After the Japanese army announced its surrender on August 15, 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japan was officially over, but the Japanese army did not completely withdraw from China at that time, and a small number of them planned to stay in China to continue to wait for the opportunity to realize their ambitions.
In 1948, when Xu Xiangqian led a large army to liberate Shanxi, in the Battle of Jinzhong, he encountered this group of Japanese soldiers and launched the ultimate Sino-Japanese war in the true sense, in this war, Xu Xiangqian relied on his superb command ability, and finally beat the Japanese army to pieces, which greatly boosted the morale of the People's Liberation Army.
Yan Xishan's ace army
In September 1945, the Japanese army that had been defeated and surrendered was unwilling, and Okamura Ningji actually proposed to He Yingqin that the 300,000 Japanese troops in central China and the remaining 300,000 Japanese troops in north China should be left to help the Kuomintang encircle and suppress the communist army.
Of course, although Chiang Kai-shek wants to suppress the Communist army, but in terms of national righteousness, he will not be vague, once he leaves 300,000 Japanese troops, even if the combat effectiveness is greatly enhanced, in terms of reputation and public opinion, he cannot give the people of the whole country a difference.
Although these 300,000 Japanese troops did not stay, and Chiang Kai-shek did not want to bear the insult, it did not mean that there would be no Japanese army to continue to stay, because Chiang Kai-shek had a national righteousness, which did not mean that everyone in the Kuomintang army had it, such as Yan Xishan, who did some wrong things because of his own ambitions.
Yan Xishan was a veteran Shanxi warlord, from the Xinhai Revolution, he had been entrenched in the Shanxi region, until the time of Japan's surrender, he had been entrenched in Shanxi for more than thirty years, he vainly tried to directly manage the Land of the Three Jins into his own iron barrel Jiangshan, it was driven by this ambition, Yan Xishan during the War of Resistance Against Japan, often secretly with the Japanese army in the snake.
The Japanese army had long seen Yan Xishan's ambitions, and also understood that this person could be co-opted, so the Japanese army specially sent some agents to win Yan Xishan, if it were not for the Communist Party's strong exhortation to Yan Xishan, he might have taken the wrong road and become a traitor.
It was precisely because Yan Xishan had always had the idea of cooperating with the Japanese that in September 1945, as the commander of the Second Theater of Operations, Yan Xishan, after accepting the surrender of the Japanese army in Shanxi, immediately listened to the suggestions of Tan Takahashi, the chief of staff of the Japanese North China, and the commander of the First Army, Raishiro Chengtian, and promised the Japanese army to "send force to China" and play a wishful thinking of using the Japanese army against the People's Liberation Army.
In Yan Xishan's view, the small number of Japanese troops not only did not have any great influence on Shanxi and themselves, but the Japanese army was relatively brave and good at war, and thousands of Japanese troops could reach tens of thousands of national troops, and using them to deal with the People's Liberation Army was obviously the best choice. Under this wishful thinking, Yan Xishan and Rikou hit it off, and after some careful selection, Yan Xishan selected 6600 Japanese troops to retain, and later formed the Tenth Teaching Corps, which became the ace army in Yan Xishan's hands.
In January 1946, a Japanese army of about 1,300 people appeared on the Taiyuan military parade ground, which was Yan Xishan's Tenth General Brigade, and the first person in charge of this headquarters was Xu Xiangqian's former friend Zhao Chengshou, who appeared on the parade ground with Yan Xishan, which shocked the people present, and what was even more unexpected was that when Zhao Chengshou took the lead in shouting "Long live the Republic of China", he shouted "Long live the Empire of Japan".
At that time, these Japanese people lived a fairly prosperous life in Shanxi, driving luxury cars, living in mansions, setting up schools, forming clubs, and even openly burning incense for those executed war criminals, and the people were already very dissatisfied with this, but Yan Xishan pretended not to care, and even deliberately sheltered these Japanese people, so that the people dared to be angry and dare not speak.
Yan Xishan's connivance with these Japanese troops reached an exaggerated level, and even one of his own Kuomintang officers, because he confiscated the national flag of the Japanese army, directly removed this officer from his post and expelled him from his post outside the province after Yan Xishan learned of it, which shows that in Yan Xishan's eyes, he attaches great importance to these Japanese troops.
The Battle of Jinzhong began
Yan Xishan thought that with these Japanese ace troops, he could resist the pace of the People's Liberation Army, but in the end he still underestimated the ability of the People's Liberation Army and the determination to liberate all of China, in 1948, Yan Xishan felt the combat effectiveness of the People's Liberation Army under the leadership of Xu Xiangqian, and after this battle, Yan Xishan was no longer able to return to heaven, and even his ace army was reduced to a joke.
After the civil war broke out, Mao Zedong appointed Xu Xiangqian, who was still unharmed, as the deputy commander of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region, leading 60,000 troops to liberate Shanxi and fight a deadly battle with Yan Xishan.
At that time, the PLA's weapons were inferior and lacked training and lack of combat experience, on the contrary, Yan Xishan's army, not only numbered as many as 130,000, but also long-term entrenched in Shanxi, can be described as a strong army, want to deal with such an army, Xu Xiangqian must adopt a wise way to achieve unexpected results, just Xu Xiangqian in command of combat, itself has a very high talent.
After arriving at the Battlefield of Shanxi, Xu Xiangqian relied on his command talent to quickly win the battles of Yuncheng, Linfen, and Yangquan, and completely liberated the southern Jin region, making Yan Xishan's army dizzy and unclear. After the liberation of Linfen, Xu Xiangqian obeyed Mao Zedong's orders and decided to launch the Battle of Jinzhong.
The reason why the Battle of Jinzhong was launched was because Jinzhong was a very important place for Yan Xishan, which was rich in products and could be regarded as the granary of Yan Xishan's occupation of Shanxi, and once Jinzhong was lost, Yan Xishan would be completely cut off from grain, in that case, Yan Xishan would be difficult to continue fighting.
Some people may wonder why they didn't directly capture Taiyuan at that time? In fact, this is the cleverness of Mao Zedong and Xu Xiangqian, Taiyuan is the place where Yan Xishan is heavily guarded, originally our army was backward in terms of troop strength and combat weapons, and now it is not a good chance to attack Taiyuan, but attacking the equally important Jinzhong in turn can not only achieve the effect of luring snakes out of the hole, but also catch Yan Xishan by surprise.
After everything was ready, Xu Xiangqian led the People's Liberation Army to launch an attack on Jinzhong, and Yan Xishan panicked and arranged for 13 main regiments of the 34th Army, the 43rd Army, and the 61st Army, pro-training divisions, and pro-training artillery regiments to form the "Lightning Corps" to prevent the PLA from moving north.
Not only that, after seeing that the situation was critical, Yan Xishan also used his own ace army, that is, the Tenth Teaching Corps composed of the Japanese army, when Yuanquan Xin was the commander to follow the commander Zhao Chengshou to the battlefield, Yuanquan Xin was a relatively conceited person, and Zhao Chengshou often disagreed, he was not willing to listen to Zhao Chengshou's advice, and even before leaving, Yuanquan Xin also specially brought his own "Haiku collection" and planned to create more works on the battlefield.
Purely from the relationship between Yuanquan xin and Zhao Chengshou, as well as the degree of pride of Yuanquanxin, it is understood that this team actually has many breaking points, plus Xu Xiangqian originally knew Zhao Chengshou very well, so in the face of the tenth general team with much stronger equipment and weapons, Xu Xiangqian was very calm and calm.
Before the Tenth General Corps arrived on the battlefield, the Platon Army had severely defeated the Nationalist army under Yan Xishan, achieved the excellent record of annihilating 17,000 people in Yan Xishan's department, and capturing more than 100 artillery pieces of various types, which greatly supplemented the firepower of the PLA and made the PLA no longer at a disadvantage in weapons in the next battle.
Seeing that the Tenth General Brigade composed of Japanese troops had left Taiyuan, Xu Xiangqian had a plan, arranged some people to block their retreat to Taiyuan, and at the same time arranged another group of people to engage in a fierce battle with them, to contain their retreat, under Xu Xiangqian's close arrangement, soon the Tenth General Brigade fell into the encirclement of the People's Liberation Army, and it was difficult to move forward, and there was no way to return to Taiyuan.
There is no way, the Tenth General Brigade can only carry out a deadly battle with the People's Liberation Army in the end, this battle has become the ultimate battle between China and Japan, originally on the previous battlefield, whether it is the Eighth Route Army or the Kuomintang army, when encountering the well-equipped Japanese army, they are still more afraid, but in this battle, the People's Liberation Army is not afraid of the Japanese army, when the war is carried out to a certain extent, everyone sees clearly that after the Japanese army in front of them, they are more courageous to fight, they want to let the Japanese army pay back the blood debt, and give an account to the heroes who sacrificed that year.
Under the hatred of the People's Liberation Army and the insistence of tenacious willpower, after the blows of 100 artillery pieces, the Tenth General Brigade has been seriously injured, and the PLA fighters directly and desperately took bayonets and rushed out to fight with the Japanese army, and finally annihilated 184 Japanese officers, captured more than 200 Japanese soldiers, and the soldiers of the Tenth General Brigade were killed in total, more than 1150 people, after this battle, the Japanese army and Yan Xishan's wishful thinking was completely bankrupt.
epilogue
After the victory in this battle, the central authorities also specially sent a telegram to Xu Xiangqian, and in the Taiyuan Campaign launched shortly after, the People's Liberation Army won a victory with a single blow, successfully liberated Taiyuan, and also took the remaining Japanese troops in one fell swoop, beating them to the ground. In the face of the heroic and fearless People's Liberation Army, those once arrogant and invincible Japanese troops were finally completely defeated, and Yan Xishan's ambitions and dreams were also declared bankrupt, and everything just responded to Mao Zedong's words: All reactionaries are paper tigers!
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