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Chapter 117: The Fall of Baotou

PS: It's a little late again...

"There was a problem." Ishihara Kan'er changed his voice and released the latest news: "But the Russians have agreed to use the Far East Railway to help us transport troops and logistics supplies. After entering Shaanxi, we can use war to support the war. From west to east, from south to north, Genghis Khan, who was also taking this road to conquer the entire land of China."

It turned out that after the polar bear secretly controlled Outer Mongolia and Xinjiang through its agents, it had plans to further move south to expand its territory, but this means that China and Russia have started a full-scale war. The water in the pond is too deep, and the polar bear has been hesitating. After all, its focus is still in Europe or Eastern Europe.

At this time, the Japanese suffered a loss in Rehe when they went south. They came to borrow the polar bear, which was naturally very welcome. They asked the Japanese to try how deep the water was. They also felt confident when they passed by. If the army there was really as unusable as the rumors were as rumored, the polar bear would send troops themselves. As for the Japanese, the polar bear would not care at all. If they did not lend them to them and sent troops to cut off their retreat and supplies, hundreds of thousands of Japanese who had passed would starve to death.

The Japanese withdrew from Rehe, and the two capitals began to restore the order of singing and dancing. The Japanese wanted to go south and pass through Rehe or Chahar. Now the national defense line is as stable as Mount Tai, and the Navy's Zhongshan-class battleships are like national defense lines on the sea. What are you afraid of? The officers and soldiers who have made contributions on the front line should be promoted and rewarded. According to Nanjing's idea, the Japanese Navy and Army suffered such a great loss, but they were afraid they would come to invite a truce. It is estimated that they are looking for lobbyists at this time. At that time, the Northeast and Taiwan can be recovered without bloodshed.

But the legendary lobbyist principal cannot wait on the left or right. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs only had a few conspiring powers to encourage Nanjing to join the treaty country and only retain the treaty ships. Of course, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs practiced Tai Chi with them. Just kidding, join the treaty country, what should we do if we join the treaty country? I point to the treaty to prevent the Japanese or eat.

Europe and the United States are just making their final efforts to avoid arms races. This thing is too wasteful and hurting money. Think about the consequences of those battleships and iron-clad ships in a battle. But you can't do it without you, so the sea control power will fall into the hands of others. Therefore, while various countries persuade Nanjing to join the treaty countries, they are also secretly designing and manufacturing new battleships.

For example, when the Sun never sets, the Emperor-class battleship sold to the Japanese devils at a high price was still not enough to fight the Sun Yat-sen-class battleships, they began to develop and design new battleships, but because no one paid for the time being, the new battleships only stayed on the drawings. The American Empire on the other side of the ocean also began to secretly build two North Carolina-class battleships to deal with the new Pacific situation. At the same time, the faster and higher tonnage Iowa-class battleships were also on the paper. Even the Japanese devils had two Yamato laying keels.

Jin Batian also knew that the Japanese might not have surrendered so quickly, but now hundreds of thousands of troops gathered inside and outside the national defense line, and the million Japanese in Guandong were not afraid of him when they came. The Japanese could not take Rehe Chahar, so they could not enter Zhili and Shanxi. This was a foregone conclusion. Jin Batian himself also made contributions to building the national defense line and was given the title of lieutenant colonel. Of course, his position was still the military commander and staff of the Ministry of Military Affairs of Peking, and the military commander of the 29th Army.

The casualties in this national defense battle were much smaller than those of the Japanese, but the data of the Ministry of Military Affairs of Peking consumed nearly one billion rounds of machine gun bullets alone. The Japanese had nothing to surrender. In order to kill the more than 200,000 and nearly 300,000 Japanese were equivalent to firing more than 3,000 bullets to each Japanese. Compared with this consumption, the tens of millions of bullets that Jin Batian had donated before the war were not enough to see.

This consumption was unimaginable in the past. The Taiyuan Arsenal produced about 4 million bullets per month, which was equivalent to the output of the Taiyuan Arsenal in 20 years. Even the bullets sold by Jin Batian were conscientious and the price reached a terrifying 50 million yuan. It was not wrong to say that the Japanese were killed by bullets and oceans, and they were not unfair to die at all.

I am not very worried about the consumption from Peking to Nanjing. There are bullets stored near Nanjing alone, because they should be paid for by the defeated country. It’s just that the capital’s money bag is temporarily nervous.

Suiyuan Baotou, Suiyuan Province was divided into two during the warlord melee. Baotou was managed by Yang Hucheng, the Northwest Army, and the other part was the territory of Yan Laoxi, Shanxi. In order to prevent Yan Laoxi from peeping at Baotou, Yang Hucheng placed a full guard brigade here. You should know that the Northwest Army was just two reorganized divisions (Yang Hucheng learned from Nanjing and did not go to Nanjing or Peiping), three guard brigades and some direct troops had more than 60,000 people. It was safe to place three regiments (along with the direct troops of the security brigade) here to prevent Yan Laoxi or horse thieves.

What they didn't know was that the King of De in Hohhot was subdued by the Japanese and formed the Manchu and Mongolian Empire two days ago. He also sent a force to fight westward to prepare to cross the Yellow River.

This time, the Japanese relied on the powerful transportation capacity of the Middle East Railway to send twelve divisions in advance, three of which had arrived in Hohhot. The master of the Western Expedition was Itagaki Seishiro who had just been put on the battlefield. As for Tanisuo Yanagawa Heisuke and others, although they were not dead, they were temporarily refrigerated.

Seishiro Itagaki was responsible for intelligence work and had already studied various warlords. Facing the east side of Shanxi, Seishiro Itagaki chose the weaker Northwest Army as an opponent.

Because the intelligence work of the Frog Jump Plan was done well this time, almost when Seishiro Itagaki led the 18th Division to the city, the garrison in the city reacted and closed the city gate. As for the position outside the city, the position of the city gate was not urgently arranged. Now the only one can rely on is this Baotou City Wall, which has experienced a hundred years of vicissitudes. History has proved that this city wall has a good defensive effect on horse thieves and others.

The garrison brigade in the city was in chaos, and the brigade commander was invited from his concubine to observe the Japanese. The brigade commander repeatedly confirmed with a telescope, and said angrily: "Why did the Japanese come here?"

The commander of the regiment asked, "What should I do if the voyage is in the voyage?"

"What should I do? I inform Yang Dashen first and ask for reinforcements."

The commander of the regiment said, "I didn't say that the brothers are reporting now, but now half of the time they are here. How long can this stop the Japanese?"

The brigade commander sighed: "Let's take a step by step."

While speaking, the Japanese launched a row of grenade launchers, and the Type 92 heavy machine guns also fired. The people watching the fun on the city and the guard brigade watching the Japanese immediately suffered more than 100 casualties.

After five minutes of fighting, the Japanese began to shout: "The defenders in the city should surrender. As long as they join the Manchu and Mongolia Empire, there will be a lot of gold votes."

The second regiment commander stood on the top of the city and shouted: "I won't be a dog traitor..."

Before he finished speaking, he called "bang" and saw a blood hole in the second regiment commander's forehead, and the person slowly fell down.

As the second regiment commander fell down, the security brigade began to lie on the top of the city and never dared to show his head again. The Japanese's shooting skills were so good that no one could stand the shooting one by one. It was still four or five hundred meters away from the Japanese's position. Fortunately, they just used machine guns and small cannons to shoot.

After the second regiment commander fell, the Japanese began to continue shouting again. The brigade commander of the security guards discussed with several officers and found that none of them wanted to defend Baotou to the death. He immediately decided to open the city and surrender. Ten days after the Battle of Rehe ended, Baotou fell on August 1st.
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