[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 768: Rest and Recuperate (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

After Xu Yinghui analyzed the situation between the enemy and us, Ma Zheng immediately stood up and said loudly: "Comrades, in the past year or so, our Suicha Military Region has been expanding its armaments, and the establishment of the troops has been expanding and expanding, from the original one division to the current several divisions. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"But don't forget, our heritage and the Japanese army is incomparable, now the elite infantry on both sides of the enemy and us, especially the elite veterans, have suffered great losses, and it is likely that we will suffer losses if we continue to fight, and we will be far slower than the Japanese army in cultivating a veteran. So I think the next thing for us is not how to fight, but how to digest our existing territory, and at the same time to repair it well, I wonder what the comrades think? ”

Yun Jian got up and said: "What the commander said is very reasonable, we should really take a good rest, the veterans of our various units have suffered great losses, although the number of troops in each unit may be much less than before, and even more in the future, but whether the combat capability of the troops can be improved is the key." In the past, we only needed 200 people to destroy a Japanese artillery tower, but now we need 400 people, and such an expansion does not make any sense to us! ”

Ma Desheng, commander of the Chabei Army Division and commander of the cavalry division, also got up and said: "What the commander and political commissar said is very reasonable, just like our cavalry division, our cavalry division was originally only more than 10,000 people, but after continuous expansion, now we have more than 50,000 people, in addition to more than 20,000 cavalry, we also have more than 30,000 infantry, and the strength seems to have increased by more than five times." ”

"But if it is compared to the mastery and combat effectiveness of the command, I think the cavalry division has not improved as much as imagined. And the key is that we have transformed those puppet prisoners too quickly, and they have not really integrated into our military region. We can completely understand this, yesterday they were still wearing military uniforms issued by the Japanese army, holding Japanese food and weapons and fighting us, and in the process they also had comrades-in-arms and even relatives and friends who were killed by us. So it's important to take a good break. ”

Then Yang Chengwu, Huang Sicheng, Chen Xudong, Liu Fengchi, and others also put forward their own opinions one after another, and they all agreed with the idea of a temporary truce in the military region and the withdrawal of some troops back to Sui for rest and recuperation.

After more than a year of non-stop fighting, both ordinary soldiers and cadres are already physically and mentally exhausted. If they did not have sufficient energy and blindly pursued to fight against the Japanese army, whose physical fitness was much higher than theirs, the results were indeed not optimistic.

What's more, the establishment of the Suicha Military Region has now been disrupted, and it must be reorganized, otherwise it will not be conducive to the next battle. Moreover, the reorganization had to be approved by the Party Central Committee, so the rest and readjustment became the only thing to be done at the moment.

At the same time that Ma Zheng held a meeting with the division-level cadres of the entire Suicha Military Region, Tada Jun, commander of the North China Front, also held a military meeting in Beiping to sum up the battles of the previous period.

The fiasco of the "Battle of North China" was fundamentally different from the defeat of the previous Battle of Taierzhuang for the Japanese base camp, and if the retreat from Taierzhuang was originally for the adjustment of the situation of the future battle, then the Battle of North China was an out-and-out fiasco.

The Nationalist Government was very disdainful of the Japanese army's hype about the great victory of Taierzhuang, just as after the war, the then head of the base camp operations section at that time, Masasumi Inada (later promoted to lieutenant general), recalled: "The retreat of the two detachments of Seya and Sakamoto from Taierzhuang was taken for granted in terms of the battle situation, and the 2nd Army was unwilling to retreat as soon as possible for some reason, which was really anxious. The retreat from Taierzhuang was not a defeat, because the base camp had stipulated from the beginning that it was necessary to withdraw to the original starting line, and retreat was not a problem at all. ”

What Inada Zhengjun said is reasonable, and there is no doubt that the retreat from Taierzhuang is in line with the original plan of the base camp. However, it was a defeat for the North China Front, as they hoped to capture and secure Taierzhuang in order to gain a good momentum for the future Battle of Xuzhou. Because of this, during the battle, the Seya detachment received all orders urging it to capture Taierzhuang as soon as possible, but there was no order to retreat.

Moreover, at that time, the Japanese army generally believed that the occupied areas should not give up an inch of land, and it was quite a loss of face to retreat. Moreover, in the nine months since the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, the Japanese army has been attacking and attacking, and has never turned back. This was the first retreat of the Japanese army, so it is also true that this was also the first defeat of the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield.

However, the victory of Taierzhuang was generally regarded by many Japanese as a deception or a mistake, but this time the Battle of North China was different from the past, and the casualties of more than 100,000 troops could not be concealed by anyone, and the news of the disastrous defeat in the Battle of North China had already reached Tokyo on the second day after the Battle of North China ended, and as a newspaper with the Asahi Shimbun on the front page, even the Tokyo Broadcasting Station, which had always reported good news but not bad news, also made an hour-long broadcast and broadcast the battle in detail.

After the end of the Battle of North China, the propaganda agencies in Yan'an stepped up their efforts to publicize the war, and called the Battle of North China a classic battle of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. At the same time, the Nationalist Government carried out "artistic" processing of the results of the war, greatly exaggerating the results of the war, and said to the outside world: "After nearly a month of arduous fighting, nearly one million troops of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party killed and wounded more than 280,000 Japanese soldiers in the front-line troops, captured 12,719 Japanese soldiers, captured more than 130,000 rifles, 22,913 machine guns, 777 infantry guns, more than 150 cannons, and 40 combat vehicles......

The phenomenon of exaggerating the achievements of the Kuomintang at that time was not uncommon in the Kuomintang army, and it would be hellish not to exaggerate the results of the war, and the atmosphere was such that if you did not exaggerate the results of the war, the war report was sent to the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the Ministry of Military Affairs also regarded the war report you sent as a war report after "artistic" processing.

The usual practice of the Ministry of Military Affairs for these processed war reports is to ignore them or discount them, and if you are deducted eight layers for the battle record of destroying 1,000 enemies, it will become 200 enemies destroyed. Therefore, even in the fierce battle of Taierzhuang, the commander of the 31st Division, the main force guarding the center, Chi Fengcheng had a big conflict with his deputy division commander Qu Shen because of the issue of reporting the battle results.

Afterwards, during a conversation between the two, Chi blamed Qu and said in a stern tone: "According to your report at the press forum, the blood of thousands of people in my division has been shed in vain. ”

Therefore, when the Nationalist Government released the results of this freshly baked battle, the first reaction of all walks of life was not to be ecstatic, but to be very cautious in seeking verification, or more people scolded the Nationalist Government for being shameless and even lying about the results to the people of the whole country. If the Nationalist Government had said that it had annihilated 50,000 or 60,000 enemies, the people would not have reacted so much, but almost all of them thought that the Nationalist Government was lying about the military situation.

At this time, the Japanese army also made a report on the casualties in the Battle of North China, and the Japanese Asahi Shimbun reported: "Yes, the casualties of the troops of the Imperial China North China Dispatch Army were relatively large, and several troops were erased from the battle sequence of the Imperial Army, which was actually the first fiasco after the outbreak of the Japanese-Chinese War, and the specific casualties were as follows: the 26th Division lost 6,687 killed and 3,887 wounded; The 10th Division suffered 4,088 killed and 4,137 wounded; The 21st Division suffered 5,432 killed and 2,323 wounded............ In total, the Imperial Army lost 67,654 killed and 54,321 wounded......"

Although people did not believe in the Japanese casualties, the Japanese army tampered with the casualty figures from time to time. No matter how many Japanese people died in this war, at least one thing can be certain, that is, the Japanese army did suffer a big loss in North China, and even they themselves admitted defeat, and they also used the word fiasco many times in a row.

For a time, the whole of China was full of rejoicing, and almost all cities, including even a large part of the cities in the enemy-occupied areas, were firing fireworks and cannons, as if the War of Resistance against Japan had been completely victorious. (To be continued.) )