The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression lasted for fourteen years, during which time there were foreign friendly troops who came to the rescue from thousands of miles, as well as puppet troops who betrayed the country for personal gain. Most of these people are gathered by hooligans, and in their hearts there is no national righteousness, and the reason why they participated in the war is to gain some benefits from it, and whoever has the greatest power will turn to whomever they want.
Such a selfish wall grass, once found that the battlefield is not dominant, will immediately retreat. However, in the Battle of Sungandian, these "wall-headed grasses" were obviously beaten and fled everywhere, so why not retreat in a hurry, but instead chose to counterattack? For this move of Wei Jun, even the commander of our army who was playing against him directly cried out strange things!
Under the Japanese gang, he is a blessing in disguise
In 1931, Japan launched the "918 Incident" and began the plan for a war of aggression against China. The most important thing in the war is the supply of materials, the Japanese army crossed the sea to invade China, and Japan is only a small country, it is impossible to rely on domestic transportation to replenish supplies. As a result, Japan has set its sights on China. When there were not enough materials, they used the method of robbery, and when there were not enough soldiers, they gave superior conditions to take the Japanese puppet army for their own use. Although this group of puppet troops was not as well trained as the regular Japanese army, as long as someone had equipment, it would cause damage to the Red Army to a certain extent.
On May 1, 1943, under the orders of the Japanese commander Ninji Okamura, 50,000 puppet troops, in coordination with the air force and tank army, launched a frenzied strafing of soldiers and civilians in the Jizhong area. The Japanese army was divided into multiple routes, and the "dragnet" strategy squeezed our soldiers into the same area and annihilated them all. Judging from the number of people, the Japanese army did not send out many of its own people, basically all of them were Japanese puppet troops. This also means that the essence of this war is that one's own people fight their own people.
After this great sweep, our army was severely damaged, but before our army could move, it was once again facing the attack of this group of puppet troops. Relying on the mountain of the Japanese army, the puppet army burned and plundered everywhere, and as long as they heard a little about who wanted to resist japan, they would kill it at the first time. Before the Japanese army came, they were like rats shouting and beating everyone in the street, but now they have the support of the Japanese army, so they burn and loot the people and act arbitrarily.
Heavy casualties and renewed strength
In one month, the puppet army created more than 1,700 strongholds in the Central Hebei region, divided more than 2,600 areas, caused more than 16,800 casualties of our army, lost many senior generals, and forced the remaining 20,000 main forces to move. In addition to our army, the people were also implicated in this clearance, and the number of casualties was close to 50,000.
The surprise operation of the puppet army dealt a heavy blow to the Red Army, and after a month of circumventing the puppet army, the morale of our army was greatly reduced, and what was most needed now was to restore the soldiers' confidence in resisting Japan. After breaking through the encirclement of the puppet army, the cavalry regiment of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army quickly entered the stage of rest and supply, and some soldiers began to retreat after seeing the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Jizhong, and even began to question whether their original intention was correct.
The puppet army counterattacked, and our army retreated
At this time, the central authorities also realized that the most urgent task at the moment is to unify thinking and reinvigorate the mighty wind. In August 1942, the morale of the Red Army, under the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee, soared. At this time, three months had passed since the enemy was engaged, and the "anti-encroachment struggle" was ready.
For the Red Army, the puppet army with grass on the wall was also the object of their own struggle, but this group of people still chose to play for the tiger, relying on the Japanese army to fly in the Jizhong region and be satisfied to be their "watchdogs". Seeing that the other side's thinking is backward, the oil and salt are not advancing, and the communist party's policy is completely understood, our army simply skips this step and directly launches an attack on them.
At that time, Huilong Town gathered a large number of puppet troops, and the deputy commander of the puppet army was called Cheng Ximeng. Cheng Ximeng was originally just a small in the town, and after the Japanese army occupied the town of Huilong, Cheng Ximeng began to curry favor with the Japanese army. When the Japanese army gave him the title of deputy commander of the puppet army, he willingly gave his life for Japan. The red army's task this time was to first take these five hundred or so men under his command and kill the chickens and scare the monkeys.
Responsible for the mission were the 129th Division and the 20th Regiment of the New 7th Brigade. Under the heroism of the Red Army, the puppet army in the town of Huilong was quickly annihilated. Unfortunately, among the annihilated enemies, there was no sign of Cheng Ximeng. As early as the two teams arrived at the place, the crowd had already discovered that only Cheng Ximeng's son was guarding the town of Huilong, and Cheng Ximeng had disappeared.
Just as the Red Army was about to rest, it was unexpectedly discovered that another group of puppet troops was trying to occupy Sungandian, using Lizhuang and Longwangmiao as a defensive front to separate the two base areas of Ji'nan and Jiluyu. Although the 129th Division at this time had less than 200 men, they still set out overnight to rush to Sungandian, and under the hard work of the Red Army, the puppet army fled in all directions.
Originally, it was thought that the war was over, and the puppet army suddenly chose to counterattack for some reason. This was the first counter-offensive of the puppet army since many exchanges. For this move of the puppet army, even the commander in charge of the command also shouted directly: Strange things! The soldiers speculated that it was very likely that the puppet army found that our army had only more than two hundred people, and because it was outnumbered, our army could only retreat first.
epilogue:
Although the town was not taken, our army killed hundreds of puppet troops without causing casualties. This greatly enhanced morale and laid a solid foundation for victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan.