Chapter 197: The Five Noises Facing the Advance Army
However, regarding Yang Zhen's suggestion to build an airport in Rehe and expand some troops in Rehe as much as possible, the two looked at each other and shook their heads. Judging from the current overall situation on the battlefield in Rehe, this airport is an advance for the army. At least for now, we don't have the strength to build it yet.
After pondering for a while, the political commissar said: "Comrade Yang Zhen, we also really want your suggestion to build an airport. After all, the ground corridor has not been completely opened up. Under the current situation, we want to build an air corridor. It is still very beneficial to our material supply.”
"But the actual situation now is that our troops, which have already been mobilized to the front, cannot allocate manpower to build this airport. The effective forces we have now, except for some of the security forces, have basically been invested in Ningxia. On the battlefields of Chengdu, Longhua, and Chifeng, there are simply no extra troops."
"While we are still sending some security forces to the north of Keshiketeng Banner and west to Duolun, the troops we have on hand have been used to the extreme. We want to deploy troops to build field airports, at least in Rehe. It is impossible until the battle is over."
"As for the recruitment of civilians, it is really impossible to recruit enough civilians at the moment. Now the Japanese army has adopted the general trend of returning villages and merging households in Rehe, concentrating all the rural population in the Rexi region into heavily guarded market towns and even county towns. Those who refuse to move will be targeted. The common people resorted to a series of terrorist measures including massacres."
"Throughout Ningcheng, Longhua and other counties, entire villages of people who refused to move were killed. All crop fields and houses were set on fire. Livestock, grain, and all supplies that could be transported were burned. Those who could not be transported away were burned on fire, and even the wells were contaminated by the corpses of the people the Japanese army threw in and massacred."
"At present, the entire Rexi and Rezhong areas, except for the areas controlled by our army, can even be described as white bones exposed in the wild and no roosters crowing for thousands of miles. When our army arrives in the new area, the first thing to do is to bury them. Corpses, resettlement of surviving people, and search for clean water sources. The weather is now in the summer. If the corpses are not buried first, the consequences will be disastrous if the plague spreads."
"The troops are now marching and fighting. Not to mention food and civilians, they often can't even find a clean well. All the wounded, food, ammunition and other materials can only be carried by the troops themselves when marching and fighting. Tens of thousands of troops are dispersed. The amount of food collected is quite limited. If it weren't for your staff officer bringing some food reinforcements, we would be hungry now."
"Moreover, the Japanese army not only adopted ruthless tactics of killing, burning, and robbing them all, but also sent out a large number of plainclothes armed forces, disguised as civilians or ordinary people, to attack our army's food transport team and temporary settlement sites for the wounded. A few civilians recruited from the army were Among them, there are also Japanese and puppet military agents hidden inside."
"When the troops are marching and fighting, it often happens that the wounded are killed during the evacuation process, the material transport team is attacked during the transportation, and the food, ammunition, and materials are burned, and even the stragglers of our army, as well as the commanders at all levels This department is also the target of its massacres and attacks."
"These plainclothes teams are well-equipped. Each of them has a long and short gun. They are even equipped with light machine guns and grenade launchers. In addition to the Japanese army's standard rifles and crooked light machine guns, they are also equipped with a large number of automatic weapons. The firearms include the southern pistol with a sixteen-round magazine that we have rarely seen before, and a brand-new automatic weapon that looks a bit like the fancy machine gun we captured when we fought against the Nationalist Government."
"In addition to some of its members being Japanese nationals transferred from the Northeast and special agents composed of anti-union rebels, a large part of them are locals from Rehe and even local bandits from Rehe who were recruited by the Japanese and puppet troops. These people He is familiar with the people's sentiments and the terrain. When taking action, he will not delay and retreat as soon as he succeeds."
"They specifically look for the weakest links in our army to attack. Headquarters at all levels, baggage supplies, and field hospitals are all within their reach, and their methods are extremely cruel. All our army cadres and soldiers who encountered their vicious hands died. The conditions were so miserable that they even skinned them, gouged out their hearts, and cut off their genitals. Once a female soldier fell into his hands, it would be even more miserable."
"In just a few days, not counting the sporadically killed cadres and soldiers of our army, our army has already had two field hospitals, a regiment headquarters, an art team, two baggage storage points, and several grain transport teams that suffered other casualties. Due to the poisonous hand, only the regular regimental cadres died and three people were seriously injured, and the number of cadres and soldiers below the battalion level was even greater."
"Even before this battle started, the director of the political department of a brigade who inspected the troops also disappeared along with the guards on the way to the troops. By the time our rescue team found the body, the person had been cut into pieces. They were thrown everywhere, and the two guards were skinned alive, leaving only their bloody bodies hanging on the big tree."
"Nowadays, many cadres and soldiers do not dare to fall behind, because for cadres and soldiers who fall behind, falling behind means death. Judging from the discovery of fallen stragglers, they are very concerned about our cadres and soldiers who have fallen behind, especially those who have fallen behind. It is the sick and wounded who have resorted to extremely horrific measures, and for our stragglers, even a happy death is a luxury."
"The troops were attacked repeatedly and lost a large amount of much-needed ammunition. Not to mention supplies, command structures at all levels and field hospitals were attacked repeatedly, which greatly affected the morale of our army. At the same time, the food transport team was attacked repeatedly. It has also greatly affected the food supply of our army. Now in the war zone, troops below our company cannot move alone."
"Our army has just arrived and is extremely unfamiliar with the terrain and people's sentiments. Although the commander did his best to deploy more than ten companies for clearing operations without affecting the progress of the battle ahead, the opponent is far from familiar with the terrain and people's sentiments. If they are far ahead of us, once they see that the situation is not going well, they will immediately withdraw into the strongholds or counties where the Japanese and puppet troops have heavily stocked up."
"This is another new area where our army basically has no foundation. The terrain and people's sentiments are extremely unfamiliar. It also lacks grassroots political power like the old base areas in Guan Nei. The people are extremely unfamiliar with our army. Not only do they not cooperate with our army's actions, but many people even They have a certain amount of hostility towards our army."
"When our army raises civilians, because the people do not cooperate, many times they have to resort to coercion to raise a small amount of food. Also because the people here simply do not recognize the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei banknotes carried by the troops, and only recognize gold. Now there are oceans, counterfeit Manchu coins, and smoke and soil, but they cannot be purchased in cash."
"The so-called hard currency funds carried by our army are extremely limited. All the cash carried by the entire army combined is less than 3,000 yuan. When raising urgently needed supplies, in many cases, the only way is to make IOUs. , This method will undoubtedly deepen the gap between our army and the local people."
"The most important thing is that Rehe has been rich in tobacco since the Republic of China. After the September 18th Incident, it has become the main tobacco production area in the Japanese-controlled area. Compared with the huge tobacco production in a year, the food production here is very limited. Coupled with the burning, killing and looting by the Japanese and puppet troops, the people were even more miserable."
"Many times, we even have to allocate part of the food we already lack to help the people. In this case, the cooperation of the masses is simply out of the question. We now have five nos, no party and no political power. No people, no funds, no supplies.”
"Without a mass base, our army spent a lot of effort to wipe out two groups of these Japanese and puppet spy armed forces. Although it curbed the rampage of the Japanese and puppet plainclothes teams to a certain extent, it could not fundamentally solve the problem. Compared to us outsiders, they are very familiar with Rehe."
"Under this situation, we are simply unable to recruit enough civilians to build the airport, as well as to supplement the troops. With the limited manpower, we are not enough even to carry the wounded. At least until our army captures one or two counties, this airport will It really can’t be built, otherwise, we’ll have to wait until this battle is over to see if I can capture the Chifeng Airport.”
Having said this, the political commissar stood up and called a combat staff officer waiting outside the door, asking him to go to the guard regiment to bring over the weapons seized from the two Japanese and puppet plainclothes teams that had been eliminated. , some of the new weapons captured by the Japanese army were handed over to the headquarters. These weapons are currently stored in the headquarters of the advancing army.
Waiting for the staff officer to seize the weapons, mixed with the Japanese standard Type 38 horse rifle, Type 44 lance, speed machine, shell gun and other weapons, some of them had strange shapes, with bayonets attached, and weapons similar to light machine guns. The bipod, magazine and submachine gun were inserted into the side of the gun body like a flower mechanism, and it was similar to the Southern Type 14 pistol equipped by the Japanese army. However, after taking over the larger pistol, Yang Zhen shook his head.
This type of submachine gun, the latest equipment of the Japanese army, had already been captured during the tug-of-war and harassment war between the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the Japanese army in the first half of the year. And the large Southern-style pistol equipped with a sixteen-round magazine, Yang Yang Zhen was no stranger to it. As early as the year before last, he had captured it from the Japanese plainclothes reconnaissance team. However, Yang Zhen had not taken a fancy to the performance of these two weapons.
Although the 100-type submachine gun is similar to other infantry weapons of the Japanese army, it has extremely high accuracy when shooting, and can be called the submachine gun with the best shooting accuracy. However, this submachine gun uses 8mm Nanbu pistol bullets, but its performance is not the same due to the ammunition. Not great.
Within the effective range, it is indeed very powerful against unprotected people. However, this kind of submachine gun that uses Japanese eight-millimeter bullets has extremely weak penetrating power. The bullets cannot even penetrate two layers of quilts, so it is far more powerful. It is inferior to the submachine guns made by the Anti-Japanese Alliance and using Soviet-made Tokarev pistol bullets.
As for the improved Nanbu Type 14 pistol equipped with a sixteen-round magazine, because the magazine is too long, the lengthened and thickened gun body not only weakens its few advantages, but also makes this pistol inherently inferior. The reliability is even worse. It is common for the firing pin to break after firing a few rounds. It is even more common for the bullet to not be loaded after firing a few rounds.
These two weapons were prioritized equipment only last year, and the Kwantung Army's hundreds of submachine guns may be unfamiliar to the Kwantung Army, but they are already considered old friends to the Anti-Japanese Alliance. From the end of last year to this year, For half a year, the two armies faced each other on the front line. There was no major battle, but small battles continued every day. Some of them were also captured.
Just because the power of this submachine gun is too small, and the Japanese army's standard eight-millimeter pistol ammunition, although the current reserve is still large, the army has basically phased out this caliber of ammunition, and after the army seized it, except for leaving some samples In addition, basically all of them were destroyed. Because he had seen them before, Yang Zhen looked down upon these two Japanese weapons, especially the new submachine guns.