Chapter 361: Battle of North China (8)

In this way, Yamashita Fengwen is powerless for Major General Xishiyuan who is surrounded by the Chinese army, and in his heart, Yamashita Fengwen still wants to rescue the Xishiyuan department, after all, he is the division commander of the Yamashita Division, and the main force of the Yamashita Division was annihilated by the Chinese army, and the most humiliating thing was him, the division commander. At that time, the punishment of the base camp will definitely be indispensable, and at the same time, it will also have to face the difficulties of the Xishiyuan family.

However, the safety of Zhangjiakou is related to the life and death of this North China battle, and Zhangjiakou is the springboard for Han Yunhua's troops to march into Beiping, and it is the only way to go, and if Zhangjiakou and Beiping are guarded, they will be safe and sound. If there is nothing to do in Beiping, then the whole North China will be a lot more stable, otherwise the whole North China will really be in chaos.

The more than 10,000 troops are full of such a big thing as the Chinese army, and it is better to seek help now than to be liquidated in the future.

This is the second time in the nearly 30 years that Yamashita has sought operational guidance from his superiors, and both times he has fought against the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Lieutenant General Yamashita Fengwen knows what kind of person General Bin Sanyuan is, and he knows very well that there is no comparison between his level and Bin Sanyuan, and he can't hide those small calculations from General Bin Sanyuan. Therefore, Lieutenant General Yamashita did not hide the telegram sent to Beiping, and clearly reported the course of this battle.

Senior General Bin Sanyuan was shocked when he received a telegram from Yamashita Fubun asking for help, and he didn't bother to discuss it with the other officers. Immediately ordered Yamashita Fengwen to rescue Major General Xishiyuan at all costs, and rescue as many as he could, but it was necessary to keep the establishment of the Xishiyuan Brigade, and the reinforcements would soon arrive in Zhangjiakou.

Yamashita Fengwen knew very well what General Bin Sanyuan meant, and to keep the number of the Xishiyuan Brigade meant to save the life of Major General Xishiyuan. In the battle sequence of the Japanese army, it was clearly stipulated that once the commander was killed, captured, or transferred, the number of the department should be changed accordingly.

Although Lieutenant General Yamashita Fengwen did not know where the reinforcements came from for General Bin Sanyuan, since the old leader had ordered it, he, the commander of the lieutenant general division, did not need to bear much responsibility. Lieutenant General Yamashita immediately gathered the remaining 10,000 troops in the city and rushed to the Great Water Spring.

At the same time, Lieutenant General Yamashita Fumimi left an infantry brigade, an artillery brigade and a baggage transport brigade to garrison Zhangjiakou, while the Japanese troops scattered in the outer counties of Zhangjiakou immediately moved closer to Zhangjiakou.

Due to the urgency of time, Yamashita Fengwen couldn't take care of so much, he handed over the city defense of Zhangjiakou to the chief of staff to be taken care of by Major General Yuan, and he personally led two infantry wings, a guard brigade, a chariot brigade, a mountain artillery brigade, and a search team directly under the division and regiment, totaling more than 12,000 people, straight forward to Zhangbei to kill.

The 10th Regiment of the 2nd Division, which had just arrived in Beiping, received an order to rush to Zhangjiakou overnight without getting off the bus at all, and the 1st Brigade of Field Artillery, which was still on the road, had to rush to Beiping within two days of receiving it, otherwise it would be severely punished. The cavalry group, the 21st Division, the 26th Division, the 10th Division, the Gaomu Brigade, the 2nd Brigade of the Chinese Garrison Army, and the 15 groups of the North China Public Security Army, which originally planned to assault eastern Hebei, also received an order: "The whole army immediately sorts out to eastern Hebei in accordance with the predetermined plan............

The northern part of the country is a pot of porridge, but the southern Hebei region is peaceful. Shi Yousan finally got his wish after paying more than one million oceans and several national treasure-level antique cultural relics, and at the same time took over the six counties around Handan. At the same time, he also sent a telegram to the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Nationalist Government, which was far away in Chongqing, and with the rigor and efficiency of the Nationalist Government's intelligence system, Shi Yousan's little trick could not be concealed from Dai Li. …,

But both Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin hoped that there would be such an inspiring victory to save the increasingly decadent Nationalist Government's descendant troops and the increasingly erosive frontal battlefield, so soon an unprecedented victory under the leadership of the superiors came out, and Shi Yousan also got his wish to be rewarded by the Nationalist Government, but because Shi Yousan and the Communist Party were a little unclear this time, he was suspicious of Chiang Kai-shek. The reward came down, but Shi Yousan was not happy at all, and the Ministry of Military Affairs gave Shi Yousan a very generous reward: "Promoted Shi Yousan to the director of the Southern Hebei Regional Administrative Office of the National Government and the director of the Luxi Administrative Office, commanding all the anti-Japanese armed forces in the jurisdiction, and at the same time, 3,000 new guns, 1.5 million rounds of ammunition were transferred by the Second War Zone, and the officers and soldiers of the department were promoted to the first rank. ”

The rewards are a lot, but in fact, Shi Yousan doesn't get many actual benefits. Originally, Shi Yousan was the director of the Luxi Administrative Office and the commander of the 69th Army, and the so-called director of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office was simply a joke, Southern Hebei is now the world of the Japanese, and it is what the Japanese must get. The Communist Party is working against the Japanese, and it is a fierce general under the command of others, not to mention veterans such as Liu, Peng, Lin, and He, even Han Yunhua, who has always been unknown, and Lu Zhengcao, who has been transferred from the Northeast Army, are also rare first-class fierce generals. Chairman Jiang dared to fight to the death with the little devil, that was Jiang Guangtou was the emperor of China, and the 4 million army of the Central Army was the guardian of the family. They occupy the largest and most abundant resources in the country, and they can continuously gather troops and raise ammunition and food through several provinces in the rear. And what does he Shi Yousan have? Just a miscellaneous army with a total of more than 20,000 two divisions and four brigades, more than 10,000 old-fashioned rifles and a few old-fashioned artillery pieces from more than 10 years ago, not to mention that it cannot afford to compete with the Japanese army's field divisions, even the rear garrison divisions with the worst combat effectiveness of the Japanese army.

With this bit of strength, he still dares to occupy southern Hebei, which is no different from looking for death. The so-called all-out command of the war in southern Hebei is a business that only loses money and does not make money, the Chinese army in southern Hebei is composed of three parts, one part is the regular army of the Nationalist Government, this part of the combat effectiveness is not bad, but the number is too small, there is less than one division, and it is also stationed behind Shi Yousan's 69th Army close to the second theater of Shanxi, so Shi Yousan cannot command the Central Army of the Nationalist Government at all. The other part is the same Kuomintang miscellaneous army as Shi Yousan, including the Kuomintang guerrillas in southern Hebei (not only the Communist Party has guerrillas, but the Nationalist government also has guerrilla troops), but the largest miscellaneous army in southern Hebei is his 69th Army, and he still can't look down on several other guerrilla units. The third part is the Eighth Route Army led by the Communist Party, how can the Eighth Route Army listen to the command of Shi Yousan. People have to think about even Chairman Jiang's words for a long time, and if they are not happy, they will listen to the tune and not listen to the announcement, he Shi Yousan also has a lot of dealings with the Eighth Route Army, and he knows very well that the Eighth Route Army is a nail riveting and riveting personality, and he does not expect the Eighth Route Army to listen to his command at all. The fourth part is the local armed forces and militia groups in the southern Hebei region, this part has either been absorbed by him or has taken refuge in the puppet North China security army and become traitors and puppet army, he simply does not expect these people to really go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese army, maybe it is more terrible to be incorporated than not to be incorporated. Therefore, Shi Yousan didn't care about the so-called director of the administrative office of Luxi and Southern Hebei, this is an empty title that Lao Jiang asked him to give his life.

The 3,000 new guns and 1.5 million rounds of ammunition are still real things, but the number is too small, and they can only equip two infantry regiments when they are fully armed, and they don't play much role in the first place. What's more, these things are still in Yan Xishan's warehouse in Lao Xi, who is picking on the door, and it is a different thing to not be able to get it, and the so-called commendation order of the Ministry of Military Affairs is generally discounted when it comes to the locality, and it is already lucky to get half of it, and it is common to not get it. …,

As for that bullshit medal, it is simply a chicken rib for Shi Yousan, Shi Yousan has won various medals in the army for decades, not one hundred but eighty, some are awarded by President Yuan, some are awarded by Duan Qirui's government, some are issued by Feng Yuxiang, and of course there is no shortage of them issued by Chairman Jiang. But no matter how many medals there are, they can't become military salaries, let alone guns and bullets, so what Shi Yousan hates the most is medals.

It can be said that this time, Shi Yousan spent 1.2 million oceans in exchange for a blank check with a small denomination, and the gains obviously outweighed the losses. On the other hand, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government took advantage of this opportunity to greatly boost the anti-Japanese morale of the whole country, and the Communist Party threw this burden to him after harvesting 1.2 million yuan. As for the rank of general that Shi Yousan wanted, as well as the number, equipment, and food of the expansion of the troops, everything has become a flower in the moon mirror in the water.

But the matter has come to this point, Shi Yousan knows that he can only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach. More importantly, based on Shi Yousan's dishonesty and distrust, the Japanese North China Front had withdrawn its liaison representative in the 69th Army and terminated negotiations with Shi Yousan. And he and the entire 69th Army were listed as one of the imperial army's least favorite Chinese troops, second only to Du Lüming's Fifth Army and Han Yunhua's Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Regardless of Shi Yousan's current pain and misery, the instructor has fully possessed combat effectiveness after a period of training, and the more than 40,000 troops are now being reorganized into four integrated brigades by Han Yunhua. The commander of the first brigade is still Wang Zhifu, and the political commissar is still Ju Fei. The Second Brigade is still in charge of Jiang Yunshan, and the Third Brigade is of course still in charge of Tong Jiayong, who is far away in Luxi guerrilla warfare. As for the newly formed Fourth Brigade, Yu Fu, the former commander of the First Regiment of the Second Brigade in Shandong, served as the commander of the artillery regiment, cavalry regiment, guard regiment, supplementary regiment, reconnaissance battalion, communications company, and special combat team directly under the instructor and the division headquarters. During Han Yunhua's absence, it was commanded by Chen Guang and Jiang Yunshan.

The battle in southern Hebei was what Han Yunhua was most concerned about, because Han Yunhua's goal this time was to completely annihilate at least two infantry divisions of the Japanese army. The Saibei side is a big head, especially in the northern Hebei and eastern Hebei battlefields, although the main force of the 300th Division, the most elite and integrated division of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, is not in northern Hebei or eastern Hebei. However, Han Yunhua put about half of the troops in the military region to eastern Hebei, and the oldest generals among the generals were transferred to eastern Hebei, including Chen Geng, Ye Baoguo, Li Dayong and others. It can be said that Han Yunhua is determined to win in eastern Jidong, and the four integrated infantry divisions, mechanized brigades, artillery brigades, and more than 30,000 newly formed cavalry were all deliberately transferred to eastern Jidong by Han Yunhua, which was the capital that Han Yunhua gave to the commander-in-chief, Master Chen.

Of course, Master Chen didn't drop the chain to Han Yunhua, he just gave Yamashita Fengwen a slap in the face, although the war in northern Hebei is still unknown, but Han Yunhua is not worried, with Master Chen's ability, it is impossible to eat an infantry division of the Japanese army with several times the strength of the Japanese army.

However, Han Yunhua is still very optimistic about southern Hebei, although there are not many Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei, in addition to more than 40,000 instructors, there are only more than 4,000 regular troops under the jurisdiction of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office and a column of the 115th Division led by Chen Guang. However, the Japanese army that attacked southern Hebei this time had two divisions and two brigades, as many as 50,000 people, so the ratio of the strength of the enemy and us was almost one to one.

Although they were not inferior in numbers, the Japanese and Chinese armies usually fought with the weak and the strong with the less. Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary people, if the instructor is directly against the main force of the Japanese army, it must be more than lucky, after all, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is there, and the instructor is the unit that Han Yunhua pulled up after he arrived in Shandong, and he can only be regarded as a recruit in all the units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and even most of the brigade commanders of the instructors are "young people" who are less than 30 years old. …,

However, Han Yunhua did not think so; Although the instructor was a newly formed unit, the officers who taught the instructor were all the elite of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and a large part of them were graduates of the military crash course of the Saibei Military Command College; the military crash course was different from ordinary military cadets, and the military crash course was all grassroots officers who fought bravely in various localities and had a certain command level, and they were the real backbone cadres of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. There is such a group of people who can definitely provoke the mentor's beam, as the saying goes, one soldier will be a nest. With such a group of wild wolf leaders, even a pig can be raised into a wild boar full of fangs.

Moreover, the instructor is not a recruit egg unit that has just been formed and has never seen blood, but a unit that has been fighting against the Japanese puppet army every day since its formation. Some time ago, in the battle to capture Handan and other counties and cities in southern Hebei, absolute confidence was established, and the cohesion of the troops was also unprecedentedly united.

The most important thing is that Han Yunhua knows that the Japanese are not iron-clad, and their excellent soldiers are not industrial products on the assembly line, and they can produce as much as they want. They are also flesh and blood people, and elite soldiers can only be formed after years of training, and the combat effectiveness of untrained or poorly trained soldiers is also not good. However, Japan was originally an island country with few resources, and the rise of the Japanese economy was only based on the decline of Chinese tea, silk, and porcelain in the second half of the 19th century, and the time before and after was only half a century.

From the perspective of pure economic development, the Japanese have undoubtedly created an economic miracle second only to British industry. However, Japan's economy is a deformed economy, just like China in the same period, Japan's economy is surviving in the cracks, and it must guard against the oppression and squeeze of the Western powers, and at the same time it cannot do without the support of the Western powers. Therefore, Japan's economy has never been independent, and an economy that is not independent cannot support the government's large-scale military expansion, so Japan also carried out large-scale disarmament for a period of time, and forcibly cut four of its already small divisions.

It can be said that the Japanese army is very strong in battle, but the background is not as deep as people think, and the reserve reserve force reserve is not strong. More than two years of war had consumed a large part of the experienced veterans of the Japanese army, so the Japanese government had to assemble the reserve soldiers, which are called rural soldiers in Japanese Chinese, and sent them to the Chinese battlefield after a short adaptation training.

Soldiers in the township are generally retired soldiers who have served two years of military service, and when it comes to the necessary qualities of soldiers, they still have the necessary qualities, and they can transform into real soldiers after only a few battles. But the consumption in these two years was too great, especially the North China Front. As a result, Japan had to send some peasants or small industrialists who had not undergone any training to the army to make up for the shortage of troops on the front line, and the 35th Infantry Division of the Japanese Army, which participated in the attack on the Chinese army in southern Hebei, was one of them.

After analysis, Han Yunhua learned that the troops used by the Japanese army to attack southern Hebei this time were all newly formed units, except for the third brigade and regiment that were independently mixed, and the 35th Infantry Division was the weakest in combat effectiveness among the infantry brigades of the two infantry divisions.

The reason why the Japanese army sent these troops to southern Hebei was that one side really couldn't stand Shi Yousan's face in southern Hebei (Shi Yousan: Am I wronged, am I easy?). On the other hand, they want to use the Chinese army in southern Hebei for military training.

Like at the beginning of the war, the Japanese army's training method was generally to use innocent Chinese civilians to practice, especially when practicing basic skills such as bayonet fighting and shooting accuracy, the victims were generally Chinese civilians. However, in the past two years, the Chinese military and civilians have risen one after another, and the tremendous resistance has also made the Japanese high-level people realize the hidden danger of brute force, so they sent military police to China to maintain discipline in the army. Although the Japanese military police generally serve as agents and other things, these people still play a role in maintaining the discipline of the army. That's why General Bin Sanyuan wanted to use several well-known miscellaneous armies in China to train troops, and among them, Shi Yousan and the Communist Eighth Route Army bore the brunt.

Since the Japanese army wants to train the Chinese army, Han Yunhua suddenly had a clever plan to kill two birds with one stone in his heart, he wants to pull teeth from the tiger's mouth of the Japanese army, eat a complete infantry division of the Japanese army in southern Hebei, and deal a severe blow to the arrogant ...... of the Japanese army.