Fighting bloody battles behind enemy lines.
The reporter interviewed some passers-by and local residents randomly. Some people can say that this is "commemorating the war of resistance", but I don't know what this is about. Others only know that it is "a monument" ... this monument standing quietly on the roadside commemorates a victorious war during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, which was later written into military textbooks.
On the campus of Fudan University, the reporter interviewed Yu Zidao, a famous expert in the history of the Anti-Japanese War and a professor in the history department of Fudan University. Yu Lao, who is over 80 years old, is still healthy, talking about the history of the Anti-Japanese War. He introduced that after the Battle of 1937, Shanghai and its surrounding areas fell, the battle of the Kuomintang troops in the frontal battlefield gradually ended, and the "Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement" led by the Production Party and guerrilla warfare behind the enemy lines gradually became active.
According to Nanhui County Records, after the fall of Shanghai in 1937, the Pudong area has been a mixture of dragons and snakes. The stragglers of the national army, the heads of local armed forces and the "rangers" of gangs are intertwined. In such a complicated situation, an anti-Japanese armed force led by the * * * production party not only persisted, but also developed from a "spear team" with only 12 people to an independent detachment with thousands of people. This is the Pudong detachment of the East Zhejiang Column of the New Fourth Army (later renamed the Songhu detachment).
Zhang Sheng, a professor in the history department of Nanjing University, said that the armed forces behind the enemy lines led by China's * * * production party hammered nails step by step in enemy-occupied areas like playing chess, but the Japanese army could never effectively control the occupied areas. Pudong is located in the core area controlled by the Japanese and Puppet, and the existence of the New Fourth Army makes the Japanese feel at home. Therefore, the Japanese puppet troops never stopped clearing the Pudong detachment. The victory commemorated by Zhujiadian Anti-Japanese War Monument is called Zhujiadian ambush in history, which happened under such a background.
1972, when the Military Training Department of the General Staff of the China People's Liberation Army and the War History Department of the Academy of Military Sciences compiled Selected Examples of Infantry Company, they chose this battle as the first example of the "offensive part", entitled "The first squadron of Songhu detachment ambushed Zhujiadian" for the whole army to learn. So, how was this victory achieved?
Carefully planned, cleverly ambushed
August 2 1, 1944 (there are two versions of 22 and 16, and local researchers mostly use the version of 2 1). The scouts of the New Fourth Army got the information, and the Japanese army sent a small team (47 people, equipped with light machine guns, Grenade launchers, etc.) from Zhou Pu stronghold. ) and will enter Liuzao Town from Zhou Pu.
Zhu Yamin, then the detachment leader of Pudong detachment, consulted with Zhang Xizhen, the deputy chief of staff of the detachment, and judged that the Japanese army was likely to cross the river in the path south of Zhujiadian, Liuzao Town, Nanhui County. At that time, the main force of the detachment was scattered in several villages south of Zhujiadian, with more than 200 people and strong combat effectiveness. Zhu Yamin and others decided to seize the opportunity and lay an ambush in Zhujiadian.
According to the Records of Nanhui County, the Pudong area during the Anti-Japanese War was not criss-crossed with roads and convenient transportation as it is now, but criss-crossed with rivers and reeds, which not only limited the enemy's mobility, but also facilitated his concealment. The terrain near Zhujiadian is an ideal ambush site.
The reporter saw that near today's Zhujiadian Monument, Wuzaogang Bridge of Nanliu Highway, Hongsangang Bridge of Xuanqiu Road and Shenjiahu Expressway are all around. Looking at such a three-dimensional traffic network, it is difficult for reporters to imagine the environment of that year.
Zhu Yamin skillfully deployed three squadrons according to the terrain, and also set up four groups of "booby traps"; Pudong detachment all entered the ambush position before 12. In the afternoon 1, the detachment observation post found the Japanese army; After all the enemies entered the ambush circle, Zhu Yamin ordered the fire; The fighting lasted only over an hour. The New Fourth Army killed 34 Japanese soldiers, traitors 1 person, seized 2 light machine guns, Grenade launchers 1 person, more than 40 long and short guns and more than 400 bullets. Only 13 Japanese troops fled back to Zhou Pu with six rifles.
The road to victory in classic war cases
Tang Lei, director of Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, said in an interview that the Zhujiadian campaign was small in scale, but the results were real.
In this campaign, the various units of the New Fourth Army have a clear division of labor of "attacking, defending, chasing and blocking", and at the same time make full use of information systems and local people to give full play to the great power of the people's war.
When interviewing and consulting historical materials, the reporter found that there are different opinions about the loss of Zhujiadian's ambush of Pudong detachment. According to local data, this ambush "we have no casualties"; Many military data show that the Pudong detachment sacrificed 1 person. So which is more accurate?
The reporter interviewed many experts in history, war history and military affairs, and most of them thought that the statement of "sacrifice 1 person" was more credible. The article "Zhujiadian ambush war of the first squadron of Songhu detachment" mentioned that the soldier Mao was killed by a Japanese soldier hiding in the pond reed, and the Japanese soldier immediately shot and killed him.
In fact, whether the result is "34: 1" or "34: 0", Zhujiadian's ambush is enough to be selected as a textbook of the Academy of Military Sciences. Because, although ambush is the main way for anti-Japanese armed forces behind enemy lines to wipe out the Japanese army, it is not easy to fight a beautiful ambush. Many war history experts said that Japanese soldiers had received professional military training at that time, and their fighting quality was obviously higher than that of China's army, especially the guerrillas. In case of ambush, the Japanese army will use the gap between positions to detour and organize a counterattack.
Therefore, in order to deal with less than 50 devils, Zhu Yamin had to use all the main forces of the detachment and make careful arrangements. When the Pudong detachment was fighting, there were at least five machine guns, and a machine gun squad was specially ambushed to "block the mouth". But there are still 13 devils escaping from the net.
It is true that there are not many Japanese troops killed by Zhujiadian ambush, but it is the small-scale annihilation war on the battlefield behind enemy lines that constantly consumes the effective strength of the Japanese army and gradually leads to its demise. Zhang Sheng, a professor at Nanjing University, said that the guerrilla warfare led by China's * * * production party is "with 40 or 50 people" and is determined to persist in the war of resistance.
Chen Hu, a military expert and commentator, said that the anti-Japanese battlefield in China was "a bleeding ulcer" of Japanese fascists, and the Japanese invaders were finally annihilated by the Wang Yang Sea in the People's War. (Reporters involved in writing: Miao Yixing, Fang Zhe, Sun Xiaotong, Chen)