The Pulp River belongs to the mountainous area at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, with mountains, rivers and flat rivers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, it is the early spring of February of the lunar calendar, the spring breeze is blowing, the grass and trees are sprouting, the peach and willow are green, and the beautiful Pulp River is bathed in spring light.

The anti-Japanese democratic government of Xingtai County has been established and is stationed in Yingtou, and the Xingtai ************ and the Xingtai Anti-Japanese Provisional Government for National Salvation are stationed in the town of Shishui in the Pulshui River.

After Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui led their troops to Zhshui Town, they set up camp in Zhao Shui Town after connecting with the Xingtai County Party Committee and the Xingtai Anti-Japanese Salvation Provisional Government stationed here.

As soon as he saw that the main force with such good equipment came down from Taihang Mountain, Xingtai ************ was so happy that his mouth cracked into a scoop, and after arranging for the troops to camp, he pulled Xiao Siming, Wang Lushui, Huang Hua and others to introduce the situation and report on the work.

He was a party member of Northeastern University, and before the Japanese army captured Beiping, he and more than a dozen classmates of Northeastern University and some exiled students of Beiping withdrew from Beiping to Jinan, and from Jinan to Xinxiang, Henan, and went to the Taiyuan front before the Japanese army captured Taiyuan, and met the leading comrades of the Northern Bureau in Taiyuan, and connected with the organizational relationship, and then participated in the first anti-Japanese guerrilla column of the Northeast Anti-Japanese of the Eighteenth Group Army organized by Zhang Tingshu and Zhang Zhengfang, two retired division commanders of the Northeast Army, and withdrew from Taiyuan to Shiguai Town in Heshun County. There he was received by Mr. Zhu, and then he went down to Taihang Mountain with the team to Xingtai to open up a base.

According to the introduction, the topography of Xingtai County is high in the west and low in the east, the mountainous area at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain in the west, and the hills and large plains in the east, which are basically two divided mountains, one divided hills, and seven divided plains. This western mountainous area, because it is located at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, has many mountains and rivers and many flat rivers, and is composed of four major rivers: Luluo River, Pulp Water River, General Tomb River and Songjiazhuang River.

Xiao Siming went to school at the Shijiazhuang Army Command College before the soul crossed, and the troops were stationed in North China for a long time, and now they are marching all the way through the Taihang Mountains.

The Xingtai area belongs to the operational area of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and Xiao Siming's division belongs to the 115th Division. However, along the way, Xiao Siming found that like the Anti-Japanese War in history, the Japanese army did not attack Heshun and Liao County through the Taihang Mountain through the Xingyu Highway, and it was completely possible to build a strong fortress in the hinterland of the Taihang Mountain in Dongwang. In the future, the troops and cadres in Shandong, the South Hebei Plain, and even the Central Hebei Plain will need to go back to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army or Yan'an.

According to the introduction, the Japanese army captured Shijiazhuang on October 10, 1937, and captured Xingtai on the 15th, and the Huang Guanghua Division of the 193rd Division of the 32nd Army of the Kuomintang Army stationed in Xingtai abandoned the city before the arrival of the Japanese army, but Liu Ruming's division, which belonged to the 29th Army system, fought a fierce battle with the Japanese army in the area of Heguo Town, Nanhe County, on the border with Xingtai County, in an attempt to recapture Xingtai County. After four days and four nights, they finally retreated.

The Japanese army immediately attacked quickly along the highway from Beiping to Daimyo and Xingtai to Jinan, and set up a puppet Hebei Provincial Office in Tianjin and a puppet South Hebei Provincial Office in Xingtai, which governed more than 30 counties including Xingtai, Handan, and Anyang.

The regular Kuomintang troops withdrew, the local authorities fled, and the entire Xingtai region fell into a state of anarchy. All kinds of sects took advantage of the situation, advocating that drinking talisman water can be invulnerable, resist the guns and bullets of the Japanese army, and fool the people; After the Kuomintang army broke and fled into the mountainous areas of western Xingtai, some of them distributed food and money, and some simply set up their own mountains and fell into the grass, and in addition to the original bandits, there were 14 groups of miscellaneous armed forces and bandits in the western mountainous areas of Xingtai.

It is a pity that in 1935, when the uprising was organized, it was brutally suppressed by the Kuomintang, and some party members were killed, some were arrested, and some were temporarily hidden, and some guns and grenades during the riot were buried. After the Lugouqiao Incident of July 7, some of the Communist Party members who had been imprisoned in the Kuomintang prison were released, and the hidden Party members were able to carry out their activities.

He said: The anti-Japanese armed forces in Xingtai County under the leadership of our party are mainly divided into two parts, one part is the advance detachment of Zhang Xianyue, the commander of the 129th Division, and the other part is the first anti-Japanese guerrilla column in the northeast of the 18th Group Army.

After the 129th Division relied on the Taihang Mountains to establish a base area, it sent Zhang Xianyue, commander of the teaching regiment, to organize an advance detachment to open up a base area in the Xingtai area, accompanied by a local working group of the Civil Training Office of the Western Hebei Guerrilla Theater Command organized by Yang Xiufeng, a well-known professor. After starting from Shanxi and Shunsongyan Town, crossing the Taihang Mountains and arriving at Songjiazhuang, the troops were divided into two routes, with the advance detachment developing to the south, and the civilian training office of the Western Hebei Guerrilla Theater Command developing to the north to mobilize the masses. In Songjiazhuang, Zhang Xian made an appointment to meet Hu Zhen and reorganized Hu Zhen's team of 100 people into the fifth brigade of the advance detachment.

Hu Zhen was a native of Xingtai, joined the party at the Zhongshan Military School in Xi'an in 1927, and later served as a Red Army company commander. When Xingtai fell, Hu Zhen got more than a dozen short guns from the landlord's house in the name of training strong men, and took more than 20 patriotic young people to prepare to fight guerrillas in the Taihang Mountains. After this unit was reorganized into the Fifth Brigade of the 129th Division's Advance Detachment, it was developed and is now called the Xingtai County Independent Battalion.

While the advance detachment led by Zhang Xianyue was developing around Xingtai, Sun Jixian was sent to lead more than 30 people to develop to the southern Hebei Plain. Later, the 129th Division sent Chen Zaidao to lead four companies down the Taihang Mountain, and now it has also gone to southern Hebei to create a base area.

Speaking of the first anti-Japanese guerrilla column in the northeast of the 18th Group Army, the second anti-Japanese armed force led by our party in Xingtai, **** said, this matter is more complicated.

According to ****, the reason why Zhang Tingshu and Zhang Zhengfang organized the first anti-Japanese guerrilla column in the northeast of the 18th Group Army was to think of collecting the rout of the Northeast Army on the Pinghan Line and developing the troops. They relied on more than a dozen regimental, battalion and company officers of the Northeast Army at hand.

Zhang Tingshu was the son of Zhang Zuoxiang of the Northeast Army, and met Vice Chairman Zhou in Taiyuan, who cared about and supported the revival of the Northeast Army and proposed to build a new Northeast Army, which gave them the name of the First Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column of the Northeast Anti-Japanese of the Eighteenth Group Army.

In order to strengthen the work of the First Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column in Northeast China, the Eighth Route Army transferred Zhou Huan, secretary general of the General Headquarters who was also a native of Northeast China and good at doing work in the Northeast Army, to serve as the director of the political department of this unit, and in fact he was the political commissar.

The first anti-Japanese guerrilla column in the Northeast was actually a working group, and after arriving in Shishui, it was divided into two parts, and the main forces went to Songjiazhuang Town and other places with commander Zhang Tingshu and deputy commander Zhang Zhengfang to collect the 57th Army and 51st Army of the Northeast Army.

After the soldiers were divided into two ways, the work was very fruitful!

Zhou Huan and his team relied on the party members of the Pulshui River to set up the Slouch Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force, which was internally known as the First Brigade of the Northeast Anti-Japanese First Guerrilla Column, and was organized into two squadrons, Liu Zhenbang as the captain and Wang Xu as the political commissar, with 180 people and 30 or 40 party members.

After the establishment of the Pulp Water Guerrillas, they cooperated with a company of the 129th Division in January to block the Japanese army's attack on Taihang Mountain.

At this time, the anti-Japanese guerrillas had been ordered to go to Liao County and be incorporated into the 358th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

The main force of the First Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column in Northeast China led by Zhang Tingshu and Zhang Zhengfang was also very effective in integrating the Northeast Army's rout, successively incorporating a battalion of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army in Songjiazhuangchuan, and a company of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army in the Mingshui area under Maling Pass, plus the other small shareholders of the Northern Army, the strength of the troops reached about 600 people, and the weapons and equipment were very good.

It's a pity that Zhang Tingshu and Zhang Zhengfang are old officers, and their original intention was to take advantage of the troubled times to pull their own Northeast Army team, and wholeheartedly hope that Zhang Xueliang will be released! Looking at the cadres sent by the Eighth Route Army again, they are all weak scholars and can't fight, plus the instigation of other old officers, they themselves can't stand the discipline of the Eighth Route Army, this has 600 people, the waist is hard, and they will have conflicts with the political commissar Zhou Huan when they come and go. In desperation, fearing that they would be attacked by Zhang Ting's headquarters, the staff of the Eighth Route Army who acted with the troops had to withdraw to the Shishui River.

In December last year, Zhang Tingshu and Zhang Zhengfang pulled the team to Songyan Town in Heshun, and Zhou Huan took the cadres to find them to do work. Subsequently, the 129th Division sent the **** section chief to mediate and fired three people from Zhang Tingshu's side, and the cadres of the Eighth Route Army were also accused by Zhang Tingshu of sabotaging unity and transferred three people.

said that he was one of the three cadres who were transferred, and this is why he served as the ******** of Xingtai.

The fate of the 1st Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column in the Northeast of the Eighteenth Group Army is embarrassing!

Because of the contradictions, the 129th Division decided to transfer the first anti-Japanese guerrilla column in the northeast to Lucheng for training. In early January, the guerrilla column arrived at Hemuro Town in Lucheng for training, and was disarmed and reorganized by the 187th Division of the Sichuan Army Li Zongfang stationed in the town. In the end, it was Ni Zhiliang, chief of staff of the 129th Division, who came forward to do the work, and the Sichuan Army released Zhou Huan and more than 20 cadres of the Eighth Route Army.

When he heard this, Huang Hua couldn't help it first, took the case, and roared: "What a strange news! It has always been our army that reorganizes and miscellaneously armed forces, when will it be his turn to reorganize our armed forces with the miscellaneous Sichuan army? This Guo Zongfang is such a big dog! ”

Wang Lushui asked the Sichuan Army on what basis it was for reorganizing the First Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column in Northeast China?

The reason for the reply was that the Eighth Route Army could not reorganize other **** troops!

Huang Hua was angry, slapped his hand on the table, and shouted: "The Eighth Route Army can't be reorganized, but his Sichuan Army can be reorganized?" Fuck the fuck! I think he has taken a fancy to the equipment of the first anti-Japanese guerrilla column in the Northeast! ”

That's the real reason!

The weapons and equipment of the Northeast Army are better than those of the ordinary Central Army, and the weapons of the Sichuan Army are so poor, it is no wonder that they are not angry!

Xiao Siming has not been silent, and when he saw that Huang Hua was extremely angry, he said: "Secretary Gao, Xingtai is the gateway to Taihang Mountain, and the establishment of the Xingtai anti-Japanese base is of great strategic significance. If you have any difficulties that you need our help to solve, you can say them, and let's discuss! ”

I was looking forward to this sentence, and when I heard it, I said: "Captain Xiao, what we think about every day and night is that the main force can come here to fight and help us open up the situation!" You don't know, the situation in the mountainous areas in the western part of Xingtai is still very complicated, the first column of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Guerrillas was absorbing and defeating troops at that time, and it adopted the method of liaison and agreement, and the other side was willing to accept the incorporation, and if it was unwilling to be incorporated, there was no way. In addition to the other Sichuan army and other routs and bandits, there are still 12 miscellaneous armed forces. Now there is another People's Army Zhang Xijiu, and Zhang Yinwu has given him a commander, with hundreds of people, stationed in Luluochuan. In addition, the Red Gun Society in this area is very powerful, and the headquarters is located in Luluo Town, and almost every village in Luluochuan and the General's Tomb River are flying apricot yellow flags, fooling the people and resisting our anti-Japanese government. Including the Pulp River and the Songjiazhuang River, there are also some villages that belong to the sphere of influence of the Red Gun Society. The most hateful thing is that a few days ago, a few scouts from the 129th Division lived in a village at night, and they were instigated by the landlord of the village to kill the Red Gun Society! Do you say that people are angry? ”

Isn't this just a matter of infuriation?

Wang Lushui immediately asked: "Have you reported this situation to the 129th Division?" ”

He said that he did not have a radio station and had already sent someone to report to Liao County.

Wang Lushui asked again why he didn't send out the Zhang detachment, the Chen detachment, or the Xingtai Independent Battalion to defeat the Red Gun Society?

He replied that the main force of Zhang's detachment was not in the mountainous area west of Xingtai, and that Chen's detachment had already crossed the Pinghan Road to Nangong and could not return. The Xingtai Independent Battalion was active in Songjiazhuang and Yingtou, and its strength was weak.

Wang Lushui immediately looked at Xiao Siming and discussed: "It's necessary to fight here, but will it affect our plans?" ”

The importance of creating a base area in the western mountainous area of Xingtai is self-evident, Xiao Siming did not hesitate at all, and said to Wang Lushui: "No problem, that is, a few days, just enough time for the cavalry battalion and the recruit team to rest and practice." Our main force swept through the Xingxi Mountains and helped them open up the situation! ”

As he spoke, Xiao Siming turned to ****: "Secretary Gao, you are responsible for providing accurate information." Leaving aside the affairs of the people's army, it involves the issue of the united front. We can't fight without an order from headquarters! We must educate more, unite, and pull them together to resist Japan! The rest of the routs and bandits, as well as the Red Gun Society, we can let go and clean up! Hurry up and provide the information! ”

Say that the information is all in your head, and you can report it to the chiefs now!

As he spoke, **** took out a pen and directly wrote to Xiao Siming where the defeated soldiers were stationed. (To be continued.) )