The Battle of Shangdang was the first large-scale military conflict between the Kuomintang and the Communists after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Lieutenant General of the Nationalist Army and Commander of the 19th Army, Shi Zebo, was captured by our army in the first armed conflict between the Nationalist and Communist armies. Of course, in this battle, not only Shi Zebo was captured, But Yan Xishan had 11 divisions and 1 advancing column with a total of more than 35,000 people, and in this clash, he was annihilated by our army, of which 31,000 were taken prisoner.
This battle greatly damaged Yan Xishan's vitality, so that the "King of Shanxi" completely lost the ability to resist in the future war, so he had to rely on the central army of old Chiang Kai-shek to defend Shanxi, ending Yan Xishan's monopoly on Shanxi since the early years of the Republic of China.
Today, Uncle Long will not elaborate on this Shangdang battle that determined the fate of Yan Xishan, but only talk to you about the past life of Shi Zebo, commander of the 19th Army, who was captured by our army during this battle.
Shi Zebo is a native of Xianxian County, Hebei Province, born in 1899. In the era when he grew up, it was the warlord melee, so he also chose to join the army, first admitted to the eighth infantry section of the Baoding Officer School, and after graduation, he was assigned to be a probationary officer in the 15th mixed brigade of Sun Yue of the Jin Sui Army, and from then on embarked on a career of horse fighting.
Since then, Shi Zebo has experienced successive warlord wars, the Northern Expedition War, the Central Plains War, and the War of Resistance Against Japan. His position in the army has also been continuously promoted, and he has been promoted from platoon commander, company commander, battalion commander, regiment commander, to the commander of the 201st Brigade of the 19th Army in the Second World War when the War of Resistance broke out.
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Shi Zebo led his troops to participate in the Xinkou War of Resistance, the Battle of Taiyuan and the Battle of Hualing Temple, although they were defeated and defeated again and again in the early stage of the War of Resistance, they also played the mighty and indomitable strength of Chinese soldiers in the battle against Japan, especially in the Battle of Hualing Temple, Shi Zebo was commended by the supreme commander at that time. As a result, Shi Zebo was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general of the 19th Army of the 13th Army of the Second Theater of Operations, becoming a well-known general in the Jin Sui Army.
In August 1945, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang authorities headed by Chiang Kai-shek played a duplicitous tactic, inviting our Party leaders to chongqing for negotiations on the one hand, and organizing a military attack on our Liberated Area in Yan Xishan's Second Theater on the other.
In this way, in the Battle of Shangdang in October 1945, Shi Zebo, who participated in the siege of the Liberated Areas, including three divisions led by his army, was surrounded by our army in the county seat of Changzhi County, and when they broke through and escaped to the mountains in the lower reaches of the Qin River, then ... Then he was captured by our army. Later, when recalling the capture, he said: At that time, "more than two dozen Eighth Route Army troops rushed forward and surrounded this willow bush, and one of them shouted: "I am the chief of staff of the Thirteenth Regiment of Taiyue, we do not kill prisoners, and lay down our weapons are friends." "At this juncture, there was really no way out, so we had to obediently become prisoners."
So, what happened to Szepo after he was captured?
In the military conflict between the Kuomintang and the Communists at that time, there was no mention of war criminals, so After Shi Zebo was captured, he was sent to the Jin-Hebei Luyu Border Region, because he was a senior general of the Nationalist army, and his freedom was gone, but he could not be treated badly in life, so he ate and drank like this. Naturally, our party is good at building a united front, and the leaders of the border areas have advised them to abandon the dark and turn to the light and to stand on the side of the people.
Shi Zebo was certainly not convinced at that time, and after being detained by our side for two years, he was released. But after he went back, Yan Xishan was already uneasy about him.
After Shi Zebo returned to Taiyuan, he went to see Yan Xishan and said, "This time, I have lost someone to the president." Yan Xishan said, "Lose people, snow shame!" As a result, mainly the officers and men who were captured and released back, a "Snow Shame Struggle Regiment" was formed, with Shi Zebo as the commander-in-chief, and five regiments under it. But in the eyes of others, this regiment is not a "snow shame" is simply a shame!
In June 1948, Shi Zebo led his troops to participate in the Jinzhong Campaign, and in August, his regiment, led by Li Peiyi, surrendered. This made Yan Xishan and others even more uneasy, and immediately withdrew his troops, and Shi Zebo also found an excuse to resign and return to Taiyuan.
When our army liberated Taiyuan, Shi Zebo dug a hole to hide it so as not to be killed by shells. After that, Shi Zebo worked as an accountant for a few days in a private brick factory in Taiyuan. In 1952, he returned to Hebei to work as a farmer, and because his family had acupuncture techniques, he began to treat the villagers, and after a long time, he even had some small fame. In his later years, Shi Zebo became interested in the development of lubricants, and the aluminum-based lubricating oil he developed using earth methods had a temperature resistance of up to 170 ° C.
Later, Shi Zebo also served as a member of the Jiaohe County CPPCC Committee and a member of the Botou Municipal CPPCC Committee. On September 26, 1986, Szebo died at the age of 87.
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