The battle for the assault on Baoding began at eight o'clock in the evening on September 25, 1937 and ended at half past one in the morning.

The 6th Division of the Little Devil was basically wiped out, and the commander of the North China Front, Toshiichi Terauchi, and the division commander Toshio Tani were captured alive. However, the Rao'an Independent Division, the Fangshan Independent Regiment, and the Zhangfang Independent Regiment all paid great sacrifices.

Among them, the 2nd Infantry Battalion of Cao Renhou's Infantry Regiment of the Rao'an Independent Division, which served as the two companies that tore through the enemy's defense line and opened the passage for the 3rd Infantry Battalion to seize the east gate, were in close contact with the little devils in the trenches from the very beginning.

When the little devils of the two squadrons on the front line of Yinzhuang and Jiaozhuang were completely annihilated, these two companies sacrificed a total of more than 260 people, and together they could not reach a single company.

The 1st Cavalry Battalion of the Cavalry Regiment of the Rao'an Independent Division, in the Laishui and Yixian blocking battles, in order to finally annihilate the reinforcements of the three squadrons of the little devils, ensure that the retreat channel of the large army is not leaked, and finally chase and kill the escaped little devils, because of the poor sight, the little devils counterattacked in secret, sacrificing more than 160 people.

The cavalry battalion of the Fangshan Independent Regiment raided the former site of the Baoding Army Military Academy, entangled with thousands of little devils, and 206 people died heroically. Later, more than 70 people were sacrificed to reinforce the Baoding Railway Station.

The machine gun battalion of the Fangshan Independent Regiment was to destroy the enemy in the Baoding Railway Station. This is the headquarters of the 36th Brigade of the Ushijima Man Infantry of the 6th Division of the Little Devils, with a large defensive force.

The machine gun squadron and artillery squadron of the little devils have escaped the bombardment, so by the time the cavalry battalion turned back to reinforce it, the machine gun battalion had already sacrificed more than 400 people in two companies!

The women's battalion of the Zhangfang Independent Regiment set out from Mujiazhai and fought four battles successively. The most tragic one was to urgently rescue the besieged Che Dafu cavalry battalion, and fought hard to fight into the encirclement of more than 2,000 little devils, sacrificing 117 people in less than five minutes.

The women's battalion then raided the north gate of Qingyuan County, annihilating a squad of defenders at the city gate, although the captured infantry artillery played a role, but the women's battalion fought head-on for the first time, because of the lack of combat experience, and sacrificed more than 50 people again.

More than 1,000 people of the Zhangfang Independent Regiment lurking in the county seat of Ling Kaishan, after the end of the bombardment, on the way to escort the retreat of Terauchi Shouyi and Gu Shoufu, they were discovered by the two city defense brigades of the little devils, and they were in pursuit.

Ling Kaishan's subordinates fought and retreated, fought bloody battles all the way, and finally were surrounded in the "Baoding Electric Light Company". Although the whole army of the two routes arrived one after another, more than 1,000 people in the headquarters had already sacrificed more than 300 people.

Wei Chong gave the order to retreat at 1:30 a.m., and at around 5:00 a.m., the large army quietly crossed the Juma River from the front line of Mujiazhai and entered the secret base area of the Fangshan Independent Regiment.

When they met Qiu Wanyou, the commander of the cavalry regiment of the Rao'an Independent Division, who was responsible for protecting the "student corps" and the new barracks of the 29th Army, they learned that when they crossed the Pinghan Railway, they encountered a powerful Japanese army, the 11th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade of Little Devils.

The cavalry regiment has been drawn out to Laishui and Yixian to participate in the blocking battle, and the remaining two cavalry battalions are one in front of the road, and the other is responsible for the rear of the palace, protecting the new regiment all the way out of the bloody battle, and a battalion behind the palace from the battalion commander below all 746 people died heroically!

At ten o'clock in the morning of September 26, 1937, all the participating troops had arrived at the designated place and concentrated in the dense forest south of the Yongding River.

The Supreme Commander Wei Chong finally figured out the losses of the three participating troops: more than 2,500 people were directly killed, more than 490 were wounded, and more than 3,000 troops were lost.

At the same time, all the artillery pieces of the troops, as required by the order, were blown up on the spot. An artillery regiment, two separate artillery battalions, and with the exception of the machine-gun battalion and the machine-gun company, which served as guards, the artillery was now empty-handed.

Such a large loss has never occurred in the course of the battle of the Rehe Front.

In particular, the women's battalion of the Zhangfang Independent Regiment was able to make a decision at the last moment to break the kettle and save three crises in a row, which made all the officers and soldiers participating in the battle admire, while hearing that the women's battalion suffered more than one-third of the battle losses, Wei Chong, Cao Renhou, Zhao Ershu, Zhao Sanbao, Ling Kaishan and other direct commanders were dripping blood in their hearts.

At this moment, the communication company came up and reported: "Commander-in-Chief Secret Telegram: Now that the situation is urgent, Lao Tzu does not want to see half of the prisoners. At the same time, while the enemy had not fully reacted, your troops immediately broke through the enemy's defense line on the front line of Huailai and Yanqing, and went north into Chicheng to change clothes. ”

"The Fangshan Independent Regiment, the Zhangfang Independent Regiment and the Rao'an Independent Division were reorganized into the Feilong Fourth Division, with division commander Wei Chong, deputy division commanders Zhao Sanbao and Zhang Erzhu, and chief of staff Wang Sanju. The 1,700 members of the cadet corps will not participate in this reorganization, and will be arranged by the headquarters in a unified manner. After the subordinate regiments arrived in Akagi, they immediately reported the compilation list and waited for the next order. ”

"Come on, drag those two old miscellaneous pieces out to Lao Tzu and execute them in Ling Chi to pay tribute to our sacrificed comrades!" As soon as Wei Chong read the telegram, he knew that something big might have happened to Rehe, so his heart suddenly became nervous: "Now that the situation is urgent, I will make the following adjustments to the next marching sequence. ”

"The cavalry of the three armies is all under the unified command of the cavalry regiment of the independent division, which is responsible for the rear guard of the whole army, and Zhao Sanbao is in charge of command. The machine gun regiment and machine gun battalion of the three armies were all commanded by the machine gun regiment of the independent division, and they set off immediately as the vanguard, and Zhang Erxuan was in charge of command. ”

"The women's barracks, baggage battalions, recruit regiments, and artillery regiments are the Chinese army, and Wang Sanju is in charge of commanding. All the infantry battalions were concentrated in the infantry regiment to act in unison and undertake the defense tasks of the Chinese army. The reconnaissance battalions and reconnaissance companies of the three units were all concentrated and personally commanded by me as the last mobile force. ”

Not to mention, Wei Chong is really a roundworm in Bai Shujie's stomach, and Rehe really has a big thing!

It turned out that Jiang of the southern government saw that the little devils were launching a fierce attack in the north at the same time, and at the same time provoking a war in Shanghai, because there were no mobile troops in his hands that could be mobilized, he finally felt that he was in danger.

Even so, Jiang thought of those "motley armies", who were always shouting about resisting Japan, and now was the time to send them to the front line to consume them and buy time for his Central Army.

So, on August 22, 1937, Jiang instructed the Ministry of Military Affairs to issue an order: "The Red Army of Northern Shaanxi was changed into the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and it had four integrated divisions under its jurisdiction, namely the 115th, 120th, and 129th field divisions, and one independent garrison division of northern Shaanxi. ”

"The three field divisions immediately began the anti-Japanese front in Shanxi, undertook operations against Japan, and responded to the counterattack in North China and the defense of Taiyuan. The garrison independent division was deployed along the Yellow River in Yulin, Yanchuan, and Yichuan, cutting off the westward passage of the Japanese army in Shanxi, blocking the southward passage of the Japanese army in Suiyuan, and protecting the security of the north of Xi'an. ”

On September 9, 1937, Bai Shujie received a group of special guests in Chengde, led by a young general who looked to be 24 or 5 years old.

It was none other than a general political commissar sent by the Party Central Committee according to Bai Shujie's request, General Yang Chengwu!

For General Yang Chengwu, Bai Shujie is naturally no stranger, and he admires it very much!

Yang Chengwu, born on October 27, 1914, is 23 years old this year, 8 years younger than Bai Shujie. Because he had just completed the Long March, the whole person looked very lean, but a pair of tiger eyes were bright.

Bai Shujie secretly said in his heart: "This is the commander who killed the commander of the Little Devil Major General Brigade Commander Abe Guixiu and made the little devil lament that 'the flower of the imperial army withered on Taihang Mountain'!" ”

When the General Political Commissar arrived, the entire command system of the Rehe Front Army naturally had to be comprehensively adjusted. Zhao Yiman, director of the General Political Department, has the most information and is already working in an all-round way. Now that the General Political Commissar has arrived, it is even more time to lead the work to a deeper level.

The first question is about Bai Shujie, Zhao Jinxi, Gan Tong, Lu Ming and other top leaders joining the party.

"General Yang, General Political Commissar Yang, I am not in a hurry about joining the party." Bai Shujie smiled and said: "Chairman Mao will definitely not ask you to join the party as soon as you come, but should fully control the situation in the three major aspects of Rehe Province: military, civilian, and political." Especially now that there is a full-scale invasion every day, it is all the more necessary to launch an all-out war against Japan and a united front. ”

"The reason why there is an urgent need to come over and establish a party organization is that the original Rehe Front Army has sent a telegram to little devils and traitors. I, Bai Shujie, can't go back on my word, so the next policy adjustment is a matter for the General Political Commissar and the Director of the Political Department. ”

"Comrade Zhao Yiman should know that I have resigned from the post of commander-in-chief of the Rehe Front, and the current commander-in-chief is Zhang Xiang's temporary deputy. As for the future development of the Rehe Front, I will hand it over to General Political Commissar Yang, and I will not bother with it. Chairman Mao's greatest concern is the War of Resistance behind enemy lines, so my next main task is to truly implement the spirit of the War of Resistance behind enemy lines. ”

"To this end, I have formed a force that will fight deep behind enemy lines, and I will personally lead them into the heart of the enemy. From today onwards, my main focus will be on building up this force, which is about to go deep behind enemy lines, and then carrying out the original plan. ”

Originally, it was very smooth, but I didn't expect to suddenly receive a telegram from the front line in Baoding, saying that Shouyi and Gu Shoufu were taken prisoner, and Bai Shujie was angry at that time.

For these two old miscellaneous people, even if the Heavenly King Lao Tzu came, Bai Shujie would not let them live. However, these two old bastards have not yet been involved in the Nanjing Massacre, and people still don't know what kind of mongrels these two are.

Therefore, needless to say, revolutionaries like General Yang Chengwu, even in the Rehe Front, everyone felt that it might be better to get these two old miscellaneous pieces back for exhibition. Therefore, it "seems possible" to implement the Geneva agreements with appropriate preferential treatment of prisoners.

Because of this, Bai Shujie sent a secret message to Wei Chong, anyway, he didn't want to see the living people of the little devil. As for how the two captives died again, that was Wei Chong's business.

In order to match the layout of "two captives died accidentally", Bai Shujie ordered Wei Chong's department to intersperse the heart of the little devil in broad daylight. In this way, there will inevitably be a fierce battle, so that it is possible to lead the two captives to "die if they are not careful".

In short, Bai Shujie believes that he has always loved peace and advocates international humanitarianism. However, bullets in the line of fire have no eyes, and guns are merciless. Even our own fighters could die heroically at any time, and the probability of the two old devils being hit by stray bullets is estimated to be very high.

After the order to Wei Chong was issued, Bai Shujie immediately focused his main attention on the "Trojan horse" he had created.

Now that the little devils in North China are messed up, the Pacific Monkey Island is destined to be messed up immediately, and now is the time to let your "Trojan horse" go out and hang out!

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.