Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Daming County, located in the southeastern border of Hebei Province, is the junction of the three provinces of Hebei, Shandong and Henan. It is adjacent to Guangping County and borders Guantao County to the north.

The 104th Brigade of the Japanese Army in Handan stationed only one infantry squadron here, and its ruling power was weak.

Several armed forces in Daming accepted the command of the Japanese army in name and continued to attack and harass our base areas, but in fact, the Japanese army could not completely control and dispatch these native-born thieves.

Comrades from the local government welcome Wu Qin's return of the main force and the establishment of the Zhangbei Army Division here.

In the town of Dragon King Temple under the rule of Daming, a group of bandits armed from the south to the north are squatting here.

Inside the bandit's garrison.

Hideo Iwahashi, the special envoy of the Japanese army, is negotiating with the bandit leader Cheng Daohe. Looking at the appearance of the two, they seem to have a very happy conversation.

"Cheng Sang, the Imperial Army has great sincerity. You and I have a common enemy, and that is the Eighth Route Army. This is the basis of our cooperation!"

"As long as your department is willing to accept the reorganization of the imperial army, the imperial army can provide regular troop numbers, establishments, military salaries, weapons and equipment, and have special imperial soldiers to train your soldiers. Divide a piece of land!" Hideo Yanqiao said word by word.

After hearing this, Cheng Daohe's eyes flashed with fire. Speaking of which, Cheng Daohe was originally active in Neihuang and Nanle in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan areas. In the early days, he even beat the Japanese under the leadership of his brothers.

It's just that the Japanese army became stronger and put his brother Wang Tianxiang under house arrest by the national government. Cheng Daohe also followed the wind and turned to the Japanese.

Later, the Eighth Route Army arrived in Hebei, Shandong and Henan. Under the instigation of the Japanese, Cheng Daohe led his troops to attack the Eighth Route Army task force, and the two sides had conflicts.

After Zhou Weihan led the troops to Hebei, Shandong and Henan, Cheng Daohe was first driven to Nanle near the Weihe River. During the land reform, he was completely defeated by Wuqin's third regiment, and the rest crossed the Zhanghe River and ran to Daming to survive.

How could Cheng Daohe forget such a deep hatred.

"Your Excellency Yanqiao, there is not only an armed force from our department in the Daming area, but Duan Haizhou and Wang Tianxiang are the most influential ones. If one of them responds, it will be extremely easy to facilitate this matter!" Cheng Daohe also said. An old fritter, before finding out the movements of other armed forces around him, he would not easily agree to the Japanese.

"Yo Xi, Cheng Sang, your analysis is very reasonable!" Hideo Yanqiao had already investigated the local situation before coming here, and it was not accidental to find Cheng Daohe at this time: "Duan Haizhou is stubborn and hostile. The imperial army has repeatedly rejected the imperial army's cooperation, Cheng Sang, you must know that not all armed forces are like the Eighth Route Army!"

"As far as I know, Wang Tianxiang and you are brothers. You two have a very close relationship. I don't know if Cheng Sang can get in touch with you. Afterwards, the imperial army will definitely reward you!"

"Yes! Don't worry, Your Excellency Yanqiao, I will definitely make this happen as soon as possible!" Cheng Daohe responded quickly, and the tough attitude of the Japanese made him start to back down.

"well!"

After Hideo Yanqiao left, Cheng Daohe hurriedly gathered a group of confidants and revealed the purpose of the Japanese this time.

"Brother, we have fought against the Japanese before, if this is under the hands of the Japanese, why don't you give us little shoes?" A brother under him asked hesitantly.

"Don't worry, the Japanese have promised not to blame the past, and as long as there are soldiers in hand, whether it is the local Shandong Northwest Administrative Office or the Japanese will send people to win us over." Cheng Daohe did not reject the Japanese in his heart, and said confidently .

In the next two days, Cheng Daohe actively connected with them. In the Daming area, except Duan Haizhou's subordinates, there were five armed forces with surnames, such as Wang Tianxiang, Guo Qing, Wang Ziquan, Cheng Ximeng, Li Chenghua and so on.

Among them, Wang Tianxiang has a lot of background and has a close relationship with the Eighth Route Army.

Before the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance, Wang Tianxiang served as the deputy commander of the national army. After the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance, he was ordered by Sun Dianying to organize armed forces in the Shahe and Wu'an areas, and served as the detachment leader and head of the regiment.

He fought several battles with the Japanese army in Wu'an, Linxian, Qinyang, Jiyuan, and Qixian, gained some reputation, and was finally promoted to deputy division commander.

When he was armed in Shahe and Wu'an, he had a closer relationship with the Eighth Route Army. There were many progressives in his troops, some of whom were members of our side.

At his request, the Eighth Route Army sent several political cadres to help establish political institutions and systems.

But the good times didn't last long. In the second half of 1939, Sun Dianying followed Chiang to oppose the Communist Party and tried every means to squeeze out and frame Wang Tianxiang.

Sun Dianying sent a secret message from the Hebei-Chahar War Zone to immediately execute Wang Tianxiang on the spot, and the team was dispersed. Wang got the news in advance and led his troops to leave.

Afterwards, Wang Tianxiang led his troops to fight in many places, fought the Japanese with Cheng Dao in Anyang, lost the battle, and finally came to the Daming area.

At this time, Wu Qin ordered the general division headquarters and the third regiment to move forward to the junction of Linzhang and Wei County in order to better control the situation in the Daming area of ​​the Zhangbei Army Division.

In the headquarters, comrades from the local government are reporting the situation to Wu Qin.

"Minister Wu, is the situation true? The army also has eyeliners on the little devil's side. Why is there no information?" Wu Qin asked suspiciously. It stands to reason that if the Japanese army in Handan has moved, even Jia Gui can get relevant information. .

As far as Wu Qin knew, during this period of time, there were some changes in the puppet troops in the counties of Handan.

The puppet troops in each county were reorganized, and elites were selected from the puppet troops to form the garrison brigades in each county. Huang Jinbiao was appointed as the commander of the garrison in the Handan area, and the rest of the puppet troops were reorganized into the First Division of the Handan Huangxie Army. Kang Shunzi is in charge.

"The situation is true. Wang Tianxiang has always been in contact with us. His self-defense army has our working group stationed for a long time. It can't be wrong!"

"I heard that the person here is a special envoy photographed by the intelligence section of the Japanese Army's North China Dispatch Army Headquarters, who is responsible for contacting and recruiting puppet troops from all over the country!" said Minister Wu of the United Front Work Department of a special area under the Southern Hebei Administrative Region.

"Then what do you think?"

"Wang Tianxiang really misses us in the Eighth Route Army, but the prefectural government wants Wang Tianxiang to serve in the puppet army and continue to contact us in secret!"

"Among them, Cheng Ximeng's department stationed in Wei County has always had a lot of conflicts with us. This time, we have turned to the little devil for the first time. In order to carry out work better in the future, we need the main force to severely damage the department first, and at the same time compress its living space! "Minister Wu said one after another.

"No problem, I was going to do something to them!" Wu Qin readily agreed.

Not long after, a self-governing army called the East Asia Alliance was established in Daming.

Captain Hideo Iwahashi of the Japanese Intelligence Section held a flag-giving ceremony in Daming County. According to the regulations of the Japanese army, the Autonomous Army consisted of four brigades (eight regiments). Long awarded the title of Colonel.

Commander Wang Tianxiang, Deputy Commander Cheng Ximeng, First Brigade Commander Li Chenghua, Second Brigade Commander Guo Qing, Third Brigade Commander Cheng Daohe, Fourth Brigade Commander Yang Faxian, and Commander Zhang Luting of the Army Commando.

The Japanese army sent Captain Hideo Iwahashi as military advisor and Captain Yokoo Daisuke as economic advisor, and each brigade was supervised by a small Japanese army unit.

The areas around Daming and Wei County were separated from the defense area of ​​the 104th Brigade and became the territory of the Autonomous Army alone, and the Administrative Office was established.

Unfortunately, Cheng Ximeng's troops in Wei County were ambushed by the third regiment of the Zhangbei Army Division on the way to participate in the flag-giving ceremony. Cheng Ximeng and most of the leaders were killed on the spot, and the rest fled to Daming territory.