Chapter 579: The War of Resistance Against the Northeast (3)

In the middle of Yilan Road in the northeast of Jilin and Yanji Road in the southeast of Jilin, the Northeast Army stationed in Jilin also has an independent 21st Brigade, which is stationed at the easternmost end of the Eastern Railway, that is, in the area of the Suifen River, facing Vladivostok.

The commander of the 21st Brigade, Zhao Zhixiang, also served as the guard of Suining Town. The brigade had 5,336 soldiers, 4,387 rifles, 32 heavy machine guns, 6 mortars, and 4 mountain guns.

The only cavalry brigade in Jilin Province was the 4th Cavalry Brigade, which was commanded by Chang Yaochen, stationed in Nong'an, near the northwest of Changchun. There were 2,820 soldiers, 2,800 rifles, 18 heavy machine guns, and 12 mortars.

These troops in Jilin Province, together with the baggage engineering and artillery units directly under the jurisdiction of the Public Office, have a total strength of 54,000 troops.

In addition to the regular army, Jilin, like Liaoning, also has a large number of public security regiments and security teams, totaling 53,000 people. These paramilitary forces are under the jurisdiction of Wang Zhiyou, the chief of the Jilin Provincial Police.

The eight brigades of the Northeast Army stationed in Jilin are obviously divided into two kinds of formations, one is the brigade commander who also serves as the town guard envoy, and generally has four mountain guns or field artillery, Danshi has no light machine guns, and there are very few mortars.

Li Guilin, Ding Chao, Zhao Zhixiang, Li Du, and Jixing Brigade belong to this type.

On the other hand, the brigade commanders did not concurrently serve as town guards, Zhang Zuozhou, Su Dechen, and Xing Zhanqing, the three brigades, which had many mortars and were stationed along the Middle East Road, which was convenient for maneuvering, and was equipped with a large number of light machine guns. These three brigades are also known as the National Defense Brigade, that is, the elite units of the Northeast Army.

The three defense brigades were not equipped with any mountain artillery. The reason is simple, it is not that the artillery of these defense brigades is weak, but that the Northeast Army pursues the tactics of concentrated use of artillery. The Jilin garrison originally had a Mu Chunchang artillery regiment, equipped with 36 field guns, and if it was evenly distributed to three national defense brigades, each brigade could be equipped with an artillery battalion of 12 field guns. But unfortunately, this artillery regiment, known as the essence of the Jilin Army, was served by the Japanese army in the Nanling Barracks of Changchun on the night of 918.

The equipment of the Northeast Army stationed in Jilin is stronger than that of the Northeast Army stationed in Heilongjiang and weaker than the elite of the Northeast Army stationed in Liaoning Province. With equipment like Danshi, Yijing is stronger than many troops of the Central Army in Guannai.

You must know that during this period, the Second Division of the Central Army, known as one of the four main divisions of the Central Army, had a total of 18,000 soldiers, which was equivalent to the soldiers of the three provincial defense brigades of the Jilin Army. But in terms of weapons and equipment, it is not comparable to the three brigades of the Northeast Army.

The Second Division did not have a few light machine guns, and only 36 heavy machine guns, which was only equivalent to the level of a provincial defense brigade of the Jilin Army.

There are 24 mortars in the Second Division, which is slightly more than the three Jilin Provincial Defense Brigades, but it is not comparable to the level of one national defense brigade of the Jilin Army.

The Second Division had 12 artillery pieces, which was only equivalent to the level of the three second-rate provincial defense brigades of the Jilin Army.

And an alternative like the guard regiment of the Jilin Governor's Office, a regiment is equipped with 12 mountain guns, such a strong equipment, looking at the whole country, there is no one to match.

It's just that no matter how strong the weapon is, it must be operated by people.

Nine. After the 18th generation, not all of the generals of the Northeast Army put the interests of the country and the nation first, on the contrary, many of them were thinking about the question of standing in line, who to help? Hit whom? Anti-Japanese? Surrender?

At the moment of national disaster when foreign enemies invaded, it was difficult to imagine that such a thing would happen, but such a thing happened to the Northeast Army, which cannot but be said to be the sorrow of the Northeast Army!!

Among the nine brigade commanders of the Jilin garrison who held heavy troops, the first one to come out to give Xiqia a platform was his classmate, Ji Xing, the commander of the 27th Independent Brigade and the guard of Yanji Town.

Jixing is also a "turtle" in a popular word nowadays. Because Ji Xing is a graduate of the 8th Artillery Department of the Chinese team of the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer School, and Xiqia is a classmate of the same cavalry section as him. There are only 54 Chinese students in this period. …,

It's just that among the 54 Chinese students, the most famous is neither Xiqia nor Jixing, but the unlucky Zhang Huizan.

Zhang Huizan was very unfortunate that less than a year ago, he had just fallen into the hands of the Jiangxi Red Army, had his head cut off, tied to a wooden plank and floated down the Gan River.

But fortunately, in Taizu's popular poem, because of the sentence "I caught Zhang Huizan in front". Since then, Zhang Huizhan has been known by almost an entire generation of Chinese.

However, it is not enough to rely on classmates to pull people in. The reason why Jixing was the first to stand up and support Xiqia was because Jixing and Xiqia have the same surname, Aixin Jueluo! Jixing belongs to the Manchurian White Flag.

Although Jixing does not have the esteemed status of "yellow belt" like Xiqia, he cannot be regarded as a genuine clan, Danshi still belongs to a member of the Aixin Jueluo family. When it came to restoring the Manchu Qing by the hands of the Japanese, he was in favor of it from the bottom of his heart. Therefore, Xiqia made a phone call, and he immediately agreed.

With the first, there will be a second and third, and soon, Li Guilin, the commander of the 23rd Brigade and the commander of Jichang Town, also agreed to go with Xiqia. Chang Yaochen, commander of the 4th Cavalry Brigade, also surrendered to Xiqia.

For the brigade commander who could not rebel for a while, Xiqia lured the middle-level officers of the regimental and battalion commanders below. The two regiments of the 25th Brigade that had just been withdrawn from the provincial capital Jilin were the National Defense Forces, which were originally Zhang Zuoxiang's old roots, and Xiqia took advantage of the fact that the brigade commander Zhang Zuozhou was still in Jinzhou to help Zhang Zuoxiang take care of the funeral, and there was no owner in the army, and the two regiment commanders Liu Baolin and Xia Hongmo were lured to surrender, and some officers and soldiers of the 25th Brigade who were unwilling to surrender fled under the leadership of several battalion commanders.

In this way, in just over a month, Xiqia has suddenly changed from a bare-bones commander to a powerful faction with three and a half brigades. With guns in hand, most of the local governments in Jilin had no choice but to submit to the gun.

Jilin Province had a total of 44 counties at that time, and Xiqia used the surrendered army to control 20 counties in the south, thus providing a stable land route for the Kwantung Army from the south and through Korea into the northeast.

If there are soldiers, there will be territory, and where there is territory, there will be money and grain, this is the method that these generals from the green forest in the northeast believe in.

As mentioned earlier, there are a total of 8 infantry brigades and 1 cavalry brigade in Jilin Province, and now Yijing has 3 and a half brigades that have been pulled away by Xiqia, and Xiqia's waist suddenly hardened.

However, if there are soldiers, there must be generals, who will lead the troops? Xiqia grasped the military and political affairs with his own hands, and he also had to stabilize the rear, so naturally he could not go to the front line. The three brigade commanders who returned to Shun were qualified to take them, but at that time, there were many bandits, and the three brigade commanders and two of them were also town guards, and it was too late to appease the place, not to mention that the subordinate troops were also fluctuating, and Xiqia did not dare to let them leave the original defense area. Several regimental commanders who surrendered were too young in seniority. Where to find a commander who is both capable and qualified, and the key is willing to contribute to his Xiqia, and dare to confront Zhang Zuo head-on?

Thinking about it, Xiqia Xiangdao has a person, who? Famous in the Jilin army.

Yu Datou's big name is Yu Chencheng. Yu Chencheng's qualifications are very old, when Jilin Province was only organized into two divisions, the commander of one division was the overseer Zhang Zuoxiang, and the other division commander was Yu Chencheng Yu Datou, and many officers of the Jilin Army were his old subordinates.

Yu Datou is very bold. Especially Yu Datou is rich, his family runs a nine-day, twelve-de, and twenty-one businesses, making friends and spending money like water, and he is very popular in the army, and he is also very good in the underworld. What's more, because Yu Datou was involved in Guo Songling's rebellion, Yijing was driven out of the army by Zhang Zuoxiang. treats Zhang Zuoxiang like an enemy, and it is really suitable for him to fight Zhang Zuoxiang.

Sure enough, at the invitation of Xiqia, Yu Datou, who was doing a prosperous business, threw away his abacus and put on his military uniform again, and became the commander of Xiqia's Jilin Province to suppress bandits. Under the management of Xiqia and Yu Chencheng, with the surrender of troops as the backbone, coupled with the large number of Hu bandits that Yu Chencheng relied on his old relationship with Lulin, Xiqia finally had an army of his own, an army that he thought could help him "restore the Qing Dynasty". …,

When Xiqia had just established the Jilin Governor's Office and declared "independence", in order to appease the people's hearts, he also specially told Jilin officials that he was only doing this for the sake of rights and interests, and as soon as the situation stabilized, he would ask Zhang Zuoxiang to return to Jilin to take back power. Danshi's attitude became more and more aggressive as he himself became full-fledged, and he no longer took Zhang Zuoxiang in his eyes, let alone Zhang Xueliang, a descendant.

After finally losing illusion with Xiqia, Zhang Zuoxiang made a painful decision to draw a line with Xiqia. The Jilin Provincial Government, with Cheng Yun as the acting provincial chairman, was established in Bin County. Suddenly, the two Jilin provincial governments looked at each other from the north and south and began to sing a duet.

In fact, like Xiqia, Chengyun is also a flag man and belongs to Zhenghongqi. Although Chengyun is not a nobleman of the Yellow Belt like Xiqia, Chengyun is also regarded as the queen of the Eight Banners, and the Guerjia clan belongs to the head of the eight surnames in Manchuria. However, unlike Xiqia, Chengyun didn't take the "Liberation of the Qing Dynasty" seriously. I think that back then, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they shouted that the Manchu and Han families, and when the Qing Emperor abdicated, the old and the young would draw a clear line with the Han people and make the Manchu ** stand, what is going on? Therefore, this Chengyun recognized a reason, even if the Manchu and Han are not a family, they are not outsiders, and the Japanese are foreign enemies.

Chengyun is also a capable person, and soon set up a provincial government shelf in Bin County, everything is simple, pacifying the locality, collecting taxes and allocating transportation, and doing a good job. However, political power comes out of the barrel of a gun, and only in the barrel of a gun can political power be maintained. Without enough military strength to back it up, the Chengyun provincial government simply could not last long.

At this time, compared with Xiqia, on the side of the old overseer Zhang Zuoxiang, the garrison of Jilin Province who was willing to resist the invasion of foreign enemies was not as large as the army that rebelled against Xiqia. Not to mention, there were also thousands of Japanese Kwantung Army that invaded Jilin.

Speaking of which, I'm afraid some people are going to be surprised. Jilin Province originally had 8 infantry brigades and 1 cavalry brigade, and 9 brigades were pulled away by Xiqia for 3 and a half brigades, so there are still 5 and a half brigades, how can there be more rebels who surrendered than those who did not?

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