Chapter 114: The Eighth Division has arrived

In fact, the equipment of the Allied army is already quite good in the national army, because it has the support of the Soviets, there are more than 100,000 rifles alone, but in terms of artillery, it is relatively small. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Only a few main forces such as Tong Linge were equipped with field artillery, and most of the other troops were only equipped with a few mountain guns or mortars, and Li Han was able to get four field guns, which shows how difficult Feng Lianqin's methods were.

With the help of their aviation units, the 25th and 26th Wings of the 4th Cavalry Brigade took turns to launch a fierce attack on Duolun County, and dozens of artillery pieces bombarded non-stop, and the troops responsible for defending the two divisions of Duolun certainly resisted desperately.

They are already ready to fight the devil this time, and of course they will not be intimidated by the devil's powerful artillery fire. The troops of the two divisions were divided into two groups, and they resisted in batches under the powerful firepower of the devils, and fought back the attacks of the devils one after another with flesh and blood.

However, although they blocked the momentum of the devil's attack, their own casualties were also heavy. The troops of the two divisions fought in Duolun and the devil for five days, and each suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and the remaining strength combined was only enough for the establishment of one division.

The two division commanders also had to ask the Allied Army Headquarters for help, and if the fight continued, not only could the troops not be saved, but Duolun was afraid that he would also be occupied by the devils.

After receiving a telegram from the Duolun defenders asking for help, Feng Yuxiang did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the two divisions of Kang Bao and Guyuan to replace the two divisions of Duolun, and fought to the end with the devil in Duolun.

Feng Yuxiang is a character who is used to seeing strong winds and waves, although the devil is menacing, but he is not afraid at all. even made a bold statement: I just want to see how strong the devil's cavalry brigade is, can 4,000 people still do it over 40,000 people?

Although the Fourth Cavalry Brigade has strong firepower and its soldiers are also very elite and fierce, it has just fought a big battle with the two division-level units of our army that are fully manned, and their losses are not small.

Of course, the little devils don't care how many soldiers die, and their soldiers are proud of His Majesty the Emperor's dedication.

If you are not worried that the casualties will be too large and you will not be able to get over the face, you will have all the soldiers, as long as you can complete the task, Major General Ohara Kazuaki will not hesitate.

However, this time it was not only the reason for the large casualties, but also the ammunition consumption of the 4th Cavalry Brigade was also very large.

Of course, this point is very easy to understand, why did the Fourth Cavalry Brigade suppress the nearly 20,000 people of our army's two divisions with a strength of just over 4,000 troops, and didn't it rely on their superiority in artillery fire?

The planes in the sky have not been grounded since the beginning of the war, they are dispatched three or four times a day, and the two artillery brigades on the ground take turns to fight, and the sound of artillery has never been cut off.

Kazuaki Ohara was bent on taking the lead in the capture of Duolun, especially after hearing the news of the disastrous defeat of the 46th Independent Brigade in Duolun, his desire for victory became even stronger.

If the 4th Cavalry Brigade can rely on its own strength to occupy Duolun, it will not only be able to wash away the shame of the Imperial Army, but also prove its ability, which is very important for getting closer in the future, and Ohara Kazuaki is definitely not willing to be just a major general brigade commander.

But Kazuaki Ohara didn't expect the Shina army to be so tenacious, and they also made enough preparations.

It took him a lot of effort to beat the defenders of China into a crippled state, but he didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, they had replaced 20,000 people to come in, and His Excellency the Major General felt that he couldn't hold it anymore.

In order to defeat the original Chinese army, the loss of their brigade and regiment has been close to half of its strength, and the weapons and ammunition have been consumed eighty percent.

Ohara Kazuaki felt very aggrieved in his heart, he could have won this battle, but it was because the people of the branch were so shameless that they actually prepared four divisions and nearly 40,000 people to deal with him, isn't it obvious that there are more people and fewer people are bullying.

Although he has always emphasized that the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire can be ten in the face of the soldiers of China. But everyone is an official, don't you know that this is purely to boost the morale of the soldiers!

Which general didn't encourage his soldiers so much before the war, but he didn't expect the people of China to take it seriously.

No matter how aggrieved and unwilling he was in his heart, Kazuaki Ohara still sent a telegram requesting guidance to His Excellency Lieutenant General Yoshiichi Nishi, the commander of the 8th Division.

"Your Excellency General, General Ohara has sent a telegram!"

The headquarters of the 8th Division, the chief of staff of the 8th Division, Mitsuo Inoue, came to Nishi's office with a telegram.

"Nakamura, this arrogant guy, will also ask us for help!"

Nishiyi glanced at the telegram in his hand and said to Mitsuo Inoue, and did not hide his dissatisfaction with Ohara Kazuaki between his words.

Nishiichi was a relatively pure soldier, with little interest in the complicated factional struggles in the army, and his only hobby was to gallop on the battlefields of China and capture one Chinese city after another.

Whether it was the invasion of the three northeastern provinces or the Great Wall War of Resistance, his Eighth Division was the vanguard of the Japanese army. However, the fact that Xiyi is not far away from joining the factional struggle does not mean that others will not.

Kazuaki Ohara was a member of the Unification faction, and after the 226 Mutiny of the Japanese Military Department, the Unification faction had taken full control of the Japanese military headquarters.

Therefore, Ohara Kazuaki didn't take Nishiyichi as the division commander very seriously, and in addition to the fact that he was not originally a member of the Eighth Division, he had just received the order, so he took the Fourth Cavalry Brigade and left the Eighth Division to work alone.

Now that he found that he couldn't kill the Chinese army, he began to ask for help from him again, and Nishi Yoshiichi was of course very unhappy with this behavior in Ohara Kazuaki.

If the Fourth Cavalry Brigade was a unit directly under his Eighth Division, he wouldn't care whether Ohara Kazuaki was an emperor or a unification faction, and he would definitely make Ohara Kazuaki look good.

"Your Excellency, the commander's order is for our division to capture Chahar. Although there is something wrong with General Ohara, we can also see from it that the resistance of the Shina people is very strong, otherwise with Ohara Kazuaki's character and the help of thousands of imperial warriors of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, it would be impossible for him to ask for support like us. ”

Mitsuo Inoue knew that His Excellency the General was just complaining casually, and as His Excellency the General, there were not many things that could make him angry now, unless the entire army of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade was wiped out.

Therefore, Mitsuo Inoue did not add fuel to the matter of Ohara Kazuaki's disrespect for orders, but instead Ohara Kazuaki's telegram drew the focus to the Chinese army.

"Yo Xi, order Gu Yi Kakutaro to lead the Fourth Brigade to set off immediately, their goal is not only to rescue the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, but to occupy Duolun, and to attack other cities in Chahar with the Springboard of Duolunwei."

Nishi Yoshiichi really didn't have the heart to reason with Koizumi Kazuaki, a noble child, but he didn't mind disgusting Koizumi Kazuaki, and deliberately sent the Fourth Brigade to relieve him.

It is also called the Fourth Brigade, a cavalry brigade, and an infantry brigade, and Nishi Yoshiichi wants to know what Koizumi Kazumi's expression will be when Tani Kakutaro successfully occupies Duolun.

"Order the Fifth Brigade to attack Zhangjiakou in the direction of Longguan!"

There are more than 25,000 people in the Eighth Division, and it is impossible to use all of them in the battle of Chahar, because it is not that Xiyi is arrogant, and it is really not worth sending the entire Eighth Division to dispatch just one Chahar.

Coupled with the fact that Chahar did not have a regular army of the Chinese government, Xi Yiyi was not very interested in capturing Chahar, and even if he won such a battle, it would not allow him to rise to the next level.

Moreover, Rehe also had to be on guard, because they had just signed an armistice agreement with the government army of China, and they used troops against Chahar on a large scale, and it was difficult to guarantee that the government army of China would not be hot-headed for a moment and send troops to attack Rehe.

After all, at this time, the strength of Rehe had weakened to a few points, and there were only more than 1,000 people left in the 46th Independent Brigade, and the 4th Cavalry Brigade was transferred to attack Chahar, and at present, the number of soldiers of the Imperial Army in the huge Rehe Province did not exceed 2,000.

Fortunately, the imperial army has recently won a lot of big victories, so that neither the government army nor other local troops dare to act rashly, otherwise it would be strange that this little force alone can keep Rehe.

Therefore, Xi Yiyi decided to stay in Rehe with the four directly subordinate wings of the division to coordinate the overall situation, but this was also temporary, and the artillery wing Xi Yiyi planned to send it out when Rehe stabilized.

The artillery wing's thirty-six field guns and twelve howitzers of one hundred and five millimeter caliber could not be allowed to sit idle in the hot river and become moldy.

Such a large-scale movement of the Japanese army, of course, could not be hidden from the eyes of the Allied forces and the Nationalist Government.

In response to the devil's blatant tearing up of the agreement and attacking a province under the leadership of the Republic of China on a large scale, the Nationalist Government only expressed a verbal protest.

Fortunately, at this time, the situation of the Allied forces was better than that of the historical Allied forces, and they had not yet been completely blockaded in Chahar.

This is mainly because the number of Japanese troops actually entrenched in Chahar will not exceed 3,000 in history, while the number of anti-Japanese allied troops is more than 100,000, which will of course arouse Chiang Kai-shek's jealousy.

Although the number of anti-Japanese allied forces is still more than 100,000, the number of devils has increased from 3,000 to 30,000.

Chiang Kai-shek is also the head of the Nationalist Government, and if he can solve the Allied forces without affecting his reputation, of course, he wants to see, and he can also drag the Japanese army in Chahar, why wouldn't he do it. Of course, he still has a bottom line, that is, Feng Yuxiang will never be allowed to make a comeback.

In the Central Plains War, the Central Army, the Northwest Army, the Gui Army, and the Jin Army, the four major warlords, fought a melee with millions of troops, and only then did they defeat a Northwest Army, and of course, a Northeast Army, of course, Chiang Kai-shek would not give Feng Yuxiang a second chance.