Author:Junyi
In October 1939, a team walked dullly on the road of westward retreat. As the commander of this unit, although Ye Fei did not openly complain in front of the commanders and fighters, he also frowned and did not say a word the whole time.
Before that, Ye Fei led his troops to fight in Pudong, stirring up chickens and dogs in the enemy's ruling area, and the situation was just good. At this moment, Chen Yi sent a telegram to ye Fei back, and it was impossible to say that there was no resentment in his heart. But Ye Fei's high degree of discipline made him consciously carry out orders.
【Ye Fei】
On October 8, Ye Fei and Chen Yi met. Ye Fei couldn't bear it any longer and asked with resentment, "Why did we withdraw?" ”
Chen Yi had expected ye Fei to be angry, and said without hurrying, "You must not have an opinion." Tell you what, if you want to cross the Yangtze River in the north and go to northern Jiangsu to open up a new situation of the War of Resistance, we will also pass in the future. ”
When Ye Fei heard this news, he had no resentment at all, and his face was cloudy and sunny. Chen Yi looked at the change in Ye Fei's look, and said even more proudly, "That place in northern Jiangsu, I really think about it!" Ye Fei, you go first and make your place of stay more solid. I will take the main force of Jiangnan across the river and get him 100,000 guns! ”
When Ye Fei heard this news, he was full of energy, and the cadres below were equally excited, and they all shook their fists. But what they didn't know was that this order was actually Chen Yi's "false transmission of the Holy Will." At that time, the situation was that the diehard faction of the Jiang Army was engaged in friction everywhere, and Ye Fei's deputy regimental commander Wu Kun was assassinated by the recalcitrant army. Chen Yi was the first to decide to break through in southern Jiangsu, but at that time the military department thought that Chen Yi was guilty of "childish disease" and said that we did not have the power to launch counter-friction. At this time, the situation was really forced every day on the outside, and there was no right inside, and it was very annoying.
As a strategist, Chen Yi realized that counter-friction in southern Jiangsu was militarily immature. One or two battles at the beginning of the counter-friction in southern Jiangsu can win the enemy and destroy his two divisions, but Chiang Kai-shek's army can be reinforced, it needs to be protracted, and if the war is protracted, it will increase the difficulties. On the contrary, if the withdrawal of southern Jiangsu and the main force enters northern Jiangsu, the situation will be different.
【Chen Yi】
Northern Jiangsu can rely on the Eighth Route Army in Shandong and rely on rivers, lakes and seas to carry out guerrilla warfare extensively. In addition, The Soviet Union, North Korea, Deloitte is isolated, we fight out as soon as we fight, and we can quickly end the battle, so the advantages of breaking through from the north outweigh the disadvantages. However, the military department at that time did not actually explicitly order counter-friction in northern Jiangsu, so Chen Yi had to "falsely pass on the holy will" .
Of course, this false preaching of the Holy Will incident was later recognized by Yan'an. The instruction of Yan'an of May 4, 1940 entitled "Let Go and Develop the Anti-Japanese Forces and Resist the Offensive of the Anti-Communist Diehards" (i.e., the second "May Fourth Directive") made it very clear: "We should emphasize struggle, we should not emphasize reunification, otherwise it will be a great mistake ... They want to launch a military offensive against us, and we will carry out a military counteroffensive to break it. There is a reason for this tit-for-tat policy. Whatever is reasonable should be raised not only, but also any part of our army. ”
In fact, as early as 1938, Chen Yi sent Guan Wenwei to organize an advance column to go to Jiangbei. At this time, Ye Fei's troops and the advancing column were combined. At that time, Ye Fei's "Jiang Kang" soldiers were well fed and had strong combat effectiveness. After dispatching some people and guns to supplement the old second regiment, two regiments can be formed. The specific measure was that the old Sixth Regiment was renamed the first regiment of "Standing Vertical", with Qiao Xinming, regimental commander and political commissar, and Liao Zhengguo as chief of staff of the first regiment. Crossing the Yangtze River into the Jiangdu area, it joined two regiments of the "Standing Column"; the other regiment remained in Jiangnan and was later incorporated into the Second Column of the Northern Jiangsu Headquarters. The original "vertical" units were organized into the 3rd and 4th Regiments.
After crossing the river, Ye Fei learned that "breaking through from the north" was not simple. The Japanese army occupied the northern Jiangsu cities of Nantong, Taixing, Jiangdu (Fairy Temple), and Yangzhou. The Chiang army occupied the vast hinterland south of the Longhai Road and was divided into three major forces. Among them, the most powerful was Han Deloitte, who belonged to Gu Zhutong' lineage, and was the commander of the main 52nd Division when attacking the Central Soviet Region, and was then the deputy commander of the Lusu Theater, the commander of the 24th Group Army, and the governor of Jiangsu Province. The strength that can be controlled by the hands is about 80,000 people.
The second is the "Lusuyuan Border Area Guerrilla General Command", which claims to be more than 30,000 people and more than 20,000 in fact. The commander-in-chief Li Mingyang, the deputy commander-in-chief Li Changjiang, the general headquarters is in Taizhou, known as "Taizhou Erli". The third is the Jiangsu Tax Police Corps, with more than 4,000 people, belonging to the Ministry of Finance, which is a unit engaged by Song Ziwen and the commander-in-chief Chen Taiyun. The Ministry of Finance has money, so it is well-armed, well-equipped, and paid a high salary, which does not belong to Han Deloitte's chain of command. Although these three forces belong to the same System of Chiang Kai-shek, they are full of contradictions.
Li Mingyang was a member of the Old League, participated in the anti-Yuan War, and served as a division commander and deputy commander in the Northern Expedition. He and Li Changjiang were originally the chief and deputy directors of the Jiangsu Security Department, and after Han Deloitte took over the power of Jiangsu, he was replaced by Li Shouwei, commander of the 89th Army. Later, Li Mingyang was supported by the Gui clan and formed the "Lusu-Anhui Border Region Guerrilla General Headquarters", which belonged to the Fifth Theater of the Gui Clan.
Chen Taiyun is a graduate of the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, a native of Guizhou, who was introduced to Song Ziwen by fellow villager He Yingqin, and has a special relationship. Moreover, not long ago, he was also placed under house arrest by Han Deloitte, because Huang Yifeng, an underground worker and member of the Sulu Theater of Operations, made him escape from danger and return to the army. Based on this situation, Chen Yi put forward the strategic principle of "attacking the enemy, uniting with Li, and isolating Korea" to develop northern Jiangsu. "Attacking the enemy" was the fundamental task of the War of Resistance Against Japan, "Lian Li" was to win over the central forces in northern Jiangsu, and "Lone Han" was to isolate the diehards.
Chen Yi has always regarded the competition with Han Deloitte for centrists as an important link in the anti-Japanese united front and the solution of the command of the Northern Jiangsu War of Resistance, and within a few months he entered Taizhou three times to meet with the "Second Li", and later personally served as a gentry in northern Jiangsu, serving as the governor of Jiangsu Province, Han Jun, and Sun Yat-sen's military parade commander-in-chief Zhu Luxian when he was inaugurated as the provisional president. He had a number of capable cadres in united front work under him, such as Zhu Kejing, Guan Wenwei, Hui Yuyu, and Huang Yifeng. Chen Yi also encouraged cadres of the New Fourth Army to make friends with officers of the "Erli" unit.
Of course, in addition to opening the situation, in addition to the mouth and the barrel of the pen, you also need the barrel of the gun. Chen Yi regarded "attacking the enemy" as the primary task of the New Fourth Army, and without victory in the battle against the enemy, it would not gain the support of the people and would not be able to stand in northern Jiangsu.
The old Sixth Regiment was organized as the first regiment of the advancing column and crossed the river north to the Jiangdu Bridge area, which attracted the attention of the Japanese army. On January 11, 1940, about 3,000 Japanese troops entered Zhanyangzhong in three ways, and the remaining troops of the advancing column were transferred safely in time. During the Spring Festival, heavy snow fell one after another. On February 7 (the third day of the lunar lunar new year), the enemy in Yangzhou rushed out to attack our army on the bridge, taking advantage of the situation to burn and loot. This area is relatively rich, and the goods are relatively abundant, the Japanese army went to the countryside to kill people and set fires, the puppet army followed and plundered the property, and the people could not get by in the year, helping the old and the young, and fleeing in a panic. The commanders and fighters of the first regiment of the advancing column were furious and attacked the enemy without waiting for orders from their superiors.
By the time Liao Zhengguo arrived, the third battalion, which rushed to the front, had fallen under the bayonets of the soldiers. The enemy left behind the vehicles and mules and horses full of wind chickens, bacon, fish and fish, rice cakes, and fine soft clothes that they had looted, and did not dare to flee back the same way, and rushed westward in a panic, and the first regiment chased straight after the fairy temple. Since then, the common people have stretched out their thumbs and called the New Fourth Army "Four Lords" and "Four Generals".
These two names still have a lot to offer. The New Fourth Army has a "four", and the local people compare the New Fourth Army that attacked the Japanese army to the four generals Zhao Yun in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. And the fourth lord is not a feudal title. The 'old man' in the mouth of the people of northern Jiangsu also means gods and bodhisattvas, and they call the land, the king of the stove, and the city god "laoye". To call the 'Four Lords' is to compare the New Fourth Army to a savior. After several consecutive battles, the New Fourth Army gained a firm foothold in this place, and the people of northern Jiangsu sang "When you are a soldier, you must be a new fourth army, and you must eat cabbage hearts when you eat vegetables."
Just when the situation was very good, the diehards started friction against the New Fourth Army. On March 22, Commander Ye Fei sent the leaders of the First and Fourth Regiments to a meeting (the main force of the Third Regiment had been incorporated into the Suwan Detachment with Tao Yong as commander, and the Advancing Column was in the Jiangdu area). He showed everyone an urgent telegram from Commander Chen Yi of the Jiangnan Command: On March 4, the diehard faction attacked the Jiangbei Headquarters and the Headquarters of the Fourth Detachment west of our army's Jinpu Railway with Li Pinxian's troops, and while our army's main force was coming to the west, Han Deloitte mobilized more than 10,000 troops and attacked the eastern half of our road on March 21, the location of the Central Plains Bureau and the rear organization of the Fifth Detachment. The Half Tower Set only had more than 500 people in the Teaching Brigade and other institutions, with few combatants, poor weapons and equipment, and a critical situation, and ordered the advancing column to rush to reinforcements. Everyone was furious and shouted: Save the soldiers like fire, act now!
With a little preparation, the next day (23rd), Ye Fei took two battalions of the first and fourth regiments, set off from Wujiaqiao, crossed the canal from Shaobo Lake to the west, crossed the Tian (Chang) Yang (Prefecture) Highway, and advanced day and night. This section of the canal just crosses Shaobo Lake, a zealous country. Liao Zhengguo, the chief of staff of the first regiment, had already sent reconnaissance staff officer Liu Daguan to lead the reconnaissance platoon to set out first, raised a number of ships, and the troops rushed to the lakeside and immediately boarded the boat to cross Shaobo Lake at night. On the 24th, when crossing the Tianyang Highway during the day, it happened to encounter more than a hundred Japanese puppet troops, and the two companies in front of the first regiment were inserted into the road, intercepting their heads and tails, and the grenades exploded in the enemy pile head-on, causing the devils to run around and shout. In about an hour, a small group of Japanese troops and a company of puppet troops were completely annihilated, and one Japanese soldier was captured.
The troops advanced to the vicinity of Maji, which was already southeast of Bantaji, about 20 miles away. The scouts noticed that the recalcitrant soldiers were not very neatly dressed, as if they were local troops. Liu Daguan took this unit in his eyes, neither asked for instructions nor reported it, and with a fierce charge from the reconnaissance platoon, he rushed into the market and beat the stubborn soldiers. Liu Daguan led a reconnaissance platoon to follow the retreating recalcitrant army in pursuit, and three or four villages in a row. The vanguard company followed behind to capture prisoners, annihilated more than a thousand recalcitrant troops, and broke through the southeast of the encirclement circle of the recalcitrant army's attack on the half-tower set.
Commander Ye Fei, in view of the fatigue of his troops after two days and nights of continuous fighting and marching, in order to smash the last layer of the recalcitrant army's encirclement of the half-pagoda set, ordered a day of rest in Maji on the 25th, cleaning up the battlefield, ascertaining the enemy's situation, and recovering physical strength in order to facilitate another battle.
On the 26th, the troops set out from Maji, still with the first regiment as the vanguard, and Liao Zhengguo took the second battalion and attacked in the direction of Bantaji. In order to break through our reinforcements from the west, the main force is attacking from Zhuzhen to Maji. After the two armies came into contact, Tang Wanyi, commander of the Sixth Company of the Vanguard of the First Regiment, reported: In front of it was a market town, and the Kuomintang troops were densely packed and crowded like ants moving. The prisoners captured by the reconnaissance platoon confessed to being the 13th and 16th Regiments of the Independent 6th Brigade of Han Deloitte's Department. Tang Wanyi asked: The enemy has two regiments, our army has only four battalions, the enemy is outnumbered, and the task of rendezvousing with our besieged army is urgent, is it necessary to lay down this market town, or to take a detour to the half-tower set?
This independent 6th Brigade is Han Deloitte's elite unit, full of soldiers, most of them are sheltered, and many of them are scattered veterans who have passed through the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Taierzhuang, well-equipped, well-armed, and have good combat effectiveness. Brigade Commander Onda, with the rank of Lieutenant General, was arrogant. If our army does not defeat it, how will it break the siege of the Half Pagoda Set?
Liao Zhengguo was right behind the avant-garde company and shouted, "There is no reason not to fight!" "Immediately ordered the blowing of the charge horn, personally picked up a light machine gun, concentrated a dozen machine guns in a line, and fired fiercely at the enemy to cover the impact of the troops." Tang Wanyi, commander of the sixth company of the vanguard, was a fierce general of the old Red Army, who was wounded in one eye in the war, known as "Tang Blind", and when he heard the charge horn, he picked up a light machine gun and rushed to the enemy position. The 6th Independent Brigade of the Recalcitrant Army had not yet figured out what was going on, and had already filled the ditch with corpses crushed by the rain of bullets, and those who could still run were scattered everywhere.
【Liao Zhengguo】
Annihilating one battalion of the enemy, the remaining enemies fled in the direction of Zhuzhen. The advancing column met with the victorious division of our army that held the area of the half tower, and made contact with the Suwan detachment that had arrived from the west of Jinpu Road.
On the 27th, Zhang Yunyi, commander of the Jiangbei Command, and Luo Binghui, deputy commander, led the main force and Returned to the East. Han Deqin saw that the reinforcements of our army on both the east and the west had arrived, and the rout was irreparable, and the whole line was shaken. Beginning on the 29th, our army counterattacked in all directions, chasing and fleeing the enemy to the north of the Three Rivers.
After the war, the Jiangbei Headquarters held a meeting of cadres at and above the regimental level, and Secretary Liu of the Central Plains Bureau, under the pseudonym Hu Fu, attended the meeting. At the meeting, Secretary Liu said: We must dare to oppose friction. Liao Zhengguo said to Secretary Liu: "If we are attacked by 'loyal rescue' in southern Jiangsu, if we fight back, we will be criticized by the southern Anhui Military Department, saying that this will undermine the united front."
Secretary Liu said: "The stubborn army is attacking, so why can't we fight back?" Can't just sit back and wait! At present, the diehards want friction, which is harmful to the interests of the nation, and we must resolutely oppose friction! ”
Secretary Liu also said that the stubborn faction's friction is unpopular and doomed to failure. Then he took the defense of the Half Tower as an example and said: The main reason why the ROK army collapsed so quickly was that the political division was unknown, and it could not put forward the slogan of revenge against the New Fourth Army, the officers and men were unwilling to fight, and no one rushed to charge the troops repeatedly. The various enemies who besieged the half-tower, after encountering stubborn resistance, the more they attacked, the more they lost their will.
Secretary Liu's words immediately dispelled the doubts of the officers and men. In the subsequent Decisive Battle of Huangqiao, the New Fourth Army was able to free its hands and feet to attack the diehards who undermined the overall situation of the War of Resistance, which was the far-reaching impact of this meeting.
From the facts of history, Chen Yi and Secretary Liu are both military commanders with outstanding strategic skills. When the Development of the New Fourth Army encountered problems, it resolutely adopted a flexible strategy to open up the situation, which played an indelible contribution to the New Fourth Army's ability to gain a firm foothold in Jiangbei.
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