Chapter 137 Jingxing Coal Mine Is Now Included in the Luxury Package

As for war, a country can control when it starts at most, but it is difficult to end it at any time.

After the Black Ship Incident, Japan also wanted to move towards modernization. But as their homeland is an island country, they had to face the problem of a shortage of various strategic resources.

So these lunatics came up with a method that they thought could change their fate. That is to mobilize the whole country, tighten their belts and gamble on the fate of the country.

This trick really made these lunatics taste the sweetness. In the war with the Qing Dynasty, Japan received a huge amount of compensation and part of the ceded land.

This led to the rapid development of Japan's domestic industry after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and many famous companies in later generations were founded during that period.

Moreover, after the government had the war reparations as a guarantee, banks not only dared to issue excessive currency but also lowered the loan requirements of the people. Such policies greatly stimulated the economy.

This kind of bloody primitive accumulation was naturally delicious for Japan. When they wanted to create another miracle, they met an opponent who was more stubborn than them.

Although Japan won the Russo-Japanese War, the Russians never gave up. If you lose, you lose. You won't pay compensation. This almost caused the domestic economy of Xiaoba Ga to collapse.

With nothing left to lose, these lunatics decided to gamble again! On the one hand, they wanted to stimulate the economy through military spending and divert domestic conflicts, and on the other hand, they wanted to gain benefits from military victory.

After thinking again and again, they looked at the country that had helped them. There was no better choice than the Republic of China, which had been in war for years and was strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

But good luck will not always favor animals. This time, Xiao Rizi encountered a new problem, and this problem was almost unsolvable.

When they came to the Republic of China, they found that under the magical operation of the transport captain, the so-called golden decade looked bright and beautiful, but the society did not achieve substantial development.

The heavy industrial system of the entire country basically did not develop much, but some groups made a lot of money.

Although they occupied the vast Northeast, they did not get the most needed strategic materials. With the technical level of Xiao Rizi at that time, they could not explore oil at all.

This shattered the idea of ​​living a life of war and supporting war, and because the captain did not surrender on the surface for various reasons, they could not get compensation.

In addition, in order to win the war, all the middle and lower levels of the troops have been completely brainwashed by Japanese nationalism, and they shouted every day that they wanted to establish a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

At this time, the pace of the war could not be stopped at all, and most of the top leaders were already in a dilemma.

After all, in the eyes of grassroots officers and soldiers, the enemy had even lost the capital, and the fruits of victory were about to be obtained. At this time, if someone dared to say that the scale of the war could not be expanded, it was necessary to stop while the going was good.

Then the traditional skills of the troops, the lower and the upper, and the lone walk, would be known as the traitor of the country!

So the scale of the whole war became larger and larger, and there was no hope of making a profit, let alone making money. In order to keep the war machine turning, the devils could only plunder the land of China.

But such unscrupulous blood sucking on the territory of other countries would only stimulate the bloodiness of the local people.

Even those honest people who dared not fight the enemy head-on would provide certain help to the armies of the major war zones.

Moreover, in order to start the war, the devils used all the looted materials and money to buy oil, steel, and rubber. This resulted in them being unable to convert military victory into economic returns, and they could only sink deeper and deeper into the quagmire of war.

So their army leaders could only continue to attack inland without digesting the current occupied areas.

When the battle line was extended, the disadvantages of insufficient foundation in small places were immediately exposed. This behavior of taking too big a step and pulling the egg will only put the situation into a vicious circle.

With the above situation as the background, Jingxing Coal Mine, as a famous coal-producing area in North China, naturally entered the vision of Xiaori.

After the fall of Shimen, these greedy guys quickly expanded westward, took the entire mining area for themselves and mined it crazily.

As one of the three major coal mines in the Republic of China, more than 6,000 tons of coal were produced here every day.

In order to strengthen the plunder of materials, the devils even repaired the Zhengtai Line, greatly increasing the transportation volume.

The resources mined from Jingxing Coal Mine are not only high-yield, but also of very good quality. After these coal mines were transported to Anshan, Beiping and Shimen, they could obtain a large amount of strategic materials after processing.

For the Eighth Route Army, the more important the things are, the greater the strategic significance.

Therefore, in the operational plan set by the headquarters, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region had two main targets in this Zhengtai Road raid.

One was Niangzi Pass, which was in charge of the Fifth Regiment and the Independent Regiment. This was a key node of the Zhengtai Line. Without the railway, the transportation capacity of the Japanese would be greatly reduced.

Although this place was very important to the Japanese, there were no cities with heavy Japanese troops stationed around. If the enemy wanted to come to reinforce, they could only go by rail.

Considering that there were only two squadrons of enemies at Niangzi Pass, the deputy division commander originally planned to deploy only one regiment.

The reason for borrowing the independent regiment was to prevent accidents. After all, if a section of the railway was not destroyed, the enemy's reinforcements would cause trouble to the attacking troops.

Facts have proved that this decision was a very far-sighted arrangement.

The two regiment leaders, Kong and Chen, cooperated tacitly and completed the task excellently. The damage at Niangzi Pass even exceeded original expectations, and our own casualties were also well controlled.

Another target is Jingxing Coal Mine.

In the plan, the attack time of the two targets should be consistent. After all, with sufficient troops, multi-line attack will definitely have many benefits.

This mining area is very important to the entire Japanese invaders. Once attacked, the nearby Japanese will definitely provide support quickly.

Unlike Niangziguan, this mine is only more than 40 kilometers away from Shimen City, and this area is where the Japanese are stationed.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of this operation, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region dispatched four regiments of troops, and the New 1st Regiment led by Ding Wei was among them.

These four regiments each have their own duties, some are besieging points and attacking reinforcements, and some are attacking head-on.

In order to allow the tens of thousands of troops to be fully commanded and mobilized, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region handed over the command to the commander of the first division.

If Kong Jie stood like a minion in the headquarters, then Commander Yang had a certain say wherever he went.

Everyone was convinced by this arrangement. After all, the four regiment commanders were not a little bit behind the other side in terms of qualifications and combat records.

This fierce man had a very high level of ideological awareness since he was a child, and he read a lot of progressive books during school.

At the age of sixteen, he participated in the activities in western Fujian, and then joined the organization and became one of the earliest backbone soldiers of the Fourth Front Army.

In the days when the army was just established, workers and farmers were the backbone, and they held up the sky. But the problem that came with it was that the cultural level of the comrades was generally low.

Adhering to the basic concept of educating people with culture is the basic concept of the army, and our fierce man was a good student of a provincial middle school before joining the army.

Coupled with his own strong ideas, this gave him the opportunity to show his talents during that period. No matter what difficult task it was, it could be overcome under the leadership of the fierce man.

Therefore, leaders at all levels liked him very much, and they would let him replace any temporary shortage of cadres. In this way, he stumbled all the way to the strategic transfer period, and the fierce man had become a regimental political commissar.

In the army, many political commissars are versatile people who can do both literature and martial arts. They are not only excellent in political work, but also have a lot of experience in fighting.

The troops led by this fierce man have always served as the vanguard regiment. His famous battles of flying to capture xx bridge and surprise attack on Lazikou happened during this period.

With the enemy in front and the pursuers behind, their regiment created a miracle of marching 120 kilometers in one day and night, opening up a passage across the natural barrier for the large army.

This battle is well known in later generations, and it is recorded in history books and Chinese books.

Lazikou is even more classic. Although this natural barrier is not as famous as a certain bridge, the difficulty of attacking is no less than the former.

The fierce man knew that this place could not be attacked by force but only by wits, otherwise even if it was taken down, it would suffer heavy losses. So he gathered the leggings of the whole regiment and twisted them into several long ropes, using these things as ladders for climbing mountains.

In the end, the commando successfully completed the side and back raid under the cover of the front troops, officially opening up this new way of fighting.

By 1937, after the Anti-Japanese War officially broke out.

Because the establishment given by Guofu was not enough, he could only become the head of the independent regiment of the 115th Division, but the situation of this independent regiment was much better than that of Kong Jie.

After all, Mengren had been the political commissar of the division. Although he was in the name of the basic regiment, the development of the troops was no different from that of the main regiment, and even had the subjective initiative tacitly accepted by the superiors.

During the Pingxingguan Battle, he led his troops directly into the enemy's rear, successfully cut off the transportation line of the devils, and won the opportunity to annihilate the enemy for the large troops.

In the days that followed, Mengren fully demonstrated his development ability.

In just two years, the team was led from 1,700 to 7,000 people, and the title of the Eighth Route Army's First Independent Division fell on this unit.

Sakata Nobutsu, who was defeated by Li Yunlong, had the "good name" of the flower of the locust army. This title was originally given to the guerrilla tactics master Abe Hideki.

But it was such a general star who made Xiao Riyi boast about his godliness that was killed by Mengren and his troops in Huangtuling. Who would think that Abe Hideki, a fake expert, met a real master, and his only result was death.

Moreover, this flower of the locust army is much more valuable than Sakata Nobutsu. Like the swordsmanship master Shinozuka Yoshio, he is also a lieutenant general.

With such a luxurious lineup used to attack the Jingxing Coal Mine, the deputy division commander can say without hesitation that this battle will be won.

Here it comes, there should be two more chapters in the evening