Chapter 461: No War in North China

Although the Japanese army stationed in Baoding is also an infantry brigade plus three puppet army divisions, the total strength is only 30,000 people, and the total strength of the integrated 300th Division is more than 40,000 people, plus the five field divisions and three other recruit divisions that went south together, the squadron that attacked Baoding exceeded 120,000 people, not counting the people who have been following the troops to transport supplies and ammunition for the troops, so if you count hard, The squadron participating in the Baoding offensive exceeded 150,000, while the defenders only had more than 30,000 people, and the ratio of enemy and enemy forces reached a terrifying 1:5.

Originally, this siege and annihilation battle was not worth how happy Yang Chengwu was, this was completely a battle between adults beating children and grandfathers bullying their grandsons, which was not worthy of people's special mention, but the final result of this battle made many people remember this battle and remember the name Yang Chengwu. Even Han Yunhua, who had never felt so moved by the total annihilation of a Japanese division, sent a congratulatory telegram after the war, congratulating the reorganized 300th Division on its unprecedented victory.

Yang Chengwu had planned before attacking Baoding, because Baoding was the most important air base of the Japanese army in North China, so he ordered the special combat team to set off in advance and lurked in the suburbs of Baoding, preparing to wait for an opportunity to destroy the Japanese airfield. However, after the battle began, the special combat team saw the opportunity and, with the assistance of the tank unit, quickly broke through the resistance of the defenders of the Japanese Baoding airfield, quickly routed a Japanese infantry brigade and occupied the entire airfield.

Although the Japanese defenders began to wreak havoc on the airfield's runway and the planes parked at the airfield when they saw that the airfield was about to fall, the special operations team had already anticipated that the Japanese might jump over the wall. Therefore, the captain of the special combat team made an urgent decision to protect these planes even if the entire special combat team was left here, so a strange battle in which the Japanese army did everything possible to destroy the planes while the squadron was protecting the planes at all costs began.

Although the 217 special combat squadrons of the 300th Division were only 138 members after the war, and the casualty rate reached an astonishing 40 or more, 144 complete aircraft were captured, half of which were bombers and half of fighters.

In addition, the 300th Division reorganized in Baoding City also captured a medium-sized arsenal of the Japanese army, which has two production lines for Type 38 rifles, a production line for Type 92 heavy machine guns and a supporting bullet production line, and the most surprising thing for Yang Chengwu is that there is a formal rifle production line and a Czech-style light machine gun production line here, in addition to supporting the fire factory and steel factory, in addition to not being able to produce cannons and shells, the scale of this arsenal is enough to surprise people. According to Yang Chengwu's judgment, the production capacity of this medium-sized arsenal may be about the same as that of the Baotou Arsenal, and it can be put into production as soon as there are enough workers and raw materials.

After the news reached the front headquarters, Han Yunhua immediately called to ask for details, because he had never heard that the Japanese army also had an arsenal in Baoding. But soon Yang Chengwu replied to him that the Japanese army was not only an arsenal in Taiyuan, and the reason why the Taiyuan Arsenal was so famous was entirely because the Taiyuan Arsenal was established by Yan Xishan after more than 20 years of operation, and its scale can definitely rank among the top three in China. Therefore, although the Japanese army dismantled most of the production equipment and transported it back to the Northeast after occupying Taiyuan, some of the equipment left in Taiyuan could still meet the daily needs of the Japanese army.

However, this does not mean that the Japanese army did not have other arsenals in other cities in China, in fact, the Japanese army had arsenals in several important cities in northern China. It's just that the scale of these arsenals is too small, some can only produce some bullets, not guns, and some can only produce fire, so these arsenals are not as famous as the Taiyuan Arsenal. As for this arsenal in Baoding, Yang Chengwu also did jiā generation, in fact, this arsenal was after Tada Jun arrived in North China and took up the post of commander of the North China Front, realizing that the Japanese army's logistics supply line was too long, and the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army along the way were elusive, so many conflicts were often caused by the competition for these arms transported along the way, so he suggested that the base camp secretly build a large arsenal in central North China.

General Tadajun's suggestion was quickly approved by the Japanese army base camp, so from December 1939, the Japanese army secretly built this huge arsenal, according to the goal set by the Japanese army at that time, if this arsenal is completed, then the entire North China arms supply will no longer need to be provided by the Shenyang Arsenal in the northeast, but it is a pity that this arsenal has not been fully completed by Yang Chengwu's department, and the Japanese army is losing his wife and soldiers.

According to Yang Chengwu's meaning, he believes that the Japanese army's considerations are actually very reasonable, and now the Inner Éng Ancient Military Region has also encountered this problem. The arsenal of the Inner Éng Ancient Military Region is in Baotou, while the Jiātong network in Saibei can be said to be a mess, and the road from Baotou to Baoding is thousands of miles, and the fragile logistics supply line seriously affects the combat effectiveness and combat radius of the 300th Division.

Therefore, he believed that the captured arsenal should be placed in Baoding, and that the military region would only need to photograph a few skilled workers and a few management personnel, and according to the captured Japanese technicians, as long as the arsenal recruited workers, it would be immediately put into production, and the munitions and ammunition produced could be replenished to the nearest troops, so that accidents could occur in the process of demolition and relocation of the arsenal on the one hand, and on the other hand, of course, it could solve the logistical supply problem of the front-line troops.

However, Han Yunhua's considerations are obviously more far-reaching, although he can be regarded as a pure soldier, but his analysis of the situation is still very set, and there is no problem with strategic vision. After thinking about it for a while, Han Yunhua decided to demolish and relocate the arsenal to Saibei, because he knew that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were now negotiating on the ownership of the territory in North China, and the Baoding area was located in the Jizhong Plain, and it was impossible for the national government to divide this place into **, so it was right to demolish it as soon as possible. Staying here is likely to be to make a wedding dress for others, and what is in your own hands is your own.

In addition, Han Yunhua ordered the reorganized 300th Division to immediately repair the airfield in Baoding, and immediately set up air defense positions around the airfield, and all the anti-aircraft machine gun units and antiaircraft artillery units immediately entered the airfield in case the Japanese army sent an air force to destroy the Baoding airfield.

To be honest, the planes of this era are not complicated at all, but there are really not many people who really understand mechanics, physics and other aspects of knowledge, so I think the Air Force is how. After receiving Han Yunhua's telegram, Shangguan Qing immediately entered Baoding Airport with the remaining 100 or so people of the special combat team of the 300th Division and the Sharp Knife Battalion of the Fifth Field Division.

Let's not mention that Shangguan Qing trained these peasant children in Baoding to go to heaven, but when Yang Chengwu received the information that Xu Shiyou's troops had come to Beiping City, he immediately gave up his plan to go south, but ordered the troops to immediately go east to Cangzhou, and then prepared to merge the Pingjin area with Xu Shiyou's department, and first take down Duotian Jun's lair.

The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army telegraphed the entire Eighth Route Army to immediately dispatch the entire army to attack regardless of time and place, from the stronghold of the Japanese puppet army to the heavy garrison of the Japanese army. [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］