Chapter 341: Battle of Southern Hebei (1)
Han Yunhua is a person who can't rub sand in his eyes, since the Japanese army dares to play with him as a fool, then Han Yunhua is not welcome. Immediately, Han Yunhua ordered all units in southern Hebei to immediately stop resting and recuperate and launch large-scale attacks on the Japanese strongholds, counties and cities, this time not with the main purpose of killing and injuring the living forces of the Japanese army, but with the first target of recovering the lost territory and punishing the traitors.
This time, Han Yunhua did not use the new mode of combining guerrilla warfare and positional warfare, which he was best at, but completely adopted positional warfare. Daming County is located in the southeast of Hebei Province, at the junction of Hebei, Shandong and Henan provinces, and is the hub of economic and cultural exchanges between Hebei, Shandong and Henan provinces, with an area of 1,333 square kilometers and 1.4 million acres of cultivated land. The county has jurisdiction over 6 towns, 14 townships, 651 administrative villages, and a population of 530,000. Daming County belongs to the alluvial plain of the Yellow River, the Heilonggang Basin, the temperate continental monsoon climate, there are three rivers of Zhanghe, Weihe and Majia River traversing the whole territory, the terrain of the county is flat, the land is fertile, the resources are abundant, suitable for peanuts, wheat, corn, soybeans and other crops and all kinds of dried and fresh fruits planting.
However, it is a pity that the geographical location here is important, but the Japanese puppet forces, the Kuomintang army, the Communist regular army, the guerrillas, bandits, the squires and landlords all want to bring Quang Binh County into their jurisdiction. Enemy and enemy forces are mixed with each other, and neither the Japanese nor the Nationalist Government can be said to be the masters here, let alone the Eighth Route Army.
Han Yunhua's headquarters stationed in Daming County was most shocked by the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, which was not established by the National Government, but by the Communist Party itself. In 1937, with the clarification of the social chaos in southern Hebei and the general mobilization of the masses of the people, as well as the gradual formation of the national united front, the situation of the anti-Japanese struggle was further opened up in southern Hebei. At this time, it is very urgent and necessary to establish a democratic and unified administrative authority organ in the whole region to coordinate the relations between all sectors and coordinate the development of all kinds of work. The discussion has been going on for a long time, but in order to really take action, we have to talk about such a person -- Deng Xiaoping.
On July 5, 1938, Deng Xiaoping, the political commissar of the 129th Division, arrived in southern Hebei from Taihang and put forward a plan for the establishment of the office of the administrative director of southern Hebei. In the same month, the provincial party committee of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region dispatched a large number of cadres and party members to form a task force to carry out mass work and political power work in various localities, to transform and improve the political power in counties, districts, and villages, so that most of the political power at all levels was in the hands of the Communist Party, and to make necessary preparations for the establishment of the office of the administrative director of southern Hebei. On August 14, a meeting of representatives of various counties in southern Hebei was held in Nangong. After several days of democratic discussion and consultation, it was decided to abolish the Preparatory Committee of the Southern Hebei Military and Political Commission and establish the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer of Southern Hebei. The meeting elected Yang Xiufeng as the director of the Office of the Administrative Director of Southern Hebei, and Song Renqiang as the deputy director. The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer of Southern Hebei has 5 special offices under its jurisdiction, totaling 51 counties.
After the establishment of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer of Southern Hebei, the Party Central Committee immediately issued instructions to Xu Xiangqian, Deng Xiaoping, Song Renqiang, and the Provincial Party Committee of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region on the work of the new government in southern Hebei after its establishment, requiring the new government to "issue various announcements, laws, and orders in the region, enhance its prestige, and appear in front of the people with a completely new attitude."
In accordance with the above-mentioned instructions, the Provincial Party Committee and the Director's Office have stepped up their efforts to implement them and promulgated the eight major policy programs that are in line with the wishes of the people in southern Hebei. The main contents are: mobilizing all manpower and material resources to extensively carry out guerrilla warfare; Consolidate and expand the anti-Japanese national united front, unite all compatriots, establish a strong base area, and resist the war to the end; Establish a democratic and honest county anti-Japanese government, and severely punish corrupt officials and corrupt officials; rectify the financial affairs of the counties, develop the rural economy, and promote the production of local goods; abolish exorbitant taxes and implement reasonable taxation; preferential treatment for the families of anti-Japanese soldiers; Under the principle of having money to contribute money and making strong efforts to improve people's livelihood, stabilize people's livelihood and give full play to the people's enthusiasm for the War of Resistance; Carry out anti-Japanese education, mobilize the masses in general, and organize war committees, workers, peasants, women, academics, and business anti-Japanese organizations and self-defense forces; Eliminate traitors and enemy spies, and implement anti-Japanese martial law. "There are four basic characteristics of our implementation of these eight major policies: First, we will resolutely resist Japan, second, we will support the united front, third, we will implement democracy, and fourth, we will improve people's livelihood." Comrade Song Renqiang once analyzed.
Speaking of this Southern Hebei Administrative Office, we may not have many images, but if you talk about the "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain", everyone will not be unfamiliar, in fact, the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain are the troops under the jurisdiction of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, that is, the first division of the Jinchaji Military Region, the first regiment, the seventh company and the sixth squad, and the squad leader is the nationally famous Ma Baoyu. On September 25, 1941, 3,500 Japanese troops frantically attacked the troops of the Eighth Route Army in Yi County, Hebei Province, in order to cover the main force to move to the outside line of operations, and to move the masses to safety, the first division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the seventh company and six squads of the first regiment under the leadership of the squad leader Ma Baoyu, took the initiative to attract the enemy to the cliff of Langya Mountain. …,
After the establishment of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, the guerrilla war in the southern Hebei Plain entered a new stage, and the whole region presented a vigorous anti-Japanese war situation. In order to expel the Japanese invaders and defend their hometowns, the broad masses of the people set off an upsurge of joining the Eighth Route Army. There were many moving scenes of "fathers sending their sons, wives sending their husbands, and joining the army to fight the East". So that our army developed rapidly. In addition to the various types of armed forces that have been recruited, our troops have increased not exponentially, but more than a dozen times, dozens of times.
In this way, the issue of food for the troops was put on the agenda. Therefore, after the establishment of the administrative department, it quickly formulated some rules and regulations for finance, industry and commerce, trade, taxation, and reducing the burden of the masses, and gradually formed a complete set of policies. The first is to formulate the "Interim Measures for the Donation of Cotton for National Salvation and the Exit Tax on Non-Enemy Goods" to collect taxes in accordance with the law. The second is to pay public rations. We will not engage in equal apportionment, and implement reasonable burdens. The "Interim Measures for the Fair Burden of Southern Hebei" have been formulated. The grading is based on the amount of land, and a progressive tax system is implemented. There is a threshold, and then the more land there is, the more it is expropriated. The landlord class bears more burdens, and the poor peasants bear less. More is more, less is less, everyone bears a little, so it is more reasonable. The third is to open a bank. In October 1939, the Southern Hebei Public Office set up a South Hebei Bank, and the currency issued was called the South Hebei Bill, which was commonly used in Taihang, Taiyue and Hebei, Shandong, and Henan regions. The southern Hebei region is relatively rich, and the population is larger than that of Taihang and Taiyue, and the materials and soldiers of Taihang and Taiyue must be supplied and supplemented by southern Hebei. In a short period of time, with the establishment of the anti-Japanese democratic regime, the anti-Japanese base areas in the plains also began to take shape. The reason for this is, first of all, the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee, the Northern Bureau, and the 129th Division. Second, the local party in southern Hebei has a considerable foundation, and the people in southern Hebei have a glorious tradition. Third, the united front policy has been correctly implemented. We have won over and united all well-known patriots from all walks of life who are willing to resist Japan, and have won over and incorporated a number of various types of armed forces, thus increasing the strength of our army and promoting the rapid development of all aspects of work. Fourth, the timing is favorable. At that time, the Japanese army was concentrating on attacking Xuzhou and Wuhan, and the rear troops were insufficient, and many county towns and vast rural areas were controlled by our army, which provided favorable conditions for carrying out various tasks.
The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer of Southern Hebei marked the formal establishment of the first anti-Japanese people's government in the land of southern Hebei, with Nangong as the center, starting from the Pinghan Railway in the west, reaching the Tianjin-Pudong Railway in the east, reaching the Cangshi Highway in the north, and crossing 51 counties of the Zhanghe River in the south, and the anti-Japanese base area of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan border area of more than 30,000 square kilometers was formally formed.
However, by 1939, the role of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office had been very large, but since all the actions of Han Yunhua's department belonged to the high-level secrets of the Communist Eighth Route Army, the Southern Hebei Administrative Office only knew a vague approximate until now. For these Eighth Route Army, which were beaten by the Japanese army like lost dogs, many people in the entire Southern Hebei Administrative Office had a diswelcome attitude, after all, these people greatly increased the pressure on the Southern Hebei Administrative Office and the pressure on the people in southern Hebei.
However, the leaders of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office also know that no matter what, Han Yunhua's department is also a subordinate unit of the Communist Party, although the system or battle sequence is different from theirs, but the friendly army "falls" they should still be helped, plus I heard that the Japanese army sent nearly 2,000 people to encircle and suppress this batch of Eighth Route Army that fled from Shandong or Henan, so the Southern Hebei Administrative Office also sent two infantry battalions to help and informed the 115th Division Chen Guangchen.
After receiving the telegram from the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, Master Chen suddenly cried and laughed, does that killing god still need your help? As far as the rags in your Southern Hebei Administrative Office are concerned, they are just an infantry battalion to clean up. However, Master Chen also knew that the Southern Hebei Administrative Office was only a local administrative organization after all, and it was not the best at military command, and it was already very good that they could pull out two infantry battalions to help under such circumstances, so Master Chen could not refuse the kindness of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, so he had to send the news to Han Yunhua and let Han Yunhua handle it himself.
Han Yunhua's reaction was first moved, and the second was that he couldn't cry or laugh. I am very grateful to the Southern Hebei Administrative Office for remembering their friendly army when the army was pressing, and at the same time extending a helping hand when they were more "difficult", although the role of this helping hand just stretched out is indeed limited, but this heart is really touching, because everyone has the same identity - the Eighth Route Army. …,
Han Yunhua did not refuse the intention of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, because Han Yunhua had a certain understanding of Yang Xiufeng, who was the owner of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office at the time, Yang Xiufeng was born on February 27, 1897, in Yangtuanbao Village, Qian'an County, Zhili Province, a generation of scholarly family - Sizhitang. Great-grandfather Yang De, is the founder of the "Four Knowledges Hall", who respects the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, stresses the importance of being worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth, and abides by the "knowledge of heaven, knowledge of the earth, you know, I know", so it is called "four knowledge". Grandfather Yang Jingxiu, who has been running education in this county all his life, was born in Xiucai; His father, Yang Xulun, was a man in the late Qing Dynasty and later graduated from Beijing Higher Industrial School.
Yang Xiufeng was influenced by his family and entered a private school at the age of 5. After that, he went to the junior primary school in the village. In 1911, after graduating from the county high school, he was admitted to the No. 3 Normal School of Luan County, and since then, he has also formed an indissoluble bond with education. In 1916, he was admitted to the Beijing Higher Normal School (the predecessor of Beijing Normal University) and studied in the Department of History and Geography. After graduating from high school in 1921, she successively taught at Jiangxi Provincial Poyang Middle School, Zhili Hejian Middle School, Tongxian Girls' Normal School, Jingzhao Middle School, Beijing Civilian Middle School, Beijing Women's Normal University, and the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University. During his study and teaching, he witnessed the success or failure of Xinhai, and actively sought the truth and ways to transform society and save the country and the people. He successively participated in the May Fourth and May Fourth Movements, and joined the Chinese Kuomintang during the Great Congress. In the struggle against imperialism and feudalism, he grew up to be a staunch democrat. In the autumn of 1929, Yang Xiufeng went to France to study at public expense and entered the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Paris. Here, Yang Xiufeng embraced Marxism. In March 1930, he was introduced by Zhang Weifan and others to join the Communist Party of China and jumped from a democrat to a communist.
It can be said that Yang Xiufeng is an out-and-out intellectual, and a hot-blooded young man with ideals and courage. In October 1934, Yang Xiufeng returned to China. He first served as a professor at Tianjin Hebei Law Business School, and since 1935, he has taught part-time at Peking Normal University, China University, and Northeastern University. Under the direct leadership of the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he engaged in ** activities in the public capacity of a university professor. He used the classroom as a position to teach dialectical materialism and historical materialism to young students, analyzed the domestic and international situation and the increasingly serious national crisis at that time from the viewpoint of Marxism, propagated the CPC's stand of resisting Japan and saving the country, and pointed out the correct direction of the youth movement. During this period, the main task given to Yang Xiufeng by the Northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee was to engage in the work of the anti-Japanese national united front in the cultural and educational circles of Beiping and Tianjin, and to lead the upper echelons of the cultural and educational circles to carry out the anti-Japanese salvation movement.
After the "77 Incident" in 1937, Yang Xiufeng, in accordance with the instructions of the Party Central Committee and the Northern Bureau, resolutely gave up the privileged life of a professor at Beiping Normal University, threw his pen into Rong, went deep into Taihang, established anti-Japanese armed forces, and opened up an anti-Japanese base in western Hebei. In August 1938, the Southern Hebei Administrative Office was established. In order to facilitate the united front work, Yang Xiufeng served as the director of the Southern Hebei Administration. In order to meet the needs of the Anti-Japanese War and cultivate a large number of talents in military, political, financial, cultural, educational, administrative and other fields, with the approval of the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Hebei Anti-Japanese War College with Yang Xiufeng as the president was established in Shenxian County, Zhongji, in August 1938. He also successively founded the Southern Hebei Anti-Japanese Cadre School, the Southern Hebei Anti-Japanese War College, the Hebei Tai Administrative Cadre School, and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border District Administrative Cadre School, all of which were also principals.
This is Yang Xiufeng's work experience in the first half of his life, in fact, the reason why Han Yunhua can remember this old ** family is largely influenced by the later generation of Deng Gong, Deng Gong talked about Yang Xiufeng on the way to Yan'an in the summer of 1939, and once commented on him: "Civil officials don't want money, and military ministers are not afraid of death - Yang has both." ”
Han Yunhua still has a lot of respect for such an old **, although the role that these two infantry battalions can play is indeed very limited, Han Yunhua still chooses to stay.
At this time, Daimyo County was already stormy, and the Japanese puppet army in the entire Daimyo County had already felt this breath, and they usually dared to go out at will in a small team, and they either stayed in the city or stayed in the major strongholds outside the city these days, or they were dispatched one squadron after another, and at the same time there was at least one cavalry squad to support.
However, all of this was not Han Yunhua's expectations, if the Japanese puppet army hadn't noticed something at this time, Han Yunhua would have really been disappointed in the so-called elite of the Japanese army. But what you know is what you know. However, Han Yunhua is not worried, anyway, he now has more troops in his hands, in addition to the three brigades of the instructor, there are also two remnant brigades in the original Shandong, and there is also an infantry regiment composed of all veterans and veterans with full combat experience. Coupled with an infantry brigade and two infantry regiments under Chen Guangsuo's command and two infantry battalions of three hundred and eighty people from the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, Han Yunhua now has nearly 50,000 people in his hands, and if he is afraid of these two or three thousand people who are afraid of little devils, he really can't mix.
Han Yunhua's eleven greedy people either do it quietly, or they do it in a big way. This time, he scattered all the troops in his hands, the first brigade was responsible for dealing with all the Japanese puppet troops in Daming County, the second brigade set off with the third brigade last night, and the troops who occupied Guangping County, Wei County, and Chen Guangsuo were transferred to Linzhang County by Han Yunhua, and the remaining two remnant brigades in Shandong received Han Yunhua's order and were reorganized on the spot into a tutor guard regiment, and the head of the regiment was Zhang Dingguo, the head of the first regiment of the second brigade of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, and there was no political commissar or chief of staff for the time being. Han Yunhua, the leader, only sent an infantry company over and sent a small batch of weapons and ammunition to the guard regiment, and then Han Yunhua ordered the guard regiment to quickly march towards Feixiang County, and informed Zhang Dingguo, the head of the guard regiment, that he would send a small elite group to wait for them in Feixiang County, and ordered them to take Feixiang County within three days.
At the same time, Han Yunhua also issued a death order to all departments, all departments only need to destroy the enemy, as for the territory, all the territory will be handed over to the Southern Hebei Administrative Office to be responsible for occupation and digestion, where the troops hit, his headquarters will be set up, and the Japanese army must be hurt or even killed.
In order to mobilize the Japanese army to a greater extent, Han Yunhua also ordered those troops in Saibei to start moving, and the armored troops hidden in the shadows also began to launch a war of annihilation against Xilinhot, and it was necessary to completely annihilate or force the Mongolian nobleman King Dewang and the gang of traitors and puppet troops to surrender, bring the entire steppe into the jurisdiction of the Eighth Route Army, and Chinese the people a clear and clear northern .......