At the end of 1945, on the city wall of the Gaoyou area of Jiangsu Province, someone suddenly threw down a bloody human head from above, and for a time, all the New Fourth Army stationed outside the city was furious and eager to kill directly into it and eliminate all these Japanese devils inside.
In fact, as early as August,
Japan has already announced its formal surrender
China's fourteen-year-long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has also come to an end, and our army has also recovered a large area of land in central China, huaiyin, huai'an and other places have been liberated one after another, as long as our army goes, most of the enemies are looking forward to the wind.
According to the rules, the Japanese should immediately surrender their weapons to the nearest Allied forces, and then hand over all their weapons, but stationed
The Japanese army in Gaoyou, Jiangsu, was always unwilling to surrender, and began to resist stubbornly.
Our army has repeatedly issued an ultimatum to persuade them to surrender, but the other side completely ignored them, and even declared that our Party is not qualified to be surrendered.
World War II surrender ceremony
After that, the soldiers sent by our army to persuade them to surrender were directly beheaded on the spot and paraded to the public. These hateful Japanese are simply brazen and bold. So far
It is no longer possible for our army to calm the anger in its hearts
General Su Yu asked his superiors directly for instructions,
The final battle of the War of Resistance Against Japan was launched, the Battle of Gaoyou
。 What was the final result of this battle, and why did the Japanese resolutely refuse to surrender?
Next, let me reveal the mystery behind it. Interested friends may wish to click a small attention, feel good place can be a long press for two seconds, click a like to support it, in order to update more wonderful content at any time.
Chiang the Elder helped the Japanese escape responsibility
When it comes to why the Japanese did not surrender, in fact, it has nothing to do with one person, that is, Chiang Kai-shek, in the course of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the old Chiang Kai-shek has been openly and secretly targeting our army, watching the war coming to an end.
He does not want such a big victory to be taken away by our army.
When the Japanese surrendered, his thoughts became stronger and stronger, and he was ready for civil war.
Chiang Kai-shek
In order to consolidate his next rule,
Began to try to monopolize the right to be surrendered
In this way, he began to cooperate with the Japanese general Okamura Ningji, and his demand was that the Japanese troops under the jurisdiction of our party should not easily surrender, and could only wait until the old Chiang Kai-shek's troops arrived before coming out to surrender.
In order to achieve their own goals,
Old Jiang actually promised to help this Okamura Ningji exonerate himself
Such an approach is simply irresponsible to the entire Chinese people. The hands of this Gangcun Ningji are stained with the blood of many Chinese compatriots, and a war criminal who is so cruel as this should be judged by history, even if he is stabbed with a thousand knives.
However, now that Old Chiang Kai-shek has actually agreed to help such a heinous war criminal escape justice for his own selfish interests, such an act should be laughed at by the people of the whole country. When old Jiang and Okamura Ningji reached a consensus,
Japanese officers within Gaoyou also received orders to refuse to surrender
They were originally unwilling because of the failure of their own country, and now with the protection of Old Jiang, they are even more fearless.
Okamura Ninji
At that time, the Gaoyou area was stationed with two brigades of the independent mixed 90th Brigade regiment of the Japanese army and a squadron of artillery, and the total offensive added up to almost 1,100 people.
In addition to this, there were many puppet armies, including their 42nd Division
As well as some security brigades and police brigades, these puppet armies alone reached more than 5,000 people.
In addition, some Japanese puppet troops were also stationed at Shaobo Lake south of Gaoyou. At that time, our army thought of liberating Gaoyou by peaceful negotiations, so as to reduce the harm to the people in the city, and tried to minimize the harm between the two sides
Zhao Yunxiang, who had surrendered earlier, was dispatched to serve as the exhortator for this time.
Since he had also chosen to surrender to our party when our army attacked Yancheng before, he may have been more able to grasp the enemy's psychology than others, but our army did not think of it
These Japanese have openly provoked our Party on many occasions, and have not only beheaded our Party's demotion personnel.
Japanese army
More and more fortifications were also built on the outskirts of Gaoyou,
The Japanese troops who were originally stationed in Yangzhou were transferred
He also constantly said that he was trying to help the Kuomintang regain lost ground. In the face of several successive provocations, how can our army continue to tolerate such things to continue to happen?
Since so many attempts of persuasion have not made the enemy remorseful, fight until he surrenders. General Su Yu, then commander of the Central China Field Army, saw this situation and immediately launched a request to his superiors.
Hopefully, an attack will be launched against the enemy forces inside Gaoyou.
All along, the Party Central Committee has not been in favor of fighting a tough battle, after all, with the current deployment of troops in the Gaoyou area, it is likely that there will be heavy casualties.
And it was not possible to successfully conquer the situation of Gaoyou.
At the most critical moment, Su Yu sent a telegram directly to the superior leaders, which indicated the urgency of the current situation and the reasons why gaoyou must be attacked.
Su Yu
In the end, his superiors chose to agree to his suggestion and gave him orders to lead his troops to attack these enemies who refused to surrender.
In one fell swoop, Gao You was taken back from the hands of the enemy.
Originally, Su Yu thought that the difficulty of attacking Gaoyou City was relatively high, so he sent three columns to serve as the main force, so as to ensure the smooth completion of the task.
But the Central Committee has given other tasks,
The Sixth Column of the Central China Military Region was required to advance north and return to the direction of the Jinpu Line
, fight against the enemy. Finally, under the efforts of General Su Yu, the superiors promised to leave the seventh and eighth columns to attack and defend.
Facts have proved that General Su Yu, as a senior general of our army, at many moments of moments,
They are able to express their thoughts in a timely manner
And whoever opposed him did his best to stand up for his ideas, and the most surprising thing was that every time his ideas were surprisingly confirmed.
Soldiers of our army
It is precisely because of these that he led the warriors to fight countless victories, and Su Yu, who has been in the battlefield for a long time, has made great achievements on the battlefield.
The enemy never imagined that what he was going to face next was a figure of our army's God of War level
。 Although the doubts of the superior leaders were solved.
However, Su Yu knew that this battle must be prepared for everything, and there could not be the slightest flaw, and if he did not succeed in getting back Gao You and annihilating the Japanese in one fell swoop, then how should he account to his superiors. Therefore, how to fight the next battle has become a crucial question.
Special location of Gaoyou
Gaoyou is located in the middle of Jiangsu Province, yangzhou in the south, and adjacent to Lianghuai in the north, which can be said to be the gateway of the Lianghuai region.
The outside of the city is surrounded by a moat, and the walls are towering,
Therefore, he is also a military stronghold on the canal line, and from a military point of view, its position is very important.
Battle of Gaoyou
Especially in 1938, after the Japanese army occupied the Gaoyou area, it was processed for the defense here, and the structure of the entire city wall was extremely strong.
An intricate defensive military system has been formed.
Obviously, it is not an easy task to break into Gaoyou. The more urgent the situation, the more our army must take this city.
Moreover, in the face of General Su Yu, these problems have their own countermeasures, in order to eliminate this arrogant Japanese Kou as soon as possible, and to completely break the illusion that Old Chiang Kai-shek wants to use the enemy army to cooperate with him and deal with our army, so to speak,
The battle is imminent.
Before the battle began, our army mobilized the power of the masses from the outskirts of Gaoyou, and gathered more than 15,000 migrant workers.
Let everyone deliver some food and materials for the troops, etc., and many ordinary people have vacated their own houses to give our soldiers a rest.
Everyone's response was very positive, and it was precisely because of the high support of the people
Only then can the soldiers of our army have no worries.
All the soldiers were full of confidence in combat, and they were determined to successfully free GaoYou from the clutches of the enemy and let the people live a stable life.
On December 19, the Battle of Gaoyou officially broke out
The first thing our army needs to do in this campaign is to recover Shaobo Lake south of Gaoyou, and the geographical location of Shaobo is in the middle of Gaoyou and Yangzhou, which is also an important stronghold on the Grand Canal.
The Battle of Gaoyou officially broke out
If Shaobo is successfully taken, our army can completely eliminate some enemies on the outskirts of Gaoyou City, and then in the second stage, our army can launch a general attack on the Japanese troops in Gaoyou City. According to such a battle plan, first
General Ji was sent to lead the Seventh Column to carry out the plan to attack Shaobo Lake.
After some preparation, with the order of our general, the soldiers of the Seventh Column launched a fierce attack on Shao Bo directly from three directions, and in order to ensure that the battle did not go wrong in the slightest, Su Yu was even more so
Directly disregarding personal safety, he came to the forefront of the war and conducted command operations.
Su Yu commanded the battle
When the enemy found that all the soldiers of our army were in all directions, the enemy felt a great deal of pressure and watched the soldiers of our army coming menacingly.
The enemy can only engage in a deadly battle with our army
But it didn't last long, and the Japanese army was crushed by the soldiers of the Seventh Column.
Just as they were fleeing in all directions, someone noticed a gap in the south, and so on
Most of the Japanese troops began to frantically flee south
What they did not know, however, was that this vacancy was a trap that our army had prepared for them long ago, and as long as they dared to flee over there, they would certainly be completely annihilated by our army.
When the war on the outskirts was almost going on, our army set up some defensive lines in the area south of Shaobo to prevent the troops under lao Chiang kai-shek from coming to support, and at the same time, the eighth column also carried out follow-up tasks under the leadership of Tao Yong. They
Attacks were also launched against other outlying areas of Gaoyou,
Among them, the Sixty-sixth Regiment took advantage of the darkness and the enemy was not easy to find, and touched the vicinity of various strongholds such as the Taishan Temple in the northern city, and then all these strongholds were destroyed.
Engage the enemy
In this way, after the brave killing of the enemy by the soldiers of our army, in just one day, the first stage of the battle was ended, sixteen enemy strongholds were successfully uprooted, more than 4,000 enemy troops were eliminated, and the escape channels of the enemy's peripheral troops were completely cut off by our army.
After a brief victory, the warriors rejoiced,
But General Su Yu knew very well in his heart that these were just the beginnings, and the Gaoyou City in front of them was the ultimate goal of their campaign.
After the battle against Shaobo Lake was over, Su Yu immediately returned to Gaoyou, first giving the soldiers a short rest and then convening a meeting.
Let all the generals report on the preparations for the attack on Gaoyou
。 Just when everyone thought that a general offensive would soon be launched, Su Yu issued a new order to carefully survey the surrounding terrain first.
Soon, our army found the breakthrough of the enemy army, it turned out that the key firepower of the Japanese army was concentrated in the east of the city, and the headquarters of the Japanese army was also stationed in this place.
Moreover, the terrain near the east gate is relatively flat, which is very conducive to the deployment of firepower
It is not difficult to imagine that the other side will definitely put more troops on the defense of the East Gate.
Attack the East Gate
After Thinking for a moment, General Su Yu thought of the best attack tactic, that is, to plan the plan, and then another sound to attack the east and the west, we
We can first create the illusion that our army will mobilize a large number of troops and want to attack strongly in the east of the city
In this way, it is better to contain the enemy's main forces deployed in the east of the city, and then attack from the direction of the north and south gates. A special force was also dispatched, including to the northwest, in case of emergency.
Pre-war preparations
The deployment of troops has been completed, but the city wall is nine meters high, how can we avoid the casualties caused by the enemy on the city wall to our army? Su Yu pondered on this problem, and finally he thought of a clever trick, that is, before the battle began,
Our army can first take advantage of the evening to dig some communication trenches near the city wall
, directly dug to a place tens of meters away from the city wall.
After that, find some sacks to pack the soil, and pile up these sacks to form a fortress that is higher than the city walls, so that
This place has become the commanding height of our army's firepower
, be able to suppress those enemies on the city wall in time. At the same time, it can also play a better defensive role.
Soldiers of our army
Of course, the walls of Gaoyou are very strong, and we cannot just fight the enemy like this, and we must think of some other way to deal with the Japanese army.
A two-pronged approach is all it takes to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy
。 While making these preparations for battle, our army also launched a psychological offensive against the enemy in an attempt to disintegrate the enemy's military spirit.
After all, sometimes, psychological offensives are often more effective than tough tactics. Originally, the Japanese army had already announced its surrender in August.
Now that four months have passed, if Chiang Kai-shek had not obstructed him,
Perhaps these Japanese soldiers have long been sent back to China to enjoy a life of reunion with their families.
Now they are still in the dark by their superiors and old Jiang, and they are already in a state of encirclement, let alone any reinforcements, no doubt a trapped beast.
I believe that at this time, many Japanese troops will be very uncomfortable,
The torment of homesickness is enough to crush a person's will to fight.
Japanese soldiers
Therefore, this is also an opportunity for our army, only to see that our army has sent out several soldiers who can speak Japanese, holding loudspeakers and reading the Japanese surrender edict to the enemy in the city.
Tell them that the Japanese troops outside have all surrendered long ago,
and the real situation of the Japanese army. Sometimes some Japanese songs are also played, trying to evoke the homesickness of Japanese soldiers.
Psychological offensive
Thus abandoning the idea of continuing to fight, at first the enemy could not listen at all, as soon as he heard our fighters make a sound, he immediately shot or fired shells at our fighters, but with our unswerving persuasion for a long time,
The enemy's reaction was not as intense as before
On the contrary, sometimes the Japanese soldiers will completely collapse and cry after listening to the Japanese songs, and at this time, their psychological defenses will gradually collapse.
In addition to these, other soldiers also wrote a lot of slogans in Japanese to post them, and managed to transmit various leaflets to Gaoyou City
Sure enough, this method still has some results
Many enemy troops' hearts have gradually shaken, and various offensives have caused chaos within the enemy army, and many soldiers have no intention of fighting.
No intention of fighting
They just want to get back to their hometown quickly, they don't want to lose their lives so inexplicably, just like that,
More and more Japanese soldiers have chosen to stand up and surrender
。 But how could the Japanese officer Iwaki have allowed such a situation to continue? He directly ordered his men to shoot at our soldiers.
The next day, Gao You's general offensive was completely launched, and Su Yu seized the opportunity to attack the enemy when the enemy's psychological defense line was at its most fragile. After the Japanese army saw such a phenomenon,
Still under the leadership of Yan Qixue, he fought against our army
In order to prevent our army from breaching the city walls, they continued to improve the fortifications inside the city.
In the process, we did not forget to fire artillery shells at the positions of our army, and it had to be said that the enemy's fortifications were simply impregnable, and for so many years, Gaoyou City was in the hands of the Japanese.
The city wall alone was built nine meters high and about seven meters wide.
After the battle began, our army launched an attack from the east, west and north of the city wall at the same time, inducing the Japanese army to continuously break through to the south.
The Japanese soldiers provoked again
The two sides are at war
After that, our army can encircle and annihilate them. Therefore, in the whole process of fighting, the attack of the South Gate was the most fierce, and the warriors built a lot of ladders.
Climb towards the top of the city walls
。 Since our soldiers did not have any cover, there were constantly fighters who were hit by the enemy from the ladder and then fell down.
But then there will be the next warrior to take over, and for a time, a steady stream of warriors will not hesitate to rush up the enemy's walls, in the process,
Everyone has no way to avoid the enemy's attack, can only do everything they can to keep moving forward,
In the whole process, the most difficult part was the battle at the East Gate, because the enemy deployed most of his troops near the East Gate, resulting in the soldiers of our army being unable to attack for a long time.
Just when the battle was in a state of stalemate, there was a clear breakthrough in the northwest direction, which relieved a lot of pressure for the soldiers at the East Gate, and soon,
Taking advantage of the enemy's lack of preparation, our army climbed up the ladder one after another
In close combat, the warriors fought bravely. Finally a breakthrough was opened above the fortified city walls.
Attack the city walls
After a full half hour of fierce fighting, the soldiers of our army took the lead in breaking through the east gate, and then the rest of the fighters rushed in, in the face of such a fierce attack of our army,
The enemy's combat effectiveness continued to decline, and soon, the four gates were breached by the warriors
For a time, the warring sides began a fierce street battle. Not long after the two sides fought, the enemy was already powerless to resist, and finally on the 26th, he chose to surrender.
At this time, our army general Han Nianlong went directly into the headquarters of the Japanese army and demanded that Yan Qixue surrender his weapons and surrender, seeing that he was already in a big way
Yan Qixue also stopped struggling and disarmed all the armed forces
He also surrendered the command knife in his hand, and at this point, all the enemies in the Gaoyou area surrendered to our army.
The ceremony of surrender is held
In the end, the warring sides held a long-awaited surrender ceremony in the local Hongguan, and throughout the ceremony, Yan Qixue was dejected.
He handed a roster into the hands of our army
It records the names of all the soldiers of the Japanese army at that time, as well as the specific situation of some weapons and equipment.
Descent ceremony
Among the soldiers around the crowd, there was a more special existence, that is, General Su Yu, although he was wearing an ordinary military uniform.
But he was a great god of war who commanded the whole battle.
After watching the entire surrender ceremony, he silently returned to his troops. At this point, the battle of Gaoyou has come to an end.
Later, when Yan Qixue saw Su Yu, he was very surprised, he did not expect that the person in front of him was the commander who fought with him, so
He expressed his deep admiration for General Su Yu.
It is worth mentioning that after the end of the Gaoyou Campaign, Old Jiang did not know that the enemy had been defeated, and he still had illusions and thought that he was not far from his grand cause.
He did not hesitate to use his air force to transmit a lot of food and materials to the Japanese army, and he never expected that these things would eventually be collected by our army. From the 19th to the 26th,
The soldiers of our army won the final victory in only one week.
It left a perfect ending to the War of Resistance Against Japan.
General Su Yu
In this battle, our army lost about 600 people, but the enemy suffered heavy casualties, more than 8,000 people, including more than 1,200 Japanese troops
The number of prisoners was nearly nine hundred, and the number of weapons and equipment captured reached more than 5,000
。 You must know that this battle is the largest number of prisoners in the history of our New Fourth Army.
Gaoyou was also the last of our army to liberate the city from the Japanese, and this battle drew a perfect end to the entire War of Resistance Against Japan.
It also destroyed Chiang Kai-shek's idea of possessing the fruits of the victory of the War of Resistance alone
Since the liberation of Gaoyou, many areas in the vicinity have been completely liberated.
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After the surrender, the Japanese army still stubbornly resisted, killing our army's persuaders to surrender, and Su Yu directly annihilated them