In fact, even half the city still underestimated Liu Lang.
From the moment Liu Lang learned that all the Japanese army's baggage warehouses had been captured, he had already made up his mind to retreat from Chengde.
Yes, in order to prevent the return of the main force of the Japanese army from embarrassment and anger, which would lead to the tragedy of massacre of a country's capital in time and space in advance, Liu Lang wanted to conduct a city-wide evacuation unprecedented in modern Chinese history.
In fact, when Liu Lang led three regiments to fight against Luo Wenyu and the Eighth Division after the war, Liu Lang's anti-incline tunnel tactics, the use of night sneak attacks on the enemy's heavy artillery positions, etc. were all won by the northern generals and even the Central Army.
Generals at all levels unanimously approved of it. Even when Liu Lang and the remnants of the Eighth Division blocked ten orders from the Northern Military Commission to withdraw troops during the Jehol confrontation, many generals believed that this was Liu Lang's only choice at that time.
If you retreat rashly before the situation is stable, you will most likely be counterattacked by the Eighth Division. You may also be blocked by the main Japanese army on the Beiping-Tianjin front line north of the Great Wall, which would result in the complete annihilation of the entire army.
But Liu Lang was the only one who took huge risks to conduct a city-wide evacuation of Chengde, which was criticized by all the generals. In their view, Liu Lang had to stubbornly protect nearly 20,000 civilians in Chengde during the war between the two armies.
The behavior of the common people, or the greedy behavior of insisting on emptying out Japanese military supplies, no matter what it is, is really stupid.
The massive supplies and civilians will definitely become a big burden, a burden that can lead to the annihilation of the entire army at any time.
The generals who have not experienced the history of past time and space obviously do not know what kind of beast army they will face.
Perhaps when they watch this battle more than ten years later, they will definitely make completely opposite evaluations of Liu Lang.
China's modern history, which was dyed crimson with the blood of Chinese soldiers and civilians, made Liu Lang never underestimate the brutality of the Japanese invaders. The fourteen years of China's unyielding resistance to the enemy were also the fourteen years of Chinese civilians being massacred by the Japanese invaders. Statistics after the war
The more than 30 million military and civilian casualties figures are only statistics with written records.
The brutality of those who were slaughtered by the Japanese aggressors in the mountains, entire households, entire villages, and then burned to nothing was lost in the long river of history. Countless bones were discovered decades later, and the evidence is all there.
He was pointed at the Japanese invaders who once wreaked havoc on the land of China.
Therefore, Liu Lang ordered Chen Yunfa to send Niu Er to pretend to be a servant and send false information, and then wiped out Li Shoushan's Fengtian Independent Brigade and scared away the entire Eighth Division.
Yes, the escape of the Eighth Division was completely within Liu Lang's expectation. It can even be said that he did it on purpose. If he did not scare away the Eighth Division, which still had more than 10,000 troops, then the entire Chengde City people would want to leave.
It's not that easy. As long as the Japanese army sends a few infantry squadrons to penetrate behind the Great Wall Regiment, the under-strength Great Wall Regiment will have to worry about one thing and the other, and may even suffer heavy losses as a result.
If Terube Tanibe had been smarter and used the 20,000 civilians as cover to fight the Great Wall Regiment in close combat, the final outcome for the Great Wall Regiment and the 20,000 Chengde civilians would have been extremely tragic.
Fortunately, Liu Lang's ability to seize the Japanese army's baggage and ambush and annihilate Li Shoushan's troops in the first battle intimidated Terube Tanibe. The Great Wall Regiment not only had a main force that could chase him around, but also had a force that could stop him at any time.
Troops on the rear route.
Tanibe Terube was frightened and ran more than fifty miles in one night, already 130 miles away from Chengde. The main force of the Great Wall Regiment, temporarily led by Qi Guangyuan, was still making an all-out pursuit. The Eighth Division
will continue to evacuate to the middle of Rehe, and Liu Lang finally gained valuable time to evacuate the entire city of Chengde to the Great Wall Mountains.
In fact, when military historians studied this battle after the war, they had to lament the good luck of the Great Wall Regiment and the 20,000 people in Chengde.
The success of the entire retreat was entirely due to the extremely bad weather during this period. The Japanese reconnaissance planes could not take off. Terube Tanibe had no idea that the excellent Chinese commander in his eyes would be so impulsive as to generals.
The whole city of Chengde was completely moved.
If he could have known that Liu Lang would lead 20,000 slow-moving Chinese people on the road, he would have divided his troops into several groups and attacked this huge crowd. The Great Wall Regiment was originally an invincible tiger, but when they carried it on their backs,
The moment the 20,000 Chinese people were burdened with this huge burden, they became an overwhelmed sick tiger. Even the injured wolf of the 8th Division, which was already extremely weak, could tear fatal wounds from them.
Wound.
Unfortunately, in that era without satellites, Tanibe Terube, who was busy escaping for his life, could not see that the dangerous opponent he considered was making an extremely "stupid" and extremely greedy move.
A total of 240,000 kilograms of grain was summoned by Sun Yongqin to nearly 3,000 mountain people who carried 60,000 kilograms overnight into the mountains thirty miles away. At that moment, the power of many people was truly verified. The crowd was like ants.
Usually, the Eighth Division's piles of wartime supplies, from guns to bullets to artillery shells, are transported into the mountains.
Liu Lang supported the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army established by Sun Yongqin ten days in advance with 2,500 Type 38 rifles, 20 Taisho 11 young machine guns, six Type 92 heavy machine guns, and 20 grenades.
There are three artillery pieces, two infantry cannons, 3,000 Japanese grenades, nearly one million rounds of various machine rifle bullets, and 5,000 rounds of various artillery shells. It is completely the weapons organization of an enhanced Japanese army unit.
But this is still only a small part of the materials seized.
Liu Lang even left Cai Dadao, Shi Datou and Niu Er as tactical instructors for Sun Yongqin's Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army. They will return to the Independence Regiment after training the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army for half a year. At the same time, there is also a military unit left behind.
A Japanese-style radio station is used to communicate between the three special forces and the regiment headquarters.
Except for Liu Aba who had to choose to go south with the Great Wall Regiment for some reason, the remaining nine puppet soldiers who were captured by the bandit rookies all chose to join Sun Yongqin's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army. Sun Yongqin was overjoyed and invited them to serve as anti-Japanese soldiers.
Instructors at all levels of the National Salvation Army, with the help of these regular soldiers in training, the mountain people under him who were holding hatchets and hoes a moment ago should soon learn to pick up guns.
The Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, which was fully armed by Liu Lang with the massive amount of captured Japanese aggressor weapons, was much more powerful than the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army that had fought with blunderbuss in time and space. Liu Lang believed that this time they would not just fight for two days.
The whole army was wiped out in a year.
Faced with such a well-equipped regular armed force active in the mountains of Rehe, even if the Japanese invaders occupied Rehe, they would surely be in trouble!
Of course, this cannot be said to be Liu Lang's strategic layout in northern China in advance. He is just a small group leader now and cannot think that far ahead.
Liu Lang simply hoped that the fire left in the north to resist the Japanese invaders would be strong enough and would not be extinguished so quickly.
At the moment when the Japanese invaders fully invaded, there were beacon fires everywhere. This was the Chinese people's best answer to the invading bandits.
The fight against Japanese pirates is not a war for Liu Lang alone, but a war for the whole of China.
If one person does not retreat, ten thousand people will not retreat; if ten thousand people do not retreat, then ten thousand people will not retreat;