[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 537: Comparison of Strength (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything!) ）

This time, I received urgent news from the secret agency of the special high school that a large number of Chinese troops had appeared in southern Hebei, and they were also well-equipped Chinese Eighth Route Army. If it is said that there is a large number of well-equipped Central Army or the Jin Sui Army, the top brass of the Japanese army may not be in much of a hurry, because from the bottom of their hearts, although the combat effectiveness of the Central Army and those armies controlled by local warlords is good, they lack enterprising spirit and courage.www.biquge.info

The Eighth Route Army, which was born in the poor masses, was "greedy" enough in this regard, and as long as it was suitable for the development of the Eighth Route Army, there would be guerrillas in the Eighth Route Army. The combat effectiveness and destructive power of the ordinary guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army are not large, and even an infantry squadron can defeat a regiment of the Eighth Route Army (a small regiment of about 1,000 people), or even annihilate it completely.

However, the combat effectiveness of the well-equipped Eighth Route Army is extraordinary, especially the main forces such as the 129th Division, 120th Division, 115th Division, and the former Seventh Division and 93rd Division of the Suicha Military Region.

The Japanese army moved quickly, and in just two days, a combined army consisting of an infantry brigade, a cavalry squadron, and a chariot squadron set out from Feixiang, passed through Guangping and Wei counties, and entered the county town of Daming, and sent a large number of reconnaissance troops to the counties and townships below to investigate the whereabouts of Ma Zheng's department.

Ma Zheng's mood at this time can be described as very good, the huge force of more than 22,000 people of the independent division has been assembled, and all kinds of strategic materials have been distributed to all units.

More importantly, yesterday Chen Guang, acting commander of the 115 th Division, sent a telegram saying that the main force of the 343 Brigade of the 115 Division had arrived in the area of Feixiang, less than 200 miles away from Zhang Tieji, where Ma Zheng's headquarters was stationed, and that more than 1,000 veterans of the two remnant brigades in Shandong had already arrived in Guangping County and were scheduled to join Ma Zheng's headquarters in two days.

Now the time is urgent, and it won't be long before the elite field infantry of at least three divisions of the Japanese army will be transferred back to North China.

In view of the complexity and severity of the actual situation, Ma Zheng decided to immediately launch a full-scale attack on Feixiang, Guangping, Weixian and other counties, completely break the original pattern of this area, and clean up the Japanese puppet forces in the area.

According to some information sent by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, due to the large-scale build-up of the Suicha Military Region in the areas of southern and northern Shanxi, the North China Front had to mobilize a large number of troops to the Pingjin and Xinkou lines, so that at this time, the Japanese army in the entire southern Hebei region did not have too many troops, and the total of the total was only one infantry brigade and three independent infantry brigades, in addition to the technical strength of two cavalry brigades and one tank squadron.

In fact, the security of the southern Hebei region now does not rely on the Japanese army, but on a large number of puppet troops, and in the entire North China region, Qi Xieyuan's puppet North China security army alone has 100,000 people, most of which are deployed in Hebei. In the southern Hebei region, there are enough six groups of the puppet North China Public Security Army, with a total strength of about 18,000 people.

Like the senior officers of the Japanese army, Ma Zheng was not optimistic about the puppet North China Security Army. Although Ma Zheng is very concerned about the elite infantry of the Japanese army in Hebei Province, he still does not look down on the puppet army under the command of Qi Xieyuan.

Of course, there are profound historical and practical reasons for the low combat effectiveness of the puppet North China Security Army, which has a major relationship with the history of the establishment of the North China Security Army. After the Japanese invaders launched the July 7 Incident, which shocked China and the rest of the world, they began to actively support the puppet regime in North China. After many instigations, the puppet provisional government of the Republic of China headed by Wang Kemin was established in Beijing.

No matter what kind of regime it is, the army is the foundation on which it stands, and without independent military power, everything is nonsense.

When the puppet provisional government was formed, Wang Kemin did not have a suitable candidate in the face of chaotic law and order problems. At this time, Qi Xieyuan, who was born in the late Qing Dynasty, graduated from the artillery department of the Beiyang Army Academy, and served as the military affairs supervisor of Jiangsu and the deputy envoy of the Suzhou-Anhui-Jiangxi patrol, entered the sight of the Japanese army. Qi Xieyuan was "favored" by Lieutenant General Tada of the Japanese Army, and was recommended by Lieutenant General Tada and appointed as the chief of the puppet Ministry of Public Security.

Qi Xieyuan graduated from the Beiyang Army Academy, so he has his most direct and sober understanding of military power. After experiencing those things in the early stage of President Yuan and the Nationalist Government, Qi Xieyuan decided to form a force that was completely obedient to his orders. He believes that in order to organize and train the army, it is impossible to use party and military personnel, and other talents have a sense of lacking, and it is necessary to "first train cadres and generals" and train a group of young people to be their own minions before they can be reformed anew.

Therefore, Qi Xieyuan shamelessly threw out the plan of "setting up schools first, and then building the army" to the Japanese army, and as the Japanese invasion of China continued to deepen, its strength gradually became insufficient. In order to solve its shortage of troops and suppress the anti-Japanese forces, the Japanese army wanted to use Qi Xieyuan as a "puppet" to establish a regular puppet army in North China and serve as cannon fodder for the Japanese invasion of China.

The Japanese army believed that for a regular army, its basic cadres must undergo rigorous military training. The Japanese army wanted to recruit a group of simple-minded young people and instill in them the idea of servitude so that they could be easily driven. Therefore, as soon as Qi Xieyuan's plan was thrown, it was supported by the Japanese army.

In August 1938, Qi Xieyuan established an officer school, an officer training team, a sergeant training regiment, and an interpreter training class in Tongxian and Qinghe, Beiping, to train officers for the founding of the army. The officer training team recruited the lost old officers of the Kuomintang army and trained officers above the company level. The Sergeant Training Corps recruits young people with primary school education and trains sergeant squad leaders. Translation training, recruiting young people who know a little Japanese, and cultivating Japanese translators.

After the establishment of the army, the name of the team was named "North China Security Army". The commander-in-chief of the North China Public Security Army is concurrently served by Qi Xieyuan, the "chief of public security". The units are called "groups" and are effectively equivalent to infantry brigades. The brigade has regiments, and the regiments have battalions, companies, platoons, and squads, all of which have a "three-three" system, and the commander is a major general.

However, the real power of the army was in the hands of Japanese advisers at all levels, and after three army formations, the North China Public Security Army formed a total of 13 group headquarters, 38 infantry regiments, and one artillery team, with a total strength of nearly 100,000 troops.

Although the North China Public Security Army has a lot of troops, its combat effectiveness is not much different from that of the puppet armies in other places.

If the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army and the puppet army is a visual analogy, the ratio of 1:10 may be suspected of beautifying the Japanese race, but it can reflect the incompetence of the puppet army and the strength of the Japanese army.

There was a reason why the Japanese army was so strong, and every Japanese soldier had to fire 50 rounds of live ammunition every day. What is the concept of fifty bullets, let's put it this way, during the Long March, and even when it came to the War of Resistance Against Japan, the basic ammunition of each soldier of the Eighth Route Army was five bullets, and the ammunition used by the little devils in training every day alone was ten times that of the base ammunition of the Eighth Route Army.

Moreover, the good weapons and equipment of the Japanese at that time were obvious to all, and the soldiers cooperated well with weapons and equipment, and their willpower was strong. Therefore, one Japanese soldier at the place of war could be worth three to five Chinese soldiers. However, it should be noted that after the expansion of the war, the size of the Japanese army increased by no less than 10 times. A large number of people who have not undergone systematic training, and even the old, weak, sick and disabled have gone to the battlefield, and their average strength has naturally declined.

Even the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army has decreased, not to mention these two devils. The masters can't eat enough, and the minions can't eat well, so the combat effectiveness of the puppet North China Security Army can be imagined.

Fortunately, the purpose of the Japanese in forming a puppet army is not only to fight a war, in fact, the puppet army is mainly responsible for local security and tax collection, and its role is mainly to ease the contradictions between the invaders and the Chinese people.

It is not difficult to understand this, the Japanese army invaded China to achieve effective rule, and killing people was stupid and not conducive to the strategic objectives of the Japanese army at all. Therefore, the slightly more clever Japanese officers were very opposed to the massacre of the Chinese people, but there were not many clever officers in the Japanese army, especially those middle and low-level officers who were dazzled by immediate interests.

In addition, due to cultural differences and the general sense of superiority among the Japanese army, Japanese soldiers often killed Chinese civilians casually. Therefore, the existence of the puppet army is very useful for easing this point, but this effect seems to be very limited in the eyes of the Chinese. (To be continued.) )