Chapter 70 10. Inventory

In this battle, after 6 days and 5 nights of fierce fighting, a total of 1,500 people under the brigade head of Major General Yoshishige Mizumoto, Captain Tanaka, Kawasaki, and Squadron Leader Kitamura were killed.16 people were captured, and none of the invading enemies slipped through the net.More than 450 long and short guns, 19 light machine guns, 7 heavy machine guns, 9 grenades, 2 radio stations, 52 horses, more than 10 boxes of artillery shells, and more than 40,000 rounds of bullets were seized. The Battle of Chenzhuang was a large-scale mountain annihilation battle in the Lubai Mountains.The combat area is vast, starting from Ciyu in the south, extending to Koukou in the north, reaching Chenzhuang in the west, and ending in Shangbei in the east.This is a mountain annihilation battle fought by the 120th Division in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area, which terrified the Japanese invaders.

This battle was the result of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, under the command of He Long, Nie Rongzhen and other leaders, against Chairman Mao's "basically guerrilla warfare, but mobile warfare under favorable conditions" proposed by Chairman Mao in the early days of the War of Resistance. Specific use.In this battle, the Eighth Route Army severely damaged the Japanese army with tactics such as setting up formations to wait for attack, fighting step by step, camera attack, mobile blockade, momentum pursuit, and centripetal attack.It shattered its attempt to "sweep" the eastern and western parts of Beiyue District in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, and consolidated the Beiyue District's revolutionary base.It was a beautiful "model battle of annihilation" conducted by the Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines when the War of Resistance Against Japan entered a stalemate.

The victory of the Chenzhuang Annihilation War is, in a certain sense, the victory of the people's war.In this battle, the masses of the people in the base area, under the leadership of the Communist Party, actively supported the front, actively participated in the battle, and effectively cooperated with the combat operations of the main force.Nearly 3,000 people from more than 30 villages around Chenzhuang participated in the battle.Fan Zhenguo, secretary of the Second District Party Committee, personally led a stretcher team of more than 600 people to follow the army.Manshan Township self-defense captain Zhang Fengming led a machete team of more than 40 people to directly participate in the battle.Through this battle, it can be seen that "the militia is the foundation of victory". The bravery of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, the cooperation of the local armed forces, and the support of the masses in the field broke the "sword" of the brutal Japanese army at the foot of the majestic Taihang Mountains.

For the great victory of Chenzhuang, Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, Cheng Qian, Wei Lihuang and others called He Long and other leaders: In the battle of Chenzhuang, wipe out the enemy and deal a major blow, set a model for the War of Resistance in North China, and revitalize the army Prestige in Hebei and Jin, a special order to reward.