Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 663: The troops march to Jidong

Tong Batu incorporated the Puppet Mongolian Cavalry Brigade in front of the formation, greatly increasing its strength. When he heard that there were only a few Japanese troops stationed in Chengde, he decided not to wait for the follow-up of the main infantry force and captured Chengde first. With more than 9,000 cavalry, he raised

The dust in the sky was billowing towards Chengde. The various Japanese and puppet strongholds along the way were scattered.

I ignored them. These Japanese and puppet troops who were defending saw the cavalry team with no head and tail. How could they have the courage to fight? In addition, the reorganized Sixth Cavalry Brigade had not had time to change its equipment, and it was not clear whether it was an enemy or a friendly force.

, just turn a blind eye and pretend to be confused. (Baidu search,)

Tong Batu's cavalry unit successfully arrived at the gate of Chengde City. Bagena's team swaggered to the gate. The Japanese soldiers guarding the city gate recognized the uniforms as friendly troops. After a few questionings, they quickly let them go until they saw the cavalry behind them.

, I realized something was not right, just now

He picked up the 38-gun in his hand, but too late, a few sharp sabers chopped off their heads without mercy. The cavalry entered Chengde City, immediately tore off their disguises, and hacked away at the scattered Japanese soldiers and soldiers.

The puppet troops were slaughtered to pieces, and their corpses were scattered all over the streets and alleys of Chengde.

Six to seven hundred Japanese troops and military policemen retreated into a military camp and took advantage of the favorable terrain to launch a tenacious counterattack. Bagena's cavalry had no experience in such street fighting, so they charged on horseback and were knocked off their horses by a dense rain of bullets.

, one casualty

More than a hundred people, the cavalry retreated like a tide. Bagena was so angry that he cursed. This was the first battle of the ** division. If he couldn't fight well, where would he lose his face? He personally mounted the horse, organized the cavalry charge, and was heard.

Tong Batu, who arrived with the news, grabbed him.

Bagana wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Tong Batu: "Commander Tong, in such a tough battle, cavalry is not the strong point. Let's surround the little devils here first, or wait for the infantry behind to come up." Tong Batu mysteriously said

With a smile, the soldiers of the Second Cavalry Brigade have fought this kind of city assault battle many times. They are very experienced and know how to fight such a battle without the brigade commander's orders.

He turned over and dismounted, and the mortars immediately set up a firing position. What was even more amazing was that the grenadier soldiers did not even get off their horses.

Multiple grenade launchers, not counting hundreds of light and heavy machine guns, were all arranged in a formation, immediately dumbfounding Bagena and the soldiers of the Sixth Cavalry Brigade.

Bagena swallowed his foam and asked Tong Batu with difficulty: "Commander Tong, is this the equipment of your brigade?" Tong Batu disagreed, but he didn't think much of it. This is the basic equipment of the ** Division's cavalry brigade.

Originally, there were eight Type 92 infantry cannons that could be dismantled and carried by four horses. Tong Batu thought it was too heavy and didn't want the horses. He didn't know how much these would shock Bagena.

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When Tong Batu saw that the artillery was ready, he gave a calm order: "Complete bombardment, no one left alive." With these two sentences, it was equivalent to a death sentence for six to seven hundred Japanese soldiers. A burst of fierce shelling, not a big one

The Japanese camp immediately fell into a sea of ​​fire and gunpowder smoke, with shrapnel flying and flashing fire. The Japanese soldiers couldn't bear the bombing and organized a breakout. What awaited them was a dense rain of bullets fired from light and heavy machine guns.

Twenty minutes later, the shelling stopped, and the light and heavy machine guns stopped firing. Not a single Japanese soldier rushed out. When the smoke cleared, dozens of soldiers dismounted and went to clean the battlefield listlessly. According to their experience, nothing would be left inside.

Next, as for those thirty-eight guns, the soldiers still looked down upon them. They were just checking the bloody corpses of the little Japs and giving a few more shots to the wounded soldiers who were still dying. This was a boring job.

Is this the end? Bagan’s mouth was wide open. Those were six to seven hundred Japanese soldiers. If his own troops came to fight, more than a hundred lives would be lost. It wouldn’t take more than half a day to fight.

I can't take it off at all, but people

In just over twenty minutes, Tong Batu looked at Bagena and smiled widely. He guessed Bagena's thoughts, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Brother, don't be greedy, soon,

Your brigade is all equipped with this kind of equipment."

Ba Gena woke up from a dream, and it seemed that the path he had chosen was the right one. That Commander Tang whom he had not met before was such a big deal. The Second Cavalry Brigade continued to eliminate the remaining enemies in Chengde, and captured traitors and puppet troops.

By the time Yu Guanghan led three brigades of infantry to Chengde, Tong Batu had already kept Chengde in good order.

Yu Guanghan complained to Tong Batu, "Commander Tong, you can't wait until I arrive before attacking Chengde. After all, you have to leave a bite for me. It's better for you to eat it all at once, and you won't be afraid of being unable to digest it."

An old acquaintance, Yu Guanghan is in the ** division

When he was the Chief of Staff, he had frequent interactions with the brigade commanders. Tong Batu was not polite, "Chief of Staff, who made your infantry slow down? Whoever catches up will take the first bite. There are too few little devils.

I'm sorry, we've got everything covered."

Chengde was successfully captured. After a day's rest, the troops moved south to Zunhua and Tangshan as planned. At the end of April, they occupied Tangshan, an important town in eastern Hebei. Tong Batu and Bagena's cavalry troops moved forward to Shanhaiguan to monitor the movements of the Kwantung Army.

, along the way, they carried out merciless attacks on the troops of the puppet Jidong Anti-Communist Autonomous Government, fighting all the way, attacking cities and demolishing strongholds, and they were invincible.

The cobbled-together security forces of the Jidong Anti-Communist Autonomous Government fled under the overwhelming momentum of more than 9,000 cavalry. When they saw the dust covering the sky and the shadow of the cavalry, they abandoned the city long ago and fled.

The beasts and birds dispersed, and the traitor Yin Rugeng fled into Tianjin City long ago. He said to himself unwillingly, how could he be so unlucky to offend the big devil Tang Qiuli, who would come to his territory every now and then.

If this torment continues, even the emperor of Jidong can't stop. He has to escape. Jidong is between Pingjin and Northeast China. It has always been the safest place for the Japanese army. In addition, Yin Rugeng, a die-hard traitor, is on behalf of Japan.

The Japanese army did not put its troops in the eastern Hebei area at all. They were just some military police and other troops. They were wiped out by Tong Batu with a simple sweep. Without Japanese escort, how could Yin Rugeng not wet his pants?

Yu Guanghan entered Tangshan and immediately divided his troops to control the large coal mines in Luandong, Luanxian, Zhaogezhuang, and Tangshan. According to the order of the division commander Tang Qiuli, any mineral deposits that could not be used by the Japanese division would not be left to the Japanese.

, also to cut off the Japanese from plundering China’s resources.

Channels and tons of gunpowder were placed in the mines of various coal mines. The explosions one after another continued for two days and two nights. The coal mines in eastern Hebei were all reduced to ruins. If they wanted to resume normal production, there would be no two or three years.

At this time, the Japanese cannot even think of taking away a piece of coal from Jidong.

All the machinery and equipment had long been transported away by Zhou Yushan's transport troops. He loved doing this kind of work the most, plundering various coal mines to the point where the Japanese would shed tears when they saw them. The coal miners and their families also got

Proper placement and those who are willing to join the Army will be immediately recruited, and those with families and dependents will be given travel expenses by the Army Logistics Department to visit relatives and friends, or to settle in the Taihang Mountains, Shaanxi, or Dingbian.

At this time, Yu Guanghan made a fortune. He recruited more than 40,000 coal miners who were strong, well-educated, and had a sense of organization and discipline, and organized them into three brigades of new recruits. They were trained on the spot and temporarily followed the troops.

After the operation, Yu Guanghan's troops moved covertly to the outskirts of Tianjin, waiting for the order to attack Tianjin.

When the Sulu Mobile Corps swept across Rehe, Jibei, Pingbei, and Jidong, it attacked the three brigades in Baoding. At the same time, it launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army in Baoding. Baoding was the Japanese army in the southern Hebei plain.

Another important strategic point outside Shijiazhuang is an important corner of the Pingjin-Bao triangle area, protecting the safety of the south gate of Pingjin.

This is a key city fortified by the Japanese army in North China. The Japanese defense force was originally a garrison, equivalent to a strengthened brigade level, with a strength of about 18,000. Due to the military operation carried out by Okamura Ningji to sweep the Taihang Mountains, the number of troops used

Later, in order to recapture Shijiazhuang, most of the troops were transferred away. After repeated visits, the Japanese army in Baoding only had a defensive force of less than 5,000 people, which can be said to be relatively empty.

Tang Qiusheng used three main brigades to attack Baoding. It can be said that he killed a chicken with a bull's knife. The Sulu Mobile Corps' combat target was Tianjin. He did not want to waste too much time in Baoding. To Tang Qiusheng's expectation, the bull's knife cut the iron rooster's throat.

On the neck, the battle of Baoding was fierce from the beginning.

The resistance of the Japanese garrison was beyond imagination. The battle was fought from the outside to the inside of the city, from street fighting to point-by-point battles. Every offensive step of the Sulu Mobile Corps had to pay a considerable price. The strongholds held by the Japanese soldiers were often destroyed.

When the last man was fighting, even the wounded soldiers fired their grenades and died together with the surrounding soldiers.

The original plan was to capture Baoding in one day and one night. However, after fighting for three days and three nights, Baoding was still not fully captured. Gunfires were everywhere in Baoding City. Tang Qiusheng was extremely anxious. The second phase of the Shijiazhuang Battle and several other battlefields were going on very fast.

Everything went smoothly, except for Baoding, the key point in the Jizhong Plain, an unexpected situation occurred. The most important thing was that if Baoding could not be conquered, his troops would not be able to go to Tianjin. This was a battle involving the overall situation.

Tang Qiusheng was in the Anguo headquarters, listening to the solidified fierce gunfire from the direction of Baoding, carefully thinking about every combat detail, and following the routine, he used three brigades with nearly 40,000 troops to attack Baoding, which had less than 5,000 defenders.

It was eight times the size of the Japanese army. How could it lead to the current situation?

He had nothing to criticize about the way he attacked the Baoding troops. The only way now was to increase the attacking force. However, Tang Qiusheng no longer had any troops to deploy. In Xianxian and Suning, there were more than ten troops to attack on the front line.

The tens of thousands of Japanese troops were doing their best. What he was most afraid of was the Japanese army's only heavy troop group in North China. He reacted and launched a counterattack from the Xianxian and Suning lines.

This situation is not impossible. The longer the battle of Baoding drags on, the more unfavorable the situation will be for you. Sooner or later, the entire strategic intention will be exposed. If you are not careful, you will lose everything. But what is the problem with Baoding? Tang Qiusheng

There is no answer.

(To be continued)