百团大战开始后,陈赓一直在前线指挥作战屡立战功。攻打榆社城,陈赓又担负起主攻任务。榆社是日军自正太路经平辽公路、辽榆大道向白晋公路各据点转运粮草弹药的主要枢纽之一,被日军视为固若金汤。根据事前侦察的情况,陈赓与参谋长周希汉决定乘夜近敌作战。但在当晚因故使得近敌作战计划失利。偷袭不成,只有强攻。陈赓和周希汉决定组织一批特等射手,专门压制敌人火力。晚上11点半他们再次发起强攻,投弹组炸得敌人抬不起头。后来,残敌再度收缩,躲进了榆社中学里,依托中学里的一个高大碉堡和四周的围墙做最后的殊死抵抗并大量施放毒气。指挥所里的陈赓、周希汉和七七二团三营指战员正好处于下风,全部中毒,一个个 Hundred regiments after the start of the war, Chen Kui has been in the frontline command of the combat meritorious repeatedly. Yushe attack city, Chen Kui also assume the main task. Yushe is one of the main hubs for the Japanese military to transplanted grain and ammunition from its headquarters along the Pingliao Highway and Liao Yu Avenue to its key positions along the Baijin Highway. It is regarded by the Japanese military as impregnable. According to the situation in advance reconnaissance, Chen Xun and chief of staff Zhou Xihan decided to fight by night and enemy. However, the enemy reconnaissance plan was lost on the night for some reason. Not a surprise attack, only the storm. Chen Xun and Zhou Xihan decided to organize a group of top scorer, specifically to suppress enemy firepower. At 11:30 pm they again launched a storm, bombardment group frightened enemy can not lift his head. Later, the remnants retracted again, hid in the Yushe Middle School, relying on a high school bunker and surrounded by the walls to do the final desperate resistance and massive release of gas. Commander Chen Huan, Zhou Xihan and the seventy-two regiment battalion commander just at a disadvantage, all poisoning, one by one