After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the people of the whole country were immersed in an atmosphere of joy and joy, but in fact another conspiracy had quietly descended, at that time, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army led by the Communist Party of China were close to the enemy because they were fighting behind enemy lines, and they were also eligible to surrender as the victorious troops, but Chiang Kai-shek ordered that the Japanese puppet army should not surrender to the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army, and on the other hand, it mobilized heavy troops from all over the place in an attempt to divide the liberated areas and force the Communists to submit.
Of course, most of the Japanese army still accepted our surrender, but there were occasional exceptions, after the surrender of the Japanese army in 1945, the Gaoyou Japanese army refused to defend with a strong city, coupled with the support of the Kuomintang at that time, the Gaoyou Japanese army was entrenched in Chinese territory, relying on non-surrender, ignoring the ultimatum issued by our army several times.
In fact, in addition to their own Kuomintang honor guards, there is another reason, that is, the high walls of Gaoyou City, coupled with the elite Japanese puppet army stationed in it, even the regular troops of the Kuomintang can not help them, at that time the Japanese army stationed in Yangzhou independently mixed into the 90th brigade regiment 1,000 people and the puppet army second front army a department transferred to Gaoyou, so that the gaoyou garrison increased to more than 5,000 people. One of the guards takayuki was the Japanese army Ōsa Iwasaki Gaku.
The New Fourth Army in the Liberated Areas of Suwan was unable to persuade the Japanese puppet army to surrender many times, and later sent the commander of the Fifth Army who surrendered the puppet army to persuade the surrender, but unexpectedly, as soon as the people entered, they were shown to the public by the Japanese puppet army in the city. Not only did this Japanese puppet army also counterattack Jiangnan and recover the lost land, but its arrogant posture also made people resentful, but even so, our army still did not give up its efforts, and even made its own native aircraft flying into the city to publicize, according to historical research, at that time, in addition to leaflets, there were also many people from the Anti-War Alliance of the Japanese Army, who wrote letters to persuade them to surrender.
But all these efforts were to no avail, the Japanese troops guarding Gaoyou City were indifferent to any persuasion to surrender, even cursing and grinning, and from time to time shooting cold guns from the city, for this group of arrogant Japanese puppet troops, our army was determined to defeat them one step at a time, and Su Yu, commander of the East China Field Army, mobilized three columns of the New Fourth Army to prepare to besiege Gaoyou and completely liberate the city.
As the main attack, the 8th Column and three regiments attacked from the three directions of Gaoyou, encountered fierce resistance, fortunately, the soldiers were not afraid of the spirit of sacrifice, after the death of the enemy, with the bloody struggle, and finally in the case of the fall of gaoyou blockbusters, the Japanese puppet army also had to surrender, the battle ended in 7 hours, the New Fourth Army at the cost of more than 600 casualties, annihilated more than 1100 Japanese troops, nearly 900 prisoners; annihilated more than 5,000 puppet troops, more than 3,500 prisoners; captured a large number of guns and ammunition.
In fact, this battle was the last battle in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Central China, on December 19, 1945, more than 4 months had passed since Japan's unconditional surrender, and this beautiful war of annihilation was also the biggest battle since the New Fourth Army's War of Resistance, and at the same time showed that the New Fourth Army, led by the Communist Party of China, was fully capable of defeating the Japanese aggressors in frontal combat.