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Chapter 1576: Battle of Jehol (4)

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    The reaction of the Japanese army was as expected by You Keyong and others. They had fought with the Japanese for seven years and had no less than a hundred battles, large and small, so they knew very well how terrifying the Japanese were.

    The Japanese army, which advocates the spirit of Bushido, is actually much stronger than the outside world imagines. First of all, they are not afraid of death and believe that death is the highest honor of a soldier. The most common thing most soldiers say to each other on the battlefield is: "  Let¡¯s meet in ****¡±.

    In this regard, not only the Central Army of the Nationalist Government was inferior, but the Eighth Route Army was also inferior to the Japanese.

    The second is that these people have a tenacious will to fight. This can be seen from the fact that the Japanese army rarely surrendered in the nearly two years since the war began. Unless there is an order from a superior, otherwise even if they are surrounded, these Japanese will fight to the last man.  Will not surrender.

    "Compared to the scenes of thousands of people lining up to surrender under the Nationalist Government, the Japanese army was undoubtedly powerful.

    As the most powerful Kwantung Army in the Japanese battle sequence, the degree of brainwashing is more thorough than that of the average Japanese army, so it behaves more fearlessly on the battlefield.

    Hearing Major Sato¡¯s death order, the first thing these officers who were deeply poisoned by bushido thought was not fear, but the desire to die with the national army.

    The city wall of Weichang Town was very thick. After the remaining Japanese soldiers withdrew to the city, they immediately relied on the city wall to resist, while the Chinese army immediately organized troops to attack the city.

    While the siege of the paddock started, the battle of Qijia Town, which was more than 100 kilometers east of the battlefield, also started.

    "Compared with the difficulty of the battle of Paddock, the battle of Qijia Town was much easier.

    Although there are more than 3,000 main puppet troops and a small number of Japanese troops stationed here, the national army is stronger than these Japanese and puppet troops.

    There are eight main infantry regiments with more than 20,000 people. There is also an artillery regiment and an armored brigade. The strength of the troops is far beyond the Japanese expectations.

    When Niu Dapeng, the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Column, commanded his troops to arrive at Qijia Town, the Japanese and puppet troops here did not notice anything unusual, nor did they shrink their troops like the defenders in the paddock. They were immediately caught off guard by Niu Dapeng's troops.

    In less than half an hour, Niu Dapeng¡¯s troops, with the cooperation of armored troops, stormed to the outlying stronghold of Qijia Town and completed the encirclement of more than 3,000 puppet troops in the town.

    For the puppet army in front of him, Niu Dapeng originally planned to surrender, and also sent someone to shout to them.

    Generally speaking, for ordinary troops, when faced with such a situation, their commanders will generally not resist stubbornly, go along with the tide and kill the Japanese advisers in the troops, and then start an uprising on the battlefield.

    Once such a unit is defeated, the lives of the officers can basically be saved.

    But what Niu Dapeng and others did not expect was that although the puppet troops in Qijia Town were surrounded, they refused to surrender. Instead, they adopted a posture of vowing to live and die with the position.

    We have seen many traitors in the puppet army, but this is the first time we have seen puppet troops like this.

    In the view of Niu Dapeng and others, most of the puppet troops under the Japanese army were composed of defeated Kuomintang troops, bandits, local gangsters, hardcore traitors and coerced Kuomintang troops.  Although these people betrayed national interests and became accomplices of the Japanese invaders, most of them still identified themselves as Chinese in their hearts, so they had no faith or will when fighting.

    ¡°Furthermore, since most of the soldiers were coerced or forced to participate because of their livelihood, and were not hardcore traitors, their combat effectiveness can be imagined.

    But the loyalty of the troops in front of them to the Japanese has obviously exceeded the normal limit. The forest is really big and there are all kinds of birds.

    At the moment, after Niu Dapeng reported the situation to the general headquarters, he immediately launched an attack.

    What Niu Dapeng and others didn't know was that the puppet army they encountered was not an ordinary puppet army, but a strange one among the puppet armies - the Iron and Stone Troops.

    With the decline of Japan, the Japanese army, which suffered heavy losses, is no longer the well-equipped and well-trained elite force it was in the early days of its invasion of China.  Especially with the subsequent development and growth of the anti-Japanese armed forces behind enemy lines, the Japanese invaders became increasingly unable to control the occupied areas of North China.

    Under this situation, the Japanese North China Front Army was forced to ask the Kwantung Army Headquarters for troop support, requesting to send an elite unit south to assist them in the battle.

    But the Kwantung Army Headquarters was also under great pressure at this time. It had to face the pressure from the Soviets and the continuous rise of resistance forces in the Northeast. It simply could not mobilize more troops to reinforce the North China Front Army.

    Especially since the Kwantung Army was still treated as a cow by the Southern Army at this time, and its elite troops were constantly transferred away.??, the radical expression is obviously powerless.

    Under this situation, the Kwantung Army Headquarters came up with a strange method. They focused their attention on the traitor troops in the Northeast.

    ??Then the Kwantung Army transferred a large number of elite troops from the puppet Manchukuo Army to form the current "Iron and Stone Forces", equipped with sophisticated weapons, and stationed in the Jidong region of North China.

    The various aspects of the Iron Stone Force have been mentioned before, and this force also fought against Li Guoyao's troops during the Battle of Chifeng and suffered heavy losses.

    Only after withdrawing to Jehol, the Kwantung Army Headquarters replenished this unit and once again restored the strength of 16,000 people.

    In addition, although the Iron and Stone Forces are said to be composed of puppet troops, they are not actually all Chinese. One-quarter of the officers in the army are Japanese.

    At the same time, the Iron Stone Forces also have an independent infantry unit called the Iron Soldiers composed of Koreans, so it is reasonable for these guys to refuse to surrender.

    Since these bastards have decided to fight stubbornly, Niu Dapeng and others will naturally not be polite to them, and immediately concentrate their forces to launch an encirclement and annihilation campaign against the enemies of Qijia Town.

    "Compared to Weichang City, Qijia Town does not have any decent fortifications. Facing the assault of the national army's artillery and tank troops, these Japanese soldiers have almost no power to fight back.

    Less than half an hour after the encirclement and annihilation battle started, the defense lines of the notorious Iron and Stone Army collapsed. Then the national army invaded Qijia Town and immediately started street fighting.

    The battle lasted until 10:30 in the evening. After more than 1,300 Japanese and puppet troops were killed and injured in Qijia Town, the remaining troops could not bear the huge pressure and chose to surrender.

    After the national army captured Qijia Town, the main force went south with all its strength and headed straight for Chengde.

    At the same time, Zhou Dafu's troops also launched attacks on Fengning, Luanping, Pingquan and other places.

    As early as half a month ago, after the battle plan was formulated, more than five regiments of national troops had quietly infiltrated these places and entered these counties without anyone noticing.

    According to Chow Tai Fook¡¯s plan, while 60,000 people are posing as lions and fighting rabbits, they must also pay attention to the speed of the attack.

    Soldiers need speed. Only by capturing these places quickly can the troops have more time to deal with possible dangers and changes.

    Compared with the defenders in Weichang and Qijia Town, the number of defenders in Fengning, Luanping, Pingquan and other places is very limited. Especially in Luanping, there are only two squadrons of troops, plus the puppet police are all  Less than five hundred people.

    Of course, this is mainly because the Japanese army has few troops in Jehol, and the Japanese army is more concerned about the security of the northern line. After all, the northern line is the focus of defense.

    Because of this, the national army attacking Fengning and other places is progressing smoothly.

    After the attack started at nine o'clock, Luanping City was captured before ten o'clock, Fengning was captured at about eleven o'clock, and the Hiraquan defenders were completely wiped out at twelve o'clock.

    By five o'clock in the morning the next day, Chow Dafu's troops had captured five county towns, including Paddock, and the main forces were encircling Chengde City from three directions: east, west, and north.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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