Author: Dehengshu
Statement: Soldiers say original, plagiarism will be investigated
Speaking of spy movies, many people are more familiar with the popular TV series "Latent" in previous years. The protagonist of the play, Yu Zecheng, as a high-level agent who broke into the interior of Chiang Kai-shek's army, successfully resolved one crisis after another by skillfully maneuvering with the enemy and completing one task after another assigned by his superiors. While marveling at Yu Zecheng's wit and bravery, everyone also surrendered to his belief in fighting to the end in the face of the temptation of the enemy and the misunderstanding of comrades.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a regimental commander in the New Fourth Army also staged a real version of "lurking", and the whole process was thrilling, not inferior to the plot of spy movies.
【Stills of "Latent"】
One day in the spring of 1943, our party liaison officer secretly found Tang Jingyan, head of the Tonghai Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Regiment, and conveyed the instructions of the Central China Bureau and the Central Jiangsu District Committee.
Tang Jingyan was asked to lead his troops to surrender under the false pretext of surrendering when the Japanese puppet army carried out the "clearing of the countryside" against the fourth sub-district of central Jiangsu, waiting for an opportunity to cooperate with the "anti-Qingxiang" struggle of the fourth sub-district of central Jiangsu.
[Tang Jingyan, a native of Rugao, Nantong, Jiangsu, commander of the Independent Regiment of the First Division of the New Fourth Army]
Speaking of "clearing the countryside," this is an extremely cruel "clearance and suppression" carried out by the Japanese army in the occupied areas of central China from 1941 with the cooperation of Wang Pseudo. It not only includes the "military clearance" of directly sending troops into the villages and going to the countryside to sweep up the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, but also includes the "clearing of the countryside" of organizing and defending the armor and sitting on joint security, the "economic clearance" of strict material control and blockade of material transportation, and the "ideological clearance" of education.
[Travel permits issued by Wang Fei, deformed products of the "clearing the countryside" movement, restricting the people's freedom of movement]
Over the past two years, under the persecution of the Japanese and pseudo-"Qingxiang," the anti-Japanese armed forces behind enemy lines in central China, especially the New Fourth Army, have become more and more severe in their struggle against the enemy and their situation has become more and more difficult. The units of the New Fourth Army not only suffered heavy casualties in the "military clearance," but also made the common people look away from the New Fourth Army, and even the pseudo-armor commander was willing to be the eyes and ears of the enemy in order to protect himself; the "economic clearance of the countryside" made all the units of the New Fourth Army extremely short of ammunition and materials.
At the beginning of 1943, after receiving the news that the enemy was going to "clear the countryside" again in the spring against the fourth sub-district of central Jiangsu, in order to reduce casualties as much as possible and defuse the enemy's "clearing of the countryside", it came up with a way for Tang Jingyan to lead the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment to collectively surrender and infiltrate the enemy's interior.
This method is a dangerous move to "go deep into the tiger's den", why did the Central China Bureau entrust this task to Tang Jingyan and the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment? This also starts from Tang Jingyan's experience and the origin of the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment.
Tang Jingyan, born in April 1904 in Rugao, Nantong, came from a well-off family as a teenager and attended Luzhuang Primary School, Rucheng Anding Primary School, Nantong Commercial School and Shanghai East Asian Sports College. In 1924, Tang Jingyan joined the Kuomintang and began to devote himself to the revolution. After the defeat of the Great Revolution in 1927, he broke away from the Kuomintang because he was dissatisfied with the "Qing Party" behavior.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Tang Jingyan returned to the Kuomintang and actively devoted himself to the struggle against Japan. In 1938, he participated in the organization and establishment of the Haimen Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column, and later served in the Yanxiu Fifth Department of the Guerrilla Command of the Lusu-Anhui Border Region in Taizhou. In 1940, because Yan Xiuwu did not think about resisting Japan, an angry Tang Jingyan resigned and left the army and joined our party in his hometown of Rugao and joined the New Fourth Army.
At the end of July, he was assigned by the Northern Jiangsu Headquarters of the New Fourth Army to serve as chief of staff of the Meng Xianping Regiment of the former pseudo-Security Fourth Brigade. Unexpectedly, this Meng Xianping was a repeat villain who "has milk is a mother", and in February 1941, under the influence of Li Changjiang, deputy commander-in-chief of the guerrilla attack in the Lusu-Anhui Border Region who surrendered to the enemy, he defected again and became a puppet army. Tang Jingyan could not be recovered, so he had to return to the Third Brigade of the First Division of the New Fourth Army with some subordinates who were loyal to him and had the intention of resisting Japan and guns, and openly joined the New Fourth Army. In the autumn of 1941, based on this group of people, Tang Jingyan was appointed to establish the Tonghai Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Regiment.
[The puppet army is registering the identity of the people]
Compared with other commanders of the New Fourth Army, Tang Jingyan's complicated experience became an important guarantee that he could be competent to lurk inside the enemy: Tang Jingyan was once a Kuomintang, and later the Japanese and puppets also promised him to serve as the commander of the puppet army with high-ranking officials, but Tang Jingyan did not agree, but chose to join our party. Once mixed in the Kuomintang, and later served in the puppet army anyway, this gave Tang Jingyan the ability to maneuver among the Japanese puppet army. Coupled with the fact that the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment was a team pulled up by Tang Jingyan and had a certain dependence on Tang Jingyan, the Central China Bureau and the Central Jiangsu District Committee chose to let Tang Jingyan and the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment complete this arduous task.
[Yu Zecheng in "Latent" is mixed in the intelligence department of Jiang Jun, and has won the trust of Wu Station Manager]
Although the task was dangerous and difficult, Tang Jingyan accepted the organization's arrangement without hesitation. In order to win the enemy's trust, Tang Jingyan spent 1 and a half months secretly contacting Jiang Songping, the head of the Nantong Sub-district of the Jiangsu Experimental Zone of the pseudo-secret service headquarters, and Zhang Beisheng, director of the office of the director of the "Qingxiang" in northern Jiangsu, and finally negotiated with the Japanese representative Takagi to finalize the agreement and led the troops to "surrender".
After the "surrender," Tang Jingyan also handed over the guns of the local New Fourth Army's armed engineering team and the district office, and even killed several "New Fourth Army" posing as traitors to win the enemy's trust as a "letter of surrender." In this way, the enemy believed Tang Jingyan's "surrender" and asked Tang Jingyan's troops to be renamed the "Field Guard Regiment" and stationed in Haimen, Jiangzao Port, and Zhang Zhishan.
Entering the county seat, Tang Jingyan, who had long been familiar with Jiang Jun and the puppet army and the exchange of wine tables, was like a fish in the water. His regimental compound is not only often bustling with traffic, there are guests to be sent to, and Tang Jingyan also used his identity to start a business, mixed with the wind.
The enemy increasingly believed in Tang Jingyan's "surrender," and Wang Fu even personally commended Tang Jingyan, saying that his "surrender" was a precursor to the inevitable victory of the "Qingxiang" movement. Even though Tang Jingyan had always refused to allow the enemy to divide and disintegrate the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment on the grounds that he did not want others to interfere with his own command of the troops, the enemy gradually allowed Tang Jingyan and his Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment to participate in the "clearing the countryside" movement against the fourth sub-district of central Jiangsu.
[Wang Mou went to the countryside to inspect the development of the "clearing the countryside" campaign]
However, not only did the enemy increasingly believe in Tang Jingyan's "surrender," but even ordinary people and anti-Japanese armed forces believed that Tang Jingyan had "defected."
Due to the need for secrecy of the operation, only the Central China Bureau, the Central Soviet District Cpc Committee, and a few of Tang Jingyan's henchmen knew about this fraudulent surrender, and none of the other officers and men in the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment knew about it. Therefore, after Tang Jingyan "surrendered" to Japan and Japan with the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment, many officers and men who were bent on resisting Japan left the unit without permission or took leave to go home. The common people scolded Tang Jingyan behind his back and poked him in the spine, saying that he was a "traitor," a "yellow dog," "a person who knows his face but does not know his heart," and "a bad person will definitely have bad retribution in the future." even
The hoe gang also targeted Tang Jingyan and his family and issued an ultimatum.
Tang Jingyan had a bitter word in the face of the misunderstanding of the common people and the warnings of the hoeing team. He instructed his family not to leave the regimental headquarters compound of the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment to prevent accidents. At the same time, he told his confidants around him more than once:
"If the operation fails, please explain the truth to the organization for me, and don't let my ancestors bear the name of traitor for generations."
Very hard work, there should be a very good return. Because Tang Jingyan had mastered the enemy's operational arrangements for "military clearance" several times in advance, the New Fourth Army of the Fourth Sub-district of central Jiangsu repeatedly turned dangers into disasters. And according to the information provided by Tang Jingyan,
The fourth sub-district of Central Jiangsu successively eliminated several traitors and left a note on the corpse of the traitor to set an example, thus greatly deterring the local traitors.
In addition, Tang Jingyan also used his own business in Nantong City to help the New Fourth Army raise scarce materials such as medicines, oil and salt, and solved the problem of lack of materials within the New Fourth Army.
On the night of September 29, 1943, after receiving the decision of the Central Soviet Committee, Tang Jingyan was finally able to lead the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment to hold a military insurrection inside the enemy after 167 days of "surrendering" to the enemy. Overnight, Tang Jingyan led the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment out of the enemy's hinterland, continuously took more than a dozen strongholds of the Japanese puppet army along the line, galloped more than 160 kilometers, returned to the embrace of the New Fourth Army, dealt a fierce blow to the Japanese puppet army, and made great contributions to smashing the enemy's "clearing the countryside" in the fourth sub-district of central Jiangsu.
Subsequently, the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment was reorganized into the Independent Regiment of the First Division of the New Fourth Army, and Tang Jingyan once again threw himself into the war against Japan as the New Fourth Army. Unfortunately, in 1948, Tang Jingyan, who was then the political commissar of the guerrilla column in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Border Region,
While gathering the guerrillas of the New Fourth Army retreating north, they were surrounded by Chiang Kai-shek's army and unfortunately captured at Qingpu.
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On Sunday, Tang Jingyan generously took up his righteousness at Shanghai Jiangwan Prison.