The oil seller probed the enemy, and the child reported the eight roads. The Japanese army attacked and destroyed the whole village.
At about three o'clock in the morning, taking advantage of the hazy night, the Japanese invaders sneaked into Nanlonggang Village, Xingtang County, Hebei Province, with confidence on their faces, as if indicating that the destruction of the Eighth Route Army would be in the next second.
This kind of self-confidence is the arrival of an oil seller a day ago.
On the traditional days of Laba Festival, adults are busy with household chores and children play at the entrance of the village. "Kids, a taste of sugar? "The oil seller put down his shoulder and pulled out a few pieces of candy. Children in the countryside rarely see candy once a year, but now they are naturally ecstatic to see it.
But in the next second, the oil seller's hand holding the candy retracted again. "Can any of you tell me who has eight roads? I'll give the sugar to whomever I want. "The children looked at each other, but no one said anything. "
Do you know how many eight-way roads there are in the village? "The oil seller put it another way. "I know, there are seven or eight. "A child preemptively answered. After getting the information, he sold the oil lang to give the children candy, and then left Nanlonggang Village.
However, when the war really broke out, thousands of Eighth Route Army troops came in from all directions, each armed with a gun, unstoppable.
The person who played the role of an oil seller yesterday has eyes as big as copper bells at the moment: "How can there be more than a thousand Eighth Route Army?" Although children generally don't lie, how can the "seven or eight" Eighth Route Army become "thousands"?
How did they learn about the imminent Japanese raid? What is the real identity of the oil seller? In the face of the Japanese raid, can the Eighth Route Army successfully achieve counter-encirclement?
There were indeed thousands of troops of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Nanlonggang Village, and they were the 17th Regiment of the 7th Division of Jizhong led by Min Hongyou. Beginning in April 1940, more than 20,000 puppet troops concentrated their firepower to carry out "sweeping" and "clearing" the anti-Japanese base areas in central Hebei.
Under this offensive, the Japanese puppet army had to spend a lot of money to buy people's hearts and minds and use them to obtain intelligence. At the beginning, he dressed as an oil seller was a traitor named Lao Baiyang.
Using sugar as bait, he succeeded in getting the children of Nanlonggang Village to provide information. This information was soon sent to the "Taijun" in Xingtang County. After analysis, they believe that the information is credible because small children do not lie.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army was recognized as strong in the past, the Japanese puppet army decided to deploy its forces according to the number of companies. However, on January 3, the Japanese army quietly approached the village of Nanlonggang with more than three times the number of the Eighth Route Army.
They thought that no one knew, but they didn't know that they had been hit by an old man who got up early to pick up dung. At about 3 o'clock in the morning, before dawn, it was dark all around, and as soon as the old man walked out of the south of the village, he saw that the village was surrounded by Japanese puppet soldiers.
In addition to this, there are dozens of tall horses standing in the ditch and sneezing. When no one found out, the old man hurriedly walked to the regimental headquarters of the 7th Division of the Eighth Route Army in Beilonggang.
At this time, the regiment commander Min Hongyou also got up, and he had never slept lazily since he had been marching for many years, let alone in this special period.
Min Hongyou put on his coat and prepared to go around the village, because the Japanese puppet army was everywhere, and he reminded the guards to be cautious. Unexpectedly, after the communicator of the 3rd Battalion and the old man who collected dung told him about the situation, Min Hongyou decided to send the 3rd Battalion scouts to investigate.
The results of the investigation showed that there were more than 200 Japanese troops and more than 170 puppet troops. Min Hongyou wondered why the enemy army only sent such a small number of troops to sweep up.
At this time, he did not know that the enemy had deployed this "small number of troops" with three times the strength of the "seven or eight Eighth Route Army" according to the intelligence of the "seven or eight Eighth Route Army". However, since the enemy army has come up, the Eighth Route Army must let them "go and have no return".
Yao Guomin, the political commissar of the 17th regiment, rushed over in his clothes, and they made a detailed analysis of the terrain of Nanlonggang. The village was flanked by a river to the east and a slightly steep hill to the west, and the enemy army had to retreat from the north of the village once the war was officially launched.
After repeated considerations, they decided to send the first and second battalions to attack the Japanese puppet army, while the regimental headquarters to counter-encircle the enemy army, and set up a defensive base in the Fujia compound and a courtyard in Nanlonggang Village, where the third battalion was stationed.
If the situation is urgent, all the fighters can retreat from here to Beilonggang Village. The Japanese puppet army, on the other hand, is also full of confidence in this war and is ready. After more than 300 Japanese puppet troops arrived at Nanlonggang, they set up a number of heavy machine guns at the entrance to the south of the village, and tied their 30 horses to a nearby ditch.
After making these arrangements, the leader of the Japanese puppet army approached the village with a large army. However, this is all theoretical, and real deployment takes time. The eastern sky has turned white, can the Eighth Route Army complete the counter-encirclement of the enemy army before the enemy army discovers them?
Although they fought a victorious battle, the regimental commander Min Hongyou and his 17th regiment were not so easily defeated.
Min Hongyou, a native of Jinzhai, Anhui Province, joined the Chinese Communist Youth League at the age of 16 and the Communist Party of China at the age of 18. His revolutionary career was full of heroic battles and outstanding contributions.
He went into battle several times to kill the enemy, participated in the Long March, served as a special commissioner, participated in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, and fought fierce battles with the enemy on the Shi (Jiazhuang) De (Zhou) Road, successfully burned more than 20,000 sleepers, and destroyed more than 30 kilometers of railways.
Subsequently, he fought a fierce battle with the enemy in the stronghold for 5 hours, and successfully annihilated more than 400 enemy troops. After a fierce battle, he successfully eliminated more than 1,500 enemies, occupied 29 strongholds, destroyed more than 150 kilometers of roads, paralyzed the enemy's transportation lines, and dealt a heavy blow to the enemy's "cage policy".
His heroic performance was highly recognized by his superiors, and after the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, he was appointed as the commander of the 17th Regiment, and cooperated with the political commissar Yao Guomin to jointly lead the tiger of the Jizhong Military Region.
This team has a long history, developed from the 691st Regiment of the 53rd Army of the Northeast Army, went through the 2nd Regiment of the Jizhong People's Self-Defense Army, the 7th Regiment of the Jizhong People's Self-Defense Army, and finally became the 17th Regiment of the 7th Division of the Jizhong Army.
In 1939, the 17th Regiment was reorganized by Wang Ping, deputy political commissar of the Military Region.
In the Jizhong Military Region, Lu Zhengcao and Yu Quanshen were both praised as commanders-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, but in the end everyone could not be sure. In order to rectify the 17th Regiment, the commander-in-chief of Jinchaji *** went in person and personally formulated rules and regulations for the 17th Regiment and taught discipline.
Min Hongyou became the commander of the 17th Regiment and annihilated more than 10 Japanese troops at Gaomentun and more than 100 at Xuancun in Dingxian County, and captured 2 Type 94 mountain guns and two boxes of 38 rifles of the enemy.
As a result, Min Hongyou and 13 other commanders became famous in the army, and the commander-in-chief and the chief of the army praised them.
In 1940, Min Hongyou led the 17th Regiment to the anti-Japanese base in central Hebei and launched a fierce battle with the Japanese puppet army. At about 6 o'clock in the morning of January 3, the Japanese puppet army launched an attack on Nanlonggang, but they stepped on the mines planted by the Eighth Route Army, only to find that the Eighth Route Army had already prepared.
According to intelligence, there were only seven or eight Eighth Route Army troops in the village at most, but they rushed towards the village arrogantly. At this critical moment, the commander of the 3rd battalion, Yang Dejing, opened fire and successfully attracted the attention of the enemy troops.
At this moment, hundreds of Eighth Route Army troops poured out from all directions and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese puppet army. The traitor Lao Bai Yang in the enemy army was dumbfounded, he rubbed his eyes, he couldn't believe that so many Eighth Route Army had come out of **.
At this time, the enemy found that they had fallen into the "counter-encirclement" of our army, and it was too late to retreat, so they could only fight hard.
In order to protect the villagers of Nanlonggang Village, the Eighth Route Army went all out from the beginning to carry out fierce attacks on the enemy army. Seeing that they couldn't resist, some of the puppet soldiers began to want to escape.
At this time, the Japanese captain raised his pistol and shot several puppet soldiers who wanted to escape, so as to warn others. This move effectively prevented the puppet army from escaping, forcing them to fight to the death with the Eighth Route Army.
Although the Japanese army had only more than 200 troops, their firepower was very strong, equipped with four or five heavy machine guns, and strafed the Eighth Route Army charging in front, countless soldiers were knocked down, the battle became more and more fierce, and the two sides reached a stalemate.
At this time, Min Hongyou led a flank force to appear, and by the time the enemy realized it, their left and right flanks had been occupied by the troops of the Eighth Route Army. Then, the troops of the 7th, 11th and 12th companies eliminated more than 60 Japanese puppet soldiers hiding in the woods.
Near noon, the Eighth Route Army successfully occupied the Japanese artillery position, and the Japanese captain was unfortunately killed in this battle, and the battle also came to an end. According to post-war statistics, the 17th Regiment annihilated more than 200 enemies, captured 7 Japanese soldiers and 18 puppet soldiers, and captured more than 60 shells20,000 bullets, as well as various heavy machine guns, long and short guns, grenadiers and other ordnance.
In addition, 30 horses tied to the ditch by the Japanese army also became supplies for our army.
Our army also suffered losses, Chen Guodong, deputy commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 17th Regiment, died heroically, and 74 soldiers left us forever under the heavy machine guns of the Japanese army. Although Commander Min Hongyou was once again praised by the commander and chief, he believed that there was nothing to be proud of in this victory.
The fighters wondered about this, because in the past, after every victory in the battle, the regimental commander would be happy, but why did he react like this time? Could it be that the victory in this war was a sham?
Commander Min Hongyou has always had a question, why did the Japanese puppet army only send so few people to raid us this time?
Min Hongyou and political commissar Yao Guomin foresaw the surprise attack of the Japanese puppet army and made a deployment plan for it, they expected at least 500 Japanese puppet troops to participate, but in reality there were only more than 300 people.
They had been accustomed to pre-war deployment and post-war summarization, and for this raid, they were confused about the enemy's purpose. In the end, Min Hongyou got the answer from the traitor Lao Baiyang, and he underestimated the enemy because he listened to the intelligence of the children's "seven or eight Eighth Route Army".
When Min Hongyou and the political commissar heard the news, they laughed loudly, they realized that Nanlonggang had been deeply infiltrated by the Eighth Route Army, and even children were willing to lie in order to help the Eighth Route Army.
Originally, there were only seven or eight Eighth Route Armies in Nanlonggang Village, and Min Hongyou's words made the soldiers deeply feel the importance of not fighting unprepared battles. They were convinced and decided to strengthen their defenses in case of a possible contingency.