Chapter 54: The Battle of the Great Mountain Begins
The people of Jingdi Village went up to Bangu Mountain to escape the war.
That night, I was awakened by a fierce burst of gunfire.
Everyone got up one after another to check what was going on, and when they looked at it from a huge height, they saw that the mountains about 4 miles away were blazing with fire, and the guns were loud.
There was a real fight.
The Jingdi Village Self-Defense Force received an order to hold on to Bangu Mountain and protect the lives and property of the people.
In the past few days, Holly has arranged for members of the Self-Defense Forces to strengthen the sentry at night.
In order to prevent a sneak attack by day and night.
Here's an introduction to the battle in 1940:
On March 5, 1940, the 680th Regiment of the 57th Army of the Kuomintang, together with the New Fourth Division, the Ninth Security Brigade, and Zheng San, the magistrate of Dongyi County, totaled more than 8,000 people to form an encirclement of the Dashan base area. Dashan is located 60 miles northeast of Dongyi County, with an altitude of 628 meters and an area of 2 square kilometers. There are more than 260 people stationed on the mountain, including the Dongyi County Party Committee, the Dongyi County Brigade and the Shandong Column Arsenal. The enemy is outnumbered, and the situation is very unfavorable.
Three days later, Wang Jian'an, deputy commander of the Shandong Column and commander of the First Brigade, and Zhou Chiping, political commissar, sent a messenger to send an order from General Xu, commander of the First Column of the Eighth Route Army: "Dashan is a strategic point in the Yimeng region, and we must defend it and protect the arsenal. According to Mr. Xu's instructions, the Dongyi County Party Committee immediately organized forces to collect stones, rush to transport grain and grass, and do a good job in defending them.
On the 20th, the battle began, and the recalcitrant army occupied Zhangzigu in the northwest of Dagu Mountain, posing a threat to Dagu Mountain. In order to break the blockade conspiracy of the recalcitrant army, the county party committee decided to seize Zhangzigu. After detailed reconnaissance, Zhang Jinglan of the county brigade led seven soldiers to climb the east gate of Zhangzigu to hide in a detour, and took advantage of the enemy's dawn the next day to go down the mountain to change shifts, and occupied Zhangzigu in one fell swoop, and attacked the cross stream that night.
At dawn the next day, the recalcitrant army gathered one regiment to surround Zhangzigu and concentrated its firepower to attack the cross stream, and the county brigade withdrew from the cross stream.
Situation
On the 29th, the recalcitrant army blocked the large and small passages of the mountain, and captured the families of the anti-Japanese soldiers and brought them to the bottom of the mountain to force them to shout to their relatives, in an attempt to break the military morale of the soldiers guarding the Gu. Under the leadership of the county party committee, they persisted for 9 days and 9 nights and successfully completed the task of guarding the guard.
In 1940, Liu Julan of the Eighth Route Army carried an explosive bag and braved the rain of bullets to blow up the devil's turret. It turned out that he blew it up in the wrong place, and the deputy head of the regiment was annoyed! But a closer look surprised and delighted him!
In mid-August 1940, the Japanese army invaded the Mengyin area and entrenched in Xiaozhangzhuang, relying on the advantage of the wall, to sit back and relax.
Four detachments and one regiment received an order: Destroy this powerful Japanese army! The warriors launched several attacks, but many of them died before they could reach the wall! Even when we reached the wall, we erected a wooden ladder and climbed bravely, but the enemy army was condescending, and our army suffered heavy casualties!
The strong attack for five consecutive days was unsuccessful, but a lot of soldiers were sacrificed! This made the deputy head of the regiment present Wang Fenglin extremely heartbroken!
You can't fight like this! The enemy is shrunk in a shell, and we want to hit him, but it is more difficult than climbing to the sky, how can this be done? You have to beat the enemy's turtle shell to destroy the enemy!
Wang Fenglin is a rare "turtle" blasting expert in our army, who once learned blasting in Moscow, mainly laying mines in ambush warfare, but in today's battle, can we use explosives instead of artillery to blow up the enemy's turtle shells? There is no precedent to learn from before, can you give it a try?
There is a soldier in the second regiment named Liu Julan, who used to be a miner, and after joining the army, he participated in the blasting training class, and also listened to Wang Fenglin's blasting class! He was also thinking: can explosives blow up bridges and roads, can they blow up walls and pillboxes?
Liu Julan told the deputy head of the regiment her idea, and the two of them coincided and decided to give it a try!
In order to ensure effectiveness, they also deliberately conducted an experiment, at the edge of the village, using the stone bunker left by the puppet army, digging a hole with an iron shovel under the root of the wall, stuffing explosives, installing detonators and DHS, and then covering it with soil, and also gave it a professional name - implosion!
Everyone hid on the side, Liu Julan ignited DHS, and with a "bang", rocks flew and half of the bunker was blown away! The warriors cheered when they saw it, and finally there was a way!
They came to the enemy's artillery tower again, the whole army was waiting for their good news, taking advantage of the night, Deputy Regiment Commander Wang squatted next to a grave, Liu Julan repeatedly asked for blasting, and the Deputy Regiment Commander disagreed: "If you fight, you must be sure to win, if you are not sure, you must not go to die again!" ”
The deputy regiment commander carefully observed for a long time, and finally found a suitable place, pointed to Liu Julan and said: There is a gap between the pillbox and the wall in front, you rush over, stuff the explosives into it, blow it up, and I will let the third battalion cover you!
It's finally time to blow up the enemy! Liu Julan rushed out with one step, our army covered with fire, and when the enemy found out, he had rushed under the wall, and the enemy's guns couldn't hit him at all!
But Liu Julan took the explosives bag, ran over to take a look, ran over and walked around, but was stunned and didn't find the seam that Deputy Head Wang said, I can't stay here for a long time, no matter what, I found a wall root, clicked on DHS, turned around and ran back!
Deputy Head Wang anxiously asked: Why did you misplace it?
He also wanted to argue a few words, but there was a loud "boom", and when the smoke cleared, the turret did not move at all, but the wall of the wall exploded a gap!
Just when the whole army was discouraged, one of the soldiers said: Why is the enemy not moving?
Deputy Regiment Commander Wang took a look at the binoculars, and sure enough, he was dumb, and the enemy army was quiet, and then ordered the assault team to come forward to take a look, all the way over, there was no movement at all! The commandos climbed up to the turret and looked: the enemy was lying in a scattered area, and it turned out that they were blown unconscious!
At the sound of an order, our troops captured Xiaozhangzhuang and eliminated the enemy!
In the later wars, Liu Julan and Wang Fenglin studied explosives together, and became the famous "Demolition King" of our army, clearing the obstacles for our army's many battles!
Although the explosion did not blow up the turret, it stunned the enemy and finally won the victory! This matter has also become a "fun talk"!
During the battle, there was about a company of Japanese puppet recalcitrant troops, vainly trying to seize the commanding heights of Bangu Mountain and pose a threat to the mountain.
The Japanese puppet recalcitrant army, which had been unable to attack for a long time, mobilized planes to bomb Bangu Mountain, but as a result, they all threw themselves down the mountain and blew up their own people.
Several planes took turns dropping bombs, but none of them hit.
It killed most of the Japanese puppet recalcitrant soldiers of this company.
Only a number of deep craters were erected at the foot of Bangu Mountain, which are still clearly visible today.
The Japanese puppet recalcitrant soldiers who were killed by the bombing were later transported to the bottom of the south ditch in Jingdi Village and burned.