Chapter 580: The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the Northeast (4)

What made Zhang Xueliang ashamed and indignant was that of the remaining 5 and a half brigades, 5 brigades actually had an ambiguous attitude. In the words of Shigeru Honjo, these five brigades belong to the gray forces, and there is no clear attitude on which side to stand.

Among the five brigades, Xing Zhanqing and Su Dechen are all junior characters, and only Ding Chao, Li Du, and Zhao Zhixiang are lieutenant generals in the 28th National Review, and among these three people, Li Du and Zhao Zhixiang are far away at the border pass, and Ding Chao, the envoy of Binjiang Town stationed in Harbin, is also the commander of the Eastern Railway Escort Army, and he has become the core figure of the armies in northern Jilin for a while.

This Ding Chao, to put it mildly, is also a classmate of the 8th class of the Chinese team of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, with old qualifications and high academic qualifications, so he thinks very highly of himself. And precisely because Zhang Zuoxiang ignored Ding Chao, he did not choose Ding Chao to command the whole army, but assigned Li Zhensheng, director of training of the Jilin Provincial Army, to Harbin to preside over the military. Such a big trick made the situation of Jilin and even Heilongjiang provinces uniting to resist the war disappeared.

As a result, Ding Chao was very unconvinced, put on an uncooperative attitude, and ignored Li Zhensheng. Without Ding Chao's support, Li Zhensheng ran to Harbin as a bare-bones, and no one could command him, let alone fight against Xiqia militarily.

Xi Qia saw this very clearly, Xi Qia quickly sent someone to win over Ding Chao, promising to keep Ding Chao's existing position and various positions, and Ding Chao was full of promises at that time, and also contacted Li Du and several other brigade commanders to send a telegram of support to Xi Qia.

However, although Ding Chao hooked up with Xiqia, he did not publicly surrender. Not only was Zhang Xueliang very disappointed in the position of these people, but the Japanese and Xiqia were not too sure, so they could only be classified as wait-and-see.

In this way, more than two months after the incident, in Jilin Province, only Zhang Zuoxiang's nephew, the commander of the 25th Brigade, Zhang Zuozhou's half of the brigade, and Zhang Zuoxiang's nephew Feng Zhanhai's guard regiment were the only ones who took a clear stand against Xiqia to fight the war of resistance. Poor Zhang Zuoxiang has supervised the army of Jilin for more than ten years, and at a critical juncture, the only person he can rely on is his close relatives. According to the statistics of the Japanese, the soldiers and horses on the side of Xiqia had reached more than 27,000 at this time, while the soldiers and horses of Zhang Zuozhou and Feng Zhanhai combined were only 9,000.

Although there are still 5 brigades waiting and watching, with an ambiguous attitude, Xiqia believes that as long as Zhang Zuozhou and Feng Zhanhai are defeated, these wall grasses will soon surrender to him.

At this time, Yu Datou's army also came to an end. Except for a few brigades that surrendered, the troops directly under the control of Xiqia and Yu Datou had reached 18,000 people, and they had already formed a superiority in troops. All that is needed is a proper time to go to war.

At this time, the situation of their opponents, Zhang Zuozhou and Feng Zhanhai, was not very good.

After the Eastern Resistance occupied Siping, according to Song Zhewu's order, he held on to Siping and blocked the Japanese army's eastward advance along the railway, while sending cavalry troops to the countryside near Jilin and Harbin to recruit soldiers.

For the team of the Fourth Route Army, which was the first to provoke the anti-Japanese banner in the northeast, Honjo did not dare to take it lightly. Although Han Guangdi ordered the railroad from Shenyang to Siping to be blown up, Honjo Shigeru ordered the engineering units of the Kwantung Army to repair the railway day and night, and on the other hand, ordered the 20th Division, which had just entered the northeast from Korea, to take over the defense of Shenyang, and ordered the main force of the 2nd Division and the 12th Brigade of the 20th Division to launch an attack on the horizontal.

Although the Eastern Resistance now has the number of four divisions, only Wang Tiehan's division, which was formed on the basis of the 620th Regiment of the First Brigade of the Northeast Army, and the Wang De Division, which was formed on the basis of the 619th Regiment of the First Brigade, the remnants of the 621st Regiment and a reinforced battalion of the Fourth Route Army, is quite complete, and there are more than 12,000 people in each of the two divisions, but only more than 10,000 people are veterans of the reinforced battalion of the First Brigade and the Fourth Route Army, and they have strong combat effectiveness, and the remaining 15,000 people are newly recruited recruits, and these new recruits are not of much use for the time being.

Guan Yuheng took a battalion of Shi Ming's cadre regiment back to the Xing'an Reclamation Area to gather the Xing'an Reclamation Troops, and Shi Ming and the cavalry troops of a brigade assigned to him completely spread out to the vast rural areas of Jilin to recruit soldiers and mobilize the people to go to Beimeng and Taiyuan to carry out the office. Those who stick to Siping can only rely on the two divisions of Wang De and Wang Tiehan. …,

Under the heavy attack of the reinforced main force of the 2nd Division, the 12th Brigade of the 20th Division, and the 2nd Field Artillery Wing, nearly 40,000 people, suffered heavy casualties. After a month of hard work, after the Japanese army repaired the Shenyang-Siping section of the Eastern Railway, and received the support of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, which had just come to the northeast, Han Guangdi had to order to abandon Siping, and the whole army retreated to Buyeo, which is now Songyuan.

In this battle, Wang Tiehan's division and Wang De's division were almost disabled, and more than 8,000 officers and soldiers were killed in the two divisions alone.

However, this time it is worth sticking to Siping not only in a political sense but also in a strategic sense. First of all, the Eastern Resistance officially fired the first shot of the organized war of resistance in the northeast, giving the people in the northeast the confidence to resist Japan, so that the people in the Japanese-occupied areas in Liaoning, Jilin and other places spontaneously organized anti-Japanese armed forces. Secondly, because the Eastern Resistance carried the Kwantung Army in Siping for a month, it won time for students, intellectuals and businessmen who moved west from Jilin and Heilongjiang, as well as ordinary people. Over the past month or so, hundreds of thousands of people and a large amount of property have passed through the Haman Line to Hailar, and then thousands of vehicles of various kinds organized by the Fourth Route Army have carried them to the Taiyuan Administration and Beimeng.

In the past month or so, Shi Ming's recruitment has achieved great results, recruiting a total of more than 60,000 people, and the three divisions have been filled with new recruits. It's just that there won't be much combat effectiveness without more than three months of training, and this is because the people in the Northeast are fierce, and most of the ordinary Ding Zhuang can shoot guns, and the training time is shorter than that in Guannai.

Guan Yuheng not only controlled his third regiment, but also successfully recruited the Chonggu regiment stationed in Suolunyuan in the Xing'an Reclamation District and the Zhang Yulong Regiment stationed in Gegenmiao, but the troops in the Reclamation District were not only poorly armed and equipped, but also had weak combat effectiveness, and could not fight a tough battle without a period of training. Moreover, it is already winter, and it is no longer suitable for infantry to fight on long distances. Song Zhewu sent a telegram to Han Guangdi, ordering Guan Yuheng to set up a camp in the central and western part of the Daxing'an Mountains, receive weapons, ammunition, and food from Northern Mongolia, and actively reorganize and train the troops. The Daxinganling area is backed by Northern Mongolia and has a very important geographical location, which will be the outpost of Song Zhewu's anti-Japanese war in the northeast, and must be operated in advance.

Because Siping was lost, the South Manchurian section of the Middle East Railway had been opened to traffic, and the area south of Changchun in Siping had been controlled by the Kwantung Army, and the situation of the Northeast Army in Jilin immediately became tense. Fortunately, because of the surging anti-Japanese armed forces in various places, the Kwantung Army could not advance eastward into Harbin on a large scale until the rear was stabilized. Moreover, at this time, the Japanese cabinet and the military department disagreed on whether to expand the war of invasion of the northeast, and the Kwantung Army entering the northeast was insufficient, and the Japanese army had more important things to do, that is, to march west into Jinzhou and completely drive the forces of the Northeast Army out of Shanhaiguan. Therefore, the 4th Mixed Brigade and the 12th Brigade of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army were transferred to the west, which gave the Northeast Army, which had not yet surrendered to the enemy, some time.

It's just that although the Japanese army is unable to move east and north in a short period of time, the puppet army that surrendered with the support of the Japanese army has the courage.

The Northeast Army was already in turmoil, and the powerful Japanese army had arrived in a big way, which could be used as a backup, and several newly formed garrison brigades in Xiqia had gradually become an army under the training of the big head. Xiqia felt that the time had come for him to unify Jilin and completely defeat the old governor Zhang Zuoxiang. There are more soldiers than the other party, the food and salary are more than the other party, and there is no reinforcement with strong reinforcements, and Xiqia can't think of any reason why he should not enter the army.

He wanted to eliminate Zhang Zuozhou and Feng Zhanhai who dared to resist him in one fell swoop in front of the still suspicious watchers.

For this reason, Xiqia organized all the teams he had pulled up in the past few months, and also asked Jixing, the guard of Yanji, to send several battalions of reinforcements to reinforce him, and made up the number of five brigades to prepare to march north.

At this time, the troops led by Zhang Zuozhou, the commander of the 25th Brigade, were stationed in Yushu County, while Feng Zhanhai's troops were stationed in the Shulan and Wuchang areas. These two groups of people and Xiqia's team are only separated by a Songhua River. In terms of distance, Feng Zhanhai's team occupies Shulan, which is the closest to the provincial capital Jilin, and is only a hundred miles away from the river, while Zhang Zuozhou's team is still in the northwest of Shulan, much farther away from the provincial capital Jilin. If you want to go north from the provincial capital of Jilin, Shulan is the first stop. …,

Therefore, as soon as the battle began, Yu Datou commanded his "bandit army" to cross the Songhua River and rushed straight to Shulan. In the face of the surging enemy, Feng Zhanhai did not defend Shulan, but withdrew his team to the area of ash north of Shulan. Feng Zhanhai's retreat gave Yu Datou a multiple-choice question. Yu Datou either continued to march north for 50 miles to attack Feng Zhanhai in Ashlu, or set out from Shulan and detoured 150 miles northwest to attack Zhang Zuozhou in Yushu County.

Obviously, Feng Zhanhai's retreat made Yu Datou have to face opponents in two directions at the same time, and it was easy to lose the other. Whichever direction the head attacks is likely to provoke an attack by enemy forces from the other direction. According to the usual theory, the Feng Zhan navy of Ashwagandha was closer, and it was more appropriate to continue to advance northward, and break it first. If you march northwest to Yushu County to fight Zhang Zuozhou, a distance of 150 miles is a two-day or three-day journey, once the attack is lost or caught in a tug-of-war, then Feng Zhan's navy of Ashwagandha will kill him from his flank, and the risk will naturally be much greater.

However, the Kwantung Army advisers who accompanied the army believed that it was the best policy to attack Zhang Zuozhou first. Yu Datou had no choice but to give up the Feng Zhan navy, which was close at hand, and confronted Feng Zhan's navy with only one piece, and went straight to Yushu County with the main force on a long detour.

The group of generals of Zhang Zuoxiang, the old overseer of Jilin, finally drew their swords against each other, and changed from a secret war to an open fight.

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