Chapter 39 12. The second counterattack against Shenyang

A few days ago, a batch of 14 historical photos stored in the former Japanese army was acquired in Japan. According to the interpretation of the contents, the Chinese and Japanese armies were still fighting fiercely around Shenyang around September 1932. At this time, it has been nearly a year since the "September 18th" Incident, and Shenyang is the military and political center where the Japanese army occupied the three northeastern provinces of our country. Who is still insisting on resisting here?It's a pity that the annotation of the photo did not clearly explain the time and event background of the shooting.Judging from the military caps abandoned in the battle, this looks like an attack launched by a regular army of the Northeast Army.However, it is well known that during the "September 18th" Incident, the Shenyang garrison of the Northeast Army pursued a "non-resistance" policy, and even the Northeast Army troops that retreated to the Jinzhou area completely retreated to Guanli on the occasion of the New Year in 1932.At this time, it is impossible to have an organized regular Northeast Army unit around Shenyang.

There were indeed resistance fighters fighting on this land at that time.The archives of both the enemy and ours record that in 1932, the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army active in the occupied areas of Northeast China counterattacked Shenyang at least twice. Among them, they once occupied part of the city in April and attacked Shenyang for five days at the end of August. According to Japanese archives, The Volunteer Army broke into the airport and burned the Japanese planes that were too late to take off.Volunteer troops participating in the war included the "Swallow Squad" and other green forest armed forces, as well as the lost troops of the Northeast Army (they may still wear the uniforms of the Northeast Army) and police, and even the armed forces led by the Communist Party such as General Li Zhaolin. Years ago, the armed forces led by different political forces had achieved a certain degree of joint operations on the black soil.

Regarding this counterattack, we have the following records: As early as March 1932, many volunteers from Shenbei and Tieling attacked Shenyang. At that time, they entered the Great North Gate and disarmed the puppet police station.After that, there were also sporadic battles near Shenyang, but the scale was not large.In late August 1932, the Volunteer Army in southern Liaoning took a second large-scale military operation against Shenyang.In order to plan to attack Shenyang, the main leaders of the various volunteer armies near Shenyang held a joint meeting.The meeting publicly recommended Zhao Dianliang, the 21st Volunteer Army, as the commander-in-chief of the siege, and at the same time confirmed that Li Zhaolin would command the 24th Route Volunteer Army to participate in the battle.The specific deployment is that Shen Baolin's "Swallow" team and Zhao Junfeng's "Pingri" team of the 24th Route Army detachment will serve as the main force to attack Shenyang Dongta Airport and the arsenal.In addition, Li Juchuan and Huang Yunchen of the "Tiandirong" of the 24th Route Army launched a westward attack to try to eliminate the enemy at the Japanese Station (now Shenyang Station).At the same time, Li Zhaolin commanded other volunteers in Liaoyang as the siege reserve team to launch an attack on Shenyang. On August 20th, Li Zhaolin led all the ministries on the southern front to lurk along the Hun River in the southern suburbs of Shenyang, and launched an attack after the friendly troops arrived.Unexpectedly, the actions of various ministries were blocked, and they had not arrived until the 28th. At the same time, the actions of the 24th Route Army had been noticed by the enemy.In this emergency situation, Li Zhaolin and Zhao Dianliang decided to attack the city immediately. At 12 midnight on the 28th, in the downpour, the Shenyang battle officially started.At 1:20 in the battle, the "Swallow" team first broke into the urban area from the Great South Gate, and expanded to the Shenshen Middle Street area. They fought fiercely with the Japanese army and the traitor merchant group, and wiped out dozens of enemies. The remaining people fought against the Japanese anyway, and the rest were disarmed.At the same time, other Volunteers from all walks of life also acted according to the scheduled combat missions. The Volunteers from the North Route entered the Great North Gate and seized 700 enemy guns. Defend the enemy, and then attack the Shenyang Arsenal.Regrettably, due to the heavy rain causing the river to swell, the "Tiandirong" department failed to enter the urban area. In the early morning of August 29, under the cover of armored vehicles and heavy artillery, the Japanese army frantically counterattacked to the south and east of the city. The volunteers from all walks of life were unable to gain a foothold in the city due to the lack of heavy weapons and the disparity between the enemy and us, so they fought and retreated. Withdrew from Shenyang at dawn on August 29.According to statistics, about 30 enemy soldiers were killed in service, and nearly 100 puppet military and police officers were captured anyway, including at least one platoon of the puppet Jing'an Army and dozens of puppet policemen.In terms of materials, the enemy's losses were even greater, and all the base facilities at Dongta Airport were burned down.At that time, seven planes were burned by the Volunteers.In addition, the arsenal was also severely damaged, the Japanese gasoline depot was burned, and the radio station was destroyed. The Volunteer Army also seized and took away a large number of guns, ammunition and other military supplies.

In a few months, they counterattacked the provincial capital twice, and the fighting spirit of the Volunteer Army is commendable.If one thinks that the whole of Northeast China has been occupied by this time, the Volunteer Army hastily formed an army, with no food inside and no reinforcements outside, and its composition is very complicated, yet they still dared to attack Shenyang, the base camp of the Japanese army in the three northeastern provinces, despite internal and external difficulties, and even attacked for several days. , It can be seen how bloody and courageous the Kanto man is in the face of the hatred of subjugation.

From the perspective of time, the photos discovered this time should have been taken by the Japanese army during the counterattack of Shenyang by the Volunteers at the end of August 1932. In this batch of photos, except for two that reflect the contention between the two sides in the Fengtian Arsenal, the rest of the photos were taken at the Liaoning Mortar Factory, which belonged to the former Northeast Army.In our data, the Volunteer Army’s counterattack against Shenyang in August 1932 included the attack on Fengtian Arsenal and the airport, and also recorded the process of almost capturing the traitor Qi Enming alive, but it did not mention that the Volunteer Army attacked the Liaoning mortar factory.

The Volunteer Army counterattacked Shenyang and attacked the mortar factory. Only this record was found in early 1932: One week after the founding of the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, the commander-in-chief Wu Xingzhou presided over a swearing-in meeting with hundreds of people in a big car shop on the outskirts of the city.At the meeting, a letter of appointment was issued, an oath was jointly sworn, and an attack on Shenyang City was planned on January 15, 1932.He ordered the first detachment to assemble from Xinmin to Lanjuntun to attack the puppet police station, the second detachment to assemble from Tieling Fushun to Dabeimen to attack the puppet police station, and the third detachment to gather from Puhe, a suburb of Shenyang, to attack the puppet police station. Cannon Factory, the fourth detachment assembled from Sujiatun to the south bank of the Hun River to attack the west gate.Each detachment must be assembled before dusk, and at 12 o'clock that night, the commander of the artillery squadron of the Jing'an Army stationed in the arsenal fired three shots as the signal.The detachments attack together.

Because of internal mutiny, the battle was unsuccessful. However, the Japanese side suddenly discovered photos of the battles around the mortar factory in the counterattack Shenyang. We can't help but feel that in that war of resistance, there are still many good men who fought hard and were buried in history.