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He Shaozhou is a lieutenant general in the army, and his uncle He Yingqin is a senior member of the army, because of this relationship, He Shaozhou is also called "nephew marshal" in the army, which means that his uncle is a general (because the national army does not have the rank of marshal, the highest military rank is general), and it is naturally not excessive to call He Shaozhou a nephew.
[Lieutenant General He Shaozhou]
Don't think that Why Shao Zhou was able to be awarded the rank of lieutenant general in the army, it was entirely because of his uncle's relationship to win this honor, then it is really a little underestimated He Shao Zhou's ability and ability.
When He Shaozhou was young, he was also a patriotic young man with a warm heart, and because he opposed feudal arranged marriages, he went to join the Dian Army in one breath, because he was educated and had a very good academic performance, and it did not take long for him to become an officer, and to serve as a lieutenant and adjutant in the headquarters of the Second Army was also a matter of great prospects. Because of his eagerness to learn and good character, he was sponsored by Fan Shisheng, commander of the Second Army of the Yunnan Army, to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy. The Whampoa Military Academy is not too difficult for a bully like He Shaozhou. Not to mention the recommendation of the military commander, such an extremely authoritative person's introduction, his admission to the Whampoa Military Academy is also a natural thing that can no longer be natural.
Therefore, in 1924, He Shaozhou was listed in the list of students of the first term of the Whampoa Military Academy. After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, He Shaozhou also participated in various large and small battles, especially after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, especially after the Battle of Songhu entered a critical stage, He Shaozhou, who had already served as the commander of the first detachment of the Taxation Police Corps, led his troops to Shanghai to participate in the Battle of Songhu, specifically responsible for the defense of the Southern Chenzhai and Zhujiazhai areas after yunzaobin, and made every effort to block the Japanese army's attack. After He Shaozhou arrived at the position, he immediately led the staff officers to inspect the terrain in the areas of Nanchenzhai and Zhujiazhai, decided on the positions of each unit, actively constructed fortifications, and prepared for battle.
Soon, the arrogant Japanese army began to launch a crazy attack on the positions defended by He Shaozhou's troops, and the Japanese army relied on its strong air superiority to use bombers to frequently drop bombs around He Shaozhou's positions. After the plane, it was another round of heavy artillery bombardment, and in the face of the brutal offensive of the Japanese army, many soldiers had not yet fought with the real knives and guns of the Japanese army, and they died under the bombardment and shelling of the Japanese army.
[Chinese troops rely on positions to shoot at the Japanese]
In particular, after the japanese army bombed and shelled, most of He Shaozhou's troops were killed and wounded, and those who did not die would not be possessed by the souls of shrimps, so the attacking Japanese army, under the leadership of tanks, attacked He Shaozhou's positions. What the Japanese army did not expect was that the soldiers who did not sacrifice slapped the dust off their bodies, took up their weapons and lay on the trenches to shoot at the Japanese troops, repelling the Japanese attacks again and again with tenacious perseverance.
After several days of fighting, He Shaozhou discovered a law, the usual practice of the Japanese army is to bomb by aircraft, and then carry out saturation shelling by heavy artillery. He Shaozhou, a commander who had studied at the Japanese military academy, immediately adjusted the operational deployment, and when the Japanese aircraft came to bomb and subsequently shelled, only a small number of troops were sent to monitor the position, and other personnel withdrew from the position to assemble in a hidden area, and once the Two Rounds of Japanese bombing and shelling had passed, they quickly entered the position to counter the Japanese attack. After taking this method, not only did it greatly reduce the casualties of the troops, but when the Japanese army was about to approach the position, although it was only a short rest, the momentum of the troops was high, the spirit of attacking the Japanese army was even stronger, and the Japanese army was shot with fierce fire, giving the Japanese army a huge casualty.
Because He Shaozhou commanded the troops to be flexible and mobile, saving the physical strength of the soldiers, while the difficult defensive position was difficult, he thought that the mental and physical exertion of the Japanese army attacking was also very huge. To this end, He Shaozhou organized several night counterattacks, selected elite forces to form a commando team to attack the Japanese camp to carry out sneak attacks and harassment, several sneak attacks were successful in eliminating hundreds of Japanese troops, and also captured a batch of weapons and ammunition.
The first detachment of the Taxation Police Corps led by He Shaozhou fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army in Yunzaobin for 19 days, although the troops were greatly reduced, but the morale has always been very strong, and the position has been firmly in their hands, until they received the order to change the defenses.
In May 1944, He Shaozhou was appointed deputy commander-in-chief of the 9th Army and commander of the newly formed 8th Army of the General Reserve of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, responsible for commanding the Battle of Songshan.
In order to open up the Burma Road and ensure the unimpeded flow of international aid to China, the Battle of Songshan concentrated 200,000 Chinese expeditionary forces to prepare to launch a war of annihilation against the Japanese troops occupying Longling, Tengchong and Songshan.
Songshan guards the key point of the Burma Highway, which is the traffic throat of west Yunnan into the east bank of the Nu River, close to the Huitong Bridge of the Nu River, "in front of the deep valley, the back is connected to the slope", Songshan is more because of the abruptness on the west bank of the Nu River, shaped like a natural bridgehead. In order to take Songshan, He Shaozhou led his men in a bloody battle for several months, and finally nibbled down this fortified fortress after ten battles of Songshan.
[Chinese troops attacking Japanese positions]
Why Matsuyama was so difficult to attack dates back to 1942. In those years, when the premeditated Japanese army retreated from Burma to Yunnan, China, it discovered the great strategic value of Matsuyama. In the process of building the position, in order to test how many kilograms of bomb impact the well-built position can withstand, the aircraft was used to drop several 500-pound heavy bombs directly into the bunker, but also failed to damage the interior of the fortification, and also used heavy artillery to accurately bombard the target, and also suffered little loss. Such a strong fortress was very satisfactory to the Japanese generals in charge of watching, and they reported to the southern command of the Japanese army that it would take at least three months for the Chinese army to capture the Songshan position, according to the strength of the existing Chinese army.
Not only that, in order to keep the internal structure of the Matsuyama position from leaking out, except for the Japanese engineers responsible for the design, all the Chinese laborers involved in the construction were killed by the Japanese army under various pretexts, and none of them could walk down Matsuyama alive, making it impossible for the Chinese army to know the internal structure of the Japanese Matsuyama fortifications.
In order to take Songshan, He Shaozhou did not pay enough attention when he first entered the position, because the information he got was that the Japanese army defending Songshan was only three or four hundred people, and there were only one or two guns, but the fortifications were relatively strong, and that was all.
[Comfort women rescued at the Battle of Matsuyama]
However, He Shaozhou still had some doubts in his heart, only a few hundred people, so why was it so difficult to take it down. Because of his doubts, and his in-depth field inspection of the battlefield, he involuntarily completely rejected the information he received.
At the same time, He Shaozhou put forward his own point of view when attending the combat meeting of the 9th Army, the Japanese army is not just a few hundred people and a few doors that we estimate, it may be several times our estimate, and the firepower is even more difficult to know specifically. Moreover, our attack belongs to the upward attack, which requires us to get rid of the requirement of only occupying the commanding heights as the goal when attacking, and we must destroy their fortresses with fierce artillery fire, blow up all the fortifications, so that the Japanese army cannot have any opportunity to take advantage of it, so that we can gradually and strictly eliminate the Japanese army, accumulate small victories into big victories, advance in echelons, and force the Japanese army to die in a dead end step by step.
After the fierce Battle of Songshan began, it was gradually verified that He Shaozhou's thinking was completely correct, and the Japanese troops holding Onsongshan were not just two or three hundred people, but more than a thousand, and they were also equipped with abundant ammunition, as well as food and water supplies, and the Japanese army was ready to hold the Songshan position for a long time. Every day since entering the position, He Shaozhou witnessed the attacking troops, there were huge casualties, and his heart was extremely painful, and the last order given to him by Shangfeng must take down Matsuyama in early September 1944.
What to do, in the face of the extremely vicious Japanese army, which was deeply poisoned by the spirit of Bushido, He Shaozhou proposed at the combat meeting how to take the Most Difficult Bone Heights Japanese Position, and gradually unified opinions, in order to reduce the casualties of the attack and complete the battle objectives as soon as possible, decided to carry out "tunnel blasting" on the sub-highlands. When 3,000 kilograms of U.S.-made TNT explosives detonated, the Japanese troops defending the sub-highland positions were blown to pieces. After taking the sub-highland position, it laid a solid foundation for the complete victory of the Battle of Matsuyama and the 113th Wing of the Japanese Army that held Matsuyama. After the victory of this campaign, He Shaozhou was awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun by the Nationalist Government for his outstanding military achievements, and was officially promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army. If you have any comments, welcome to leave a message below to discuss! (Please support a variety of original articles and physical books of the Yi Pin Wen team, independent professionals have a kind of material)