In the early summer of 1941, in order to ensure that the japanese invading Japanese army occupied the areas in central China and strengthened its economic plunder of the occupied areas in order to realize its strategy of "feeding the war with war," the Japanese central China dispatch army ordered its 3rd and 13th divisions of the 11th Army stationed in Wuhan and the surrounding areas, and the 39th divisions stationed on both sides of the Pinghan Line, to dispatch troops to carry out continuous large-scale clearance and sweeping of the Eyu Border Area.
▲The Japanese army prepares before the sweep
In order to completely destroy our base area, the Japanese army painstakingly made meticulous arrangements, and in order to keep it secret, it did not accompany the puppet army troops; its actions were devious, and tactically it used new tactics such as iron wall encirclement and double-layer encirclement, in an effort to wipe out the main forces in our Eyu Border Region or force our main force to abandon the base area. In order to crush the enemy's sweep, the units of the 5th Division of our New Fourth Army worked closely with the soldiers and civilians in the base areas to flexibly find fighters in the enemy's large encirclement and strike at the enemy.
▲Our army units are practicing
At the end of 1941, the 5th Division ordered the 15th Brigade, which was persistent in the struggle in the Dwarf Mountain area near Hanyang, to use the main force of the enemy army in Wuhan to go out to sweep up our base area, and when the three towns of Wuhan were empty, they would deal a devastating blow to the pseudo-Pingding Nationalist army entrenched in Qiuyang, forcing the Japanese army to withdraw the troops sweeping our base area to alleviate the pressure on the base area.
▲ Pseudo-personnel and the Japanese army together forced the common people to "celebrate" the victory of the Japanese army
The puppet Dingguo army was the most powerful puppet army in the entire Hubei region, the commander was Liu Guojun, and the most powerful subordinate guns were the pseudo-1st Division of the pseudo-division commander Wang Buqing, which had 3 regiments under its jurisdiction, with a total strength of about 5,000 troops, stationed in the area of Jurong Mountain in Hanyang and Nanhedu in Hanchuan. These two people are very contradictory to each other, Liu Guojun is self-righteous and old, and looks down on Wang Buqing, while Wang Buqing has a lot of guns and a lot of guns, and he violates Liu Guojunyang.
On December 7, 1941, 1 battalion of our 15th Brigade and 2 companies of local troops took advantage of the darkness of the night to attack In two ways towards Jurong Mountain and Nanhedu. Using the passwords obtained, our army successfully deceived the 3 sentries of the 3rd Regiment of the Pseudo-1st Division, and directly pounced on the regimental headquarters of the Pseudo-3 regiment in the southeast of the Dwarf Mountain, taking all the regimental headquarters, the special service company, and the guard squad without a single shot, and only the pseudo-regimental commander fled naked after waking up in his sleep.
On 24 December, the 43rd and 44th Regiments of our 15th Brigade, as well as 1 brigade of the local troops, attacked Dwarf Mountain again on the left and right. Among them, the 44th Regiment conquered General Ridge of Jurong Mountain in one fell swoop, annihilated the machine gun battalion of the pseudo-1st Division, and captured all its heavy weapons. Our 43rd Regiment attacked Tongshantou with one unit and captured 1 company of the puppet army; with another force, it attacked Peijiashan and destroyed 1 new company of the puppet army.
▲ The puppet army is standing guard
Successive fiascos made Wang Buqing more cautious, but he still could not escape the blows of our army. On January 7, 1942, our 15th Brigade launched another attack on its old nest, Gnome Mountain. The 43rd and 44th Regiments of the 15th Brigade and my Tianhan Detachment all threw themselves into the offensive. Our 44th Regiment captured the entire Gnome Mountain in one fell swoop, and the puppet army near the Gnome Mountain was also defeated by the 43rd Regiment and was annihilated by 1 battalion. On January 10, At the urging of the Japanese army, Liu Guojun, commander of the puppet Dingguo Army, was forced to lead more than 1,000 people of the pseudo-2nd Division to cooperate with the Japanese army and counterattack the position of our 43rd Regiment in three ways, in an attempt to reinforce Wang Buqing's pseudo-1st Division, which had been beaten to the ground, and retake Jurong Mountain. Our army ambushed the main force under the embankment, and when the Japanese puppet army advanced to less than 200 meters away from our position, our troops suddenly fired fiercely at the enemy. In the battle, our army killed and wounded more than 20 Japanese troops, captured more than 400 puppet troops, and captured more than 400 guns of various kinds and a large number of military supplies.
▲ Propaganda photos of devils and puppet soldiers together
Liu Guojun, commander of the pseudo-Pingding Nationalist Army, led the remnants to be chased and killed by our 15th Brigade, on the way he fell off his horse and fell into the mud pond, he had a hard time getting out of the mud, a long riding boot was also trapped in the mud, he did not have time to wear, he barefoot, holding another boot, fled back to Wuhan in a panic.
▲Our army captured the weapons and equipment of the Japanese puppet army
At the subsequent military conference held by the Japanese puppet army, Liu Guojun and Wang Buqing, the two traitors, were defeated and blamed each other, and the two sides developed from a verbal dispute to mutual insults; Liu Guojun scolded Wang Buqing as a "rice bucket", and was beaten by the New Fourth Army for 3 consecutive times, and even lost his old nest, and Wang Buqing sneered at each other: "You are not a rice bucket, why did you come back wearing only one boot?" The quarrel between the two people later developed into "all-armed action", the two sides fought a big fight, and the senior officers of the puppet army who saw it were all stunned, and finally they could only invite the "Imperial Army" to mediate. After knowing the origin of this matter, the devils could only shake their heads and sigh, and had to withdraw thousands of troops who swept away our base areas in order to "restore law and order" around Wuhan again.