Chapter 62 Outer part (5) The textual research on Sasu’s photo of Luobei’s battle

From the Japanese introduction of this historical photo collected, we can see the following key words: Luobei County, February 4th, Zhao Shangzhi, cavalry, Captain Bansaka. So, what is the verification of Chinese and Japanese historical materials?Compare it with the following Chinese historical materials, and you can get a good reflection immediately—— In Wang Minggui's memoir "Treading Through the Ten Thousand Mountains of Xing'an" (Heilongjiang People's Publishing House, 1988 edition), a passage can be excerpted: Zhang Shouzhen decided to attack two border strongholds, and welcomed Zhao Shangzhi back home with a successful military operation.According to the division of labor: Dai Hongbin led the Security Regiment of the Sixth Army, the 28th Regiment of the Fourth Division, and more than 500 troops from the First and Ninth Divisions of the Third Army to attack Zhaoxing Town (Luobei County), and Zhang Shouzhen, the political commissar, led more than 200 troops from the Second Division of the Sixth Army and the Tenth Division of the Third Army The troops attacked Yadanhe Town, and I led the Independent Battalion of the Third Division of the Sixth Army and more than a hundred cavalry troops from the 29th Regiment of the Sixth Army to ambush near Baoquanling to block the enemy reinforcements from Hegang. On the night of February 4th, Dai Hongbin commanded the battle to attack Zhaoxing Town. The troops of the Third and Sixth Armies who had invaded the city were attacked by reinforcements from the Japanese Kwantung Army and quickly withdrew out of the city. At dawn on February 5, our army fought a very fierce battle with the Japanese Bansaka troops chasing by car outside Zhaoxing City.Thirty or forty people under Captain Bansaka of the Japanese Kwantung Army were killed or wounded.

There are a few key words in the Japanese commentary of the photo, and there are not many of them in this passage! Comparing the content specifically, although there are differences in details, the records of the Japanese army and Wang Minggui's memories are almost completely consistent in terms of combat facts... The specific process of eliminating 18 Japanese troops including Captain Bansaka in Shangjieji battle is described in more detail in the military history book "The Sixth Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army" (Heilongjiang People's Publishing House, 1988 edition). "Jieji" and "Eighteen" Japanese troops were wiped out are clearly recorded:

When Dai Hongbin heard the news that the Japanese army had come to rescue the siege by car, he immediately ordered to retreat to the west of the city.Our army seized the fort at Shangjieji, shot violently at three vehicles of the Japanese Bansaka troops, killed 18 people including Captain Bansaka, and injured six others. The Japanese army was in a critical condition.Later, although more than 20 Japanese police officer Morishima and Japanese lieutenant Ito came to help, they were still suppressed by our army's powerful firepower and had no counterattack power. Until 3 pm, the puppet troops stationed in Fuxingtun, Suibin County Came to help by car, and fought fiercely with our army on both sides of the road.During the fierce battle, Dai Hongbin realized that our army was already in a disadvantageous position. If the battle continued, the entire army was in danger of being wiped out, so he immediately called a meeting of cadres above the group to study countermeasures...

Cai Jinkui proposed to retreat to the Soviet Union at this emergency meeting for the following reasons: (1) our Third and Sixth Armies consumed too many bullets during the battle in Zhaoxing Town, and it would be difficult to continue fighting if they were not replenished in time; (2) during the breakout process Among them, more than 30 members of our third and sixth armies were injured, and if they were not treated in time, they would inevitably cause a major loss of personnel; (3) Enter the Soviet Union to meet with Commander Zhao Shangzhi, and take him back to China to lead the war of resistance.All the cadres attending the meeting unanimously agreed with Cai Jinkui's opinion.

The original source of many descriptions in this record is a memoir article "Night Attack on Zhaoxing Town, Fierce Battle on Shangjieji" written by Wang Haizhen and Qiao Zhanjiang, who witnessed the Shangjieji battle (volume 1 of "Luobei Literature and History Materials") : The sentinel reported that two cars full of Japanese invaders had entered Zhaoxing Town from southeast Fujin. Commander Dai thought for a moment that this was the enemy's reinforcements, and our army had to make new battle preparations as soon as possible, so, Order the troops to withdraw westward.When our army was retreating, a car from the Japanese army chased up with nineteen Japanese soldiers. Seeing that they were about to insert themselves into the middle of our line, the soldiers immediately dispersed. , They didn't fight back very much, and the car drove forward desperately.Commander Dai Hongbin looked at it and found it strange. Seeing that Shangjieji was approaching, Commander Dai Hongbin understood: the Japanese army was going to Shangjieji to occupy the fort. If they occupied Shangjieji fort, they would attack from both sides At that time, we will be in an extremely disadvantageous situation, so Commander Dai opened his thunderous voice and ordered loudly: "Quickly occupy the fort! The troops in front occupy the Shangjie base fort!"

At the same time, he ordered the soldiers around him to shoot fiercely at the enemy's cars, preferably blowing the wheels of the cars.At this time, the leader of the 28th Regiment of the Sixth Army and an old machine gunner were running in the front.When they heard the order, they ran to the southeast fort on the street as if flying. The machine gun shooter, desperately, ran to the second floor of the fort. Holding a saber horizontally in the car, chattering, waving the army to supervise the battle.The Japanese soldiers froze their hands and feet, and just about to jump out of the car, machine gun bullets shot over like a torrential rain, and Major Bansaka was killed on the spot. The Japanese instructor Iwasaki of the Luobei Police Department in the car was just married, and he also left behind his honeymoon bride and Bansaka. The Shao Zuo died together, and the rest of the Japanese military vehicles got on and off in a mess, alas, only one of them was "big", he got out of the car too hard, the belt was behind Feng's back, and his body was not on the ground, just like a hanging oil bottle Towed back to Zhaoxing by a desperate car...

After the war, the Japanese militarists erected a stone monument near the east of Shangjieji Village, shamelessly calling the invaders such as "Masaka Bansaka" "the place where eighteen warriors died in battle".This inscription was lost during the "Cultural Revolution", and only a quarter of the original inscription remains. According to the records of this stele, Bansaka, who had the rank of captain, was later promoted to major. Wang Haizhen, the author of this reminiscence article "Night Attack on Zhaoxing Town, Fierce Battle on the Street Base", was the monitor of the Second Squad of the Mortar Company of the Sixth Army at that time, and Qiao Zhanjiang was the correspondent of the Sixth Army Headquarters.

In fact, there are three other details worth noting: First, our army that wiped out 18 Japanese troops including Bansaka was indeed a cavalry unit, which is consistent with the "riding bandits" recorded by the Japanese army: At one o'clock in the morning, Army Commander Dai Hongbin and Division Commander Cai Jinkui first set off with a cavalry team of 500 men.In the night, the horse team could only move forward by relying on the light of the snow.Due to the unfamiliarity of the road and the difficulty of identifying the road due to the heavy snow, the horse team could only move forward slowly...it took more than three hours to reach Zhaoxing.

When the cavalry team arrived at the southwest gate of Zhaoxing, Commander Dai ordered that one person in each squad be left to lay the horse stakes and keep an eye on the horses, while the rest were ready to fight. Second, the battle to attack Luobei County was on the verge of failure, and the reason for this is regrettable: The first battle of the siege was successful, and the remnants retreated to the Luobei County Office. Army Commander Dai Hongbin "immediately ordered to attack the puppet county office, and ordered the firing of artillery into the county office. Unexpectedly, the shells returned to the tide, forty mortar shells were fired, and thirty-eight rounds were fired without any sound."Therefore, "the enemies of the county office resisted stubbornly with the help of bunkers and watchtowers", and then the Japanese army began to reinforce, and the battle to attack Luobei County was on the verge of failure.

If all 38 rounds go off and hit the pseudo-county office in one breath, how much will the result of this battle increase... Third, Commander Dai Hongbin received such "support" from the Soviet Army in this way: The remaining two mortar shells were thrown at the Japanese reinforcements. "I didn't expect this shell to fire. There was only a loud bang. The shells exploded among the enemy group? This is the key." One shot! The Japanese army was so bombarded that they didn't know what was going on, so they quickly retreated." Another shot..." Commander Dai saw that it was already bright, and looked to the north. The river was very narrow, so he ordered the last shell to be fired at the Soviet Union in the north of the river. Fortunately, this shell was fired again, a huge The sound made the snow blow up. Why did Commander Dai order this shell to be fired at the Soviet side? The purpose was: First, to fire the shell to inform Jiangbei Commander Zhao Shangzhi that the Sixth Army had implemented the Northern Manchurian Provincial Party Committee Meeting. The decision; the second is to make the Soviet Union mistakenly believe that the Japanese army fired, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the Soviet side, and fired artillery at the Japanese devils. Sure enough, the Soviet Union fired artillery in the direction of Zhaoxing in a short while, restraining the temporary actions of the Japanese army in the South Camp” (but it can be It can be seen that the shelling of the Soviet army is obviously only a warning shelling).

After Shangjieji wiped out Bansaka, during the battle and retreat of our army, "Soviet artillery bombarded the Japanese army continuously, deterring the Japanese army, forcing the Japanese army not to dare to take risks and giving great support to our army." Looking through the dusty historical materials, there are so many such historical details that make people feel excited or sigh. The place where this battle took place was Shangjieji, Luobei County, a place whose name is not well known.So it is necessary to explain the place name "Shangjieji". The "Shangjieji" in Luobei County should be a place name based on the location of a "street base".There are many places in Northeast China where "Jieji" is the place name. Fujin County, which is not far from Luobei, also has the place name "Shangjieji". So what is a "street base"?To understand this word, we can first compare it with "homestead". "Fushun City Chronicle" records: In 1936, the land assessment in Fushun County of the Puppet Manchukuo was divided into three tax rates: street base, garden auxiliary land (note: it should be garden land), and rural land. Through this classification, we can also understand what the concept of "street base" is in general. "Heilongjiang Land Resources" has specific records: Street bases appeared in the late Qing Dynasty, and they were “reserving moderate land, water and land flushing important places, and marking out lots in the process of releasing wasteland in various places, thinking that setting up foundations is for street bases”… “Except for the official roads and government office bases Depending on the remoteness of the streets in each place, they are ranked separately, and the price is determined according to the price, and the households are recruited to accept ", the rent (street base price) and annual rent are collected, and a seal is issued through the Qingzhang to manage the business. If this passage in classical Chinese is difficult to understand, you can also read the introduction by Liu Xiusheng, an expert on the history of Ming and Qing Dynasties: After the ban was lifted in Northeast China in the late Qing Dynasty, local officials established standardized settlements mainly for industry and commerce in traffic arteries, military garrison areas, and densely populated areas. They were called "Fangjieji", that is, the four corners of the block and the layout of the streets were planned. , to attract investment and purchase houses in units of feet.Generally, the length and width are 3.3 miles.The area is ninety-nine, with the street as the main trunk in the center, industrial and commercial shops on both sides of the street, and alleys (residential areas) around the street.The street forms a commercial area dominated by shops and supplemented by markets.From the late Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, a large number of blocks appeared in the northeast region, and then gradually formed street towns, and most of the street foundations released at the beginning became county governments.