In order to ensure the smooth flow of sea transportation lines and plunder strategic materials in Southeast Asia, Japan had to launch the Pacific War and risk war with the United States. As soon as the American war machine was launched, Japan knew that it had caused a big disaster and was far from being an opponent. Less than half a year later, the US military sent 16 B25 medium bombers to take off from the USS Hornet, bomb Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, and other places in Japan, and then fly to Quzhou and other airfields in Zhejiang, China.
The bombing caused great shock to the Japanese government and public. In order to prevent the Chinese and US air forces from using the airfields in Zhejiang, China to carry out "shuttle bombing" on the Japanese mainland, the Japanese base camp immediately decided to launch the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Battle to strike at the main force of the third theater, destroy the air bases and advance airfields on China's Zhejiang-Jiangxi line, open up the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway, and transport strategic materials.
On May 15, 1942, the Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi began. Lieutenant General Naoji Sakai, commander of the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, led his troops from Xiaoshan and moved south along the west bank of the Puyang River to attack Quzhou through Zhuji. The 60th Wing of the 15th Division, under the cover of more than 30 aircraft, launched an attack on the defenders' peripheral positions at dawn on the 25th, and the officers and men resisted strongly. On the 26th, the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, which was moving south along the east bank of the Lanjiang River, coordinated with the frontal Japanese army to besiege Lanxi City, and on the 27th, it attacked fiercely, and all the peripheral positions were captured, and Lanxi City fell into a melee. In order to stop the rapid advance of the Japanese army, the 21st Division of the 146th Army of the Kuomintang defenders sent the 8th Independent Engineer Battalion, under the cover of infantry, to force a march to the east bank of the Lanxi River, and set up dozens of mine groups on the way of the advance of the Japanese Sakai Division.
In the early morning of the 28th, the Japanese army continued its attack. At this time, the previously planted mines worked, and the Japanese troops kept stepping on the mines, suffered heavy losses, and were forced to suspend the attack and send sappers to clear the mines. At around 7 o'clock, sappers came to report that all the mines had been cleared. At this time, the sky was just dawning, and the Japanese army was about to launch a new attack, so Kono hurriedly took four or five people, including Major General Kawakubo's chief of staff and staff officer Furuya Jiro, to inspect the position on a high-headed horse.
At this time, in the pile of rocks in Shikuo Mountain, there were several pairs of eyes already staring at this group of Japanese officers riding tall horses. Aren't the outlying positions all occupied by the Japanese army, **coming**? It turned out to be an engineer group led by Huang Shiwei who was responsible for laying mines. The Japanese army cleared the mines on the main road, but did not clear the mines in the rocks on the roadside. Huang Shiwei and a few soldiers saw that these officers were about to pass through the minefield, and knew that they could no longer wait, so everyone pulled out their guns and went to the devil together. Hearing the gunshots, the men immediately reined in their horses and rushed into the rocks beside the road, trying to find cover and return fire. However, before they dismounted, the mine was **, only to hear a loud bang, a huge cloud of smoke and dust rose into the air, and the nearby devils were blown up on their backs. Huang Shiwei and the others saw that their goal was achieved and immediately retreated. The bombed Japanese soldiers were too busy saving people to take care of them, and none of the team escaped smoothly.
Coincidentally, it was Naoji Sakai, the commander of the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, who stepped on this mine, and the ** wave lifted Sakai off his horse and fell to the ground. Sakai's horse was killed on the spot, his left foot was shattered, and the flesh of his left leg was torn, and he died at 14:13 on the same day.
Speaking of this Sakai, his hands are really stained with the blood of the Chinese people, and the crime is extremely evil. On July 7, 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and Naoji Sakai invaded China as the captain of the 4th Wing of the Army. In 1938, he was promoted to major general and served as the commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade of the 16th Division of the 35th Army.
The first, second and third prizes will be awarded material rewards respectively. The crimes committed by this madman are too numerous to mention, and being blown up and killed this time can really be described as "a well-deserved death".
Let's go back to Huang Shiwei, he is a very smart squad leader. According to his later recollections, the bombing of Sakai was a three-way junction, and there was only one high ground on one side of the passage where heavy military vehicles were transporting supplies, and he judged that the Japanese commander would definitely climb the heights first to judge the terrain, so he decided not to lay mines on the three roads, but only to plant more than 60 mines densely at the fork in the road leading to the high ground. It was because of his clever decision that Sakai was finally blown up.
However, Huang Shiwei, who had made great contributions, was not rewarded, and it turned out that after the death of Naoji Sakai on May 28, 1942, the Japanese army tightly sealed the news, and it was not until September 27 that the Japanese Ministry of War announced the news. The history of the Japanese army said: "The current division commander was killed in action, for the first time since the creation of the army. Therefore, Huang Shiwei didn't know that he had made such a great contribution! There is no way to talk about rewards.