Speaking of Liang Xingchu, the first thing that comes to mind is the commander of the 38th Army of the "Banzai Army", who commanded the 38th Army to fight in the bloody Yuli, fought at Songbone Peak, and firmly nailed the main force of the United Nations army retreating south; if you go forward during the Liberation War, Liang Xingchu led the Ten Columns of Dongye to fight in the Black Mountain blockade, which won time for the main force to encircle and annihilate, and it is also very famous.
In fact, Liang Xingchu joined the Red Army in April 1930, and from the time the Red Army reached northern Shaanxi in October 1935, when the Red Army's Long March reached northern Shaanxi in victory, he was still a company-level cadre for five years, and it can be said that the promotion rate in the Red Army at that time was very slow. What is the reason for this? It is to eat the loss of no culture.
Originally, he was born in a very poor family in The Village of Qianpi, Qingyuan District, Ji'an, his father was a smith, hard work for a lifetime, reluctantly for his son to go to private school, but he was naughty from an early age, did not love to read, he went to learn the craft of blacksmithing, although the iron tempered his steel bones and strong character, so that he dared to fight and dare to fight, however, there were many people with brute force in the Red Army team at that time, the leader said that "the team without culture is a stupid team", and he naturally promoted slowly if he did not know many words. Therefore, when the Red Army came down for five years, it was still a company-level cadre.
It was not until after the Red Army's Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi that Liang Xingchu entered the Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and after a period of studying in a crash course and passing the examination, he rushed to the anti-Japanese front, and from then on, he was like a different person, and then he was appointed as a captain of the 4th Brigade of the Suluyu Detachment, and fought a battle in this post, which he strictly organized and carefully commanded, and finally achieved impressive results, that is, the famous Tutougou Ambush Battle.
After the Battle of the Dutougou ambush, Liang Xingchu's promotion rate was significantly accelerated, and in just a few years, from the regimental level to the brigade level, by the time of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he had become the commander of the 1st Division of the Shandong Military Region. So, how did he fight this battle?
In December 1939, Liang Xingchu led the four brigades of the Suluyu detachment into Lunan, opening up the Linyi, Tancheng, and Pixian areas, he set off from Weishan Lake, crossed Jinpu Road in the east, and reached the area of Shanghuzhu Village east of Knee County. When the masses heard that the Eighth Route Army was coming, they came to pour out their unbearable pain. The masses reflected that "the day before yesterday, more than a hundred devils drove from Fei County to Teng County, pulling sheep, donkeys, and cars from house to house along the road, burning our houses, pulling away our sons, and burning our grandsons." ”
Liang Xingchu learned of the crazy actions of the Japanese army, gritted his teeth with hatred for the enemy, and at the same time thought that it might be what supplies the Japanese army was going to transport, and learned from the villagers about the japanese garrison in Tengxian and Pingyi. Therefore, he sent scouts to TengXian county overnight to reconnoiter, and sure enough, the Japanese army would deliver supplies to Pingyi the next day, and it was inevitable that they would pass through Duitougou, so he resolutely decided to fight a beautiful ambush battle in Duitougou and completely annihilate this extremely evil enemy.
Duitougou is an important pass on the Teng (County) Fei (County) Highway, surrounded by mountains and ditches, it is a good place to ambush the enemy, for this reason, Liang Xingchu ordered the 4th Brigade to immediately set up an ambush here, mainly because of its favorable terrain. At dawn on 26 December, the troops arrived at the site of the ambush at Tautougou as planned.
At about 9 a.m., the scouts returned to report that a squadron of the Japanese army with more than 60 ox carts had set out from the city of Tengxian and was pulling out to this side, so Liang Xingchu immediately ordered the battalions to prepare for battle and only wait for the devils to "get into the trap."
After a while, the long line of ox carts and the ghosts of the rear guard all entered the ambush circle. At this moment, Liang Xingchu held aloft the shell gun and pulled the trigger violently. Suddenly, the sound of gunfire was earth-shattering, and dense bullets flew towards the enemy group with angry flames, and the enemy immediately panicked. The plaster flag lay horizontally on the ground, and the car rolled on its feet. Some of them did not understand what was going on, and they fell down and lost their dogs. The enemy was so overwhelmed that they could not choose the terrain, and some of them lay down on the spot to fight back, and some of them burrowed under the carts in an attempt to resist.
The Japanese squadron leader ran to a hillside hideout with a few ghost soldiers to send a message for help. Liang Xingchu immediately ordered the reserve to throw a platoon and hit the place with a fierce blow, causing them to crawl and flee, and the communication equipment carried by the squadron was captured by our army, and it was no longer possible to call for help.
After encountering the attack, the enemy returned to his senses, was well armed, and was not willing to fail, so he rushed over like a madman, and counterattacked our army again and again, trying to break through the gap and escape.
In order to completely annihilate these Japanese soldiers before the arrival of enemy reinforcements, the commanders and fighters of our heroic Eighth Route Army launched six consecutive charges against the Japanese army under the cover of machine gun fire. Due to the strong firepower of the Japanese army, the casualties of the 4 brigades were relatively large, and Luo Zhengwen, the commander of the 10th company of the 3 battalions and the outstanding cadre who came through the Long March of the Red Army, died heroically.
In the evening, our army launched a general attack, shouting and killing sounded through the valley, the Japanese army was killed and wounded, and the rest left the ox cart and retreated to the bottom of the ditch. Under the cover of strong firepower, our army rushed onto the road to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
Liang Xingchu later recalled the battle: "A soldier of the 8th Company 'ended' with a bayonet and captured a light machine gun, and almost at the same time, the leader of another devil's squad took advantage of his lack of preparation, pounced on us, pushed our fighters over, and snatched the machine gun over. At this moment, the commander of the 8th Company, Gao Jing, raised his large saber, and an arrow stepped forward, shouting: 'I want your dog to die!' The knife fell from his hand, splitting the devil squad leader into two pieces, and the machine gun was taken back. "The hand-to-hand combat between the enemy and us is very fierce and moving.
At the end of the battle, a squadron of Japanese troops responsible for escorting supplies was killed except for 3 devils who raised their hands and surrendered, and a total of 1 Japanese radio station, 3 walkie-talkies, 13 mortars (15 original guns, 2 damaged during the battle), 25 crooked machine guns (the original 37 guns, 12 damaged during the battle), more than 200 rifles, thousands of bullets, quilts, cotton clothes and food and a large number of others were captured. Our army suffered only 30 casualties.
After the end of the Titougou ambush, the 115th Division issued a special telegram to commend the military and civilians in order to celebrate the victory won in the Titougou ambush, and the army's cultural and labor troupe also performed its own Yu opera "The Great War of Duitougou", which was very popular with the troops and the masses. At that time, there was a slip of the tongue left in the crowd:
The Eighth Route Army, the true god and courage, descended from the heavenly soldiers in the ditch.
By surprise, the enemy was annihilated, and the people lived in peace and harmony.
Fathers and fellow countrymen hurry up and expel the Wokou as slaves!
After the victory in this battle, the masses in the new district were very excited, and they joined the army one after another, brandishing their swords to join their own troops, the Eighth Route Army, and by January 1940, the four brigades had grown from more than 900 people to more than 2,000 people. Liang Xingchu was also promoted to brigade commander of the 5th Brigade of the 115th Division. At the end of the year, he was ordered to go south to support the New Fourth Army as the commander of the Independent Brigade, and after the establishment of the First Military Subdistrict of the Coastal Military Region, he served as the commander. After the surrender of Japan, he served as the commander of the First Division of the Shandong People's Liberation Army, commanding troops to conquer Jiaoxian County, retake Zhucheng, gallop across the Ji Plain, and annihilate more than 5,000 enemies. During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he fought bloodily in the vast areas of Jin, Hebei, Suzhou, Lu and other provinces, and established outstanding merits for the defense of sacred territory.