Chapter 343: Attack on Zhangjiakou

"This vanguard is also a big killer! The devil killer fights very toughly, and he is not soft in cleaning up the country. Yuan Wenhui sighed.

"Tell the people below to be more stable." He now has palpitations, saying that Liu Shouyan, the captain of the Chinese arrest detective team in the concession, was arrested by the vanguard army and shot in public trial. Wang Haiming, a bully under the same Qing Gang Bai Yunsheng, and others were also shot. As one of the few figures in Tianjin's underworld, dodging the gun this time also has something to do with how he will be.

Yuan Wenhui dominated Tianjin in the thirties and forties, and usually bullied men and women, but he usually treated the people near Luzhuangzi, his ancestral home, very well.

At the annual Fengwo temple fair, he spends money to build a large tent every other mile along the way, set up seats for pilgrims to rest, and prepare mung bean soup to drink casually. Every year before Chinese New Year's Eve, he bought 200 bags of white noodles at the Luzhuangzi rice noodle shop, asked the noodles to spread out 5 pounds of noodles and took noodles, and he distributed these white noodles to his subordinates, telling them to go to the streets and alleys near Luzhuangzi on the night before the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and ask which family was too poor to survive last year, so he called to open the door and give a piece of noodles, but this noodle was like charcoal in the snow.

He attached himself to himself and set up a plainclothes team to buy drugs and sell drugs, which was enough to be shot. And he accepted a wide range of disciples, and those who came did not refuse, although it was not as exaggerated as the original history of more than 10,000 people to the end of the Anti-Japanese War, but at this time there were also 3,000 people. There was a lot involved, and the vanguard army still attached great importance to it, and went to a platoon to arrest it. However, Lu Zhuangzi's people blocked the soldiers who came to capture the vanguard army, and Yuan Wenhui took the opportunity to escape into the nearby Zizhulin French Concession and never showed his head, so he escaped.

The vanguard could not afford to clash with the French again for such an underworld leader. The most important thing now is to stabilize Tianjin, and even the entire Beijing-Tianjin region.

"The concession in Tianjin is the largest drug sales center in East Asia, and their sources are mainly Suiyuan and Rehe. This time, their sales in the Beijing-Tianjin area were cut off, but the opium was still harmful. Zhou Bai looked at Meng Xiang as he spoke, and the eagerness in his eyes made Meng Xiang amused.

This Zhou Bai, who has always had little interference with the military, even wanted the vanguard army to continue to attack and conquer Rehe and other places at this time.

Now the north and northeast of Beiping have basically driven the devils out of the Great Wall, and only the northwest is still confronting the devils in the Zhulu area. But the devils there have too few troops, and they can't pose much of a threat to the vanguard.

"Rehe is not in a hurry, Zhangjiakou can be solved first, and the devils can be completely driven out of the Great Wall." Meng Xiang waved his hand.

"That's the Chahar war zone, and that's Lu Zhonglin's territory." Pharmacist Tang reminded beside him.

"I know, ask him first, and invite him to attack with me." Meng Xiang naturally knew this, and if he broke into someone else's defense zone for no reason, even if he pressed it, he would be easily criticized. There are some basic rules that must be followed.

"Whether he fights or not, we have to fight. Let those people see if the vanguard army is still fighting devils. Meng Xiang said categorically.

Tang Yaoshi also knew what Meng Xiang meant, and it was recently rumored that the vanguard army had a secret agreement with Yue himself, wanting to stand on his own feet in North China and live in peace with Yue himself. Meng Xiang chose concrete actions to deal with these rumors. The strategically important city of Zhangjiakou became Meng Xiang's next target.

In the past few days, the Jinpu Line and the Pinghan Line have been under urgent repair, and at this time it can already be directly connected from the Special Zone to Beiping. The 59th Army was the first to mobilize all of them, and this time their mission was to capture Zhangjiakou. Zhang Zizhong served as the chairman of Chahar in 35 years, and he is still relatively familiar with his surroundings.

Many of the 59th Army joined the army from the surrounding areas, and when they heard about the recovery of their hometowns, they were also gearing up and preparing to kill the enemy desperately. Rumors of the imminent implementation of the subsistence allowance in occupied territories have been confirmed, and yesterday Meng Xiang personally issued this statement. The law and order in the occupied areas have suddenly improved a lot. Even if the various forces are stirring up, the people will not be interested. Faced with the tangible benefits that could be seen, the people chose to support the arrival of the vanguard army.

Zhang Zizhong personally contacted his old boss Lu Zhonglin, and Lu Zhonglin did not object to this. He has always been Feng Yuxiang's right-hand man, and he has always followed him. Feng Yuxiang is still idle, he can't wait for Feng Yuxiang to come and recover Chahar, right? Even if you want to recover, you are powerless.

Although the intervention of the vanguard army means that after the occupation in the future, it is the vanguard army that will be the master, but it is better in the hands of the vanguard army than in the hands of devils.

The vanguard invited him to attack the enemy together, and sent his former subordinate Zhang Zizhong to give him a big face and share the credit for recovering Chahar to himself. What more could he ask for? The meaning of the vanguard army is already very clear, whether he acts or not, the vanguard army's army will attack.

He suddenly felt a little tired, and said to Zhang Zizhong: "Xun Chen, I still remember what you said when you were in Linyi. In the future, remember the words of the motherland. Don't be limited to personal feelings! ”

Since Lu Zhonglin has agreed, the rest is easy to say. On the side of the central political axe, the battle for the deer had started on the 18th, and the plan was handed over.

At this time, Zhangjiakou was defending the 2nd Brigade of Reading Mixed Brigade, which had the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Infantry Brigades under its jurisdiction, and was equipped with an artillery brigade and complete logistics units such as baggage soldiers and engineer teams, which was equivalent to a small division. But after the increase in the number of infantry brigades in September, the number was only about 5,000.

Opposite them was the reorganized 59th Army.

Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army also suffered heavy losses in Linyi, with only seven or eight thousand people left, but after joining the vanguard army, it quickly filled the shelves of the team. The establishment is also in accordance with the standard of the vanguard army, the establishment of the first division, three brigades and nine regiments, and the number of people has also reached more than 60,000. The original 59th Army still accounts for most of the high-ranking officers, but the middle and lower-level officers are clones and veterans of the 54th Army account for most of the majority, and most of the soldiers are recruits who have experienced the benefits of the vanguard army and have received education in the new barracks.

With these measures, Meng Xiang is not worried about the small hill inside that is too strong. And Meng Xiang's decentralization of the 59th Army also made Zhang Zizhong secretly feel the grace of his encounter.

At this time, it was the 38th Division of the 59th Army that directly faced the 2nd Brigade of Reading Power mixed into the 38th Brigade, and a regiment that Lu Zhonglin followed, but it was also the share of waving the flag and shouting. After all, Lu Zhonglin was looked at very closely by Lao Jiang, and he didn't have too many soldiers and horses in his hands. At this time, these troops are withdrawn, and it will not be considered a waste of credit.

"It's just unbeatable!" Major General Tsuneoka Kanji, commander of the 2nd Mixed Brigade of Yoritori, was in a daze at this time with the weapon allocation information of the 38th Division of the Vanguard Army on the opposite side.

There were only 12 75-mm mountain guns in the artillery brigade of the 2nd brigade regiment, but the 38-mm howitzers of the artillery regiment of the 105-mm artillery regiment of the opposite division had 36 guns.

The brigade [***] had 20 70-mm infantry guns and 10 flat-fire guns, while the 38-mm artillery battalions under the opposite division had more than 60 76-mm cannons.

There were only 120 light machine guns and 30 heavy machine guns in the 2nd Brigade of the Reading Force, but according to the report, there were more than 1,000 light and heavy machine guns in the 38th Division of the Vanguard Army. Moreover, those light machine guns can be used as heavy machine guns, and the heavy machine guns of the Vanguard Army only refer to those large-caliber M2 heavy machine guns.

In this sortie, the vanguard army also had the assistance of dozens of aircraft. And the planes of the devils were forced far away by the planes of the vanguard army, and they couldn't support them at all.

"How do you fight this?" Kanji Tsuneoka scratched his head, and the difference in strength was too great.

This information sent by the eleventh directly made Toneoka Kanji abandon the surrounding small county towns and concentrate on the mountains near Xuanhua's lower garden. In the face of such a powerful force, the only thing the devil relies on is the geographical advantage of the mountains.

With the advantage of the mountainous terrain, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was jammed, and the troops of the vanguard army were temporarily blocked in the pass. Otherwise, if the vanguard army attacked all the way, I was afraid that the troops stationed in Mongolia would be dangerous.

"Alas, only one step is one step!" Thinking of the orders demanded by the base camp that must be adhered to, Tsuneoka Kanji could only hope that reinforcements would arrive soon.

"Sun Wuyue, the commander of the first regiment of the Mountain Reading Brigade, came to report." Monkey Five shouted.

"You're finally here! Welcome! Zhang Zizhong has also heard a lot of rumors about this mountain brigade. This unit is specially responsible for mountain operations, although the 59th Army is the main attack, but considering that there are more mountains along the way, Meng Xiang sent a regiment of the Reading Brigade that had completed the rest to help assist.

"This time the operation is mostly mountain warfare, don't worry, accumulate more experience!" Meng Xiang instructed again. Now the devil and the vanguard army no longer have the light enemy at the beginning, they are cautious every time, and they will not make some of the previous mistakes again. Those devil veterans use the geographical advantage to defend, but I am afraid that the 59th Army may not be easy.

The effect of those artillery in mountain warfare was not very good, and later Soviet Russia in Afghanistan and the United States in North Korea, no matter how sharp their artillery was, they were also scratching their heads in the face of rifle guerrilla warfare in the mountains. The 59th Army, which was not familiar with mountain warfare, waited until it found out its experience, but I was afraid that it would have to pay a relatively large price.

So this time for the attack, Meng Xiang did not give Zhang Zizhong a time limit, and specially instructed him not to worry.

At this time, the devil's reinforcements are also delayed, so there is no need to worry at all.

The 26th Division of the Mongolian Army and the devils in Shanxi were all involved and could not get out. The devils in Henan and Central China were even more blocked by the vanguard army, and the Kwantung Army was pinned down by the Russians and blocked from Shanhaiguan, and it was also unable to march for a long time. They had to come to the rescue from the outside. But in such weather, when they arrived, I was afraid that Zhangjiakou would have fallen into the hands of the vanguard army.

"I'm starting to form a new team in my hometown! It seems that they are not dead yet! Meng Xiang looked at the information provided by Rat Er and smiled. But in his heart, he had been thinking about the threat he might pose to the vanguard army.

It is said that Ben's North China Front Army has almost been crippled by the vanguard army, and the Central China Dispatch Army has been pinned down by the Central Army, and it is afraid that it will not be able to separate. Guangdong's army was even more powerless to attack from afar. The only threat was the Kwantung Army. At this time, the 59th Division of the 180th Army had already arrived in the area of Qinhuangdao to garrison. With the support of the base, it is not a big problem to carry it through March next year.

It is said that the new troops that are now being formed on the main island have made history much ahead of time.

He said that he had formed five mixed brigades in one go, namely the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th brigades, which were being reorganized. It won't be long before they will set off for China, and their goal is likely to be to point to the vanguard.

At the same time, because of the poor performance of the division after the 100th, it was even wiped out by the vanguard army three times in a row. This time, I said that I planned to adjust and cancel several divisions after the 100th and change them to divisions and regiments after the 30th.

This time, I only heard that the devil had newly formed 4 divisions, but I didn't know the specific establishment. But no matter what kind of division it is, the pressure on the 4 divisions is not small. If it is also against the vanguard army, I am afraid that there will be a fierce battle next.

Beijing and Tianjin are located near the Bohai Sea, and it is difficult for his navy to do anything in the face of the aircraft of the vanguard army.

As long as the vanguard army controls the sky, the devil's attack is not too threatening.

He seems to know this, and has been developing new fighters.

He said that he was developing a new fighter, which may be the Zero. But the Republican Raiden and Hellcat did not fall behind against Zero, at most the devil narrowed the gap between them. Although they have many pilots, if they want to form a scale, they will have to wait until half a year later, and at that time, the pilots of the vanguard army will only exceed 1,000 people, and the air supremacy in the sky will still belong to the vanguard army.

"There is no danger!" Meng Xiang himself felt relaxed, as if he had become much weaker all of a sudden.

Without the help of China's abundant resources, the army was not the strongest at this time. The vanguard army occupied Hebei and Beijing and Tianjin at once, which not only made Yue himself lose the plundering of these places, but even the plundering of Shanxi and other regions could not be transported out in time. North China's coal resources were all stuck.

With the help of the resources of the three northeastern provinces, it is difficult to maintain the operation of a huge army.

"We should not only hold here, but also continue to attack." Okamura advised, "We need resources from Central China. ”

The devils who attacked Wuhan were faced with an embarrassing situation, and their anger had been transferred to the vanguard army. But it is clear that the threat of the Central Army cannot be ignored either. It is obviously impossible for them to fight on both sides. They don't have enough manpower and can't afford to consume so much.

"Recently, the empire is going to deal a blow to the rampant vanguard army, and let him know the power of the emperor's [***] team. For this reason, the 21st Army in Guangdong, the Central China Army, the Kwantung Army, and the Army Garrison in Mongolia all had to transfer some men and horses to cooperate with the troops from the mainland to attack the vanguard army together. For the sake of this plan, we need to make some adjustments. Hatatohiroku said in a deep voice.