1939 November 20, Asahi Shimbun said in a report that "the lieutenant general commander was killed, and there has never been any since the establishment of the Imperial Army", "The flowers that protect the country have withered", "The imperial capital has lowered half a flag to mourn", "He was led by the elderly General Chai, General Sugiyama, Commander of the East Defense Lieutenant General Inaba, and acting Minister of the Army, Nakamura, went to the station to hold the hanging flag to mourn." In his eulogy, Shin Tada, commander of the North China Front Army of the Japanese Army, lamented that "the flowers of famous generals have withered on the Taihang Mountain."
(Abe Shiki. Online picture)
Who is this "famous general's flower"? Who shot him to death?
After the Japanese army occupied Wuhan, the Anti-Japanese War entered a stalemate stage. The Japanese army temporarily stopped strategic counterattack and expanded the occupied area, but instead consolidated the occupied area. In North China, the Japanese army's focus was on encircling and suppressing the Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese base. In 1938, the Japanese army stationed in North China began to attack the Jin-Cha-Hebei base areas in an attempt to kill our anti-Japanese armed forces.
In late October 1939, Abe Hirohiko, a mountain warfare expert who is known as the "Flower of Famous Generals" in the Japanese army, was appointed as the brigade commander of the well-equipped and highly combat-capable independent Second Mixed Brigade in the Japanese invading China, and was responsible for the commander-in-chief of the Northern Line attacking the Eighth Route Army base. During the first Japanese army swept, more than 7,000 Japanese troops were concentrated from north of Baoding, including aircraft, cannons, cavalry, and tanks, and more than 100,000 people were concentrated to attack the site of Fuping, the highest command headquarters of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
In the early morning of October 30, the Japanese army set out from Laiyuan County and advanced to Jianling, Yinfang Town and other places. Laiyuan was the first county town to liberate our army to the north to fight against Japan, where there was an intelligence network composed of underground party members. Although the county town was occupied by the Japanese army, the countryside in the suburbs was still under the control of our army, and our army's intelligence personnel controlled the Japanese army's every move.
On November 3, Yang Chengwu, commander and political commissar of the First Division of our army, launched a military deployment.
When more than 500 Japanese Independent Infantry Battalions, who were invading towards Yinfang Town, arrived at Sanchakou, they were divided into two parts. Some of them were about 200 people first fought one after another by the Eighth Route Army, luring the enemy into deeper, killing and wounding most of their enemies, and oppressing the remaining enemies to the northwest highland of Yansuya, and finally being compressed into a narrow valley and surrounded. At around 16 pm, Yang Chengwu ordered a general attack and would be completely wiped out by the besieged Japanese troops at 17 pm. At the same time, more than 300 other Japanese troops were lured into the narrow valley of Yansuiya. In an instant, more than 200 light and heavy machine guns fired at the enemy together, and the sound of grenades and fighting made the valley tremble. After several hours of fierce fighting, most of the Japanese army was wiped out.
As a result, except for some enemies who escaped in the chaos and 13 Japanese troops were captured, all the remaining 500 Japanese troops were shot dead by .
Tsujimura Kenyoshi was annihilated, and Abe Shin-hisattack became angry. The next day, he personally led the fourth and second brigades of the Independent Second Mixed Brigade to rush to Laiyuan by more than 90 trucks.
htmlOn the 7th, the Japanese army marched to the Huangtuling area in the southeast of Laiyuan County. Huangtuling is a gate in the mountains in the northern Taihang Mountains, surrounded by deep valleys and a not-so-wide dry river beach. Abe Hitomi set up camp there and prepared to fight the decisive battle with our main force the next day. He never dreamed that our main force had surrounded it.
(Japanese Asahi Shimbun reported. Online photo)
All Japanese and puppet troops entered the ambush area of our army one after another. Furious sounds of gunfire came from the surrounding hills, and the shells exploded in the Japanese and puppet army. Immediately afterwards, the Eighth Route Army surrounded them from the west, south and north, with killing sounds soaring into the sky. The Japanese army was caught off guard and the formation was in chaos. They hurriedly seized the northeastern highland of Shangzhuangzi and counterattacked the camp's position. The two sides launched a fierce mountain battle.
In order to facilitate command, Abe Guixiu set up the Japanese command center at the home of a commoner on a small wall of land. A small cannon team of the Eighth Route Army was acting on the top of the mountain bundle opposite Abe Command. One of them accidentally discovered that there was an officer holding a telescope opposite, and there were many officers around him.
immediately shelled him, and the first shot failed. Abe also found the Eighth Route Army opposite, and did not move. He commanded his headquarters artillery team to fight back. At this time, the second shell of our army exploded in his crowd. Because the Eighth Route shells were not famous brands and were not lethal enough, Abe's left waist, abdomen, and thighs were injured, and eventually died. (WeChat ID: songshugonghui)
