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Author: Yi Pin Wen team a constant single step, no authorization to ban the transfer!
On the anti-Japanese battlefield, there was a local unit, although not as famous as the Sichuan Army, but she often appeared in film and television dramas like an Internet celebrity, that is, the Jin Sui Army.
[Yan Xishan]
The reason why it was named the Jin Sui Army was that the officers and men of this unit were mainly from Shanxi Province and Suiyuan Province at that time. Speaking of the founder and leader of this army, it is natural that there is no one person who can get around, that is, Yan Xishan.
Yan Xishan seems to be closely linked to the impression of the Chinese people and the accumulation of wealth, such a stereotype. However, it should be known that Yan Xishan is unequivocal and brave in standing on the front line on major issues of right and wrong that have a bearing on the survival of the nation.
In 1936, Japanese imperialism instigated the activities of the Inner Mongolian Dewang to openly split the country, dispatched a large number of military advisers and huge amounts of weapons assistance, in a vain attempt to take Suiyuan Province in one fell swoop, and then encircled our country from the northwest. Under the orders of Yan Xishan, the Jin Sui army garrisoned Fu Zuoyi's troops in Suiyuan Province and the Japanese-backed Dewang and the puppet army Wang Yingbu fought an eight-day decisive battle at Honggeltu. In this decision on the fate of Suiyuan Province, the officers and men of the Jin Sui Army dared to fight and fight, and even adopted the method of long-distance attack, detouring the enemy's rear road and severely damaging the puppet army Wang Yingbu and the Dewang troops, and taking advantage of the victory to pursue, successively winning the Battle of the Bailing Temple, and completely smashing the Japanese army's vain attempt to rely on the Dewang and the puppet army to split the motherland.
After the "July 7 Incident" in 1937, Shanxi became a key target of the Japanese army's offensive due to its extremely rich coal resources. In line with the concept of defending the territory and having the responsibility, the Jin Sui Army actively insulted, and soon formed the 6th and 7th group armies, plus the 18th Group Army composed of the Eighth Route Army and the Eighth Route Army due to the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists at that time, and a total of three group armies were deployed to the border area between Shanxi and Hebei. In accordance with the area of operations against Japan delimited by the Military Commission of the National Government, it is set up as the Commander's Department of the Second Theater, which is fully responsible for and directs the operations of the three group armies in the region against Japan.
Since the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, the Commander's Department of the Second Theater of Operations, with the Jin Sui Army as the main force and the Central Army cooperating with the operation, has successively launched the "Datong Defense War", "Battle of Xinkou", "Battle of Pingxingguan", "Taiyuan Defense War", and the tragic "Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain", which effectively struck at the Japanese army and delayed the rhythm of the Japanese army's attack on China's north China. If the Jin Sui Army could not effectively resist in the territory of Shanxi Province, but passively evaded and fled in the wind, it was undoubtedly very dangerous for the Japanese army to easily occupy Shanxi. Assuming that Shanxi was soon occupied by the Japanese army, then Shaanxi, as well as Ningxia and other provinces would naturally be exposed to the iron hooves of the Japanese army, and even the Japanese army would attack Sichuan from Shaanxi across the Qinling Mountains, then the three months of destruction of China that the Japanese army clamored for was not a vain word.
[Officers and men of the Jin Sui Army rushing to the battlefield]
When the "Lugou Bridge Incident" broke out just over a month ago, our army was unable to resist the fierce offensive launched by the Japanese army in Hebei Province due to its poor weapons and equipment and individual quality, and it did not take long to occupy various important cities and transportation hubs in Hebei Province. However, completely contrary to the expectations of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, the Japanese army did not attack Henan and Shandong from the south, but instead turned to the west and attacked Shanxi. At this time, Yan Xishan was seriously ill, but as the soul of the Jin Sui Army at a time when the country was in crisis and employing people, he did not consider his personal illness, actively responded to the call of the Military Committee of the National Government, flew to Nanjing with illness to attend the Nanjing Military Conference organized by the National Government, gave up his prejudice with Chiang Kai-shek, arranged an all-round war against Japan in Shanxi Province, served as the commander of the Second Theater, and took the initiative to open the provincial borders, warmly welcoming the troops led by Wei Lihuang of the Central Army into Shanxi and participating in the joint action of defending Shanxi and resisting the Japanese aggressors.
Here is only mention of the Defense of Datong launched by the Jin Sui Army alone. In mid-August 1937, the gateway to Datong, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, was occupied by the Japanese army, and Datong was quickly exposed to the japanese army's vision. Yan Xishan, who was deeply aware of the serious situation, set up a forward command post of the Commander's Headquarters of the Second Theater of Operations in Dai County on August 28, and actively deployed the Jin Sui Army to carry out the Datong Battle with the Japanese army. The Jin Sui Army successively invested almost all of the belongings of the 19th Army, the 61st Army, and the 34th Army, posing for a decisive battle with the Japanese army, and doing its best to prevent the Japanese army from invading Shanxi.
The Japanese army that invaded Datong was the elite Japanese Sakagaki Division that invaded China, as well as two mixed brigades and regiments, and other units, with the support of aircraft and tanks, launched a fierce attack on the Jinsui Army positions set up in Huai'an and Xiangtianzhen. In less than half a month, by September 13, the troops of the 6 regiments of the Jin Sui Army stationed in Tianzhen were almost all wiped out, the 61st Army was almost completely killed, and the 19th Army, which was firmly at Jule Fort, fought fiercely with the Japanese army for two days, with casualties reaching 3,000 people, which showed the fierceness of the battle.
After the more tragic "Battle of Xinkou" began, the Jin Sui Army made a major sacrifice, responsible for the Pingzhen position to block the Japanese 196th Brigade, under the leadership of the brigade commander Jiang Yuzhen, in order to enable the main force to complete the assembly at Xinkou, there is still 20 miles away from the original Ping town and fierce battle with the Japanese army, Jiang Yuzhen personally came to command, although the Japanese attack was repeatedly repelled, but the Japanese army relied on strong air and ground firepower, the 196th Brigade was compressed into a very small range, and the officers and men of the besieged 1986Th Brigade had no fear. Under the leadership of Jiang Yuzhen, he fought with the enemy in the street and fought to the death. Just when Jiang Yuzhen led the rest of the army to break through, unexpectedly, he was hit by Japanese shells and martyred. In this battle, almost all of the 196th Brigade, including the brigade commander Jiang Yuzhen, was killed. The Battle of Xinkou, which began on October 11 and ended on November 2, and lasted for 23 days, became the fiercest battle in the north China battlefield in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it was also the longest-lasting battle with the largest casualties on both sides of the war, and this battle was also the battle with the largest casualties of the Jin Sui Army. After the end of this battle, the original two group armies of the Jin Sui Army were close to 100,000 people, which was less than half, which also indicated that the Jin Sui Army was no longer able to launch any form of battle and large-scale battle with the Japanese army on its own.
From the middle of October 1937 to the end of the Taiyuan Defense War on November 9, during the continuous battlefield fighting, the Jin Sui Army had 50,000 soldiers and horses left with less than 20,000. It can be said that under the supervision of Yan Xishan, the Jin Sui Army launched a series of battles one after another, and although the weapons and equipment were poor, they all bravely killed the enemy in spite of themselves, showing the strong determination of the Jin Sui Army to defend the country and its strong will to fight.
The personnel of the Jin Sui Army were drastically reduced, and many units only had a number and no real name, but the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the Jin Sui Army did not weaken in the slightest. For example, the most famous Fu Zuoyibu has been fighting the Japanese puppet army at the junction of Shanxi Province and Suiyuan Province. Even more outstanding was shi Zebo, commander of the 12th Division, who actually learned the guerrilla tactics of the Eighth Route Army, started a guerrilla attack in the rear of the Japanese army, and eliminated many of the living forces of the Japanese army. In a short period of time at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Jin Sui Army fought with the Japanese army to the death with flesh and blood, and wrote the iron-blooded pride of the three Jin men with their will.
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