Army also captured four mortars and several hundred guns of various kinds.
This time the battle was personally commanded by ***, and the Eighth Route Army won a complete victory. **The generals observed at the scene, and they were eye-opening. Through this observation of the battle, the first general had new confidence in defeating the Japanese army, and also had a new understanding of the strategy and tactics of the war. Wei Lihuang, deputy commander of the Second Theater of Operations, said: "Mr. Zhu was always able to organize this kind of spectator of the battle, but he could not do it without confidence and command. ”
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