Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 262 The flames of war start, and the apprentices form an army ([-])

The passage of time is always inadvertent. When New Year's Day came in 1936, two major events happened in North China.Among them, this day has a special meaning for the common people of Rencha Special Zone and officers and soldiers of the cadet division.As for Ouyang Yun, it meant that he had truly become a warlord from then on, and he already had enough strength to step onto the stage of history.

On this day, the Xuebing Division was officially expanded into the Xuebing Army. On this day, the Japanese army, with the 108th Division of the Kwantung Army as the main body, launched a surprise attack on the border of the 38th Division in Tianjin——

I don't know if it was God's will, when representatives of all the active troops of the Xuebing Division gathered in the Renqiu Barracks to participate in the promotion and awarding ceremony, at that moment, Ouyang Yun had just stepped onto the podium at the invitation of the host Chen Shichang and Mei Lanshu. The staff officer on duty of the division headquarter hurried over, and from a long distance, he shouted loudly: "Master, urgent call from Tianjin! It was sent by Mr. Zhang himself!"

Ren Qiu was not very far away from Tianjin. Suddenly, as if to explain what the staff officer on duty said: There were continuous dull explosions from the direction of Tianjin. Experts could tell that it was a bomb with a caliber of more than 150mm. The sound of a cannonball or an aerial bomb weighing more than fifty pounds exploding.This scene did not cause Ouyang Yun any astonishment, and looking at the senior officials of the apprentice division sitting on the rostrum, their faces were as calm as water, and they were obviously mentally prepared for this scene to happen.Among them, Zhang Zhen said: "No way? This little devil really knows how to choose a date?"

"It's not bad to expand the grand ceremony into a swearing-in meeting," Ji Xingwen said.

Not long after Jin Bihui left Renqiu, Fox Tong's team in Shenyang sent back detailed information. After comprehensive information from various sources, they came to the conclusion that the Kwantung Army will soon use troops against North China, and the most likely target will be Tianjin. .Later, the Hutong Shanghai team, which had contacted Xia Wenyun under the pseudonym He Yizhi, sent back more definite information—the Japanese were really planning to invade Tianjin!

That afternoon, when Ouyang Yun and others held a meeting and were about to call Zhang Zizhong to inform Zhang Zizhong of the matter, Zhang Que had already arrived at Renqiu first.The cadet division has Fox Tong, and the 38th Division also has its own intelligence system, and they have already obtained this information.

The situation in North China is no longer as simple as it was half a year ago. As far as the 29th Army, which was once dominated by Yicha, although it still maintains the "stability and unity" on the surface, anyone with a discerning eye knows that it has already been divided into three factions.Among them, the 29th Army Headquarters headed by Song Zheyuan is one faction, and the territory of this faction is Beiping; then there are the 38th Division headed by Zhang Zizhong and the 143rd Division headed by Zhao Dengyu.Because of Zhang Zizhong's close relationship with Ouyang Yun, he was naturally classified as a faction belonging to the Xuebing Division; while Zhao Dengyu was a bit biased towards his old boss Song Zheyuan, although the 143rd Division and Xuebing Division reached many cooperation agreements, But he personally didn't seem to like Ouyang Yun very much.

When Zhang Zizhong came to Renqiu, Ji Xingwen happened to be there too, so the senior veterans of the Xuebing Division, including Jiang Shuren, who was mainly engaged in political affairs, had a comprehensive exchange of views with him on the upcoming "Sino-Japanese" war.

Under the management of Zhang Zizhong, the 38th Division currently has a total of more than 5 regular troops. In addition, there are security forces and a number of local troops modeled on the Renqiu Self-Defense Force.Such a scale is already the size of an army.It stands to reason that with such a number of people fighting against Doihara's 108th Division, the 38th Division is not at a disadvantage.However, considering the entire Kwantung Army behind the 108th Division, as well as the opponent's overwhelmingly superior air forces and tanks, the numerical advantage of the 38th Division disappeared.

Although the Xuebing Division and the 38th Division did not sign an alliance agreement, but because the 38th Division helped at a critical time in the last Wen'an Battle, no matter whether it was Ouyang Yun, Li Tieshu, or Zhang Zhen, they had long regarded the 38th Division as own people.From a strategic point of view, Tianjin is the only barrier between the Xuebing Division and the Kwantung Army. For this, the Xuebing Division will not turn a deaf ear to the survival of the 38th Division.

Zhang Zizhong often ran to Renqiu. In the past, he usually came to rob the equipment he liked, and he had long been familiar with the apprentices.Therefore, after sitting down, you are not polite. First, after explaining the situation and problems of the 28th Division itself, then you start asking for people and things.

Prior to this, the Japanese first asked Doihara to come forward to negotiate with Zhang Zizhong, in the name of hindering the relationship between China and Japan, and asked him to immediately give up building fortifications in Tianjin, especially the plan to block the Dagu Port.Later, seeing that the threat was useless, he advised Zhang Zizhong through some senior traitors in Tianjin, asking him to either declare Tianjin independence and self-government, or to abandon Tianjin directly. If not, then in order to change the current difficult situation of overseas Chinese in Tianjin and Japan , the Japanese army will send troops to take over Tianjin, and if anyone dares to despise the military prestige of the Great Japanese Empire, it will be eradicated at all costs.From then on, Zhang Zizhong began to dispatch troops and generals. Now, the main force of the 38th Division has formed a confrontation with the main force of the 108th Division around the Japanese Concession, and the war can be said to be on the verge of breaking out.

As for the Kwantung Army, in addition to the 108th Division, it also mobilized the 4th Mixed Brigade of the 53th Division and a brigade of the 108th Division to be deployed near Shanhaiguan. The two brigades deter the two special police squadrons in Yidong. On the other hand, when the fighting in Tianjin is tight, they will be able to enter Tianjin at any time as reinforcements.In addition to giving Doihara enough support in the army, Nanjiro also allocated two aviation squadrons for his command, and gave the [-]th division the equipment of [-] "Qiluo" that had just been transported from Japan. .

The predecessor of the 108th Division was only the reserve force of the Eighth Division. According to convention, such troops have limited combat effectiveness, so most of them will not take on the task of attacking fortified areas.However, under Nanjiro's deliberate cultivation, after replacing it with conventional equipment comparable to the standing division, the 108th division has transformed into a first-class division that can compare with the Japanese army's standing division.This is exactly what Zhang Zizhong is worried about.The divisions of the Japanese army are called divisions, but in fact the number is equivalent to two divisions in China.In addition, the quality of the soldiers of the Japanese army is higher than that of the Chinese army, and the weapons and equipment have the upper hand. Although Zhang Zizhong now has nearly [-] regular troops, it is really hard for him to fight against Doihara alone!This is also the main reason why he, who has always regarded himself very highly, had to surrender his status to seek help from the military division.

Xu is that the situation is really critical, Zhang Zizhong really put his old face on this time.Zhangkou first asked for the anti-aircraft regiment that the cadet division had just completed recently (a regiment-sized "Quilling" dual-link anti-aircraft machine gun plus a battalion-sized 27-caliber anti-aircraft gun), and then proposed that in view of the 38th Division's own anti-tank The army still lacks anti-tank guns, so Ouyang Yun is asked to borrow the anti-tank reinforcement battalion of the cadet division for use.

The anti-tank reinforcement battalion of the cadet division was formed by Ouyang Yun himself after the Second Wen'an War. The purpose of the formation was to effectively suppress the little devil's "Qi Luo".The main firepower of this anti-tank reinforced battalion is 57mm anti-tank guns, and the auxiliary firepower is anti-tank mines and anti-tank guns.

Speaking of which, it has only been about two months since the formation of this reinforcement battalion, and the required basic training hours have not even been completed yet.Therefore, when Zhang Zizhong just made this request, everyone in the apprentice division, from Ouyang Yun to Guo Biao, all looked a little ugly.

Zhang Zhen said: "Mr. Zhang, our anti-tank reinforcement battalion has only been established recently, and the soldiers don't have much practical experience. If we rashly pull it down on the battlefield, I'm afraid it will backfire. It's a trivial matter that it won't work at that time, but once If it is exposed and destroyed, we won't have to fight in the future."

Ji Xingwen echoed: "To be on the safe side, I think the anti-aircraft regiment should be transferred first, and the anti-tank battalion should wait—"

Zhang Zizhong frowned. He looked at Ouyang Yun, which meant that he was waiting for his decision.

Ouyang Yun also frowned, but it wasn't because of the anti-tank battalion, but because he was calculating another matter.In fact, Jin Bihui had been thinking about this issue since he came to Renqiu, because the relationship was too important for him to make a decision.What he worried about was: Will the War of Resistance Against Japan start in an all-round way?
When I was in a military academy in later life, I was studying the history of the War of Resistance. There was a sentence in the reference book: For China, the War of Resistance Against Japan was seven years earlier; for Japan, the War of Aggression against China was seven years late.This was said by a German with a very strategic vision. Regardless of whether Ouyang Yun is willing to accept such a point of view, in fact, this German is right.In terms of 37 years in history, China is far from ready to go to war with Japan.As for Japan, from a strategic point of view, he gave China, especially the national government, too much time to prepare for the War of Resistance. The seven years before 37 years were 30 years. At that time, China was still in a state of disunity. If Japan sent troops under this situation, God knows what it would be like.

There is no doubt that the Japanese military operation against Tianjin this time is the same as the previous Wen'an battle, and the goals are limited. The Japanese are not yet ready for a full-scale invasion of China.What Ouyang Yun is worried about is that if the war is too fierce, it will be used by the terrorists in Japan, and then use this as an excuse to launch a full-scale war of aggression against China.

If it really develops to that point, with a mere cadet division plus the 38th division, that is, plus the 143rd division, can they withstand the southward invasion of the hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army like wolves and tigers?
(End of this chapter)