Author: Unsentimental
Statement: Soldiers say original, plagiarism will be investigated
On May 5, 1938, Ye Ting led the 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion of the 6th Regiment of the New Fourth Army, which had been renamed the "Jiangnan People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army" (referred to as "Jiangkang"), to advance to the area east of the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway. On May 6, they met up with the local anti-Japanese armed forces "Jiang Kang" that Mei Guangdi had pulled up. According to Chen Yi's prior arrangement, Mei Guangdi was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the "Jiang Resistance" and Ye Fei was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief.
On May 30, when the "Jiangsu Resistance" troops took down more than 10 Japanese pseudo-strongholds in Changshu and returned to The Loess Pond in Meicun, Wuxi, they encountered a group of Japanese Kou who had just returned from "clearing the countryside" and "sweeping up". The encounter lasted for half a day, and the "JiangKang" troops killed more than 30 Japanese troops, including a Japanese daisaku.
From 2:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. on June 25, Ye Fei and his troops spent only one hour to wipe out all the Japanese troops stationed at the Hushuguan station of the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway, burned down the station facilities, and blew up a section of railway track, paralyzing the Ninghu Railway for three days and shaking the outside world. American journalist Smedley also reported the battle to the outside world, and the "Jiang Kang" rose to fame and quickly opened up the situation.
Since then, the "Jiangkang" has continued its efforts and has run across Suzhou, Changzhou and Taihu Lake. Attacked the Japanese and puppet strongholds, counterattacked the "sweeping" of the Japanese Kou, and beat the Japanese and the puppets to the point of being frightened. The prestige of the "Jiang Kang" among the masses has also become higher and higher, and the masses have gradually come to know that the "Jiang Kang" is actually the New Fourth Army. Not only did the masses in the base areas enthusiastically join the army, but even young students and workers in Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, and other cities also came to join the army, and the size of the "Jiangkang" contingent expanded rapidly. Ye Fei and others decided to expand the "Jiangkang" into four roads: the 6th Regiment was the second road; Mei Guangdi's part was the third road; the Wuxi local troops were the fourth road; and the Changshu "civil resistance" was the five roads. The reason why the first road is not made up is to confuse the Japanese and the false.
After the expansion, Ye Fei ordered Wu Yu and He Kexi to lead a detachment of the Second Road and a part of the Fifth Road, totaling about 1 regiment of troops, to advance towards the outskirts of Shanghai. Day and night, they marched continuously, crossed the Liu River, arrived in the Jiading area, and made contact with the underground party and the local anti-Japanese guerrilla lu Bingkui' department. After that, Wu Yu and He Kexi continued to lead their troops eastward, crossed the Suzhou River, and met the anti-Japanese guerrillas led by Gu Fusheng in the Guanyintang area of Qingpu.
Qingpu has now become the Qingpu district of Shanghai. It is located in the southwest suburbs of Shanghai, the lower reaches of Taihu Lake and the upper reaches of the Huangpu River. It is bordered to the west by Wujiang and Kunshan in Jiangsu Province. It is bordered to the south by Songjiang, Jinshan and Jiashan. It is bordered by Jiading to the north and Shanghai Hongqiao to the east. Hongqiao is now the hub of land and sea transportation in Shanghai. The international airport, high-speed rail station, and subway station are all available. But at that time, it was a suburb of Shanghai, far less prosperous than the downtown area. The Hongqiao Airport of that year was actually similar to the field airport. Since after the defeat of the Battle of Songhu in November 1937, the Nationalist army collapsed for thousands of miles, the so-called "guerrillas" and "lurkers" left behind were actually mainly busy for their own survival, and the anti-Japanese achievements that could be brought to hand were the assassination of several traitors, and basically did not have the courage to gather forces to confront the Japanese army. Therefore, Hongqiao Airport is an important strategic target, but the Japanese army is neglecting to take precautions because of "good public security".
On July 23, 1939, the Japanese puppet army stationed in Qingpu went out to routinely "sweep up." In fact, there is no specific goal in this "sweeping", to put it bluntly, it is an armed "outing", in an attempt to deter the Chinese military and people into honestly treating them as obedient people, and incidentally plundering the people along the way.
This kind of thing happened in the year and a half that the Japanese army occupied Shanghai. But this time, they did not know in advance, and the recently famous "Jiang Kang" had quietly touched under their eyes. At this time, Ye Fei, who had already rushed to Qingpu, heard the news and was determined to fight this Japanese puppet army by surprise. He ordered Wu Yu and He Kexi to lead the main forces of the "Jiang Resistance" second road and attack with the cooperation of Gu Fusheng's guerrillas.
This battle deeply surprised both the enemy and us. The Japanese puppet army never expected that someone would dare to challenge them head-on on the ground in Shanghai. What our army did not expect was that they all said that the Japanese army had strong combat effectiveness, and thought it would be a hard and vicious battle, but we never expected that as soon as the two sides fought, our army just launched a charge and actually crushed this Japanese puppet army.
The victory came too easily, and the morale of the commanders and fighters of our army was greatly boosted, and they chased after the Japanese and pseudo-japanese soldiers all the way. Among them, Liao Zhengguo, who was the commander of the detachment at the time, led his troops all the way to the east, chased straight until dark, and chased out more than 60 miles in one breath.
As they were catching up, Liao Zhengguo suddenly found themselves in a strange place: a large open field, surrounded by barbed wire, but silent, only a few lonely houses. They stopped chasing and went to the neighborhood to inquire about it, and only then did they know that this was actually the famous Hongqiao Airport.
Hongqiao Airport! That was the first stop for senior Japanese generals and political leaders to fly from Japan to the East China Battlefield! Liao Zhengguo's spirit was lifted, and a bold idea flashed in his mind - to destroy the airport. With a wave of his hand, he used the night as a cover to quietly encircle the airport, easily destroying the barbed wire and touching a row of houses.
They sneaked into the room and pulled the sleeping puppet soldiers, fake policemen, and airport puppet workers out of their beds one by one. They first surrendered their weapons, and then they were locked up in a house to warn them not to play for the tiger anymore. Next, Liao Zhengguo led people to continue the search, and found 4 Japanese planes on the tarmac.
Everyone quietly approached the plane, but the actions of the soldiers alarmed the Japanese. In an instant, the empty Hongqiao Airport sounded a piercing siren. The Japanese in the bunkers around the airfield turned on the searchlights and began to shoot wildly at our troops. The enemy's fire became more and more intense, and Liao Zhengguo shouted: "Burn the plane!" The soldiers immediately opened the gasoline barrel next to the plane, poured it on the fuselage, and threw a torch on it, and the plane suddenly turned into a torch, and the soldiers threw grenades at the plane.
The Japanese military headquarters stationed in Shanghai heard the sound of gunshots and explosions coming from the direction of Hongqiao Airport, and saw that the sky was shining red in the night sky, and hurriedly dispatched troops to rush to Hongqiao Airport. But when the reinforcements arrived, except for the four planes that had burned into a pile of scrap iron, not even the shadow of the New Fourth Army was seen.
Liao Zhengguo's night attack on Hongqiao Airport was a mistake. However, this founding major general was able to respond to the opportunity, firmly grasp the fighter plane, and expand the achievements of the war, which fully embodied the enthusiasm and initiative of our army in the War of Resistance. Although this unplanned battle only burned 4 Japanese aircraft, far less than the 24 aircraft in the Battle of Yangmingbao, its influence was also great because of its sensitive geographical location.
That night, the people of Shanghai thought that the New Fourth Army was about to attack Shanghai, and excitedly rushed to tell each other. The next day, Shanghai's "Huamei Night News," "Damei Evening News," "Herald," and other important newspapers all carried the news of the New Fourth Army's night attack on Hongqiao Airport in extra large fonts, which greatly encouraged the shanghai people's confidence in resisting Japan. The Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai did not dare to act rashly the next day because they did not understand the situation, until the third day, they dispatched an infantry company with reinforced cavalry and went out to "sweep" a circle. However, the "Jiangsu Resistance" troops had long since shifted, and the Japanese army had gained nothing.
After this battle, the prestige of the "Jiang Kang" among the masses became even higher, and a large number of patriotic young people joined the army to fight the devils.