Author: De Heng surgery
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1939 in early 6 a night on the road in South Hebei plain to Yimeng mountain of a car ran a horse . The bike was a very rare German bicycle at that time, and the horse was a strong steed.
Cycling is a slightly thin middle-aged man, with a weather-beaten face but very energetic. The rider was a young offspring, watching the middle-aged man pedaling his bicycle leisurely with a look of envy.
Xu is the young man with a heart itch. He catches the bicycle with a horse belly and begged the middle-aged man to change his ride. The middle-aged man readily agreed, stopped the bicycle and handed it to the young man. The young man drew on the gourd, stepped on the bicycle and started to pedal, but the car started to run, but the front of the car started to sway like a drunk man. After not running very far, with only a bang, the car and the young man fell to the side of the road.
The young man hurriedly got up, patted the dirt on his body, raised the car, pushed it in front of the middle-aged man, shook his head and sighed that bicycles are more difficult to ride than horses. The middle-aged man smiled and told the young: It is not difficult to conquer it, the key is to master its laws.
This middle-aged man is no one else. It is Xu Xiangqian, the deputy commander of the 129 division who has just led the eastward column of the 129 division to create the anti-Japanese base area in the southern Hebei plain. The young poster is his guard platoon commander. At this time, Xu Xiangqian followed the instructions of his superiors and took a team of guards to go to Shandong to take over the local anti-Japanese struggle.
A slightly thin Xu Xiangqian
In October 1937, after the Japanese army's claws reached Shandong, the anti-Japanese armed forces on Qilu land sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Especially after Yan'an sent many capable cadres to Shandong to guide the guerrilla war against Japan, as of the summer of 1939, the number of guerrilla columns established by our party in Shandong had reached 40,000.
However, since the end of 1938, on the one hand, the Japanese army saw that the frontal battlefield was difficult to advance in a short time after the Battle of Wuhan, and put more troops into the occupied area to carry out frantic "mopping" against the Japanese armed forces; A series of policies that undermined cooperation in the anti-Japanese war were implemented, and the situation of the anti-Japanese struggle in Shandong became increasingly severe. In addition, the eight detachments under the Shandong Column, although they have been unified in terms of organizational titles after reorganization, the relationship between the superior and the subordinate command is not smooth, and the cooperation is relatively poor. Therefore, the Shandong Anti-Japanese Guerrilla War, which has a good momentum of development, has become difficult. . Yan'an decided to assign Xu Xiangqian, who is highly qualified and capable, to Shandong to lead the Shandong column in the anti-Japanese struggle, and to establish and consolidate the Shandong Anti-Japanese Base.
Just as Xu Xiangqian taught the guard platoon leader when he was riding a bicycle, he did not move blindly when he arrived in Shandong, but first found out the situation in Shandong and mastered it. The law of it.
At that time, Shandong was dominated by many forces. There are Japanese invaders, Jiang Jun, and ringleaders. The Japanese invaders must be resolutely attacked; the ringing horses must be actively fought. This is very easy to handle for Xu Xiangqian. The key is the relationship with Jiang Jun.
Xu Xiangqian analyzed Jiang Jun’s power in Shandong in detail: Shandong is under the jurisdiction of the Lu-Su theater, the theater commander is Yu Xuezhong, the deputy commander is Shen Honglie, and the security commander is Qin Qirong. Yu Xuezhong controls Shandong's regular army-51st Army and 57th Army. Shen Honglie is the chairman of Shandong Province and controls the weak new Fourth Division. As Shandong Security Commander, Qin Qirong controls all local armed forces in Shandong.
Yu Xuezhong resolutely resisted Japan. The 51st Army and 57th Army led by many party members and patriotic generals
These three have their own characteristics: Yu Xuezhong is an "old man of the Northeast Army" "The 51st Army and the 57th Army are the foundation of the Northeast Army. After the "Xi'an Incident," Yu Xuezhong and the 51st and 57th Army were anti-Japanese. Therefore, Yu Xuezhong will not be embarrassed by the Eighth Route Army who is also resolutely resisting Japan. Shen Honglie and Qin Qirong were die-hards in the Jiang army, and they followed the principle of passive resistance to Japan. The difference between the two is that Shen Honglie is a politician with only the New Fourth Division under his hands. His methods are mainly to find reasons to withhold and stop the issuance of the Eighth Route Army’s military salaries, issue decrees to restrict the scope of the Eighth Route Army’s activities and prohibit the establishment of resistanceJapanese base. Support cooperation on the surface, and secretly "make trips". Qin Qirong had soldiers in his hand, blatantly commanding the troops to kill the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians and destroy the base area. Someone commented: There were more anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians who died in the hands of Qin Qirong than the Japanese army.
[In March 1939, Qin Qirong instructed Wang Shangzhi to ambush the communication battalion of the third detachment of Shandong Column in Taihe Town, killing more than 100 people, creating a shock to the whole country "Taihe tragedy", the picture shows the "Taihe" tragedy monument]
In view of the characteristics of these three people, Xu Xiangqian formulated a strategy to win over Yu Xuezhong, isolate Shen Honglie, and attack Qin Qirong.
After he arrived in Shandong, he went to find Yu Xuezhong himself. As soon as I met, I threw the Eighth Route Army’s passive anti-Japanese situation in front of Yu Xuezhong: Let the Eighth Route Army unite in the resistance against Japan, but did not issue military pay, and did not allow the Eighth Route Army to establish base areas behind enemy lines to raise their own military pay. How can this work? Yu Xuezhong, as the remaining "single seedling" of the Northeast Army, was very contradictory in dealing with the relationship with the Eighth Route Army, and in the end he could only agree to remain neutral.
As for dealing with Shen Honglie, it does not matter on the surface, but is isolated from the military. Shen Honglie was stuck with the army's salary and supplies, and Xu Xiangqian ignored Shen Honglie's villain policy and continued to develop the anti-Japanese base area, letting Shen Honglie make irresponsible remarks. Shen Honglie wanted to recruit Fan Zhuxian in Liaocheng because he had few soldiers. Xu Xiangqian took the lead and first invited Fan Zhuxian to the Nanguan of Wei County to form the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Although Shen Honglie, who has no soldiers, was deliberately involved in trouble, he could not overcome the big waves. Once Shen Honglie wanted to do a little action in Lu Village, pretending that he didn't know how to fight the Eighth Route Army, but was repulsed by the Eighth Route Army. Afterwards, he could only ask Old Jiang to complain.
For Qin Qirong, Xu Xiangqian is not that easy to talk. After smashing the "large sweep" launched by the Japanese army against Shandong in July 1939, Xu Xiangqian immediately personally deployed the anti-stubborn campaign at the end of August. He commanded the first, second, and third detachments of the Shandong Column to beat Qin Qirong’s troops in the Zihe River Basin of Luzhong, seized a large number of weapons, ammunition and materials, incorporated anti-Japanese armed forces, and re-established anti-Japanese base areas in Zichuan, Zhuya and other places. , So that Qin Qirong did not dare and had no ability to threaten the anti-Japanese armed forces.
Xu Xiangqian relied on his way of thinking about the law in everything to reverse the situation of the anti-Japanese struggle in Shandong and laid a solid foundation for the establishment of the Shandong Anti-Japanese Base. By the end of 1940, there were more than 90 counties and 250 districts under the leadership of our party in Shandong. Even Yu Xuezhong called "excellent."
