Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 419: The New Year's Drama of 1940 (1)——

Chapter 419: The New Year's Drama of 1940 (1)

In fact, at the beginning, when Han Yunhua proposed to return this infantry regiment that had just rebelled against him to the northeast, many leaders of the military region were resolutely opposed, especially the upgrading of this unit with a number of more than 4,000 people, at best, an infantry brigade to a group army, which made many people not understand, including Luo Ronghuan and others.

According to Han Yunhua's knowledge, there are many numbers of the Northeast Democratic Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and each of them is big and scared to death, and the general number level is at the military level, but in fact, the number of each army is very small. Let's take the first few armies formed by the Anti-Japanese Federation as an example: the 1st Army of the Northeast People's ** Army, formerly known as the Panshi Nanman Guerrillas, was reorganized and established in November 1934. Yang Jingyu served as the army commander and political commissar, with 2 divisions and more than 800 people in the army; The 2nd Army of the Northeast People's ** Army, formerly known as the guerrillas of East Manchurian counties, was reorganized and established in May 1935. Wang Detai served as the army commander, with 3 divisions and about 1,200 troops; The 3rd Army of the Northeast People's ** Army

, formerly known as the Hadong Detachment of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force (formerly the Zhuhe Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force), was established in January 1935. Zhao Shangzhi served as the army commander and commander of the 1st Division, with 3 regiments under his command. From September 1935 to 1936, it was expanded into 6 regiments, which were successively expanded into 6 divisions, with more than 700 people in the whole army; The 4th Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, formerly known as the Mishan People's Anti-Japanese ** Army and the Mishan Guerrillas, was established in October 1934. Li Yanlu served as the army commander and commander of the 1st Division, with 4 divisions and more than 230 people; The 5th Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Combined Army, formerly known as the Suining Anti-Japanese Allied Army, was established in February 1935. Zhou Baozhong served as the army commander, with 2 divisions and more than 900 people; The 6th Army of the Northeast People's ** Army, formerly known as the Tangyuan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps, was established in January 1936. Xia Yunjie served as the army commander, with 6 regiments under his jurisdiction and more than 1,000 people in the army. Looking at these troops, it is not an exaggeration to call the infantry brigade sent by the M-NG Ancient Military Region a group army.

This can be said to be a style of the Anti-United Nations, because the Japanese puppet forces in the northeast are extremely strong, so the struggle against the United Nations is also extremely difficult. Weapons and ammunition were scarce, and it was difficult to replenish the troops, so they had to resort to this method of pulling tiger skins m-hu-enemy. As a matter of fact, the struggle of the Anti-Japanese Federation in the northeast region is extremely necessary, and the results are extremely brilliant. According to the statistics of the Heilongjiang Provincial Anti-Japanese War Research Association, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces fought more than 100,000 times against Japan. According to the statistics of the Japanese pseudo-statistical agency: 39,105 times in 1935, 3,617 times in 1936, 13,110 times in 1938, 6,547 times in 1939, and 3,667 times in 1940; Nearly 200,000 casualties were caused to the Japanese puppet army, and a large number of Japanese troops were also contained, according to historical records, in 1940 alone, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation contained about 400,000 Japanese puppet troops.

Now that the situation in North China is turbulent, Han Yunhua did not dare to drop many troops to the north to block the southward movement of the Kwantung Army, so he had to use the banner of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance to contain the Japanese puppet army, Han Yunhua believed that before the formal signing of the Soviet-Japanese non-aggression pact, the Kwantung Army Command would not dare to transfer troops to the south at will. If there is another strong and abnormal force in the hinterland of the northeast, then General Umezu Mijiro can only have more than enough strength even if he really wants to send troops south.

Of course, Li Dingguo, the commander of the group army, is only talking to the outside world, in fact, the Inner M-Ng Ancient Military Region has long been determined about this, and the number of the First Group Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance is only suitable for use in the Northeast region, and the internal M-Ng Ancient Military Region is positioned as a guard brigade.

Li Dingguo didn't care about these things, he was very clear about the status of himself and the entire Flying Dragon Special Operations Brigade in the commander's heart, although the number of each special operations brigade was now between 700 and 800, and it could only be regarded as a reinforced battalion in terms of numbers, but in the combat establishment of the military region, the special combat team was a division-level establishment, and the captain of his special operations brigade was equivalent to the commander of the division, so he did not look down on this so-called commander of the guard brigade at all.

But he also knew Han Yunhua's intention to send him to the northeast, and from the bottom of his heart, he was unwilling to serve as the commander of this group army, because in his eyes, the combat effectiveness of this group army was really a bit rubbish, not to mention compared with the Kwantung Army, which was the sharpest Japanese army, even compared to the regular army of the Inner M-Ng Ancient Military Region. The sudden appearance of such a large force in the northeast is not regarded as a thorn in the side of the Kwantung Army, and compared to the Takeoff Dragon Special Combat Team, this so-called group army is like a big stupid elephant with F-IF-I, and there is no flexibility at all.

However, he also knew that his Flying Dragon Special Operations Brigade alone would not be able to cause much trouble to the Kwantung Army at all, and only a large organized force attack would make hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army scruples. So despite his reluctance, Li Dingguo decided to serve as the commander of this group army.

January 18, 1940, was a very good day for the North China Front, which had been in a state of flux for some time, although the weather was not warm and light snow fell. But all the officers of the entire North China Front Army had smiles on their faces, and just now news came from the front that tens of thousands of Eighth Route Army troops who were catching M-Zang along the Zhengtai Railway with the Imperial Army had finally been repelled by the Imperial Japanese Army. Although the main force of the Eighth Route Army was not completely annihilated in this battle, more than 20,000 people were killed and wounded by the Eighth Route Army, and more than 4,000 corpses of the Eighth Route Army were left along the Zhengtai Railway alone.

Of course, the losses of the imperial army are also very large, the Eighth Route Army at this time is not the Eighth Route Army two years ago, their weapons and equipment are obviously much better than before, and there are even snipers equipped with sniper rifles in the troops. In the pursuit of nearly a month, the imperial army lost more than 8,200 soldiers, but less than 2,000 people died, but the Eighth Route Army captured five county seats, blew up four military trains and 27 bridges, as for the destroyed artillery strongholds and damaged roads are countless, on the whole, the losses of the imperial army are also very large.

However, in any case, it was a fact that the Eighth Route Army had suffered a heavy blow, and it was the first major victory of the North China Dispatch Army of the Imperial Japanese Army since April last year, so every Japanese officer's face swept away the previous gloom, and they all thought that this was a sign of the rise of the North China Dispatch Army.

What made Tada Jun happiest was that due to their outstanding performance during this time, the base camp announced the entire North China dispatch army for the first time in the whole army, and postponed the time limit for resolving the Northern Cyprus problem by one month. What was supposed to be three months suddenly became four, which gave Lieutenant General Tada more time to prepare and a much better chance of victory.

At the same time, with the expansion of the war of aggression against China, in order to consolidate its rule in the occupied areas of China, unify the deployment of troops, and facilitate the implementation of political strategies against the national government, the Japanese army headquarters carried out a large-scale adjustment of the Japanese army in the entire Chinese theater, and ordered the formation of the "China Dispatch Army", with Nishio Shouzo as the commander-in-chief and Itagaki Seishiro as the chief of the general staff, set up the general headquarters in Nanjing, and at the same time abolished the Central China Dispatch Army.

The Chinese Dispatch Army commanded the North China Front, the 11th Army, the 13th Army, the 21st Army, and the 3rd Flying Group, with a total of 23 divisions and 17 brigades and regiments, with 850,000 troops. Previously, the Japanese army base camp made a small adjustment to the Japanese troops stationed in China, and it was expected that the number of troops would be reduced to about 550,000 within three years after the stalemate phase of the war.

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