In the end, with the 15th Army as the main force, the four divisions of the Eighth Route Army assisted by the side, and the 32nd Army and the North China People's Armed Forces also actively participated, the Pingsui Line Campaign ended victoriously, with more than 50,000 squadrons (including more than 10,000 people from the 15th Army, more than 10,000 people from the Eighth Route Army, more than 2,000 people from the 32nd Army, and more than 20,000 people from the North China People's Armed Forces. The total number of casualties was about 100,000 (if these troops were all fully established, the total strength would exceed 130,000, but they had been somewhat reduced before, and some of the troops were still relatively serious.) Among them, more than 50,000 devils were captured (Note 1), which can be called the greatest victory in the history of China's war against Japan since the First Sino-Japanese War

Although the Pingsui Line Campaign did not have the good fortune of the initial attack on Fengtai, relying on the hard work of the vast number of officers and men and the outstanding performance of the special combat personnel, it still obtained quite a lot of captures, among which the occupation of the two cities of Beiping and Zhangjiakou alone captured a large amount of important materials that our army urgently needs at present, including 52 combat aircraft (12 Type 97 heavy bombers, 40 Type 95 biplane fighters, in fact, in addition to a lot of usable parts, The officers and men of the 15 th Army, who were accustomed to saving, did not even let go of the wreckage of the planes at the Beiping Airport that the Japanese army had not had time to completely clean up), 63 Type 93 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 49 Type 88 75mm anti-aircraft guns, more than 12,000 tons of ammunition (a lot was used up in the battle), a large number of clothing for at least 150,000 people, including winter clothing, more than 10,000 tons of grain, and a total of no less than $5 million in hard currency

It is also worth mentioning that Hu Weidong was long before the army left Beiping. He ordered the troops to take away all the science and engineering intellectuals in the city, and all those who did not want to go were treated as traitors, which although this move further lowered his already low evaluation among the literati, but he succeeded in hollowing out all the essence of Beiping in a short period of time, and when the devils "recovered" Beiping soon after, they were stunned to find that the city was no longer able to bring them much practical benefits, but it had become a big burden. The development of science and technology and industry in the Central Plains border region has benefited greatly

The reason why this battle was able to achieve such brilliant results was due to the German blitzkrieg tactics that appeared on the stage of history in advance, but the aircraft and armored units that contributed to it paid a lot of price. The situation of the aircraft was good, and the number of planes of the 15th Army Flying Regiment increased instead of decreasing due to the large number of Japanese planes captured in three consecutive times (Note 2). An unprecedented 163 aircraft (including trainer aircraft) were reached. However, the losses of the armored brigade are large, although including the post-war repair of haode, more than a dozen Japanese tanks and armored vehicles have been captured, but after this battle, the armored brigade that originally had nearly 200 tanks and armored vehicles is only 24 Type 89 B medium tanks, 72 Type 95 light tanks, 24 Type 92 cavalry armored vehicles, 8 Type 95 road and railway dual-purpose armored vehicles, and 4 Type 94 ultra-light tanks (that is, the so-called "Xiaodou" tank). A total of 132 vehicles, the armored corps suffered more than half of the casualties, of which the number of casualties reached one-third of the total number, the tragic situation at that time can be imagined, but after personally participating in the practice of the first new armored tactics on Shijie. Most of these survivors later grew up to become outstanding armored commanders of the People's Army

After receiving this amazing battle report, Lao Jiang in Nanjing asked in disbelief, "What?" Four Japanese divisions? ”，

"Yes, take a seat! The Red Party has also invested in blood this time. The battle report said that in addition to the 15 th Army, the four main divisions of the 18th Group Army also participated in the battle, and in addition, the 32nd Army of Chairman Shang of Henan Province and more than 100,000 anti-Japanese people participated in the war, and the total strength should be about 400,000. Qian Dajun, the director of the chamberlain, replied with an excited face.

"Good. Very good! This time, the First and Second War zones joined hands to resist the enemy and annihilate the enemy, which can be regarded as a national model and should be rewarded! Lao Jiang just issued an order, but after thinking about it, he asked Qian Dajun again, "Does the Red Party have any requirements?" ”…,

"It's still the same as the old three, number, supplies and military salary." , Qian Dajun bowed and replied.

"Are they still short of money? It is said that the equipment of the 15th Army is better than that of the Central Army! Lao Jiang couldn't help but be a little unhappy when he heard it, but it was he who promised to send military salaries and supplies, and he ate more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers in one go, and it was a big battle again soon after the vicious battle, and the consumption of weapons and ammunition is estimated to be quite amazing, and the cost of money and food should not be a small amount

Zuihou, after thinking about it repeatedly, Lao Jiang still agreed to supply 20 million rounds of ammunition to the participating troops, and make up for the previous lack of about 3 million yuan in military salary, and at the same time awarded Hu Weidong and other four people the Order of the Blue Sky and the White Sun, Xu Xiangqian and others, who had been set up low in military ranks, were promoted, and Zhou Gong and Peng Zong were also promoted to the rank of general, as for Hu Weidong, who had the greatest credit, he was still a lieutenant general for the time being because he was too young, but Lao Jiang publicly promised that as long as Hu Weidong made another great contribution, he would be promoted to general

But he did not give a positive answer to the question of the number that Lao Jiang was most concerned about, but wrote a check, "If the Red Party can completely annihilate the two divisions of the Japanese 1st Army (Originally, the 5th Division was directly under the North China Front, but because the headquarters of the North China Front Army was far away in Tianjin, and the 1st Army in Taiyuan only had 1 division left, the 5th Division was temporarily incorporated into the 1st Army. After recovering the whole province of Shanxi, the Central Military Commission agreed to upgrade the 18th Group Army to a Type A Group Army (with an army under its jurisdiction instead of a division) and the 15 th Army to a Group Army B with four integrated divisions under its jurisdiction."

Hu Weidong couldn't help but smile after knowing it, "Lao Jiang is very calculating, but this cost is not small, and anyway, we didn't plan to let go of the remaining two devil divisions, we took this task!" ”

Note 1: It is worth mentioning that most of the prisoners came from those two special divisions, because these former reserve officers and soldiers were generally close to middle age, most of them had families, and their will to resist was far less strong than that of the permanent divisions, which were mostly young. In addition, the proportion of skilled workers among them is much higher than that of the prisoners of war of the permanent division regiment, and these Jishu talents were basically taken away by Hu Weidong, which helped the development of industry in the Central Plains border area a lot.

Note 2: In fact, there is another reason, because of the different styles of the aircraft are extremely conspicuous, and like the Soviet aircraft, they were attacked by devil planes and anti-aircraft fire and suffered heavy losses, which objectively greatly reduced the losses of the 15th Army Flying Regiment (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )