Chapter 185 Songhu Battle Fourteen
Premier Zhou is worthy of being a diplomatic master. On December 3, after Premier Zhou came to Nanjing, he did not show his arrogant attitude as a winner during his interactions and talks with Kuomintang members, nor did he be low-key and sympathetic.
Instead, he was very frank and carefully discussed the gains and losses of the Kuomintang with all senior officials over the years, and brought our party and our army a very reasonable and detailed reorganization plan, and also brought sincere suggestions for the reform of the Kuomintang.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek completely lowered his attitude, personally received and presided over the talks with Premier Zhou.
After seven consecutive days and three rounds of negotiations, the reorganization plan for the Kuomintang army was finally initially determined, and at the same time, it also roughly agreed on how the Kuomintang after reform and reorganization would exercise its functions of participating in politics and making decisions in a new country.
First, the military reorganization plan was determined. Starting from December 10, the Kuomintang's army on the Songhu front began to retreat in an orderly manner to Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and other southern Jiangsu lines to accept the reorganization of the ** People's Liberation Army.
The specific retreat matters and position handover matters are Xun Huaizhou, deputy commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army and chief of staff, who are fully responsible for the specific retreat matters.
Starting from January 1, 1938, more than 60,000 regular Kuomintang troops stationed in Nanjing and surrounding areas began to retreat to southern Anhui and receive a comprehensive reorganization of the People's Liberation Army.
Starting from January 1, 1938, the Kuomintang will no longer own and rule the army, but will begin to transform into a purely political progressive party. It will begin to gather in Chongqing with other progressive parties in China and non-party progressive people to discuss and prepare for the Chinese Political Consultative Conference. It will contribute to the establishment of a new democratic country.
On December 10, the Central Committee officially approved the memorandum of understanding between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party reached by Premier Zhou and Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing.
On the same day, Xunhuaizhou, on behalf of the People's Liberation Army, officially issued the reorganization training order for the Kuomintang army in Shanghai.
According to the order issued by Xunhuaizhou, the Kuomintang army currently in Shanghai began to gradually hand over its defense positions to the Third Field Army units firmly surrounded by the surrounding areas of Shanghai. At the same time, the troops began to retreat to the southern Jiangsu line in an orderly manner and accept the unified reorganization of the People's Liberation Army.
From November 10 to December 10, nearly 150,000 Japanese troops entrenched in Shanghai were already in panic. During this period, the Japanese navy formed a formation to reinforce the Japanese troops in Shanghai and were preparing to withdraw the Japanese troops in Shanghai. However, in front of the powerful air force of the People's Liberation Army, the Japanese fleet was scared by the attack and left and fled back to Japan.
From then on, the Japanese Shanghai troops became alone and no longer had any support.
At the same time, the powerful air force of the People's Liberation Army carried out turns to bomb the Japanese army every day, and the People's Liberation Army's special operations forces have truly become a nightmare for the Japanese army in Shanghai.
Three brigades, more than 1,000 special forces members, plus spies assigned to the third field military division or above, the reconnaissance unit has nearly 10,000 people.
In addition, the Fourth Special Forces Brigade, which was later assigned to the First Field Army, and the Fifth Special Forces Brigade, which was assigned to the Second Field Army, entered Shanghai one after another. Later, in order to train the team, division-level and reconnaissance units under the First Field Army and the Second Field Army were also deployed to Shanghai.
By the end of November, nearly 20,000 special forces at the PLA had gathered in Shanghai. This extremely terrifying force launched a campaign to kill Japanese soldiers and eliminate traitors in Shanghai.
This makes the Japanese, let alone attack, even if they hide in the strongholds every day, it will be difficult to withstand the various special operations raids of the PLA special forces members.
Moreover, starting from November 11, more than 20 Chinese-type tanks from the Third Field Army Armored Group began to rage on the main positions of the Japanese army.
The originally very strong Japanese defensive position became vulnerable in front of the heavenly Chinese tank.
Since mid-November, some Kuomintang troops have consciously accepted the command and dispatch of the People's Liberation Army, making way for the PLA's Third Field Army to attack the Japanese army.
Therefore, from November 10 to December 10, the Japanese army entrenched in Shanghai had been wiped out by the PLA using various means, like a knife cutting off its flesh. Moreover, the Japanese army constantly adjusted its forces under the attack and sneak attack of special forces at all levels of the PLA, trying to resist our final attack.
During this period, Japan also hoped to send people to negotiate with our army many times, and even invited Western powers to be intermediaries, hoping that our army could release the Japanese army entrenched in Shanghai and allow these Japanese troops to evacuate and return to China.
However, it was rejected by our party and our army. Our party’s attitude was very clear. The Japanese army in Shanghai could only surrender unconditionally or be wiped out by our army.
Our country is currently in a state of full declaration of war with the Japanese army. As for the Japanese army to achieve a ceasefire, it must return the Northeast, North Korea, Taiwan, Ryukyu and other regions that have been occupied over the years, and at the same time bear the economic losses of our wars and plundering of a large amount of our property and materials over the years.
If this prerequisite cannot be agreed, the Chinese nation and Japanese militarism can only fight to the death and have no room for easing.
These conditions offered by our party and our army on behalf of the Chinese coalition government were not only shocked by Japanese imperialism, but also by Western powers.
Everyone was amazed that the Chinese nation's heroic oriental army finally woke up.
Of course, the actions of the China Alliance Government have also aroused the Western powers' deeper suspicion and vigilance against China. However, by this time, the Western powers have become helpless about the Eastern Heroes that are rising strongly in this world. It should be that the upcoming European war will drag Western powers into the abyss of war.
In Xunhuaizhou, because of the existence of two heavenly figures, Xunhuaizhou and Zhou Tao, under the promotion of many parties with the intention, Western countries broke out in a larger and more complex European war earlier. In addition, a series of wars broke out between China, Japan, the Soviet Union, Japan, the United States, and China and the United States in the East, forming the most bizarre and changeable world war in the world.
Of course, after this world war, the world is far from the situation where the United States and the Soviet Union rose strongly in the original world. These are all later stories.
By the end of 1937, the world pattern had not changed significantly, and the world's eyes were still focusing on the Sino-Japanese War that took place in Shanghai and the Soviet-Japan War that took place in Outer Mongolia in China and the Soviet Union far East and West Siberia.
After China solemnly rejected the Japanese army's request for withdrawal, the Japanese troops in Shanghai were almost in a state of total despair, waiting for the arrival of this last doomsday in complete despair.
Starting from December 10, the People's Liberation Army gradually took over the original positions of the Kuomintang army. By December 18, all the Japanese troops facing 100,000 remaining Japanese troops had become elite troops of the Third Field Army of the People's Liberation Army.
Starting from December 20, facing the Japanese army in Shanghai that refused to put down their weapons, the People's Liberation Army launched a fierce and continuous attack. In just ten days, the People's Liberation Army had compressed the Japanese army from major positions such as Shanghai and other major positions to a small narrow area such as Baoshan, Shanghai near the Yangtze River. At this time, the Japanese army had only less than 60,000 people left. They made the final futile resistance on dozens of ordinary kilometers of land.
On December 31, Matsui Ishione, who had suddenly become older in the past month, sent the last military briefing of the East China Front Army to the Japanese Army headquarters in Baoshan area of Shanghai, and cut off the final contact between the Japanese Central China Front Army and the Japanese Army Base Camp.
Immediately, Matsui Ishione issued an order to the unconditional surrender of the Chinese team to more than 60,000 Japanese troops in Shanghai in the name of the General Office of the Central China Front Army.
After officially issuing the training order for the Chinese team to surrender unconditionally, Matsui Ishione chose to commit suicide by cesarean section in the temporary command of the Japanese army in Baoshan Town to end the life of his shameful invader.
After Matsui Ishione announced his unconditional surrender, some Japanese troops chose to put down their weapons and surrendered to our army on the spot.
However, the other Japanese troops refused to surrender and tried to make a final resistance. The powerful commanders and soldiers of the Third Field Army were of course ruthless to the Japanese troops that refused to surrender, and used their extremely powerful attack power to send the final blow to the Japanese troops.
By January 5, 1938, the last 60,000 Japanese troops entrenched in Baoshan were all wiped out, of which more than 30,000 Japanese troops chose to surrender unconditionally, and 30,000 Japanese troops who were the last resistance were all shot dead by our army on the spot.
Since then, starting from September 8, 1937, the Battle of Songhu initiated by the Kuomintang army officially ended on January 5, 1938. In nearly four months, a Sino-Japanese War that determined the fate of the Chinese nation occurred in the eastern part of China.
As the Kuomintang army is about to be defeated, the powerful Chinese People's Liberation Army once again showed its invincible power.
With an extremely powerful attitude, the 10th Army that landed in the Japanese army from Jinshanwei was first eliminated, and then a comprehensive siege was carried out by the Kuomintang army and the Japanese army in Shanghai.
While forcing the Kuomintang army to fully accept our army's reorganization, it successfully took over the positions of the Kuomintang army to confront the Japanese army. At the same time, through a series of dazzlingly complex attacks, the Japanese army in Shanghai were gradually defeated in the face of being at a loss. In the end, the Japanese army was completely wiped out by our army on the last position in Baoshan. More than 30,000 Japanese troops became prisoners of our army. This was also the most captives in the battle against Japan by the Chinese team.
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