In May 1938, Li Ming served as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Revolutionary Army and the commander-in-chief of the front, Zhou Baozhong was the commander of the First Revolutionary Army of the Northeast Army, Zhao Sanduo was the chief of staff of the Northeast Revolutionary Army, Yao Luoqi was the director of the Political Department of the Northeast Revolutionary Army, and the Northeast Revolutionary Army gathered more than 90,000 troops to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese defenders of Rehe with the cooperation of tanks, 500 field guns and bazooka companies. Forced reinforcements, the words were not finished and a cannon went down, the command was gone, the Jixi Devil Command spoke, spoke, the devil became very weak in front of the tank, the devil's second position resisted for a while and soon did not move, the defeated and desperate devil threw away the steel helmet to the turret gun, the devil called the city headquarters, the devil machine gun Tata Tower, the sound kept stopping, more than a dozen tanks appeared around, the Northeast Revolutionary Army fell more than a dozen soldiers, the revolutionary army's bazooka fired, and more than a dozen Japanese tanks then became a sea of fire, The devil ran out of the tank and was on fire, the ghost cried wolf, the six turrets resisted in less than ten minutes and the tank collapsed, a large number of devils and puppet troops surrendered, the soldiers of the Northeast Revolutionary Army continued to pursue the devils, the troops behind cleaned up the battlefield, accepted the devil's supplies, captured the devil's light and heavy machine guns, more than 50 listens, more than 100 grenadiers, 30,000 bullets, the three regiments in front of the Northeast Revolutionary Army fought fiercely with the Japanese Kwantung Army railway soldiers who came to reinforce the Japanese Kwantung Army, the Japanese Kwantung Army was still the same old routine, a 92 heavy machine gun, strafing the grenadiers behind the grenadier preparation, Zhou Baozhong received an order to attack with a bazooka and a mortar bomb, not to mention that this thing is powerful, several waves shot over, and the devil fell a large piece.

The Northeast Revolutionary Army tank troops arrived one after another, the infantry followed, the railway soldiers of the Devil Kwantung Army were quickly defeated and began to retreat, on October 15, the Northeast Revolutionary Army took Mukden and stationed in Huanggutun to control the station, Li Ming's headquarters also moved to the Japanese headquarters in Mukden, the former Zhang Zuolin's marshal's mansion, the telegram was ticking and thinking, the commander good news, Tianjin gave us the defenders in the city to accept the peaceful reorganization, okay, good, the Nanjing troops, the Shanghai troops are small-scale exchanges with the devils, there is no major war, Li Ming recruited a large number of troops in Mukden, preparing to expand 50 national defense divisions, lost the imperial aunt, Fengtian, and the headquarters of the Kwantung Army of the devils were very angry, and soon mobilized a large number of devils, marines, railway soldiers, more than 10 infantry divisions, 10 imperial cooperation army brigades, 1 death squad brigade, the rebel Zhang Haipeng department, the Manchurian puppet army, and the total strength of the Mongolian cavalry began to gather troops to more than 300,000.

The Japanese invading army wanted to occupy Liao

Ning, Jilin, continue to attack Heilongjiang Province. At that time, the capital of Heilongjiang Province was Qiqihar, and the Japanese army wanted to occupy Qi City, and they had to pass through the Nenjiang Bridge on the Tao (Taonan) Ang (Ang Angxi) Railway.

Qiqihar is located at the southern foot of the Great and Small Xing'an Mountains in Northeast China, the northern end of the Songnen Plain, and the east bank of the Nenjiang River, and is one of the strategic towns in Northeast China and Heilongjiang Province. Nenjiang is a natural barrier for the Japanese army to attack Qiqihar, the railway bridge located in the Tailai section of Nenjiang is 853.2 meters long, 30.6 meters high, 80 kilometers away from Qiqihar City, it is not only the south gate of Qiqihar, but also the only passage to overcome the water barrier from Taobei to the north.

Ma Zhanshan, who had just been appointed acting provincial chairman and military commander of Heilongjiang Province, deployed about three brigades on the north bank of the Nenjiang River to hold the Nenjiang Bridge.

General Xie Ke, deputy commander of Qiqihar and chief of staff of the Office, after receiving information that the Japanese Kwantung Army was going to attack the provincial capital, resolutely adopted a series of strategic measures to block the Japanese puppet army from late September: two battalions of the Pu Bingshan Artillery Regiment were transferred to defend Qiqihar and appointed him as the commander of the Qiqihar garrison; Zhu Fengyang's regiment, which was transferred to the Second Cavalry Brigade of Zhiyuan, entered the vicinity of Tailai from Xiaohaozi Station (now Taikang) and assumed the vigilance in the direction of Taonan; The first cavalry brigade of Wu Songlin stationed in Baiquan was transferred to the south of Qiqihar City for defense; Xu Baozhen led the guard regiment and a battalion of artillery attached to it, and more than 2,000 people from one company of engineers and one company of baggage were stationed at the north end of the river bridge, built combat fortifications, set up a first-class field at the south end of the bridge, and rushed nearly 100 Czech light aircraft from the inventory to the front-line garrison troops. At the same time, a telegram was sent to Zhanshan of Heihippo, Zhang Dianjiu, commander of the First Brigade of the Provincial Defense Army, and Su Bingwen, commander of the Second Brigade of the Provincial Defense Army, to send an infantry regiment to Angangxi, and the Cheng Zhiyuan Brigade stationed in Manchuria was ordered to prepare for the move.

In October 1938, the rebel Zhang Haipeng sent Xu Jinglong to lead three regiments from Baichengzi to attack Jiangqiao, and arrived in Tailai on the 15th, and Japanese planes flew over Longjiang to cheer. At dawn on the 16th, the rebels entered the southern end of Jiangqiao, and with the support of fighter-bombers, there was a fierce battle with the defenders Xu Baozhen's troops. The defenders then destroyed the river bridge by 3 holes to prevent the Japanese from committing another attack.

On October 16, 1938, after Ma Zhanshan received a telegram from Zhang Xueliang appointing him as acting chairman of Heilongjiang Province and military commander-in-chief, he immediately traveled from Heihe to the provincial capital day and night, and arrived at Songpu at 15 o'clock on the 19th, and arrived at Qiqihar City, the provincial capital, by train that night. On the morning of the 20th, he took office as the acting chairman of Heilongjiang Province, personally went to the front line to encourage the anti-Japanese soldiers, and at the same time issued a reward for Zhang Haipeng's head, and announced the establishment of a temporary general headquarters of the Heilongjiang Army in order to unify command. Ma Zhanshan served as the commander-in-chief, and Xie Ke, chief of staff of the Deputy Commander's Office, served as the deputy commander.

On October 22, 1938, Ma Zhanshan issued a declaration in response to the Japanese army's build-up of heavy troops in a vain attempt to occupy Heilongjiang Province...... After that, anyone who invades our province will swear to fight to the death." After listening to the reports of Xie Ke and other generals on the Jiangqiao operation, Ma Zhanshan immediately adjusted his arrangements: appointed Park Bingshan as the commander of the provincial garrison to strengthen the defense of the provincial capital; appointed Wang Nanping as the commander of the Heihe garrison, replacing Ma Zhanshan's absence; Three infantry regiments, one cavalry regiment, and one artillery battalion of the Northeast Reclamation Army were organized into the 1st Infantry Brigade and stationed south of Daxing. Among them, the cavalry went to the west of Fularji to guard the direction of Jingxing. By October 29, 1938, the arrangement of three defensive and blocking positions with the railway as the axis, about 40 kilometers deep and 10 kilometers wide, from Jiangqiao to Yushutun and Angangxi was basically completed.

Liu Wankui, the former head of the Ning'an Public Security Corps, led more than 1,000 people to the west of Ning'an on the 15th to undergo reorganization and reorganized into the Fifth Independent Regiment of the Self-Defense Army. The Kwantung Army was ready to send troops directly after the defeat of Zhang Haipeng's rebels, believing that the Chinese army's destruction of the Nenjiang Bridge was the best excuse, so it decided to form the Nenjiang Detachment with one infantry and one artillery brigade and one engineer squadron of the 16th Wing of the 2nd Division, and with the assistance of the 8th Independent Flying Squadron, to cover the repair of the bridge by force to provoke an incident and launch an attack. However, at that time, the Japanese War Ministry and General Staff Headquarters still had some scruples about the Soviet Union, so they did not agree to the Kwantung Army's attack. Kanaya Fansan once sent a telegram to the Kwantung Army: "In order to repair the river bridge, you can dispatch." However, if troops are sent to North Manchuria, which is far away from Nenjiang, no matter what the reason, they will not be allowed to send troops without my approval. However, when it was learned from Japanese Ambassador to the Soviet Union Hirota Hiroki that Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Ka Ka Ka Khan had stated to Japan on 29 October that the Soviet Union would not provide any support to both warring parties and that it would adopt a "strict policy of non-intervention," the attitude of the Japanese Ministry of War and others changed to support the Kwantung Army.

On November 2, 1938, Honjo ordered Hayashi Yoshihide, the head of the Japanese secret service in Qiqihar, to issue an ultimatum to Ma Zhanshan: Ma Zhanshan's army must withdraw from the Nenjiang Iron Bridge to an area 10 kilometers away before noon on November 3, 1938, and must not enter the area until the Japanese army completed the construction of the bridge; If the above demands are not accepted, the Japanese army will use force. Ma Zhanshan decided not to interfere with the Japanese army's bridge construction, but to take self-defense measures if the Chinese army was attacked.

On the morning of November 4, 1938, the advance squadron of the Nenjiang detachment marched north from Jiangqiao Station under the cover of aircraft, and after passing through Nenjiang Bridge, it attacked the position of the Chinese army south of Daxing Station. At that time, a total of 2,700 people from the Xu Baozhen and Zhang Jingdu divisions of the Ma Zhanshan Guard Regiment rose up to meet the attack and repelled the enemy. In the afternoon, the Japanese concentrated about 4,000 troops, commanded by Hamamoto Daisa, and launched an attack on the river bridge under the cover of aircraft, tanks and heavy artillery. The Japanese army first broke into the left flank position of the Jiangqiao, and then attacked the main position of the Daxing line in front of the Jiangqiao. The Chinese defenders fought back. The Japanese army once broke into our position, and the two sides engaged in a white-knuckle battle, and the Japanese army retreated to the river bank without support, and was intercepted by the Chinese army in the reeds. At this time, the Japanese reinforcements arrived, but when the foothold was not stable, they were flanked by the defenders' cavalry and forced to retreat. At 20 o'clock, the Japanese army was defeated and retreated more than 400 corpses. It was day and night, after continuous shelling, the Japanese army attacked by 100 boats, and when the ships approached the north shore, the Chinese troops lurking in the reeds suddenly opened fire, and the Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded and fell into the water, and the rest retreated. On this day, the Chinese army suffered more than 300 casualties, and the Japanese puppet army suffered more than 1,000 casualties. The Japanese concentrated their forces and attacked continuously with the support of aircraft and artillery, all of which were repulsed by the defenders. Lieutenant Shinichiro Oji, a low-flying pilot of the Japanese army, was also wounded.

On the morning of November 5, 1938, the Japanese army concentrated all its efforts on launching another attack. The battle was extremely fierce. At 6 a.m., the Japanese shelled the defenders' positions with dozens of cannons. At 7 o'clock, more than 8,000 Japanese puppet troops crossed the river from the left and right roads under the cover of artillery and aircraft. When the boat reached the center of the river, the Chinese army fiercely returned fire, and the Japanese puppet army struggled to force the crossing despite heavy casualties. At 10 o'clock, the Japanese army occupied the first line of positions on the riverbank, and the defenders withdrew to the left and right flank positions. At noon, Ma Zhanshan rushed to the front line to command Wu Delin's regiment and Xu Baozhen's regiment to counterattack from the front, and urgently transferred the 1st Cavalry Brigade Sabuli Regiment to outflank the Japanese army from both flanks. From 15 o'clock to dusk. The Japanese admitted: "The Chinese army carried out an encirclement counteroffensive with infantry and cavalry, and the Japanese suffered great losses and had to retreat back (see the report of the League of Nations Investigation Mission, the Battle of Nenjiang Bridge). "The Japanese were forced to retreat backwards, switching from offensive to defensive positions, and most of their rear service detachments were annihilated by our circuitous cavalry. In this battle, the Chinese army suffered more than 200 casualties, and the Japanese army lost 167 dead and more than 600 wounded. On the same day, a brigade of the 29th Wing of the Japanese Army came to reinforce it, and immediately launched an attack upon arrival, but it was soon surrounded by Ma Zhanshan's army. Shigeru Honjo quickly transferred 1 infantry battalion and 3 artillery squadrons of the 16th Wing to reinforcements.

On the morning of November 6, 1938, Japanese reinforcements arrived, and with the support of aircraft strafing and bombing, they launched a fierce attack in an attempt to relieve the besieged Japanese army. On the same day, Ma Zhanshan personally went to the position to supervise the battle. Both sides suffered equal casualties. Under the stubborn resistance of Ma Zhanshan's army, the Japanese attack was frustrated and progress was difficult. Honjo immediately ordered the 2nd Division Duomen Jiro to lead the 29th Wing, the 2nd Cavalry Wing, the 2nd Field Artillery Wing, the Temporary Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, the Engineer Squadron, and the 1st Brigade of the 39th Brigade in the Shenyang area to rush to reinforce near the river bridge, attack the defenders and occupy the main position of Daxing. The Chinese army desperately rushed to kill, and the sound of white-knuckle fighting shook the sky, and several times recaptured the lost positions. On this day, the Chinese army suffered more than 1,850 casualties, killed more than 2,000 Japanese puppet soldiers, and shot down 1 plane. The Japanese Hamamoto detachment was almost completely annihilated, and the Takanami cavalry suffered all casualties. Because the soldiers fought for three days and two nights, there were no reinforcements to replace, and they were extremely tired; In addition, the Daxing position had been destroyed, and General Ma Zhanshan ordered the main force to withdraw to the second line of positions in Sanjianfang, which was 18 kilometers away from Daxing Station, and reorganized the defense with the 1st Cavalry Brigade and the 1st Infantry Brigade.

On the morning of the 7th, a large number of Japanese puppet troops, under the cover of 10 aircraft, stormed the three rooms in the south of the soup pool. Ma Bu Zhang Dian's 9th Brigade and Su Bingwen 1 mixed regiment rushed to the counterattack and fought until the afternoon to repel the Japanese puppet army. In this battle, the Chinese army wounded more than 300 people, killed and wounded more than 600 Japanese soldiers, and more than 1,000 puppet soldiers. What is particularly commendable is that when the enemy planes continuously dived and strafed and bombed indiscriminately, and our side was completely denied antiaircraft artillery fire to intercept them, the officers and men who were both wise and brave actually displayed amazing ingenuity and ingenuity, "in groups of 20 people, lying on their backs on the ground and firing upwards with rifles," and creatively shot down one enemy plane. The wreckage, which was later examined with "26 bullet holes in both wings," was the first enemy plane shot down in the history of China's war against Japan. For this reason, in the later battles, the Japanese planes no longer "dared not fly low." Seeing the heavy losses of the Japanese army, Honjo Shigeru ordered Jiro Tamen to stop advancing and return to his original station.

In order to cover up the truth of their defeat, the Japanese army spread rumors that the Soviet Union had provided ammunition to the defenders of Heilongjiang, and also used various lies to cover up the number of Japanese casualties, lest the anti-war forces in Japan gain the upper hand. Ma Zhanshan once telegraphed to refute the rumors of the Japanese army.

Li Ming's First Army of the Northeast Revolutionary Army dared to run around like a duck during this time, and on the 12th, the leader of the revolutionary army met Chairman Ma Zhanshan, Chairman Ma wore white gloves, a big-brimmed hat, and a pistol pinned to his waist with an armed belt. I see that you are a Japanese spy, I am not a spy, I have something urgent to find Chairman Ma, get down and the traitors look like their traitors in a suit, you fart, you are a traitor in a suit, who is arguing outside? Chairman There is a spy here, we suspect that it is a traitor who has detained it, and brought it in for Lao Tzu, two guards escorted Li Ming in, and quickly loosened the tie, and Li Ming, who was tied up with all kinds of flowers, untied the guards, and said Who are you? What are you doing here? Li Ming looked at the guards, and Chairman Ma said you should go down.