Since the Kuomintang troops attacked simultaneously in northern Sichuan, Hanzhong, Longnan, Shangluo, and Tongguan, the security division commanded by Dong Zhentang was attacked on three sides in northern Sichuan, Hanzhong, and Longnan. The security division commanded by Luo Binghui fought hard at Tongguan and Shangluo.
At this time, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and others remembered the importance of Liu Yimin's determination to eliminate Yang Hucheng's troops and occupy Ankang during the Battle of Fujia. Because Ankang is in the hands of Mao Zedong, which is equivalent to the Shaanxi Anti-Japanese Democratic Special Zone Government.
A wooden wedge was inserted into the defense line, allowing one to peek into the hinterland of Shaanxi at any time. Chiang Kai-shek led his troops to Zhongtiao Mountain to participate in the Anti-Japanese War in Yanghucheng and established the Tenth War Zone. His confidant Jiang Dingwen led the army to station in Ankang area to recharge his batteries.
, ready to raid the Shaanxi Anti-Japanese Base Area at any time.
Although they are both the main force of the Red Army and the local armed forces of the Eighth Route Army affiliated to the Shaanxi Anti-Japanese Democratic Special Administrative Region Government, the security divisions adapted from the Fifth Red Army Corps and the security divisions adapted from the Red Ninth Army Corps are unable to achieve either strength or equipment.
Compared with the training divisions adapted from the Seventh Red Army and the independent divisions adapted from the Third Red Army. In addition, in order to train and train the newly formed local armed forces from various parts of Shaanxi in recent years, the Central Committee has transferred many key personnel from the garrison division and the security division.
Added many new recruits.
The training level of these recruits is quite high, but they have never experienced actual combat. As a result, the combat effectiveness of the garrison division and security division has not improved much. At best, it is the same as that during the Long March. Of course, what is better than the Long March period is that the back-up force
The rear base areas of the Shaanxi Anti-Japanese Democratic Special Zone can receive a steady stream of replenishment.
This time, Chiang Kai-shek made a decision and then acted. He was determined to drive the Communist Party Central Committee out of Xi'an. Of course, it would be best to completely eliminate the Communist Party's army, but he knew that he could not do this,**
The main force of the army is all in Shanxi and is on the battlefield in Shandong!
Chiang Kai-shek also chose the timing very well. It happened that the Japanese army launched a heavy encirclement and suppression of Liu Yimin's troops in Shandong. In order to cooperate with the Shandong Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi was actively launching attacks on the Japanese army**. Nie Rongzhen even led his troops north to Liaoning to raid the Japanese army's lair.
, will not be able to come back for a while. Liu Yimin, the most capable unit in the hands of the Communist Party of China, is surrounded by heavy Japanese troops and has no skills. With only the troops left in Shaanxi, Chiang Kai-shek believes that he cannot stop his army.
When Liu Yimin called the Chairman, he proposed to mobilize three to four brigades of our army from Shandong to form a return reinforcement corps, which Liu would establish and Zhang Hongtao would lead to break through the Pinghan Road and return to Shaanxi to fight. Is there a reason why the [Central] Central Committee did not approve this request?
Firstly, the journey is long, and by the time our army from Shandong rushes back, the war may be over. Secondly, Shandong is under heavy raids by the Japanese army, and every move of our army is under the surveillance of the Japanese army. We did not deploy our troops in advance and sent troops rashly.
It is very likely that the return reinforcements will be noticed by the Japanese army and fall into the Japanese encirclement. Thirdly, even with his superb command skills and brilliant strategy, he did not see Chiang Kai-shek's attack. Now it is difficult to regret Chiang Kai-shek's encirclement and suppression of the Soviet area.
What? As for the fourth time, if you want to mobilize troops, you should also mobilize them from Shanxi. There is no reason to abandon the near and seek the far.
However, the development of things went beyond people's expectations. The enemy's offensive was fierce and desperate. In just a few days, the enemy broke through the three lines of defense of the guard division and the security division.
Originally, the Communist Party did not want to fight with Chiang Kai-shek. Because now is the period of the Anti-Japanese War, the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party can only benefit the Japanese. Therefore, the policy of the Central Committee is to give priority to political solutions. As long as it can block Chiang Kai-shek's offensive
Mobilize all political forces that can be mobilized to exert pressure on Chiang Kai-shek to force him to stop the offensive and return to the track of unity and resistance.
This policy is exactly the same as our party's policy in dealing with Hu Zongnan's attack on the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region in history, and it meets the actual needs of the Anti-Japanese War.
The **'s offensive was so fierce that it immediately angered **, and he wanted to teach Chiang Kai-shek a lesson. So, ** came up with the only method of "mobilizing" warfare, and ordered the garrison divisions and security divisions to shrink the defense line, layer by layer.
At the same time, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, Peng Dehuai, was ordered to lead the main force drawn from the 1st Zhan Division, the Independent Division, the 1st Sword Division, and the Prisoner Division to quickly return to Shaanxi to assist Shaanxi, preparing to completely eliminate the first part of the Kuomintang Army and repel the Kuomintang's attack.
Crazy attack.
Our army is shrinking its defense line, and the enemy is pressing forward step by step. Northern Sichuan, Longnan, and Tongguan have been lost one after another. Even Hanzhong and Shangluo have been occupied by the enemy in most counties.
〖Central〗The central government issued orders to mobilize troops several times a day, constantly urging Mr. Peng to hurry up, hurry up, and hurry up.
The Japanese army's nose was sharper than a dog's. Commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Force Nishio Hisao immediately ordered the North China Front Army to deploy troops to strengthen the First Army, and ordered the First Army to launch a counterattack against the Eighth Route Army in front of them, compress the Eighth Route Army's base area, and expand the occupied area. Purpose
It was to restrain the Eighth Route Army troops in Shanxi from returning full strength, allowing the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to fight harder.
At the same time, the Japanese Fifth Division and Taiwan Mixed Brigade, which had already received orders to go south, boarded ships in Qingdao and quickly headed south, preparing to launch the Battle of Southern Guangxi and cut off the Nationalist Government's supply lines.
The Eighth Route Army dispatched troops from Shanxi and had just crossed the Yellow River when Yan Xishan launched an attack.
Yan Xishan, from today's perspective, is simply an old and slippery gambler.
Before Liu Yimin met him last time in Guxian, he had already begun to prepare to take action against the Sacrifice League and the New Army. The reason is very simple. The Sacrifice League has established democratically elected county magistrates in more than a dozen counties in Shaanxi, and they are served by members of the Sacrifice League.
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After Liu Yimin had a long talk with the ancient sages Yan Xishan, he was greatly shocked by Yan Xishan. The Jin-Sui Army had indeed fought well some time ago. However, Yan Xishan was a standard native emperor. The Eighth Route Army established a base area in Shanxi, and this base area became more and more popular.
It's so big that Yan Xishan has nightmares even when he sleeps.
At this time, the number of members of the Sacrifice League in Shanxi had reached 600,000, and the New Army, the decisive column, had grown to 50 regiments, with 40,000 to 50,000 people, accounting for one-third of Yan Xishan's 150 regiments. This number made Yan
In Xishan, eating is not delicious and sleeping is not sweet.
The Anti-Japanese War policy of the Communist Party of China was to reduce rents and interest rates, and to provide reasonable burdens, which touched the interests of some landlords. These people often complained to the Shanxi-Sui Army, saying that "the Eighth Route Army did not pay cash for food," and the county magistrate and district magistrate "Ximeng Huiniang"
They treated the Eighth Route Army favorably and treated the "Central Army externally" and other arguments, obstructing and destroying reasonable burdens. Of course, the Jinsui Army supported the landlords and gentry, and these people began to take the lead in making trouble and refused to pay the grain dues. Some counties
The Sacrifice League had no choice but to arrest the landlords and gentry who took the lead in resisting the payment of grain dues. This was a hornet's nest, but Yan Xishan had evidence.
In addition, the Kuomintang accelerated the implementation of the policies of preventing, restricting, dissolving, and revolting from communism, and constantly urged Yan Xishan to restrict communism. As the Eighth Route Army developed in Shanxi, Yan Xishan once again remembered the crooked saying that survival is the goal and the war of resistance is a means.
They began to remove the county magistrates elected by the Sacrifice League and replaced them with the division commanders and commissioners of the Shanxi-Sui Army, and the regiment commanders and county magistrates. They also organized members of the Kuomintang and the Three Youth League to gather in various counties.
Slogans are posted on the walls of market towns, promoting "one leader, one doctrine, one government, one army,
Support Chairman Chiang Kai-shek."
Yan Xishan wants to seize the county and district power established by the Sacrifice League, and the Sacrifice League, with the support of the Eighth Route Army, wants to defend the power. Conflict is inevitable. Liu Yimin did not know this in Shandong, but both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in Shanxi saw it clearly. Peng
The boss said: "It's going to rain, hurry up and prepare an umbrella."
Before Chiang Kai-shek launched his attack on Shaanxi, he ordered Yan Xishan to take action in Shanxi to contain the Shanxi Eighth Route Army. However, Yan Xishan was timid and feared that he would not be a match for the Eighth Route Army.
Until he heard the news that Liu Yimin's chief of staff, Zeng Zhongsheng, had died for his country and committed suicide, and that Nie Rongzhen was leading his troops to fight against the Japanese in the western Liaoning region, Yan Xishan could no longer restrain his desire to seize the leadership of the New Army and decided to take advantage of the troubled waters.
Yan Xishan thought this way, Liu Yimin's troops can fight, but no matter how good they are, they can't be the opponent of Japan's swarms of planes, warships, tanks, and artillery. Don't look at Liu Yimin's attack on Shimen again.
Qingdao, that was because he couldn't stop the Japanese offensive and had to take the wrong side. The little devils had already occupied the land in Shandong, so he went to attack Shimen and Qingdao again and used Shimen? In the end, didn't he just evacuate obediently? If he had the guts, he could stay and
The Japanese would fight to the death. In that case, he would probably end up with the same fate as Zeng.
Yan Xishan had already decided to take action, but he was old and wanted to see what happened to the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi. It was not until the Eighth Route Army returned to assist the Shaanxi troops to cross the Yellow River that Yan Xishan could not wait to issue the action order.
The Shanxi Incident finally broke out more than a month later than in history.
Yan Xishan's goal is very clear, which is to solve the Shanxi New Army and the Sacrifice League, completely bring the New Army under the control of the Shanxi-Sui Army, and strengthen his own strength.
Just like in history, Yan Xishan ordered the commander of the second column, Han Jun, to launch an attack on the Japanese army. How long has it been at this time? He couldn't think twice about it. Han Jun could tell at a glance that Yan Xishan had no good intentions. He
The purpose was to place the Second Column of Death in the pincer attack between the Japanese army and the Shanxi-Sui Army, and categorically refused to carry out Yan Xishan's order. Yan Xishan immediately declared that the Second Column of Death was a "rebel" and ordered a "crusade" with the strength of g corps.
Attack the New Army in the Xiaoyi area across the county, then order Sun Chu's troops to attack the first and third column of the death squad in southeastern Shanxi and central Shanxi, and order Zhao Chengshou to attack the death squad and the 115th Division in northwest Shanxi.
In just two days, Yan Xishan's Shanxi-Sui Army moved from western Shanxi to southeastern Shanxi and set off a huge wave in northwestern Shanxi. Not only did they almost wipe out the second column of the decisive force, they also attacked the Eighth Route Army's rear hospital in western Shanxi and brutally killed others in other counties.
There were more than 1,000 sick and wounded people in six county governments, Sacrifice League cadres and the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Yan Jun also killed more than 600 Eighth Route Army and Death Squadron soldiers in southeastern Shanxi, kidnapped more than 1,000 local cadres, and destroyed Qin.
Shui, Yangcheng, Jincheng, Fushan, Changzhi and other anti-Japanese regimes.!