The detailed process of the battle of Chen Zhuang

At dawn on September 25th, as soon as the enemy's huge "punitive team" came out of Lingshou City, it was harassed by the eighth district team of our army and the backbone team of Lingshou County, and the mines buried on the road kept blooming among the enemy groups. Near Ciyu, I have only four divisions and five regiments standing guard. The enemy could have attacked lightly, but like an armed demonstration, they used all firearms to make a formal attack on Ciyu Town. At seven o'clock, occupy Ciyu. Our 7 19 regiment was ordered to approach the enemy and retreat while fighting to lure the enemy deeper. Under the cover of heavy artillery fire, the Japanese army launched an attack of more than 900 people on our position, and successively occupied Beihuoying, Nanwu and Beiwu River at 17, but stopped advancing after occupying Nantanzhuang. That night, relying on Baitou Mountain, the 7 19 regiment launched several attacks on the enemy of Nantanzhuang, luring the enemy to go deep. The cunning enemy only attacked it with fire and refused to take a step forward.

Before dawn on the 26th, the enemy moved furtively. The 7 19 regiment, which was ambushed in the area from North Huoying to South and North Tanzhuang, stubbornly blocked it with the cooperation of the eighth district team and the backbone teams of Lingshou and Xingtang counties. /kloc-at 0/6, the enemies of the front lines in the south, north Tanzhuang, west Wuhe and north Huo Ying suddenly and unexpectedly returned to Ciyu Town, and transported heavy equipment such as artillery trench back to Lingshou City to retreat in disguise. After two days of attack, the enemy was strongly resisted by our army, thinking that it attracted the main force of our army, achieved the purpose of mobilizing, deceiving and confusing our army, and created conditions for attacking our rear. So before dawn on the 27th, in addition to leaving more than 400 people guarding Ciyu Town, the main force 1 100 people rushed along the Lubaishan path, passing through Yannanchuanzi and Wanzili, crossing Qiushan, and going straight to Chen Zhuang via Changyu. They were held up by the fifth regiment of our fourth division and a branch of Kang Er Gao Er, and were delayed. At eleven o'clock in Chen Zhuang, the enemy invaded Chen Zhuang, and he was extremely proud. Colonel Tanaka, the captain of the enemy, boasted: According to the judgment of our army headquarters, the enemy is fighting alone, and there is no stronghold to meet in the north, so it is very difficult to help in the south. It is impossible to stay in Chen Zhuang for a long time. It is necessary to seize the fighter plane and arrange the array network when the enemy flees back and resolutely destroy it. In order to destroy the invading enemy, He Long, under the leadership of local village cadres, personally went to Hengshan to check the terrain, and then instructed our army to keep the 7 19 regiment of the 359 Brigade and local armed forces to continue to control the area south of Baitou Mountain and Beitanzhuang, and closely monitor the enemy in Ciyu Town. The only detachment of the main force, 7 16 Regiment 2 Regiment, rushed towards Chen Zhuang along the highway. In the afternoon, ministries arrived in the periphery of Chen Zhuang. According to the different characteristics of the enemy's actions, our army also changed the ambush mode of the enemy in the past, and decided to occupy the highlands on both sides of the Ci River east of Chen Zhuang with the Second Regiment and the 716 Regiment, and strictly control the way for the enemy to flee eastward. For the sake of prudence, the Independent Regiment sent a battalion to approach Changyu, south of Chen Zhuang, to intercept and annihilate the Japanese troops who might escape from the original road. The other part of the only detachment moved closer to Chen Zhuang along the road, occupied the Seventh Ancestral Courtyard on the east side of Chen Zhuang, and kept in touch with the enemy. The 4th Regiment and 1st Battalion are responsible for guarding the direction of Xingtang and Quyang, and the main force is assembled to the east of the fork head for standby. The division headquarters is in Liujiagou, and the command post of the 358 brigade and the only brigade is moved to Nantaitou. Although the enemy occupied Chen Zhuang, the masses in Chen Zhuang and nearby institutions and schools have already moved. In the market towns of more than 800 families, not a single person can be seen and not a grain can be found. There are big Japanese slogans on the wall of the street: Down with Japanese imperialism! Drive the Japanese out of China! That night, the enemy was teetering, and my only team, a branch of Kanger No.2 University and local armed forces harassed and attacked the enemy from east, west and south from time to time, but the Japanese army could not catch the people, get food and get any information, so they had to shoot blindly in the village.

On the morning of 28th, smoke billowed over Chen Zhuang, and the Japanese set fire to the house, intending to escape. The head of our combat command immediately ordered to prepare for the battle. At about eight o'clock, the enemy toast water pretended to attack the only detachment position of Qizuyuan and Dazhuang to cover the main force crossing the river, and used the reeds along the river as a cover to push eastward along the foot of Bai Lu Mountain on the south bank of Cijiang River. He Long made a comprehensive analysis of the enemy's actions, and thought that he had not found the position of our army, nor had he noticed the ambush deployment of our army. It is very unlikely that he will flee south along the original road, so his original determination and deployment have not changed. However, for the sake of prudence, the second regiment was ordered to rush from Fenggou to Changyu to help the only detachment stop the enemy from fleeing south. At about eight o'clock, when the enemy vanguard troops entered Fenggou via Lai Wen Zhuang, our second regiment had seized the Qingyang Mountain position between Fenggou and Lai Wen Zhuang, giving the enemy a head-on blow. Repelling the enemy's impact five times in a row, one of them invaded near the entrance of the slope, detoured with the 1 ST battalion of 7 16, and launched a fierce battle. At about 0: 00/kloc-0, the enemy all entered the area around Fenggou and Slope Gate, and stormed the position of our second regiment in an attempt to seize favorable terrain. Our defenders fought bravely and repelled the enemy through repeated killing and blood-blade fighting. At this time, the 3rd Battalion of 7 16 Regiment is attacking from north to south, and the main force of 2nd Regiment has also rushed back from Changyu. One of the 5th Regiment of Hebei Province attacked from south to north, and the only regiment followed the enemy to attack from west to east, thus surrounding the Japanese army. The enemy seized villages such as Lai Wen Zhuang, Fenggouli and Pomen and organized resistance in nearby highlands. One army crossed the river near Fenggou to occupy the highland west of Nantaitou, and another army attacked the Qingyang Mountain position of the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment from Lai Wen Zhuang, which was stubbornly blocked by me. The 3rd Battalion of 7 16 Regiment attacked the south of Sijiazhuang, destroying a large number of enemies. The position occupied by the first battalion is a bare hill that extends to the Potts River. Like a gate, it blocked the enemy's retreat eastward and posed a great threat to the enemy. In order to escape, the enemy launched a fierce battle on this hill with the strength of two squadrons. My first battalion fought until four o'clock in the afternoon, and launched four charges and three hand-to-hand combat. The 5th Regiment 12 Company also waited for help, and a large number of devils were trapped in the river ditch, crowded together, unable to exert their firepower and having nowhere to hide. And our troops stationed in Beishan became more and more brave and defeated the enemy with heavy artillery fire. The enemy fell in the mud in batches, and finally had to stick to the three villages of Pomenkou, Lai Wen Zhuang and Fenggouli and the nearby highlands to fight back. In order to strengthen the offensive force, our headquarters transferred the fourth regiment to Pomen to join the 7 16 regiment and the second regiment in the battle.

At this time, fellow villagers came to our position from all directions, delivering food and water, and some braved the bullets to carry stretchers to the wounded. The enthusiasm of the masses gave great encouragement to the troops. The soldiers attacked the enemy under the cover of moonlight, and the Japanese tried to break through several times, but they were all beaten back.

On this day, the enemy sent more than 300 troops from Lingshou City to Ciyu. /kloc-at 0/6, more than 800 enemies of Ciyu attacked our positions on the south and north rivers and Baitoushan in an attempt to meet the enemy and break through the slope gate and Fenggou. They were bravely resisted by our 7 19 regiment and other security forces. After the enemy occupied the five rivers in the south and north, they fought with our army in Baitou Mountain.

After dusk 19, our army launched a fierce attack on the enemy trapped in Pomenkou Village from all directions, dividing and cutting off the enemy. By 2300 hours, all the positions controlled by the Japanese army were occupied except the two villages of Pomenkou and Fenggouli, and our army once rushed into these two villages for street fighting. The enemy was in chaos, but I had to retreat to the village to replenish my weapons because of the high tide of grenades, and confronted the enemy for a while.

At dawn on the 29th, the besieged Japanese army had no hope of waiting for rescue, so it broke through to the south of Fenggouli and fled to the highland on the west side of Lubaiyan. The only detachment, the 7 16 regiment, launched a parallel pursuit with the 2 nd regiment. In order to seize the commanding heights of Lubaiyan Mountain first, the division headquarters urgently ordered the Fourth Division and the Fifth Regiment to intercept the Si Wan Temple area from Shawan. The 4th Regiment entered Shawan in order to prevent the enemies who fled to Shawan and Ciyu from aiding the North. The hill occupied by the enemy is only one mile long, the slope is only fifty paces wide, and there are cliffs on both sides. On the bare cliff, there is neither cover nor support. Our army concentrated fire from all directions in the west, and the enemy fell in batches in response to the gunfire, and some even rolled off the cliff with men and horses. At this time, the enemy's mules, horses, trench and heavy firearms were all lost, and only two or three hundred enemy soldiers were alive. 13, our ministries were close to the enemy, and the artillery moved to the mountains. At first, they killed the enemy with artillery fire, and then they launched an attack. The 716 regiment, the first detachment and the fourth division and the fifth regiment once occupied the front positions, and the enemy, with the support of aircraft, concentrated their forces on our counter-offensive. At about six o'clock in the afternoon, three enemy planes came to drop food and ammunition, and half of them landed on our position.

At dawn this day, the Baitoushan position was once lost. In the morning, the 7 19 regiment launched a counterattack with the Beijing North Camp and the Eighth District Team, driving the enemy back to the five rivers in the south and north and regaining the original position. In the afternoon, the enemy added more than 200 people and 3 tanks. Although they attacked our defenders several times, they were stubbornly blocked and made no progress.

Before dusk, Commander He Long and Political Commissar Guan Xiangying went to the front of the position to observe the enemy's situation and gave the order of general assault. At about 19, the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 7 16 regiment attacked from the southeast and northwest respectively. At 2 1 hour, the commanding heights behind enemy lines were occupied, and the enemy fled into Si Wan ravine, which was intercepted by our only detachment and the 5th regiment, and most of them were annihilated. It was dark, and several remnants of the enemy escaped to Shawan. On the 30th, it was intercepted by four regiments and five regiments in different districts and militia guerrillas. At this point, all the enemies of Shui Yuan's invasion of Chen Zhuang were wiped out. The enemy of Ciyu and I fought fiercely in Baitou Mountain for several days, with heavy casualties. At 7 o'clock on the 30th, the enemy, in addition to keeping one force in the south and one in the north river to contain our army, turned its main force to Shawan in an attempt to meet the remnants of the enemy and fled south, and was stopped by our fourth regiment. 16, the enemy knew that his main force had been wiped out by me and was afraid of being encircled again. He hurried through the elm and returned to Lingshou. The Battle of Chen Zhuang was a large-scale mountain annihilation war in the mountainous areas of Bai Lu. After six days and five nights of fierce fighting, all the enemies were wiped out. This campaign * * * killed more than 500 Japanese invaders/kloc-0, such as Major General "Shui Yuan Brigade Head", "Captain Tanaka" and "Kawasaki, Major Kitamura", and seized a large number of light and heavy weapons, ammunition and equipment of the Japanese army. Our army also paid a certain price. The number of casualties exceeded 500. In the battle, party member fought bravely, and 387 people were injured or gave their lives for the revolution. Accounting for one third of the casualties.