Chapter 15 Chapter Fifteen Nobody Can Bully Bandits

The so-called one-week period, everyone on earth knows that this is an excuse for the Japanese army to send troops to Qiqihar. On the morning of October 3rd, it expired. The Kwantung Army drove two trains of armored vehicles towards Jiangqiao, and the "Manchurian Railway" workers and armed Japanese soldiers came out aggressively. In addition to those who run underground, there are also those who fly in the sky.The planes dispatched by the Sendai Division hovered over the sky to cover up the scandal. Behind them, the 16th Regiment of the Sendai Division Hamamoto has already gathered on the south bank of the Nen River, ready to attack the opposite bank at any time.

Colonel Kisaburo Hamamoto was in a very relaxed mood at this time. In his eyes, his opponent, the Northeast Army, cannot be called an army at all, but just a group of rabble who are greedy for life and afraid of death. The battle in the Northeast fully proved this point.Even those so-called "non-commissioned officers" officers rushed away when they heard that the Kwantung Army was killing them, and ran away long ago.It seems that they are not more like warriors than anyone else, but more like escape champions than anyone else. I did not find the name of Kisaburo Hamamoto in the roster of the University of China.However, this does not seem to hinder the determination of the Hamamoto brothers to make history.

He brags to his classmates (don't know which school they are from), saying that the only purpose of coming to Jiangqiao is to prove that he is the best commander in Japan. In my opinion, this kind of madness was acquired by the kindergarten-like Beidaying. Before arriving at Jiangqiao, he had already heard about the fiasco of Zhang Haipeng's puppet army.But this incident is actually of no reference value in Hamamoto's view. He believes that Zhang Haipeng's puppet army is just a group of "China" troops that are worse and useless than the Northeast Army in the North Camp. How can they compare with the "Imperial Army".

Obviously, his thinking is still stuck in the "Peking Daying period". What he didn't know was that Ma Zhanshan was not a general of the Peking University Camp. He was a bandit. Only bandits have ever bullied others, and few people can bully bandits. And fighting a war sometimes requires a little understanding.It just so happened that Ma Zhanshan belonged to the kind of person with a little savvy. He had never been to a formal military academy, and he probably didn't even know where the Japanese NCO Academy and the Army University were located when he was in the green forest.But he went to a social military school.

Fighting and killing all day, guns come and go, if you can survive by luck, and your brain is not too stupid, you will definitely be able to figure out something. For example, the famous Whampoa Military Academy mainly teaches one thing: the Whampoa spirit, and the class hours are very short. However, this school has taught batches of extraordinary students, and in the end even the teachers can't beat them. The reason is that most of the classrooms are held on the battlefield, and soldiers learn war in war. Ma Zhanshan is very similar to a person - Zhang Zuolin, the commander of the Northeast, his brain is very good.

In other words, he is a clever bandit who can eat with his brain. When it came to Jiangqiao's war of resistance, he naturally didn't need to play "hide in the stirrups" on his horse, but he cleverly used this trick in tactical command. There is a way to defend a bridge, that is, like Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide, when he roared at the head of Dangyang Bridge, millions of Cao soldiers retreated in a hurry. However, this is just a historical romance.The myth that fighting basically depends on roaring is difficult to encounter in real life. Ma Zhanshan gave up the practice of defending the river bank, gathered the defensive troops early, and withdrew into the fortifications that could really be defended.

Prior to this, Xie Ke and Ma Zhanshan took turns to operate, and with the railway as the baseline, a relatively solid fortress position had been built. Ma Zhanshan scattered all the troops that could be used in combat in these serpentine fortifications, forming a well-defined strategic depth. However, before the Jiangqiao Anti-Japanese War, whether it was Zhang Xueliang's telegram or the assessment of the strength of both sides, Ma Zhanshan did not dare to make mistakes easily. At this time, China had submitted a complaint to the League of Nations, and Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang were quite confident in winning the international lawsuit, and their expectations were also high.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Xueliang's instructions to Ma Zhanshan were without exception the same sentence: "Avoid direct conflict." Of course, how binding this instruction is on Ma Zhanshan is another matter. As a truly capable general, it should never be the simple will of the officer that controls your thinking, but must be the ever-changing battlefield situation. The general will be outside, and the king's life will not be accepted. But Ma Zhanshan can ignore Zhang Xueliang's telegram, but he has to face up to the fact that the Northeast Army has been defeated all along.

After all, Zhang Haipeng's puppet army and the Kwantung Army are two different things.No matter what, the puppet army was also transformed from the Northeast Army. Everyone knows the basics and is easy to fight.The Kwantung Army was different. After September 18th, Kyrgyzstan and Liao provinces were occupied within a few days. Ma Zhanshan is not a simple patriotic and angry youth, he is responsible for fighting the battle and shouldering the responsibility.He couldn't pretend that he didn't know who had the thicker arms on the offensive and defensive sides. What's more, the difficulties he himself faced were indeed not small.

Successive promotions to serve as the acting chairman of Heilongjiang Province were, after all, only an extraordinary move in an extraordinary period. The prestige of the leader did not coincide with this appointment. The word "on behalf" can explain the problem. Once fighting with the Japanese, whether the following defensive troops can obey orders and dispatch will be a great test. Previously, more than half of the elite infantry of the Northeast Army were inside the pass, while some of the half outside the pass were wiped out by the Kwantung Army on the spot, and most of them had already withdrawn to the line from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan.

In the provincial capital, Xu Baozhen's guards were the ones who could fight a dozen.In addition, some troops can be temporarily mobilized from the border, but it is hard to say whether they can go to battle to kill the enemy.There is also a part of the cavalry in the middle.These cavalry units are majestic, but their strength is speed.You want them to jump off the horse and run into the fortifications to help defend, which is not only too wasteful, but also a standard weakness. The last point that cannot be ignored is that war is not a child's play, it has to spend money. Ma Zhanshan has a good understanding of this point, and asked Xie Ke as soon as he came to the provincial capital, how much silver was left in the inventory. Xie Ke held out two fingers to him. Guess how many there are? Not 20 million, not 2 million, not even 200,000. Only twenty thousand. The Wan family father and son are really good enough to be the head of the family. With this amount of money, it is not enough to pay these people in the provincial capital, let alone food. Ma Zhanshan was forced to do nothing, so he had no choice but to lose his face and seek alms everywhere, so that he was able to eke out a living. The leader's lack of support, his strength being too weak, and his pockets too shy, all of these factors determined that it was impossible for Ma Zhanshan to become the party that took the initiative to provoke. In Ma Zhanshan's words, it is called "Chasai's lone army, no rescue later, and the military is defeated." His situation is not bad, but quite bad. Although he has made preparations and has a tough attitude, as a relatively weak person, if he is not forced to have nowhere to go, no one wants to really look for it. But everything is beyond his control.Because the Kwantung Army on the opposite side is a veritable hob meat, just to force you to nowhere. After the "Manchurian Railway" began to repair the bridge, Ma Zhanshan ordered all troops to withdraw to Daxing Station. Shimizu and Lin Yixiu made a request during the negotiation that when repairing the iron bridge, the Chinese army must retreat 15 miles away, and Daxing Station is nearly 18 miles away from the bridge, which exceeded the requirements of the Japanese side. I'll do as you say, but don't blame me for being rude if you cross the line. The Northeast Army is already withdrawing. I didn't expect the devils to open the dyeing workshop after giving color.Relying that no one could hit him, those Japanese pilots kicked the bomb off the plane casually, and bombarded the Chinese retreating troops indiscriminately. Ma Zhanshan is a man who prefers softness to toughness, so when he suddenly became angry, he immediately ordered the troops to enter the first level of combat readiness in front of Daxing Station. There is no chance of winning at all, but until now, people can't be bullied by pointing their noses.Fight! China's toughness was beyond the expectations of the Japanese army, but perhaps this is exactly what they wanted. Just the night before the Northeast Army withdrew to Daxing, Binben sent a reconnaissance team to sneak into the opposite bank in a small boat. The operation was sudden and successful. Before the three Chinese sentries could respond, they were tied up with ropes and brought back to the south bank. The small test of the Japanese version of Crossing the River Reconnaissance Notes obviously strengthened Hamamoto's original understanding: the Northeast Army on the opposite side is also very good. In the early morning of November 4, 1931, the autumn fog was thick.A squadron of the Binben United took the lead across the river bridge and headed for Daxing Station. The squadron that attacked the Peking University was also a squadron, but it was the railway garrison, and now it is a regular unit of the Kwantung Army. Why can't it be done? It seemed that the other party did not take any precautions.Everything is so quiet, making people seem to have returned to the "non-resistance" Beidaying. Perhaps the "Chinese people" were still sleeping in the camp.This greatly reduced the vigilance of the attacking Japanese army. For a long time, the combat experience of the Sendai Division in the Northeast can be simply summed up as: fighting is like playing. It's a pity that this time they are going to play with their lives together. Xu Baozhen's guard regiment, who was in charge of the frontal defense task, was not asleep, lying in the fortifications of the position, staring at them without blinking. There was no movement, but the Japanese army was still within 15 miles. Ma Zhanshan's order was: open fire if it exceeds one mile. In China, the Northeast Dahan is as famous as the Shandong Dahan. It is said that they are all tall and mighty men with a bit of muscle.However, the "September 18th" incident almost smashed this signboard to pieces. If someone beats you on the left cheek, you stretch out the right cheek, what's the use of having that body of flesh? Humiliation, grief, indignation, and depression surrounded and troubled the real passionate men in the Northeast Army all the time. In history, there are only surrendered generals, no surrendered pawns, let alone surrendered soldiers. This time, the Northeast Army in Heilongjiang finally decided to stand up once, and they wanted to walk with their waists straight. It was agreed to withdraw from the range of 15 miles, but the Japanese army obviously did not have this concept in their minds. They were going to have lunch at Daxing Station. 15 miles, 16 miles, fire! The "sneak attacker" was unprepared, he didn't even look at the opponent's face, and fell to the ground in a bloody mess. The Hamamoto United team was stunned, they seemed to have entered a dislocation in time and space. No way, the "China" troops would even take the initiative to shoot at us. Didn't they say that they couldn't fight back when they were hit or that they couldn't retaliate when they were scolded? If you want to rush forward, you find that the opponent's weapon is too fierce. The machine gun alone can pull out several firepower nets, and you will be killed or injured when you encounter it. I had to stop, hoping that the plane overhead could help me a little to reduce the loss on the ground. Unexpectedly, the Japanese machine was also unlucky.Due to flying too low when dropping the bomb, a bomber was attacked by ground machine guns and artillery, and almost failed to survive. The pilot even had his thigh pierced. One can imagine how fierce the firepower of the Northeast Army is. The underground and the sky are all stopped now. The famous Jiangqiao Anti-Japanese War in history has since kicked off. Binben, who was beaten by Ma Zhanshan, has not yet realized how huge the risk of this trip to Heilongjiang is.He believes that the failure of the vanguard was just an accident. What's going on, it's only two miles away from Daxing Station, and you can get there by moving your buttocks, I really don't understand. One squadron is not enough, send a large team. The so-called no right to speak without investigation.When he arrived at the scene, the captain finally understood the distress of the squadron leader. Because the defensive terrain is really beneficial to the defenders. The front is the railway, the area is extremely narrow, and the opponent's firepower is extremely strong, if you charge straight up, it is tantamount to death. There is no need to guard the west of the railway.Because there are all swamps that haven't been frozen yet, once you sink in, you have no other thoughts but to be a target for others. To the east of the railway, apart from the tobacco field, is Gaopo.To pass through the tobacco field, the line of sight is easily blocked, which is not conducive to giving full play to the Japanese army's firepower advantage.As for Gao Po, if he is condescending, it will be an advantage for the defender. The captain weighed it for a while, but decided to break through from the front.But what the squadron can't do, it's useless to change the brigade.Those who take the risk to rush up basically never come back. The Japanese army relied heavily on the coordination of infantry and artillery in combat.However, after the start of the Jiangqiao Anti-Japanese War, Hamamoto's expected artillery cover effect was not able to be brought into play. Ma Zhanshan said that I retreated 15 miles, so there is a reason for that. The Hamamoto United team uses the "38-type" field artillery, and the shooting range is not short, but across a river and a distance of 16 miles, it is difficult to reach even if you stand on tiptoe and step on a stool with. Let's cross the river and rebuild our position. The bridge has not been completely repaired, so people can only leave. The artillery and the horses pulling the artillery can't pass. If you insist on crossing, you can only fall down to sacrifice to the river god. The artillerymen stomped their feet anxiously, but they couldn't help the infantry a little. The captain is very anxious. In winter in Heilongjiang, the days are short and the nights are long, and it gets dark after a while.But he hasn't finished the task yet, and he hasn't even touched the side of Daxing Station, so how can he explain to Hamamoto. It suddenly occurred to me, isn't it better at night, with an extra layer of protection, which can completely avoid the opponent's firepower and carry out sneak attacks from the side. It was wonderful, the captain became more and more excited when he thought about it.Immediately he commanded the troops to make a stealthy detour around the tobacco fields east of the railway. But what he thought of, Ma Zhanshan thought of it a long time ago. The latter ambushed a company in the tobacco field. How powerful can a company be? This is not an ordinary infantry company, but a machine gun company with super firepower. There was also a machine gun squadron (equivalent to the Chinese machine gun company) in the raiding Japanese brigade, but it was still incomparable. You may not believe it when you say it, there are more than 100 people in a company, and almost everyone has a Czech-style light machine gun. In the dark night, countless flames suddenly flew out from the tobacco field. The Japanese army only paid attention to the high slope in front of them, but did not expect that there were ambushes hiding beside them. The infantry couldn't handle machine guns, and their own machine gun company was no match, so they had to retreat to the south bank in embarrassment. One day and one night, the firepower of Ma Zhanshan's troops completely exceeded the imagination and estimation of the Japanese army.When they judged that the opponent might have a considerable number of Czech-style light machine guns, they couldn't help being shocked. Hamamoto's first reaction after hearing the report was that this must be a weapon sent by the Soviets. Prior to this, the Japanese army had received information that Ma Zhanshan had had contact with the Soviet Union before leaving Heihe, and the latter had sent a lot of arms to support the Anti-Japanese War. However, in fact, these secret weapons were not sent by the Soviets, but Xie Ke, the chief of staff of Jiangxi Province, accidentally found them on a treasure hunt. Before Ma Zhanshan came to take office, Xie Ke was hunting for treasures while preparing for the war. Civil and military officials in the provincial capital, if you want them to show off their treasures, there are a lot of them, and all of them are experts in finding treasures.In this regard, the young master Wan Guobin is no weaker than others. But their treasures are celebrity calligraphy and paintings, antique porcelain, while the treasures Xie Ke needs are guns and ammunition. There are already wars raging ahead, but the high-ranking officials still hold on to their treasures, but they don't want to take them out to send guns to the frontline officers and soldiers. But to take a step back, even if they are willing to pay for it, there is nowhere to buy this gun for a while. Xie Ke had no choice but to ask the Armament Repair Institute to figure out a way to see if they could work overtime to make some machine guns. It is called the Armory, and of course its main specialty is not making guns, let alone making machine guns. Everyone wondered if Chief of Staff Xie was in a hurry. But since the chief of staff has made a statement that if there are conditions, they must go, and if there are no conditions, they must go if conditions are not created. The technicians have to discuss first and see what to do. Someone suggested that if you don't know how to invent, you can't imitate it, so just find a gun and use it to draw a gourd. In order to make the counterfeit version more like that, it is necessary to find the latest genuine version as a sample. They found out that the old chief Wan Fulin bought a batch of Czech machine guns from foreigners before and kept them in the warehouse. The repair shop made a report and asked to borrow one of them for testing. After the report was handed in, Wan Guobin saw that it was needed for armament repairs, and he only borrowed one, so he circled and agreed. The machine gun was sent to the repair shop, where it was immediately disassembled into parts. The results were very disappointing. Everyone struggled for a long time, but the gun still couldn't be imitated.The reason is that these gun repair masters who were forced to go to Liangshan thought too simply. If the Czech light machine gun is so easy to be imitated, then the Czechs would have gone to drink the northwest wind. Why is it called Czech?Because the Czech Republic has applied for a patent number internationally, there is only this one, and there is no other branch. Although the Czech Republic is silent now, it was the third largest industrial country in the world after Britain and the United States.The main product is nothing but arms.The quality of the products is guaranteed by their reputation, which is very in line with the trend of war. Among the many good things, the most popular is this Czech-style machine gun produced by the Stepan factory. The whole world knows: a good machine gun, made in the Czech Republic. In the later Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese soldiers used Czech machine guns to have many records of penetrating Japanese tanks. It is definitely a cutting-edge weapon, comparable to the current Scud Patriot. The comrades in the repair shop were dumbfounded. It's okay if the gun can't be imitated. After all, it is a high-tech thing, and it is understandable that it is difficult to solve the problem with small changes. The worst part is that when the gun is dismantled, no one can put it back on. This cannot be explained to Wan Guobin. The people in the repair shop had no choice but to report to Xie Ke in detail, hoping that Xie Ke could help intercede and give them a few days to allow them time to reload the machine gun. Xie Ke didn't know that there were so many machine guns in the armory. Hearing what the craftsman said, his eyes lit up: Since there are good ready-made machine guns, is it still necessary to imitate them? Just take them out and use them. Xie Ke immediately got up and asked Wan Guobin for a gun. Wanguobin couldn't blame it, so he had to admit that his arsenal did have 100 Czech machine guns.However, he evaded and said that to take out these guns, he must get the consent of his father Wan Fulin. Brother Gongzi actually has a little trick in his heart: these 100 Czech machine guns are 100 treasures (he didn't know that the treasure he lent out could no longer be loaded), and they are worth old money.In case of lack of money to spend, you can still take some out to exchange for money, why should you hand it over for nothing. Seeing that Wan Guobin refused to hand over the gun, Xie Ke became anxious. When the Japanese army attacked Shenyang, so many good guns and ammunition in the arsenal, aircraft and cannons were all given to the Japanese for nothing, and they were allowed to use them to beat us.Are we going to make the same mistakes again? In front of the bureaucrats who are still making small calculations at the moment of this catastrophe, Xie Ke unceremoniously dropped a sentence: I am the chief of staff, and I have the right to control the deployment of all military supplies in extraordinary times.If the old Chief Wan blames me, I will bear it all. Wan Guobin had nothing to say.No matter how reluctant he was, he also knew that he couldn't afford to offend Xie Ke right now, so he agreed to remove all the machine guns from the armory. It was originally 100, but because it was dismantled by the repair shop, it turned out to be 99. These 99 Czech-style machine guns were very popular in the Jiangqiao Anti-Japanese War. It was a coincidence that they helped Ma Zhanshan a lot.