Qiaogou is a very narrow gully of Pingxingguan, it is a dangerous pass formed by the long-term erosion of the loess hills by rain, which is about seven or eight miles long. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In that year, the official road from Lingqiu to Taiyuan, after leaving Lingqiu County, must pass through Qiaogou, which was finally determined as an ambush point by the head of the 115th Division.

At 7 o'clock in the morning of the 25th, the main battlefield of the Pingxingguan Campaign, the Qiaogou ambush, began.

The follow-up troops of the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, with more than 100 cars and more than 200 heavy vehicles, slowly entered the Qiaogou Gorge Highway from east to west.

When the enemy's vanguard entered the fork between Guangou and Xinzhuang, the 685th Regiment, 686th Regiment, and 687th Regiment of the 115th Division, which had already been ambushed, opened fire at the same time, and rifle, machine guns, grenades, and mortars poured fire.

The unsuspecting enemy suddenly flipped on their backs, and chaos ensued.

After the battle began, in addition to the 686th Regiment condescendingly occupying a certain geographical advantage, the battles of the 685th Regiment and the 687th Regiment were carried out in the open river valley.

It was the 685th Regiment that was responsible for occupying the high ground on the south side of the line from Guangou to Lao Yemiao and intercepting the enemy's vanguard, that is, blocking the head and destroying the enemy.

The fiercest white-knuckle fighting took place in the positions of the 2nd and 3rd battalions.

Comrade Mo Sanqiang, the commander of the third battalion and the fourth company, nicknamed Mo Sanqiang, is known for his bravery.

At that time, he witnessed the comrades of the underground party who committed suicide by jumping out of the window, and immediately pulled the trigger and killed the two spies, and only then did he embark on the revolutionary road with the help of Feng Chen.

Before the battle began, Mo Sanqiang encouraged the soldiers of the whole company and said: "Comrades! Relying on our glorious tradition of melee night combat, with grenades, bayonets, and devils, they will not be able to die anymore. ”

After launching the charge, Mo Sanqiang rushed to the front and took the lead in attacking the enemy, and within 20 minutes, the whole company blew up more than 20 Japanese vehicles with grenades.

In white-knuckle fighting, Mo Sanqiang relied on his martial arts to stab more than a dozen devils to death.

Mo Sanqiang's body was full of injuries and blood, and he couldn't tell which was his own blood and which was the blood of devils, a group of devils were approaching him, Mo Sanqiang grabbed a 38 big cover with a bayonet, and assassinated several devils one after another.

His heroic deeds inspired the soldiers of the Fourth Company, and although the instructor of the Fourth Company was seriously wounded, he actually pulled two grenades in his hand and died with several devils around him.

Seeing that his instructor was sacrificed, Mo Sanqiang was even more red-eyed, shouting to avenge the instructor, stabbing left and right, like a tiger, making the devils chill.

Seeing that the company commander was so brave, the soldiers of the fourth company were all screaming and fighting with the devils, the platoon commander died, the squad leader was replaced, the squad leader was sacrificed, and the soldiers took over the command.

In the end, there were only more than 20 comrades left in the whole company, but they were still stubbornly fighting the enemy!

The soldiers of the fourth company, with one as ten, used bayonets when there were no bullets, and used the butt of the rifle when the bayonet was broken, and when the butt was broken, they would scuffle with the enemy, and even if there was only a few seconds of space, they could quickly pick up stones and smash the devil's skull.

The battle was extremely brutal, although the casualties were very large, but the fighting spirit of the soldiers was still very strong, the Itagaki Division, the elite division known as the Japanese army, encountered such a fierce Chinese army for the first time!

The retreat of the Japanese army was cut off, and they tried to seize the commanding heights on the northeast side of the highway - Lao Ye Temple.

Lao Ye Temple is located on the beam on the northeast side of Qiaogou, and in the early morning of the 25th, after the ambush of Qiaogou started, the competition here was the most intense.

In order to seize the commanding heights, the enemy and the enemy launched a desperate contest.

When the enemy's attempt to seize the commanding heights on the northeast side of the highway -- Lao Ye Temple -- was discovered, the commander of the 115th Division ordered the 686 Regiment to rush down the road, cut the enemy into several sections, and seize Lao Ye Temple with the strength of one battalion.

The commander of the 686th Regiment ran back to the regimental command post and immediately ordered the 3rd Battalion on the right to rush down the road and capture the Lao Ye Temple, and the 2nd Battalion followed up.

However, the Japanese army did not understand the characteristics of mountain tactics, and except for a small force to seize the Lao Ye Temple, most of the enemy was always crowded on the road and beaten.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the soldiers of the three battalions got into the smoke, ran forward, rushed forward, crawled forward, rolled forward, and finally, they rushed onto the road and engaged the enemy in a white-knuckle fight.

I saw the butt of the gun flying, the flash of the sabre, the roar of killing, the sound of explosions, stirring up.

After fighting for more than half an hour, the enemy could not support it and hid under the car one after another.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army shouted to the Japanese devils: "Surrender the gun and don't kill!" The Eighth Route Army treats prisoners preferentially! ”

However, the Japanese devils in front of them not only do not understand Chinese, but they are also a group of diehards trained by fascist militarism!

Many of the fighters were killed or wounded by the dying enemy because of their lack of experience in fighting against the Japanese invading army.

A telephone operator of the 1st battalion, who was checking the line along the road, saw a half-dead enemy soldier lying next to the car, and he ran up to the enemy soldier and said: "Surrender the gun, don't kill the prisoners, give preferential treatment to the prisoners!" ”

But before he could finish speaking, the guy raised his bayonet and stabbed the telephone operator in the chest.

Some comrades tried to carry back the seriously wounded devil soldiers, but their ears were bitten off.

Some soldiers went to bind the enemy soldiers who were humming, but they were wounded instead.

Due to the brutality and arrogance of the enemy, the battle was always fierce.

The wounded soldiers of the enemy scuffled with our wounded until they fought to the death.

The casualties of the third battalion of the 686th Regiment were very heavy, and after rushing onto the road, the cadres of the Ninth Company were almost exhausted, and the whole company, like Mo Sanqiang's company of the 685th Regiment, had only more than ten people left, and the battle was still fierce.

Due to the fire from the mountain and below, the hillside was steep, and the commander of the third battalion was also wounded, but he insisted on not getting off the line of fire and continued to command the troops to fight.

At this critical moment, in order to cooperate with the 3rd Battalion of the 686th Regiment on the mountain on the left to attack the Lao Ye Temple, the 2nd Battalion of the 687th Regiment immediately cooperated with the 3rd Battalion of the 686 Regiment and blocked the gap of the Japanese army breaking through to the Lao Ye Temple in time.

With the active assistance of the 2nd Battalion, our troops finally occupied the commanding heights of the Lao Ye Temple.

After occupying the Lao Ye Temple, our troops were condescending from both sides, and the enemy in the ravine had nowhere to hide.

The Japanese commander suddenly came to his senses, waved his sword and shouted, directing the enemy soldiers to fight for the commanding heights of the Lao Ye Temple again.

At this moment, the enemy's artillery and fast cavalry were all useless, and only the infantry in leather shoes climbed up in groups in a haphazard manner.

Our troops waited calmly, aimed at the enemy, and when they were out of breath and close to us, they opened fire in unison, and the enemy rushed up, and then collapsed.

At this time, there were five or six hundred enemies, who were crowding and repeatedly attacking the Lao Ye Temple, and several reinforced enemy planes were hovering against the top of the hill and threatening our army.

The situation is very serious!

There are more and more enemies, desperately attacking upwards.

The commander of the 686th regiment ordered the troops: "We must hold on to the end, to the last gun, to the last bullet." ”

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the 687th Regiment attacked.

The commander of the 686th Regiment saw that the enemy's rear was in disarray, and felt that the time had come to destroy the enemy, so he ordered his troops to increase their firepower and counterattack.

How could the enemy block the two-sided attack of the two main regiments of the 115th Division.

Soon, the enemy between Xingzhuang and Lao Ye Temple was quickly and completely annihilated in the ravine!

At 15 o'clock on the same day, the 687th Regiment surrounded from the east side, the 685th Regiment surrounded from the west side, and the 686th Regiment launched an attack from the Lao Ye Temple Heights, while the Independent Regiment stubbornly resisted the enemy reinforcements coming from Laiyuan.

At this point, more than 1,000 people from the 1st Brigade of the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army in Sakagaki became a turtle in the urn and were all annihilated.

When the 686th Regiment completely controlled the ravine between Xingzhuang and Lao Ye Temple, it immediately launched an attack in the direction of Dongpaochi in the west according to the instructions of the division commander before the battle.

The Eighth Route Army blew the trumpet of the charge in unison, and the soldiers shouted and pounced on the enemy's position.

The devils panicked and threw away the empty water bottles, rain cloths, and lunch boxes, and the remnants of the enemy gathered to the right, concentrated their firepower and rushed to the pass, seizing the road and fleeing to Laiyuan City.

More than 300 corpses of enemies in various postures were abandoned on the roads, in the mountains, and in the grass, and machine guns, rifles, grenades, broken bayonets, and pierced steel helmets were everywhere in the mountains. The independent regiment pursued for more than 50 miles and pursued it until the city of Laiyuan.

Because the Jin Sui army abandoned the position at the entrance of the regiment, the enemy seized the road and fled, and lost a good opportunity to destroy more enemies.