In the 1946 Battle of Siping, the Third Division of the New Fourth Army led by Huang Kecheng faced the enemy's 300,000 troops and fought against the enemy's American-style equipment with a tired division.
Despite the disparity in strength between the enemy and us, our troops held their ground and did not retreat until they could no longer resist. After the war, the Third Division of the New Fourth Army was transferred to the Sanzhao area northwest of Harbin to carry out the strategic tasks of suppressing bandits and opposing hegemony, reducing rents and interest rates, mobilizing the masses, and creating base areas.
Suppressing bandits and opposing hegemony, mobilizing the masses, and creating base areas are the three pillars for accomplishing the task. Without eliminating the bandits, it will be impossible to fight against the local tyrants and gentry, and it will be impossible to make the masses come forward.
If the masses do not rise up to resist, it will be difficult for the bandits to **, and the local tyrants and inferior gentry will be able to manipulate the masses in secret. All in all, exterminating bandits is the foundation, cracking down on local tyrants and shoddy gentry is the condition, and mobilizing the masses and creating base areas are the goals.
In the Northeast, bandits are called "beards", and they have two distinctive characteristics: one is excellent riding skills, and the other is accurate shooting. The Third Division was the main force of the New Fourth Army, and had many battles with the Japanese puppet army and the Kuomintang regular army, and had rich experience.
However, in the face of the Northeast bandits, who were familiar with the geographical environment, agile in action, accurate in shooting, and superb in horsemanship, they did not find effective countermeasures at first. In addition, the composition of these bandits is complex, including many former puppet Manchu officers, puppet policemen, and puppet regime personnel who are extremely angry with the people.
They were enemies of the people, and most of them accepted the assignment of the Kuomintang or the army, and developed into bandits who were entrenched in the mountains and forests, went their own way, and carved a mountain.
In the Sanzhao area, there are three major bandit groups that have attracted much attention, that is, the three major bandit gangs represented by "Flower Butterfly", "Flying on the Grass", and "Dragon in the Forest". The leaders of these three major gangs are all experienced and ruthless old bandits, and there are a number of bandits under them.
Due to the Kuomintang's demonization and propaganda of the New Fourth Army, these bandits did not care about life and death, and would rather die than surrender. Moreover, their ** equipment was mostly supported and supplied by the Kuomintang army, and their firepower was not inferior to that of the New Fourth Army.
What's even more troublesome is that these three bandits echo each other, and if any one is attacked by the New Fourth Army, the other two will quickly support. All these factors made the task of suppressing bandits in the Third Division of the New Fourth Army difficult, and even in several battles in the early stage, regimental-level cadres were sacrificed in the battles.
Huang Kecheng deeply felt that it was necessary to completely eradicate these three bandits, otherwise it would be impossible to talk about creating a base area. After fighting the bandits, Huang Kecheng gradually mastered their internal situation.
According to the characteristics of their distribution, they are distributed in a triangle, and their respective hills are tens of miles apart, and there are knots between them. Huang Kecheng decided to learn from Cao Cao's method of breaking the Hanma Group and implement the divisive plan.
In order to carry out the discord plan, it is necessary to find a brave and careful person who understands the Northeast black dialect to carry out the mission of delivering letters. At this time, Li Xiang, an operational staff officer, took the initiative to ask for help. It turned out that Li Xiang was originally from the Northeast, and when he was a child, he followed his father through the rivers and lakes to perform and knew some rules "on the road".
Later, his father was killed by the Japanese, and Li Xiang participated in the revolution and later became an operational staff officer of the New Fourth Army. There is no doubt that Li Xiang is the best person to carry out the discord plan.
Huang Kecheng was very satisfied with Li Xiang's selection, but he did not take it lightly. He summoned all the cadres and fighters of each company who had participated in the Green Forest Organization to further understand the precautions for dealing with bandits, and then gave Li Xiang detailed instructions.
Li Xiang took the forged letters, pretended to be the subordinates of "Flying on the Grass", and sent a letter to "Flower Butterfly" and "Lin Zhonglong" respectively. In the letter to "Flower Butterfly", in the name of "Flying on the Grass", he reminded "Flower Butterfly": "Lin Zhonglong" has been "** bought, and will soon join forces with "**" to launch an attack on you and me, and we must pay close attention to its movements when we are in the world, and do not fall into tricks, etc.
The same is true of the letter to the "dragon in the forest".
Flower butterflies and grass fly have always been friends, convinced of this letter. However, Lin Zhonglong became suspicious of the letter **, and he sent his subordinates to arrest and torture the messenger Li Xiang, but Li Xiang did not give in and resolutely did not tell the truth.
Despite this, the two letters sent by Li Xiang still succeeded in disturbing the hearts of the bandits. Huang Kecheng anxiously waited for Li Xiang's return, and in desperation, he could only follow the original plan and launch an attack on Caoshangfei.
This time, the bandits, who were geographically horns of each other, no longer rescued each other, and the Third Division of the New Fourth Army successfully eliminated the bandits on the grass. When Flower Butterfly and Lin Zhonglong were eliminated by the New Fourth Army one by one, they realized that they had fallen for the discord plan, but it was too late.
Huang Kecheng skillfully borrowed from Cao Cao's strategy, and finally eliminated the bandits in the Sanzhao area, laying the foundation for the establishment of a base area. Unfortunately, after the New Fourth Army captured the hill of Lin Zhonglong, they found out that Li Xiang had been killed in a dungeon.
This wise and brave staff officer of the New Fourth Army went deep into the tiger's den alone, skillfully used the strange tricks of the Three Kingdoms, and exchanged his precious life for the victory of the troops, which deserves to be remembered forever.