What is there to celebrate, all this has not come easily, and it is the war, not the victory, that is humiliating.
On August 25, 1945, the 8th Army Division of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region decided to attack Huaxian, which had previously tried to capture Kaifeng, but failed to do so. Although the Japanese army had announced its surrender, there were still some Japanese troops who refused to surrender to the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, resulting in continuous skirmishes.
The Japanese army in Kaifeng was well-equipped and had tanks and other heavy **, so it could not be attacked for a long time. In this case, the military district decided to turn to Huaxian to launch an offensive. Kaifeng can be seen as a hard nail, while Huaxian is like a soft persimmon, which is easier to attack.
In the battle of Huaxian County, although there was not a single Japanese soldier, we faced more than 1,000 puppet soldiers. In the case that the Japanese army has been defeated, these puppet armies have lost their masters, like frightened birds, and they are not vulnerable at all.
The battle began on August 28, and as we expected, the puppet army in the county town was about to collapse, and in less than a day, most of the county town was occupied by our army.
However, the remaining enemies were huddled in a small enclosure in the northwest of the county. Zeng Siyu was overjoyed when he saw it, he thought that a burst of charge could be won in less than an hour.
However, no one thought that it was this small village that our three regiments attacked for a full 8 days and paid heavy sacrifices. In this battle, our army used a multi-pronged strategy.
The 6th Regiment attacked from the east, the 7th Regiment stormed from the back, and the 4th Regiment made a feint from the north to attract the enemy's main forces. During the battle, our troops first used explosives packs to carry out blasting, but the enemy's light and heavy machine guns fired wildly, and the blasting was unsuccessful.
Zeng Siyu gritted his teeth and used a mortar, but the mortar either missed or was a dud, and the attack failed to destroy the enemy's external defense line in the afternoon. The fighters used their brains to fix the explosive package on the warhead and fired it into the fence with grenadiers, but they did not receive any noticeable effect.
The next night, Zeng Siyu ordered a Zhuge Liang meeting, hoping that everyone would brainstorm. One of the warriors came up with a clever plan: dig a tunnel to the inside of the wall. However, when the tunnel was dug under the wall, they found a deep trench, and it turned out that the enemy had seen through the telescope that our soldiers were digging the tunnel, and dug a trench in advance to crack it, resulting in the death of all the soldiers who dug the tunnel.
As time passed, the number increased, but the siege still could not be captured. This puzzled Zeng Siyu, who had been working in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan region for 6 years and had experienced all kinds of battles and scenes.
Even in the battle of battles, his teaching of the 3rd Brigade (Yang Yong as commander, Su Zhenhua as political commissar, and Zeng Siyu as director of the Political Department) was no stranger and had been fighting since 1940.
In front of the Japanese artillery towers, his fighters never flinched. But why did a small fence stop him from advancing? This frustrated him deeply. He was thinking about it, trying to figure out why.
Looking closely at this walled area, there is nothing special about it. The walled wall is about 8 meters high and 2 meters thick, and there are 4 pillboxes at the four corners. Outside the wall, there is a ditch 5 meters wide and about 3 meters deep, and there are deer barricades and barbed wire fences on the outside, which is no different from the fortifications of the Japanese army in the past.
In that case, why can't it be taken? After careful consideration, Zeng Siyu thought that there must be something special about the commander of this puppet army. So, he asked Chief of Staff Wang Zhengnan: "Who is the commander of this puppet army?" ”
Wang Zhengnan replied: "It seems to be surnamed Wu, what Wu came from, I can't remember clearly." Zeng Siyu pondered for a moment, and then said excitedly: "I know how to do it!" ”
Wu Lantian was born in 1911 in Huaxian County, Henan Province, and although his father was a large landowner, Wu Lantian joined the revolution at the age of 17. In the environment of the White Terror at that time, many people were worried about the future, but Wu Lantian did not waver, but actively joined the organization, which fully demonstrated his spirit of pursuing progress.
In 1931, at the age of 20, he was appointed secretary of Huaxian County, showing outstanding leadership skills and enthusiasm for his work. If Wu Lantian could concentrate on his work at that time, his future would undoubtedly be unlimited.
Not only is he capable of working, but he also has a high emotional intelligence and can speak well. In terms of family, Wu Lantian has a beautiful wife, she comes from a large family, is deeply educated, has elegant manners, nicknamed Lin Daiyu, and was the school flower of the county middle school.
At the beginning, Wu Lantian was very satisfied with his marriage, and the husband and wife had a deep relationship.
Wu Lantian had children soon after marriage, but he was always busy with work and was attracted to the young and beautiful intellectual women in the organization. He concealed that he was married and fell in love with a young woman surnamed Chen.
When the deputy secretary persuaded him, he said that he was in a discordant relationship with his wife and planned to divorce. However, this was only his excuse, and he later developed a relationship with a young woman surnamed Xie, and even stepped on two boats.
The young woman surnamed Chen fell in love and asked Wu Lantian for a divorce. After the divorce, Wu Lantian married the surnamed Chen and started a new life. However, Xiao Chen soon discovers that Wu Lantian does not really love her, and he not only keeps in touch with his ex-wife, but also has an affair with a young woman surnamed Xie.
To make matters worse, he even fell in love with another married woman surnamed Wang and tried to pursue her. When Ms. Wang found out about Wu Lantian's behavior, she teamed up with Wu Lantian's wife, Xiao Chen, to expose him.
In the end, Wu Lantian was punished and removed from his post. At this point, if he can get lost, he has every chance of getting back on his feet.
After experiencing blows and setbacks again and again, Wu Lantian finally realized his mistake. He decided to change his mistakes and not make the same mistakes again. However, his determination did not last long.
Soon after, he made another mistake and had an improper relationship with Xiao Liu, a female cadre. This time, the organization severely punished him and transferred Xiao Liu away. However, Wu Lantian did not change his attitude, but wrote in his diary: "Life can be without wine and meat, and it can't be without beautiful women, I can't extricate myself." ”
He knew that he was not allowed to do this in our camp, so he could only defect to the Japanese army and become a traitor. However, Wu Lantian's traitor road did not go smoothly. After discovering his escape, the organization quickly launched a manhunt and successfully captured him.
But he was still very cunning and fled again halfway through. In the end, he was captured by the martial arts team, but he played tricks again, escaped over the wall, went straight to the enemy's stronghold, and became a traitor.
After Wu Lantian became a traitor, he even took his wife Xiao Chen away. However, he did not gain the trust of the Japanese, but was taken by the squad leader Kameda and suffered from his **.
Under the persuasion of his wife, Wu Lantian decided to return to the base area. Although he brought intelligence, he kept a hand and did not cause serious losses to the organization. The organization decided to agree that the couple would come back first.
However, on the way back, they encountered another team of the Eighth Route Army, intending to take them to the military region for severe punishment. As a result, Wu Lantian escaped for the third time.
Wu Lantian, a puppet army captain who worked for the Japanese invaders during the Anti-Japanese War. He turned his back on the national righteousness, mutilated his compatriots all over his body, and his hands were stained with the blood of the people.
The Eighth Route Army tried many times to eradicate this scum, but all of them were in vain because of his cunning and slippery head. Wu Lantian was good at ideological work in the past, and once transferred our management and education methods to the puppet army, giving lessons to the puppet army every week to educate them to serve the Japanese army.
He also wrote a slip: "Once you become a puppet army, you can't wash it by jumping into the river, and you can't be killed on the eight roads, so you can only do revolution." In addition, he hired a renegade battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army to conduct military training for the puppet army and improve their combat effectiveness.
Although there was no radio at that time, Wu Lantian still concealed the news of the defeat of the Japanese army, and printed fake newspapers, publishing the news that the Eighth Route Army had caught the puppet army and killed them, not only to dig out their hearts, but also to connect the nine clans, so as to strengthen the iron-clad loyalty of the puppet army.
However, the evil deeds of this puppet army captain were finally punished as they deserved. When Zeng Siyu led the army south, he was reminded to be careful of Wu Lantian.
Although Zeng Siyu didn't care at the time, it turned out that he did make the right decision. He used a loudspeaker to publicize our policy to the puppet army, stating Wu Lantian's crimes, especially emphasizing: "No matter who puts down the **, he can not blame the past, but Wu Lantian will be killed." ”
This strategy succeeded in shaking the morale of the puppet army and making them lose the will to fight. In the end, Wu Lantian led his cronies to break through when he saw that the general trend had gone, the puppet army surrendered one after another, and the county seat of Huaxian County was liberated.
This process lasted a total of 8 days.
Although Zeng Siyu won the victory in this battle, he was not complacent because of this, but deeply felt that the battle was too aggrieved and needed to seriously sum up the lessons. He always maintained the spirit of victory without arrogance or discouragement, and finally became a founding lieutenant general.
However, it didn't end there. In 1950, Wu Lantian, who was alias Wu Jinshan, was escorted back to Huaxian County for execution.