Hongguatu is the gateway to the northeast of Suiyuan and the only place for Japanese and puppet aggression. 165438+ 10/2, the Japanese invaders ordered Wang Ying, the scum of the nation, to be the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, leading two cavalry brigades, an infantry brigade and two artillery companies, and suddenly attacked Honggartu. The Japanese Invaders Command and Wang Ying Command are both located in Tuchengzi Village. At that time, the Japanese aggressors bombed three planes in turn, and as soon as the curtain was opened, it became very intense. On the morning of June 8, 5438+04, more than 1000 Japanese puppet troops launched a storm under the cover of planes and artillery. Dong fought bravely, and the two sides fought until 5 pm, when the Japanese puppet troops retreated. 15 at 6 o'clock in the morning, unwilling to fail, the Japanese army headquarters sent Takashi Tanaka, the head of Japanese spy, to take command personally, and went shirtless, and * * * invested more than 5,000 troops. First, it was bombarded by wild guns and planes. Then the armored car opened the way and stormed. They charged seven times, but they didn't cross the defensive position of Dong Department. At 6 pm, they lost again. In the past few days, 16, 17 and 18, the puppet troops continued to charge, and the artillery, land and air cooperated well, but they still could not advance. At this time, Dong's soldiers, in order to hold their positions, often jumped out of the trenches and took the initiative to stab. There were heavy casualties on both sides.
In order to reduce losses and effectively attack the enemy. At the height of the fighting (16), General Fu personally went to Jining to command the front line. He asked Dong to copy it from behind enemy lines by surprise. The troops led by Dong himself rode around the clock. /kloc-at 20 o'clock on the night of 0/8, various armies secretly assembled in the Dandaigou area on the west side of Honggartu. At 2 o'clock that night, they launched a general attack and outflanked the Japanese puppet troops. At the dawn of the war, the enemy broke up one after another, and even the enemy's Tuchengzi command post fled eastward. Seven cars run faster than one. 19 On the morning of June 7th, the enemy line collapsed and the Battle of Honggartu ended.
It is worth mentioning that in the Battle of Honggartu, the local Mongolians and Hans played a great role. They braved the bullets and acted as guides to deliver ammunition to the troops. Many of them also participated in the battle with the troops, and some of them made special contributions. In Qingyu Township, District 2, Xinghe County, there was a man named Zhang Ziqing. After the puppet came to their village that day, he met his lost enemy, who asked him to lead the way and said that if he brought it to Shangdu, he would be rewarded with thousands of dollars. Zhang Ziqing heard that the enemy had a lot of money, so he was supposed to be a special person, so he pretended to lead the way and took the enemy to the county government. Upon inquiry, it was found that the enemy was a Japanese spy, specializing in military intelligence. In this way, the troops obtained a lot of important information about the Japanese and puppet troops. Patriotic Catholic priests near Honggartu automatically organized their parishioners to set up self-defense groups to cooperate with the defenders after the fighting started. Zhang Zhiyuan, Han Degong, Zhang Wangui, Li Wanfu and Liu Decai, members of Xinxing Township Self-Defense Force, killed and wounded Japanese puppet troops 10. The local Mongolian herders are more heroic. When the enemy retreated, they rode horses, picked up shotguns and intercepted the enemy along the way. Fan Changjiang, a famous journalist, commented on these touching stories in Sailing. He said: "It is the peasants who are really determined to fight on the spot. In the Battle of Red Gartu, the heroic effectiveness of the local self-defense group in the Anti-Japanese War was no less than that of the regular army. "
The campaign, which lasted seven days and nights from 13 to 19, achieved remarkable results: it destroyed the headquarters of Japanese invaders Tanaka Longji and bandit leader Wang Ying, seized more than cars and carts 10, seized a senior military carriage, captured more than 300 people, seized a Japanese radio station and a password, and captured them. The victory of the Battle of Honggartu cleared the way for the next attack on Bailing Temple. Bailing Temple is one of the remote counties bordering the Mongolian people in China. Military status is very important. 1936, this is the lair where the Japanese aggressors tried to establish puppet organizations. Japanese secret service agencies such as Good Neighborhood Association, Dameng Company and Inspection Office are stationed. Famous Japanese spies Yamamoto, Morishima and Xiao Bin are all lurking here. Xiao Bin graduated from Japanese NCO School at the age of 2/kloc-0, and soon became a Lama in Bailing Temple Lama Temple.
It was really difficult to pull out the nails of Bailing Temple at that time. Before the Battle of Honggartu, the Japanese invaders hoarded a large number of weapons and ammunition in Bailing Temple and built strong fortifications. After the defeat of the Battle of Honggartu, the Japanese invaders paid more attention to the defense of Bailing Temple. In addition to sending Wang Ying to occupy the temple (the stronghold east of Bailing Temple) and strengthen the peripheral defense force, the seventh division of Dewang (Fengtian Treasure Department) was transferred to Bailing Temple to build a more complete fortification at the top, mountainside and foot of Bailing Temple. Some puppet troops sent more than 200 Japanese commanders.
However, General Fu is a man with "no hard words and no soft words". Now that he has made up his mind to resist Japan, he must fight to the end. In the face of difficulties, he once again called a meeting of cadres at or above the battalion level to mobilize the masses and brainstorm. Finally, it was unanimously decided to attack Bailing Temple to win by surprise attack. Under the guidance of this strategic thought, all the troops adopted strict camouflage. When marching, all the cars, horses and people were covered with white cloth, with the vast white snow in the north of Suiyuan as the cover. In order to improve the marching speed, all companies organized snow-sweeping teams, each with a wooden shovel, to clear the way in front of the big troops. In this way, people were silent and horses were not hissing, and they gathered quietly near Bailing Temple. On June 22nd165438+1October 22nd, all participating troops entered the attack position. At this time, the Japanese puppet troops in Bailing Temple did not find any anti-Japanese troops at all.
On the 23rd night 1 1, under the command of Sun Changsheng (commander) and Sun Lanfeng (deputy commander), the anti-Japanese troops suddenly stormed the enemy of Bailing Temple. An infantry regiment attacked from the south, a regiment attacked from the west and a regiment attacked from the east. One cavalry regiment attacked the airport and the puppet government office, and the other cooperated with a battalion of infantry to guard the northeast pass of Bailing Temple to intercept the return of the enemy. A battalion of artillery and infantry served as a reserve.
When the battle started, the anti-Japanese troops made relatively smooth progress because the enemy was unprepared in advance. But after half an hour, the fighting was very fierce. When attack force attacked the enemy in depth, Katsumima, director of the Japanese Secret Service, was furious and resolutely pulled out his combat knives and kissed the frontier marker. He commanded the Japanese puppet troops to concentrate all their firepower and desperately stopped the assault of anti-Japanese soldiers. There are more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns on Daughter Mountain, interwoven into a warfare. I can't move forward for three or four hours. At this point, there are more than two hours before dawn. If we can't capture Bailing Temple before dawn, the enemy's 5000 reinforcements and 10 planes will arrive, and the situation will get worse. General Fu and deputy commander Sun Lanfeng realized the seriousness of the problem and decided to put all their eggs in one basket. They urged the mountain artillery battalion to advance to the highland east of Nanshan Avenue in Bailing Temple and carry out destructive shooting on Daughter Mountain. They also ordered the battalion commander Han to command an armored convoy equipped with six cars to attack the southeast pass of Bailing Temple.
For this battle, Fan Changjiang described it like this in his pen: the enemy "machine guns are firmly on the mountain pass, spitting bullets like a rainstorm." "On the one hand, our commander met the pillow of death, but he was brave and accomplished nothing, but he felt the urgency of the opportunity and saw the failure. With the determination to put all your eggs in one basket and die for the country, the reserve team loaded a group of heavy vehicles, with two armored vehicles as the forerunner, and the artillery also rushed into the situation. Our commander walked ahead, regardless of the bullets, so the morale was greatly boosted and the situation changed suddenly. " ("blocked")
Armored vehicle drivers are the bravest. During the collision, the first driver was killed by the enemy, and after the second body was injured by the enemy's Grenade, the driver Zhang Yangxian took the bullet to move the first dead driver out of the car and drove the car to continue the collision. The enemy's fire was concentrated on him, and he was shot more than ten times and died heroically. Six soldiers were killed, five were injured and the car was damaged, leaving 46 bullet holes! Zhang, the company commander of the reserve team, saw this scene and jumped out of the car in desperation, commanding the whole company to "strive for the top of the mountain with body". Finally, he won the top of the mountain and took the position at a high price of losing one-third of his troops. Zhang Zhenjilian's victory made the enemy lose his hands and feet, and the various military forces of the anti-Japanese soldiers took advantage of the situation to make a dash. By 8 o'clock on the 24th, the war situation had a decisive improvement. The cavalry took control of the airport and cut off the enemy's back road. Katsujima Kaoru and Fengtianbao left the whole army and fled by car. Xiao Bin, a Japanese spy disguised as a Lama, fought to the death and was killed by his own men. At 9: 30, the anti-Japanese soldiers wiped out the Japanese puppet troops and successfully recovered Bailing Temple.