Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Angry Lotus Swamp
Because the battle of Zhuozishan County broke out so suddenly, neither the officers of the 23rd Puppet Cavalry Division nor Ichiro Hirata had time to report to the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps, so it was not until the 22nd that the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps received the news that the 2nd Puppet Cavalry Division was attacked by unknown troops, and all the advisers were collectively shattered.
The atmosphere in the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps was extremely tense, and the commander of the Mongolian Corps, Lieutenant General Liannuma, who received the news that the whereabouts of the 23rd Division of the puppet cavalry were unknown, and that all the advisers to the garrison were broken, was extremely angry. The chief of staff, Major General Ishimoto Yinsan, the commander of the 26th Division, Lieutenant General Goguan Chun, the chief of staff of the 26th Division, the chief of staff of the 26th Division, Shigeji Shigeji, and a senior staff officer of the headquarters were all summoned to discuss the matter.
Lieutenant General Liannuma reorganized his army and said: "The night before yesterday, the 23rd Cavalry Division of the Imperial Allied Army was attacked by unknown forces, and none of the advisors of the Imperial Army survived, what do you think about this? ”
Lieutenant General Houguan Chun, commander of the 26th Division, thought for a while and said: "Your Excellency Commander, so far, in Chahar and Suiyuan, only the Han Yunhua Division of the Eighth Route Army can gather troops to carry out a large-scale attack on the Imperial Army in the shortest possible time, and not long ago, the power of Han Yunhua's Division expanded to the vicinity of Zhuozi County, for which Hirata Ichiro Shaozo also sent operational guidance, so I think that the attack on the 23rd Cavalry Division of the Imperial Cooperative Army must be the Han Yunhua Division of the Eighth Route Army." ”
Lieutenant General Hasunuma said: "Yo Xi, what Houguanjun said is reasonable, when Tojo-kun left, he specially instructed me to pay special attention to the 77th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and Han Yunhua is the supreme commander of the 77th Brigade of Reading Force, and in just half a year, the empire has a major general, four big generals and hundreds of officers lost in the hands of this Han Yunhua. The Imperial Army has repeatedly sent troops to encircle and suppress Daqingshan, where the 77th Brigade is entrenched, but it has been repeatedly frustrated, and it has to lose its troops and generals. Now the 77th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army has occupied the entire Xinghe County, including the county seat of Xinghe, and the counties and townships around Xinghe have also been attacked many times, and the counties and counties of Chahar's right flank, Fengzhen, and Zhangbei have all been attacked by the Eighth Route Army and have suffered heavy losses, and have lost all strongholds outside the county seat, so I agree with Houguanjun's opinion. ”
Major General Shi Benyinsan, chief of staff of the Mongolian Corps, asked in surprise: "Your Excellency Commander is talking about the Eighth Route Army composed of those Chinese farmers with rudimentary weapons?" Do they have such strength? Even if a division of the Central Army, which has the strongest combat effectiveness in China, has at most only equivalent to a brigade of the Imperial Army, and the Central Army of China has been defeated one after another since the full-scale war of the Imperial Army in China, and even their capital has been captured by the Imperial Army, can this Reading 77 Brigade and their commander Han Yunhua be able to stop the advance of the Imperial Army's chariots? ”
"Baga, Shi Benjun, you really underestimate the Chinese army, although our army has been progressing smoothly since the start of the war, our losses are very large, and they are not as stated in the military newspaper of the base camp. Otherwise, we would not have formed such a force as the Imperial Army, and you must know how a person who is going to betray even his own country and nation can be completely loyal to the Imperial Army? And the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is not as unbearable as you think, at least the combat effectiveness of the Central Army to which the Chinese political axe belongs far exceeds your estimate. During the Songhu War, the 19th Group Army, the 15th Group Army, the Tax Police Corps, and the Teaching Brigade of the Central Military Academy of China were the essence of the Chinese [***] team, and their combat effectiveness was not inferior to the elite troops of the empire. The fighting spirit of these troops was even more incomparable with the Chinese soldiers who were captured by the imperial forces in North China, and most of the imperial troops were replenished many times during the Battle of Songhu, and some of the main divisions and regiments were replenished four or five times. The Chinese army also suffered heavy losses, with two-thirds of the original junior officers and soldiers suffering casualties, and more than half of the brigade and regiment commanders suffering casualties, such as the original six brigade commanders of the 21 st Army Corps, three killed and three wounded. In this way, the Shina army also fought to the death, and their fighting ability and fighting will were admired by General Matsui Ishone. Therefore, you should not take the combat effectiveness of some local troops in China as the criterion for evaluating the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, otherwise you will suffer great losses in future battles. Lieutenant General Hasunuma reprimanded.
"Follow the teachings of Your Excellency the Commander." Then Major General Shi Benyin asked again: "Your Excellency, you just said the Central Army of China. And now there is a threat to us is the Tuba Road in China, is it possible that the combat effectiveness of these Tuba Road is also as strong as the Central Army in China? ”
Lieutenant General Hasuma said slowly: "Yo Xi, most of the Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness is not strong, mainly because they lack weapons and ammunition, especially heavy weapons. However, their will to fight was extremely tenacious, even more tenacious than the Central Army of the Chinese political axe, and the Eighth Route Army generally operated in a small unit in the occupied areas of the imperial army, usually looking for weak points in the imperial army in battalions and companies. As soon as there is any negligence on the part of the imperial army, then these rat-like guys will quickly gather together to catch the imperial army off guard, and even Itagaki Jun's Fifth Division was eaten by the Eighth Route Army in this way, which was very difficult. ”
The chief of staff of the 26th Division, Bai Yin, said: "Your Excellency, Commander, since the Eighth Route Army is like a rat, then we only need to send a large army to destroy her rat nest, can't we eliminate them?" ”
Lieutenant General Liannuma said: "I just said that the general Eighth Route Army, but the Eighth Route Army operating in the Chahar region is different, this group of Eighth Route Army led by Han Yunhua is extremely well equipped, and it has reached or exceeded the firepower of the first class division of the empire. Moreover, this refers to the fact that the Eighth Route Army is well-trained, the quality of the soldiers is very high, and the combat effectiveness is very strong. His Excellency Hideki Tojo, commander of the former Chahar Dispatch Corps, and His Excellency Toshiichi, commander of the North China Front, also sent troops to encircle and suppress the 77th Brigade on several occasions, and the maximum number reached more than 13,000 people in four wings at one time. But in the end, they were all defeated by this Han Yunhua, and even Major General Seiichiro Shinohara, the brigade commander of the 15th Mixed Brigade, sacrificed his life for the country there. So until now, we don't know exactly how many people there are in this Reading Force 77 Brigade. ”
Lieutenant General Houguan Chun, commander of the 26th Division, thought for a while and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, the foundation of the Eighth Route Army is, in the final analysis, the common people of China, as long as we eradicate their foundation, then these Eighth Route Army will destroy themselves without a fight." ”
"Yo Xi, if you have any thoughts about Houguanjun, please speak up quickly." Lieutenant General Hasunuma said.
Lieutenant General Houguan Chun said: "The 77th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army is now approaching the front line of Fengzhen and Jining, and it has seriously endangered the safety of the Pingsui Railway, so we must solve this hidden danger as soon as possible." Since the Eighth Route Army used small troops to defeat the Imperial Army, then we also used small troops to attack this Reading 77th Brigade. The specific mode of operation is to send a small unit of cavalry or automobile infantry with a squadron as a unit to attack the village of China where the troops of the Eighth Route Army are stationed for a long distance, and once it is discovered that the Eighth Route Army is eliminated on the spot, all the people in the village will be wiped out. We must take the initiative in the war into our own hands, and let Han Yunhua and his 77th Brigade be led by the nose by the imperial army. ”
Lieutenant General Hasunuma thought for a while and said: "Yo Xi, I think Houguanjun's idea is very good, then the combat mission of destroying Han Yunhua's department of the Eighth Route Army will be in charge of Houguanjun, and I will let the intelligence department vigorously cooperate with you." ”
"Hay!"
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Since the Battle of Zhuozi Mountain, Han Yunhua has released the Saber Special Operations Brigade and let them freely choose their targets, while he himself has vigorously developed the construction of base areas.
On February 25, with the strong support of Han Yunhua and Shen Yuquan, the Xinghe County Party Committee and County Government Axe were formally established, with Yang Ruihua, an administrative expert from Yan'an, as the county magistrate, and eight townships under the county: Tuanjie, Taijimiao, Mudong, Ertai, Zhanggao, Gaomiaozi, Dakulian, and Saiwusu. The county party committee and county government axe set up county brigades (battalions), each township set up district squads (companies), and each village set up its own militia self-defense force.
On February 26, Shen Yuquan returned from the middle banner of the right wing of Chahar, and also brought back two infantry regiments and two cavalry regiments, and Li Dabao led the new fourth regiment and a cavalry battalion to stay in the middle banner of the right wing of Chahar.
As soon as Shen Yuquan returned, Han Yunhua asked him to form a new cavalry regiment, that is, to disrupt the prisoners of the 1st Cavalry Regiment, the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, the 4th Cavalry Regiment and more than 2,000 puppet cavalry divisions and reorganize them into five cavalry regiments.
After a week of busyness, with the help of Xiliege, Bart, Yang Wanlou, Zhang Mingliang, Ning Mingbo, Li Daochang and others, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Cavalry Regiments of the 77th Brigade were successfully organized. The newly formed cavalry regiment was headed by Xi Liege and Zhang Mingliang as regimental commander and political commissar respectively. The Second Cavalry Regiment consisted of Bart and Ning Mingbo as regimental commander and political commissar respectively. The Third Cavalry Regiment was headed by Yang Wanlou and Li Daochang as regimental commander and political commissar respectively. The Fourth Cavalry Regiment consisted of Tong Jiayong, commander of the former First Cavalry Regiment and Third Battalion, and Dong Mengguo, a staff officer of the brigade headquarters, as the regiment commander and political commissar respectively. The Fifth Cavalry Regiment is a cavalry regiment that is ready to be sent to the headquarters, so Han Yunhua did not appoint the regiment commander and political commissar again, but only temporarily let Xi Legge manage it on his behalf, and let the headquarters appoint the regiment commander and political commissar two months later.
Han Yunqian and Li Yuhan used to study at the Kang Yue Military and Political University, so their military quality was too poor, so they pestered Han Yunhua to make up for their military knowledge during this time. Han Yunhua could not withstand the hardships of the two of them, and finally decided to conduct a short-term training for the middle and lower-ranking officers of various units, and asked each regiment to send the deputy positions of officers at all levels to Daqingshan for a one-month military skills training...... ("Snow Shame" has been uploaded for half a month, thanks to everyone's support in this half month, thank you here!) Now "Snow Shame" is the first place on the list of new military books, and it can be said that without everyone's support, Aotian and "Snow Shame" would not have gone so far! On the fourth day of the upload of "Snow Shame", Sister Ye asked Aotian to sign a contract, and the upload had more than 10,000 clicks in one week, and it was classified and strongly promoted in two weeks. )