Glorious Mission 1937

() Tianjin. North China Front Army Command.

The commander of the Front Army, Toshiichi Terauchi, who had just taken office for less than a month, was studying the battle plan for the Chinese army with several generals when suddenly the deputy chief of staff, Major General Kawabe Masao, hurried in and walked quickly into the temple Shou Yi whispered a few words beside him.

Immediately, General Shou in the temple stared at him, and shouted sharply: "Baga, Lieutenant Dongtiao is a bastard, how can he be surrounded by Chinese people?"

Seeing that all the generals in the combat command room were looking at him, General Shou of the temple said in a deep voice: "Masters, I just received the news that the Japanese imperial army was hit hard again in the second battle of Tianzhen. It is said that now the company du li is mixed into the second brigade and the two divisions of the Royal Association Army are surrounded by the Chinese people in Xinghe, a small city in China, and are in danger. The Commander of the Chahar Expeditionary Army, His Excellency Tojo Hideki, sent a request for reinforcements to the Front Army. "

While General Kotobuki was speaking, Major General Naozaburo Kobebe, Chief of Staff of the North China Front Army, quickly spread a huge military map on the large wooden table in the command room, and quickly placed Xing He on the map. The small county is marked out.

"Your Excellency, Commander, the Chahar Dispatched Corps is composed of the most elite Kwantung Army of the Great Japanese Imperial Army, with a total strength of more than 4 people, and there are also more than [-] Imperial Alliance Army. Both in terms of strength and weapons and equipment How could the Chinese army far beyond the northern Shanxi region encounter a counterattack by the Chinese army, and the battle was so miserable?" Major General Naozaburo Okabe expressed his doubts.

"This commander is not very clear about the details of the matter, but now the Chahar dispatched corps is indeed continuing to provide reinforcements, especially the assistance of aviation, so I ordered: the 2nd Brigade of the Provisional Aviation Brigade (fighters), the 3rd Brigade (reconnaissance aircraft) ), the 5th Battalion (light bombers), the 6th Battalion (heavy bombers), and the 8th Battalion (fighters) immediately launched into the air to urgently reinforce His Excellency Tojo. In addition, the 109th Infantry Division immediately assembled in Tianjin, and then drove to Zhangjiakou overnight. Guarantee the retreat of Chahar's dispatched corps." Temple Shouyi ordered loudly.

Terauchi Shouichi was in an extremely depressed mood at this time, and at the same time, his anger level soared to an extremely appalling level in a short period of time.This person comes from a prominent background, and is the eldest son of the Prime Minister of Japan, Terauchi Masaki, with a high prestige in the Japanese army.

For this war, Terauchi Shouyi has always advocated a quick battle, so when he took office, he commanded the North China Expeditionary Army to attack the entire North China region rampantly.So Shouichi Terauchi, who had just taken office for less than a month, issued an order for Baoding-Zhuozhou mobile operations in a very short period of time.It is expected to face the main force of the Kuomintang central army going north on the great plain in central Hebei, relying on its superior firepower and mobility to make rapid breakthroughs. As a result, the Chinese army's front was repeatedly broken by the Japanese army before it was formed The Liu Zhi Group Army, which was fighting on the front line, retreated again and again, and Xu Yongchang, director of the Baoding Camp, was at a loss.

On September 9, after the First Army of the North China Expedition Army occupied Baoding, the Second Army led by Nishio Hisao took Cangzhou despite the flood.Then the First Army of the North China Front Army defeated Cheng Qian, the commander of the first theater, and after successfully occupying Shijiazhuang, pressed forward to the Zhanghe River; the Second Army also completed the battle plan to capture Dezhou, breaking Feng Yuxiang's sixth theater troops.Right now, the North China Front Army is planning to use the front line of Shijiazhuang, Texas as a base, and attack southward with all its strength, in an attempt to occupy the entire territory of Shandong and Hebei in a short time.But I didn't expect that at such a critical time, the Chahar dispatched corps would make such a big mess, adding a lot of variables to the next battle of the North China Front Army.

Terauchi Shouichi is an extremely conceited person, a madman who likes to take everything in his own hands.Because of his family background, this person has always been detached from the two major systems of the Japanese military headquarters. It is also because of this that after the "February 1936" Incident in [-], Shouichi, a descendant of the famous family, was detached from the faction struggle. , has a complete service history, and has a cheerful and open-minded personality, and has the courage to take responsibility for his subordinates. He is a popular general in the military, political, and financial circles.

Immediately after Terauchi Shouyi became Prime Minister of Lu, he used his "iron fist" to purge the army.In order to smash the "Imperial Way School" camp, Terauchi Shouichi replaced a large number of key elements of the "February 5 Incident" and formed a new Army Ministry and Staff Headquarters personnel arrangement.In addition, in order to strengthen the control, Terauchi Shouichi tried every means to control the power of personnel.In May, he served as a military councilor concurrently with the post of Minister of the Army to expand his power, and then used the practice of the Japanese Army to transfer personnel in August every year, breaking the original procedure, and in the name of "Su Jun", he arbitrarily decided 8 The personnel transfer arrangement of the month, the meeting of the three chief executives lost its effect. (Director of Education Xi Yiyi is an honest man, and the chief of staff, Prince Xianyuan Gong Zairen, Marshal does not ask for details.) Terauchi Shouichi's move essentially abolished the form of meeting discussions, and one person has sole power over personnel affairs.After cleaning up the Kodo faction, the backbone of the ruling faction, Sugiyama Moto, Nishio Shouzo, and Umezu Yoshijiro were transferred to control the army central yang.

This feeling of controlling everything fascinates him, so he is not very willing to be transferred to North China this time to serve as the commander of the North China Front Army, because compared to the power and status of Lu Xiang, the commander of the Front Army is actually a scum .

Originally, the most suitable position for the commander of the North China Front Army was General Abe Nobuyuki, who happened to cooperate with Matsui Iwane in central China. However, due to the involvement of the "February [-] Incident", General Masaki Jinzaburo was still imprisoned. In order to save Masaki from prison, It is necessary to transfer the temple that approved the detention of Masaki. In this way, the temple was transferred to the North China battlefield.

After being transferred to the North China battlefield, Terauchi Shouyi always wanted to fight a big battle and win a big battle, and then let the base camp quickly transfer himself back to the mainland.The early results were good. Although the imperial army in the occupied area of ​​North China performed extremely well, the Chahar dispatched corps suffered heavy losses in the first battle of Tianzhen, which has already made the base camp slightly critical of the North China Front Army that cooperated in the battle. Well, if this time I watched part of the Chahar dispatched corps being annihilated by the Chinese army, it would definitely be a disastrous consequence for Terauchi Shouichi. The plan of the base camp fell through.

In order to reinforce the Chahar Dispatch Corps, Terauchi Shouichi sent out more than half of the fighters of the Provisional Aviation Corps.You must know that there are less than [-] fighters under the jurisdiction of the entire North China Front Army. Moreover, the Provisional Aviation Corps lost [-] to [-] fighters this morning. more than half of the amount.

Under the orders of Hideki Tojo and Shouichi Terauchi, several groups of troops quickly rushed towards Xinghe, intending to form a large anti-encirclement outside the encirclement circle of the Chinese squadron on the periphery, and then order Abe Kihide inside the encirclement circle The department came with a central civilization tactic to achieve the final goal of annihilating the squadron.

However, Chen Feng had already expected that the Japanese army might send reinforcements to reinforce Kihide Abe's troops, so he urgently dispatched a reinforced battalion to Xinpingbao to stop the Japanese army and buy time for the large army. The troops were rushing to the battlefield of Xinghe, and the two troops met unexpectedly in Xinpingbao, and an extremely tragic blocking battle was about to be staged.