In April 1943, the land of Central Jiangsu was already full of life. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has passed through the most difficult period, and more and more base areas have been established by the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and the situation is very good. But suddenly one day, a correspondent ran into the headquarters with a telegram and came to the commander Su Yu and said:
Report to the commander, the front got exact news, Tang Jingyan has surrendered to the enemy with his troops!
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"Well, okay, got it!" Su Yu, who was looking at the map, did not look back and gently agreed. He didn't dare to look back, he didn't want people to see his face, revealing a bright smile! “
Great, that's great! Here we go.
He muttered quietly. But the correspondent with the sharp ears still heard something and asked strangely, "Commander, are you all right?" ”
No one could have imagined that Tang Jingyan's defection to the enemy was already in Su Yu's plan. Immediately, an earth-shattering stroke will be unfolded, and the "belly" of the Soviet-Chinese and Japanese puppet armies will soon be lost.
Tang Jingyan is his own person
Before telling the story, we still have to talk about the protagonist of the story, Tang Jingyan. Tang Jingyan is a native of Rugao, Jiangsu Province, born in 1904. His family was very ordinary, and there was no prominent family culture. But Tang Jingyan was smart enough and hard enough, and after studying hard, he was admitted to Nantong Commercial School.
But after entering the school, he found that someone in the school deducted the students' food fees! Tang Jingyan was jealous and hateful, and immediately stood up and openly opposed this kind of behavior!
But who cares about the resistance of a poor student, the school authorities casually found a reason, and expelled Tang Jingyan.
Tang Jingyan did not accept defeat, he felt that since there was no way out of the business school, it was better to learn sports that were still relatively unpopular at that time. Even if you can't rely on this to save the country, it is good for the people to have a good body. So after hard work, he was admitted to the Shanghai East Asian Sports College to study. This time his studies went well and he graduated three years later.
Moreover, by chance, Tang Jingyan joined the Kuomintang and served as a supervisory member and propaganda officer of the party department in Rugao County.
At this time, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were still cooperating, the Kuomintang contingent was still relatively pure, and Tang Jingyan absorbed a large number of progressive ideas in his work and became a true fighter for the country and the people. He began to spread progressive ideas within his own confines, and lived every day to the fullest.
However, after 1927, the Kuomintang began to deteriorate and chaos arose. Tang Jingyan became more and more dissatisfied, and often expressed his true thoughts in his daily work. Slowly, he became a "thorn" in the eyes of his superiors, and finally simply squeezed him out. Tang Jingyan did not care about this, and returned to his alma mater as a primary school teacher in a down-to-earth manner, and lived a stable life for a while.
In 1928, the peasant movement in the Tonghai area was in full swing, the establishment of the Red Guards, and the development of the Red Army made Tang Jingyan see his blood boiling!
So he began to give speeches everywhere, propagating anti-imperialist and anti-feudal ideas and supporting the peasants in making a revolution.
Local Kuomintang authorities found his remarks close to the Communists and dangerous, so in 1930 Tang Jingyan was arrested and imprisoned. Tang Jingyan's family sold their houses and land, and entrusted bail to local celebrities, which allowed him to restore his freedom. But even so, Tang Jingyan could not stay in his hometown, and could only leave his hometown to make a living in the neighboring counties of Nantong and Haimen.
In 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and the War of Resistance was in full swing. As a hot-blooded young man, Tang Jingyan also threw himself into the anti-Japanese activities.
He organized the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps in the Haimen area and appointed himself deputy commander-in-chief. Around 1939, his ranks were changed by the Kuomintang, and Tang Jingyan was transferred to taizhou as the deputy commander of the guerrilla headquarters of the Lusu-Anhui Border Region.
This adaptation opened another window into his life.
Once, Tang Jingyan was ordered to move to Jiangdu, which happened to be adjacent to the northward advancing column of the New Fourth Army. The mutual exchanges between friendly forces allowed Tang Jingyan to get acquainted with Mei Jiasheng, the commander of the New Fourth Army, and began to have a certain understanding of the Communist Party. He admired the New Fourth Army very much, repeatedly misappropriated ammunition for relief, and established secret contacts with the New Fourth Army. In July 1940, an anti-communist upsurge broke out within the Kuomintang, and Tang Jingyan could not bear it, so he decided to abandon the dark and turn to the light.
He found Tao Yong and other leaders in the Suwan detachment of the New Fourth Army and expressed his willingness to join the New Fourth Army. But Tao Yong believes that the time is not ripe at this time, let him first endure.
In February 1941, Li Changjiang, the Kuomintang's deputy guerrilla commander-in-chief, defected to the enemy, and Tang Jingyan's direct superior, Meng Xianping, followed suit and openly defected. Tang Jingyan was not willing to become a traitor, so he raised his banner and shouted to his soldiers: "
Brothers, those who are willing to resist the Japanese with the New Fourth Army will follow me!
This sentence directly pulled away more than half of the people and guns. So Tang Jingyan officially joined the New Fourth Army and became a real revolutionary fighter.
After that, Tang Jingyan was appointed as the head of the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment, and he played a very important role in both combat and in uniting local forces. The local people admired Tang Jingyan and called his troops "Tang Tuan".
However, due to the needs of the struggle, Tang Jingyan's identity has not been made public.
"Surrender" and "Broken Belly"
In the spring of 1943, the japanese, who were already weakening, invaded the central Soviet region where General Su Yu was stationed. Su Yu's combat effectiveness was strong, which made the enemy suffer a lot. After several defeats, they had to admit that they could not shake the New Fourth Army on their own. So several high-level executives discussed it behind closed doors and came up with a crooked idea:
Send traitors to dredge up and disintegrate the New Fourth Army like the Kuomintang miscellaneous troops!
At this time, a traitor named Jiang Songping suddenly stood up and spoke:
I know a man who once worked with Tang Jingyan, the head of the Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment, and the two had a good relationship, allowing him to persuade Tang Jingyan to surrender.
The Japanese commander agreed at that time. As a result, a sugar-coated cannonball aimed at Tang Jingyan was topped.
After the two met, the traitor really went straight to the point, immediately explained his intentions, and said that as long as Tang Jingyan surrendered to the Japanese, then someone would want money and money. To add to his persuasiveness, he also cited several examples of Kuomintang generals who surrendered.
Tang Jingyan looked at him coldly and felt that this person was really pitiful and funny.
But he was acutely aware that there might be an opportunity lurking behind him, so he neither agreed nor refused. After the two finished talking, Tang Jingyan also sent this person out of the gate and said, "Whether this matter is successful or not, everyone is a friend." ”
Of course, this traitor went back to the mission happily, and Tang Jingyan immediately went to the headquarters to find General Su Yu and explain the situation and the situation! Su Yu and the Soviet-Chinese Party Committee immediately analyzed the situation and felt that the forces in the Tonghai area were relatively weak at this time, and it might be more difficult to oppose the enemy's sweep by force. At the same time, Tang Jingyan's troops were not explicitly communist armed forces, and Tang Jingyan himself had contacts with many middle-level military personnel of the Kuomintang, which could be exploited.
In the end, Su Yu personally made a decision and decided to put the plan in place, let Tang Jingyan lead his troops to "fake surrender", penetrate into the puppet army to spy on intelligence, contain the enemy, and prepare for the next step of counteroffensive.
After a series of rectifications, the Tang regiment determined the contact person and contact information within the unit and the headquarters of the New Fourth Army. After being ready, Tang Jingyan led the ministry to "surrender", so there was the scene at the beginning of this article.
After defecting to the Japanese Kou, Tang Jingyan learned to eat, drink and gamble in order to gain the trust of his enemies. With the "funds" given by the Japanese army, he constantly invited guests to dinner and mingled with his "new colleagues". For a time, the top brass of the puppet army had a good impression of Tang Jingyan, and even Li Shiqun, chairman of the puppet Jiangsu Province, took him as his own. Soon after, Tang Jingyan was "promoted" to the rank of brigade commander of the puppet army major general.
After Tang Jingyan broke into the enemy's interior, he did a lot of work. He took advantage of the opportunity of joint defense with the Japanese puppet army to obtain a large amount of military intelligence.
Relying on this information, the New Fourth Army repeatedly attacked, dealt a heavy blow to the enemy, and protected the lives and property of the masses of the people. At the same time, Tang Jingyan also took advantage of the enemy's internal contradictions to carry out a large number of division and disintegration work, making the puppet army, which was already scattered, more loose and even lower in combat effectiveness;
In addition, he also established an underground contact point and opened his own business name, in the name of doing business, he co-opted the top brass of the puppet army and smuggled a large amount of grain, medicine and military supplies to the base area!
In September 1943, the victory of the New Fourth Army against the "Qingxiang" was already at hand, and Tang Jingyan's task had been basically completed, and it was no longer necessary to continue to stay inside the enemy. Therefore, the Party Committee of the Soviet Union and China decided to let Tang Jingyan carry out a military riot and pull the troops out of the ranks of the puppet army. Due to the deliberate arrangements of the previous enemy, the garrisons of the "Tang Tuan" were very scattered and the operation was difficult.
But even so, the Soviet-Chinese Party Committee managed to send people to contact Tang Jingyan and all his commanders, unifying the timing and orders of the operation.
On the night of September 29, Tang Jingyan set up a banquet in the name of the marriage of his brothers, and brought the leaders of the puppet army and police to eat and drink. They drank first and then played cards, and they had a lot of fun. When the time came, Tang Jingyan shouted loudly, and the commanders and fighters who had already ambushed were immediately killed, killing all the leaders of the Japanese puppet army present. They then stormed out of the barracks, captured the other enemies, and destroyed the brigade headquarters and command center of the puppet army action brigade. At the same time, the Tang Tuan troops stationed in other garrisons also launched a riot to attack the enemy in front of them. On the side of the New Fourth Army, The regimental commander Liang Lingguang was also ordered to meet at various transportation arteries and let the rioters return to the base area smoothly.
Tang Jingyan penetrated into the enemy's internal battle for 163 days and nights, not only guaranteed the victory of the anti-sweeping in the central Soviet region, but also destroyed the various strongholds of the Japanese puppet army, captured a large number of guns and ammunition, and won a decisive victory!
It was only at this time that Tang Jingyan, who bore the name of "traitor", restored his identity as an anti-Japanese hero! Su Yu personally went to greet him, patted Tang Jingyan's shoulder, and praised him as a true hero! This period of wonder has also become a shining stroke in the history of the New Fourth Army and has been widely spread among the masses of the people.