Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 421: The New Year's Drama of 1940 (3) -

Chapter 421: The New Year's Drama of 1940 (3)

On February 5, 1940, the 5th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Yanqing, with the cooperation of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Tank Division, launched an attack on the 6th and 7th Field Divisions of the Inner M-NG Ancient Military Region stationed in the Zhangjiakou area. At the same time, the other line of Japanese troops, mainly the 38th Division, with the cooperation of the 6th Tank Brigade, made a detour back to the Chicheng area east of Zhangjiakou, preparing to encircle the 6th and 7th Divisions of the Inner M-NG Ancient Military Region in the Zhangjiakou area.

The combat effectiveness of these two divisions is not the strongest among the ten field divisions of the military region, but the leaders of these two divisions are all famous generals in history, Xu Shiyou, commander of the Sixth Field Division, Zhang Beihua, political commissar, Liu Xiyuan, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office, He Guangyu, commander of the Seventh Field Division, Peng Shaohui, political commissar, and Dun Xingyun, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office, are all generals who have been carefully selected by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and transferred to the Inner M-Ng Ancient Military Region. After receiving the telegram from the front, Xu Shiyou, who served as the commander-in-chief of the Zhangjiakou front, felt a lot of pressure on his body, the total strength of the three divisions of the Japanese army reached a terrifying more than 56,000 people, and at the same time there were about 12,000 puppet troops, and the troops that could be used in his hands were less than 35,000 people.

"Lao He, now that the devil's leading force is about to arrive in Xuanhua, let's hurry up and think of countermeasures, this time it seems that the little devil is ready to fight hard, how should we fight?" Xu Shiyou stared at He Guangyu on the side.

He Guangyu frowned and thought for a while and said: "Lao Xu, if you want to say that it is only *** that infantry division Lao Tzu is not afraid, although the *** fifth division is a few jīng sharp divisions in small Japan, but our two divisions are now booming, so they are not afraid of that little rabbit cub in Yasui at all." But that chariot brigade is not something we can shake now, if our two divisions can't even pack up this chariot third division in the field, let alone more than 50,000 infantry, I think this battle really can't be fought."

Zhang Beihua, political commissar of the Sixth Field Division, said: "This time the devil is powerful, and hard fighting is not the way, and besides, none of us have any experience in commanding large-scale positional warfare, but the commander has already arrived at the front line, I think it is better to let the commander have an idea, after all, he is an expert in this kind of positional warfare of large corps." ”

This is the voice of Xu Shiyou's guard Zhang Zhigang from outside M-N: "What person? ”

"Military Region Emergency Electricity"

At this time, a telegraph operator ran in and said: "Report to the chief, the military region has an urgent telegram."

"Read," Xu Shiyou said hurriedly.

"Xu, Zhang, He, and Peng: Order your troops to block the Japanese army along the favorable terrain along the line of Xuanhua, Shaziling, Dongwangshan, Sanchakou, Longguan, Xiamashan, Xiangtian, and Xingrenbao, and hereby allocate 12 mine experts, 3,000 heavy artillery bombs, and 200 heavy machine guns. At the same time, your unit must do a good job in the transfer of the masses of the people, do a good job in clearing the walls of the army and the people, and your unit should try to kill and injure the living forces of the Japanese puppet army when the devils arrive in Zhangjiakou City, and you can authorize your unit to abandon Zhangjiakou if necessary. Headquarters Han February 5"

What the telegram said was very clear, that is, Han Yunhua authorized Xu Shiyou and others to abandon Zhangjiakou when necessary, and did not have to defend this important provincial capital.

"Commander, what do you mean by that? Zhangjiakou is the capital city of Chahar, how can you say that you will discard it? Xu Shiyou asked with some puzzlement.

However, He Guangyu saw it at this time, so he said: "I think the commander must have a deep meaning in doing this, you see that the commander told us that these places are all terrain and dangerous terrain, and they are also places that the Japanese army must pass through, and the commander asked us to defend it, but he didn't order us to defend it, so I think the commander is a living force that allows us to kill and injure a large number of enemies at all costs, even if it is a heavy city like Zhangjiakou." ”

"Even the territory has been lost, even if it is a little devil who kills a lot of injuries, what's the use, don't we have to pay the same price to recover it when we counterattack?" Dun Xingyun, deputy commander of the Seventh Field Division and director of the Political Training Office, asked suspiciously.

Xu Shiyou also saw the true intention of this telegram at this time, and while admiring it, he also had to admire the twenty-six-year-old commander, and said with a smile: "Xingyun, the commander is a trick for the little devil, how many mountains and dangerous places do you want to have along the way from Beiping to Zhangjiakou, and how many dangerous places from Zhangjiakou to Xinghe and to Zhangbei." How many troops will be lost by the devils all the way down, and there are no less than ten fortresses between Zhangjiakou and Zhangbei, if the Japanese army dares to go, even if they finally take Zhangbei County, there will not be many of these 60,000 or 70,000 people left. And we are different, we are defending according to the danger, and the casualties are much smaller than the Japanese army, but the chariot division of the devil is a trouble, and I don't know how the commander is going to deal with those Iron King Ba"

"Hehehe, Lao Xu, you don't know this, I see that the mine experts mentioned in the commander's telegram may be the secret weapon against the Japanese tank." He Guangyu said with a smile.

"Mines can indeed deal with combat vehicles, but ordinary mines can't completely blow up combat vehicles at all, at most they can blow up the tracks of the combat vehicles, barely paralyzing that guy, as long as the devil puts on a spare track, he can start again, I think the commander's method may not work." Xu Shiyou said worriedly.

Zhang Beihua still believed in Han Yunhua, so he smiled and said: "Lao Xu, let's not guess here, let's go and see what the commander sent us. ”

"Hehehe, Lao Zhang is right, it's better for us to go and have a look, let's take a walk," Liu Xiyuan, deputy commander of the Sixth Field Division and director of the Political Training Office, said with a smile.

In fact, Xu Shiyou and others guessed correctly, Han Yunhua did let them occupy favorable terrain and kill and injure a large number of Japanese puppet troops, don't care about the gains and losses of one city and one place. In the early days of the Liberation War, there were about 4.3 million troops of the people, and all of them were weapons and equipment.

At the same time, the number of PLA was only about 1.3 million, and the armament was still millet plus rifles, not to mention that there were no aircraft and tanks, and even artillery was not a few m-n. In the face of an all-out attack by the people, the chairman's response was to let the Kuomintang troops attack, and the PLA would be defeated in every battle. However, the Kuomintang troops fought very hard in every battle, losing an average of 7,000 people for each city they occupied, and although they occupied more than 70 cities controlled by the People's Liberation Army in half a year, they lost nearly 800,000 people, and the Kuomintang had to leave a part of the troops to garrison every city they occupied, so soon the Kuomintang found that they had fewer and fewer troops to attack, and finally had to stop attacking. As a result, the all-out offensive plan formulated by the Kuomintang was completely bankrupt, and although the PLA lost more than 70 cities, the troops only lost tens of thousands of people, and when the PLA counterattacked, it regained all the lost territory at a very small price.

Han Yunhua is also ready to use this tactic to deal with the Japanese attack this time, Han Yunhua transferred all the regular troops to the M-NG Hebei border, he is ready to give up all the territory in Hebei except for the eastern Hebei region, and if necessary, Xinghe, Fengzhen, Shangdu ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］