Chapter 118: Crossing the Yellow River
After the brigade commander decided to surrender, the top figures in the city also organized a small welcoming ceremony. Dozens of businessmen, old finance and family members in Baotou City held menstruation flags on both sides of the street. The happiest ones were the few who still had white braids. The king finally got back.
Most small households choose the ostrich policy of closing doors and windows without going out. There is also an elementary school in the city where gunfire sounds, and the teacher and principal stop class and send more than 100 students home - if something happens, who will hang it in the school?
After the entry ceremony, Seishiro Itagaki, riding a tall horse, felt that the people were able to feel that the people were willing to be able to relax, but it was also appropriate to let the soldiers relax. So a group of Japanese soldiers searched door-to-door in the name of inspecting the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. For a while, the crying sounds in Baotou City were connected. Finally, Seishiro Itagaki had an order to set fire before he could set fires, otherwise the scale of Baotou City would be destroyed in three days.
Whenever the Japanese soldiers went to a household, they would forcibly exchange valuables such as gold, silver and jade, such as gold, and silver, and jade, and forcibly exchanged them with pseudo-Manchukuo bank coupons. As for Miss Hua, they would even catch the Japanese barracks as a comfort woman. The leader of this group of Japanese soldiers, Seishiro Itagaki was a Huaxia master in his early years and had been engaged in espionage activities in China for many years. When they were young, they often compared Kong Ming, who had a feather fan and a scarf, and the Baotou people compared Itagaki's troops to Kong Ming as a thief.
Yang Hucheng got the news of the fall of Baotou. He originally wanted to hide the news, but somehow it was leaked. Within a few minutes, the message from the Chairman of the Nanjing Military Commission asked the Northwest Army to defend the Yellow River fell on the desk of Governor Yang Hucheng. According to Chairman Jiang's idea, the natural danger of the Yellow River must be guarded for a month. If there is any problem in a month, there will be no problem in half a month. With these time, the Central Army can reverse the situation by reinforced Shaanxi through the Longhai Line.
Facing the Japanese's frog jumping battle, Chairman Jiang did not dare to be careless this time. The northern side of the country could not move the arrangement of the Japanese in Guandong for hundreds of thousands of troops. Fortunately, there are many troops around Nanjing now. Chairman Jiang waved his pen to reorganize the First Army, reorganize the 71st Army, train the 53rd Army, and train the 57th Army to fight in Shaanxi as the first batch of reinforcements. The commander who commanded these troops was Zhang Zhizhong, the commander of the 71st Army.
Seeing the death order to stick to the Yellow River defense line for January, Yang Hucheng had to send his reorganized 17th Division Sun Weiru's troops and a security brigade to form the 38th Army to defend the Yellow River defense line north. Considering that Yulin in northern Shaanxi is the gateway to Shaanxi, Yang Hucheng sent another reorganized 42nd Division Feng Qinzai troops to Yulin to garrison, leaving only one security brigade in Xi'an.
The small Northwest Army, which Yang Hucheng has been running for many years, is not big or small. More than 60,000 people are considered a strong force in the northwest. (There are only more than 50,000 left after losing a security brigade) The weapons used are Jin Zao purchased from Shanxi - who made this person close? Yang Hucheng started thinking very well. Since Peking can use hundreds of thousands of troops to block hundreds of thousands of Japanese devils. The Eighteenth Division of Itagaki Seishiro, who is only 25,000 people, and one of his own reorganized divisions has 25,000 people. With a security brigade, he can hold it for a month.
As a result, the air strikes three days after the Japanese occupied Baotou broke Yang Hucheng's fantasy. Hundreds of planes dived from the air and dropped bombs, and they broke up the 38th Army that had not practiced air defense exercises. Sun Weiru's troops retreated to the Yi League (Today's Ordos) to collect the remaining troops. The Japanese took this opportunity to set up a floating bridge and began to force the river to cross.
Most of the defenders fled under the bombing and strafing, but there was still a regiment of more than a thousand people in the defending position. After the Japanese crossed the river, they began to attack this regiment. When the 38th Army had only more than 800 left, the Japanese squadron of troops entered the distance of hand-to-hand combat. Seeing the rows of bright bayonets in front of them coming over, the troops that did not collapse under the bombing of aircraft, nor under the blow of Japanese machine guns and artillery blossoming bullets, finally collapsed - this regiment had never practiced hand-to-hand combat.
The remaining 800 people in this regiment were forced to jump out of the Yellow River by a squadron of the Japanese with bayonets. Before jumping into the river to escape, they completely forgot that they would not be able to do anything. Most of them died for the country. The battle against bayonets is generally short and fierce. Elite troops fighting against bayonets often causes one-to-one casualties, and non-elite troops fighting against bayonets often ends because of one side’s defeat.
Like the Japanese, they are very superstitious about bayonets. Often, when the firepower is not superior, the commander orders to fight bayonets, which can often have miraculous results.**Apart from the special exception of the 29th Army, they have long forgotten the cold weapon war. Even the Central Army has passed the bayonets in a careless way - Coach Hans's level of bayonets is just like that.
The air force that bombed the Yellow River defenders was not entirely from the Japanese. Two of the brigades were Japanese aid teams sent by the polar bears to the Japanese. The planes and pilots were all from Slavic. Of course, from the moment they delivered to the Japanese, their salary began to be paid by the Japanese. You can say that he is a mercenary, or it is okay to say that he is a volunteer army, but it has nothing to do with the Kremlin anyway.
The news that the Japanese crossed the Yellow River was naturally reported. The Chinese people were shocked and calculated the accounts to the polar bears' support and Yang Hucheng's ineffective resistance. The Sichuan Army's Forty-first Army was much stronger than the Little Northwest Army. It wasn't it that it became famous in Chengde that one army and three trainers fought against six A-level divisions without losing their advantage.
To deal with the Slavs in the Arctic, this is simple. With the intentional or unintentional push of the government, all the people began to run the bank of the public concession. The bank's debt ratio is 180% and is also a very benign asset, but you can't resist the vicious run. Over the past few days, a large number of people lined up to withdraw all the deposits of the Bank of Russia. The Bank of Russia borrowed from other banks several times and found that there was very little money that could be borrowed. Long before this, the bank had taken action to lend out the working capital of several foreign banks in advance. Of course, domestic banks would not go to this threshold to get the Oshendao Bank.
After four days of perseverance, the Russian Shengdao Bank finally declared bankruptcy and entered the liquidation process. The main force of saving money at Russian Shengdao Bank was still Russian merchants in China. The bankruptcy of Russian Shengdao Bank caused many Slavs who had been operating in China for many years to go bankrupt overnight.
Emperor Alexek had shares in the Bank of Russia Shengdao and insisted on letting Nanjing give an explanation. Faced with the accusation of the polar bear, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed that this was a normal business behavior, and banks in the world went bankrupt every year for one or another.
While dealing with the polar bear, Chairman Jiang was really angry and issued a strict order to let Yang Hucheng defend the Yi League. He had to defend at least ten days, and Yang Hucheng also gave face. The remnants of the 38th Army lost the Yi League the day after receiving the order, and the remnants moved to Yulin and successfully met with the 42nd Division.
Then Principal Jiang ordered that Yulin be defended no matter what. Three days after receiving the order, Yulin defenders reorganized the 42nd Division and the remnants of the 38th Army were withdrawn while fighting.
This time, even Yang Hucheng was popular. He led the security brigade to Yan'an and asked how the two commanders under him fought. It was true that the Japanese had planes, but they lost one battle and were in front of the Chinese. When they arrived at the Yan'an Front Command, Yang Hucheng asked: "How did you two fight? The Japanese wanted to send people to defend Baotou and the Yellow River together with less than one division. Do you have two reorganized divisions to force someone to fight out of Yulin?"
Sun Weiru said the deepest feeling: "Commander, you don't know. When the Japanese Agents' plane came to bomb and fire, the brothers were blown to death in pieces, and they were swept down in groups. This is not a matter of too many people. Neither of our army will hit the plane. There are also the Japanese chariots, which are invulnerable to swords and guns. The brothers stabbed the bayonets with bayonets and smashed the butts with butts. The brothers were beaten to death in pieces as soon as the machine gun on the chariots fired."
Yang Hucheng was almost angrily annoyed: "You can think of it if you use people to fight chariots. How come your artillery, why don't you use artillery to fight chariots?"
Sun Weiru said: "Before the artillery was fired, I was blown up by the Japanese plane."
Feng Qinzai also said: "Commander, it's not that brothers can't stand for ten days, but we have to leave some seeds for our Northwest Army."
Chapter completed!