Chapter Seventy-Four: The Battle of Xiangzhou
On 19 August 1945, the 1st Division and Binhai Detachment of our Shandong People's Liberation Army conquered Jiaoxian, captured seven Japanese devils, more than 2,500 puppets, seized more than 1,000 long and short guns, more than 50 light and heavy machine guns, 12 automobiles, and a lot of other assets.
During the battle of Xiangzhou, the enemy was surrounded by Tang Qingshan, commander of the first regiment of the first division of the Binhai Naval District of our Eighth Route Army, and Wu Dai, political commissar, and fought fiercely for a day and a night.
Therefore, the enemy tried to break through the encirclement in the afternoon of the next day, and as soon as he was about to show his head, our army took the opportunity to rush into the encirclement, beat the enemy to pieces, and ran out of the encirclement.
However, Comrade Sun Yuzhang, a soldier of the Fifth Company of the First Coastal Regiment of our Eighth Route Army, was anxious, so he rushed towards the largest group of enemies alone, but the enemy still wanted to resist, and Comrade Sun alone defeated six, but the enemy still refused to surrender, because there was a small leader agitating inside.
Comrade Sun had no choice but to kill the villain first, and the remaining eleven enemies were frightened and all put down their weapons, took off their hats, and raised their hands to indicate surrender, and Xiao Sun came back with eleven prisoners, eleven rifles, and fifteen bullet bags, and squeaked crookedly.
The enemy in Xiangzhou began to break through, when the fifth company and six squads held the front position in the southeast corner, the enemy rushed up from three sides and surrounded them, although the comrades of the sixth squad were all young people, but they were very calm, holding their positions, shooting the enemy in all directions, like a bomb blooming on all sides,
The soldier Yan Wenshui bravely ran out and threw grenades, Zhang Hongling stood up and told the enemy to surrender his gun, because of their bravery, the enemy was finally defeated, Wang Wenli alone, he surrendered a machine gun and a barge gun, five rifles, and captured an enemy, in addition, the soldiers Yang Mingwen, Li Jingwen, Li Wenshan, Sun Delu and other comrades all surrendered an average of three rifles,
The 4th and 5th squads of the 1st Regiment of the Binhai Naval District ambushed more than 300 enemies on a large east-west ditch a little northeast of the 6th squad, and several enemy machine guns rushed towards their positions in an organized manner.
The soldiers Kang Qi and Lu Gusheng also shot very calmly, but in the end, because the enemy's volume was too large, the fifth squad was a little unstoppable, so the deputy of the fourth squad rushed up with half a squad and finally pressed the enemy back.
At this time, the main force of our 4th Company made a detour from the south, forcing the enemy to turn back and run to the east, and to the east was a newly swollen Weitiao River, so the enemy had to wait to be taken prisoner, but a small part of the enemy ventured to cross, and they were all drowned.
In this battle, the four companies captured more than 90 puppet regiment commanders, killed about 50 or 60, and captured more than 60 long and short guns, two machine guns, and more than 1,000 bullets.
It is said that after I accepted the assault mission in the fifth company and the sixth squad, they all grinded their fists and said: "This is the trust of our superiors in us, and we must complete the task,"
For the convenience of movement, the soldiers of the sixth squad all put their guns on the wall, each brought more than a dozen grenades, lifted the ladder and rushed towards the enemy, three comrades threw grenades in front of them to cover, and the three guys set up the ladder and rushed up,
A burst of grenades forced the enemy to break through, the comrades of the sixth squad did not hesitate to go back to get the gun, so they chased over, and the squad leader Comrade Xia Xingyin rushed up and clapped his hands and shouted: "Surrender the gun and don't kill,"
The enemy was also frightened and hurried, put down the big cover gun, and everyone rushed over, and the soldier Comrade Xu Yide handed over a machine gun on the spot, more than 500 rounds of ammunition, they rushed to the time and space, and when they went back, they were fully armed, and captured more than 20 puppet soldiers, and only nine of them participated in the battle.
At the same time, Zhu Yongxiang, the leader of the third squad of the fourth company of our Eighth Route Army, grabbed two machine guns by himself, and when he took them, he strafed the enemy, Liu Heshan, a soldier of the second squad, went up to grab the enemy's barge gun, Liang Weitian, a soldier of the first squad, also went up to seize the gun empty-handed, Yang Maoting, the deputy squad leader of the machine gun, grabbed the gun with three or four enemies with his empty hands, and Zhu Chengzhi, a soldier of the first squad, saw that they were in danger, so he ran over and killed an enemy, which forced the enemy to surrender his gun.
Lu Guangju, a soldier of the Fifth Company of the Binhai Naval Region of the Eighth Route Army, was a new member of the army this year, and when he saw that his comrades had rushed up to surrender their guns, he chased an enemy with a big gun on his back, and he kept chasing the enemy so that he could not run, so he knelt on the ground and surrendered his gun and begged for mercy: "I surrender, don't kill me."
Comrade Cheng Quanwu, a soldier, chased an enemy with a five-foot-high back, and as a result, he also handed over a large cover.
At this time, Wang Wenli, a soldier of the Fourth Company, who was thinking about avenging the people of Jingshan District every day, wanted to kill a few enemies who resisted to the death, but he had to say angrily, "If it weren't for the party's policy, I would have to kill you as a **enemy,"
Comrade Han Shanling of the fifth class, although the captive gave him a lot of money, he didn't want it, Wang Hou picked up the captive's pen and returned it to him, so the captives were very grateful.
In the battle of Zhangjiadun, the fourth squad of the second company of the first regiment took on the task of blasting deer firewood, besieging the city, and opening the assault road.
When Comrade Gu Changsheng accepted the task of blasting deer firewood, he said: "I am ready to sacrifice to complete the task,"
"Okay, but you must give me back alive after completing the mission," said Wu Dai, the political commissar of the First Regiment.
"Yes,"
The charge began, the enemy's dense firepower couldn't raise his head, Comrade Gu Changsheng lay on the ground with **, when the enemy's firepower stopped for a while, he climbed up and approached Luchai, and finally dodged the enemy's fierce shooting, threw bombs, put ** under Luchai, just put down, the enemy was a burst of intensive bombs and shots,
The soldier Gu Changsheng didn't pull the string and lay down again, when everyone was wondering if he was injured, Changsheng pulled the string and ran down quickly, and then there was a loud bang, Lu Chai was blown up and opened a four-meter gap, and the task was completed gloriously, after running back, Gu Changsheng didn't say anything, just asked the company commander for a paper cigarette to smoke,
Then the task of exploding the east gate fell on the soldiers Li Baoquan and Comrade Gao Kunxing.
Soldier Li Baoquan was wounded and just returned from recuperation, and in the last battle of Songguzhuang, he was an exemplary leader of the ladder, and he was also wounded at that time.
Li Baoquan just came back a few days, in this battle and reported that he was brave enough to send **, he and the brave young comrade Gao Kunxing, carrying thirty pounds **, under the firepower of my overwhelming enemy advantage, quickly passed the single-plank bridge, put the ** on the east gate, under the fierce bombardment of the enemy, pulled the string and ran down after a short stop, "boom" a loud sound, the entire east gate collapsed, opened the road of the assault,
Although we did not have time to mobilize before the battle, everyone's mood and confidence in completing the task were high.
The battle began, Comrade Dai Weichang cut the barbed wire with a guillotine, the deputy squad leader and Shi Wenqing, Xing Xiqing (later sacrificed), Wang Chunmoth shouted the slogan of "one or two", rushed to the enemy, Zhang Hanrong even more rapid movements, braving the enemy's lighting fire, picked up the ** bag and rushed to the enemy's fortifications, and after arriving at the destination, the fuse was lit, and the enemy of a squad of people got on the earthen plane with a bang, so that our commando team smoothly rushed inward, and the enemy was like a flock of sheep in the bomb, fleeing for his life in all directions, (..)
( Biography of Chinese and Foreign Heroes )