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Today, we are talking for you about the story that happened in Shanxi during the Liberation War.
Ma Zhaomin
In May 1947, jin-Cha-Ji troops under the command of Nie Rongzhen launched the Battle of Zhengtai, which annihilated and captured more than 35,000 Kuomintang troops. One of the battles of Shi'an Mountain took place during this period. On May 1 of that year, the Third Regiment of the Second Division of the Eighth Brigade of the Third Column of the Jin-Cha-Ji Encircled Shi'an Mountain, but the commanding heights could not be captured for a long time. Nie Rongzhen felt very strange, and he called Yang Chengwu to let him see what was going on.
Nie Rongzhen
Yang Chengwu soon called back and said that it was a group of Japanese troops stationed here. Yang Chengwu also reported the number of this team, which was the original Fifth Security Brigade of the Japanese Army. This so-called brigade is similar to the battalion of the Chinese army.
Shi'an Mountain was an important stronghold on the outskirts of Yangquan, and it seemed that Yan Xishan was "good steel for the blade", and a battalion of Japanese troops was sent to garrison.
Yan Xishan
It turned out that yan Xishan expanded his strength after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and reorganized some Japanese troops into his own team. Anyway, the Japanese and Chinese look similar, and no one will study it carefully. Besides, there were no thousands of puppet armies absorbed by the Kuomintang at that time, so what was the point of mixing in a few Japanese troops?
No matter which country it is, it must also take this position. The 23rd Regiment captured nearby power stations and cut off their water sources two days after a strong attack. On the third day, the Japanese army had to carry a white flag and surrender. They want peace talks and the safety of their wives and children.
Yang Chengwu
The Japanese army wrote a letter expressing its helplessness in participating in the war, to the effect that we were also helpless to be included under Yan Xishan, which was nothing more than eating a mixed meal.
The commander of the 23rd regiment was Zhang Yinghui, an old Red Army, who said that his team was disciplined and did not go around killing people and setting fires like the Japanese army. He not only guarantees the personal safety of this team but also arranges their future life properly.
Major General Zhang Yinghui
Zhang Yinghui sent Ma Zhaomin, the commander of the three battalions, to negotiate with the Japanese army. Japanese Captain Fujita expressed his willingness to surrender and wanted to keep them and their families safe. Subsequently, they presented a roster, and it was clear how many weapons the team had and how many people were now alive. Japanese family members hiding in the watchtower also came out of the crowd, and these people were crowded in a filthy place.
After the surrender, this group of Japanese troops was better resettled. More than 10 guns and hundreds of shells were captured from the Japanese, and based on these weapons, the 23rd Regiment formed its own artillery company.
Sun Chu
In the old movie "After the Decisive Battle", there is a famous "Small Coal Mountain Victory", in which the Kuomintang was beaten by the Japanese soldiers who were also reformed here in the Gongdelin. Afterwards, Sun Chu, a veteran general of the Jin Sui Army, was embarrassed, and he revealed that it was not only Shanxi Province that left the surrendered Japanese army around to fight the People's Liberation Army.
In fact, this incident really happened, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yan Xishan did collect a group of Japanese troops who remained in Shanxi and sent them to the battlefield as cannon fodder.
Old shadow of Yangquan
However, he never expected that the Japanese troops in this battalion would surrender to the Jin-Cha-Ji troops in an organized manner.
Ma Zhaomin, a native of Qingyuan, Hebei Province, later served as regimental chief of staff, deputy regimental commander, regimental commander, first deputy division commander and chief of staff of the 189th Division, division commander, deputy commander of the Yunnan Military Region, and deputy chief of staff of the Kunming Military Region. After Ma Zhaomin retired, he enjoyed the treatment of deputy corps. Zhang Yinghui, the leader of the 23rd Regiment, was a native of Xingguo, Jiangxi, who received the rank of major general in 1955. The general participated in famous battles such as the liberation of Shijiazhuang.
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