And the Japanese North China Front, which is nearing the end of its raids on various bases in North China, will also take the opportunity to insert its hands into the Kwantung Army, which has always been the sole source of cigarettes. It is one of the largest tobacco producing areas in China and the main source of private funds for the Kwantung Army.
Rehe? If the Japanese troops from both sides really intervene in Rehe, how should they adjust their forces?
The entire Rehe has an extremely important strategic position at the moment. It is at the junction of the three major strategic groups of the Japanese army. For the Japanese army, Rehe cannot be lost. If the Kwantung Army cannot control Rehe, the dispatch of troops by the Japanese army in North China is almost certain.
It's not that the Japanese troops in the pass are not making any moves at the moment.
The central government has forwarded information that the Japanese troops in North China have concentrated more than 20 military columns at various railway stations in Peiping and the surrounding railway branches. A large number of Japanese troops have also been concentrated at the two major military airports of Nanyuan and Xiyuan in Peiping.
Aircraft. Except for a few reconnaissance aircraft and light bombers, almost all Japanese aviation units within the North China Front have been transferred north.
At the same time, according to the intelligence currently displayed, the headquarters of the China Expeditionary Forces where the Japanese troops are stationed in central China has also mobilized a large number of tanks and heavy artillery units to move northward. The daily number of military columns traveling northward on the Jinpu Railway has reached three to four. Although
The Japanese army took certain measures to cover up the military columns, but the tanks and heavy artillery camouflaged with canvas were still clearly visible.
Except for the Eleventh Army, which was the main force fighting against the Nationalist Government, all the heavy artillery and tanks of the remaining Japanese troops stationed in Central and East China have been mobilized. Even the artillery regiments of some divisions have also been mobilized. Various Japanese divisions in Central China
, has stopped its raids on various New Fourth Army units in Central China.
In North China, under the brutal mopping up by the Japanese army, our army in Guanhai inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese troops. During the anti-mopping up operations in various base areas in North China, more than 30,000 enemies were annihilated, setting a record for our army's repeated counter-mopping up and annihilating the enemy. However,
Their own casualties and losses were quite serious, and they were no longer able to destroy various Japanese railway lines.
In particular, the Shandong troops who were originally active on both sides of the Jinpu Line and were listed as one of the most important targets in the Japanese army's sweep suffered heavy casualties. In order to ensure the safety of the Jinpu Line, the main artery of the Japanese army in the pass, the Japanese army
A large number of uninhabited areas have been created on both sides of the Jinpu Line.
In the Lunan area on both sides of Jinpu Road, where our anti-Japanese troops used to be active, all the villages within a radius of more than ten kilometers on both sides of the railway line were almost wiped out. More than 100,000 local innocent people were killed, and the rest were also looted.
Some villages were even wiped out. Almost all the villages were burned to ashes by the Japanese army. Our various units in southern Luna could no longer stand in place.
Now, most of our troops that were active along the Jinpu, Longhai, and Tongpu railways have withdrawn from the railway lines and have withdrawn to various mountainous areas to hold on. Not only are they unable to delay the mobilization of Japanese troops, they are already in trouble. In other words, if
The Japanese troops within the Pass have left the Pass in large numbers, and the troops within the Pass have been unable to provide any support to the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Even the strength to contain the Japanese troops has been temporarily lost.
Faced with this situation, Yang Zhen undoubtedly had a headache. Although the main force of the Japanese army in the pass has not yet been mobilized out of the pass, a large number of heavy equipment are heading north, and their combat direction can undoubtedly only be in the northeast where the fierce battle is currently taking place. And these Japanese heavy equipment have been sent out.
Guan, the pressure brought by the confrontation is obvious.
At the same time, without the containment and cooperation of the troops in North China, if necessary, North China or even the entire Japanese army dispatched to China will definitely not be as simple as just sending heavy equipment. Maybe the mobilization of Japanese troops in Central China and East China will take some time, but in the near future
If the Japanese troops in North China want to reinforce the Jehol battlefield, they will not have much time to react.
What worries Yang Zhen most is that once the Japanese army in North China comes out to fight, Rehe will be its first choice target. As a result, the advancing army currently resting in the Rexi area will become its most direct target.
Judging from the current strength of Jinjun and the overall quality of the troops, it is obvious that a hard face-to-face battle with the Japanese regular field divisions will suffer a lot.
Even if the victory is won with the support of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the casualty price paid is probably quite huge. Such a result is undoubtedly extremely worth the loss. But if the advancing army withdraws to the north to rest and recuperate, then the southern front of the Linxi battlefield will
Cover will be lost. The advancing army will pay a bloody price, and the temporary passage opened in the Rexi area they have seized can only be abandoned.
The advancing army has now seized the entire mountainous area west of the Jehol-Ye-Chi Railway. Although it has not yet completely opened up the connection with the pass and cannot break through the blockade of the Japanese army in North China at the Great Wall inside and outside. However, with the end of the battle in Jehol, the advancing army
The advancing army has passed through Weichang, Fengning, and Luanping lines, and has established partial contact with the Pingbei Anti-Japanese Base Area.
It's just that the connection with the Jidong region has not been established for a long time. The connection with the Jidong Military Region has still not been restored so far. The organs and troops of the Jidong Military Region, except for some troops of a regiment that were broken up, have been replaced by political commissar Li Ziguang.
Under the leadership of the Japanese army, they took advantage of the loopholes in the blockade of the Great Wall and crossed the entire Yanshan Mountains into Rehe to find the advancing army. The whereabouts of the rest of the troops are still unable to be found.
Even if the members of the advancing army were found, the whereabouts of the rest of the troops were not known. When the radio station was unable to get in touch, the head of the advancing army selected experienced cadres from Jidong locals to return to the Jidong area with code books and try to
The search for the whereabouts of the Jidong Military Region has so far yielded no reply.
In other words, without the coordination and support of the Jidong Military Region troops, the communication route with the pass that has been actually opened cannot be used at all. Except for a small number of personnel who can walk on the mountain paths in the lofty mountains, supplies and supplies
and large troops were of no use at all under the tight blockade of the Japanese and puppet troops.
In the Pingbei guerrilla base, direct contact with other troops in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area has been cut off by the Japanese and puppet troops. Even if the connection with the Pingbei base area is opened, the connection with the rest of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei military region will not be possible.
It is still in the interrupted state.
After finding the advancing regiment, there were less than 300 people left. They abandoned all weapons above light machine guns and, led by a smuggler who had been walking in the area for many years, walked westward along the Great Wall to Huairou.
After that, we took the mountain path to find and climbed over several collapsed areas of the Great Wall before entering Rehe.
They walked this route for ten days. In order to avoid the Japanese blockade, they did not dare to go to any inhabited areas. On the fifth day after setting off from Panshan, the troops, who had already run out of food, relied on enduring hunger along the way.
They survived on starvation and a small amount of wild vegetables. If this army was not an old-bones unit left over from the Jidong riot, I am afraid it would have collapsed halfway.
According to the report of this unit, which is currently the only protruding force from the Jidong Military Region, this communication line that has been opened is actually still closed. Unless large forces are mobilized to reopen the Japanese army's Great Wall blockade, otherwise, it will be impossible at all.
Transport any supplies and large troops.
Although it is still blocked, after all, this is the only route currently opened by the Anti-Japanese Alliance to directly communicate with the customs. Yang Zhen is still reluctant to give up now. Even though it is in name only, it can be considered a connection after all.
A route. Just don't give up, but it puts the advancing army in an environment surrounded by enemies on three sides.
Looking at the situation around the advancing army on the map in front of him, Yang Zhen felt that although Yang Jicai had messed up the entire original battle plan by mistake, on the other hand, he had also unintentionally accelerated the entire battle process.
.If Yang Jicai's operation succeeds, it will inevitably force the Kwantung Army to react and take action in advance.
It was just the chain reaction caused by this incident that made Yang Zhen feel that the matter was a bit difficult to control. Whether it would cause the Japanese troops in North China to intervene was still a matter that was difficult to judge at the moment. Although the Japanese troops in the pass were mobilized on a large scale, whether they would
Whether he will participate in the war is still unknown, but he has to make preparations.
Otherwise, once the North China Japanese army suddenly appears on the Rehe battlefield, the entire situation will be completely passive. Especially because it is currently located at the southernmost point of the entire Western Manchuria battlefield and is also the weakest overall strength of the advancing army, it will easily become the first choice target of the Japanese army.
.Although there is terrain to rely on, some problems cannot be solved simply by favorable terrain.
The reason why Yang Zhen had kept Du Kaishan's troops in his hands before was that even when the Japanese army had launched a counterattack against Chen Hanzhang's troops and the Tongliao front line was in urgent need of reinforcements, he would rather transfer some of Ma Chunsheng's troops from the direction of Xinjing than let them go.
It appears on the battlefield.
They were worried that the Japanese troops in North China would intervene, or that the Kwantung Army would deploy more reserve troops to the battlefield. By then, the troops in hand would have been used to the extreme, all active forces would have been deployed on the battlefield, and the reserve troops would have been almost exhausted. There would be no resistance.
Any troops that can be mobilized join the battle. Several battlefields, especially the Western Manchuria battlefield, will be in an extremely passive situation.
Now for the entire Western Manchuria battlefield, the position of the advancing army is indeed a bit embarrassing. In the situation where the troops on the northern battlefield have been used to the extreme, they currently have no serious enemy situation around them, and guarding one empty line will not be able to achieve the desired effect.
The so-called lines of communication for any purpose.
At the same time, once the surrounding Japanese troops take action, they will be in a three-sided attack situation. Especially once the Japanese troops stationed in Mongolia and Xinjiang intervene and send part of their troops out of the Chahar Grassland and directly into the Keshiketeng Banner line, the advancing army will currently be in conflict with the Anti-Japanese Alliance
There is even a risk of being cut off. Judging from the current situation, this possibility is not impossible.
After hesitating for a long time, Yang Zhen turned his head and looked at the plan for the aviation force that had been drafted. At this time, Guo Bingxun, who was processing the battle report from the front, suddenly said: "Old Guo, if we abandon Rexi now, we will shrink the entire advancing army to
Isn’t it more appropriate that the line of Keshiketeng Banner is close to our Linxi battlefield, Wang Guangyu’s troops?”
After hearing Yang Zhen's somewhat uncertain inquiry, Guo Bingxun was stunned for a moment, put down the pen in his hand and walked to Yang Zhen's side to carefully check the location of the advancing army. He picked up red and blue pencils and marked the two sides of the advancing army, as well as Ling
Source, he drew a few heavy strokes in the direction of Chaoyang and said: "No. 1, the actual situation around the current advancing army is not optimistic. Its location can almost be said to form a separate protrusion at the southernmost end of our entire battlefield.
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"Although after a hard fight, they now control the Rexi area west of the Yechi Railway and defeated the main force of the Japanese and puppet Jehol Independent Guards. However, their current location is not far from Chaoyang, where the Kwantung Army has deployed a heavy troop cluster, and is across the Jinzhou line.
Beyond the immediate area, the rear is also constantly threatened by the Japanese garrison in Mongolia, and the south faces constant attacks from the Japanese North China Front."
"If the Japanese army concentrates one or two divisions, dispatches a part of the Mongolian garrison, and takes advantage of the opportunity when our army has no time to look south on the Linxi battlefield to attack the advancing army from the east and west, I am afraid that the current situation of the advancing army will be dangerous. Even if
We mobilized Ma Chunsheng's troops to move in the direction of Changtu, but with the heavy concentration of Japanese troops around the Zhongchang Railway, it was difficult to mobilize the Japanese troops from Jianping to Chaoyang."