Chapter 198 The wind and clouds rise, mountains and rivers move

The honorary troops formed by Zhang Xuewu are composed of Shen Hanze as the division commander and Ye Yunfei as the chief of staff. Each brigade of the five combat brigades is composed of the Rehe Army's carefully selected Huangpu Department who can fight. All of this is caused by the restlessness of the Kwantung Army. Zhang Xuewu is not afraid that the Kwantung Army will attack his fortress city and base. The key point of defense is that he is afraid that the Japanese army will besiege it with heavy troops and not fight, forming a strategic division, so that more than 100,000 troops of the Rehe Legion will be useless.

Because the Rehe Army is a tactical strategy to fight against the Japanese army, if the Japanese army is surrounded and does not fight, it will be very passive, because although the Rehe Legion's weapons and firepower are better than the Japanese army, the timing and conditions for large-scale field annihilation are still not yet ripe, and the Rehe Army has no field annihilation yet. The ability to destroy the strategic units at the level of the military division is mainly due to the intensive use of troops by the army. If the attack of the Rehe Legion is blocked, the overall tactical form will be fundamentally reversed.

Because after the deployment of the honorary troops, the headquarters of the Rehe Army once again carried out war mobilization in Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan. After the five main divisions absorbed the headquarters of the Northeast Army, they all increased from the sixth regiment of the third brigade to the tenth regiment of the fifth brigade. Among them, Zhang Xuewu ordered the civil affairs department to cooperate with the transfer of a batch of training. The well-behind militia has been added to the main force, and the army of the legion has also increased from the original two reading brigades to seven reading brigades.

Now Baotou Arsenal has been able to produce 105mm shotguns and shells, and can assemble and manufacture jackal tanks by itself. In addition to the 120 vehicles equipped by Tang Ziqiang's mechanization division, there are nearly 100 vehicles for storage. It can be said that the withdrawal of the honorary troops has not weakened the original battle of the Rehe Legion. On the contrary, due to the general mobilization, the combat effectiveness of the Rehe Legion has been enhanced.

However, it is not satisfactory in accepting Jews. Many Jews are also unable to leave their homeland. In the seven months of efforts, less than 40,000 relevant technicians and more than 100,000 families have arrived. Zhang Xuewu expects that once the army takes action, the immigration plan may be terminated early.

However, with the emergence of a large number of Jewish technicians and engineers, the shortage of technicians in Rehe has also been alleviated. The working methods of German Jews are not much different from the previous German technicians and engineers, so there is not much problem in the way of integration. What makes Zhang Xuewu a little disappointed is that he hopes to see many of them. Jewish scientists are basically an unseen one? However, with a large number of technicians and engineers, the semi-automatic rifle of the National Defense No. 1 plan instructed by Zhang Xuewu finally produced a qualified sample gun. The birth of the new gun really excited Zhang Xuewu, but the ammunition consumption of the semi-automatic rifle is six to seven times that of the rifle, and the output is relatively small, so Zhang Xuewu gives priority. A small number of special operations units and security forces are equipped.

Zhang Xuewu's oil, weapons and ammunition stored in Suiyuan and other places are enough to double the Rehe Army, especially the oil can be used for more than five years, but in the face of the top of Mount Tai of more than 40 divisions of the Kwantung Army, Zhang Xuewu is still unable to relax.

On March 7, 1937, the Kwantung Army of the Empire triggered a conflict with the Chinese garrison under the Shanhaiguan. The reason was that the Japanese army said that someone shot at it and asked to enter the Shanhaiguan to search. As a result, the Chinese side naturally did not allow it, so a small team of more than 70 people from the Japanese army relied on the city walls and fortifications of a regiment [ ***] The fourth regiment of the second brigade began to attack, and its end can naturally be imagined.

Then the Kwantung Army dispatched almost all the fighters to bomb the Shanhaiguan line, and used heavy artillery to attack the gate, and received the support of 82 Type 95 light combat vehicles of the First Battle Vehicle Brigade of the Kwantung Army. It is worth mentioning that the Japanese army also used 20 vehicles that have not yet been completed. The type is included in the combat force, code-named Hatch's test model.

After the Japanese army captured the customs, it directly attacked Song Zheyuan of the 29th Army stationed in the Pingjin area and the Commercial War Office of the 32nd Army. The 51st Army, which was demoted to the B Army, immediately rushed to Pingjin for reinforcements.

According to the Kwantung Army, Nanjiro personally served as the commander of the First Front Army, under the 2nd Division, the 4th Division, the 5th Division, the 10th Division, the 14th Division, the 15th Division and the 20th Division. It was assigned to the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade and the headquarters of the First Chariot Brigade to attack the Pingjin Front Line! Then he took Datong directly to attack Xinkou to attack Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi, threatening Fengzhen, creating the illusion of intending to attack Ulanqab, attracting Zhang Xuewu's mobile forces to surround his important industrial base and Baotou, where the arsenal is located.

On the other hand, Ningji Gangcun was the commander of the Fifth Army. The 24th Division, the 25th Division, the 36th Division, the 37th Division and the 40th Division were assigned to the 6th Brigade of the chariot and the 7th Brigade of the Heavy Artillery. They attacked Shijiazhuang through Tianjin and assisted Taiyuan.

With the 50th Division, the 51st Division, the 55th Division, the 56th Division and the 57th Division, the 5th Heavy Artillery Brigade as the Eighth Army, Meijin Meijiro served as the commander and restrained the Chaoyang garrison of Zhang Xuewu's headquarters.

Take the 60th Division, the 62nd Division, the 63rd Division and the 65th Division as the Chifeng Cluster to contain Chifeng, take the 68th Division, the 69th Division, the 70th Division and the 72nd Division as the 9th Army. Tufei Yuanxian was the commander of the two military commanders and guarded Chengde Zhang Xuewu Army. The 80th Division and the 85th Division guarded Zhangjiakou.

It is said that the first round of fierce attack of the Kwantung Army used 27 divisions, five chariot brigades and six heavy artillery brigades. In addition, the Kwantung Army has about 15 divisions in the northeast with the strength of 11 reading mixed brigades, of which six divisions and seven reading mixed brigades are the general reserve for this battle. The other four divisions were transferred to Qingdao for landing under the command of Seishiro Itagaki.

It can be said that my thunderous blow completely stunned the Chinese side. I knew that I would do it, but who didn't expect it to be so large? The nearly 800,000 troops of the Japanese Kwantung Army almost poured out, and the [***] team in the Pingjin area was almost submerged by the frenzy of the Japanese army. How could he be so powerful? This was something that the Chinese people did not know before the war. Most of the Chinese people were still immersed in the smokescreen of the victory of the Battle of Chengde. Like locusts, the Japanese army attacked the city with the cooperation of planes, tanks and heavy artillery. Its attack speed was almost the speed of the march, which could be said to be invincible for a while.

In order to cope with his own aggression, the Supreme Military Commission of Nanjing Central National Political Axe immediately set up the second war zone. At the request of Yan Xishan, the commander of the second war zone, Wei Lihuang, the commander-in-chief of the 14th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, led Chiang Kai-shek's direct troops of the 14th Army, the Ninth Army, the 85th Division and the Fifth Brigade of Reading. And so on, Shijiazhuang came to the north of Taiyuan for reinforcements.

As soon as the Wei Lihuang Group left Shijiazhuang, there was the bad news that the troops of Gangcun Ningci of the Fifth Army of the Japanese Army went straight to Baoding? Baoding's fall into Shijiazhuang is in danger! Is it to continue to carry out the orders of the Theater Command? Or return to defense? Wei Lihuang hurriedly asked Nanjing for instructions, and according to the Double Twelve Incident Agreement, the troops of the three divisions adapted from the [***] Red Army were also reorganized in Shanxi. Yan Xishan generously added 50,000 German-made Type 24 grenades, 100 machine guns and 1,500 rifles to his No. 15th Division.

On March 22, Wei Lihuang's headquarters were concentrated near Xinkou, meeting the various departments of the former second war zone and divided into three regiments. The 15th Army, 17th Army and 94th Division of the National Revolutionary Army under the command of Liu Maoen are right-wing corps.

The Ninth Army, 19th Army, 35th Army and 61st Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with Wang Jingguo as the commander-in-chief, Hao Mengling as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and Chen Changjie as the deputy commander-in-chief of the former enemy, are the Central Corps.

The 10th Division, the 83rd Division, the 85th Division and the 68th Division of the Jin Army under the command of the 14th Army under the command of Li Mo'an are left-wing corps, under the unified command of Wei Lihuang, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the second war zone.

On February 23, he occupied the position on the line of Longwangtang, Jiehepu, Dabaishui and Nanyu in the north of Xinkou, and carried out a blocking battle in Xinkou. The order was to resolutely block the main regiment of the Japanese army from going south. In the face of the fierce main force of the Japanese army and the headquarters of the fifth army of the Japanese army that enveloped Taiyuan from the flank, Wei Lihuang was in turmoil. Ru Ma, [***] The troops of Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan were blocked by the Japanese army with heavy troops, and now they have almost become the turtle in the urn. Yan Xishan slapped himself a few times in the face of this matter, and even complained that he was not good at his eyes. He should have let the Zhang Legion enter the defense of Jin Gu for a long time. How can he be broken by the enemy now? Bad luck?

The fierce large-scale attack of the Japanese army was also beyond Zhang Xuewu's expectation, but this is also what Zhang Xuewu is most worried about, because the desperate large-scale attack of the Kwantung Army is bound to become the prelude to the Japanese army's invasion of China, compared with the seven in history. In the Seven Incidents, Zhang Xuewu's previous bloody battle in Chengde can only be said to have won a so-called buffer for the [***] team, but this buffer has not been better used. The Liangguang Incident and the Double Twelve Incident have almost messed up the domestic situation. It is because I saw the opportunity that I dared to be desperate. A fierce attack.

On the contrary, the Japanese version that has not paid much attention to the army in history has made full use of the past few years to strengthen and replace the army's armaments. Although China has also strengthened the process of reorganizing the division, especially the achievements of the Rehe Army are remarkable, but all this is not comparable to Japan, a country that has completed industrialization. What? The opportunities brought by the butterfly effect can be said to be two-way, not just a one-sided opportunity. I'm afraid this is a punishment for changing the original trajectory of history, right?

Since the Kwantung Army launched a full-scale attack, it is likely that I will also attack in Shanghai and Qingdao. Unlike the outbreak of a full-scale war in previous history, both sides are trying to use additional troops one by one, but this time the army directly suppressed the heavy army group! If the Rehe Legion can't play any role at all, then the Japanese army is really likely to defeat the main force of the [***] team within six months or a year. If the main force of the National Political Axe Army is defeated, then China will really fall, and there will be no frontal battlefield. With a large amount of containment and consumption, guerrilla warfare cannot be carried out at all. Volunteers active in the three northeastern provinces are an example. Aren't they familiar with the local people's conditions? No!

Don't they get the support of the local people? Not really! Don't they fight against the Japanese invaders bravely? What's more! Because the troops of the Japanese army they face can put all their troops in repeated suppression, and there is no containment of large-scale battles on the frontal battlefield. Once the Japanese army turns around and puts a large number of troops into the suppression of local security, the guerrilla area will soon shrink until it disappears.

For a while, Zhang Xuewu was a little anxious! How did this happen? Among all his previous countermeasures, he was the only one who did not have a plan to deal with the attack of the whole country? Although the international community has repeatedly condemned Japan, it has not seen any sanctions at all? Only the German side sent its ambassador Toddman to carry out the final mediation between the two sides.

Sure enough, what Zhang Xuewu was most worried about happened. On April 1, 1937, in the early morning of April Fool's Day, the Third Division, the Ninth Division and the 11th Division of the Chinese Front Fleet, which were transferred from the subordinates of the joint fleet, arrived in Shanghai. It was said that I arrived so quickly. Da, Zhang Zhizhong, who was ready to move ahead of the enemy, was in a lot of trouble. It was already at the critical moment, but it was said that my reinforcements came so quickly?

In order to seize the opportunity, Zhang Zhizhong finally decided to report to Chiang Kai-shek, and planned to take the lead in launching an attack on the army with the 36th, 87th and 88th Divisions. I'm afraid both the enemy and us understand the truth of the enemy's half attack, but both Zhang Zhizhong and Chiang Kai-shek may have muttered about the range of the warship gun and The power also underestimates the power of the Japanese naval aviation!

The Shanghai War broke out, and Zhang Xuewu immediately ordered all 247 fighters of the Flying Tigers belonging to Gao Zhihang to take off, and compete with the Kwantung Army Flying Division and the 5th and 7th brigades to strengthen their reading flight.

The Flying Tigers are equipped with BF-109F fighters that have been tested in Spain and modified several times in a row. The two 0.50-inch caliber machine guns on the wings have been replaced with four of the nose. The firepower is twice that of the previous one, and the effect of the nose shooting and aiming mirror is far better than that of the wings.

The Type 95 and Type 97 fighters equipped by the Kwantung Army were put into the Chinese battlefield, which had the advantage over the Hawk and I15 and other biplane fighters used by the Air Force of the Republic of China at that time. However, when the Type 95 and Type 97 encountered BF-109F, Type 95 and Type 97 would become typical. The tragedy.

Especially the 97, which has just been equipped as a treasure by the military department, is simply a turkey in front of BF-109F! Under the command of Gao Zhihang, Cheng Zhiyuan and Xu Feiyang, the BF-109F equipped with radios caused heavy losses to the Kwantung Army's flight division. Its ace pilot, Mio Watanabe, was also shot down. The shooting down of Watanabe Sanxiong shocked the country, so he turned to Germany to ask the Bavarian aircraft factory not to Rehe fighters and follow-up accessories will be provided.

During the two-month battle with the Kwantung Army Flying Division, nine ace pilots emerged from the Flying Tigers. The ace pilot, as the name implies, is also known as the crash ace or the English abbreviation ACE, sometimes referred to as ace. This title first appeared in World War I, which generally refers to the pilots who shot down more than five enemy aircraft. Zhang Xuewu knew that the Japanese military pilots in this period were not the captains and Cao pilots who trained for more than ten hours or even hours in the late World War II, and the captains and major officers who had been trained for hundreds of hours. The significance of shooting down these people for the long-lasting name of the war is self-evident.

This is equivalent to a large-scale and complete strangulation of the technical reserve forces of the Japanese Army Air Force! I have been confidently preparing for the air raid to completely destroy Baotou, and I am anxiously waiting for the additional anti-aircraft artillery troops from China and North Korea. The steel mills in Anshan and Benxi and Fengtian's arsenal have become the main defense targets.

Although, on the one hand, the Rehe Legion Flying Tigers are competing with the Japanese army for air slover, and on the other hand, they are trying their best to attack the Japanese ground forces. BF-109F can carry six 50-pound aerial bombs or two 100-pound heavy aerial bombs. Although the ground attack effect is not as good as that of Stuka dive bombers, in fact, Stuka The official German official name is the two-seat anti-tank attack aircraft. At the end of 1935, Stuka had been officially tested by Germany. The German Air Force has not given enough knowledge of its important surname. However, due to his obstruction, Zhang Xuewu finally failed to get the Stuka two-seat anti-tank destroyer. However, as a so-called compensation, the Germans provided the BK37 37mm machine gun and tungsten alloy mother armor-piercing shell technology they developed to Zhang Xuewu. This machine gun can be said to be the ultimate destroyer of the tank. Even the Stalin II heavy tank in the late World War II is difficult to hit by this seed female armor-piercing shell. Escape from the bad luck of being trun.

Victory in the air cannot replace the defeat on land. For the heavy group attack of the Japanese army, the central [***] team, whether it is the Jin army, the original headquarters of the Northeast Army, the headquarters of the Northwest Army, and the Central Army, are very uncomfortable. In the face of the overwhelming artillery fire and air bombing of the Japanese army, they stick to the position [***] The casualties of the team often exceed more than 70%, and the simple civil fortifications do not adapt to the cruelty of modern war at all.

The fiasco of Chengde City finally paid off my recumbent, in exchange for the defeat of the [***] team.

Zhang Xuewu is also very clear that his absolute air supremacy will not last long, because the gap between the industrial strength between China and the two countries is extremely obvious. During the competition for air supremacy, the Flying Tigers were also shot down by the Japanese army, and four aircraft were lost due to various mechanical reasons. In addition, more than 30 aircraft entered maintenance and were unable to fight. The Japanese Kwantung Army Flying Division, which shot down more than 90 fighters, doubled in a blink of an eye, and the gap in industrial strength made Zhang Xuewu shudder!

If you consume like this, in less than half a year, there will be no Flying Tigers fighter in the sky of Rehe!

(to be continued)