< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the battle between the anti-coalition gunboats and the Japanese "gun rowers"</h1>
In the face of the detours of the Japanese ships, the gunboats of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army bravely marched forward and fired artillery to kill...
This seems to be a plot that only exists in alternate novels. When it comes to the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, the most common description is the Prancing Horse Snow Plains, double guns and the like, this unit has a fairly excellent individual combat ability, but heavy weapons are extremely scarce, not to mention guns, there are machine guns is the main force.
However, there are indeed such records that the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition used "gunboats" to kill bloody roads from the Japanese blockade line.
In the War of Resistance Against Japan, the biggest gap between the Chinese side and the enemy was probably the Navy. When the All-out War of Resistance broke out in 1937, the total number of ships in the country was only 50,000 tons, which was the tonnage of an aircraft carrier of the Japanese army, and a large part of it was the old ships left by the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the proportion of records related to the Navy in the entire history of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is very small.
The cruiser Ninghai, the ace ship of the Republic of China Navy, has a displacement of only more than 2,000 tons, which is only the level of a destroyer in the navies of the great powers.
If it comes to the Northeast Theater, it seems to have nothing to do with the Navy. At the time of the September 18 Incident in 1931, the main forces of the Northeast Navy retreated to Qingdao, and the only remaining naval force was the Northeast River Defense Fleet on the Heilongjiang River, which initially actively advocated anti-Japanese resistance.
Just when the frozen sealed river ships were docked, they once organized artillery teams to participate in the Harbin War of Resistance. In the spring of 1932, its commander Yin Zuoqian led a team to surrender to Japan, and the remaining ships and personnel of the fleet were organized into a pseudo-Full sequence. Since then, China's naval strength in the northeast has ceased to exist, and the northeast anti-Japanese coalition army has no naval formation.
The gunboat Liji of the Northeast River Defense Fleet once held an uprising, and the officers and men killed the Japanese commander on board and took part in the Resistance of the Volunteer Army with their guns.
The real prosperity of the anti-coalition forces was after 1934, and in the course of their operations, there was no record of ships participating in battles in the northeast, but basically the Japanese army mobilized ships to attack the anti-coalition. The rivers in the northeast are dense and the water is abundant, and the Japanese army often takes advantage of the navigation of these rivers to dispatch gunboats and gunboats to transport troops, block the ferry, prevent the troops of the Anti-Coalition from moving, and cooperate with the Army to intercept and kill the Anti-Coalition forces. For example, during the attack on Yang Jingyu's troops, the Japanese army used to dispatch the puppet Manchurian Water Police Unit's sea-based gunboats to strengthen the blockade against the coalition forces.
Ships of the puppet Manchurian Army.
In the face of the Japanese steam ironclad warships, the anti-coalition forces were not helpless. Japanese military archives record that during the operation in the Songhua River Valley, Zhao Shangzhi's troops had cleverly set up ambushes and attacked the Japanese gunboat Guangqing.
The Third Army commanded by Zhao Shangzhi had 6,000 troops, and it was a unit with a relatively large number of troops in the various armed forces of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, and it was organized into a relatively regularized unit; he dared to fight the Japanese gunboats, but in the end he did not have his own ships, nor did he use gunboats to fight the enemy. Having such combat experience is the Qi Zhi Central of the Eleventh Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Qi Zhizhong, whose real name is Qi Baotang, is the commander of the Eleventh Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, and his personal experience is very peculiar.
He was originally a worker in the hunchback gold mine, because he was dissatisfied with the Japanese invasion of China and pulled up a miner-mainly unit to participate in the War of Resistance. At this time, his unit belonged to the Green Forest Armed Forces, and the newspaper number was "Ming Mountain". After Feng Zhongyun's work, Qi Baotang joined the Anti-Japanese Coalition and changed its name to "Zhizhong", and this unit developed rapidly, forming an independent division of the Anti-Japanese Coalition and later expanding into the Eleventh Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army.
The Eleventh Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition is a relatively well-equipped and powerful unit among the various armies. Zhang Jiazhou, a famous anti-Japanese general, lurked in Fujin County, where Qi Zhizhong was operating, and infiltrated the enemy and puppet system as the director of the education bureau. He established a strong underground organization in Fujin, sending guns, ammunition, clothing, radios, and even lathes to the Anti-Coalition forces. In this environment, the Eleventh Army established its own arsenal, and even Li Jingyin, the commander-in-chief of the Fujin Police Brigade, who was quite dependent on Manchuria, led the team to qi zhizhong.
Li Jingyin, the commander of the Jilin Self-Defense Army, joined the Anti-Japanese Coalition in 1937, and later served as the chief of staff of the Independent Division of the Anti-Japanese Coalition, the acting commander-in-chief of the Eleventh Army, and the commander-in-chief of the gunboats and the Japanese army.
According to historical records, the Eleventh Army was able to build its own guns and artillery at that time, and during the Western Expedition, it opened the way with two artillery pieces, which made the Japanese and pseudo-local armed forces along the route feel frightened. However, even the "extravagant" Eleventh Army in the Anti-Japanese Coalition could not afford such a thing as a gunboat, so what was going on in this battle?
It turned out that the so-called gunboats were built by the Anti-Japanese Coalition itself. This battle, the former veteran of the Eleventh Army, and later working in the air force, the elderly Lu Lianfeng recalled in the "CPPCC Literature and History Materials Shuangyashan (Sixth Series)" that it took place in September of the lunar calendar in 1938, when the troops were participating in the Western Expedition, and as a result, when crossing the Songhua River, the fourth regiment of the Second Brigade he belonged to was suddenly attacked by the Japanese army:
"The next day, just after dawn, our four regiments began to cross the river. The first group first transported the horses, weights, and 50 comrades, and the rest of the people passed the second batch and were divided into two pair boats. When the ship was about to reach the center of the river, we suddenly found that four Japanese gunboats had come to us from the upper and lower waters, and the situation was very critical. It was too late to cross the other shore or return to the original shore, and there was a small island in the heart of the river, so the Sui regimental commander (Sui Desheng) decisively ordered us to sail the boat to the island. This Jiangxin Island was about a mile square, covered with dense willow bushes that were more than a man's height, and under the cover of the bushes, we caught fire with the devils on the gunboats. ”
The Japanese gunboat Guangqing, which was attacked by Zhao Shangzhi's troops, was a gunboat on the Songhua River, because it used a paddle wheel to paddle forward, commonly known as "cannon rowing", and the so-called pair of boats, in Lu Lianfeng's own interpretation, was to "tie up two wind boats (sailing ships) together and tie them up, two large pairs of boats, put on sails, and one boat sat one hundred and eighty people."
This was Harbin and two groups of Japanese troops coming down nearby, both with gunboats. Sailing ships versus gunboats, this battle seems to be not easy to handle. Sure enough, the troops of the Eleventh Army fell into passivity on the island.
"The enemy swept the island with small cannons and light and heavy machine guns, cutting off pieces of willow trees in brush. We ignored the enemy's fire and waited for the enemy's gunboats to approach the island, and then concentrated our fire and grenades to beat them so that they could not land. ”
It does sound calm and brave, but in fact, the Anti-Japanese Coalition has fallen into a point of isolation and helplessness on the island, with food and ammunition in short supply, and if the blockade cannot be broken, it is only a matter of time before it is overthrown. The two sides fought for three days, and Lu Lianfeng recalled that the officers and men on the island had become clay people, and at a critical juncture, Li Jingyin, who had already served as the commander of the First Division of the Eleventh Army, brought several boats and personally came to the rescue despite the danger.
"Master Li... The only mortars were mounted on the ships, each equipped with machine guns. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, he quietly approached the island and picked us up on the boat. Unexpectedly, when we got on the ship, we were detected by the enemy, and machine guns and small guns frantically swept towards us. ”
The gunboat hit the sailboat, and the Japanese army may have thought that it was a matter of holding a handle, but it did not expect that there were cannons on the ships of the anti-coalition this time!
"Our machine guns and mortars have also been firing, and our army has organized fire support on the shore. Finally we were rescued, and in this battle we suffered some comrades casualties. ”
This matter Lao Sa has talked with several military fans, and everyone thinks that a lot of content can be analyzed.
The first is that the parameters of the "Gunboat of the Eleventh Army of the Anti-Coalition" can be professionally described - it should be a two-body, sail-powered, equipped with a curved gun (better than a mortar), a small wooden-shelled ship with machine guns as a supplementary firepower...
Secondly, why did the Japanese professional gunboats let the Anti-Japanese Coalition complete the rescue task? There are two reasons for speculation: first, the Japanese army besieged for three days, perhaps the ammunition on the ship was insufficient, the fire density was not enough; second, the Japanese "gun rower" used the paddle wheel as a power, the huge paddle wheel on the side of this ship is easy to be shot and once damaged, it will lose power, facing the anti-joint throw rat taboo with guns.
Although this battle was short and the circumstances were exceptional, and the so-called "gunboats" of the Anti-Japanese Coalition were only temporary, it was still historic that the poorly equipped Anti-Coalition troops were able to fight artillery battles with the Japanese on the water, and moreover, it showed that --
This way of fighting is a tradition of our army.
However, the description of this artillery battle in the literary and historical materials is inevitably too crepe and has obviously been sorted and revised by some professionals. In "My Years of Resistance to the League", Lu Lianfeng recalls more like a Guan Dongzi of the real era:
"Our Xith Army at that time had a few light machine guns and a mortar, which was probably a dozen bombs. Later, the commander of our division, that is, Li Jingyin, simply asked people to open the two boats, and while they were engaged in machine guns, they were engaged in the mortar, and they hit the cannon row, and when they rowed the cannon, they separated, some went up, some went down, and gave us a way, and the soldiers on the ship were also fighting, and then a road was opened, and our wind boat came in and took us out, and we were very embarrassed. When we picked up, we had more than 50 people left, and about 20 people died. ”
This may be closer to the real battle, and it can also make us appreciate lu Lianfeng's exclamation in an interview - "The lives of the Anti-Allied Forces are very big!" ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > attached: An anecdote of Lu Lianfeng</h1>
On August 9, 1945, Lu Lianfeng, a veteran soldier of the Eleventh Army of the Anti-Japanese League, carried an umbrella, was fully armed, and boarded a truck with his comrades-in-arms, and their car drove to the airport, and the operation to return to the motherland was about to begin.
As the car drove off, he recalled seeing a shadow running out of the Sending Soviet troops, shouting as he ran: "Lu, Ятебялюблю, Ятебялюблю!"
It was a Soviet female soldier.
That day, it was raining, and the Soviet female soldier was running in the rain, chasing his car, and Lu Lianfeng saw that she had fallen, and got up again to continue running. He knew that "Ятебялюблю" was the Russian meaning of "I love you".
Decades later, Lu Lianfeng still remembers that moment very clearly.
He said that after living in Russia for several years, he had met several Russian girls, but none of them had ever shown emotional expressions.
He said it was too far away for me to see clearly, so I never knew who the girl chasing our car was.
When he spoke, the old man's eyes carried a trace of confusion and pity.
He may never know that the desolate town in Russia is nearly abandoned, and that their camp has been reduced to a wasteland. But I think in their dreams, this will be a land that can never be abandoned, because there are buried their comrades-in-arms, their youth, their dreams.
The rain began to fall again, and in the haze washed the whole world from heaven to earth.
All that can be left is history, and those who can survive are heroes.
Lu Lianfeng, a veteran of the Anti-Japanese League, died in 2018 at the age of ninety-six.
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