In 1939, the Eighth Route Army fought a special ambush, which caused a sensation across the country.
This In the battle, The Japanese army was extremely cunning and treacherous and used tricks many times, but our army dismantled and set up traps, and eventually wiped out thousands of Japanese ace brigade teams, which had a great impact on the entire battle situation!
So, what does it mean to wipe out the Japanese army? How did the Eighth Route Army use tactics to defeat the enemy?
In the autumn of 1939, after the Anti-Japanese War entered a stalemate stage, the commander of the 8th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese invaders, Yoshihiro Mizuhara, gathered more than a thousand Japanese and puppet troops, intending to carry out the "Autumn Crusade" on the organs and schools in the rear of our army.
The focus of the Japanese army's offensive was Chenzhuang , where the rear organ of the Eighth Route Army was located.
Chenzhuang is located at a critical location. It is located on the northwest side of the Lubai Mountain District and adjacent to the Cihe Waterway in the south. It is an important commercial and transportation hub in the border area base. The Japanese army had bombed Chenzhuang many times, but due to its complex terrain, they did not achieve much results.
Japanese Major General Mizuhara Yoshige likes to study concurrency and is very high in the Japanese army. He often wins unexpectedly in tactical ways. For this battle, he adopted the famous tactic invented by him: Niu Dao Tactics. The principle of tactics of
is a bit like "openly repairing a plank road and secretly crossing Chencang" .
In Japan, in order to successfully approach the cattle, butchers who kill cattle usually hide their sharp knife in their sleeves to avoid panic from the cattle.
When the butcher approaches the cow, he will instantly draw out a sharp knife and kill the cow. This is the "bull knife" tactic.
But Yoshige Mizuhara did not expect that he, the "magic expert", met his nemesis this time, and later became the founding marshal He Long.
At this time, Helong is the commander of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
In this battle, China and Japan fought wits and courage, and the process was very exciting and tortuous.
What Suzuhara Yoshige didn't know at this time was that more than 5,000 people from the 120th Division, one of the main forces of the Eighth Route Army, had recently been transferred to the Chenzhuang area, including the 716th Regiment composed of the backbone of the Red Army, with strong combat power.
At the same time, Chenzhuang also gathered a large number of local armed forces such as the "Tiannan Self-Defense Force" and are undergoing reorganization.
Under the local anti-Japanese armed harassment and the resistance of the people, the Japanese army's reconnaissance had little effect, which made Yukishi Mizuhara mistakenly believe that the Chenzhuang area was weak, and soon, he would pay the price of bleeding for his mistakes!
With the support of the excellent local intelligence work, our army was well aware of the intentions of the Japanese invaders, and promptly diverted the local people, and judged that the enemy would attack Chenzhuang along the river main road.
The 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which was responsible for defense, was preparing to gradually lure the enemy into depth with a small amount of troops, encircle and annihilate it with superior forces, and annihilate the enemy in mobile warfare. set up a "pocket array" to wait for the Japanese army to fall into the trap.
On September 25, Yoshihiro Mizuhara commanded more than 1,500 Japanese and puppet troops, and rushed straight along the main road towards the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army, capturing the key point in the southeast Ciyu Town .
In order to lure the enemy into the depths, local armed forces have been prepared to defraud.
But to everyone's surprise, the Japanese army's attack was very weak, and the scene was very lively, but there was no substantial advancement.
The enemy was repeatedly rubbed at the southeast entrance of the encirclement for two days, and then retreated back to Ciyu.
26, the Japanese army also acted like they were going to retreat. Even if our army deliberately attacked and lured the enemy at night, they were not moved. This shows the cunning of the Japanese army.
The Eighth Route Army was not confused by the temporary victory. It turned out that the Japanese invaders' frontal action was just a feint.
After the Japanese army occupied Ciyu, they had just been blocked by local armed forces. They used a treacherous plan, pretended to retreat, and then secretly divided 1,100 troops and rushed west along the southern path of Lubai Mountain.
. They abandoned heavy weapons and supplies and made rapid progress with light equipment, but their goal was to sneak attack on the key hinterland of our army's defense empty, Chenzhuang!
At this time, our army’s main force was setting up an ambush on the outside, and it was empty, and Chen Zhuang was in a hurry!
At the critical moment when the Japanese army attacked Chenzhuang, local guerrillas discovered the enemy and immediately began to block the enemy. A district team from the Anti-Soviet Second Branch, which was attending classes nearby, also quickly arrived at the battlefield, opened fire and blocked the attack, and warned Chenzhuang about the enemy's situation.
Then some teachers and students of the Anti-Grand rushed to support, occupying the highlands on the hilltop to block the enemy troops, and covering the smooth transfer of the entire school, organs and the masses.
Faced with the Japanese attack on Chenzhuang, the Eighth Route Army immediately ordered to change the plan: requires the main force to change the position and use Chenzhuang as bait to set up a new ambush.
Our army has increased its offensive momentum and performed a big drama, creating the illusion that our army's main force is still in Ciyu.
Japanese commander Yoshihiro Mizuhara was indeed trapped after receiving the news, so he became more sure that our army was empty in Chenzhuang, so he attacked and rushed towards it, sending himself to death step by step.
At noon on September 27, 1939, the Japanese army entered Chenzhuang as they wished. A Japanese brigade leader Tanaka also wrote in his diary : "There was no big battle to occupy Chenzhuang. What a genius command!"
The proud Japanese army thought that they had won and were preparing to plunder and destroy Chenzhuang. When celebrating, our army was prepared for a long time, and the organs and the masses had already moved. Apart from the occupied Chenzhuang, the Japanese army did not even find a grain of food except for the empty houses.
The Japanese army was extremely angry because they led more than a thousand people to attack lightly, but in fact they were not sufficient supplies. They originally planned to plunder the people and use war to support the war, but unexpectedly nothing was obtained. They had to retreat, otherwise they would be in a dilemma of exhausting ammunition and food.
However, at this time, there are two roads for to return to the Japanese stronghold from Chenzhuang. Is it a quick retreat by taking the main road? Or take the small road and return?
Revolving around the choice of these two paths, the third confrontation between China and Japan began nervously!
Marshal He Long has always believed that the enemy is like a god. Although according to the experience of our army fighting against the Japanese invaders, the Japanese army has always been accustomed to returning on the same path, but the enemy's army is extremely cunning in this battle and cannot be argued with the usual theory.
Carefully analyzed that there was no reinforcement in Chenzhuang's Japanese army. Due to the pressure of supply, they definitely wanted to retreat quickly along the road shortcut and meet with the Japanese army in Ciyu.
So, our army made up our minds and prepared to ambush and annihilate the enemy on the front line of Cihe Avenue.
Division Commander He Long asked all units to maneuver overnight, a small number of troops launched an attack on the enemy from the east, and always maintained contact with the Japanese army. If the Japanese army walked along the main road, they would pretend to be defeated and lure them to the ambush circle on the northern line of Lubai Mountain.
If the enemy panics and flees towards the small path, he will delay killing and injuring the enemy so that our army can mobilize and annihilate the enemy in the movement.
Just in case, our army also dispatched two battalions to the nearest path on the south side of Chenzhuang, preparing to block the enemy when they flee south.
. Our main force set up a hidden ambush on the north line of Lubai Mountain, always occupying the favorable terrain of the highland, and silently waiting for the prey to enter the trap in the dense forest.
In the early morning of September 28, 1939, the time to determine destiny has come.
All units of our army entered the predetermined positions. At the same time, under the attack of the Eighth Route Army throughout the night, Yoshihiro Mizuhara had no supplies and support at this time, and no exact information, which felt like the wind and the grass and trees were all in the army.
At dawn, the Japanese commander Suwon commanded the troops to burn Chenzhuang's houses and began to test the retreat eastward in the flames. A small number of troops attacked the Eighth Route Army east of Chenzhuang, responsible for harassing.
Soon afterwards, the main force of the Japanese army suddenly crossed the Ci River south and made an illusion of retreating eastward. In fact, retreating southward was its true intention.
From this we can see that this person in Suwhara is really cunning and is indeed proficient in military tactics.
But our generals were better and were unmoved by the Japanese army's illusions. The main ambush 716th Regiment and other units were still on standby in the east, still moving as if they were not moving.
Of course, our army just asked the armed forces to prepare to "close the stalls" in the place where they acted in Ciyu, changing from attack to surveillance, creating the illusion that our army's main force had left Ciyu and headed to the small road to block the road.
is real and real, and never get tired of deceit.
Sure enough, Yoshihiro Mizuhara's real intention was to break through along the avenue. They pretended to move to the path for a while and quickly turned eastward, and moved in seclusion among the reeds on the bank of the Ci River, but unexpectedly plunged into the arms of the first battalion of the 716th Regiment.
And the soldiers of the 1st Battalion of our army's 716th Regiment have been here for a long time. immediately gave the Japanese army the most violent attack. At the same time, the brother troops on the west side immediately turned around and attacked north, cooperated to drive the enemy eastward, tightened their "pockets", and closed the door and hit the dog!
716 Regiment, this army fulfilled its mission and the battle lasted for 3 hours. When the Japanese army in desperate situation launched a crazy counterattack, they repelled the enemy's attacks four times in a row.
After entering the fierce hand-to-hand combat, he still firmly controlled his position.
This unbreakable "bottom of the pocket" allowed the brothers to complete the siege and completely block the Japanese army.
28 On the afternoon of the 28th, the Japanese army town sent a total of more than 800 people to reinforce, trying to support Suwon's troops, but was blocked by armed forces that were prepared.
In the evening of that day, the main force of Japanese Major General Yoshihiro Mizuhara had been compressed into a village and wanted to wait for rescue.
Our army failed to resolve the battle on the same day due to moisture in ammunition, but still firmly suppressed the enemy.
After a night of fierce battle, the local weapons had already repelled enemy reinforcements, and the Japanese army surrounded by the village had their last hopes shattered. They made their last struggle and broke through to Lubai Mountain on the south side.
Ko, between the high mountains and deep valleys of Mount Lubai, there are ambush points of our army everywhere. Even if the Japanese army has aircraft support and cover, it will be useless.
Finally, on the morning of September 30, a thousand people were wiped out by the 31st Brigade of the 8th Independence Brigade, and the Japanese Major General Yoshige Mizuhara was defeated and died!
This battle caused a sensation across the country because it was one of the few battles that completely wiped out the Japanese troops since the War of Resistance Against Japan.
This battle is wonderful and is not inferior to a large-scale battle. The local armed forces face the Japanese army and carry out the tactics of feint attack , strong attack, fraudulent defeat and perseverance. They are skillfully used and are unmoved when facing the enemy's tricks.
The main force of our army, the 716th Regiment, was patient and endurable for a long time. When attacking, it was like a tiger going down the mountain, and when it was persistent, it was like a mountain still moving. The three ambushes were linked together, like a big net that bound the Japanese army. Even if the Japanese army is full of tricks and uses tricks many times and bluffs, they will eventually be unable to escape death!
This battle lasted for 6 days and 5 nights, and it was a brilliant result. killed more than 1,280 enemies, captured 16 people, seized a large number of guns and ammunition, more than 50 war horses, and 3 mountain cannons. Our army only suffered more than 140 people, and it can be said that we achieved a brilliant victory.
You should know that if the national army is replaced to fight, I am afraid that several divisions will not be able to fight, let alone annihilate the Japanese army. This shows the excellence and excitement of this battle!
The battle of Chenzhuang not only hit the Japanese army's arrogance, but also forced the Japanese army to retreat to the city, protecting the security of the base.
