[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 663: The Kwantung Army Enters the Customs (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

When he learned that only more than 2,700 people in the paratrooper brigade had successfully completed the assembly, Tada Jun was a little surprised, and this result was far beyond his expectations. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He knew very well about the situation of this paratrooper unit, and it was really a miracle that he could still have a small 3,000 people reach the predetermined location under such heavy artillery fire from the Chinese army.

And Tada Jun knows very well the significance of these 3,000 people to Beiping City, 3,000 people are really not much, compared to the huge Beiping City, 3,000 people can only add one or two hundred people to each position.

But these 3,000 men gave hope to the defenders of the city, telling them that reinforcements would be there, that everything would be there, as long as they had the opportunity to enjoy it. Although the casualties of the paratroopers were not small, compared to the honor of the Imperial Japanese Army and the safety of the entire Beiping City, the casualties of several thousand people in this mere area were completely bearable.

Sure enough, the next day, the Japanese army's defense became more tenacious, and there was even a local small counteroffensive, which was very satisfactory to Lieutenant General Tada, and with the current momentum, it was probably impossible for the people of China to capture Beiping City without half a month.

It doesn't take half a month, it only takes three or four days for the Kwantung Army outside the pass to complete the assembly and entry into the pass, and the imperial armies of Shandong and Hebei provinces will also return to Beiping, and then the people of China will have nothing to do but retreat.

And the performance of the new 3,000 paratroopers last night really satisfied General Tada, these guys who wasted a lot of resources of the Great Japanese Empire, performed very unsatisfactory in the air one by one, but as soon as they landed, it was different, the combat effectiveness of these former army elites was amazing, and the tired Shina people suffered heavy losses under their counterattack.

On November 20, just after receiving the news that the Japanese paratroopers had parachuted in to reinforce Beiping, Ma Zheng, who was in Tianjin, received the terrible news again that the Kwantung Army had entered the war.

This news was discovered by an independent battalion stationed in eastern Hebei that belonged to the third division of the reorganization, and at that time this battalion was preparing to sneak attack a railway station in Qianxi, but they were surprised to find that this railway station actually came to three military trains that night.

It was a group of neatly dressed Japanese soldiers, and the number was estimated to be five or six thousand. This was not the end of the night, and in the second half of the night, more than a dozen military trains came to this station in a row, and each train was full of soldiers, and the battalion commander quietly calculated that there were more than 30,000 Japanese soldiers passing through this small station overnight, and there were also more than a dozen wagons of heavy weapons.

Where did these Japanese soldiers come from, and what are the little devils going to do? You must know that some time ago, the first division of the Japanese army had been stationed in the eastern Hebei region, and the Eighth Route Army in the Qinhuangdao area was defeated, and there was no need for the Japanese army to mobilize troops from other places.

Thinking that the commander was now fighting the Japanese army in the Pingjin area, the commander of the independent battalion realized that things were not as simple as he imagined, and he did not dare to slack off, and immediately transmitted the news back to the headquarters of the reorganized third division.

After receiving the telegram, Liu Fengchi immediately realized that it might be the Kwantung Army in the northeast that had entered the customs to reinforce Beiping, and immediately called Ma Zheng to report the information.

After reading the telegram sent by Liu Fengchi, Ma Zheng's brows were tightly furrowed. Qianxi is an important military town in eastern Hebei, located between Zunhua and Qian'an, and Zunhua is the northeast gateway of Beiping. Therefore, Ma Zheng and Liu Fengchi's judgment are the same, and the Japanese military columns that passed from there are likely to be from outside the Guan.

Although there are also a large number of Japanese puppet troops in Jidong, it is impossible to gather more than 30,000 people in a short period of time, and I am afraid that the only one who can have such strength in a short period of time is the Kwantung Army, which was boasted to the sky by the Japanese army. Moreover, the military uniforms of the Kwantung Army were not the same as those of ordinary Japanese troops, and judging from the information transmitted by the front-line soldiers, it was undoubtedly believed that it was the Kwantung Army.

Thinking of this Kwantung Army Ma Zheng is angry, the Kwantung Army got its name from the Kwantung Prefecture, but this Kwantung Prefecture is not in Japan, and the Kwantung Prefecture that has been mentioned many times in the history of the Japanese invasion of China is actually the Jinxian and Dalian regions in northeast China.

In 1898, the Russian government forced the Qing government to "lease" Lushun and Dalian Bay to Russia, that is, the leased land was designated as a Russian state, known as the "Kwantung Prefecture". In February 1904, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, which lasted one year and five months, and finally ended in the defeat of Russia.

After the war, according to the provisions of Articles 5 and 6 of the Treaty of Portsmouth concluded between the two sides, Russia "leased the territorial waters of Lushun, Dalian Bay and the adjacent territories and related leases" and the "all privileges" constituted thereof, as well as "all public housing property in the area of effect" and "the railways and all branch lines between Changchun and Lushun...... unconditional concede to Japan".

By seizing all the privileges of the Russian invaders in the southern part of northeastern China, Japan gained colonies on the Asian continent. In 1905, in order to consolidate their colonial rule in the South Manchurian region of Northeast China, the Japanese invaders soon renamed the Liaodong Peninsula as Kwantung Prefecture and established the Kwantung Governorate in Lushun, with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of War under it.

Subsequently, the Japanese government established the Kwantung Army Headquarters at Lushunkou on the basis of the War Department of the Kwantung Metropolitan Government. In order to safeguard its colonial interests, Japan sent two divisions of 40,000 troops to Kwantung Prefecture and the South Manchurian Railway Annex, and later added six independent mixed garrison battalions, Lushun heavy artillery battalions, and military police.

To be honest, Ma Zheng never expected that the Japanese army would send the Kwantung Army to fight in the Guannai, not because Ma Zheng did not attach much importance to the Kwantung Army, but because Ma Zheng knew that the main tasks and energy of the Kwantung Army were used to deal with the anti-Japanese coalition forces in the northeast and to guard against the Soviet Red Army, and of course, a small part was used to defend against the Mongolian cavalry troops controlled by the Soviet Union. If there were no particularly important reasons, the Japanese army would not have dropped the Kwantung Army to enter the customs, after all, the current Soviet Union was already very strong.

Another reason is that the Japanese army had already assigned many troops to the battle sequence of the North China Front, and in addition, Ma Zheng wiped out the 2nd Division and the 12th Division, and also disabled the 4th Division, resulting in extremely heavy losses. The most important thing is that the Kwantung Army at this time was far from reaching the huge strength of 31 infantry divisions, 11 infantry and tank brigades, 1 death squad brigade and 2 aviation armies of 1.2 million people at the end of World War II.

It is okay to transfer one or two divisions and regiments, but if there are more, I am afraid that it will affect the relatively stable order in the puppet Manchurian area, and if it is taken out by the Soviet Red Army, it will be very bad, so Ma Zheng does not think that the Japanese army can still transfer three elite troops into the customs after transferring the first division into the domestic battle.

However, according to the analysis of the telegram sent back by the battalion in Qianxi, the 30,000 Japanese troops must have come to Beiping. If that's the case, then the problem is a problem. The 30,000 Japanese troops should be the strength of a division plus a mixed brigade. Because the Kwantung Army's battle sequence did not have the kind of divisions with a three-unit system, all of them were permanent divisions and regiments numbered before 20, and most of them had a strength of about 25,000 people.

Moreover, the Kwantung Army has always been composed of the most elite units of the Japanese army, and because the Japanese troops stationed here often have the opportunity to fight, their combat effectiveness far exceeds that of other units in the country, so the Kwantung Army has always been crowned with the title of the flower of the imperial army.

Although Ma Zheng doesn't know how many divisions, regiments, brigades and regiments there are in the Kwantung Army now, there are definitely more than 40,000 people in the two divisions and regiments when the army was first established. After the September 18 Incident, the Japanese army invaded and occupied the entire territory of Northeast China. In order to exercise colonial rule over Northeast China, suppress China's anti-Japanese army and people, frantically plunder grain and mineral resources, and build Northeast China into an important strategic base for Japan's further aggression and expansion.

Under the leadership of the Kwantung Army, the Japanese army concocted the puppet Manchukuo in 1932, and moved the headquarters of the Kwantung Army to Changchun, the commander concurrently served as the Japanese ambassador to the "Manchukuo" and the director of the Kwantung Agency, and held the military and political power of the puppet Manchukuo, so the Kwantung Army received the full support of the high-level in Japan, and in a short period of time it became the largest military group in Japan.

If it was really the Kwantung Army that went south, the only thing Ma Zheng could do now was to retreat. Because under the high-intensity combat for more than ten consecutive days, the troops were very tired, but the Japanese army was a new war division and its morale was strong. In addition, there is a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides, and a single Kwantung Army is enough for the Suicha Military Region to drink a pot, not to mention that the Japanese troops in Shandong and Hebei have also rushed to reinforce it, and if the Japanese army forms an encirclement on the periphery, the consequences will be serious. (To be continued.) )