Hu Weidong has always hated the enemy to destroy weapons when he sees that he is invincible, although he has always asked his subordinates to do this, in a nutshell, it is "our army does this is a glorious tradition, and the enemy is heinous to do so." ”

Anyway, Hu Weidong is very angry now, and the consequences are also very serious, although most of the devils have been stubbornly resisting to death, but there are also a few devils who still want to get the legendary people's army's "preferential treatment of prisoners", but Hu Weidong, who was provoked by the devil's destruction of weapons, asked his subordinates to refuse to accept their surrender on the grounds that "the devils who destroyed the weapons are all deeply poisoned and incorrigible", and these devils can only be tragic. You must know that due to the tradition of the people's army, the combat exploits of seizing weapons are often greater than the elimination of the same number of devils, and seeing that the opportunity to make great contributions is gone, anyone will be angry, so even if the above does not give an order, the commanders and fighters at the grassroots level will often turn a blind eye to the devil's request for surrender

Although most of the possible captures were destroyed by the devils, after all, this time, in addition to the two permanent divisions, a tank wing and two field heavy artillery brigades directly under the command of the 1st Army Headquarters were also eliminated by the way. Unlike the Anti-Japanese War in North China, the four divisions of the Eighth Route Army contributed a lot in this campaign, and Hu Weidong was once mentally prepared to be divided by them with half or even one-third of the trophies of World War II, but after the war, the Eighth Route Army said that it had received help from the 15th Army many times before, and it was really reluctant to reach out if he always stretched out. So the spoils captured this time let the comrades of the 15th Army pick first, and now Hu Weidong was a little embarrassed, but he was reluctant to let those good things, Zuihou thought about it, and finally came up with a distribution plan that should be considered happy for everyone

Hu Weidong wanted all the tanks, but because the original 24 Type 89 medium tanks of the armored brigade were backward in performance, especially the speed was only half of that of the Type 95 light tank, the mixed formation would seriously affect the advance speed of the armored brigade. As a result, it became very frustrating, and the eight Type 95 road and railway dual-purpose armored vehicles and four Type 94 ultralight tanks, that is, the "Xiaodou tanks" as the saying goes, were completely unsuitable for group combat, and Hu Weidong did not want them either. zuihou。 Except for 12 Type 89 medium tanks sent to the Kang Da Armored Corps Branch for training armored troops, the rest were all given to the Eighth Route Army. Although this point of concentrated combat is not powerful, it is dispersed to support infantry operations. But it can be of great help, and the Eighth Route Army, which did not have a tank before, will naturally not be ugly

In terms of artillery, Hu Weidong left 6 Type 96 240mm heavy howitzers, 12 Type 96 150mm heavy cannons, and all 150mm field cannons, 105mm field cannons, and 105mm field guns in the capture, while the rest of the artillery, as well as the 24 150mm howitzers and 8 Taizheng 14th Year 270mm heavy mortars that the 15th Army is now equipped with, were handed over to the Eighth Route Army. After these artillery pieces were merged into the heavy artillery regiment of the 115th Division, they were upgraded to heavy artillery brigades and were directly under the command of the General Headquarters of the 18th Group Army, which greatly enhanced the Eighth Route Army's ability to attack fortified positions and the combat capability of large corps, while the artillery units of the 15th Army further improved the quality of equipment, and the logistical pressure was also reduced because of the elimination of some chicken rib models. The advantage of "building near the water" was not envied by the other three divisions of the Eighth Route Army

At this time, the Japanese army in Tianjin launched an attack on Zhangjiakou after reoccupying Beiping, which is now almost half an empty city. Although the Japanese army had an absolute advantage in strength and firepower, the North China Front, which was frightened by the large-scale penetration of the 15th Army, weakened the frontal attack Liliang because it paid too much attention to the protection of the flanks and rear, and at the same time, Hu Lian had already built a large area of fortifications with Zimu Fort as the core outside Zhangjiakou at this time, which was clearly to bully the Japanese army, and now there were no heavy artillery troops to send. In addition, a division of the 32nd Army was also dispatched by him, and the strength was actually quite sufficient, and the defensive operations for several days were fought impressively, killing and wounding more than 8,000 Japanese soldiers at the cost of more than 3,000 casualties. …,

However, after the victory of the Battle of Taiyuan, it became meaningless for the 94th Division to continue to hold on. Moreover, when the 15 th Army Flying Regiment shifted its operational focus to Taiyuan, the Japanese air force in North China was rapidly enriched, and the number of Japanese planes attacking Zhangjiakou increased by dozens of sorties every day.

It turned out that after learning the news of the loss of Taiyuan and the destruction of the 1st Army, the Japanese high-level thought that instead of going west to Shanxi with dangerous terrain and fighting with the brave 15th Army and other red party troops, it was better to concentrate the main Liliang on the south to open up the Jinpu line, so that not only could it cope with the Central China Front Army that was still in a stalemate with hundreds of thousands of troops in the Songhu battlefield, but also directly peeked into the Central Plains after attacking and occupying Shandong. The Central Plains Border Region, the fundamental place that threatened the 15 th Army, must know that the Central Plains is a flat river, which is more suitable for the play of the "mechanized troops of the Imperial Army," and is no more attractive than the offensive line of burrowing into the natural cage of Shanxi

Seeing that the devil withdrew, Hu Lian was reluctant to leave, and if he could stay in the city, who would want to drill the ravine? Moreover, Zhangjiakou, an important city that currently occupies the city, is also an important bargaining chip in the negotiations between the two parties on the redistribution of land after the war

Although he was worried that the Red Party would take the opportunity to expand its military strength, but now that the casualties on the Songhu battlefield were getting heavier, Lao Jiang gritted his teeth after learning that Taiyuan had been recovered, and fulfilled his previous promise, that is, the 18th Group Army was upgraded to a type A group army with three armies, and the 15th Army was upgraded to a type B group army with four integrated divisions, and Hu Weidong was promoted to the rank of general. As soon as the order of the Military Commission was issued, the special infantry wing led by Seishiro Itagaki was exposed and the Jin-Cha-Ji border region, the most important base of the Eighth Route Army, and the local troops exchanged fire

Chen Guang, deputy commander of the 115th Division who remained in the border area, immediately mobilized troops to intercept after hearing the news, but although there were still tens of thousands of local troops and militia armed forces in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area at first glance, almost all the elites who could fight in the field were withdrawn. Zuihou Chen Guang not only failed to stop Itagaki Seishiro, but instead suffered five or six thousand casualties in just two or three days, allowing the Itagaki United, which should have fled in embarrassment, to return to Beiping in a victorious posture (to be continued). If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )