Chapter 39 9. Inventory

In this campaign, the Eighth Route Army wiped out more than 4,000 Japanese troops and recovered 18 counties including Qinxian, Yushe, Wuxiang, Liaoxian, Qinyuan, Tunliu, Changzhi, and Licheng counties (including 12 by our army and 6 by the Kuomintang army) ), consolidated and expanded the anti-Japanese base areas in the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan border area.The Tomidi Brigade, as the main force in the 9th Route siege, not only failed to make any "meritorious achievements", but suffered the heaviest losses.According to the reconnaissance team of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, when the head of the Tomidi Brigade led the remnant troops to withdraw from Xiangyuan via Qinyuan, there were only more than 500 people left in each regiment, and the cumbersome transport troops had already disappeared.The head of the Tomidi Brigade was also severely punished for this.

The Eighth Route Army also suffered heavy casualties in this battle, especially in the battle in Changle Village. Ye Chenghuan, the head of the 772 regiment, was seriously injured and unfortunately died.Commander Ye Chenghuan is a famous general of our 129th Division. Because of his repeated outstanding achievements, he has won the appreciation of the superiors and the support and love of the soldiers.His sacrifice deprived our army of an excellent commander.When the body of head Ye Chenghuan was buried, many leaders including Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, Xu Xiangqian and Chen Geng went to Hebi Village where he was buried to pay their respects.

During the siege campaign against the 9th Route, there were more than a dozen divisions of the Kuomintang army in this area. However, in the face of the Japanese attack, except for a few troops who made sporadic resistance, most of them fled to northern Henan or the Zhongtiao mountainous area.After the battle, Chiang Kai-shek sent a "reward telegram" to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, especially for the 129th Division's battle in Changle Village. Therefore, from this battle, the broad masses of the people have further seen clearly that the Eighth Route Army is the real anti-Japanese team, thus making the prestige of our party and army unprecedentedly improved.From then on, the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan region based on the Taihang Mountains was basically controlled by the Eighth Route Army.

In this anti-siege operation, Zhu De and Peng Dehuai used the tactics of combining guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare to enable the main force to move freely with the cooperation of extensive mass guerrilla warfare and look for opportunities to wipe out the enemy.This is the development of the Red Army's anti-encirclement and suppression combat experience in the Soviet area, and it is also a successful practice of Mao Zedong's thought of the whole people's war of resistance. In 1945, when Peng Dehuai summed up the experience of the nearly 8 years of the War of Resistance, he said: "The leadership of the Eighth Route Army has directly obtained the successful experience of transforming a civil war into a national war from this anti-Ninth Route siege, that is, the enemy's siege can be broken. "

Even the Japanese army had to admit that the power of the Communist Army should not be underestimated. They warned each other: "There is an Eighth Route Army in North China that cannot rest in peace." Convergence, its power is really hard to insult." The book "North China Public Security War" edited by the Japanese Defense Agency's War History Office wrote: After the Zhengtai and Hanchang Road raids and the smashing of the Japanese army's "nine-way siege" in the southeast of Shanxi, the influence of the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army was expanded, and the confidence of the broad masses of the people to persist in the war behind enemy lines was enhanced; at the same time, it caused great anxiety to the Japanese army. , I have to admit: "In the area of ​​the First Army, the powerful Chinese army retreated into the mountains in Shanxi Province, and together with the Communist Army that originally occupied the area, disrupted the area we occupied. Its power should not be underestimated. The First Army began in March From mid-April to the end of April, the solemn crusade was carried out in the occupied area. Although the enemy was hit to a certain extent, it failed to achieve the expected purpose, especially the crusade against the Communist Army in Wutai Mountain and the north of Lu'an. "