341. Declared war on Japan in advance
Lin Feng was in charge of the army in Huozhou, and the logistics department transported a large number of weapons and equipment, ammunition and materials from Hangzhou to Huozhou for arming anti-Japanese groups. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The original two transport regiments have been merged and expanded into divisions, which are under the management of the logistics department, and the aviation regiment has also been expanded into an aviation division, with an air transport regiment under it, and the logistics office can be dispatched for material transportation.
There are as many as 4,000 trucks from Hangzhou, which need to pass through Nanjing, Bengbu, Zhoukou, Xuchang, Zhengzhou, Jincheng, Linfen and other places to reach Huozhou, traveling more than 1,400 kilometers and crossing countless mountains and rivers such as the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.
The air transport regiment has 100 large transport planes, which can deliver tens of thousands of tons of materials at a time, and the flight distance is 400 kilometers closer than that of automobile transportation, and it only takes three hours to make a round trip, so in fact, it is the air transport regiment that undertakes the main force of transportation.
This transport line, which connects Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, and Shanxi provinces, has become the focus of national attention, and countless people have spontaneously built roads and bridges, and fighter planes of an aviation regiment are patrolling the sky at all times to prevent Japanese fighters from coming to bomb them.
The forces mobilized by the two sides in the Battle of Taiyuan became larger and larger, the Japanese Kwantung Army moved southward in a big way, a large number of local reserves were converted into active divisions, and a large number of transport ships of the Japanese Navy and Army traveled between the Japanese mainland and Korea and Tianjin, China, and then used railway transportation. Nearly 1,500 planes were transferred to Tianjin, Baoding, Beiping, Taiyuan and other places.
On the Chinese side, it was originally Lin Feng's challenge, but seeing that the Japanese army was growing more and more, the bald head couldn't sit still, and held three national defense meetings in a row, and finally decided to set up the 'Northern Temporary General Command', with the bald head himself as the commander-in-chief, sitting in the rear, Lin Feng as the deputy commander-in-chief, responsible for the actual battle command, who let only Lin Feng have a record of large-scale annihilation of the Japanese army.
The Northern Provisional General Headquarters commanded the first, second, and fifth, with a total of three theaters, with as many as 84 infantry divisions, eight infantry brigades, and five cavalry divisions. If we count according to the reorganization of 10,000 divisions, this will be 930,000 people.
However, due to the chaotic establishment of various units and the fact that after half a year of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the personnel losses were huge, and the actual strength was only 500,000.
500,000 troops plus Lin Feng's 100,000 and 600,000 troops are still not enough insurance for bald heads, and the Japanese army has now mobilized more than 400,000 troops, hundreds of tanks, four heavy artillery brigades, and more than 1,500 warplanes.
The bald head transferred 10 main divisions from the Central Army and 40 divisions from Guizhou, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, and other places, all of which were transferred to Shanxi, under the unified command of the Northern Provisional Command.
Moreover, in view of the fact that the Japanese army has begun to mobilize reserve forces to expand the active service, the bald head already knows that there is no hope for peace, and the Japanese invasion of China since the July 7 Incident has been called an incident, and it is time to have a clear attitude.
On January 17, 1938, the government officially issued the Proclamation of the Government of the Republic of China Declaring War on Japan, the full text of which is as follows:
[The Japanese warlords took the conquest of Asia and the domination of the Pacific Ocean as their national policy. Over the past six months, China has continued the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression despite all sacrifices, not only to defend China's independent existence, but also to break Japan's aggressive ambitions and safeguard public international law, justice, human welfare, and world peace.
China is a peace-loving nation, and in the past six months of the sacred War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Japan, the original aggressor, has been able to reflect on itself after suffering actual punishment. Unexpectedly, Japan, which was accustomed to violence, stubbornly did not come to its senses, mobilized its reserve forces, expanded its war and aggression, and willingly became the leader of the destruction of peace and justice for all mankind and carried out its insatiable ambition of aggression. Any country that respects faith and righteousness cannot bear it.
It is hereby solemnly declared war on Japan, and declares to China and foreign countries that all treaties, agreements, and contracts involving relations between China and Japan are hereby abolished.
January 17, 26th year of the Republic of China, President: Lin Sen]
(The revised part of the content of the original declaration of war was not published in 1938)
Japan did not reply at all, continued to do its own thing, and did not bother to pay attention to the government's declaration of war. This declaration of war has no effect on Japan, it is already fighting, and this declaration of war is simply an invalid declaration of war when viewed by the international community, because there is no effective date.
This effective date means that in the declaration of war, there needs to be a sentence in the declaration of war: "Since a certain year, month, and day, China and Japan have been in a state of war", without which the declaration of war would not be valid, and even diplomats would not need to be recalled.
This declaration of war is also used to boost morale, and it is really written that on January 17, 1938, when Japan was in a war position, it is estimated that the bald head will be sprayed with saliva. It's not because the date is written, it's that the date doesn't fit, if it were September 18, 1931, it's about the same, but it's been more than six years and I can't write it.
Anyway, the bald head at least has an explanation internally, as soon as this declaration of war came out, coupled with Lin Feng's previous war with Terauchi Shouichi, the enthusiasm of the domestic people for the War of Resistance was high.
The most active is Sichuan, because Zhang Dawei is still in charge of relief in Sichuan, and the grain is still in a steady stream of transportation, and the people in central Sichuan learned that Lin Feng had summoned anti-Japanese forces to 'fight to the death' with the Japanese North China Front, and almost even the eighty-year-old man had to resist the hoe and join the army.
The people of Sichuan spontaneously organized nearly 100,000 anti-Japanese volunteers, shouting slogans such as 'resisting Japan and saving the country' and 'supporting General Lin', and rushed out of Sichuan to Huozhou in Shanxi via Shaanxi with big blades on their shoulders.
As a result, Shanxi has to gather at least 1.1 million Chinese troops, and the pressure on the logistics department is not ordinarily great, and it has to be responsible for the transportation of weapons and equipment, and it is also responsible for the food of more than 1 million anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians.
Originally, I wanted the government to take on the food supply for this battle, but I didn't expect the bald head who slammed the door to shake his head, millions of people gathered in Shanxi, and the money and grain of the government were all in the Yangtze River area, if this battle was on the Yangtze River, the bald head would supply food and ammunition with gritted teeth.
This had to transport grain to Shanxi, north of the Yellow River, because it was a long way away, and second, most of the army was not a bald descendant, and the bald head couldn't stand it, so he directly threw out the sentence 'All supplies are fully handed over to General Lin Feng, the deputy commander-in-chief'.
Now it's okay, Yan Laoxi doesn't even care about the food and ammunition of his Jin Sui army, and sticks to Lin Feng every day to replenish it, and the money and grain saved are used to restore the strength of the Jin Sui army.
Even this Shanxi Tu Emperor is like this, not to mention others, they all count on Lin Feng to provide food and drink, guns and cannons, Lin Feng originally said that he was a gun for a cannon, but he was thrown a sentence by the bald head and made himself miserable, not because of this bit of food, but because of the pressure of transportation.
Although there are also some rumors that he is the agent of a certain power in the country, and wants to unify China and be a slave to the great powers, otherwise where would he get so much food, weapons and ammunition.
This kind of rumors and rumors were directly ignored by Lin Feng, which great power is so good and gives so much money, food, weapons and ammunition, is there really such a thing, unless the leaders of the great powers have their brains in the water, and cultivate a million-strong army for China, and if there is a million-strong army, is it still used as a slave?
The pressure is great, but the dispatch of more than 1 million troops is tightly organized, and the temporary general headquarters in the north has gathered a large number of military and political talents in the country, and it is impossible for Lin Feng himself to personally take charge of such trivial things as arranging where a certain division is stationed and where a certain brigade is going to receive equipment, otherwise he will have to go crazy. (To be continued.) )