Reflections on the History of Guilin's Anti-Japanese War
Summarizing War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's history, Guangxi-defeated Lishui's powerful enemy 1944 ~ 12. In order to open up Japan's mainland transportation lines to Northeast China, North China, Central China and South China, and then to Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, the Japanese invaders launched the "1 campaign" offensive. In China, it is called the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, and in Guangxi it is called the Battle of Guangxi and Liuzhou (September1944 ~ February 12). The Japanese army tried to get through the Xianggui Line and the Guiyue Line. At the same time, because the Chinese and American air forces have established air bases in Guilin, Liuzhou, Nanning and Danzhu, Pingnan, they are constantly bombing Japanese-occupied areas, Taiwan Province Province and Central and South China, posing a great threat to the Japanese army. So the Japanese will destroy these air bases. With Okamura Ningji as the sixth commander, the Japanese army commanded the No.11army of Yokoyama Yong (under the jurisdiction of six divisions), Tanaka Kuei and the 23rd Army (under the jurisdiction of two divisions), two independent brigades and the 5th Air Force, with a strength of about180,000. At the beginning of September, 65,438+0944, 1 1 Army 1 was concentrated in Guixiang Road, and the other was concentrated in Daogui Road, Hunan Province. The main force of the 23rd Army was assembled in Zhaoqing and the capitals along the Xijiang River, and the 23rd Brigade was concentrated in Leizhou Peninsula, joining Guilin, Liuzhou and Nanning, the fourth war zone in China. In the battle of Lingchuan, the underground party went to the front line to command, fought bloody battles for 8 days and nights, and killed more than 65,438+10,000 people. The Fourth Theater of the Chinese Army has successively mobilized the Shaweidi 16 Army, the 35th Army of Deng Longguang, the 27th Army of Yang Sen, and 40 divisions 16 Army of Tang Dynasty, with about10.6 million troops. Both sides are ready for the battle. Because the factions within the Kuomintang army (Jiang, Gui and Yue) who participated in the Battle of Guiliu fought fiercely, they all wanted to save their strength, let others fight hard with the Japanese army and wait for victory by themselves, so they ignored the overall situation and did not cooperate. Guangxi is the foundation of Guangxi. Before the war, Bai Chongxi put forward the idea of "staying in Guilin for three months", which was agreed by Chiang Kai-shek, and stipulated that his ninety armed forces should keep Quanzhou, Gui Jun Guilin and Guangdong Army Liuzhou. On September 1 1, the Japanese army from Hunan attacked the Yellow River in Quanzhou, Guangxi. Our 93rd Army was ordered to station grain and store bombs in the strategic pass of Quanzhou (the state has the largest munitions warehouse in South China) to stop the enemy for three months, but as soon as it contacted the enemy, it gave up the position of Huangshahe without fierce fighting. Chen Munong, the commander of the army, ordered the burning of a large number of materials in the state munitions warehouse. 13, the whole army retreated and abandoned the state. After the enemy occupied the whole state, the soldiers split up and went straight to Guilin. On September 27th, the 18th division of the Japanese army invaded Xing 'an, where the ninety-three armed forces resisted for three days, and Xing 'an fell. In June, 5438+04, the Japanese army attacked Lingchuan, and the Eighth Division and the Tenth Division of the 93rd Army were honored as the shame of the whole state and rose up against the enemy. Han Bocheng (secret party member), chief of staff of the 16 Army, rushed to the front line to direct the US plane to bomb the Japanese army. The infantry fought bravely for 8 days and nights, killing 1 1,000 people. The 58th Division of the Japanese Army was blocked in front of the Gui Xiang defense line and turned eastward. In Guilin, the defenders of China fought fiercely with the Japanese invaders in Qixingyan, Duxiufeng and Fubo Mountain, and 5,665 defenders of China died heroically. Before the Japanese army arrived in Guilin, Bai Chongxi clashed with Zhang Fakui, the commander of the fourth war zone, and Bai revised Zhang's Yugoslav capital plan, transferring two main divisions of his cronies and elite troops out of Guilin, saying that he would stop the Japanese army from invading Guilin near Pingle. This weakened the garrison in Guilin. Bai Chongxi finished the arrangement and flew back to Chongqing on September 28th. There are less than 25,000 troops guarding the city, of which 1/4 are recruits. However, the morale of the officers and men guarding the city is high, and they are stepping up the construction of fortifications, preparing to fight to the death with the Japanese army. The Japanese army first attacked the outer position of Guilin with five divisions, and occupied the outer position of southern Guilin on June 4 165438+ and shelled the city with artillery. On the 6th, a division of the 4th Japanese Division captured half of Qixingyan, and the 39th1regiment of our army retreated into the cave. In the north of the city, the tanks of the 58th Japanese Division rushed to the north gate and were wiped out by the defenders. On the 7th, the 4th Japanese Division captured the top of Qixingyan Mountain and continued to attack Tongleshan, Putuo Mountain, Qixing Cave and other places, which met with stubborn resistance from the defenders. In the early morning of the 9th, Japanese heavy artillery bombarded Duxiufeng, Fengdong Mountain and Laorenshan, and seven enemy planes also flew in to attack the south of the city. The defending artillery fought back bravely. After the artillery battle, the 58th Japanese Division attacked the North Gate and was repelled by the defenders on the Rocky Mountain outside the North Gate. In the afternoon 16, a Japanese squadron rushed to Fubo Mountain, and the two sides started hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties, leaving only 10 more Japanese troops, but the defenders also suffered casualties. Fubo Mountain was occupied by the Japanese in the afternoon 17. The Japanese army forcibly crossed the Lijiang River, broke into Yanxing Street and fought with our army in the street. Our army lost its position west of Dezhi Middle School. 9, 10 two days, the Japanese army broke into Yanxing Street to expand the results and attack the core position of Wangcheng. /kloc-on the afternoon of 0/0, Yunsong Wei, the commander of the Yugoslav capital, held an emergency meeting and decided to abandon the city and break through at night. 13 1 division commander Kan Wei Yong returned to the division headquarters after attending the meeting and said to his subordinates, "We will live and die together with Guilin. If I die, I will be commanded by the deputy division commander and the chief of staff. " . With that, Naoto Kan committed suicide in the telephone room. Naoto Kan would rather die than surrender, which is admirable. That night, most of the defenders broke through to the west and withdrew from Guilin. 1 1 At 8 o'clock in the morning, the fighting in the city was terminated and the defending battle of Guilin was over. According to the statistics of the Japanese army at that time, 5665 defenders died. These martyrs made sacrifices to resist Japanese aggression and defend Guilin. The August Decision put forward the slogans of "all for building anti-Japanese armed forces" and "all for developing guerrilla warfare", which formed the situation of anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare in the whole province. After the Japanese captured Guilin, they attacked Liuzhou through Yongfu, Zhongdu, Huangmian and Luo Rong. In order to preserve their strength, Kuomintang factions abandoned Liuzhou in June 165438+ 10/0, and they are no longer loyal opponents. After the fall of Liuzhou, Zhang Fakui, commander of the Fourth Theater, led his troops to retreat to Yishan, and several organs of the Guangxi Party, Government and Army also moved to Yishan. Taking advantage of the lack of regular Kuomintang troops in Nanning, the Japanese army occupied Nanning on June 24th. 165438+. At that time, Nanning citizens were completely evacuated in advance, and the Japanese army occupied an empty city. Factional struggles within the Kuomintang army and corruption at the upper level led to the failure of the Guiliu campaign. The Japanese army occupied Guilin, the capital of Guangxi, and 64 counties. In order to search for materials used as soldiers, they plundered wildly, burned and raped everywhere, brutally suppressed people who dared to resist, and created a series of tragedies and bloody cases. During the second occupation of Guangxi, in sharp contrast to the passive avoidance of war by Kuomintang troops, China's * * * production party actively organized people to resist Japan. 1In August, 944, the Japanese army approached Guangxi, and the Guangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China made a decision in August, putting forward the slogans of "All for the establishment of anti-Japanese armed forces" and "All for the development of guerrilla warfare", mobilizing the masses to defend their hometown and calling on party member to organize the masses to take up arms to kill the enemy. Under this circumstance, a number of people's anti-Japanese armed forces led by Zhong * * * appeared in various parts of Guangxi. These anti-Japanese guerrillas, self-defense forces and volunteers joined forces with the people to form a province-wide guerrilla war against Japan, which dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese occupation forces and made them restless. The Japanese army's general trend of recovering Guangxi has gone, and it is unwilling to fight again. The second and third armies of the Kuomintang began to counterattack and recover lost ground. 1April, 945, before the end of the world anti-fascist war, the Japanese army headquarters ordered the Japanese troops stationed in Guangxi to retreat in May and shrink to Central China and North China. Under the pressure from home and abroad, the Kuomintang is also preparing for counter-offensive operations. In March, it organized the national army into four fronts. Among them, the second army is in western Guangxi, with commander Zhang Fakui and deputy commander Changsha Wei in charge of the three armies. In May, it was found that the Japanese army began to shrink its defense lines, so Zhang Fakui, the second army in western Guangxi, and Tang, the third army in southern Guizhou, began to counterattack. At this time, the Japanese army preparing to retreat was unwilling to fight, so the counterattack did not encounter much resistance. In late April, the second army recaptured Du 'an and pushed Nanning. On May 27th, the 64th Army recaptured Nanning and sent troops along Yonglong Highway to pursue the Japanese troops who fled to Vietnam. On July 3, Longzhou and Pingxiang were recovered. The Japanese main force retreated to Liuzhou, and our main force followed suit at the same time. The Tang Department of the Third Army attacked Hechi and Liming Pass in early May and recovered Hechi and Yishan. At that time, all roads attacked Liuzhou, and Liuzhou was captured on June 29, and the Japanese army retreated to Guilin. Our army attacked Guilin along Liugui Highway. The Third Army attacked the whole county and Xing 'an. After the occupation, they advanced to the suburbs of Guilin, cooperated with friendly forces to besiege Guilin, and occupied Guilin on July 28. China's army continued to pursue the Japanese troops who fled to northern Guangxi, and recovered Xing 'an on August 6th. /kloc-in August of 0/5, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. There were Japanese troops in the county at that time. On August 17, 133 division launched an attack on the whole county at dawn and broke into the city on 10. The Japanese army fled to the Yellow River and Dongan, Hunan. On August/KOOC-0/8, the 20th Army/KOOC-0/34th Division recovered the Yellow River in northern Guangxi. At this point, the whole territory of Guangxi was recovered.