In December 1938, the town of Zoumayi in Laiyuan County, Baoding, Hebei Province, suddenly became lively.
The 1st and 3rd Regiments of the First Sub-district of Jin-Cha-Ji, which had just finished the defense of Fuping, were ordered to rush to the horse station located in the mountainous area for rectification. Along with those who participated in the reorganization training, there were also 2 battalions of the 2nd regiment of the 1st Division, 2nd Regiment, which had been transferred to the 3rd Sub-District by Commander Nie Rongzhen, and 1st And 3rd Battalion had been transferred, but the 2nd Battalion was temporarily arranged by Yang Chengwu, commander of the First Sub-District, to stay behind.
Along with the 5 regiments of the 4th Sub-district of Lingshou County, because zhou Jianping, the commander of the 4th Subdistrict, had been recuperating from illness, and the political commissar Xiong Botao asked the 5th Regiment to follow several regiments of the 1st Sub-district to reorganize the training. However, the regimental commander's political commissar found that Yang Chengwu, the commander of the first sub-district, was not present.
The rectification and training units have all been put in place, but Yang Chengwu, who presided over the rectification training, has not appeared for a long time.
Yang Chengwu
This horse-riding rectification training is just a "smoke screen bomb" released by Yang Chengwu, the purpose of which is to confuse the Meng Gechen who have 7,000 people, and the 2 regiments and 2 battalions of the 1st Division are also left to cooperate with this operation. Who is Meng Gechen, and why should Yang Chengwu get rid of it quickly?
Just when the "outsider" Meng Gechen wuthering mountain forest, there was a "sitting household" that also sprang up. This person was Zhao Yukun, who once ran to the Northeast Army to become a soldier in order to fill his belly. Unable to bear years of warlord scuffles, Zhao Yukun left the army and ran back to his hometown to become a "butcher", but because of a dispute, he injured people and was imprisoned for several years.
Song Xuefei
Soon after coming out of prison, he caught up with the "July 7 Incident", and the Japanese army burned and looted everywhere to harm the people, and Yi County was not spared. Zhao Yukun seems to have remembered the ancient adage of "heroes in a chaotic world" in the commentary, and spontaneously organized a team to attack the Japanese army and rob landlords and rich merchants.
Although Zhao Yukun is a butcher who is bold and rough, his brain is not stupid and his emotional intelligence is extremely high, and he also attaches special importance to readers. When he heard that Song Xuefei, a battalion commander of the Northeast Army in YiXian County, returned to his hometown, Zhao Yukun did not hesitate to invite him out of the mountain to be his chief of staff.
Song Xuefei was a high-caliber cadet of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, and he had many years of experience in leading soldiers to fight in the Northeast Army. When he came, Zhao Yukun was like a fish in the water, and this grassy anti-Japanese contingent soon attracted the anti-Japanese armed forces of Dingxing, Xushui, and Laishui to vote. There was no room for two tigers in one mountain, and Meng Gechen and Zhao Yukun were increasingly conflicted in order to compete for territory, and soon a conflict broke out.
However, there was still a gap between Zhao Yukun, a "sitting household" and Meng Gechen, a "foreigner", and after the First World War, Zhao Yukun's "student army" was defeated and returned, and Zhao Yukun himself became a prisoner of Meng Gechen. In order to rescue Zhao Yukun, who had the "grace of knowing the encounter", Song Xuefei found the Hebei guerrilla army of the old Red Army Meng Qingshan and asked the Eighth Route Army to mediate.
Founding Major General Meng Qingshan
As a result, Meng Qingshan also performed a "Yuanmen Shooting", which calmed the dispute between the two sides and appointed Meng Gechen as the commander of the "Seventh Route Army". Zhao Yukun and Song Xuefei were also very moralistic, and soon the Eighth Route Army, which had also defected to Meng Qingshan, was named the "Tenth Route Army".
Although meng gechen's team and the eighth route army name is only one word difference, but the warlord style, bandit habits are too heavy, everywhere harassing the people to bully the good people, and Meng Gechen is also eating, drinking and gambling, causing a very bad impact in the local area, many people have also gone to the first division to complain.
In the second half of 1938, Meng Gechen and Zhao Yukun's "Tenth Route Army" grabbed territory on the one hand, and frequently "eyebrow-to-eyebrow" with the Japanese army on the other hand.
Before attacking Meng Gechen, Yang Chengwu also specially consulted Meng Qingshan's opinion, and Meng Qingshan did not protect the short, bluntly saying: "If necessary, you may as well solve it by force." Meng Gechen had more than 7,000 people, so Yang Chengwu left the 2nd Regiment and 2 Battalions with the Special Agent Battalion and the Cavalry Battalion to cooperate with the 1st Regiment and 3rd Regiment in battle. And Yang Chengwu placed the place of rectification training in Laiyuan County, which also hoodwinked Meng Gechen.
When Yang Chengwu's three regiments appeared in front of the "Seventh Route Army" in Yi County, Meng Gechen also sent his subordinate Lu Xingwen to bring people to reward the three armies. Yang Chengwu let the local-dominated "pioneer theater troupe" carry out a nostalgia offensive, and it did not take much effort to peacefully solve 5,000 Meng Gechen. Meng Gechen's "Seventh Route Army", which was close to the "Tenth Route Army", also had more than 2,000 people defect to Zhao Yukun.
Gao Peng (second from left), Yang Chengwu (second from right), Wang Daobang (first from right) and farmers
In March 1939, more than 5,000 people of Zhao Yukun's "Tenth Route Army" were reorganized into the fifth detachment of the first division.
Zhao Yukun was the commander, Song Xuefei was the chief of staff, and Zhang Qinnan, the leader of the plainclothes team. In order to strengthen ideological work, Yang Chengwu sent Wang Daobang, a Red Army cadre, to the five detachments as the political commissar of the detachment, but in order to take into account the overall situation, the three regimental commanders were all close associates of Zhao Yukun.
As the first anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines, the strongest combat effectiveness of the four military sub-districts in Jin-Cha-Ji was undoubtedly the first sub-district near southwest Beijing, with troops from the Red First Division and the Independent Regiment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. By incorporating Meng Gechen and Zhao Yukun, the troops of the first division suddenly expanded to more than 20,000 people. However, although Zhao Yukun pursued progress, the bandit habit of robbing his family and robbing the house still existed.
In fact, not only Zhao Yukun, but also many of his subordinates are not accustomed to the bitter days of eating chaff vegetables, and they miss the green forest life of occupying the mountains as the king, drinking wine in large bowls and eating meat. Although Song Xuefei's training and Wang Daobang's political work were effective, many problems were exposed in several actual battles, and in the Battle of Dalonghua annihilation in May 1939, 2 regiments shot in advance to turn the ambush battle into an obstruction war.
In november 1939, during the Loess Ridge Ambush, the five detachments and 2 regiments again withdrew from the battlefield ahead of schedule, resulting in an abrupt end to the battle that could have expanded the results. After the war, Yang Chengwu took measures to reorganize the five detachments into the 25th Regiment and the 26th Regiment, and Zhao Yukun, who coveted enjoyment, gradually became dissatisfied in his heart. Although Yang Chengwu himself took 5 yuan to give him a special allowance of 200 yuan, this guy was still greedy and insufficient.
Zhao Tong (third from left)
In January 1940, Zhao Yukun heard unexpected news: Zhao Tong had been eliminated.
Zhao Tong was the commander of the five detachments before the first division, and his mother was the famous "two-gun old lady" Zhao Hongwenguo, who destroyed his family in the northeast in the early stage of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and once developed to more than 10,000 people. Later, he was defeated by the Japanese army, and the family took refuge in Beiping.
Later, Zhao Tong joined the First Division of Jin-Cha-Ji and served as the commander of five detachments. In August 1938, he ran to Chongqing without resignation and was appointed "Major General". At the end of December 1939, Zhao Tong was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army near Shijiazhuang and completely destroyed. Zhao Yukun's rabbit died of grief and had the idea of surrendering to the enemy.
In March 1940, as soon as the banquet celebrating the first anniversary of the establishment of the five detachments ended, Zhao Yukunla political commissar Wang Daobang went to attend the funeral of the father of chief of staff Song Xuefei, in an attempt to hold Wang Daobang hostage and lead the five detachments to surrender to the enemy. With the help of Song Xuefei, Wang Daobang led the guards back to the military region, most of the five detachments were left by Zhang Qinnan, the leader of the plainclothes team, and Zhao Yukun only took more than 200 people, and later more than 1,000 people surrendered to the enemy.
After Zhao Yukun surrendered to the enemy, political commissar Wang Daobang was transferred, and chief of staff Song Xuefei was transferred to the head of the 25th regiment.
The Five Heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain
In November 1941, Zhao Yukun led more than 10,000 Japanese troops to raid the first division, and the famous "Five Heroes of Wolf Tooth Mountain" occurred in this battle. After liberation, Zhao Yukun painstakingly burned his face with hot soybeans, but he still could not escape justice, and was arrested and shot in 1950.
In 1955, Wang Daobang, the political commissar of the five detachments who had undergone the test, awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and Lu Xingwen, a subordinate of Meng Gechen, commander of the "Seventh Route Army", was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel. Song Xuefei, chief of staff of the five detachments at that time, was awarded the rank of colonel and promoted to major general in 1961.
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