Author: I look at the history of the journey
In the autumn of 1942, according to a reliable intelligence transferred by superiors, the Japanese troops in North China will launch an unprecedented "big sweep" on the Taihang Mountain Base of the Eighth Route Army." However, the intelligence did not clearly point out how many troops the Japanese army deployed, where the main attack direction was, and what tactics to use.
Taihang Military Region Commander Li Da received a notice that in order to grasp the more precise movements of the Japanese army, he ordered the captives to be captured in each district, and clearly required: "It is best to arrest Japanese soldiers, it is best to be an official. It is useless to arrest the puppet army."
General Li Da
on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, which is not easy.
According to data records, the Eighth Route Army captured a total of 6,213 Japanese soldiers, and the Chinese army captured no more than 3,000 Japanese prisoners on the front battlefield. Regarding the capture of Japanese prisoners, Qin Jiwei once said: "The Japanese soldiers will not surrender until they die. Even if they catch them, they will find a short-lived view in less than three minutes."
Japanese prisoners information photo
Considering the time and heavy tasks of captives, Qin Jiwei found all the cadres responsible for reconnaissance and combat in the first district and issued an urgent order of 100,000: "Within one month's deadline, a living Japanese soldier must be captured." After receiving the order, the chief of the reconnaissance section of the district sent a special elite team, which took a month to infiltrate and lurk. Finally, he seized the opportunity to successfully capture two Japanese soldiers and put them in a sack and carried them back.
Unexpectedly, when Qin Jiwei rushed over after hearing the news, he opened the sack and saw that it was broken. One Japanese soldier was injured and bleeding too much, and he was no longer helpful; the other was covered with coarse cloth socks and was directly "browning his braids".
Qin Jiwei was so angry that he slapped Qin Jiwei on the table: "It's outrageous, the cooked duck flew again."
Qin Jiwei
After Qin Jiwei got angry, he calmed down. He also understood the arduousness of the task of captive Japanese soldiers. In order to complete the task as soon as possible, he transferred a platoon from the basic regiment. After field investigation, he decided to go to Jingxing County and Huolu County in person to go to the two Japanese model counties, preparing to find opportunities to capture prisoners.
Why did Qin Jiwei choose a model county for the Japanese army to take action?
Usually in such a place, the Japanese army has very strict garrisons. If you act rashly here and if you don’t expose your target, you will easily be subject to fierce revenge by the Japanese army.
In fact, in Qin Jiwei's view, in the battle between spear and shield, spear is still unpredictable, and as long as it can successfully capture Japanese prisoners alive, the impact will be greater.
Of course, he also understood that this task is very risky. But no matter what, the task must be completed. Can it be called a war without danger? Afterwards, he said with emotion: "Of course I hope to stay at home and fall from the sky with a prisoner, but that is impossible."
Qin Jiwei convened an meeting of enemy workers in Jingxing County and Huolu County, and learned some of the situation, he decided to take advantage of the Japanese army's carelessness to go deep, long distance, deep into the hinterland of the Japanese army, and capture prisoners in places with unfamiliar terrain.
One day, Qin Jiwei called the platoon leader to ask, "Can you do what the reconnaissance section chief has not done?"
The platoon leader immediately made a strong statement: "I can complete the task to the death. If I can't catch anyone who can't catch it, I won't live."
This time Qin Jiwei was so angry that he slapped the table again: "What are you talking about? Come with me, look at me, I don't believe that Japanese soldiers have three heads and six arms." ht When the platoon leader saw Qin Jiwei was unhappy, he quickly persuaded: "Commander, you can't take this risk. You can't lose rice if you steal a chicken, but you can't lose a cow."
This made Qin Jiwei so angry that he stared at him: "If you steal a chicken, you have to put the rice back. You go and give me a wooden bar, which is as thick as a bowl; you have to prepare a rope, and it must be as thick as a finger." When the platoon leader heard this, he looked confused. Qin Jiwei continued to say: "The Japanese soldiers are very awesome, and they are healthy and well-trained. Some of them can do anything about judo and karate . If you want to catch him, you must not only fight him and fight you, but also prevent him from committing suicide."
After Qin Jiwei's arrangement and explanation, the platoon leader blinked and said, "Commander, I understand. "
After some preparation, one night, Qin Jiwei personally led the captive platoon, and the gods and ghosts sneaked into the necessary path between the two Japanese strongholds. In the field only a few hundred meters away from the houses of Wujiayao. They quietly lurked into a large green gauze tent made of sorghum , preparing to start the operation the next day.
wait until the sun came out the next day, in Qin Jiwei's telescope, whether it was passing pedestrians, pawnshops opposite, or Japanese bunkers, they could see clearly. What was beyond the Japanese army's expectations was that it was just under their noses. Next, a prisoner arrest operation is about to be staged.
Not long after noon, a Japanese soldier rode an donkey and came from the east to the west.
According to Qin Jiwei's later recollection, the atmosphere was very tense at that time, and the soldiers of the prisoner arrest platoon did not dare to breathe. Qin Jiwei even loaded the bullets of the shell gun .
Qin Jiwei was using a telescope to concentrate on observing a small tree in the east, and saw that the small tree had no movement at all. This shows that the Japanese soldier was acting alone, and there was no troops following him.
Soon, when he was the Japanese army The soldier rode a donkey to the ambush when he suddenly turned dizzy. Before he could come back to his senses, he had already fallen into the pit that Qin Jiwei had dug in advance on the night before.
The captive platoon leader and several soldiers rushed forward. Before the Japanese soldiers understood what was going on, their hands and feet were tied up, and their mouths were stuffed with coarse cloth socks. The only regret was that while he was struggling to resist, the captive platoon leader was a little slower, and a piece of finger was bitten off by him.
Qin Jiwei saw it and immediately ordered the soldiers to put the tied Japanese prisoners on the wooden bar and lifted them back like a pig.
Originally, Qin Jiwei thought the Japanese soldier had a confidential document on his body, but after returning to the garrison and searching carefully, he found nothing. Later, Qin Jiwei sent him to the Yan'an Anti-War Alliance. After patient education, he finally explained some situations and performed quite well. Until , the Anti-Japanese War was released back to Japan.
Qiwei went deep behind the enemy to capture Japanese prisoners alive, and since then it has been widely circulated, allowing the Japanese army in Model County to be full of soldiers. A few months later, Colonel Whidman, a US military observer who came to a special district to visit, heard Qin Jiwei talking about this matter vividly, and laughed happily and said repeatedly: "OK! "
After leaving the first division and rushing to the second division, the US colonel accidentally encountered the Japanese army's dying sweep and unfortunately died.
At the time when the Eighth Route Army sorted out Colonel Whidman's relics, the Eighth Route Army found a diary with a lot of content about the impression of the first division and comments on Commander Qin Jiwei, saying that he was: "A outstanding Eighth Route Army officer who is smart and full of vitality, wise and funny. ”
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