At exactly 00:00 on August 9, 1945 (the same day that the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki), the Soviet Million Red Army launched a general offensive against the Japanese 700,000 Kwantung Army entrenched in northeast China with a swift and unconcealed offensive, and annihilated the elite Kwantung Army of the Invading Japanese Army and destroyed the puppet state of Manchukuo in one fell swoop.
The Soviet Union's march into the northeast quickly changed the situation of the war, and our Party reacted at the first time in light of this drastically changing domestic and international situation, and On August 11, 1945 (that is, the third day of the Soviet Union's invasion of the northeast), our Party issued an order to the relevant troops to march into the northeast:
I. The headquarters of Lü Zhengcao of the former Northeast Army marched from Shanxi and Suiyuan to Chahar and Rehe.
Second, zhang Xuesi's troops of the former Northeast Army marched from Hebei and Chahar to Rehe and Liaoning.
Third, the former Northeast Army's Wan Yi Headquarters marched from Shandong and Hebei to Liaoning.
4. Li Yunchang's headquarters on the borders of Hebei, Rehe, and Liaoning will march to Liaoning and Jilin on the same day.
However, it was not Lü Zhengcao, Zhang Xuesi, and Wan Yi who preemptively entered the northeast, but the three units under the Jireliao Military Region, because the position they were stationed in was the closest to the northeast, which could be said to be the first to get the moon near the water tower.
On August 13, when he received the order to march into the northeast, Li Yunchang, commander of the Jireliao Military Region, immediately held an emergency meeting to convey the instructions of the Central Committee, Zhu Zong, and Nie Zong, and formed an eastward march to the provinces of Rehe, Liaoning, and Jilin in three roads: East Road, West Road, and Middle Road.
I. The East Road, led by Zeng Kelin, commander of the 16th Military Subdistrict of the Jireliao Military Region, and Tang Kai, deputy political commissar, with a total of more than 4,000 people, set out from the Funing area in eastern Hebei and marched along the Western Liaoning Corridor toward Jinzhou and Shenyang.
On August 16, the Troops of the Eastern Road set out and fought along the way, and on August 30, they left Shanhaiguan and became the "First Army" after the Japanese surrender, and arrived in Jinzhou on September 4, taking over Jinzhou City and the western Liaoning region.
Zeng Kelin (1913–2007), founding major general.
Tang Kai (1916–1999), founding major general.
Second, the West Road, led by Shu Xing, commander of the 14th Military Subdistrict of the Jireliao Military Region, and Li Ziguang, political commissar, a total of more than 2,000 people, set off from the Xinglong and Weichang areas and headed northeast in the direction of Chengde.
On August 18, the Troops of the Western Road set out and marched along Xinglong, Chengde, and Luanping, meeting with the Soviet army divisions southward of Duolun and liberating a large number of counties such as Weichang and Longhua.
Shu Xing (1910–2001), founding major general.
Li Ziguang (1902–1967) was the vice governor of Rehe and Hebei Province.
On the middle road, led by Zhao Wenjin, commander of the 15th Military Subdistrict of the Jireliao Military Region, and Yang Wenhan, political commissar, a total of more than 3,000 people set off from Xifengkou and headed for Lingyuan, Chifeng, and Chaoyang in the direction of Rehe.
On August 17, the middle road troops marched from Xifengkou to Pingquan, Lingyuan, and Chifeng, and on August 20, they met with the Soviet army, disarmed the puppet Manchus, and took over eight county towns.
Zhao Wenjin (1913–1998), founding major general. Yang Wenhan (1908–1997) was director of the Ministry of Water Resources.
Among the three units that preemptively left the border to march into the northeast, the troops of the Sixteenth Army Sub-district led by Zeng Kelin and Tang Kai of the Eastern Route Army developed the fastest, and after they arrived in Jinzhou, the main force did not stop, entering Shenyang on September 5, and entering Fushun, Liaoyang, Benxi, Anshan and other places a week later. A month later, the troops also grew from more than 4,000 people to more than 60,000 people.
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