In the second half of 1944, our army's operational policy against Japan was to launch offensive operations, carry out local counteroffensives, and restore and expand anti-Japanese base areas.

The autumn offensive of the Shandong Jiaodong Military Region has just begun in the East China Sea Region, and the Military Region has decided that the first target for the attack is the waterway of Muping County, and the town of Shuidao is located more than 20 kilometers south of the county seat of Muping County, and it is a nail in the nail that the Japanese army has stretched into our base area in the East China Sea, and it directly threatens the security of the military and civilians in the Yuanshan and Kunlun Mountains, and also cuts off the connection between the East China Sea and the Beihai and the West Sea.

The stronghold built by the Japanese army in Shuidao Town covers an area of about 10 million square meters, and high walls have been built on all sides, pillboxes are lined up, and there are two trenches dug outside the wall, and the trenches are surrounded by barbed wire, and there are deer barrages outside the barbed wire, and there are dense fire cover, known as the iron waterway.

There are about 40 people in the Japanese army in the waterway stronghold, more than 200 people in the two squadrons of the puppet army, more than 30 people in the Japanese army guarding a tall four-story pillbox, and more than 10 people guarding a small pillbox, and the two squadrons of the puppet army each guarding a pillbox, the enemy usually trains to practice shooting in concealment around the area, especially the 60 cannon and the 88 grenadier canister, the murderous enemy often shoots the people who farm the land around as targets, and claims that the detectives of the Eighth Route Army are killed, and the people hate the enemy to the core, and they have asked to pull out the stronghold to eliminate the harm for the people,

Jia Ruoyu, commander and chief of staff of the Jiaodong Military Region, personally led the third battalion of political and religious Hu Bingyi, deputy battalion commander Zhang Chao, company commander Zhou De of the seventh company, Jiang Xueshan of the eighth company, Bi Lisan, commander of the ninth company, as well as Watanabe Saburo Jun Cao of the Japanese Anti-War League, Wang Qian, deputy instructor of the eighth company, and comrades of the second battalion, Song Jiliu, who did not help save him and others, to hold an operational meeting.

"The Japanese army in the waterway stronghold began to shrink, this belongs to the defense area of the 19th Brigade of the Fifth Brigade of the Japanese Army, this brigade has four squadrons, the first squadron is stationed in Zhaili, the second squadron is stationed in Wendeng, the third squadron is stationed in Qixia, and the fourth squadron is stationed in Daxindian, in view of the large-scale road-breaking operation of the Eighth Route Army, the scattered garrison of the Japanese strongholds are cut off from transportation, and the grain, ammunition and sanitary equipment can not be supplied at all, even if there is an infectious disease, it can only be resigned to fate,"

"Not bad at all," Song Jiliu said,

Chief of Staff Jia Ruoyu then said: "Since April, our Eighth Route Army has begun to attack, and the Qingyan Highway garrisoned by the Japanese army will rush to the Songshan stronghold, the Gaotong stronghold in Fushan County, and the Dahuangjia stronghold in Penglai County have been captured one after another, and the Daxindian, the squadron headquarters of the Fourth Squadron, has also been attacked.

"Okay, let's beat them up," Song Jiliu said.

"Only a few important strongholds such as the waterway are reluctant to give up, but there are no troops to strengthen their defenses, and they have become chicken ribs, and the devil Jishan is therefore hesitant, at this time, the Japanese waterway set detachment has shrunk greatly compared to the heyday, except for the puppet army security team, the main force is a small squadron of the second squadron of the Japanese army, and the commander of the detachment, Second Lieutenant Di Ye, set out from the waterway, trying to open up the road to Yantai, and when he walked near Yantai, he was ambushed by our army," said Jia Ruo, chief of staff,

Hu Bingyi, the political and religious teacher of the third battalion, said: "In the melee, more than ten Japanese officers and soldiers such as Second Lieutenant Di Ye were killed, many others were wounded, one was captured, and the puppet army was defeated."

"This battle was fought well, and at the same time, the road to Wendeng, where the second squadron of the devils of the Suidao set was located, was also completely cut off," Commander Shiyou said, glancing at Jia Ruoyu and Watanabe Saburo and others and said, "I have always been merciful to the monks, or wrap all the Japanese officers and soldiers killed in the last battle in white cloth and bury them here, we must have humanitarianism, and we must not treat us Chinese like devils,"

"Well, this just shows that the Chinese army is a real benevolent and righteous division, this move I greatly admire, because its power is greatly better than aircraft artillery, for ordinary Japanese officers and soldiers, this is respect for a person, is in stark contrast to the harsh military discipline within the Japanese army, the cruel "Battle Formation Training", which can even shake the combat belief of Japanese officers and soldiers, so this is really good," Watanabe Saburo, deputy director of the anti-war Jiaodong branch of the Japanese Anti-War League, said seriously,

"This is obviously asking us to come to his urn to catch turtles," said the king with a smile.

"It was not until the 20th of August that Yoshiyama Daisa, who had been in the army for decades, came to his senses and finally made the decision to abandon the waterway stronghold, the question is, even if he withdraws from the waterway, it will not be an easy thing to be surrounded and intercepted by our army, in order to allow the troops of the waterway to withdraw smoothly, the Japanese army first ordered to abandon another small stronghold near the waterway, Xishan, and more than ten defenders withdrew into the waterway fortress under the command of the commander of Sansu Cao, strengthened its forces, and prepared to find an opportunity to break through in one fell swoop in late August, which is really a whimsical daydream," Jia Ruoyu said,

The commander of the third battalion of the Donghai ** Regiment said with a smile: "I haven't found the opportunity yet, tonight at eight o'clock, we actually came first, haha......"

"Haha......" everyone laughed along,

"Now I order," Jia Ruoyu stood up and pressed down with both hands, "The third battalion of my sixteenth regiment is mainly attacking the waterway; The 3rd Battalion of the Donghai ** Regiment and the ** Battalion of Muhai of the East China Sea Subdivision sent reinforcements; The local people, with the cooperation of the militia, intensified their efforts to break the road; Binhai's old Song and Captain Wang of the reconnaissance team went to the stronghold to conduct reconnaissance ......"

"Yes,"

Jia Ruoyu continued: "Since Tan Daokai, the commander of the third battalion, was not in office, Hu Bingyi, deputy battalion commander, and Zhang Zaitian, deputy commander of the battalion, were responsible for commanding the battle, and it was decided to launch an attack on the night of 24 August."

"Yes," Hu Bingyi, a political and religious officer, said in a straight position, "In accordance with the clear instructions of Comrade Jia Ruoyu, head of the military region, all companies are now given combat tasks: the seventh company will attack the puppet army bunker, the eighth company will attack the Japanese army's big pillbox, and the ninth company will be the reserve, and the deputy battalion commander Zhang Chao will specifically command this operation......

At that time, the commander of the eighth company, Changjiang Snow Mountain, was an old hero of the anti-Japanese resistance, the political commander Lu Jun, and the deputy political commander was Wang Qian, when he had just graduated from the anti-Japanese university and was assigned to the eighth company, and the same underground party and military engineering team successfully rescued the comrades who were captured by the Japanese spies.

And Jiang Xueshan company commander from being a soldier, squad platoon commander to company commander has never left this company, the fighting style of the eighth company was brought out by him, at that time Wang Qian felt extremely honored to be assigned to this heroic company, and also felt that he had a heavy responsibility, but Wang Qian was determined to live up to the trust of his superiors in me, and was determined to assist the company commander to fight this battle.

"We believe that the task of conquering the Japanese bunker handed over to the Eighth Company by the superiors is a sign of full trust in the Eighth Company and the glory of the Eighth Company, so we must complete the glorious task assigned to me by the superiors, and everyone must have no confidence," Jiang Xueshan said when he returned to the company for a meeting.

"Yes," said in unison,

As a result, the troops and local cadres of the Jiaodong Military Region gathered the villagers in the surrounding areas of the Japanese army's garrison to mobilize, with the aim of completely destroying the main communication routes around them, starting with the Qingyan Highway, the main traffic artery from Qingdao to Yantai, the roads from Yantai to Longkou, Rongcheng to Weihaiwei, Weihaiwei to Wendeng, and from Zhaili to Daxindian, and the villagers along the line dispatched tens of thousands of people to dig the highway several meters wide to the point where no one could pass through.

Because the road was damaged so badly that the Japanese devil soldiers were frightened, the people along the line, apparently all the grievances against the Japanese army were concentrated on the destruction work, which caused such a tragic situation, the road from Qingdao to Yantai the day before could also take a truck, the next day to see it was completely changed, the Japanese soldiers saw it, how could they not be frightened, it was impossible to concentrate civilian workers to repair it, the Japanese army with insufficient troops was desperate in the face of this situation,

At the same time, Xu Shiyou, commander of the Jiaodong Military Region, asked the local residents of the waterway to help wrap the Japanese soldiers killed in front of them in white cloth, solemnly bury them, and bury them in the fields near the original stronghold.

In addition, as early as the beginning of the early years, the Japanese army entrenched in the Jiaodong area and the Kuomintang diehards colluded with each other to concentrate their forces on "sweeping" during the day, and at night they cowered in strongholds, trying to rely on the reinforced concrete bunker fortifications and walls, and the deer was dying and struggling.

At the beginning of June of this year, the No. 2 Ordnance Engineering Factory of the Logistics Department of the Military Region held an artillery building meeting in Hedong Village, Yaqian County (now part of Qixia City), where the factory headquarters was stationed.

However, everyone didn't even know what the anti-aircraft guns looked like, and the only thing for reference was a picture of a cannon that was not very clear cut out of the pictorial, as well as a dozen or so rounds of "88" armor-piercing shells captured from the enemy.

So, after two or three months of day and night fighting, the first flat-firing earthen steel cannon and more than a dozen shells were finally made.

Xu Shiyou decided to transfer this gun to participate in the battle of uprooting the waterway stronghold, this gun imitated the Japanese army's Type 92 infantry gun, but the caliber was increased to 80 millimeters, the power was greater, the name was named by Xu Shiyou with the Asan base where the arsenal is located, called: "Asan cannon",

Since the "Asan Artillery" flat-firing earthen steel cannon was made by the Arsenal of the Jiaodong Military Region itself, and the soldiers of the unit did not use it, the Arsenal followed Xu Shiyou's instructions and selected two workers, Xu Weihan and Lin Mao, to serve as temporary gunners.

( Biography of Chinese and Foreign Heroes )