Chapter 210: The Opportunity to Reclaim Rehe (Asking for Subscriptions, Monthly Passes, and Various!! ）

The infantry fought against the cavalry with the slightest cover and insufficient automatic firepower, and there was only one result, that is, they were completely defeated or even completely annihilated by the opponent.

In the eyes of Qingchuan Shaozo and Li Guixian, the battle went unusually smoothly, although the 40th Army also caused a lot of casualties to the cavalry division, and it was initially estimated that at least 300 soldiers were killed in this battle, but this is not the most important thing, compared to the enemy who fled in panic, the casualties of hundreds of soldiers in this area were not taken to heart by Li Guixian or Qingchuan Shaozuo.

Seeing that the more than 1,000 soldiers of the 40th Group Army only resisted for less than half an hour and retreated alternately, Qingchuan Shaozuo ordered Li Guixian's troops to pursue immediately. The defeated infantry is a lamb to the slaughter in the eyes of the cavalry, and it is a piece of silver, and pursuing while winning is the last word. In fact, without Qingchuan Shaozuo's order, Li Guixian had already ordered the troops to pursue.

But to the frustration of Li Guixian and others, the Chinese army shamelessly got into the car behind them, and then quickly fled.

"Baga, chase quickly!"

"Hay!"

On the winding mountain road, neither the speed of the car nor the cavalry was very fast, and the cavalry of the puppet army hung behind the convoy, and the two sides chased and fled, shooting while running.

Soon the mountain pass was in front, Li Gui didn't know much about the road, and his cavalry was still hanging these car soldiers on the mountain road. But once out of the mountains, on the flat ground of the main road, at the speed of a car he could throw his cavalry troops out and a few streets in the blink of an eye. So he ordered his troops to speed up and make sure to intercept all the Chinese troops before they were leveled.

However. The mountain road is so wide, and dozens of enemies on the last car still use guns from time to time to block the approaching knights, so they can only barely hang behind the butt of the last car until they get out of the mountain pass.

Out of the mountain, the speed of the convoy finally soared, but the quality of the roads on the grassland in the north of the country is extremely poor, not to mention the asphalt road, even if there is no bluestone road, there are only small dirt roads pressed out of the grass, so although the speed of the convoy has increased, it can only maintain a speed of about 30 kilometers per hour.

Relative to cars. The terrain of the Saibei steppe is still the most suitable for cavalry. Therefore, the puppet cavalry that came out of the mountain was like a tiger coming down the mountain. The speed was not slow, and the distance between the two sides turned out to be closer.

Although Li Guixian's character is not very good, he can even be said to be a scumbag, killing people and setting fire to be a traitor. There's nothing he doesn't do. But the level of operational command is not bad. He could see that the motorized infantry in front of him was not trying to get away from the pursuit of his troops for a short time. Therefore, with a wave of his hand, he ordered the cavalry troops to outflank the left and right.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten miles of travel passed, and a large forest suddenly appeared in front of me. Li Guixian was overjoyed, he remembered that the forest was very dense, and cars could not pass at all. God help me, it's really the 40th Army of Heaven Annihilation, with the blocking of this forest, this convoy can still escape.

The convoy is really slowing down, the distance between the two sides is rapidly shortening, 500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters, etc., what is that?

Li Guixian found that a large number of steel monsters suddenly poured out of the woods in front of him, which were tanks, two or three Nima's, and there were more than a hundred of them. Before Li Guixian could order the troops to retreat, the chariot troops on the opposite side quickly pressed up, and Li Guixian had only one thought in his head at this time——— he was fooled.

They were indeed fooled, and after receiving the order, Long Jian immediately took a regiment of infantry and more than a hundred chariots to the south, although before going south, Chen Feng particularly emphasized that the second cavalry division of the puppet Mongolian army was different from other puppet armies, and its combat effectiveness was very strong, and told Long Jian and others to take strict precautions and remember to underestimate the enemy.

But in Long Jian's view, the puppet army is the puppet army, no matter how powerful the puppet army is, it is not as powerful as the real Japanese army, and they have never been afraid of the real little devils when there are no tanks and combat vehicles, and now with those iron bumps, he will not be afraid of these two devils, so before the attack, Long Jian sentenced the second division of the pseudo-cavalry to death.

Although strategically Long Jian did not attach importance to this second division of the puppet cavalry, but tactically, he regarded this puppet cavalry as a strong enemy. He knew very well that with his motorized infantry regiment and an armored regiment of the army and navigation, not to mention a few thousand cavalry, even in the face of a brigade of the Japanese army, it could be easily defeated.

But it is easy to defeat this force, but it is not easy to annihilate them all. The mobility and flexibility of cavalry are far better than chariots and automobiles on the grassland, and people can flee if they can't beat them, so Long Jian and Lu Nautical discussed it and came up with this plan to lure the enemy into depth.

So far, this strategy has been successful, because the pursuit is too tight, the second cavalry division of the puppet army can be said to have collided directly with the armored regiment.

A massacre began, and in the face of a torrent of steel, more than 4,000 cavalry were nothing at all. The battle lasted only forty minutes, and the second cavalry division of the puppet army was completely annihilated, except for a few troops who were hiding behind and escaped, the others were wiped out.

After cleaning the battlefield, the Guards Brigade took 1,318 prisoners and killed 3,079, including 144 Japanese advisers. Looking at these puppet soldiers with their heads drooping, Long Jian felt a burst of fire in his heart, and hurriedly asked Chen Feng how to deal with this group of people.

After the telegram was sent to the front line, Chen Feng pondered for a while and then quickly called back, and the message was very simple, with only one word: "kill".

Just when Long Jian was faithfully carrying out Chen Feng's order to deal with the prisoners of war, a huge storm was also brewing on the side of Rehe and Jidong.

The instructor sent troops to Rehe, marched forward along the way, and soon hit the city of Chengde. As a native of the Northeast, no one knows Rehe better than Shi Jianfei, looking at this majestic city not far away, Shi Jianfei's mood is very heavy. Shi Jianfei could never have imagined that such a historical city was only captured by 128 cavalry of the Japanese army, which was really ridiculous.

The Rehe River itself has the Great Wall as a barrier in the south, and the Suke Xilu Mountains in the west; It is connected to Liaoning in the southeast. It is an important hub connecting Northeast China and North China, and its strategic significance is extremely important, after 918, Zhang Xueliang retreated to Shanhaiguan on the grounds of preserving his strength, and actively sought to resist. The Japanese army was stationed outside the Great Wall, and the situation of occupying Rehe and taking Beiping was quite obvious. As the commander of the Northeast, Zhang Xueliang was very passive in resisting Rehe, not only refusing to carry out the orders of the central government, but also refusing to go to the front line of Rehe with his main force. Hundreds of thousands of troops of the first, second, third, and seventh armies of the main force of the Northeast Army actually stayed in the Pingjin Chasui area as reserves! In addition, at this time, Zhang Xueliang's drug addiction had been deeply attacked, his thinking was blocked, and he was unable to preside over the intense and heavy military affairs.

So much so that after the Japanese army captured Shanhaiguan, it immediately launched an offensive against Rehe, which was like "destroying the withering and decaying". It is not because of how fierce the Japanese offensive was, but because it did not meet with decent resistance from the Chinese army. February 21, 1933. The Japanese army occupies Nanling. On the 22nd, the North Ticket was occupied. On the 24th, Kailu was occupied. On the 25th, Chaoyang was occupied. On the 26th, Xiawa was occupied. The battle after the 27th was even more chilling, and it was like a long drive into a no-man's land. There were more than 640 miles from Chaoyang to Chengde, and the Japanese army occupied them all in only seven days: Lingnan fell on March 1, and Lingyuan fell on the 2nd. The defenders of the two places are Zhang Xueliang's descendants. A total of more than six brigades. But the Japanese army sent only three brigades. When the Japanese army captured Lingyuan. Only 9 soldiers were lost, but the Northeast Army was routed on all fronts, not only abandoning countless heavy grain crops. And a lot of cash was lost. On the 3rd, Chifeng and Pingquan fell.

At this time, the Japanese army was only less than 200 kilometers away from Chengde, and the defenders of Chengde were two well-equipped brigades. But Tang Yulin had already panicked when he heard that the enemy was coming, and threw his oath to fight to the end into the clouds. He intercepted more than 200 trucks and fled to the Tianjin Concession with the gold and silver he had scavenged, and many little wives. The commander fled, and the defenders mutinied and dispersed in an instant. On March 4, the Japanese army mobilized only 128 reconnaissance cavalry detachments from Pingquan to Chengde to reconnoiter and advance. When I arrived in Chengde, I found that it was an empty city without an army to defend it! So he swaggered and rode the Oriental horse into a no-man's land, and occupied the provincial capital of Rehe without blood. Once again, the Northeast Army wrote the shame in their own handwriting!

The instructor's dispatch to Rehe was warmly welcomed by the local people, and with the assistance of the three independent battalions that had been sent to Rehe before, the troops made smooth progress.

After arriving in Rehe, Shi Jianfei realized that the original three battalions now had more than 30,000 troops, and the troops of less than 2,000 people before the departure had expanded 15 times in just eight months, and in terms of troops, the three battalions eight years ago combined were much more than his instructor. Moreover, the three battalions commanded operations in units, squadrons, and squads, with 3,000 men in each brigade, 1,000 in each squadron, and 250 in each squadron.

The most important thing is that except for a small part of these troops, which are developed in the open, the rest are in the shadows, and the vast majority of them exist in the form of bandits and horse bandits, and these troops can quickly complete the assembly with a single order.

With so many new troops, Shi Jianfei was greatly surprised, originally a little worried that with the continuous victory of the battle, the troops would continue to be scattered and left behind, but now with these troops, the instructor and the air defense brigade can concentrate on attacking, and other things can be left to the three independent battalions to complete.

More importantly, Liu Guodong and others also provided Shi Jianfei with a very important information. The Communists were preparing to hold a major uprising in eastern Hebei in early July. I hope to participate in this riot together.

This news made Shi Jianfei extremely happy, and now the army suddenly attacked, and it has achieved a lot of results, and even Chengde City has been surrounded. However, the Japanese puppet army in the city refused to surrender and was resisting stubbornly, and a large number of Japanese puppet reinforcements were rushing towards Chengde, if they were not careful, it was likely that the instructor would start a protracted war of attrition with the Japanese army under the city of Chengde, which was not what Shi Jianfei wanted to see.

If the backyard of the Japanese army suddenly caught fire when the instructor was fighting hard with the Japanese army, then things would be different, and it would not be impossible to take the entire Rehe by the time.

Soon, Shi Jianfei got in touch with Deng Hua, the head of the Eighth Route Army in eastern Hebei, and at Shi Jianfei's invitation, Deng Hua, who was inspecting the terrain in a mining area near Chengde, came to the instructor's department and had a long talk with Shi Jianfei. Later, Shi Jianfei learned that the strength of the Eighth Route Army in eastern Hebei had grown to more than 30,000 people, and at the same time, he also got in touch with Gao Xinyuan, the leader of the militia group, and patriots Hong Linge and Yang Shisan, and many mining areas in eastern Hebei had actually been controlled by the Eighth Route Army, and if the uprising broke out, more than 100,000 troops could be summoned in a short time.

Shi Jianfei was overjoyed, if what Deng Hua said was true, then it was not impossible to recover the entire territory of Rehe in one fell swoop. Immediately, the two men drew up an operational plan, which was simultaneously reported to the headquarters of the 40th Group Army and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and decided to jointly launch the Rehe Campaign. (To be continued......)