War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 471: Borrowing Troops! (Thanks to 'Qingbi Jingwen' for the reward!)
Yan'an.

Brigade headquarters of the 385th Brigade of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.

Brigade Commander Wang Hongkun, Deputy Brigade Commander Wang Weizhou, Chief of Staff Geng Biao, and Political Department Director Su Jingcheng were holding a meeting. The content of the meeting was that after the Japanese invaders marched into Shanxi and Datong fell, our 385th Brigade and the 770th Regiment should pay more attention to the protection of the border government and all the leaders.

Su Jingcheng was the first to speak at the meeting: "Our troops have just entered Yan'an and our mass base is not yet strong. Now the Japanese invaders are becoming more rampant. It is necessary to rearrange the defense of the border government. I propose that the 217th Regiment..."

"No."

Before Su Jingcheng finished speaking, Wang Hongkun took the lead in rejecting the proposal.

"Brigade Commander, do you still not trust the 217th Regiment?" Deputy Brigade Commander Wang Weizhou asked at this moment.

Wang Hongkun immediately shook his head and said, "No, it's just that the 217th Regiment has its own mission..."

"By the way, I haven't told you that I'm going to the division headquarters for a meeting today. No wonder you didn't know."

"The 115th Division of our army has decided to go to Shanxi to participate in the defense of Taiyuan after the fall of Datong. The 115th Division applied to the superiors and wanted to transfer the 217th Regiment to assist before joining the battle..."

Geng Biao laughed: "How can this be called to mobilize the 217th Regiment? This is to mobilize the IG217 artillery and Oerlikon of the 18th Regiment!"

"But if the comrades of the 217th Regiment really go to Shanxi, I have to say that the 115th Division will really stand firm."

Hahahaha...

Several senior leaders in the room laughed out loud.

"That's right..." After Su Jingcheng's laughter died down, he slowly said, "The 217th Regiment received too little education from our party..."

"Then we have to let the 217th Regiment go." Wang Hongkun explained: "Your concerns were also raised by the division chief of staff and political commissar at the division meeting, but they were rejected by the division commander. The division commander said, Xu Chaoyang dared to travel thousands of miles to Yan'an, why can't we give him a little more trust?"

"What's more, the 217th Regiment was so close to Shanxi in North China, and they didn't pay any attention to Yan Laoxier. How could there be any problems after entering Shanxi?"

The people at the brigade headquarters looked at each other and understood that the meaning of the division headquarters had nothing to do with the meaning of the words!

When Xu Chaoyang came out of the Northeast, he followed Yang Jingyu in the team. The two of them have been together day and night for so many years, and have never been disloyal to the Party. In Tianjin, he is living in a sea of ​​gold and silver, but he still maintains his yearning for our Party. How could there be any dispute about trust or not?

But if you don't let the 217th Regiment go, the result will be completely different!

Now is the time of war. Who can tell how long the Battle of Shanxi will last?

Yes, the 115th Division is our own, but they are using weapons to fight the Japanese, you can't just go and ask for their weapons back, right? The 217th Regiment went, at least there is still hope.

This is why the people in the brigade headquarters were laughing. They didn't expect that the head of the division headquarters would one day reveal his little plan.

"report!"

"Captain Yang, the leader of the 115th Division's independent regiment, has arrived!"

Su Jingcheng put his hands behind his back and smiled, as if he had seen through the other party's intentions and said, "This is to build a relationship in advance."

"Alas!" Wang Hongkun immediately advised: "Don't say this anymore. It will affect unity."

As soon as the two men finished speaking, a vigorous man in a gray military uniform walked into the brigade headquarters and saluted as he entered the room: "Hello, leaders!"

"Chengwu, now we are home, come and sit down."

The current commander of the independent regiment of the 115th Division is none other than Yang Chengwu, the famous anti-Japanese general known as "General Yang", who was known as a man of courage.

He was the first batch of students who graduated early from the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University after the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance. Several people present had taught General Yang before. If it had not been for the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance, General Yang would not have graduated early from the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. Naturally, he was familiar with the people when he came to the 385th Brigade.

"Dear leaders, I am here this time on the orders of the division commander to second the 217th Regiment. The division commander wants to transfer the 217th Regiment to the 115th Division as soon as possible to familiarize them with our army's tactics, so as to avoid coordination and other problems."

Hahahahahahaha...

The group of smart people in the room all laughed out loud again, and Su Jingcheng even teased them, "Commander, they are afraid of our petty mentality."

"No~" Yang Chengwu lowered his head embarrassedly, his face flushed.

Borrowing money is often an awkward issue for both parties, even if their relationship is good.

"Guards." Wang Hongkun shouted towards the door, "Go to the 217th Regiment and ask Political Commissar Yang Jingyu to come to the brigade headquarters."

"Yes!"

The guard immediately turned around and left. When there were only five of them left in the room, Wang Hongkun asked, "I'm afraid you, the 115th Division, have more news from the front?" The 385th Brigade is no longer the 4th Army of the Fourth Front Army that was famous back then. How powerful the Fourth Front Army was at that time can be seen by mentioning a few names. The army commanders of the Fourth Front Army at that time were Xu Kaiguo, Xu Shuai, Cheng Zaidao, and the other one was Wang Hongkun in the later period. At the peak of their army, they had soldiers!

But after the reorganization of the troops, the Fourth Army of the Fourth Front Army was reorganized into the 385th Brigade. The brigade headquarters led the 770th Regiment to be responsible for defending the border government, which was the famous Imperial Guard; and the 769th Regiment fought outside against the Japanese. At its most glorious time, the number of troops reached 8000, which was the only combat unit outside the entire 385th Brigade.

Later, the 769th Regiment and the 129th Division's Independent Regiment and Independent Detachment were reorganized into the new 385th Brigade, with Chen Xilian as the brigade commander.

Yang Chengwu said, "After the Japanese occupied Peking and Tianjin, under the command of Muto Nobuyoshi and led by Katsuki Seiji, they launched a strategic offensive along the Pingsui, Pinghan, and Jinpu railway lines in Hebei, Chahar, Suiyuan, and Shanxi..."

The deployment of the National Government at that time was that the commander-in-chief of the First Army was Song Zheyuan, who would guard the Jinpu Line with the 53rd Army; the 26th Army, the 3rd Army, and the 52nd Army were responsible for defending the Pinghan Railway, with Liu Zhi as the commander-in-chief; the 32nd Army was stationed in Cangxian and Shijiazhuang, and was under the direct command of Xu Yongchang, director of the Shijiazhuang camp; the th Army and the th Army were used as the general reserve to control the area south of the Cangshi Line.

In the eastern section of the Pingsui Railway, the 17th Army, the 68th Army and the 13th Army were combined into the Chahar Province Garrison Corps, with Fu Zuoyi as the commander-in-chief.

At this time, the main forces of the Japanese army were the North China Front Army and the Chahar Expeditionary Corps. The North China Front Army was a force led by Kozuki Seiji to support Tianjin. At the same time, the Japanese headquarters revoked the Tianjin Garrison Army's number due to the defeat of the Tianjin Garrison Army, and reorganized the remaining troops into the North China Front Army, with Terauchi Hisaichi as the main commander, and under its jurisdiction were six divisions including Kozuki Seiji's First Army and Nishio Hisazo's Second Army, and directly under the command of Itagaki Seishirō's Fifth Division, the 109th Division, the 11th Mixed Brigade, the Temporary Air Force Corps, etc.

The Chahar Expeditionary Corps was composed of the Kwantung Army, Xu Chaoyang's old enemy, and was composed of the 11th Independent Mixed Brigade, the 2nd Brigade, the 1st Brigade and the 15th Brigade, and the Second Aviation Group. It was commanded by Hideki Tojo and was known as the Tojo Corps.

At this point, after the Japanese army occupied Peiping and Tianjin, they began to gradually erode Chahar and Suiyuan, and the puppet army also extended its forces into the two places.

Fu Zuoyi was still able to defeat the puppet army, and was almost crushed by Li Shouxin and Wang Ying's troops. He was beaten... But the Tojo Corps developed smoothly in Chahar, and gradually extended its influence to Guyuan, Kangbao, Shangyi, Chongli and other areas...

This makes the situation in Nankou serious.

At this moment, the Japanese's target was actually set on Taiyuan, Shanxi. It seemed that in their eyes, no one in our country could stop their advance.

Under this circumstance, Itagaki Seishirō led the 11th Division and the 89th Independent Mixed Brigade to attack Nankou. The 89th Division of Wang Zhonglian defending Nankou was defeated and retreated to Juyongguan. Afterwards, Itagaki Seishirō led the 13th Division to attack the border town, attempting to take the flank of Juyongguan. When he was about to take down the th Division from the flank, Tang Enbai led the th Army to reinforce and the two sides fought a bloody battle at Juyongguan.

At this time, the Tojo Corps rushed down from Chahar and attacked Zhangjiakou. Zhangjiakou was in a state of emergency, and Fu Zuoyi could only withdraw the troops that were reinforcing Juyongguan and rush to support Zhangjiakou. At this point, Juyongguan fell.

The Japanese Fifth Division and the First Brigade occupied Huailai and Yanqing along Juyongguan, and the Nankou battle was completely over.

The battle lasted for half a month. The Kuomintang troops suffered more than 1200 casualties, and the Japanese invaders suffered more than casualties. One day, more than of our troops were severely damaged. However, the soldiers still fought to the death!
The Tojo Corps also stepped up its offensive against Zhangjiakou. After the mechanized troops joined, Liu Ruming, commander of the 68th Army, led his troops to resist. Unfortunately, the flesh could not compete with the mechanized troops. Since then, the Japanese invaders cut off the Pingsui Railway Line. At this time, Fu Zuoyi led two brigades back to Zhangjiakou. Unfortunately, the loss of Nankou and Huailai caused the occupation to take a sharp turn for the worse. Zhangjiakou fell.

Immediately afterwards, the Tojo Corps and the Fifth Division assembled in Xuanhua, and the entire southern line of the Pingsui Line was lost.

In order to obtain strategic materials such as coal, the Japanese invaders took the opportunity to advance towards Datong. The 61st Army defending Tianzhen was originally only required to defend for three days, but Fu Zuoyi actually let such a large army defend for three days after three days in order to assemble the troops!

During these three days, the Japanese not only launched repeated bombings of the positions by planes and tanks, but also cruelly used poison gas bombs!

The 400th Regiment resisted stubbornly until the regiment suffered more than 800 casualties!

In the end, they lost the position because they ran out of ammunition and food, and even their men were almost wiped out.

The Japanese invaders then captured Panshan and took a detour to Yanggao. Then, they were attacked from both sides and Tianzhen fell.

Later, Julebao fell, and the Japanese invaders reached the outskirts of Datong and were at the gates of the city!
The 61st Army, which had been bombed and poisoned by poison gas bombs by the Japanese army, was killed by Yan Laoxizi after the loss of Tianzhen. It seemed that the soldiers of the 61st Army had let the Japanese invaders spare Tianzhen, which prompted the Japanese invaders to attack Datong...

After the Japanese captured Datong, they went through Shanyin and Yanmen Pass and were about to attack Taiyuan!
"report!"

While they were talking, a soldier rushed into the brigade headquarters and said, "The division commander urgently orders Brigade Commander Wang of the 385th Brigade to bring all the backbone members of the brigade to the division headquarters for a meeting!"

Wang Hongkun didn't understand and asked directly: "Didn't I just come back from a meeting?"

The messenger whispered, "Xu Chaoyang, leading nearly 3,000 Northeastern troops who retreated from the Songhu battlefield, has arrived in Taiyuan!"

"who!"

"What!"

"How many people did this kid bring back?"

"How many?!"

The 385th Brigade was completely stunned!
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(End of this chapter)