Shida Qianji was very angry and called Tojo over and scolded him. Tojo was also very helpless, who made this Xu Dalong so difficult to deal with. However, he still insisted on implementing the plan to relocate the people as always.
Of course, Xu Dalong was unwilling to let the Japanese and puppet troops achieve their goals just like this. He sent many small teams to specifically attack the Japanese and puppet troops who went to the countryside to migrate people, and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese and puppet troops.
After Tojo learned of this situation, he also took measures. Every time he went to the countryside to relocate people, he sent a large force to implement it. He was not greedy for more every time, just hoping to capture some of the people. He firmly believed that as long as this continued, all the people in the Yuanping area would eventually be relocated.
Seeing the people being moved away bit by bit, Xu Dalong also felt that he was beyond his capabilities. He couldn't think of a better countermeasure for the moment, so he called Wei Dayong and Su Jianqiang to discuss the matter.
This time, Su Jianqiang came up with a good idea and said: "Captain, instead of competing with the Japanese and puppet troops for those people in the Yuanping Public Security District, it is better to go to other security districts and rescue the people there. .The Japanese and puppet troops can resettle millions of people in the Yuanping Public Security District. Can they also resettle people from other security districts? If that doesn't work, let's conquer another security district and see if the little devils can bear it. ?”
Su Jianqiang's suggestion made Xu Dalong suddenly enlightened. He smiled and said: "Jianqiang, you are right. This time my vision is limited. Since the little devils have concentrated their forces in the Yuanping area, let's simply jump out and attack the puppet army in other areas." district."
The three of them came to the map. Xu Dalong pointed to the west of Songshan and said: "This is the Andong Public Security District. There are seven counties in total. The population is relatively dense and the number of people exceeds 3 million. Let's leave some troops and continue to fight in the Yuanping Public Security District. Here, they harassed the Japanese and puppet troops' actions to relocate the people.
Concentrate the main force into the Andong Public Security District. Aren’t they trying to pull out the fire and put out the fire? Well, let's light up fires everywhere and burn him to a pulp. "
Wei Dayong and Su Jianqiang were also very excited. They studied the combat plan with Xu Dalong, and then held a meeting of cadres above the captain of the Songshan guerrilla detachment.
The meeting decided to leave a special operations unit of Zhu Guangzhao, a brigade of Su Jianqiang's second detachment, and a brigade of the third detachment of Guan Zhenshan in the Yuanping Public Security District to continue to stay in the Yuanping area to contain the Japanese and puppet troops.
Xu Dalong and Wei Dayong led the main force of the Songshan guerrillas to cross Songshan and enter the Andong area.
The Andong Public Security District includes seven counties, including Tianchang, Mishan, Zuoyun, and Lide, and is also the defense area of the Japanese Second Division. At this time, the main force of the Japanese Second Division was gathered in the Yuanping Public Security District. The Songshan guerrillas were in uninhabited territory in the Andong area. In just two days, they captured three county towns and destroyed 17 group tribes. More than 150,000 people were rescued. The commander of the Second Division was dumbfounded and hurriedly sent a large number of Japanese and puppet troops to the Andong area.
Xu Dalong left behind a brigade of Su Jianqiang's first detachment, pretending to be the main force and continuing to operate in the Andong Security District, attracting the main force of the Japanese army to besiege him. He led the main force of the Songshan guerrillas to march secretly at night, crossed Songshan, and appeared again in In the Yuanping area, a large number of Japanese and puppet troops who went to the countryside to arrest people were eliminated, and Ito County was once again captured, smashing the Japanese and puppet troops' attempts to relocate the people.
Tojo was completely dumbfounded. Not only did he fail to complete his plan to create a no-man's land in the Yuanping Public Security District, but something went wrong again in the Andong area. Even if he tried his best to relocate all the people in the Yuanping Public Security District, what about the people in the Andong area? Do they have to all be relocated?
Even so, Xu Dalong will also attack other security areas and will also face the relocation of large numbers of people. Tojo simply did not have the ability to relocate all the people, so he had to temporarily stop the plan to relocate the people in the Yuanping area.
He now feels that he is powerless and has almost completely lost confidence in destroying the Songshan guerrillas. Frustrated, he went to the chief of staff and proposed that someone should be replaced to carry out the task of annihilating the Songshan guerrillas.
The commander of the Japanese Second Division has also lost confidence. The only thing he can do now is to keep the counties still under the control of Andong Security District and Yuanping Security District to avoid further deterioration of the situation.
He was worried that his transfer back to the base camp would go to waste, so he hurriedly sent a telegram to his connections on the island and asked them to find a way to transfer him back to the base camp first. As for the commander of the second division, let someone else be the leader.
After this round of competition, Xu Dalong and others smashed the Japanese conspiracy to create a no-man's land in the Yuanping Public Security District, eliminated more than 3,000 Japanese puppet troops, and created guerrilla zones in three counties in the Andong area, recruiting More than 1,000 new soldiers were recruited into the army. The strength of the Songshan guerrillas further grew.
Superiors attached great importance to Xu Dalong's achievements outside the customs and decided to strengthen the Songshan guerrillas. They transferred a regiment from the Jizhong Military Region and four battalions from the Jidong Military Region. These troops were all composed of veterans for more than one year. They ordered them to leave the border and join the Songshan guerrillas, adding a large number of backbones to the Songshan guerrillas. , greatly strengthening the combat effectiveness of the Songshan guerrillas.
Under the auspices of Xu Dalong, the Songshan guerrillas were reorganized again. After reorganization, the Songshan guerrillas have jurisdiction over the column headquarters, government-affiliated teams, an artillery brigade, and four guerrilla detachments, with a strength of 12,400. For the time being, Xu Dalong is still the column leader, Guan Zhenshan is the deputy column leader, and Wei Dayong is the chief of staff.
After the Songshan guerrillas were reorganized, they immediately launched a fierce attack on the Japanese and puppet troops.
After half a month of fighting, the entire Yuanping Public Security District, except for Yuanping County, was under the control of the guerrillas. In the Andong region, a vast area of four counties is also controlled by the Songshan guerrilla column, and the work of establishing a base area has also begun.
The security situation further deteriorated, and even the commander of the Kwantung Army, who was on duty for Qianji, could not sit still.
Under his chairmanship, a combat meeting to restore public order in the Yuanping and Andong areas was held at the Kwantung Army Headquarters in Fengtian City. Tojo and the commander of the 2nd Division attended the meeting.
At this moment, instructions were sent from superiors, requiring the Songshan guerrilla column to dispatch some troops to the Changbai Mountain area to establish a new guerrilla zone and then create a new anti-Japanese base area.
Xu Dalong felt very headache after seeing this order. He hurriedly sent a telegram to Commander Sling to let him know the ins and outs of the matter.
Things soon became clear. It turned out that a leader of the underground party outside the Pass saw the success of the Songshan guerrilla column and was eager to extend the successful experience here to the entire region outside the Pass, and wanted to quickly create a good situation for the war of resistance outside the Pass.
Xu Dalong disagreed with what should be done, thinking that the leader of the underground party outside the customs was a little eager for quick success and blindly optimistic.
So he called Guan Zhenshan and the old guerrillas who had persisted in the war of resistance outside the Guan to discuss this issue.
Guan Zhenshan and others had the same idea as Xu Dalong. The Songshan Guerrilla Column was able to gain a firm foothold because they were backed by the Eighth Route Army in the Pass. They had a large battle depth, sufficient room for maneuver, and could receive support from the Eighth Route Army in the Pass at any time. If some troops are sent deep into the hinterland outside the Pass, they will be isolated and helpless like the previous guerrillas outside the Pass, and will be trapped by the Japanese and puppet troops. It will be extremely difficult for them to survive, let alone grow and develop. The result of this would not only be that part of the guerrillas would be destroyed in vain, but it would also weaken the strength of the Songshan guerrilla column. If you try to grab watermelons and sesame seeds, you will lose them all.
Xu Dalong reported his opinions to his superiors. The leader outside the customs disagreed with Xu Dalong's opinion, so the two parties exchanged telegrams and started a lawsuit.
Xu Dalong's influence is very great, and the superior organization trusts him very much. After repeated arguments, it was decided to adopt Xu Dalong's suggestion. The Songshan guerrillas could not be dispersed and continued to rely on the Eighth Route Army inside the Pass to gradually develop in-depth Japanese and puppet rule outside the Pass.
However, this debate still delayed a certain amount of time, disrupted the Songshan Guerrilla Column's plan to expand outward, and bought time for the Japanese Kwantung Army to mobilize its forces to counterattack the Songshan Guerrilla Column.
In order to prevent the security situation from deteriorating further, the Japanese Kwantung Army made up its mind and dispatched a tank regiment, a cavalry regiment, and 12 Japanese troops from the Japanese Second Division, the Japanese 22nd Division, the First Tank Division, Three regiments of the puppet Manchukuo army, with a total strength of more than 65,000 people, launched an attack on the Songshan guerrilla column.
Since the underground party organizations outside the customs have not yet been restored, Xu Dalong and others were not able to obtain such important information in advance. When they obtained this important information by capturing a Japanese officer, large groups of Japanese and puppet troops had already pressed against the Songshan guerrilla column from the Andong Security District and Yuanping direction.
Seeing that the Japanese and puppet troops were too numerous, Xu Dalong decided that Guan Zhenshan would lead two brigades to stay in the Songshan secret camp and look for opportunities to attack the Japanese and puppet troops. He led the main force to retreat into the pass.
Just when Xu Dalong and others left Heishui County and headed for Changcheng, bad news suddenly came. A Japanese cavalry regiment has taken the lead in reaching Changcheng, blocking the Songshan guerrilla column's retreat to the outside of the pass.
Xu Dalong realized the danger. He ordered the First Detachment and the Second Detachment to deploy a brigade each to block the Japanese Second Division and the 22nd Division respectively, buying time for the transfer of the main force. He led the main force straight to Changcheng, hoping to defeat the Japanese cavalry unit blocking the way and retreat into the pass before the main force of the Japanese army arrived.
At the same time, Xu Dalong sent a telegram to the leaders of the Second Military Division of the Jidong Military Region, asking them to urgently send troops for reinforcements.
After leaving Heishui County, Xu Dalong stood at the gate of the city and urged the guerrillas to hurry up and leave. He waited for a long time but did not see the guerrilla's logistics personnel coming, so he quickly sent someone to understand the situation.
The logistics director of the guerrilla column hurried over. He was sweating profusely and said anxiously: "Captain, please give us some more time. We have too many supplies and we can't transport them in a while." ah."
After the previous stage of fighting, the Songshan Guerrilla Column seized a large amount of supplies, some of which were hoarded in the secret camp, and most of which were kept in Heishui County. This time the Japanese and puppet troops arrived too suddenly, and it was impossible to transport these supplies in a short time. Of course, the Director of Logistics was reluctant to throw away the supplies he had worked so hard to hoard, so he asked Xu Dalong for more time. He was organizing people to help the guerrillas transport supplies.
Xu Dalong knew that the situation was urgent and he had to make a prompt decision at this time.
He said: "Except for weapons and ammunition, give up all supplies. I will only give you half an hour. If the logistics staff cannot leave the county, you will not be the director of the logistics department."
"Yes." The head of the logistics department roared, saluted Xu Dalong, and ran back to the county seat. Facing the mountains of supplies, the logistics director could only ruthlessly order the soldiers to set fire to them.
Looking at the raging fire, he couldn't help but burst into tears. He really couldn't bear to watch anymore, so he turned around and shouted loudly: "Brothers, retreat quickly."
Just when Xu Dalong was in charge of cutting off the rear, Wei Dayong had already led the vanguard on his way. When they arrived, they saw that Chang Cheng was already full of Japanese soldiers, and the gaps were tightly blocked by the Japanese and puppet troops.
Knowing that the situation was urgent, Wei Dayong immediately ordered the vanguard to attack the Japanese army.
Leading the way in front of the team were Su Jianqiang's special operations squadron and the first brigade of the first detachment. They were very tired after marching for a long time. After receiving the order to attack, they only rested for ten minutes before launching an attack on the Japanese army.
The Japanese and puppet troops relied on their solid Changcheng to block the guerrillas' attack. They used crossfire to block the gap in Changcheng, making it impossible for the guerrillas to pass.
The first attack failed quickly, causing more than 100 guerrilla casualties.
Wei Dayong knew that such a blind attack would not work. At this time, he must stay calm and make the best attack plan.
He waited patiently and sent troops back to help the artillery brigade come over as quickly as possible. 40 minutes later, the artillery brigade finally arrived.
Wei Dayong concentrated the artillery of three brigades in preparation for the attack.
The artillerymen set up the artillery, and Wei Dayong said to the artillery battalion captain: "This is a matter of life and death. You don't have to save artillery shells. You have to fire the most shells in the shortest time to open a gap."
The artillery battalion captain also knew that the situation was critical, so he ordered the artillery to fire fiercely at the city walls on both sides of the Changcheng gap. At the same time, he ordered some artillery to bombard the Japanese troops blocking the gap. Then three guerrilla brigades launched an attack on the Japanese army. .
Most of the Japanese cavalry units were equipped with lances and sabers, and only a small number of machine guns and artillery. Their firepower was unable to compete with the guerrilla columns, and they suffered heavy casualties under the guerrilla attacks.
But the Japanese army also knew the seriousness of the situation. Those who blocked the route braved fierce artillery fire and shot at the guerrillas.
(End of chapter)
