Chapter 8: Defending Daqingshan (1)
On November 22, the new regiment's military training for recruits for more than a month finally ended, and this time could make Ye Baoguo feel distressed, a pig a day, 10,000 rounds of ammunition, which made Ye Baoguo, the temporary housekeeper, often scold him in front of Han Yunhua, but Han Yunhua was more open-minded, whenever he encountered this situation, Han Yunhua just grinned.
In just over a month, the temperament of every soldier of the new regiment has undergone a qualitative change, and this change is not only manifested in the form, but also in the demeanor. The combat effectiveness of the entire new regiment has been dramatically improved, which can be said to be sharp in Han Yunhua's training.
The thing that made Han Yunhua the happiest was that the people who were sent out to contact the brigade headquarters some time ago finally got the news, the day before the end of the military training, the soldiers sent out to contact the brigade headquarters brought a cavalry platoon to protect a middle-aged man and came back, and also brought the order of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the new regiment was reorganized into the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment, and the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment was directly under the command of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, Han Yunhua was the detachment leader, Ye Baoguo was the deputy detachment leader, and Comrade Shen Yuquan sent by the headquarters was the political commissar. Military and political chiefs at other levels were reported by the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment to the Eighth Route Army Headquarters for approval, and a telegraph operator was also sent to the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment.
It turned out that after the army occupied Datong, it blocked the communication line from the south to the north, and the signal troops of the new regiment could not cross the Datong line, so they had to bypass from the northwest and prepare to bypass Datong, and pass through the area of Zuoyun and Youyu to find the main force of the Eighth Route Army, which could be regarded as the luck of this communicator, and just after Zuoyun County, he met the main force of the 686th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division on the way, and finally used the radio of the 343rd Brigade to get in touch with the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and the 343rd Brigade sent the report written by Han Yunhua, the acting commander of the new First Regiment, to the headquarters by radio, and the report was as follows: "Commander of the General Headquarters, our new regiment and the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division of the Fifth Division of the Army encountered more than 2,000 people unexpectedly during the night march on October 9, and the two sides engaged in a tragic encounter, in this battle our unit was outnumbered, more than half of the casualties, a regiment of more than 1,200 people remained, the commander of the new regiment, the political commissar, the commander of the first battalion, the commander of the second battalion, the commander of the third battalion, and six of the nine company commanders were killed, and the deputy regiment commander and chief of staff were seriously wounded. However, after the soldiers fought to the death and fought hard, they finally broke through and gained a foothold in Ulanchabu Xinghe County, Chahar Province.
On the night of October 19, our unit launched an attack on the defenders of Xinghe County, and the new regiment took down a county seat, pulled out a devil's stronghold, and eliminated 126 soldiers (including 13 soldiers in the Taiji Temple stronghold, Han Yunhua and others ambushed and killed 85 soldiers in a halfway ambush, and eliminated 29 soldiers in the attack on the county seat). At the same time, 36 Han annihilation troops were eliminated, and 2 Han annihilation households were suppressed, and a lot of captures were made, and the troops were also replenished. Han Yunhua, acting commander of the new regiment of the 386th Brigade........."
Commander-in-Chief Zhu and Mr. Peng also had some difficulties after reading Han Yunhua's report, the new regiment, which had already been completely unheard, was not only not wiped out by the whole army, but also captured a county town, which really made Mr. Peng a little unbelievable, it stands to reason that the new regiment is the troops of the 386 Brigade, and now since the whole army has not been destroyed, it should be rebuilt, but now the problem is a little complicated.
Some time ago, the new regiment was the first unit of the Eighth Route Army to be eliminated by the army, but it caused an uproar in the domestic party, but now this army has not only not been eliminated, but also made such a great achievement, which is a happy thing in any case, but what makes Mr. Peng entangled is that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army has reported to Yan'an to revoke the number of the new regiment, and the General Political Department has also sealed the archives of the new regiment, and the 386 brigade has also been supplemented by a regimental reading regiment. What's more, now that the roads from the north to the south are blocked by the army, it is very difficult for the new regiment to return to the building, and now it has become a question of where the new regiment will go.
In desperation, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army had no choice but to ask Yan'an for instructions. In the end, Yan'an decided that the number of the new regiment would be permanently canceled, and the new regiment would be reorganized into the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment, which was directly under the command of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, and the credit for capturing Xinghe County was also released in the name of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, and Han Yunhua and others were only rewarded within the party.
Han Yunhua can be said to be overjoyed by the decision of the headquarters, but he is also a little puzzled, what level of establishment is the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment, and what level is he, the leader of the detachment. In desperation, Han Yunhua had no choice but to ask the new political commissar Shen Yuquan, but unfortunately Shen Yuquan didn't know much about it, but Shen Yuquan's senior political commissar also said that it was not bad if it was not clear, and it was not good to expand the army when it was expanded.
Han Yunhua thought about this as a good note, just after talking with this Shen political commissar for a while, Han Yunhua knew that this Shen political commissar was not a peaceful lord in his bones, not as strong as other political commissars in the Eighth Route Army, but more like a military commander.
This time Han Yunhua guessed correctly, Shen Yuquan was originally a deputy commander of the 343 Brigade of the 115th Division, and the headquarters was worried that Han Yunhua was young and had little experience, so he sent him a political commissar with excellent military quality, not that Shen Yuquan's political literacy was not high, in fact, Shen Yuquan's political quality was also very high, it can be said that he could be civil and martial, which made Han Yunhua secretly happy to catch the treasure in his heart.
In the next few days, Han Yunhua took Shen Yuquan to go around the Daqingshan base area, gave Shen Yuquan a detailed introduction to the basic situation of the detachment, and then summoned the military and political commanders above the platoon commander for a meeting, read out the order of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, and then let other officers know the new political commissar Shen Yuquan.
During this time, with the deepening of the understanding of the Daqingshan base area, Shen Yuquan became more and more surprised, some time ago, the matter of the new regiment was in an uproar, and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army also gave him a detailed introduction to the new regiment before taking office. But now it seems that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army does not know much about this unit. The remnants of more than 1,900 people, who will believe it! You must know that except for a few regular regiments recognized by the Kuomintang, most of the regiments of the Eighth Route Army are small regiments with a two-battalion system, and the whole regiment is generally about 1,000. And the uniqueness of this army is not only manifested in the number of people, the military quality of the soldiers alone is not comparable to the general army, which is still a newly defeated division that has just been revoked, this is clearly a division of a hundred battles, although most of the soldiers are very young, but the spirit of prohibition, vigorous and resolute, decisive killing, unruly and disciplined, even the old elite in the Eighth Route Army can not be compared, not to mention the firepower configuration of this army, which is even more stunned, A battalion is equipped with a terrifying 89 light and heavy machine guns and 12 grenadiers, even a complete field squadron of the Yue Army is only equipped with less than 10 automatic firepower, Shen Yuquan calculated, all the troops of the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment are equipped with a total of 319 light and heavy machine guns, 36 grenadiers, and 4 mortars, such a firepower configuration is far more powerful than a division of the [***] Central Army, when Han Yunhua told him that there are more than 1,000 light and heavy machine guns in the arsenal in the base area. When there were more than 6,000 rifles, Shen Yuquan's brain completely crashed.
When Han Yunhua was busy, the army was not idle, although the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army claimed that the 771st Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division had broken through Xinghe County, but the army did not believe it, after many inquiries, the Chahar Corps Headquarters had determined to attack the county seat of Xinghe County, resulting in a squadron of elite imperial soldiers shattering, and snatching a large number of weapons and equipment was done by a small branch of the Eighth Route Army, and this defeated army is still entrenched on a mountain not far from Xinghe County. So the command of the Chahar Corps decided to annihilate this small force that dared to defy the majesty of the imperial army.
The new garrison in Xinghe County is the first brigade of the 30th Infantry Wing under the 15th Brigade of the Chahar Corps Headquarters, which is stationed in Jining, and the captain is Shiro Yamamoto, who graduated from the Army University, so this garrison is also called the Yamamoto Brigade, and it is difficult to talk about this Yamamoto Brigade. On September 30, 1937, the 15th Mixed Brigade of Chahar Garrison, which cooperated with the Banyuan Division to fight at Pingxingguan, took advantage of the vacant defensive position of the Jinsui Army to unexpectedly occupy Daixian County south of Yanmen Pass on the Inner Great Wall, completely cutting off the connection between the Taiyuan direction and Pingxingguan. After receiving this news, Yan Xishan ordered the [***] team in Pingxingguan and the Inner Great Wall line to retreat in all directions, and ordered Wang Jingguo's 19th Army to guard Lao County, and Jiang Yuzhen's 196th Brigade to defend Yuanping, so as to cover the [***] team in Xinkou.
At this point, the Battle of Pingxingguan is over! On 1 October, the General Headquarters ordered the North China Front Army to "occupy Taiyuan in the northern part of Shanxi Province with a force" and ordered the Kwantung Army to "bring another part of the army under the command of the Chahar garrison" and to "facilitate the above operations." In this way, the Yamamoto Brigade, which was originally subordinate to the Kwantung Army, was transferred to the Chahar Dispatch Army, and was under the rule of the 30th Infantry Wing, when the army marched into Chahar Province and Suiyuan Province, the Yamamoto Brigade was invincible all the way, whether it was [***] or the Mongolian princes, as long as they dared to resist, they were all wiped out on the spot, and basically all of them were annihilated, and the most proud thing was that when he occupied Chahar Province, he defeated [***] two divisions head-on with the strength of a brigade, and captured [***] A major general, division commander and more than 4,000 ordinary [***] soldiers.
Due to his outstanding military achievements, Hideki Tojo, commander of the Chahar Corps Headquarters, personally ordered Shiro Yamamoto to be promoted to deputy commander of the Takeda Wing and captain of the first brigade, and his military rank was promoted to Osa.
After the Battle of Xinghe County, the entire Chahar Corps Headquarters regarded it as a great shame, and Yamamoto Shiro finally determined that it was not the so-called 771st Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division that completely annihilated the Xinghe defenders through some clues and clues such as a telegram sent by his friend Sakagaki Liuichi, but a new regiment that had already been defeated by the 21st Wing of the Fifth Division. The reason why the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army said this was to divert attention and protect this remnant army. And his judgment was also recognized by the command of the Chahar Corps. Therefore, the headquarters of the Chahar Corps ordered Shiro Yamamoto to garrison Xinghe County and look for an opportunity to annihilate this small army and recapture the looted supplies.
Yamamoto reoccupied Xinghe County with two reinforced squadrons and an artillery squad with a total of more than 500 soldiers, and Yamamoto learned through his own that the Eighth Route Army, which had only brought endless shame to the entire Chahar Corps, was entrenched in Daqingshan, not far away, and according to Yamamoto's wishes, it was enough to directly lead people into the mountains to encircle and suppress, and the remnants of the few hundred people were not the elite opponents of his more than 500 large field army of the Empire. However, the Han Annihilation in front of him said that there would be great casualties in a hard attack, because there is only one road up the mountain in Daqingshan, and it is extremely steep, which is an easy place to defend and difficult to attack.