How many weapons did the Eighth Route Army capture in the northeast? A regiment of the largest arsenal of the Japanese army was transported in 3 days and 3 nights
On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally, and after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Eighth Route Army and the Nationalist Army attached great importance to the three eastern provinces. Because the three eastern provinces had the most perfect railway system in China at that time, and the resources such as coal, minerals and grain were very rich, the most complete industries in China at that time were in the three eastern provinces, especially the military industry, which side got the eastern three provinces first, which meant that it had an advantage in the next war.
At that time, the main force of the Nationalist army was in the southwest, while the main forces of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army were distributed in North China, East China and Shandong, and were only one step away from the northeast, so it was the earliest army to enter the northeast. During the negotiations in Chongqing, the superiors ordered the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, which were distributed in North China, East China, and Shandong, to send elite troops into the three eastern provinces to control the transportation hubs and important cities of the three eastern provinces in the shortest possible time.
The first to enter the northeast was the Zeng Kelin Department of the Eighth Route Army of the Sixteenth Military Subdistrict of Jireliao, and with the help of the Soviet army, the Zeng Kelin Department eliminated the ghosts who could not fall at Shanhaiguan, and then marched to Shenyang and other important cities. Shenyang's arsenals, as well as Shenyang, Fushun, Liaoyang, Benxi and other places of the arsenal, munitions warehouse, the Soviet army handed over to the Zeng Kelin Department, the Soviet army handed over the Kwantung Army's largest Sujiatun arsenal also to the Eighth Route Army, Zeng Kelin's regiment, it took 3 days and 3 nights to pull all the ammunition, got 156 guns, more than 1,000 heavy machine guns, 100,000 rifles, and a large number of military supplies, Zeng Kelin Department weapons, and returned to the Eighth Route Army in Guannei. When he first entered the three eastern provinces, there were only a few thousand people in the Zengkelin Department, and after only 2 months, it grew to 20,000 people.
The zhoubao central part of the Eighth Route Army, which was returned from the Soviet Union, took over a arsenal in Changchun from the Japanese army, and after the Soviet army agreed, the central Zhoubao transported 5 mountain guns, 20 mortars, more than 500 grenadiers, more than 800 heavy machine guns, more than 2,000 light machine guns, more than 50,000 rifles, and more than 12 million bullets. With the consent of the Soviet army, the Zhou Jiamei department of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Jinzhou unloaded the arms of the Japanese puppet army in Jinzhou, and also received 13,200 rifles, more than 20 million bullets, more than 690 machine guns, 80 guns, and more than 100 boxes of shells.
Before the Soviet army withdrew from the northeast, there were not many troops of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army entering the northeast, but the weapons of the Japanese army were too many, so they had to temporarily keep all the weapons, or transport them south to Guannei for the Eighth Route Army in Jinchaji and East China. Although the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army were not as good as the American equipment of the Nationalist army, they also played a huge role in the most difficult period of liberation.