In August 1941, while Yang Chengwu was patrolling the army, he suddenly stopped beside a group of ordinary people who were following the army.
said to a beggar in front of him: "More than 70,000 Japanese troops are right in front of you. What are you eating with fellow villagers?"
The beggar was stunned and replied: "Commander, most of us bring our own dry food for sweet potatoes."
"Okay." As he said, Yang Chengwu's eyebrows were cold and upright : "Guard, put this in the guard, A traitor was caught and killed! "
When the beggar heard Yang Chengwu's words, he was shocked: "Commander, why did you catch me?"
Yang Chengwu sneered: "Why are you arresting you? Look at the Xiaomi scattered around your feet, don't you understand?"
Why did Yang Chengwu shoot a beggar? Does this have anything to do with the millet scattered around the beggar’s feet?
August sweep
In August 1941, Okamura Yasuji sent 70,000 troops to point directly to the heart of our army's North China region - Fuping region .
This time, Okamura Yasuji claimed to be the "August Sweep" 's action plan, which can be said to be a huge threat to the entire North China region of my country, and also a threat to the local people and Eighth Route Army soldiers.
In order to deal with Okamura Yanji's attack, Nie Rongzhen directly ordered the war zone commander Yang Chengwu to prepare for the battle.
As a famous general of our army, Yang Chengwu has experienced hundreds of wars of all sizes. This time, even when facing Okamura Yanji's 70,000 troops, he was not cowardly in his heart. Instead, he was so itchy that he couldn't wait to start the war immediately.
Yang Chengwu immediately started the mobilization meeting and called on the soldiers to bravely respond to the enemy.
When the mobilization meeting ended, Yang Chengwu, the most excited commander, suddenly calmed down.
Although Yang Chengwu is a militant in the eyes of Nie Rongzhen and many others, in fact, Yang Chengwu can still keep calm while fighting.
In order to fight the Japanese invaders, Yang Chengwu made the first preparation to decentralize a large number of ordinary staff members of the party and government agencies, so that the leadership team can be as streamlined as possible during the war.
Then Yang Chengwu made basic pre-war deployments, leaving soldiers to resist Japanese attacks on all fronts.
In order to do a good job in adjusting the war, Yang Chengwu himself led the remaining 500 soldiers to form a command guerrilla team to ensure his grasp of the battlefield situation as much as possible.
After making all this preparation, Yang Chengwu commanded the guerrillas to prepare to drill into the mountains and forests.
After all, as a commander, I will definitely become the number one target of the Japanese invaders, so I must not let the Japanese invaders find their own traces.
Japanese army
But after Yang Chengwu drilled into the deep mountains and forests, he was surprised to find that their traces were found on the first day of the arrival of the Japanese army.
Although Yang Chengwu quickly got rid of the Japanese invaders' pursuit through his understanding of the local terrain, what Yang Chengwu expected was that after they had been wandering around the deep mountains and forests for a long time, the Japanese army inexplicably appeared behind them, as if they knew Yang Chengwu's whereabouts. In the case of
, Yang Chengwu cannot command as planned in advance, nor can he let the traps arranged in advance work.
This made Yang Chengwu feel strange. He was stunned by Yang Chengwu during the previous few attacks. What methods did the Japanese army use this time?
Hundred Regiments Battle
After the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to cooperate to fight against Japan, the main force of the Japanese army was constantly shifting to North my country. The reason why
This situation occurs is mainly because after the Kuomintang's defeats in several early battles, the Japanese army mistakenly believed that the Kuomintang was not strong enough, so decided to deal with the weak Eighth Route Army first.
At that time, the Eighth Route Army did not have the advantage in terms of military strength or weapons and equipment. It can even be said that the equipment was simple and . The Japanese invaders looked down on the Eighth Route Army very much.
In the early days when the Japanese army came to North China, the Eighth Route Army did not find too many good opportunities to counterattack, but the Japanese army's attitude became increasingly arrogant.
But when time came to August 1940, a "Hundred Regiments Battle" led by Marshal Peng Dehuai made the Japanese army no longer have the courage to act recklessly.
The "Hundred Regiments Battle" lasted for nearly three and a half months. The Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army went through more than 1,800 confrontations , and finally ended with our army's great victory.
In this battle, the Japanese army lost more than 20,000 troops, and a large number of weapons and ammunition became the spoils of our army. It can be said to be one of the biggest defeats of the Japanese invasion of China.
After the Hundred Regiments War ended, the Japanese army no longer dared to underestimate the power of the Eighth Route Army, so they changed their thinking, from confronting the Eighth Route Army head-on to "Boiling Frogs in Warm Water" , trying to make the Eighth Route Army fall apart by various means.
The first decision made by the Japanese army was to mobilize the power of the "mass".
Starting from March 1941, the Japanese army deceived the people through the pseudo regime in North China, and also began "colonial education" in various villages, making many people who had never studied believe in the Japanese army's theory of "East Asia Co-prosperity Circle".
At the same time, the Japanese army knew that the Chinese people had been in war for a long time and many families could not even have enough food, so they used money, clothing and food to tempt the people. made many people become traitors , and became the underground intelligence workers of the Japanese invaders.
Secondly, the Japanese army also launched a "cage" offensive against North China, surrounding our army, thereby cutting off the access for our army to obtain material transportation.
Although the Japanese army's policies did not directly attack our army, under the layers of blockade of the Japanese army, our army fell into an extreme shortage of supplies.
Not to mention the soldiers at the bottom, Even Chairman Mao and others at the top were able to satisfy their hunger by rice porridge.
people are iron rice and steel, and they don’t eat for a meal and are hungry. This is true for ordinary people, and even more so for soldiers in marching wars.
If this continues, our army will not be in danger of life and death without the enemy attack.
In order to seek a turning point, we try to find Chiang Kai-shek to help break through the blockade.
But unexpectedly, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly claimed that the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui rebelled, and then launched an encirclement and suppression of the New Fourth Army.
Chiang Kai-shek's actions resulted in the almost wipeout of the young army, the New Fourth Army, and even the commander Ye Ting became a prisoner of the Kuomintang.
The reason Chiang Kai-shek did this is undoubtedly because he betrayed the revolution.
In fact, Chiang Kai-shek has always cooperated with the Japanese invaders. Even after the Xi'an Incident, he agreed to cooperate with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to fight against Japan, but the enemy in his heart was always the only one of the Communist Party.
After Chiang Kai-shek's operation, our army was completely in a difficult situation.
Although in order to solve the problem of material scarcity, the central government ordered General Wang Zhen to produce in the Nanniwan area, barely maintaining the livelihood of our army. But then, the Japanese invaders who realized that the time had come, launched an attack on our army at this time.
swept
Although the Japanese army's offensive against North China region of my country changed from a frontal attack to a means of Huairou after the Hundred Regiments War.
But in fact, the top Japanese military leaders were always angry at the defeat of the Hundred Regiments War, and waited for the opportunity in to find the place back from us.
So in April 1941, Okamura Yasuji was ordered to start a mobilization of our army in North China.
As the most notorious war criminal in the war of aggression against China, Okamura Yasuji's ability should not be underestimated. He made his mark as early as the Russo-Japanese War .
After Japan's full invasion of China, Okamura Yasuji had the experience of having been around Sun Chuanfang , which can be said to be a Chinese expert.
Okamura Yasuji was also confident in his own task. Although the Japanese army suffered a defeat in the previous Hundred Regiments War, after Okamura Yasuji's analysis, the Japanese army's weapons, equipment and troops were significantly greater than those of the Eighth Route Army. However, the main reason for this defeat was that the Japanese army was not very familiar with the geographical environment.
So after the official mobilization operation was launched, Okamura Yasuji adopted a large-scale mobilization method.
This is mainly because Okamura Yasuji didn't know where the Eighth Route Army was located, so through such a large-scale sweep, we could try our best to capture all our troops in one place.
But Okamura Yanji obviously didn't know that his way of dispersing combat power was the stupidest behavior for our army, who was good at guerrilla warfare and .
Through guerrilla warfare, our army defeated the Japanese invaders with dispersed forces many times, making them unable to understand the position of our army, let alone counterattack.
. Even if the Japanese find the trace of our army, the local people will also help to provide cover, so that the Japanese cannot find the location of our army at all.
In the end, Okamura Yasumi was defeated by repeated sweeping operations, which gradually changed his combat strategy and turned his attention to the people.
Since just entering China, the puppet army composed of traitors has become a very important part of the Japanese army's combat power.
So this time Okamura Yanji is preparing to do the same thing and once again train traitors to provide information. The candidate he decided was a group of beggars in Fuping area.
In that era, there were beggars everywhere in China. Some of these beggars were displaced because of war . Some were oppressed by the old society so that they could not resist, and some were rich people who failed to make a comeback.
In short, it is thankful that these beggars can have a full meal just by having a full meal. is the best person to use for Okamura Yasuji.
But what Okamura Yasuji expected was that those people from good families volunteered to become puppet soldiers and traitors when they first started the war of aggression against China. However, these beggars who could not even eat had their own integrity.
Finally, after a long time of selection, Okamura Yasuji picked out a few traitors from the beggars who were stealing chickens and dogs in various villages every day, and used money, dry food and status to tempt them to help collect information.
During the sweep in May 1941, with the help of these traitors, the Japanese army actually directly found our army headquarters , which caused a huge blow to our army.
Our army even suffered a large-scale plague due to this Japanese attack. More than half of the soldiers were infected, and the situation was not optimistic.
The Japanese army learned about the news under the traitor's notice, so they began to continue their troops and prepared to launch a general attack on the Fuping area in August 1941.
Although General Yang Chengwu was ordered to go to war and launched a response to the Japanese army, he was inexplicably followed by the Japanese army.
At this time, Yang Chengwu was almost sure that traitors must have been involved in the guerrillas of more than 500 people in .
However, most of the soldiers who commanded the guerrillas were chosen by Yang Chengwu himself, and they were all old acquaintances. It was impossible for the Japanese army to invade. Where did the traitor who was come from?
Xiaomi and traitor
Before Yang Chengwu led the command of the guerrillas into the deep mountains and forests, they were followed by a large group of ordinary people .
These ordinary people knew that the Japanese invaders were going to fight, and were afraid that the Japanese army would kill them, so they hoped that the Eighth Route Army soldiers could protect them from their lives.
Faced with the people's request for help, Yang Chengwu's staff Zhou Yiwei is a little hesitant: "Commander, there may be traitors in the people, which may cause great trouble."
Zhou Yiwei's self-consideration has no problem. In fact, among these people, there are indeed spies inserted by the Japanese army.
Yang Chengwu also considered this, but looking at the faces of the people, he shook his head: "We are carrying out the revolution, why are we fighting for the sake of the people? It's not for the people to live and work in peace and contentment. Then, we are ignoring the people now. Isn't that putting the cart before the horse? Take the people in the count and take the people together!"
Yang Chengwu and don't regret his decision. Even if he was cheated by traitors, he would not regret saving the lives of the people.
According to statistics, there are more than 100 people in this group of ordinary people, most of whom are villagers from several nearby villages, and only a few beggars came from nowhere.
But looking at the state of several beggars, they are all poor people who have been displaced due to the war.
After the official marching began, the command guerrillas led by Yang Chengwu were pursued by the Japanese army many times, and several times the Japanese army even ran to their front , which made Yang Chengwu confirm that among the more than 100 ordinary people, there were spies from the Japanese army.
Faced with this situation, Yang Chengwu could not start investigating the masses directly. After all, this is likely to be used by spies and harm the military and civilian conditions.
So Yang Chengwu could only allow more than 500 soldiers to strengthen the management of the people, so that the spies would not have the opportunity to convey intelligence to the outside world.
After such a blockade, the Japanese army did not appear again. Then Yang Chengwu began to investigate who the spy was.
After the investigation began, Yang Chengwu quickly discovered the problem.
The people who followed the team at that time mostly brought dried sweet potatoes and corn and other dry food at home. And those poor beggars have only , black beans, , corn kernels, etc. to satisfy their hunger.
But when Yang Chengwu passed by a young beggar, he found that the beggar's ragged pants were stained with a few grains of millet on the edge of his tattered pants.
This Xiaomi is one of the most common foods nowadays, but in that era, Xiaomi was a rare thing.
Not to mention whether a beggar can eat millet, even local landlords cannot have millet every meal.
Yang Chengwu immediately sent someone to control the beggar. After searching, he found that his pockets were filled with clean millet.
After being pulled out of the team by the Eighth Route Army soldiers, the beggar peed on the spot and said it without hiding the fact that he became a traitor.
Yang Chengwu sighed and said to the guard beside him: "He caused us to die for the rest of our lives and shoot us on the spot!"
Only after the traitor was shot, Yang Chengwu could contact the headquarters again and continue to fight on the strategy set before, preventing another sweep from the Japanese army.
The victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan was hard-won. It was not only the brave battles of the soldiers, but also the great help from the people.
But there are people who do not take their lives seriously, both among the soldiers and the people, and choose to surrender in the face of the invaders.
Faced with such people who are willing to be traitors, our soldiers and people will also let them experience the cold like winter.
