In October 1932, the 3rd Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, commanded by He Long and Xia Xi, lost the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression operation and was forced to withdraw from the Honghu Su District, which had been operating for nearly five years. In the next three years, although the Red 3rd Army had also been fighting along the border between Xiang'e and Hubei Provinces, it had never been able to return to this homeland, and by the time the main force of the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army re-embarked on this land in the middle and late stages of the War of Resistance, it was more than 10 years later.
At that time, the wounded of the Red Army, the soldiers who were left behind, the Red Guards, and the revolutionary family members who did not withdraw from the Soviet Zone were forced by Chiang Kai-shek's arrogance and coercion, and some of them went through the formalities of "surrendering themselves," and some of them were incorporated into the security regiment. Some are forced to make a living and can only go to the bandit armed forces to make a living. Xu Yuyang, a former Honghu Red Guard guerrilla, is one of them.
Xu Yuyang joined the local gang, soon after the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance, the fall of Wuhan, including Honghu Lake, the surrounding rural areas of Wuhan became a vacuum area that no one controlled, Xu Yuyang also took the opportunity to pull up a green forest armed force, xiao gathered in the mountains and forests for a living. Soon, General Yang Hucheng and commander of the 128th Division, Wang Jinya, led his troops into the enemy's rear, gained a firm foothold in the former Honghu Su District, and established the famous anti-Japanese base area in central Hubei.
Wang Jinya operated in the central Hubei region for four years, and his headquarters grew to more than 60,000 people, posing a serious threat to the 11th Army of the Japanese invasion of China in Wuhan. In February 1943, the Japanese army mobilized 50,000 troops to launch the Jiangbei Annihilation War, the 128th Division was crushed, and the Honghu area was once again in chaos. Xu Yuyang took the opportunity to collect some of the discarded firearms of the 128th Division, defected to the puppet army Ofsu Zhendong, and was appointed as the commander of the detachment, and it has to be said that this person is still very good at flexibility.
Group photo of cadres of the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army
The collapse of the 128th Division objectively created an opportunity for the New Fourth Army to return to the Honghu area. In March 1943, Li Renlin (Major General, 1955), chief of staff of the Xianghe Military Subdistrict, led the 1st Battalion of the 45th Regiment of the 15th Brigade of the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army into the Honghu area and opened up the anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines on the outskirts of Jiangjian. In June 1943, the New Fourth Army continued to advance eastward, capturing Zhoulaozui, the former capital of Honghu Su District and Jianli County. I heard that the New Fourth Army was the Red 3rd Army of that year, and the local people all rushed to tell each other and warmly welcomed the return of their own team.
The morning after Li Bingfan arrived at Zhou Laozui, Li Renlin talked to him again and demanded that he reorganize Xu Yuyang's troops into the anti-Japanese guerrilla detachment in Jianqu County, with a platoon of veteran soldiers brought from the 45th Regiment as the backbone. If there are not enough cadres, the platoon leader can be promoted to company commander and the squad leader can be promoted to platoon leader. At the same time, Li Renlin warned Li Bingfan that he should learn the lesson of Zhang Wei's rebellion, take good control of Xu Yuyang's unit, and not let him run away again.
Former chief of staff of the Xianghe Military Subdistrict of the New Fourth Army, Major General Li Renlin
After breakfast, Xu Yuyang and several guards also came to the headquarters to meet with Li Renlin. Li Bingfan shook hands with him, only to see that this person was wearing a doctor's hat and carrying a civilization stick, looking like an enlightened gentleman, not at all like a bandit leader. Li Renlin pointed at Li Bingfan and said to Xu Yuyang: "Your troops will be led by Chairman Li in the future, and if you have anything to do in the future, please consult with him." The troops can be organized into two companies, with you as the detachment leader and Chairman Li as the political commissar, and one of his platoons as you. ”
"Well, this, this... That's good! Xu Yuyang reluctantly agreed, in fact, there was still some reluctance in his heart. Li Renlin took the opportunity to quickly cut through the chaos and urged Xu Yuyang to hold an reorganization meeting that afternoon, and Xu Yuyang's deputy commander Yang Jimin and Zhang Hanjie, the military sub-district combat staff officer, also attended the meeting. As soon as Li Bingfan held a meeting, he learned that this so-called bandit armed force of more than 100 people was also a false quota, and actually counted all the wives and ladies in the total number, which was eye-opening.
Li Bingfan, political commissar of the guerrilla detachment, and Colonel Changqing Xionghu of the 5th Company
After Xu Yuyang handed over his troops, he ran back to his Xu Mansion in Zhou Laozui, lying down all day and spending time, rarely caring about the guerrilla detachment anymore. This person who had once participated in the Red Guards of Honghu Lake was completely degenerate in this way. Li Bingfan did not care about this, and Xu Yuyang's inaction just allowed him to fully control this unit. In order to change the original composition and appearance of the troops, Li Bingfan recruited more than 80 young students and young farmers from the surrounding areas.
After the establishment of the guerrilla detachment, from time to time to go down to Honghu Lake to carry out water patrols, and the nearby Japanese puppet army also frequently patrolled the lake after learning about it. When the 5th Company of the guerrilla detachment was hiding from a Japanese motorboat, it happened to meet a platoon of the puppet army Wang Yiming's department cooking on the shore, and the company's Changqing Xionghu (colonel in 1955) immediately led his troops to rush ashore and shouted: "Are you willing to be a slave to the country?" Being a traitor is no good end! There is no way out. "Before the enemy could return to His senses, he was all disarmed and captured alive.
Wang Yiming, who served as the commander of the Jianli County Brigade of the 128th Division of Chiang Kai-shek's army, surrendered to the Japanese army after the Battle of Jiangbei and killed members of the underground organization sent by the New Fourth Army. Hearing that one of his platoons had been disarmed, Wang Yiming was furious: "This New Fourth Army has really eaten the guts of a leopard, and actually dared to move my people!" The next day, Wang Bu took more than 20 fishing boats to the nest and, under the command of himself and the Japanese adviser Tanaka, slaughtered the guerrilla detachment.
A puppet army captured by the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army
The New Fourth Army had long expected that Wang Yiming would retaliate, and Xu Yuyang was still hiding in the mansion, saying that "everything is decided by Political Commissar Li." When the fishing boats of the Japanese puppet army sailed into the ambush circle, the light and heavy machine guns of the guerrilla detachment that were ambushed on the side opened fire at the same time, killing and wounding more than 100 people on the spot, and more than 30 people obediently tied their hands and captured them, and even the indispensable Tanaka advisers were also taken prisoner.
In the Battle of Zhangjiafang, the guerrilla detachment captured more than 200 short guns and 10 light machine guns of Wang Yiming, and Wang Yiming himself only escaped with more than 100 people, after which this guy's troops never recovered, and other puppet troops in the Honghu area did not dare to easily trouble the New Fourth Army. Li Bingfan originally wanted to use Tanaka's advisers to exchange Han Baiqi, Hu Liangfa, and others who were arrested when Zhang Wei defected, but this guy actually took advantage of the fact that the soldiers of the New Fourth Army did not pay attention and committed suicide by diving into the water, and the plan to change prisoners fell short, and Hu Liangfa was unfortunately killed.
On the surface of the victory in the battle of Zhangjiafang, after a period of transformation, the original Xu Yuyang armed forces withstood the test of the battle and became a qualified new Fourth Army unit, while Xu Yuyang, who coveted enjoyment, finally broke away from the revolutionary ranks. At the beginning of the Liberation War, the New Fourth Army had to temporarily withdraw from the Honghu area, and Xu Yuyang's family slaves would probably not have any good fruit to eat in Jiang Jun's place.
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