Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 437: The Fall of the 33rd Division (4) -

Chapter 437: The Fall of the 33rd Division (4)

Zhangjiakou is the capital city of Chahar Province, with a population of about 450,000 at this time. The Japanese army can not consider the life and life of the Chinese in any city in China, they can create the horrific Nanjing Massacre, they can also use chemical weapons in any Chinese city without scruples, even if it is the kind of poison gas bombs with erosive x-ng chemical components that are banned internationally, and even they will regard the Chinese as their experimental subjects for developing poison gas and viruses. The reason why the Eighth Route Army suffered such high casualties in history was not because the Eighth Route Army had already regarded the protection of the masses as one thing it had to do, even if it was a guerrilla force with only 180 people, it would not abandon the masses of the people at will when the Japanese army came, so how to settle the people of Zhangjiakou in a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou has become the most crucial link.

However, the people of Zhangjiakou still understood the feelings of the officers and men of the Inner M-Ng Ancient Military Region, and they knew that the Eighth Route Army was really thinking about their lives, so soon after the order of the Sixth Field Division to empty Zhangjiakou within two months was issued, a large number of Zhangjiakou people spontaneously began to move to the hinterland of the Inner M-Ng Ancient Military Region.

Of course, among the more than 400,000 people, there must be those who are unwilling to leave their hometowns, and Han Yunhua also gave enough understanding to the people who are unwilling to leave Zhangjiakou, but no matter what they are staying in Zhangjiakou for, they must withdraw from Zhangjiakou City before the arrival of the Japanese army, even if they hide in the suburbs or nearby counties and townships, as long as they do not return to the city before the end of the war.

As for those people who are willing to relocate to Saibei, Han Yunhua has made a bloody investment, and the Inner M-Ng Ancient Military Region promised the people of Zhangjiakou that as long as they are willing to live in any town in Saibei, the Inner M-Ng Ancient Military Region promised to give each family 20 acres of land and temporarily habitable houses, and each family will also be given 500 catties of grain.

The land and houses are okay to say, the years of war Lu-n are not only in the Saibei area, everywhere in China is the same, there is barren land everywhere, and the Saibei is even more vast and sparsely populated, not to mention 20 acres per household, even if it is 100 acres per household, there is no problem. In terms of houses, there are no thirty or fifty uninhabited houses in that village, and there is no one left in some villages or even the whole village, so it is not a problem to resettle these people. However, more than 300,000 people, **10,000 households, each household needs more than 50 catties of grain, which is enough to need more than 50 million catties of grain. You must know that now the daily food quota of a regiment under Han Yunhua's department is more than 2,000 catties, and the rest is all supplemented with miscellaneous grains and wild vegetables, and 50 million catties of grain is enough for more than 20 regiments of Han Yunhua's subordinate to eat enough for three months, and the grain stored in the M-ng Ancient Military Region was scattered by one-twentieth at once, which really made Yang Ruihua feel distressed for a while.

Moreover, in order for these people with their families to evacuate the battlefield as soon as possible, the Inner M-Ng Ancient Military Region mobilized more than 500 vehicles to help relocate. Of course, such a large-scale relocation movement could not escape the detection of the Japanese army, and the scale of the convoy composed of hundreds of cars really frightened General Tadajun, who thought that Han Yunhua's unit would increase troops on a large scale in Zhangjiakou, so he ordered the North China Front Air Group to destroy the convoy of the Inner M-Ng Ancient Military Region at all costs.

In North China, the Japanese army had absolute air supremacy, and except for a limited number of units under Han Yunhua's command, which had high-speed machine guns to deal with Japanese aircraft, the other units could only be passively beaten in battles with the Japanese air units. Therefore, under the frantic bombing of dozens of Japanese bombers, Han Yunhua's transport team suffered great losses, so it had to adjust the time of the transport to the evening. Under the frantic transportation of more than 500 cars, more than 300,000 people in Zhangjiakou were evacuated from Zhangjiakou in just one month.

Of course, Han Yunhua's department has made such a bloody effort, and its gains are also considerable, from two months ago, at the request of Han Yunhua, the Sixth Field Division launched nearly 200,000 young and middle-aged people to help build Zhangjiakou's city defense fortifications, in fact, Zhangjiakou's city defense at this time was already very complete, it was built by Yamashita Fengwen in order to deal with the inner M-ng ancient military region, and it was precisely because of these city fortifications that Han Yunhua's department still let Yamashita Fengwen and others escape, although they were heavily armed in Zhangjiakou.

However, although the Zhangjiakou defense system painstakingly operated by Yamashita Fengwen did not play much role in the hands of the Japanese army, it was expanded and improved in the hands of the ancient military region of Inner M-NG, and under the painstaking construction of 250,000 soldiers and civilians for more than two months, the city defense of Zhangjiakou could not be called a fortress, but its scale and strength of defense were the first in the north of Saibei.

The city fortifications of the entire city of Zhangjiakou are divided into four parts, the first part is four trench defense lines of about 150 kilometers consisting of anti-tank trenches and a large number of pillboxes and anti-aircraft D-NGs; The second part is a huge underground jiāo system, at this time the underground of Zhangjiakou has been hollowed out by the military and civilians of the Sixth Field Division, the core of Zhangjiakou City forty-one bunker groups, each bunker group is composed of a main fort and a dozen sub-forts, each bunker group in addition to the sh-hit, other structures are all buried deep underground, on the top of the bunker also laid thick logs and sandbags, used to prevent the attack of the Japanese bombs.

In the underground of Zhangjiakou City, the Sixth Field Division has built a huge underground project, which is divided into two parts, the first layer is the area where the soldiers rest and live, and the second layer is the place where the weapons and ammunition are stored. Therefore, these huge underground works constitute the third part of the Zhangjiakou defense system, and they are also the main part of the Zhangjiakou defense system.

As for the fourth sub-project, it is much simpler, that is, the 6th and 7th divisions in the Zhangjiakou field use a large number of underground passages to link all the pillbox groups, unless the Japanese army breaks through all the pillboxes at the same time, otherwise even if a Japanese division attacks a pillbox group, it will be in vain, because the troops of the 6th and 7th divisions will continue to transfuse blood to the attacked pillboxes.

With these projects, Han Yunhua dared to use two infantry divisions and several security regiments to wrestle with the 5th Division and the 38th Division, which were the most sharp in the Japanese army. It's not that Han Yunhua himself doesn't have his own prestige, just with the more than 40,000 troops of the 6th and 7th Divisions fighting a field battle with the Japanese army on the plains, without the 38th Division, with the 5th Division and the 3rd Chariot Division, the 6th and 7th Divisions can be defeated head-on in three days at most. The maximum power of Butan's coordinated operations has not yet been explored by the Japanese army, so the Japanese army at this time used the tank as an infantry fire support weapon, although Germany used blitzkrieg to achieve a brilliant victory in the European theater, but this tactic The Japanese army has not yet learned to master. However, even so, the more than 200 new tanks of the 3rd Tank Division were enough to crush the 6th and 7th Field Divisions to pieces.

However, with these fortifications, Han Yunhua is not worried, although these fortifications alone are not enough to prevent the Japanese army from occupying Zhangjiakou, but they can cause huge casualties to the Japanese army, and this alone is enough.

As a matter of fact, when the Fifth Division arrived at the periphery of Zhangjiakou, it had already noticed the strangeness of Zhangjiakou; judging from the aerial photographs transmitted by the reconnaissance planes, the whole of Zhangjiakou was like a dead city, and the Japanese reconnaissance planes took dozens of aerial photographs in spite of the danger of being shot down.

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