Chapter 11 Chapter 2 Suiyuan Campaign: The first precedent of coordinated operations between the two military regions

As the commander-in-chief of the 12th Theater of the Kuomintang Army, Fu Zuoyi was a famous anti-Japanese patriotic general. On June 27, 1895, he was born in Anchang Village, Linyi County (formerly Ronghe County), Shanxi Province, a small village on the bank of the Yellow River. At the age of 23 in 1918, he graduated from Baoding Military Academy and started his career as a professional soldier. In March 1933, Japanese invaders broke into Gubeikou and Xifengkou of the Great Wall of China, and directly invaded Beiping. Fu Zuoyi ignored the interference of the Kuomintang government's reactionary policy of "non-resistance" and "to fight against the outside world first, and settle the inside first", and led his troops to rush to help. The Battle of Huairou commanded by him was hailed as "the most powerful and glorious battle" and successfully defended the The safety of the old capital Beiping. During the Suiyuan Anti-Japanese War in 1936, the strategic strongholds of Honggertu, Bailing Temple and Damiao, which had been operated by the Japanese invaders for many years, were pulled out successively.In particular, the great victory of the Bailing Temple was resounding both at home and abroad, and the enthusiasm of the people was invigorated. It aroused the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the people of the whole country, and smashed the Japanese plot to annex Manchuria and Mongolia, and then destroy China.After the all-out war of resistance against Japan, he personally led the officers and soldiers to fight inside and outside the Great Wall, Jinzhong, and Suinan; he commanded and participated in the Battle of Pingxingguan, the Battle of Xinkou, and the defense of Taiyuan.Especially from the end of 1939 to the summer of 1940, the three battles of Baotou, Suixi and Wuyuan were carried out in the Hetao area, especially the victory of Wuyuan.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Fu Zuoyi was also very happy, thinking that from then on he could make great achievements in governing the local area and building the country.Therefore, when Japan surrendered, he told his subordinates in Suiyuan that the war of resistance had been won, and the future of China should be the peaceful establishment of the country.There is such a vast land in Hetao, you should farm here and be ordinary people!He also said to his daughter Fu Dongju many times: The common people are too miserable, and I don't want to fight a civil war.He submitted his resignation to Chiang Kai-shek many times, requesting to be disarmed and returned to the fields. Of course, Chiang Kai-shek would not agree.

On August 16, 1945, the second day after Japan announced its unconditional surrender, Chiang Kai-shek sent Fu Zuoyi a secret telegram: The Japanese emperor has announced an unconditional surrender, and your troops in the theater will advance eastward along the Pingsui line as soon as possible, and don’t relax a bit; Efforts were made to suppress the communist army along the railway line, and the cities of Baotou, Guisui (now Hohhot), Jining, Datong, and Zhangjiakou were quickly received; the Japanese Army Headquarters in Zhangjiakou was ordered to temporarily maintain law and order, and they were sent back to China in a centralized manner after disarming and surrendering; The army (including the Mongolian cavalry) will be accepted; the administrative personnel will advance with the army and build the county government in time.

This was a poisonous move by Chiang Kai-shek to seize North China, and it was also an integral part of his master plan to mobilize heavy troops to invade North China. After Fu Zuoyi received this order, his mood was extremely complicated, but in order to implement Chiang Kai-shek's order, he immediately led the 35th Army, the Temporary 3rd Army, the 67th Army, the Northeast Advance Army, and the newly organized 4th Cavalry Division. , more than 51,000 people, with the cooperation of other miscellaneous troops and Datong Yan Xishan's troops, set off from Wuyuan until September 11. After capturing Baotou, Guisui, Jining, Fengzhen and other cities successively, all but one Stationed outside Guisui and Baotou, the main force is distributed in the area along the Pingsui Railway Fengzhen to Zhuozishan, trying to control Pingsui Road, so that after the main force of the Kuomintang army arrives in Beiping and Tianjin, it will attack Zhangjiakou from the east and west.