On the night of April 16, 1943, the gunfire and firelight at the junction of Taoyuan and Zhenmeng were frightening. A battalion of the New Fourth Army found that the Tang Jingyan regimental headquarters within them was frantically fleeing to the puppet army on the outskirts, which made them suspect that the Tang regiment had defected to the enemy en masse, so they immediately stopped it.
At the same time, Zhang Beisheng and Jiang Songping arranged for two regiments of the puppet army to pick up the soup group and entered Nantong City, where the puppet army was located.
The Soviet-Chinese Military Region of the New Fourth Army was shocked to learn early the next morning that Tang Jingyan led the entire army to defect, which was an unprecedented incident since the formation of the New Fourth Army. At the headquarters of the 1st Division of the New Fourth Army, the generals were indignant: "More than 600 people in this regiment have defected, it's too shameful!" ”
This group of traitors must be defeated immediately! However, the commander Su Yu said: "This is my order, I asked them to do this, you go back." The generals looked at each other, guessing that there must be a reason, but they couldn't ask more, so they could only leave the division headquarters.
So, why did Su Yu plan this seemingly rebellious action?
In 1943, the harsh and cruel year of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Nobuo Kobayashi, commander of the 60th Division of the Japanese Army, shifted the focus of Qingxiang to the Soviet-Central region in an attempt to eliminate the Soviet-Central Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army.
Upon learning of this information, General Su Yu decided to plan an adventurous operation to stop the Japanese conspiracy.
The content of the original text: He proposed to let a regiment penetrate into the Japanese puppet army, and then return to the unit after completing the task of destroying the enemy army. After this plan was proposed, it was only discussed on a small scale, and some people opposed it and some people agreed with it.
Opponents believe that when a regiment enters the enemy camp, it is difficult to keep it secret. Those who agreed said: "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger." Subsequently, Su Yu reported the action plan to the Central China Bureau and the Military Department, and called back: agree to the plan, and must do a good job of confidentiality.
The group selected by Su Yu is Tang Jingyan's group. Tang Jingyan served in Chiang's army and served as a lieutenant colonel artillery battalion commander. During the Anti-Japanese War, he formed an anti-Japanese guerrilla armed Tonghai Self-Defense Force in Nantong, Jiangsu, and actively resisted Japan.
In 1942, he led an uprising to join the New Fourth Army and joined the organization. Considering that Tang Jingyan had dealt with some divisional and regimental-level officers of the enemy and had convenient conditions, Su Yu considered handing over this task to him.
Tang Jingyan began to have concerns, thinking that joining the puppet army would be misunderstood and scolded by everyone. Tao Yong, commander of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army, persuaded him that he could shoulder this heavy burden for the sake of the many soldiers who shed less blood and sacrificed.
Tang Jingyan proceeded from the overall situation and accepted this arduous and special task. Tang Jingyan was introduced by Jiang Jun's acquaintances and got in touch with Jiang Songping, the head of Wang's puppet Nantong ** terminus.
One day, he disguised himself as a businessman and had a secret meeting with Jiang Songping. Jiang Songping asked: "Brother Tang Xian, I heard that the New Fourth Army is okay with your troops, why don't you want to follow them?" ”
Tang Jingyan's expression was solemn: "Stationmaster Jiang, today is not as good as the past!" Our Tonghai Self-Defense Regiment is a local armed force with limited strength. At present, the Japanese army is cleared, and the life of the New Fourth Army is very difficult, can you take care of troops like us?
I can't keep up with the food** and equipment, and I have to fend for myself for the sake of more than 600 brothers. Jiang Songping listened to it, felt that it was reasonable, and said: "I can report your situation to my superiors, as long as you bring troops here, you can guarantee it." ”
Tang Jingyan said: "Thank you, I have two requests I don't know if I can agree?" ”
Jiang Songping made it clear: "There is something to say. When Tang Jingyan proposed to maintain the original structure of the Tonghai Self-Defense Force and the request that the Tonghai Self-Defense Force be stationed in the original location, Jiang Songping agreed.
Subsequently, Jiang Songping reported Tang Jingyan's situation to Zhang Beisheng, the director of the Qingxiang of the Nantong puppet army, and Zhang Beisheng also reported this to the Japanese army and got his consent. After everything was ready, Su Yu said to Tang Jingyan: "At present, our situation is very serious, and we have to take this step, Comrade Tang Jingyan, you will have to take a huge responsibility." ”
Tang Jingyan said: "Commander, I will do my best to complete the task. Finally, Tang Jingyan led the whole team into Nantong City on April 16. As soon as Jiang Songping saw him, he said, "Brother Tang Xian, welcome!"
Did all of you on the team bring it? Tang Jingyan replied: "There are more than 600 people in our team, except for three people who disobeyed the order and were shot, the rest of them came. ”
The leaders of the Japanese army, Nobuo Kobayashi, Zhang Beisheng, and Jiang Songping, held a banquet for the dumplings. Regarding Tang Jingyan's statement that he shot three people, Jiang Songping did not believe it easily, and he sent ** to investigate.
* Quickly rushed to the original station of Tangtuan and found three corpses wearing the uniforms of the New Fourth Army. **After coming back to report, Jiang Songping put his mind at ease. In fact, the three bodies were imprisoned traitors.
Before the Tang Tuan operation, Tang Jingyan ordered them to be executed and dressed in the uniforms of the New Fourth Army in order to create evidence of defection and defection. Nobuo Kobayashi reorganized the soup group into the field guard regiment of the Qingxiang Office in northern Jiangsu, with Tang Jingyan as the colonel and stationed in the area of Tonghai Town, Haimen.
Tang Jingyan knew that it was not easy to survive in the enemy's demon cave, so he began to mingle with the Japanese puppet traitors, and even began to play mahjong and spend all day drinking. He personally went to Suzhou and gave some precious gifts to Li Shiqun, the puppet governor of Jiangsu Province.
Soon after, he was promoted to brigade commander of major generals. Tang Jingyan seized the opportunity to establish contact with the Japanese puppet personnel, obtained a large amount of information on military plans and troop deployments, and sent this information to the Soviet-Chinese Military Region of the New Fourth Army through a secret radio station.
At the same time, he founded the "Cooperative Planning Company" as a cover to secretly transport all kinds of military supplies to the four divisions of the New Fourth Army. Every time the enemy moved, the New Fourth Army was able to obtain information, and the enemy's operation to clear the countryside failed repeatedly.
At the end of 1943, under the leadership of Tao Yong, the New Fourth Army launched a large-scale battle with the Japanese army in Qidong.
However, due to the false information provided by a comrade named Tang Jingyan, the operation of the New Fourth Army failed, and the Japanese puppet army began to suspect Tang Jingyan. One night, Tang Jingyan was captured by Nobuo Kobayashi's Japanese troops, who suspected him of faking surrender and planned to shoot him.
In the face of the intimidation and temptation of the Japanese army, Tang Jingyan always remained calm and insisted that he did not provide false information. Eventually, Nobuo Kobayashi gave the order to shoot, but the bullets flew past Tang Kyung-yeon, proving his character and loyalty.
Despite the unfair treatment he suffered, Tang Jingyan still maintained a firm belief and showed his loyalty and love for the New Fourth Army.