The honorary troops formed by Zhang Xuewu were named Chen Hanze as the division commander and Ye Yunfei as the chief of staff. The second regiment of each of the five combat brigades under him were all carefully selected by the Rehe Legion. All of this was caused by the restlessness of the Kwantung Army. Zhang Xuewu was not afraid of the Kwantung Army's fortress and key points of his defense. What he was afraid of was that the Japanese army would surround him with heavy troops, surround him without attacking him, forming a strategic division, so that the more than 100,000 troops of the Rehe Legion would be useless.

Because the Rehe Legion fights against the Japanese army as a tactical strategy for defensive counterattacks, if the Japanese army sieges and do not fight, it will be very passive. Although the Rehe Legion has better weapons and firepower than the Japanese army, the timing and conditions for large-scale field annihilation wars are still not yet mature, and the Yirehe Legion does not have the ability to annihilate Japanese division-level strategic units in field. The reason for this is mainly that the Japanese army uses intensive forces. If the Rehe Legion attack is blocked, the overall tactical form will undergo a fundamental reversal.

After the honorary troops were drawn, the Rehe Legion Command once again mobilized wars in Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan. After the five main divisions absorbed the Northeast Army, the organization of the 3rd Brigade and the Sixth Regiment to the 10th Regiment of the 5th Brigade. Zhang Xuewu ordered the civil affairs department to cooperate to draw a group of well-trained militias to supplement the main troops, and the troops under the corps also increased from the original two independent brigades to seven independent brigades.

Now the Baotou Arsenal is able to produce 105 mm caliber howitzers and shells, and can assemble and manufacture jackal tanks by itself. In addition to the 120 vehicles equipped by Tang Ziqiang's mechanization division, there are nearly 100 vehicles for storage. It can be said that the withdrawal of the honorary troops did not weaken the original combat effectiveness of the Rehe Legion, but due to the general mobilization, the combat effectiveness of the Rehe Legion has been enhanced.

However, it was not satisfactory in accepting Jews. Many Jews were hard to leave their hometowns. After seven months of hard work, less than 40,000 related technicians and more than 100,000 family members arrived. Zhang Xuewu predicted that once the Japanese army took action, the immigration plan might have to be terminated early.

However, the emergence of a large number of Jewish technicians and engineers has also alleviated the shortage of technicians in Rehe. The working methods of German Jews are not much different from those of the previous German technicians and engineers, so there is no big problem in the integration method. What disappoints Zhang Xuewu slightly is that many of the Jewish scientists he hopes to see are basically unseen? However, with a large number of technicians and engineers, Zhang Xuewu instructed the semi-automatic rifles of the National Defense No. 1 project studied by Zhang Xuewu finally produced qualified sample guns. The birth of the new gun really excited Zhang Xuewu. However, the ammunition consumption of semi-automatic rifles is six to seven times that of the rifles, and the output is relatively small, so Zhang Xuewu gave priority to equip special combat units and security forces.

The oil and weapons and ammunition stored by Zhang Xuewu in Suiyuan and other places were enough to double the oil and ammunition, especially the oil and materials could be used for more than five years. However, in the face of the pressure of Mount Tai from more than 40 divisions of the Kwantung Army, Zhang Xuewu still couldn't feel relaxed.

On March 7, 1937, the Kwantung Army of the *** Empire triggered a conflict with the Chinese garrison troops under Shanhaiguan. The reason was that the Japanese army said someone was shooting at him and asked to enter Shanhaiguan for search. As a result, the Chinese side naturally did not allow it. So a small team of more than 70 people in the Japanese army began to attack the Fourth Regiment of the Second Brigade of the 2nd Brigade of the Chinese *** team, which relied on city walls and fortifications. The outcome was naturally conceivable.

Then the Kwantung Army dispatched almost all fighter jets to bomb Shanhaiguan, and used heavy artillery to bombard the pass, and received support from 82 Type 95 light vehicles from the First Kwantung Army Fighting Vehicle Brigade. It is worth mentioning that the Japanese army also used 20 test vehicles that had not yet been officially incorporated into the combat troops, code-named Hachi.

After the Japanese army captured Shanghai Pass, they directly attacked Song Zheyuan, the 29th Army stationed in Pingjin area and the 32nd Army Commercial War Heads. The 51st Army, which was demoted to the B-rank Army, immediately rushed to Pingjin for reinforcements.

*** The Kwantung Army was personally appointed as the commander of the First Front Army, with the Second Division, the Fourth Division, the Fifth Division, the Tenth Division, the 14th Division, the 15th Division, the 20th Division, and the 20th Division were assigned to the First Artillery Brigade and the First Brigade of the Warriors, attacking the Pingjin front line! Then they took Datong directly to attack Xinkou and attacked Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi, threatening Fengzhen, creating the illusion of intending to attack Ulanqab, attracting Zhang Xuewu's mobile forces to surround his important industrial base and arsenal.

On the other side, Okamura Yasuji was the commander of the Fifth Army, with his subordinates as the 24th Division, the 25th Division, the 36th Division, the 37th Division, the 40th Division, the 6th Brigade of the Chariots and the 7th Brigade of the Heavy Artillery. He went straight to Baoding through Tianjin to attack Shijiazhuang and assisted in the direction of Taiyuan.

The 50th Division, the 51st Division, the 55th Division, the 56th Division, and the 57th Division were assigned to the Fifth Heavy Artillery Brigade as the Eighth Army, and Meijiro Umezu served as the commander, restraining the Chaoyang defenders of Zhang Xuewu's headquarters.

The 60th Division, the 62nd Division, the 63rd Division, and the 65th Division were the Chifeng clusters to restrain Chifeng, and the 68th Division, the 69th Division, the 70th Division, and the 72nd Division were the ninth Army. The two commanders of Doihara Ken were the commanders of Chengde to guard and restrain Zhang Xuewu's army, and the 80th Division and the 85th Division were the warning and restrain Zhangjiakou.

*** The first round of attacks of the Kwantung Army used twenty-seven divisions, five chariot brigades, and six heavy artillery brigades. In addition, the Kwantung Army had about fifteen divisions in the northeast, which had eleven independent mixed brigades. Six divisions and seven independent mixed brigades were the general reserves for this battle. The other four divisions were drawn to Qingdao and were commanded by Seishiro Itagaki for landing.

The thunder strike of the *** people completely knocked out the Chinese side. I knew that the *** people would take action, but no one expected that the scale would be so large. The nearly 800,000 troops of the entire *** Kwantung Army were almost in full swing. The Chinese team in the Pingjin area was almost flooded by the Japanese craze. The *** people were so powerful? This was something that the Chinese people didn't know before the war. Most of the Chinese people were still immersed in the smoke screen of the victory of the Battle of Chengde that year. The Japanese army, like locusts, siege cities and ground with the cooperation of aircraft, tanks, and heavy artillery, had an offensive speed that was almost the marching speed, which was invincible for a while.

In order to deal with the invasion of the people, the Supreme Military Commission of the Central National Government of Nanjing immediately formed the Second War Zone. At the request of Yan Xishan, commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone, Wei Lihuang, commander-in-chief of the 14th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, led Chiang Kai-shek's direct troops, the 14th Army, the 9th Army, the 85th Division, the 5th Independent Brigade and other units, and rushed from Shijiazhuang to north of Taiyuan for reinforcements.

As soon as Wei Lihuang Group left Shijiazhuang, the bad news came about that the Japanese Fifth Army of Okamura Yanji's troops rushed to Baoding. Baoding fell into a critical situation. Should he continue to implement the orders of the Commander Command of the War Zone? Or should he return to defense? Wei Lihuang hurriedly asked the Nanjing side. According to the Double 12 Incident Agreement, the troops of the three divisions adapted from the Red Army of the Communist Party of China were also reorganized on-site in Shanxi. Yan Xishan generously added 50,000 German-made Type 24 grenades, 100 machine guns and 1,500 rifles to his 115th Division.

On March 22, Wei Lihuang's troops were concentrated near Xinkou, and they met with the divisions of the former Second War Zone, which were divided into three corpses. The 15th Army, the 17th Army, and the 94th Division of the National Revolutionary Army commanded by Liu Maoen were the right-wing corps.

With Wang Jingguo as the commander-in-chief, Hao Mengling as the commander-in-chief of the front enemy, Chen Changjie as the commander-in-chief of the front enemy, the commander-in-chief of the front enemy, the commander-in-chief of the Ninth Army, the 19th Army, the 35th Army, and the 61st Army were the Central Corps.

The 10th Division, the 83rd Division, the 85th Division and the 68th Division of the Jin Army under Li Mo'an, were the left-wing corps, and were under unified command of Wei Lihuang, the commander-in-chief of the front of the Second War Zone.

On February 23, he occupied the positions on the lines of Longwangtang, Jiehepu, Dabaishui and Nanyu north of Xinkou to carry out the Xinkou blocking battle. The order he received was to resolutely block the main Japanese army's troops southward. Faced with the aggressive Japanese army's main force and the Japanese Fifth Army headquarters that surrounded Taiyuan from the flanks, Wei Lihuang was in a mess. *** in Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan headquarters were intercepted and divided by the Japanese army with heavy troops, and now it has almost become a turtle in the jar. Yan Xishan slapped himself a few times in the face, repeatedly complaining that he was short-sighted and should have let Zhang's army enter Jin to defend, so why did he end up with the misfortune of being divided and defeated one by one by one by the enemy?

The Japanese army's fierce large-scale attack was indeed beyond Zhang Xuewu's expectations, but this was what Zhang Xuewu was most worried about, because the Kwantung Army's desperate large-scale attack will inevitably become the prelude to the Japanese invasion of China. Compared with the July and 7 Incidents in history, Zhang Xuewu's previous bloody battle in Chengde can only be said to have won a so-called buffer for the Chinese team, but this buffer was not better utilized. The Guangdong-Guangdong Incident and the Double Twelve Incident made the domestic situation almost chaotic, and the *** people dared to take the brunt of attacks because they saw the opportunity.

On the contrary, the ***, which did not pay much attention to the army in history, made full use of the past few years to strengthen the replacement of the army's military. Although China has also strengthened the process of reorganizing the division, especially the achievements of the Rehe Legion are even more remarkable, but compared with the ***, a country that has completed industrialization, it is nothing. The opportunities brought by the butterfly effect can be said to be two-way, not just giving unilateral opportunities. This is probably a punishment for changing the original trajectory of history?

Since the Kwantung Army launched a full-scale attack, the *** people may also have to fight with Qingdao in Shanghai. Unlike the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in previous history, both sides are tempting to use the troops to increase their strength one after another, but this time the Japanese army directly pressed forward! It is a strong position to achieve success in one battle. If the Rehe Legion cannot play a slight role, then the Japanese army will really defeat the main force of the Zhongzhang Team within six months or one year. If the main force of the National Government Army is defeated, then even if China is really fallen, without the large amount of restraint and consumption of the front battlefield, guerrilla warfare cannot be carried out at all. The volunteers active in the three northeastern provinces are an example. Are they not familiar with the local people's conditions? No!

Can't they get the support of the local people? No! Don't they fight against the Japanese invaders bravely? No! Because the Japanese troops they face can invest all their troops in repeated clearances, without the restraint of large-scale battles on the front battlefield. Once the Japanese army turns around and puts a large number of troops into clearing out local public security, the guerrilla zone will soon be reduced until it disappears.

For a moment, Zhang Xuewu was a little anxious! How could this happen? Among all his response measures, he had no plans to deal with the attack of the whole country. Although the international community repeatedly condemned the *** side, there was no sanction at all. Only Germany sent its ambassador Todman to conduct final mediation on both China and Japan.

Sure enough, what Zhang Xuewu was most worried about happened. On April 1, 1937, early in the morning of April Fool's Day, a traditional European festival in April Fool's Day, the Chinese fleet recruited by the subordinates of the *** United Fleet to transport the 3rd Division, the 9th Division and the 11th Division to Shanghai. The *** people arrived so quickly that Zhang Zhizhong, who was preparing to move ahead of the enemy, fell into many difficulties. It was already at the critical moment, but the reinforcements of the *** people came so quickly?

In order to seize the initiative, Zhang Zhizhong finally decided to report to Chiang Kai-shek on the spot, and planned to launch an attack on the Japanese army with the 36th Division, the 87th Division, and the 88th Division. The enemy and we all knew the truth that the enemy and us would hit him halfway. However, both Zhang Zhizhong and Chiang Kai-shek might have muttered about the range and power of the Japanese naval guns, and also underestimated the power of the *** naval aviation!

When the Battle of Songhu broke out, Zhang Xuewu immediately ordered all 247 fighter jets of the Flying Tigers to whom Gao Zhihang took off to air to compete with the Kwantung Fighting Division and the Fifth and Seventh Battalions for air supremacy.

The Flying Tigers are equipped with the BF-109f fighter that has been tested in Spain and has been modified several times in succession. The two 0.50-inch caliber machine guns on the wing have been replaced with four wings on the nose, which has twice the firepower. Moreover, the effect of the nose shooting aiming mirror is far better than the wings.

***The Type 95 and Type 97 fighters equipped by the Kwantung Army were put into the Chinese battlefield, and had performance advantages over the Hawk and i15 biplane fighters used by the Air Force of the Republic of China at that time. However, when Type 95 and Type 97 encounter bf-109f, Type 95 and Type 97 will become a typical tragedy.

Especially the 97-heavy explosion, which was just equipped and regarded as a treasure by the military headquarters, was simply a turkey in front of the bf-109f! Under the command and leadership of Gao Zhihang, Cheng Zhiyuan and Xu Feiyang, the bf-109f equipped with radio caused heavy losses to the Kwantung Army's Flight Division. Its ace pilot, Colonel Watanabe Sano, was also shot down. The shooting down of Watanabe Sano shocked the country, so he turned to Germany to ask the Bavarian aircraft manufacturer not to provide fighter jets and subsequent accessories on the Rehe side.

During the two-month battle with the Kwantung Army Flying Division, nine ace pilots emerged from the Flying Tigers. As the name suggests, the ace pilot is also called the fall ace or the English abbreviation ace, and sometimes also referred to as the ace. This title first appeared in World War I, generally referring to pilots who shot down more than five enemy planes. Zhang Xuewu knew that the Japanese pilots during this period were not the sergeant commanders who trained for more than ten hours or even several hours in the late World War II. The captain and officer Cao who had been trained for hundreds of hours of flight training, and the significance of shooting down these people to the endurance of the war is naturally self-evident.
Chapter completed!