Author: SOUL Dier
In the anti-Japanese war experience of the Shanxi New Army Death Column, many heroes of bravery emerged. Shang Ru, who was once the squad leader of the 4th Company of the 35th Regiment of the 4th Column, was one of them.
1937, under the call of the slogan "Defend the country and fight against aggression", Shang Ru, who had just grown up, volunteered to participate in the 9th Regiment of the National Minute Army organized by Shanxi warlords Yan Xishan , and was reorganized into the 2nd Company of the 9th Regiment of the 9th Regiment with 200 Shanxi youth who joined the army with the same purpose. In January 1938, the 9th Regiment of the Education Regiment was adapted into the 12th Corps of the Fourth Column of the Death Death. Under the publicity and education of political cadres in the regiment, Shang Ru also became more and more progressive, and joined the Shanxi Sacrifice Association led by underground organizations with her comrades Deng Jisuo, Li Youcai and Liu Zheng.
In the autumn of 1939, at the request of Yan Xishan, the 12th Corps was reorganized into the 34th Regiment of the 7th Independent Brigade of the Shanxi Sui Army, and the struggle between new and old forces within the regiment became gradually fierce. One day in September, the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 34th Regiment was taking a collective political class. The company commander Wan Chunxiang, who had always liked to make trouble, came to make trouble again. He unreasonably asked the entire company to gather together for exercises urgently. Instructor Sun Haishan calmly refused and said, "The soldiers are taking political classes now, and there is no hurry to do exercises after class."
, but Wan Chunxiang ran forward without saying a word, punched and kicked Sun Haishan, and beat him on the spot, and he had to be hospitalized for treatment. learned of the news, Shang Ru and other progressive commanders and fighters were very indignant. Under the leadership of Zhang Chongxiu, the instructor of the 4th Company, everyone collectively signed the protest letter in the name of the Sacrifice Alliance. In order to calm the situation, the diehard team leader had to agree to imprison Wan Chunxiang and the battalion commander Zhi Changlu, who was sheltering him. This anti-stubborn struggle achieved the expected victory.
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teaching camp is a short-term system. Although it is only two months, the courses are full, and the battalion commander Long Hai is also very focused on the courses. Shang Ru had a very good impression of Battalion Commander Long, who patiently answered many questions for him during his study and training, which was completely different from the stubborn battalion commander in the previous army. Therefore, after learning from the teaching battalion that Captain Long died of illness, Shang Ru felt very sad for a while. During the training period, the column leader Lei Renmin also often came to give lectures to the commanders and fighters, which was very popular.
Two months after being trained in the teaching battalion, Shang Ru graduated and was assigned to the recruit battalion as the squad leader, responsible for training new soldiers who had just joined the army. Because of his good performance, he soon joined the organization through the introduction of Yang Wanzao, the instructor of the recruit battalion. After taking the recruits to the 35th Regiment of the Fourth Column of the Death Death, Shang Ru stayed in the 35th Regiment and served as the squad leader. Two months later, due to the need of the struggle situation, Shang Ru, as a military backbone, was seconded to the Fangshan County Guerrilla Brigade as the squad leader, and was promoted to platoon leader in March 1941.
The Death Death Fourth Column in Training
Soon after, the Fangshan County Guerrilla Brigade fought a tragic encounter with the Japanese and puppet troops in Shuiqu Village. The troops suffered heavy casualties. The company where Shang Ru was originally located had more than 200 commanders and fighters, but most of them were sacrificed or injured. Only Shang Ru led a squad of soldiers to the end and successfully completed the task assigned by his superiors. However, Shang Ru was not happy about this, because Li Mingzhen, the company instructor who he always respected on weekdays, was unfortunately captured in this battle and was brutally killed by the Japanese and puppet troops three days later.
In 1942, Shang Ru returned to the 35th Regiment. Logically speaking, he should continue to be the platoon leader now. When the severe situation of the War of Resistance against Japan at that time, the Eighth Route Army's North China bases were in a difficult period under the siege and compression of the Japanese army. In order to respond to the call of the superior's "simplification of military and government" policy, the Fourth Column of Death also reduced the 19th and 35th Regiments to two battalion-level units of the 19th and 35th Detachments. Shang Ru was also demoted to the squad leader of the 4th Company's machine gun squad, but he was also distracted from this. After all, in actual combat, a machine gun squad is much more important than an infantry platoon.
1944, the 35th Detachment launched the second battle against the Wuning County mountain village. Facing the Japanese and puppet army's couple stronghold, Shang Ru took a squad to sneak near the enemy's stronghold in the first battle, and quickly opened the village door with the help of the puppet army. Before the 13 puppet soldiers who were sleeping in the village got up and got married, they obediently became prisoners. After escorting the prisoners and 13 captured rifles from the stronghold, the artillery tower of the village was burned at the same time.
Major General Luo Bin, who was once the leader of the 35th Detachment,
In the second copycat battle, Shang Ru did the same thing, leading the soldiers into the enemy's stronghold, and encircled the two squads of puppet legions in the dormitory. When the puppet army squad leader picked up the bayonet and planned to resist stubbornly, Shang Ru rushed forward and used his own bayonet to suppress the opponent's rifle . The puppet army squad leader was immediately frightened by Shang Ru's heroic performance and could only raise his hand to surrender. After this battle, the 4th Company was awarded the title of "Basic Hero Company" by the Military Sub-district, and Shang Ru was also named a combat model for quickly subduing the enemy squad leader.
In the spring of 1945, the 35th Detachment participated in the battle to attack the Chunjingwa stronghold in Wuning County. Because the puppet army that was out of plan to respond was temporarily unable to operate, this battle was specially designed for strong attacks. After a night of fierce fighting, the 35th Detachment killed 18 Japanese and puppet troops, captured 52 people alive, and seized 31 mortars, 32 grenade launchers, 2 light machine guns and 89 rifles. Because he was bravely injured in the battle, the post-war detachment captain Luo Bin (a major general in 1955) announced the election of Shang Ru as the combat hero in this battle.
After Shang Ru was injured, he was eager to fight, so his body miraculously recovered quickly. After returning to the team, he caught the Xialuanqiao ambush. In this battle, the 35th Detachment ambushed a Japanese grain transport team, seized heavy machine guns, 31 rifles, and more than 4,000 kilograms of grain, and rescued three captured local cadres. After the Japanese invaders surrendered unconditionally in August 1945, the 35th Detachment restored its title to the 35th Regiment, and then went north to Suiyuan at the end of that year, and was incorporated into the Jinsui Field Army sequence, and devoted itself to the new journey of liberating North China.
After a brief rest period after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Shang Ru contacted his comrades who participated in the 9th Regiment with him eight years ago. Only then did be surprised to find that among the 200 young people in Shanxi that year, there were only 5 left, including him. Later, the 35th Regiment was adapted into the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Division of the 1st Army, 1st Field Army. In the battle to liberate the northwest and pursue the southern part of Chiang Kai-shek's army, three more comrades died unfortunately. By the time the country was liberated, only Shang Ru and comrade Li Yuehe were left!
Therefore, whenever recalling the arduous years of war and his comrades who died in the battle, Shang Ru always murmured to himself: "Our victory today is really hard-won, it is all exchanged for the blood of his comrades!"
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