Glorious Mission 1937

() On February 1938, 2, the third day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Feng, who had already returned to the front line in Beiping, received bad news that the Kwantung Army had entered the border.

This news was discovered by a Du Li battalion sent by the 61st Army to the east of Jidong. At that time, the Du Li battalion was preparing to attack a train station in Qianxi, but they were surprised to find that the train station had three trips to the army that night. Columns, originally this du li battalion thought that it was getting rich, there were military columns, there were arms and oceans, but what I didn't expect was that what was unloaded from these military columns was not arms, but people.

It is a team of neatly dressed Japanese soldiers, and the calculated number has reached 6000.This is not over yet, and in the middle of the night, more than a dozen military trains came to this station in a row, and each train was full of soldiers. The battalion commander of the du li battalion made a secret calculation and passed this small station overnight. There are more than 5 Japanese soldiers in Japan, and there are more than a dozen wagons of heavy weapons.

Where did these Japanese soldiers come from, and what is this little devil doing?Thinking that the military seat is now fighting against the Japanese army in the Pingjin area, the Du Li battalion commander Liu Guodong did not dare to neglect, and immediately sent the news back to the military headquarters.

After reading the telegram, Chen Feng frowned tightly. Qianxi is an important military town in eastern Hebei, located between Zunhua and Qian'an, and Zunhua is the northeast gateway of Beiping.The Japanese military column that passed there probably came from outside the pass. Although there are also a large number of Japanese and puppet troops in Jidong, it is impossible to gather more than [-] people in a short period of time. I am afraid that they can have such strength in a short period of time. There is only the Kwantung Army boasted to the sky by the Japanese Army.

Chen Feng was furious at the thought of this Kwantung Army. The Kwantung Army got its name from the Kwantung State.However, this Guandong Prefecture is not in Japan. The Guandong Prefecture, which was mentioned many times in the history of the Japanese invasion of China, is actually Jin County and Dalian in Northeast China.

In 1898, the Tsarist Russian government forced the Qing government to "lease" China's Lushun and Dalian Bay to Russia, that is, to designate this leased land as a state of Russia-namely "Kandong State". In February 1904, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, lasted for one year and five months, and finally ended in Russia's defeat.After the war, according to the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 1 of the "Treaty of Portsmouth" concluded by the two sides: Russia "leases the territorial waters of Lushun, Dalian Bay and nearby territories, and related leases" and "all Privileges", and "all public housing properties within the scope of the leased land". "The railway between Changchun and Lushun and all branch lines... unconditionally handed over to Japan."

Because it seized all the privileges of the Russian invaders in the southeastern part of China. Japan gained colonies on the Asian continent. In 1905, in order to consolidate its colonial rule in Northeast China and South Manchuria, the Japanese invaders soon renamed the Liaodong Peninsula to Guandong Prefecture.The Kanto Governor's Mansion was established in Lushun.Under the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of the Army. In 1919, it was established on the basis of the Army Department of the Kanto Governor's Mansion.Set up the Kwantung Army Command at Lushunkou. In order to safeguard its colonial interests, Japan dispatched 2 divisions of 4 troops to the Guandong Prefecture and the South Manchurian Railway Attachment, and then added 6 Du Li garrison battalions, Lushun Heavy Artillery Battalion, and the Gendarmerie.

To be honest, Chen Feng never thought that the Japanese Army would send the Kwantung Army to fight inside the pass.This is not because Chen Feng doesn't pay much attention to the Kwantung Army, but because Chen Feng knows that the Kwantung Army's main mission and strength are to deal with the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and defend against the Soviet Red Army. Control of the Mongolian cavalry.If there is no particularly important reason, the Japanese army will not drop the Kwantung Army and enter the customs. After all, the current Soviet Union is already very powerful.

Another reason is that the Japanese Army had previously transferred the Fourth Division and the two Puppet Manchurian Divisions into the battle order of the Mongolian Army. At this time, the Kwantung Army was far from reaching the 31 infantry divisions at the end of World War II. There are 11 infantry and tank brigades, 1 death brigade and 2 air forces with a huge establishment of 120 million people.It is okay to transfer one or two divisions. If there are more, it may affect the relatively stable order in the Puppet Manchukuo area.

However, according to the analysis of the telegrams sent back by the Liu Guodong Battalion in Qianxi, the 5 Japanese troops must have come to Peiping, and most of them came from the Kwantung Army.If this is the case, then the problem may be troublesome.The 20 Japanese army should be the strength of two divisions.In the Kwantung Army's battle order, there is no division of the three-unit system, all of them are permanent divisions with numbers before [-].The Kwantung Army has always been composed of the most elite units of the Japanese Army. Because the Japanese troops stationed here often have the opportunity to fight in actual combat, their combat effectiveness is far superior to other troops in the country. Therefore, the Kwantung Army has always been dubbed the "Flower of the Imperial Army".

Although Chen Feng didn't know how many divisions and brigades the Kwantung Army had now, it was definitely more than the two divisions when the army was first established, with more than 8 people. After the "September 20th" Incident, the Japanese army invaded and occupied the entire territory of Northeast China.In order to implement colonial rule over Northeast China, suppress the Chinese anti-Japanese military and civilians, frantically plunder food and mineral resources, and build Northeast China into an important strategic base for Japan's further aggression and expansion.Under the leadership of the Kwantung Army, the commander concurrently served as the Japanese ambassador to Manchukuo and the head of the Kwantung Office, controlling the military and political power of the puppet Manchukuo. As a result, the Kwantung Army received the full support of high-level officials in Japan and became the largest in Japan in a short period of time. According to Chen Feng's estimation, the Kwantung Army at this time had at least [-] divisions with a strength of around [-] troops.

If the Kwantung Army really went south, the only thing Chen Feng can do now is to retreat.Because after more than ten consecutive days of high-intensity combat, the troops are very tired, but the Japanese army is a new division with strong morale.In addition, there is a huge difference in the strength of the two sides. The Kwantung Army alone is enough for the 61st Army to drink a pot, not to mention that the Japanese Army in Shandong and Hebei also rushed to reinforce. It's serious.

Now basically all the supplies in Tianjin City have been rushed back to Zhangjiakou, and the rest are things that cannot be moved. After thinking twice, Chen Feng still issued a retreat order to the defenders in Tianjin City.

Chen Feng ordered Ye Helina to be in charge of the retreat of all the troops in Tianjin. The aircraft and tank troops went first, the newly recruited recruits followed, and the veterans of the cavalry group followed.

Before leaving, Yehelina blew up all the military facilities in Tianjin according to Chen Feng's order. After consuming more than 5000 tons of explosives, Tianjin's port collapsed, the railway station was destroyed, the headquarters was burned, and the barracks were leveled. All the factory buildings and equipment of Warehouse Co., Ltd. were also destroyed.

What's more, under Chen Feng's order, the cavalry group actually took away more than 8000 young Japanese expatriates. It seemed that these were also their trophies.

Due to the early preparations, it took only one day for all the troops in Tianjin to withdraw.Then the troops in the direction of Beiping also began to retreat. Before retreating, Chen Feng personally commanded the troops to launch the last attack on Beiping City. This time, the 61st Army once captured the city wall of the West Gate, but the Japanese army's tenacious counterattack finally failed. In the middle of the night on February 2, Chen Feng ordered all the troops to withdraw from Beiping. It was not until the morning of the 2rd that the Japanese army discovered that the Chinese army that had besieged the city for more than a week had disappeared.

After receiving the news of the retreat of the Chinese army, General Toshiichi Terauchi not only did not feel very happy, but was furious.Just yesterday he received a telegram from the base camp that the Kwantung Army's Eighth and Second Divisions had arrived in Zunhua, and they were expected to arrive at Sanhe and Pinggu at ten o'clock this morning. At this point, the Chinese people actually retreated, without the slightest sloppiness, they just walked so simply.

Although Shouyi in the temple was not happy, the Japanese and puppet troops in Beiping City were very happy. After these few days of fighting, the city of Beijing was already littered with corpses.Not only the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, but even the residents in the city suffered heavy casualties. The Chinese troops finally withdrew, which was a good thing for the soldiers defending the city and the common people in the city anyway.

At ten o'clock in the morning on February 2rd, the city of Beiping, which had been closed for eight days, finally opened. To the delight of the citizens of Peiping, as soon as the city gate opened, Japanese soldiers were seen transporting corpses outside the city by car after car.There are broken walls and ruins everywhere in the city, and traces of smoke and fire are everywhere.

While the Japanese Army was busy disposing of the corpses of soldiers killed in battle, Chen Feng returned to Zhangjiakou with the remaining troops of the 61st Army.

I haven't seen them for a few days, but the city of Zhangjiakou is much more lively than before. As soon as the army entered the city, they learned that there were an endless stream of refugees fleeing from the Pingjin area to Suinan these days.Coupled with the transportation convoy from Xinghe to Zhangjiakou, not only the city of Zhangjiakou is busy, but the entire road from Zhangjiakou to Xinghe is also very busy.

In addition, since the main force of the Shanxia Brigade was wiped out, the Zhangjiakou-Datong section of the Pingsui Line has also been reopened to traffic. Up to now, there are at least [-] trains going to and from this line every day, and a large amount of supplies have been transported back to Datong through this railway.At the same time, a large number of recruits and refugees were transported back to Datong.

The strength of the two divisions of the Kwantung Army went south, the two divisions in Shanxi returned to Beiping, and the No.15 division in Shandong was about to arrive in Tianjin.Soon there will be a large army in the Pingjin area, and the old bastard Shouyi in the temple will have at least one hundred thousand elite troops in his hands. Chen Feng is thinking about what this old bastard will do next.

After thinking about it again and again, Chen Feng thought that the next step of General Shou in the temple would be to counterattack Zhangjiakou. After all, Zhangjiakou is too close to Beiping. The distance of 61 kilometers can be reached in one day. The 61st Army controls Zhangjiakou for one day, and the North China Front Army Command only one day. There is no peace, and a large number of troops must be kept at any time to prevent the [-]st Army from approaching the city again. (to be continued...)