The puppet army demandedMrs. Tianfang, why did the New Fourth Army comply?
In early December 1941, Wang Haishan, commander of the 15th Brigade of the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army, received an ultimatum from Wang Buqing, the commander of the puppet army. "This Wang Buqing is really vicious! ”
Wang Haishan looked at the letter in his hand angrily and handed it to Zhang Zhiyi, director of the Political Department. Zhang Zhiyi took it and looked at it, only to see that the letter read: "I have arrested 50 people, if you don't release my wife Zhou Guixiang within three days, I will let the jade of Daru Mountain burn and the blood will flow like a river." ”
This month, Japan intends to open up a battlefield in the Pacific Ocean, so it has massively increased its forces to the Great Plains Theater. As a result, the strength of the Japanese army in the suburbs of Wuhan, Hubei Province was sharply reduced, and the puppet soldiers in the Wuhan area were panicked and their morale fluctuated.
** It was decided to take advantage of the opportunity of Wang Buqing's puppet 1st Division in the suburbs of Wuhan to concentrate its forces to attack in order to expand the anti-Japanese base in the Hubei-Henan border area and respond to the defense of Changsha.
Wang Buqing, a native of Hubei, is a leader in the fifth phase of Huangpu, who participated in the Northern Expedition and made many achievements. In 1927, he was already the battalion commander, and at that time Mr. Lin was only a company commander, which is enough to see his strength.
However, Wang Buqing has a characteristic, that is, he is trapped by love. Soon, because the regimental commander snatched his first love, he pulled out a gun in a fit of rage and wounded his boss and was expelled from the army.
He chose to leave, returned to his hometown, recruited soldiers in the Hubei area, and became a mountain king. In 1938, after the fall of Wuhan, Wang Buqing, a hot-blooded young man, began to form a team, proclaimed himself a guerrilla commander, and led thousands of members to resist the Japanese invaders.
Zhang Zhiyi, director of the Political Department, used the surface of the water as a battlefield and frequently defeated Japanese patrol boats, making the enemy dizzy. During this period, he met a woman named Zhou Guixiang, known as "Sai Diao Chan".
This woman not only has an outstanding figure and appearance, but also has a sweet voice like a pearl falling on a jade plate, which can be called a godsend. Wang Buqing has always loved beauties, and was obsessed with Zhou Guixiang, spending 10,000 oceans to redeem her, loving her so much that he was often fascinated.
The Japanese discovered this weakness of his, dispatched elite forces, launched a special military operation, captured Zhou Guixiang, and treated her with courtesy. Zhou Guixiang was originally a dusty woman, and she had no bottom line, she wrote to Wang Buqing and said: "The imperial army is too good to me, you come to work for them." ”
Wang Buqing went to investigate alone, and when he saw that his wife was treated favorably by the Japanese army, he agreed to become a traitor without hesitation.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the unit led by Wang Buqing was organized into the "82nd Division of the Self-Defense Army", and he himself served as the division commander and was willing to serve the Japanese invaders. Due to his deep connections and appeal in the Hanyang area, Wang Buqing successfully attracted a number of local armed forces after serving as a puppet army, so that his troops quickly expanded to more than 10,000 people, becoming the most powerful armed force in Hanyang County.
However, although the New Fourth Army was inferior to the puppet army in terms of strength and equipment, it still formulated a strategy of concentrating superior forces and fighting a small-scale war of annihilation, in order to eliminate Wang Buqing's troops, which were several times more numerous than themselves, through piecemeal methods.
On the evening of December 7, 1941, ** learned that Wang Buqing went to the Japanese army for a meeting, and thought that this was a rare opportunity, so he ordered the 15th Brigade of the 5th Division to attack Dwarf Mountain in two ways and directly take the headquarters of the puppet 3rd Regiment.
The battle was swift and took only two hours to end the battle, and by the time the Japanese came to reinforce them, our troops had successfully withdrawn from the battlefield.
The battle was a major victory, we managed to eliminate more than 100 puppet troops, and captured 2 mortars and more than 70 long and short guns. In addition, we also caught Wang Buqing's wife.
Furious to learn that his beloved woman had been captured, Wang Buqing ordered his men to arrest 50 civilians and wrote a letter to the brigade commander Wang Haishan, threatening that if Zhou Guixiang could not be released, he would let the dwarf mountain bleed.
Wang Buqing has lost the bottom line and can do everything. Brigade Commander Wang Haishan and Director of the Political Department Zhang Zhiyi decided to release Zhou Guixiang after weighing the pros and cons. But they decided that they couldn't let her go for nothing, so they decided to take advantage of her.
In the morning, our soldiers of the New Fourth Army held a military parade near Zhou Guixiang's residence. The soldiers were neatly arranged, in good spirits and well equipped. After Zhou Guixiang returned to the village, he boasted about the strength of the New Fourth Army when he met people, describing the New Fourth Army's innumerable equipment, with many people and guns, machine guns and artillery everywhere.
Zhou Guixiang's remarks made the puppet army's morale float, and soon after, the soldiers of the third regiment of the puppet army began to desert and defected to the New Fourth Army one after another. However, Wang Buqing did not care about this, he thought that he had a large number of soldiers.
The New Fourth Army released his wife, but he was even more proud, feeling that he was very strong, and even the New Fourth Army was afraid of him.
The arrogant army will be defeated. Wang Buqing knew that he was deeply guilty, so he planned to change his past mistakes and join the New Fourth Army. However, he did not directly surrender to the New Fourth Army, but planned to use the means of fraudulent surrender to paralyze the New Fourth Army and buy time for himself to ask for help from the Japanese.
One day, he sent a representative to the 15th Brigade of the New Fourth Army and handed over a letter, saying that he had gone to the Japanese army in a delusion, and that he had now repented and hoped that the New Fourth Army would give him a chance to mend his ways.
However, the commander of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army and others had already seen through his disguise and decided to use a discordant strategy to contradict him with the Japanese master, thus disintegrating his plan.
** Skillfully used the enemy's undercover agent, a man who was planted by the Japanese in the intelligence department of the New Fourth Army. We have long recognized his identity, but deliberately did not expose it, but controlled and observed his actions.
One day, this undercover agent stole Wang Buqing's "anti-water letter" that was accidentally lost by our personnel, and he regarded it as a treasure and handed it over to the Japanese army headquarters in Wuhan. The commander was already suspicious of the loyalty of the Chinese, because Wang's subordinates Huang Renjie and Yuan Si defected to the New Fourth Army in 1940.
After seeing Wang Buqing's "anti-water letter", the Japanese army believed it and was very angry. So, they began to secretly investigate Wang Buqing. However, at this time, Wang Buqing was worried that the New Fourth Army would attack again, so he begged the Japanese army for reinforcements.
After seeing Wang Buqing's distress letter, General Toshiroku Hata was furious and tore the letter to shreds. At this time, the Japanese army in Wuhan was conducting a private review of Wang Buqing.
However, the military operation of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army has quietly begun. On January 7, 1942, the regiments of the 5th Division launched fierce attacks on the puppet troops in the Zhoujiabang and Hejiabang areas, destroying more than 300 enemies in a single battle, forcing them to flee to the east of the city of Chuyang, Hubei.
At this time, the Japanese army woke up from a dream and realized that the New Fourth Army had used a counter-strategy. On January 10, the Japanese army sent more than 1,000 troops led by Liu Guojun, the commander of Wang's puppet army, to launch a fierce attack on the 43rd Regiment.
However, the 43rd Regiment was well prepared, they killed dozens of Japanese soldiers and captured more than 400 puppet soldiers.
Wang Buqing learned that his master had fallen into the "divisive plan" of the New Fourth Army, and in order to show his loyalty to his master, he led the army to attack the New Fourth Army in Dwarf Mountain, but was attacked head-on by the 15th Brigade of the New Fourth Army, and had to swallow the bitter fruit of defeat and retreat to the Weiyang area of Hubei.
At the same time, the New Fourth Army also came to a siege point to send reinforcements, and successively routed Japanese reinforcements from three directions. After several fiascos, Wang Buqing turned into a mad dog, and he began to fight hard, intending to take crazy revenge on the New Fourth Army.
When the New Fourth Army heard the news, it immediately decided to take measures. After studying the matter, the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army decided to carry out another "discordant plan" to completely eliminate this hidden danger. Our army deliberately let the undercover agents lurking in Wang Buqing's puppet army defect to Liu Guojun.
The undercover agent told Liu Guojun: "Wang Buqing is very dissatisfied with you, and he is giving gifts to the top management in Nanjing, intending to replace your position." Liu Guojun is a close confidant of Wang Jingwei, serving as a member of the puppet ** Military Committee, chief of staff of the puppet army's Central China Bandit Suppression Army, and commander of the Ding** army, and Wang Buqing is a division commander under him.
Liu Guojun was furious when he heard this: "You leper ** wants to turn the sky upside down, Lao Tzu can clean you up without using knives and guns." Liu Guojun's countermeasure was to "kill people with a knife" and weaken Wang Buqing by borrowing the hand of the New Fourth Army.
He issued an order for Wang Buqing to quickly leave the Chuyang area and "encircle and suppress" the New Fourth Army. This reason is high-sounding, Wang Buqing couldn't disobey the order, so he only left Chuyang with his head and attacked the New Fourth Army.
Wang Buqing originally planned to attack the New Fourth Army after resting his ranks, but Shangfeng's orders forced him to rush into battle. As expected, the 13th and 15th Brigades of the New Fourth Army immediately mobilized and attacked Wang Buqing's remnants left and right, beating the water dogs.
The puppet 1st Division was demoralized and lacked combat effectiveness, and was defeated as soon as it fought with the New Fourth Army. In the end, the puppet 1st Division was almost wiped out, and only more than 10 people including Wang Buqing escaped.
On February 4, the Battle of Dwarf Hill ended successfully. The battle lasted two months, during which there were as many as 14 large and small battles, and the results were brilliant, a division of the puppet army was annihilated, more than 950 puppet soldiers were captured, and more than 180 Japanese soldiers were eliminated.
In this campaign, the commander of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army skillfully used the "empty city strategy," the "divisive strategy," and the "plan to plan the general," and coordinated it with the battle of attacking the heart and the battle of surprise attack, which was amazing.
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