Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

The 24th Brigade, which followed behind, engaged in relatively little combat, concentrating on collecting surrendered Security Corps officers and soldiers. Artillery bombardment began around 9:24 AM, and the general offensive began around 4000: AM. By noon, the th Brigade had captured over Security Corps officers and soldiers, including prisoners and surrendered soldiers.

The defensive positions of the Security Corps were breached, and Datong's defense was directly breached.

"Good news. Comrade Zhang Zhongxun just reported that the 38th and 20th Cavalry Divisions of the Northeastern Advancing Army have surrendered, and the Provisional th Division has also surrendered to the th Brigade. There are not many troops in Datong City right now."

The enemies in Datong City can be eliminated in at most one hour.

"it is good."

Wei Hongjun was overjoyed.

This battle was easy, even unexpectedly easy. The bombardment had begun at nine o'clock, and it was only one o'clock in the afternoon, a total of only four hours, and the majority of the troops had already entered Datong. It turned out that the combat effectiveness of a force had nothing to do with its numbers.

There are not many teams in Datong City, but there are a lot of different numbers.

That's the result.

Chu Xichun, commander-in-chief of the Datong defense, was nominally the highest military commander in Datong, but his command in Datong was far from smooth. The Provisional 38th Division was part of the 33rd Army, not Chu Xichun's 43rd Army. The Northeastern Advancing Army was Ma Zhanshan's unit, and the Security Corps was a Japanese unit. None of them took Chu Xichun seriously.

It's just a mess.

Each unit acts independently.

Seeing that the situation was not right, they all chose to surrender one by one. The annihilation of Fu Zuoyi's troops had already dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the troops in Datong City. Now facing the artillery attack of the People's Liberation Army, no one was willing to fight.

As a result, after the Security Corps collapsed, other troops chose to surrender.

The capture of Datong marked the perfect outcome of the Datong campaign.

Chapter 676 Yang Quanwu's Style

While Wei Hongjun was fighting the Datong Campaign, things were also turbulent in Hebei.

Yang Quanwu led the First Field Army of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Region and local troops from the Central Hebei Military Region and the Hebei-Shandong Military Region to launch the Pinghan Railway Campaign. The Central Hebei Military Region and the Hebei-Shandong Military Region were the most populous and resource-rich areas in the region.

Therefore, there are more troops to support.

Yang Quanwu currently commands the First Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army, comprising 12 brigades and 14 men. Following recent downsizing efforts, the First Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army has now shed all its burdens. With 14 men, it is a fully combat-ready field army.

Furthermore, because the Hebei-Central Military Region and the Hebei-Shandong Military Region had more personnel and more supplies, they also had more local troops. This was also true during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The Hebei-Central Military Region, led by Lü Zhengchao and Cheng Zhihua, initially had a large number of local troops.

It has been one year since the end of the Anti-Japanese War.

Yang Quanwu placed great emphasis on the development of local forces in the Hebei-Central Military Region and the Hebei-Shandong Military Region. The independent divisions formed by the Wei Hongjun in the Hebei-Rehe-Chahar Military Region were empty designations, and later only a few independent brigades were formed. This was because the Wei Hongjun had to consider the production capacity of the Hebei-Rehe-Chahar Liberated Area.

But it’s different on Yang Quanwu’s side.

Although a large number of empty designations were abolished, he did leave behind a number of independent division designations in the Jizhong Military Region and the Yilu Military Region. In addition to those independent divisions, there were also many local troops with other designations.

As a result, the local forces of the Hebei-Central Military Region and the Hebei-Hebei-Shandong Military Region currently have approximately 15 troops. Furthermore, these are not guerrilla forces, but rather armed and equipped troops. Once these troops are upgraded, they will become new field troops.

Originally, the Jidong troops were also under Yang Quanwu's command. However, to alleviate pressure on the South Manchuria Military Region, Deng Guo sent Bao Shen to lead the Jidong troops to contain the Northeastern Army's 53rd Army. Therefore, in this Pinghan Railway Campaign, Yang Quanwu only commanded the First Field Army and local forces from the Jizhong and Jilu Military Regions, totaling 30 troops.

Since the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yang Quanwu had always been a general who preferred to avoid the strong and attack the weak. While some PLA generals preferred to defeat strong foes first, thus slowing them down, Yang Quanwu always preferred to defeat weaker foes.

Although Yang Quanwu now has a powerful force, his habit has not changed.

Yang Quanwu, Wang Zhi, Geng Biao and others analyzed the Kuomintang troops on the Pinghan Road.

The composition of the Kuomintang troops in Hebei is very complex, and the command structure is also very complex.

Hebei, or the highest organization of the Nationalist Army in North China, is the Beiping. The Beiping not only manages Hebei, but also manages Fu Zuoyi's 12 war zones and even the northern Henan region.

The director of the Peking Branch was Li Zhongren, a giant of the Guangxi clique.

Looks very impressive.

Even Chiang Kai-shek publicly told Li Zhongren that he was handing over this important area of ​​North China to him and asked him to take good care of it for him.

Moreover, the Guangxi clique currently has more than 200,000 elite troops, plus a large number of officials who followed the Guangxi clique out of Guangxi and served as officials in various parts of the south. As the leader of the Guangxi clique, Li Zhongren is a powerful warlord.

Now he holds a high and powerful position as the director of the Peking headquarters.

Unfortunately, the seemingly powerful position of Director of the Peking Branch was a mere formality. Despite his nominal high status and immense power, he couldn't actually command the troops in Hebei. To put it bluntly, Li Zhongren couldn't mobilize a single soldier in North China. This was because there were no Guangxi clique troops in the entire Hebei region.

Aside from the Beiping Campaign, the Baoding Pacification Office currently controls the largest number of troops in Hebei. It has a large number of troops under its command, and its director is Sun Lianzhong.

This position was also of high status. It should be said that the military work in Hebei was the responsibility of the Baoding Pacification Office, and Sun Lianzhong should have commanded the entire Hebei army.

Unfortunately, the Hebei troops were divided into several parts.

First, it goes without saying that most of the troops currently stationed in important locations like Peking and Tianjin are from Chiang Kai-shek's direct Central Army: the 3rd Army stationed in northern Henan, the 16th and 92nd Armies around Peking, and the 94th and 87th Armies in the Tianjin area.

In addition to them, the 53rd Army in eastern Hebei and the 13th and 52nd Armies in western Liaoning could enter Hebei at any time to fight. Sun Lianzhong could not mobilize any of these troops, and even if he gave orders, they would secretly disobey.

Because to them, Sun Lianzhong was nothing. They didn't even give Li Zhongren face, so Sun Lianzhong was nothing in their eyes.

In addition to these troops, there is also Pang Bingxun in Shijiazhuang.

Pang Bingxun's core force was the 24th Army Group, and the other forces were the Hebei puppet troops, puppet police, bandits, security groups, self-defense groups and other forces reorganized by Pang Bingxun when Japan surrendered.

The number of people is huge.

Over 100,000 men. However, it was the weakest force among the Hebei Nationalist troops. Sun Lianzhong also had difficulty mobilizing Pang Bingxun's troops. Although both of them came from the Northwest Army, Sun Lianzhong was a direct descendant of Feng Yuxiang, while Pang Bingxun came from Sun Yue's army. In fact, they did not have much in common.

The only troops Sun Lianzhong could mobilize were those in Baoding. Most of the troops stationed in Baoding were Sun Lianzhong's direct troops, that is, the Second Army troops reorganized from the Northwest Army.

Because Sun Lianzhong actively joined Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek needed him to fight the People's Liberation Army in North China, Chiang Kai-shek strongly supported Sun Lianzhong's troops. As a result, Sun Lianzhong's Second Army Group made great progress in 1944 and 1945.

The reorganized 55th Division, which was reorganized from the former 55th Army, has more than 30000 people.

The 68th Reorganized Division, formed from the former 68th Army, also had over 30000 men. The 30th Army, previously transferred to other units, was reorganized into the 30th Reorganized Division and placed under Sun Lianzhong's command, with approximately 27000 men. The 42nd Army, historically stationed in Xinjiang, was reorganized into the 42nd Reorganized Division and transferred to Hebei, with approximately 30000 men.

These troops were stationed around Baoding and were the only ones Sun Lianzhong could mobilize. Four reorganized divisions, plus some troops directly under the Baoding Pacification Office, plus local troops around Baoding, brought Sun Lianzhong's total available forces to around 15.

This is the current situation in Hebei.

The National Army had a large number of troops, and together with various local troops, there were as many as 500,000 to 600,000 people, but there was no unified command.

Yang Quanwu targeted Pang Bingxun's unit, which had the weakest combat effectiveness among the Kuomintang troops.

Yang Quanwu launched the Pinghan Railway Campaign, first organizing his troops to attack Dingzhou, located between Baoding and Shijiazhuang. Those stationed in Dingzhou were Sun Lianzhong's direct troops, reorganized into the 42nd Division. Yang Quanwu dispatched the Third Column, which began attacking the counties and strongholds surrounding Dingzhou. The four brigades of Yang Quanwu's Third Column numbered over men.

The offensive intensity is high and the attack speed is fast.

The reorganized 42nd Division saw Yang Quanwu's aggressive attack on Dingxing and immediately asked Sun Lianzhong for help. Sun Lianzhong of the Baoding Pacification Office immediately dispatched troops from Baoding to rescue Dingzhou and also requested Shijiazhuang to send troops to rescue.

Sun Lianzhong's emphasis on Dingzhou was not due to its inherent importance, but rather because if Dingzhou were captured by the PLA, the Pinghan Railway would be cut off. Furthermore, the Reorganized 42nd Division had been Sun Lianzhong's direct line for many years, and he could not allow it to be annihilated.

That's why Sun Lianzhong hurriedly sent troops to support.

Sun Lianzhong was also very wary of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Army. After all, this unit, commanded by Yang Quanwu, had dominated the North China Front Army in Hebei during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Therefore, he pulled two of his own reorganized divisions from around Baoding and requested an army of the Central Army to come south to provide assistance.

Then Pang Bingxun was asked to send at least 30 regiments of troops to reinforce.

At the same time, Sun Lianzhong ordered the Central Army to dispatch two armies to attack Mancheng and Yixian, attempting to "encircle Wei to save Zhao." Yang Quanwu appointed Qiu Wei to command the local troops, who held out against Yixian and Mancheng, and then deployed the main force north of Dingzhou to block the Nationalist troops from Baoding.

A brigade was deployed south of Dingzhou to block Pang Bingxun's troops.

Pang Bingxun actually didn't want to fight. It should be said that Pang Bingxun was basically not in charge of the current situation. The troops on Pang Bingxun's side were currently led by Pang Bingxun's favorite general, Ma Fawu. Ma Fawu did not deploy his own 40th Army, but instead deployed the nd, rd, and th Armies of the Hebei Advance Army.

The Second Army here is Sun Dianying's troops.

That is Sun Dianying's New Fifth Army.

After Chiang Kai-shek appointed Pang Bingxun as the commander-in-chief of the Hebei Advance Army, Pang Bingxun reorganized his troops into the First and Second Route Armies of the Hebei Advance Army, namely Ma Fawu's 40th Army and Sun Dianying's New Fifth Army.

Ma Fawu's 40th Army was directly under Pang Bingxun, so it had a total of 3.4 men, while Sun Dianying's New Fifth Army had 21000 men.

In addition to these, Pang Bingxun also established the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Armies, as well as six security brigades. These were all puppet troops, puppet police, and bandits that Pang Bingxun had recruited. Although these weren't Pang Bingxun's direct troops, they were a disorganized mess, but together they numbered over 80,000 men.

Ma Fawu sent more than 50,000 people this time.

But the same thing.

Although Sun Lianzhong was the director of the Baoding Pacification Camp, his orders were ignored by all but his own troops. The Central Army, despite receiving orders, was hesitant and uncooperative. This was true not only for the Central Army but also for Pang Bingxun's troops. It looked like they had sent over 50,000 men.

But who is Sun Dianying?

How could someone who has lived from the beginning of the warlords' conflict to the present risk his life for others?

Who do you think you are, Sun Lianzhong?

Not to mention the other miscellaneous troops. They were all just a bunch of sycophants, joining the warlords during their infighting. When the Japanese came, they joined the Japanese. Now that the National Army has arrived, they've transformed themselves into soldiers, fighting for the National Army.

You want them to risk their lives?

What a joke.

Even if Chiang Kai-shek came in person, it would be difficult to make them fight to the death.

Not to mention going to rescue Dingzhou, they were unwilling to even fight against Yang Quanwu's brigade. They were all puppet troops back then, but they had witnessed the powerful combat effectiveness of Yang Quanwu's troops with their own eyes.

So after leaving Shijiazhuang, they were very slow, walking only ten or twenty miles a day.

Sun Lianzhong was very angry.

Because the troops he sent out had already engaged Yang Quanwu's troops. However, Yang Quanwu had deployed five brigades of troops in the area north of Dingzhou, making it impossible to break through Yang Quanwu's defenses. Sun Lianzhong was very angry and sent several telegrams demanding that the Central Army and Pang Bingxun's troops join the battlefield as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, Sun Dianying didn't care about Sun Lianzhong's orders at all.

Although the pace was slightly increased, only a hundred miles were covered in four days.

At this time, Yang Quanwu led five brigades of troops and marched a hundred miles from the area north of Dingzhou under cover of darkness, directly surrounding the more than 50,000 troops sent by Pang Bingxun.

By the time Sun Dianying discovered it, the entire army had been surrounded by Yang Quanwu.

After a brief rest, Yang Quanwu launched an attack on Sun Dianying's troops at five in the morning. The attack was crushing, not a battle at all, but a game of capture. After Sun Dianying and the rest of Pang Bingxun's troops engaged Yang Quanwu, the entire force was completely routed within five hours.

The battle was fought cleanly and efficiently.

Yang Quanwu took only 14 hours to wipe out all the more than 37000 people sent by Pang Bingxun, and captured more than 6 prisoners. Then Yang Quanwu led brigades to sweep through the counties around Shijiazhuang.

Pang Bingxun's troops were stationed here before.

However, these areas were now short of troops and could not stop Yang Quanwu's attack. The First Field Army of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Region had a large number of troops and good weapons and equipment, as many of them were troops that had been trained for many years during the War of Resistance Against Japan and had strong combat capabilities.

The puppet troops and security brigades under Pang Bingxun were no match for them.

Within a few days, Yang Quanwu captured Zhengding and annihilated about 2.7 troops of Pang Bingxun's army.

The troops all fought near Shijiazhuang.

Pang Bingxun was very anxious and immediately asked Sun Lianzhong for help.

"Commander, I believe we can definitely carry out the Battle of Shimen."

Chapter 677: The Concept of the Shimen Battle