Glorious Mission 1937

Chapter 210 Four: Vigorous Riots

Terauchi Shouichi's strategic vision is really good. He knows very well that the current Mongolian army is already a turtle in the urn. To the east is the control area of ​​the cavalry group of the No. 40 Army. With the strength of the remaining troops such as the Fourth Division, it is probably impossible to break through the defense line composed of the No. 40 Army's main 101st Division, 222nd Division and the cavalry group.

Going north is even more unacceptable, that is Outer Mongolia, and that polar bear would not agree to such a large force returning from Outer Mongolia to Northeast China or North China calmly. An inadvertent mistake may cause conflicts between Japan and the Soviet Union.Moreover, Terauchi Shouichi is very aware that the Soviet Union has a lot of resentment for the defeat more than 30 years ago. They all think that war is a shame to the great Slavic nation, and they always want to get back the place. Once the Fourth Division appears in Outer Mongolia, the Soviet Union And may immediately enter Manchuria, when the consequences will be more serious.

Going to the west is also not possible. The west is the area controlled by the Chinese. Once the Fourth Division enters the western region, it will become a lone army without backup. With the strength that the No.40 Army of China has always shown, it is bound to concentrate its forces. Annihilation of the Fourth Division.

The three directions of east, west and north are not feasible, so the only way now is to go south.Although it seems that the road to the south is also very dangerous, and may even be flanked by the China Tuba Road and the No.40 Army, and the China World War II Zone will not give up such a good opportunity.

However, the senior officials of the North China Front Army Command believed that the combat effectiveness of the China Tuba Road was not enough to compete with the more than 3 Imperial Army and the more than 2 Imperial Association Army.As long as the speed is fast, the China No.40 Army will have no chance to besiege the Fourth Division with the Tuba Road.Moreover, the front line of Chasuqi is not very far from the front line of Xinkou. As long as all aspects cooperate well, the success of withdrawing the Fourth Division to Jinzhong is very high.

The most important thing is that the current battle situation on the Jinzhong front is not good for the Imperial Japanese Army. If the Fourth Division and the independent mixed No.15 brigade can be successfully withdrawn to Taiyuan, then the crisis in Taiyuan will be solved. It not only solves the crisis in Suizhong but also solves the crisis in Taiyuan, killing two birds with one stone.

In order to cooperate with the fourth division's southward withdrawal, it began on July 7.The Japanese army in North China concentrated all its aviation units to Suizhong to reinforce the Fourth Division.Due to lack of combat experience, the No.13 Army's Armored Regiment was bombed by Japanese bombers in Erdaowanzi, 40 tanks were destroyed, and 68 soldiers were killed or injured.Most of them died in battle.The armored brigade that Chen Feng managed to cobble together suddenly became a reinforced regiment.It made Chen Feng feel distressed for a long time.

With the reinforcement of aviation, the Japanese army retreated smoothly, and broke through the blocking of the 120th Division in just two days.After entering the territory of Qingshuihe, Qingshuihe County is the southernmost county in Suiyuan, as long as you cross Qingshuihe, you can enter Shanxi.Seeing that the North China Front Army did not hesitate to dispatch more than 500 fighter planes for reinforcements, Chen Feng knew that the plan to wipe out the 15th Division and the No.[-] Brigade independently might come to naught.

However, Chen Feng wasn't depressed either. Although he failed to completely annihilate the Fourth Division, the Fourth Division had already suffered heavy losses during the half month's battle.Moreover, there is still a small 101-day puppet army in Suibei, and it is not a small result to wipe out this little devil.Coupled with the continuous bombing by Japanese planes, the troops suffered a lot of casualties, so Chen Feng had no choice but to order the troops to stop the pursuit and occupy Baotou and other places first. Remnants of the regiment.

At the same time, the battle on the Xuanhua front line also entered a fierce stage, although in Chen Feng's plan, the Independent Seventh Division was only a diversion force, not the main attack.However, because the Independent Seventh Division lost nearly a thousand people in the plague conspired by the Japanese Army, this made the Independent Seventh Division's hatred towards the Japanese army from the division commander Xu Hu down to the ordinary soldiers reach a peak. Fight until you are exhausted and unable to fight, so in terms of intensity, the battle on the front line of Xuanhua should be the most intense on these battlefields.

And the Yamashita Division of the Japanese Army is not a fuel-efficient lamp. The division commander, Yamashita Homofumi, will sweep across Malaysia in the near future and win the name of the brother of the Malay Tiger. .The two sides fought for more than half a month, and neither could do anything to the other.

However, due to the strong performance of the Independent Seventh Division, the Japanese army had to transfer the No.14 Division to Peiping, just in case.

Beiping, a member of No.14 Division, caused the pressure on Xuanhua's frontline to increase sharply. Since the battle in Suiyuan had come to an end, Chen Feng ordered the Independent Seventh Division to immediately withdraw its troops from Xiahuayuan. The division no longer needs to pay attention to the Japanese army.

Just as the Suiyuan and Xuanhua battlefields were coming to an end, the battle in the east of Rehe had just reached its peak.The rapid eastward advance of Liu Guodong's First Brigade and the Eighth Route Army's Fourth Column caused panic among the North China enemy and puppets. They urgently mobilized 5000 militiamen from counties in eastern Hebei to intercept the Great Wall Line.

On July 7, more than 12 members of the Jixian Militia, which was transferred to Mashenqiao Town, Jixian County, heard the news that the enemy was going to disarm. Under the leadership of captains Xia Deyuan and Zhao He, they killed the police sub-bureau chief Wang Shusen and declared an uprising.On the same day, Xu Zhi and Wang Weixin, leaders of the underground party in Fengrun County of the Eighth Route Army, heard rumors of uprisings everywhere, and also uprising in Sihu Village, Fengrun County. On July 300, in the south of Beining Road, Li Runmin, Gao Peizhi, Zhao Yuqing, Zhang Heming, and Zhang Zhenyu from Luan County launched an uprising in Gangbei Village.Overnight, more than 7 key members who were secretly developed were gathered together to form the Fifth Corps of the Anti-Union League.Li Runmin served as the commander-in-chief, Gao Peizhi served as the political director, and Zhang Heming served as the deputy commander-in-chief and chief of staff. There were three brigades under it.After the uprising, guerrilla strikes went around as planned, between Chang, Luan, and Le counties, to publicize anti-Japanese ideas, confiscated civilian guns, and destroyed the enemy and puppet regimes.Wherever the troops went, the masses rejoiced and asked to join the army, some with guns.

On July 7, Zhou Weixin, chief of the police in Bei'an Gezhuang, Beining Road, led an uprising of more than 18 people, and formed the Ninth Corps together with the Changli Uprising Army led by Yu Zhenzhong, and then joined forces with the Tiejuzhai and Shangshanglin Rebels. Edited, quickly developed to more than 1200 people.A few days later, more than 300 people from the pseudo-security team in Luan County set out to attack the rebels.It was completely defeated by the fifth corps set up in Yangjiayuan. More than 200 people under Liu Tao, the leader of the prisoner brigade, seized two light machine guns and more than 200 rifles.The rebel army won the first battle, the army and the people were extremely excited, the rule of the enemy and the puppet was shaken, and soon there was an upsurge of joining the army.The five corps quickly developed to more than 3000 people.

At this time, the fifth corps went south to Ciyutuo, and Comrade Gao Xiaoan, who was in the Zengjiawan uprising, led more than a thousand people to join them, and they were organized as the No. 13 corps of the Anti-Japanese War.Go to Sigezhuang and join Wu Shaozhou's uprising army, and form No.14 Corps.After reuniting with Gao Zhiyuan's Sixth Corps in Langcheng, they conquered Laoting County.At this time, Yan Dakai, Li Jufeng, Yang Zhenhua, Yue Zepu, Tian Zixiu, Zhang Qiyu and other comrades revolted in Laoting and Changli counties and formed ten corps.After the salt police uprising along the coast of Laoting, the Tangjiahe stronghold was laid down, and more than 3000 people were expanded to form the 39th Corps.Here, Li Yuxi in Luan County set up an independent brigade.Shi Zhanshan, a fisherman on the Bohai Sea, and Wang Jingan from Laoting also grew to more than 1000 people after the uprising, and they were organized into the first and second independent brigades.In the south of Luan County, there is an independent corps established by Cao Zhifu.In total, by the end of July, there were about 7 insurgents organized by the Fifth Corps as the main force in Lunanchang, Luan, and Le areas.

At the same time, a large number of weapons and equipment arrived in Jidong through secret channels, and with the cooperation of underground party members of the Eighth Route Army, these weapons and equipment were quickly distributed.For a time, there were gunshots and uprisings everywhere in eastern Jidong, and the Japanese and puppet troops, whose strength was already stretched, were in panic all day long.

In addition to the rebel army, the joint headquarters continued to increase troops to the east of Jidong. Liu Guodong's three brigades and the six brigades of La Pingfu and Hu Haitao were all transferred to Jidong in a short period of time. The other two regiments of the Jinchaji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army also Drive into Jidong.

On July 7, the First Squadron of Liu Guodong's First Brigade and the Second Anti-Japanese Army Headquarters in the central area of ​​eastern Hebei jointly led the Yankou Uprising. Su Linyan, Wei Chunbo, Kong Qingtong, Zhang Zhichao, Ge Xijiu, Yang Wenhan and others gathered in Xizhuang. More than 19 basic players from Ironworks, Wangguanying, Xinji and other places were organized into the Fourth Corps of the Anti-Union League.Then, the Fourth Corps took advantage of the victory to conquer Xingcheng Town, and the police inspectors of Santunying announced an uprising to welcome the Anti-Alliance into the city.In this way, in the northern mountainous area-the border areas of Qian'an, Zunhua, and Fengrun counties, an upsurge of joining the army was set off.The troops that revolted at Xifengkou, Saheqiao, and Santunying were organized into the No.400 Corps, with the commander Zhang Bingdong, the deputy commander Ye Tian, ​​and the political director Cheng Tiejun.In Xinji, Yangzidian, and Xingcheng, the troops launched by Comrades Wei Chunbo, Han Dongzheng, and Zhou Zhiguo formed the No. 12 Corps, with Chief Chen Hanmin, Political Director Han Dongzheng, and Deputy Chief Cai Yongchang.Soon, the Fourth Corps went south from Zunhua, quelled the rebellion of militia groups in the official camp of King Fengrun, and promoted the enthusiasm for enlisting in the army to fight against Japan.Many people brought their own guns to join the army, and landlords and upper-class figures also volunteered to donate guns.Pseudo-policemen and militia groups automatically surrendered.Within a few days, the Fourth Corps grew to 14 people.

On the night of July 7th, the No. 20 Group Army La Pingfu's large brigade dispatched two squadrons of about 40 people to respond to the Kailuan miners' uprising, destroying the Beining Railway, occupying the two stations of Wali and Guye, and moving 2 kilometers between Tangshan and Changli. The Doli Railway was cut into several sections, and Beining Road was stopped for half a month.The miners in Zhaogezhuang, Tangzhuangzi, Linxi and other places revolted successively under the leadership of Zhou Wenbin, Hu Zhifa, Jie Zhenguo, etc. Since a large number of miners participated, the uprising troops numbered more than 1200 people. A large number of miners and ordinary people participated, and the force expanded to more than 200 in just one week. (To be continued..)