In May 1942, in a dilapidated courtyard in Brick Wall Village, Wuxiang County, Shanxi, Peng Dehuai, as deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, had a blue face and did not say a word, and the staff around him saw the expression of Mr. Peng, and they were also frightened to bow their heads, and the atmosphere did not dare to breathe.
In fact, everyone can understand The mood of General Manager Peng, on May 25, when the former general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army broke through the heavy encirclement of the Japanese Kou, Zuo Quan, deputy chief of staff in charge of the broken post, was unfortunately hit by shell fragments and died heroically.
A generation of stars fell, which made Mr. Peng's mood very sad, but in the next few days, the bad news was sent to Mr. Peng one by one.
Successively, the chief of the communications section, the director of the Research Office of the Northern Bureau, including reporters and dozens of staff members, were shot and killed one after another, and even Zhang Youqing, secretary general of the Northern Bureau, disappeared during the breakout, and later the news came out that he was killed in Taiyuan Prison.
The bad news kept coming, causing The anger of Mr. Peng to be completely ignited, and he immediately ordered Ou Zhifu, the leader of the special task force, to find the Japanese squad at all costs and kill them all.
The Japanese army squad that made Boss Peng angry was the infamous Mashiko Standing Up Team, and it is said that this special force is also the prototype of the "Bright Sword" Nakayama Ben Special Agent Team, so what happened to the Mashiko Stand-up Team in the end? Today I will take you to talk about this story.
In April 1942, Yoshio Iwamatsu, commander of the Japanese First Army, received a secret telegram from Okamura Ninji, instructing him to cooperate with the sweeping operation in the Jizhong area and send troops to sweep the Taihang and Taiyue base areas.
Okamura Ningji clearly instructed them to arrest important leaders with the main purpose of destroying the CCP's command organs.
Looking at this telegram, Iwamatsu Yoshio was very headache, because since the Hundred Regiments War, the Japanese army's guerrilla warfare offensive against the Eighth Route Army has been in a passive situation of being tired of coping with one or the other, but finding the command organ of the Eighth Route Army and carrying out the decapitation operation is what the Japanese army dreamed of doing.
But will the Eighth Route Army give them a chance? From 1937 to 1945, the former general of the Eighth Route Army had changed its garrison 55 times, and in the face of this mysterious and unpredictable opponent, Iwamatsu Yoshio could only do it in a hurry, but there was nothing he could do.
For Okamura Ninji's order, Iwamatsu Yoshio did not dare to ignore it, so after careful consideration, he finally hatched a poisonous plan, that is, to send a small group of special forces to secretly infiltrate the base area to investigate the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
According to his vision, this small combat unit must not only be good at reconnaissance intelligence, but also have the ability to fight independently, and once the target is found, it will launch a surprise attack on the spot, and it must hit it with one blow.
Therefore, finding a suitable commander became a top priority for Iwamatsu Yoshio, and after a series of selections, he finalized the commanders of two reconnaissance special forces, namely Mashiko Shigeo from the 36th Division and Momoyoshi Okawa.
Both graduated from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School and were among the best officers in the 36th Division, especially Mashiko Shigeo.
During the Battle of Taiyuan, he dared to cross the nationalist defense line with only one interpreter, and successfully plotted against a nationalist army of nearly 3,000 people under the eyes of Fan Hanjie.
In May 1942, Iwamatsu Yoshio mobilized 30,000 men and horses to attack the Taihang and Taiyue bases, and before the operation, the 100-man force led by Masako Shigeo and Oikawa Momoyoshi was awarded the title of advance team.
Although the number of the two squads was only more than a hundred, the members were carefully selected, and the squads were also equipped with heavy weapons such as light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers, and their firepower was only stronger than that of a reinforced company of the Eighth Route Army.
After the assembly was completed, the two standing teams quickly disappeared in the Taihang Mountains, in order not to expose the purpose, confuse the people of the Taihang Mountains, the members of the standing team all changed into the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, and also smeared their faces to wax, did not take the main road, did not enter the village, specially camped in the wild, looked at the past from a distance, it was really difficult to distinguish their identities.
I have to say that Iwamatsu Yoshio's move is indeed very sinister, but the Okawa team made a mistake in the action.
After entering the Taiyue base area, Dachuan's team found the traces of the 129th Division's headquarters in Yangquan, Shanxi, in a place called Huili Village.
However, the information obtained by the Japanese army before showed that the 129th Division was in the area of Tongyu and Matian, hundreds of miles away from the village of Huili.
To be replaced by other Japanese officers, in the face of intelligence errors, they may choose to fight first, or secretly find out the situation, and then carry out the next action, but Oikawa Momoyoshi ordered the squad to hide on the spot, and he himself sent a report to the command, and when the order came down, the 129th Division headquarters had already been empty, which showed that the rigid dogma of the Japanese army had long been deeply rooted in the bone marrow.
When the news reached Masako Shigeo's ears, he was actually happy, because he was sure that the area around Tongyu and Matian was the forward command headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
After consulting Iwamatsu Yoshio, Mashiko Shigeo led the team to the Asada area, but before long, the news of their lurking in the base area was discovered by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and the reason for the exposure was Masiko Shigeo.
Unlike Oikawa Momoyoshi's rigidity, Masako Shigeo was a little too clever, and he was bent on finding the location of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in order to perform meritorious service, so on the way to The town of Mada, he often received the action plan of the nearby sweeping forces through the radio, and took advantage of the night to ambush near the target village.
As soon as the sweeping troops arrived, Mashiko Shigeo led people to burn and loot in the village, and also marked the location by sending signal bombs, catching the Eighth Route Army by surprise, causing great casualties.
It is precisely because of the high-profile style of the Machiko advance team that the former general of the Eighth Route Army received intelligence that some Japanese reconnaissance units disguised as our army and operated in the area around the base area.
Mr. Peng issued a transfer order, and at the same time asked the nearby troops to be vigilant and strengthen their defenses to prevent a small group of Japanese troops from sneaking in.
Seeing that the Eighth Route Army had strengthened its defenses, Mashiko Shigeo understood that his actions had been exposed, and if he did not speed up his actions, let alone the completion of the task, these hundred people were estimated to have to lose money.
So he ordered, avoiding all unnecessary contact, to march quickly towards the town of Matian.
Fortunately, when Mako stepped forward to the town of Matian, the Eighth Route Army had already shifted in full, leaving Mashiko Shigeo to pounce.
The setback did not discourage Mashiko Shigeo, who analyzed the location of the sweeping troops and guessed that the Eighth Route Army was likely to move eastward, so he chased after them with his troops.
On May 23, Masako Shigeo's squad collided head-on with a small group of blocking Eighth Route Army, in order to quickly break through the Eighth Route Army's blocking position, he ordered his light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers to fire together, in the face of the enemy's powerful firepower, this untestable Eighth Route Army detachment did not retreat, successfully delayed the enemy for half a day.
Seeing that the time had passed minute by minute and second, and had not yet broken through the position of the Eighth Route Army, Mashiko Shigeo was extremely anxious, and while he ordered a retreat, he sent it to the general staff, asking the sweeping troops to move closer to him, and then continue to track the position of the eighth route army in front of the east.
On May 24, The Mashiko Team finally found traces of the former First Column of the Eighth Route Army in Guojiayu Village, where Peng Laozong and Zuo Quan were located.
Seeing the appearance of important leaders of the Eighth Route Army, Mashiko Shigeo immediately informed his superiors of the situation, and then launched a surprise attack on the village.
As soon as the gunshots rang out, the Eighth Route Army Special Task Force Regiment, which was responsible for security work, immediately set up a blocking position and stopped the enemy dead outside the village.
Mashiko's standing team bit very tightly, resulting in a very slow transfer speed in front of the Eighth Route Army, and after the Japanese army swept the large troops to pursue them, the chief of staff of the left power died tragically in order to cover the withdrawal of the large troops.
According to the data, during the activities of the notorious Mashiko Advance Team in the Taihang Mountain base area, 293 commanders and fighters and staff members of the Eighth Route Army were killed, and 165 people were captured, causing irreparable and huge losses to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
Although most of the headquarters personnel were able to break through later, the sacrifice of comrades-in-arms was like a thorn in the heart, so that Mr. Peng often stayed up all night, and there is an old saying in China that blood debts should be paid with blood.
The strength of our party in Shanxi searched for the traces of The Mashiko's advance team with all its might, but a few months passed, and the enemy seemed to have disappeared, and it turned out that because this raid was successful, Iwamatsu Yoshio felt that the Mashiko's advance team could play a miraculous role on the battlefield, and he brewed another decapitation operation, and this time the target was changed to the nationalist army.
But masochist team belongs to the reconnaissance unit, you let them collect intelligence, engage in some raids and sabotage operations, really want to go to the frontal battlefield, they can't play, this battle is not down, Mashiko standing up team casualties more than half, basically beaten half maimed.
In the winter of 1942, a top-secret intelligence was suddenly sent to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and the long-disappeared Yizi Advance Team finally appeared, and the intelligence showed that some members of the Standing Force would soon attend a banquet in Qi County, Shanxi.
The information was transmitted by the internal line of the Japanese secret service, and the credibility was very high, and General Manager Peng immediately made a decision and ordered to send people to infiltrate the county seat of Qixian County to establish contact with the local underground party and find out the situation by the way, and this heavy responsibility fell on the shoulders of Lin Yi, the wife of Teng Daiyuan, chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army.
Lin Yi disguised herself as a peasant woman and smoothly blended into Qi County, she found Liu Xiufeng, the head of the underground party in Qi County, and as soon as the two of them met, Lin Yi relayed the instructions of the former general, first, to find out the meeting place and time of the members of the advance team, second, to successfully bring the members of the action team into the county town, and third, in the case that the members of the action team could not carry weapons, they prepared the weapons in advance.
At the same time, Liu Xiufeng also wanted photos of the members of the action team to facilitate the production of good citizen certificates and facilitate access to the county seat.
After inquiring from many parties, Liu Xiufeng determined that the Yizi standing team would meet at the Dadexing Restaurant in Qixian County on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, and after he did the work of the hotel owner, our mobile personnel could freely enter and exit the hotel.
However, the problem of weapons is not easy to deal with, Qi County has always been heavily guarded, once the shooting, it is bound to alarm the defenders in the county town, the action personnel want to escape it is more difficult, think about it, he decided not to use guns, simply use knives.
Mr. Peng
Okamura Ninji
Shigeo Mashiko
At the beginning of 1943, under some careful arrangements, Liu Manhe, a staff officer of the special task force, mixed into QiXian county with more than thirty members of the action team in batches.
Chinese New Year's Eve night, The Great Dexing Restaurant is exceptionally lively, the members of the Mashiko Stand-up Team have successively entered the restaurant, in the eyes of ordinary people, everything is so natural, the smiling face of the treasurer greets each other, the small two shuttle back and forth, the other three-three-two guests draw fists, eat the meal.
But except for the members of Mashiko's standing team, the rest of the restaurant are all members of our action team who play the role of impermanence.
While the members of the standing team were drinking heavily, they did not notice that the gate of the restaurant had long been locked, and when the time came, Liu Manhe smashed the wine glass in his hand, pulled out his pocket dagger, and pounced on the enemy like a tiger with 31 soldiers of the special service regiment.
The drunken members of the standing team were frightened by the scene in front of them, and with a scream, many Japanese people fell down, and in just a few minutes, the restaurant was quiet, and the members of the Mako standing team who came to the banquet all went to see Yama.
A few days later, the heads of these Japanese troops quietly appeared on the walls of Qixian and Taiyuan, and there was a large sign next to it, which was the end of the invaders.
The beheading operation of the Eighth Route Army was very successful, causing a powerful mental shock to the Japanese puppet army, and Iwamatsu Yoshio even frightened the disbandment of the Mashiko Advance, after which the surviving members of the Advance Were scattered to various units, and Masako Shigeo was later appointed as the military staff officer of the 36th Division, left the front line, and then participated in the Pacific War with the troops, leaving the land of China completely.
After the end of World War II, Masiko Shigeo returned to Japan as a town chief, and although he escaped the court-martial, his name and Masiko's standing team will remain forever on the column of shame in history.