In the early summer of 1932, the Kuomintang army mobilized more than 100,000 troops to attack the Western Soviet Region of Xiang'e in a split-attack posture, in order to be able to concentrate its forces on dealing with one of the enemies along the way, thus completely shaking the enemy's entire deployment, the Jingmen Guard Battalion in the Soviet District was ordered to cooperate with the main force of the Red 2nd Army to fight and contain the White Army in The area of Gaoqiao and Xincheng. Commander He Long personally instructed them to boldly move towards the front line of Jingmen, Shashi, and Yichang, threatening the enemy's flanks.
However, after our guard battalion left the base area, Zhang Guodong, the commander of the reactionary militia regiment who had long been enemy of us, returned from xincheng to his hometown of Zhangjia Dawan with the guard regiment, preparing to expand its militia group in the local area and occupy the town of Wanli in the Soviet district at the same time.
The Jingmen Guard Battalion and Zhang Guodong's militia group have been fighting wits and courage for 2 years, but they have not been able to eliminate each other, mainly because Zhang Guodong has been shrinking in Xincheng for a long time, where there are heavy troops of the Kuomintang army, and our army cannot help him for the time being; in addition, Zhang Guodong is also very cunning, and accidentally came out to attack the Soviet area, hiding on the boat as soon as it got dark, and driving to the Yangtze River for the night. This time, Zhang Guodong actually took the initiative to send him to the door, and my guard battalion was determined to eat him in one fell swoop.
▲ Group photo of the commander of the Red 2Nd Army when he was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army
Before Zhang Guodong assembled and set off at Xincheng, in order to cheer up his subordinates, He deliberately spread rumors that the Kuomintang troops stationed in Shayang would send 1 battalion to cooperate with the militia. However, Zhang Guodong was greedy and afraid of death after all, and not long after he led the team to set off, he used the excuse that he had something to do, and first returned to the garrison, and the militia group was led by his cousin Zhang Guoliang to continue to attack Wanli Town. Combined with the above information, our guard battalion is determined to carry out a masquerade attack on the vigilante groups, disguised as a Kuomintang army to destroy them!
Therefore, our army used the uniforms and flags of the Previously captured Kuomintang army to quickly dress up the 1st Company as a white army, and at the same time forged an order by using the Guan Defense Seal Letter of the Enemy People's Regiment that had been captured earlier. When everything was ready, the 1st Company immediately set out for Wanli Town, and the main force of the battalion followed.
When we arrived at a village only 8 miles away from wanli town, suddenly the sharp soldiers reported that there was a team with a red flag in front of them heading in the direction of our army. Could it be their own people? So the commander of the 1st Company immediately ordered the trumpeters to blow the trumpet to make contact, but the other side did not respond, but when the other side saw our army wearing the "Blue Sky and White Sun Flag", he immediately sent people to contact.
It turned out that this red flag-waving contingent was actually the vigilante group that our army wanted to eliminate! The 1st Company Commander immediately asked the other side menacingly, "You are not really the Red Army, are you?" Why the red flag? The other side repeatedly defended that it was to deceive the local people and the Red Army, so it was the red flag. Subsequently, the commander of the 1st Company showed an "order" for the vigilante group to immediately line up to accept the "review of the commander of the national army."
Because the 1st Company's dress was very much like a legitimate "national army" and showed the "order" on the defense of the Great Seal, the unsuspecting vigilante group began to line up, and then the 1st Company Commander began to slowly lecture the militia to win time, and the soldiers of the 1st Company began to slowly unfold their formations to surround the militia, and when the time was ripe, the commander of the 1st Company suddenly said to one of the militia groups with stolen property: "Commander-in-Chief Chiang has repeatedly told us that we want three points of military and seven points of politics to win the hearts and minds of the people, and you are still robbing the people's property, killing people and setting fires. Today I want to engage in military law! ”
Then he waved his hand, and the soldiers of the 1st Company immediately dragged him out of the team and executed him, and the remaining vigilante groups trembled, not knowing what medicine the "national army" had taken today, but the militia was already under the tight encirclement of our army.
As one vigilante group after another was dragged out for execution, the rest of the people could not stand it any longer, and some people began to want to fight to the death. At this time, the commander of the 1st Company saw that the main force of the battalion had arrived, and immediately issued an attack signal, and with the arrival of the main force of the guard battalion, our army wiped out all the remaining more than 100 militia regiments. In this way, a vigilante group that had been the enemy of our army for 2 years was completely solved by our army without spending a single shot or a bullet.
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Memoirs of the Revolution, Vol. 16 pp
Editor/Zhou Hongxin
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