In addition, the Central Military Commission also conferred titles on these Japanese soldiers, so that these dozens of "Japanese comrades" who were mostly ordinary soldiers at that time suddenly all of them had the status of officers, which made Hu Weidong quite laughable. However, it is good that Hu Weidong took advantage of this opportunity to ask Lao Chiang for the name of the "Japanese Column of the 15th Army of the National Revolutionary Army," and after that, the Japanese "liberation fighters" with a total number of more than 3,000 people could be concentrated into an army, so that their combat effectiveness could be brought into full play and their political influence would be greater

But on the other hand, after the war, the deputy battalion commander Wu Xiuwen was punished for "distrusting foreign comrades", which made his subsequent experience quite difficult, although he actually did it completely according to the instructions of his superiors, but this is politics

In any case, the sacrifice of the left flank of the 2nd Regiment was worth it, not only did they eliminate a full infantry brigade, but also proved that the "bushido spirit" of the Japanese army was not as invincible as they boasted, and the squadron did not necessarily have to rely on numerical superiority to compete with the Japanese army. Relying on well-established and strong fortifications, weapons and equipment, and the quality of soldiers, the elite Chinese troops are not weaker than the Japanese army, even in a frontal defensive battle, may play an astonishing casualty ratio such as 1:5. On the one hand, Taizu of Lanzhou came into contact with the example of positional defensive warfare earlier than in history, thus perfecting his military thinking more than ten years in advance; On the other hand, it temporarily boosted the confidence of the front, because their main mode of warfare was to rely on fortifications and city defenses, which the 15th Army, which had never heard of any defensive battles before, could do. Why can't they? Of course, that's all for later

The words were divided into two ends, and it was said that the commander of the Japanese army on the left flank saw the opportunity early and gave up the attack in time, although his brigade did not suffer much loss, but it also made the division commander Gu Shoufu angry, and only heard a few "pops". The captain's horse face was turned into a round face by Gu Shoufu's slap

With Gu Shoufu's original intention, he really wanted to order the captain to cut his stomach, but there was the brigade that was completely wiped out as a comparison. At least he still retained his strength, and after all, this guy was still a classmate of the Army University, and Gu Shoufu finally put the half-drawn saber back into the sheath. Who knew that the captain named Tomohisa Shiraishi said with a stiff neck. "Your Excellency, General, they basically did not use artillery and machine guns in the previous frontal attack against our army, and they obviously have spare strength. It is precisely because of this problem that the lowly position decisively gave up the attack, not the cowardice and forced war you said! Moreover, the enemy suppressed the front of our army's strong strength with sharpshooters, focusing on demoralization, but for the elite soldiers on both flanks of our army, he did not hesitate to spend ammunition on a large number of machine guns and artillery, focusing on killing and wounding personnel, this is undoubtedly a very clever arrangement, and it is obvious that the other side is not only elite soldiers, but also has strong firepower. And there is also a very haode commander, and it will not be easy to defeat them. According to humble observation, this squadron is only the strength of one regiment at most, but it can inflict such heavy casualties on our army, which is definitely an unprecedented fierce enemy in the history of the division and regiment. A regiment is so difficult to deal with, and when more squadrons arrive, the situation will be even more unfavorable, for the sake of safety, I think that our army should immediately return to Dingxian, no, Baoding. and the imperial armies of Zhangjiakou and Beiping are fighting each other for security"

Gu Shoufu was so angry that his beard flew up, his right hand was tightly grasped on the hilt of the knife, but after all, he slowly put it down, and after a while, he pointed at Shiraishi Tomohisa with a sinking face, and shouted, "You, go to the baggage team headquarters to report!" Shiraishi Tomohisa couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, but he still habitually gave a military salute to Gu Shoufu, and then rushed to the baggage wing to report.

At first glance, Gu Shoufu is still quite tolerant, Shiraishi Tomohisa can continue to be the captain of the baggage wing, but the baggage unit has always been not valued in the Japanese army, and the poor treatment and low status are even worse, and more importantly, once you enter the baggage unit, you basically have no chance of meritorious service and promotion, and the materials should be delivered as scheduled, at most, you don't want to be praised by money, and you will be reprimanded and even punished by your superiors if you delay a little, in a sense, the future is bleak than transferring to the reserves...,

Although he sent the hated Shiraishi away, Gu Shoufu still listened to some of his analysis of the enemy, and when he faced up to the 2nd Regiment and even the elite Chinese unit to which it belonged (I had already guessed that it might be the 15th Army, but I couldn't be sure yet. He didn't care whether the railroad would be destroyed when attacking, he just wanted to wipe out this elite Chinese force as soon as possible and give him a chance to retreat with dignity. In this way, the artillery superiority of the Japanese field artillery wing was brought into play, and the artillery of the devils was only hiding at a long distance to cover the positions of the 2nd Regiment again and again, and Gu Shoufu also sent telegrams many times to call the Japanese aviation units in Baoding to bomb the positions of the 2nd Regiment. By the evening of the next day, there were only 2 of the 6 field guns of the 2nd regiment left, and 3 infantry guns were also blown up, and the total number of casualties soared to more than 800 people (including casualties in the previous battles), fortunately, the previous big victory on the left flank made the whole army full of confidence, and the 2nd regiment, which suffered more than 30% casualties, could continue to maintain high morale.

But the incentive effect of winning the battle could only last for a while, and just when Yang Botao began to feel a little anxious, the first wave of reinforcements finally arrived. The soldiers of the 2nd Regiment were very excited to see the reinforcements coming, but Yang Botao was still frowning, the strength of a battalion was too small, and the cavalry was not very useful in positional warfare. The most important thing is that it stands to reason that there should be at least 2 infantry regiments ready to rush to the battlefield by now, but how did the cavalry battalion come about? What the hell are they thinking, commander?

"Lao Yang, in fact, our people in Shijiazhuang already have this number", although Fu Hongjiu, the commander of the cavalry battalion, is a Mongolian, but due to the relationship that has long been highly sinicized, there is no language barrier at all, and his relationship with Yang Botao on weekdays is not bad, now anyway, there is no need to worry about leaks, he saw Yang Botao's face was heavy, so he stretched out two fingers and let him feel at ease.

Note 1: After the reorganization of the Anti-Japanese War, Hu Weidong also adjusted the cavalry units of the 15th Army, with a cavalry regiment directly under the military headquarters, and then a cavalry battalion directly under each division, and most of the cavalry was assigned to the brigade headquarters and regimental headquarters of each regiment in need with the establishment of cavalry companies. (Your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )