Chapter 739: Component Anonymous Regiment
Sun Weiguo gave up his plan to recover the county seat of Pingding County, mainly because Sun Weiguo took into account the current situation of both the enemy and us.
At present, the most combative unit of the new Second Brigade is Yin Jinshan's Sixth Cavalry Regiment, but the troops of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment are good at sports warfare, and if the troops of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment are allowed to storm the county town garrisoned by the two brigades, this will inevitably bring losses to the troops of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment, and Sun Weiguo is unwilling to see this.
Binh Dinh County has artillery units of the 1st Brigade and the 3rd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, which will pose a great threat to the 6th Cavalry Regiment.
The officers were a little incomprehensible to Sun Weiguo's plan not to recover the county seat for the time being, and after they heard Sun Weiguo announce this order, their emotions would be affected to some extent.
When some officers asked Sun Weiguo how to arrange the people in the county seat, Sun Weiguo had already made preparations, and the people hiding in the county tunnels had already begun to move through the tunnels, and the tunnels below the county town had been completely blocked.
The officers looked at each other, and they could only choose to obey Sun Weiguo's order.
The officers of the First Advance Regiment, the Independent Regiment, and the Sixth Cavalry Regiment agreed with Sun Weiguo's order not to attack the county seat for the time being, and Sun Weiguo began to issue a second order.
Taking into account the current situation of the new 2nd Brigade, Sun Weiguo left the Independent Regiment and the 6th Cavalry Regiment in Pingding County for activities, while the 1st Pre-1st Regiment was sent by Sun Weiguo to Xiyang County for activities, and Tan Tianyu, deputy commander of the Independent Regiment, and the troops of Ji Haotian's 5th Battalion and Luo Chenxi's 6th Battalion were returned to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
For Tan Tianyu and other officers, Sun Weiguo is not too prejudiced, but Sun Weiguo is unacceptable to these troops.
Their performance in Guanshan Town made Sun Weiguo very dissatisfied, and Sun Weiguo would not accept such a force.
On June 28, 1938, after the Japanese troops withdrew from Pingding County, the North China Front Army Headquarters officially announced through the major newspapers in the occupied area, the North China Front Army said in the announcement that the operation of the new Second Brigade in Pingding County had ended, the Imperial Army captured the county seat of Pingding County, and re-created the Second Brigade troops, and the North China Front announced that the operation annihilated more than 3,000 people of the New Second Brigade and killed two regimental officers of the New Second Brigade, Sun Weiguo led the rest of the troops to flee, and the Japanese casualties were only more than 300 people.
The unilateral announcement of the Japanese forces in North China deliberately emphasized the casualties on both sides, and the figures they announced were carefully studied.
On the one hand, they did this to lose their own face, and on the other hand, to boost the morale of the devil soldiers fighting on the front line in Wuhan.
In response to the announcement of the Japanese army in North China, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army also began to make counterattacks, and the major newspapers controlled by the Eighth Route Army reported in detail on the operation in Pingding County.
The 25th Cavalry Wing of the 4th Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army was completely annihilated, the 62nd Wing of the 21st Division was completely annihilated, the armored detachment of the 1st Brigade of the mixed battle was completely annihilated, and the 114th Division and the 3rd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade suffered losses to varying degrees, and the real casualty figures of the Japanese army were reported.
The propaganda cadres of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army conducted a special interview with Yin Jinshan, commander of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment, and Ge Haifeng, deputy commander of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment.
The results of the New Second Brigade in this operation were astonishing, and after the newspapers of the Eighth Route Army reported on it, the operation in Pingding County was widely known throughout the country.
The people began to cheer, and the townspeople who were not occupied by the Japanese spontaneously came to the streets to celebrate.
The officers and men of the Chinese troops were shocked by the tremendous results achieved by the New Second Brigade in the dozens of divisions assembled on the Wuhan front, and some of the commanders even thought that the New Second Brigade was making false reports of its achievements.
However, when the captured trophies of the Japanese army appeared in the newspapers, and when the photos of the corpses of the devil soldiers were exposed, the officers and soldiers on the front line were shocked.
"Long live the Sixth Cavalry Regiment, long live the New Second Brigade, long live the Eighth Route Army!"
Cheers rang out in all towns, not only the officers and soldiers who were fighting, but also the common people.
"Sun Weiguo, commander of China's new second brigade, has created good results several times, such a commander is rare, I believe that China has such a unit as the new second brigade, and the Japanese army wants to destroy China, this is simply impossible, I once again call on all countries to pay attention to the war in China, this is not only a war between China and Japan, this war will affect us sooner or later."
"I suggest that the government should immediately sell steel to Japan, I really can't imagine what role the United States will play in this war, I hope the government can face up to this problem, the achievements of the new 2nd Brigade are enough for us to think about the situation in the future."
"Among the many troops in China, only the new second brigade can be called elite, although the brigade commander Sun Weiguo does not have any military academy resume, but we have to admit that Sun Weiguo is the best commander in the world, and he will lead his troops to bring unimaginable blows to the Japanese."
The achievements of the New Second Brigade have not only aroused tremendous repercussions at home, but even abroad, military strategists from many countries have begun to speak one after another.
Sun Weiguo's command ability was enough to shock these military strategists, and they absolutely believed that under the same conditions, no one would do better than Sun Weiguo.
The Chinese and Japanese sides began to engage in a propaganda contest, and the Japanese naturally did not make any reports on their real losses in battle, and they vigorously denied what the Chinese side reported, and they would not admit that they had lost so many troops.
The propaganda between the two sides went on for a week, and the time entered another July 1938, when the two sides were still engaged in a war of words.
On July 7, 1938, on the first anniversary of the Lugou Bridge Incident, the New Second Brigade received a telegram from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
The head of the General Headquarters has already expanded the troops of the New Second Brigade into the Sixth Army Subdivision of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region, and now the head of the General Headquarters has directly stipulated the scope of activities and the troop establishment of the Sixth Army Subdivision.
The Sixth Army sub-division has jurisdiction over the New Second Brigade, an unnamed regiment, and an artillery regiment under its jurisdiction in Yangquan County, Pingding County, Xiyang County, and Heshun County.
The meaning of the head of the headquarters is obvious, they are strengthening the strength of the troops of the Sixth Army Division.
And this nameless regiment was formed with the troops of Ji Haotian's fifth battalion and Luo Chenxi's sixth battalion, and these two battalions were returned to the Jinchaji Military Region by Sun Weiguo, but after Commander Nie learned of the performance of these two battalions, he pleaded with the officers and soldiers of the two battalions, hoping that Sun Weiguo could give them a chance.
Sun Weiguo didn't know how to refuse Commander Nie's plea, and at this time, Commander Liu of the 120th Division also personally came forward to mediate this matter.
In the end, after the order of the head of the headquarters, the number of the new Sixth Regiment originally assigned to the Sixth Army Division was cancelled, and the unknown regiment was formed with Ji Haotian Battalion and Luo Chenxi Battalion as the mainstay.