Chapter 31 push the enemy out

In late February 1944, just a few days after the Heroes' Meeting in the Border Regions, I was ordered to be transferred to the Fourth Division as a political commissar and secretary of the CPC Prefectural Committee.At this time, the situation in the border area continued to develop in a direction favorable to the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians: in March, the enemy transferred the 110th Division stationed on the Ping-Han Line from Shijiazhuang to Baoding Line and the 62nd Division stationed at Yuci to Zhengzhou In the direction of Luoyang, the newly formed independent second and tenth brigades were transferred from outside the customs to take over the defense. In order to supplement the soldiers, the Japanese army stepped up the recruitment of Japanese residents to join the army. There were not only underage child soldiers in their ranks, but also "puppet soldiers" in disguise. At the same time, it has developed and used a large number of puppet troops, changing the puppet security forces into appeasement troops.In order to maintain its occupied area, on the one hand, it continued to retreat some secondary point blockhouses, shrinking its forces and reducing its depth, so as to strengthen the front-line defense; And carry out focused assaults with frequent raids and combined attacks.Our fourth division is located in the Zhengding, Jingxing, and Pingshan areas around Shijiazhuang, the enemy's command center. "Key areas.When I took office, there were still many enemy bunkers around the fourth district, especially in the Jingxing and Huolu areas in the south. There were more enemy bunkers, which posed a great threat to our base area.Therefore, together with Commander Zheng Weishan, I conscientiously implemented the instructions of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Branch Bureau of the Communist Party of China and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, resolutely implemented the policy of "persisting in consolidating the area while actively extending to guerrilla areas and enemy-occupied areas" and led the four divisions The military and civilians carried out the struggle against "clearing and suppressing" and "cannibalizing", actively attacked the enemy, continued to besiege and force back the enemy's blockhouses, compressed enemy-occupied areas, and expanded base areas.

According to the situation of the enemy and ourselves and the experience of fighting against the enemy in the past few years, we have adopted the method of using the main force of the division as the backbone, mobilizing the masses extensively, arming the masses, and implementing the three-in-one approach of the army, the militia, and the masses to carry out the struggle against the enemy.In the process of eradicating enemy strongholds and bunkers, some units resorted to strong attacks and others to surprise attacks according to different situations. However, since the balance of forces between the enemy and ourselves has not yet undergone fundamental changes, the tactics of siege and forced retreat are still the main forms.At this time, mass guerrilla warfare in guerrilla areas and anti-Japanese base areas became more active.The militia and guerrilla groups are the main strengths of the siege struggle. Once we decide which bunker to besiege, the militia can plant mines around the bunker overnight to surround the enemy. Hand over your gun and don't kill" and other small flags are false and real, and are full of suspicious soldiers, making the enemy confused about the truth.As soon as the enemy came out, they were shot coldly by my flying shooting team and exploded by mines, making it difficult to move an inch.The trapped enemy was isolated and helpless, waiting for death. After a long time, we had to withdraw; we took advantage of the opportunity of the enemy's hasty withdrawal, organized ambushes, intercepted, and wiped out the enemy on the way.

At that time, the enemy attached great importance to occupying the railway and highway communication lines. In this way, on the one hand, it could use the railway, highway and telephone lines along the way to establish connections between its bunkers and support each other; .Our fourth division is located near the enemy's communication lines; in order to smash the enemy's harassment, defend the base area, and isolate the enemy in the blockhouse, we mobilized the masses to carry out assault warfare and vigorously destroyed the enemy's communication lines.On August 7, the militiamen in the 11th District of Pingshan County carried out a large-scale road destruction, destroying most of the roads in the territory and paralyzing the enemy's traffic.On the 10th, the Japanese army and the Hujiatuan puppet security forces in the Nandian stronghold dispatched more than 200 people to surround the village to arrest peasants to build roads. Three people were killed by the mines planted by my guerrilla team, and the rest turned around and ran back to the stronghold. come out.On the evening of September 21st, Captain Yan of our local armed forces in Jingxing led two militiamen to the Zhengda railway line between Shigeda and Zhaijiazhuang, and buried a 12-jin explosive mine loaded with yellow explosives. Under the railway track, just after it was buried, an enemy military train came over. Captain Yan pulled the fire wire hard, and the mine exploded with a "boom", and a column of flames shot up into the sky, blowing the locomotive over, and the four carriages behind was also bombed; the next day news came that seven Japs had been killed, five had been wounded, and two drivers had also been killed.Afterwards, the enemy was very panicked, and captured the five civilian husbands of Kanlu, and disbanded the Puppet Kanlu Self-Defense Group, saying that they had "connected with eight channels", which made the enemy panic.

In late September, under the unified command of the military region, the second, third, and fourth subdivision troops carried out a comprehensive attack on the Baijin line.On September 28th and 29th, the second division continuously attacked the traffic from Fuguan to Dongguan on the northern section of the line, recovering more than 4,000 catties of wires; from September 29th to October 1st, the third division On the 29th, all the wires from Qinzhou to Fenshuiling were collected for three consecutive nights, a total of more than 7,000; the other department completely destroyed the railway tracks in Xiadian and the wires along the line on the 29th night, and carried 8,000 catties back to the rails. , 2,500 catties of wires.On the night of September 28th, our troops from the Fourth Division destroyed the wires between Xiadian and Changzhi and the highway between Changzhi and Gaoping in many places, and took back more than 750 kilograms of wires.In the above-mentioned assault battles, the Japanese and puppet troops along the line, under the strict surveillance of our army, did not dare to go out to obstruct them except for huddling in the bunkers and firing their guns.This major attack interrupted the enemy's traffic and communication along Baijin Road, and plunged them into panic and confusion.Every year during the wheat harvest season, the struggle between robbing wheat and fighting against robbing wheat is the most intense stage of the struggle between the enemy and ourselves.

At the beginning of June 1944, the wheat on both sides of the Hutuo River and Ci River and in front of the mountain began to mature. The golden waves of wheat were endless, and the summer harvest was in sight. At this time, the successive intelligence reports from the Ping-Han Line and the Zheng-Da Line indicated that the frantically hungry enemy had already spread their poisonous claws. Relying on it, attacking everywhere, grabbing 3,520 tons of wheat from our four divisions—the grain-producing area, to supply it to the invading army in North China, and to deliver supplies for the Pacific War.This struggle is related to the lives of the people in the base areas, as well as to the consolidation and development of the base areas.The party, government, military and civilian leaders at all levels in our four districts are deeply aware of the significance and arduousness of this struggle. As early as the end of spring plowing, they mobilized all troops and units to prepare for this big struggle and strive to protect the wheat harvest. victory.For this reason, the sub-district issued a notice requiring all troops to complete their spring work before the "grain in ear" and loaned 310,000 catties to the masses from the army's public grain to help the masses solve the problem of the shortage of crops in spring, so as to prepare for a surprise summer harvest.For this batch of loans, it was stipulated that only one catty and three taels of wheat should be returned per catty of millet, and each catty would lose four taels, and the total loan loss would be 77,500 catties.Before the wheat harvest began, the division issued four major calls for battle, one of which was "armed defense of production, rush to plow, rush to plant, and rush to harvest!" Local party and government leaders also attached great importance to protecting the wheat harvest, and carried out publicity and mobilization work.

On August 27, after the militia and guerrillas in Lingshou County besieged and pushed back the enemy fortress in Shikan, the people in the four nearby districts seemed to have suffered a heart attack, and they all rejoiced.On September 1, the four districts held a mobilization meeting to celebrate the victory and defend the autumn harvest. Du Qingmei, a combat hero, proposed a plan for the autumn harvest and autumn planting, and challenged the county militia.They promise to ripen one piece, cut one piece, harvest when cut, and hide when harvested, realizing the slogan of "quick harvest, quick harvest and quick storage".Judging from the reports from various places, this year's mobilization work was done early, the mobilization was wide-ranging, and it was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, laying a good ideological foundation for doing a good job in the harvesting.

The biggest feature of defending the wheat harvest this time is the implementation of the principle of "implementing unified leadership".Under the unified leadership of the regional party committees and prefectural committees, the party, the government, the military and the people jointly organized wheat harvesting committees to implement unified leadership. The entire region has unified planning, unified organization, and unified command. .During the wheat harvesting period, 90% of the troops participated in the wheat harvesting, and many pack mules and horses were dispatched.In the wheat-producing areas, almost all men, women and children, even old women and children, all laborers and semi-laborers are organized to divide and allocate labor, males are mowed, females are beaten, and children are driven by livestock. There are almost no idlers.In the vicinity of the enemy's fortresses and in the guerrilla areas, the masses and troops under the leadership of responsible cadres carried out large-scale work, fast harvesting, and surprise harvesting.

The army has given full play to its backbone role and initiative in covering the wheat harvest with armed forces.From the beginning of the wheat harvest, the army led the militia to launch a new active attack on the enemy.At the first fort line, our guns blocked the gate of the enemy's fortress, even cut off its food and drinking water, and killed its sentries who probed to the fort.Outside the blockade ditch, we set up ambushes along the road, approached the guerrillas on the outskirts of the city, killed and captured the enemy and puppets who went out alive, so that the enemy did not dare to leave the stronghold easily, and even the enemy and puppets disappeared temporarily outside the stronghold, thus covering the victorious assault outside the ditch and the first line Finish the wheat harvest.Some villages had been robbed of wheat by the enemy, and the troops tried to take it back as much as possible.On September 23, more than a hundred enemy and puppet troops from Lingshou County went to Liangtong and Majiazhuang to plunder. Our Zhengding detachment immediately ran after the enemy from ten miles away. The troops were divided into four groups to surround the enemy, and the enemy still tried to resist. Xue Futong, the squad leader of the third squadron, threw two grenades one after another, causing the enemy to scream.At this time, the troops rushed forward shouting "kill", and the enemy fled in embarrassment.The Zhengding detachment will return the two large carts of more than 2,000 catties of grain, more than 100 catties of cotton and some clothes of the masses that the enemy has snatched, and return them to the masses.Thanks to the cover of the troops, the wheat harvest went relatively smoothly. For example, the "Victory" department covered 1,430 mu of wheat harvest in the Xingtang area, and the "Development" department also blocked the enemy's fortress in Nanshan, Lingshou County. The 311 acres of wheat fields under the control of the enemy fortress were reaped, and the crowd rejoiced.

Xingtang County is a county with good results in organizing militias to unite villages to defend the wheat harvest. At 8 a.m. on September 30, more than 80 Japanese and puppet troops from Xingtang County went to Dongwaren Village, District 6 to grab grain. The team learned that they rushed to attack the enemy from the west and south sides, and shot down the puppet army sentry on the roof first. The puppet army sentry rolled on the roof after being wounded and shouted: "The eight roads surrounded the village, run away!" When the enemy army heard the news, they couldn't figure out the reality, panicked, left more than a hundred bags of grain and eight fat pigs, and fled in a panic.

At 10 a.m. on October 5th, more than 80 enemy troops from Xingtang County rushed to Yangtong Village to grab food. Just as they were grabbing the car, militia guerrilla teams from several villages in the fifth district of our country united and opened fire on the enemy. , The crowd cheered and cheered, scaring the enemy and fleeing in panic.At 8:00 a.m. on October 7, more than 200 puppet soldiers from the Xingtang Army reinforced the Nanjian Fortress in an attempt to retaliate against the food grab. The instructors of our fifth district heard about it and assembled the militia guerrilla teams from the four villages to cooperate with a part of the county brigade. Intercepted the enemy in Nanzhuang, Xishi City, and fought fiercely for more than 50 minutes. The enemy fled without support. Five puppet soldiers were killed and wounded, four were captured, and four rifles were captured. I only slightly injured one person.Under my continuous blows, the captain of the Puppet Security Alliance of Xingtang lamented when he summoned his subordinates to give lectures: "I didn't grab much wheat, and the entire alliance team lost more than 600 guns."

On October 22, more than 130 puppet troops and more than 130 puppet soldiers from Jingtan City, with more than 100 livestock, rushed to the southwest of Pingshan City at 10:00 a.m. The area around Sibaozhuang, Jianping 2nd District, at Erli, robbed food wantonly; more than 80 people from Pingshan Chengri and puppet troops also entered the area of ​​Yanbao, Liuli West of Baozhuang to cooperate.At this time, more than a dozen militiamen from a village guerrilla team in the second district rushed to attack immediately after hearing the news.They deployed a rifle on the mountain behind Baozhuang Village to carry out sniping, and the remaining dozen militiamen lay in ambush on both sides of the road with their bare hands.At about twelve o'clock, when more than a hundred puppet troops carrying food and escorts entered the pre-fu area, the unarmed militiamen suddenly jumped up in a brave charge and intercepted forty-nine loads of grain from them. Running away, the puppet troops who were walking ahead to escort the food pack were confused by the sudden attack, and hurriedly turned back to report. The militiamen on the mountain let out crisp and clear sniper gunshots. Upon hearing the gunshots, the Japanese and puppet troops immediately concentrated their firepower to attack the hill. They fought blindly for half an hour and never dared to pursue them.At this time, the enemy troops who were cooperating in Yanbao were shocked by the dense gunfire, thinking that there was a fierce battle in the direction of Baozhuang, and tried to go to reinforce them, but before they could attack, the militiamen on the hilltop of Baozhuang turned their heads and shot at them. At this time, the militiamen who had seized the food were running forward with more than 40 pack animals. The enemies of Yanbao saw the smoke and dust, and thought it was an attack from all directions, so they hurried back; In the pursuit, in the confusion, the peasants captured by the enemy took the opportunity to flee around with their food packs, and the enemy was unable to pursue them. Most of the grain was carried away by the peasants. In the evening, the enemy who invaded Baozhuang had to return in despair .In this battle, only a dozen militiamen frightened off more than 200 Japanese and puppet troops who were looting grain, and took back 49 loads of grain.Since then, from November 1st to 3rd, the Jingxing militiamen fought the enemy nine times, exploded ten landmines, killed and wounded twenty-three Japanese and puppet troops, recaptured fifty shi of grain, three livestock, and seized telephone wires. Three hundred catties and a prize. Because the victory of the struggle to defend the wheat harvest has inspired the army and civilians in the whole region, the speed of this wheat harvest assault is also astonishing: dozens of acres of wheat, hundreds of acres of wheat, can be wiped out in a few days or nights, and some In the barley field within the range of the enemy's fortress, the enemy was about to make a move, but a piece of stubble was left in a blink of an eye.Wheat harvesting in Donghuangbao and Xihuangbao used to take seven to ten days, but this time it took only four days; Hanzhuang used to take more than ten days, but this time it only took three days; It only takes five days.Ninety percent of the wheat on the beach along the Zhanglun River was harvested within three days, a speed that surprised even experienced farmers. infinite.Feeling this, half a month after defending wheat harvest, I carefully summed up my experience based on my in-depth understanding of the front line and the situation reported by various places, and wrote an article "Overview of Defending Wheat Harvest in Four Districts", which was published in 1944 On August 12, 2004, the headline of the first page of "Zidi Bingbao" introduced the characteristics and experience of the struggle to defend the wheat harvest in our division. The newspaper also published an editorial entitled "The Greatness of the Power of the Masses", affirming the struggle experience of the four divisions. , gave us great encouragement and encouragement, achieved a complete victory in the struggle to defend the wheat harvest, and shattered the greedy plan of the Japanese invading army headquarters to "steal 3,520 tons". While carrying out the struggle to defend the wheat harvest, our fourth division conscientiously implemented the policy of "actively launching offensives and violently expanding the liberated areas" of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Branch Bureau and the military region, actively carried out the struggle to encircle the points, wiped out the enemy's blockhouses one by one, and wiped out the enemy step by step. Squeeze out. In May 1944, the troops and militiamen of Xingtang launched the "Red May General Attack", which fired the first shot of the siege struggle.With the cooperation of the militia and the masses, the troops of Xingtang surrounded seven forts including Koukou and Zhanqun. The militia and the masses alone besieged fifteen forts including Shangfang. In just a few days, except for Liukuchi, the rest of the besieged All the bunkers were conquered or forced back, 15 puppet soldiers were killed and wounded, 28 puppet soldiers were captured, and a large area of ​​land was liberated.Then, Pingshan launched a full-scale offensive in July. In just half a month, the militiamen and the masses fought alone to conquer and force back the fortresses of Wangping, Dawu, Niushan, Yuecun, Rongcun, and Dongshan. A total of 27 fortresses including Dongwangpo, Xihuishe, and Shuangshidong liberated all of the Seventh District and most of the Eleventh District in Pingshan. traffic arteries.At the same time, Jinglong's militiamen and masses fought forty-two times in half a month. They conquered and forced back seven enemy artillery towers in one go, killed and wounded thirty-three enemy soldiers, and destroyed one charcoal factory and one coal mine established by the enemy.Although most of the Jianping area was behind enemy lines, the militiamen and the masses still conquered Nanbaisha Fortress alone, and cooperated with the troops to besiege and conquer five enemy strongholds.In the Lingshou area, there were more than 30 enemy and puppet fortresses. During this period, the militiamen and the masses alone forced back eight fortresses including Ciyu and Shikan, and cooperated with the troops to conquer six fortresses including Mile, and captured the puppet troops and government personnel. Sixteen of them captured ten rifles and one short gun; the rest of the fortresses were captured successively by the troops, liberated 94 villages in the third and fourth districts, regained 1,500 square kilometers of lost land, and liberated more than 43,000 compatriots people.The Pingding area also forced back the two strongholds of Chakou and Huili.This offensive was largely successful from May to mid-October.Most of the Japanese and puppet army strongholds in the countryside in our four districts were wiped out, forcing the enemy to retreat in a few isolated county towns and a few important strongholds along the traffic. This siege offensive was organized and planned under the unified leadership of the party.Under the unified leadership of the prefectural and district party committees, counties and regiments, districts (villages) and companies are actively and organically united, and the junctions of districts and counties pay more attention to maintaining direct connections.When it was decided to besiege the fortress, the government first led the local people to carry out the activities of "not supporting the enemy", to fortify the walls and clear the fields, and cut off all the enemy's supplies; then, the troops, militia guerrillas and the masses closely cooperated to strictly siege , unified command, coordinated actions, and mutual cooperation, let the scorching sun be like fire or the heavy rain torrential, the militiamen and the masses responsible for the siege mission will never slack off, really surround and trap the enemy to death, force it to surrender or push it back, and then On the way to push back, continue to use mine warfare and ambush warfare to eliminate it.Huishe District in Pingshan County is located on the south bank of the Yetuo River and west of the Yehe River. It is about 16 kilometers long from east to west and about 10 kilometers wide from north to south. To the east of the river is the activity area of ​​the Jianping County Detachment. When the wheat harvest began in July 1944, there were still 14 enemy bunkers remaining in the whole area, and the defense force was weak. Since this was an exposed flank of the enemy's defense system in Shijiazhuang, and we cooperated with our insiders, we divided them into divisions. So he chose it as the focus of the assault, and with the two companies of the 36th Regiment as the backbone, he mobilized and organized the militia and the masses in the whole region to participate in the encirclement struggle.In those few years, the Japanese and puppet troops murdered, set fire, raped, looted, and did a lot of evil in the Huishe area. During the "mopping up", more than 10,000 people were surrounded on Zaoao Dongling, and more than 100 young and middle-aged men were arrested, and their lives and deaths are unknown.Therefore, when the masses heard that these strongholds of the enemy were to be pulled out, they all geared up and roared for revenge.With one order, the masses blocked all the wells near the stronghold, and planted landmines where the enemy entered and exited, and surrounded fourteen blockhouses respectively. Salt, a load of water, or a vegetable leaf, not even a blade of thatch.The pseudo-security guards in the Liuyang Fortress begged all day long: "Old man, please do me a favor and bring some water!" The pseudo-military squad leader in the Yuecun Fortress called out: "Folks, give me something to eat. I will do whatever you ask me to do." The siege lasted about ten days, and some fortresses could no longer hold out. The enemies of Niushan Fortress took advantage of the heavy rain and fled in the rain; the puppet troops of Kangjie Fortress surrendered and surrendered their weapons We treated them to a full meal and let them go home.The fourteen fortresses panicked one by one, and ran more and more embarrassingly than one.At this time, the puppet troops in the Lijiapo fortress still refused to withdraw, so the militia and the masses concentrated their forces to besiege it day and night, and shot at the puppet troops as soon as they showed their heads. Being killed by a single shot, the puppet soldiers were so frightened that they blocked the holes of the guns. They defecated and urinated in the fortress. It was summer, and the smell of feces and dead bodies made the enemy unbearable. Daogou, cut off its barbed wire, the puppet army here had to flee.In this way, after half a month of siege, all the 12 puppet camps including Dawu Temple and Donghuishe were conquered, more than 60 puppet soldiers were captured, and more than 50 guns were surrendered. The two strongholds, Heshuangshidong, were finally withdrawn on August 13th with the support of the Jingxing enemy due to their isolation and lack of water and food.So far, more than 100 square kilometers of land in Huishe District have been recovered. During the siege struggle, under the pressure of military encirclement, all localities actively carried out political offensives, fighting hard while persuading softly; hard fighting should not forget soft persuasion, soft persuasion should not forget hard fighting, flexible use, complement each other, and make the enemy intimidated. Depending on the power of our army, from relaxing resistance to giving up resistance.The enemy at the Dananzhuang Fortress in Longtiangou, Lingshou County was still stubborn after being besieged by me for more than 20 days.When the captain of the puppet army in Zhaili led a team to reinforce Longtiangou, he was ambushed by our army when he traveled to Ciyu. The whole team was wiped out, and the puppet captain was captured.This good news spread to Longtiangou, and the militiamen and masses who besieged Dananzhuang Fortress were greatly encouraged. They immediately used this good news to launch a political offensive against the enemy and shouted to the enemy fortress: "I have wiped out all the puppet troops in the village that reinforced you. The pseudo-captain has been captured, how many days do you have to jump around? Surrender now!" Seeing that the reinforcements were desperate, the enemy dared not resist anymore, abandoned the fortress and fled.The puppet troops in various strongholds in Pingshan County were also very aggressive at the beginning. After our army defeated the reinforcements in Pingshan County twice, they launched a political offensive against them, making them understand that the general situation was over and they could not resist, so they surrendered one after another.When besieging the Fu'an fortress, we learned that there was a conflict between the officers and soldiers of the puppet army, so we raised corresponding slogans to the enemy in the fortress, causing internal suspicion and confusion, and loss of combat effectiveness. Finally, under the threat of my firepower, they all surrendered.In the political offensive, after investigation and research in some places, the family members or captives of the puppet army were used to shout out, which also played a great role in disintegrating the enemy and prompting them to surrender. In the siege battles, in addition to the use of military attacks, some places also adopted outsmart methods such as running in disguise and cooperating with the inside and the outside to win the victory.Forty-five miles northwest of Shijiazhuang, the enemy's Nanbaisha Fortress is located in the triangle at the junction of Pingshan, Jingxing, and Huolu. Inside the fortress is a squadron of the Fourth Squadron of the Huolu Puppet Security Team.They rely on the Niushan Fortress guarded by the Jingxing Puppet Security Team in the southwest, and rely on the Puppet Fourth Squadron Headquarters stationed in Li Village in the east. The big blockade ditch and the automobile road cross under the fortress. Although it is a small fortress, its strength is only One squad controls more than a dozen villages on the left and the only road leading to Shijiazhuang. There are many pedestrians and vehicles passing by, and they are all inspected and exploited by it.My guerrilla team considered that this group of people had a habit of exploiting passing merchants, so they did what they liked. At noon on September 15th, three of the four guerrillas dressed up as merchants, carrying a large bottle of soju and two catties of raw pork, Two catties of cooked pork came along the ditch of Licuntong Fortress, followed by another guerrilla dressed as a pseudo-policeman.The four of them approached the fortress, and the guerrillas dressed as policemen said to the puppet army carelessly: "I am from the county police station. These merchants are going to deliver some goods tonight. I am here to invite everyone. Don't make things difficult for them. Please Brothers, come down to drink and get to know each other." Why wouldn't the puppet soldiers be happy to see what was delivered to their door?Four puppet soldiers squeezed down from the fortress, greeted them to enter the gun tower, quickly took the wine and meat, and started frying them in the kitchen. The guerrillas took out "baby brand" cigarettes and handed them one by one, coaxing the puppet soldiers smiling.The guerrillas dressed up as fake policemen went to the second floor of the gun tower and patted up with the fake squad leader.Not long after, the banquet was set up on the second floor, and the puppet soldiers were about to eat it. Suddenly, a few guerrillas rushed out from the southwest of Nanbaisha Village, carrying two rifles and arrows, and rushed towards the fortress, standing guard on the top of the gun tower. Seeing that the situation was not good, the puppet army shouted loudly to the second floor: "Come up quickly, come up quickly, the eight roads are rushing over!" The puppet army who was about to have a big meal hurried to get their guns, and three short guns were already pointed at them. At the same time, a guerrilla dressed as a pseudo-police rushed to the roof of the building, grabbed the gun of the pseudo-sentry and threw it off the roof.The squad leader of the puppet army was about to call Li Village to call the police. I, a guerrilla disguised as a businessman, threw him from the second floor to the downstairs.At this time, another eight or nine guerrillas who had been mowing the grass on the road in advance rushed into the fortress, and quickly put six rifles, 582 hand grenades, more than 300 rounds of bullets and a telephone in the gun tower. They packed up all the machines, escorted eight captives, and withdrew from the fort with the uneaten feast.When the guerrillas left Beihuazhuang, which was more than a mile away from the fort, and more than 200 enemies rushed to Nanbaisha, raging fire burst out from the gun holes of the gun tower, and the Japanese devils stomped their feet in anger. One day in July, in Hujiatuan, Pingshan, twelve "puppet security forces" "retreated" in the direction of Hujiaxuan Fortress, and the Eighth Route Army followed closely.They were rushed to Hu Jiaxuan's fort and shouted for help, asking the pseudo security team in the fort to lower the suspension bridge.The puppet army guarding the fort hurriedly lowered the drawbridge and let the twelve "security forces" cross the bridge.At this time, before the suspension bridge could be pulled in time, the Eighth Route Army caught up with the suspension bridge again. Twelve "pseudo security forces" shouted and scolded the security team to open the door of the tower. "Army" swarmed in, some pointed guns at the chests of the pseudo-security team members, and some held up grenades and shouted: "Give up your guns and don't kill us, we are the Eighth Route Army!" The pseudo-security team was shocked.At this time, the Eighth Route Army that was catching up had already rushed into the fortress, captured more than a dozen pseudo-security guards in the blockhouse alive, and seized eleven rifles and a small cannon.It turned out that these twelve "pseudo security forces" belonged to a squadron of the Second Squadron of our Pingshan Detachment, led by Zhang Youren, the squad leader.The pseudo-security team in the Hujiatuan fortress did not understand what had just happened until the gun tower was set on fire and they were escorted away by squad leader Zhang Youren.The Pingshan Detachment was a new unit that had just been formed in the spring of 1943. When it was first established, it had only two squads of troops and few guns. Sometimes it only relied on hand grenades in battle, and only three bullets could be carried on the back of a big gun.At that time, the troops had no food and clothing, and guerrilla attacks were very difficult. However, under the leadership of the party, they fully mobilized and relied on the masses. After more than half a year of training, they fought 16 times and conquered and forced back Xixianggongzhuang Hujiatuan and other fortresses built 14 forts, killed, wounded and captured 150 enemy and puppet troops, captured 53 rifles, three light and heavy machine guns, and two small cannons. Step forward; there are no guns or cannons, and the enemy made them for us!" Rapid growth in combat training. Our anti-Japanese army and civilians have grown stronger and stronger in the struggle, squeezing out the enemy step by step, and the days of the Japanese and puppet troops are sad day by day.We seized part of the letters from the Japanese army, and after translation, we can see the despair of the besieged enemy.In order to boost the morale of our army and the people, we have transcribed some of these letters and sent them to the "Jinchaji Daily" for publication. "Jinchaji Daily" used the title "The Wailing of the Besieged Enemy Army in the Paralleling Area" to publish letters from the Japanese army to their relatives and friends and letters submitted by subordinate officers.Here I am transcribing a few paragraphs at random: In a letter from Commander Kaneyama of the Yokosuka Division of the 2992nd Troop of the Northern Branch of the Japanese Army to Cao Chang Enokido, he said: "The bandit situation in the local area has deteriorated recently, not to mention the night, it is the day, as long as you step on the Take one step out of the wall of the gun tower, and you will be attacked by the enemy immediately." A letter from Koyama, a Japanese soldier of the unit, also said in a letter to his relative Miyoko: "I can't sleep every night, I can't eat, I am always weak; the enemy It's coming, it's impossible to sleep, and I can't sleep until four o'clock or five o'clock. This year's body is too bad, really bad." In another letter to Miyoko, Koyama said more vividly: "The gangsters here are very No, every night the enemy attacks, and when you go out during the day, you ping, ping! Make a hole in the wall. Because of the enemy's siege work, the villagers don't come to fetch water, and they often suffer from various difficulties! The meal is also changed to morning and evening. It's been two meals." A letter from Nanmasajiro of the 1456th Unit of the Northern Branch of the Japanese Army to Ikebe, Hashicho, Takasago Town, Kako County, Hyogo Prefecture said: "North China is really just fighting some meaningless battles. If you put down your guns, you will become ordinary people! You think it is a security zone, but if you are careless, you will suffer painful bad luck immediately, because With such a strategy, I don’t know how many soldiers lost their lives.” In the contact letter from Captain Kaneyama of the Qintai Shangbai of the Yokosuka Squadron of the Japanese Army stationed in Tang to Cao Chang Ogawa wrote: “As you know, our detachment It was transferred from Koukou Town to Qintai on May 16th. It was about three kilometers back from Koukou Town, and it was really a retreat with tears. However, as the bandit situation immediately deteriorated, ping, ping, ping, ping! Mr. Guest (referring to a translator from our army) comes here almost every night, ping, pong! It’s a rifle, and goo, goo! Boom, boom! It’s a light mortar, or a projectile. It’s just during the day, As long as we step out of the fence, we will be attacked by the enemy immediately. Not only that, but there is another annoying thing. Because of the enemy's siege work, we have completely cut off our communication with Aibao Village (Note: Refers to the village occupied by the Japanese army). Not to mention bathing, washing face, washing clothes, even drinking some boiled water is impossible. Water is lovely and rare. After living this kind of life for a long time, there are seven infantrymen under the captain of the guard, two radio soldiers, and five artillerymen. , there are only fourteen in total, it is impossible to attack, and it is difficult to do anything! Just relying on the dispatch of the main force of the Nancheng Walled Squadron Headquarters, and giving water once every ten or fifteen days, this is the only happy thing. For the sake of contact, although I really want to send some gifts, but because I can't contact the Aihu Village, I have nothing to give (that is, due to the siege of our army, the enemy can no longer go to the Aihu Village to plunder A translator) I'm sorry, please forgive me!" Under the siege and attack of our military and civilians, the Japanese invading army was in such panic all day long, the Han Hao and the puppet army felt that the end was coming, and escapes, surrenders, and mutinies occurred from time to time.The 3rd Battalion of the 16th Regiment of the Puppet Security Army stationed in Pingshan had 460 people at the beginning of spring. By July, only 242 people were left running and dying. On September 16th, They drove from Pingshan to Shijiazhuang, and when they got near Huolu, they suddenly mutinied, leaving only a hundred or so people running.In this way, under the collapse of our military and civilian military strikes and political offensives, by the end of 1944, the fortresses of the Japanese and puppet troops in our four districts had basically been wiped out, the anti-Japanese base areas were increasingly consolidated and expanded, and the struggle against the enemy gradually turned into the stage of strategic offensive.