Chapter Twenty-Five: Reinforcements to Tianzhen (New Book for Onlookers)
But that's the end of the matter, just because the security regiment is all recruits, and the training is all fighting bayonets with their own people, and they haven't really experienced on the battlefield, while the guard platoon is a hundred battles, and the number of times they fight bayonets on the battlefield has gone to the sea, so the security regiment has been overwhelmed for a while in terms of momentum.
But with the passage of time, the security regiment has eased up, although the enemy is now outnumbered, but the soldiers of the security regiment are getting more and more comfortable, and they cooperate very well, and after a while, they will kill seven or eight people in the guard platoon.
The security regiment's bayonet fighting skills were taught by Chen Feng himself, he learned from a veteran general who had participated in the Anti-Japanese War, and it was a stabbing method summed up specifically to deal with the Japanese army, coupled with the lethal one-hit nirvana he learned from the army, the fighting ability of the soldiers of the security regiment is very strong.
Another half an hour passed, looking at the soldiers on both sides who kept falling, Bai Degong's face became more and more ugly, so far there were only six people left on the battlefield, three on each side.
But anyone can see that the three fighters of the security regiment are like rainbows, while the three soldiers of the guard platoon are panting, looking like they are at the end of a strong crossbow, and the victory or defeat is actually obvious. Besides, as a guard platoon, fighting with the security regiment to this point is already a loss.
"Commander Chen, don't compare, we lost." Bai Degong sighed and said.
"Now there are three people on both sides, so it's a tie!" Chen Feng said.
After the team competition, it was the individual competition, perhaps in order to save face from the defeat in the team competition, this person Saibai Degong actually took action himself.
In terms of the security group, Chen Feng sent his guard Chen Tiebao out, this Chen Tiebao grew up with Chen Feng since he was a child, and Chen Feng looked for flowers and asked willows to eat, drink and have fun, this Chen Tiebao has been practicing with the master of Chen Mansion since he was a child, the basic skills are very solid, and he also practiced a good hard qigong, and he can split seven or eight big green bricks with one palm.
Later, he trained with Chen Feng, and he played with both hot and cold weapons. If he hadn't insisted on following Chen Feng's side, he would be the captain of the special combat team or the head of the second security regiment now.
The results came out quickly, and the marksmanship was very strong for both of them, the same five rings, regardless of victory or defeat. In the fight, Chen Tiebao only took two minutes to take Bai Degong down, and Bai Degong was convinced.
In the team competition, the security team won one and drew one, and the results of the individual competition were the same.
Li Jingyuan is very happy, although he recommended Chen Feng out of selfishness, but now his eldest nephew has done more than himself, and with this security group alone, Chen Feng may not be able to be reused.
Li Jingyuan left, and when he left, he told Chen Feng that the chairman and Chief Yan were going to block the Japanese army on the front line of Zhangjiakou and Nankou, and that Xinghe was not far from Zhangjiakou, and that he might receive an order to open at any time, so that he could be prepared.
Li Jingyuan's words reminded Chen Feng that it was already August 7, and there were only three or four days before the official start of the Nankou Campaign.
Historically, the most elite 13th Army of the Nationalist Government was stationed at Nankou, and the commander of the army was Tang Enbo, a descendant of Lao Chiang. Although the Battle of Nankou ended with the Chinese army retreating on its own initiative, it is still a glorious page in the history of the Anti-Japanese War.
In this campaign, the Nationalist army fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army for nearly 20 days, seriously dampening the Japanese invaders, disrupting the Japanese army's operational plan, and shattering the myth of "the death of China in March."
The Battle of Nankou and the Battle of Songhu at that time showed that the Japanese imperialists' plot to invade and occupy the whole of China had been fully exposed, and Chiang Kai-shek was determined to switch from responding to the war to resisting the war, so he became positive on the issue of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party's cooperation in the War of Resistance, which had been negotiated for more than a year, and finally accepted our party's "Declaration on Promulgating the Cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party," which finally led to the formal formation of the second Kuomintang-Communist cooperation.
However, Chen Feng also knew the truth. The Battle of Nankou did not go well, and both sides suffered extremely heavy casualties. By the day of the retreat of the 13th Army, more than half of the Nationalist troops on the Nankou front had suffered casualties, and the losses were extremely heavy. During this period, the position changed hands several times, which was extremely dangerous.
The Battle of Nankou Chen Feng knew that the Ludao Security Corps might not be able to help, but after the Battle of Nankou, the Japanese army opened the door to march into Chahar, Suiyuan and northern Jin, and as a result, a large number of Japanese troops poured into the Chasui area, and at that time Xinghe County was not spared, and it was time for the security regiment to take action.
As Chen Feng knew, from August 8, when the Japanese 11th Mixed Brigade entered the forward position of Nankou and launched an attack, to August 11, when Itagaki Seishiro ordered the Japanese Fifth Division and the 11th Brigade to launch a full-scale attack on the Nationalist army on the front line of Nankou, to the Kwantung Army's Chahar Corps to capture Zhangjiakou, Liu Ruming's 68th Army to withdraw south to Wei County, and Tang Enbo to order the 13th Army to withdraw south on August 26, all these have not changed in history.
As soon as Townenbo's 13th Army withdrew, Seishiro Itagaki ordered his troops to follow the attack and join up with the Chahar Corps. To the east of Zhangjiakou, Xuanhua, Huailai, Yanqing, Longguan, Chicheng, Deshengkou, Badaling, Huanglaoyuan, Xianrendong, Hengling City, until all the dangerous towns in the north bank of the Sanggan River were lost.
On August 31, the Japanese army base camp revoked the number of the Chinese garrison army and organized it into the North China Front Army, with General Terauchi Shouichi as the commander, under the jurisdiction of the 1st Army and the 2nd Army, directly under the jurisdiction of the 5th Division, the 109th Division, the 11th Brigade of the Chinese Garrison Tun (Suzuki Shigeyasu), and the Temporary Aviation Corps.
After occupying the towns along the Pingsui Road, Terauchi Shouichi ordered the North China Front to attack the Chinese army in North China in four directions. The first route was led by Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo, and the four infantry brigades and two detachments under the Chahar Dispatch Corps of the Kwantung Army totaled 50,000 people, and Zhangjiakou sent troops to launch an offensive along the western section of the Pingsui Road, and the troops were directed at Suiyuan and northern Jin.
Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, commander of the Second Road, led three divisions and one infantry brigade under the jurisdiction of the Second Army with a total of more than 90,000 people, starting from Tianjin and attacking south along the Jinpu line, with the front pointing directly at Cangzhou, where Song Zheyuan's headquarters was stationed.
Led by Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, commander of the First Army of the Third Road, he commanded three brigades under the First Army to attack from Beiping, cross the Yongding River, and attack along the Pinghan Road, with the front directed at the Chinese army in the Baoding area.
As for the fourth road, it was led by Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki Seishiro, commander of the Fifth Division, to attack along the Pingsui Road Xuanhua Huailai, all the way to the west, threatening the Shanxi flank, and responding to the headquarters of Tojo Hideki.
According to Terauchi Shouichi's strategic vision, the four route armies were dominated by the first army of Kazuki Kiyoji, and while Nishio Shouzo and Itagaki Seishiro were going south and westward, they should try to get closer to the direction of Baoding and support the First Army's operations against Liu Zhi's troops at any time.
After receiving the order of the front army, Tojo Hideki was overjoyed, and immediately led the Chahar to send the main force of the corps and the nine cavalry divisions of the puppet Mongolian army Li Shouxin, known as 100,000 troops all the way to the west, Wanquan, Huai'an counties together with Chaigou Fort, Xuanjia Tower, and Xinping Fort were occupied by the Japanese army one after another, and Tojo Hideki's headquarters was huge, day and night, and on September 6, it hit the Tianzhen Castle.
Tianzhen, located in the northeast of Shanxi Province, is located at the junction of Shanxi, Sui and Cha provinces, with Datong in the southwest, Jining in the northwest, Zhangjiakou in the northeast, and Wei County in the southeast. Tianzhen is weak, the north gate of Jinbei is open, and Suiyuan can be regarded as losing the barrier.
In order to ensure that Tianzhen was foolproof, Yan Xishan personally ordered Li Xuanying's 61st Army to defend Tianzhen. And personally called Li Fuying: "Jinsui is my foundation, and Shanxi is the foundation." Tianzhen, the Great Wall line to rush, hold the throat of the Pingsui line, if the town is lost, the Jinsui portal is opened, the Japanese Kouxi can attack the Pingdi Spring to take Jining, the southwest can hit the Yang Gao Datong, and then bypass the side of the Yanmen Pass, go south to Yingzhou, Daizhou, Xinkou, and then go straight to Taiyuan, when the two provinces of Jinsui are all lost, you and I are dead and have no place to be buried. Be careful, hold on to your strength, and wait for reinforcements. ”
Xinghe, Security Command.
"Chief of Staff, where is the Japanese army now?" Chen Feng asked.
"Report to the commander, the advance of the Japanese army has arrived at Wanghutun, and an infantry squadron of the Japanese army captured Xinping Fort yesterday afternoon." Yang Yi replied.
"Wang Hutun is fifteen kilometers east of Tianzhen, and Xinpingbao is thirty kilometers north of Tianzhen. Li Wensheng, the head of the first security regiment, said with a frown.
"Is it Li Fuying's sixty-first army stationed in Tianzhen?" Chen Feng asked with a frown.
"Yes!"
"That's bad!" Chen Feng said in a deep voice.
"What's wrong, Commander?" Li Wensheng looked at Chen Feng and frowned, and hurriedly asked.
"You don't know what to say, Li Fuying's 61st Army was reorganized from the 68th Division led by Li Fuying, and it is said to be an army, but in fact the strength is only one division and one brigade. In terms of the strength of the enemy and us, the strength of Li Fuying's troops was far from that of the Japanese army. The most important thing is that Itagaki Seishiro's Fifth Division has now arrived in Wei County, and Liu Ruming's department in Wei County has become a frightened bird, how can it resist the momentum of the Fifth Division, it won't be long before Hunyuan and Guangling become the pockets of the Japanese army, and when the time comes, how can Chief Yan still have the heart to take care of Tianzhen, so Li Fuying's 61st Army is actually a lone army, with the strength of his army against the enemy's 100,000 Japanese invaders, and Tianzhen will be lost at that time. Chen Feng said in a deep voice.
In history, when the Japanese army attacked Tianzhen, Yan Xishan proposed the so-called Battle of Datong, but in fact, this so-called battle was just an excuse used by Yan Xishan to push Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army into Shanxi, and Yan Xishan did not make serious preparations at all.
Later, after 7 days and nights of fierce fighting in Tianzhen by the Japanese army, Li Fuying's troops suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat. It took a few days to connect Yanggao, Fengzhen, Xinghe, Julebao, Zhoushizhuang and other counties and towns, and the northern and southern parts of Shanxi were completely lost. Subsequently, Li Fuying was shot by Yan Xishan on the charge of abandoning the position.
Li Wensheng and Yang Yi compared on the map for a while, and they both raised their heads to look at Chen Feng in the last place, their eyes full of worry. They all know the geographical location of this town, and its importance is self-evident.
"Commander, what are we going to do then?" Yang Yi asked.
"Reinforcements to Celestial Town!" Chen Feng said loudly.