The anti-Japanese volunteer army that Lei Dahai joined also participated in the battle against the Japanese army after the Japanese army attacked Rehe Province. But Naihe met the pig teammates. When the hundreds of thousands of the main Northeast Army troops fled after hearing the news, a volunteer army of only a few hundred people could not make much difference.
As a result, Lei Dahai's troops were again surrounded by heavy Japanese troops without any surprise. Fortunately, Lei Dahai had served as a company commander of the Northeast Army. Several years of guerrilla warfare experience also allowed him to accumulate rich combat experience, so he still led his own brigade. The volunteer soldiers broke out and hid in the mountains.
However, there were only about 50 people left in a brigade that originally numbered 160 people.
They went down the mountain for no other reason than to go to the pass to join the National Army.
It turned out that after the defeat of the Rehe War, the Staff Office of the Peking Branch of the Military Commission carefully analyzed the entire process of the Rehe War and was surprised to find that the performance of the hundreds of thousands of Northeastern Army was actually worse than that of a total of only 20,000, and they still fought independently. , a volunteer army under the banner of various commanders.
In many coordinated operations between the Northeast Army and the Volunteer Army, the Volunteer Army, which was small in number and poorly equipped, mostly refused to retreat. On the contrary, the Northeast Army, which had superior strength and equipment, was the first to flee, causing the defense line to collapse.
What does this mean?
It shows that the soldiers of the Volunteer Army far surpass the Northeast Army in terms of spirit, fighting spirit, passion and bravery, and feelings of protecting their home and country.
If officers and soldiers of this quality are trained and strengthened with weapons and equipment, and have unified organization and command, they will become a strong army!
Therefore, when the strength of the Great Wall defense line was tight, the Peiping Branch of the Military Commission issued a call-up order to the various anti-Japanese volunteer armies that were still competing with the Japs in Rehe.
The order mentioned that as long as the civilian armed forces are bent on resisting Japan, they have the obligation to accept adaptation by the National Government. However, reorganization does not mean annexation. According to the performance and number of each unit, the corresponding organization will be given as appropriate and placed under the banner of several armies currently deployed along the Great Wall.
In other words, once these volunteers enter the pass, they will transform from civilian militia to regular army. You will be given the strength of a brigade and the strength of a regiment, and you will be provided with guns and artillery. , participated in the Great Wall War of Resistance.
In the minds of these volunteers, establishment means becoming formal officers and soldiers. Those various self-proclaimed commanders can become brigade commanders or regimental commanders appointed by the National Government. The most important thing is that they have joined the regular army and have logistics supplies. You no longer have to worry.
We must know that the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army during the entire Anti-Japanese War did not so much lose to the powerful combat power and advanced weapons and equipment of the Japanese army as it lost to logistical supplies.
No matter how powerful the Japanese army is, there is too much space for these anti-Japanese warriors to gallop in the vast black and white landscapes and snow-capped mountains and forests.
If I can't beat you, won't I run away?
After you retreat, I will take someone down the mountain to give you a severe beating. Anyway, it will make you bleed continuously and have no peace.
However, we need guns and bullets to attack the enemy, we need to eat and drink enough to have enough physical strength to gallop around, and we need thick winter clothes to fight in the ice and snow. Where do these come from?
Therefore, most of the hundreds of thousands of anti-Japanese volunteers who lacked logistical supplies disappeared in the long river of history under the heavy stranglehold of the Japanese and puppet troops.
War is actually about logistics. This can be seen from the history of the Japanese invasion of China. The Japanese offensive routes were carried out along China's inland railway lines and coastal ports. The purpose was to cut off the logistics transportation and overseas transportation of the Chinese anti-Japanese army. supplies, and they themselves can completely use these railways and ports for supplies.
Once one of the warring parties loses its logistics or has no stable source of supplies, it will be a matter of time before the war is lost.
Therefore, when many anti-Japanese volunteers in Rehe heard the news of the recruitment by the Northern Military Commission, they trudged across mountains and rivers, tried every means to get through the Japanese blockade, and entered the pass to accept reorganization by the National Government.
After hearing the news from other friendly forces, Lei Dahai decided to lead the remaining 50 people under his command across the railway line and into the Great Wall Pass.
At this time, a slightly younger short man, also wearing a Japanese military coat and carrying a Japanese 38 rifle on his back, walked a few steps quickly to Lei Dahai and said: "Brother Dahai, can you slow down the march a little bit?" , Brothers, I have only had some grass roots and other things in my stomach these days, I am afraid that some people will not be able to walk halfway."
Lei Dahai looked up at the still dark sky, exhaled a breath of white air and said, "Xiao Qi, let's help each other and be patient. Let's walk a little longer when it gets dark. After passing the railway, we will reach the mountainous area. Let’s take a good rest until then.”
Having said this, a hint of sadness flashed in the eyes of this strong Northeastern man.
Then he sighed and said: "Hey... Xiaoqi, if we were at the end of our rope, I wouldn't take you to the pass. Of the seven of us who came out of Yantou Village, we are the only ones left. In the brigade It is not easy for these brothers to follow us to this day. They are all brothers of life and death. We must never leave and no one can be left behind."
The young man named Xiao Qi nodded heavily and said, "Yes!"
Seeing Xiao Qi return to the team to encourage the team members, Lei Dahai bent down and grabbed a handful of snow and stuffed it into his mouth, tightened his belt, tightened his empty stomach, and strode forward again.
Life is such a coincidence. An anti-Japanese volunteer army that has basically run out of ammunition and food and is eager to enter the pass through the railway line to seek a chance to survive, and a well-fed and drunk Japanese squadron wrapped in thick military coats and fully armed, in On a cold spring night in northern China, we met unexpectedly on the railway line between Lingyuan and Sanjiazi Town.
This was the darkest time before dawn. What was even more strange was that because the Japanese army was advancing along the railway track without worrying about going in the wrong direction, while Lei Dahai's volunteers were familiar with the road and wanted to hide their whereabouts, so both sides No torches or flashlights for lighting.
Just like that, in the darkness where no one could see anything, the two teams that were marching in a hurry bumped into each other.
Of course, saying they bumped into each other does not mean that the top soldiers from both sides came to confront each other face to face. At least there was a slight difference in the time when they discovered each other.
Of course, the one with fewer people was the first to notice the other side. Not only were the footsteps of the more than 140 Japanese troops noisier, but the hooves of several war horses and pack horses carrying heavy machine guns and ammunition boxes were also very loud in the dark night.
More importantly, the sound of the Japanese soldiers' Showa 5 military boots equipped with 32 cleats on the ground and rails could be clearly heard dozens of meters away in the silent night.
Therefore, Lei Dahai, who was walking at the front of the team, immediately noticed that something was wrong, and he could tell from the familiar clicking sound of iron nails on the rails that the opposite side was the Japanese army, or a large group of Japanese troops.
