Author: Cadillo
At the beginning of 1939, the all-out War of Resistance entered a stalemate stage, and the situation of joint resistance began to crisis, from north China to southern Jiangsu, and some large and small military conflicts occurred between the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and Chiang Kai-shek's army. Among them, the more active one was chiang kai-shek's 97th Army. Zhu Huaibing, the commander of the army, was a very stubborn man, and he sent troops to attack the rear of the Taihang Mountain base area of the Eighth Route Army on many occasions, killing hundreds of wounded and staff members of the Eighth Route Army.
In order to counter Zhu Huaibing's provocative behavior, in March 1940, Liu Bocheng, commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, mobilized his troops to prepare to launch the Magnetic Weapons Forest Campaign to strike at this arrogant guy. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek's army retreated too quickly on the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and only three units of the 97th, 40th, and New 5th Armies were placed in the southern foothills of the Taihang Mountains on the north bank of the Yellow River, and they were arranged vertically in the form of a "one" character, and once the Eighth Route Army started a war with the 97th Army, the other side was bound to ask for help from the nearby New 5th Army.
The commander of the New 5th Army was Sun Dianying, a former general of the Northwest Army and a bandit, who had to borrow a place to the Shanxi warlord Yan Xishan because he had lost all his troops before the War of Resistance. After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, the scheming Sun Dianying saw the opportunity and gathered a group of rabble-rousers to make a comeback, and by 1939, his team had grown to more than 20,000 people. In order to bribe Sun Dianying to attack the Eighth Route Army, Jiang gave him the title of the New 5th Army, but Sun Dianying almost never took the initiative to attack the Eighth Route Army.
In the winter of 1939, Zhang Yinwu of the Hebei Nationalist Army, who had repeatedly provoked the Eighth Route Army, was defeated by the Eighth Route Army, and its remnants fled into the defense area of the New Fifth Army, where they were accepted by Sun Dianying and sent away. This time, when he heard that the Eighth Route Army had another military conflict with the 97th Army, Sun Dianying sent a liaison officer to the Eighth Route Army to find out the truth, and Peng Dehuai, deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, said to the visitors: "We will only fight Zhu Huaibing, we will not fight you, you just need to remain neutral." Sun Dianying ate this "reassuring pill" and was suddenly much more down-to-earth.
【Zhu Huaibing, Commander of the 97th Army】
In order to ensure that Sun Dianying could implement neutrality, Ji Degui, commander of the military sub-district of the Taihang Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, sent someone to find Jing Renqiu, a member of the underground organization who was serving as the deputy division commander of the New Fifth Army, and asked him to help promote this matter. Jing Renqiu, born in 1905 in Tongshan, Jiangsu Province, a third-term student of the Huangpu Military Academy, participated in the Nanchang Uprising, and worked underground in Sun Dianying's department before the War of Resistance, although Sun Dianying knew his true identity, he still deliberately kept him for secret contact with the Eighth Route Army.
Jing Renqiu considered for a moment, this matter is really not easy to handle, because before Zhang Yinwu belonged to the miscellaneous army, Sun Dianying did not help and it was reasonable, this time the 97th Army was Jiang Mou's semi-concubine unit, and if he did not help, I was afraid that it would be difficult to deal with on Jiang's side. Sun Dianying has always paid attention to preserving his strength, and if he fights with the Eighth Route Army, the troops he has worked so hard to build up will inevitably suffer losses, and Chiang Kai-shek will not provide him with supplements, which of course he does not want to see, so Jing Renqiu can only knock on the side first to persuade him to have good relations with the Eighth Route Army.
Soon after the Battle of Ciwu Shanlin began, Zhu Huaibing was unable to form an army and retreated to Yao Village, 20 kilometers from Lin County, where the Headquarters of the New Fifth Army was stationed, with a guard battalion and a teaching regiment, and two infantry regiments nearby. On the morning of March 6, 1940, after Sun Dianying had eaten breakfast, he received a report from the sentry that there were two troops running towards Yao Village in the northeast and northwest directions outside the village.
[Jing Renqiu, who was lurking under Sun Dianying as deputy division commander]
Sun Dianying took Jing Renqiu and others to the entrance of the village to see that one unit was indeed wearing the logo of the Eighth Route Army, and the other was dressed as a unit of Chiang Kai-shek's concubines, and it was estimated that the former was an enveloping unit of the Eighth Route Army, and was trying to intercept Zhu Huaibing's retreat into Yao Village. Just in case, the Guard Battalion and The Teaching Regiment of the New 5th Army quickly occupied the defensive positions outside the village and climbed onto the roof to guard both sides, if these troops joined the battle, then the remnants of Zhu Huaibing could be respite, and the Battle of Ciwu Wading Forest would probably not end well.
Fortunately, at this critical juncture, Sun Dianying was also very hesitant and did not immediately give the order. Jing Renqiu thought to himself, Sun Dianying definitely did not want to save, this is completely an undesirable errand, but if Zhu Huaibing ran into Yao Village to meet him, he had to save him, otherwise Zhu Huaibing would go to Jiang's place to file a complaint. Therefore, the most urgent thing at the moment was to separate Sun Dianying before Zhu Huaibing ran into Yao Village, as long as the two did not meet, then this matter would be much easier to handle.
Thinking of this, Jing Renqiu said to Sun Dianying: "Junza, the situation here is complicated, I think it is better for you to take the guards to avoid it, and if you see Commander Zhu later, it will not be easy to deal with, and the situation here will be handed over to me to deal with." Sun Dianying felt that Jing Renqiu had said a good thing, so he hurriedly left Yao Village with the guards, and when he left, he sent a staff officer to send a message, so that the guard battalion and teaching regiment that remained in the village would all obey the command of Deputy Division Commander Jing.
As soon as Sun Dianying left, Jing Renqiu ordered that all the units under the new 5th Army in the vicinity should close their doors tightly, climb on the roof to guard the ground, and once the two sides entered Yao Village, as long as they did not smash the house and did not enter the house, they were not allowed to shoot, and who dared to shoot was dealt with by military law. Fortunately, however, the Interception Force of the Eighth Route Army moved slightly faster and blocked the 97th Army before entering the village. After a battle, the 97th Army was completely annihilated, and even Zhu Huaibing's favorite third aunt was taken prisoner, and he fled alone.
Of course, not everyone climbed up to the roof according to Jing Renqiu's orders, and when Sun Dianying was observing at the mouth of the village, Kang Jipeng, commander of the New 5th Army, also led people to watch from the side, and he saw Sun Dianying hurriedly leaving, not knowing the famous hall inside, thinking that the Eighth Route Army was going to break into Yao Village, so he was scared and ran. On the way to escape, Kang Jipeng encountered the small pursuing unit of the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army told him to stop him, so the Eighth Route Army fired several shots and injured Kang Jipeng's arm.
After the battle, Jing Renqiu also met Li Da, chief of staff of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, who had come to clean up the battlefield. Jing Renqiu pretended to say to Li Da: "This time the brothers cannibalism is really painful, and Jing sincerely hopes that the two armies can get along with each other in a friendly manner so as not to repeat the mistakes of the 97th Army." After the Eighth Route Army withdrew, Jing Renqiu sent someone to find Zhu Huaibing, who was hiding in the grass nearby, and the latter embarrassed himself: "Oh, I didn't know that they were fighting so hard, and they wouldn't let me die." ”
After the end of the Battle of Ciwu Andilin, Sun Dianying sent Jing Renqiu to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to negotiate and deal with some aftermath issues, such as although the 97th Army was annihilated, the army still had 100 machine guns just arrived from the rear, Sun Dianying did not dare to embezzle this material, afraid that Zhu Huaibing would use this as an excuse to sue him, so he simply sent all these machine guns to the Eighth Route Army. In addition, because Jiang Deliberately harassed Sun Dianying and did not give him winter military uniforms in the rear, Sun Dianying also hoped that Jing Renqiu could get some winter clothing materials from the Eighth Route Army.
Jing Renqiu met with Commander-in-Chief Zhu at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, Deputy Commander Peng, Chief of Left Staff, and others, and everyone praised him for doing a good job and winning over Sun Dianying's neutrality. Jing Renqiu said regretfully, "Unfortunately, you were able to catch Zhu Huaibing again that day." ”
General Manager Peng laughed and said, "It is not easy to catch Zhu Huaibing, and it will be beneficial to them and to us to let him go, the commander of the light pole." Afterwards, Jing Renqiu helped by the way, taking Zhu Huaibing's third aunt and her son back.
Therefore, the reason why Sun Dianying's New Fifth Army adopted a cooperative and neutral attitude toward the Eighth Route Army in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was that Jing Renqiu, a senior latent personnel, was of great credit!
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