From to 1935 2020

Dong Shengtang suddenly asked: "Answer me honestly, is that Zhang Kexia one of yours?"

"What's wrong......."

"No......"

Zhang Kexia graduated from Baoding Army Military Academy and was born in the Northwest Army. He is also Song Zheyuan's direct descendant. At the beginning of 1936, he served as an instructor in Baoding Army Academy.At that time, Zhang Kexia led the ungraduated military officer students in the school to withdraw from Baoding in time, and then with the support of Song Zheyuan, he used it as a basis to recruit troops in Hebei and formed a supplementary brigade reserve team.Most of its firearms are from the Red Army according to the agreement with Song Zheyuan, and the "tolls" are supplemented by firearms and ammunition.

In the past year, the overall strength of the 29th Army has been rising.Knowing that "Pingjin and Hebei are not peaceful", Song Zheyuan has been working hard to buy foreign armaments and expand his strength.Zhang Kexia was promoted to brigade commander during this period.

The reason why Dong Shengtang asked this question was because he had been to the supplementary brigade and found that the atmosphere there was "just like a den of communist bandits". The officers who were reused by Zhang Kexia all gave him the same "taste" as his younger brother.

Dong Shengtang said: "Zhentang, I'm just a soldier, I don't understand your doctrine..."

Dong Zhentang shook his head and said, "Brother, it is impossible to understand doctrine! There is no army of doctrine, but the army of warlords! Chang Kaishen can buy all warlords with silver dollars, but he can't buy any Communist Party team. Our Red Army is gone. The troops of the 29-mile army have not been scattered. How many people are left after your [-]th Army has traveled [-] miles? This is the difference between the revolutionary army and the old-style army, because we are an army with ideas, and we know why we fight .”

Dong Shengtang remained silent.

Before parting, Dong Zhentang finally said:

"Brother, the full-scale Japanese invasion is not far away. You must step up the training of the troops and the construction of supplementary troops. The weapons we handed over to you must be put to good use."

The newly-built Tanggu Port is flooded with cargo. The Japanese, who had been staring at Pingjin for a long time, discovered that a large number of "suspected American arms" were flowing into Hebei at the first moment.After the news was sent back to Tokyo, it immediately caused a small commotion in the upper floors of Tokyo.

"Let him be right again! That sinister cripple!"

On October [-]st, at the imperial meeting, Emperor Yongren said bitterly.He is a pro-British and American faction, and he is pro-British and American because he is afraid of losing the war.Now that the Battle of Suiyuan is about to start, Japan released test balloons to the Americans through diplomacy before the war. The US stated that it would "strictly observe neutrality" and would not take sanctions for the actions of the Japanese army in China. Who would have thought that before the war started? , Americans actually did such a thing.

Kenji Doihara reported:

"Judging from the shape and volume of the box, the number of firearms that were taken from the ship this time was between [-] and [-]. The people at Tegaoke estimated that it should be the Mosin that was produced by the US military during the last European war. Gan rifle."

"In the past year, Lucia has also been sending weapons to the Communist forces through various channels. Our spies in Taiyuan reported that they had more than twenty tanks in Taiyuan! Not only that....... "

Kenji Doihara was reporting when he suddenly saw a guard running into the palace in a hurry, and then handed Kenji Doihara an urgent telegram.

Kenji Doihara opened it and was surprised again.

"what happened?"

"Call from Tianjin, Lucia has just passed through Tanggu Port, and delivered another forty chariots to the Communist Party of China!"

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"Forty tanks! Did Stalin send his T26s to China again? Now he has the money to export revolutions all over the world."

At the same time, in the White House, Roosevelt also received a telegram from Tianjin.On October 26st, the Red Army passed through Tanggu Port and obtained a total of forty T[-] tanks at once.When tanks were dragged by trailers without any disguise, they drove through the streets of Pingjin, the two countries on the other side of the Pacific Ocean: Japan and the United States, were shocked.

Roosevelt asked his staff: "Mr. Hull, plus the [-] Mosin Nagants that Mr. DuPont gave them, is it possible for them to stop the Japanese in the north?"

DuPont "stolen" the old firearms of World War I through the U.S. Army. In fact, this matter was "endorsed" by the White House President Roosevelt with the acquiescence.Without war, the biggest enemy of the first-class navy and second-class army is the Congress, which has always been poor to death.Roosevelt is about to participate in the second presidential re-election, and now he cannot do without the support of the military, and considering the needs of the "balance of power", he will let the Japanese shed more blood in China. secretly acquiesced.As a "balance", when the [-] Mosin Nagant rifles arrived at Tanggu for unloading, another American cargo ship unloaded a batch of artillery and M[-] tanks here in Shanghai.An emergency blood transfusion was given to Chang Kaishen, who was in short supply of heavy equipment.

Harry smiled and said, "It's October now, and the temperature is going to turn cold soon. Which of the two battlefields will go to war first, the South or the North?"

Roosevelt said with a smile: "It should be the north. Forty tanks aided by the Soviet Union appeared on the streets. It is impossible for the Japanese to tolerate it any longer. They will definitely take action before their opponents receive this batch of equipment."

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In the entire Suiyuan area, one south and one north, there are two mountains of great strategic significance!

One is the Yinshan Mountains in the north, and the other is the Daqingshan Mountains in Guisui.

The Daqingshan Mountains are the dividing line between the forces of the Red Army and Fu Zuoyi after "changing Zhangjiakou to Baotou".

Different from history, Ishihara Waner personally planned the Suiyuan Campaign, and from the very beginning, he paid unprecedented attention to the strength of the Red Army.

The Dewang Department controls a huge territory, and the Bailing Temple is just the closest town to Baotou.From west to east, there are several extremely important gathering points of King De's tribe, namely Damiao, Tuchengzi, Shangdu, and Shangyi.Among them, Shangdu Monk Shangyi is also the gathering place for the main force of the Puppet Mongolian First Army.

As mentioned earlier, after the Ho-Mei Agreement, the Japanese army had basically acquired the entire Chahar during this period through encroachment and infiltration.It's just that the local area is too poor, "negative income", has strategic value but no economic value, so there are few garrisons, and it has been ruled by the Eastern Mongolian forces supported by the Japanese.

From the Ministry of King De, until the historical Battle of Bailing Temple, they had been pretending to obey the Nanjing government on the surface, but colluded with the Japanese secretly.Before the outbreak of the Shanxi Campaign, the Nanjing government still maintained about [-] military forces in this area under the name of "security regiment", which was also regarded as a thorn in the side of King De.

In history, after the Bailing Temple Uprising broke out around March 36, this group of armed forces broke away from King De and went south to Daqingshan, and was finally incorporated by Fu Zuoyi.

After learning about the history from Huang Ke, the officers and soldiers of the Bailing Temple, who had been heavily infiltrated by the underground party, did not revolt like history did, and continued to remain dormant.

After Chang Kaishen was defeated in Shanxi in May of that year and completely lost control of the area north of the Yellow River, the security team stationed at Bailing Temple became a lonely soul without an owner, and it was still subordinate to the Nanjing Nationalist Government, but at this time Chang Kaishen no longer paid for it.

During this period, King De also offered a lot of benefits in order to buy off the defenders.But in fact, under the instructions of the Japanese, on September 28, the security team was asked to go to the temple in the northeast of Bailing Temple to change defense with their own puppet second army. (Note: The Puppet First Army and Puppet Second Army of the Dewang Department at this time are called the Army, but they are actually a reinforced mixed cavalry infantry regiment of more than 1000 people)

As soon as this order came out, the Red Army immediately realized that the Japanese were coming soon!

Just at this time, 40 T26 tanks with heavy equipment aid from the Soviet Union were shipped to the sea off Tianjin at this point in time-the tanks were purchased on a loan from the Soviet Union and will be paid for in the future with minerals produced in the Northwest.

At this time, the central government had moved to Taiyuan. Under the instructions of the superiors, forty T[-] tanks made a high-profile appearance in Tianjin on purpose, in order to stimulate the upper echelons of the Japanese army and let them send troops to Bailing Temple in a hurry.

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"There can be no more delay! We must send troops to Suiyuan now! Otherwise, once the Communist Party transfers these Lucia tanks to Baotou, many variables will be added."

After receiving the telegram from Tianjin, the Japanese military headquarters immediately looked like a swarm of ants whose nest had exploded. Everyone clamored that they must attack and take Suiyuan by surprise before the Red Army increased its troops to Baotou.

Unlike Yuren, after Yongren ascended the throne, at first he wanted to please both the ruling faction and the Huangdao faction, but soon found that he could only rely on the ruling faction, and at the same time had to be as Huang Keshu wrote. , Drive the group of secondary school students who like to walk alone to China.

A little different from history, since the strategy for the Suiyuan campaign was determined early, the dispatched troops in China also had an idea and a vent, and there was no such thing as going alone ahead of time.

At the imperial meeting, Ishihara Waner frowned slightly.The hoarding of strategic materials at Bailing Temple was actually completed half a month ago.The reason why the Japanese army has not taken action until now is related to Chang Kaishen.According to what they and Chang Kaishen had discussed in secret, the original plan was that both sides would attack at the same time on October [-]th. Chang Kaishen's troops would attack Henan Province at that time, while the Japanese army would attack in the north at the same time. ....

Knowing that the opponent already has a "small" air force, according to Ishihara Wanji's plan, when the actual war starts, they will also send planes to support the front line.If the plan is interrupted ahead of schedule, the Army Aviation Support of the Dispatched Forces in China will also be greatly affected.

Chang Kaishen always thought of letting the Japanese do it first, but Ishihara Waner thought the same way.What Ishihara Waner didn't expect was that the Red Army's sudden high-profile display of tanks obtained from the Soviet Union caused chaos in the base camp, and hurriedly demanded that the Suiyuan Campaign be launched in advance.

For the sake of "balance of interests", in this Suiyuan operation, the Japanese army selected some elites from the Sixth Division of the Rehe troops, plus some cavalry, to form a mixed brigade.

According to the plan, this special mixed brigade will start from Xinming, march westward, first attack the temple, annihilate the security brigade with more than a thousand people, and then join up with the puppet Mongolian army at the Bailing Temple and then go south together to capture Baotou .

In this battle, the Japanese army plans to send out a mixed brigade with a total of about 500 people, including a cavalry regiment of [-] people. The commander of this unit is Lieutenant General Tani Hisao, and the chief of staff is Yanagawa Heisuke .

Before departure, this elite Japanese army only took four days of food rations because of the help of the Mongolian and puppet troops.Coupled with the impression that the Northeast Army has been vulnerable for several years, the whole army is full of arrogance.

This group of Japanese soldiers quietly left Xinming in the middle of the night on October [-], and marched westward at an extremely fast speed, reaching the temple in at most three days.It's just that they thought they were going there without anyone noticing, but they didn't expect that the scouts stationed nearby had their eyes fixed on this area for a long time and discovered their whereabouts in the first place.

On the evening of October [-]th, when the mixed brigade of the Sixth Division was still [-] kilometers away from the Damiao, the Bailing Temple suddenly burst into gunfire.

Under the command of Lin Husan, the first cavalry division cooperated with the main force of the Red Army, and under the cover of twelve tanks, more than 30 armored vehicles, and forty vehicles, they raided Bailing Temple.

Fighting broke out at two o'clock in the morning.

百灵庙驻有伪骑兵第7师约1800人、德王直属骑兵1000余人，另有专任指导的日本军官、伪装士兵500人，总计约为3300人。而林虎三一次性就投入了一万5000人的主力部队。

The Bailing Temple is surrounded by mountains, the mountains are flat grasslands, and there are no villages within 35 kilometers, so it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.In order to cooperate with the Japanese invasion to the south, King De built an airport at Beishan and secretly hoarded aviation fuel.

Before the war, Lin Hu formulated guiding principles such as concealed contact with the enemy, combination of frontal attack and roundabout outflanking, quick battle and quick decision, and preparation for blocking and aiding the enemy.

The first wave of assault troops were all pulled to the front line by cars, and then twelve tanks gathered into the shape of spear points, followed by armored cars, and a wave of assaults defeated King Germany's puppet troops on the spot and fled in all directions.

In history, this group of people only persisted until dawn when they faced the Fu Zuoyi Department with slightly inferior weapons and combat effectiveness.But this time, facing the steel assault group composed of tanks and armored vehicles, the Mongolian puppet army with extremely poor combat power was defeated in one blow.

The only ones who caused great trouble to the Red Army were the [-] Japanese soldiers who entered the Bailing Temple under the "identity" of the Shang clan.When the Great War broke out, most of the [-] Japanese soldiers gathered together and formed a circular position for defense.

As soon as the Red Army fought against them, they immediately discovered that the defensive ring positions were fiercely fired and accurate marksmanship, which caused a lot of casualties to the attacking Red Army.

"Where is Chen Guang, bring my tank over here!"

Lin Husan, who commanded the battle on the front line, had known for a long time that such a Japanese army was hiding in Bailing Temple.

Under Lin Husan's instruction, the besieging Red Army only temporarily besieged and did not attack this Japanese army, and first concentrated their efforts to encircle and wipe out King De's puppet troops.During this period, the Japanese army wanted to break through, but the tanks they transferred were bullied by the invulnerability of the Japanese army because they lacked anti-tank weapons and drove back. After leaving behind nearly a hundred corpses, they could only be trapped in a small hill with a height difference of more than 20 meters. superior.

At dawn, the Red Army besieging Bailing Temple had wiped out most of King De's troops, only a hundred cavalry fled eastward in desperation, and King De also died in the rebellion.

At dawn, the final general offensive began. Lin Husan gathered all the tanks together in one breath and launched a group assault on the ring positions defended by the Japanese army.

On average, each of these twelve tanks was equipped with ten anti-infantry jumping mines designed by Huang Ke. The charge chosen before the assault was a 30-meter close-in type.When twelve tanks broke into the Japanese defensive position more than ten meters away without paying attention to martial arts, they first fired mines at the Japanese defense line in Xiaoshanbao,

At the same time, more than [-] mortars arranged at a later position continuously fired mortars to bombard the mountain to provide artillery support.

In just a short moment, more than 100 shells or mines fell on the mountain bag covering an area of ​​only a few hundred square meters. The fierce firepower killed and injured more than half of the defenders on the mountain in an instant.

In the past, Lin Husan was absolutely reluctant to use such extravagant fire coverage tactics, but after winning the Taiyuan Arsenal and Gongxian Arsenal, Lin Husan, who had enough ammunition, finally passed the "rich man" addiction.

After the firepower was covered, the Red Army infantry followed the tanks and accompanied the tanks to attack together-the Japanese army during this period seriously ignored automatic firepower, and the weapons in their hands were basically only [-] large.Although it is not very correct for tanks to rush up the mountain, it is not a big problem to have infantry cover.During this period, two desperate Japanese soldiers with cluster grenades strapped to their bodies tried to attack the tanks, but they were swept down by the covering infantry with flowery machine guns.

The battle at Bailing Temple basically ended at [-]:[-] am.

When cleaning the battlefield after the war, the Red Army discovered that the Japanese army was extremely brutal.Many of the wounded pretended to be dead on the battlefield, with grenades under their bodies, trying to kill the Red Army. Fortunately, when Huang Ke was still in China a few months ago, when he talked about the Japanese army with Lin Husan, he specifically explained this to him. , and even told him about the deeds of the Japanese prisoners during the Battle of Pingxingguan in history.

Lin Husan is not a pedantic person, and he has already explained the relevant matters to the Red Army soldiers below.Before cleaning the battlefield, don't tell them to be careful. The devil pretends to be dead and fights back, and shoots in the head first if he feels something is wrong.

According to statistics afterwards, a total of six Japanese soldiers who were injured and pretended to be dead held grenades in their arms and wanted to die together. Fortunately, all of them were found and killed with headshots in advance.And more than 20 wounded Japanese prisoners captured from the battlefield were also extremely dishonest afterwards, resisting frantically and biting people.If it weren't for the discipline of the Red Army, Lin Husan really wanted to kill all these Japanese prisoners.

At dawn, the airport in the north of Bailing Temple had already fallen into the hands of the Red Army.Afterwards statistics show that the Japanese army quietly hoarded more than 200 million rounds of bullets, ten machine guns, three radio stations, five artillery pieces, more than 200 rifles, and a large amount of precious fuel in the Bailing Temple.

Taking the seized figures and comparing them with the seizures Huang Ke gave him in the history of Fu Zuoyi's campaign of Bailing Temple, Lin Husan found that his victory was more than twice that of the opponent's.

The acquisition of the Bailing Temple Airport allowed the Red Army to establish a front-line airport closer to the front line, which was of greater significance to the main force of the Japanese army in the direction of encircling and annihilating the temple.

And when the Red Army raided Bailing Temple last night, the "security regiment" in the direction of the temple launched an "uprising" under the leadership of the underground party and killed the remnants of the local Mongolian and puppet troops.

The news that the Bailing Temple was attacked by the Red Army at night and the entire defenders were annihilated was presented to the commander of the Tokyo Base Camp, Ishihara Waner, at nine o'clock that day.

The strategic intention of the Japanese army was seen through by the Red Army, and at this time there is no doubt.

And at this point in time, Gu Shougu's Sixth Division is a mixed brigade, which is still [-] miles away from the temple.It was extremely embarrassing all of a sudden.

Offensively, it is obviously necessary to be against the Red Army, which has a numerical advantage and home court advantage.

If you retreat, then all the preparations for this battle will become a big joke......

"This battle cannot be fought!"

Not only the headquarters of the Expeditionary Army in China, which is actually carrying out front-line combat missions, but also Gu Hisao, who is on the front line, has realized that the Bailing Temple is a pit and can no longer take risks.

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-------------------- Chapter 172 Huang Yuanxing is absolutely impossible to be the Communist Party --------------------

From a military point of view, the so-called "surprise attack on Baotou" is like Deng Ai's smuggling into Yinping.

The original station of the Sixth Division was in Chengde, Rehe, where it was more than [-] kilometers away from the Bailing Temple and later generations by land.

In order to reduce the distance, the Sixth Division first established a bunch of supply depots between Chengde and Xinming, the ASEAN District of Chahar Province, and then transferred troops from there.According to Ishihara Wan'er's original idea: to make a surprise attack on Baotou, it is necessary to ensure that there is nothing wrong with it, and it is best to dispatch a division of troops.

However, due to the tyranny of the distance and the poor supply situation, there was only one mixed brigade with 6500 people when the troops were finally dispatched.

It was actually a bit late to dispatch troops in October. During this period, the temperature in Chahar was between 3 and 13 degrees. The reason why it took so long was that it took too much time for the military depot to be established in Xinming.

And once the surprise attack was frustrated, or even fell into an ambush encirclement, it was almost impossible for this expeditionary force to get effective support from the rear in a short time.

A qualified commander, upon hearing the news from the Bailing Temple, encountered a surprise attack and fell, the first thought at this time was to turn around and retreat, and retreat the same way as quickly as possible.