The old saying has clouds: soldiers, devious ways also. In order to achieve victory, the two sides of the war will do whatever it takes to achieve victory, and if they are not careful and improperly prepared, they will have an uncertain impact on the future war situation, and the use of conspiracy and trickery to tilt the balance of war to their own side Is innumerable in the history of war in ancient and modern China and abroad.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, a chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army received a mysterious phone call
The commander of the troops immediately cut off the phone and saved thousands of men and horses of our army
。 Who is calling? Why did the commander become so cautious in the face of a great enemy?
Great enemy present
In 1937, the long-planned Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, the Japanese began to invade China in an all-round way, the Chinese nation reached the most dangerous moment, the Japanese invaders vainly tried to annex all of China in three months, but at the Battle of Songhu, they felt the indomitable anti-Japanese spirit of the Chinese troops.
With the formation of the anti-Japanese front of the whole nation, the Eighth Route Army led by the Communist Party of China played an important role in the battlefield behind enemy lines, obstructing the Japanese military operations in China by harassing the Japanese patrol detachments and transporting supply lines.
Under the command of our party, countless anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines mushroomed everywhere, and in 1940, under the command of Nie Rongzhen, the guerrilla forces led by our party launched a large-scale sabotage operation against the Japanese army in north China.
In this nearly 100 days, more than 1,800 large and small battles were fought, killing and wounding nearly 46,000 enemy troops, and greatly depleting the living strength of the Japanese invaders.
The anti-Japanese armed forces of the Communist Party of China gradually attracted the attention of the Japanese invasion in North China, and the Japanese could not tolerate such a strong resistance force in their rear, so in 1941, the Japanese army gathered a large number of soldiers, plus puppet troops, and cooperated with the army aviation units to launch a large-scale retaliatory operation against our Jin-Cha-Ji anti-Japanese base area.
As long as there are villages and towns with traces of anti-Japanese forces' activities, they adopt the three-light policy of killing, burning, and robbing the light, and wherever the Japanese army goes, corpses will not grow in the wild grass.
The Japanese army in North China hoped to use the mopping to find the hiding place of the eighth route army and destroy it, not only that, but the Japanese army also arranged a large number of sentries on the main road of communication to find the traces of the Eighth Route Army.
The situation reached the most critical moment, in the face of the enemy's arrogant offensive, Nie Rongzhen decided to break it into pieces, on the one hand, to send guerrillas to continue to destroy the roads and railways of the Japanese advance, on the other hand, to help the common people evade the transfer and avoid their death under the butcher's knife of the Japanese army.
Headquarters transfer
Although the guerrilla tactics of the Eighth Route Army have been honed for several years and have become very superb, the Japanese army has sent a large force to encircle and blockade almost the entire Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, and the external communication of the various units of the Eighth Route Army has been almost interrupted, and the materials cannot be transported normally.
In August 1941, a small detachment of the Japanese army attacked the Jin-Cha-Ji Second Military Sub-district and the Seventh Military Sub-district along the road, however, Nie Rongzhen soon discovered that these two attacks were feints, and the real purpose of the Japanese army was the Eighth Route Army's Jin-Cha-Ji Third Sub-district in Fuping County, which was precisely where the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was located.
The Rapid Attack of the Japanese Army surprised Nie Rongzhen, and in order to avoid worse situations that would happen next, Commander Nie Rongzhen decided
The main forces and organs of the Eighth Route Army were transferred
The destination of the transfer was the second division, where the enemy forces were weaker.
Nie Rongzhen felt that this was the most dangerous moment facing the Eighth Route Army since the all-out War of Resistance, and the process of transfer was not smooth, because the Japanese army continued to sweep, many Eighth Route Army soldiers were wounded, the speed of the march was seriously slowed down, and many ordinary people in the transfer team were displaced by Japanese artillery fire, the situation was not optimistic.
Guo Tianmin, commander of the Second Jin-Cha-Ji Sub-district, learned of the news that the main force would be transferred to his defense zone, and immediately dispatched a receiving force.
When our army was moving, the enemy army also reacted; they discovered the movement of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and felt that this was an excellent opportunity to eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army, so they sent a large number of troops to follow them, and as long as the time was ripe, the enemy army would kill our army like a hungry tiger.
In desperation, the transfer troops of the headquarters were forced into the dense jungle in the mountainous area, Guo Tianmin secretly felt bad in his heart, the terrain in the mountainous area was complicated, although it could temporarily slow down the search speed of the Japanese army, but it also brought a certain degree of difficulty to his own response work.
Mystery phone
Through the information that had been obtained, Guo Tianmin determined the location of the transferred troops, and sent a signal soldier to make contact, so he discussed the evacuation route with the staff officers.
At this time, the phone on the desk suddenly rang,
A recent staff officer picked up the phone,
The other end of the phone seemed to be in a hurry, saying that he was the liaison officer of the headquarters and asking where Guo Tianmin's troops were located.
The staff officer who answered the phone did not think much about it, and when he was about to say the direction of the troops,
Guo Tianmin's eyes were fast, and he immediately pressed the hang-up button,
The staff officer who answered the phone was very confused and did not understand why the commander, Guo Tianmin, did what he wanted to do.
"Which headquarters called?" Guo Tianmin asked with a serious face.
"This..." The call came too quickly just now, and the staff officer did not ask clearly.
"Do you know that this phone call from an unknown source is most likely from the enemy?" Guo Tianmin's words frightened the staff officer into a cold sweat, and he felt a little afraid.
"Now is a very special moment, the enemy's reconnaissance means are far beyond our imagination, the opposite side did not clearly indicate their specific identity at the beginning, and then asked our location without saying a word, our army's liaison rules have never been like this, this phone call, at first glance, is a trap!"
Whether or not it is exposed now, the enemy army can even call his headquarters directly by telephone, and Guo Tianmin does not dare to entrust it.
Immediately commanded all the horses to leave for evacuation.
Under the cover of the Second Division, the military district organs began to retreat backwards in the night, but not long after they left, the soldiers at the rear of the line saw a group of figures appear in the place where they had just been stationed, and the steel helmets on their heads reflected a faint moonlight.
Seeing this scene, everyone was terrified, if Guo Tianmin had not hung up the phone in time and made the decision to retreat, I am afraid that the entire military and political organs of the Jin-Cha-Ji Sub-district plus the thousands of people and horses of the receiving troops of the Second Sub-district would have died here tonight.
brief summary:
The war with the Japanese aggressors has never been smooth sailing, and countless commanders and fighters of our army like Guo Tianmin have fought wits and courage against the Japanese on the battlefield to achieve today's victory.