Chapter 118 11. Inventory

The soldiers and civilians in Beiyue and Pingxi, the anti-Japanese base areas in Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei, with the cooperation of Northwest Shanxi and Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions, lasted more than two months, fought more than 800 times, and wiped out more than 5,500 Japanese and puppet troops; only the militia in Beiyue District were killed or injured There were 485 Japanese and puppet troops, and 30 of them were captured.The Eighth Route Army suffered more than 2,000 casualties.General Ningji Okamura, the enemy chief in North China, had to admit to reporters in Beiping on October 20: "It is difficult to restore public security in North China, and it is not easy to eliminate the Communist bandits quickly." "The Communist bandits are like mice, and the imperial army is like lions. , but you can’t catch mice, you have to find a cat, and this cat is the people.” ("Nie Rongzhen Military Selected Works", People's Liberation Army Press, July 1992, first edition, p. 162)

"His so-called 'cat' is a traitor organization, using China to control China." At the anti-"mopping up" summary meeting, Nie Rongzhen said tit-for-tat, "But we said that what he was looking for was not a cat but a dog—traitors." Dogs. Dogs can never catch mice!" Although Ningji Okamura failed to gnaw down the two hard bones of Beiyue and Pingxi base areas in this autumn "mopping up", he did his utmost to destroy the base areas and build new forts, blockade ditches, and blockade walls. achieved certain results.In other words, through the "mopping up", the Japanese army made progress in implementing the "Public Security Strengthening Movement".This has brought more and more difficulties to the Jinchaji Military Region.

After the anti-"mopping up" victory, Nie Rongzhen was happy while explaining to Tang Yanjie worriedly: The military region has already made a preliminary summary of the anti-"mopping up" and has statistics on the casualties of the troops, but it is necessary to make statistics on all aspects as soon as possible. The losses suffered, but also to mobilize everyone to further sum up experience and lessons. After collecting statistics in the past two months, the figures reported by Tang Yanjie are astonishing: more than 4,500 people were killed and injured in Beiyue District, more than 20,000 young and middle-aged people were arrested, more than 150,000 houses were burned down, and nearly 58 million grains were lost A large area of ​​crops was destroyed, more than 230,000 pieces of agricultural tools were robbed and destroyed, and more than 80,000 heads of livestock and poultry were taken away; the enemy newly built 113 bunkers, more than 530 kilometers of roads, and dug 158 kilometers of blockade ditches; The Hebei-Shanxi border area has created a large area of ​​no man's land; the area of ​​Beiyue and Pingxi base areas has shrunk by more than 4,000 square kilometers.