Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

The 11th Regiment wasn't just filled with veterans; it was filled with genuine veterans. The Special Forces Regiment developed a base in Fengning County, choosing a steady strategy. Besides consolidating the base, it also served to gradually spread the reputation of the Special Forces Regiment.

But there is another reason: the special forces regiment does not have enough cadres.

If the base is developed too quickly, problems will arise in its governance.

But the 11th Regiment does not have such a problem.

The 11th Regiment was rich in outstanding cadres. The 11th Regiment developed bases based on company units, with a single company able to establish bases in several districts within a few months. No one could say for sure how many rural bases the 11th Regiment currently had, or how much it had expanded its military.

After all, Rehe Province has a population of more than five million.

The population reserve is sufficient.

If the 11th Regiment takes action in Rehe, it will be a big commotion.

"The Special Forces Regiment must make a big splash. Of course, we'll also have to wipe out the surrounding bandits. That's also your mission. Comrade Kang Shui, Comrade Sha Xuewen, can the Special Forces Regiment complete this mission?"

"Make sure to complete the mission."

Kang Shui and Sha Xuewen immediately stood up and accepted the order.

After giving the order to the Special Forces Regiment, Zhang Dahu continued, "The 8th Independent Mixed Brigade is in Changping after all. Any incident in Rehe will tie them down. As long as they are tied down, the 8th Brigade will be unable to move. But the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade is different. It is currently stationed in Zhangjiakou. To contain this unit, we must pose a direct threat to Zhangjiakou."

"Chongli County."

Feng Mulin spoke while looking at the map.

Feng Mulin came to Longguan for a meeting. Zhang Dahu and Xiahou Wen had already discussed the matter before he arrived. They should have discussed it with Feng Mulin as well, but they ran out of time.

But Feng Mulin is now also a big boss in the Eighth Column.

He immediately guessed what Zhang Dahu and Xiahou Wen were thinking. Zhang Dahu nodded and said, "It's Chongli County. My idea is for the 26th Regiment of the Chadong Detachment and the Chabei Detachment to jointly attack Chongli County. Chongli County is the northern gate of Zhangjiakou. The Japanese army will absolutely not allow Chongli County to fall. Zhangjiakou will definitely send troops to support it. And now, the only force Zhangjiakou can mobilize is the th Independent Mixed Brigade."

“However, if we provoke the troops stationed in Mongolia, the targets of the Japanese Army’s 9th Independent Mixed Brigade’s sweep may become our Chadong and Chabei detachments.

"no problem."

Feng Mulin shook his head and said, "We are all Party cadres, and it is our duty to obey the overall situation and follow orders.

"But this alone is not enough. Perhaps the Mongolian troops can send one or two squadrons to defend Chongli County and that will be the end of the matter, while the Ninth Brigade will still sweep the Xuanzhuohuai base. So my idea is that the New 1st Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment should also take action. Destroy all the iron mines in Chongli and Zhangbei. The Japanese army uses the iron mines here to mine iron ore and then smelt iron in Shijingshan. There is intelligence that the Japanese army has built a steel plant in Xuanhua and it is almost completed, using the iron ore here. Many of the miners are civilians captured from the Northeast and prisoners on the battlefield. If we destroy these mines, we can not only prevent the Japanese army from plundering iron ore, but also rescue a large number of workers. I believe that if we make such a big fuss here, the Japanese Army's Independent Mixed Ninth Brigade will definitely not move south.

Chapter 279: War Everywhere

After the Chadong Detachment was deployed, the entire Chabei area and Fengning County were engulfed in flames.

The advantages of the Eighth Route Army were fully demonstrated at this time.

After Kang Shui and Sha Xuewen returned to Fengning County, they immediately prepared a plan to attack Fengning County. However, they both knew that Fengning County was impossible to capture. So they began a tactic of besieging the city and attacking the reinforcements.

They mobilized the young and middle-aged men in the base area and had them participate in the siege in the form of militia.

There were some main forces mixed in, and the rest were made up of local militia and young men. Each person carried seven days of dry food, so they could bluff here. The main force was hiding elsewhere.

The special forces regiment's sudden attack on Fengning County really shocked Rehe.

Fengning County is an important area connecting Rehe and Chahar. Neither Rehe nor Chahar, nor the Kwantung Army nor the North China Front Army could tolerate Fengning County being captured by the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, the Japanese army quickly mobilized troops from Weichang, Longhua, Luanping, and other counties. However, these counties were limited in number, with only one or two squads and a few hundred puppet troops at most. Chengde and Xinglong dispatched the largest number of troops, each sending a reinforced squadron.

If these troops were to unite, their strength would be quite strong.

With approximately 1400 Japanese troops and puppet troops, their strength was quite formidable. If the Special Forces Regiment had encountered so many Japanese and puppet troops head-on, they would have fled long ago. Unfortunately, these Japanese and puppet troops were coming from different directions.

Once the Japanese and puppet troops were dispersed, their strength became much weaker.

Although the Special Forces Regiment had drawn up its main force to prepare for the attack on the reinforcements, it was still insufficient. Therefore, the Special Forces Regiment split into two groups, ambushing the Japanese and puppet troops coming from Weichang and Longhua. Enemies in other directions were handed over to the 11th Regiment.

The Special Forces Group is not without concerns.

After all, there were more than 500 Japanese troops and more than 900 puppet troops coming out of Chengde, Xinglong and Luanping.

However, the Special Forces Regiment really underestimated the 11th Regiment.

The 11th Regiment, with over men, entered Rehe, more than tripling its force within six months to over . Each of the companies sent out had its force expanded several times over. A single township with over a hundred men established a base, and now boasts several hundred men.

In some places, the 11th Regiment only sent a working group.

That's a work group of a dozen or so people. These people went to establish a base area, and a dozen of them could form a force of 11 or 11 people. This situation was extremely common in the th Regiment. It was mainly due to the high quality of the th Regiment's cadres.

Back then, Political Commissar Deng Guo recruited a large number of students and placed them in the Independent Division's political department for training. After the Pingxi Detachment was established, he took all of these student soldiers with him. Yang Quanwu was furious about these student soldiers for a long time. These student soldiers had already been in the army for several months, training in the Independent Division's political department for several months. They were no longer just rookies. They were educated and capable, and they had been trained in the Independent Division. Each one was a skilled warrior.

If it weren't for Marshal Nie's pressure, Yang Quanwu would have had no choice but to annex other troops. When did so many cadres get poached? Yang Quanwu has always been resentful about this matter.

It was not until his later years that he reflected on his youthful arrogance.

This group of cadres followed Deng Guo to the Pingxi Detachment and are currently primarily based in the 11th Regiment. They can be deployed to the military to fight and conduct political work, and deployed to the base areas to build the base and mobilize troops. Furthermore, the 11th Regiment itself has a large number of Red Army companies, many of whom are Red Army cadres and soldiers who participated in the Long March.

Of course, this is also inseparable from the fact that Deng Guo, the commander of the 11th Regiment and political commissar, is both civil and military.

This man was a renowned general in the history of the Republic. He was renowned throughout the army for his leadership in battle, and his political work was a powerful tool for uniting the troops. With such a skilled military commander leading the 11th Regiment, how could the army not thrive?

Of course, the aftereffect of such rapid military expansion is a decline in the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Therefore, the 11th Regiment's leadership had no objection to this cooperation with the 11th Column. Besides being descendants of the st Red Army Division, they also needed this kind of battle. The th Regiment had assembled its main forces, wanting new recruits to fight alongside veterans to improve the unit's combat effectiveness.

As a result, this time the 11th Regiment gathered more than 5000 people to participate in this battle.

To ambush a reinforced Japanese squadron, which, together with the puppet army, numbered only about 11, the 3000th Regiment mobilized over men, using their overwhelming superiority to ambush the enemy. They used this type of battle to train new recruits and improve the unit's combat effectiveness.

The effect is great.

Rehe's limited mobile forces, sent to support Fengning County, were ambushed halfway. The 11th Regiment, in particular, set up ambushes and wiped out two reinforced Japanese squadrons. Since entering Rehe, the 11th Regiment had avoided major clashes with the Japanese.

The approach was to enter the village quietly without firing any guns.

The 11th Regiment arrived in Rehe primarily to attack the Han Chinese. Rehe had been under Japanese rule for so long that the Han Chinese were numerous. These Han Chinese were wealthy and powerful, and possessed numerous armed forces. The 11th Regiment relied primarily on attacking traitors, their armed forces, and the puppet Manchukuo army to secure weapons, ammunition, and supplies.

Then, just like the special forces regiment, the main task was to suppress bandits.

The suppression of banditry was a popular cause in Rehe. The people of Rehe had suffered from banditry for years and hated them deeply, so the Eighth Route Army's suppression of banditry was exactly what they wanted. The 11th Regiment used this method to gain the support of the people and develop its forces.

But that doesn’t mean the 11th Regiment cannot fight the Japanese army.

As a member of the Fourth Column, the 11th Regiment fought many battles in Pingbei along the way and captured many county towns.

This sudden attack wiped out two reinforced squadrons of the Japanese army.

Nearly 500 Japanese soldiers were killed.

This was the greatest victory of the 11th Regiment since its establishment. The 11th Regiment and the Special Forces Regiment set ambushes and annihilated the Japanese mobile forces, further depleting the manpower in Rehe. The previously quiet 11th Regiment and the Special Forces Regiment began to expand rapidly in Rehe.

Of course, the Special Forces Regiment only developed in Fengning County, and it was the 11th Regiment that developed rapidly in Rehe.

The 11th Regiment had previously established a base in the impoverished rural areas of Rehe. However, after annihilating the Japanese mobile forces in Rehe, the 11th Regiment began to enter some important towns in Rehe. The Japanese and puppet troops in Rehe were helpless against this development of the 11th Regiment.

No one?

Therefore, they were very anxious to seek help from the Kwantung Army.

Because Rehe was under the responsibility of the Kwantung Army.

But how could the Kwantung Army withdraw troops now? Their main force was currently on the Sino-Soviet border, fighting the Soviet army. This was when the Japanese and Soviet armies were fighting the Battle of Nomonhan.

The two sides had already fought a battle at Zhanggufeng last year, and this year they had another military conflict at Nomonhan. This time the Soviet army deployed nearly 60,000 troops, while the Japanese army also deployed nearly 80,000.

Moreover, the Kwantung Army was worried that the Soviet Far East Army would continue to increase its troops, so the main forces of the Kwantung Army were basically in Mongolia and Heilongjiang. It can be said that all the energy of the Kwantung Army was now focused on the Soviet Army.

Therefore, no troops could be withdrawn to support Rehe.

While things were turbulent in Rehe, the same was true in Chabei.

Zhang Dahu, Xiahou Wen, Feng Mulin and others led the 26th Regiment and the Chabei Detachment, assembled a force of more than 3000 people and began to attack Chongli County.

It caused a sensation throughout Chahar.

The Eighth Column's previous capture of Xiahuayuan and, along the way, Xuanhua, dealt a heavy blow to Zhangjiakou. After all, these places were all county towns very close to Zhangjiakou, or even on the outskirts of Zhangjiakou.

But it can still be argued.

After all, it was the main force of the 8th Column that was dispatched at that time.

But what is the situation in Chongli?

The group previously operating in Chongli was just a detachment of the Eighth Column, barely even a detachment. It was a guerrilla unit the Eighth Column had developed in Chabei, not many in total. Yet now they had the audacity to attack Chongli.

The two sides fought in Chongli for several days.

The fighting was quite intense. Zhangjiakou was initially nervous, but soon they relaxed. Chongli County was still strong, and the Japanese army and the garrison were able to defend it.

Unfortunately, Chabei’s movements are not limited to Chongli.

Almost like a secret service corps.

The 26th Regiment and the Chabei Detachment attacked Chongli, but did not use all their forces. After trapping the Japanese and puppet troops in Chongli, the Chabei Detachment was very active in Chabei. Previously, due to the presence of Japanese and puppet troops in Chongli, the Chabei Detachment had not been able to capture some towns around Chongli County.

But it's different now.

Without the support of the Chongli Japanese and puppet troops, the surrounding township governments, puppet police stations, and the like were no match for the Chabei Detachment. Feng Mulin led the Chabei Detachment to sweep across the area.

Chongli County receives calls for help at all times.

Then came the New 1st Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment.

They directly raided the Chongli Iron Ore Plant. This was a key mine supplying iron ore to the Shijingshan Iron and Steel Plant, and it had a large workforce. Most of them were captured Northeastern civilians and prisoners of war.

Now they have all been rescued by the Eighth Route Army troops.

Where can these people go?

Most of them joined the Eighth Route Army. It can be said that after the sudden action of the Chadong and Chabei detachments, and the help of the 11th Regiment, the entire Rehe and Chahar were unstable.

Chapter 280 Tada Shun's helpless change

"Commander, what should we do now?"

The war was everywhere.

Telegrams asking for help were everywhere.

There were some requests for help, but no one would come to the North China Front Army. After all, the North China Front Army was still a front army, and under the front army there were armies, and under the armies there were divisions and independent mixed brigades, and under those there were regiments and independent infantry battalions.

Seeking help should also be done step by step.

But the situation was really bad. As a result, telegrams for help kept flying to the North China Front Army Headquarters.

Tada Shun was in a terrible mood. Rehe, He, and Chabei were all ablaze with war. Suddenly, several thousand, probably tens of thousands of Eighth Route Army troops, had appeared, stirring up trouble in these areas. The situation in Rehe, in particular, was extremely grim.

If Jidong was an important passage between Northeast China and North China, then the area under the jurisdiction of Rehe Province was directly related to the former Zhili, Liaodong, and Mongolia. The establishment of Rehe Province was closely related to the instability of the border areas in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.