It took a lot of time for the Japanese tanks to start, and by the time the pursuit began, Company Commander Huang Yuanqiang had already dragged the booty out of the city. The Japanese army pursued in a fit of rage, but was ambushed again in the village ahead, and finally suffered a crushing defeat. The tank was taken away in front of the battle, which greatly damaged the morale of the Japanese army. Moreover, as the Japanese army penetrated deep into the base areas, all kinds of sneak attacks, ambushes, cold guns, and stuffy sticks appeared one after another, and the main force of the 41st Group Army, which had recovered its strength, also launched counterattacks from time to time, making the Japanese army very passive.

However, Tada Jun still has two brushes in the end, especially the "water as the road" and "using the boat instead of the car" style of "using water as the road" and "using the boat instead of the car" engaged in by him and Yamashita Fengwen caught Zheng Weiguo a little off guard, and the base area even fell into an extremely dangerous situation for a time.

Originally, Zheng Weiguo attached great importance to the safety of waterways, because there were many rivers in the Jizhong base area, such as the North Canal, the Tang River, the Zhulong River, the Hutuo River, the Fuyang River, and the Ziya River and the Daqing River after their confluence. At the beginning of his reign in Jizhong, Zheng Weiguo ordered the control of the estuaries of the Daqing River and the Ziya River, and set up a special river defense unit, which was not only equipped with light and heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, but also dozens of motor boats and hundreds of ordinary wooden boats.

However, what Zheng Weiguo did not expect was that Tada Jun actually transferred the sailors of Qingdao and an independent engineering wing, and with the cooperation of the army aviation, the unit quickly broke through the river defense, and then used the motorboat unit to quickly cut into the hinterland of the base area. At the critical juncture, Zheng Weiguo had no choice but to transfer the main force back to clear and suppress, and only the 116th Division of the Northern Front was left to deal with the enemy's heavy army group.

At that time, Tada Jun successively dispatched five divisions and regiments of the 21st, 27th, 33rd, 32nd, and 110th divisions, as well as a large number of technical units (such as heavy artillery wings, flying groups, armored units, etc.) to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the three divisions.

In terms of specific tactics. Drawing lessons from the previous failures of the siege, Chief of Staff Yamashita Fumimi changed the previous tactics of advancing from a long distance and advancing straight ahead, and formulated a method of attacking first in a divided way, advancing gradually, compressing the encirclement, and then dividing the "clearing and suppression" and breaking through each one, which brought great losses to the three divisions. In particular, when dealing with the tunnels, the Japanese army used a large amount of poison gas in a frenzy, burned houses and destroyed fields, and implemented the "three-light policy," and the entire three divisions were almost razed to the ground by the Japanese army.

In the face of a menacing and strong enemy, the soldiers and civilians of the Third Division did not give in. They were under the leadership of Commander Duan Shuanghu and the commander of the 116th Division, Zhao Shaozong. Engage in a duel to the death with the invading enemy. The battle was very tragic at one point. In the fierce battle, the headquarters of the 116th Division was attacked by the Japanese army, and Commander Zhao Shaozong unfortunately sacrificed his life for the country. Guo Mocun, the political commissar of the 3rd Division, also died heroically in the Japanese shelling.

In the battles that followed, in order to cover the mass transfer. The 7th Regiment, the main force of the 3rd Division, suffered heavy losses. The troops were scattered after the worst. The regiment commander, Zhu Zhankui, was seriously wounded and captured. The regiment suffered more than a thousand casualties.

The main force of the 9th Regiment was heavily surrounded by the Japanese army. The unit fought fiercely with the Japanese army for three days and nights, and more than 2,300 officers and men including regiment commander Jiang Dongsheng, political commissar Tang Baoheng, deputy regiment commander Zuo Qingchen, and below were almost all wiped out, and only more than 10 seriously wounded people, including Liu Peirong, director of the political department, were carried out by their fellow villagers at the risk of death. After recovering from his injuries, he returned to the army.

In such a brutal struggle, many people hesitated, wavered, and even did not hesitate to betray the motherland and the nation. Among them, there is Chai Enbo, the commander of the 8th Regiment of the main force of the three points. He killed Gong Changhai, the deputy commander of the 3rd Division, and more than 20 cadres and soldiers of the 8th Regiment, who came to supervise the battle, and then led his cronies to join the enemy, and was later assassinated by the traitor elimination team.

In the face of the white terror and tragic sacrifices of the Japanese army, the vast number of soldiers and civilians wiped away their tears and still persevered tenaciously. Relying on the common people and the Yongqing Underground Great Wall, the soldiers constantly attacked small units of the Japanese army, fighting every day and everywhere, causing extremely heavy losses to the Japanese army. Although the Japanese controlled most of the towns in the Third Division for a time, they had to suffer an average of 500 casualties per day.

After a month of fierce fighting, the Japanese army was also exhausted and paid a great price for its aggression. According to the statistics of the North China Front Army after the war, more than 30,000 people were killed, wounded, sick during the war, and missing in the Beijing-Tianjin-Bao area (i.e., the three sub-districts) alone.

At the same time, the main force of the Jicha Theater under the personal command of Zheng Weiguo also cleared the Japanese sailors and routed the 34th Division and the 7th Independent Mixed Brigade that had once attacked the hinterland of the base area. Among them, the 7th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade suffered an almost devastating blow due to its rash advance.

The 10th and 14th Divisions of the Western Front also had to withdraw from the base areas one after another due to heavy casualties and poor logistics, and then simply abandoned Anyang, Handan, and Xingtai, and completely shrank to the area north of Shijiazhuang.

So far, the Jicha Theater has achieved a comprehensive victory in the second "anti-sweeping", and Zheng Weiguo has regained his position as commander-in-chief of the Shanxi-Hebei Theater and commander of the Jizhong Military Region (because of the excessive losses in the battle, all aspects have the intention of letting him step down).

It is worth mentioning that Shi Yousan, commander of the 39th Group Army, saw that the Japanese army was strong, and even secretly colluded with the enemy and plotted a mutiny. Fortunately, his subordinates, Gao Shuxun, the commander of the New Eighth Army, found out in time. At that time, Shi Yousan's strength was very strong, and Zheng Weiguo and other friendly troops were pinned down by the Japanese army and could not come to help. Commander Gao had no choice but to secretly arrange and invite Shi Yousan to a banquet in the name of the old governor Sun Liangcheng, and then bury him alive on the edge of the Yellow River.

After Shi Yousan was killed, his old subordinates mutinied and surrendered to the enemy under the leadership of Shi Yousan's younger brother Shi Youxin, and besieged Gao Shuxun's department. Fortunately, the Japanese army in Jizhong had withdrawn at that time, and Zheng Weiguo was able to send reinforcements. At the critical juncture, reinforcements finally arrived, joined forces with the new Eighth Army, and completely annihilated Shi Youxin's department.

Zheng Weiguo then telegraphed to the Ministry of Military Affairs and recommended Gao Shuxun to take over as the commander of the 39th Group Army, under the jurisdiction of the New Eighth Army, the 69th Army (the number of the original Shiyou Third Division), and the 57th Army.

In order to seize control of the 41st Group Army and divide the Northeast Army, Chairman Chang Kaishen appointed Miao Chengliu and Zou Zuohua as deputy commanders of the 41st Group Army. The post of commander of the 57th Army was taken over by Park Byung-sang, the former deputy commander.

In this anti-sweeping operation, the 57th Army also suffered heavy casualties and was on the verge of despair many times. Li Yafan, who was the adjutant of the 57th Army at the time, defected and was appointed by the Japanese army as a rebel commissioner. Specializes in seducing officers from various departments of the Northeast Army. Many officers who were not determined to take the bait, including Miao Chengliu and Park Bingshan, the two commanders of the 57th Army.

Under the pretense of appeasing the old ministry, Miao Chengliu secretly conspired with Park Bingshan to rebel in an attempt to establish himself in the Jilu border area. Park Bingshan then ordered Dong Hanqing, commander of the 665th Regiment, and Yu Wenqing, chief of the General Staff Office, to negotiate with Xin Xiusan, a staff officer representing the representative of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army, and Shin Yong Yukio, an adviser, and agreed on a secret agreement on mutual non-aggression and joint defense against the Communist Party. The two sides agreed that each stronghold would not withdraw troops from each other, exchange information, and stipulate communication signals in the air on the ground: in case of an incoming aircraft, the ground should be covered with a white cloth and marked with the Arabic "5"; When the troops meet, the party flag is decorated with white cloth and is displayed left and right to identify it; Set up a liaison station in Cangzhou. Borrow a radio station. Stipulate passwords to each other, and ask the female traitor Xu Chunpu to go to Cangzhou as a liaison officer to help disguise.

Fortunately, Wen Qing is an upright person and is not willing to be a traitor lackey. Although Park Byung-san was forced to participate in the negotiations. However, he told Wan Yi, the commander of the 333rd Brigade, the details of the interior. Brigade Commander Wan then raised troops with Chang Enduo, commander of the 111th Division, to quell the rebellion. captured Park Byung-san and others alive.

When Zheng Weiguo learned of this, he ordered the execution of the generals who participated in the rebellion, and the vacant generals were filled by the 111th and 112th divisions. The post of army commander was originally intended to be taken over by Chang Enduo or Huo Shouyi (then commander of the 112th Division). However, after taking into account the situation in Suiyuan, he applied to the Ministry of Military Affairs to transfer He Zhuguo, commander of the Second Cavalry Army, to be the commander of the 57th Army.

He Zhuguo had served as the commander of the 57th Army before, and later had to be reappointed as the commander of the cavalry army because Zhang Hanqing and the Standing Chairman competed for the cavalry of the Northeast Army. Although he studied cavalry in Lu Shi, and after returning to China, he also served as a cavalry instructor at the Baoding Military Academy, but he had not been in contact with cavalry for a long time before serving as the commander of the cavalry army, so he was not good at cavalry command.

On the contrary, although Ma Zhanshan was born as a "ringing horse" and had no formal military education, his cavalry tactics were applied very well. Moreover, he is more than all over the world, good at making friends, and it is easier to exert his talents in Suiyuan, a place where the relationship between friends and enemies is complicated. So he can bring a large number of "former puppet army" to fight the Japanese army, which He Zhuguo can't do.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Zheng Weiguo, after some operation, let Ma Zhanshan take over as the commander of the Second Cavalry Army, commanding all the men and horses of the original Second Cavalry Army and the Northeast Advance Army. He Zhuguo was transferred to the commander of the 57th Army to contain and win over Gao Shuxun and other units.

In this way, a four-legged situation was formed in Suiyuan, with Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army to the west of Baotou, the Daqingshan Base Area of the Eighth Route Army to the east, the cavalry group of Ma Zhanshan to the south of the Yellow River, and the Northwest Shanxi Base Area of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army to the east. Although the Japanese army occupied Baotou, it had to face the squeeze of the four-way army in turn, and the logistics cost was rising steadily, and the daily losses far exceeded the Japanese army's plunder in Suiyuan.

In addition to this, the 24th Army also had major changes. General Pang Bingxun, who was the commander at the time, repeatedly resigned because of his age and poor health, but he was rejected by the Ministry of Military Affairs. Pang Bingxun is a very legendary person, starting from a small soldier in his life, and has been the commander-in-chief of the group army and the chairman of the province.

In fact, he has long been tired of military life, and he wanted to quit the military camp when Qiao lived in Shanxi in his early years, but unfortunately Yan Xishan didn't look down on him (Lao Xi'er said that he didn't want to be hungry in Shanxi). The highlight performance in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War can be said to be the most passionate in his heart, and then Chang Kaishen threw him to Taihang Mountain to grab territory with the Eighth Route Army, and finally became disheartened.

Zheng Weiguo saw that he was really not suitable to be the head of the army anymore, so he helped him get a false title of deputy commander-in-chief of the theater, and went to Lixian County with Wan Fulin, the former commander of the 53rd Army. The 24th Group Army was succeeded by Ma Fawu, the former deputy commander of the 40th Army (the commander was also concurrently served by Pang). Ma Fawu is younger and more motivated. In the parallel space, the 24th Group Army surrendered like a tide of generals and troops, but he led his troops to break through to Henan with great difficulty, and his ability and ethics are trustworthy.

While adjusting the various units, Zheng Weiguo deeply felt that the equipment of the various armies was inferior, and he raised funds to purchase a large number of weapons from the Soviet Union. Where does the money come from? There are several ways, one is to raise funds from the base area, including the confiscated from the traitor landlord's house, and from the Tianjin Yokohama Zhengjin Bank, which was too late to carry it, and the ocean sunk in the Haihe River was also secretly fished back by the special combat team, but unfortunately some of them could not be found, and they may have been washed away by the river (if a friend in Tianjin picks up the ocean by the river, remember to hand it over to Gongha).

The second is to collect donations from all walks of life. What surprised Zheng Weiguo was that many Beiyang relics also secretly donated a lot, including Wu Peifu, the "jade handsome" who had shocked China. Gao Zhiyuan, the commander of the 92nd Division, had some friendship with him, and with the assistance of the underground party, Wu Dashuai donated half of his family property, about 2 million oceans, all of which were exchanged for US dollars in Citibank, a total of 1 million.

There is also a larger income donated by Zhang Shaoshuai, and the Shenyang Marshal's Mansion was copied in the 918 Incident, which caused the young marshal to lose a huge amount (at that time, it was estimated that there were more than 100 million assets). However, this is not all the property of the Zhang family. The young marshal also secretly saved a lot of money back then. After the Xi'an Incident, the young marshal sent Chang Kaishen back to Nanjing, and before leaving, he handed over all the family property to Yu Xuezhong, then the commander of the 51st Army.

In terms of factions, Yu Xuezhong is actually not a member of the Northeast Army. He was originally Wu Peifu's old department. It was only in 1927 that he switched to the Feng Department. But look at his life. is really worthy of his name, and he is extremely loyal to the Zhang family father and son. This can be seen from the fact that Zhang Hanqing did not hand over the money to others, but to Yu Xuezhong. And Yu Xuezhong did not live up to the young marshal's trust. In the parallel space, no matter how difficult the conditions were, he did not embezzle the money.

In this time and space, the young marshal learned that the Northeast Army had suffered a "fiasco" (in fact, it can be called a fiasco), and he was so anxious that he secretly contacted Yu Xuezhong and asked him to take out the money to fund the Northeast Army to purchase and sell weapons. But Yu Xuezhong had no way, so he asked Zheng Weiguo to help him buy it. Zheng Huzi is also not polite, anyway, this money is from the people of the Northeast, and it is very suitable for the Northeast Army to resist the war. So only a fraction of the young marshal was left, and the whole amount, a full five million dollars, was taken away.

There is also a large amount of money that Balu helped to get. Some people may wonder, where did the money come from? It turned out that there was a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, Shandong (which seemed to be the largest gold mine in China), which was very large, but unfortunately it was occupied by the Japanese. The Eighth Route Army could only send guerrillas to sporadically get "a little". The reason why it is in quotation marks is because this "little bit" is not a decimal number, in parallel space, the local guerrillas helped Yan'an get a total of 130,000 taels of gold during the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War!

Of course, there are many places where Yan'an has to spend money, and it is impossible to give all this money to Zheng Huzi to buy weapons. Moreover, these 130,000 taels were accumulated in eight years, and it is impossible to conjure them up all at once. Zheng Huzi is still the old way, one word, rob! During the occupation of the Zhaoyuan gold mine by the Japanese army, mechanized mining was adopted, and the annual output of the Linglong mine alone was as high as 40,000 taels.

With the assistance of Xu Shiyou's Jiaodong Military Region, the Jicha Theater Special Service Brigade was dispatched and collected more than 70,000 taels of gold in one fell swoop. Originally, it was impossible to store so much in the mining area, but in the past few months, Tada Jun has been busy transporting troops and supplies, and has requisitioned all the sea ships. The land route (Jiaoji Railway, etc.) was cut into several sections by the 115th Division, which was very unsafe, so a large amount of gold did not have time to be transferred.

Under the response and escort of the 4th Cavalry Division, the 115th Division and Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army, this batch of gold finally arrived in Jizhong safely. Zheng Weiguo took out 20,000 taels to Yan'an as funds, and the remaining 50,000 taels were exchanged for weapons with Lao Maozi.

In this way, they scraped together and got a total of more than 10 million dollars. One might ask how many weapons are exchanged for so much money. Let's do the math for you. First of all, the Deshka large-caliber machine guns, a thousand of which were previously booked (only more than two hundred arrived, and with serious losses), were simply increased to two thousand.

Because the previous armor-piercing shells were difficult to penetrate the latest Type 97 medium tank of the Japanese army, Zheng Weiguo asked the Soviets to produce a batch of "cap-piercing shells" on their behalf. Ordinary armor-piercing bullets (AP) are a pointed head, and quilt cap-piercing bullets (APC) are welded with a tough, blunt shape on the outside of the pointed head to reduce jumping. While the cap hits the armor and is damaged, it also causes some damage to the armor surface, which is conducive to the continuous armor piercing of the complete pointed projectile, so the armor-piercing ability is extremely strong.

The price is still $1,000 a piece, no way, it's a seller's market now. However, after many negotiations, the Soviets finally agreed to make concessions on the bullets, anyway, the bullets on the assembly line were not worth much, and each machine gun was attached with 20,000 rounds. Together, the guns and bullets were worth four million dollars.

With these 2,000 large-caliber machine guns, the anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons of the armies in North China are basically complete. According to Zheng Weiguo's vision. North China will be adjusted to 20 main forces, according to the three-three system, that is, 540 battalions, each battalion has three large-caliber machine guns, that is, 1,620, taking into account the battlefield attrition, 2,000 is no longer too much. Of course, it's not a small amount, the little devils don't have so many tanks for them to strafe.

In addition to Deshka, Zheng Huzi also purchased a batch of anti-aircraft guns, mainly M1931 76.2 mm anti-aircraft guns. There are 50 guns in total, with various types of artillery shells, tractors, connecting equipment, and various anti-aircraft equipment (listening machines, searchlights, etc.). The unit price of this cannon is $20,000, and the total price is $1,000,000. There are also 100 spare breeches, priced at $1,500 per unit and $150,000 for a total of $150,000. Artillery shells, tractors, and various instruments and equipment add up to $850,000. The total is exactly $2 million.

These artillery pieces were originally intended to form four air defense battalions, one in Suiyuan, one in Yan'an, one in Zhongtiaoshan, and one in Jizhong, but Taizu didn't ask for it. Because the old city of Yan'an at that time had been blown up by devils, most of the people had been evacuated, and there was nothing to defend. So it was proposed to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. But Mr. Peng didn't ask for it, because the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was not fixed, and it was easy to expose the target with an anti-aircraft artillery battalion. At the end of the day, this battalion was placed in Yanchang, which was already capable of producing some oil, and Yanchang was close to the Yellow River, and could also provide fire support to the river defense troops if necessary.

Well, that's going to cost six million dollars, and the remaining four million dollars are all for tanks. However, instead of the T26 purchased by the Nationalist Government, the BT series of tanks (there is information that the Nationalist Army also bought them, but the number is very small). This tank was produced in 35 years under the designation BT7, there were several models, and some were bought.

According to Zheng Weiguo's requirements, the armor was thickened, the front armor reached 50 mm, the side armor was 30 mm, and the V-2 diesel engine and whip antenna were replaced, and the mobility was worse than the original, but it could also reach about 40 to 45 kilometers.

The Soviet Union was also interested in these improvements, so they asked the tank designers to work on them in Kharkov, which were completed in the summer of '39. In the end, a total of 82 tanks of various types were bought, organized into a tank brigade, and attached to Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army. The brigade commander was Li Shuqing, who had returned from his studies at the Dihua Military Academy.

Well, the money was all spent, and Zheng Weiguo suddenly received a news that made him cry and laugh - the German government said that it was willing to trade a few more times, or the old rule, exchanging oil fields for weapons. Trade your sister, don't trade sooner or later, what does it mean to wait for Lao Tzu to spend all the money? Zheng Weiguo decided to hang the Germans for a few days first. (To be continued......)

PS: For well-known reasons, this book is estimated to be sealed for a long time. It wouldn't be interesting to write it down again, so Shanren decided to take the editor's suggestion, wrap it up quickly, and finish the book and start a new book. In the next few chapters, the following plot will be explained in an outline-like way, so that friends can understand the subsequent development of the story. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.