Author: SOUL Deere
On August 15, 1945, after the Red Army of the Soviet Union sent troops to the three eastern provinces, the Japanese rule in our northeast collapsed. In order to maintain normal order and prevent them from being harassed by troops and bandits, the local masses spontaneously organized a variety of armed groups, whose leaders included cadres who had lost contact with the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, prisoners of war who had been captured by the Japanese army to work as coolies in the northeast, and members of underground anti-Japanese groups, and Liu Di, the former battalion commander of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, was one of them.
The advance troops of the Eighth Route Army entered the northeast
Liu Di was a veteran soldier of the former Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, born and died under Zhou Baozhong, the commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Coalition, and once served as the commander of the Anti-Japanese Coalition Battalion, and later retreated into the Soviet Union with Zhou Baozhong. After a year of training in the northeast, Liu Di believed that there was no future in the northeast war of resistance, and could not stand the monotonous study life in the training camp, so he sneaked back to the northeast, and after a pseudonym, mixed into the cement factory in Yanji Miaoling Village as a worker.
The Miaoling Cement Factory was a large factory invested by the Japanese, and most of the workers in the factory were innocent people and prisoners of war captured by the Japanese army from Guannei, with a total of 3,000 or 4,000 people. After Japan announced its unconditional surrender, the Japanese managers in the factory all withdrew one after another, and Liu Di, who had a more sensitive sense of smell, felt that the time had come, so he organized a self-defense force in the factory and armed it with weapons left over from the Japanese army, and suddenly became a major local force, and even the bandits who had originally made a fortune came to fight.
At this time, Jiang Xintai (later chief of the general staff of the Korean Army), a cadre of the Anti-Japanese Coalition who entered the northeast with the Soviet Red Army, also came to the Jidong area, and with the help of Yong Wentao (vice minister of forestry after liberation), Li Pingye (lieutenant colonel in 1955), Yun Guangying (secretary general of Guangdong Province after liberation), Wang Weilong, Wen Zhengyi (deputy director of the Department of Finance and Economics after liberation), and other cadres who arrived in Jidong earlier, organized the Jiandao Garrison Headquarters (the Jidong area was called Madao Province during the puppet Manchu period), under the direct command of the 1st Regiment and the Eight County Security Regiment.
The Soviet Red Army sent troops to northeast China
Hearing that the Anti-Japanese Coalition had returned to the northeast, Liu Di hesitated and pondered whether to take a "name" or not. At this time, Liu Yukun, a secret agent of Chiang Kai-shek's army lurking in the cement factory, became active, and he advised Liu Di: "Although these three eastern provinces are currently occupied by the Soviets, Stalin has already made peace with China and will soon hand them over to Chiang Kai-shek." When the time comes, as soon as Jiang Jun's million-strong army arrives, the people of the whole northeast will inevitably eat pot pulp to greet them, how long can you say these anti-alliance and eight roads can jump? ”
As soon as Liu Di heard that it was reasonable, he decided to join the camp of Chiang Kai-shek's army and hung up the sign of the 21st regiment of Chiang Kai-shek's army. Under the deception of Liu Yukun, liu Di, who was bold and bold, actually led his troops to attack a mechanized infantry platoon of the Soviet army that had fallen behind, and executed all the captured Soviet soldiers. Soon, Li Pingye, chief of staff of the Majima Garrison, went out with the 1st Regiment to suppress the bandits, and Liu Di thought that they had come to avenge the Soviet army, and colluded with the bandits Ma Quzi to surround the two battalions of the 1st Regiment and disarm them, and Li Pingye was unfortunately captured.
When Jiang Xintai, commander of the Jiandao Garrison, heard that the 1st Regiment had been disarmed, he was furious and scolded: "Good you Liu Di, even if you leave the team without permission, you actually besieged our army, is it to be a traitor with an iron heart?" Because he had served as the political commissar of the 5th Army of the Anti-Japanese League, he and Liu Di knew each other although they were not familiar with each other, and they also studied together in the Soviet camp. Jiang Xintai then transferred some personnel from the county security regiments and personally led the team to find the 21st regiment to settle accounts.
Jiang Xintai after returning to China
At a critical juncture, the cadre brigade of the Eighth Route Army, which had set out from Yan'an, had already arrived in the northeast after a long journey. Faced with the unfavorable situation in which the advance troops of Chiang Kai-shek's army had already captured Shanhaiguan and Shenyang, the superiors decided to disperse the cadre brigades to various parts of the northeast, while defending against the enemy's attack, while mobilizing the masses, among which Tang Tianji (1955 lieutenant general), Kong Shiquan (1955 lieutenant general), Yuan Jiao (major general in 1955) and others were assigned to the Jidong area.
After Tang Tianji and others arrived in Jidong, they reorganized the Jiandao Garrison District into the Jidong Military Region, with Jiang Xintai as commander, Li Yixing (later commander of the 6th Division of the Korean Army) as chief of staff, and Tang Tianji, Kong Shiquan, and Yuan Jiao as the chief and deputy political commissars. After Tang Tianji arrived at his post, he ordered a company to be drawn from the county security regiments, plus the Korean independent battalion formed in Badaohezi, so that there was another main regiment of the military region, and the crusading troops led by Jiang Xintai were exactly this regiment.
At this time, the five detachments of the Taihang Mountain Volunteer Army, which were on the way to chase the bandits, happened to pass through the Jidong area, and the two units coincided with each other. When Liu Di heard that the old eighth road in Guannei was coming, he was frightened and scattered, and he hurriedly sent people to negotiate peace. Tang Tianji and others analyzed that liu di as a former cadre of the Anti-Japanese Coalition, the armed forces led by Liu Di still had a little progressive component, which was different from Ma Quzi's habitual banditry, so he decided to recruit Liu Di by means of incorporation, and Jiang Xintai did not comment after hearing about it.
Lieutenant General Tang Tianji presided over the meeting
During the negotiations, Liu Di actually became very good at talking, and he was very happy to agree to hand over the 21st Regiment. It turned out that Marshal Vasilevsky, commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern Front of the Soviet Red Army, was withdrawing from the northeast with a large group of men and horses, and his vanguard troops were almost at The Eastern Part of Jidong, and threatened to solve the problem of the 21st Regiment that killed a platoon of the Soviet army. Fearing reprisals from the Soviet Red Army, Liu Di wanted to rejoin the Eighth Route Army and escape sanctions.
Tang Tianji agreed to Liu Di's request and sent Jiang Xintai, Kong Shiquan, and Li Jinyuan (who served as deputy logistics director of the Guangzhou Military Region after liberation) to contact the reorganization. After Jiang Xintai arrived at the 21st Regiment, he said something comforting, and asked Li Jinyuan to take the entire regiment's 1,500 officers and men and more than 1,000 family members of the army alone, but he and Kong Shiquan quietly ran to find the Soviet Red Army. It turned out that Jiang Xintai, as a member of the Chao clan, had always been jealous and hateful, and he had already vowed never to spare the traitor Liu Di.
Receiving Jiang Xintai's report, the Soviets immediately set up checkpoints and artillery on the necessary road of the 21st Regiment, demanding that the passing 21st Regiment must be fully disarmed. Because Liu Di and others suspected that Li Jinyuan's words did not count, and brought them into the encirclement of the Soviet army, Liu Yukun, a secret agent of the Jiang Army, even coaxed them to kill Li Jinyuan and then forcibly break through. Fortunately, Li Jinyuan was not in danger, and used powerful words to persuade Liu Di to send someone with him to meet the Soviet army.
Marshal Vasilevsky of the Soviet Red Army inspects the situation
At the Soviet headquarters, Li Jinyuan met with the famous Soviet marshal Vasilevsky, and after learning about the situation, Hua Shuai waved his hand to signal the troops to retreat and let the 21st Regiment pass safely. I thought that the matter was over, but when the 21st Regiment passed the checkpoint, it was forcibly disarmed by the Soviet army commanded by Jiang Xintai, and he even disobeyed the orders of the Soviet commander-in-chief in order to take down the traitors.
After the 21st Regiment was absorbed, all of them walked into Yanji City with their bare hands and temporarily lived in the Yanji Police Academy. Jiang Xintai then led the clean-up of the regiment, all the members of the regiment over the age of 40 were forcibly discharged and placed in local work, and Liu Yukun, a secret agent of the Jiang Army, and members of his underground organization were also cracked and sentenced to capital punishment. As for Liu Di, a former anti-japanese joint battalion cadre who had left the team, he was eventually executed by The jealous and hateful Jiang Xintai, who said to Liu Di before his execution: "Don't blame me for not talking about credit, I don't need any credit for the traitors themselves!" ”
The advance troops of the Eighth Route Army held a meeting with the Soviets
Finally, after the 1,500 officers and men of the 21st Regiment were reorganized, more than 600 people were left, and together with the remaining 300 men of the 1st Regiment, they were combined into a new main force regiment with a three-battalion system. In May 1946, after Jiang Xintai completed the work of suppressing bandits, he crossed the Yalu River and returned to China, and the two regiments of the Jidong Military Region were also merged with the five detachments of the Volunteer Army into the 1st Garrison Brigade, with Jin Guangxia (later the commander of the 2nd Army of the People's Army) as the brigade commander, and later this unit was successively reorganized into the 30th Division of the 10th Column of the Northeast Field Army and the 141st Division of the 47th Army of the People's Liberation Army, which made great contributions in the Liberation War.