Saibei. Xilinhot.

Shen Yuquan has been in charge of Xilinhot for half a year, and after more than half a year of understanding, he has a very clear understanding of the situation of the enemy in the entire Suidong.

The situation in the Suidong region is more complicated, although the Japanese are still strong here, but they dare not persecute the Mongolian people excessively, a large part of the political power here is still in the hands of those Mongolian princes, and although the cavalry divisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region stationed here are quite numerous, the territory controlled by them is not too large, and the scope controlled by Han Yunhua's department in the entire Suidong region is less than one-third.

Shen Yuquan knew Han Yunhua's intention of sending him to govern Suidong, the Communist Party had the rules of the Communist Party, and the Communist Party's ethnic policy was very tolerant and lenient, so in order to avoid friction with the local ethnic minorities, the Party Central Committee had always strictly ordered Han Yunhua's troops to expand their territory to the east, because Han Yunhua's eastward expansion would inevitably shake the interests of those Mongolian princes, and it was inevitable that the two sides would have a conflict, and besides, the eastward expansion would inevitably require a direct exchange of fire with the Japanese Kwantung Army. The strength of the Kwantung Army is obvious to all, and the entire 800,000-strong army is not something that the current Communist Party can provoke. However, Shen Yuquan knew that the commander had always wanted to "touch" the fertile land of Suidong, and although there was a certain price to be paid for the conflict with the Kwantung Army, he could be in the same way as the anti-Japanese forces in the northeast region and include the entire northeast region in his attack range.

Although Shen Yuquan didn't know what to do with the Kwantung Army, he knew that Han Yunhua had never done anything he was not sure of, just like some time ago he was almost fighting against hundreds of thousands of troops of the North China Front with the strength of a military region, and many people were sweating for the Eighth Route Army, and they all thought that the little money that the Communist Party had accumulated with great difficulty was probably going to be played by Han Yunhua. But the result was beyond everyone's expectations, from the very beginning of the battle, Han Yunhua's headquarters ate a large number of troops of the North China Front Army like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and then went to Baoding and broke Tianjin, and in the end, even the commander of the North China Front Army, Tada Jun, did not escape.

As a result of this campaign, the Inner Mongolia Military Region established the position of the Communist Party's No. 1 military group, and the benefits gained by the Communist Party went far beyond that. Although nominally the whole of Shanxi, Hebei, and Beijing-Tianjin should now be the territory of the Nationalist Government, the greatest gains for the Communists are only in northern Hebei and Suixi. However, in fact, so far, Han Yunhua's department has only withdrawn the troops that have penetrated deep into the hinterland of Shanxi, leaving only a small part to hold the northwest region of Shanxi, and the explanation given by Han Yunhua's department to the headquarters of the Second War Zone is to ensure the communication channel between the Inner Mongolia Military Region and Yan'an.

As for most areas of Hebei, Han Yunhua's subordinates have not made a move to withdraw troops, let alone the Beijing-Tianjin region, which the Nationalist Government has long coveted. Although the Nationalist Government had telegraphed to the Party Central Committee in Yan'an, asking the Party Central Committee to order Han Yunhua's headquarters to immediately withdraw from southern Hebei, the Nationalist Government would send Wei Lihuang's headquarters to stationed in southern Hebei.

However, with the reorganization of the Japanese North China Front Army, reinforcements continued to arrive in North China, and the Nationalist Government was a little timid, and Wei Lihuang's more than 100,000 troops stationed at the junction of Shanxi and Hebei did not move, and the entire southern Hebei region except for Gao Shuxun's 39th Group Army was left with the Eighth Route Army. Therefore, Han Yunhua's subordinates have actually controlled most of Suiyuan, Chahar, Rehe, and Hebei Province, and the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region made a lot of money in that war.

Shen Yuquan is Han Yunhua's old partner, he watched Han Yunhua grow up step by step, when Han Yunhua was a small infantry commander, he always followed Han Yunhua, so he knew Han Yunhua far better than ordinary people, and the tacit understanding between him and Han Yunhua was not comparable to the later Zuo Quan and the current Luo Ronghuan.

Shen Yuquan, who knew Han Yunhua's plan, knew very well what Han Yunhua lacked now, and what Han Yunhua lacked now was just an excuse. In Han Yunhua's words, there are policies and countermeasures, isn't it not that we will not be allowed to conflict with the Mongolian princes at will, then I will force these princes to personally ask us to send troops, and as long as we find evidence that those Mongolian princes are traitors and help the abuse, is it in order to ensure that those so-called national policies can still tolerate those guys as traitors, so what Han Yunhua lacks now is just an excuse to send troops, and Shen Yuquan is in charge of Suidong to find this breakthrough point. …,

After Shen Yuquan arrived in Suidong, he began to arrange a blow to the Japanese puppet army in Suidong, because there was an order pressed on it, so Shen Yuquan did not dare to blatantly send troops to fight the Japanese puppet army in Suidong, so he constantly sent capable small troops to raid the Japanese strongholds.

After several months in a row, it finally angered the Japanese army, and the cavalry group belonging to the Kwantung Army continued to increase troops in the direction of Suidong, from the beginning of 5,000 people to the current more than 30,000 people, and the conflict between the two sides became more and more intense, and even a tragic cavalry encounter was carried out in Zarut a few days ago, and a cavalry wing of the Japanese army plunged headlong into the arms of the 1st Division and 1st Brigade of the Aolege Cavalry, and the two sides were engaged in a life-and-death duel between the cavalry.

In that battle, due to the absolute superiority of the number of the 1st cavalry division, 5000 VS 1200 people, the result is self-evident. After two hours of fighting, the 1st Cavalry Division finally annihilated the Japanese cavalry wing. Afterwards, the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division and 1st Brigade also did an extremely ugly thing for the Japanese - torture the corpses, and the soldiers of the 1st Brigade beheaded all the Japanese soldiers, including about 100 prisoners, and then cut off their heads, and used their heads to cast a "Jingguan".

"Jingguan", also known as "Wujun", is to pile the corpses of enemy soldiers on both sides of the road, cover the soil and tamp it, forming a pyramid-shaped mound. As we all know, Japan is an extremely superstitious country, Japanese culture believes that the head is the place of the soul, you can die, but you can't have no soul, so the Japanese army is the most afraid of being beheaded, but also the most taboo to be beheaded, so that China has so many broadsword teams.

It is nothing to be completely annihilated by the Chinese army with a cavalry wing, and there was a precedent for the annihilation of an entire cavalry group some time ago, which fully shows that the cavalry of the Chinese army can already compete with the Japanese army, so it is not a big deal to be completely annihilated by a cavalry wing now. But the problem is that such an insult to the corpses of the warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army is unforgivable, and it will seriously affect the honor and morale of the Imperial Army. Therefore, Lieutenant General Tian Jiro, commander of the Japanese cavalry group, was furious after receiving the telegram and ordered the 4th Cavalry Division, the 110th Division, and the 7th and 12th Cavalry Divisions of the puppet Manchukuo Wehrmacht to immediately march eastward and kill Xilinhot by three routes.

Xilinhot, Suidong Army Divisional Headquarters.

"Commander, two cavalry divisions of the Japanese army, two puppet cavalry divisions, a total of more than 27,000 people, are coming to the defense area of our army division, and now its vanguard has reached Fuhe and Kundu, what should we do?"

Shen Yuquan frowned and asked, "Aolige, are you sure that the Japanese army only came with two cavalry divisions and two puppet cavalry divisions this time?" In the absence of other troops? ”。

Aurege thought for a while and said: "No, according to the report that I arranged the ranger on the grassland, the Japanese army is not many this time, and they have all fought with us before, and their numbers are very recognizable, and they will not be mistaken." ”

"This is not right, some time ago, our intelligence officers reported that the Japanese army transferred a total of 3 cavalry divisions, 5 puppet army divisions and 2 Mongolian cavalry divisions from Hulunbuir and Qiqihar to the south, with a total strength of about 85,000 people. Now there are less than 30,000 people who have come to attack us, this is not the style of the Japanese army, their remaining troops are there, there is a conspiracy here. "Shen Yuquan is worthy of being an old soldier, and he looks more carefully than ordinary people.

Aurege has also been by Han Yunhua's side for a long time, although he has not learned too much, but he still has this strategic vision, and after thinking about it, he said: "It's really weird, but the little devil now controls almost the entire Horqin steppe, and Lianliao is also controlled by the little devil, I think the little devil may have to stay in Suidong to guard some troops." ”…,

Shen Yuquan said: "Even if you want to stay in Suidong, you won't leave fifty or sixty thousand people, I don't think the enemy will have only such a force as Zalut on the eighth floor, you quickly send all the rangers in your hands to investigate, and you must not let the little devils take advantage of our loopholes." ”

"Well, I know, I'll do it later, what should the Japanese army do on this road in Zarut?"

"What can I do, since they have already put their bayonets against our necks, what can we do, now the commander promised that our troops have not yet arrived, there are only more than 10,000 people in the entire military division and Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo should not count on it, it is very difficult for them to protect themselves under the blow of the Japanese Kwantung Army, how can they still have the energy to help us. So the next battle is all up to you, there is a huge difference between the enemy and our forces, this one is not easy to fight, you must be mentally prepared. Shen Yuquan said.

Aurege said with a smile: "Although the Japanese army has 80,000 or 90,000 people, they are not all combat cavalry, their real cavalry troops are only 6 or 70,000 people, and our five divisions have more than 50,000 troops, so there should not be much problem in dealing with them." But the cavalry duel is not as gentle as the infantry, once the two sides enter the endless battle, then the casualties are definitely indispensable, there is no trick, it is completely a hard-fought style. Aurege cleared his throat and continued: "I am not afraid of hard fighting, most of our soldiers have more than two years of military experience, and they are not inferior to the Japanese army in terms of combat quality, but the Japanese army is likely to have aircraft and tanks to help in the battle, and I think the future of the cavalry and aircraft duel is worrying." ”

"Well, I've thought of this for a long time, but as long as we besiege the Japanese cavalry with absolute superiority, I think the casualties will be much smaller, and the commander didn't just equip your division with a submachine gun company, so that the submachine gun company will definitely achieve a lot of results."

"Commander, the firepower of the submachine gun company is indeed very fierce, but unfortunately their number is too small, so more than a hundred people can play a very limited role in the duel of tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 troops, but I will try to minimize the casualties of the troops, now the little devils obviously have a conspiracy, I judge that their other army must want to bypass the main assembly point of our army, and then go straight to Xilinhot, so I want to let go of the old devil Tian Jilang first, and directly solve the other army of the Japanese army, commander, what do you think." ”

Shen Yuquan thought for a while and said: "You are an expert in cavalry combat, whether you are fighting on the march or doing other things, the most taboo thing is to command the layman and the insider, so I will not interfere with the specific combat command, so you can do the next thing yourself, if you need my support, you can speak, after this battle is fought well, the Kwantung Army of the little devil will completely lose the ability to march into Suiyuan, and it will not be able to threaten our Hebei Eastern Army Division, and our army can attack the northeast and retreat to defend Suiyuan, And with the troops in eastern Hebei, it formed a flanking posture against the Japanese puppet army in the northeast. Coupled with the threat of the Soviet Red Army in the Northeast, I don't think the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Japanese Kwantung Army dare to move at will. ”

"Hehehe, it's still our commander who can see far, and only you and the commander can cooperate so tacitly, but I know that this time the little devil didn't have any authorization from the military region, it was completely your Shen Yuquan Shen Commander Shen's own attention, hehehe, your courage is really big enough, more like a Mongolian man than my Aolige." Aolige was the first batch of soldiers to follow Han Yunhua to the north, so he can be regarded as an old qualification in the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region, plus he has always known Shen Yuquan before, so he speaks very casually when no one is around.

Shen Yuquan said with a smile: "Aolige, you are wrong this time, it was indeed my own attention before, but this decisive battle with the Japanese army has been approved and supported by the commander, and even Political Commissar Luo has supported our battle this time, and the hundreds of thousands of reinforcements I told you before are not untrue, and the telegram has been sent." ”…,

"What, what you said earlier about reinforcements is true? The commander really sent us more than 100,000 reinforcements, I thought you were fooling me? ”

"Okay, you are arrogant, I told you about business, you still think I was joking with you, you kid is getting more and more popular, believe it or not, I went to the commander to join you"

"Go and go to Lao Shen, it's no wonder to me, who let your kid have a criminal record, a short time ago, coaxed me to say that it was the order of Political Commissar Luo, let us contain the little devils in Saibei, and deceived a few of our division commanders to harass the little devil's stronghold everywhere, if I poke this matter up to see how you explain it to the commander, hehehe"

"You kid is ruthless, forget it, don't talk about this, but this dependence is related to the security of the northern part of the country in the future, no matter what the Mongolian prince or the little devil is the second devil, as long as it is our enemy, we must eradicate it at all costs, your cavalry division has a very heavy task this time, although the commander is on the front line in Shandong, but his heart has not relaxed his attention to our side, you kid don't embarrass our Suidong Army Division."

"Lao Shen, you can rest assured, if you want to say that I am very bad at fighting positional warfare, but if you stand on horseback Lao Tzu is the sky, the cavalry is still our Mongolian men, but you kid should also pay attention, don't really let the little devil be trapped in Xilinhot, I want to take away all the field troops this time, Xilinhot will leave at most one infantry regiment and two cavalry battalions, if something happens, I can't afford to wait, who doesn't know that you Commander Shen is the heart of the commander, and I won't be trampled to death by the commander if something happens" Aurege quipped.

Shen Yuquan's head was full of black lines, and he was scorched by the last few words of Aolige and said angrily: "You kid really can't spit out ivory in his mouth, do you describe it like this, people who don't know still think that I have a leg with the commander, go and go, I can solve my own safety, although you have taken away all the elites, but I don't have a few recruit divisions here, if you can't do it, let these recruit divisions go up to the top." So think about how to fight the war first, I have already reminded you that this time the little devils have dispatched a total of more than 80,000 people, and there are no less than 30,000 elite cavalry alone, and these five cavalry divisions in our hands are probably not the opponents of the little devils. ”

"Okay, although you are not a layman in the war, but when it comes to understanding the cavalry, you are still far behind, if the little devil rushes over with these 80,000 people, I really can't take them, but who let them find their own death, although dividing the army is a common tactic in the infantry, but it is rare in the cavalry, see how I clean them up one by one." But I want to remind you that cavalry and infantry are different, either someone has a horse or cavalry, although your newly formed recruit division looks pretty good, but I tell you that it's just a showcase, in the formal cavalry duel, these people are afraid that they will not be able to last even a day will be eaten by the little devils, the cavalry duel is cruel, and it is common for limbs to fly, so this time I am not ready to use those recruit divisions, because it will only be bad if he goes, so you don't rely too much on them, Or that infantry regiment is much more reliable. ”

Shen Yuquan also knew that Aurege was telling the truth, it was not an easy task to train a qualified cavalry, the five cavalry divisions in Aolege's hands had been trained in the hands of Li Shouxin for four years, and they had stayed in Han Yunhua's department for more than two years, so they would have good combat effectiveness, as for those recruit divisions, although they all looked like big men, and the war horses were also tall horses, but they almost never went to the battlefield, such cavalry could only be regarded as semi-infantry on horseback, and their combat effectiveness was very unreliable.

After Aolige walked out, Shen Yuquan and immediately sent a telegram to Han Yunhua on the front line and Luo Ronghuan to return to Sui, reporting the battle in Saibei to the two gods, and at the same time urging the reinforcements to speed up. Because in the past few days, not only has the number of Japanese cavalry increased greatly, but also the Japanese infantry has also traces ......of reinforcements, at this time Suidong is cloudy, and a great war may break out at any time.