Does anyone have specific information on the history of the Anti-Japanese War in Fuzhou?

After the Japanese army occupied Xiamen on May 13, 1938, they immediately targeted the Fuzhou area. That month, Japanese ships began shelling Meihua, Huangqi, Beiling and other places at the mouth of the Minjiang River. Subsequently, Japanese aircraft continued to attack Fuzhou. On the 31st and June 1st, the "Funing" and "Zhengning" ships of the Chinese army responsible for the blockade of the Minjiang River estuary were sunk by the Japanese navy. The "Chu Tai" anchored in Nangang "The ship was also damaged. In May and June of 1939, Japanese planes frequently bombed the Navy's Mawei Fortress headquarters and its schools, hospitals, Marine barracks and forts at the mouth of the Minjiang River. They also sent speedboats to invade Nagato, Fuzhou, and Tingjiang, all of which were defeated by the defenders. repel. On June 27, in addition to sending aircraft to bomb the fortress positions outside the mouth of the Minjiang River, the Japanese army also used Chuanshi Island as a stronghold and sent speedboats to invade Tingjiang and Langqi islands many times. All were repelled by the artillery fire of the Marine Corps and the fortress positions. The Japanese army Two ships were damaged and one was sunk. In the second half of 1940, the Japanese army prepared to go south to launch the Pacific War and stepped up its efforts to induce surrender to the Kuomintang government in an attempt to end the war of aggression against China as soon as possible. In November, secret negotiations between Japan and Chiang Kai-shek failed, and Japan decided to exert military pressure on the Kuomintang army. After the Kuomintang government fell in Xiamen and Guangzhou, the external supply lines along the southeast coast were cut off, but the small ports in Ningbo, Wenzhou, and Fuzhou in Zhejiang could still import supplies. In order to strengthen the blockade of the southeastern coast and seize Fuzhou, the Japanese base camp formulated the "Fuzhou Operation-C4 Operation Plan" in February 1941. Its troop deployment is: the 48th Division of the Army's South China Front and the 4 infantry brigades of the Tuomei Detachment of the 18th Division and the Taga Battalion of the 2nd Brigade of the Guards Division, ***1? With more than 20,000 troops, the main force of the 48th Division landed from Lianjiang to seize Mawei and Fuzhou; the Tuomei detachment landed at Haikou of Changle, Meihua, and Fuqing to cut off the defenders' retreat; the Taga Brigade captured the islands at the mouth of the Minjiang River and "mopped out" nearby fort. After completing their mission, the Tuomei Detachment and the Taga Brigade returned to their bases, and the 48th Division was stationed in Fuzhou, Haikou and key areas along the Min River.

The Second China Fleet of the Japanese Navy affiliated to the Chinese Front Army has 30 various ships and 70 motorboats, responsible for water transport and cover landing operations. The defenders in the Fuzhou area are the 75th and 80th divisions of the 100th Army of the Third War Zone of the Kuomintang and the 4th Marine Corps Regiment. Together with the local security forces, the army has a strength of 3.3 million. The commander of the 100th Army, Chen Qi, was under the unified command to defend the Fuzhou area. Its deployment is: the 75th Division, the 224th, 223rd, and 225th Regiments are respectively responsible for the coastal defense from Haikou to Meihua, Lianjiang, and Ningde in Fuqing, and the main force of the 80th Division is deployed in the suburbs of Fuzhou as a reserve force. The Department cooperated with the Fourth Marine Regiment to guard the mouth of the Minjiang River and both sides of the lower reaches of the Minjiang River. The military command post is located in Nanping.

On April 18, 1941, the Japanese landing transport ships braved strong winds and huge waves to arrive at the waters of the Minjiang River Estuary to gather. 30 Japanese aircraft immediately bombed Fuzhou and the areas on both sides of the Minjiang Estuary in turns. At dawn on the 19th, the first echelon of Japanese troops landed on the beach under the cover of naval and air force firepower. More than 1,000 people from the Tuomei detachment landed at Meihua and Zhanggang in Changle County. Two companies and one battalion of the 224th Regiment of the Fuzhou area defenders blocked the attack at the front. They suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat. The Japanese army followed and pursued, and then captured the main position of the Jinfeng battalion, and took advantage of the victory to pursue towards Changle County. The patriotic officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion Machine Gun Company of the defenders set up an ambush at Guanyin Cave in Goudong Mountain. With fierce firepower, they killed and wounded the Japanese pursuing troops and delayed the Japanese attack. The follow-up troops of the Japanese army surrounded Guanyin Cave, repeatedly bombed the Guanyin Cave with aircraft, and carried out frequent attacks with infantry. The patriotic officers and soldiers of the company resisted tenaciously, fought repeatedly, and all bravely sacrificed their lives for the country! The Japanese invaders occupied Changle City at 15:00 and entered the front of the camp that night.

More than 1,000 people from the Japanese Tuomei detachment landed in the Panasonic and Haikou areas. Chen Junsheng, a Panasonic farmer and captain of the National Militia Squadron, and Cheng Wenlong, captain of the Marine Police Squadron, led more than 100 National Militia and Marine Police officers to resist in danger, repelling the vanguard of the Japanese landing force and killing 9 Japanese soldiers. Afterwards, the Japanese army counterattacked under the cover of aircraft. Most of the national militiamen and marine police were injured or killed. Chen Junsheng was seriously injured. Unwilling to be captured and humiliated, he committed suicide with a gun and died for his country. The second battalion of the 224th Regiment of the defenders fled without fighting near Haikou and retreated from Li Mei to Dongzhang to prepare for a counterattack.

More than 2,000 people from the 48th Division of the Japanese Army landed in the Dawo, Baixing, Dongfa and Pukou areas of Lianjiang County and captured Lianjiang County on the same day. The 223rd Regiment of the defenders failed to block the attack and retreated to Guantou, northwest of Lianjiang City. More than 500 Japanese troops attacked and occupied Luolun. The main force of the defenders retreated to Danyang overnight.

After the Japanese Taga Brigade landed, they attacked the Minjiang Estuary, Fuzhou, and Langqi Island. The two companies of the 4th Marine Regiment of the defenders fought tenaciously and fought bravely with the fire support from Lashi, Dianguangshan, Yantaishan and Jinjin forts. The Fudou defenders' Marine Company fought hard for three hours with the Japanese army, and most of them died heroically. The Marine Company of the defenders of Langqi Island defeated the Japanese attack in the Wuzhuang area. Later, due to the interruption of the defenders' supporting artillery fire, the island fell. At 15:00, the 3rd Battalion of the 4th Marine Regiment launched a fierce battle with the Japanese army in the Xiaqi area. The regiment leader Chen Mingyang escaped before the battle, and the deputy regiment commander Zhou Jiahui died heroically. Both the enemy and ourselves suffered many casualties. At the same time, three Japanese destroyers sailed toward Kawaishi Basho, and the Kawaishi Japanese army also launched four motorboats to coordinate the operation. When the garrison's forts waited for the enemy ships to enter the effective range, they "joined forces to shoot at the enemy ships, damaging one Japanese destroyer, sinking two speedboats near the Tingjiang River, and the remaining ships retreated to the end of Basho." After the Japanese army captured Xiaqi, they advanced towards Nagato. Nagato Fort was under siege. Seeing that the critical situation was irreversible, the defenders blew up their artillery, used infantry weapons to defend various key points, and carried out tenacious resistance. Later, due to Japanese bombing, the position was destroyed, so they broke out at 18:00 and concentrated on Dongqi Fort. That night, the Japanese army occupied Guantou.

On the 20th, Huai Maliang, deputy commander of the 224th Regiment in the direction of Fuqing, led the third battalion, the regimental rifle company, and the second battalion machine gun company to counterattack Fuqing in the early morning. At dawn, he was blocked in the western suburbs of Fuqing, and was attacked again. The Japanese planes bombed and suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat to Dongzhang.

In the direction of Changle, the Japanese army crossed the Wulong River from the front of the camp through the gorge to the south, and advanced along Nantai Island to the bay, cutting off the connection between Fuzhou and Yongtai.

In the direction of Lianjiang, the main force of the 223rd Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the 225th Regiment launched a counterattack in Lianjiang and Pandu. Later, they were shelled by the Japanese army and returned to Zhushan. The Lianjiang Japanese army then approached Tangling along the highway, and the other army advanced towards Huanxi via Meiling. In order to prevent the Japanese army from entering Fuzhou, the 80th Division of the garrison stationed the 238th Regiment in Huanxi, and the 239th Regiment moved to the Huangtugang and Longtan Mountain lines to prepare to block the Japanese army.

Towards the mouth of the Minjiang River, the Fuzhou Mawei Fortress Headquarters mobilized two marine battalions stationed in Mawei, marched eastward on the north bank of the Minjiang River at dawn, cleared out scattered Japanese troops in Tangtou, Zhuqi and other places, and then headed towards Guantou Fight back. The two sides fought fiercely for a long time, and each suffered casualties. Afterwards, Japanese planes bombed, our Marines were frustrated, and the Japanese army advanced towards Toki. The Marines and fort officers and soldiers gathered in Toqi defended the fort and various key points in the mountains behind, resisting tenaciously. Subsequently, the Japanese follow-up troops arrived, the offensive was fierce, and the Toki Fort fell. In order to defend Fuzhou, the Mawei Fortress Headquarters concentrated the Marines on the Mawei, Hongshan, and Min'an front lines and tried their best to hold on.

On the 21st, the Japanese troops attacking along the north bank of the Min River attacked Min'an and Mawei. The Marines split up to attack and severely damaged the incoming enemy. When the war situation improved slightly, Li Shijia, commander of Mawei Fortress, was ordered to retreat. The Fourth Marine Regiment abandoned Mawei Port and withdrew to Guling and Shoushan. Mawei fell.

In this battle, 806 Japanese soldiers were killed or injured, and the defenders suffered more than 9,000 casualties and missing persons, of whom 2,505 died for the country. "The rapid fall of the Fuzhou area and the heavy casualties of the defenders were the result of the Fujian military authorities' policy of limited resistance. After the battle began, the 100th Army not only failed to provide due support to the forward troops, but instead relied on the Marine Corps to When the fighting situation turned for the better, on the evening of the 21st, a call was made to the military headquarters to request the troops to abandon Fuzhou and move to the second-line Dahu and Damu positions." From the time the Japanese invaders landed on the beach to the 21st, the battle lasted only three days before the Japanese troops successfully occupied Fuzhou.

In this anti-landing battle, the heroic deeds of the officers and soldiers of the three companies of defenders who defended Meihua, Zhanggang and Guanyin Cave in Goudongshan and sacrificed their lives for the country should be remembered, especially the Panasonic Marine Police and the National Militia. The advance detachment that faced the enemy, fought bloody battles, and defeated the Japanese army landed at Panasonic. Their deeds are touching. After Chen Junsheng, the leader of the national militia, was seriously injured, his heroic act of committing suicide with a gun unwilling to be captured and humiliated should be erected as a memorial to future generations forever.

The defenders in the Fuzhou area have the following painful lessons in combat command that are thought-provoking:

1. Since Fuzhou is one of the three contact ports for receiving foreign aid, it is related to the overall situation of the Kuomintang's third theater. interests, we should concentrate the necessary forces and weapons in the Fuzhou area to fight against the landing and stick to the Fuzhou area. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army transferred five divisions southward, while the Chinese battlefield used its main force in the occupied areas behind enemy lines. It was absolutely wrong to adopt a limited resistance policy. More than 3.3 million troops fought against 1.2 million Japanese troops in a landing operation across the ocean. They suffered 9,000 casualties and lost Fuzhou in three days. The lessons were profound. Kawaishi Island allowed the Japanese army to set up a stronghold for nearly two years without moving a hair. This shows that the passive defense of the defenders reached its peak, and it was also the inevitable fall of Fuzhou.

2. Troops should be concentrated in the main directions where the Japanese army can easily land, and the three regiments of the 75th Division should not be divided into two groups. The 224th, 223rd, and 225th Regiments were deployed to defend Haikou in Fuqing, Meihua in Changle, Lianjiang, and the coastal areas of Ningde County. The 75th Division had no mobile forces to reinforce the front line or carry out counterattacks. This resulted in defenses everywhere. , unable to do anything. As a result, the two regiments in Changle, Fuqing, and Lianjiang struggled to fight, while the one regiment in Ningde was useless. The painful lessons learned by the 100th Army in deployment are of course directly related to the command of Chen Yi, commander of the 25th Group Army, and Gu Zhutong, supreme commander of the Third Theater Zone. They concentrated 80,000 troops from 7 divisions to blockade the New Fourth Army's anti-Japanese base areas in southern Jiangsu and created the Southern Anhui Incident that shocked the world, in an attempt to eliminate the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui. However, Fuzhou, the provincial capital city that had overall interests and political influence in the Third War Zone, ignored them and was reluctant to concentrate its forces to annihilate or drive the 1.2 million Japanese invaders into the sea. This fully demonstrated their passive resistance to the war and active anti-Japanese aggression. ** behavior.

3. In terms of tactical use, we should avoid the enemy's air and sea control, make use of our familiarity with people, familiarity with the land, national enemy psychology, and the advantage of the army's strength, and use night combat and close combat to avoid the Japanese air force. With its long firepower, it can divide and annihilate the enemy, and it will surely lead to victory. For example, from November 7 to December 21, 1939, Tan Zhenlin, deputy commander of the third detachment of the New Fourth Army, commanded the fifth regiment adapted from the Northern Fujian Red Army guerrillas and the third battalion of the sixth regiment adapted from the eastern Fujian Red Army guerrillas to defend Fanchang City in Anhui Province. , five battles and five victories, with only 4 infantry battalions facing off against more than 600-2,600 Japanese troops. The Japanese army also fought in a coordinated manner with infantry, artillery and air force, while our army, with a single arm, defeated the enemy by using tactical means such as night combat, close combat, ambush warfare, and raid warfare. In 5 battles, more than 850 Japanese troops were annihilated. I only sacrificed 58 officers and soldiers below the platoon leader, so that Fanchang always stood tall in my hands.