Chapter 299: Desperate
In addition to a thousand words, the paragraph about the death of Gu Shoufu before, it is the version of Xiaoqi's revised text, and the wrong chapter was sent and changed, so I apologize to everyone! I beg your pardon!
After a heavy snowfall in January 1938 brought all Zhang Xuewu's actions to a standstill, the diesel engine of the Jackal light tank could not withstand the minimum temperature of minus 41 degrees Celsius using antifreeze oil, and the BF-109F and the "Saker" fighter were severely challenged. In particular, the BMwww.xstxt.orgwww.xstxt.orgwww.xstxt.orgwww.xstxt.orgwww.xstxt.orgw801C fourteen-cylinder star-piston air-cooled engine is the pinnacle of the technology of the German BMW company, but for the Luftwaffe, this thing is too expensive, too advanced, for an engine to the BF-109 series fighters that have achieved very good results in actual combat? This is clearly an excessive waste.
If it were not for Zhang Xuewu's large number of imports, BMW's BMW 801C fourteen-cylinder star-piston air-cooled series engine would probably have been stillborn, and the armored forces and superior air forces of the 10th Theater would have been extremely severely challenged.
However, Zhang Xuewu also knew that his BF-109F, BF-109K, and "Saker" fighters could not be lifted into the air, and his 95, 96, and 97 attack planes could also not be lifted into the air, but could the Type 97 heavy explosion, which he had high hopes for, be able to take off? Zhang Xuewu has no bottom in his heart? Will I jump off the wall in a hurry? This was the result of the establishment of the 10 th Theater and the 597 combat planes of the Rehe Air Force that launched at least one round of air raids on all the airfields of the Syrian army in Beiping, Jinzhou, Mukden, Xinjing, and other places.
However, the Rehe Air Force has built a large number of underground fortress-type hangars, which has also alleviated the problem that the fighter cannot be launched, but if the fighter encounters low temperature in the extremely evil weather, it is likely to cause a parking accident in the air.
To launch an offensive in this weather is to commit suicide, and Zhang Xuewu has successively inspected several fortress defense cities in Zhangjiakou, Chifeng, Chengde, and Chaoyang.
It can be said that due to the major readjustment of the combat units of the 10 th Theater, the garrison of the four fortified cities is now the second-line troops of the 10 th Theater, and the status of the second-line troops in the 10 th Theater is equivalent to that of supplementing the reserve forces, and their equipment is half of the main force in terms of salaries, and its non-commissioned officers and officers are all drawn from various units of the Youth Army of the main force.
Because the 10th War Zone has repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on Yue Kou, and the elite troops with advanced weapons shouted "100,000 young people and 100,000 troops, every inch of mountains and rivers and every inch of blood!" Yan Xishan in the Second War Zone and the 18th Group Army operating in the northwest of Shanxi Province were somewhat stained, but no one dared to brazenly intercept the young people who joined the Rehe Army, at most they were agitated and persuaded, and the exquisite propaganda posters, beautiful military uniforms and the unique number of the Youth Army of the Rehe Army could not be compared with ordinary troops?
Therefore, when Zhang Xuewu formed the garrison division, he used the first division to garrison Chaoyang, the second division to garrison Chengde, the third division to garrison Zhangjiakou, the fourth division to garrison Chifeng, the fifth division to garrison Hohhot, the seventh division to garrison Datong, the eighth division to garrison Yinchuan, and the ninth division to garrison Baotou. Zhang Xuewu's degree of recklessness has surpassed that of Yue himself.
If it weren't for the fact that the Soviet Union provided 300,000 tons of grain through the Dingyuan Battalion every month, so that Zhang Xuewu had some food reserves, Zhang Xuewu would not dare to expand the army rashly, especially after the main force was reequipped, the remaining weapons and equipment could not be supported everywhere in vain, right? The Ministry of Military Affairs did not give the troops a number, so Zhang Xuewu came up with a garrison of Mingtang, after six months of intensive training, these garrison troops under the organization of key non-commissioned officers and officers, the attack may not be possible, but it can still effectively complete the garrison task.
In fact, even if he is not ready to launch an operation against the 10th War Zone, Zhang Xuewu will take the lead, because Zhang Xuewu needs a larger territory, and he can't annex the remaining territory of the 2nd War Zone, right? Attack the four horses in the northwest? In this current situation of resistance to the overall situation, he first provoked a civil war? Obviously not in the interests of Zhang Xuewu, Zhang Xuewu wants to choose a suitable time to let the four horses jump up and down first, and then clean up with Xinjiang Province, the key is to be famous.
Therefore, Zhang Xuewu can only reach out to himself to ask for territory, since he himself occupies North China and Central China, then it is no problem for me to take back the Northeast, right? In addition, seventy percent of the officers and soldiers of Zhang Xuewu's department are from the Northeast, and many students and young people who fled from the Northeast joined the army directly in Rehe, in order to take revenge and restore the land.
If the troops are always deployed, there will be problems with the core spirit of the troops, and a unit without a spiritual core cannot become an elite trump card, so Zhang Xuewu decided to launch this battle for the restoration of the Kwantung Army, although the original campaign goal was set to cut off the connection between the Kwantung Army and the North China Army, and cut off the route for the Korean army to supply supplies by sea, but its strategic intention of nuclear war was to see the real combat effectiveness of the Kwantung Army and the so-called combat power of the North China Army and its coordination. If the troops from the North China Front Army can be stuck on the front line of Shanhaiguan, then Zhang Xuewu will dare to give it a go, enter the northeast with a heavy army group and engage in a strategic decisive battle with the Kwantung Army, give it a blow of annihilation, or drive it into the North Korean side, which is also the only way for the Kwantung Army to retreat, of course, the North Korean side of the army may also carry out reinforcements.
However, Zhang Xuewu thought that the best time was for the army to launch the Xuzhou War, and Xuzhou attracted most of the combat strength of the two front armies of the northern and central China armies, so that the army could not completely solve the problem of destroying the core combat strength of the Kwantung Army before it could draw or form a new new combat force to put pressure on the 10th theater within two or three months.
However, this unexpected cold winter made Zhang Xuewu cold from head to foot, Zhang Xuewu realized the pain of the defeat of the German Stalingrad city that year, so Zhang Xuewu did not dare to launch an overall strategic decisive battle against Kwantung, because another primary factor in this decisive battle, the curtain of the Battle of Xuzhou has just opened, and the main force of the Yue Army gathered in North China and Central China has not yet had a large-scale contact operation, so Zhang Xuewu is not in a hurry, because as long as Li Zongren takes an overall defensive position, So there should be no problem with the Battle of Xuzhou lasting four or five months?
At that time, he launched a thunder plan against the Kwantung region, then the North China side of the army will also respond accordingly, and the siege of Xuzhou will be naturally resolved, but where did Zhang Xuewu know that at the same time as he planned, the various departments of the Kwantung Army of the army had begun to launch a regional campaign against the campaign against the severe cold, and the North China army was also quietly distributing equipment to resist the extreme cold? There were fewer trains to Jinan to increase troops than the returning trains?
Obviously, he was playing the trick of increasing troops and reducing the stove, but obviously this trick was very successful, because the extremely low temperature and heavy snow weather in Rehe made everything seem to slow down into the city, Zhang Xuewu began to mobilize troops to devote themselves to the so-called snow removal and disaster relief, and the Kwantung Army took the First Front Army under the command of the Zhou Libing, and the main forces of the Second Division, the Eighth Division, and the Twelfth Division under its jurisdiction have quietly assembled from Fuxin in the direction of Chaoyang, with the 10th Division and the 22nd Division under the jurisdiction of the Second Front Army of Isoya Ryosuke, Four divisions, including the 35th Division and the 36th Division, also began to secretly advance into the area where the attack was launched.
Because of the heavy snow and low temperature, the field artillery wing and the four field heavy artillery brigades assigned to the main attack division, plus the first and second wings of the reading force combat vehicle and other troops moved extremely slowly.
The sudden heavy snowstorm covered the movement of the troops, and the increase and reduction of the troops of the North China side also successfully deceived the [***] troops of the Xuzhou side.
The movements of the 27th and 28th Divisions of the Japanese Army, which were in reserve for the campaign, were detected by intelligence officers of the 10th Theater of Operations lurking in Mukden, but the heavy snowstorm interrupted the radio contact, and at the same time, the 6th Division, the 14th Division, the 35th Brigade and the 36th Brigade of the 36th Brigade under the command of the 3rd Front Army under the command of the Yamashita Fengwen Army under the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, all completed the secret assembly, and in order to strictly guard the secrecy of the march, more than 60 villages along the way were slaughtered, and more than 20,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered.
Zhang Xuewu, who was sitting in Baotou to organize the resumption of production and reduce losses, also felt a little uneasy about the fact that he had gathered the armored division in the Dingyuan camp, and the main force of the attack force was all used for disaster relief and emergency repair of the railway! However, a few years ago, I suffered a big loss under Chengde City because of the severe cold, so I won't take risks again, right?
(To be continued)