August 15, 1945, the day that should always be remembered by history, japan has announced its unconditional surrender. This also meant that the war was about to come to an end, but no one expected that the Japanese soldiers would rebel at this time. The unconditional surrender has been announced, which means where they should come from, but the Japanese army in Gaoyou, Jiangsu, is unusual, not only did not withdraw from this place, but also completely did not accept the surrender, but also made a big show. In an instant, a war broke out, not only directly killing the soldiers who had been persuaded to surrender, but also cutting off the heads of the soldiers and hanging them on top of the tall buildings. It is precisely such a move that really makes people indignant, and after seeing this scene, the morale of the officers and men of our army is high. It was also at this time that the last battle on the battlefield of the War of Resistance Against Japan, that is, the Battle of Gaoyou, broke out in an instant.
The geographical location of Gaoyou is quite advantageous, and it is in the center of Jiangsu. Near the south of Gaoyou is Yangzhou, and close to the north of Gaoyou is the Lianghuai area. It would be very difficult for anyone who came to invade to take this place, because geography had the advantage of being easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, in 1939, the Japanese army occupied the place. After their occupation, they continued to reinforce and deployed a defensive line. From the preparation of the drama until 1945, during this period of time, the Japanese army made great efforts for the defense of this place, and it can be said that this place has become a place where knives and guns cannot be penetrated.
In the face of the Japanese invaders, the officers and men of our army never gave up, but on September 2, 1945, the surrender book was already signed by the Japanese. However, this move in the Gaoyou area was really intolerable, so our New Fourth Army took a corresponding decision in the shortest possible time. An ultimatum was issued directly to the Japanese troops inside the encirclement zone. I hope that they can see the scene in front of them clearly, and hope that they can surrender their weapons, but the Japanese troops in Gaoyou City are still relatively stubborn, and their attitude is also very firm, there is no sense of resistance at all, and they are particularly provocative. He even uttered arrogant words, directly indicating that the New Fourth Army, standing outside the window, was completely unqualified to accept their surrender. The reason why the Japanese army that was actually established was so arrogant was inseparable from Chiang Kai-shek's backing, just as at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek had already germinated at that time and planned to start a civil war. Just after Japan had announced its surrender, Chiang Kai-shek at this time was also particularly anxious, which was equivalent to a mountain that could not tolerate two tigers, and he was also desperately hoping that the strength of the Kuomintang could be continuously enhanced, so he set his sights on the Japanese army.
In order to be able to continuously consolidate his own strength, Chiang Kai-shek tried to start monopolizing the Japanese army, and he also wanted to extend his claws to the right to surrender. In order to be able to achieve this long-cherished wish, he also made a special request for cooperation to the head of the Japanese military before this. It is precisely because of this that the Japanese leader Okamura Ningji is still so arrogant at these junctures, and his arrogance is constantly increasing. And they said that although they were in the encirclement area of the Red regime, they could only surrender when they saw the Kuomintang army, and it was absolutely impossible to surrender if they saw the New Fourth Army. In fact, the Japanese troops in Gaoyou City also had their own small calculations, but they only used the knife of the Kuomintang, and their purpose and their ambitions were never forgotten.
Therefore, they directly killed the small soldiers sent out by the New Fourth Army to persuade them to surrender, which was equivalent to killing them. What is even more resentful is that they also gathered many innocent people in Gaoyou City, and then they built a lot of defense facilities outside Gaoyou City. The banners that were drawn up were grandiose, and they made it clear that they wanted to help the Kuomintang, and then they would have to recover these lands one by one. In the face of the provocations of the Japanese army, we originally did not pay attention to it, but after repeatedly persuading us to surrender, it eventually became an empty talk, which made people particularly resentful. Immediately after that, Li Yu, commander of the Central China Field Army, led the Seventh Column and the Eighth Column at this time, preparing to launch a fight with the Japanese troops in Gaoyou City, with the aim of directly recovering the place of Gaoyou.
After arriving at the battlefield, the first thing Kurihiro did was to analyze the situation. Although Gaoyou is an easy place to defend and difficult to attack, in terms of numbers, the number of generals of our army is completely superior to that of the Japanese army, and this is also a super advantage. After understanding all the situations, the trumpet was blown. After the real prologue began, in order to be able to recover Gaoyou faster, in order to liberate Gaoyou faster, Li Yu divided the entire war into two stages, at first this stage was to be able to greatly reduce the strength of the troops on the outskirts of Gaoyou, and then directly encircled and controlled Gaoyou City. Immediately after this stage is to mobilize all the forces to launch a general attack, directly annihilating the Japanese army in Gaoyou City.
Under the guidance of this operational ideology, on December 19, 1945, under the order of Li Yu, the Seventh Column and the Eighth Column of the Central China Field Army quickly walked towards the battlefield, and the west and north sides of the east and north outside Gaoyou City successively blew up the charge horn. All the forces gathered were attacking Gaoyou City. At this time, Li Yu also rushed to the front line to command, after watching the field army pouring in from all directions, the Japanese troops in Gaoyou City also felt pressure, and even a little flustered, at the beginning they were indeed struggling to resist, but they realized that their own ability was indeed relatively inferior, and there was no way to suppress the war of our army. So I began to flee in all directions, and in a hurry, someone found that there was an exit near the southernmost part of Gaoyou City. In an instant, the Japanese troops in the city all tried their best to flee from this exit.
In reality, however, the exit was left for them, in order to attract them out of this place, where the Eighth Column lay in ambush. Under the fierce attack and ambush on the outskirts, the strongholds of Taishan Temple and Chengtian Temple in Gaoyou City were successively recovered. In a very short time has reached the northern area of Gaoyou City. At this time, the New Fourth Army was still constantly approaching GaoyouCheng, and the Sixty-eighth Regiment, the Seventy-second Regiment, and the Seventy Regiment, including the Seventy Regiment, continued to launch strong attacks on the enemy, all the way to Gaoyoucheng. The fierceness of the war can be imagined, but the speed of such a rapid attack took only one day. After a day of fighting, killing, and killing, the strongholds on the outskirts of Gaoyou City have basically been thoroughly cleared out, and the south exit left by our army at this time can also be said to be full of harvest.
When the soldiers saw such results, they really smiled with relief and cheered everything. At this time, as the manager, Li Yu did not show a particularly happy or particularly excited look, but a serious face. At this time, he ordered the warriors to take a short rest, and then they had to attack Gaoyoucheng, because Gaoyoucheng was their main position. Just when the morale of the soldiers was high and they had already made up their minds to rush to the front, Li Yu had another plan. Because he knew that war was particularly cruel, there would be casualties in war, and in order to minimize casualties, after these strongholds outside Gaoyou City were swept away one by one, he thought of another method, that is, he wrote a lot of propaganda leaflets to persuade surrender, and constantly threw them into Gaoyou City. Corresponding soldiers were also dispatched, holding particularly large loudspeakers, constantly reading the surrender edicts, and also using phonographs to constantly broadcast the news.
I hope that through this method, the Japanese army can see the reality clearly, and the offensive of our army is also constantly increasing the Japanese army in Gaoyou City, and it has been shaken in the face of such a situation. With the passage of time, many Japanese troops also chose to surrender after this, and they thought that this effect was still quite good. Just when everyone thought that the timing had changed, deferred learning began at this time, shooting and killing the person who threw the leaflet. In fact, at that time, one of the most advantageous weapons was the "earth plane", with the help of this object, it was possible to launch a lot of leaflets into Gaoyou City. This was the result of the constant stalemate between the two sides, and on the 25th, our army decided to launch a final general attack on Gaoyoucheng. Although Gaoyou had been deployed by the Japanese, it had become invincible. However, under the guidance of Li Yu, the city wall, which reached a height of nine meters and a width of seven meters, could not stop our soldiers.
After the outbreak of this war, the south gate was the most fierce, and the soldiers climbed the ladder one by one in order to be able to rush into the city, against the fierce artillery fire of the enemy, and climbed up with all their might. Just after more than half an hour of heavy artillery fire, the south gate was finally opened. Just after the south gate was opened, several gates had been breached one after another, and a street battle began after our army poured into the city. The Japanese general Iwakiko, seeing that their general situation had gone, had to choose to surrender and raised their white flag.
In the early morning of December 26, 1945, the Japanese army signed a corresponding surrender agreement, and the Gaoyou War came to an end. The war, which lasted for a week, finally came to a successful end. In the course of this stalemate, the annihilated Japanese army has reached more than 1,200 people, the great army has reached more than 8,000 people, and many guns and cannons have been captured. After this war warning, it means that the Japanese are completely thorough, and they will go back wherever they come from.