Chapter 105: Turning the Tiger Away from the Mountain
It is said that there are many demons in troubled times, and this is not false at all. Born in troubled times, some people are worried about the country, and some people want to take advantage of this troubled times to achieve their own grand ambitions, and even ignore the danger of the country for their own selfish desires, King De is one of the representatives.
Speaking of this King of Germany is famous in the northern part of the country, the full name of King De. Prince Muchuk Donrup, the word Xixian. One of the only few princes in the northern part of the country, this person is a native of the Sunit banner of the Xilin Gol grassland, and was named the king of Sunit Zasak Duling County, and was the head of the Xilin Gol League, and in 1913, the Beiyang government awarded him the prince of Zasak and Shuoduliang.
King De was familiar with Confucian scriptures and was an accomplished calligrapher of Chinese characters. After the 918 Incident, King De contacted the Japanese army, and organized the Inner Mongolia Princes' Conference in 1933 with King Yun and other princes, and asked the Nationalist Government for autonomy.
The Nationalist Government was helpless to the unreasonable demands of these Mongolian princes headed by King De, although it had the intention to refuse, but at that time the Kuomintang was busy suppressing the Communists, and the Nationalist Government was already out of reach of the Saibei steppe, so it had no choice but to approve the establishment of the Mongolian Local Autonomous Government in April 1934, and King De served as the secretary general and actually presided over government affairs.
In February 1936, with the support of the Japanese Kwantung Army, the Mongolian military government was established, and King De served as commander-in-chief and president. On November 24, Fu Zuoyi dispatched the main force of the 35th Army to conquer the Bailing Temple garrisoned by the Seventh Division of the puppet Mongolian Army, which was for the "Suiyuan War of Resistance". After the July 7 Incident in 1937, the Japanese Kwantung Army soon controlled most of the Saibei grassland, and King De, Li Shouxin and others defected to the Japanese and served as the head of the puppet regime in Mongolia.
On October 27, under the planning of the Japanese secret service, King De convened the "Second Mongolian Congress" in Xilinhot, proclaimed Mongolia's "autonomy" and established the "Mongolian Union Autonomous Government". Designated by the Japanese Kwantung Army, King Yun served as the chairman of the puppet autonomous government, and King De served as the vice chairman. Due to the illness of King Yun, King De took charge of all the affairs of the regime.
On the one hand, the Japanese oppression, which includes both economic and military, and in the economy, the Japanese want money and food, and all military expenditures of the troops stationed in Mongolia must be paid in full by the "Mongolian Union Autonomous Government."
In addition, the Japanese intervened in the armed forces under the command of King De, which also made this old guy very dissatisfied, although the puppet Mongolian army is now commanded by Li Shouxin, but the actual controller is still King De himself. However, in order to completely control the Sebei steppe controlled by the king of Germany, the Japanese insisted on assigning a military adviser to each battalion of the puppet Mongol army, these military advisers were called advisors, but they were actually supervising the army, and every move of the puppet Mongol army was under the surveillance of the Japanese.
After receiving the telegram of ** Chun, King De was bitter, he originally thought that he had taken refuge in the Japanese was hugging the meat thigh, but he did not expect that the Japanese combat effectiveness was not as strong as he imagined, and the three expeditions to Chanan were all returned, the Japanese army was of course a loss of soldiers, and his puppet Mongolian army also suffered heavy losses, in just over four months, the puppet Mongolian army was completely annihilated 5 cavalry divisions and 2 infantry divisions, and the loss of more than 50,000 troops, which was the family foundation he had finally accumulated, and it was cut off.
Even if the Japanese later mobilized a large number of weapons and equipment for him and captured prisoners of the national army, these were not as good as their previous troops. The soldier said that although the grassland is vast and sparsely populated, it is not a problem to pull 180,000 young people. However, it is not easy to find officers, and the Nationalist Government has the Whampoa Military Academy and the Central Military Academy to train officers for the local army of the Central Army, and there are also the Northeast Lecture Hall and the Baoding Military Academy as supplements.
But King De had nothing, and his officers were mainly slowly cultivated through combat or by digging into the corners of the Northwest Army or other troops, and this time was almost completely consumed. For this reason, the Japanese deliberately transferred a large number of graduates from the Xinjing Non-commissioned Officer School in Northeast Manchukuo to supplement the puppet Mongolian army, so as to enrich the grassroots officers of the puppet Mongolian army.
In this way, King De and Li Shouxin obviously felt that their control over the troops under their command was getting weaker and weaker, and this time as soon as they heard that they were going to transfer an infantry division and two cavalry divisions south to reinforce Duolun, King De felt a heartache in his heart, and he didn't know how many people he would lose in this way.
But the Japanese are now too emperor, even if he on his neck, he can only pinch his nose and endure it. Looking at Li Shouxin, who also had an extremely ugly face, King De could only sigh and say: "Commander-in-Chief Li, don't be sad, we can't afford to mess with the Japanese, so let's notify the troops as soon as possible, let the troops assemble early, otherwise we will have to eat and hang up if we go late." ”
"Hey, I don't understand this truth, but every time a division is sent over one division at a time, when I come back, only half or one-third of the soldiers are left, and sometimes I can't even come back, so I feel uncomfortable." Li Shouxin sighed and said.
This Li Shouxin can be said to be a steppe hero, the number one person in the puppet Mongolian army, and the number three figure in the puppet Mongolian government. This person had served as a battalion commander and regiment commander among the warlords of the Feng family. And also entered the Gadamerin uprising team, Gadamerin himself was shot to death by Li Shouxin's rifle in Hanoi when he forcibly crossed the Ulim Ren River.
After the September 18 Incident in 1931, he led the army to resist the Japanese attack, and served as the commander of the 57th Regiment under Cui Xingwu of the 9th Brigade of the Northeast Army in Rehe. In 1933, the Japanese army invaded Rehe, and Li Shouxin led his troops to surrender to the enemy. The 17th Brigade of the Northeast Army was reorganized into the "Xing'an West Garrison Army". Later, he was appointed by Tanaka Jiu, the head of the Japanese special service in Chifeng, as the "commander of the Rehe guerrilla division" and "the commander of the Chadong garrison", and other pseudo-positions, with more than 6,300 people in two Han detachments, more than 1,700 people in a Mongolian detachment, and an artillery brigade. After the "July 7" incident, Li Shouxin took advantage of the situation in North China and became the commander-in-chief of the puppet Mongolian army.
Li Shouxin was a man who was good at commanding battles and knew that only by mastering the barrel of the gun could he curry favor with the Japanese, and he knew very well that he and King De had no way to retreat now, and could only go all the way to the black. But as a low-level gangster who climbed up from the bandits, he knew very well the truth of power coming out of the barrel of a gun, and he was not sympathetic to the soldiers under his command, but worried that once the troops in his hands were gradually exhausted, he would lose the value of being used by the Japanese, and who would take him Li Shouxin seriously at that time.
"How many men and horses do we have now, I'm worried that this time these three divisions will go south to reinforce again, and we will have to leave a seed for the troops." King De asked with a frown.
"Since the defeat in the last battle of Datong, we have filled in 2 divisions, and the troops are only 7 cavalry divisions, 3 infantry divisions and 2 guard divisions, with a total strength of less than 80,000 people. More than half of them were formed by captives from the south, and their combat effectiveness was very poor, and if they really wanted to be pulled into the battlefield and come back alive, half of them would burn high incense. Li Shouxin said.
"That's all there is left, didn't the Japanese say that they would reorganize 10 divisions for us, and there has been no movement so far?" King De asked again.
"Hmph, the Japanese are just perfunctory to us, 10 divisions are just a disguise, since the end of the Battle of Datong, that old thing has only sent us 2 divisions of weapons and equipment, all of which are broken copper and iron captured from the Songhu battlefield, which is a big gap with the equipment they use." Li Shouxin said dissatisfied.
"Forget it, don't say these useless, I heard that the grandson of that old thing in Erji is making a lot of trouble in Duolun this time, let's send troops over as soon as possible, if he lets him take **Chun to the prisoner, then we won't be able to eat and walk around, the last time Lian Zhaopan's unlucky guy was captured, the two of us were scolded by the Japanese."
"Well, I'll arrange it!"
Not long after the 26th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army, the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Army, and two cavalry divisions and one infantry division of the puppet army were stationed in Xilin Gol City, the cavalry group of Chabuqiri, which was stationed 150 kilometers away from Xilinhot, received a telegram from the special combat personnel.
The commander-in-chief of the cavalry group, Yehelina, immediately summoned the officers above the group to a pre-war meeting, and if Chen Feng wanted to talk about all the troops of the 61st Army, the cavalry group that Chen Feng cared about the least was the cavalry group. Chen Feng of other troops understands, whether it is infantry, artillery or special forces, Chen Feng is proficient in everything, how to train, and how to match firepower, Chen Feng is very handy.
But only the cavalry is Chen Feng's weakness, the Gaine cavalry has been completely eliminated in Chen Feng's era, and has been completely replaced by armored soldiers with stronger mobility and more powerful firepower, Chen Feng has no chance to contact this class at all, so Chen Feng was so eager to subdue Yehelina at that time.
And Yeherina did not disappoint Chen Feng, and took Bobosha and other Mongolian Russian military officers to form 9 cavalry regiments in just a few months, in addition to one each assigned to the 101st Division, the 222nd Division, and the Seventh Independent Division, the cavalry group now has six regiments under its jurisdiction.