Chapter 66 6. Major General Shui Yuan died in the West

On September 29, the remnants of the Japanese army near the Epiphyllum Tower saw that there was no way to escape to the east and no way to escape to the west, so they attempted to flee from the southwest of Lubai Mountain through Yanchuan to Ciyu.Therefore, the area around Lubai Mountain became the last main battlefield of Chenzhuang Annihilation War. At about 10 o'clock in the morning, the enemy concentrated all the remaining strength and climbed desperately towards Ruburt Mountain.Ruburt Mountain has many peaks and is very steep.The enemy thought that by climbing Lubai Mountain, they would be able to hold a commanding position and withstand the offensive of the Eighth Route Army for a while, so as to wait for foreign aid and wait for an opportunity to escape.But I didn't expect that just after climbing to the top of the mountain, I was violently bombarded by artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army.Afterwards, soldiers from the Eighth Route Army gathered at Mount Lubai from all directions.Under the attack of all kinds of firepower, the huddled enemies paid no attention to their heads, and many of them fell off the cliff.At this time, all the mules, horses, luggage and heavy firearms of the Japanese army were lost, and only four or five hundred people were left alive.

So far, the remnants of the enemy are still trying to get rid of the heavy encirclement of the Eighth Route Army and slip away from the west.But how did they know that the 5th Regiment of the 4th Division of the Eighth Route Army had already set up a blocking position in the Wansiyuan area, blocking their way.The guerrillas and the people in the border areas have also blocked all the ravines and remote paths, which can be described as a net, and even a little devil can't escape!At this time, the Japanese army was forced to hide on the top of a small hill with a radius of only a few hundred square meters to the northeast of Wansiyuan. They had no food, water, ammunition and ammunition.

At about 11 o'clock, the Eighth Route Army attacked the besieged Japanese army again, and bombarded the enemy group with mortars.The Japanese army completely lost its previous prestige, and everyone was heartbroken and ran away with their heads in their hands. At the end of the battle, soldiers of the Eighth Route Army found a group of fifty or sixty Japanese soldiers in the southwest of Lubai Mountain, trying to escape in the direction of Wansiyuan.The head of the division immediately ordered the troops to pursue and destroy the Japanese army that was trying to escape. The Japanese army fled in a hurry like a bereaved dog. The Eighth Route Army's interception troops shot at the enemy head-on with intensive firepower, and many Japanese soldiers fell to the ground one after another.At this time, a company commander of the Eighth Route Army ordered the soldiers to suspend shooting, and prepared to capture this group of Japanese soldiers alive, so he led some soldiers to go around the enemy's side and rear.The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army stopped firing, and the gunfire from the enemy gradually faded away.Seeing this situation, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who intercepted them shouted to the Japanese army: "Hand up your guns and don't kill them! The Eighth Route Army gives preferential treatment to prisoners."

Crazy enemies start shooting after hearing the shout.At this time, part of the soldiers led by the company commander had gone around to the rear of the Japanese army, and saw a Japanese officer (Yoshishige Mizumoto) in a yellow tweed uniform waving a sword in his hand and shouting loudly, directing firepower to attack the Eighth Route Army. Interdiction forces fired heavily.The company commander quietly asked the soldiers around him for a grenade, gently unscrewed the cover, yanked the firing wire, and threw it at the group of stubborn enemies. exploded. Just after the loud noise, the self-proclaimed "Genius Commander" Major General Yoshishige Mizuhara disappeared and became a ghost from a foreign land.The company commander immediately led the soldiers to rush over, and saw a wounded Japanese army commander knelt on the bank of the river and was about to commit seppuku. A soldier from the Eighth Route Army killed him with one shot.Seeing this, the rest of the Japanese army fled in all directions, some climbed on the big trees, some retreated into the dock, and some fled to Wansiyuan Village. They were all captured by the Eighth Route Army, and none of them slipped through the net.

On the morning of September 30th, the gunfire stopped all night, and the fiery red sun rose from the east, illuminating the surrounding mountains and villages with thousands of rays.On both banks of the Ci River and around Lubai Mountain, there were more than 1,000 corpses of Japanese soldiers lying here and there. So far, the Chenzhuang Annihilation War, which lasted 6 days and 5 nights, ended successfully.