Chapter 56: The young marshal resigns
For this reason, Wang Wei deliberately participated in the cavalry reconnaissance activities, and he carried a map of Chabei with him, and constantly compared it along the way, so that he was not only familiar with the customs of Chabei, but also provided Li Han with a map of the latest Chabei area. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
As the scope of the cavalry company's activities became larger and larger, the influence of the fourth battalion was gradually spreading, and Wang Wei obtained a large amount of first-hand information about the source to the Duolun area.
In Guyuan County, Chahar, Li Han now has the feeling of being the king of the mountain, and now everything in Guyuan County is decided by him.
The volunteers left, and Li Han took over Guyuan County as a matter of course.
There was also a militia under the jurisdiction of the provincial government on the Duolun side, and in order to avoid further irritating the Northwest Army troops remaining in Chahar Province, Li Han did not send troops to occupy Duolun.
After Guyuan gradually settled down, Li Han officially established the Ninth Company, and the members of the Ninth Company were basically the urban management of the captured security team and a small number of peasant children who had just enlisted in the army. The company commander was Li Yong, and since then Li Yong has finally become the ninth company commander of the fourth battalion.
Although there were quite a few defeated soldiers and prisoners in the nine companies, the morale of the entire unit was relatively low.
But on the other hand, it also means that most of these soldiers are veterans, and Li Han believes that as long as he works hard to reorganize the troops and improve the morale of the soldiers, he will not worry about the combat effectiveness of the troops.
There are too many soldiers, and the management seems to be a little chaotic. At present, the fourth battalion already has nine companies of troops, in addition to the guard platoon and machine gun company that belong only to the battalion headquarters.
The machine gun company was established when Li Han was in Chengde, but because in the Battle of Rehe, the mortar and heavy machine gun companies were completely lost, and there was no way to replenish them, and the two companies basically existed in name only.
Therefore, Li Han reduced the personnel of the two companies to one company, trained them first, and then reorganized them when the conditions were available in the future.
The company commander of the machine gun company was Xu Hu, and Wang Wei was appointed by Li Han as the county magistrate of Guyuan County, which became the first civilian official under Li Han.
At present, all the troops of the four battalions add up to more than 1,500, but it is very inconvenient to command.
It's not that Li Han can't lead 1,500 soldiers, but that these more than 1,000 people are divided into nine company commanders, but there is only one battalion commander Li Han.
Each of the nine companies has its own defense area, in case the devil comes to attack one day, Li Han will not be able to respond in time, and the nine company commanders under him are all of the same level, and there is no command relationship between them, and it is difficult to condense into a fist in wartime.
Therefore, Li Han decided to carry out a reorganization of the forces in his hand and determine the defense areas and subordinate relations of various regions.
But without the order of his superiors, Li Han could not promote himself without authorization, so he adopted a compromise method.
The troops under it were reorganized into the Guyuan Anti-Japanese Brigade, which had three squadrons under it, and each squadron had three companies under its jurisdiction.
The first squadron was formed with Hu Zhi's second company, Shanhu's fifth company, and Gao Jian's fourth company, with Gao Jian as the leader of the first squadron and Hu Zhi as the deputy squadron leader and the second company commander.
The second squadron was formed with Lin Youzhi's first company, Zhao Gang's sixth company, and the seventh company of recruits, and Lin Youzhi served as the leader of the second squadron.
Wang Dazhu's cavalry company, Huangshan's third company, and recruits' eighth company formed the third squadron, with Wang Dazhu as the squadron leader, and Huang Shan as the deputy squadron leader and the third company commander.
Since the situation of each company has not been adjusted before, the number of the three squadrons is different, among them, the third squadron, which has the largest number, has only 500 people, and the first and third squadrons are only in their early 400s.
After the reorganization, the former platoon commanders were all promoted, and it can be said that everyone was happy. Although it has not been recognized by the national government, there is still a little regret.
But thinking that the strength of his troops had suddenly doubled or tripled, that little regret was nothing.
At the same time, each squadron has its own defense area, which is responsible for the defense of three to six towns and villages, and the task given to them by Li Han is also to expand the troops according to their own conditions and appropriateness, and there is no problem with guns. Before leaving, Li Han also gave each squadron 300 rifles.
Li Han himself took the guard platoon, the machine gun company, and the newly formed ninth company into the Guyuan County Government, although Guyuan was only a small remote county town and could be invaded by the Japanese army at any time. But Li Han felt that as long as he made good use of it, he could rely on this place to make a world.
After that, Li Han began to drastically reorganize the army in the Guyuan area, develop the people's livelihood, accumulate strength, and at the same time dispatched troops to sweep away the bandits in Guyuan.
For a time, the public security of Guyuan County was unusually good, and it was able to squeeze into the top three in the province, and the business trips that were rarely seen once in the year in the past gradually increased, and the poor Guyuan also ushered in a short-term prosperity.
Although Li Han was developing silently in Guyuan, he did not forget to pay attention to the situation of the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, but the wheel of history inevitably rolled forward.
On 9 March, the joint advance team of the Japanese Hattori and Suzuki brigades began to attack the Manfulin Division, and the Japanese occupied positions in the evening.
The 29th Army Feng Zhi'an was ordered to rush to support, and the Japanese army called fire, this battle Feng subordinate Wang Changhai Regiment Commander formed a 500-person broadsword team, while the Japanese army was asleep, with the broadsword to kill countless Japanese soldiers, the first battle became famous, temporarily stabilized the war situation.
Immediately, China and Japan continued to reinforce Xifengkou, and the 29th Army continuously used the broadsword team to attack the little devils and slash a large number of Japanese troops.
However, the Japanese army was well-equipped, carried a large number of heavy weapons, and was very tenacious in its will to fight, which also caused huge casualties to our army, and both sides fought fiercely for several days, both of which suffered heavy casualties.
The Japanese high-level saw that they could not attack Xifeng Pass for a long time, so they dispatched three or four thousand people to attack Luo Wenyu, but the little devil never dreamed that this time he would touch the steel nails.
The commander Liu Ruming led the officers and soldiers of the Temporary Second Division to fight with the Japanese army for three days, destroying thousands of enemies and suffering more than 2,000 casualties.
After this battle, until the end of the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army did not launch a second attack in the Luo Wenyu area.
At the same time, the 8th Division of the Japanese Army attacked Gubeikou, and the defenders of Gubeikou were the 107th Division of the 67th Army of Wang Yizhe, the powerful force of the Northeast Army.
If the Northeast Army's best performance in the Great Wall War of Resistance is the 107th Division, which suffered great humiliation in the September 18 Incident. The other units of the Northeast Army were basically crushed at the touch of a button, and they were chased by the wolves of the little devils along the way.
The 107th Division was adapted from the former Independent Seventh Brigade of the Northeast Army, which was stationed in Beidaying during the 918 Incident and was ordered not to resist after the Japanese attack.
The abandonment of the Beida Battalion without firing a single shot has always been regarded as a great shame by the officers and men of the 107th Division, so in the attitude of blocking the Japanese army this time, the 107th Division, from the division commander to the ordinary soldiers, all have the determination to become a benevolent if they do not succeed.
From 6 March to 9 March, the 16th Brigade of the Eighth Division, the main force of the Japanese army, stubbornly resisted the 16th Brigade of the Eighth Division, the main force of the Japanese army, for more than three days on the unobstructed position of several tens of kilometers long outside the Gubei Pass, under the wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese planes, tanks, and heavy artillery.
By 9 March, the 107th Division was finally routed by the Japanese and fled all the way into Gubeikou.
But the three days they won with their sacrifices bought time for Zhang Tingshu's 112th Division to enter Gubeikou and launch a defense. Who knows, the 112th Division is a pig teammate.
The 107th Division had just been defeated by the Japanese, but the 112th Division refused to hold it. Zhang Tingshu relied on the fact that he was Zhang Zuoxiang's son, and openly disobeyed Wang Yizhe's order to retreat with the 107th Division.
If it hadn't been for the 25th Division of the Central Army that happened to arrive in time, the 107th Division would have been miserable by 112, and the whole army would have been wiped out.
Seeing that the 25th Division was coming, Zhang Tingshu and Wang Yizhe wanted to hand over the position to the 25th Division for defense, but Guan Zhenglin, the commander of the 25th Division, naturally refused to do it.
Outside the Gubei import, there is the main force of the Eighth Division of the Japanese Army plus a cavalry brigade, and one division of oneself fights them, what is the difference between hitting a stone with an egg.
Even if the 107th Division was concerned, they fought hard with the 16th Division of the Japanese Army for more than three days in the wilderness outside Gubeikou, and the casualties of the whole division exceeded 5,000, and the casualty rate exceeded 60 percent.
Guan Zhenglin himself is also the commander of the first division, and understands that the casualties of the troops have reached this level, and they are no longer capable of fighting again. However, the 112th Division, a fully manned and well-equipped unit, he resolutely refused to let it leave the battlefield.
In the end, the three of them quarreled for a long time, and finally decided that the 112th Division would stay and defend Gubeikou with the 25th Division, but the positions of the two commanding heights were in the core position of the 112th Division.
In the case of occupying the best geographical advantages, the performance of the 112th Division was inferior to that of the 107th Division, and it lost a commanding height in only half an hour, resulting in the troops in the front-line position being routed by the Japanese army.
On the first day, one of the core positions was lost, Zhang Tingshu and Guan Zhenglin were a little caught off guard, Guan Zhenglin's head was about to break through and he didn't understand why the gap between the two was so big for the troops from the Northeast Army.
Soon Guan Zhenglin knew what the highest level of his teammates was, after the two commanding heights were occupied by the Japanese army one after another, it didn't matter if Zhang Tingshu didn't recapture the position, but retreated to Beiping with the camera of the 112th Division without making a sound, and didn't even say hello to Guan Zhenglin.
After occupying the position of the 112th Division, the Japanese condescendingly launched an attack on the 25th Division, which fought fiercely with the Japanese for three days, suffering more than 4,000 casualties.
When the Great Wall War of Resistance was in full swing, Shao Shuaiye fell into a huge whirlpool of public opinion because of the fall of Rehe, and was finally forced to resign.
As soon as the young marshal resigned, the high-ranking officers of the Northeast Army who were loyal to him were very dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek, and led their troops to withdraw from the Great Wall War of Resistance.
During the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, the Northeast Army appeared as the protagonist for the last time on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and since then, the Northeast Army has gradually been reduced to a supporting role until it finally disappears.
In fact, Li Han also thinks that Rehe fell so quickly, and the young marshal also bears a lot of responsibility. As early as 1932, Wang Jingwei, the premier of the Executive Yuan, formulated a plan to increase troops and replace generals in view of the war that Rehe was about to face.
In 1932, Wang Jingwei still had a relatively large voice within ***, otherwise he would not have been able to become the head of the traitors when he surrendered to the Japanese.
However, this plan was strongly opposed by the young marshal, who did not want to resist the Japanese army, nor did he want the Central Army to get involved in Rehe, and was worried that the central government would use this as a breakthrough to meddle in the military affairs of the northeast.
The funny thing is that at this time, in addition to the two or three hundred thousand troops in the Northeast Army, he couldn't even enter the gate of the Northeast, and he didn't know which family's heart he carried.
This is also a typical idea of 'rather give friends than house slaves', and he and the Empress Dowager Cixi have the same views in this regard.
In order to promote the victory of the Rehe War of Resistance, in June of this year, Wang Jingwei personally went to Beiping and told the young marshal: "Japan has transferred troops to the northeast, and we should also transfer troops to resist." While it is true that the system of the army can be changed, the plan for the transfer of troops cannot be changed. ”
However, Wang Jingwei's vision and ability to be a man are not good, and legend has it that when the Whampoa Military Academy was first established, Sun Yat-sen intended to make him the principal. After all, in terms of seniority, he is much more senior than Chiang Kai-shek in the Congress Party.
However, Wang Jingwei thought that the principal had no real power, so he gave up and let Chiang Kai-shek take advantage of it. Later, the devils invaded China in an all-round way, and he felt that he had a future with Japan, so he chose to take refuge with the Japanese and became a big traitor.
Of course, the young marshal couldn't listen to what such a person said.
The young marshal's excuse was that he was helpless against Tang Yulin, the chairman of Rehe Province. In order to resist the war, the Nanjing government intended to remove Tang Yulin to strengthen the defense of Rehe.