Zhu Gang's Diary - A Trivia of the Battle of Suijube

1938.5.20

At the end of the Battle of Suizao, the Japanese troops in the direction of Wuhan initially occupied Suixian and Zaoyang, but under the fierce resistance of all the Chinese troops in the Fifth Theater, in the end they had to vomit out the "meat" they ate in their mouths. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As a participant of the Eighth Route Army, I was fortunate enough to participate in most of the battles of Huo Xiaoshan's battalion in this battle.

In this battle, I once again realized the indescribable spiritual outlook of the Chinese nation, and I will not mention the battalion directly under Huo Xiaoshan, that is, the Central Army and the miscellaneous army in the Nationalist Government Army all embody the anti-Japanese spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and going forward to succeed each other.

Again, resisting Japan is a matter for the whole nation, and it has nothing to do with doctrine or faith, and the homeland is the homeland of all Chinese, and the history of the same clan and the common bloodline formed by the Chinese over the past 5,000 years has been vividly reflected in this war.

When I was in the Eighth Route Army, I heard the chief say that since the start of a civil war such as the Great War in the Central Plains, we Chinese are almost Chinese in name, and it is the War of Resistance that makes us realize that all people in the north and the south, young and old, are all Chinese.

Huo Xiaoshan gave me two big gifts, of course, it is not accurate to say "I", to be precise, it was two big gifts to the Eighth Route Army.

He gave us four wagons of weapons captured in the battle, including 100 38 large covers, 8 crooked machine guns, 2 Japanese heavy machine guns, 15 grenadiers, and various bullets to fill a cart drawn by four horses.

He was so generous, I was even worried that he wouldn't be able to deal with the national army, Huo Xiaoshan signaled that it was okay, but said with a smile: "You Eighth Route Army is cheap, don't be good."

I naturally understood what he meant, that is, to make a lot of money in a muffled voice and not to show it off, just like a person's pocket is full of the ocean, but he must not take it out and show it to anyone, nor can he bang the ocean in his pocket with a clanging sound, as for the weight of the ocean is so heavy that it is inevitable that the pocket will fall down.

So, I naturally gave him a solemn promise, and then jokingly said, then I will laugh and accept, you are not a rich man now, you are now a rich man!

In the final battle, because Huo Xiaoshan took the method of flanking and chasing and not carrying hard, the Japanese army threw the ordnance and materials they carried all the way, which naturally became Huo Xiaoshan's trophies.

Sadly, the Japanese army did not escape the bad luck of annihilation, and after getting rid of the pursuit of Huo Xiaoshan's battalion, they were finally surrounded by the troops of the Fifth Theater because we were slow down in their marching.

It's just that the troops of the Fifth Theater of Operations killed a lot of Japanese soldiers, but they didn't get much loot, why, because those trophies had been "left" to us by the Japanese army in advance.

Huo Xiaoshan was very prescient, he directly loaded the trophies given to us into the car after the battle we pursued the Japanese army, and then asked Xiaoshi to bring a detachment of forty people with us to send us back to our Eighth Route Army's own defense area.

At that time, he also said with a grateful face, I can only give you so much this time, if I have the opportunity in the future, I will give it again, I can't give you that infantry gun, that is too eye-catching, I have to give it to General Tiger Boy.

At the moment when Huo Xiaoshan said this, maybe it was my delusion, I really felt that the distinction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had disappeared, and Huo Xiaoshan was like helping his relatives treat us as his own.

Cheng Haoyong of the Central Army said that the Eighth Route Army "swims but does not attack" undoubtedly represents the views of the top level of the Central Army, and the reasons for this are too complicated to be written.

But there is one thing I must write down in my diary today, and that is that the Eighth Route Army is indeed overstretched in weapons.

We don't have the money to go to Germany to buy Mauser guns and Krupp cannons like the Nationalist Army, nor can we go to Indochina to buy all French equipment like the Dian Army.

Our so-called own arsenal is to make those grenades that can only be divided into two parts when they explode, although sometimes the lethality is really not good and can only scare the Japanese army, but many times we are short of weapons to scare the Japanese army.

We can't make rifles, we can't make grenadiers, and the only guns we can build are "solitary guns" that can only shoot 30 meters at a time and can only hold one bullet

All that our Communist Party troops now have is the unwavering faith in their hearts and the popular support won by the mass line, which is why we are called "three guns and eight roads."

If there are now five devils who have a deep blood feud with us standing in front of us, and it is clear that five shots can kill them, then who will only shoot three shots if it is a Chinese?

However, we can't, because we only have three bullets in our guns!

So I can't express my gratitude to Huo Xiaoshan for giving us such a great gift in words.

In my understanding, in the days of the common war of resistance, the doctrine and the camp were weakened at least for now, as an Eighth Route Army, it is not terrible to lack guns and ammunition, but when dealing with a team like Huo Xiaoshan, it is also necessary to pay attention to the rules.

This rule is the root of the Chinese formed for thousands of years, to be affectionate and righteous, to be in the same boat, not to stab in the back, to communicate with each other, no one likes to turn the face and ruthless white-eyed wolf.

And the soldiers under Huo Xiaoshan didn't care when they saw that they had given us so much loot, and the common battle made them become comrades-in-arms and brothers with the less than ten people I brought.

I saw with my own eyes that while my warriors were thanking them, they waved their hands and said, "Five words in the sky, that's all right!" ”。

My soldier asked, "Don't you have to turn it over to the Central Army?"

They replied that the Central Army had not helped us anything, so why should we give it to them?

However, when the war was fought in Tengxian County, it was supposed to be the Central Army as reinforcements, but they had a division of troops, but they just didn't go to save the Sichuan army, and later the leader took us to break into the county seat of Tengxian County and rescued more than 200 Sichuan troops.

They said why do you think the Northeast Army, the Northwest Army, the Gui Army, the Yunnan Army, and the Sichuan Army all read our favors, because as long as our Quartermaster Department has fought with them, we have basically given them all the trophies that we don't need, and they all have to read our favors.

In addition to the trophies, the second big gift Huo Xiaoshan gave us turned out to be five Japanese prisoners, and these five Japanese prisoners were screened by him, and they were all possible to be reformed in his opinion.

He said that your Communist Eighth Route Army is the best at doing ideological work, so he handed them over to you and educated them well, and these five prisoners will play an unexpected role in future battles.

In this way, we hurriedly embarked on the return journey under the "escort" of the soldiers of the battalion directly under us, and this kind of escort was necessary, otherwise we would not have encountered any situation in the return journey that was by no means short, even if we were all in the national control area.

The army is like this, the iron-clad battalion is a flowing soldier, since I joined the Red Army of the Chinese Workers' Army, I have become a professional soldier, I have seen too many life and death partings.

The friendship between all our soldiers is not bad, but fighting, parting, life and death are the normal state in war, not the firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea that ordinary people want when they live, nor is it "baby damn, did you pick up the eggs in the chicken coop today"

On the way back, I remembered the question that had been on my mind again, and asked the little stone who escorted us back, what does your daughter-in-law do.

Xiao Shi replied casually, it should be a spy.

Secret agent? Xiao Shi's answer shocked me, but the last four words he added completely made me messy in the wind, he said "military commander agent"!

There were only two "ifs" that flashed through my mind within five or six minutes, if Huo Xiaoshan's daughter-in-law was a Communist Party, and if Huo Xiaoshan's daughter-in-law was a military commander......

Curiosity kills cats, and I decided not to be curious about it anymore! From now on, it doesn't matter who Huo Xiaoshan's daughter-in-law is or what she does, whether she is a Communist Party or a Kuomintang, no matter if he is as ugly as no salt or as beautiful as Xi Shi!