Rebirth of the Military Industry Power of the Anti-Japanese War

But in any case, Xue Yue at least seized some territory and weakened the strength of the Red Army. Gu Zhutong was always much stronger than the Bi army who attacked the Dabie Mountains. Because He Yingqin was afraid of a sneak attack in Wuhan and left behind a hundred thousand troops, Gu Zhutong

The troops that Tong could command were less than 200,000, but they encountered Gao Jingting, the top guerrilla warfare master in China and even the world. In addition, the people in the Dabie Mountains hated the Kuomintang. They fully cooperated with Gao Jingting's strategy of clearing out the country, and Gu Zhutong's army was defeated.

It was difficult to move forward. In the past few months, not only had the 28th Red Army not been eliminated, but more than 10,000 people had been killed or injured by the 28th Red Army and the Dabie Mountain militia guerrillas. However, the 28th Red Army had suffered repeated battles.

Gradually, they understood the advanced team tactics taught by Hu Weidong, and became more and more proficient in the use of "advanced" weapons and equipment, and their ability to attack difficulties and field operations improved by leaps and bounds. When Gu Zhutong led his troops just entered the Dabie Mountains, the 28th Red Army could only destroy the camp in an organized manner.

The small national army units at the company level relied entirely on sneak attacks. However, by the beginning of 1936, Gu Zhutong had received three battle reports in which the brigade and regiment level units were completely wiped out, and the 28th Red Army also began to defend itself.

He Yingqin had to recall Gu Zhutong hurriedly after hearing the news to prevent the rear from being corrupted. Unexpectedly, Gao Jingting actually assembled more than 30,000 regular Red Army troops and 100,000 regular Red Army troops.

The militia guerrillas launched an unprecedented fierce attack on the retreating National Army troops, and 36 aircraft of the Red Army Air Force also participated in the battle for the first time since joining the Red Army. Although in order to avoid losses, they only dropped some forced troops at high altitude.

The artillery shells were frightening, but the national army officers and soldiers were all horrified when they saw it. Even though Gu and Zhu Tongzhi's army was quite capable, they couldn't restrain themselves for a while and had to flee with the defeated troops...

At this point, the first anti-encirclement and suppression campaign since the reconstruction of the Dabie Mountains Soviet Area achieved an unprecedented victory. The 28th Red Army killed and wounded more than 70,000 enemy troops and captured more than 70,000 enemy troops. After receiving the support of cadres from the Army Headquarters, it successfully converted a large number of national troops.

After taking prisoners of war from the army, the strength of the 28th Red Army soon surged to more than 50,000. In addition to the original military headquarters and the 82nd Division, two new supplementary brigades were built, greatly increasing its strength. However, He Yingqin and Gu Zhutong both

Terrified of being beaten, coupled with the subsequent changes in the domestic situation, the Dabie Mountain Soviet Area, which had been torn by endless wars, finally won a rare period of time to recuperate, and its vitality gradually recovered...

As for Hu Weidong, even though the national army has not yet come to encircle and suppress him, life is getting even worse. It turns out that the trouble was caused by bandits. During the Republic of China, bandits were rampant, and Henan was among the worst-hit areas. Historically, on the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, there were more than 40 people in Henan.

There are tens of thousands of bandits, including one hundred thousand in western Henan. These are all full-time bandits. If those "amateur" bandits who usually work in farming and come out to rob to make a living during famine are also included, it will be an astronomical figure. And Henan

The bandits in Henan are not only large in number, but perhaps due to their long history, their "guerrilla tactics" are already quite powerful. At that time, both the warlord forces, the Central Army and the Fourth Red Army had suffered heavy losses from the bandits in Henan and were unable to defeat the bandits in Henan.

Get a foothold here. Hu Weidong has never learned how to suppress bandits, and his subordinates lack talents in this area, so they were immediately overwhelmed...

If it's a head-on battle, except for a very small number of bandits, even if you fight one in twenty, they are no match for the well-equipped, well-trained and war-tested commanders and fighters of the 15th Red Army. But those bandits usually won't fight you head-on.

, when the Red Army advances, they will either hide in the mountains and follow you in circles, or they will temporarily hibernate and become farmers again. The former is easier to deal with, after all, the Red Army is also first-rate in walking on mountainous roads, and after seizing the Gongxian Arsenal, it established

Specialized mountain troops. The latter is much more troublesome. Because there are so many bandits in Henan, almost every household in the countryside is related to the bandits. Because of the "loyalty" among the people, they are generally ashamed to inform officials. In addition, farmers

For fear of bandit retaliation, few people would come forward to report. As a result, the 15th Red Army, which had always had an intelligence advantage, became deaf and blind for the first time. Moreover, the bandits never launched an attack on the organized Red Army troops.

They only dealt with lone Red Army soldiers and Soviet area government staff, and brutally retaliated against the local people who helped the Red Army. In the month of September 1935 alone, as many as 1,273 party members and cadres and Red Army soldiers died, and there were even more mass casualties.

There were more than 5,000 people, but this also completely angered Hu Weidong...

Although it is impossible to implement the three-guang policy like the Kuomintang and the Japanese, it is still possible to strengthen control. Hu Weidong used military control and militia construction to treat the symptoms. At the same time, he worked hard to do a good job in mass work and developed agricultural production in each county to cure the root cause. Considering the strength of the Red Army

Insufficient (to ensure the eradication of banditry, the garrison strength must be several times or even more than ten times that of bandits.), Hu Weidong decided to temporarily only control towns and transportation lines in the newly captured counties, so as to avoid too many administrative personnel going to waste.

Sacrifice, and at the same time mobilize the army to eliminate banditry from Gong County county to county, that is, transform the Red Army into propaganda teams and work teams to replace administrative personnel and government cadres to work in the countryside. The bandits will undoubtedly seek their own death, and if they do not take action, they will wait until

After the county militia system was completed, they no longer had a place to stay. Coupled with the huge psychological pressure of living with superior enemies day and night, the hidden bandits either fled to neighboring counties or were exposed and caught. A considerable number of them were captured by the pressure of the Red Army.

Or he was moved by his actions of caring for the people and took the initiative to confess his crime.

Regarding the sentencing of bandits, Hu Weidong adopted two basic policies: "Only punish the culprits, and never question the threats."

"Those with children will not be pardoned (that is, those who surrender will be killed)." The reason is that robbing children in order to survive is justifiable, but once the bottom line of committing evil is lost, it will be too difficult to transform into a good person, so it is better to kill them.

Although this increased the resistance in eradicating banditry, it successfully prevented the resurgence of banditry and allowed the western Henan region, which had once been a den of bandits, to gradually regain peace...

Despite this, it still took half a year to suppress bandits in western Henan, and sporadic bandit rebellions continued until the eve of the Anti-Japanese War. During this period, the Red Army lost 5,746 officers and men, and 7,291 Soviet government staff members died, including

There were more than 8,000 party and league members, and the mass casualties reached more than 20,000. The losses were even greater than in the previous battle with the national army. However, it was also during this period that the 15th Red Army frequently broke into

Having zero experience in small-scale fighting allowed them to quickly adapt to the transformation from mobile warfare to guerrilla warfare in the early stages of the Anti-Japanese War. The banditry that had been uncontrollable for more than half a century in Henan since the late Qing Dynasty was completely eradicated at the hands of the Red Party, which made those who

The guys who had been attacking the Red Party as "only destroying but not building" shut up and won the support of the majority of the people, laying a solid foundation for the Soviet area government to concentrate people's efforts on restoring and developing production.

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