Chapter 361: Battle of North China (8)
In this way, Yamashita Fengwen is powerless for Major General Xishiyuan who was surrounded by the Zhong[***] team, and from the bottom of his heart, Yamashita Fengwen still wants to rescue Xishiyuan's department, after all, he is the division commander of the Yamashita Division, and the main force of the Yamashita Division was annihilated by the Zhong[***] team, 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.
More than 10,000 troops were caught in the [***] team, such a big thing is full of can't be hidden, rather than being liquidated later, it is better to ask for help now.
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 comparable surname with Bin Sanyuan in terms of his own level, 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. It is clearly stipulated in the battle sequence of the army that once the commander is 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 Fengwen left an infantry brigade, an artillery brigade, and a baggage transport brigade to garrison Zhangjiakou, while the Yue troops scattered in the surrounding 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. And at the same time, he also sent a telegram to the Ministry of Military Affairs of the National Politics Axe, which was far away in the capital of Chongqing, with the strict surname and efficient surname of the intelligence system of the National Axe, Shi Yousan's little trick could not hide Dai Li's at all.
But both Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin hoped that there would be such an inspiring victory to save the more and more decadent Nationalist Axe troops and the more and more erosive frontal battlefield, so soon an unprecedented victory under the leadership of the superiors came out, and Shi Yousan also got his wish to get the Nationalist Axe's commendation, but because Shi Yousan and [***] 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 commendation given to Shi Yousan by the Ministry of Military Affairs was indeed very rich: "Promote Shi Yousan to the director of the Administrative Office of the Southern Hebei Region of the National People's Republic of China 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 from the Second War Zone, and the officers and soldiers of the department were promoted to the first rank, and the compatriots of the Ministry of Military Affairs were praised by the whole army, and Shi Yousan was awarded a Baoding Medal of the third and third class. ”
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. [***] Fighting against me, it is a fierce general under the command of others, not to mention Liu, Peng, Lin, He and other veterans, even Han Yunhua, who has always been unknown, and Lu Zhengying, who has turned from the Northeast Army, are also rare first-class 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? For a miscellaneous army with a total of more than 20,000 troops under its jurisdiction of two divisions and four brigades, with 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 field divisions and regiments of the Chinese army, even the rear garrison divisions and regiments with the worst combat effectiveness of the Chinese army.
With this bit of strength, he still dares to occupy southern Hebei, which is no different from looking for death. And 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 middle [***] team in southern Hebei is composed of three parts, one part is the regular army of the national political axe, this part of the combat effectiveness is not bad, but the number is too small, there is only one division less, and it is stationed behind Shi Yousan's 69th Army near the second war zone in Shanxi, so Shi Yousan does not command the Central Army of the National Political Axe at all. The other part is the same Kuomintang miscellaneous army as Shi Yousan, including the Kuomintang guerrillas in southern Hebei (not only [***] has guerrillas, but also has guerrilla troops in the national political axe), but the largest miscellaneous army in southern Hebei is his 69th Army, and he can't look down on several other guerrilla troops. The third part is the Eighth Route Army led by [***], how can the Eighth Route Army listen to the command of Shi Yousan. People even have to think about 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 is a riveting surname, and he doesn't 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 the Han Annihilation Puppet Army, he doesn't expect these people to really go to the battlefield and fight to the death with the army, maybe the integration is more terrible than not being absorbed. 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 not a hundred but eighty medals in the army for decades, some are awarded by President Yuan, some are issued by Duan Qirui Zhengaxe, some are issued by Feng Yuxiang, and of course there is no shortage of Chairman Jiang issued them. 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 national political axe took advantage of this opportunity to greatly boost the nation's anti-Japanese fighting spirit, and [***] threw this burden to him after harvesting 1.2 million oceans. 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 dishonesty, the 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 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 for 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 Yue army with several times the strength of the 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 army attacking southern Hebei this time has two divisions and two brigades, as many as 50,000 people, so the ratio of the strength of the enemy and us is almost one.
Although they are not at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, the battles between the Yue army and the middle [***] team are usually won by the weak and the strong. Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary people, if the instructor is directly facing the main force of the army, it must be more than auspicious, after all, the combat effectiveness of the army is there, and the instructor is the unit that Han Yunhua only pulled up after he arrived in Shandong, and he can only be regarded as a rookie among all the troops in 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 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 he is 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, it was originally an island country with scarce resources, and the rise of the 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, I have undoubtedly created an economic miracle second only to the British Industrial Revolution. However, the economy is a deformed economy, just like China in the same period, the economy of the economy is surviving in the cracks, and it is necessary to 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, the economy has never been able to read the power, and the economy without the power cannot support the large-scale expansion of the political axe, so there was a period of time when the economy carried out large-scale disarmament, and four of the few divisions and regiments that were already small were cut by force.
It can be said that the army of Yuben is very strong in battle, but the background is not as deep as people imagined, and the reserve reserve is not strong. The more than two years of war had already consumed a large part of the experienced veterans of the Yue army, so the young and middle-aged soldiers of the Yu Ben Zheng Axe had to assemble the reserve soldiers, who were called in the Chinese language of the Yu Ben and the young adults of the village soldiers, and after a short period of adaptation training, they were sent to the Chinese battlefield.
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. Therefore, it is said that some peasants or small industrialists who have not undergone any training have to be sent to the army to make up for the shortage of troops on the front line, and the 35th Infantry Division of the Yue Army, which participated in the attack on the [***] team in southern Hebei, is one of them.
After analysis, Han Yunhua learned that the troops used by the army to attack southern Hebei this time were a group of newly formed troops, except for the third brigade and regiment mixed with Yuli, and the 35th Infantry Division was the weakest combat effectiveness among the infantry brigades of the two infantry divisions.
The reason why the 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 [***] team in southern Hebei to train troops.
For example, at the beginning of the war, the way the army trained was to practice with innocent Chinese civilians, 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 people's repeated and vigorous resistance also made the 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 gendarmes in this book generally serve as agents and other castes, 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 [***] Eighth Route Army bore the brunt.
Since the Yue army wanted to use the [***] team to train the troops, then Han Yunhua suddenly had a clever plan to kill two birds with one stone in his heart, he wanted to pull out the teeth in the tiger's mouth of the Yue army, eat a complete infantry division of the Yue army in southern Hebei, and deal a severe blow to the arrogance of the Yue army.
(To be continued)