Preface
On the evening of March 2, 1940, in Dongwangwen Village, Boxing County, Shandong, a Japanese and puppet army with more than 500 people was almost scared to the Eighth Route Army and grabbed more than 70 bodies and fled in a hurry.
Speaking of this Japanese and puppet army, they wanted to swallow the Eighth Route Army in the village early that morning, but they never expected that the Eighth Route Army squad with only more than 70 people did not allow them to gain a advantage.
Picture | Zhu Zhiming
The enemy left, the Eighth Route Army soldiers and villagers cleaned up the broken walls in the village and buried 21 comrades. It was their sacrifice in exchange for the final victory.
In fact, this battle was the first battle of our army to open up the anti-Japanese base north of Xiaoqinghe in Shandong, and it was also a classic case of winning with less and winning with more in the history of our army's combat. The commander was Zhu Zhiming, who was the instructor of the Secret Service Company of the Sixth Military Sub-district of Shandong at that time.
Speaking of this person, the well-known civil and military genius in the army back then was also a recognized combat hero in the Bohai Military Region. The most important thing is that the deeds of our army's 82 mortar curved shooting and flat shooting, aircraft machine gun hand-fired shooting and other weapons modifications were also made by others. What other unknown wonderful past events are there like
, such a combat genius who is hard to come by, and what happened to him later?
1. The revolutionary innocent child who came out of a patriotic family
Born in Shouguang, Shandong in 1918, Zhu Zhiming followed his father to travel around the country since he was a child, completing his junior and senior high school studies in Shanghai and Beijing, and naturally he also came into contact with a lot of advanced ideas. It was not until the Lugou Bridge Incident that he returned to his hometown with his father.
At first, he was a teacher in a local primary school in Shouguang , and began to conduct spontaneous anti-Japanese activities. At that time, Zhu Zhiming was both literary and martial, and he could sing and perform easily, and inspire the students' patriotic enthusiasm in a touching way. However, this move was excluded by the principal and others.
It is said that Zhu's father was also extremely enlightened at that time. Perhaps he had seen too many broken countries and mountains and rivers. Zhu's father never stopped his son from actively organizing anti-Japanese activities and running around and promoting them, and privately gave Zhu Zhiming a considerable support.
In Zhu's father's heart, in the war-torn era, it has become a luxury to let his son live a stable life. Since he cannot escape such a miserable fate, why not let go boldly, let such an outstanding son have a soaring world, and let him and other aspiring people end this troubled times with their own hands!
pic |Lugou Bridge Incident
So, Zhu Zhiming was a revolutionary innocent man who came out of a seemingly ordinary patriotic family. He was talented and had a cheerful personality, and was destined to achieve great things after joining the army.
Facts have proved that Zhu Zhiming is indeed a bold and meticulous combat genius. Without sufficient weapons, arms and personnel allocation, he can still create combat miracles again and again according to local conditions.
2. Half-Jiehe Wisdom Fighting Japanese Detachment squad
Zhu Zhiming, who left the school, organized more than 60 young and middle-aged people in his hometown to establish the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Group. In March 1938, he became a Communist Party member as he wished and officially embarked on the arduous revolutionary journey.
In February 1939, Shouguang County established the Eighth Route Army Independent Battalion. In May, the Independent Battalion was quickly expanded into the Shouguang Independent Regiment of the Third Detachment, with 4 companies under its jurisdiction. Zhu Zhiming was the deputy company commander of the 5th Company. At this time, he was only 21 years old.
At that time, the Japanese army had already established strongholds in hou Town, in Shouguang District 10 and the intersection of 9 districts. In order to further control the local people, they often brought translators to nearby villages to promote the so-called "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity", "China-Japan Goodwill" and other shameless remarks.
In fact, every time I enter the village, the Japanese army either plunders the people's surplus grain or holds the people to build fortifications for them for free. The scale of each activity is not large, ranging from three or five to more than twenty people.
Seeing that the people were entangled by the Japanese, the Independent Group also planned to give them some colors. After mastering the rules of the Japanese, the task was assigned to Zhu Zhiming.
In the autumn of 1939, Zhu Zhiming brought the troops of a platoon of the fifth company that had just been formed to come to Banjiehe Village near the Japanese Daokou stronghold, and quietly hid into the people's homes late at night, waiting for an opportunity to take action.
The next day, a small group of Japanese soldiers came to the village, with about eight or nine people. Seeing this, the village chief respectfully invited them into the courtyard of the village office and quickly served them with good wine, tea, snacks and meat.
Village Office happened to be located in an alley in the village. At noon, the group of Japanese devils feasted here. Zhu Zhiming and his party realized that the good time for the sneak attack had finally come.
pic | The Japanese enter the village
He first deployed a squad to block the alley entrance, and sent another squad to the village entrance to monitor the Japanese at the stronghold, and then led a squad to quickly climb onto the roofs and walls of buildings around the village office.
With a command, dozens of grenades were thrown into the yard of the village office in an instant. The Japanese who were raided screamed and rushed into the room, while shooting through the window and door outside the courtyard. At this time, Zhu Zhiming had already led the team to leave.
The Japanese in the hospital didn't know the situation outside, so they hid in the house and were reluctant to go out, and shot out from time to time. After an hour or two, after confirming that the situation was stable, they hurried back to the stronghold.
Although this operation did not wipe out the Japanese squad that entered the village, it was also because the grenades used by our army at that time were extremely poor. However, after encountering this attack, the Japanese at the stronghold at the road entrance did not dare to dispatch a small range again, and the people around were finally able to live a stable life for a period of time.
The most important thing is that this sneak attack was the first battle between the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese in the Ninth District of Shouguang after the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the Eighth Route Army's influence in the local area has been greatly improved.
Not long after that, another battle commanded by Zhu Zhiming was considered a life-and-death battle between the local Eighth Route Army and the Japanese. It was also this small-scale battle that made Zhu Zhiming's reputation in the army greatly increased.
3. Dongwangwen Village bloody battle with the Japanese army
On New Year's Day in 1940, the Qinghe District Military and Political Committee held a meeting in Shouguang County to convey the latest instructions of the Shandong Branch of the Communist Party of China, requiring the Qinghe Prefectural Committee and the Third Detachment to quickly develop to Xiaoqinghe and the Yellow River to expand and consolidate the anti-Japanese base.
One month later, the Third Detachment Command divided the troops into two east and west routes and quickly crossed the river and marched towards Xiaoqing Hebei. The East Road was handed over to the Second Battalion of the Basic Army and the Sixth Military Sub-district Special Service Company, and Zhu Zhiming was the instructor of the Special Service Company at that time.
On the evening of March 1, the secret service company and the Sixth Military Sub-district Command arrived in Dongwangwen Village, Boxing County, and there was no emergency.
Picture | Wang Wenyi Battle Site
In the early morning of March 2, before the troops could start breakfast, the investigators hurried to report that many strongholds near the village had dispatched Japanese and traitors, and a Japanese army of hundreds were heading towards Dongwangwen Village.
In desperation, the command first ordered the entire army to cover the transfer of the people, but at this time the Japanese army had approached the village. The command immediately issued an order, and the spies would cover the headquarters and the people to evacuate, while the first and second rows would stay in the village to restrain the enemy, and wait until the headquarters and the people would transfer safely.
said that it was almost time to go, and the Japanese army had already surrounded them from three directions, less than 1 kilometer away from the village. The headquarters evacuated from the northwest corner of the village under the cover of the third row, but the Japanese were driven back by the Japanese as soon as they left the village.
Just like that, the army of Japanese soldiers composed of more than 500 people opened their bloody mouths and prepared to swallow the Eighth Route Army in the village, which was the second and third rows of the special agent camp led by Zhu Zhiming.Facing such a huge difference in the enemy's strength, Zhu Zhiming did not panic, but calmed down with deputy company commander Ding Lianrong, 's , led the soldiers to occupy the three favorable terrain of the village, east, south and north. The people also took action and filled their own soil baskets, wooden boxes, etc. with soil to help the Eighth Route Army soldiers build fortifications. At this time, the military and civilians in Dongwangwen Village were in an unprecedented state.
Before the fortifications were ready, the Japanese could not wait to launch an offensive. The smoke of gunpowder was everywhere around the village. The Eighth Route Army soldiers lying on the roof to fight were unable to raise their heads in the enemy's strafing, but the Japanese army still did not gain any advantage in our army.
Deputy Company Commander Ding Lianrong led the second platoon of soldiers to attack the Japanese who came from the northeast with grenades. On the other hand, the platoon leader Zhao Zizhang led a row of soldiers to fight with another group of Japanese. Soon, the Japanese in three directions were all repelled.
At this moment, the Japanese commander Zuo Gu began to feel restless. He personally supervised the battle and regrouped the Japanese and traitors and launched eight rounds of attacks on the village, but were successfully repelled by our army again and again.
Picture | Wang Wenyi Battle
At noon, the sound of gunfire gradually subsided. Our soldiers thought the Japanese could not get any benefits and evacuated, but Zhu Zhiming ordered the soldiers to continue to be on guard. As expected, the Wugu started a new round of more fierce attacks.
This time, the Japanese army concentrated all their forces in the north of the village, and changed from siege to a key breakthrough. For a time, rifles, light and heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, and small steel cannons were put into battle. Our army's bunker was almost destroyed. The second platoon resisted hard but still failed to stop the Japanese army's attack.
When the Japanese army rushed into the village, our soldiers had not yet completed the assembly. The Japanese used the terrain and layout in the village to divide more than 70 soldiers from our army into seven or eight pieces. Each soldier could only hide in the yard nearby, and use the walls and roofs as cover to fight the Japanese desperately.
号 feels determined to win at this time. In his opinion, the army of more than 500 people he led can swallow the Eighth Route Army that fell apart in front of him, but the situation has undergone a shocking reversal in front of him.
After our army was divided, the first platoon leader Zhao Zizhang led more than 20 soldiers to hide in a yard, and Zhu Zhiming and Ding Lianrong also led more than 20 soldiers to hide in the yard not far away. Just after Zhao Zizhang led the team out of the yard, Zhu Zhiming immediately launched an action.
two teams successfully joined in a short while. Later, they fought from the west to the east of the village, from the front street to the back street, gathering the soldiers scattered in other yards, and using the terrain in the village to counterattack the enemy.
At this moment, the Japanese army was successfully divided into several pieces by our soldiers. Even if a few enemy soldiers gathered together, they still could not cooperate with each other and were still at a loss to fight. The fierce momentum of the previous one was no longer there. The situation like
continued until the evening. Seeing that I could not gain any advantage, the entire army might be wiped out, and the Japanese army had the scene mentioned in the beginning.
Picture | Eighth Route Army
You should know that the Eighth Route Army's strength back then was still very weak. It was not easy for Zhu Zhiming to lead the two platoons to defeat the more with fewer and weaker with strong. In extremely passive circumstances, he could also counterattack the Japanese army. Such victory did greatly boost the morale of our army.
In addition, this battle had a strong impact in the new base areas that Zhu Zhiming and his group were about to open up that year, and also allowed them to win the greatest trust in the hearts of the people.
Although this battle highlighted Zhu Zhiming's combat ability in the face of danger, in fact, his negotiation ability should not be underestimated. Behind his eloquence of gaining strength is the knowledge and vision of accumulated strength.
4. Entering the enemy camp alone to persuade the puppet army to surrender
In August 1944, the Eighth Route Army of the Bohai Military Region launched the second phase of the battle with the liberation of Lijin City as its main task. As for the battle against Lijin City, the first thing to do is to clear the enemy strongholds on the periphery, and Cuijiazhuang is one of them.
At that time, Zhu Zhiming had become the special battalion commander of the Bohai Military Region, with five main companies under his jurisdiction. The weapons and equipment were the best in the military region. The task of removing the Cuijiazhuang stronghold naturally fell on them, because the enemy equipment and fortifications in this stronghold were the strongest.
After Zhu Zhiming carefully analyzed the situation, he was not eager to take a hard attack. On the contrary, he found that the puppet army battalion commander stationed in Cuijiazhuang at this time was actually his old acquaintance and was once a member of the Eighth Route Army.
originated from this relationship. Zhu Zhiming boldly decided to start a war of persuasion and surrender first. Then he sent a letter of persuasion to the puppet army camp, and soon received a response from the puppet army battalion commander. It turned out that he was indeed willing to surrender at this time, but he was afraid that his subordinates would oppose it, so he invited Zhu Zhiming to come for an interview.
Although this is good news, our army still dare not take it lightly. The battalion department did not recommend that Zhu Zhiming go rashly. Once detained, the impact will be extremely unfavorable to our army.
But for Zhu Zhiming, if he can really take down Cuijiazhuang without a single soldier, this is the best ending, even if he sacrifices his life alone, it is worth it.
pic | Cuijiazhuang
Just like that, Zhu Zhiming resolutely went to persuade the surrender alone. Before leaving, he also made careful arrangements for his subordinates: "I will go this time. Once you are detained, you can launch an attack immediately. Just suppress the enemy's spirit first, and then you can persuade the surrender again. If it doesn't work, launch a general attack immediately without considering my safety!"
Fortunately, Zhu Zhiming's persuasion was extremely smooth. While vigorously ensuring the safety of the surrendered personnel, he recovered the Cuijiazhuang stronghold without any effort and seized a large amount of military equipment, laying the foundation for the subsequent victory in the Lijin City battle.
When Liu Qiren, deputy political commissar of the Bohai Military Region, received the good news, he couldn't help but exclaim to Zhu Zhiming: "Battery Commander Zhu is really a brave and meticulous, wise and brave!"
In the eyes of many people, the army leader who can lead his subordinates to fight bravely on the battlefield is perfect. In fact, the leader who knows how to judge the situation and is good at achieving the greatest results at the minimum cost is wise.
In several battles that Zhu Zhiming participated in in the past, he was able to quickly find the point of force, and lead his subordinates to decompose and cut the enemy's vitality, and then defeat them one by one. He is worthy of being a combat role model for the Bohai Military Region back then.
If you want to say that he is so outstanding in war, he is still unique in military equipment transformation. The equipment transformed by him has unprecedentedly improved lethality, and such skills have indeed greatly improved our army's combat skills.
5. Self-taught equipment transformation expert
, Zhu Zhiming, who understands the importance of collaborative combat, also has a deep understanding of the use and coordination between different lethal weapons. However, our army did not have strong equipment strength to support it back then, so it is necessary to make a fuss about existing equipment.
's years of combat experience have made Zhu Zhiming well aware of the structure and performance of many weapons. In the early winter of 1944, after some efforts, he developed the 82 mortar flat-fire, abandoned the previous curved fire, and directly stretched the range to 100-200 meters, greatly making up for our army's weakness of the lack of flat-fire cannons. The improved mortar cooperated with the assault blasting tactics, and the hit rate was greatly improved.
Picture | Type 82 Mortar
There is a discussion on the modification of the 82 Mortar. Xiao Feng, the political commissar of the Sixth Brigade of the Bohai Military Region, had a deep impression of this. He witnessed the power of the modified weapon for the first time when our army attacked the enemy defending Wudi City.
At that time, the spy business led by Zhu Zhiming used four mortars to bomb the city gates and walls in turn. The modified mortars were powerful and almost achieved the level of multi-purpose use of one shot.
Xiao Feng looked excited, and Deputy Battalion Commander Zhao Yanqing also said: "Now the Shandong troops will use this, and the mortars can be loaded on the head and tail, and maybe it can be improved better in the future!"
Such weapon improvement was successfully used by Zhu Zhiming in the battle of Liuzhuang. The enemy's thought that the city defense fortifications that were as solid as a god instantly lost their advantage.
It turned out that after surrounding Liuzhuang, our army used the northwest corner of the village as a breakthrough point, and arranged several mortars in the fortifications less than 30 meters away from the enemy's artillery tower, and fired flat after the war. After a few days of bombing, the enemy's artillery tower was bombed down, and our army was able to enter the village to wipe out the defending enemy.
It is said that Zhu Zhiming has never received formal military education, and there is no way to talk about the principles and structure of weapons, but he has become an expert in our army in this area through hard work.
In January 1944, our army captured a Japanese fighter jet that was forced to land in the north of Weixian . There were two heavy machine guns on the plane, which were still electric. The pilots could press the button to strafuse during flight. If our army wanted to use the machine gun for ground combat, it would need to change it to hand-fire.
faced this modification problem, the military commander Yang Guofu directly asked Zhu Zhiming for help. After disassembling the local structure, Zhu Zhiming not only changed the electric power generation to hand-engine, but also drew drawings to match the machine gun with a shelf and trigger. Until the end of the Anti-Japanese War , these two machine guns continued to show their skills on the battlefield of liberation.
Picture | Aviation machine gun
In fact, the guns used by our soldiers back then were indeed "Wanguo Card". Many of them were trophy seized by the soldiers, but it is hard to say whether they are easy to use, especially in terms of guns. Whether they can aim accurately is a big question. On weekdays, Zhu Zhiming will always help the soldiers correct the gap in the ruler, and will also hand it over to the soldiers for use after they personally shoot.
6. The heartwarming revolutionary general just sprinkled blood on the battlefield
. If you want to say, Zhu Zhiming is definitely a revolutionary versatile. He is both civil and military. He can be decisive when he comes to the battlefield, and he gets along very well with the soldiers on weekdays.
In the memories of his younger brother Zhu Yongshun, Zhu Zhiming carried an huqin on the horse's back wherever he went. He always played a coordinating role in the army.
He is eager to love his soldiers and never prays for how much military merit he can achieve. He just hopes that his subordinates can return safely in the tests of life and death. His good combat ability once made the Japanese army grit their teeth.
For this reason, the Japanese army who wanted to vent their anger also captured Zhu's father, just to let Zhu Zhiming take care of his family affection and retreat. Fortunately, in the end, the family used a mu of land to raise enough ransom. After Zhu's father returned safely, he still had no complaints about his son's choice.
Unfortunately, such a lieutenant general failed to see the dawn of the founding of New China .
On August 27, 1946, Zhu Zhiming died heroically in the Battle of Zouping Jiukou. He was only 28 years old at the time, which is regrettable.
Conclusion
Shortly after Zhu Zhiming died, the Bohai Military Region posthumously awarded him the title of combat hero in the military region. Along the way, Zhu Zhiming was promoted from company commander to battalion commander, and even became the acting regiment commander. Wherever he went, the Japanese were frightened. If no accident happened, he would have shined in the later battlefields of the War of Liberation and the War of Resistance and Aid Korea. However, God was jealous of the talents, Zhu Zhiming left us like this.
pic | Anti-Japanese hero
For many years, few people have mentioned Zhu Zhiming, but his heroic deeds should not be forgotten. That is because Zhu Zhiming once proved one thing with his own hands: the Chinese in struggle must not be defeated!
