Call the artillery company over and fire inside!
In 1939, the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army broke out an unusually fierce battle in the Loess Ridge, our army's 100 light and heavy machine guns fired bullets like a storm, the enemy was caught off guard, and the Japanese army suffered heavy losses for a while, but after all, the Japanese army used heavy armored vehicles, and they quickly organized a team to resist, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.
However, just when the battle was at a critical moment, Regiment Commander Chen Zhengxiang suddenly ordered that all their remaining four shells should be used to bombard a small courtyard near the battlefield.
No, Commander, we've got only 4 bombs left!
If you want to fight, I'll take care of it! At this time, the situation was critical, and Chen Zhengxiang's words were almost shouted.
Seeing that they could not resist the regimental commander, they had to pull in the artillery company according to the instructions and shoot all four shells at this inconspicuous small courtyard.
Hearing only the four sounds of "boom", the courtyard was instantly submerged in a cloud of dust and turned into a year's ruins, Chen Zhengxiang watched the courtyard collapse as expected from afar, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
What they didn't expect was that after the collapse of the house, the fighting spirit of the Japanese army suddenly decreased, and it didn't take long for the battle to end in our victory.
But this matter is far from over, they could not have imagined that within a few days this battle would be published in the newspapers by the Japanese army, and what was even more unexpected was that after seeing the news, ** and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army immediately sent a congratulatory message to Chen Zhengxiang and his unit, and praised Chen Zhengxiang.
Who exactly did they kill? Why is it so "valued" by both sides?
On November 7, 1837, under the instructions of the Communist Party of China, our party established the first anti-Japanese base behind enemy lines in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, which was a bold attempt and breakthrough for the Eighth Route Army.
There is no doubt that the establishment of this base area has posed a great threat to the Japanese army, which is wantonly invading on the land of China, and the continuous development and growth of the Jin-Cha-Ji anti-Japanese base area has made the Japanese army feel unprecedented panic.
After the fall of Wuhan, the situation on the battlefield began to change, and the Japanese army had to adjust its strategy and began to gradually shift the focus of some operations to the anti-Japanese base behind enemy lines of the Eighth Route Army.
In October 1939, the Japanese North China Front assembled the 110th Division, the 26th Division, and the Independent Mixed Division.
II. 3. A part of the army of the Eighth Brigade, totaling more than 20,000 troops, is preparing to carry out an all-round sweep of our army's anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in Jin-Cha-Ji.
At this time, the battle situation was very urgent for our army, and if this operation failed, not only would it face huge losses, but even this "model base area" would probably be wiped out, so in order to cope with the battle, the Eighth Route Army immediately carried out a series of plans and was ready to deal with the Japanese invasion at any time.
Sure enough, in the early morning of November 3, the vanguard sent by the Japanese army entered our base area, and they drove heavy armor and carried the best equipment, and seemed to be confident about this operation.
However, before they could find the traces of our army, the Eighth Route Army, which had already been ambushed, fell from the sky, caught the Japanese army by surprise and fled in a hurry.
Although the Japanese army has the best equipment, but under the siege of our army's extremely fierce firepower, it is still gradually falling behind, not to mention, the current situation is that the enemy is clear and we are dark, and the Japanese army cannot figure out the direction of our army at all, so in just one day, hundreds of Japanese troops were annihilated by our army, and as the leaderOsa TsujimuraSeeing that he was defeated by our army, he immediately abandoned all his equipment and hurriedly fled the battlefield with the few remaining men.
As a proud protégé of Norihide Abe, Kenyoshi Tsujimura ended the war in such a disgraceful way, which made Norihide Abe feel disgraced.
From the beginning of his arrival on the land of China, Abe Norihide has been fighting in Zhangjiakou, and later transferred to Xilin Gol, Chahar and other places to ensure the "stability" of the Japanese army in the local area, in the eyes of the Japanese army, his presence is of great significance to the development of the army, the "stability" of the region, for our army, this is a very tricky opponent.
He is often active on the front line, and has long been blacklisted by our army in the War of Resistance.
Norihide Abe has always looked down on China's anti-Japanese forces, and he believes that the Eighth Route Army is far from the Japanese army in terms of military capabilities and equipment, and there is absolutely no possibility of defeating the Japanese army.
It is precisely because of this idea that Abe Norihide is very unwilling to lose this war.
Therefore, he immediately decided to personally lead the troops to launch the Eighth Route Army in our army's Jinchaji base area, firstly, in order to add a stroke to his own not rich history of conquest, so that his emperor could see his ability, and secondly, to fight for his students and the country, so that the invasion could achieve greater results.
At this time, Abe Norihide has been completely carried away by "hatred", he calls himself an "expert in mountain warfare", he is full of confidence in the next **, he believes that the Eighth Route Army has just won a battle at this time, it should be the time to relax their vigilance, if launched at this time, it is bound to be able to catch our army off guard, he immediately began to formulate a series of strategies.
However, what he did not expect was that the Japanese army's combat routines had already been clearly understood by the Eighth Route Army, after winning this battle, Yang Chengwu, who was the commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, did not relax his vigilance, he realized that the Japanese army may soon launch **, so with the advantage of being more familiar with the Loess Ridge area, he quickly made a deployment, set up an ambush in this place, and waited for the enemy's self-defeat.
Sure enough, early in the morning of 4 November, Abe Guixiu, the supreme commander of the "Mengjiang Garrison Army" and the commander of the Second Brigade of the Mixed Brigade, led more than 1,500 people and drove more than 90 trucks, without concealing their whereabouts at all.
As everyone knows, after the battle on the 4th, our army quickly reorganized the team and divided the troops into three echelons and guarded three different areas.
The first echelon, a total of more than 400 people, has already occupied the area of Yansu Cliff, this cliff several hundred meters long no road can be straightened through, the fastest place is only thirty or forty meters away, if the enemy can be lured to this place, it can be said that our army's battle plan is twice the result with half the effort.
But although Abe Norihide is a meritorious person, he is not a fool, so how could he jump into this pocket by himself?
At this time, a cadre under Yang ChengwuZeng YongyaStand up and say:". .Don't worry, I have a way, I'm not afraid that he won't come.
Zeng Yongya is known as the "expert in luring the enemy" in the army, as long as he comes forward, there is almost no enemy who does not take the bait, and when Yang Chengwu saw this, he directly handed over the matter of luring the enemy into the battle to Zeng Yongya.
Zeng Yongya is indeed a good hand at attacking the heart, he took advantage of Abe Norihide's eagerness to achieve results, first tried his best to interfere with the advance of the Japanese army, and then pretended to be invincible, luring Abe Norihide to march east step by step and walk into the trap of our army.
On the afternoon of 6 November, the Japanese army's avant-garde troops had already entered the Loess Ridge and the teaching ground, and as long as Abe Norihide entered this place, the task of luring the enemy had basically been completed.
Therefore, at nine o'clock in the evening of the same day, Yang Chengwu immediately conveyed the operational instructions to the front-line troops with **, and he ordered the 1st Regiment to rush to the first-line hilltop position in the northwest of Zhaitou in the early morning of the 7th, and together with other troops, to form a flanking attack on the Japanese army, and at the same time, the 3rd Regiment should also advance from the direction of Yinlutai and Da'an to the southeast of Loess Ridge, and strive to occupy the main combat position before the Japanese army arrives, and take the lead in gaining operational superiority.
On the morning of that day, there was a drizzle in the sky of Loess Ridge, and the concentration of the fog was not high, and the troops who arrived first saw at a glance the reconnaissance unit of the Japanese army, which was slowly moving eastward.
While they alternately advanced, they repeatedly occupied the high ground on both sides, and the main force slowly followed the rear of the reconnaissance force, which shows that Abe Norihide also has a very clear understanding of the terrain here, but at this time, the desire to win or lose in his heart has taken over his resignation, so he came up with such a solution.
But no matter how carefully they reconnoitred, they still couldn't find the slightest trace of our army.
Unbeknownst to the Japanese army, they were surrounded by our troops in front and behind, until 3 p.m. on the 8th, when Abe Norihide seemed to notice something unusual and hurriedly tried to withdraw from the valley, but by this time they had completely entered the encirclement of our army.
Call me!
With the order of the regiment commander, hundreds of light and heavy machine guns were in unison, launching a fierce attack on the Japanese army below, and countless explosives were thrown into the Japanese troops.
The Japanese army was caught off guard for a while, and wanted to line up their troops, but they were limited by the geographical disadvantage and could not quickly organize a counterattack, and the Japanese army lost 100 members in the blink of an eye.
They panicked and hurriedly occupied several small hills nearby with the equipment they could carry, trying to launch a counterattack, but a few small hills could hardly pose any threat to our army, and under the instructions of the regiment commanders, the troops in all directions began to gradually shrink the encirclement, and the Japanese army was still struggling at this time, doing a trapped-beast fight.
But as time went on, the two sides began to fall into a state of confrontation, and although the Japanese army was caught off guard, it was much better equipped than our army after all, and it was not easy to destroy them in a short time.
Seeing that the situation was gradually falling into anxiety, Regiment Commander Chen Zhengxiang wanted to kill the Japanese Army Lieutenant General Abe Norihide led by the general, so that the Japanese army without command would become a group of stragglers.
But why hasn't Norihide Abe been seen until now? Chen Zhengxiang was the first to notice this problem, he took the telescope, risked being discovered by the Japanese army, and looked near the hill occupied by the Japanese army.
Unexpectedly, this trick was really found by him, and he found that there was an inconspicuous small courtyard about 100 meters away from Shanbao in Nanshangen, and there were a few faint figures in it.
Chen Zhengxiang hurriedly got up and looked, only to see a man wearing a yellow tweed coat and carrying a command knife with a few people pacing back and forth in the small courtyard.
Transfer the artillery company and blast the little house across the street for me!
But the regiment commander, we only have 4 shells left.
I'll take care of it if something happens, you just have to fight!
Under the command of Chen Zhengxiang, the artillery company fired all the last four shells into this small courtyard.
After only a few cannon shots, this small courtyard was reduced to ashes in a cloud of dust, and the people who stood in the courtyard to direct the battle were also killed, wounded, and suffered heavy losses.
The most amazing thing is that these shells only hit Abe Norihide and others outside the house, and the people in the house were unharmedThe shells of the Eighth Route Army are really godly!
Later, with the death of Norihide Abe, the combat enthusiasm of the Japanese troops plummeted, and it did not take long for our troops to annihilate all the encircled troops and smash the enemy's "sweeping" plan.
At this time, they did not realize how much they had achieved in this battle, until one was published in the major newspapers in Tokyo"The Flower of Famous Generals Withered in Taihang Mountain".In this article, our army realized that Chen Zhengxiang's artillery hits turned out to be the Japanese commander Abe Norihide.
For a time, the whole team was excited and cheered because of the great victory in this war, and it gave great encouragement to the combat troops, and Chen Zhengxiang also received the due reward.
Even Chiang Kai-shek couldn't help but send a congratulatory telegram to our army, perhaps only this congratulatory telegram was Chiang Kai-shek's sincerity, after all, the Kuomintang, which had always been unaccustomed to our combat methods, was silent for a long time after that, and never made a sound of ridicule again.
As the supreme commander of the Japanese army who died on the battlefield of aggression against China, his death undoubtedly shocked the whole of Japan, and the "Asahi Shimbun" said: ".Since the establishment of the Japanese army, the sacrifice of lieutenant generals, which has no precedent.
And Abe Norihide is a precedent for the sacrifice of lieutenant generals, which shows the great significance of this operation to the anti-Japanese battlefield.
The death of Norihide Abe is of great significance to both Japan and Japan, and perhaps at this time, the end of this war has been doomed.
As a decision-maker, Chen Zhengxiang was also awarded the rank of lieutenant general after the founding of New China, which is an honor that belongs to him and belongs to all the soldiers who participated in the war.