The New Fourth Army mistakenly attacked the Japanese army, and the regiment commander was surprised that the information was wrong
One day in August 1943, the 13th Regiment of the 2nd Division of the New Fourth Army set up an ambush at Guizi Mountain in Liuhe, preparing to attack the Japanese army. The regiment commander, Rao Shoukun, brandished a pistol and led the soldiers to attack the enemy.
However, after **, Rao Shoukun suddenly felt uneasy in his heart, and blurted out: "It's not good, the information is wrong!" It turned out that when the 13th Regiment of the New Fourth Army was training in Tianchang, Anhui Province, it received information sent by an internal undercover agent, saying that the Japanese army squad and the puppet army squadron entrenched in the stronghold of Babaiqiao would set off the next day and prepare to rush food in the area of Sihedun.
However, when the battle begins, Rao discovers that the enemy is not what the undercover agent portrays. This intelligence error caused a major setback to the ambush plan of the 13th Regiment of the New Fourth Army.
Although the wind and rain were good this year, the crops were growing well, the rice was fragrant, and the peasants were jubilant, the Japanese army saw all this, but they made a calculation to grab grain. They were originally a gang of robbers, and this behavior is not surprising.
The head of the regiment, Rao Shoukun, was born in poverty, and when he was a child, he worked as a cattle herder in a poor peasant family in Dexing County, Jiangxi Province, and lived a difficult life and suffered hardship. Therefore, he deeply understands the importance of grain to farmers and understands that every grain of grain is hard-won.
As a soldier of the people, he was determined to prevent the enemy's plot from succeeding. When he received the information, he immediately reported the situation to the brigade commander Cheng Jun. After the study of Brigade Commander Cheng and Political Commissar Zhao Qimin, it was decided that the 13th Regiment would fight a beautiful ambush battle.
After receiving the task, Cheng Jun Rao Shoukun immediately prepared for battle, and led his troops to Guizi Mountain in Liuhe the next day. In order to better understand the enemy's situation and lure the enemy into depth, Commander Rao also sent a reconnaissance unit.
The terrain of Guizi Mountain is a difficult place, making it an ideal location for ambushes, and once the enemy arrives, he is bound to suffer heavy losses. Some people will ask, did they take a car directly from Tianchang, Anhui Province to Nanjing Sihedun?
In fact, the distance between the border areas of the two provinces is only about 50 kilometers, and even a slow march is enough to reach it in 10 hours. Rao Shoukun led the troops into the position and waited for the enemy to appear, but he didn't even see the figure of the Japanese puppet army.
Chen Zongsheng, the deputy head of the regiment, was puzzled, and he asked Rao Shoukun: "Could it be that the intelligence is wrong, and the devil will not come?" Rao Shoukun said firmly: "Lao Chen has never made a mistake in sending information, and there will be no problem." ”
The reconnaissance team carried out its mission at dawn, and exchanged fire with the Japanese puppet army on the way, in order to lure the enemy, the reconnaissance team fought and retreated, and the Japanese puppet army pursued closely. As the team approached Guizi Mountain, the enemy was already in view.
The regiment commander Rao Shoukun gave the order, and the soldiers immediately threw bullets and grenades at the enemy as a "gift" to welcome their arrival.
The battalion commander Wu Wanyin keenly sensed that something was wrong, how could the enemy fight more and more, and he actually used heavy **. He immediately climbed a higher hill, looked through the binoculars, and could not help but break out in a cold sweat, and exclaimed, "Oops!
The information is wrong. He found that the intelligence showed that the devils and puppet soldiers in the Eight Hundred Bridge stronghold added up to about 100 people. Although the equipment of the New Fourth Army was inferior to that of the enemy, it had the strength of three battalions and had an advantage in numbers, and it was not too much of a problem to eliminate this hundred or so enemies.
However, after actually handing over the fire, Rao Shoukun found that there were seven or eight hundred enemies. Because when the Japanese army is dispatched, it is generally not equipped with artillery, and only when the brigade is dispatched, will there be artillery, and the puppet army is generally not equipped with artillery, which shows that the Japanese army dispatched at least one brigade.
It seems that this time the enemy went to the countryside to grab food, either because he noticed an abnormal situation and learned that our army was in ambush. Either the enemy wants to use the grain grabbing as bait to attract the New Fourth Army to ambush and fight a war of annihilation.
In short, the enemy is strong and we are weak, and the ambush battle may be difficult to fight. What to do? Because there was already an exchange of fire, it was too late to withdraw from the position. If the troops are withdrawn, the enemy will quickly occupy Guizi Mountain and attack our troops from a high position, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
Time was of the essence and it was not possible to consult the brigade headquarters.
After careful consideration, Rao Shoukun decided to attack. He quickly deployed, so that the two companies of the 2nd Battalion occupied the Dingjia Mountain opposite Guizi Mountain, the 4th Company was well configured, and under the leadership of the company commander, occupied the nameless high ground north of Guizi Mountain, and the 1st Battalion used its strong mobility to attack the Japanese puppet army from the front, like a sharp knife inserted into the enemy formation, dividing them.
Although the enemy had a large number of troops, they did not have a geographical advantage, and with the intervention of the 1st battalion, they immediately fell into confusion. At noon, the enemy regrouped and began to attack the Dingjia hill that the company was holding.
Shells whistled, rocks flew, and nameless positions were attacked. Our troops did not have enough firepower, and the positions were occupied for a time. But the commander of the regiment Rao personally went into battle, and the soldiers were brave and fearless, and finally recaptured the position.
Under the cover of artillery fire, the Japanese puppet army launched several attacks on the mountain, but they all returned in vain, leaving behind a large number of corpses. Then they turned to attack the unnamed heights held by the 4th Company, which was smaller in strength and struggled to support itself under enemy attack.
At this moment, the communicator reported that a team was coming from behind. The company commander's face changed drastically, thinking that it was the enemy, and immediately drew out a platoon to strengthen the guard.
When Zhao Qimin's team approached, Company Commander Rao Shoukun spotted the people in the team through the binoculars. He immediately made an important decision, ordering the transfer of the ** of the other battalion companies to the nameless heights.
The company commander immediately sent a messenger to the position to inform everyone of the good news, and the morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted and they successfully resisted the enemy's attack. The arrival of reinforcements greatly improved the situation on the battlefield, and although the Japanese puppet army launched several attacks, they were all repulsed.
However, as the battle progressed, the shortage of ammunition in the New Fourth Army began to be exposed. Positional warfare differs from guerrilla warfare in that it requires the consumption of a lot of ammunition and there is no room for shortcuts.
By about 3 p.m., the 4th Company was running out of ammunition. The company commander loudly reminded the fighters to wait for the enemy to approach before firing to minimize waste. Despite this, due to the large number of enemies, the bullets ran out soon after.
Seeing that the enemy was constantly pouring in, the commander brandished his command knife and ordered the overseer to oversee that any retreating warrior would be shot.
Faced with the dilemma, the Japanese puppet army had to muster up the courage to rush to the front. As the battle heats up, a worrying news arrives: the 4th Company has run out of bullets.
With red eyes, the company commander gave the final order to the fighters: "Fight bayonets!" Before he could finish speaking, he took off his clothes, held his rifle with a bayonet, and rushed towards the enemy.
The warriors followed suit, bare-chested, armed with sabers and rifles, roaring into the enemy and engaging in fierce hand-to-hand combat. In an instant, the saber was waved, the bayonet flown over, and the sound of metal and the wail of the Japanese puppet army resounded on the position.
Although the Japanese army was good at fighting stabs, today they suffered a heavy blow, they had lost their fighting spirit, had no intention of fighting, and were killed by the New Fourth Army beyond parry. As for those puppet troops, they were originally perfunctory, and when they saw the New Fourth Army working so hard, they turned around and ran, and they didn't care about supervising the team.
The enemy was so angry that he used gas bombs at about 5 p.m. In an instant, yellow smoke billowed from the position, coughing sounds, and many soldiers were caught off guard and fainted on the position.
Head Rao looked at all this, his brows tightened, and he thought to himself how to deal with this? At this moment, a loud charge sounded on the position, and the soldiers immediately cheered, and the arrival of the brigade headquarters special service battalion appeared like a divine soldier descending from heaven, appearing between the Dingjia Mountain and the nameless heights, stunned the enemy, and slowed down the attack.
When the head of the regiment Rao saw this, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered the trumpeter to blow the trumpet. The soldiers of the whole regiment charged the Japanese puppet army from multiple directions at the same time with the momentum of thunder, and compressed the Japanese puppet army into several small villages in one go.
It was six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was sinking in the west, and dusk was falling. The Japanese were afraid of night fighting, and the fall of night made them even more frightened, and they no longer had the idea of attacking, all they were thinking about at the moment was how to escape.
It was dark, and the gunfire of the enemy positions below the hill gradually subsided, and there was a deathly silence. A quarter of an hour later, the scout came out of breath and reported: "Regiment commander, the enemy has retreated. ”
Under the cover of night, the Japanese puppet army carried the wounded, dragged the corpses, and quietly retreated like mourning dogs. At this point, the battle of Guizi Mountain, which lasted more than ten hours, finally came to an end.
The Battle of Guizishan was a fierce contest between the New Fourth Army and the Japanese puppet army that took place in the Huainan area during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. In this battle, more than 300 Japanese puppet soldiers were killed and wounded, of which Japanese soldiers accounted for one-third.
In the War of Resistance Against Japan, the New Fourth Army also paid a huge price, and loyal cadres and soldiers, including deputy regiment commander Chen Zongsheng, died bravely. However, the victory in this battle was of great significance, dealt a heavy blow to the enemy's arrogance, and was commended by the headquarters of the New Fourth Army.
We must realize that due to the disparity in national strength between China and Japan, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is destined to be cruel and arduous, and it is impossible to win every battle. However, the sacrifices of the soldiers were not in vain, and the enemy army learned the strength of the New Fourth Army and no longer dared to attack easily, but retreated in the stronghold.
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