Why did the Japanese invaders dispatch more than 400 people to snatch a cannon from the New Fourth Army?

In 1939, the eighth year of the war of aggression against China, there was an endless debate between the "Army Faction" and the "Navy Faction" within Japan regarding the "Northward Advance" and the "Southward Advance". It was not until May of that year, with the outbreak of the Battle of Nomenkan, that the Japanese army paid a heavy price of more than 10,000 casualties and were beaten by Soviet large-caliber artillery to the point where their parents could no longer find their way around. This "cattle" finally recognized the reality. Change "going north" to "going south".

"Going south" means that it will inevitably infringe on the existing rights and interests of European and American countries. Therefore, the United States took the lead in hitting Japan with a "suffocating punch" by banning the export of iron ore and aviation fuel to Japan. Beat Japan's ambitions.

In modern warfare with thermal weapons, iron ore and aviation fuel are both indispensable and important strategic energy sources. Without the continuous replenishment of core energy, the war machine will be difficult to operate. Now that the Soviets had taught them how to behave with their "iron fist", the Japanese could only focus on Siberia's resources. Southeast Asia, which is rich in oil and gas resources, naturally became their first choice.

As for Southeast Asia, it is a colony of European and American countries. Europe and the United States have not squeezed enough resources from the local area, so it is not the turn of little Japan! The Japanese are trying to steal from them!

As for Japan’s behavior of “stealing food from the tiger’s mouth”, the United States, which had been unable to fight against it, finally couldn’t bear it and completely banned oil trade with Japan in 1941. The island country, which was already depleted of resources, was subject to a comprehensive embargo by European and American countries, and the war machine came to a standstill almost instantly.

Having cut off its retreat, Japan made a desperate move to attack Pearl Harbor in the United States, severely defeating the U.S. Pacific Navy Fleet, in an attempt to control the entire Pacific Ocean, and pave the way for the Japanese army to smoothly "advance south" to seize resources.

Although the Japanese's wishful thinking was rattling, after several PK matches that were "repaired" and bruised, they soon discovered that in the "ring" of war, the island country Japan is simply no match for the vast "Uncle Sam".

While Japan was beaten to its knees by the U.S. military on various battlefields in the Pacific War, the harsh resource blockade imposed by European and American countries on Japan also dealt a heavy blow to the already overloaded island nation. Under such circumstances, it became an important part of the Japanese aggressors' foreign strategy to intensify their crazy plundering of resources in the occupied areas to "sustain the life" of the country's economy, and China became an important exporter of resources plundered by the Japanese aggressors.

According to relevant information, from 1931 to 1945, Japan plundered 586 million tons of coal and 33.5 million tons of steel from my country. What is this concept? In other words, the steel Japan plundered from China could build nearly 5,000 Eiffel Towers, and the coal it plundered required 9.8 million trains to transport!

Jiangsu, located in the south of the Yangtze River, has been a resource-rich area in China since ancient times. Since the beginning of the war of aggression against China, Jiangning Yuntaishan Pyrite Mine, Xiashu Iron Mine, Longqishan Iron Mine, and Jurong Iron Mine have Gangjiapeng Iron Mine, Wangshan and Gonggongshan Iron and Manganese Mines, Jurong County Yangshan Copper Mine, Jiangning Tongjing Gold, Silver and Copper Mine, Lishui County Sanyuan Copper Mine and other mineral producing areas have become the targets of the Japanese army.

During the Japanese occupation of Jiangsu, the Japanese not only concocted the appalling "Nanjing Massacre" human tragedy, but also established the "Phoenix Continental Company" to mine the Phoenix Mountain iron ore in Nanjing. At that time, the iron mine had a cumulative proven geological reserve of 24.647 million tons of ore. In just a few years, the Japanese army plundered 950,000 tons of iron ore from the Fenghuangshan Iron Mine.

Not only did they plunder Jiangsu’s mineral resources, but the Japanese invaders captured young men everywhere in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and used them as coolies to mine minerals. They drove them like dogs, pigs and dogs, not to mention even the most basic diet. Sanitary conditions were not guaranteed, and the captured coolies were often brutally tortured and killed.

According to Lu Shengjin, a surviving coolie at that time, he recalled that the Japanese invaders brutally killed coolies at will: "A soldier of the 19th Route Army in Shanghai was tied to a tree, and the Japanese invaders poured liquid into his mouth. After a large amount of water was poured into his belly, he used a thick wooden stick about 10 centimeters long to hit his belly until it exploded. Blood spurted out and he died on the spot.

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It was precisely because of the long-term plundering and oppression of the Japanese invaders in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas that the Japanese army intensified their control and “clearance” of Central Jiangsu. The Japanese 12th Brigade in the “clearance” of Central Jiangsu was based on local Due to the dense water network, armored motorboats are used as combat units, and "grid" combat methods are used to cruise a large number of motorboats on the water where the river network intersects, in an attempt to divide and attack the base areas of the Soviet Central New Fourth Army.

Our army was not used to this style of play at first under the enemy's cunning "clearance", but soon, Su Yu found the flaw in the deep water line of the Japanese motorboat and mobilized local soldiers and civilians to build hidden stakes on the river bed to act as enemies. When an armored motorboat travels on the water, due to its deep draft, the engine impeller often gets stuck on the hidden pile and cannot move.

In comparison, our simple raft has a shallow draft and a flat bottom. , while the hidden piles blocked a large number of enemy motorboats, they did not damage the simple rafts at all. Our rafts and wooden boats could travel unimpeded. The Japanese invaders, who originally had the advantage of the river bed, had to abandon the boats and land for combat. In this way, Once again, they fell into the embarrassing situation of fighting our army on land.

The cunning Japanese invaders launched another "big poisonous move" this time. Under the supervision of the Central Soviet Military Division, Su Yu began to build a cross-road within the Fourth Division of the Soviet Central Military Division in order to divide our army's base area into two.

Su Yu, who is the commander of the Soviet Central Military Division and the First Division, certainly would not. Sitting back and letting the Japanese invaders succeed, he sent Yan Changrong, the leader of the "Tiger Regiment", to lead his troops to kill the arrogant enemy invaders who were shitting and peeing on top of our troops.

Yan Changrong made his first attack. Sixty-seven Japanese and puppet soldiers on the highway guard were killed. Logically speaking, the battle was pretty good. But Su Yu was not satisfied. The reason was not to mention the poor equipment of the New Fourth Army and the extreme shortage of weapons and ammunition.

At that time, there were two sources of bullets for the Soviet-Chinese New Fourth Army. One was to buy them through puppet military relations, and the other was to seize them from the enemy during battles. However, this did not fundamentally solve the problem of weapons and ammunition for our army. The situation is extremely short.

Take the "Tiger Regiment", the main force of the First Division of Central Jiangsu Province, as an example. The soldiers of this regiment are usually only issued a few bullets, and the bullet bags are always filled with reed sticks. , looks bulging, but is actually empty.

Yan Changrong's style of play is worthy of praise when there are sufficient weapons and ammunition, but now our army cannot afford to fight a war of attrition, and can only output without "profit". For this reason, Su Yu said to Yan Changrong: "When we fight, we cannot just compete with the enemy for consumption. We must strive to fight more annihilation battles so as to consume a large amount of the enemy. And replenish himself in large quantities"

Su Yu's requirements are very demanding for frontline commanders and fighters. It is really not easy for Yan Changrong to fully implement his ideas in actual combat, unless the enemy "voluntarily" takes the shot. , otherwise it is almost nothing more than wishful thinking and mumbling.

As a god of war, Su Yu certainly has a way to make the enemy "volunteer" to be shot, so that he can not only destroy the enemy, but also replenish himself in large quantities. . But after all, as the leader of the three armies, Su Yu's purpose is to train frontline commanders so that they can grow up and take charge of their own affairs in battle. Naturally, Su Yu will not choose to take over everything.

Su Yu only left Yan Changrong with sufficient autonomy and imagination. Whether Yan Changrong can fight well depends on whether Yan Changrong has the understanding. This is a trick that the famous general Su Yu often uses to "force" his subordinates. trick.

In the battle of Guxi, Su Yu used this move to successfully "force" Ye Fei to learn how to fight skillfully. Now it is the turn of Yan Changrong, the leader of the "Tiger Regiment".

Yan Changrong was "forced" by Su Yu, and all his smart brain cells were mobilized. For this reason, he formulated a combat plan to "lead the snake out of the hole".

After the combat plan was formulated, the "Tiger Regiment" was no longer in a hurry to fight against the Japanese invaders stationed on the road. For many days in a row, the "Tiger Regiment" kept a distance of 3 miles from the Japanese invaders on the road. The distance between us and the enemy is fine. You look at me and I look at you. The enemy garrison stationed on the road gradually ignored our army because in their view, the New Fourth Army's weapons were crude. Even if they were next to each other like this Even though it's close, it can't make much waves.

There is only one thing that makes the Japanese very unhappy, and that is that every day, a small group of soldiers from our army come to the Japanese army and either throw stones at the Japanese invaders, hit them on the butt with a slingshot, or attack them. Make the enemy make various indecent challenging gestures, and do whatever it takes to make the enemy sick, regardless of whether the enemy likes to see or hear it.

At first, the Japanese soldiers were familiar with our army's "harassment" squad, but gradually, the "provocative" behavior of our soldiers exceeded the limit of the obscene psychological development of the island soldiers. This principle is just like the long-winded Tang Monk in "Journey to the West" whose "dun-dun teachings" to the little monsters exceed their psychological endurance. The devils either erupt in silence or die in silence. They finally erupted like a volcano!

Soon, the Japanese soldiers who could no longer withstand the "unbridled" insulting provocations of our army picked up their weapons, waved their command knives randomly, roared and pounced on the "Tiger Regiment". past. This is exactly the effect the "Tiger Group" wants. Yan Changrong had been waiting for this moment for a long time, and the Japanese finally "took the bait"!

Since you are here, I will give you a "double gift package"! After our army team successfully lured the enemy into the preset encirclement, the "Tiger Regiment" came and opened fire from all sides. In an instant, the enemy invaders were beaten to the point of crying for their fathers and mothers. Our army killed and captured more than 200 Japanese and puppets in one battle. The most commendable thing is that the "Tiger Regiment" also seized a large amount of loot, including a pile of 38 caps and 2 grenade launchers. However, more importantly than these, our army also picked up an infantry gun while cleaning the battlefield.

You must know that according to their military discipline within the Japanese army, commanders who lose heavy weapons will be severely punished. The Japanese army was severely beaten by the "Tiger Regiment" and lost all their heavy weapons in a daze. This was enough to give the Japanese commander a drink.

The Japanese commander Nan Xiangji, who was anxious to become an ant in the hot pot, had no choice but to write a letter to Su Yu himself, hoping that Su Yu could return the captured cannon to them. The general idea of ??the Japanese letter was very cliché. At the beginning, it was nothing more than praising how brave your army was in fighting and how General Su Yu commanded it with a good ear. Then, the conversation changed and he asked Su Yu to show his noble hand, hoping that our magnanimity could lead to victory in the battle. The cannon "returned to Zhao intact".

Su Yu was amused when he received the letter from the Japanese invaders in the south of Xiangji, so he wrote back a letter to the Japanese army. The main meaning of the letter was: If I return the cannon to you, What are the benefits?

Su Yu’s battles have never been profitable, so we won’t do any business that makes you lose money! What's more, the opponent is still a cruel and cunning Japanese invader!

Shortly after our letter was sent, Nanfang Xiangji also wrote back. However, this time the Japanese invaders’ reply made Su Yu burst into tears after reading it. The Japanese invaders actually said in the letter, As long as the cannon is returned, we will shake hands and make peace from now on, and we will never fight again!

It seems that the Japanese devils, who have always been accustomed to murder and arson, are now trying to "change their evil ways" and take a peaceful path to bring peace to the world!

Su Yu smiled and wrote back: You asked me to pay it back, but I just refused to give it back!

At this time, the shameless Nanfang Xiangji was completely angered. In order to restore the dignity of a "warrior", the Japanese invaders Nanfang Xiangji simply sent more than 400 troops to attack fiercely, trying to get rid of the enemy. Seize this cannon from our army.

On the battlefield behind enemy lines, more than 400 people are not a small number (note: more than 400 Japanese soldiers). Together they can cover two reinforced squadrons. So many people, noisy, just to follow our army Grab a cannon from your hand.

What is even more exaggerated is that the Japanese invaders even shamelessly painted slogans on the walls where they passed: "The New Fourth Army will give me back the artillery, but the two grenade launchers will be lost."

Now that the funny Japanese are here, our army can’t greet them properly, right? Otherwise, wouldn’t it be too “sincere”?

So, Su Yu began to command the troops to play "mushroom war" with the Japanese. He led the Japanese by the nose and "paraded" everywhere in Central Jiangsu, traveling east and west, traveling south and north, all over the country. They circled in circles and blocked the road for more than a week, until they made the Japanese invaders completely lose their temper. Finally, the Japanese were too tired to move like dead dogs, so they had no choice but to return in despair and grab the goods. Operation Artillery thus declared complete bankruptcy.