Chapter 504: Raiding Anqiu (2)
The situation in Shandong at this time was very different from that in history. Historically, the army was mainly busy attacking cities and conquering places in 38 years, and the spearhead of the offensive was concentrated on the lines of communication; although the regular troops withdrew from Shandong, most of the county political axes also moved south with the provincial political axes, but there were still a few county political axes that relied on the security forces to form local guerrilla units and persist in the struggle behind enemy lines. Most of these troops later surrendered to the Japanese army at the most difficult time and became puppet troops. This is the case of the Li Wenli Department, which once insisted on the anti-Japanese war in the Changwei area. The current situation is very different from that in history; before the instructors of the Eighth Route Army marched eastward on a large scale, Nishio Shouzo, the former commander of the Second Army of the Chinese Army, seized the period before the Battle of Xuzhou and took advantage of the opportunity of greatly strengthening the army to carry out a relatively thorough purge of various parts of Shandong. After the instructors of the Eighth Route Army marched eastward, Liu Yimin demanded that all units build a solid anti-Japanese base area and vigorously reorganize the variegated armed forces, and many local armed forces were reorganized by the Eighth Route Army, or joined the garrison brigade, or joined the county and district armed forces. However, due to the fact that the main force of the instructor had only been in Shandong for a short time and had gone through vicious battles, some county troops did not have time to arrive, and some counties ordered the main force to arrive, but it was too late to completely reorganize the local armed forces. There are also troops, such as Li Wenli and Zhang Jingyue in the Changwei area, they are all officials officially appointed by the Kuomintang political axe, and the troops also have the number given by the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Political Axe, so naturally they will not accept the reorganization of our army. At this time, it was the period of the Anti-Japanese War, and Liu Yimin could not destroy the unity of the Anti-Japanese War and forcibly reorganize them. Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army was powerful, and Li Wenli, Zhang Jingyue and others did not dare to deliberately provoke disputes with the Eighth Route Army as they did in history, so they could only entrench themselves in their own sphere of influence, and exploit the common people while resisting. Later, after the end of the Luzhong Campaign, the heavy army group of the Yue Army pressed to Shandong with all its might, and the main force of the instructor went south, and the troops left in Ludong led the Yue Army to Jiaodong, Li Wenli and Zhang Jingyue survived in the gap between the Yue Army and the Eighth Route Army. Zhang Jingyue was active in the north of Jiaoji Road, and Li Wenli was active in the south of Jiaoji Road. At present, Li Wenli led his troops to entrench in the southwest mountainous area of Anqiu.
Although this Li Wenli is notorious in history, extremely hateful to [***], slaughtered [***] people many times, and even frantically slaughtered the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians after becoming the Han Dynasty, but now he has not surrendered to the enemy, and he is still one of the main organizers of the resistance behind the enemy in the Changwei area.
Li Wenli, a native of Jixian County, Hebei Province, was born in 1905 and later moved to Yanjing with his parents. At the age of 21, he graduated from the Jingzhao Jiazhong Agricultural School in Beiping and worked as a teacher. On April 12, 1927, after Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup, he enlisted in the army as a soldier, and served as a major secretary in Feng Yuxiang's Ma Hongkui Department of the First Front Army of the Second Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and soon transferred to the military education regiment of the First Front Army Major Secretary. In September of the following year, he joined the Kuomintang in Linqing County, Shandong Province and became a Kuomintang sticker. In May 1929, he defected from Feng Yuxiang with Ma Hongkui in the warlord melee and defected to Chiang Kai-shek. In August of the same year, Ma Hongkui was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander-in-chief of the 15th Route Army, Li Wenli was appointed as the secretary of the major of the army's military and political education regiment, and half a year later he was transferred to the 192nd Brigade of the 64th Division of the army as the major's director of military justice. In August 1930, Han Fuyu, commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Third Route Army, led Lu Yishi, Li Wenli left the army and was appointed as the county magistrate of Zhucheng County, Shandong Province, the captain of the Mintuan County Brigade and the president of the Lianzhuang Association. In June 1932, Li Wenli was transferred from Zhucheng County to Wei County, and continued to serve as the county magistrate, the head of the Mintuan County Brigade, and the president of the Lianzhuang Association. At the age of 27, he can be described as a "young man" and "a rising step".
During his tenure as the magistrate of Weixian County, Li Wenli repeatedly hunted down and killed party members and progressives, and sabotaged local organizations. In July 1933, he arrested Liu Liangcai, secretary of the central county party committee of Weixian County, and shot him dead on the Bailang River beach; In October, Guo Bingrang, an underground party member of [***], was arrested and killed in Weixian County at the Tongjuxiang Coal Plant on Fangzi Street; At the same time, [***] underground party member He Fengming (from Caozhuang, Weixian County) was arrested and sent to Han Fuyu. In November 1934, Li Wenli commanded the military and police to surround Weixian Guangwen Middle School, and arrested Qiao Tianhua, secretary of the Weixian County Working Committee, who was a librarian and a teacher of Chinese language and art, causing serious damage to the Weixian Party organization.
Although Li Wenli's hands were stained with the blood of [***] people, he also did several good things when he was the magistrate of Weixian County. First, the reinforced concrete bridge of the Bailang River in Weixian County was built, and the city was connected to running water and opened a commercial street. Moreover, there is no apportionment for such a large project, and in addition to the provincial government axe appropriation, it mainly relies on land appreciation income and merchant donations, which is equivalent to running the city. Second, the drug was banned and smoking, and many drug dealers were shot and killed. At that time, several shops opened on the streets of Zai Wei County openly sold large cigarettes, and Li Wenli did not dare to provoke him, so he sent plainclothes police to squat outside his shop, and the Chinese were searched after they went in to buy things and came out, and once they found out that they were buying and selling tobacco and soil, they were immediately arrested and put in prison. The third is to develop entertainment venues, build a Chinese theater and a "happy forest" dedicated to performing opera and storytelling, and also shoot a 55-minute black-and-white film documentary "Weixian Grand View". Fourth, the first kite meeting. After Li Wenli was transferred from Zhucheng to Weixian, he found that there were several old shops that made a living by operating kites in the downtown area of the big crossroads, and Tang Yanshou's kite shop had a long history and was opened in the late Ming Dynasty. After many visits, he found that kites, a pastime and entertainment, have formed an industry in Weixian County, and derived an art category. In order to enliven the city's culture, Li Wenli decided to introduce the spontaneous kite competition into the political axe behavior, and the first kite competition in Weixian County was held on the Qingming Festival in 1933. At that time, Weixian County only had a place for official gatherings in Wuyamen, but it was not possible to fly kites, so it adopted a "two-step" method according to local conditions: the opening ceremony was held in front of the county government axe (old county yamen) in the morning, and it was announced that a kite meeting would be held every two years; The 80 kites participating in the county will be exhibited in front of the yamen. In the afternoon, go to the beach of Bailang River for a kite flying competition. It is said that it coincides with the Weixian Grand Gathering, and the audience flocks, and the scene is spectacular. With the whistle of the commander, 80 kites flew in the blue sky, which was dizzying. The most eye-catching is the kite "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" of the board character of the Tang family's kite shop, as well as the "Four Seasons Flower God" of Yangjiabu. The first competition, without judging and awarding, became a kite show with a local caste. Subsequently, Li Wenli opened up a new Nanguan Stadium and held the second and third kite fairs, expanding the influence of the kite festival in Weixian County to Tianjin, Jinan and Xuzhou. The Weifang International Kite Festival in later generations began here.
This Li Wenli was born as a student, has a flexible mind, and knows how to see the wind and steer the rudder.
When Han Fuqu was in charge of Shandong, the people of Shandong still said that Han Fuqu was Han Qingtian, and Han's subordinates also said that Han had no shelf. A reporter from the Central News Agency was caught by Han because his relatives who were county magistrates were selling drugs, and he went to intercede, but he was closed, and after he returned, he tried his best to put on Han Fuqu the bromine affairs of the old warlords of the Republic of China. Although Li Wenli believes in one doctrine and one leader, he knows that Han Fuqu is not only a literate person, but also a literate person who has crawled over on the cusp of the storm, but Han Fuqu, like other warlords, regards human life as a mustard, and life and death are all based on personal likes and dislikes.
At that time, Han Fuqu liked to inspect various counties, and he asked everything, arrested people and judged cases, and removed officials and sent officials. Li Wenli didn't like Han Fuqu to do this, but he had to deal with it, so he came up with a trick out of a way: hide!
Every time Han Fuqu came to Weixian, Li Wenli went to the countryside in advance to inspect. In this way, he was right about Han Fuqu's temper, saying that he was sympathetic to the people's feelings and praised him.
One day in 1934, Han Fuyu went to Weixian to inspect the county government, but Li Wenli was still not in the county. After Han Fuyu finished inspecting, when he was leaving, he suddenly encountered an old woman stopping the car and shouting grievances, and Han Fuyu immediately got out of the car to ask. It turned out that the old woman had sued her son-in-law that a county police inspector did not support her. Han Fuyu immediately called this inspector over and asked him why he didn't raise his mother-in-law. When the inspector saw the provincial chairman, he was a little overwhelmed and didn't say why. Han Fuyu thought that he was really at a loss, so he said: "Shoot!" So I pulled it to the beach and carried it out. The inspector's wife then rushed to Han Fuyu and cried to Han Fuyu that her husband did not support her mother, but because her mother was a gambler and lazy, and the inspector's monthly salary was limited and could not meet her mother's requirements, her mother came to complain. After Han Fuyu heard this, he said: "This old woman is not a thing, shoot it!" So the old woman who complained was also shot. The inspector's wife saw that her husband and mother were shot in a moment, cried and made a fuss, grabbed Han Fuyu's clothes and said, "My relatives have all been shot by you, and I don't have any relatives now, I'll follow you!" Han Fuyu couldn't handle it and was very embarrassed. Hu Dingsan, the chief of the Weixian County Police Department, pulled the woman aside, persuaded her repeatedly, and finally gave 1,500 yuan in legal currency, so that Han Fuyu could get out of the city.
Han Fuqu decided the case so hastily, it stands to reason that Li Wenli should be extremely disdainful. But Li Wenli didn't do this, and he still did his best to Han Fuqu. In the film documentary "Weixian Grand View" that he presided over and filmed, he did his best to shoot horses. At the beginning of the film, the subtitles read, "Shandong Han Xiangfang (Han Fuyu) knows people and is good at his duties, and he appoints himself as the county magistrate of Wei County, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the local area is said to be beneficial to development".
After the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, the Shandong Provincial Government adjusted its zoning and organized guerrillas, and Li Wenli was appointed as the administrative commissioner of the Eighth District of Shandong Province and the commander of the guerrillas. Li Wenli was based on the armed forces of the district to which Kao Bin, the former head of the third district of Wei County, belonged, and expanded into the first regiment, based on the former Wei County Public Security Bureau, and composed of the second regiment composed of director Hu Dingsan; The Third Regiment was formed by Zhang Han, the magistrate of Gaomi County, and the Sixth Regiment headed by Cao Keming, and Wang Youwei and Wang Zhiping were responsible for reorganizing the self-defense regiment organized by the British Tobacco Company at the expense of the Twenty Lipu into the Fourth Regiment.
It is said that there are five regiments, but in fact there are more than 800 people. Before the Yue army arrived in Weixian, Li Wenli led his troops to flee from Wei County, and without firing a shot, he ceded the prosperous Wei County to the Yue army. Li Wenli also made arrangements in advance and handed over to Weixian gentlemen Mao Jichen, Chen Qizhi, Kang Zizhou, Li Baozhai, Ding Xianzhi, Zhang Yangtian, Mao Caichen, and Guo Yuruo to maintain local law and order. These people are the first batch of Han annihilation in Weixian, among which Mao Jichen became the governor of the puppet Weixian County Government Axe Office. When the Eighth Route Army captured Weixian, these guys were naturally unlucky.
After Li Wenli led his militia to flee to the mountainous area southwest of Anqiu, he reorganized the troops into three corps. In the name of the guerrilla commander, he appointed Kao Binzhi as the captain of the No. 1 Guerrilla Corps of the Eighth Lu District; Hu Dingsan is the captain of the second team; Qian Yantang (former head of the fifth district of Wei County) is the captain of the third team. Then, he raised the banner of guerrilla resistance, recruited troops, and expanded his forces to Changle, Zhucheng, Weixian, Shouguang, Changyi, and other places, and the contingent soon grew to 16 corps with more than 20,000 people. However, these teams are not unified, and what Li Wenli can really command is his descendant troops, and there are only 10,000 people.
When the commander of the Second Army, Nishio Shouzo, launched a sweep, Li Wenli's troops were consumed due to poor combat effectiveness and cohesion, and only 3 or 4,000 people remained, so they had no choice but to move south.
Finally, I looked forward to the instructor launching an offensive in Jizhong and Luxi, annihilating the 21st Division and the Fourth Brigade of Reading Force, and the Shandong Army stopped sweeping operations, and Li Wenli returned to the mountainous area of Luzhong and set up camp in the mountainous area southwest of Anqiu. At this time, he was dismissed from his post as guerrilla commander and reappointed as the security commander and administrative inspector of the Eighth District of Shandong Province, with jurisdiction over 13 counties, including Anqiu, Changle, Weixian, Zhucheng, Shouguang, Changyi, Gaomi, Yexian, Laiyang, Pingdu, Guangrao, Jiaoxian, and Jimo. However, at this time, Li Wenli no longer had the kind of prestige in history, and Zhang Buyun grabbed the territory with him in Zhucheng. As a result, Zhang Buyun had limited troops and insufficient ammunition, so he simply surrendered to the army and became a Han annihilator, leading the army to attack Li Wenli's department again, and Li Wenli had to retreat west again, still returning to the southwest mountains of Anqiu.
When the instructor of the Eighth Route Army marched eastward, taught the Fourth Brigade and the southeastern Lu detachment to sweep through the southeastern part of Lu, and wiped out Zhang Buyun and Liu Heiqihan's annihilation troops in one fell swoop, Li Wenli knew that he could not afford to provoke the Eighth Route Army. In the Luzhong Campaign, Zhang Zongyuan's puppet Shandong People's Autonomous Allied Army accompanied the Eighth Division of the Yue Army to hell, and the Luzhong region basically became the base of the Eighth Route Army. He is an old oilman in officialdom, and he knows that he is by no means the opponent of the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and if he takes the initiative to provoke, it is easy to provide an excuse for the Eighth Route Army to disarm.
Now, after more than a year of tempering the flames of the Anti-Japanese War, although the number of Li Wenli's team has decreased a lot, its combat effectiveness has been significantly improved.
During this period of time, the main force of the Eighth Route Army was far away from Luzhong, and Li Wenli thought that the Eighth Route Army going south might not be able to come back, and the Eighth Route Army in Jiaodong was afraid that his life would be difficult to protect, so he thought about seizing the opportunity that the main force of the Eighth Route Army and the Yue Army were not in Luzhong to develop well. Unexpectedly, the Eighth Route Army was so tenacious, a squad and a person dared to find Xiao Yueben's bad luck, so that Li Wenli couldn't figure out whether the Eighth Route Army was still in Luzhong or not.
Of course, Li Wenli didn't know that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had returned to Shandong, and he didn't know that the Eighth Route Army was carrying out a cold gun and cold artillery campaign. However, at this time, Li Wenli did not have the intention of surrendering, and he also realized some mysteries from the actions of the Eighth Route Army, and began to send a small force to attack and harass the devils.
No, after Qiao Mingzhi and a few scouts rushed out of the county seat, they met a unit of Li Wenli's department.
Garrisoned in Anqiu were the 10th Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the 10th Brigade of the 10th Division of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, and the puppet army of a battalion of the puppet Shandong Provincial Garrison.
During this period, the Eighth Route Army extensively carried out a cold-gun and cold-artillery campaign, and the puppet army in the rural strongholds suffered heavy casualties, and Kondo Shuzo knew that his opponent was the troops left in Luzhong by the instructors of the Eighth Route Army, and he could not figure out the enemy's situation, for fear that he would accidentally be transferred into the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army and report back to the Yasukuni Shrine, so he had to order the devils in each stronghold to retreat to Anqiu and retreat in Anqiu City.
Just when the captain of the devil brigade, Kondo Shuzo, was sitting on pins and needles in Anqiu City, the 12th Army of the Yue Army was established, and the commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Otaka Kamezo, held a military meeting in Jinan, determined to mobilize troops to carry out a sweeping operation, and both sides of Jiaoji Road were the focus of the Yue Army's sweeping operation. At this moment, the captain of the army stationed in Anqiu, Kondo Shuzo, immediately felt that His Excellency the commander was wise and imperative, this dirt eight roads were too rampant, and it was time to take revenge on them.
To Kondo's surprise, the headquarters of the 12th Army sent a staff officer named Yukio Asaichi to personally rush to Anqiu County to understand the public security situation and collect intelligence. Kondo Shuzo knew the power of these staff officers, so he was particularly stammering, led him to a whole sheep banquet, and then reported the battle situation of Anqiu.
Unexpectedly, this fortunate man Asaichi is an adventurous guy, and after listening to the report, he has to check the security situation in person, and he does not bring troops to escort him, and only lets the five gendarmes in Anqiu City follow him to conduct a make-up investigation. Coincidentally, fortunately, Xingnan Asai was unfavorable to go out of the division, and met the scouts of the Eighth Route Army in the restaurant, and after a burst of gunfire, he returned to the East.
After receiving the report, Kondo's heart was about to jump out of his chest, and he hurriedly led the military dog to the scene of the incident. When he arrived at the scene, he saw His Excellency Asaichi Officer, dressed as a peasant from the countryside of Luzhong, lying on his back in a pool of blood with his eyes wide open, and the five gendarmes and one policeman who accompanied him on his mission were also lying crookedly on the floor of the restaurant. Kondo Shuzo hurriedly took off his military hat and mourned in front of Yukio Asaichi's corpse, then squatted down and reached out to cover his hollow eyes, until he felt his eyelids hot, and then reached out to close them. Then he beckoned to the health soldiers, flipped Yukio Asaichi's body over, saw that there was a bloody hole with a bowl on his back, and picked out a few bullets to look at, and judged that he was killed by a German-made Mauser pistol. Because of the characteristics of German-style weapons, when the bullet enters it is a small hole, and the exit is a bloody hole with a large bowl mouth, which is obviously different from the bullet of the southern pistol.
After checking it out, Kondo Shuzo stood up and said, "Yukio-kun, I will definitely avenge you!" ”
After saying that, Kondo Shuzo pulled out his command knife and let out a wolf howl, and ordered the troops to go out, let the military dogs lead the way, and be sure to catch up with the damned Shina sneak attackers, cut off their heads, and pay tribute to His Excellency Yukio Asaichi.
At this moment, the puppet army in Anqiu City immediately jumped like chickens and dogs, motorcycles, armored vehicles, and automobiles were dispatched, and the military dogs began to pursue.
(To be continued)