July 8, 1948.
Before moving into the main text, before this fierce battle begins, please remember this point in time:
July 1948.
01
Bloody battle begins
Earlier, Liu Deng's army and Chen (Geng) Xie (Fuzhi) corps went straight into the Central Plains and burned the flames of war to the heart of the Kuomintang.
In May 1948, the People's Liberation Army won successive victories, took Linfen, liberated the southern Jin region, and then went to Jinzhong with the momentum of destruction and decay.
The Battle of Jinzhong is about to begin.
At this time, xu xiangqian was the deputy commander of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region. His opponent was Yan Xishan, the head of the Jin warlords and a first-class general of the Kuomintang army.
Xu Xiangqian
Yan Xishan
Yan Xishan has been operating In Shanxi for nearly 40 years, a proper land snake.
For him, Jinzhong is a treasure land, and it is resolute not to lose it.
The reason for this is simple -
Although Taiyuan has a developed military industry and can make guns and cannons, it is short of food. In Jinzhong, the land is fertile and is the main grain producing area for Taiyuan.
Once lost, don't fight, hungry will starve you!
And when the 1st Artillery Brigade of the North China Military Region, the Taiyue Military Region (later reorganized into the 15th Column), the Beiyue and Taihang Military Regions, a total of 47 regiments and more than 60,000 troops, marched to Jinzhong in a mobile war, it was in May and June, and the wheat waves rolled all over the field, and the fields were golden.
Yan Xishan had already set his sights on these grains.
That was his lifeblood.
To this end, Yan Xishan gambled on the blood cost and formed a "blitzkrieg regiment" with a total of 13 regiments of the 34th, 43rd, and 61st Armies (including their "pro-training divisions" and "pro-training artillery regiments"). While preventing the People's Liberation Army from moving north, it grabbed Zhuang Ding, repaired fortifications, and grabbed ripe wheat.
On June 11, the Battle of Jinzhong began;
After that, the People's Liberation Army blossomed at many points, and each one broke down, directly hitting the Jin army dizzy;
On July 6, Zhao Chengshou, who had been appointed by Yan Xishan as the commander-in-chief of the field army of the Taiyuan Appeasement Office, and his 30,000 troops all fell into the encirclement of the People's Liberation Army.
Although the trapped beast is still fighting, it will not be able to break through in the end;
On July 8, Xu Xiangqian ordered the artillery to concentrate and launch a general attack.
These hundred or so artillery pieces had just been captured from the Hands of the Jin Army, and they came in handy when they were transferred.
In an instant, the shells roared, the fireworks filled the air, and the rapid storm was like a storm, and the enemy's flesh and blood were suddenly bombarded, and the corpses were like mountains.
Suddenly, a group of hundreds of enemies burst out, shouting and shouting at our position.
It's all the same - Japanese devils!
In Yan Xishan's army, there were actually Japanese troops!
02
The ghost is not gone
Back to the point in time mentioned at the beginning of this article: July 8, 1948.
As we all know, as early as August 1945, under the environment of the United States dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in succession and the Soviet Red Army sending troops to the northeast, Emperor Koisoko issued the "Declaration of the End of the War" on the 15th, announcing unconditional surrender.
This also shows that the arduous War of Resistance Against Japan has finally won the final victory.
From the surrender of Japan to 1948, 3 years have passed, how can the little devils appear ghostly and appear on the battlefield of the Liberation War?
It's incredible!
Is there a ghost, or is there another conspiracy?
The fact is that the PLA soldiers in the forward position did not misread it, and the people who flocked to kill them were indeed well-trained and fierce Japanese soldiers!
This is a long story, and it should go back to September 1945.
At that time, the fascist villain Okamura Ningji was not willing to accept defeat, so he privately delivered a message to the commander of the Chinese Army, He Yingqin:
"There are still 300,000 Japanese troops in the Yangtze River in central China and north China, and it is recommended that they not surrender their weapons for the time being, which can help the nationalist army to encircle and suppress the communist army."
Okamura Ninji
In 1925, he served as a military adviser to the Beiyang warlord Sun Chuanfang, shamelessly intervening in the Chinese civil war.
Now, he intends to repeat the same technique, retain his strength in China, and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback.
Chiang Kai-shek was very moved to hear this, but under international and domestic pressure, he finally shook his head and refused.
Although Okamura Ningji planned to abort, his apprentices succeeded in trapping the veteran warlord, The King of Shanxi, Wan Xizi (Yan Xishan's nickname)!
03
Haunted
It is undeniable that after eight years of resistance against Japan, Yan Xishan played with a ghost fetus in his heart:
On the surface, it is fighting, but secretly it is pulling sheepskin with Japanese dogs, and it is false and snake-like. If it were not for the persuasion of the Communist Party, the quasi-traitors would not have run.
In September 1945, as commander of the Second Theater, Yan Xishan accepted the surrender of the Japanese army in Shanxi on behalf of the Nationalist government.
During this period, the chief of staff of the North Japan Dispatch Army, Takahashi Tan (lieutenant general of the army), the commander of the First Army, Raishiro Sumita (lieutenant general of the 39th Division), and the chief of staff, Michitake Yamaoka, also repeatedly nagged with Yan Xishan, hoping to "surrender" to join the company.
Thinking of the little Japanese devils fierce and fierce, tyrannical and cruel, "In order to exist, we must have a very special method." Now we do not have enough troops to deal with the Communist Party. Recruiting is difficult, even if 100,000 Chinese soldiers are recruited, it is not as good as 10,000 Japanese. Yan Xishan once said.
It is also based on such absurd ideas that Yan Xishan and Takahashi Tan, Yamaoka Michitake and so on are in agreement.
Through secret selection, a total of 6600 Japanese troops were retained.
Saburo Miura (with the rank of lieutenant general), commander of the 114th Division of the 1st Army, Motozumi Shin , commander of the 14th Independent Infantry Brigade ( with the rank of major general ) , and Naotoshi Sakai ( major general ) , commander of the 10th Independent Infantry Brigade , were also transformed into Yan Xishan's right-hand men.
In this way, Shanxi has become a paradise for the remnants of the Japanese Kou.
According to rumors in Taiyuan, in early 1946, Yan Xishan was on a military parade. Suddenly, an infantry square of more than 1,300 ghost soldiers came!
One by one, dressed in Japanese military uniforms and plaster flags, they shouted in their voices: "Great Japanese Emperor / Country / Ten Thousand Years / Age!" ”
I went, little devil, and came back!
Topographic map of the Battle of Jinzhong
04
Blood fertile jinzhong
Since you dare to come back, then kill him completely!
Yan Xishan forgot his ancestors, appointed national enemies, and also fought fiercely!
Just as the so-called Heavenly Reason is obvious, many acts of injustice will kill themselves, Yan Xishan and his reluctant "magic weapon", the 10th Teaching Corps created by the Japanese army, finally waited for the fatal nemesis - Xu Xiangqian.
Yuan Quanxin, the commander of the 10th Teaching Corps, was appointed by Yan Xishan as the deputy commander of the Shanxi Field Army. He also gave himself a Chinese name, yuan quanfu, and did not take Xu Xiangqian in his eyes at all.
Knowing that the "Blitzkrieg Regiment" had been beaten to the ground, and that the "Pro-Trainer" and the Provisional 40th Division had also been completely destroyed, Yuan Quanxin actually skimmed his lips:
Isn't it just a Xu Forward? That didn't touch me!
Here it comes --
On 8 July, the general attack rang out, first a cannonball greeted, crackling and smashing into the position of the enemy's 10th Teaching Corps.
Under the fierce bombardment, the commander of the Japanese mortar company, Shinichi Arai, wailed in horror:
"The artillery fire of the communist army did not stop for a moment, from day to night, how can there be so many shells?"
Before the howl fell, another shell flew straight over.
Boom, brain plasma burst.
Despite the chaotic flight of limbs and heavy casualties, the little devils who were deeply brainwashed by Bushido did not surrender one by one, and also used street houses to carry out a fierce street battle with the People's Liberation Army.
House by house, inch by inch, the battle became white-hot——
It should be noted that when the enemy and us are mixed and the short troops are engaged, the machine guns and cannons are useless, and the final solution to the problem is still white-knife warfare.
In the face of the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army, which caused great casualties to our army, Xu Xiangqian issued an order:
"If the enemy does not surrender, he will resolutely destroy them!"
Tanaka Qi, commander of the Eighth Company of the 69th Regiment of the Linfen Brigade of the People's Liberation Army, led the team to penetrate the heart of the enemy. They carry bayonets and stab when they see the enemy, without mercy.
Throughout the command post, except for a few people who fled to Xifan Village, most of them were stabbed with bayonets by PLA fighters.
Repeated bitter battles, blood fertile and prosperous. On the morning of July 16, the devils of the Enemy's 10th Teaching Corps finally ushered in the end of the world.
Yuan Quanxin led the few remaining retinues and fled to Xiaochang Village in a hurry. Just then, a shell roared in, breaking the leg of the die-hard on the spot.
"I didn't expect Xu Xiangqian to be so powerful. My 10 is always over, it's over. ”
Frustrated, Yuanquan Xin moved sharply and screamed at the staff officer, "Hurry up and kill me!" I can't fall into the hands of the communists! ”
Japanese war criminal Motozumi Shin
The staff officer raised his gun and fired two shots at Yuanquanxin's brain door, sending him on the road to see the god Amaterasu. As the corpse fell, the desperate staff officer also committed suicide by drinking bullets.
05
It is a demon, and it will eventually go to hell
In the Battle of Jinzhong, the enemy's 10th Teaching Corps was completely destroyed, the deputy commander of the Shanxi Field Army, Yuan Quanxin, committed suicide, 184 Japanese officers were killed, and more than 1150 soldiers were killed.
In other words, the Battle of Jinzhong became the last battle between China and Japan in the true sense.
Since then, the remnants of the Japanese army have ceased to exist on the land of China.
As Hiroshi Chengye, a war criminal who invaded China, said in the "Record of the Shanxi Independence War":
All of this was shattered by the sound of gunfire at the Battle of Jinzhong in 1948. The roar of the concentrated bombardment of the howitzers makes one suspect that the lightning that cut through the hot sky, the dust raised by the gun holes and the bombs dropped by the B29, like mushroom-shaped clouds, condenses in the sky..."
In front of the People's Liberation Army, the once arrogant Japanese Kou finally lost the battle. His conspiracy to "borrow a corpse to return the soul" has also disappeared.
It is a demon who will eventually go to hell.
This is the fate of the invaders, and no one can escape.
Resources:
[1] Chinese Military Encyclopedia: Battle of Jinzhong
[2] Contemporary China Publishing House" Xu Xiangqian Biography
[3] Hiroshi Shirono's "Shanxi Independence War"