Chapter 178 4. Divide the whole into parts and disperse the guerrilla

In order to persist in the anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare in the eastern part of Jilin and Liaoning provinces and smash the enemy's key "crusade", on the eve of the Spring Festival in 1939, the First Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army, led by Yang Jingyu, attacked Muji, Huadian County, Jilin Province. He Forest Farm wiped out the pseudo forest police team, seized nearly a hundred rifles, 3 light machine guns, and a piece of military supplies. At the beginning of April, they attacked the Japanese field warehouse in Dapuchaihe, Dunhua, and disarmed more than 200 puppet policemen.Afterwards, the 2nd Army continued to operate in the Huadian area, and the 1st Army moved to the eastern mountainous area.

During the enemy's siege, the 1st Front Army of the 1st Route Army fought hard and sacrificed a lot.Although the 2nd and 3rd Front Army suffered some losses, they still dealt a big blow to the Japanese puppet army. In early June, the 2nd Front Army set up an ambush near the Hongqi River in Antu, and wiped out more than 50 enemies.Afterwards, he attacked the Dapuchai River in Dunhua, and wiped out the "crusade" team aided by the Japanese army in Sichuan; he attacked the Tianbaoshan Copper Mine in Yanji area, forcing it to stop production for one year. On August 23 and 24, under the command of Wei Zhengmin, the deputy commander-in-chief of the 1st Route Army, the 3rd Front Army adopted the tactics of "siege the city and fight for aid". The troops ambushed the enemy sent by Mingyuegou in Dashahe, north of Antu.In this battle, more than 100 Japanese soldiers under Captain Miyamoto were wiped out, nearly 100 rifles, 2 light machine guns were seized, and 7 cars were destroyed. On the 25th, another ambush was set up near Liushuhezi, north of the Dasha River, killing nearly a hundred members of the enemy's "crusade" team and destroying 5 enemy vehicles. On September 20, the Ministry ambushed the enemy in Hancongling, south of Dunhua, destroying 12 enemy vehicles.

In the summer of 1939, the 1st Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army actively carried out guerrilla warfare, constantly attacking the Japanese and puppet troops. However, since the second half of 1939, the Japanese and puppet authorities, who have shifted the focus of public security and order to the southeast Manchuria area, stepped up military "crusades" and political suppression against the 1st Route Army of the Anti-Alliance, making the 1st Anti-Alliance Army active in the southeast Manchuria area The struggle environment of the Route Army worsened.In order to cut off the food source of the 1st Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Army, the Japanese and puppet authorities forced the farmers in the southeast Manchurian area to harvest in advance, and then concentrated the grain in designated places, which were strictly supervised by the Japanese and puppet military police.

In response to this situation, Yang Jingyu sent Han Renhe, the political commissar of the Guard Brigade, to lead a young iron blood team to the Toudao, Erdao, and Sandao gardens in Yangjiang, and Yi Junshan, the director of the Political Department of the First Front Army, to lead the young iron blood team. The other part of the brigade went to Jinchuan, Yushucha, Longquan Town, and Hanjia Street in Huinan County, and Li Xingshao, the staff officer of the 1st Route Army Headquarters, led the first part of the Guard Brigade to the Mabutu Mountain area in Huinan County to raise food for the troops to survive the winter. Prepare.

On September 30, Yang Jingyu led a team to Toudaoliuhe, Huadian County, where he met Wei Zhengmin, Secretary of the Nanman Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Quan Guang, Minister of Propaganda of the Nanman Provincial Committee, Fang Zhensheng, Commander of the Guard Brigade of the 1st Route Army, and his troops. meet.After the meeting, Yang Jingyu and Wei Zhengmin decided to hold a meeting of the main leaders of the Southern Manchurian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the First Route Army of the Anti-Union Army from October 1st to 5th. Attending the meeting were Han Renhe, Quan Guang, Fang Zhensheng, Xu Zhe, Huang Haifeng and others.The meeting analyzed the serious situation at that time and studied the strategy against the enemy. In order to preserve its strength and avoid annihilating blows, it was decided to implement the policy of "breaking up into parts and dispersing guerrillas" among the various units of the 1st Route Army against the United Nations, and dispersed them with small groups of troops. The way of guerrilla is to deal with the enemy in order to crush the enemy's "crusade".

After the meeting, the units of the 1st Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Army dispersed in small groups in Yangjiang, Fusong, Jinchuan, Huinan, Huadian, Dunhua, Helong, Linjiang, Ji'an and other places in the Changbai Mountains to carry out guerrilla warfare. Activities, hard work.At this time, the anti-Japanese guerrilla struggle of the Anti-Japanese First Route Army had entered an extremely difficult period. The anti-union fighters lacked food and clothing, and often had no food for ten and a half months. They often grabbed snow when they were thirsty, and ate bark, wild vegetables, and grass roots when they were hungry.Without shoes to wear, they wrapped their feet in rags or sacks and marched on the snow, often fighting the enemy on an empty stomach.Every time the troops seize food and supplies from the enemy, they have to go through fierce battles and almost pay a heavy price in blood and lives.The Changbai Mountains are freezing and cold, and the temperature is often thirty or forty degrees below zero. Many soldiers lost their fingers and toes from the cold. When camping in the snow, many soldiers were too cold to stand up after lying down, and their lives were killed by the severe cold. .The troops were short of doctors and medicines, and many soldiers were disabled or even died due to injuries or frostbite that could not be treated in time.Just as the anti-union veterans said when they recalled, the life of the anti-union troops is: a house with a big sky, a kang with a big earth, fire is life, forest is home, wild vegetables and wild animals are food.

Under such extremely difficult conditions, the commanders and fighters of the 1st Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Army continued to fight bravely with the Japanese and puppet troops without fear of hardships and sacrifices. According to Japanese and puppet data records, in the seven months from June to December 1939 alone, the divisions of the 1st Anti-Japanese Army fought 276 times with the Japanese and puppet troops, including 49 battles with the General Command of the 1st Route Army and 49 battles with the 1st Front Army. 23 times, 41 times by the 2nd Front Army, 55 times by the 3rd Front Army, and 108 times by "unknown persons".These battles showed that the commanders and fighters of the 1st Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Army had a very strong will to resist Japan, and they dealt a heavy blow to the enemy.However, due to frequent and brutal battles and the harsh environment of hunger and cold, it also caused a large number of downsizing in the First Route Army of the Anti-Union. By the end of 1939, the strength of the First Route Army of the Anti-Union was less than a thousand.