Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 447: Zhangjiakou Offensive and Defensive Battle (Final) -

Chapter 447: Zhangjiakou Offensive and Defensive Battle (Final)

On March 14, the Japanese army continued to launch a fierce attack on Zhangjiakou City, and also mobilized a large number of artillery and aviation units to carry out non-stop and indiscriminate bombardment of Zhangjiakou City. However, to the surprise of the defending troops, the Japanese troops besieging the city continued to charge the fortifications of Zhangjiakou as if they were sending them to death, and they were repulsed by several recruit divisions with dense heavy machine guns one by one, and then rushed one by one, like a tired sea l-ng who did not understand the slightest, and could not be killed.

According to the estimates of the troops on the front, on March 14 alone, at least more than 10,000 Japanese troops were killed, and even more. After receiving the report from the troops on the front line, Xu Shiyou and Cheng Zihua, who had just arrived at the front line, were surprised. Okamura Ningji is not a good stubble, that old devil is scheming, and there are a lot of squadrons in his hands, including many of the jīng sharp troops of the Chinese National Government. During the Second Battle of Wuhan, even Xue Yue's First Corps suffered a heavy loss at the hands of the Eleventh Army in Gangcun, losing nearly 50,000 men in four divisions.

With Okamura Ningji's command level, he would never make such a mistake, so after Cheng Zihua discussed with Xu Shiyou, He Guangyu and others, he thought that if the Japanese army either changed its commander or Okamura Ningji made a big move, he would definitely cover up some kind of attempt of the Japanese army regardless of the life and death of the soldiers.

However, the news from the M-N of the Ministry of Intelligence said that the commander of the Japanese army on the Zhangjiakou front was still the commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Ninji, and that the observation group of the Japanese Chinese dispatch army that had come to study in North China was still on the Zhangjiakou front and had not returned to Beiping or Nanjing. Therefore, Xu Shiyou and others judged that Gangcun must be planning an earth-shattering scheme, and the target must be these defender infantry divisions in Zhangjiakou City.

But no matter how Xu Shiyou and others guessed, they couldn't figure out a clue, the Japanese army on the Zhangjiakou front line was now heavily armed, not to mention the real jīng sharp infantry of the Japanese army, and even the puppet army was rushing to the Zhangjiakou front line one after another.

However, Xu Shiyou and others can be regarded as veterans of battle, although they can't figure out what the Japanese army wants to do, but how to say that the goal of Gangcun is inseparable from the infantry divisions defending the city and those fortifications around the city. Therefore, in desperation, Cheng Zihua had no choice but to order the defenders in Zhangjiakou City to strengthen their vigilance, and at the same time ordered the resting Sixth Field Division and the Seventh Field Division to immediately disperse to various street fighting positions in the city.

The headquarters of the Japanese army on the Zhangjiakou front, Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji took today's casualty statistics report and looked at it again and again, his brows furrowed tightly, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Report, Qi Sang from Beiping asks to see you," the captain of the guard from Gangcun came in and said loudly.

"Let him in," Okamura said without raising his head.

Qi Xieyuan, the commander-in-chief of the puppet North China Security Army, walked in slowly in a strange military uniform, and his voice was small and soft, and Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, who was looking at it, frowned.

Seeing Qi Xieyuan coming in, Okamura Ninji immediately got up and said enthusiastically: "Qi Sang, welcome, welcome, with the help of Qi Sang's security army, the imperial army is really like a tiger." ”

Qi Xieyuan didn't feel the slightest joy because of his master's praise, he said with a bitter face: "Taijun, the casualties of our security army today are too great, more than 10,000 casualties in just one day, and our security army has a total of only tens of thousands, so I hope that Taijun will let the imperial army take the lead in tomorrow's battle, and the security army really can't afford to lose." Speaking of which, Qi Xieyuan was almost on his knees and begged Okamura Ningji.

In fact, Qi Xieyuan now knows that his cooperation with the Japanese is not as harmonious as the outside world imagined, and the Japanese army looks down on a Han like him in their bones, and at the same time, they also deliberately suppress the development of the security army that restricts him. Although the security forces were nominally headed by him, the Japanese Anchā's advisers and spies in the North China security forces had seriously threatened his authority. In addition, the Japanese army's establishment of the North China Public Security Army was too small, and there were only a dozen groups (brigades) when it was full, and only three or four infantry divisions were counted as the troops of the National People's Government.

Even so, the Japanese army did not worry about Qi Xieyuan, and the North China Public Security Army must be used as cannon fodder in every battle. Although Qi Xieyuan himself formed more than 20 infantry groups, the Japanese army only turned a blind eye to this, after all, the squadron, especially the Eighth Route Army, developed too fast, and relying on only 40,000 or 50,000 North China Security Army could not limit the Eighth Route Army, since the Japanese army did not need to pay military salaries and used so much free labor and cannon fodder, the Japanese army was still very happy.

However, it is the first time that the North China Public Security Army has been sent to death in batches wearing the standard military uniforms of the Japanese army like today, but even the first time is enough to make Qi Xieyuan frightened, more than 10,000 troops are gone, that is more than 10,000 people, if the Japanese army is allowed to do this a few more times, the family wealth that Qi Xieyuan has accumulated with great difficulty will be destroyed immediately. Although he knew that it might cause disgust among the Japanese officers, Qi Xieyuan still came hard.

"Baga, you dare to talk to the imperial army about conditions, your conscience is greatly broken" As soon as Qi Xieyuan's words fell, Lieutenant General Ando Toshikichi, the commander of the Fifth Division, couldn't help but jump.

Okamura Ningji looked at Qi Xieyuan, whose face was pale, and then signaled Ando Toshikichi to be calm for a while, and said: "Qi Sang, you understand that the premise of the existence of the security army is to fight for the imperial army, for the sake of the Great Japanese Empire, for the common prosperity of Greater East Asia, even if you lose a lot, you have greatly disappointed the Great Japanese Empire." ”

"Hai Taijun is angry, you can understand what you mean, but Taijun, you must also know that the security army is only 13 groups of more than 50,000 people in name, and the troop establishment of the National Civil Affairs Fǔ is only three infantry divisions. Therefore, the family foundation of the security army is too thin, and it can't withstand your toss like this. "Qi Xieyuan was originally a direct warlord, and served as the chief of staff of the sixth town of the Beiyang Army, the commander of the sixth division and the guard of Jiangning Town, the overseer of Jiangsu, and the patrol envoy of Suzhou, Anhui and Jiangxi. Along the way, Qi Xieyuan didn't learn anything else, but he had a clear understanding of the importance of military power, so the Japanese army spoiled his troops like this or tossed his family, even if Qi Xieyuan knew that saying this would make the Japanese army even more dissatisfied with him, but he still said it very hard, after all, this is a matter related to his future and fate, and he can't afford to fight.

Okamura Ninji said solemnly: "Qisang, don't worry, the empire will not treat loyal ministers like you badly, and of course, it will not let those guys who are against the empire go unpunished. I see that it's time for your security army to expand, this is a plan for the expansion of the security army, and I ask Qi Sang to take a look at it first and then we will talk. After speaking, Okamura Ninji handed Qi Xieyuan a paper document.

Qi Xieyuan opened it and looked at it, and was immediately attracted by the content of the document. This document was drawn up by the North China Front Command on the renaming of the North China Public Security Army as the "North China Pacification Army." In this document, the North China Front demanded that the North China Security Army be renamed the "North China Pacification Army" and that Qi Xieyuan should be the commander-in-chief of the Pacification Army.

I don't care about these Qi Xieyuan, after all, it's the same whether it's called the security army or the appeasement army, isn't it those people who change the soup or not the Y-O people? Is it possible to change the name of the unit to the appeasement army to improve the combat effectiveness and make it possible to top two of the top? However, what attracted Qi Xieyuan was the establishment of the North China Appeasement Army, which, according to the documents of the North China Front, was expanded on a large scale after the renaming of the North China Security Army. The newly established North China Pacification Army consisted of fifteen ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］