In view of the importance of the geographical location of Shigou Cliff and the serious harm caused by Zhu Xinzhai's department, Chen Shiyu, commander of the Binhai Naval District of the Eighth Route Army, decided to launch the Battle of Shigou Cliff and uproot the stronghold of Shigou Cliff.

In early December 1943, the Sixth Regiment of the Binhai Naval Region (the old Sixth Regiment) was transferred from the Ganyu Prefecture to the Jiazishan District of Rizhao County on the orders of Chen Shiyu as a mobile unit of the Shandong Military Region and the Binhai Naval Region. In January 1944, Chen Shiyu, commander of the Binhai Naval District, made campaign arrangements. At the turn of the year, the Binhai Naval District put forward the slogan of "killing pigs (Zhu) for the New Year."

On the evening of January 21 (the 26th day of the lunar month), the cold wind was biting. The Sixth Regiment, which served as the main attacker, under the leadership of regiment commander He Dongsheng and political commissar Wu Dai, set out at night from the areas of Caopo, Tuanshanzi, and Zhifang, and acted covertly to surround the Shigou Cliff stronghold.

At the same time, the ** battalion of Juzhong entered the position west of Jijia Zhuangzi and prepared to attack the enemy aided by Juxian in the east, a regiment of the Binhai detachment entered the northwest highlands of Shen Tuan to prepare to strike at the enemy aided by Shen Tuan and Rizhao to the west, and a company of the 13th regiment entered the position north of Shigou Cliff to prevent Zhu Xinzhai from breaking through, and the local armed forces of the second battalion of the teaching regiment in Sanzhuang and Rizhao counties were also waiting on both sides of the Taishi highway. Chen Shiyu, commander of the Binhai Naval District, and Liu Xingyuan, acting political commissar, personally commanded at the front.

"Comrades!" Chen Shiqu stood in the forward command post and issued combat orders to the regiments, battalions, and companies participating in the battle, "The combat deployment of your old sixth regiment is: the fourth and eighth companies will seize the Xiling Artillery Tower; A platoon of the 6th Company seized the Dongling Turret; After occupying the commanding heights, the second battalion annihilated the enemy in Shigou Yazhuang, divided the enemy from north to south, and cut off the waist. Chen Shiyu looked at the regiment commander He Dongsheng and the regiment's political commissar Wu Dai, and then said, "Then the first and second battalions will encircle and annihilate the enemy in Beizhai, and the sixth and eighth companies will encircle and annihilate the enemy in Nanzhai." ”

He and Wu hit Lizheng and said, "Yes! We must cut off the enemy's left arm! ”

A team flying at night, moving on the west ridge of the stone ditch cliff, from here, you can see the stone ditch cliff village buried in the mountain valley, and Zhu Xinzhai with seven months of work and hundreds of thousands of people's labor to build the north and south of the two large walled villages, in the south of the village, there is the Juri highway across the past, stretching into the mountain recess in the distance, the east ridge and the west ridge of the village, there are the same two isolated turrets.

But just take a slight look away and you can find out? At the top of any ridge and at the fork in the road on all sides were our troops, the militia of the district squadron, guarding the positions on the outer level.

"The eighth company has gone up, and it won't take a few minutes to take down the turret on the West Ridge!" On the command position, Liu Xingyuan, political commissar of the Binhai Naval District, said with a smile to Commander Chen Shiyu, who was holding a telescope on the side.

"Well done!" Shi Yu replied happily. Then he said, "Yes, in a few minutes, the Eighth Company surrounded the Xiling Turret, great, you see, a squad of the Sixth Company came in again, they were very determined to drill into the deer wood and barbed wire, a platoon of Deputy Comrade Wang Jicheng, one person carrying a ladder straight to the turret, our firepower quickly blocked the enemy's turret. ”

On the position, as soon as the ladder reached the root of the wall, a grenade was thrown down from the turret, and Comrade Wang Jicheng lay down at the base of the wall, and when the "booming" explosion passed, he stood up again in a black smoke and put the ladder on the wall.

However, before the ladder could be erected, another grenade was thrown down, and Comrade Wang Jicheng still bowed down, and shrapnel flew away from his head and feet. As a result, Comrade Wang Jicheng dodged three grenades and finally put up the ladder.

Five seconds later, Comrade Wang Jicheng appeared on the top of the ladder again, greatly exceeding the window of the turret. So, the window of the turret was already at his feet, and the enemy could no longer help him! He threw the grenades one by one through the window, and the enemy "Ouch! Surrender your guns! "It's calling. The team immediately swooped down, grabbed a few alive, and captured the first turret.

Not far from the turret, He Dongsheng and Wu Dai were personally directing the battle. He Tuan said: "The next step is to stab the enemy in the waist. ”

"Yes, according to the battle plan, the second step should be to enter the village, so that the two sieges of the north and south of the people can be separated, and finally annihilated." Wu Dai put down the binoculars and said.

"Then call the well-known and unstoppable combat squad - the fourth company and the fifth squad to complete this glorious task."

"Good!"

The artillery tower in the south of Zhuangtou was desperately firing at our Eighth Route Army, hindering the advance of our army.

After Chen Shiyu discovered this situation from the telescope, he turned to the side and said to the artillery company commander: "You use two cannons first, and knock out the turret in Zhuangnantou for me!" ”

"Yes!" After receiving the order, the commander of the artillery company gave the order to open fire.

As soon as the battle order sounded, our flat-firing gunners made the first move, and then two shots broke down the turret at Zhuangnantou, and the light and heavy machine guns then screamed, knocking the enemy's trench into a cloud of smoke.

However, the chaotic enemy still desperately held on, and the grenades kept coming out, and the enemy on the Nanweizi Gun Tower kept firing cold guns one by one, which was the usual skill of the old bandits.

"Ahh My old Chen's two cannons haven't completely helped them convince them! Then let them sit on the earthen plane, the sapper platoon, and quickly blow up the enemy's deer firewood! Shi Yu said with wide eyes.

"Yes!" The alert sappers blew up the enemy's deer firewood, and the fifth squad leaned into the outer trench in a puff of black smoke, and the shrapnel from the explosion of countless grenades forced the enemy to begin to retreat.

"Rush!" The enemy is shaken!

"Catch it alive!" On the command position in Xiling, Commander Chen and Acting Political Commissar Liu were shouting loudly, and everyone was also shouting and jumping desperately.

Seeing that the warriors of the fifth squad rushed into the trench, the follow-up troops rushed up, and before they could expel the enemy in the trench, the warriors jumped up to the outer trench again, and rushed into the village one by one, and the retreating enemy ran around the village like yellow dogs, and in about five minutes, the warriors drove the enemy away from every house, and under the bed, in the corner, and in the haystack, we caught the shameless enemy.

Our Eighth Route Army's Binhai Naval District has discovered the enemy's habitual skills: as long as you are not careful, he will pick up the gun and shoot you. I had to collect their guns first.

After the comrades of the Eighth Route Army entered the village, the old Sixth Regiment once launched an attack on Beiweizi, which caused the enemy a great consumption of manpower and ammunition; at dusk, it was raining lightly, and most of them came out to rest, and the vigilance troops, reinforcement troops, and militia of the Eighth Route Army of the Binhai Naval District all spent the cold night of midwinter in the wind and rain.

At the same time, the ** battalion of Juzhong took the leopard shop stronghold located on the Juri Highway and 25 miles west of the Shigou Cliff stronghold with a clever combat offensive and political offensive, and more than 30 people in the stronghold were all captured, and the captured puppet army said: "The old bandits' nest Shigou Cliff is finished, do we still hold on?" ”

Chen Shiyu stood on the command position of Xiling, where there was a light rain, and said to the commanders of the regiments and battalions participating in the station: "We are now going to open the enemy's head. See how much brains he can make. From tomorrow, we will again use up the enemy's ammunition in an offensive posture......"

At noon the next day, more than 400 enemies from Juxian came to the east to reinforce them, but they were beaten back by our ** battalion in Juzhong.

In Beiweizi, there are two squadrons and Zhu Xinzhai and others, which are the headquarters of Shigou Cliff.

This fence was built by Zhu Xinzhai who invited five Japanese instructors, each of whom spent 5,000 yuan a day to pay a dowry, and was supervised by the Japanese instructors.

The traitor Zhu Xinzhai thought that this sub-fence could not be opened, because the wall was very high, and there were four cannon towers at the four corners, and outside the wall, there were strong ditches, and every three or four steps there was a cement bunker, half of the bunker stretched out into the outer trench eight feet deep and eight feet wide, and there were thorns more than a foot deep in the outside, so that people could not stand on their feet, and there was barbed wire outside the outer trench, and then there was deer firewood outside......

In the enclosure he stockpiled food and drank water. So on the first day of the battle, Zhu Xinzhai went all over the ditches and told his bandits: "This kind of fortification is foolproof, I know the ability of the Eighth Route Army, as long as everyone resolutely resists, my Zhu Xinzhai and everyone's lives are very big, and I have my own way to deal with the Eighth Route Army." Tomorrow, replace the pseudo-blue sky and white sun flag in the enclosure with the Japanese flag, so that the imperial army will definitely come to reinforce it! ”

However, the facts shattered Zhu Yi's dream, and after the fierce attack began at four o'clock in the afternoon, his illusion gradually faded ten minutes before the general attack, and the assault team of the second company entered the position, with no guns on them, no documents, and even the pens they had bought were left for the other comrades, and all they had were a huge number of grenades in their hands and waists.

"Comrade Xiao Wang, you were a Ganyu battle hero last time, and this time you should be a Shigou Cliff battle hero again!" Captain He asked a warrior he knew!

"Yes! Congratulations, Captain! The tone was so heavy, and he looked at Captain He with his eyes, allowing people to follow his eyes and look into the depths of his eyes. He seemed to be saying to the chief, I will go up for the greatest sacrifice for the party, maybe we will say goodbye! But I am worthy of being a Chinese!

After receiving Chen Shiyu's order to open fire for the second time, the sharpshooter Li Youzhang first opened fire, and the first shot destroyed the largest and strongest bunker in the southeast corner, and the second shot destroyed a large artillery tower in the southeast corner. All the troops of the Eighth Route Army who participated in the battle were excited, and they couldn't stop cheering: "What a cannon!" Rush! ”

Just as the enemy was overwhelmed by the sound of artillery and cheers, a 16-year-old comrade of the 2nd Company rushed forward with a broadsword, and beside a wooden pole stake in the barbed wire, he raised his broadsword with both hands and slashed with all his might, and this knife only cut two wires. Then he slashed the four wires with two more swords, and then ran back with his broadsword, and then picked up his rifle and bravely followed the assault team, and no one of them showed admiration for this comrade.

The bloody road was opened, the brave team immediately rushed forward, the enemy's dense fire could not make them stagnate a little, the warriors crossed the deer wood and barbed wire, and then jumped into the outer trench desperately, Comrade Zhu Qingquan, a soldier of the second company and the second squad, was the one who ran in the front, unfortunately a bullet hit him, he lay in the trench and shouted hard: "Comrades! We must complete the party's tasks! Banzai! ”

With the disappearance of this tragic voice, our exemplary comrade Zhu Quan died gloriously.

( Biography of Chinese and Foreign Heroes )