During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the anti-Japanese struggle in eastern Hebei was mainly initiated by the Eastern Hebei Anti-Japanese Allied Army and the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army. In October 1938, after the failure of the uprising in eastern Hebei, the fourth column of the Eighth Route Army withdrew from the area, but some comrades remained and continued to carry out guerrilla warfare, including Shan Degui, whom we will introduce today.
Although the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army had withdrawn from eastern Hebei, Shan Degui remained in the area, assuming the post of commander of the Third Detachment and continuing to conduct guerrilla warfare. However, in actual work, Shan Degui did not pay attention to his working methods, and had contradictions with the cadres of the Eastern Hebei Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and finally chose to defect to the enemy in 1944.
So, what is Shan Degui's experience and ending?
Shan Degui was born in 1911 in a poor farming family in Chaling County, Hunan Province. In 1927, he was unfortunately arrested by the Kuomintang troops. However, in 1930, he was captured in a battle with Mr. Peng's troops and joined the Red Army.
In the Red Army, Shan Degui was quickly incorporated into the Red Eighth Army Corps because of his heroic combat performance, and was quickly promoted to the squad leader of the special service company.
In 1934, Shan Degui was ordered to go to the base area in western Hunan and Hubei to devote himself to the establishment and consolidation of the base area. Subsequently, he followed ** to embark on the road of the Long March, and finally successfully arrived in northern Shaanxi, realizing the victory of the Long March.
With the full-scale outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the main force of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and Shan Degui also became a member of the 685th Regiment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and participated in the Battle of Pingxingguan under the leadership of General Lin.
In 1938, Shan Degui joined the fourth column of the Eighth Route Army and marched forward bravely into eastern Hebei. During this operation, he was promoted to the commander of the second battalion of the 34th Brigade by virtue of his outstanding merits, and became a battalion-level cadre.
However, soon after, the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army suffered a setback in eastern Hebei and was forced to retreat. Under these circumstances, Shan Degui was left in eastern Hebei to persist in guerrilla warfare, and was appointed commander of the third detachment, becoming a regimental cadre.
In 1940, the third detachment was merged into the 13th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army in eastern Hebei, and Shan Degui served as the deputy commander. During that period, Shan Degui did a lot of work in eastern Hebei and led the guerrillas to establish a base area.
Because of his outstanding military achievements, Shan Degui began to be a little arrogant, he neglected the method in his work, thinking that he was a Red Army who had participated in the Long March, and a regular Eighth Route Army, and some looked down on the cadres who originally belonged to the Eastern Hebei Anti-Japanese Allied Army.
He was very disgusted by the criticism of his superiors, and he contradicted his superiors regardless of the occasion, often making his superiors feel embarrassed and embarrassed.
Shan Degui attaches great importance to his work, and in order to win the hearts of the Japanese puppet traitors, he even married a traitor's sister. Although his original intentions were commendable, in the context of that particular era, he was quickly criticized violently because of his inadequate working methods, which made him too many enemies.
In the face of accusations, Shan Degui took a tough attitude, and he also publicly declared that he met the conditions of the "258 regiment" (8 years of party experience over 25 years old, cadres above the regiment level), so he had the right to marry.
Shan Degui's renegade caused the conflict to escalate, and on May 3, 1944, he took his family to take refuge in the Japanese puppets stationed in Sanhe County and officially became a traitor. Although he had repeatedly felt shaken, after all, he was an old Red Army soldier who had participated in the Long March, was educated by the Red Army, and scoffed at betrayal, he was afraid of being liquidated when he returned to his hometown, and could only go further and further down this wrong path.
In 1945, he even became the puppet county magistrate of Pinggu County and continued to collude with the Japanese invaders.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Shan Degui went into exile in Beiping. In 1946, the Kuomintang sentenced him to 12 years in prison. After the peaceful liberation of Beiping, our army searched for Shan Degui and shot him after asking for instructions.
It is really sad that this revolutionary, who had made great achievements in the Long March, ended his life in such a way.