Wang Yachen’s main deeds

In the spring of 1940, the situation of the Anti-Japanese War became increasingly tense. After implementing the insidious policy of returning villages to villages and merging households, the Japanese invaders adopted vicious methods of clearing mountains and forests in an attempt to completely eliminate our anti-Japanese coalition forces. In order to preserve his strength, Commander Wang Yachen divided the troops into parts according to the deployment of his superiors. On the one hand, he arranged for a group of soldiers to live in seclusion until the time was right to fight again. On the other hand, he launched a timely attack to attack small groups of enemy troops in a targeted manner. , destroy the enemy's effective strength, strengthen our army's power, and increase our army's supplies. Commander Wang decided to attack Chonghe Village, a fortress entrenched by the enemy more than 100 miles east of Wuchang. There were more than 30 Japanese garrison troops stationed there, as well as about 80 puppet forces from the puppet self-defense group, police station, and village hall.

In the early morning of July 19, General Wang Yachen, after understanding the enemy's military deployment and the terrain there, led a team of more than 70 people to leave the Gypsophila station and march toward Chonghe. In order not to expose the target, the team walked through the dense forest. In the scorching hot weather, with thorns everywhere, the soldiers sweated all the way, trudged hard, endured hunger, thirst, and mosquito bites. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, they arrived at the willow forest on the south side of Beiyingzi, more than 10 miles away from Chonghe River, to prepare. Attack the enemy.

Everything was arranged. When night fell, the scouts sent by Commander Wang came back and said that instead of discovering us, the enemies stationed in Chonghe were gathering together to gamble wildly. At 10:30 that night, the troops began to approach Chonghe. Arriving at the southeast village of Chonghe, Commander Wang ordered two soldiers to enter the block from the ditch under the wall to observe the movement. After all the situation was understood, he made a decisive decision: attack the enemy in four groups. The first line, led by deputy commander Zhang Xizhong, surrounded the Japanese garrison; the second line, led by detachment leader Ma Sanpao, surrounded the Self-Defense Group and the police station; the third line, led by detachment leader Kang Hongjiu, used machine guns to blockade the pseudo-village The fourth route, led by himself, went straight to the enemy's ration store. They also agreed to use the sound of gunshots as a signal to unite and enter the battle. The enemy chased them to the foot of Changzuizi Mountain and saw no sign of the Tenth Army, so they pursued them up the mountain path. A Japanese squad leader was riding on a tall horse, waving his sword and shouting loudly. The enemy was trembling and crowded all the way to the mountain. Coming up. At this time, there was a loud sound of gunfire from the Tenth Army, and the enemies fell down one after another and stopped attacking. The Japanese team leader again took a short gun to supervise the battle, and the enemy counterattacked again. Our army's horse three-gun aim at the Japanese team leader, raised his hand and fired, and the Japanese devil fell off his horse. The soldiers of our tenth army shot at the enemy group together and threw more than 20 grenades, which blew up the Japanese soldiers to pieces and made them cry and howl. The remaining few soldiers fled in defeat. The enemy withdrew, and Commander Wang led the soldiers on their way back to victory. In this battle, our army suffered no casualties and captured a large amount of military supplies, which greatly boosted the fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Tenth Army and alleviated our army's supply shortage.