Glorious Mission 1937

Chapter 270 Six: Arrogant Meijin (Please subscribe, ask for a monthly ticket, ask for all kinds!!!)

12月6日，第八战区主力101师、222师由大同出发，一路南下，分别抵达朔州和应县，与此同时，隶属于第一路军的暂编第10师、山炮师、重炮师、防空师高射机枪1团、高炮1团、装甲师1团、守备1旅、2旅、3旅、4旅也纷纷从归绥、包头等地赶往前线。

For this battle, besides supporting the Wuhan battlefield, Chen Feng's other purpose is to train troops. As for whether he can capture Taiyuan, he doesn't really care too much. After all, the troops stationed in Shanxi are the most elite troops of the Japanese army. But if the little devil sticks to Xinkou and Taiyuan and does not come out, I am afraid that an army of more than 30 may not be able to take these two important cities.

In order to achieve the purpose of troop training, Chen Feng specially ordered the 101st Division, the 222nd Division, and the provisional 10th Division to each draw an infantry regiment from the original army, and then draw one from the garrison regiment to supplement it. One of the three infantry regiments is a recruit regiment.As for those drawn troops, Chen Feng was going to use them as seed troops, and he could expand this regiment into a brigade or even a division whenever necessary.

At this time, the happiest thing was Lao Jiang in Wuhan. He sent a report to Chen Feng at the beginning of the Wuhan battle, hoping to send two to three divisions from the eighth war zone to fight south, but at that time the Japanese army had just sent more troops to the North China Front Army. With 4 divisions, Chen Feng was also extremely nervous, so he dared to transfer so many troops to the Wuhan station area at will. [

More importantly, Chen Feng knew the outcome of the Battle of Wuhan. Although it could not be said to be a big defeat, it was a big defeat after all.According to the usual practice of the national government, every time a defeat is defeated, the local troops are used to cover the retreat of the central army, so many local troops have become cannon fodder.Chen Feng didn't want the troops he had carefully trained to be overshadowed by the Central Army. To put it bluntly, Chen Feng just didn't trust Lao Jiang.He was worried that his troops going south to Wuhan would be used as cannon fodder, so Chen Feng decisively rejected Lao Jiang's request.

But as a soldier, seeing his comrades in arms fighting bloody battles in the front, while he was hiding behind with an elite army to recuperate, Chen Feng felt very uncomfortable.So Chen Feng dispatched 330 fighter planes from the Northern Air Force to go south to Wuhan, and temporarily put them under the command of the Ninth War Zone, which is equivalent to nearly half of the Northern Air Force's strength.

According to the battle report sent back by Ma Yun and Zhatse Yefu.In the battle for more than a month, the Northern Air Force lost a total of 67 fighters, including 34 fighters, 30 bombers, and 3 reconnaissance planes.Another 48 pilots died in battle, including 21 Soviet volunteer pilots.Casualties were high.

However, Chen Feng also knew that the only way for the national government to stop the attack of the Japanese surface ships was to dispatch the air force. Therefore, air battles at the Wuhan station occurred from time to time. Not a small loss.

Even so, the situation on the battlefield in Wuhan is getting worse and worse, in the battle on the south bank of the Yangtze River.The Botian detachment transferred by the Japanese army from Taiwan put tremendous pressure on the Ninth Theater.In mid-November, the Potian detachment arrived outside the blockade of the Jiangfang Fortress Madang, and was stopped by the Chinese army stationed at the Madang Fortress.

This Madang Fortress was designed by a German military adviser and is part of the National Government's permanent fortifications.After Nanjing was occupied, the national government deployed a large number of troops to reinforce the Madang Fortress.After several months of operation, after spending several manpower, material and financial resources, the Madang Fortress can be said to be impregnable and extremely strong under the management of the Nationalist Government.

Lao Jiang himself had high hopes for the Madang Fortress, thinking that it could stop the Japanese offensive for at least a month.However, that sentence is exactly what it said.Not afraid of enemies as ruthless as wolves, but subordinates as stupid as pigs.Lao Jiang once paid an extremely painful price for his ignorance of people. When the Japanese army diverted to attack Ma by land, Li Yunheng, the commander of the 16th Army stationed at the Ma Dang fortress, did not know which muscle was wrong. It also held a graduation ceremony for the bullshit "Anti-Japanese Military and Political University" opened two weeks ago, and forced officers at all levels of the 16th Army and local gentry to participate.

The Japanese army must have obtained this information in advance, and the Japanese army launched a large-scale attack on the day Li Yunheng held the graduation ceremony.Then they successfully captured Xiangshan, Xiangkou and other places that were both prepared and commanded by the chief officer.Although the 2nd Battalion of the Marine Corps in the core position of the Madang Fortress resisted tenaciously under the command of the commander-in-chief Bao Changyi, they repelled the three large-scale group charges of the Bo Tian Detachment.However, in the end, Xue Weiying, the commander of the 167th Division stationed in Pengze, refused to obey Bai Chongxi's order and rushed from the main road to the Madang Fortress to rescue the 2nd Marine Corps Battalion.After Bao Changyi's troops persisted for two days, more than half of the troops were killed or injured, and the artillery was also fired.In order to avoid the annihilation of the whole army, the 2nd Brigade had to withdraw from the position.Although Lao Jiang dismissed Li Yunheng after the incident and shot Xue Weiying, it has made up for it.

After repelling the national army's counterattack, the Botian detachment went straight to Pengze with the 106th Division who came for reinforcements, and Pengze fell.Soon after, the Japanese army occupied Jiujiang again, and the large forces were already limited to the three towns of Wuhan.

Wuhan was at stake. At this moment, Lao Jiang received a telegram from Kang Ze and Wei Lihuang at the same time, saying that the Second World War Zone and the Eighth War Zone had jointly dispatched 30 troops to support the Wuhan station. The mouth is on the front line.This news is undoubtedly a timely help. Although the battlefield is in North China, once North China fights, the Japanese army in Central China will have no reserve team. More importantly, the weapons and medicines shipped to Central China will be halved.

If North China fights well, the Japanese army is likely to deploy troops from Central China to reinforce North China. No matter from which aspect, if North China fights well, it will be good news for Chiang Kai-shek.

What's more, this time Chen Feng's troops dispatched 15 troops at once. Based on his understanding of Chen Feng, that fellow was just like his troops, a sharp sword with sharp sharp edges. I'm afraid that guy won't give up. In a word, the Japanese are in trouble.

Unlike Chiang Kai-shek, General Umezu Yoshijiro, the commander of the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi, not only did not feel worried at all after receiving the telegram from the North China Front Army Command in Beiping, but instead smiled happily, which is called a brilliant one.

No wonder Yoshijiro Umezu was so excited. This guy was originally a fanatical war butcher, a typical militarist.Meizu Meijirou has a strong smell of an old professional soldier. He has no extra hobbies, but he likes to think about some problems.Moreover, he thought thoroughly and thoughtfully when considering issues, and was extremely good at using the collected information.Umezu Yoshijiro admired the military spirit of soldiers very much, and believed that soldiers should not be swayed by politics. The greatest wish of soldiers is to be a general, not a prime minister.

The reason why Umezu Yoshijiro is well-known to the Chinese is because of the infamous "Homei Agreement". After the signing of the "Tanggu Agreement", the Japanese army was not satisfied with only dividing the northeastern part of Hebei Province into a demilitarized area. In order to consolidate the puppet Manchukuo, the Japanese army split In North China, the Northeast Army and the national government's troops stationed in North China were excluded, so Umezu Yoshijiro was sent to replace Kotaro Nakamura as the commander of the Chinese Garrison in March 1934.

In May 1935, on the pretext that the Chinese authorities had aided the Northeast Volunteer Army’s Sun Yongqin Department to enter Luandong’s “demilitarized area” and that two pro-Japanese journalists had been killed in the Tianjin Japanese Concession, Meijin proposed to He Yingqin, the acting chairman of the Beiping Army Branch of the Kuomintang, “to expel the Northeast Volunteer Army.” and the central forces to go out of North China", and dispatched Japanese troops from the Northeast to enter the customs to threaten with force.On July 5 of the same year, under Japanese military and diplomatic coercion, He Yingqin was forced to acknowledge Japan's request in a typed letter and signed the so-called "He Mei Agreement".The main contents are: 7. Cancel all Kuomintang headquarters in Hebei Province; 6. Withdraw the 1st Army of the Northeast Army, the Kuomintang Central Army and the Third Military Police Regiment stationed in Hebei Province; ; 2 Recall Yu Xuezhong, Chairman of Hebei Province; 51 Ban all anti-Japanese groups and activities.The agreement deprived China of all sovereignty over Hebei and opened the door for the Japanese army to launch a full-scale attack on North China.

In the process of dealing with the Chinese many times, Umezu Yoshijiro used despicable and shameful means to force the Chinese government to bow his head time and time again, so he has developed a habit of arrogance deep in his heart. He always believes that the Chinese regime is established. The high-rise buildings on the sand will collapse as long as they touch lightly with their sabers.

A few months ago, Konoe Fumimaro reshuffled the cabinet, removed Moto Sugiyama who declared that "the China Incident would be resolved in three months", and appointed Seishiro Itagaki as the Minister of Army. Umezu, the Deputy Army Minister, resigned immediately because he did not want to be subordinate to Itagaki.Immediately, he was transferred to the commander of the First Army of the Japanese North China Front Army, replacing Lieutenant General Xiang Yueqing who was not active in the war.

After Umezu Yoshijiro took office, he was very dissatisfied with General Binshan Yuan's practice of staying put.Without the consent of Bin Shanyuan, he commanded the First Army occupying Shanxi to carry out the so-called "security purge" operation plan. All resources to support the protracted war.In less than half a year, Umezu Yoshijiro achieved brilliant results. [

Under his command, the World War II area was quickly driven away from the vicinity of Taiyuan, allowing the Japanese army to completely consolidate the occupied area around Taiyuan.Then Meizu Meijiro carried out the Jindong operation against the Eighth Route Army based on the natural danger of Wutai Mountain, expanded the security area of ​​Wutai and Fanzhiping, attacked the enemy's bases along the Tongpu and Beijing-Han railways, and expanded the area around Lu'an. The law and order area has caused tremendous pressure on the World War II zone.

Because of this, Umezu Yoshijiro believed that this was the best opportunity to completely defeat the resistance forces in northern China, and he could not miss it. (to be continued...)