Chapter 50 11. Inventory

In this battle, from late December 1938 to March 1939, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping commanded troops in the southern Hebei Plain, fought more than 100 times with the Japanese army, wiped out more than 3,000 enemies, and destroyed 49 vehicles.In the end, the Japanese army had to stop the "mopping up" at the end of March under the continuous attack of the internal and external troops of the 129th Division and shrink its troops. As a result, the Japanese army occupied the towns and the Eighth Route Army occupied the villages. During this campaign, the soldiers and civilians in southern Hebei defended the new anti-Japanese base area with their lives and blood. With flexible tactics and heroic and tenacious fighting style, they united and fought against the enemy together, causing the "sweeping" enemy to suffer a strong blow. A powerful blow.

Xiangchenggu was victorious in the battle, and both Chiang Kai-shek and Wei Lihuang, the commander of the first theater, called the 386th Brigade to commend them. Chiang Kai-shek's telegram reads: Wei Lihuang's telegram reads: After the Battle of Xiangchenggu, after the Japanese army failed in their attempt to annihilate the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei, they occupied various counties in southern Hebei with a force, built roads, added strongholds, established puppet troops and regimes, and at the same time divided the regions based on strongholds. "Mopping up" in an attempt to destroy the anti-Japanese base areas in southern Hebei.In order to persist in the anti-Japanese guerrilla war in southern Hebei, the 129th Division dispersed its troops. On the one hand, it led local guerrillas to harass the Japanese and puppet troops, cut off their traffic, and made them unable to gain a foothold; on the other hand, they further mobilized and organized the masses, developed their armed forces, and transformed the plain terrain , Create conditions for persisting in guerrilla warfare in southern Hebei.