From June 4 to July 13, 1942, it was the stage of the reorganization of our army and the transfer of the main force. Although the enemy's great "sweep" has basically ended, the occupation after the end is very different from the past. In the past, the enemy's "sweep" was like a storm, and after "sweeping", it retracted back to the stronghold. At the end of this "sweep," the enemy troops did not completely withdraw, but instead stationed themselves in squadrons and squads, built bunkers, installed strongholds, and carried out the so-called thorough "elimination and liquidation" in order to achieve the goal of completely destroying our base areas.
Within the basic area of the base area of our sub-district, the enemy has set up a large number of strongholds, dispatched pseudo-guards, special agent squads, and "clearance and suppression" task forces all day long, carried out longitudinal and horizontal searches day and night, and "cleared and suppressed" units; Enemy car teams and cavalry patrols searched for our scattered personnel in the wild; They also used traitors (such as Xiao Guanghua, former political commissar of the Supply Department of the sub-district, Sun Daxing, director of operations of the Armed Forces Committee of the Second District of Shuji County, and Xue Biao, chief of the judicial section of Shenshu County, to search for our cadres and dig up the guns, ammunition, grain, and military supplies that I had buried; He used all kinds of brutal means to threaten and beat the masses and force them to confess to our cadres, the Eighth Route Army, and the wounded and sick.
The Japanese brutally slaughtered the masses in the base areas
The enemy once captured 27 people at The Wangjiapu in Shennan, threatened to kill the head, forced the masses to confess where the wounded and grain were hidden, and killed 16 people in succession, and the answer was still "There is no village!" Then several more people were killed, and the director of the village armed forces committee stepped forward and admitted that he was a cadre and wanted to kill him casually. There were heavy weapons, ammunition and guns buried in our sub-district, and the enemy asked the masses to hand them over, and the masses insisted that "I don't know!" "As a result, more than 10 people were killed, and our military supplies were saved." During the enemy's "sweep," many fort households not only covered up the soldiers of our army, but also covered the families of many of our leading cadres and chiefs.
The Japanese used living people as targets to practice assassination
In the battle against the "sweeping" of the Japanese army, the vast number of our commanders and fighters fought bravely, and many of them sacrificed their precious lives. Dong Keren, secretary of the district party committee of Chen Erzhuang District in Shennan Province, among local cadres, kept shouting in the midst of the enemy's fierce fire: "The Japanese Kou will be defeated, long live the Communist Party!" Leading cadres of the first district of Shenshu County sacrificed one district chief and two district party secretaries in the month of opposing the "sweep." In order to achieve its goal of building strongholds, pillboxes, and building transportation and communication facilities, the enemy forced the masses to fill in ditches, build roads, dig blockade ditches, and demand bricks and wood from various villages. Party and government organs below the county level once lost contact with each other and went underground.
The villages in my base area were trampled by the iron hooves of the Japanese Kou and devastated, forming a bleak scene of "wolf smoke rising in the villages and villages, and new graves everywhere." During the entire anti-"mopping-up" period, as many as 50,000 people were killed, injured, and taken away by the enemy in the Sixth Division! At the same time, there was a brief relaxation in the area south of Shuji County, east of Ningjin County, and on both sides of the Fuyang River. At the beginning of June, after the rendezvous of the North Division headquarters of our road and the south headquarters of The road, Liu Siqi, head of the traffic section of the division, and Xu Yuebo, Wang Chenglie, and others were sent to do shelter work in the renjiakeng area of the north of the road (a total of more than 400 people were taken in before and after). In order to invigorate the hearts and minds of the people in the base areas, crack down on the enemy who had come to hunt down and arrest small groups, and cooperate with the resumption of work by local cadres, the divisional headquarters led two companies of the Second Regiment to return to the Hengshui area in lubei for activities in early June. The troops rested in hiding during the day, traveled between enemy strongholds at night, sought opportunities to strike at the enemy, and once ambushed the enemy's transport ships on the Fuyang River; On another occasion, in the Wuhua Battalion, 8 miles away from Hengshui City, more than 20 Japanese cavalrymen who came out of Hengshui to commit crimes were annihilated, more than 20 war horses were captured, and 3 Japanese soldiers were taken prisoner. Then return to Lunan and the two banks of the Fuyang River.
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On June 4 and 11, the Japanese military zone sent two telegrams: "In order to preserve the living forces, the main forces of the military region must quickly move outward, and the first and second regiments of the garrison brigade led by comrades Wang Changjiang and Kuang Fuzhao must move south, move closer to the military region, enter the Luxi area of Hebei Luyu, take a rest, and then cross the Han Road and transfer to the Taihang Mountain base area, leaving comrades Ye Chuping and Long Fucai to persist in the struggle against the enemy in the sixth division; The main corps must be transferred, and the sooner the better; Before the trip, it is necessary to keep it absolutely confidential, and the personnel of the rear organs should be taken away as much as possible, and after reaching the safe area of the outer line, they should be mobilized. "In accordance with the instructions of the military region, the sub-districts have carried out the following preparatory work: First, the party, government, and military leaders went to the Fuyang River and held joint meetings for several consecutive days in the mobile activities to study and decide on the whereabouts and retention of relevant departments and cadres and the handover of work; 2. Reorganize the troops. All the personnel who were sheltered by the brother troops were returned to their original units, and the rest were incorporated into the troops. On the basis of one regiment and three battalions, it was expanded and supplemented into the new first regiment (with jurisdiction over five companies) of the guard brigade, and Lin Ziyuan, Zhao Junyi, Yuan Jinfeng, And Li Kezhong were temporarily responsible for leading the south. The cadres who are sheltered are temporarily organized into a cadre brigade, and Zhang He is responsible for them, and they are assigned when they are resting in the Luxi base area; (3) The troops change into military uniforms, take out buried military materials, guns and ammunition, and bring enough food for the battle; Fourth, the Second Regiment shall dispatch an advance reconnaissance group to repel the route to the south and the enemy situation along the road. In order to reduce the target, the brigade headquarters decided to transfer in two batches. On June 16, the 1st Police Regiment crossed the Fuyang River to the south; The brigade headquarters led the second regiment and the cadre brigade, and on July 13, they also embarked on a new journey.
In this arduous anti-"sweeping" struggle, the military and civilians in our base areas suffered heavy losses, and only the incomplete statistics of the military departments reduced the number of subordinate units in the division from the original 980 to 300 people. The number of police regiments was reduced from 1632 to 728; The number of police regiments was reduced from 760 to 566; The 31st Sector team was reduced from 574 to 262; Forty-Zone team has only one more company left; The number of 44 districts was reduced from 425 to 300, and some of the guerrillas in various counties and districts were scattered, and some were highly dispersed, thus temporarily trapping the base areas in a predicament. Although the losses were heavy, our soldiers and civilians showed heroism, resoluteness, and tenacity in the battle, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese and crushing the enemy's dream of completely destroying the leading organs of our sub-district.