In January 1946, four months have passed since Japan's unconditional surrender, but the Japanese army at the Huafeng Coal Mine in Shandong still did not surrender on time, and even fantasized about dragging cannons and returning home with full arm. As a result, Chen Yi used a telegram to disarm these stubborn Japanese soldiers three times.
Chen Yi's considerations
Why was the Japanese army at the Huafeng Coal Mine in Shandong not quickly disarmed after Japan issued a surrender announcement? This is related to the special situation at that time. At that time, the Japanese army at Huafeng Coal Mine had actually been surrounded by the Eighth Route Army. The commander of the Suzhong Military Region, Ye Fei and 4, personally took charge and blocked the Japanese army in the coal mine.
However, under the strict order of the Japanese commander Major General Kawada, the Japanese army at Huafeng Coal Mine did not dare to disarm the Eighth Route Army, and could only wait until the Kuomintang army arrived in Shandong before disarming the army. There is a reason why Major General Kawada did this. Chiang Kai-shek has secretly promised . As long as the Japanese army does not disarm the Eighth Route Army, they can return home with full armed equipment. Kawada believes that as long as you return to China with equipment, you can win a high reputation for yourself.
Ye Fei knew the abacus in the Japanese army 's mind , but he couldn't rashly attack the coal mine and force the Japanese army to surrender. On the one hand, after the Japanese base announced its surrender, our army's active attack would actually be decent and not in line with international law; on the other hand, the Japanese army in the coal mines still had a large number of heavy firepower equipment, and the cost of attacking them would be very high.
However, just when Ye Fei was having a headache about this, Chen Yi gave him a good idea: "The enemy is in danger and our army is not good at attacking hard. Let him return to China, eat on the sausage section on the road of ."
After reading this telegram, Ye Fei frowned and let go. He thought for a moment, and then called his subordinates to send leaflets to the Japanese army in Huafeng Coal Mine. On the flyer, Ye Fei said that as long as the Japanese army left the coal mine in time, the Eighth Route Army could only confiscate part light weapon , and then let the Japanese army return to China.
leads the snake out of the cave
When the Japanese garrison commander Kawada saw the leaflet of the Eighth Route Army, he was excited and hurriedly took his staff officer Nakasa to the designated location to meet Ye Fei, and discussed the issue of the Japanese army's disarm and returning to the country .
Ye Fei told Watan that although the failure to confiscate heavy weapon does not meet the surrender standards, the Eighth Route Army was eager to enter the coal mine, so it could be opened. Wakada was overjoyed. After returning, he ordered the Japanese troops to collect some light weapons to send to the Eighth Route Army. Then the Japanese troops took more than 340 pickup trucks and evacuated the Huafeng Coal Mine and drove all the way to Jinan.
When the convoy of Watan drove for more than ten kilometers, he suddenly found that the road ahead was destroyed. What made them even more panicked was that a large number of Eighth Route Army soldiers suddenly appeared in the wilderness around . Major General Kawada saw this and quickly asked the Chinese-speaking translator to shout: Don’t stop your army! Our troops have just surrendered to Commander Ye Fei!
Watian The Eighth Route Army they encountered was the 2nd Brigade of the First Column of the Shandong Military Region. After hearing the Japanese army's shouts, Chief of Staff Feng Shaobai sneered, then stood up and responded in fluent Japanese: Gui military vehicle is fully armed, where does it look like it is being disarmed? If your army really surrenders sincerely, then put down the heavy equipment in the car and implement the disarm policy seriously!
After hearing this, Wada's eyes turned dark. Unexpectedly, the Eighth Route Army issued a disarm order again. Just as the Japanese army was slow to hand over their weapons, Feng Shaobai shouted in a stern tone: If we cannot disarm in time, our army may have to launch a strong attack on and !
Watan saw his subordinates dejected at this time, and had no intention of fighting , so he had to surrender and honestly discarded the machine gun , field cannon and other equipment on the truck on the ground. Feng Shaobai saw that all the heavy equipment of the Japanese army had been seized, so he stopped talking and raised his hand to let go of the Japanese convoy.
Returning to China in a panic
On the bumpy pickup truck, Japanese Major General Wakada was very angry in his heart. He also turned around at this time, knowing that he was "put a piece of it".But at this time, all the Japanese weapons had been seized. Apart from these more than 40 pickup trucks, there was no more supplies. Although Wada was angry, he had no intention of resisting. At this time, he just wanted to leave China's land as soon as possible.
As a result, his convoy was stopped and stopped in the Watan convoy. After driving for two or three days, his convoy was stopped by the Eighth Route Army again. Wakada got off the car in surprise and found that it was Feng Shaobai's army . Now that Wada could no longer help but feel embarrassed and asked: All the existing weapons of our army have been seized, why is your troops still unwilling to let go?
It turned out that after Feng Shaobai confiscated the Japanese weapons for the second time, he sent Ye Fei a telegram to report the matter. But Ye Fei was very dissatisfied when he heard that the Japanese army could still evacuate on a pickup truck and asked Feng Shaobai to catch up with the Japanese army again. At least he had to keep most of the trucks of . Feng Shaobai led the Eighth Route Army soldiers to hurry up and finally caught up with the Japanese convoy with his legs.
Feng Shaobai was very calm in the face of the Japanese army's questioning: You have been doing things wrong on China's land for so many years, but Huafeng Coal Mine alone doesn't know how many resources have been poached. Now that you want to leave China's land comfortably, I'm afraid my soldiers will not agree. Since you admit that you surrender unconditionally, you must surrender according to the will of the Chinese. don’t mention your own opinions .
Watan was so angry that his whole body was trembling, but when he saw Feng Shaobai glaring at and surrounding the Eighth Route Army soldiers, he felt extremely weak. In the end, he threw the can and left only four pickup trucks for the Japanese to squeeze on it, and the rest of the trucks were handed over to the Eighth Route Army.
When Watan and his subordinates arrived in Jinan, the Japanese troops on the truck were squeezed like cans, each of them was unkempt and dirty, no different from beggars. The Kuomintang troops in charge were furious when they saw that they did not bring their equipment as agreed, and even their last truck was confiscated. So Watan had to walk to the port along the Jiaoji Railway with his subordinates and took a boat to return home.
