Chapter 128: Breaking the Rock (8)
Okamura Ningji stood in front of the map, the two corps of the Northeast Army on the front line of Shanhaiguan were Zhang Xueliang's old foundation, and they were also the elite of the Shaozhuang faction, and the Kwantung Army in the Rehe Battle was indeed defeated by Tang Yulin's third-rate or even inferior troops, Okamura Ningji even remembered Tang Yulin's surrendered cavalry regiment, from top to bottom, there were only more than 100 skeletal military horses and more than 200 crooked cavalry.
It is indeed not worth boasting and praising to defeat such an opponent, but at that time, not only the Kwantung Army, but also the entire empire was boiling over it, as if it could axe China overnight.
Although Okamura Ninji was very disdainful of Nakajima's character, Nakajima's words deeply moved him, if Zhang Xueliang's young master really had such courage and wanted to annihilate more than 200,000 Kwantung Army, then Nakajima's alarmism and Zhang Xuewu's lone army still fought back frequently, and even hoarded a large amount of ammunition in advance to form a complete battle composition idea.
Just imagine that the bodies of more than 30,000 officers and soldiers who died in battle were discarded, that one-fifth of the nearly 30,000 lightly wounded and seriously wounded were severely frostbitten and that they lost their ability to move, that 26,000 of the remaining 130,000 troops were scattered throughout Rehe and Chaoyang, and that Jinzhou and Shanhaiguan had only one infantry wing, and that they were betting that the Chinese side absolutely did not want to expand the war in an all-round way and escalate it into a national war between China and China.
But now this inference may not be tenable, if Zhang Xueliang fights the idea of completely annihilating the Kwantung Army and taking advantage of the situation to recover the Northeast, the situation of the Kwantung Army under Chengde City now looks very bad.
I had to talk to Nobuyoshi Muto and His Excellency Kuniaki Koiso, and the dignified Okamura Ninji also left in a hurry and went straight to Muto Nobuyoshi's headquarters.
At the same time, under a ruined wall on the campus of the girls' middle school in Chengde City, Zhang Xuewu, who was full of gunsmoke, was leading Li Songtao, Li Xinkai, Meitlin and others to bake potatoes, and the wood for burning potatoes was a bunch of ammunition boxes, and Zhang Xuewu still had some ammunition, but it was certainly not as much as Nakajima had seen.
The firepower of the newly formed First Division is indeed very strong, and the more than 35,000 corpses dropped by the Yue army in the past ten days can explain everything, but the ammunition consumption of automatic weapons also made Zhang Xuewu, a family member who does not know the cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt, also dumbfounded.
In addition to being amazed, Zhang Xuewu realized that many amateur military critics in later generations imagined the so-called mistakes in the strategies of various countries in World War II, in fact, these people are standing on the position and viewpoint of later generations, and there is a bit of an afterthought, such as the steelmaking technology of this book is in the forefront of the world, and the aluminum alloy research and development technology of this is also in the forefront, but the fighter jet of this is not able to use all-aluminum skin and support structure, and can only use 65% of the aluminum alloy structure, and the army does not have a tank that can handle it. Even equipping submachine guns has become a luxury, and only a small number of them have been equipped, which is entirely due to the overall national strength of the country.
A submachine gun has the advantage of a submachine gun, but its disadvantage is that the difficulty of logistics support is too difficult for both China and China, an infantry normally carries 120 rounds of rifle ammunition, which can be used for four or five high-intensity battles, while a soldier carrying 150 rounds of submachine gun ammunition can only maintain two fierce battles at most.
Moreover, the two main enemies of the army, the Soviet Union and Russia, and China, are enough to use a single-shot manual rifle, and I know China quite well, but my impression of the Soviet Union and Russia is still stuck in the time of World War I, so from the perspective of the economy, it is completely wasteful to say that the army is equipped with submachine guns.
It is based on this point that in the trench battle and street battle in Chengde, the army suffered a big loss from the automatic weapons of the Chinese defenders, but it is the characteristic of the person who does not remember his surname for a long time, and he still does not look back even if he hits the south wall.
"Master! Do you think I can attack again overnight? Li Xinkai looked at Zhang Xuewu while fiddling with the potatoes, Zhang Xuewu was concentrating on dealing with a hot potato, and he didn't have time to deal with Li Xinkai, but said vaguely: "Oh! It depends on what these deflated people think? With our ammunition reserves, it should be fine to fight for a week, but the question is whether I can afford to spend a week? ”
Li Songtao used a wooden stick to stir the fire, and said with some dissatisfaction: "The two armies are fighting without slashing, I said that you have gone too far, you are stimulating the book!" Now it will be more beneficial to us to fight for one more day, and there are seven or eight telegrams a day in Beiping asking about the war situation, and you can't go back, just one telegram every day saying that I am still alive, and we are alone! Reinforcements are bigger than God! ”
Zhang Xuewu pursed his lips and said: "The two armies are not fighting, so that it refers to a war between people, and Dongying's gang of dogs can also be counted as people?" Burning, killing and looting are everywhere, only around Chaoyang slaughtered dozens of villages, Rehe will also be greatly injured after this battle, Xiao said that he is not a horse thief, he will leave after a robbery, they are going to destroy my country and destroy my race! There is no other way but to fight to the end. ”
Zhang Xuewu paused and looked in the direction of Beiping and said: "If the people of the country are united as one, I dare to be so arrogant?" I just saw that we were not united, so we were arrogant, we were alone in Chengde, and Beiping sent a 106th Division to die with us, in fact, it was already benevolent and righteous, don't forget one point, we are soldiers for the country, in the national resistance to foreign humiliation, this is a national war! Now that I have been fighting for a long time, I am already a lack of soldiers, hundreds of thousands of troops Chen soldiers are on the first line of the Great Wall, do you still use me to teach them how to fight this battle? ”
Zhang Xuewu spoke, Maitlin not only ate up his three small potatoes, but also picked up one of Zhang Xuewu's eyes, Zhang Xuewu was quick, but the potatoes still didn't get back, Metzlin smiled and said that his international friends, how should he have some privileges, right? For example, everyone has three potatoes each, and I have five?
As soon as they heard that the German adviser had the privilege to occupy five potatoes, Li Xinkai and Li Songtao didn't care about the hot hands, and directly gave Metzlin a big roll of the eyes with a few potatoes of his own, and the barbecue party between the senior commander of the new first division and the German adviser suddenly ended, Zhang Xuewu glared at the two guys who had no interest, and a few broken potatoes were reluctant?
"His grandmother's! Which of you took more potatoes? Lao Tzu ate one of the three? Two more to feed the dogs? Seeing that no one took care of him, Zhang Xuewu, who was surnamed Suo, returned to the second command hidden under a ruin, and now looking at the map has become the only joy of his life.