On this day 88 years ago, on November 4, 1937 (October 2, 1937 in the lunar calendar), Guangyang ambushed. The position of the 115th Division in the Guangyang Battle In October 1937, after the Japanese army attacking along the Pinghan Railway occupied Shijiazhuang, the 20th and 109th divisions attacked the west along the Zhengtai Railway in an attempt to cooperate with the Japanese army attacking the south along the Tongpu Railway to attack Taiyuan. In order to support the Kuomintang army in defending Taiyuan, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army ordered the headquarters of the 115th Division to lead the 343rd Brigade to go south from the Wutai area, and cooperated with the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army fighting south of the Zhengtai Railway to flank the Japanese invaders from the west. On October 30, the main force of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army entered the Zhanshang area west of Xiyang, preparing to attack the enemy invaded by Pingding and Xiyang west. At the beginning of November, the main force of the 79th Wing of the 40th Brigade of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army approached Madaoling in the west of Xiyang City. Chen Guang, commander of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division, fought with the 2nd Battalion of the 686th Regiment in Madaoling, delaying and exhausting the Japanese army, covering the main force of the brigade to quickly occupy favorable terrain and complete the ambush deployment; The 686th Regiment occupied Yao Village in the south of Guangyang Town and the highland in the north of Qianxiaohan as the main attack; The 3rd Battalion of the 685th Regiment attacked from Langwogou Beishan and cooperated with the 686th Regiment to annihilate the Japanese troops entering the ambush area. At about 13 o'clock on the 4th, more than 4,000 people from the first two wings of the Japanese army entered Songta through the ambush area. The Eighth Route Army's pre-ambush troops adopted the tactics of avoiding the strong and attacking the weak, letting go of their leading main force. When the Japanese trench troops entered the Guangyang area, the pre-ambush troops suddenly opened fire and launched an impact, dividing their formation into two sections. After 4 hours of fierce fighting, nearly 1,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, and more than 700 mules and horses, more than 300 rifles and a large number of military supplies were seized. Schematic diagram of ambush battle in Guangyang After being hit by this blow, the Japanese army did not dare to advance rashly. The two wings that entered Songta withdrew to Guangyang on the 6th to meet the follow-up troops that advanced westward from Zhanshang Town, west of Xiyang. On the 7th, Chen Geng, commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and the 769th Regiment of the 385th Brigade, with the cooperation of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division, once again set up an ambush in the area east of Guangyang. At about 17 o'clock, when more than 300 Japanese vanguard troops advancing westward from Zhanshang Town entered the ambush areas of Dahankou, Zhongshan Village and Hufeng Village, the ambush troops immediately launched an attack. According to the village, the Japanese army resisted stubbornly, and the Eighth Route Army charged bravely. After an hour of fierce fighting, more than 250 Japanese troops were wiped out. In two ambushes in Guangyang area, the 115th and 129th Divisions of the Eighth Route Army wiped out more than a thousand Japanese troops, forcing the Japanese army to divert from the north of Guangyang to the west of Xialongquan, delaying the Japanese attack on Taiyuan for a week, thus assisting and covering the safe retreat of Kuomintang friendly forces defending Niangziguan area. Wei Lihuang, commander-in-chief of the front line of the Second Theater of the Kuomintang, once personally called on Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, and sincerely said: "I know that the Eighth Route Army is indeed anti-Japanese, and it is the most elite force to rejuvenate the nation, especially the methods and experience of anti-Japanese are very rich." Comments on the Eighth Route Army used ambushes to attack the enemy's effective forces, effectively preserving itself and effectively attacking the arrogance of the Japanese aggressors