There is also a clear division of labor among company-level cadres, with the company commander and instructor responsible for overall command, and deputy instructor Wang Qian responsible for leading the assault team. The combat grouping clarified the formation and combat missions of each group.

After that, the platoon commander and the battle group leader were organized to reconnoiter in front of the enemy, with the aim of finding out the specific situation of the enemy's auxiliary fortifications, familiarizing themselves with the terrain, and recognizing the road to enter the battle and the starting position. The team leaders were particularly active, sneaking into the enemy's deer fence and barbed wire, and saw that the deer barrage was connected with iron wire, and inside the deer barrage was a trench with water and bamboo tip piles, which was the first trench, and there were two barbed wire fences in succession after the trench, one was a single row of piles, and the other was a ridge shape.

The comrades approached the wall, the pillbox and another trench, and they measured the width and depth of the trench with ropes, the width of other obstacles. The entire sub-fortification was about fifty meters above. There was a fort in the wall that was the size of a pillbox. This fort is the devil's grenadier and other firepower firing positions, there is a bunker underpass under the stage, and there is a pillbox of the puppet army more than 200 meters away from the devil's bunker. There is also a square bunker in the waterway street, which is also defended by the puppet army, and its firepower can support the devil's bunker.

After reconnaissance, return to Fuhou Village, north and south of the station. According to the situation of the enemy's fortifications that were reconnoitred, the enemy stronghold fortifications that were exactly the same as those used by the enemy for exercises were built. The troops conducted repeated drills for several days according to the formation, gained experience, and made every soldier familiar with the enemy's situation and terrain, and made clear the weight of the first bag and the length of the mounting bracket during the exercise, and made blasting canisters of different lengths and shortages.

In order to ensure the success of the blasting canister, our army also created home-made body armor, and through exercises and powerful ideological mobilization, it launched a meritorious service contest to kill the enemy, and all the soldiers were full of confidence and high morale. Before the battle, the company commander clearly defined the tasks of each combat group, the selection of offensive and breakthrough points, and the division of labor to block the enemy's gun holes with firepower. At this time, Company Commander Jiang said with full confidence of victory: "Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed." ”

It can be seen that the cadres of the Eighth Steel Company personally reconnoitred the enemy's situation, personally commanded the simulated exercise, and personally selected comrades who he believed were sure to accomplish the task as team leaders and team members. At this time, he was full of confidence to win this battle, annihilate these devil soldiers, and win honor for the Eighth Company again.

In the evening of this day, Song Jiliu took advantage of the light strength he had recovered a little to climb a big tree, and as soon as he took a breath, he suddenly saw a big wolf dog in the depression under his feet. He immediately forgot about his tiredness, opened his eyes wide and looked at the dogs, and faintly found more than a dozen military dogs. Song Jiliu took out a flying knife and judged the distance between the dog and him, and then shook his hand is a knife, and a military dog snorted, and was pressed on the head by the flying knife. Taking advantage of the confusion of the enemy, Jiliu quietly descended the tree and leaned towards another target......

After learning about the combat readiness of the troops, Xu Shiyou, head of the military region, and others decided to launch an attack on the night of 24 August.

On 22 August, the troops approached the waterway, and in a village south of the waterway, blocked the news, took sheltered rest, and checked their equipment. In the evening of the same day, the troops marched in battle sequence.

Wang Qian and Company Commander Jiang marched with the first echelon squad platoon, quietly approaching the enemy's front line, trying not to let the enemy notice. Each group lay down in concealment at a distance of about 20 meters in front of the secondary fortifications. Company Commander Jiang followed closely behind the battle groups and directly commanded the battle. First of all, he commanded the sabotage group to continuously blast the enemy's first deer barricade with rapid movements, opening a passage of more than 20 meters. At this time, the enemy's searchlights suddenly turned on, illuminating the entire battlefield as if it were daytime, and the bunker fire was concentrated to stop our advance, and Company Commander Jiang immediately ordered to destroy the searchlights with dense firepower, block the enemy's fire points, and ordered the bridge-building team to quickly build bridges in the first trench. They moved quickly and smoothly, only listening to the report of Yu Wenpeng, the leader of the bridge erection team: "The bridge has been erected."

After hearing this, Company Commander Jiang immediately ordered the fire to cover the sabotage group to cross the bridge and blast the enemy's first line of pile-type barbed wire and the second ridge-type barbed wire fence with bamboo cylinders. The fighters were not afraid of enemy fire, they threw off their bulky body armor and went into battle shirtless, quickly blasting a large area of passage.

At this time, our bridge-building group had approached the last trench very close to the wall of the enemy's pillbox, although this trench was very narrow, it was not easy to approach under the cover of the fire of the hidden bunker. At this critical moment, Company Commander Jiang personally designated firepower to block the gun holes of the enemy's dark fort. The bridging team began to build the bridge with the support of my fire, but it was very unsmooth. Some of them were wounded, some were sacrificed, and finally the bracket of the bridge was also broken and was not yet erected.

The company commander of our army was anxious when he saw it on the edge of the trench, and immediately ordered the transfer of two soldiers to Yu Wenpeng, the leader of the bridge erection team, and said to him: "The bridge is not good, and there is no way to start the next step!" Don't be afraid of sacrifice, you must build a good bridge! Do you understand? ”

"Understood! Mission completion guaranteed! ”

Instructor Lv quickly came up and shouted: "*** member takes the lead and bravely carries heavy burdens"

Yu Wenpeng, the leader of the bridge team, heard the voice of the company commander's instructor. He replied firmly: "Rest assured, Commander Lian! If I can't build a bridge, I won't be a soldier of the Eighth Steel Company! ”

After Yu Wenpeng finished speaking, he jumped into the trench with the soldiers, shoveled the bamboo stakes, stepped on the shoulders of the soldiers, dragged the bridge from this bank to the other bank and climbed to the shore again, braving the enemy's artillery fire, dragging the bridge slab over, and several soldiers used people as ladders as bridge legs to jack up the bridge.

However, Yu Wenpeng was still not at ease for fear of being unstable, and he grabbed the bridge with both hands and did not let go, so he shouted with confidence: "The bridge has been successfully built, comrades, hurry up!" "Under the command of Qu Zhong, the leader of the demolition team, Lin Jizhu's group quickly passed through the wooden bridge and approached the big pillbox.

At this time, the acting captain of the devil Xiaolin County Xiong detachment raised his command knife and shouted to his soldiers: "Give me a hard shot with artillery, just a few dirt roads can't help my iron-beaten waterway!" Besides, Yoshiyama Daisa's support is also on the way......"

The enemy's bombs exploded like hail around the officers and men of our Eighth Steel Company, and a criminal shell rang out between Wen Peng and Instructor Lu, and the two heroes unfortunately died in the dense fire.

Jia Ruoyu, who was commanding the battle, heard the unfortunate death of the two heroes, tears burst out of the frame, and the gunner on the side slashed down with his right hand: "Open the cannon!" ”

"Yes!" Because the two workers were a little nervous when they first went into battle, the first shot flew off. Then, as they continued to reload and aim, there was a loud "boom", and the shells exploded in the upper part of the pillbox. After the explosion, the enemy actually did not return fire, and it is estimated that the Japanese puppet army in the pillbox was stunned by this huge explosion.

Due to the unfortunate sacrifice of the two heroes, the comrades-in-arms present at the scene of the Eighth Steel Company burned angry flames and were determined to avenge the instructor platoon commander. At this moment, I heard a loud bang in the direction of the Seventh Company to blow up the puppet army bunker, and in an instant, the enemy was blown up and howled. Our army seized the fighter plane and quickly organized a strong attack, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army rushed to the pillbox one by one like a tiger pounced.

When Kobayashi woke up from his dream, he gave orders in desperation, opened heavy fire on the outside of the pillbox and threw several containers of poisonous gas, emitting pungent smoke. The troops quickly sprinkled the prepared towels and masks with urine and covered their noses. It did not stop the advance of my comrades in the demolition group, and at this time, Company Commander Jiang was ordering: "The demolition team immediately organizes the blasting and takes down the turret in front of me." King, as soon as the blasting is successful, you immediately rush in with the commandos. ”

"Yes! I've already made it, everyone is so anxious, please rest assured, company commander. At this time, there was a loud noise, thick smoke billowed out, Wang Qian and the commando Guo Yunxiu, the leader of the combat team Zhou Yong led the assault team to take advantage of the thick smoke, braving the enemy fire to quickly break through to the blast, and found that the blast hole was too small, Zhou Yong took a lot of effort to take two soldiers to arch in, most of them were hidden at the foot of the enemy wall pillbox, the enemy was bombed for a while, and woke up and opened fire violently to block the advance of our follow-up troops.

At the same time, Zhou Yong found that I was arching into the second floor of the bunker, and Wang Qian also led people to quickly squeeze in, and the enemy shot at the second floor through the wooden floor on the first floor. The enemy threw grenades at the third floor to the second floor, and there were no people in the second floor. At this critical juncture, Zhou Yong and Wang Qian said: "There is also a blasting canister, I will send it to the upper three stairs and blow up all the devils." ”

The king nodded and said, "Good! The action is fast, and it is good to send it up and hide it. ”

However, it was only then that Wang Qian remembered that this ** was seven times more effective than the external blast. After the explosion, the devil and the people around us will be buried inside, which means that they will die with the enemy, and the sacrifice will be worth it when you think of winning the battle. To win comes a price. In an instant, there was a dull loud noise, and thick smoke came out of the top of the big pillbox, which rushed straight into the air 100 meters above, and the entire pillbox collapsed in all directions, and the smoke of flying sand and stones filled the air, and all the devils and dozens of our comrades hidden under the pillbox were buried in the sand and stones.

Our follow-up troops, led by the company commander, occupied the enemy pillbox amid cheers. At this time, the company commander saw a pair of shoes, and immediately greeted the soldiers, which were the shoes of the deputy instructor, and quickly dug up the wounded who were buried here, and quickly dug Wang Qian and other comrades out of the sand and stones. At that time, Wang Qian's head was blown up, one of his ribs was broken, his face was bleeding, and he was seriously injured.

Wang Qian, pen name Qiushui, used the names Wang Zhibin and Wang Junpu before joining the army. Male, ethnic Han, born in December 1925 in Changlunzhuang, Qijia Town, Longkou City, Shandong Province, joined the Eighth Route Army in early 38, and participated in *** in March 41, successively served as squad, platoon commander, and company commander deputy instructor.

At this moment, the Japanese such as Saburo Watanabe of the Japanese Anti-War League, although there were no people who directly beat the devils with guns in the front attack team, immediately after the battle began, began to shout to the Japanese troops of the detachment: "Ladies of the detachment, you have been surrounded by our regiments, don't take chances. Your turret has already hung **, and it is useless to resist, so it's better to surrender. Give you five minutes, and if you don't surrender after five minutes, you're going to start bombing the turrets and attacking! ”

Obviously, it is not easy for the devil to surrender. But a few minutes later, with a loud bang, the first of the three turrets exploded. Then several mortars began to fire in succession to cover the situation, and dozens of shells exploded one after another up and down the stronghold. At the same time that the first turret was blown open, the Eighth Route Army swarmed in!

The anti-war alliance began to shout at the second turret again: "Compatriots, if you don't lay down your arms, there will only be exterminated elements, and we anti-war personnel can't bear to see our fellow countrymen being killed......

"You traitor to Japan, let's not be a mischief like you...... Ah......h

The devil soldier saw Jingfu, who was desperately resisting on the No. 2 turret, and when he looked down, he saw that the Eighth Route Army was rushing into the turret quickly. Just as he was about to pick up his machine gun and shoot at our Eighth Route Army, Song Jiliu came up from behind, went up and punched him, and knocked Shizuo Yasumi to the ground.

Seeing this, another devil soldier picked up a spear with a bayonet and came to Jiliu, Jiliu flashed to the side, and then grabbed the gun and moved forward, and came four quantities of a thousand catties, so that the knife of this devil soldier was suddenly inserted into the window frame, and Jiliu went up and took off his wrist, so that this devil stood still and did not dare to move.

At this time, the devil saw Shizuo get up from the ground, and hit Jiliu desperately with his head, Jiliu swept his legs, swept this guy and a dog gnawed mud, Jiliu went up and took off his right arm. After looking at the soldiers of our Eighth Route Army who rushed into the stronghold, a smile appeared on his face, and he escorted the two prisoners out.

At twelve o'clock, after the second blasting of our Eighth Route Army, the main force of the devil was basically wiped out. The remaining remnants of the army were still desperately resisting, and the Japanese comrades of the Japanese Anti-War League came to shout, and the devils listened to it and shot the same. The remnants of the enemy retreated to the core fortifications, and the enemy retreated to a basement under our siege, and the enemy in the underground fortifications still did not surrender their guns.

So, the soldier Bao Tongliang suggested to the company commander: "Company commander, I think it is better to use the captured poison gas cylinder and put poison gas into the hole." Then, a string of cluster grenades was thrown into it, and it worked. ”

"Okay, that's it! Communicator, tell someone to carry the poison gas canister! ”

"Yes!" (.mkxs.)

( Biography of Chinese and Foreign Heroes )