I didn't write the result of Changfeng last night. I flipped through a few books and wrote this. Let's read it.

In December 1937, Tan Zixin, the commander of the 4th Cavalry Army, was determined to find a way out, so he performed a typical battle example of "a infantry battalion defeating a cavalry army."

The 4th Cavalry Army was expanded by the 10th Cavalry Division in September 2017, but the army only had one 10th Cavalry Division. In December, the Military Commission ordered the army to be reduced to the new 5th Division. Tan Zixin was determined to disobey and wanted to find a way out.

Tan Zixin's troops were the old foundation of the Northeast Volunteer Army. Tan Zixin was originally an officer of the Fengtian Army. After 918, he led the remaining troops of Ma Zhanshan across the Central and Eastern Railway to retreat into Rehe and were incorporated into the Beiping Military Branch. Later, Lao Feng organized the Allied Army. Tan Zixin once jumped to the Allied Army. However, because of different business philosophy, Lao Tan pulled the troops back to the National Army. Not only that, he also pulled Deng Wen's entire Five Route Army to the National Army. The poor Deng Wen was assassinated in a brothel. It is said that Lao Feng did it.

After being pulled back to the national army, Tan Zixin's troops were changed to the 10th Cavalry Division, which was once organized into two brigades, with a huge organization of six cavalry regiments, one infantry regiment and one artillery regiment, and later adapted into three cavalry regiments.

Of course, Tan Zixin returned to the Young Marshal's corps at that time. On February 2, 2017, Wang Yizhe was killed, and the Trinity failed completely. Tan detained several senior generals of Yang Hucheng's army on February 3 and announced that he would come to join Lao Chiang again with a gun. Since he had such successful experiences, he naturally wanted to find a way out.

Tan Zixin brought the troops he led to the eastern edge of the mountain in western Henan - the Xiangshan Temple in Baofeng County, and met with the local bandit leader Gao Laomo, Gao Lingyun, and his name was Xiaxuan. He planned to use his troops' advantages in weapons and ammunition to pull the troops into Funiu Mountain, occupy the mountain as the king, and make plans after the troops are strong.

On December 13, Tan Zixin led the people to enter Lushan County along the Lubao Highway, and soon got in touch with Zhao Zideng, who was bandit in Zhaocai Township. Because the mountain road was rugged and the car was difficult to move, Tan first sent his wife, the old and young, gold and silver, and the finest gold and silver to Zhao Zideng for storage. Because at that time, the county magistrate of Lushan Yang Bichang received a call from Liu Zhi, and the city gate was closed, Tan had to pull the men and supplies to the Wangzhuang area in the north of the city to station, waiting for Zhao Zideng to use local forces to build the Tongshan Road, and then led his troops into the mountain.

At that time, the Anti-Japanese War was in full swing and eastern Henan had not yet fallen. Liu Zhi, the director of the Henan region's appeasement, heard in Kaifeng that the Tan army had rebelled and fled to western Henan, and sent Zhou Yu, the head of the provincial security regiment who was very capable of fighting in Henan, to lead a strengthening regiment to follow him.

The military and civilians in Lushan City were worried that Tan's troops would attack the city and the county was not protected. They called the 166th Division of the Kuomintang Army stationed in Luoyang several times overnight to call for help. The reason for being far away was that the division commander Gao Ziju was from Lushan County and had always cared for the village. However, the division was responsible for the defense of Gong County and Luoyang at this time, and confronted the Japanese Tufeiyuan Division across the river. There were not many people in the barracks at the station. Therefore, after Gao Ziju received the power, he was in a dilemma and did not send troops to rescue him.

If you help, you will not be sorry for your neighbors. Once the county town is lost and is ravaged by bandits, you will be criticized by your neighbors. If you send troops, there is no soldier to send them, and there is no order from your superior Liu Zhi (the division was under the command of Liu Zhi at that time). You will send troops privately. In the future, your superiors will blame you, but you will not be able to take responsibility. Finally, you have a plan and "rescue if you don't save it" (there is no rescue in the name, but in fact it is rescue). You call Lushan that night and say that a regiment of troops had been sent, and you will set off at night and arrive tomorrow.

He called Li Wending, deputy commander of the 991st Regiment of the 166th Division, and said: "In the southwest of Baofeng, there are about 300 bandits who are making trouble behind our river defense. You can lead Li Wending's Battalion (the infantry battalion where Li Wending served as the battalion commander for many years) to set off today to eliminate it."

Li Wending was also a native of Lushan. In order to strengthen firepower, Gao Ziju also strengthened the heavy machine guns in a company of five heavy machine guns. The company commander was Zhu Zhixing, a native of Lushan. In the middle of the night on December 17, Li Wending led his troops to set off from the Luoyang station in thirteen trucks. Before leaving, he told Li Wending and Li Wending to arrive at Lushan to garrison the county town, only protect the safety of the county town, restrain the enemy, and not attack head-on, so as not to expose the target and cause casualties, and it is impossible to explain. In this way, if the superiors pursued the matter in the future, they would only say that three officers (two Li and one Zhu) would return home on sick leave, bring dozens of guards, encounter with bandits, and help the local area to guard the county town.

This way, you can take no risks and make excuses.

Li's troops rushed on the Luoyang-Baofeng Highway. At dawn on the 18th, they drove to Xiaomajiezhai, Baofeng City, and got off the bus. The car returned to Luoyang. The troops began to march towards Lushan on foot.

After getting off the bus, Li Wending heard from the local residents report: "The highland along the southwest Hongshigang is Tan Zixin, the commander of the Fourth Cavalry Army. Xiao gathered three or four thousand people. He is still unique in western Henan and has become the king. The Henan Provincial Security Regiment fought with him for two days and is still in confrontation today." He immediately sent people to reconnaissance, which was indeed true. It was first known that the information obtained by Gao Ziju was not very accurate, and the number of people was not three or four thousand, but actually three or four thousand. But it was about to be in the battle, and Li Wending felt that it was not good to invite reinforcements and delayed it, so he had to deal with it by the camera.

Li Wending ordered the troops to set up pots to make food on the spot. Li Wending also brought five guards to reconnaise the terrain along the periphery of Ma Street to prevent accidents. When he walked to a Tuzhai village on the east side of Ma Street, he was suddenly shot by bandits from high above. Li Wending and the guards stood at the station, the terrain was flat, with only three tombs. He lay on the ground to cover the tombs and used six twenty-shot shell guns to fight back continuously on the village. At this time, Li Wending also heard the gunshots on Ma Street, so he first transferred a mortar to support and bombarded the village. The Tan tribe fled east without supporting it.

At the same time, in the early morning of December 18, the Henan Provincial Security Force led by Zhou Yu suddenly met with Tan and Gao bandits in Fuling, a small mountain village on Lubao Highway, and had a fierce battle. At first, the security force was moving and not fully prepared, and there were heavy casualties. Later, the security force retreated to Zhangcun, reorganized the team, boosted morale, and turned the defense into an offensive. As the officers and soldiers of the regiment fought bravely, Tan's troops also suffered major casualties, especially the bandits of Gao Laomo, who were all mobs, and the casualties were even more severe. However, Tan's troops were above and occupied the initiative of the entire battlefield.

In this small encounter, in addition to the leg injury of the mortar platoon leader in Li's army, Yu Jun was safe. Then Li Wending studied with Li Wen's question of how to win more with less in order to complete the task. When he was planning with Li Wen's side, a deputy battalion commander of the provincial security regiment came to ask for a meeting and proposed: He is a provincial security regiment and has been fighting fiercely with the new unit for two days. The enemy is condescending, and our side attacks are difficult to work, and there are great casualties. Li Wending is asked to lead the troops to increase assault from the front.

Although Li Wending promised to help the battle immediately, after sending him away, Li Wending considered: If a strengthening regiment could not win for two days of fighting, how could a battalion attack head-on? That is, to study the combat plan with Li Wenming.

But after setting off, he entered Lushan City from the south side of the left wing, and the officials, gentry and people in the city applauded and greeted.

Zhao Zideng was also in the city at that time and immediately sent someone to send a message to Xinyi, saying that a group of people from the 166th Division came from Luoyang, led by the regiment commander Li Wending, had already entered the Lushan County Town.

The battle of Fuling did not stop until 4:00 in the afternoon. When Tan's army learned that there were Zhou regiments in the east and Li regiments in the west, they were afraid that the two armies would attack each other in front and back, and would suffer great losses, so they immediately ordered the troops to be withdrawn. The battle of Fuling ended here.

That night, Tan's troops retreated to Wangzhuang, Zhangtang, Xiawa, Shencheng, Liuying, Li Wending used infantry to exit the North City Gate, and the machine gun company went out of the East City Gate to attack. He took advantage of the darkness to select more than 40 elite soldiers, carried three light machine guns and grenades, and stole the "command" of the troops that night and quietly inserted them behind the enemy headquarters.

The actions of Li's troops had completely failed to get into the enemy's surprise. Suddenly, killing sounds were everywhere, and guns and bullets were fired. Tan Zixin was unprepared and could not organize resistance. In a panic, he crossed the Shahe River in an armored car without a shot. The officers and soldiers of the battalion, who were arrested by Li Wending, took the opportunity to dive and chase. Among all the thirteen cars in the army, they could not extricate themselves. All eleven armored cars were trapped in the sand and mud, and only two cars crossed the river smoothly. In the end, Tan Zixin had to give up the car and a large amount of supplies, and dived and fled south in a panic.

The troops he had joined were all from western Henan. Seeing that the commander was fleeing in a panic, they scattered like birds and beasts and escaped from their own lives. Only a few were captured by Li Wending and served as supplementary troops of the 166th Division.

In this battle, Li Wending's troops seized no casualties, and eleven new armored cars, many mortars, thousands of shells, dozens of rifles, a large number of baggage, and the Tan Zixin's own spring bed, which was considered a new thing in China at that time.

Since Tan Zixin's troops had collapsed, he only led a few people to flee south. Li Wending immediately ordered the troops to withdraw their troops and rest. The officers and soldiers of Li's troops were very brave in the pursuit, and all the cotton coats they wore were soaked in the sand river water. He followed the order to go to Lushan City to set up a fire to dry and rest. Li Wending used a phone call to report details to the division commander of Luoyang Gao Zi. He allowed him to temporarily borrow 1,000 yuan from the Lushan Chamber of Commerce and send them to the combat officers and soldiers to express his condolences. Unexpectedly, the deputy of the major regiment of the provincial security regiment came to ask for a visit. He said: "There are four battalions in my regiment (one battalion) fighting fiercely for two days, and there were many casualties. The spoils obtained should be divided equally." Finally, he asked to give him two armored cars. Li Wending was young and energetic at the time and ignored it. Li Wending politely refused and gave it to him with gifts. The deputy of the regiment was disappointed.

Li Wending originally wanted to return immediately, but the people of Lushan were afraid of the bandits returning to retaliate, so Li's troops stayed for five more days and evacuated on December 24. He took the entire battalion to Baofeng for two days to rest. Then the entire battalion was still riding on more than ten armored cars and returned to Luoyang triumphantly.

Before Li's army set out, there was a request to cross the Yellow River to fight against Japan. As soon as he returned to Luoyang, the war zone agreed to cross the troops north. The 166th Division moved to fight in northern Henan and made great achievements. He was executed without authorization in June 2018, and the remaining headquarters of the 4th Cavalry Army was organized into the 5th Division.

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Tan Zixin, a native of Jinxi, Liaoning Province, was named Jinghua. He graduated from the second phase of the martial arts lecture hall of the three eastern provinces. He served as platoon leader of the Fengtian Army, company commander, company commander of the 5th Cavalry Brigade, battalion commander, regiment affiliation, staff officer, battalion commander of the 17th Division, company commander, deputy commander of the 8th Cavalry Brigade, battalion commander, regiment commander, brigade commander, deputy commander of the 6th Army of the Northeast Volunteer Army, deputy commander of the 1st Route of the Chahar Anti-Japanese Allied Army, commander of the 10th Cavalry Division, commander of the 4th Cavalry Army, and commander of the newly formed 5th Division. In December 1937, he was attacked by the 166th Division for disobeying orders. After being annihilated, the troops were captured. In June, he was shot.

References:

Li Wending's "Suppressing Tan Zixin: Removing the Battle of Crossing the River and Resisting Japan"

Zhu Zhixing and Jiao Tong "Fighting Lao Tan - A brief discussion on the Battle of Fuling and Tan Zixin's Failure"
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