In the summer of 1946, after careful preparations, the Shandong Military Region launched a "rebellion operation", and the spearhead was directed at another big traitor in the Jiaodong area, Zhao Baoyuan.
Zhao Bao was born in Penglai, Shandong, and in his early years he joined the Northeast Army, and after the "918" incident, he followed the puppet army Li Shoushan to defect to the Japanese and massacred countless anti-coalition soldiers. In January 1938, after he led his troops to accept the reorganization of Chiang Kai-shek's army, he frequently created friction with our Eighth Route Army and passively resisted Japan. In 1940, it was even more open contact with the Japanese puppet army, and in the following years, it repeatedly sent troops to assist the Japanese and puppets in carrying out "sweeping" of the Eighth Route Army's Shandong base area. On February 11, 1945, the various departments of the Jiaodong Military Region, with the cooperation of the militia, launched a fierce attack on all the strongholds in Wandi and Laiyang, where their headquarters were located, and successfully recovered them. Zhao Baoyuan, who was panicked, led more than 600 remnants of his soldiers to flee to Jimo, where he hid until The Japanese surrendered.
Subsequently, Zhao Baoyuan was absorbed by Jiang Jun, transformed into the commander of the provisional 12th Division, and continued to occupy the area of Jiaoxian, Gaomi, and Jimo.
On May 20, Xin Guanwu, our deputy representative serving as the "Twenty-one High-Density Group", was kidnapped by Zhao Bu and subsequently killed. Old debts are not cleared, and new enmity is added. Therefore, the head of the Shandong Military Region has repeatedly stressed that this time we must fight in covert, not only to maintain the suddenness of the battle, but also to make a quick decision, and we must never let Zhao Baoyuan escape again!
【Nie Fengzhi】
[Our Army Launches An Attack on the Strongholds Occupied by the Recalcitrant Army]
According to the pre-war deployment, our 5th Division and the Independent Regiment of the North Sea were responsible for the main offensive tasks. By nightfall, the troops moved in multiple directions to the vicinity of the glue line. The troops enforced strict discipline on the battlefield, and until the battle began, Zhao Baoyuan never noticed the movement of our army.
Fighting is scheduled to begin at 23:00 on June 8. On the same day, division commander Nie Fengzhi just inspected the situation of the troops on the front line and returned to the command post. Just after entering the door, jiaoxian xiguan direction suddenly gunfire. Then the phone rang in a hurry.
Nie Fengzhi looked at his watch: At 22:50, there is still 10 minutes left, the time has not yet arrived, how can it start? Was there something wrong with the front? Or was it discovered by the enemy? As soon as the phone was answered, the situation was not what he expected: the 14th Regiment was detected by the defenders of the city gate when it was secretly moving in the direction of Chengguan, and the troops had to start the battle 10 minutes early. Nie Fengzhi told the front line without hesitation: Let the 13th and 15th regiments stop waiting for the order, immediately launch an attack, and break through the defense of Jiaoxian City as soon as possible!
The soldiers of the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 13th Regiment took the lead, cleared the city wall with grenades, and continued to advance. Who knew that the recalcitrant army did not show weakness, and formed a dense network of fire with mountain artillery, mortars and machine guns, which quickly suppressed the forward path of the 5th Company. Seeing that the advance was blocked, the company commander simply asked the soldiers to organize a defense with the help of the broken bricks and tiles of the breakthrough. Relying on their light weapons and grenades, the crowd repelled more than 10 swarms of recalcitrant troops.
At this time, the rest of the siege troops were still outside the city, and the advance was equally difficult. In order to open the breakthrough, Nie Fengzhi asked the blasting team to throw the explosives into the culvert of the city wall, and after several explosions, he did open a hole in the city wall. However, due to the insufficient explosive yield and the thick walls of the city wall, the breakthrough point was very narrow, and could only accommodate one platoon of warriors at a time.
When the two sides fought until dawn, the enemy counterattacks became more frequent. In order not to prevent Zhao Baoyuan from breaking through, Nie Fengzhi ordered the 5th Division to encircle Jiaoxian and storm the city. In order to support the offensive battle, our 13th Regiment concentrated more than 20 grenadiers and repeatedly bombarded the stubborn positions at the head of the city. Taking this opportunity, the soldiers of 7 companies of my 3 battalions killed the head of the city and fought with the recalcitrant army. The remaining units also broke through the enemy's defensive line one after another and advanced deeper.
A group of enemies failed to counterattack and tried to escape from the Kuiguang Gate, but they were intercepted by our 13th Regiment, and after a fierce beating, the dead and wounded were injured, and those who did not hang up the color also obediently raised their hands.
At 18:00 on June 9, our army took control of the Jiaoxian Railway Station, and the battle came to a temporary end. The sound of gunfire had not yet subsided, and Nie Fengzhi asked the whole division to carry out a dragnet operation and find his sworn enemy Zhao Baoyuan no matter what. However, the soldiers searched for half a day, almost searching the whole city, and did not find Zhao Baoyuan's whereabouts.
Xu Shiyou was also very concerned about the battle in Jiaoxian County, and every once in a while he would call Nie Fengzhi's division headquarters to inquire about the battle situation, and the opening was "Did Zhao Baoyuan find it?" The more he urged, the more anxious Nie Fengzhi became. You know, the last time wandi failed to catch Zhao Baoyuan, it made Nie Fengzhi uncomfortable for a while. This time, no matter what, he could not be allowed to escape. Otherwise, not only would Xu Shiyou not be able to explain there, Nie Fengzhi would also have no face to face Jiaodong's father.
However, the defense around Jiaoxian County was like an iron barrel, where did Zhao Baoyuan go? Nie Fengzhi strictly ordered: To live to see people, to die to see corpses, no matter what, we must find Zhao Baoyuan!
Nie Fengzhi himself also took the guards out of the division headquarters and wanted to go to the front line to understand the situation. Just after reaching the Kuiguang Gate area, several soldiers rushed to report: there was a black fat man lying in the trench outside the city gate, probably Zhao Baoyuan.
Nie Fengzhi suddenly came to the front of the trench, only to see that it was full of the corpses of the recalcitrant soldiers. The warrior pointed to one of the fat men, and Nie Fengzhi took a closer look, it was Zhao Baoyuan!
How did Nie Fengzhi know Zhao Baoyuan? In fact, he had been to the Gaomi Military Mediation Office and had known Zhao Baoyuan for a long time. At that time, he was still wearing the rank of major general on his shoulders, and he was arrogant, and now he had finally killed this big traitor.
The news of Zhao Baoyuan's death soon spread throughout the division. Zhang Jialuo, director of the Propaganda Department of the East China Military Region, came to congratulate him, and he smiled and said to the cadres of the 5th Division who were present: "If we can die at the hands of the Eighth Route Army, our 'friendship' with our old rival Zhao Baoyuan will be broken!" ”
Subsequently, the Jiaodong Military Region took advantage of the victory to pursue, and in the three battles of Gaomi and Jimo, a total of nearly 10,000 enemy soldiers were annihilated, which not only cleaned up the traitors who did nothing evil, but also effectively deterred Jiang Jun, and eradicated the major troubles entrenched in the interior of Jiaodong.
[Nie Fengzhi (one-handed abductor), personally autopsy to confirm that it was zhao Baoyuan, a traitor, who was killed, and reported to Xu Shiyou that he had killed the enemy]
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