Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

Marshal Nie said, "Alright, in that case, we will resolve this matter by force. We will treat them as if they were the puppet Manchukuo army. Comrade Wulanfu, you are the Chairman of the Mengsui Government and Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Working Committee appointed by the Central Committee. You will be in charge of this matter, and we, the Jin-Cha-Ji Association, will send troops to support you."

"Okay, I accept the order."

Although Wulanfu opposed Wei Hongjun's idea, since it was an order, he had no choice but to accept it.

Marshal Nie looked at Wei Hongjun.

Said: "Red Army, which unit do you think is more suitable to send?

"Ma Hongyuan's Cavalry Brigade and the Military Region's Mongolian Cavalry Brigade. The two cavalry brigades will form a cavalry detachment and follow Comrade Wulanfu into Inner Mongolia to resolve this matter."

The strength of the puppet Mongolian army was very weak.

In the early years of the Eighth Route Army, they fought many battles with the puppet Mongolian army. The combat effectiveness of the puppet Mongolian army was definitely the lowest among the puppet armies. The Mongolian princes and nobles who were gathered now were all scattered and guerrilla soldiers of the puppet Mongolian army, with no combat effectiveness at all.

Besides, the entire Mongolian region, including Suiyuan, has a population of only 700,000 to 800,000.

The two cavalry brigades, with a total of 10,000 combat and non-combat personnel, are a very powerful force in Inner Mongolia, and there is no armed force in Inner Mongolia that can match them.

"it is good."

Marshal Nie nodded.

Finally, the North China Bureau reached a resolution. Ulanfu led a work group into Inner Mongolia, followed by two cavalry brigades. They resolutely eliminated the puppet Manchukuo troops and captured the Mongolian princes and nobles who sought independence.

Chapter 643 Active Preparation

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Those Mongol princes who were jumping up and down about independence had nothing. Although they claimed to have over 5000 troops and claimed to have been recognized by the world's major powers, their actual strength was less than 2000, all of whom were stragglers of the pseudo-Mongol army.

As a result, Ma Hongyuan came with a cavalry detachment and immediately rushed the troops. Ma Hongyuan had fought head-on with the Japanese and puppet troops, so what was this small force of the puppet Mongolian army?

Easy to solve.

All the Mongolian princes and nobles who participated in this "independence farce" were directly captured by Ma Hongyuan, and none of them could escape. Although Wulanfu opposed the use of force at the meeting, since the situation had already been resolved by force, he dared to take ruthless action.

The Mongolian princes and nobles who most actively advocated "independence" were put on public trial and then shot.

Then Ulanfu called a meeting of the Mongolian nobles in the Sunite Left Banner area. The Mongolian nobles were frightened by the Eighth Route Army's attack. They had not expected the Eighth Route Army to be so resolute.

Arrest people if you say so, arrest them; kill people if you say so.

The Mongolian princes and nobles now had no real power, they no longer had any army, and they really didn't dare to do anything except eat and drink. So when Wulanfu called them to a meeting, they didn't dare to say anything, and each one was more honest than the other.

Almost everything Ulanfu said was true.

Wulanfu reached an agreement with these Mongolian nobles in Sunite Left Banner. They jointly condemned their despicable behavior of betraying their country's sovereignty and unanimously expressed their support for national reunification.

When Ulanfu was dealing with Mongolian affairs, the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was still in a chaotic state.

Although Chairman Mao and Chiang Kai-shek signed an agreement in Chongqing, relations between the two sides remained tense during the process.

Chiang Kai-shek seized the opportunity and moved large numbers of troops northward. Chiang Kai-shek was overly greedy, wanting everything and unwilling to give up anything. Therefore, he mobilized troops northward as a full-scale attack.

The original intention was to take over Suiyuan and Chahar, but Fu Zuoyi was defeated and failed.

But the Kuomintang troops in Hebei were very aggressive.

To stabilize Hebei, Chiang Kai-shek first appointed Pang Bingxun, commander of the Hebei Advancing Army, to recruit puppet troops, bandits, and police officers from Hebei to accept his orders. Within a short period of time, the Hebei Advancing Army comprised two armies, nine divisions, and seven independent brigades, totaling 10 troops, and took control of Shijiazhuang.

Chiang Kai-shek then airlifted two armies into Hebei.

One was the 92nd Army of the Nationalist Army, which was airlifted to Beijing, and the other was the 94th Army of the Nationalist Army, which was airlifted to Tianjin.

Before this, the 92nd Army was in Changde, Hunan, and the 94th Army was in Guangxi. However, thanks to the powerful air transport capabilities of the US military, they were able to airlift troops to control Peking and Tianjin before Yang Quanwu attacked them.

Then Sun Lianzhong led his Second Army into Hebei.

Sun Lianzhong's Second Army had suffered a heavy blow, with only about 10,000 troops left. However, Sun Lianzhong fought actively and actively approached Chiang Kai-shek, earning his trust.

In other words, it was not that Chiang Kai-shek trusted Sun Lianzhong, but that Chiang Kai-shek could only pretend to trust Sun Lianzhong.

Because the troops in the northern region were all from local warlords like Sun Lianzhong. Yan Xishan in Shanxi, Fu Zuoyi in Suiyuan, Pang Bingxun of the Hebei-Beibei Advance Army, and Sun Lianzhong of the Second Army were all from the former northern warlords.

Chiang Kai-shek therefore heavily reinforced Sun Lianzhong's Second Army, incorporating many of the original Northwest Army's troops into it. Sun Lianzhong himself also actively expanded his army, incorporating surrendered puppet troops from the surrounding areas. As a result, the Second Army now comprised five or six corps, rapidly reaching a total strength of 140,000 or 150,000 men. Sun Lianzhong marched north along the Pinghan Railway and entered Baoding, where he served as director of the Baoding Pacification Office.

Of course, it was impossible for Chiang Kai-shek to give the entire North China to these ragtag troops.

空运到北平的92军，那就是常凯申的嫡系中央军部队。92军军长侯景如担任北平警备司令。除了92军之外，还有16军、53军、62军、94军这些部队利用飞机、铁路、轮船进入河北。结果河北这边国共两党还没有大打出手，但国军在河北主力部队和地方保安团之类的部队加起来有40多万部队。

Then there is the Northeast.

The national army began to send troops to the Northeast on a large scale.

The vanguard of Shi Jue's 13th Army had already reached Qinhuangdao, and follow-up troops continued to arrive. Soon, the 52nd Army also set out, their destination being Qinhuangdao. This was the current situation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

Everyone on the battlefield is racing against time to prepare for battle.

In the month before and after Japan's surrender, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party fought fiercely, and as a result, the Kuomintang suffered heavy losses.

Wei Hongjun led the Third Field Army of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Region and annihilated nearly 129 troops of Fu Zuoyi in a single battle, driving Fu Zuoyi out directly. The th Division fought a decisive battle against the invading Yan Xishan troops in southern Shanxi.

In one battle, 4.7 of Yan Xishan’s troops were annihilated, almost all of Yan Xishan’s elite troops were wiped out.

Yan Xishan worked very hard to expand his army in the last period of the Anti-Japanese War, and finally expanded his troops from 129 to about . However, the th Division directly annihilated all of Yan Xishan's most elite troops in the Shangdang Campaign.

The current 129th Division is not the 129th Division in history.

Yan Xishan’s elite troops were directly wiped out.

Seeing the heavy losses inflicted on Yan Xishan by the 120th Division, the 129th Division abandoned its attack on Deng Baoshan and Chen Changjie. Instead, it concentrated its forces southward, sweeping across Yan Xishan's territory. They captured over a dozen counties and annihilated over 7000 of Yan Xishan's men. They then directed all the frustration they had incurred from Fu Zuoyi, Chen Changjie, and Deng Baoshan onto Yan Xishan.

As a result, the ferocious Yan Xishan immediately retreated into retreat.

Yan Xishan immediately realized from this battle that the Eighth Route Army was no longer the same as before. He could no longer defeat them on his own. He set his sights on Fu Zuoyi, but Fu Zuoyi had just been defeated. Furthermore, Fu Zuoyi had already established his independence in Suiyuan, so how could he possibly return to Yan Xishan's side?

So this time Yan Xishan set his sights on the Japanese and puppet troops.

First came the puppet army.

Yan Xishan was not picky about anything at this time.

Be it the puppet army or the regular army, the local puppet guard forces, or the various puppet security groups and puppet self-defense groups formed by traitors and landlords, or even the bandits entrenched in one area, as long as it is a military force, he is not picky at all.

He immediately sent his generals to recruit them.

There are quite a lot of these messy troops.

Besides the puppet troops, Yan Xishan also spared no effort against the ruffians and local bullies. He accepted anyone willing to surrender to him. After reorganizing this ragtag group, Yan Xishan unexpectedly formed seven new divisions, totaling over 40,000 men.

Of course, Yan Xishan also knew that these troops had little combat effectiveness.

So he turned his attention back to the Japanese army.

Over 26 Japanese troops have surrendered in Taiyuan and Datong. These include the 115th and 132th Divisions of the Mongolian Army, as well as the nd Division of the First Army of the North China Front. Taiyuan also has two independent garrisons, while Datong also has two. After being attacked by the Eighth Route Army, these troops quickly retreated to Taiyuan and Datong, hiding there. Together with the puppet troops accompanying them, they were forced to retreat to the major cities.

Yan Xishan attacked them.

Yan Xishan had already realized that relying on himself was not enough. Therefore, he had to ask for foreign aid, and the Japanese army was a good choice. Although the North China Front Army was being beaten by the Eighth Route Army, it was still a Japanese army after all. In Yan Xishan's view, it was at least stronger than his own army.

So Yan Xishan immediately negotiated with the Japanese army.

Want to reorganize these Japanese troops.

In the end, the two sides reached an agreement. Yan Xishan reorganized the 40,000-strong Japanese army. He promoted each Japanese troop rank, provided them with weapons, ammunition, and logistical supplies, and promised to help them fight the war.

But there are no secrets in the world.

The information about Yan Xishan's large-scale reorganization of Japanese troops was leaked.

Yan'an immediately lodged a protest.

Chiang Kai-shek didn't care about these things. As long as Yan Xishan could suppress the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, he didn't care what method Yan Xishan used. But now, after the Yan'an protests, public opinion was unfavorable to Chiang Kai-shek.

So Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to reprimand Yan Xishan and asked him not to go too far.

Yan Xishan understood what he meant.

He immediately stated that he was not reorganizing the Japanese army. He was just counting the number of Japanese troops so that he could repatriate them according to the agreement. Then Yan Xishan gradually took out some Japanese troops.

Actually?

Yan Xishan had an agreement with the Japanese army to lay off the old and weak.

There were many old, weak, sick, and disabled Japanese troops in Shanxi. Yan Xishan wanted to use them in the war, but he didn't want the old, weak, sick, and disabled. So he asked for them to be eliminated and he would give them a resettlement allowance.

In such a short period of time, Yan Xishan eliminated more than 6,000 people.

Yan Xishan dressed the remaining Japanese troops in the uniforms of the Jin Army, effectively transforming them into the Jin Army. After being attacked by the 129th and 120th Divisions, losing half his troops, Yan Xishan quickly reorganized over Japanese and puppet troops and various bandits, bringing his forces back to or men.

In fact, the people who helped Yan Xishan the most at this time were the big landlords who returned to Shanxi.

They disliked the Eighth Route Army and preferred Yan Xishan. So when Yan Xishan returned to Shanxi, they provided money and manpower. As a result, a large number of landlord armed forces emerged in areas controlled by Yan Xishan.

This is the situation now.

Both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were gearing up for the next battle. As for what the agreement signed between the two sides was, Wei Hongjun also took advantage of this opportunity to begin large-scale military training for the Third Field Army of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Region.

At the same time, improve the troop situation.

Once the two sides fell out, it would be a major battle involving tens of thousands of troops. Wei Hongjun had to prepare for that time.

The enemy of the Jin-Cha-Ji Third Field Army was the Nationalist troops in the direction of Beijing and Tianjin, and the Fu Zuoyi troops fighting in Suiyuan. Therefore, the task of the Jin-Cha-Ji Third Field Army was very heavy.

While Wei Hongjun was training his troops, the situation in Northeast China became increasingly tense.

Shi Jue, who was in Qinhuangdao, wanted to make a name for himself, so he led the 13th Army to attack the Jireliao Military Region and attack Shanhaiguan, preparing to pave the way for the later Nationalist troops. The 13th Army was the unit where Tang Enbo started his career and had always been the elite of the Nationalist Army. Its weapons and equipment were excellent, and it was a real American-equipped unit.

Since Chiang Kai-shek was determined to seize the Northeast, he naturally sent his elite troops. Furthermore, the Northeast was a region neither the KMT nor the CPC had previously dabbled in, so Chiang Kai-shek decided to send his own troops into the Northeast, rather than allowing those warlords to enter, which would have been a real headache to deal with later.

Deng Guo left the Second Independent Brigade at Shanhaiguan to block the 13th Army from entering Shanhaiguan.

But it was very difficult to fight.

The 13th Army's combat effectiveness is really strong. Apart from anything else, the 13th Army's artillery is enough to surprise the Eighth Route Army. The equipment of the National Army now surpasses that of the Japanese Army back then.

Facing the attack of the 13th Army, the Independent nd Brigade suffered heavy casualties.

Knowing the fierce fighting at Shanhaiguan, Deng Guo ordered Bao Shen, stationed in eastern Hebei, to lead two brigades to reinforce Shanhaiguan. Arriving at Shanhaiguan with two brigades, Bao Shen attacked the 13th Army from the flank, thereby supporting the 13nd Independent Brigade at Shanhaiguan. The th Army's attacks proved ineffective for several days, and the army suffered heavy casualties.

In desperation, the 13th Army had to retreat.

Soon Du Yuming arrived in Qinhuangdao. Troops from the 52nd Army also began arriving in succession. Du Yuming then organized the 13th Army and one division from the 52nd Army, a total of four divisions, to attack Shanhaiguan again.

Du Yuming used the 13th Army to attack Shanhaiguan head-on, while the 52nd Army's 25th Division moved back to attack. He intended to have the 25th Division move back to Shanhaiguan, and then attack from both sides to break through Shanhaiguan. However, the 25th Division was ambushed by Deng Guo just as it was moving back.

Because at this time, the Eighth Route Army troops from Shandong entered the Northeast one after another.