1944 65438+in mid-February, the Japanese army launched an attack on Shaoguan and Seoul, the important towns in the southern section of Guangdong, for the purpose of opening up the Guangdong-Han line. During this period, the Japanese army occupying Chaoshan also actively cooperated with the action and expanded outward. 1944 12 10, the Japanese army assembled most of the troops of the occupying forces in Chaoshan, and rectified about 1 10,000 troops of the puppet troops in Chen Guanghui. One route goes straight to Jieyang Port and turns to Chaoyang. One is from Jieyang to Puzhai, south of Fengshun, and the other is from Xinheng to Baishi, which is divided into two roads to attack Tangkeng. The Kuomintang 12 Army 63rd Army186th Division, the defenders, took the lead in attacking Baishi, failed to stop it, and Tangkeng fell. Then the Japanese army attacked Shijiaoba at the southern foot of Monkey Mountain at the junction of Fengshun and Meixian. The Kuomintang defenders gathered in dangerous mountainous areas such as Shijiaoba and Bogong 'ao, and the Japanese army could not advance, so they invaded Meizhou in the north.