In 1938, a poorly equipped Eighth Route Army detachment that had been established for less than three months launched an anti-Japanese campaign in Daqingyang, Pingdu City. They lured the enemy deeper with their cunning and won important victories.
From then on, the commander of the devil began to be surprised by the unpredictable situation of the Eighth Route Army's whereabouts, and openly said: "The strategy of the Eighth Route Army is changeable, and there must be an ambush. ”
Before mid-June 1938, the anti-Japanese forces in Shandong were scattered and used different names, and even the number of the Fifth War Zone of the Kuomintang was also used. In order to solve this problem, in June 1938, ** asked the Shandong anti-Japanese armed forces to form a detachment, and resumed the use of the name of the guerrilla detachment of the Eighth Route Army.
It was against this background that one of the main anti-Japanese forces, the "Five Detachments", was formed. In May of the same year, Gao Jinchun was ordered to go to Jiaodong to guide the local armed guerrilla struggle, and finally established an anti-Japanese base in Shandong.
Gao Jinchun and his entourage of six people, with a radio station, came to Jiaodong, determined to establish anti-Japanese armed forces here. They soon got in touch with several teams that had already sacrificed their commands, and as representatives of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, Gao Jinchun's orders were accepted by the vast number of anti-Japanese troops.
Gao Jinchun reorganized the troops, strengthened ideological education, and soon established the Fifth Detachment of the Shandong People's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force of the Eighth Route Army. This was the first armed guerrilla force in Shandong with an official name, with Gao Jinchun as commander and Song Cheng as political commissar, which marked the unification of the anti-Japanese forces in Shandong from scattered revolutionary forces.
After the number of the team was determined, their goal was clear: to establish a revolutionary base in Shandong with Daze Mountain as the center. However, the attack of the Japanese puppet army came so suddenly, and this unified armed force was besieged by the Japanese puppet army less than three months after it was formed.
The traitors Zhao Baoyuan, Zhang Buyun and others came to attack the revolutionary base area with the Japanese spy Zhang Zongyuan and more than 500 puppet soldiers.
The fifth detachment had not been established for a long time, and the soldiers had not yet been able to fully cooperate tacitly. The Japanese puppet army in the Jiaodong area has been entrenched for many years and has advanced equipment. Now, the question before the fifth detachment is: should it face the enemy?
Before the start of the war, many commanders advocated the transfer of troops, believing that the gap between friend and foe was too great. However, Commander Gao Jinchun decisively decided that he must meet the enemy!
Despite the fact that the fifth detachment was not formed for a long time, this battle had to be fought. We need to show the people our determination to resist Japan, and if we choose to retreat in the first battle, it will only make people think that we are cowardly.
The Japanese puppet army has always oppressed the people, and we need a battle to show them that we will not back down easily. However, courage alone is not enough to win the battle.
Time is of the essence, and we must find a way to get ahead of the curve. After intelligence analysis, Gao Jinchun learned that although the Japanese puppet army only had more than 500 people, it had 4 mortars and more than 10 heavy machine guns, which was in sharp contrast to our shabby equipment.
Although we had thousands of men, the only heavy machine gun was our workhorse**, and most of the soldiers did not even have guns and had to rely on broadswords and spears. In modern warfare, hot weapons dominate, and the use of cold weapons cannot defeat an enemy with great firepower, which will make us pay a heavy price in battle.
Therefore, we must find new tactical strategies to meet this challenge. We need to use our strengths, such as terrain, intelligence, etc., to counteract the enemy's firepower inferiority.
We also need effective training and preparation to boost our combat effectiveness and morale. Only in this way will we be able to win the battle and protect our homeland and people.
The key to the battle lies in a combination of wisdom and courage. After reviewing the map and thinking about it, Commander Gao Jinchun believed that when the Japanese puppet army attacked the fifth detachment, it would first attack the village of Thornzizhang.
At the operational meeting, he calmly explained his plan to the commanding combat personnel, emphasizing the need for our army to set up an ambush in advance to wait for work and fight a war of fatigue and attrition with the Japanese puppet army.
He laid out in detail the ambush locations of each team, and once again emphasized that this battle will be a contest of wisdom and courage. The Japanese puppet army had not yet realized that their sneak attack target was setting up an ambush, and they were unknowingly walking into the trap of the guerrillas.
Gao Jinchun led the soldiers of the 61st Regiment to set up an ambush in Daqingyang, set up the headquarters in the primary school, and used Jianzizhang Village as the forward position, and only arranged one company. Set up the Maxim machine gun in Daqingyang in advance in order to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese when they attack.
At about 6 o'clock in the morning of the 16th, about 500 Japanese puppet troops appeared outside the village of Jianzizhang, and when they arrived at the entrance of the village, they were surprised to find that in the courtyard of the large field to the east of the village, dozens of Eighth Route Army troops were practicing their steps without danger.
After seeing that the Eighth Route Army was not alert, the traitor Zhao Baoyuan was overjoyed in his heart, because he knew that his life was the most precious, and the lack of vigilance of the Eighth Route Army meant that the possibility of his sneak attack plan succeeding was greatly increased.
However, when he urged the Japanese officer Zhang Zongyuan to give the order to attack, Zhang Zongyuan fell into thought. He frowned and said a little worriedly: "The Eighth Route Army is cunning and changeable, there must be an ambush. ”
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Zhang Zongchang Gukura Jitaro had dealt with the Eighth Route Army many times before, but this time he encountered an unsuspecting situation, which made him hesitate and fear to jump into the trap of the Eighth Route Army.
This sentence fully shows that no matter how strong the opponent is, the most terrible is still an unreliable teammate. At this critical moment, the traitor Zhao Baoyuan fanned the flames and tried to get him to change his decision.
Zhao Baoyuan comforted Zhang Zongchang disapprovingly, saying that his sophisticated equipment would definitely be able to defeat the Eighth Route Army's earthen guns and artillery. Zhang Zongchang listened to Zhao Baoyuan's words, no longer hesitated, and ordered the troops to attack the Eighth Route Army with mortars.
After a burst of artillery fire, the Japanese puppet army saw that the Eighth Route Army responded in a panic and evacuated urgently, and their vigilance was also reduced. After the Eighth Route Army quickly broke through, it retreated to the north in two ways, inducing the Japanese puppet army to move between Daqingyang Village and Shengjia Village in the north.
The Japanese puppet army thought that a company of the Eighth Route Army was vulnerable, so they relaxed their vigilance, and even pursued the ambush circle set up by the Eighth Route Army in advance with a hippie smile. Since the Japanese puppet army was divided into two lines of pursuit, their battle line was stretched, creating favorable conditions for a sudden attack by the Eighth Route Army.
When they came to the middle area of Daqingyang Village and Shengjia Village, they suddenly heard the sound of mines, and the mines set up by the Eighth Route Army in the area in advance, several Japanese puppet troops were blown up, and the Japanese puppet army, which was still laughing, immediately fell into chaos and began to hug their heads and run away.
This is our army's tactic of luring the enemy into depth, and the purpose of a company of soldiers set up in advance in Jianzizhang Village is to lure the enemy deep and attract the Japanese puppet army to the designated ambush site.
In a tense battle, Gao Jinchun calmly commanded, he stopped the Eighth Route Army, which was eager to meet the battle, and waited for the artillery bombardment of the Japanese puppet army to end. When the sound of the shelling gradually subsided, he realized that this was the moment of a decisive battle, so he quickly gave the order to attack on all fronts.
The Japanese puppet army was exhausted, and the morale of our army was high, and the shouts of desperate slaughter shook the entire Daqingyang. Many of the officers and men of the 5th detachment were fighting for the first time, but armed with grenades, broadswords, and spears, fearlessly charged the Japanese as if their strength was endless.
And the soldiers who have guns, accurate marksmanship, although bullets are scarce, they will aim before shooting, almost every shot hits the enemy.
In that fierce battle, the ** equipment of the Japanese puppet army seemed to be even better. However, the soldiers of our army were not intimidated, they were armed with machetes and engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the Japanese puppet army.
In hand-to-hand combat, the mortars and heavy machine guns of the Japanese puppet army were ineffective, because our army had a numerical advantage, and soon the Japanese puppet army units suffered heavy losses.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Japanese puppet army began to retreat, ready to make full use of their heavy **. However, the Eighth Route Army had long been prepared, and the only heavy machine gun played a key role.
Gao Jinchun saw that the Japanese puppet army was trying to escape, and immediately ordered the heavy machine gunners to strafe the fleeing enemy.
In the dull sound of machine guns, the Japanese puppet army fled in all directions, and countless blood splashes were scattered in all directions in the gunfire. The traitor Zhao Baoyuan saw that the Eighth Route Army was large in number and had fierce firepower, and it seemed to be the main force of the Eighth Route Army.
The battle lasted until four o'clock in the afternoon, according to statistics, the Japanese puppet army suffered more than 230 casualties, which was the first victory of the fifth detachment of the Eighth Route Army since its establishment, dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese puppet army, and won the support of the people in the Jiaodong area.
Interestingly, the only Makqin machine gun in Daqingyang No. 1 Middle School actually made the Japanese puppet army who fled back to Pingdu City mistakenly believe that they had encountered the main force of the Eighth Route Army, so they did not dare to invade the anti-Japanese base in the Daze Mountains again for a long time.