Around mid-August 1941, with the Japanese army sweeping, nie shuai's unit had tens of thousands of people surrounded by the Japanese army. At this critical juncture, Nie Shuai issued an order not to make a fire to cook, and the outside world was not allowed to respond to calls. Because Nie Shuai's unit lost contact, our army even made a judgment that Nie Shuai was killed at one time. So why did Nie Shuai do this in the first place?
Nie Shuai was missing
The cause of this incident can be traced back to the sweeping of our army by the Japanese army in North China in 1941, when Nie Shuai was at the headquarters of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, and the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, as an important force for guerrilla attack behind enemy lines, was naturally "cared for" by the Japanese army. Surrounded by Japanese troops, by mid-August, tens of thousands of people in the Jin-Cha-Ji command were blocked in the Fuping County area. The good news is that the Japanese army does not know that our troops are in Fuping County, and the bad news is that the Japanese army is very tightly sealed, and our army will not be able to escape with its wings.
As a qualified military general, Nie Shuai keenly discovered a law. That is, once our unit began to move, the Japanese planes would soon follow and bomb. Soon Nie Shuai made a judgment, the Japanese army monitored the radio of our department, and the telegram sent by our department became the "culprit" who exposed the whereabouts of our department. So Nie Shuai immediately ordered that the whole army shut down the radio, and even if the friendly troops called, they were not allowed to turn on the machine. Moreover, the whole army is not allowed to live and cook, so as to avoid the smoke exposing the whereabouts.
Nie Shuai's move was to lead tens of thousands of people from the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region to a "hide-and-seek" with the Japanese army. On the one hand, the top brass of our army was very anxious because they did not know the whereabouts of these tens of thousands of people, and almost sent a large army back. On the other hand, the Japanese army also knew the information that Nie Shuai was missing, and has been spreading false news of Nie Shuai's death, which has made people panic.
Nie Shuai's guerrilla warfare
However, many people in the upper echelons of our army are "old guerrillas" who have been fighting guerrilla warfare in the mountains for several years, although Nie Shuai's disappearance has a great impact, and even some people have made the judgment that Nie Shuai has been killed, but most people have enough determination and do not act rashly, which makes Nie Shuai's "peek-a-boo game" successfully end with a good external environment.
From mid-August to September, Nie Shuai disappeared in the mountains for almost a week, during which time he led his troops to and fro, constantly relying on various guerrilla tactics to deplete the Japanese puppet army. However, when it comes to the most thrilling one, it must be a plan by Nie Shuai to leave the mountain on August 31. At that time, Nie Shuai ordered the reconnaissance section chief Luo Wenfang to bring a 50-man squad and a radio station to attract the attention of the Japanese army. The unit traveled 40 kilometers at night that night, hiding in a ravine, attracting 20,000 Japanese puppet troops to wander around the unit for a night.
Nie Shuai resumed contact
By the beginning of September, Nie Shuai's unit had jumped out of the first layer of the enemy's encirclement and began to make peace with some friendly troops. After Nie Shuai regained contact with the troops, the upper echelons were relieved and immediately ordered Nie Rongzhen, Liu Bocheng, He Long, and Lü Zhengcao to lead the troops to start counterattacking.
After our army began to counterattack, it began to sabotage the Japanese railway system on a large scale. A large number of Japanese troops saw that the rear was attacked and had to end the sweep early. After almost a month of fighting, by mid-October, the Japanese army's sweep was basically over, and Nie Shuai's unit successfully won the anti-sweeping campaign.