Glorious Mission 1937

Regarding the frequent mobilization of troops in the Eighth Theater, not all senior Japanese officers were moved, at least Lieutenant General Naozaburo Okabe, who was transferred to the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, was very concerned.

As an old opponent in the Eighth War Zone, she knew very well about Chen Feng and the army under Chen Feng's command. He knew very well that Chen Feng was not the kind of person who was just messing about with nothing, just like the Chinese people playing chess, every move has its own intention.The actions of Chen Feng's subordinates were the same, the seemingly normal defense changes were not necessarily as simple as just changing defenses.

After careful analysis and rigorous demonstration, Okabe Naozaburo came to a conclusion that Chen Feng's troops were likely to attack the Kwantung Army, and the primary target was the Hulunbuir Grassland.

Naozaburo Okabe submitted his analysis to General Yamada Otosan, the commander of the Kwantung Army, and requested that the defensive forces stationed in Hulunbeier should be strengthened immediately. The 23rd Division defended Chen Feng's troops together.

Yamada Otosan is very interesting. Although this person has never fought against Chen Feng's troops, he had previously served as the education director of the Japanese army. He had heard about Chen Feng's troops for a long time, and he was quite afraid of this army.

After taking over Umezu Yoshijiro as the commander of the Kwantung Army, Yamada Otozo first had to face two problems.The first problem is to rebuild and strengthen the Kwantung Army. Since the Nuomenkan Incident and the First Suidong War, the Kwantung Army has suffered great losses. Not only was the 23rd Division destroyed, but the 12th Division was also wiped out. In addition, the Second Division and the Eighth Division under its command were also hit hard, with great losses.

Facing the increasingly powerful Chen Feng's troops.Especially the 4 infantry divisions stationed in the former eastern part of Outer Mongolia.The Kwantung Army must be supplemented with manpower and material resources to prevent a sudden attack by Chen Feng's troops.Of course, Japan has never relaxed its vigilance against the Soviet Union, which is the same as the Soviet Union did not relax its vigilance against the Japanese army.

The second problem is to face the increasingly chaotic law and order in the Northeast. Recently, for some reason, the law and order in Manchuria has deteriorated to the point where the Kwantung Army Command cannot tolerate it in a very short period of time.In addition to the Chinese Anti-Japanese Allied Forces that have been fighting against the imperial army, there is now a Leopard King out of nowhere.

In addition, a elusive Chinese army appeared near Qiqihar. Although the small army was small in number and did not display any banners, it caused great trouble to the local garrison.The imperial army's regiment sent troops to encircle and suppress many times without success, but lost a lot of troops. [

In addition, the bandits in Manchuria have also been active during this period. Although these guys can't do anything earth-shattering, it's okay to rob a road, steal a train or even blow up a bridge occasionally. Kissing and killing people is also their old profession.All in all, the law and order in the Northeast region is very bad during this period. This matter has been stabbed to the headquarters by those businessmen of the company. Your Excellency Meizu ordered Yamada Otozo to settle this matter as soon as possible.

After Yamada Otozo took office, he began to rapidly strengthen the strength of the Kwantung Army. In addition to constantly mobilizing soldiers from North Korea and Japan to supplement the Kwantung Army, he also ordered the construction of many forts to strengthen the city defenses in various places.Stock up on "medicine" and be ready for a war at any time.

At the same time, Yamada Otozo cooperated with Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd. to repair the strategic railway between Xinjing, Puppet Manchuria and Pyongyang, North Korea, so that the Japanese and puppet troops in North Korea could quickly reinforce to the Northeast.in addition.Yamada Otosan went all out and stepped up to supervise the training of the troops.He frequently went to the frontline troops for inspections.Condolences to the frontline soldiers and cheer for them.

After a year like this, the effect is obvious. In addition to 22 infantry divisions, the Kwantung Army now has 8 artillery brigades. In addition, it has also organized a mecha army of the Japanese Independence II, with 1300 tanks.There is also a Second Air Force, whose degree of mechanization and modernization is the highest in Japan.

Now the Kwantung Army has 38 Japanese soldiers, 9 North Korean soldiers, and about 30 Manchukuo soldiers. The total strength has reached 77. Including the police forces in various places, the total strength has exceeded 80 [-].

Yamada Otozo was very complacent about his achievements, and also believed that with the strength of the Kwantung Army, he could compete with Chen Feng's troops, and there was no need to wait for Chen Feng's troops to attack.So after Lieutenant General Okabe Naozaburo reported his analysis to the Kwantung Army Command, General Yamada Otosan agreed after a little consideration.

Yamada Otozo not only agreed to transfer the Ninth Division to strengthen the defense force from Hulunbeier to Manzhouli, but also transferred the Sixth Field Heavy Artillery Brigade and the First Tank Brigade to Hailar.

In the blink of an eye, it was mid-March, and after more than 3 days of mobilization, the tens of thousands of troops from the eighth war zone were finally transferred to Suidong and northern Mongolia. At the same time, Chen Feng and Shi Jianfei, the chief of staff of the war zone, also arrived in Ulaanbaatar. , In fact, for the final war mobilization.

During this period of time, the Japanese army in North China also made considerable achievements. Although methods such as trench digging and blockade were implemented when Tada Hayao was in office, when Tada Hayao officially took office, when the North China Front Army was most difficult, it was repeatedly attacked by Chen Feng's troops. The main forces of the heavily damaged North China Front Army were used to monitor and respond to the attack of Chen Feng's troops, so they could also allocate forces to carry out these things, so although things were going on, the progress was very slow, and the blockade in the Pingjin area was barely completed.

But the situation is different now, because now Shanxi has been taken back by the Chinese, northern Hebei, southern Hebei and most of central Hebei have also been beaten down by the Chinese, as for Guisui and Chahar, they have long been controlled by the Chinese In the hands of the Japanese army, only the east of Hebei, the first part of central Hebei, the Pingjin area, and all of Shandong remain, and the territory has shrunk by more than half.

Coupled with the continuous reinforcement of the Japanese army to North China, the scattered forces of the Japanese army in North China are now relatively concentrated. The number of soldiers per square kilometer has reached more than a dozen, and if the puppet army is counted, it has reached dozens. People, so Okamura Ningji has the strength to "blockade" and "cannibalize" the area under his jurisdiction while carrying out a sweep.

Another point is that Neiji Okamura is very experienced in this kind of thing, because Okamura had implemented this so-called "separation of bandits and people" policy in North Manchuria earlier, so the Japanese army in North China moved very quickly.By the beginning of March, the Japanese army had completed a blockade ditch focused on Chen Feng's troops. This blockade ditch started in the west, passed Xiahuayuan, Yanqing, and Huairou, and guarded Peiping to the death.

This blockade line should have started in the era of Hayao Tada, but it has not been penetrated. It took Okamura Neiji only one month to connect this blockade line.The Japanese army's raids on eastern Hebei, western Shandong, and southern Shandong were also quite fruitful. Many guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army were wiped out by the Japanese army, and several regular divisions were also beaten by the Japanese army. They were driven to the defense area of ​​Chen Feng's troops. If Li Yifeng's troops hadn't responded in time, the Eighth Route Army might have been dumped by the Japanese army.

It is worth mentioning that although Neiji Okamura superficially warned the troops to "abstain from killing, abstaining from burning, and refraining from looting" during military operations, they must follow the "three precepts policy" during the raid.However, secretly still condoning the army to implement the Sanguang policy, Okamura Neiji adopted completely different methods for the ordinary people in the city and the Chinese people in the countryside.

In the cities and towns, the Japanese army had a lot to do with ordinary people. As long as they paid money and food on time, everything else would be lenient.However, the common people in the guerrilla areas still follow the Sanguang policy. The two sweeps alone caused tens of thousands of houses in eastern Hebei, western Shandong, and southern Shandong to be destroyed by Japanese artillery fire or directly burned 600 million catties of grain and more than 700 pigs. Livestock were plundered by the Japanese and puppet troops, and more than 700 people were killed and more than 1300 people were taken away. [

The Japanese and puppet troops also caused several massacres in these areas. In the early morning of February 1941, 2, the Japanese troops who raided Ji County marched to Zhoujiakou Village and immediately surrounded the small village. Suddenly, no one in the village escaped, and the people in the village were driven into three courtyards by the Japanese and puppet troops, where they were machine-gunned.In this atrocity, 28 people were massacred, the youngest of whom was only 3 months old, and the oldest was 264 years old.

On March 3, the Japanese defenders in Yanggu County suddenly dispatched and attacked Donghuaian Village, 3 miles south of the city, and captured 22 wounded Eighth Route Army soldiers and 9 guerrillas who were recuperating in the village. The Japanese army tied these people to wooden stakes Then they drove everyone in the village to the head of the village and forced the people to watch the Japanese army massacre the wounded and guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army.

Half an hour later, these wounded and guerrillas were all executed in front of the villagers of Donghuaian Village, some were disemboweled, and some were stabbed to death.The most horrifying thing was that the skulls of two people were smashed open, the brains were taken out, and they were mixed with white corn porridge and boiled, named "open brain porridge", and the villagers were forced to drink it.Afterwards, the people in Dongmianhua Village did not dare to eat white corn porridge for many years, and some did not even dare to look at it.

At dawn on March 3, a small Japanese army surrounded Dagouli Village, Chengwu County, drove more than 12 people into several houses, set fire to the houses, and captured the people who rushed out of the siege, and more than 100 of them were thrown into the Then he threw stones and burning firewood down the well, and shot and threw grenades down the well, killing all the people. Afterwards, only one teenager in Dagouli Village escaped by chance.

After these several sweeps, the low morale of the North China Front Army was quickly boosted, and then a large number of anti-Japanese forces were dealt a devastating blow.Since this raid was assisted by the Japanese special forces and intelligence agencies, neither small guerrillas nor regular troops were spared, and the loss in just over a month was extremely heavy. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)

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