In 1941, after a series of sweeps of our army in the eastern Hebei region, the Japanese army in north China believed that it had dealt a great blow to our army, coupled with the shortage of troops on the front line, and it was urgent to fight another battle with the Kuomintang troops, so it had no choice but to transfer the 27th Division of North China stationed in eastern Hebei, leaving only the pseudo-North China Security Army led by the traitor Qi Xieyuan to be responsible for local defense.
The Japanese completely underestimated the will and strength of our army. Although they experienced many sweeps, the Eighth Route Army in the eastern Hebei region was even stronger, and the departure of the Japanese 27th Division turned Qi Xieyuan's team into a substitute ghost.
Looking at the achievements of the Eighth Route Army after the departure of the Japanese 27th Division, the two regimental commanders under Qi Xieyuan's command, a deputy regimental commander, and the Japanese advisers working in the two regiments of the puppet army all lost their heads. The puppet army units were beaten badly. The small number of third-line troops left by the Japanese army was not much better, and Taguchi Shume Nakasa was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, and a bullet killed him.
This made the Japanese North China Front feel very faceless, so it transferred the 27th Division back to Jidong to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army, and launched the Jidong No. 1 Operation. This operation caused great losses to the Eighth Route Army and the people of eastern Hebei. In order to crush the enemy's attack, Li Yunchang, commander of the Jidong Military Region, decided to launch a campaign in the jidong region to avenge the dead soldiers and people, also known as the revenge campaign.
After the second sweep, the Japanese believed that the Jidong No. 1 operation had been successfully concluded. Due to the shortage of troops, the 27th Division was once again transferred from the jidong region, leaving only some Japanese troops to cooperate with Qi Xieyuan's troops to stay in jidong. Since Qi Xieyuan had already been frightened by Li Yunchang and did not dare to fight head-on, in order to cheer him up, the commander of the 27th Division, Harada Kumayoshi, came up with a bad idea that almost killed his dog.
One day in July 1947, Kumayoshi Harada led some senior Japanese generals on an inspection tour of Jidong. On that day, the gongs and drums were noisy, the plaster flag was displayed, and the crowds were crowded. The inspection was carried out by a lieutenant general, two major generals, four major generals, and a large number of middle and senior Generals of the Japanese Army, such as Nakasa and Shōsa.
In order to convince everyone that the Eighth Route Army had been defeated by the Japanese army, the commander of the Harada Division did not bring too many escorts, a total of only one battalion of puppet troops plus an infantry squadron of more than eight hundred Japanese troops. As it turned out, these people collided with the Eighth Route Army, which was about to return to Jidong, the second battalion of the 12th Regiment, whose commander was Yang Silu and later became a major general.
Unfortunately, this was an encounter after all, and the Eighth Route Army itself did not have many troops. If he knew that there were so many big fish on the other side, he would also ask for reinforcements no matter what, eliminate a few of his lieutenant generals and major generals and so on. As a result of the final battle, the battalion almost forced Harada Toyuki to commit suicide. Unfortunately, they were reinforced by other devils, so that they escaped, and in the end, they only eliminated one Daisa.
This Japanese army that we eliminated was called Takaha Ma'er, graduated from the 16th Infantry Section of the Army, previously held a staff position in the North China Dispatch Army, and later ran to Qi Xieyuan as a Japanese adviser, specifically to give Qi Xieyuan some ghost ideas, this time encountered the Eighth Route Army and lost his life.
