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Sun Jixian, the head of the Seventeen Heroes who rushed to cross the Dadu River, and the Jinpu detachment of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army led by him

In November 1937, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army reached Liao County (now Zuoquan County) in southeastern Jin. In order to reconnoiter the situation east of the Pinghan Railway, contact the local communist party and all anti-Japanese organizations, and launch a popular guerrilla war, the 30 cadres of the division teaching regiment formed an advance detachment. The detachment leader was Sun Jixian, former chief of staff of the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade (Brigade Commander Chen Geng), and the political commissar was Xu Guangyi. During the 25,000-mile Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Sun Jixian served as the commander of the first battalion of the First Division of the First Army of the First Front Army (division commander Li Jukui) and the first regiment (regimental commander Yang Dezhi), and was one of the most direct and specific organizers, commanders and participants of the Seventeen Heroes to cross the Dadu River. After a short period of preparation, the detachment crossed the Pinghan Railway on December 13 and reached Ren County in Southern Hebei. This was the first unit of the Eighth Route Army to sail from the Taihang Mountains to the Great Plains of Jiluyu.

  In mid-January 1938, Chen Zaidao (former deputy brigade commander of the 386th Brigade) and political commissar Li Jingyu, commander of the Eastward Column of the Eighth Route Army (formed in December 1937 and belonging to the 129th Division), arrived in Renxian and Longyao areas. After the two units met, under the leadership and command of Chen Zaidao and others, they jointly organized and carried out anti-Japanese activities. On February 8, the eastward column entered Nangong County. On the 9th, the Jinpu detachment was formed with individual cadets from the Advancing Detachment and the 5th Company of the Eastern Column (formerly the 10th Company of the 769th Regiment of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division) and the Military and Political Cadre School of the Rear Guard Office of the 129th Division as the backbone. Sun Jixian served as the head of the detachment, and Wang Yumin served as the political commissar (Wang was a native of Gucheng and was formerly the head of the local party organization of the CCP). Subordinates: Fifth Company (who participated in the Long March and the night battle of Yangmingbao, which burned 24 Japanese aircraft), company commander Yang Wanxing (a native of Sichuan), instructor Fan ×× (formerly a cadre school in the rear of the division, who was brought to Tianjin branch from the left-behind office at that time, li Lingshui, a serviceman who was brought to Tianjin branch after the founding of New China, after the founding of New China, was placed in Pingyuan City due to disability and died of illness in 2001); It was originally a newly established anti-Japanese guerrilla unit organized by the Party organization in the Nangong area; the three companies had a total of about 400 people. Its tasks are: First, to blow up the Yellow River Iron Bridge, destroy the Jinpu Railway, obstruct the Japanese invasion of the south, and cooperate with the Chinese army in Lunan (the Kuomintang Central Army and the Communist Party-led guerrilla units) in fighting against Japan; second, to assist the local CPC party organizations in extensively mobilizing the masses, establishing various organizations, and creating anti-Japanese guerrilla base areas; third, to carry out united front work for the local armed forces of the Kuomintang and unite and support patriotic general Fan Zhuxian in resisting Japan; fourth, to actively fight, destroy the enemy, and expand and strengthen themselves. On February 15, accompanied by Zhang Chengxian, the CPC's Lubei Special Committee, he set out from Nangong County, crossed the canal from Wucheng to the east, and marched into Xiajin County. This was the first unit of the Eighth Route Army to enter the territory of Shandong. Subsequently, Liu Ziwei and Ma Chengzhai, responsible persons of Enxian County, heard the news that the Eighth Route Army had come to Xiajin, and quickly sent party member Wang Yucheng (later named Wang Kedong) to greet them. On February 18, the Jinpu detachment left Xiajin Chengguan and entered the villages of Xiazhai and Dadongzitou near the county seat of Enxian County (now part of Pingyuan County). After Jinzhi first arrived in Enxian County, with the assistance of the Enxian County Party Committee, it attacked the Huangheya Railway Station south of Dexian County (now part of Decheng District) at night, and blew up the railway bridge at Huangheya. In late February, he rushed to Luokou on the outskirts of Jinan city to prepare to blast the Yellow River Iron Bridge at night. Due to the dense number of Japanese guards near the bridge, the security is tight, and there are searchlights installed on the iron bridge, our troops cannot get close, and several operations have not been successful. If the bridge is not blown up, it will be changed to lift the railroad tracks. For the first few days, due to inexperience, the whole detachment was busy in the middle of the night; the enemy repaired it within hours of the day. Later, a patriotic wrench presented the fa to our army: only pull out the nails, not lift the railroad tracks. The rolling car passes through nothing, the train flips as soon as it arrives, there are no tools, and it can be built by blacksmiths. The worker not only introduced the method, but also provided some tools. One try, and sure enough, the front half of a military wagon was cut off rail, delaying the enemy's transportation.

  After that, the whole detachment returned to the vicinity of En (County) City. A few days later, the enemies of Pingyuan and Yucheng came to sweep in two ways, and Jinzhi moved to Qilitun north of Xiajin City to avoid the enemy's attack. After the enemy withdrew, Jinzhi was stationed by Xia Jin in the old city of Enxian County (now the seat of Wucheng County Government), with the old city as the center and base, to carry out anti-Japanese activities. In mid-April, the detachment attacked the Pingyuan Railway Station, killing more than 10 Japanese soldiers and capturing two "Japanese merchants" alive. Two platoons were then sent to attack the Lianzhen Railway Station north of Dexian County, and one of the platoons led by Company Commander Xiao Fu blew up the railway bridge north of the station. During his stay in the Old City, in addition to actively attacking and fighting, he also assisted Zhang Chengxian in founding the Military and Political Cadre School, and sent Li Rengui (now known as Wang Huaxian), an officer of the detachment's democratic movement, to directly participate in the daily work of the cadre school; he supported and helped the Enxian County CPC Committee to establish the Eighth Route Army Enxian Armed Working Group and the Enxian National Revolutionary War Field General Mobilization Committee (due to different times, places, and circumstances, some places referred to as the Mobilization Committee, some referred to as the War Committee; in areas under the leadership of the Communist Party, before the establishment of the anti-Japanese democratic regime, it was transitional. After the establishment of the anti-Japanese democratic regime, it was an anti-Japanese mass organization under the leadership of the party and the government) With the consent of the Enxian County Party Committee, the anti-Japanese guerrillas of seventy or eighty people (guns) organized by party members Bai Jinrong and Li Huazhen were promoted to the Jinpu detachment, and some progressive youths and Huidaomen armed forces who voluntarily joined the army to resist Japan were successively accepted. With the expansion of the troops, the first battalion of the Jinpu detachment was established in May, and the battalion commander Yang Wanxing had three companies under his jurisdiction: the first company was reorganized from the engineer company, and the company commander and instructor remained unchanged; the second company was a local armed force led by the former Enxian County Party Committee, and the company commander Bai Jinrong; the third company was expanded and established in the area of Enxian County, and the company commander was Wang Jiwen (who was the division commander when he died in the Battle of Jinan). The five companies were independent (following Sun Jixian's actions and directly under the command of Sun Jixian), and the number of the secret service company remained unchanged. In early May, political commissar Wang Yumin led a cavalry platoon to the west to go to nangong to get a radio station; on the way home on the 11th, they were surrounded by the reactionary "six departures" at the "six departures" of the Daomen gate in Xiaotun, southeast of Nangong City. He was succeeded by Pan Shoucai as political commissar.

  While harassing and attacking the Japanese and puppet armies, assisting local organizations in propaganda and mobilization of the masses, and creating political power and armed forces in the anti-Japanese base areas, the Jinpu detachment also waged a reasonable, beneficial, and disciplined struggle against bandits and bandits. On October 3, 1937, the Japanese army invaded and occupied the county seat of Dexian, and the officials of the Fourth Special District of Shandong (stationed in Linqing), led by Zhao Renquan, the commissioner and commander of the security, fled with the money. At a time when the Kuomintang's county and township political power had collapsed, the Eighth Route Army under the leadership of the Communist Party had not yet arrived, and the Japanese and puppet forces had not yet penetrated deep into the vast rural areas, bandits, soldiers, the Qinghong Gang, and the leaders of the Huidaomen took the opportunity to sprung up and recruited troops to buy a "volunteer army." For a time, there were many regimental commanders and commanders. Under the banner of resisting Japan, they carried out the evil deeds of brutalizing the people and interfering with and undermining the anti-Japanese resistance. In the spring of 1938, the large bands of bandits and bandits who harassed Gaotang, Enxian, Xiajin, Pingyuan, Yucheng and other counties mainly included Erpi (Feng Shoupeng, a former native of Qingping County, born in the old military, and the county magistrate of Changqing County on the later day), Gao Liang (Wang Huasan, born as a bandit, a native of Wucheng County, former En County, and later the county magistrate of Ri'en County), Zhang Ba (Zhang Dongchen, a native of Xiajin County, who became a bandit in the early years of the Republic of China, joined the Qing Gang, served in the warlord Zhang Zongchang, and Liu Peichen of the Japanese puppet army, and later served as the commander of the Provisional Eighth Division of the Kuomintang Jicha Theater. Continuing to collude with the Japanese and the Japanese and stubbornly to make enemies with the Communist Party, the Eighth Route Army, and the anti-Japanese people), Li Jiu (Li Jinbang, Li Caiti, a native of Gaotang County, an old bandit and the leader of the Qing Gang, was one of the first criminals who sabotaged the CPC's Lubei Special Committee on May 4, 1928, and later served as the county magistrate of Gaotang County), Fat Doll (Li Junlan, a native of Xiajin County, Former En County, a member of the Qing Gang, an old bandit, and later the deputy commander of the Provisional Eighth Division of the Kuomintang Jicha Theater), Cheng Jingpu (a native of Yucheng County, who was first incorporated into the Third Security Brigade by the Kuomintang). After the surrender of the Japanese Kou) and White Chrysanthemum (Zhang Zicheng, a native of Pingyuan County, a soldier, a bandit, in the summer of 1938, he served as the pseudo-county magistrate of Rifuen County and Pingyuan County). At this time, in addition to Wang Huasan, there was also a Kong Xiansheng (nicknamed Kong San Roller) near the old city of En County. After the Jinpu detachment was stationed in the old city of Enxian County, Wang Huasan expressed friendship to our army and was willing to cooperate in resisting Japan, and sent his son Wang Guihua to the old city to participate in the anti-Japanese military and political cadre school organized by our party. And Kong San's roller is not only opposed to our army, but also contradicts Wang Huasan. In order to win and unite Wang Huasan and strike at Kong San's rollers, Jin Zhi used the method of wisdom to confiscate more than a hundred guns of Kong San's rollers. In mid-May, Chen Zaidao commanded the main force of the Eighth Route Army and entered Linqing Chengguan in Shandong. In order to cope with the main battle, the Jinzhi moved south from the old city to contain the reactionary forces in the border areas of Linqing, Xiajin, and Qingping. On May 26, the 689th Regiment, the 2nd Regiment of the Eastern Column, and the 5th Detachment of the Eighth Route Army eliminated more than 1,000 members of the puppet army Zhang Dianqing's troops south of Linqing City, effectively deterring the puppet army and the local stubbornness in the Linqing area, and the "Anti-Eighth Coalition Army" headed by Feng Shoupeng quickly disintegrated, creating favorable conditions for the activities of local CPC organizations and the continued eastward advance of the Eighth Route Army.

  Li Jiu of Gao Tang not only owed the old debt of killing comrades such as Li Chunrong, secretary of the Lubei Special Committee of the CPC, but also, with the support of Zhang Ba, committed the new crime of colluding with reactionary county magistrates to murder local anti-Japanese armed leaders Cui Zigu and Wu Zijie (who had been incorporated by Zhang Chengxian on behalf of Fan Zhuxian). Li Junlan and his accomplice Zhang Dongchen in the border areas of Gao, En, Xia, Ping, and Yu were abused by Li Jiu in the southern tang dynasty, and several traitors in the northern Jie Plains caused disasters to the country and the people, and they were even more heinous. Li Junlan claimed to be the brigade commander×× of an independent mixed brigade, with six brigades (battalions) and two small regiments (one newly incorporated and one newly established, with a strength equivalent to a battalion), a total of more than 1,200 people, stationed in the fourth district of the plains, Dacui, Liyuan, and Liuzhuang, Guozhuang, Xihuangzhuang, Zhengguantun, and Dabaibutun in the fifth district. He had the "dragon and tiger" of the people, who killed and set fires, raped and plundered, and did no evil, and the common people feared him like a tiger and hated it to the bone. More than 2,000 of Zhang Dongchen's troops, stationed in Zuzhuang, Nancuizhuang, and Beizhen in Gaotang in the fifth district of the plain, echoed Li Jiu and Li Junlan from north to south, colluding with each other, seriously threatening the anti-Japanese activities led by the local party organizations of the CPC and blocking the important passage for the Eighth Route Army to advance eastward and break the railway.

  From the end of May to the beginning of June, Li Junlan's department searched everywhere for pockets, preparing to rob wheat. In order to smash Li Bandit's attempt to grab grain and thoroughly eliminate harm to the local party organizations and the masses of the people, Chen Zaidao, commander of the EastWard Column, obeyed the order of Xu Xiangqian, deputy commander of the 129th Division, on "solving Li Jiu and Li Junlan with cameras" and ordered the Jinpu detachment to eliminate Li Junlan. On June 6, the Jinzhi branch was stationed at the waist station in the fifth district of the plain, and the people of the waist station warmly welcomed and actively prepared for the front of the support under the leadership of the underground party members of the CPC. On the morning of June 7, the Jinzhi unit used the tactic of attacking the west with sound from the east to the west, and climbed into the Daweizi of Dabaibutun and eliminated the small Kou Tuan (Kou Bao chengbu) under Li Junlan's egg wing. In the afternoon, after a fierce firefight, they captured Tuweizi in West Huangzhuang and eliminated most of the third battalion of the Li Bandits, whose battalion commander Zheng Baoxin (nicknamed Zheng Baoxin) was wounded while leading the remnants to flee to Liuzhuang for their lives. At the same time, our army sacrificed a cadre in the west of Huangzhuang Village. On the morning of the same day, after dividing the troops to fight Dabai and Huangzhuang, the headquarters of the Jinpu detachment led the rest of the company and the former migrant workers to the east into Shazhuang and Mizhuang (Hui villages, separated by a ditch, an administrative village) and approached Liuzhuang. After lunch, we rushed to repair the fortifications at Mizhuang, which is only one bay away from Liuzhuang. At about two o'clock, under the cover of machine guns and rifles, Tsuchi swerved back to the west of the temple outside the west gate of Liuzhuang to shout and carry out a political offensive. The bandit army entrenched in Liuzhuang was Li Junlan's main second brigade (battalion), and its brigade commander, Li Jifa (the second cow of the milk name), had a large number of people (a total of more than 300 people), good guns, sufficient ammunition, thick walls, water in the trenches, and very arrogant reactionary arrogance. After dark, Tsuchi attacked several times, but did not conquer, and Tianming withdrew to Shazhuang and Mizhuang.

  After breakfast on June 8, reinforcements from Zhengguantun entered Liuzhuang, and the six brigades stationed in Guozhuang also fled into Liuzhuang, and the number of bandits in Liuzhuang had reached 450 or 60. At about ten o'clock in the morning, Jinzhi set up a machine gun on the roof of the east head of Mizhuang, and the machine gun and rifle simultaneously fired at the battlements of the Liuzhuang wall, covering the commando team's vertical cloud ladder and climbing the wall. The bandit army was condescending, stubbornly resisting, and refusing to surrender. Jinzhi attacked three times in succession, sacrificing and wounding twenty or thirty people, and failed to conquer them. Therefore, the command decided to stop the attack, and the telegraph asked Commander Chen Zaidao to send the main force to reinforce with artillery. At this time, the bandit Li Junlan saw that the Eighth Route Army was fighting bravely and fiercely, and there was no sign of retreating, lest the second brigade be completely destroyed, send a pistol squad into Liuzhuang, order Er Niuzi to retreat, and Er Niuzi insisted on stubborn resistance to the end. Subsequently, the bandit army that reinforced Erniuzi from Cuizhuang and Liyuan was stationed in Zhanghua, which was four miles away from Liuzhuang. The bandit army stayed in Zhang Hua and did not dare to continue to advance, and only fired earth cannons at the west end of Zhuangzhuang.

  On the morning of June 8, Commander Chen Zaidao received a telegram from Jinzhi and immediately ordered his troops to advance eastward from Linqing. The first road was the fifth detachment (the leader of the detachment was Zeng Guohua), detouring north to the plains of Gaotang; the first way was the 769th Regiment (regimental commander Chen Xilian) and the 689th Regiment (regimental commander Han Xianchu) and the 3rd Battalion (regimental headquarters stayed in Linqing), straight to the village near Liuzhuang. On June 9, the fifth detachment that arrived at Gaotang destroyed a part of Zhang Ba's bandit army northeast of Gaotang City, frightened Liu Chengwu's regiment of bandits stationed in the north town of Gaotang, then entered the plain, confiscated the guns of xiao Zhang's regiment stationed in the fifth district of the plain, destroyed the remaining bandits of Wang Jinbang's regiment guarding Zhengguantun, drove away Li Junlan's reinforcements stationed in Zhanghuazhuang, cut off the scheduled task of directly connecting the road between Erniuzi and Li Bandit's regimental headquarters, and turned to preparing to fight reinforcements to prevent Li and Zhang bandits from sending reinforcements to the west to meet Liuzhuang. Straight to the main force near Liuzhuang, on June 9, there was no organization during the day, only a few shots were fired at Liuzhuang to deter the defending enemy. At more than eight o'clock in the evening, the Eighth Route Army made arrangements, with the 769th Regiment in charge of the main attack to the west and southwest; the Jinpu Detachment in charge of the feint attack to the north of the field; the 3rd Battalion of the 689th Regiment from the southeast to the northeast, and the two heavy machine guns directly under the battalion headquarters and the five or six light machine guns of the 12th Company of the battalion were ambushed in the Songlin Cemetery about two miles north-east of Liuzhuang, and adopted the tactic of besieging three sides to lure the enemy into ambush. At about nine o'clock, under the cover of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, our army launched a general attack on Erniuzi. Due to the shock of our army's artillery fire, Li Erniuzi lost his former arrogance, so our army climbed up from the west to Liuzhuang Daweizi in a moment. Suddenly, the bandits cried wolf, opened the east gate in a hurry, and desperately fled to the northeast where the gunfire was sparse. Its tail had just reached the northeast corner of the small fence, and the front head immediately entered the ambush circle of our army. In an instant, light and heavy machine guns and rifles were fired at the enemy group at the same time, and the bandits who ran in front fell to the ground one after another, and fled south after running back, basically becoming prisoners of our army. At the same time, some of the bandits who ran to the east of Xiaoweizi and fled to the southeast were also captured by the three battalions of the 689th Regiment. In addition, dozens of people who escaped north from the east gate and fled north between the large and small fences ran to the vicinity of Shilipu, south of Yuan'en County, and were surrounded by the Red Gun Society, all of whom died under the guns. After three days of fighting, Li Junlan's troops were killed and wounded more than 160 people, captured more than 200 people, defeated and scattered more than 100 people, captured about 400 long and short guns, and dozens of mules and horses. On the same day that the Eighth Route Army conquered Liuzhuang Tuweizi in the fifth district of the plain, Fan Zhuxian ordered his third detachment to conquer gaotang county, and the bandit leader Li Jiu fled away, and it was not until October of that year that he returned to Gaotang under the protection of the Japanese army as a pseudo-county magistrate. Zhang Ba and Li Junlan became birds of fright, and led the remnants of the railway to flee east through the railway overnight. Three or four days later, our army incorporated more than fifty guns into the old district of the plains. Since then, the anti-Japanese situation in the border areas of Gaotang, Enxian, Xiajin, Pingyuan, and Yucheng counties has been initially opened; in the same month, the Lubei Northwest Special Committee of the CPC with Zhang Chengxian as secretary was established in Xiajin City, which effectively promoted the rapid development of party members and party organizations in various counties, as well as the mass anti-Japanese organizations and anti-Japanese armed forces under the leadership of the party, laid an organizational and mass foundation for the creation of anti-Japanese guerrilla base areas in five counties centered on the five districts of the plain, and opened the way for Sun Jixian, Zeng Guohua, and Xiao Hua to lead their troops into the Jilu Border Region; The three regiments of the Qingzhong came to the plains to expand their troops, break the railway, and carry out anti-Japanese guerrilla activities... Favorable conditions are provided.

  After the battle of Liuzhuang, the third battalion of the 689th Regiment and the 769th Regiment returned to Linqing on the morning of June 10 (staying in Xiajin for two days), and the Jinpu Detachment and the Fifth Detachment were active in the fifth district of the plain for a few more days, replenishing some new soldiers and returning to Xiajin to rest.

  In June of the same year, due to the stubborn attack of the Japanese and the Japanese, the situation in the Jilu Border Region deteriorated sharply, and the local PARTY organizations of the CPC and the anti-Japanese armed forces under their leadership were in a very dangerous situation. To this end, the Central Committee decided to place this area under the leadership of the Northern Bureau and the 129th Division (the party and government work was managed by the Provincial Party Committee of the Hebei-Luyu Border Region and the Ji'nan Provincial Bureau. Later, it was managed by the Party Committee of Ji'nan District and the Ji'nan Bureau). Therefore, after Xu Xiangqian, Chen Zaidao, and Song Renqian jointly studied the proposal, and received the praise of Liu Bocheng's division commander, the Jinpu detachment and the fifth detachment accompanied Ma Guorui, director of the Propaganda Department of the provincial party committee, to the Jilu Border Region for reinforcements. The Jinpu detachment and the fifth detachment set out from Xiajin and on the evening of June 29 crossed the Jinpu Railway near Yaotunzi Station in the southeast of Pingyuan City and entered the village of Mawu and other villages in the northeast of Pingyuan City. The next day, we continued to march in the direction of Leling and Ningjin, and our army was still on the way to the march, and the Japanese and pseudo-stubborn people who attacked and besieged Qingyun and Leling retreated at the sound of the wind, and the siege of Jilubian was then solved. In early July, the Jinpu detachment and the fifth detachment arrived in the Ningjin, Leling, and Qingyun areas. In the same month, Jinzhi, together with five detachments, completely annihilated more than 800 people of the reactionary Liu Yanchen's troops at The Black Bull Wangzhuang, northwest of Qingyun County (Old Town). After that, in coordination with the five detachments, they defeated more than 2,000 people in the villages of Lianhuachi, Luozhang, and Baozizhang at the junction of present-day Hebei Province and Ningjin and Leling in Shandong Province, thus reversing the anti-Japanese situation in the Jilu Border Area. In August, the Tsuura detachment and five detachments went west to break the Tsuura Railway. After breaking the road, the Jinpu detachment entered the county seat of Ningjin County, and used the method of outsmarting to capture Zhang Borong, the governor of Ningjin County, Zhang Lizhi, the commander of the brigade, and Lü Zijiu, director of the Public Security Bureau, totaling more than 500 people, and escorted Zhang Borong to Leling for execution. On September 27, Xiao Hua led more than 100 commanders and fighters of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army to Leling. In early October, the Eastward Anti-Japanese Advancing Column was formally established (under the direct command of the 129th Division) and reorganized the anti-Japanese troops in the Jilu Border Region. Under the unified leadership and command of Xiao Hua, commander of the column and political commissar, the Jinpu detachment (some called it the fourth detachment after reorganization, still belonging to the 129th Division) marched northward, fought several victorious battles in succession, and opened up a vast area in Dongguang, Nanpi, Yanshan, Mengcun, and other counties; attacked the railway stations of Sangyuan, Lianzhen, and Qilidian, delaying the railway transportation of the Japanese army; and by fighting side by side with fraternal troops, it effectively dealt a blow to the Japanese and the pseudo-stubborn, promoted the development of united front work, and further opened up the anti-Japanese situation in the Jilu Border Region. At the same time, the Jinzhi itself was also expanded and strengthened, not only receiving many new recruits, but also accepting the request of the head of the "Anti-Japanese Iron Blood Regiment" in Ningjin on August 2, and reorganizing the department into the Jinpu Detachment Teaching Brigade. By September, jinzhi had grown to three infantry battalions with complete guns and a cavalry company, totaling more than 1,000 people, but the victory was not easy to come by, and when attacking the enemy in Xihezhuang, Ningjin City, Xiao Fu (then called Xiao Rong Company), the commander of the first battalion and the first company, Xiao Fu (then called Xiao Rong Company), was wounded, and the commander of the second company, Bai Jinrong, died heroically.

  On November 13, 1938, the Japanese army sent two companies from Tai'an and Dong'a to the west to attack Liaocheng. To this end, the Central Military Commission and the 129th Division sent a telegram to the Jinpu Detachment and the Qingzhong Third Regiment to quickly reinforce. After receiving the electricity, the Jinpu detachment ended its rest in the Chaihudian area of Ningjin County ahead of schedule, marched into Liaocheng day and night, and quickly broke the siege for the patriotic general Fan Zhuxian. Unexpectedly, due to the conspiracy sabotage and betrayal by Kuomintang diehards Li Shuchun (director of the Luxi Bureau of the Kuomintang Shandong Government) and Wang Jinxiang (Fan's chief of staff), the Jinpu detachment had just arrived near Boping, the three regiments of the Qingzhong had not yet arrived, the iron hooves of the Japanese invading army had already stepped into Liaocheng, and Fan Zhuxian, Zhang Yuguang, Yao Dihong, and other generals were martyred in a heroic manner. After that, the army in the jurisdiction of the Northwest Lu Guerrilla Command (including the fourth and sixth special districts and some counties of the first and second special districts) under the jurisdiction of the former commander Of Lu Zhuxian was divided, the political situation was chaotic, and the people were panicked. Under these circumstances, in order to stabilize people's minds and the anti-Japanese situation in a timely manner, to support the anti-Japanese armed forces under Mr. Fan Zhu's former jurisdiction to continue the struggle, to avoid the elimination and annexation of the Japanese and puppets and the Kuomintang diehards, and to assist the two special committees of the CPC Luxi and Lubei to resume and carry out their work, the Central Military Commission and the 129th Division decided to establish the Advance Column of the Eighth Route Army (belonging to the 129th Division), and to transfer Li Jukui, commander and political commissar of the Youth Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column of the Eighth Route Army (hereinafter referred to as the Qing column, which belongs to the 129th Division) as the commander and political commissar of the advance column. After Li Jukui was ordered to arrive in northwestern Lu, he formally formed the column sizheng rear organ on December 9. Under the unified leadership and command of Li Jukui, the Jinpu Detachment, the Qingzhong 3rd Regiment, the Cavalry Regiment of the 129th Division, and the Jilubian Guerrilla Detachment (a local armed force formed by the CPC's Northwest Special Committee with Zhang Chengxian as its secretary, referred to as the Jilubian Detachment or Jilu Detachment) persisted in guerrilla warfare on the vast plains stretching from Liaocheng in the south to De County in the north. In mid-November, after the Japanese army invaded Liaocheng and Linqing, in order to curb our army's anti-Japanese activities, a squadron of Japanese troops and a part of the puppet army invaded and occupied qingping county. In order to remove this nail, the Jinpu detachment, with the cooperation of the three regiments of the Qingzhong and the support of the local party organizations and the broad masses, attacked the county town of Qingping at night, completely annihilating the enemy on the top of the three gates in the east, west, and south. After Li Jukui entered Lulu, in order to further strengthen the leadership and military strength of Luxi and Northwest Lu, the headquarters of the Eighteenth Group Army (formerly known as the Eighth Route Army) and the 129th Division, and the brigade commander Chen Geng of the 386th Brigade, led by the 688th Regiment (which belonged to the 115th Division structure and was attached to the 129th Division) and the brigade's supplementary regiment, set off from the Jiyu junction area on December 7, and marched east to the jurisdiction of the two special committees of Luxi and Northwest Lu (entered on the 14th), leading and commanding the Eighth Route Army and other anti-Japanese troops under the leadership of the Communist Party.

  On January 10, 1939, in order to cover the gathering of the thirty-two detachments (the local armed forces formed by the Boping County Committee of the Communist Party of China, about 1,400 people) to avoid the plot of the Kuomintang diehards, Chen Geng followed the instructions of the division headquarters and personally commanded the 688th Regiment, the Jinpu Detachment, and the Qingzhong 3rd Regiment to attack Gaotang County. According to the operational arrangement, the Jinpu detachment besieged the east and prevented the Japanese puppet army of Yucheng from advancing westward, preparing to meet the enemy's reinforcements. Fire opened at 11:00 p.m., and at about 12:00 p.m. it basically captured Gaotang City. Later, due to the enemy's retreat to the central stronghold, with strong firepower, condescending, stubborn resistance, unable to conquer for a while, fierce fighting for about three hours, our army withdrew from the battle, at dawn on the 11th, Chen Geng commanded all the troops to move to the southeast of Xiajin. In this battle, a total of 10 Japanese troops were killed, more than 10 puppet troops were captured, and more than 10 rifles were captured, sweeping away the puppet organizations around the city. On the 13th, the Jilu detachment directly led by the Lubei Northwest Special Committee also drove to Xiajin. On the same day, Chen Geng ordered him to act with the Jinpu detachment, and together with the 688th Regiment and the 3rd Regiment of the Qingzhong Regiment, to attack the county seat of Enxian County, to break the Jinpu Railway, and to cooperate with the preparations for the anti-sweeping campaign in southern Hebei, suddenly, the division headquarters sent a telegram ordering Chen Geng to change his plan and lead the 688th Regiment to Qiu County (which was then part of Shandong, and the party organization was under the leadership of the Northwest Special Committee of Lu) and the junction area of Wei County to carry out a new task. At the same time, the Jinpu detachment and the three regiments of the Qingzhong column were ordered to enter between Linqing and Xiajin, and to coordinate the actions of all parties. On the 24th of the same month, the Jilu detachment was officially promoted to the Jinpu detachment in Linqing territory and reorganized into a new battalion, with battalion commander Long Zongyi, deputy battalion commander Cao Pitang (who had served as a correspondent for Xu Xiangqian), instructor Peng Tianqi, under the jurisdiction of four companies, more than 400 people (guns). At that time, in order to coordinate chen gung's annihilation of the enemy, he continued to accompany the old troops of the Jinpu detachment and the three regiments of the Qingzhong in the Linqing area. After completing the mission, he returned to the Jinpu front, still centered on the waist station of the five districts of the plain, and fought in the border areas of Gaotang, Enxian, Xiajin, Wucheng, Pingyuan, Yucheng, and Dexian.

  On February 10, Chen Geng led a main force to annihilate a reinforced squadron in Xiangcheng, which was close to the border of Shandong, killing more than 200 people below the enemy brigade commander and capturing 8 people alive. On the 14th, Chen Geng led the main force to move to the east bank of the Wei Canal, and the division headquarters telegraphed all of them to gather in Nanguan County and carry out new tasks. Soon, Chen Geng led the main force (accompanied by Liu Bocheng) back to the junction area of Hebei and Yu in the west to welcome Chen Guang and Luo Ronghuan into Lu. On the 19th of the same month (Lunar New Year), the Jinpu Detachment (already known as the Bazhou Detachment; excluding the new battalion) went north from Cui County, south of Guan County, and returned to Qihe, Yucheng, Gaotang, and the Ping junction area. On the 21st, the Jinpu Railway was broken in the south of Yucheng City, blowing up a train. Subsequently, one night, with the cooperation of the Three Regiments of the Qingzhong (pseudonym cheng'an regiment), Li Huimin, who had been transformed into a negative side, who had been ineffective in education and struggle, and who had deployed troops to confront our army, as well as Li Lianxiang and Wu Chunyang, who were deeply affected by it, launched an attack with lightning speed. After fierce fighting, Li Huimin's troops were completely annihilated (Li Huimin was killed), and one of Li Lianxiang's troops was eliminated, and Wu Chunyang's troops fled in a daze, capturing one mortar and hundreds of rifles. After Li Lianxiang was beaten, he was willing to accept the reorganization of our army and was appointed as the commander of the independent battalion (and later defected). On the evening of March 4, the Jinpu detachment was stationed at Chen Wuying in Yucheng County, and the Third Regiment of the Qingzhong Regiment was stationed in Xulou (now part of Gaotang County) in Chiping County. On the night of the same day, the Luxi District Party Committee and the Xianzhong Organ and the Second Regiment of the Former Column were stationed in Liuli Temple (now part of Gaotang County) in Chiping from the area of Luxiguan County. Before dawn on March 5 (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), Li Jukui, commander and political commissar of the First Column, summoned the heads of various units to discuss action plans and deploy combat tasks. Dawn discovered the enemy situation (more than 3,000 days of puppet troops retaliating and sweeping), and immediately ordered Sun Jixian and other Hui troops to command the battle. When Sun Jixian rushed back to Chen Wu's camp, the battle had already begun. From morning to dusk, more than 200 Japanese troops were wiped out and two mortars were captured. At nightfall, the Jinpu detachment first asked the administrator Li Huazhen to lead the logistics personnel to break through to the north to confuse the enemy, and then Sun Jixian and others commanded the combat troops to take the opportunity to break through to the south. At the same time, the Luxi District Party Committee and the Xianlong Organs stationed in Liuli Temple and Xulou, as well as the Second Regiment of the Xianzhu and the Third Regiment of the Qingzhong, also broke through victoriously. In this battle, although our army eliminated many enemies and captured some weapons, it also paid a considerable price, mainly Zhao Yiping, member of the party committee and secretary general of Luxi District, and Jing Weide, commander of the Second Regiment of the First Column, and other comrades who unfortunately died.

  After the Jinpu detachment Chen Wuying broke through, he crossed the Yellow River (at that time, due to the diversion of the Garden Mouth in Henan, the river was very shallow) and moved to the Dafeng Mountains in Western Taixi. The new battalion did not act with the leading organs of the detachment and continued to remain in the original area to persist in the struggle. After the Jinpu detachment arrived in Taixi, with the assistance of the local party organization in Feicheng, it conquered Dongjiazhuang and other Japanese and pseudo-strongholds. In mid-March, Chen Guang and Luo Ronghuan led the 115th Division and the 686th Regiment (excluding the three battalions) from southwest Lu into the Taixi area. At the end of March, Li Jukui took the lead in the 2nd Column Regiment, the 3rd Regiment of the Qingzhong Regiment, and the Cavalry Regiment of the 129th Division, and went to the Taihang Mountains to carry out a new mission, leaving the Jinpu detachment under the direct command of Chen Guang and Luo Ronghuan (still under the formation of the 129th Division). On the evening of April 22, the new battalion of the Jinpu detachment set off from the border of Pingyuan County and blew up the railway for hundreds of meters southeast of Pingyuan County. At dawn the next day, it was transferred to Chang and Zhao Erzhuang (belonging to Yucheng County, the two villages are 200 to 300 meters apart, and there are tuweizi) in the border areas of Gao, Ping and Yu. Just after dawn, more than a thousand Japanese puppet troops surrounded the new battalion by car, horseback, and on foot, and the Japanese army fiercely strafed and bombarded with machine guns and cannons. At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the new battalion repelled eight enemy charges, with more than 30 casualties, including a company commander and a main and deputy instructor. Due to the fierce enemy fire, most of the houses in the village were blown up and burned, killing and injuring many ordinary people. At the same time, the Japanese and puppet armies paid a greater price. In the end, because the enemy added more than 500 troops, and more poison gas was released each time (instructor Peng Tianqi and Pai Changsha Liancheng all had eye diseases left by poisoning), the new battalion had to break through from the enemy's combined unit in advance (originally planned until dark) when the enemy adjusted its strength to launch the ninth general offensive, and was scheduled to rush to the waist station of the fifth district of the plain at night. When the troops arrived at the first meeting point, the battalion commander summoned the company commanders and instructors to conduct a study, believing that the waist station was located in a clear target and that the enemy was likely to follow it, so he decided to relocate to Xiyaoshang Village in the fifth district of the plain. On the third day, the enemy did follow and stood straight at the waist. While the enemy was busy encircling the waist station, our troops were reduced to pieces, and under the cover of the broad masses, they relied on villages and communication ditches to negotiate with the Japanese and puppet troops. After the Japanese and pseudo-sweeps, the new battalion dispersed to various fortress villages in the five districts of the plains to assist local party organizations in publicizing and mobilizing the masses and carrying out anti-Japanese activities such as hoeing and breaking roads. In May, the detachment sent Li Chunjian (a native of Taohuadian, wucheng, formerly Enxian County, who was a staff officer of the Jinpu detachment when he joined the army in the spring of 1938) back to the fifth district of the plains and took the new battalion to the Dafeng Mountains in western Taixi to meet with the detachment headquarters.

  On May 11, 1939, under the command of Chen Guang, acting commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the Jinpu Detachment, together with the 686th Regiment and other troops, repelled nine enemy attacks in the Lufang area of Feicheng, killing and wounding more than 1,300 people under the commander of the Japanese and puppet army Dazuo, crushing the nine-way siege of more than 5,000 japanese puppet troops, and successfully breaking through the siege. In addition, before and after this, the Tsuura detachment also fought against the Japanese puppet army in Taixi, such as Asan, Sigao, and Otoyoshi. In May, the Central Military Commission and the headquarters of the Eighteenth Group Army decided to form the First Column of the Eighth Route Army, with Xu Xiangqian and Zhu Rui as commanders and political commissars respectively, commanding the Eighth Route Army units operating in the 115th Division and the Shandong Column in the south from Xuzhou to Cangzhou in the north. According to Sun Jixian's recollection in 1982, on June 7, Xu Xiangqian, Zhu Rui, and others departed from southern Hebei to Shandong, and the Jinpu detachment was ordered by the 129th Division to send the old battalion to escort them. After the old battalion arrived in luzhongnan with Xu Xiangqian and others, it was left at the headquarters of the first column of the Eighth Route Army and broke away from the Jinpu detachment. According to Xu Xiangqian published by the China Youth Publishing House in 1992, in October 1938, when Zhang Jingwu and Li Yu were passing through Ji'nan from Yan'an back to Shandong, Xu Xiangqian "drew an organized battalion (author: the old battalion) from the Jinpu detachment and followed them to carry out their work, giving them great support." Moreover, some of the old cadres who worked in the Jilu Border Region had similar statements. The author believes that the reason why the Jinzhi branch was promoted to the Jilu detachment as its new battalion in January 1939 is probably because the old battalion followed Zhang Jingwu and Li Yu to Luzhong.

  On September 18 of the same year, the Jinpu detachment was ordered to march from Luxi to Lunan, and on the way it was surrounded by Japanese troops at Xingshan Villa in Ningyang County. The detachment guard company first seized the hill and fought fiercely until dawn, leaving only more than 10 people in the company. The new battalion fought tenaciously for a day, not only suffered heavy casualties, the battalion commander Long Zongyi disappeared (later determined to be a sacrifice) and some commanders and fighters returned to their hometown in northwest Lubei because they lost contact with the troops (most of them also participated in the local anti-Japanese struggle). It was dark, and the new battalion downsized the concentrated troops into a company. After the whole detachment broke through, it crossed the Jinpu Railway in the east and drove to the southern area of Luzhong in the same night. On November 4, on the orders of the headquarters of the Eighteenth Group Army, the Jinpu detachment was separated from the 129th Division and transferred to the Shandong Column. In February 1940, the Jinpu detachment merged with the second detachment of the Shandong column, and after the merger, it was called the second detachment of the Shandong column, with Sun Jixian as the detachment leader and Pan Shoucai as the political commissar. In March of the same year, under the command of Xu Xiangqian, Sun Zu of Yuyishui County eliminated more than 120 Japanese puppet troops and crushed more than 300 Japanese troops and more than 100 puppet troops to resist the attack on the Japanese base area. In June, he went to the coastal area to open up a new anti-Japanese base area.

  In the more than two years since its establishment, under the leadership of the 129th Division, the 115th Division, and the 1st Column Xu Xiangqian, the Jinpu Detachment has fought in a vast area of northwestern Luxi, Jilubian, Luxi, southern Luzhong, and Binhai, and has made important contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.

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