Tainan is located in the southern part of the Taihang Mountains, bounded by the Handan-Changchang Highway, hence the name Tainan.
As mentioned before, the current Tainan base area is only the northern and northern areas of Tainan. The southern areas such as Lin County, Huguan, Linchuan, and Gaoping are filled with many miscellaneous armed forces of the national army, represented by the New Fifth Army and the Forty Army.
There are also remnants of Zhu Huaibing, Lu Zhonglin, Zhao Yunxiang and many anti-Japanese armed forces entrenched here.
After Xing Zhiguo conveyed Zhou Weihan's order, the Second Regiment and the Third Regiment immediately launched operations.
West Garden, Fourth Regiment Headquarters.
Wang Yigong called Zhang Hao, the commander of the first battalion.
"The military region issued an order for our regiment to go to Lin County to expand our ranks on our own!" Wang Yigong said.
"Lin County is great. We are only short of 300 people in total. We can gather 300 people with our eyes closed. Rencun Town at the southernmost point of our first battalion is bordering Yaolin Town in Lin County. Then
There are many people and horses entrenched in the mountainous area nearby, and some of them have guns, which is a ready source of troops!" Zhang Hao said.
"Don't get too happy too early. The situation there is complicated. It's both a little devil and a member of the National Army. Don't capsize in the ditch. The most important thing is that our Eighth Route Army and the National Army previously agreed on the Lintun Highway to Pingshun.
The south is the territory of the national army, and although Lin County is not within the scope, it is best not to cause trouble easily!" Gao Zhiheng warned.
No one can bear the crime of undermining the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
"I have a good idea. When we were not fighting against the 97th Army, our first battalion seized a lot of military uniforms, mostly from the 281st Regiment. We can let the soldiers entering Lin County put on the uniforms of the 281st Regiment. The National Army
Although we are defeated, this skin is still very useful. In this way, we can hide our true identity. Let's get a vote and leave. Who can find out?" Zhang Hao suggested.
"That's it, political commissar, tell the Second Regiment to do the same, don't let your traces show up!" Wang Yigong finally said.
The main reason why Wang Yigong asked Zhang Hao to take people to Lin County was that Zhang Hao also graduated from Huangpu and had served in the National Army and was familiar with its conditions.
The next day, Zhang Hao selected more than a hundred soldiers who had served in the national army from the first battalion and went to Lin County together.
The accompanying team crossed the Zhanghe River near Rencun Town and arrived near Yaolin Town.
Everyone took a break in a green gauze tent. Zhang Hao asked the accompanying guards to take out a map and said to several cadres: "We are in Ge Village now. More than ten miles to the south is Yaolin Town. The town is occupied by a group of puppets.
Army, it’s too hot during the day, let the soldiers rest in the green gauze tent first, and when it gets dark, they can bypass Yaolin Town and march to the mountains in the southwest!”
"Battal Commander, why don't you send more people over and arrest Yao Lin directly? The captured puppet soldiers can serve as a source of troops. How great!" said a platoon leader.
"What the hell, don't you know the virtues of the puppet soldiers? They are far different from those men who dare to fight against the little devils!" Zhang Hao cursed.
In the month after the Hundred Regiment War ended, the political cadres of the Fourth Regiment, headed by political commissar Gao Zhiheng, began to transform nearly 800 captured puppet soldiers.
In this month, after layers of screening, some with blood debts and some die-hard elements were eliminated, and a total of more than 600 recruits were obtained.
Each of these new soldiers who had been transformed from the puppet army clamored to join the Eighth Route Army, but after being dispersed into various battalions, it didn't take long for their prototypes to be revealed.
In the first camp, there were some who stole things from the local fellows, and some who became deserters because they couldn't bear the hardship and were caught again.
At that time, Zhang Hao was so angry that he could not stand up with his feet. Later, he was punished for corporally punishing a soldier. How could he have a good attitude toward soldiers who were transformed from the puppet army?
"Battal Commander, the instructor said that soldiers cannot be discriminated against because they were puppet soldiers. Our Eighth Route Army must treat them equally!" a cadre on the side whispered.
"Hey, let me tell you, you can eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense. What I look down on are those who fish in troubled waters and get along!" Zhang Hao explained quickly, and then continued: "Don't be stunned.
, let the soldiers take a rest!"
"Yes!" Several cadres in the meeting dispersed.
At the same time, a Central Army regiment designated as the 280th Regiment was stationed in the southern part of Lin County.
The leader of the regiment was Yang Han, the original deputy commander of the 280th Regiment. Yang Han was a graduate of the eighth phase of Huangpu. After graduation, he joined the 305th Regiment of the 153rd Brigade, the 51st Division of the 74th Army, a direct unit of the Central Army, and experienced Song
The Battle of Shanghai, the Battle of Nanjing, and the Battle of Xuzhou were followed by the 74th Army, which was transferred to Xue Yue's East Henan Corps to participate in the Battle of Lanfeng, severely damaging the Japanese 14th Division led by Kenji Dohi.
In 1938, Yang Han, who had been promoted to battalion commander for many meritorious service on the battlefield, was recuperating in a field hospital in the rear area. It happened that Zhu Huaibing's 94th Division was transferred to northern Henan, and the 97th Army was formed. Yang Han, who was recovering from his injuries in the rear area, was immediately transferred from the direct line of the Central Army.
Became a miscellaneous brand.
As a result, the Ninety-Seventh Army was defeated miserably in Tainan, with most of its officers and soldiers captured, and the remainder scattered in the countryside of Tainan.
Yang Han himself was not spared. He was imprisoned by the Independent Detachment at the time. However, he had no unusual behavior during the riot among the prisoners of the 97th Army, so he could be released safely.
After returning to the national army, it stands to reason that the remnants of the 97th Army should be dispersed to the frontline armies, but Yang Han contacted the former regiment commander.
The regiment commander is now the deputy commander of the 51st Division of the 74th Army. Later, Wang Yaowu, the former commander of the 51st Division and now the commander of the 74th Army, heard about this incident.
Wang Yaowu can be said to be a popular general in the national army and a confidant of Chiang Kai-shek.
I heard that the soldiers under the command of the 51st Division had experienced such an experience. In addition, Yang Han was one of the few officers in the 97th Army who organized troops and launched a counterattack.
With such a brilliant performance, coupled with the fact that he was a direct descendant of the 51st Division, Wang Yaowu became interested in talents, so he personally recommended Yang Han to his superiors to join the Officer Training Corps.
After a short period of study in the Officer Training Corps, the Ministry of Military Affairs issued a formal appointment, and Yang Han was promoted to colonel commander of the 280th Regiment and stationed in Lin County.
With the full support of the First War Zone, Yang Han used his former cronies as the backbone and selected 3,000 remaining members of the 97th Army to form a full-scale regiment of the Central Army, and conducted training near Luoyang.
As fate would have it, Zhu Huaibing was reduced from a powerful army commander to a sinecure, while Yang Han, the former deputy commander, became the direct commander of the Central Army as a blessing in disguise.
In the past, those who were left in Tainan to fight against Japan had always been motley crew from the national army, and Sun and Pang had quite a few complaints.
Therefore, the 280th Regiment entered Lin County as a representative of the Central Army. Correspondingly, Yang Han also obtained the command of the anti-Japanese armed forces and stragglers around Lin County.
The arrival of the 280th Regiment this time could be described as a bad move. The top brass of the national army did not send a direct Manchu regiment behind enemy lines just to silence Sun and Pang.
When did he, Mr. Jiang, care about the life and death of a miscellaneous local warlord?
