Chapter 531: 530 [War Against the Enemy's Rear]

(Well, another three chapters have been deleted, so let’s just read it. Some things are indeed too sensitive. I wanted to continue writing about the situation of the Northeast Army, but it seems that I can’t mention it in the future. This chapter is the anti-Japanese war in the Northeast. Let's wrap it up, from the beginning to the end.

By the way, Lao Wang has been in the hospital for three days on a bottle, reminding all friends to keep warm, as summer and autumn are easy to catch a cold.

The mood and body are not good today, there is no second update, everyone will wait tomorrow. )

At the turn of winter and spring in 1932 and 1933, for the people of the three occupied northeastern provinces, the days were extremely long.

Since September 18th, countless non-governmental anti-Japanese organizations have sprung up in the Northeast, with various names, such as the National Salvation Army, the Self-Defense Army, the Volunteer Army, the Red Spear Association, and the Broadsword Association. After the encirclement and suppression by the Kwantung Army, the large groups of volunteers led by Ma Zhanshan, Li Du, Wang Delin, Tang Juwu and others were almost all dispersed, but there were more and more small non-governmental anti-Japanese groups.

In Liaoning Province alone, there are about 100,000 volunteers. Among them, Deng Tiemei's troops are the largest, with more than 10,000 people, and the rest of the groups mostly have between 500 and 3,000 people.

These small groups of anti-Japanese troops moved after hearing the news, and specifically attacked the Kwantung Army and the puppet army that were alone. Although a battle may only wipe out a few or a dozen enemies, it caused the Kwantung Army to suffer, as if there were mosquitoes flying around.

When the Kwantung Army attacked Rehe, in order to stabilize the rear, Kwantung Army Commander Nobuyoshi Muto personally deployed the first "big crusade" to encircle and suppress the Liaoning Triangle. At the same time, the puppet army was ordered to "propagandize" the crusade areas.

The so-called "Xuanfu" actually means confiscating civilian weapons, distributing "goodwill" leaflets to the masses in the Northeast, and suppressing and arresting potential "undesirable elements".

Although the puppet army is not good at fighting, the work of "Xuanfu" is extraordinarily hard. Hundreds of people often enter the village to loot, and when villagers resist even a little, they are killed in the name of "undesirable elements". Wherever they go, it is like locusts passing through.

So at the turn of winter and spring, the people in the occupied areas of the Northeast had a bad life. Their biggest enemy is not the Kwantung Army, but the puppet army who aided the evildoers. Many honest farmers joined the Volunteer Army after losing their relatives.

When Chengde, the capital of Rehe Province, was occupied by the Japanese army and Zhang Xueliang announced his resignation, Hou Zhongguo (Hou Qi) was stepping on the unmelted snow and ice, leading a team to fight towards the Miyun area overnight.

Hou Zhongguo's anti-Japanese guerrilla campaign last year was impressive. He had hundreds of teachers and students who were proficient in the "seven-back" manufacturing technology, which made his attacks very fierce. He often defeated the Kwantung Army and puppet troops by ambushes.

At its most glorious time, Hou Zhongguo's power expanded to more than 20,000 people, and he became the key target of the Kwantung Army.

Just as Zhou Hexuan was worried about, Hou Zhongguo's team got mixed up with traitors. A policeman who claimed to be Deng Tuohai brought more than 3,000 people to join him. Because of his bravery, he was trusted by Hou Zhongguo and soon became the second in the group.

Then there was infighting. Deng Tuohai disclosed Hou Zhongguo's hiding place to the Kwantung Army, and blocked Hou Zhongguo's retreat route during the battle.

Under the protection of his cronies, Hou Zhongguo broke through the siege in blood, and only brought more than 1,000 people out of trouble. The original anti-Japanese group of more than 20,000 fell apart, split into three small groups and moved in multiple directions.

In addition to Hou Zhongguo's more than 1,000 troops, Zhang Chunhe, a teacher of Fengyong University, led 2,000 people to the South Manchurian Line to continue the resistance against Japan, echoing with Deng Tiemei's troops entrenched there. Another policeman named Chen Yu led more than 1,000 people into the old forest in the Liaozhong area.

"Seventh brother, let's light the fire, the brothers are going to be overwhelmed soon," Zhou Yuliang walked over and said, "This forest is deserted, and it's not easy for the Japanese devils to find it."

Hou Zhongguo glanced at the brothers around him, all shivering from the cold. He gritted his teeth and said, "Hold each other to keep warm, keep going, and if you get frostbite, find a boarding place with a fellow villager nearby. You must not start a fire. The devil's recent 'crusade' is very fierce. "

"Alas!" Zhou Yuliang sighed silently, he only hoped that no one would freeze to death tonight. He used to be the section chief of the Panshan County Statistics Bureau. He had studied at a university and joined Hou Zhongguo's team last summer. Now he is equivalent to the logistics manager of this group.

Hou Zhongguo asked, "How long can you last with food?"

Zhou Yuliang said: "Save some food, it will probably last for two days."

Hou Zhongguo muttered in a low voice, "We have to make a deal." He suddenly ordered, "Everyone get up and hurry, and head northwest. It should be much easier to get close to Miyun!"

Zhou Yuliang hesitated to speak. He thought it would be good to stay in Liaoning to fight guerrillas, but Hou Zhongguo wanted to support the Great Wall in the War of Resistance.

However, as Hou Zhongguo said, it would be much easier to go to Miyun, because the Kwantung Army's "crusade" this time focused on the two fronts of Anfeng and Nanman.

The Northeast People's Self-Defense Army founded by Deng Tiemei has more than 10,000 people, active between the Anfeng and Nanman railways, like a sharp knife piercing the enemy's heart. This anti-Japanese force not only threatened Shenyang, but also frequently disrupted railway traffic, causing great logistical troubles to the Kwantung Army attacking Rehe.

Today, thousands of Kwantung Army, with tens of thousands of Japanese and puppet troops, are frantically besieging and suppressing Deng Tiemei. But Deng Tiemei was as cunning as an old fox, and the large Japanese army couldn't catch them at all. Instead, he wiped out a large number of puppet troops sporadically.

Even the genuine Kwantung Army suffered heavy losses in the face of Deng Tiemei, and at least nearly 500 elite Japanese soldiers died.

It was precisely because Deng Tiemei held back the main force of the Kwantung Army's "crusade" that Hou Zhongguo had the opportunity to lead his troops to the northwest and attack the Miyun area. The War of Resistance on the Great Wall was raging over there, so Hou Zhongguo certainly didn't dare to go head-to-head with the Japanese army. He only wanted to go there to harass the Japanese army's logistics and contribute to the brothers who fought on the Great Wall.

When he broke through the siege in blood, there were only more than 1,000 people around Hou Zhongguo. But after several months of development, the strength has skyrocketed to about 5,000 again, and each of them is a "veteran" with rich combat experience. He believes that they can cause great trouble to the Japanese army.

It is a pity that only 18 of the teachers and students of Fengyong University who went out to fight against Japan with Hou Zhongguo are now by their side. As for the others, they either died or got separated from him, and I don't know how many survived.

After another two days of marching, Hou Zhongguo finally approached Miyun. Fortunately, the weather is getting warmer in spring, and the frostbite is not serious. The only bad thing is that the food is almost gone.

"commander!"

Hou Zhongguo's adjutant brought people over and said happily: "We got news from the fellow villager that tomorrow a puppet army will come to the front village to collect food."

Hou Zhongguo was shocked, and immediately got up and said, "Come on, follow me to see the terrain!"

The puppet army has always been Hou Zhongguo's favorite target. These guys are very poor in combat effectiveness, but they are extremely cruel to the common people. Especially in the past two months, puppet troops have emerged one after another to rob farmers under the banner of "Xuanfu".

...

At nine o'clock in the morning, the warm sun shines on the ice and snow land.

Zhao Si sat on a bumpy mule cart, with a thick "China-Japan Friendship Flyer" under his buttocks. His task is to spread "peace" in the surrounding villages, arrest potential "undesirable elements" by the way, and finally collect food and transport it to the Japanese logistics station in the county.

"Fourth Master, Guojiagou is ahead." The dog leg ran over to show his hospitality.

Zhao Si moved his buttocks, picked up the stack of goodwill leaflets, and said: "The tasks assigned by the Taijun must be completed first. Li Er, after entering the village, distribute these leaflets. Remember to ask every villager to One copy per person."

"Okay, okay! Don't worry, fourth master." The dog leg said flatteringly.

Zhao Si opened his mouth and yawned, and then stretched himself. Under the warm sun, what he wanted to do most was to have a good sleep.

"boom!"

"boom!"

Suddenly a gunshot rang out, scaring Zhao Si to jump up from the mule cart, and a bullet flew past his ear.

Zhao Si was so frightened that he peed in an instant, kneeling and crawling over the mule cart, lying on the ground with his head in his hands to avoid it. His puppet troops were also in a panic, because there were very few anti-Japanese troops here, and they didn't know how to deal with emergencies.

After panicking for a while, Zhao Si realized that he was the leader. He pulled out the box cannon on his waist, pointed his head and shouted: "Don't mess up, don't mess up, shoot me back!"

"kill!"

I saw thousands of volunteer soldiers rushing down the hillside on the left, some with guns, some simply with big knives and spears, desperately attacking the puppet troops below.

There were only hundreds of people on the puppet army's side, and they fired a few random shots sporadically before retreating in fright.

"Run!" Someone dropped the gun and turned around and slipped away.

"No retreat, no retreat!"

Zhao Si shouted loudly, wanting to rectify the troops to fight back, but he himself retreated quickly.

More than a hundred puppet troops instantly became headless chickens. At this moment, the direction they came from suddenly became louder, and even the way of retreat was cut off by the volunteer army.

Seeing this, Zhao Si immediately dropped his gun and knelt down, raised his hands in surrender and said, "Grandpa, grandpas, don't fight!"

When Hou Zhongguo came to the battlefield, hundreds of puppet soldiers had already knelt on the ground, and he spat: "Bah, bastard! I haven't even had time to use my grenade yet."

Zhao Si cried bitterly: "The good man spares my life, the good man spares my life, I have no other choice. The Japanese devils force me to work for them, otherwise they will kill my whole family. I beg you to show your kindness and spare my life!"

"Are you the traitor leader of this army?" Hou Zhongguo smiled cruelly. He had the style of a bandit and shouted, "Listen all you traitors, come here if you want to live, and kill all the officials. This is special Mom asked to vote for a certificate, anyone who dares not to do it, I will shoot them all!"

Zhao Si collapsed to the ground in an instant, and after a short silence, the puppet soldiers suddenly rushed towards Zhao Si and his dogs.

Hou Zhongguo smiled with satisfaction: "Clean the battlefield for me, then go to the village to buy some food, and evacuate immediately!"

Half an hour later, Hou Zhongguo, who had finished cleaning the battlefield, was about to flee when he suddenly heard someone shouting: "Which brother army is in front? We are the Second Cavalry Division of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army!"

"Director Huang's troops?"

Hou Zhongguo's face suddenly showed joy, and he quickly called the other party over and said: "I am Hou Qi, and you are old friends with Commander Huang, take me to see him!"

The other party also said happily: "You are the Hou Qiye who shocked the three mountains? How wonderful!"

Huang Xiansheng, formerly the director of the Liaoning Police Department and Shenyang Public Security Bureau, was the one who fired the first shot of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army and killed Zhang Xuecheng (Zhang Xueliang's cousin) who had defected to the enemy and became a traitor.

When the Japanese army attacked Jinzhou last year, Huang Xiansheng put a lot of pressure on the Kwantung Army behind the enemy lines. The Kwantung Army dispatched the cavalry regiment of the 20th Division to use this "invincible" cavalry regiment to wipe out the Volunteer Army in one fell swoop.

As a result, Huang Xiansheng ambushed in advance, annihilating more than 60 Japanese cavalry in one fell swoop, and killed a lieutenant commander. The Kwantung Army believed that this was "really the biggest tragic event since the Manchuria Incident."

In order to retaliate, the Japanese army dispatched infantry, artillery, cavalry, armored troops and flying teams to carry out continuous crusade against Huang Xiansheng. And Huang Xiansheng combined the various volunteers in western Liaoning into the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, with a total of more than 60,000 people. They persisted in the war of resistance for more than a year, and now they are almost dispersed.

The two anti-Japanese troops joined together soon, Hou Zhongguo rushed up and punched Huang Xiansheng, and said with a smile: "Old Huang, I haven't seen you for two years, your reputation is getting bigger and bigger!"

"It's not bad for you to guard Sanshan Hou Qiye," Huang Xian asked with a smile, "why didn't you fight in Liaozhong and came here?"

"What about you?" Hou Zhongguo asked.

Huang Xiansheng said seriously: "I'm going to Baimaguan to fight against the Japanese."

Hou Zhongguo was startled and said, "Are you going to the Great Wall to confront the Japanese head-on?"

Huang Xiansheng nodded and said, "Yes, let's go together."

Hou Zhongguo shook his head again and again: "No, no, I'm here to fight a guerrilla attack, specifically to destroy the devil's logistics route."

Huang Xiansheng didn't force it, he said with a smile: "Then let's cooperate more in the future, I heard that your bombardier team is very strong."

"You go to the Great Wall, and if you really can't beat it, come back," Hou Zhongguo said, "Mr. Zhou said, we still have to focus on guerrilla warfare, and don't confront the Japanese head-on for now."

"It's not an option to go on like this. People are needed on the frontal battlefield." Huang Xiansheng sighed.

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, had a meal together, and then parted ways.

Huang Xiansheng went to the White Horse Pass to fight against the Great Wall, while Hou Zhongguo stayed outside the pass to fight guerrillas. It's just that none of them expected that two months later, their troops would merge and eventually become the Communist Party's team.

The reason is very simple. When Huang Xiansheng led his troops to fight the Japanese army, he was actually supervised and coerced by the 205th Division of the Kuomintang, and all kinds of bad things hindered him.

Huang Xiansheng became angry and defected to the Communist Party, and set up a party branch in the Second Cavalry Division.

However, because Hou Zhongguo's troops harassed the Japanese army's logistics outside the Great Wall, the Kwantung Army sent three regiments to kill them in anger, and cooperated with the cavalry and flying teams. More than 5,000 people under Hou Zhongguo were devastated. In the end, only a few hundred backbones escaped and were recruited by Huang Xiansheng, who went out to fight against the Japanese.

Although Hou Zhongguo's team dispersed, the other two teams that split off survived tenaciously. Later, they all joined the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, and the "seven people's back" technology they mastered was also spreading rapidly. The surviving anti-Japanese teachers and students of Fengyong University became the technical backbone of various anti-Japanese enemy rear groups.

The Chinese have been fighting the war, even if the frontal battlefield is defeated again and again.