Chapter 359: Darkness Chen Cang
Although the Northland Volunteers diverted a lot of people to the three provinces of Nanyun, Xiyun and Green, the population of the Northland Volunteers continued to expand instead of decreasing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info because, since 1936, a large number of people poured into the Northland, causing Huang Xiansheng's police department to be extremely busy.
In recent years, the population that has entered the Northland from all over the country, coupled with the population of the North Province of Hezhibei, has made the total population of the Northland Volunteer Army exceed 70 million in one fell swoop.
In addition to the families of military personnel, engineers and agricultural reclamation troops, the original residents of the Beidi Volunteer Army were transferred from the south with their respective troops, and the population of industrial and mining enterprises was the majority, most of them were concentrated in the first-line industrial zone of Baotou, and the southern area was vacated as much as possible to settle new immigrants.
This is a deliberate arrangement of the Northland Volunteers, and the influx of refugees from the south, many of whom are unknown, will need time and procedures to identify. It is still necessary to distinguish the original people of the Northland from these people during the war, and it can reduce many unnecessary troubles.
Feng Tian's secrecy measures for the Northern Defense Zone are almost perverted, and after coming out of the Northeast, he has spent a lot of energy in this regard.
Under normal circumstances, Feng Tian did a little too much, but Feng Tian was different, some of the weapons of the Northland Volunteers were ahead of his time, and he had to spend some effort on preventing leaks.
Of course, this is also related to Feng Tian's personal style of acting, this guy is yin enough!
Looking at the previous examples, wasn't that war a game with the Japanese army?
In addition to the busyness brought about by the continuous influx of population, in order to provide enough supplies for the next war, Northland enterprises are working at full speed to speed up production, and all walks of life are busy.
By 1937, preparations for war had come to an end.
As the three provinces of Green, Nanyun, and Xiyun have diverted 500,000 engineers and 1 million agricultural troops, the Northland Volunteer Army engineers and agricultural reclamation troops continue to recruit and expand these semi-militarized troops.
The army, as well as the semi-militarized armies of the engineering and agricultural forces, are stationed in the Green Province and the Nanyun Province and the Xiyun Province, and their relatives also have to follow them to these provinces, especially the Nanyun Province and the Xiyun Province, which are thousands of miles away, and it seems normal for their relatives to accompany the army.
Actually, it's a strategy.
Fengtian wants to move the population out, and people are not necessarily willing to leave their hometowns, after all, it is difficult to leave their homeland.
However, the Northland Volunteers took this approach, and no one felt that there was anything wrong with it.
It's normal for the families of military personnel to move with the army.
So, before you know it, the Northland Volunteers have transferred five million people to the western and southwestern provinces.
Green Province is a no-man's land, which is good to say, there are very few Han people in Nanyun Province and Xiyun Province, even if the army occupies it, so what?
It is impossible for no one to take it for themselves permanently, and only when the Han people exist as the main body can it truly become the territory of the Northland Volunteers.
Therefore, the intention of sealing the sky could not be clearer.
After the engineering and agricultural reclamation units were separated, with the continuous recruitment, by 1937, the number of engineering troops and agricultural reclamation troops of the Beidi Volunteer Army remaining in the Beidi not only did not decrease, but increased.
Not counting the other three provinces, the number of engineers in the Northland Volunteer Army has reached 1 million, and the number of agricultural troops has reached 3 million.
At this time, for the upcoming war, whether in terms of materials or the preparation of soldiers, Fengtian has made full preparations.
The Northland Volunteer Army had ten garrison divisions, two divisions from Nanyun Province and two divisions from Xiyun Province, leaving six divisions, three of which were placed in Rehe. One division of the Rehe Theater was deployed in the west, overlooking the plain north of the river, and the other two divisions were deployed in the central and eastern part of Rehe.
The remaining three garrison divisions were placed in the northeastern battlefield to guard against the threat of the Kwantung Army from Mukden to the north.
Whether it is the Rehe Theater or the Eastern Theater, there is no war between the Northland Volunteers and the Kwantung Army for the time being.
Because, the target of the Kwantung Army is no longer on the side of the Northland Volunteers, they know that Fengtian is not easy to provoke, and at the same time, they don't have to worry about the Northland Volunteers attacking and threatening the Kwantung Army.
In the eyes of the Japanese and the Japanese, it is likely that the Northland Volunteers have not yet been able to threaten the Kwantung Army, and the Kwantung Army does not take the initiative to attack the Northland Volunteers, they have already burned high incense.
Besides, the strength of the Kwantung Army has risen sharply now, and the local army has continuously landed in the northeast, and there is no need to worry about the northland volunteers going south. In order to launch a full-scale war of aggression against China in 1937, the Japanese army expanded to nearly one million, which was much larger than the number of troops in the same period in history.
It can be said that this kind of habitual thinking of the Japanese people is really terrible, and they have always treated the Northland Volunteers as a local armed force, and as a country, there is no problem for the Japanese to think like this.
However, Fengtian is an exception, which the Japanese people never dreamed of.
If it weren't for a demonic leader like Feng Tian, the Japanese would probably not take the Northland Volunteers in their eyes.
This is the strategy of sealing the sky, the Northland Volunteers have never taken the initiative to provoke the Kwantung Army, unless the Kwantung Army provokes the Heavens, the Northland Volunteers will carry out retaliation and give the Kwantung Army a blow.
From the war after the 918 Incident, the sneak attack of the Eighth Division on Fengtian, and the last war, it was the Japanese army that took the initiative to provoke Fengtian, and in addition, Fengtian almost did not move.
From this point of view, Feng Tian is very tolerant.
Therefore, the illusion of the Kwantung Army comes from this, and it is taken for granted.
Even when the Japanese army was about to invade the north of the river, they did not take too many precautions against the northern volunteers.
In the Mukden area, the Kwantung Army only arranged the strength of a division of the B division, and it was also far away from the front line, trying to get in close contact with the Beidi Volunteers. Undoubtedly, the Kwantung Army strictly carried out the operational orders of the Army General Staff Headquarters and avoided friction with the Northland Volunteer Army, which would lead to extraneous branches, disperse the strength of the Japanese army, and affect the overall battle plan.
The Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters was convinced that if they entered the north of the river, the Northern Volunteers would definitely not move.
Because, when the Kwantung Army captured Jinzhou, the Northland Volunteers did not have any military action, and then, when the Kwantung Army attacked Shanhaiguan, the Northland Volunteers still did not take military action.
Therefore, this large-scale battle plan of the Japanese almost excluded the Northland Volunteers.
This is a huge conspiracy, and after many years, Feng Tian finally convinced the Japanese that the Northland Volunteers were independent and would not pay attention to the war outside. Like other warlords in China, they only hold on to their own safety.
It can be seen from this that Fengtian is too cunning and ruthless!
Yes, the Northland Volunteer Army is indeed a local armed force, and its total strength is still far behind that of the Nationalist Government.
However, if you underestimate the ability of Fengtian and the military strength of the Northern Volunteer Army, you will inevitably suffer huge losses, and the Japanese army will have to pay a heavy price for its light enemy.
Indeed, the last crisis of the Northland Volunteers forced Feng Tian to almost use the latest weapons to deal with external pressure, but fortunately he was lucky to survive the difficulties in the end and did not use the new weapons on the battlefield.
At this point, Feng Tian's will is very resolute, good steel is used on the blade, and he will never shoot easily until the moment of the decisive battle.
Encountering such a terrible opponent, the Japanese are considered unlucky.
If the Japanese army knew that the main combat unit of the Northland Volunteer Army was training in the desert at this time, using the most advanced weapons, the purpose of which was to come in handy in 1937 and deal a fatal blow to the Kwantung Army, I don't know how much I regretted it at that time!
As night fell, the Northland Volunteer Army entered a curfew again, especially along the east-west railway line that runs through the Northland Defense Zone, and no one was outside except for the constant patrols of the police.
On this night, the curfew of the Northland Volunteers was different from usual, and the security was tight.
In the dim night, the railway is still busy, and trains carrying all kinds of supplies come and go.
However, tonight's railway transport, there were no supplies on the train, and almost all the carriages were full of troops.
History has changed a lot, due to the intervention of Feng Tian, the situation in the west of the mountain has changed, Yan Xishan has no worries about the northern gate, and focuses on the defense of the east gate.
The important thing is that the Beidi Volunteer Army will unite with the 18th Group Army and Yan Xishan, and the three sides will take joint operations.
In the face of the attack of the Japanese army, the northern front is so vast that it may be difficult to cope with it by relying on the northern volunteers alone. However, if the three armies fight together, the chances of victory will be greatly enhanced.
It is impossible for Feng Tian not to contact the Eighteenth Group Army, of course, considering the strength of the river crab, he can only write an abbreviated version in short.
The Eighteenth Group Army did not pass through Yan Laoxi's territory, but took the train of the Beidi Volunteers, secretly crossed the defense area of the Beidi Volunteers, entered the southern foot of Yanshan, and entered the Taihang Mountains.
The Beidi Volunteers at the southern foot of Yanshan also quietly retreated, and changed guards with the 18th Group Army, and the two sides completed a secret crossing of Chencang very tacitly.
In other words, Feng Tian had been premeditated for a long time, and after contact with the Eighteenth Army, the two sides reached some kind of agreement.
As expected, the strength of the Eighteenth Group Army changed from three divisions to six divisions.
Feng Tian is very helpless, can those broken guns fight?
It is no wonder that the Eighteenth Army is used to being poor, and even if the weapons are bad, they are not willing to throw them away.
There was no way, Feng Tian had no choice but to pick out some inferior weapons in their hands and destroy them before these troops got on the train, and replaced them with the weapons of the Northland Volunteers.
Well, another division of more equipment was sent out.
Feng Tian knew that if the weapons were too poor, it would not only affect the quality of the war, but also cause the consumption of a large number of personnel, and the gains outweighed the losses.
Feng Tian was worried that if he left those old weapons, the Eighteenth Group Army would definitely not destroy them, and maybe he would use these old weapons to expand the army, so Feng Tian simply destroyed these inferior weapons that had been replaced. (To be continued.) )