Chapter 258: The Great Wall of Resistance 3
"Enough, it's useless to talk about it, you think it's too late to run away now, Zhang Xueliang stared at us and didn't say, Wang Tiehan, who came out of the 15th Route Army, arrived in Hebei with an army, let's retreat, just poke people in the eye, you Wang Tiehan will give us good fruit to eat?" Tang Yulin slapped the table and said.
The people present at the mention of the 15th Route Army were suddenly dumbfounded, maybe they were not so afraid of Zhang Xueliang's people present, but Jiang Li's 15th Route Army was a guy who had beaten the Japanese to heavy casualties, and he had disobeyed the orders of Zhang Xueliang and Nanjing, and now he was still alive, and the army had always been known for daring to fight and kill. Not to mention the first battle of Mukden, Shanghai also made it difficult for the Japanese army of a division to cross the thunder pool. Especially at the beginning, Jiang Li directly led a team of cavalry to capture Cui Xingwu and Tang Zuofu. Then they quickly captured several county towns north of the Rehe River. Tang Yulin almost withdrew from Chengde. At this time, the 15th Route Army is growing in its wings, where is there anything they dare not do?
"If you just surrender to the Japanese army, it's better than advancing or retreating now." Tang Yushan said with a pout.
"There is also Sun Dianying's 41st Army in the north, a large number of anti-Japanese volunteers, and tens of thousands of people in the 4th Army of Wan Fulin who have retreated, not far from us, now to Japan, I'm afraid that the Japanese army has not yet come, and we will be defeated by the troops sent by Zhang Xueliang, these guys are not very capable of fighting the Japanese, and there is no problem in fighting us." Tang Zuorong pouted and said.
"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, so what do you say?" Tang Yushan is negative.
"Don't make any noise, the sky is falling, and there are tall people on top, and the 4th Army Corps will not be beaten by the Japanese army. Why can't we withdraw? it. When the Japanese called, we would pull our legs and run backwards to see who could outrun whom. In the end, Tang Yulin didn't have a good idea, so he simply followed Wan Fulin, the other party has 6 divisions, and the strength is a little stronger than him, isn't it even a battle and retreat, and he hasn't even fought a decent battle, why can't he run?
"That's all I can do." The sons nodded one after another.
But what Tang Yulin didn't expect was that his troops were not as heard as expected. The army deployed on the front line was routed under the advance of the Japanese army before it even received his order to retreat, and Shao Benliang, the regiment commander who was originally stationed in Chaoyang, surrendered to the enemy one after another in the Kailu region. When the Japanese army invaded Sangou east of Chengde, Tang Yulin's remnants fired a few shots at the sky and then retreated non-stop to Banjuta, Luanping, Fengning and other areas.
At the same time, the 14th Mixed Brigade attacking the south of the Rehe River also quickly captured the area east of Shamao Mountain, and immediately attacked the 119th and 108th Divisions there. The strength of about two brigades of the Japanese army went south, and in less than a day, they broke through the positions of the 116th Division and occupied the Lama Cave. The main force of the brigade moved south from Lingyuan. The soldiers occupied Er Pei and Qinglong Mountain without blood.
"The defeat was like a mountain. The morale of the Northeast Army has completely collapsed. "There was no decent telegram from the front line, the positions were thrown to the Japanese army one after another, it was only a few days of effort, most of Rehe was occupied by the Japanese army, the Japanese army's main attack forward has arrived outside Chengde, the capital of Rehe Province, looking at Tang Yulin's momentum of not retreating to Beiping and vowing not to look back, it is estimated that the fall of Chengde is only a matter of time. It was not easy for Zhang Xuehao to get up and cheer up once, but unfortunately he lost Fengtian and Jinzhou, even if there was a certain amount of resistance from Shanhaiguan, but the main force of the Northeast Army still showed no signs of reinforcing Shanhaiguan, and it was also lost to the Japanese army. At this time, the Northeast Army was like duckweed without roots. Once the military heart is lost, it is not so easy to pick it up.
Thinking of how high-spirited the Northeast Army was in its heyday, it gave people a sense of embarrassment at this time. Fortunately, Jiang Li took the partial branches of the Northeast Army to take root in the northwest, otherwise the situation would be much worse than the current orthodox Northeast Army of Zhang Xueliang. Seeing the current situation of the Northeast Army, Wang Tiehan couldn't help but have a mixed feeling. ‘
"Tang Yulin's Fifth Army is just that, and the 4th Army is also the main force in the Northeast Army, and the position garrisoned by a division can't even hit the head for a day, and every division is like this. Even if he is a young marshal, he can't stabilize the morale of the army now. "Zhang Zhibang is not like Wang Tiehan's 7th Brigade is Zhang Xueliang's descendant troops, and he doesn't have too deep feelings for Zhang Xueliang, he just pouted, full of disdain for the performance of the Northeast Army." The Zhang family is no longer good, and the Northeast Army has to rely on our 15th Route Army, or the current Northwest Army, if it wants to make a comeback. Junza, the Northeast Army on the other side of Rehe can't be counted on at all, I think we have to speed up the trip, otherwise we won't be able to catch up with the heat. ”
Zhang Zhibang's words were not rough, originally according to the original plan, his temporary army could not have been able to reinforce Rehe, but he didn't expect the Northeast Army's combat strength to collapse so badly, it couldn't withstand it at all, and he saw that the speed of the Japanese army's advance in the war was not much slower than the speed of their march. It is estimated that when the main force of the temporary 1st Army arrives at the edge of Rehe, the Japanese army has already occupied the entire territory of Rehe, and it will be a fart.
"Pull out the cavalry regiment under your command, and rush to Chengde first, Chengde will not fall, Zhang Xueliang estimates that he still has some ideas about fighting, if Chengde is also occupied by the Japanese army, I estimate that the morale of the Northeast Army will only have the idea of retreating to the area of the Great Wall." Wang Tiehan cleaned up his mood, and directly called Zhang Xueliang by his name in his tone, and there was no respect for the past, which showed that he was completely disappointed in Zhang Xueliang.
"I'm afraid a cavalry regiment alone can't hold it. If you transfer up the car team, you can transport as many soldiers as you can, and maybe you can fill this gap. Otherwise, the cavalry regiment is afraid that there will be no return. Zhang Zhibang frowned and said.
"The air force commanded by Gao Zhihang has been transferred from the airport in Luoyang and stationed at Tangshan and Nanyuan airports in batches, which can provide certain air support to Chengde. In addition, a car team will be dispatched to pull a regiment north. If they can't catch up, they will go to meet the Northeast Army that has withdrawn from the front line, and they can't let the Japanese army crush this army in one go. Wang Tiehan stood up, compared the distance on the map, and ordered.
"Report, Zhang Xueliang of the Beiping Army Branch sent a telegram urging our army to speed up the north."
"Report, Sun Dianying's division of the 41st Chadong Army and some of the retreating anti-Japanese volunteers and the Japanese army were defeated in Kailu and killed hundreds of Japanese soldiers!"
"Damn, more than 100,000 regular Northeast Army can't even compare to the volunteers in the end, call back Zhang Xueliang, and say that our department must go to the front line day and night!" Rao is very well-cultivated Wang Tiehan couldn't help but burst into foul language at this time, although the volunteer army has been strengthened by Jiang Li, but there is a gap between the equipment and the regular army, there is a lack of heavy weapons, even if you add part of Sun Dianying's 41st Army, it is difficult to support alone, Rehe, it really can't support it for long. (To be continued.) )