Chapter 165 6. Let the remnants of the Japanese army take the "airplane"

The troops entering the city quickly interspersed, divided and surrounded the enemy according to the division of tasks. The 1st Battalion and 1st Company marched eastward along the city wall. After seizing the fort in the southeast corner of the city, they went northward along the inner side of the city wall, killing more than 30 puppet soldiers, took down the east gate, and went straight to the puppet provincial security brigade. The 2nd and 3rd companies surrounded the Puppet Provincial Guard Brigade from the west and south sides respectively. After the 2nd Battalion entered the city, they attacked in depth along the North and South Streets, and quickly surrounded the puppet county government, the puppet county security brigade and Xinminhui.Before dawn, the 3rd Battalion, led by Deputy Battalion Commander Lan Yuliang and Political Commissar Li Lianquan, entered the city and entered the northeast corner of the city. First, they wiped out the puppet troops in the Confucian Temple on the west side of the Japanese encircled camp, and then surrounded the Japanese encircled camp.

The besieged enemy did not expect our army to advance so quickly, and was terrified for a while, blindly attacking our army with mortars and grenades. Dongping City ushered in the dawn amidst the sound of shouts, gunfire, explosions and flashes of fire. At this time, the command post of the 7th regiment entered the city.According to the situation of the enemy and ourselves, the regiment leader decided to use the closely coordinated actions of infantry, artillery, and blasting (blasting) to destroy the enemy one by one.Then, the 1st and 2nd Battalions launched an attack on the surrounded enemies.

By the morning of the 19th, the puppet army in Dongping City had been basically eliminated, leaving only more than 30 Japanese troops who were stubbornly resisting in the encirclement.Except for the 3rd Battalion and the Artillery Company to attack and annihilate the Japanese army, our siege troops withdrew to the outside of the city to gather and stand by. The fence occupied by the Japanese army is located in the east gate of Dongping City. It turned out to be a house of a landlord surnamed Wang.The enemy built a wall around the house, and there is a blockhouse on each side of the wall. There is a house in the middle, which is raised by one floor and becomes the central blockhouse. There is a bunker under the blockhouse.The fortifications are solid, easy to defend but difficult to attack.Outside the wall is a trench 3 meters wide and three to four meters deep, and outside the trench are houses.

From the afternoon of the 18th to the 19th, the 3rd Battalion and the Artillery Company launched intense preparations for the storm: organized detachments to harass the Japanese army, and covered the troops for assault and close-in geotechnical operations. After intense work, our army quickly dug a multi-directional traffic ditch bunker and approached the siege.The artillery position was set up in a broken tile house outside the trench, and the gunners dug large holes in the wall of the house as shooting holes.The commandos of the 7th company of the main attack company were hidden in several houses beside the trench.There happened to be a remnant wall of an old house near the trench, and the commando shoveled the remnant wall very thin so that it could be knocked down when attacking.Head of the regiment Wen, Deputy Chief of Staff Xu and other regiment leaders went to each company's position to check and implement the preparations for the storm.

Before the attack, Xu Zhongyu and Lan Yuliang reported to Zeng Siyu the deployment and preparations for the storm at the regiment command post, and Zeng Siyu explained to them the precautions.The deployment of troops at that time was that the 7th company was the main attack company, the 2nd platoon was responsible for the assault, and the 1st and 3rd platoons were the second echelon, and organized fire cover.The breakthrough point was chosen to be south of the northwest corner of the walled village. The 9th company is the second echelon, and a platoon will feint in the southwest of the wall. The 8th Company feigned an attack east of the encircled stronghold.

At 17:00 on the 19th, at sunset, our army's attack began. The mountain artillery of the 9th Army Division first hit the enemy artillery building in the northwest corner.Then, our army's mountain guns and mortars bombarded continuously, and several large holes soon appeared in the enemy's artillery tower. Following the order of the regiment leader, the charge horns of each company immediately rang through the sky, and my main attack company and feint attack company launched attacks under the cover of fire at the same time.Surrounded by the sound of guns, shouts, and gunpowder smoke, the Japanese army couldn't figure out whether our army was real or not, panicked for a while, and shot around indiscriminately.

The commando team of the 7th company, which was hidden behind the residual wall of the trench, toppled the residual wall, crossed the trench, and rushed under the wall. The deputy company commander Wang Wanxian of the 7th company commanded the ladder team to quickly set up the ladder, and the assault squad leader Wen Yuanru and others took the lead to climb the wall.Mou Jinguang, the cultural officer of the company, was shot by an enemy machine gun and died the moment he climbed the fence.Then, another four or five commandos were shot and fell off the ladder. The instructor Shi Yuchang, who persisted in fighting with wounds, looked around and found that the ladder was still erected on the crenel of the wall between the two enemy gun towers, pointing at the firing holes of the enemy gun towers. He immediately moved the ladder to the right to avoid the enemy's firepower.After most of the assault platoon and the 2nd echelon (1st and 3rd platoons) crossed the fence, Shi Yuchang ordered a squad to poke a hole in the wall to ensure that the follow-up troops could keep up in time.

Just as the troops were charging towards the enemy, Lan Yuliang, deputy battalion commander, was unfortunately shot and died.At that time, the 3rd Battalion had no battalion commander, and Xu Zhongyu, the deputy chief of staff who followed the 7th Company, and Li Lianquan, the political commissar of the battalion, commanded the whole battalion to fight. Fighting until late at night, all the gun towers around the siege and the houses in the village were captured by our army, and most of the enemies were wiped out. Only a dozen Japanese soldiers were left fighting in the central gun tower. The leaders of the 7th Regiment let the enemy worker officers of the military division speak to the enemy in Japanese to carry out a political offensive, while organizing troops to prepare for the storm.The remnant enemy refused to surrender.Every time our army yelled, the Japanese army would shoot and drop bombs at me for a while.It went on like this for two or three hours.The sharpshooter Ma Qingzhang got angry, raised his rifle, and shot two "Ba Ba" shots, killing two enemy soldiers one after another, and the enemy calmed down for a while.

Finally, the battalion leaders decided to eliminate this group of fascist bandits.In order to reduce unnecessary casualties, it was decided to use explosives to blast and let the remnants take a "plane" to meet their "emperor". Although the 7th Company had let the brigade headquarters of the puppet army Yang Faxian take an "airplane" in Nanle, but it was the first time for the Japanese army to take an "airplane", and the terrain conditions were far less favorable than Nanle.The key is how to put the explosive package on the gun tower.At the "Zhuge Liang" meeting in the first row, Geng Liuzhang and Sun Baochang from Class 3 volunteered to take on this arduous and glorious task.They said: "As long as you don't die, you will definitely complete the task!"

Then, under the cover of firepower, the two of them leaped forward from the dark place, and soon came to the bottom of the gun tower, and put the explosive package on the side of the gate of the gun tower.However, due to the poor connection between the fuse and the detonator, the first blasting failed. Just as the 7th company was blasting for the second time, suddenly there was a hoarse howl from the gun tower, followed by a loud noise.Then a Japanese soldier clutching his stomach sprang out from the gun tower.Only then did we know that the stubborn enemy committed suicide en masse in despair.The Japanese soldier who ran out turned out to be a Korean in the Japanese army. He claimed that he was forced to join the war.

On May 20, our military sub-division troops pulled out the last puppet army stronghold outside Dongping City - Ershilipu. At this point, Dongping City, which had been occupied for seven years, was liberated. The victory in the Battle of Dongping greatly deterred the enemies of Liangshan, Wenshang and Ningyang.The puppet troops in some strongholds felt that they were in danger, and they fled when Dongping City was restrained. In this battle, 725 square kilometers of lost land were recovered, and the Hebei-Shandong-Henan base area reached Jinpu Road, connecting Tai (Mountain) West, Canal (River) East, Canal (River) West, and Lake (Weishan Lake) West in the east. , Expanded and consolidated the Luxi Anti-Japanese Base. After the victory of the Dongping Campaign, the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region took advantage of the victory to achieve great results on the southern and northern fronts. On the southern line of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan border area, from June 18 to 27, the troops of the 11th Army Division (Huxi) and the Japanese and puppet troops along the Jin (township) Shan (county) highway attacked and destroyed the Fangguiji and Jishuji. and gathered the enemies who sent aid from Shanxian County to Tongmiao, and then besieged Shanxian County. On July 3, Feng County was conquered, and Cailou, Huangxingyuan, Liudiwan, Weiwan, Chenyaolou, Huangjing, Yixintun, Luwan, and Dazhang on the Feng (county) Dang (mountain) highway were conquered. Strongholds such as Zhai and Zhaoyuan were wiped out. Shocked by our army's capture of Fengxian, the Shanxian puppet army abandoned the city and fled, and Shanxian was liberated. On July 8, more than 3,000 people from the Puppet Governor of Huaihai Province and Commander of the Peaceful National Salvation Army, Hao Pengju, attacked our anti-Japanese base in the west of Huxi. There were more than 200 enemies, and more than 300 people under Nie Tingbin, the commander of the 1st Division of Haobu, were captured.On the northern line of the border area, the 1st Army Sub-division troops captured the two strongholds of Zhuzhuang and Guliushu in the east of Yanggu City in late May. On July 10, troops from the 7th Army Division attacked Tangyi County and captured 104 puppet troops. On the 11th, our army recovered Guan County.So far, Yanggu County has been threatened by our army on three sides, except that it can contact Liaocheng in the north. At this time, Yanggu County was garrisoned by the 9th Regiment Headquarters of the 4th Group Army of the Puppet Appeasement Army, led by two battalions and the Puppet Yanggu County Police Brigade. More than 3,000 people were also huddled in Yanggu City.The city's fortifications were solid. After the Japanese army retreated in 1944, the puppet appeasement army hoarded a large amount of grain and fodder, repaired the fortifications, and made preparations for long-term defense.In order to unplug this isolated stronghold wedged into our central area, the military region decided to focus on the 8th Army Division (Yunxi) on July 20, 1945, and the 7th Army Division (Northwest Shandong) as the blocking and aiding force. Valley Battle. Before the battle began, according to the general masses of the counties and districts in the central area, under the leadership of the local county party committee secretary and county head, district party secretary and district head, they drove vehicles and carried stretchers to support. Late at night on the 20th, the 7th Regiment, the main force of the 8th Army Division (Yunxi), secretly moved to the foot of Yanggu City to prepare for the siege. At 2 o'clock on July 21, our army launched a siege. On the 26th, we concentrated on the special agent company of the military division and one part of the 6th and 7th regiments, and launched a fierce attack on them. Zhang Yuhuan, the pseudo-regiment leader, committed suicide in despair.At this point, Yanggu is liberated. The troops of the 7th Army Division, which responded to the Yanggu operation, stormed Tangyi County again on July 20, wiped out the defending enemy by July 21, captured more than 380 people under Liu Yunan, the pseudo-county magistrate, and occupied Tangyi.Under the deterrence of our army's offensive, the enemies in Julu, Guangzong, and Guantao counties fled one after another, and our army recovered the above counties.So far, among the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 8th divisions of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region, except for the line from Liaocheng to Linqing, which is still occupied by the Japanese and puppet troops, the rest of the vast areas have been connected.