Bloody Battle with Xu Ao
by Gu Zhikun
About This Novel
The Battle of Xu'ao took place in June 1945. According to the instructions of the Central China Bureau and with the approval of the New Fourth Army Military Headquarters and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Military Region, the East Zhejiang Guerrilla Column decided to concentrate its forces and launch a "campaign for land" against the Tianxiu Mountain Division, which had openly surrendered to the Japanese army. On June 7, according to the order of Commander He Kexi, the decisive battle of Xu'ao, commanded by the column's Chief of Staff Liu Hengyun and Director of the Political Department Zhang Wenbi, began. After 14 days and nights of continuous fighting, our army conquered 28 bunkers, annihilated more than 1,000 enemies, and captured a large number of items. By June 21, the so-called "unbreakable Maginot Line of Defense in eastern Zhejiang" that Tian Xiushan had boasted had been completely destroyed. Tianxiu Mountain, who was trapped in Shangyu County, lost Xu Ao and there was no hope of rescue. On June 30, he led his remaining troops and their families to abandon the city and fled westward, and Shangyu County was liberated. The Battle of Xu'ao was the largest and most glorious offensive against the enemy since the establishment of the East Zhejiang Guerrilla Column. It not only removed Tianxiu Mountain, the nail in the Siming Mountain base area, but also liberated hundreds of thousands of people in the Shangyu area, and the three anti-Japanese base areas of Sanbei, Siming, and Kuaiji became one.
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