Author: Dehengshu
Statement: Soldiers say original, plagiarism will be investigated
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang, with the support of the United States, tried to monopolize the fruits of victory. On the one hand, he actively mobilized troops to invade our liberated areas; on the other hand, he "disregarded the previous suspicions" and collected a large number of puppet troops in the Japanese-occupied areas; the United States even issued orders to the Japanese side and the Japanese troops stationed in China, demanding that they only surrender to Chiang Kai-shek's army and that they should make "effective resistance" in the event of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. Therefore, on August 15, 1945, although the Japanese army announced its unconditional surrender, the local battles between the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and the Japanese puppet army still did not stop.
【Japanese surrender】
From October 1945 to January 1946, the troops of the Bohai Naval Region fought with the Japanese puppet army for more than 2 consecutive months on the Jinpu and Jiaoji railway lines, captured 4 county towns, conquered a large number of strongholds, annihilated more than 10,000 Japanese puppet troops, and directed themselves at the puppet army entrenched in Dezhou.
There were about 4,000 people in the Dezhou puppet army, mainly the original North China Appeasement Army and the Shandong Security Fifth Brigade, and the rest were the pseudo-police units near Dezhou. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, these puppet troops oppressed the good and the good, played the role of the tiger, and helped the Japanese army to "encircle and suppress" the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians on many occasions. After the Surrender of the Japanese Army, they were absorbed by Chiang Kai-shek's army and transformed into the Independent First Column of the Eleventh Theater and the Local Security Regiment, continuing to raid and plunder the townships and do all kinds of bad things.
【Puppet Army Trained by the Japanese Army】
After the troops of the Bohai Naval Region arrived near Texas, they were determined to eliminate this puppet army. However, on January 10, 1946, the peace talks between the two armies ended, and an agreement on "stopping the internal military conflict" was formally signed. In order to safeguard the overall situation, the troops of the Bohai Naval Region accepted the mediation of the Executive Department of the Beiping Military Mediation Office.
[The Executive Department of the Beiping Military Investigation Office was established in December 1945 and is composed of a committee jointly composed of our side, the Chiang authorities and the United States. Our committee members are Ye Jianying and the chief of staff is Luo Ruiqing; the Chiang administration is Zheng Jiemin, and the chief of staff is Cai Wenzhi; the US committee member is Robertson, and the chief of staff is Hayes.
On February 5, the 15th Military Investigation Office Executive Group, composed of US representative Lieutenant Colonel White, Jiang Jun representative Colonel Liu Jinming, and our representative Major Song Shaode, arrived in Tuqiao Town, about 15 kilometers east of Dezhou City, to organize mediation. Yuan Yelie, acting commander of the Bohai Naval Region, Jing Xiaocun, political commissar, and Colonel Pan Guang, the "representative of the Nationalist Army" stationed in Texas, attended the meeting.
[Yuan Yelie, former acting commander of the Bohai Naval Region, awarded the rank of major general in 1955]
At the negotiating table, although Song Shaode, Yuan Yelie, and Jing Xiaocun used one fact after another to expose the despicable acts of the puppet troops stationed in Texas in playing for the tiger during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, continuing to attack the Liberated Areas after the victory of the War of Resistance, and killing our anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. But White was noncommittal about this, and even impatiently grabbed the stubble and asked:
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Are you going to punish the nationalists in the city? As an American soldier, I conclude that you will not be able to help them for three months.
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After Yuan Yelie listened, he knew that the Americans were partial to Jiang Jun, and he did not want to continue to expose the dezhou puppet army. He said:
Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, if we use force to deal with the puppet army in Texas, it will not take three months, three days.
After 5 days of negotiations, after consulting the Peiping Army to mediate the opinions of our representatives, in order to avoid the people from falling into war again, on February 9, the two sides reached an agreement that the two sides would cease hostilities and would no longer move troops without authorization and ensure the free movement and trade of the surrounding masses. On the afternoon of the 9th, Yuan Yelie and Wang Jixiang, commander of the Texas garrison, signed the agreement.
Subsequently, representatives of the parties involved in the negotiations held a banquet to celebrate the armistice. At the banquet,
Wang Jixiang, who was already the commander of Chiang Kai-shek's army, learned that among those present, he had the highest rank and began to brag about his experience. He said
We are graduates of Whampoa Phase III
He also said that he and Jiang Shi, Chen Cheng, and Hu Zongnan were fellow countrymen, and also boasted about who among the generals of Chiang Kai-shek's army were his classmates and who were his subordinates... Full of self-confidence, he flaunts that he can fight a good battle and have a bright future. American personnel, including White, complimented Wang Jixiang from time to time.
Listening to Wang Jixiang's boasting, Yuan Yelie looked on coldly. At the end of the banquet, Yuan Yelie made a polite toast:
It turned out that Lieutenant General Wang was an old classmate of mine when I was in Huangpu, and I would like to ask you to toast to my old classmate.
Jing Xiaocun listened and added:
Commander Yuan was a graduate of the second term of Whampoa, and he also worked as a cadre in the Secretariat Unit of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy.
【Jing Xiaocun, former political commissar of the Bohai Naval Region】
Listening to the words of Yuan and Jing, Wang Jixiang was astonished. Originally, Wang Jixiang was very proud that he was a "high-caliber student" of the Whampoa Military Academy.
Didn't expect this in front of me
Rustic
The commander of the Bohai Naval Region, who was actually his own senior, said very unnaturally:
There is much disrespect, there is much disrespect.
After the mediation, the puppet army stationed in Texas did relent in the short term, but as the time for Chiang Kai-shek to launch the war became closer and closer, after mid-May, the puppet army stationed in Texas began to frequently provoke our liberated areas. They took the lead in violating the armistice agreement, openly shot and killed our soldiers and civilians, and besieged the district office of the Eastern Ninth District of Dexian County, ignoring the warnings of the Bohai Naval District. With the approval of its superiors, the Bohai Naval District launched the Battle of Texas on June 7.
[Puppet army playing for the tiger killed anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians]
In order to completely annihilate these Texas puppet troops whose hands were stained with the blood of the anti-japanese soldiers and civilians, in the first stage of the battle, the troops of the Bohai Naval Region used two days and one night to destroy the outer strongholds outside The city of Dezhou, control the airfield, the canal bridge and the railway station, block the west gate of The city of Dezhou, and cut off all ways for the defending enemy to escape to Jinan. On the evening of the 8th, the second phase of the Battle of Texas began.
Taking advantage of the night, the three battalions and ten companies of the 1st Regiment of Special Agents of the Military Region took the lead in seizing the Jade Emperor Pavilion, the commanding heights in the southeast corner outside the city of Texas, and controlled the garrison headquarters of the Texas puppet army and the main streets inside and outside the city under our firepower. Immediately after that, the Second Independent Regiment of Southern Hebei and the Independent Battalion of Jingxian County blocked the west gate; the Reconnaissance Brigade of the Military Region and the Independent Battalion of Wuqiao blocked the north gate; the first regiment of special agents blocked the south gate; and the second regiment of special agents blocked the east gate, encircling the Dezhou puppet army regiment in the city.
【Bohai Naval Region troops attack Dezhou Railway Station】
Yuan Yelie and Jing Xiaocun saw that the conditions for the general offensive were ripe, and at 9 p.m. on the 10th, they commanded all the units to launch a general offensive. It took only 2 hours for the 1st regiment and battalion of agents in charge of the main attack on the south gate to blow up the enemy fortifications and walls and attack the city of Texas. At 9 o'clock on the 11th, in addition to the east gate, which was only responsible for containment and surveillance, the west gate and the north gate were also conquered by the troops of the Bohai Naval Region. The puppet army in the city died and fell, and soon a regiment of secret agents surrounded the enemy's garrison headquarters.
When the special agent regiment invaded the security headquarters, it was not expected that wang Jixiang, the commander of the Texas garrison, fled to the Eastland Hospital where the American representative White lived when the south gate was breached.
This Whampoa Military Academy
High-caliber students
When he escaped, he was said not even wearing shoes.
[Bohai Naval Region troops invaded Texas and collected armory weapons]
Seeing that the overall situation in Dezhou City had been decided, Yuan Yelie, who had originally considered the INTERVENTION of the US side on behalf of the White Association, decisively ordered the Second Regiment of Secret Agents to attack the East Gate, seize luozhuang, the stronghold in the east of the city, and surround the remnants of Texas and Wang Jixiang in the Dongdi Hospital.
After two unsuccessful attempts to persuade the surrender, Yuan Yelie commanded the artillery to fire at the courtyard and accurately destroyed the enemy's 39 regimental headquarters in the hospital. White in the hospital saw the determination of our army to eliminate the Texas puppet army, and had to persuade the enemy in the Eastland hospital to surrender. At 4 p.m., the troops of the Bohai Naval District entered the Dongdi Hospital to take the surrendered enemy officers and soldiers away, and
Wang Jixiang, who was once invincible, was searched out from under White's bed. Wang Jixiang became the first lieutenant general to be captured in the Liberation War.
【Liberation of Texas, 15th Military Investigation Office Executive Group Returns to Beiping by Plane】
White confidently believed at the negotiating table that the puppet army in Texas City could hold out for three months, but from the Attack on Texas City by the Troops of the Bohai Naval District at 9 p.m. on the 10th to the attack on The Eastland Hospital at 4 p.m. on the 11th,
Yuan Yelie took less than a day to eliminate the Texas puppet army.
In the Battle of Texas, the troops of the Bohai Naval District killed more than 1,200 puppet troops and captured more than 4,500 prisoners. These puppet armies, who once inhabited the townships of Texas and committed heinous crimes, did not escape the sanctions of justice in the end.