Chapter 19 Chapter 18 From Suining to Xiajiang

Badaohezi is located in the southeast of Ning'an County, more than 60 kilometers away from the county seat, surrounded by mountains and mountains, with a small plain in the middle, and only a mountain pass in the northwest leading to Wolong River and Ning'an. ".The village was built on a small plain, and there were originally dozens of households. The Jidong Bureau mobilized dozens of households from Wangqing County, almost all of whom were Korean (ethnic) farmers.There are party branches, anti-Japanese associations, women's associations, and children's groups, as well as a peasant self-defense force of more than 50 people.Production labor, military training, standing guard, supporting the army, reading and writing, learning to sing revolutionary songs, and holding gala parties on festivals.All kinds of anti-Japanese armed forces and people from other places came here, and all of them suddenly understood: these days, there is still such a world in this world.

At the beginning of September 1934, more than a thousand Japanese and puppet troops attacked the Badaohezi base area.Jiang Xintai, the captain of the Peasant Self-Defense Force, ambushed his team on the east and west mountains and blocked the mountain pass.The enemy came in, was flanked by fire from both sides, left a few corpses and exited the mountain pass, and then attacked again.This time it was to attack the commanding heights on both sides of the mountain pass, first with shelling.The sound of explosions roared in the valley, and the officers and soldiers of the Self-Defense Forces crouched behind rocks and trees, condescending, and shot at the enemies who climbed up.

The Battle of Badaohezi is destined to be tragic.Not to mention the local peasants' armed forces, even the main force of the Anti-Japanese War, we must try our best to avoid this kind of positional defensive warfare.They are brave, tenacious, and reckless, one against ten, because they are defending their hometown, their parents, wives and children.Captain Jiang Xintai later became the chief of staff of the Korean People's Army, brave and resourceful.If it is the era of cold weapons, all these plus favorable terrain, victory is not impossible.But now, this kind of resistance is simply impossible to last, not to mention that it will disappear after hitting the bullets.

The village was reduced to ashes and ruins in the sea of ​​fire. More than 40 people who did not have time to escape or were reluctant to leave their homes were killed. Some children were thrown into the fire by the enemy and burned to death. The bones of relatives were buried, a horse stand was erected on a piece of scorched earth, and cellars were dug.It was the autumn harvest season, and they hid the harvested grain in the mountains, and sent away the elderly, women, children and the infirm with disabilities to seek refuge with their relatives and friends.They knew that there would still be blood and fire here, and they should have followed the thirty-six strategy, but they did not leave, nor did they change their tactics, and they still resisted stubbornly. In mid-October, the red land of Badaohezi was wiped out, and the Self-Defense Forces suffered serious losses.

After the Fifth Army was organized, it felt that the troops were too concentrated.In guerrilla activities, the troops of the whole army should be distributed in a planned way, and based on the experience of activities in the past one or two years, which troops move to new areas should be developed and losses avoided.Whichever army sticks to a field will suffer difficulties and losses.Therefore, at that time, the Jidong Special Committee resolutely proposed to the Fifth Army that the main force of the army should leave Ning'an and develop into a new area. This opinion was agreed by the comrades of the Fifth Army.

The above text was taken from the "Report of the Jidong Special Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Issue of the Fifth Army of the Anti-Union Army" on June 22, 1936, so there were three groups of soldiers in the spring of this year, with one group staying in Ning'an and two groups attacking the east and west wings . The large-scale transfer of villages and households in Ning'an area began in August 1935.While the space for activities was being squeezed, the military "crusade" of the Japanese aggressors to "cure the symptoms" also changed from short-term to long-term, and the intensity continued to increase.Some mountain and forest teams that did not use guerrilla tactics properly, and some were very effective, such as the Northwest Mountain Eighth Brigade, which basically collapsed.

According to the proposal of the Jidong Special Committee, the 1st Division of the 5th Army centered on Emu County and moved to Wuchang, Weihe, Shulan, Dunhua and other counties to open up the connection between the 1st Army and the 3rd Army. The 2nd Division took Muling as the center, extended to Dongning, Mishan, and Boli, and got in touch with the 4th and 3rd Armies.And prepare to set up the joint headquarters of the 2nd Army and the 5th Army, so that as many new guerrilla areas as possible can be opened up after the Qingsha tent is set up, and it will be in a more favorable position in the winter anti-"crusade".

In March, two regiments of the advance troops of the 2nd Division marched east from Muling under the leadership of the division commander Fu Xianming, and fell into the enemy's siege in Huangnihezi, Mishan County. Fu Xianming and many soldiers died.Wang Guangyu, the division commander, and Liu Shuhua, director of the Political Department, succeeded him and led the team to continue to fight against the Japanese and puppet troops along the way. On May 20, he attacked the train on the Middle East Road and killed more than 10 Japanese soldiers. On the 25th, they subverted and attacked the train in Sandaohezi, killing 6 Japanese soldiers, including 1 major and 1 captain.

In mid-February, the 1st Division moved from the Dunhua and Emu areas to the Ning'an Lianhuapao area to rest and prepare to attack Wuchang and Shulan, but was attacked by the enemy.This is the lotus bubble battle I wrote about earlier.At this time, due to the stricter enemy's rule over Daonan on the Middle East Road, it was impossible to advance westward to Wuchang and other places, and the 1st Division also turned to Daobei.First attacked the enemy's defense post on the Malian River in Ning'an, then attacked the military column at Bamiantong Xiaowu Station in Muling, and attacked the Xiaojinshan Gold Mine Bureau, and gained a lot.After arriving in Linkou County, he attacked the 38th Regiment of the Japanese Army in Heizaogougou, and then went straight to Diao Ling.

The troops directly under the military headquarters and the left-behind troops attacked the tribes and the police station in the Ning'an area, disarmed the two puppet companies, supported and covered the main forces of the 1st and 2nd divisions moving northward, and then moved northward one after another. In March 1937, in addition to the left behind troops, the main force of the 5th Army successively gathered in the lower reaches of Mudanjiang based in Diaoling, and opened up guerrilla areas in Yilan, Fujin, Baoqing and other counties. The most famous battle of this period was the ambush of a column near the level station.

On September 10, the joint forces of the 2nd Army and the 5th Army received intelligence from the underground party in Mudanjiang City. Within two days, a train of special trucks would drive from Mudanjiang to Suifenhe. The strength of the troops is unknown. Zhang Zhonghua, director of the Political Department of the 5th Army, and Hou Guozhong, deputy commander of the 2nd Division of the 2nd Army and head of the 4th Regiment, estimated that the escort troops would not exceed a hundred people, so they decided to ambush. The "Heishan Team" of the mountain forest team was familiar with the terrain, and with him as a guide, they rushed to the vicinity of the horizontal station about 3 kilometers east of Daimagou before dawn on the 12th.The terrain here is steep, with Lazi on the north side of the railway and a deep ditch on the south side.At about 9 o'clock that night, the military train had just driven up the damaged road from west to east when the front of the train bumped and then capsized to the south side, dragging most of the train carriages in front into the ditch. There was a loud bang, followed by howling ghosts and howling wolves. It could be heard that the Japanese army was in the overturned car in front, and the puppet army and military horses behind it.The officers and soldiers concentrated their fire on the devils while shouting "Chinese people don't fight Chinese people".The ghosts, who were still in shock, lay on the roadbed and behind the carriages to resist desperately. There was a hand-to-hand fight at one point, and they were finally oppressed in the ditch.In the middle of the night, the enemy's resistance gradually weakened. In the Anti-Union War, what must be kept in mind is the defense of the enemy and reinforcements, and it is even more important to not love to fight right now.Zhang Zhonghua and Hou Guozhong commanded the troops to launch a violent attack, disarmed more than a hundred puppet troops in the rear compartment, then burned the train and withdrew from the battle. On October 27, Zhou Baozhong wrote to Chai Shirong and Liu Shuhua: Our second and fifth army activity teams, with the second army and fourth regiment as the main force, participated in the mountain and forestry team. On September 20, the Haishan Division attacked the Japanese troop transport train on Zhongdong Road between the ninth station and Tiemagou, and killed more than 130 Japanese bandits. There are sixty military horses, and it is useless to destroy their military supplies. On October 10, 1937, the "Notice of the Fifth Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army on Preparations for the Establishment of the Second Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army" stated: Comrade Chai Shirong is a member of the Communist Party of China. Based on the purpose of uniting all Chinese people to resist Japan and save the country, he has led the guerrilla movement in Northeast China since the September 18th Incident. The struggle for the victory of liberation lies in the consistent struggle for the victory of the liberation of Chinese society. I hope that comrades from all walks of life will understand and support each other. Chai Shirong, a middle-aged man with a height of about 1.75 meters, is thick and strong, with thick eyebrows, a big beard, and a bald head that is a bit topped. After 1937, the clothes are usually the same as that of officers and soldiers. In spring, summer, autumn and winter, they are mostly the clothes captured by the enemy. In winter, they add a pair of cotton sleeves and trousers, and then wear a Japanese army overcoat, a dog fur hat, or a Japanese rabbit wool hat. .What is different is that Chai Shirong wore a fox fur around his neck, which was later torn off by his subordinates, because the enemy recognized that the fox fur was a very important character, and they took special care of him on the battlefield. Chai Shirong was born in a peasant family in Jiao County, Shandong Province in 1894. At the age of five, he traveled to the Guandong with his parents and settled in Liudaogou, Helong County, Jilin Province.He is bright and studious by nature. He has studied for eight years, but had to drop out of school because of his father's illness.From then on, he farmed during the busy season and hunted during the slack season. In order to support his family, he was recruited to North Korea to build the railway, where he worked as a laborer for three years. When he returned to China in 1928, he caught up with Helong County to recruit police officers. He was admitted, and was later promoted to be an inspector in the station.During my three-year labor career in North Korea, the deepest impression was that I could not be a subjugated slave. After the "September 18th" incident, based on the dozens of police officers he led, a team was formed, and soon expanded to several hundred people. They joined the National Salvation Army and were organized into the 4th Brigade, known as the "Chai Brigade". Manchu and Jidong counties. As mentioned earlier, after Wang Delin crossed the border, Wu Yicheng would also lead a team to the Soviet Union, and Chai Shirong first stood up to support Zhou Baozhong's proposition.Wu Yicheng had to carefully consider the opinion of the powerful "Chai Brigade" brigade commander, and it was natural to influence and drive other brigade commanders and regimental leaders. Among the anti-union armies led by the Communist Party, only the 5th Army has established the post of deputy army commander from the beginning, but it is not just due to strength. Commander Chai Shirong of the Fourth Route handed over 28 varicolored rifles and 1,200 bullets to the Zhuangding Regiment in Nanxinguandi, Ning'an County, on March 14, and executed a leader by shooting.Also on April 5th, more than 300 puppet guards of more than 100 Japanese troops set off from Ning'an County to our headquarters. I found out that the team was densely packed in the mountains and forests, and set up lures to lure the Japanese troops. In the mountains and forests, I started shooting.In this service, thirty-two Japanese soldiers were shot to death, and twenty-six guns were covered, and none of our soldiers were injured at all. This is the text in the "Jilin Volunteer Army Anti-Japanese War Collection" written by members of the National Salvation Army. Chai Shirong, who was not native but grew up in the native land, is familiar with the mountains, forests and terrain.It is said that when they moved to Dongman and Jidong, the "Chai Brigade" rarely found guides.Although he has never been trained in guerrilla warfare, and has never heard of "fight if you win, and leave if you can't win", such a wise saying is originally the most concise and practical philosophy of survival in war. Chai Shirong seems to have a natural understanding of this and experience. Zhou Baozhong said: When it comes to guerrilla warfare, Chai Shirong is the number one. At the beginning of 1937, after the main force of the 5th Army was transferred to the Xiajiang area, it was learned that more than 300 Japanese and puppet troops stationed in Houdiaoling were going to Linkou.The intelligence of the underground party said that the enemy asked the local farmers for 200 pairs of sledges, and this plot caught Chai Shirong's attention. More than 300 people can't use so many sledges, and there must be a lot of military supplies. This battle will be very profitable. From Houdiaoling to Linkou, one must pass through Dapan Road Mountain, which is winding and winding. On the night of January 27, heavy snow fell, and the troops quietly dispatched.Arriving at Dapandao Mountain in the early morning of the next day, Chai Shirong glanced at the terrain. The general's guard battalion and the 5th regiment were deployed in the bushes beside Panshan Road. At around 12:00 noon, the enemy was seen showing up in the snow from a distance. The silent falling snow suddenly turned into a rain of bullets.The horses were injured, some fell down, and some dragged the sledge and ran wildly, colliding with each other.Those who were not injured were also shocked, and the situation was similar, and some were rolling on the hillside under the road.After a while of chaos, some enemies lay down on the snow, behind the sledge, and in the bushes, and began to resist.The Panshan Road at the end of the twelfth lunar month, stirred up by gunshots, seemed to have suddenly increased by a few degrees. Standing on the top of Hamatang Mountain, Chai Shirong, the deputy commander, put a wine gourd to his mouth while observing the situation on the battlefield, and took a few gulps. Chai Shirong, who once killed a leopard that broke into the village with his bare hands when he was young, was good at writing and marksmanship, but he seldom carried a gun on his body, and even a pistol was rarely seen.When the situation is critical, he will hold the machine gunner's machine gun in his arms and shoot.The one who can't leave him for a moment is a wine gourd, and so are the adjutants around him.When he drank it dry, sometimes the adjutant would hand over the wine gourd before he even reached out his hand.Some people are invisible after drinking.And the deputy commander who has experienced hundreds of battles and looks at a warrior usually likes to read books and think about problems. If he drinks a few sips of wine amidst the sound of guns and guns, he will become calmer, his brain cells will be more active and flexible, and his guns will be able to fire. more accurate. Most of the adjutants are old people from the National Salvation Army period.Except for Adjutant Luo who is a scholar who specializes in secretarial affairs, the rest are sharpshooters.Adjutant Liu, who is a few years older than Chai Shirong, is known as "Liu Pao" and is a god among gods.He had a younger brother, known as "Xiao Pao", who was also a sharpshooter. He was the company commander of the 4th regiment, but he died later.At this moment, he was standing behind the snow-covered bunker, with a 38 big "ba-hook, ba-hook", the guns saw blood, the bullets bit the meat, and they specially picked devils and threatening machine gunners to shoot. . The battle lasted until about 4 pm, and almost all of the more than 300 enemies were wiped out, including more than 40 devils. On February 1, a battalion of the puppet army stationed in the former Diaoling was either captured or killed, and all of them were wiped out. The 5th Army was able to establish a base in the Diaoling area, and these two battles are of great significance. Commander Chai Shirong took care of all the affairs in person, marched and garrisoned the troops, guarded and commanded the operations independently. This is the text in Zhou Baozhong's diary on March 31, 1939. From deputy army commander to army commander, Chai Shirong, who joined the party in 1934, did not hold a high position in the party. This is a man who leads troops in battle. On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival in 1934, Zhou Baozhong led the border army to Laota Station in Dunhua County. He saw the "Nine Zhan Team" of the Mountain Forest Team and learned that something happened here. The "Sunny Team" of the Eighth Brigade of the Northwest Mountain in Ning'an collected anti-Japanese supplies from the local armor chief Chen Zigeng, mainly single clothes.It's getting warmer, it's time for a change of season.Chen Zigeng had already done everything, the "Jiu Zhan Team" arrived first and took away a batch, and the "Sunny Sky Team" would not be enough when they came. Yu Changhe, the leader of the "Sunshine Team", got angry, saying that Lao Tzu was shooting at the front, and he was still wearing cotton jackets to fight on May Day, what are you gangsters doing?The Chen family is a big family in the local area, and they have many gunners and servants. These people are also full of anger, saying that you are all masters, which of us dare not serve?There are more wolves and less meat, and the gods can't do it so fast. The Eighth Brigade of Northwest Mountain was originally the old troops of Ding Chao and Li Du. It had about 400 people and was divided into eight brigades.They are well-equipped and have sufficient ammunition. They have fought against the Japanese army many times, with more victories and fewer losses.After the Suining Anti-Japanese Allied Army was established, it sent people to work in the Eighth Brigade and fought jointly with it. Seeing the Chen family say this to him, Yu Changhe became wild and ordered to attack the Chen family compound.How could this Chen family compound be easily defeated? The gunshots rang out like "ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping-pong," and Liu Dapao, the cannon leader of the "Sunny Team", was killed.Yu Changhe became more and more furious, and wanted to wash the Chen family compound with blood. At this moment, Zhou Baozhong led the Border Region Army and the "Nine Occupation Team" to arrive. Zhou Baozhong walked up to Liu Dapao, knelt down, straightened the messy hair on the face of the deceased, and took out a towel to wipe off the blood on his face.This is a sharpshooter, a man who is desperate to fight.In one battle, he used a rifle to "roll" the enemies one by one, and rescued more than 20 brothers who were besieged. Those who are far and near, those who are familiar with those who do not, under the gaze of hundreds of pairs of red eyes, Zhou Baozhong stood up, and the two sharp eyes rested on Changhe's face for a moment, and the pockmarks on his face changed color: just now A person who is still alive and kicking, just died like this, is his death worth it? brothers!Zhou Baozhong looked around, his hoarse southern accent was passionate and indignant, we are the anti-Japanese army, the Japanese are killing the Chinese, but what are we doing here?It's not that Chen Jiachang doesn't help, but he's too busy for a while, so let's wait a few days, what's the big deal, do you have to beat him to death?Liu Paotou is dead, who is having fun there?Even if you flatten the Chen Family Courtyard, what kind of a hero is that? How many brothers will die, how many orphans and widows will be added?How many Chinese have been killed by the Japanese, do you think they haven't killed enough? With generous speeches and battlefield speeches, the murderous look in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the "Sunny Team" gradually disappeared. Yu Changhe suddenly threw himself on Liu Paotou, crying loudly: Brother, I'm so stupid, I'm sorry for you, how can I explain to your Gaotang. Chen Zigeng, who was seen by everyone on the gate of the courtyard, opened the door and came out. He clasped his fists and saluted everyone from all walks of life: I, Chen Zigeng, can hardly express the feelings of the whole family after listening to what Chief of Staff Zhou said. , just want to speak with action.I would like to spend 300 oceans to mourn Liu Paotou. His parents, wife and children are supported by me, and I will give 10 dan bags of rice, 10 shi of millet, and 10 shi of soybeans as supplies for the eighth brigade.This noon, I slaughtered pigs and sheep to clean up the dust for Chief Zhou, the leaders and brothers. Then, he walked up to Zhou Baozhong and Yu Changhe, and saluted again: Chief of Staff Zhou and Brother Changhe, if you two don't dislike me, please do me a favor today, I want to exchange Jinlan University with you and all the leaders. Tie, form a life and death brothers. This is somewhat unexpected, but it is also reasonable.Seeing that Yu Changhe couldn't hold back for a while, Zhou Baozhong said: Do as Chen Jiachang said, make sworn brothers and fight against Japan together. At this point, Yu Changhe also happily said: Okay, listen to Chief of Staff Zhou.I am a rough person, and I have offended you a lot, but I am absolutely unambiguous about beating the Japanese. Including the battalion and above leaders of the "Jiu Zhan Team", there were 65 people in total. They knelt down in the courtyard of the Chen family and swore to the Tianmeng: work together to fight against Japan to the end, expel the Japanese invaders, and never hesitate to die! On July 6, 1936, "Letter from Zhang Zhonghua and Chai Shirong of the Fifth Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army to Brother Chunshan" stated: The establishment of the Five Armies is entirely based on Zhou Baozhong's personal prestige and belief.Only he is more complete in military and political matters.The implementation and application of political theory and strategy depend on one person.Comrade Baozhong not only became the commander of the Fifth Army, but also served as the commander of the Second Army.Every day at work, I use my brain and work hard. Also the Secretary of the Military Committee of the Manchuria Provincial Party Committee, Yang Jingyu had a ready-made guerrilla army when he arrived in South Manchuria. Zhao Shangzhi pulled up a new team after experiencing the failure of the Bayan guerrilla army. Zhou Baozhong was in another situation. . There is a folk saying, "A staff officer doesn't have a chief, and he doesn't fart loudly." Zhou Baozhong not only has "Chang" on the back, but also the word "General" in front of it. The role of the staff in front of him is just a few words.Today's chief of staff is only half a level behind the leader of the superior, and it's hard to say how much the difference was back then.Even Wang Delin, the commander-in-chief of the National Salvation Army with absolute authority, also wants to be the commander of the 1st Brigade himself.This is an important feature of the old Chinese army.Position is only one aspect, the key lies in whether there is military power, how many guns can be controlled and commanded, this is true and real.In that kind of troubled times, if you don't have a team following orders at any time, who will treat you as a dish? Jidong is the birthplace of the Self-Defense Army and the National Salvation Army. After Li Du and Wang Delin crossed the border, most of the old troops became the Mountain Forest Team.Compared with Dongman, Nanman, and Beiman, these teams have more elements and better equipment.It's hard to say how difficult it is to work in the united front of this kind of team, and it can't be said that these leaders all have an emperor's dream, but that kind of mountain king gene must exist more or less.After the defeat of the Volunteer Army, South Manchuria has Yang Jingyu, North Manchuria has Zhao Shangzhi, and Jidong naturally needs a strong leader.And these arrogant soldiers who are both anti-Japanese and self-respecting will soon seldom listen to Wu Yicheng, the acting commander-in-chief of the National Salvation Army, so will they listen to the chief of the general staff Zhou Baozhong? From the Suining Anti-Japanese Allied Army to the Anti-Japanese 5th Army, this is basically the case. The vicissitudes of life show the true qualities of a hero-tazhan's sworn brotherhood is just one example. Little sparks are burning everywhere, Japanese pirates howl day and night. Hanging upside down thirty million, Tian Heng Zhuang son five hundred. This is a poem written by Zhou Baozhong in the spring of 1935, "Resistance and Death Rather Than Surrender". This is a man with a strong personality, reticent, stern and strict, principled, one-sided, and able to measure when and how to compromise.It is such a seemingly inaccessible person who has been under the pressure of "collusion from the upper class" for a long time, and with his unique character and charm, he has gathered various anti-Japanese forces in the Jidong area. The old man Peng Shilu said that when there was any problem, there was no way for everyone to express their opinions, and people would say: It would be great if Commander Zhou was there. Back then, there was a saying of "Southern Yang and Northern Zhao", and this "Jidong Zhou" is purely from the author's mouth today, but this statement can stand.