Chapter 4 Chapter 04 Qingfengdian, there are many heroes in the Wild Eighth Brigade

Speaking of the Baobei blockade, we have to talk about the Eighth Brigade. Because there are two eighth brigades in the Jinchaji Military Region, one field army eighth brigade, and one independent eighth brigade.In order to distinguish them, people used to call the Eighth Brigade of the Field Army the Eighth Brigade of the Field Army.In the North China Plain, as long as the Wild Eighth Brigade is mentioned, the enemy will tremble. The Wild Eighth Brigade is really capable of fighting. In September 1984, the headline on the front page of the "Liberation Army Daily" was such a news: In the military parade for the 35th anniversary of the National Day, there was a "Great Merit Troupe" that had repeatedly made military exploits in the War of Liberation. A red flag is planted in the "Double Tiger Company" in Taiyuan City!There are also "Steel Battalion" and "Great Merit Battalion"... Counting carefully, since the establishment of the Anti-Japanese War, more than 4,500 heroic groups and heroes have emerged.

Do you know Zhang Ga, the famous soldier in Jinchaji?Do you know the "Yan Ling Squad" that haunted Baiyangdian during the Anti-Japanese War?Do you know those armed forces behind enemy lines who come and go without a trace, the plain guerrillas who are brave enough to win by surprise, and the mysterious plain tunnel warfare?Do you know the "First Steel Battalion" in the novel "Inside and Out of the Great Wall"?Do you know the story in the novel "Eastern" by the famous writer Wei Wei that the protagonist Guo Company Commander, a first-class combat hero, led a company to defeat the "First Washington Division" of the United States on the Korean battlefield?The artistic images you see and hear from movies, novels, and stories passed down by people’s mouths are not fictionalized by the writers. They came from a heroic army, which was the 23rd Regiment that later belonged to the Beijing Military Region. .

Zhang Yinghui, former artillery commander of the Beijing Military Region.He once served as the head of the 23rd Regiment of the 3rd Vertical and 8th Brigade. He said that all the 3 battalions of our regiment represented by the "Steel Battalion" have made great contributions, and there are few in the company that have not made great contributions.During the War of Liberation alone, 2,265 collective heroes and more than 10,000 heroes and models emerged. The 23rd Regiment is a very capable regiment in the 8th Brigade, and the 8th Brigade is one of the main brigades that are very capable of fighting in the Three Columns. After the peaceful liberation of Beiping in 1949, the Three Columns finished fighting Taiyuan, followed Peng Dehuai to the northwest, traveled thousands of miles, and fought all the way to Ningxia.After participating in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.This heroic force was established in the Beijing Military Region, and it is still the main force of the Beijing Military Region to this day.

This army with a glorious history born on the Jizhong Plain has many stories. After the July 7th Incident, the Japanese invading army placed their "garrison base of the Great East Asian War" in the Jizhong Plain.It is a precious land, rich in grain and cotton, with four railways passing through it, connecting the surrounding large and medium-sized cities of Beiping, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, and Baoding, and its strategic position is very important.Yan'an has always paid attention to the Jizhong Plain trampled by the Japanese invading army, and decided to send Meng Qingshan, who was the head of the teaching group of the Central Military Commission, and several comrades there to open up an anti-Japanese base area behind the enemy.Before leaving, Chairman Mao said to Meng Qingshan, now that the national war of resistance has begun, the central government will send you to the enemy's rear to mobilize the masses and carry out guerrilla warfare.Therefore, in December 1937, the Hebei Guerrilla Army was established with the old Red Army Meng Qingshan as the commander. Soon, a group of Red Army backbones from Yan'an were enriched and formed into the main regiment.Later, after several adaptations, it became the famous Wild Eight Brigade.During the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, the 23rd Regiment has been fighting in the Jizhong Plain where "going out on the road and looking up at the watchtower".They endured the test of blood and fire in the darkness before dawn. In the liberation war, they went south to Zhengtai and defended the north in three battles. They were a steel force.During the War of Liberation, the first big city Shijiazhuang was attacked. The regiment leader Zhang Yinghui commanded the whole regiment to rush into the fortress-like Shijiazhuang first, and was awarded the title of "Great Merit Regiment" by the three columns.

In the "List of Generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army", it is recorded as follows: Zhang Yinghui, born in 1913 in Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province, joined the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants in 1930. He joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1932 and transferred to the Communist Party of China in 1934.During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he served as an servant of the security team of the Political Department of the Fourth Red Army, the squad leader of the Independent Regiment of the South Route Army, the telephone operator, squad leader, and platoon leader of the Seventh Red Army Army Headquarters, an electronic translator of the Military Commission's confidential code, and an administrator of the Fourth Bureau.participated in the Long March.During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as the platoon leader and company political instructor of the 115th Division Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, the deputy battalion commander of the First Military Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the battalion commander of the guard battalion, the detachment leader of the Yixian Detachment, and the ninth division of the Jizhong Military Region The head of the twenty-four regiment.During the War of Liberation, he served as head, deputy brigade commander, and seventh brigade commander of the 37th Regiment and 23rd Regiment of the Eighth Brigade of the Third Column of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the division commander of the 19th Corps, the division commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers, the deputy commander and commander of the People's Liberation Army, and the artillery commander of the Beijing Military Region. He was awarded the rank of major general in 1955.

Zhang Yinghui is really an ordinary old man, walking on the street, people would never think that he is a general with outstanding military exploits.He is a real soldier who grew up from a soldier to a general. Under him, each of the three battalions was a battalion of heroes. The third battalion is the "hero battalion" for attacking the fortified city, the second battalion is the "special merit battalion" for liberating Shijiazhuang, and the first battalion is the "first steel battalion" known throughout the army.Up to now, there is still a monument of "First Iron and Steel Battalion" on Nanshan Mountain in the northwest corner of Yi County, which mirrors the monument of the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain.

That was after Zhangjiakou retreated, the enemy failed to attack Yi County for the first time, assembled 10 regiments, and attacked Yi County again, trying to divide the Jinchaji liberated area into north and south parts.After a night of fierce fighting, the superior ordered the first battalion and another unit to insert into Liujiagou behind the enemy's side to disperse the enemy's firepower so that the main force could annihilate the enemy one by one. Liujiagou is a small village with just over 100 people. It is surrounded by flat land, and there is no danger to defend. In addition, another army should also intersperse but did not intersect, which increased the pressure on the first battalion.After dawn, more than 3,000 people from two enemy regiments plus tanks, artillery, and planes surrounded Liujiagou from all sides.The first battalion passed by one person and one person, only 440 people.In the end, the first battalion only had a small yard left. Battalion Commander Zhu Biao was wounded three times. He commanded the soldiers to occupy the four corners of the small yard. The machine guns fired here and there a few times, and they persisted.

A bad fight. The 26-year-old battalion commander Zhu Biao and the instructor Cao Liang had a brief discussion, and ordered each company to build fortifications immediately before the enemy's artillery fire started, and at the same time sent a messenger to the regiment headquarters to report.As soon as the correspondent rushed out, he fell under enemy fire.Zhu Biao said to the company commanders: We can only fight this vile battle independently.No matter how much sacrifice is made, we must stick to our positions and create conditions for the main force to wipe out the enemy. With us, there is a position!

The first battalion is a unit with great combat effectiveness. During the Anti-Japanese War, it wiped out the Hideo squad of the Japanese army, which was boasted as "great achievements".Attacking Nanda Temple, an important point on the outskirts of Datong, they promised to solve the battle within 4 hours, but it took only 2 hours to end the battle, and more than 300 enemies fell under their bayonets. By 12:00 noon, the first battalion had repelled the enemy's two joint attacks on the sky and on the ground. In the third attack, aggressive tanks opened the way in front, followed by American-made cannons, and the sky was bombed by planes.Suddenly, the small village was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames.The position along the village where the first battalion relied was destroyed. In order to prevent the enemy from dividing and encircling, Zhu Biao commanded the companies to retreat while fighting and gather in the village.Soldiers take advantage of the favorable terrain of houses and courtyards to fight the enemy.

Until all the houses in the village collapsed into rubble, more and more officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, but the ammunition became less and less. The first battalion held the second cadre meeting, and some people advocated breaking out.Battalion Commander Zhu Biao said: I said we can’t break through the siege. The task given to us by our superiors is to get in to attract the enemy’s troops. Now we have held back the strength of two regiments. As long as we hold on, we will create an opportunity for the main force to destroy the enemy. favorable conditions.Don't look at the rampant enemies now, once it gets dark it will be our world.Instructor Cao Liang said: The situation is urgent now. Every party member and cadre must be resourceful and brave, and stick to their posts.The time has come to test us, and we must stand firm until the last person.The whole battalion was concentrated in two small courtyards facing north and south on the south side of the village.

The battle entered a fierce stage, and a string of shells exploded in the small courtyard, leaving many craters.The courtyard wall was beaten like a hornet's nest.Finally, a shell blew up a section of the wall, and the enemy rushed in screaming.Cao Liang led more than a dozen soldiers to beat the enemy out.At this time, several openings were also blasted in the south wall, more and more soldiers were injured and sacrificed, and the instructor of the third company died.A company instructor suffered serious head injuries, bandages almost covered his eyes, and battalion commander Zhu Biao's arms and legs were pierced by shrapnel, but they still insisted on commanding the battle.The ammunition man Wang Fuquan and squad leader Sun Changwu of the battalion's machine gun platoon slammed at the enemy with the only remaining 92 heavy machine gun in the battalion. Suddenly the firing pin broke, and the enemy rushed up. Throw a grenade at the enemy.Machine gunner Wang Fuquan jumped to a seriously wounded man to take a gun.The seriously wounded man who had fallen into a coma half-opened his eyes and said, no, I can still, struggled to stand up and fell down again. At this time, there were only 23 people in the whole battalion who could participate in the battle.The soldiers ran, guarding several gun holes by themselves. The soldiers all realized that today was a glorious day, and they were all preparing to sacrifice.The instructor Cao Liang burned all the documents and field diaries, and the soldiers also tore up the allowances that they were usually reluctant to use.The unused guns were all piled up on the woodpile, and the seriously wounded who were active crawled to the woodpile and lay down, ready to die with the guns.At this last juncture, battalion commander Zhu Biao, who was wounded in several places and commanded the battle with a cane, discussed with instructor Cao Liang, who was hit by shrapnel in his left eye, and proposed a political mobilization slogan, "Today is the day to shed the last drop of blood for the revolution. Every wounded man takes up arms again! Hold your ground and complete the mission!" The seriously wounded who were lying down tried their best to rejoin the battle, and the comrades with injured arms cooperated with each other and shared a gun to shoot.The machine gunner Yao Qiuliang was wounded twice, bleeding from his chest, and knocked down more than 20 enemies.Squad leader Wang Chengqun was wounded in his left hand, so he picked up his weapon again and killed nine enemies with nine shots.The health worker Zhang Wenhe also took a gun and went into battle.It was completely dark, and there was an exciting sound of charging horns outside the village, followed by violent gunshots.The soldiers cheered: Our troops are coming, go! The head of the regiment, Zhang Yinghui, walked to the stretchers of Zhu Biao and Cao Liang, held their hands tightly and said: You fought well, you held the enemy back, and you successfully completed the task. Column commander Yang Chengwu awarded a flag embroidered with "First Steel Battalion" to the First Battalion. The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region issued a commendation order, calling on all troops in the region to learn from the First Battalion. "Jinchaji Daily" published a message: "The First Iron and Steel Battalion" is outnumbered and defends its position majesticly. Today, Zhu Biao, the battalion commander of the "First Iron and Steel Battalion", has retired from his position as the deputy commander of the Tianjin Garrison, and is resting in Tianjin. People still invite him to tell the story of the "First Iron and Steel Battalion". Song Yulin, commander of the Eighth Brigade, has rich combat experience and is an old Red Army member who participated in the Long March. He was awarded the rank of major general in 1955 and served as deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region. In the battle to protect the north that led to the victory of Qingfengdian, the third column played the role of waiting for a rabbit, and the eighth brigade waited with all its strength for the second column to feint to attack Xushui to attract the rescued enemy.The resistance positions are located on both sides of the Ping-Han Railway and the highway, which are the main arteries of the enemy's transportation and important areas for guarding.The terrain is flat, and on both sides of the railway, there are two road protection ditches with a width of more than ten meters and a depth of four to five meters, which is convenient for the enemy to maneuver and deploy. Therefore, the two sides of the railway are the focus of the enemy's attack. Song Yulin convened the pre-war combat meeting, and then went to the position with battalion and above cadres to look at the terrain.The Baobei Plain, where the crops have just been harvested, can be seen for miles. To block an attack on such terrain, one must have a solid defensive front with deep echelons.In this way, the Eighth Brigade built three or four lines of defense from the front to the depth, and each line of defense was connected with traffic trenches to form a circular network of fortifications with depth and echelon.The principle is to avoid larger and more obvious targets, and stay outside the village where the terrain is generally lower and more concealed, so as to prevent the destruction of enemy firepower. According to the intensity and complexity of defensive operations, it is necessary to build spare fortifications to prevent the enemy from breaking through and quickly move, and at the same time to attack the enemy from different directions.Song Yulin said that we deployed troops while conducting surveys, configured firepower, and built positions. We repeated many times to continuously supplement and improve the defense system. The confrontation began on the 15th.On the first day of the battle, the enemy was tentative and wanted to do some reconnaissance.On the second day, the offensive was strengthened. While attacking the enemy fiercely, Zhang Yinghui, the head of the 23rd regiment, organized two companies to carry out a counterattack, and started a hand-to-hand battle with the enemy in front of the position.This move was beyond the enemy's expectation, and the enemy's howl was heard several miles away, leaving hundreds of corpses behind.On the third day, Xu Shui became even more anxious. The enemy jumped over the wall in a hurry. The number of regiments increased from 3 regiments to 7 regiments.The entire position could not see anything clearly. When a stalemate was forming, Luo Lirong came out. Li Xuan, who served as the vice minister of the Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China before retiring, was the director of the political department of the 23rd regiment at that time. He recalled that before the Baobei blockade, we fought in Gucheng for 3 days, pulling north, pulling to On Pingxi Mountain, because the Kuomintang was going to sweep Pingxi, we blocked it and then pulled south.The team marched more than 100 miles a day, and pulled it all the way to the southwest of Baoding.This began the Baobei blockade. Tian Yusheng, a soldier from the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company of the 24th Regiment, worked in the Materials Department of the Beijing Military Region after liberation.He joined the army in June 1947, and he was still a recruit during the Baobei blockade.The big man said that the battle of Baobei was his first battle. The battle of Baobei captured a lot, and the logistics militiamen kept moving up the ammunition. In the past, many recruits had been working for a long time and still couldn't get a gun. Tian Yusheng was lucky, and he was issued a 38 big cover, a Japanese-style weapon, and 100 rounds of bullets as soon as he went.Tian Yusheng said that shooting a gun is easy to learn. At first glance, it is quite simple, but you don't know if you can shoot it correctly.The squad leader said that you can't shoot casually, and you can only shoot if you are sure.After training for three days, he went to the battlefield.If you don't understand anything, you will shoot a gun.After a battle, he becomes a veteran. Tian Yusheng remembered that they were attacking Xushui Gucheng in Baobei, and they were about to attack Caohe. He ordered a sudden change to withdraw from the battle, saying that there was a new mission to fight against it.Tian Yusheng said that they fought so fiercely on the edge of the railway that there were only 14 people left in one company. The enemy was all American equipment, and tanks broke through us several times. The deputy commander, Zhu Biao, was the battalion commander of the "First Steel Battalion", and he almost didn't become a prisoner.Zhu Biao, the deputy head of the regiment, led the first battalion in Xiaoli Village. When the enemy broke through Xiaoli Village, they knocked out the Second Company. After the company withdrew from the village, the correspondent of the regiment headquarters told the company commander that the deputy commander did not come out.The second company was the company that made great contributions in the subsequent Shijiazhuang battle, and it was very capable of fighting.Tian Yusheng said that there were more than 30 people in their platoon, all of whom had stripped their backs and remounted the bayonets. They were running out of bullets, so they gathered the grenades, rushed in, and fought hard. Everyone rescued the deputy head, and more than a dozen casualties.Tian Yusheng said that his thigh was also broken by a grenade.I didn't know it at the time, and I didn't feel any pain. When I came out, I saw that my pants were all wet, but fortunately, I didn't hurt my bones.Tian Yusheng said that he was young at that time, only 19 years old, and he was afraid for the first time. He had never heard a gunshot, and soon he didn't take it seriously, and he didn't even think about being afraid. Too many people died at that time.Talking about the Baobei blockade with him, Li Xuan, who was in the hospital, said that the command post of our regiment is right next to the railway, and the 22nd regiment is to the east of us. It is not an exaggeration at all. Just one day. This is how our hero wins the battle with his life. The overnight fierce attack on Xushui made Nanyuan's enemies unable to hold their breath. At dawn the next day, the enemy dispatched 10 regiments, and first attacked the defensive positions of the 3rd Vertical and 8th Brigade on both sides of the railway and road.Before the attack, dozens of cannons were concentrated on the village for a long time, and almost all the houses were blown into ruins.As soon as the artillery fire stopped, groups of enemies, driven by the supervising team, rushed over.The enemy thought that the snipers were all buried in the artillery fire, so they were very courageous and screamed.Unexpectedly, when they rushed one or two hundred meters away from the village, all infantry firearms, light and heavy machine guns, rifles, submachine guns and grenades fell on the enemy like hail. It turned out that the Third Vertical and Eighth Brigade had played a small but big trick in the fortifications.The fortifications were not built in front of the village, but on flat ground one or two miles away from the village.The enemy only fired artillery into the village, but not a single shell fell on the open land in front of the village, which greatly preserved the combat effectiveness. "Sweat more before the battle, and bleed less during the war." Regardless of the fatigue of days of fighting, the soldiers took advantage of the night to reshape the terrain and rush to repair fortifications.For the Eighth Brigade of Jizhong Children's Army, digging tunnels is their first initiative, and it is their specialty.Overnight, they dug a man-deep snake-shaped trench on the flat ground in front of the village, and built simple bunkers and chicken-claw-shaped fortifications for crossfire. For 3 consecutive days, the enemy blew up the trenches and collapsed the bunkers, but the soldiers still stood firm.At this time, Luo Lirong in Qingfengdian was surrounded, and he sent telegrams asking for help one after another. The enemies on the Baobei side rushed there in a hurry, but they couldn't move even half a step.The enemy's death squad consisting of 3 infantry regiments first attacked the Qilin shop in the east of the road, but was blocked time and time again by dense bullet walls.The enemy turned to the Gaolin camp on the west of Luxi again, but they didn't expect that it would be even more difficult to get a bargain.Guarding the Gaolin Camp was the "First Steel Battalion" who later made great contributions in the Battle of Shijiazhuang. It was a vicious battle soaked in blood, and the enemy's artillery shells amounted to more than a thousand rounds per hour, covering the smoky sky with darkness. Zhang Pengshou, the former dean of the School of Electronic Engineering of the General Staff, was a deputy instructor at that time. He said that he didn't know which army's enemy they were facing. He only knew that there were five full-staffed divisions of the enemy in front of them.Every time there is a charge, twenty or thirty tanks open the way in front, absolutely menacing. Zhang Yinghui, the head of the regiment, personally directed the tank fighting. In the Caohe battle not long ago, the 23rd regiment seized 4 Type 57 anti-aircraft guns, and the fat artillery company commander Pan Lun was very happy.This kind of anti-war artillery has rubber wheels, which can be pulled by a few people and run. It is very flexible. For infantry, this is quite a heavy weapon.However, the gunners who had just been captured didn't even change their clothes, they just changed their hats, and they didn't want to turn around and fight.The head of the regiment, Zhang Yinghui, took out his gun and shouted to the gunner who had come over from the captives: Hit me!If you don't hit me, you will be shot!Fight well, make meritorious service on the battlefield.Six or seven tanks attacked upwards, and when the anti-aircraft guns fired, they easily knocked out 2 enemy tanks.Seeing that two tanks were on fire, the other tanks immediately turned around and ran back. At this time, another tank was on fire. Zhang Yinghui was overjoyed, and said that I would rather make mistakes, cut first and play later, and give you credit. This has been fought for at least three or four days. Every day, three or four tanks lay in the nest, and the anti-aircraft guns fired quite accurately. The enemy tanks began to dodge and dodge, and they no longer dared to move forward confidently. Under the slogan of "stop the enemy and ensure the victory of the decisive battle in Baobei", the soldiers fought hand-to-hand with the enemy and stopped the enemy.After fighting for 6 days, the front always failed. The enemy turned to the east and continued to attack the Beiying and Lucaowan positions of the 7th Independent Brigade. They wanted to go around to Qingfengdian as soon as possible.After I killed more than 2,000 people, the enemy entered Xushui at dusk. On the 20th, the 109th Division of the enemy's 16th Army attacked Shilipu and Shigezhuang in the Qingmiao Camp south of Xushui in a dense formation under the cover of artillery fire. The battle was very difficult.Without heavy weapons, it is as difficult as it is to block an enemy armed with steel on the plain.All cadres are delegated step by step, and the platoon leader goes down to the squad, and the enemy cannot break through until the last person is beaten.Zhang Pengshou said that just like the Cheorwon blockade on the Korean battlefield, the sixth company of their regiment fell down, leaving only 2 people, 1 messenger and 1 cook. Song Lingfeng was the instructor of the first battalion and first company of the 24th Regiment of the 3rd Vertical and 8th Brigade. He recalled that it was the regiment commander Zhong Ying who gave the order to the company commander Gou Haiting and me.When fighting a war, you are afraid of fighting a blocking war. The offensive war still has mobility. Ready to move.The enemy's seven or eight US mechanized regiments attacked, all of whom had learned Chairman Mao's tactics, concentrated their firepower, and the artillery fire was so dense that there was not even a crack. I just watched in the dark for a whole day, eagerly looking at the sun, which was still a pole high. According to the present, it was around five or six o'clock in the evening. I really wished that a grenade would knock the sun down.The company played really hard.The enemy in front of us was a battalion, mainly firing mortars at us.On the Great Plains, we didn't have any positions, so we temporarily used the door panels of our fellow villagers to block them, and we were beaten dryly, causing too many casualties.The four platoons of the whole company, the eight chief and deputy platoon leaders, were all sacrificed, and there was not one left.The squad leaders are almost gone. There are 180 people in the whole company, and only seven people are left, including the company commander Gou Haiting and me who has been injured.The second company in the adjacent position is a little better than us, with 14 people left.The head of the group, Zhong Ying, insisted on not withdrawing.Song Lingfeng said that he had fought the battle for so many years, and this was the one with the most casualties. At this time, the enemy battalion opposite us was also wheezing and panting, and had no combat effectiveness.As soon as it got dark, the company commander Gou Haiting gave an order to complete the mission, take the only machine gun, and let's retreat. With this withdrawal, the enemy will stick up.Song Lingfeng was wounded on his left chest, so he walked a step slower. Seeing that the enemy was coming up, he couldn't run. Song Lingfeng had no choice but to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead.The pistol was put aside, and the enemy picked it up without even thinking about it. Song Lingfeng took advantage of him bending over, grabbed the gun, and shot the enemy in the forehead.The enemy was dead, and all his comrades retreated. He was the only one left, with blood still gushing from his left chest. Fortunately, it was dark, and Song Lingfeng covered his left chest, and dived into the dense reed field, pulling The towel on the lower left arm was stuffed into the wound with force to block the bloody breach.Relying on his youth, he persevered all night in a daze, and was sent to the military hospital in Yi County by a passing fellow the next day for treatment. Next to the 23rd Regiment is the 22nd Regiment. Xu Xin, the head of the regiment, was the deputy chief of staff of the General Staff Department before retiring, with the rank of general.He is a warrior, and there are no weak soldiers under a strong general. At that time, the three battalion commanders under him were all better at fighting.The commander of the third battalion, surnamed Cao, fought quite well.The commander of the second battalion is Yan Tongmao. Before retiring, he was the deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region and the commander of the garrison. Xu Xin said that the combat effectiveness of the three battalions is very strong, and it is difficult to distinguish the superior from the inferior.In comparison, the second battalion is better at fighting.Xu Xin recalled that at that time, the regiment command center was located in Gaolinying, and there was a tower in Gaolinying, and the regiment command post was installed on the tower.The tower was hit by a shell, and the regiment command post was withdrawn.On the first day, I relied on the village, fought for a day, and found that it was not working.The enemy only fired artillery at the village, but the target in the village was too big, and the enemy's shells were easy to hit. At night, the enemy withdrew, and immediately extended their positions forward, digging fortifications for a whole night at a place two kilometers north of Gaolin Camp.The new soil dug out was put aside.The next day, the enemy fired shells at the village as before, and all the shells fell into the village behind the fortifications.When the enemy charged up, he opened fire when he came to the front, which caught the enemy by surprise.In the future, the more fortifications were built, the closer they were to the front. Later, the enemy found out that the impact point of the shells had been corrected, so they repaired the fortifications while fighting, and extended the fortifications forward again at night, which still caught the enemy by surprise.We moved forward day by day, the enemy figured out our fortifications, and quickly moved forward, and the fortifications did not leave any traces.The enemy thought it was still far away, but when they got close, they opened fire, and when they realized it, they were killed.In this way, the defensive battle was fought for a week. In comparison, Xu Xin said that the casualties in the Baobei blockade were not too large. The troops had tactics and techniques. They fought every day to sum up the day. At night, they immediately studied how to fight the next day, how to improve the fortifications, and everyone thought about how to reduce casualties. , to destroy the enemy more.Xu Xin said that this defensive battle was very experienced, especially the experience of doing fortifications, which was very interesting.The fortifications are all made in the shape of chicken feet, protruding from the main trench, and a group of three people is divided into three positions forward, one person is one hole, not one size fits all, but there are front and back, some close, some A little farther away will form a crossfire, which is convenient for exerting the maximum power of firepower. Anyone who has fought in battle has experience. It is impossible to shoot forward with only firepower. It is impossible to shoot one gun against another in a straight line. If there is a gap in the middle, the enemy may slip through the net and rush over, posing a threat to the defensive position.It is necessary to form a cross, and the density of the cross will be high, and it will be difficult for the enemy to escape from any direction.Therefore, even though the attack is on the plain, although there are many enemies, the enemies are always unable to understand, they are always fooled, and they are always unable to rush.The Baobei blockade provided a good training opportunity for training troops on how to build fortifications and how to exert firepower in flat defense. Xu Xin has a magic weapon in command, which is to move forward.He said that the command post is near the front and the situation can be accurately grasped. Otherwise, once the communication is cut off, the situation will be unknown. The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing and must be grasped at any time.He said that being closer to the front is not necessarily dangerous, and the closer to the front, the safer. The enemy would never think that your command post is so close to him.If the command post is not far or close, enemy shells will bombard you.Therefore, whether it is offensive or defensive, Xu Xin puts the command post in front.The position has long legs, and his command post also has long legs, walking forward against the enemy every day.This really echoes his words, the closer you are to the front, the safer you are. Because the fortifications are at the front, they were captured while fighting, and a lot of ammunition from the enemy was captured, which came from the enemy and was used on the enemy.At that time, our weapons were very poor. There were ten guns in a squad, ten models, and none of the bullets could be used in common.The 38-style cover used during the Anti-Japanese War, the bullets were all 38-style. The enemy in the Liberation War was all American-style guns. If you always carry the 38-style gun, you have no bullets, so you can only use the enemy's.Xu Xin said that on the first night when the enemy rested, we took the initiative to attack and entered a village. When we asked that there were too many enemies living there, the enemy was also afraid.After fighting for seven days and seven nights, in fact, only two regiments were deployed. These two regiments were the main force of the Eighth Brigade, and they fought very hard.Xu Xin said that one day the enemy broke through the front-line company, and the two battalions in the depths at the back immediately turned against him, and quickly got the enemy out.Just this once, the enemy didn't even touch the edge of the fortification at other times. It is precisely because our Eighth Brigade has more regimental leaders like Zhang Yinghui and Xu Xin, battalion commanders like Zhu Biao and Ma Zhaomin, and company cadres like Song Lingfeng that our victory came so naturally. With people, there is capital to stop the enemy. Stopping the enemy is victory! This slogan inspired the "Steel First Battalion" and all the soldiers of the 22nd and 23rd regiments. They fought the enemy with bayonets again and again, and they were firmly nailed to the position like nails until Qingfengdian The enemy was wiped out, and the enemy in Baobei did not cross the Eighth Brigade's position. At the same time, the troops of the Chahar Military Region also actively attacked in the Fangshan and Changping areas to contain them.With the support of the people in Zhuoxian County, Laishui and other places, the Independent Fourth Brigade destroyed all the railways from Gaobeidian, Xincheng to Liangxiang, and then attacked Fangshan, pulling out more than ten enemy strongholds. It was not until the end of the Battle of Qingfengdian that the enemy broke through to the 12th Brigade in Jizhong, two kilometers to the right of the 8th Brigade.After fighting like this for a few days, the enemy is also finding out who is strong and who is weak.If you can't attack, if you are impatient, if you are in a hurry, you will roll up with meat bullets. There is no way, no formation at all, and machine guns will be ignored. If you die, you will die. If you don't die, you will go up. Chong, a regiment can't stop it at all.Xu Xin, the head of the 22nd Regiment, said that he looked through the binoculars, and it was impossible for a regiment to cut off the enemy, especially to stop tens of thousands of enemies by leaving the fortifications. Zhang Pengshou, the deputy instructor of the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 23rd Regiment, said that the blocking battle lasted for seven days and seven nights. The enemy did not break through from us, but bypassed the local troops. We retreated steadily and fought for another 5 days.In the end, the enemy still broke through from the local troops, but at that time the Battle of Qingfengdian was over, and it was useless for the enemy to go there again. Instead, they would be eaten, so they ran away automatically. This tough battle cost the enemy more than 4,200 people.Compared with the victory of Qingfengdian, which wiped out more than 10,000 enemies, this victory is indeed a small battle. So people all know the victory of Qingfengdian, it is indeed a great victory in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei. However, if there hadn't been a blood-soaked blockade to protect the north, and blocked a large number of enemies who went south to reinforce Qingfengdian, would there be a big victory for Qingfengdian? Let us remember the Baobei blockade and the martyrs who died in the Baobei blockade.