Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 158

"Take care!" Kang Yongtu said solemnly, cupping his hands.

"Take care!" Duan Haizhou responded.

Looking at Kang Yongtu's disappearing figure, Duan Haizhou has mixed emotions in his heart at the moment. He used to be a brigade-level cadre of the Eighth Route Army.

On the whole, Duan Haizhou was a legendary figure in the first half of his life. He came from a wealthy family and went to university in Beiping.

In the year Duan Haizhou graduated, Shi Yousan happened to establish the Thirteenth Route Army Cadre School in Xingtai, Hebei.

It stands to reason that Duan Haizhou's identity as a college student is rare even in the Whampoa Military Academy. I don't know what Duan Haizhou thought at the time.

As a college student, Duan Haizhou was favored and cared for by the principal Shi Youxin, which also made Duan respect the principal very much.Many years later, although the two once stood in a hostile position, Duan Haizhou was still courteous to the principal.

Duan Haizhou hadn't been studying in the cadre school for a year when his commander-in-chief Shi Yousan rebelled.

Sadly, this vigorous mutiny fell apart after only 7 days.Shi Yousan left the field alone, and his principal had no choice but to disband the school and follow Shi Yousan.

Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, it depends on whether you can seize them.

With the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, Duan Haizhou once again had the opportunity to serve the country.

After discussing with five friends from his hometown, he decided to organize a volunteer army to participate in the war of resistance.

Among these six people, Duan Haizhou had been educated as an officer in Shi Yousan's cadre school, and two of them had served as low-level officers in the old army, which formed the basis of a small-scale army.

Immediately afterwards, Duan Haizhou asked for connections everywhere, and after getting 9 rifles, he raised the anti-Japanese banner.

Within a week, more than 30 people came to sign up one after another, including farmers who had learned Kung Fu, and students from normal schools.

Duan Haizhou divided these people into two squadrons, and finally formed the "Anti-Japanese Volunteer Group".

Later, Duan Haizhou got in touch with the special commissioner stationed in SJZ under the introduction of his old classmate Hou Ruyong, and got 3 pistols and 200 yuan banknotes as "military compensation".

The army is established, but it has no combat effectiveness.People's regular army is vulnerable to the Japanese army, let alone this wandering army with only 30 people?
So Duan Haizhou asked the chief of staff appointed by the central government to help train the troops while continuing to recruit soldiers.In order to quickly expand the army, Duan Haizhou decided to let Zhang Guofa, the director of the Political Department, solve the problem of the source of troops.

This director Zhang really lived up to the expectations of head Duan. He took a few propagandists to travel around the county to lobby everywhere, talking about the nation, but not about the country. Neighbors all over the country responded one after another, and also attracted a regular army that fell behind to join the team.

This regular army has 7 soldiers, all of whom Duan Haizhou appointed as squad leaders and asked them to assist the chief of staff in training the troops.Gradually, Duan Haizhou's volunteer group grew from 6 people to more than 60 people.

When the Japanese army was ordered to move to defense, Duan Haizhou led a volunteer army that had grown to about 300 people into Wuqiang County in one fell swoop, defeated the local puppet army, and seized several mortars and light machine guns.

The recovery of Wuqiang County made Duan Haizhou's name famous all over Jizhong, and the number of enlisted soldiers suddenly doubled. Many of them brought guns and horses to participate, and even more than [-] militia groups from Ji County also came to participate Volunteer Army.

Duan Haizhou also used one of the soldiers who had been doing technical work in the arsenal to start the arsenal.Half a month later, the small arsenal was already making mines, mortar shells and grenades.

By the beginning of 1938, Duan Haizhou's army had become the most powerful group among several guerrilla forces in Hebei, with more than 3400 soldiers.

At this time, Duan Haizhou was already restless in Wuqiang County.Based on more than 300 people from the original Jixian militia, he entered Jixian County to carry out guerrilla warfare, and another army attacked the Japanese army supply convoy on the highway from Xianxian County to Jiaohe, so that the Japanese troops stationed in Xianxian County could not get supplies and were forced to withdraw.Xian County then entered Duan Haizhou's sphere of influence, and his troops suddenly increased to more than 6000 people.

As Duan Haizhou's power grew, he gradually attracted the attention of the surrounding guerrillas.

First, Zhang Yinwu, the commander-in-chief of the Hebei People's Army officially appointed by the central government, sent someone to contact with the matter of incorporation, but Duan Haizhou flatly refused.

But another guerrilla force with strong strength will not buy Duan Haizhou's account so much.

The commander of this unit is Zhao Yunxiang, who was originally the deputy captain of the teaching team of the 29th Army.

After the 29th Army abandoned Pingjin, Zhao Yunxiang took the officers and soldiers of the teaching team to raise the anti-Japanese banner in Hebei.

Since it was a unit developed from the regular army, Duan Haizhou's volunteer army could not beat Zhao Yunxiang in terms of combat effectiveness or tactics.After Zhao Yunxiang's plan to incorporate Duan Haizhou failed, he launched an attack on Duan Bu. Duan Haizhou lost consecutive battles, and even lost the Xian County he had just obtained.

Just as Duan Haizhou was suffering from defeat, an Eighth Route Army came from Nangong in the neighboring county.

When Duan Haizhou was studying in Peiping, he had a deep impression of our party.

At this time, he was persuaded by members of our party in the army and decided to lead his troops to join the Eighth Route Army.

This move was warmly welcomed by Deputy Commander Xu of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army at that time.

In May of the same year, Duan Haizhou's "Anti-Japanese Volunteer Group" was officially reorganized in Nangong County as the Youth Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column of the 5th Division, which is the youth column that appeared in the previous article.

Duan Haizhou was the commander, and Li Jukui, the chief of staff of the then 386 brigade dispatched by the Eighth Route Army, was the political commissar.

Duan Haizhou divided the troops into 3 regiments, and another teaching brigade, 1 guard battalion and 1 mortar company.

Duan Haizhou has since become a brigade-level cadre of the Eighth Route Army from a commander of the local armed forces.

But the good times didn't last long, and something that made him worry came again.

It turned out that his old principal Shi Youxin followed his elder brother Shi Yousan to develop his own armed forces in Hebei, and also obtained the regular army designation issued by the Military Commission.

As the relationship between Shi Yousan and the Eighth Route Army changed, Shi Yousan took advantage of Shi Youxin's status as Duan Haizhou's principal to win over Duan Haizhou, who already had more than 1 soldiers, to "return to the team."

As a result, Duan Haizhou was in a dilemma.For Duan Haizhou, the principal's invitation had to be accepted, but he was a brigade-level cadre of the Eighth Route Army after all, so he left like this, and he was really sorry for the Eighth Route Army who supported him.

In addition, after he joined the Eighth Route Army, senior generals such as Xu Xiangqian, the deputy commander of the 129th Division, also treated him very favorably, which made him even more embarrassed to leave the Eighth Route Army.

After weighing again and again, Duan Haizhou went to the 129th division headquarters in Nangong County to recuperate under the pretext of relapse of eye disease after he was ordered to lead his troops into northern Henan.

I don't want to take the army head office, right?Duan Haizhou may think of himself too simply.When his eye disease healed, he remembered the army that he had formed all those years ago.

But the army was in northern Henan, and I was in central Hebei. The transportation between the two places was inconvenient, and the Japanese and puppet troops separated them. It was not easy to return to the army.After spending a month like this, Duan Haizhou, who was disappointed, finally decided to go home and "rest".

After returning to his hometown, Duan Haizhou did not get what he wanted.Because after he returned home, those "old ministries" who were opposed to joining the Eighth Route Army in the Volunteer Army came to him one after another, asking Duan Haizhou to raise the banner again and rebuild the army.

At this time, I ran into Duan's old classmate Wang Wenhan who also sent someone to contact Duan Haizhou, saying that he had pulled up an army in Jidong, but his ability was limited.In this way, Duan Haizhou's heart came alive again, and then he wrote a "letter asking for leave" and sent it to the division headquarters of the 129th Division, officially leaving the Eighth Route Army.

After the news of Duan Haizhou's re-activation of the army reached Shi Yousan, Shi once again sent his younger brother Youxin to recruit Duan into the group as the principal.So Duan Haizhou was reorganized into the 69nd Regiment of the 2th Army Instructor under the earnest "teaching" of the old principal, with Duan as the head of the regiment.

In this way, Duan Haizhou changed from a brigade-level cadre of the Eighth Route Army to a regiment-level cadre of the regular army of the National Army, and was later promoted to the commander of the Independent Fourth Brigade.

After Shi Yousan's death, he led his team to fight Gao Shuxun, and later with Sun Liangcheng. Sun Liangcheng intended to defect to the enemy, and then led his team back to the Kuomintang-controlled area. The team was reorganized into the [-]rd Division.

So far, Duan Haizhou, a small man with only 1937 people in 6, took only 6 years to surpass those colleagues from regular military academies and become a senior general of the national army.

Duan Haizhou's life can be described as magnificent. General Li Jukui, who served as political commissar for him, was awarded three stars in [-] years. On the other hand, after Duan Haizhou's uprising that year, he transferred to Wanxian in the early [-]s.

Duan Haizhou is a patriotic general, but standing in the era at that time, he still did not escape the limitations of history.

(End of this chapter)