Glorious Mission 1937

() "Baga, this is the answer sheet you gave me. More than [-] people were killed or injured in one day, but they didn't even take down the outer positions of the Chinese defenders. I'm a fool, all of them are fools." Lieutenant General Kihide Abe Angrily reprimanded.

Lieutenant General Abe Kihide was really angry. Such a record is really embarrassing. Not to mention compared with the previous record of the Kwantung Army, even compared with the other armies of the Northern China Front Army, it is still far behind.Since the base camp decided to expand its interests in China two months ago and launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, wherever the battle flags of the Japanese imperial army went, the defenders fled watching the wind, and their swords were invincible.

Beiping, Tianjin, Zhangjiakou, Baoding, Dezhou, and Nankou, all of these important Chinese military towns can only be opened in front of the bayonets of the Japanese Imperial Army. In front of the warriors, it was as if they were piled up with sand, and they collapsed at the slightest touch.

However, these things seem to have changed here. First, Tianzhen could not be attacked for a long time, and then Chahar sent troops to defeat the China Security Corps. Not to mention the loss of troops, it became a laughing stock among the imperial army.

This time he led an army of [-] to besiege Xinghe County. In his opinion, it was just an insignificant military operation.The small security regiment of China, which suffered heavy losses and had not been replenished, would collapse at the first touch in front of the tens of thousands of elites of the Imperial Japanese Army.

However, the reality made Kisuki Abe vomit blood with anger. Although he still doesn't know how many Chinese troops there are in this small Chinese county, there will definitely be no less than 5000.Because the Chinese defenders deployed no less than one regiment on the forward position alone, plus the air defense forces in the city, the total number would never be less than 5000.

Moreover, the weapons and equipment are also very different from what the intelligence department said. First of all, the artillery. According to the information provided by the intelligence department, the Chinese defenders are only equipped with some small-caliber mortars, but in fact, on the first day They were attacked by field artillery with a caliber of more than 75mm from the Chinese artillery, and a reinforced artillery brigade of the Imperial Japanese Army was annihilated.

The second is anti-aircraft firepower. According to the information collected by the intelligence department, this Chinese army is not equipped with any anti-aircraft weapons, not even high-speed machine guns.But in fact, the two consecutive air strikes showed that the Chinese army was not only equipped with high-speed machine guns, but also had a large number of them. They lost more than 60 fighter planes in one day. This huge loss was unbearable even with the powerful industrial production capacity of the empire. of.

The last is the anti-armor force. According to the intelligence collected by the intelligence department, the Chinese defenders are not equipped with 37 anti-armor guns or other anti-armor firearms. To deal with the armored forces of the empire, in addition to the traditional explosive packs and cluster grenades, the Chinese are Those nasty Chinese dogs.

But Kihide Abe saw clearly in today's battle during the day. Not only was the Chinese army equipped with a large number of new weapons and equipment, but this weapon and equipment was very lethal to the imperial tanks. The empire not only lost more than 4800 warriors, but also lost 47 chariots, accounting for more than 80% of all chariots. It can be said that in today's battle, the chariot troops in his hands have completely lost their combat effectiveness.

And all of this was caused by the dereliction of duty of the intelligence department. In the battle report to Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo, Norihide Abe severely scolded the intelligence department and asked for combat guidance.

It is a very embarrassing thing in the Japanese army to ask superiors for combat guidance. Here I have to talk about what this combat guidance is.The so-called combat guidance is actually a request for reinforcements. In Japan's opinion, the word reinforcement is too glaring and straightforward, and it will damage the invincible image of the Japanese Imperial Army, so they euphemistically call it combat guidance. It has to be said that Ri's hypocrisy has penetrated into his bones.

The heavy casualties of the troops were far beyond Norihide Abe's expectations, especially after learning that among the more than 4800 soldiers lost, only less than 1000 were wounded, and all the others were directly smashed to pieces on the battlefield, which made Norihide Abe General Xiuzhong was terrified.

From private to general, Norihide Abe participated in more than a thousand battles, and it was not the first time he saw that the number of dead soldiers exceeded the number of injured soldiers.However, this is the first time that this kind of thing happened between China and Japan. From the First Sino-Japanese War to the September 77th Manchuria Incident, and then to the July [-]th Incident some time ago, in the past half a century, the armies of China and Japan have clashed many times , but the result is often the final victory of the Great Japanese Empire. Not to mention the victory of the Chinese people, they have not fought a few evenly matched battles, let alone the heavy losses of the Great Japanese Imperial Army like today The battle is over.

In order to save the face of the Imperial Japanese Army, and to avenge the shame.Norihide Abe couldn't care less about his personal face, and directly asked for combat guidance from the headquarters of the Chahar Dispatch Army.

But what made Norihide Abe depressed was that Lieutenant General Tojo Hideki did not agree to give him reinforcements.At the same time, Lieutenant General Tojo Hideki called and said that according to the latest enemy situation report from the intelligence department, the headquarters of the Seventh China Army had been transferred from Yanmen Pass to the Zuoyun Youyu area, which was less than 30 kilometers away from the front line of Tianzhen. One brigade and three regiments of the No. [-] Fifth Army, the main force of the group army, have already stationed in Datong, and may reinforce Tianzhen at any time. The Corps Headquarters has no extra troops to reinforce them.

In addition, the information collected by the intelligence department shows that there are about [-] Chinese troops in Xinghe County, more than half of whom are recruits. The army is equipped with a large amount of automatic firepower, and the ratio of light and heavy machine guns is much higher than that of the imperial army.In addition, after more than half a year of construction in Xinghe County, the city defenses are extremely complete. There is evidence that the city defenses of this small county have been guided by the Germans, which is why the imperial army ran into a wall here.

At the same time, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo also admitted that although his troops lost nearly 5000 people, there are still more than [-] troops, which is more than three times the strength of the defenders.As long as the main force of the corps restrains the main force of the Seventh Chinese Army on the Tianzhen line, making the main force of the Chinese army unable to reinforce the Xinghe defenders, they still have a great chance of winning.

However, bad news came early the next morning. Zhangbei County was raided by the Chinese army. The enemy attacked fiercely, and the defenders were in danger.

As the former headquarters of the Chahar Dispatch Corps, Zhangbei not only hoarded a large amount of weapons and other military supplies in the county, it was also the location of the field hospital of the Chahar Dispatch Corps. Now there are nearly [-] troops in Zhangbei County. The wounded, these things must not fall into the hands of the Chinese in any case.

Soon Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo sent a telegram, ordering the Du Li Mixed 8th Battalion originally stationed in Zhangbei, together with Du Li to form the 4th Battalion of the Second Brigade and the First Cavalry Division of the Imperial Association Army to return to Zhangbei immediately. The remaining troops continued to attack Xinghe County.At the same time, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo instructed that if the Chinese garrison position was still unable to be attacked for a long time, the Corps Command authorized him to use special smoke.

Norihide Abe, who was originally depressed because one-third of the troops used for the attack was withdrawn, felt a lot better after reading the last few lines.Ordinary military officers don't know what special smoke is, but as lieutenant general brigade commander, Kihide Abe is already qualified to have access to some very important secrets.

The special smoke is the so-called poison gas bomb. When they were in Manchuria, they used this kind of thing many times to deal with the resisters there, and the effect was outstanding.However, since this kind of chemical weapon is a weapon prohibited by the order of the international community, even though the Japanese army secretly uses this kind of weapon, it has strict authorization. Only the commander of the Chahar Dispatch Corps, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo, has such authority .

Norihide Abe is very confident about special tobacco. When he was in Manchuria, no matter whether it was Zhao Shangzhi's troops in North Manchuria or Yang Jingyu's troops in South Manchuria, they could only flee in front of special tobacco. The will is simply vulnerable to special cigarettes. With the authorization of special cigarettes, Kihide Abe is confident that he can capture this county in China within two hours.

When Kihide Abe's department dispatched the gas bombs, Chen Feng's plan to encircle and send aid also started.At seven o'clock in the morning Andre led two regiments of cavalry to launch a surprise attack on Zhangbei County, which was empty of troops. The first round of attack occupied the west gate of Zhangbei County. , but the Japanese army defending the city also suffered heavy losses, and had no choice but to send the relatively lightly wounded to the battlefield to resist the attack of the Chinese squadron.

Of course, with the fighting power of the cavalry regiment, it is not easy to take down this small county town where the Japanese army with only one infantry squadron is stationed.But thinking of the division's plan to fight for aid, Andre could only be tempted by the ninja, and temporarily swallowed the fat in his mouth.

Daqinggou, the ambush location of the 222 brigade.

From time to time, Li Wensheng took out the brand-new pocket watch in his chest pocket to see if he could wipe out the more than 1 little devils outside Xinghe City. It depended on whether he could kill the little devils who returned to Zhangbei.

"Brigade, the reconnaissance company reports that the little devil's forward troops have passed Dengjia Village, and they will arrive here in 10 to [-] minutes."

"How many vanguard troops does the little devil have, and are there any chariots?"

"Report to the brigade, the little devil's forward force is a cavalry squad of the Japanese army and a cavalry platoon of the puppet army. There are no chariots. On the contrary, there are ten Iron King Eights in the large army of the Japanese army, five of which have guns and five have no guns .”

Li Wensheng knew that the Japanese Army's Type 12 tank had guns, and the Type [-] tank without guns. These two tanks were light tanks, and the average thickness of their armor was only [-]mm. Both their firepower and defense were weak. very.

"Order the troops to hide well, let go of the forward troops of the little devils, and wait for the large troops to enter the ambush circle before opening fire."

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