Andong (present-day Dandong, Liaoning Province) is an important city located on the yalu River on the border between China and North Korea, located at the confluence of the Yalu River and the Yellow Sea in the southeast of the Liaodong Peninsula, located in the heart of Northeast Asia, and is also the main land passage connecting the Korean Peninsula and Chinese mainland, across the river from the City of Sinui in north Korea in the east and the Yellow Sea in the south, with a strategic position and great importance. After the restoration of the northeast, our army marched into the northeast, in order to build Andong into a strong and stable rear of our army, but the Kuomintang side also set its sights on this place, and at that time a large number of former Japanese personnel and Japanese people fled here, and at one time Anton gathered six or seven hundred thousand Japanese, which was 3 times the number of Chinese. The Soviet troops occupying this area were the units of the Soviet 44th Tank Brigade, about 200 people, and the commander was Major Gleliusi, who was good and bad, and retained all the officials and institutions of the original Japanese and pseudo-japanese periods without distinction, so that the Japanese and pseudo-personnel still controlled the power of Anton.
Although they are liberators, the Soviet army's style in the northeast is relatively rough and blunt, which makes the cooperation with our side sometimes not very pleasant
The Japanese, the puppets, and the Kuomintang "trinity" undermined our army's acceptance of Anton, and even deceived and co-opted the local Soviet troops to come forward to protect the so-called "maintenance meeting", so that our army did not succeed in receiving it several times. Not only did they refuse to hand over Anton, but they even looked at the security headquarters and public security forces set up by our army in Andong in an attempt to expel our army from Anton.
▲ Soviet headquarters in Andong
After repeated negotiations between our army and the Soviet army, the local Soviet troops had to take some measures to restrict the movement of the enemy, and the enemy had to restrain after being attacked by our army, but still wanted to move, waiting for an opportunity to create a larger-scale riot. In order to infiltrate our army to understand the situation of our army, some senior officers of the former Kwantung Army also disguised themselves as undercover agents, such as the lieutenant general of the Eastern Army who actually mixed into our security headquarters to burn boilers, a major general changed his name and surname to enter the internal public security bureau of our province as a clerk, and another major general mixed into our automobile team as a repairman.
▲ Our public security forces are fighting against bandits
In December 1945, the kuomintang army had already arrived in Qinhuangdao and Huludao and captured Jinzhou, an important town in western Liaoning. In order to concentrate forces to meet the advance of the Kuomintang army, the 3rd and 4th columns of our army marched from Andong to Benxi and Liaoyang to block the enemy, and Anton only had 2 regiments of directly subordinate troops left. Seeing that the time was ripe, the enemy elements hiding in Anton decided to launch a large-scale riot at 12:00 a.m. on December 31.
▲ The Soviet army controlled the port of the former Japanese army
After we obtained this information, it was only 7 hours before the enemy rioted. While our army urgently mobilized troops to occupy the commanding heights outside the city and strengthen its control over the whole city, it also urgently contacted Lieutenant General Shablowski, commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army in Sinuiju, Korea, and explained to him that the remnants of the Japanese Kwantung Army and the Kuomintang agents had been sent to the Soviet troops stationed in Andong, and that the ministry had now been bribed and hoodwinked by the enemy, and that there was no distinction between good and bad.
▲ Our public security forces are ready to go out to suppress the rebellion
Lieutenant General Shablovsky, after hearing our report, personally led some of his troops to Andong to inspect the situation, and when he found that this was the case, he immediately returned to Sinuiju, immediately mobilized a reinforced company to and marched to Andong, surrounded the local Soviet headquarters, and ordered all Soviet troops stationed in Andong to return to Sinuiju immediately, and all the Chinese in the headquarters and the Japanese were also detained. At the same time, a battalion of Soviet troops was sent from Sinuiju to help our army quell the riots.
▲ Cavalry of our public security forces
Then our army immediately took decisive action, first solving the enemy special forces of the security command, seizing the chief and deputy commanders and chiefs of staff of the enemy special riot, and then directly attacking the provincial public security bureau, destroying the second command of the enemy special forces, and capturing the main and deputy commanders. In the ensuing large-scale search, our army found a total of 7 Japanese lieutenant generals, 11 major generals, more than 130 colonels, more than 350 lieutenants, more than 1,000 soldiers, and captured a large number of weapons, ammunition and materials of various kinds. As a result, a riot carefully planned by the Kuomintang ended hastily.