With the cooperation of the fraternal troops from the Sixth Division of the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong Military Region, the Chahar Independent Regiment effortlessly took out the strongholds along the highway, and then took advantage of the situation to capture the county seat of Ba County.
Because of the cooperation of the brother troops, this battle was fought very easily.
In fact, since the blitzkrieg was launched in Youyu County, fraternal troops from the northwest Shanxi, Taiyue Military Region and Central Hebei Military Region have been cooperating along the way. Some fraternal troops did not even receive orders from the head of the headquarters, but they were still very active.
They provided cooperation, and this was the greatest confidence that Xu Rui dared to attack Peiping with a regiment of troops!
To put it bluntly, Xu Ruiming's army consists of only one regiment, which consists of nine infantry battalions, six cavalry battalions, a tank battalion and a flying brigade. However, no matter how perverted this regiment is, it only has more than 20,000 people.
, in any case do not have the confidence and conditions to launch a blitzkrieg against Peiping.
But Xu Rui knows better than anyone that once the Chahar Independent Regiment launches this large-scale blitzkrieg, the head of the Eighth Route Army headquarters will never sit idly by, nor will the brother troops in the military districts and military divisions along the way just sit idly by. Therefore, Xu Rui really
In addition to the Chahar Independent Regiment, the forces that can be mobilized include the more than 400,000 Eighth Route Army in the entire North China region!
Therefore, in this blitzkrieg, the Chahar Independent Regiment actually has an absolute military advantage!
It was precisely because of this realization that Xu Rui dared to launch this blitzkrieg with a regiment of troops!
In the end, this was also the case. After the Chahar Independent Regiment launched its offensive, the entire Eighth Route Army in North China took action.
A young man wearing a gray homespun military uniform was brought to Xu Rui. This young man was Wang Xianchen, the commander of the Sixth Division of the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong Military Region. Commander Wang was even younger than Xu Rui. He was only twenty-five years old this year.
And Xu Rui will be twenty-seven after the Chinese New Year.
"Commander Wang."
"Captain Xu."
Two pairs of young and rough hands held each other tightly.
Comparing levels, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region is a large military region, at the division level, the Jizhong Military Region is a small military region, at the brigade level, and the divisions below the Jizhong Military Region are at the regiment level, so in terms of level, Commander Wang Xianchen and Xu Rui are the same.
, and the two of them were both young people, so they quickly became familiar with each other.
Xu Rui said: "Commander Wang, this time it is really thanks to your brother troops in the Sixth Division, otherwise it would not be so easy for us to take Ba County."
"What's wrong?" Commander Wang said modestly, "In fact, we didn't help much."
After a pause, Commander Wang then continued: "What's more, to be honest, your Chahar Independent Regiment has helped our Sixth Division a lot. If it weren't for your help, if our Sixth Division wanted to remove these strongholds, the gun towers would still be destroyed.
I don’t know what the price will be, and as for taking over the county seat, I can’t even think about it.”
Xu Rui smiled and said: "Commander Wang is being humble. Excessive humility is pride, haha."
"Speaking of humility, Captain Xu, you are truly humble." Commander Wang smiled and shook his head, adding, "Now all the troops in dozens of military regions and military divisions in North China are cooperating with you to fight. What are you doing?
They took all the work from the head of the headquarters, and I heard someone said that the head of the headquarters has been complaining for almost two days."
"This and that~" Xu Rui quickly changed the topic and said, "Today's weather is very good."
"Quickly pull it off." Commander Wang scolded with a smile, "If you want to change the subject, just say so. What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Then let's stop talking nonsense and get down to business." Xu Rui chuckled and then said, "I prepared some small gifts for the brothers in the sixth division."
After finishing speaking, Xu Rui turned around and waved.
Immediately, a platoon of guards came forward with more than a dozen mules. On the back of each mule were four long large wooden boxes. These wooden boxes looked quite heavy. This started from the feet of the mules.
You can hear the sound of footsteps on the stone pavement, which is almost broken.
Commander Wang's eyes immediately lit up.
So heavy? And it’s so solemn, maybe it’s a heavy machine gun!
Commander Wang had long heard that the Soviet Union had aided the construction of an arsenal in Baotou that specialized in the production of heavy machine guns, and that the caliber of the heavy machine guns produced was larger than that of ordinary heavy machine guns. He also heard that this large-caliber heavy machine gun fired
Bullets can easily tear a human body into pieces, just like tearing a piece of rag!
When the dozen or so mules were brought closer, Xu Rui said: "Commander Wang, we don't have much good stuff in our Baotou base. We can only build a few Dshk large-caliber heavy machine guns. This time I brought ten heavy machine guns."
When the machine gun comes over, consider it a thank you gift from your Sixth District for helping us fight this battle."
"Oh, Captain Xu is so polite. Oh, you are so polite." Commander Wang kept saying modestly, but his movements were not slow at all. He turned around and waved, and the brothers from the sixth division immediately rushed forward.
I unpacked the more than forty wooden boxes from the mule and couldn't wait to move them back to my camp.
After a while, a platoon leader excitedly ran over and reported to Commander Wang: "Commander, there are ten heavy machine guns of large caliber! There are also forty boxes of bullets!"
Commander Wang was so happy that he rubbed his hands together and said to Xu Rui: "Oh, Commander Xu, what can I say?"
Xu Rui laughed and said: "Commander Wang, please don't be too happy. This thank you gift is not that easy to get. There is a saying that people are short-tongued and soft-handed. If you take our thank you gift, you have to help us."
We are holding Ba County, but we cannot allow the little devils to cut off our retreat and cut off our logistical supplies."
"Don't worry about this." Commander Wang said with enthusiasm, "This is our internal matter, and you don't need to talk about it at all."
Xu Rui was afraid of putting too much pressure on the Sixth Division, and added: "But if the Japs attack too fiercely, there is no need to defend the highway line, let alone the county seat of Ba County. Just make sure that the traffic lines are not cut off by the Japs.
, After all, our civilian team uses wheelbarrows, and the requirements for roads are not high."
Commander Wang said: "Captain Xu, speaking of logistics supplies, I just saw that your independent regiment brought a lot of mules, horses and carts. Isn't this much material enough?"
"Not enough." Xu Rui shook his head and said, "Far from enough."
"Oh my God." Commander Wang took a breath and said, "Captain Xu, can you tell me how serious you are this time?"
"How big?" Xu Rui reached out and drew a big circle in the air, and said in a deep voice, "Swallow the North China Front Army in one go!"
When Commander Wang heard this, he immediately froze there and swallowed up the North China Front Army in one go? God, is this too much fun?
Before this, Commander Wang had never understood why the Chahar Independent Regiment left the main force of the Japs in Zhuoxian and did not fight on the front line in Gu'an, instead of taking a detour back to Baxian at the huge risk of being intercepted.
Come on, now he understands that Xu Rui wants to capture Tianjin and block the North China Front's maritime retreat!
This is really planning to swallow up the North China Front Army in one go!
However, Tianjin is not as big as Ba County, but a big city! It will not be easy to capture Tianjin!
Thinking of this, Commander Wang was about to remind Xu Rui when he suddenly noticed a correspondent from the Independent Regiment rushing over excitedly.
After arriving in front of Xu Rui, he stood at attention and reported: "Captain, I just received a telegram from the Langya Brigade. With the cooperation of the Tianjin underground party and the Jidong brothers' troops, they have successfully controlled Tianjin's ports and train stations.
As well as the airport, the Japanese headquarters at Haiguang Temple were also destroyed, but the Japanese were still entrenched in the Japanese Concession and resisted stubbornly."
"What?" Commander Wang was dumbfounded. Tianjin was actually liberated? Was it liberated?
Although there are still Japs in the Japanese Concession who are stubbornly resisting, this is no different from liberation!
"Got it!" Xu Rui just waved his hand and said calmly, "Let the ninth battalion speed up the march. We must clear out all the Japanese concessions before dark today. Then we will notify the concessions of various countries and let them unconditionally surrender before dawn tomorrow."
The jurisdiction over the jurisdiction must be handed over immediately and unconditionally, regardless of whether it is the British Concession, the French Concession or the American Concession! If not, all the consequences will be borne by the agencies of various countries in Tianjin!"
Xu Rui is as tough as ever towards foreigners!
Tianjin, like Shanghai, is also full of concessions. Next, when the little devils realize the threat that the fall of Tianjin will bring to them, a crazy counterattack will be a high probability event. By then, the Chahar Independent Regiment must concentrate all
He had enough energy to deal with the crazy counterattack of the Japanese, but he had no extra energy to deal with the foreigners in the concession.
But these foreigners will not stop. They may jump out to cause trouble at critical moments and call it mediation.
Xu Rui did not want to be mediated by these foreigners at the critical moment. I am afraid that only Chairman Chiang would never forget the foreigners' use of force to mediate.
After finishing speaking, Xu Rui turned to Digua and said: "Digua, immediately ask the military radio station to issue an announcement, saying that with the cooperation of the brother troops in the Jidong base area, our Chahar Independent Regiment has successfully regained Tianjin!"
"Yes!" Digua agreed, turned around and left happily.
…
Five minutes later, at the Chongqing headquarters.
A communications staff officer hurriedly walked into the combat hall and reported: "Commissioner, the military radio station of the Chahar Independent Regiment has just issued an announcement, claiming that they have recovered Tianjin City!"
There was a dead silence, and the entire combat hall instantly became dead silent.
Although Bai Chongxi had already predicted the result, when the result actually came out, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek and the senior advisers present felt an unprecedented shock! Although before this, the Chahar Independence Group had also recovered
Shanghai, and Shanghai’s international status is higher than Tianjin, but the problem is that the two methods of recovery are completely different!
The recovery of Shanghai was actually a sneak attack, while the recovery of Tianjin was a frontal attack!
