The news of Pingxingguan's victory soon spread throughout the country. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the evening of September 25, Japan's Tokyo Radio was the first to report the news that the Japanese Fifth Division of the Japanese Army was attacked by the Eighth Route Army at Pingxingguan and suffered heavy losses!

This news caused a great shock in Japan's political and military circles.

On 26 July, the Chinese newspaper "National Salvation Times" published in Paris, France, the British "Daily Herald" newspaper, and other foreign newspapers published comments one after another, congratulating the Chinese army on this great victory.

People from all walks of life across the country have made speeches, rallied and marched, or sent representatives to various offices of the Eighth Route Army to express their congratulations.

News agencies, newspapers, and radio stations at home and abroad all vied with each other in the form of front-page extraordinarily big news to report the news of the victory of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

The Central News Agency of the Kuomintang in Nanjing also reported positively for the first time the news of the Eighth Route Army's resistance against Japan.

This battle made the Chinese people breathe a good sigh of long-suppressed sulk in their hearts, and let people see a glimmer of hope for China's War of Resistance.

Lao Jiang also sent a congratulatory telegram to the Eighth Route Army as soon as possible!

On the night of the 25th, Feng Chen already knew the news of Pingxingguan's victory, and he was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night.

Early the next morning, Feng Chen came to the editorial office of "Current Affairs Weekly" early, wanting to tell everyone the good news as soon as possible and let everyone share it.

In the editorial department, everyone had not yet arrived, Feng Chenan couldn't help but be excited, took out the manuscript paper on the table, wrote a manuscript in one go, and he was going to publish a supplement to the "Current Affairs Weekly" that day.

Just finished writing the manuscript, Wang Tiemin arrived.

"Tiemin, let me tell you good news, the Eighth Route Army ambushed at Pingxingguan in Shanxi and annihilated more than 1,000 people of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, and achieved a great victory!" Feng Chen stood up, stretched out his hands and brushed his hair and said.

"Really?!" Wang Tiemin looked at Feng Chen with wide eyes.

"Really, can I still lie to you?" Feng Chen said.

"Great, didn't the little devils blow that they were invincible? This time it was planted in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, the Communist Party is powerful, and with that equipment, it still defeated the Itagaki Division! When Wang Tiemin heard the news, he was also very excited.

"Tiemin, today we are going to issue a supplement, and we want to spread the news of the great victory of Pingxingguan, so as to boost the morale of the soldiers on the Songhu battlefield." Feng Chen said.

"Okay, you hurry up and write the manuscript, and after the writing is done, I will ask the printing house to work overtime to print." Wang Tiemin immediately understood what Feng Chen meant.

The two were chatting, Chen Xiaoyun and Zheng Pingru walked in together, laughing and laughing, this time without Feng Chen to speak, Wang Tiemin told the two of them the news of Pingxingguan's victory as soon as possible.

After hearing this, the two were also very excited and happy, and the editorial office of "Current Affairs Weekly" was full of bursts of laughter, and everyone was in the same mood as the general public, so much they needed a victory!

Lu Mengying was the last to arrive, and she walked into the editorial office and said loudly: "Big news, big news!" Let me tell you the good news, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army won a great victory at Pingxingguan and annihilated more than 1,000 Japanese troops. ”

In the editorial department, everyone looked at Lu Mengying, looking at this lady who usually doesn't smile and speaks softly like water, happy and excited, it's so cute.

Seeing that everyone had happy smiles on their faces, Lu Mengying looked at her in unison, returned to normal embarrassedly, her face was slightly red, and she whispered, "It turns out that all of you already knew." ”

"Okay, everyone is here, let's each write a review article about Pingxingguan Dajie, we will send a special issue today, mine has been written, everyone starts." Feng Chen glanced around at the people standing and ordered.

When everyone heard Feng Chen's instructions, they all sat down on their desks and began to comment on this time from different angles and according to their own ideas.

Although the battle of Pingxingguan only wiped out more than 1,000 Japanese troops, it shook the whole country and had far-reaching significance.

At that time, the Battle of Songhu in Shanghai had been in a state of stalemate, and the Chinese army suffered heavy casualties. Baoding, Shijiazhuang and other large cities and large areas of land in the northern section of Pinghan and Jinpu Road quickly fell, and Yan Xishan's Jin army also lost ground in succession.

The battle of Pingxingguan cleanly wiped out more than 1,000 Japanese troops, and was the first major victory of the Chinese army since the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Therefore, the Kuomintang government declared: "This is an unprecedented victory for our army on the Pingsui Line." ”

It dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army, which had been on a rampage since the invasion of China, especially because it was the Japanese army's ace Itagaki Division, so this blow was particularly heavy and meaningful to the Japanese army.

And its more significant significance is that it has greatly encouraged the anti-Japanese fighting spirit of the people of the whole country!

The Kuomintang Second Theater of Operations, Chairman of the Field Mobilization Committee, Xu Fanting pointed out: "The special significance of the Battle of Pingxingguan is that it has broken the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army and raised our morale. ”

The severe blow to the Japanese army in the battle of Pingxingguan completely broke the strategic attempt of the Japanese army to break through Pingxingguan and strike at the troops of China's Second Theater of Operations, and to cooperate with the main force of the Japanese army in North China from the right flank to fight on the Pinghan Road.

At the same time, the great victory at Pingxingguan also frustrated the momentum of the Japanese army's offensive into the hinterland of Shanxi, dampened the Japanese army's spirit, and made it no longer dare to rush deeper, providing an opportunity for the Chinese side to deploy the Battle of Xinkou, thus effectively supporting the Chinese frontal army's war of resistance.

The Eighth Route Army, with its rudimentary equipment far inferior to that of the Kuomintang army, and with weapons that even the civilian armed forces at that time looked down on, took the initiative to meet the main divisions of the Japanese army, and won a great victory in the first battle, which prominently demonstrated the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, thus greatly enhancing the prestige of the Eighth Route Army and the prestige of the Communist Party of China.

At the same time, the battle of Pingxingguan also enhanced the understanding of the Chinese Communist Party leaders on the laws of the War of Resistance Against Japan.

On the basis of the experience gained in the battle at Pingxingguan, the high-level leaders of the CPC Central Committee further put forward the Eighth Route Army's operational policy against Japan: "The fundamental principle is to win over the masses and organize mass guerrillas. Under this general policy, conditional concentrated operations are practiced. ”

Soon after, it was summed up as "independent guerrilla warfare and movement warfare," thus perfecting our party's operational guiding ideology for leading the War of Resistance Against Japan.

The great victory of Pingxingguan made Ryuichi Hiraoka of the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai pay attention to Feng Chen again, since Feng Chen returned to Shanghai from Tokyo, Japan, Ryuichi Hiraoka almost forgot about Feng Chen.

The arrogance of the Japanese military made Hiraoka Ryuichi retreat from his idea of cultural aggression, but the great victory of Hiraoka Pass was like a wooden stick hitting Hiraoka Ryuichi's head, making him suddenly realize that if he wanted to conquer China, it was not enough to rely on military occupation.

In a small conference room at the Japanese consulate in Shanghai, Ryuichi Hiraoka summoned Takeo Imai, Yoshiaki Kagesa Yoshiaki, Masao Ishikawa and Yoshio Yoshida for a meeting.

"Since the July 7 Incident, our Imperial Japanese Army has been invincible and invincible, but let's not be carried away by such a victory, China, a huge country with 40,000 people, is not so easy to perish."

Hiraoka Ryuichi reminded everyone to face up to reality, and when he said this, he picked up the teacup in front of him, took two sips of tea, put the cup down, and then said, "So, our fishing plan must be carried out." ”

"Chief Hiraoka, but the military's Matsui Ishone, Itagaki Seishiro and others have always scoffed at our fishing plan, believing that only force can bring the Chinese to their knees." Takeo Imai said.

Although Takeo Imai was a soldier, he spent a lot of effort on the development of the fishing plan, so his ideas were very consistent with those of Ryuichi Hiraoka when it came to bribing high-ranking officials of the Nationalist Government and looking for agents for Japanese rule over China.

"I think now is the best time to carry out the fishing plan, but because the war is going so well, our plan has been almost completely shelved."

After Kagesa Zhenzhao took over Minoru Kusumoto's work, he immediately felt that Shanghai was not an ordinary complicated place, so he asked Yoshiko Kawashima to sneak into Shanghai secretly and secretly plot against the generals of the Nationalist Army, but he has been working in vain.

"I have already reported to Prime Minister Konoe's adviser Hidemi Ozaki to give us additional funds for the Sakura Society, increase the implementation of the fishing plan, and strive to defeat the army without a fight." Hiraoka Ryuichi glanced at everyone and said.