Chapter 459: Detailed report on the Hebei, Shandong and Henan base areas
Most of what I write is an introduction, but I feel it is necessary to write it.
The Hebei, Shandong and Henan region is the junction of three provinces, located east of Pinghan Road, west of Jinpu Road, south of Weihe River, and north of Longhai Road.
It is specifically divided into: Northwest Shandong, with Liaocheng as the center and nine counties including Yanggu, Shouzhang, Tangyi, and Guanxian.
The second Taixi area is west of Mount Tai (west of Jinpu Road), east of the canal, and south of the Yellow River, including Tai'an, Dong'a, Changqing, Pingyin, Dongping, Wenshang, Ningyang, Feicheng and other counties.
The Sanhuxi area refers to the border area at the junction of the four provinces of Shandong, Shandong, Henan and Anhui in the west of Weishan Lake, including Tongshan, Peixian, Fengxian and Xiaoxian in northern Jiangsu, Dangshan in northern Anhui, Jinxiang and Shanxian in southwestern Shandong,
Yutai and other places.
The Huxi area is located in the northwest plain area at the intersection of the Jinpu Railway and the Longhai Railway. It is the communication hub between Central China and North China, and is strategically a battleground between the enemy and us.
The three regions of Sizhinan, Northern Henan and Southwest Shandong are collectively referred to as the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region. Zhinan District is located at the southern end of Hebei, a narrow area between Henan and Shandong, including Nanle, Qingfeng, PY, Dongyang, and Changzhou south of Daming.
Yuan and other 5 counties.
Northern Henan District includes Neihuang, Huaxian, Junxian, Anyang and other counties.
Southwest Shandong refers to Chengwu, Dingtao, Jinxiang, Heze, Juye, Caoxian, Shanxian and other places.
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On the Yama Mountain.
Zhou Weihan came back this time to clarify the future combat deployment in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan Border Region as soon as possible. Therefore, after confirming the issuance of border area tickets in the Tainan Base Area, he immediately convened a meeting of the leadership team of the Tainan Military Region.
Since Zhou Weiguo was in charge in Pingshun, only Zhou Weihan, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo, Li Yunshan and other combat staff from the staff office attended the meeting.
In addition to training the new corps, Xing Zhiguo led a group of combat staff to integrate intelligence from the Eighth Route Army headquarters, local governments in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions, and the enemy's engineering department.
In the conference room.
Since Zhou Weihan and others are not familiar with the Hebei-Shandong-Henan region, and the local forces are complex, even the internal relations among our personnel are not unified. If we want to develop towards the Hebei-Shandong-Henan border area, the first thing is to sort out the above-mentioned factors.
a relationship.
I saw Xing Zhiguo standing in front of the map and introducing: "In 1938, the Japanese army still advanced along the railway line, but occupied the county towns along the railway line. The hinterland of the Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions had not yet been occupied by the Japanese army, and the Nationalist Government collapsed.
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"Taking this opportunity, comrades from various places established multiple anti-Japanese armed forces. Starting in November of the same year, the anti-Japanese armed forces from various places were merged and reorganized!"
"The Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Group in Western Taipei, Wenshang Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Force, Dafengshan Independent Battalion and other armed forces were combined into the Sixth Detachment of the Eighth Route Army's Shandong Column under the instructions of superiors. They have 4 regiments under their jurisdiction. Together with other guerrilla groups, there are more than 4,000 armed people.
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"The Second Corps of the Sulu People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps in the Huxi region was reorganized into the Shandong Column Advance Detachment."
"In the direct south and southwestern Shandong areas, two companies of the 688th Regiment of the 344th Brigade were used as the backbone, together with the 13th Detachment of Fan Zhuxian's troops and some guerrilla armed forces that had been transferred to the Heze area, to form the 344th Brigade Special Agent Regiment, Cao County
The Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force and several guerrilla groups were jointly organized into the fifth detachment of Hebei, Shandong and Yu. The armed forces in Zhinan and southwest Shandong have grown to more than 4,000 people."
"At that time, there were no main forces of the Eighth Route Army in the above-mentioned areas. Our Eighth Route Army was relatively weak, but the National Army's power in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan areas was very large, with a total of more than 40,000 armed forces at its disposal.
Implement various restrictions and oppression on our Eighth Route Army in an attempt to control the Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions and the entire Shandong region, and cut off the connections between North and Central China!"
"For this reason, at the end of 1938, the 685th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division, which was originally operating in western and southeastern Shanxi, arrived in the Huxi area and merged with the local armed forces to form the Suluyu Detachment. In May 1939, it merged with the Jinjin Detachment in Huxi to form the Suluyu Detachment.
The new Sulu-Henan detachment has four regiments with more than 9,000 people. The first and second regiments went south to Jiangsu and Anhui, while the third and fourth regiments remain in Huxi to this day!"
"In February 1939, the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division entered Zhinan under the leadership of Brigadier Yang. The previously established special agent group and independent group formed the Hebei, Shandong and Yu detachment, responsible for unified command of operations in Zhinan and southwest Shandong! By the end of 1939,
The detachment was expanded from 4,000 to 7,000 people, and the Henan North Brigade, the Independent Brigade, and multiple county and district local armed forces were formed, totaling 17,000 people!"
"In March 1939, Chen, the acting commander of the 115th Division, and Luo, the political commissar, led the division and the 343rd Brigade and the 686th Regiment to western Shandong. In order to open up the west of the canal, Yuncheng, Zhencheng, Shouzhang, Pu County, Fan County, Guan
City and other places, Yang Yong led the 686th Regiment and the first units directly under the division headquarters to go to the counties of Yunxi. In July, the 115th Division independent brigade was established. Yang Yong served as brigade commander and political commissar, under the jurisdiction of the first regiment and the second regiment! Subsequent Taixi and
Yunxi is connected and officially forms the Luxi base area!"
"So far, after the arrival of the main force of the 115th Division, three large anti-Japanese base areas have been formed in the Hebei, Shandong and Yu areas, namely the Hebei, Shandong and Yu base areas (Zhinan, southwest Shandong), and the western Shandong base area (northwestern Shandong, Yunxi, and Taixi)
Plus Huxi!".
“In the spring of 1940, the headquarters ordered Yang Dezhi, commander of the Second Column of the Eighth Route Army, and political commissar Huang Kecheng to lead the 344th Brigade (owed to the 688th Regiment, which was incorporated into the new First Brigade and then reorganized into the 129th Division).
The independent guerrilla detachment, the First Brigade Headquarters and the First Regiment of the Hebei People's Army entered the direct south area of Hebei, Shandong and Henan from the south of the Taihang Mountains in April, and joined the Hebei, Shandong and Henan detachment.
The Fifth Brigade and the Qingfeng Independent Regiment were jointly organized into the 688th Regiment of the 344th Brigade."
"The First, Second, Third, and Fourth Brigades were combined into the new Second Brigade, with brigade commander Yang Dezhi (concurrently). The Independent Brigade, Henan North Brigade and the Independent Guerrilla Detachment were combined into the new Third Brigade, with the brigade commander
Han Xianchu."
"The First Brigade of the Hebei People's Army still maintains its original organizational structure. At the same time, the Hebei, Shandong and Henan Military Region was established at the end of April. The second column also serves as the military region and has three military divisions under its jurisdiction."
"At the same time, the Luxi Military Region was also established at the end of April, with Yang Yong as the commander and Xiao Hua as the political commissar. It has two detachments, the Canal and the Yellow River, and four military divisions. The Canal detachment, formed from the sixth detachment of the Shandong Column, is closely related to the local
The armed forces were jointly organized into the 3rd Teaching Brigade of the 115th Division. The Yellow River Detachment was composed of the first and second regiments of the original 115th Division Independent Brigade, and was later reorganized into the 4th Teaching Brigade of the 115th Division!"
"Before the recent big sweep, the headquarters ordered the Suluyu detachment in the Huxi base area, the 344th Brigade of the Second Column of the Eighth Route Army in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, and the newly formed second brigade to go south to central China one after another!"
"The Japanese army took this opportunity to launch a large-scale sweep. Our Eighth Route Army suffered heavy losses in the Shandong and Hebei-Shandong border base areas. Therefore, the main force of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region was newly reorganized. The third brigade and the People's Army's first brigade were transferred to the Western Shandong Military Region. The Western Shandong Military Region
The fourth teaching brigade is transferred to the Huxi base area!"
"This is the current actual situation of our Eighth Route Army troops in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions!" Xing Zhiguo finally said.
"Lao Xing, there doesn't seem to be much activity of our Eighth Route Army troops in the northern Henan area within the Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions?" Zhou Weihan said.
"The northern Henan region, headed by Anyang and Huaxian, are all along the Pinghan-Han Railway, important areas defended by the Japanese army!"
"The main force of the Japanese 35th Division and the 4th Cavalry Brigade are stationed along the Longhai Railway such as Kaifeng and Shangqiu!"
"And after the big sweep, the Japanese army built 34 strongholds in the border areas of Zhinan, southwestern Shandong, and western Shandong, with the intention of dividing our base area!"
"There are many anti-Japanese armed forces headed by Gao Shuxun of the New Eighth Army in the hinterland of PY and Pu County in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions. The Japanese army intends to allow them to fight with our Eighth Route Army!"
After hearing this, Zhou Weihan nodded and said: "It seems that the situation in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions is still very complicated. Not only do we have to deal with the little devils, but we also have to beware of the anti-Japanese armed forces of the national army!"
"Yes, we can take action unscrupulously when facing the little devils, but when facing the national army, we can only passively endure friction!" Li Yunshan said at the side.
Zhou Weihan suddenly stood up and stood in front of the map: "Send a report to the First Regiment, temporarily avoid the Japanese army, and station in Neihuang and Nanle. At the same time, do not conflict with the New Eighth Army. Wait until the main force arrives next month.