After the outbreak of the "Lugou Bridge Incident", which shocked China and the rest of the world, the commander-in-chief called Zhang Cheng to Yan'an to discuss the situation of the all-out war of resistance. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

When he came to the commander's home, Zhang Cheng found that in addition to Deputy Commander Zhou, who was negotiating in Nanjing, all the central leaders had gathered together to discuss the current situation.

Seeing Zhang Cheng coming, the commander immediately arranged for Zhang Cheng to sit down, and asked directly: "The North China Incident broke out, do you have any views on the current situation?" ”

Zhang Cheng got straight to the point and said: "Now the situation in North China is irretrievable, there is only one Chinese army in the entire Gyeonggi Army, the 29th Army, and the commander Song Zheyuan has a serious turf mentality, refuses all domestic troops to enter North China to support the operation, and has illusions about peaceful coexistence with the Japanese army, fails to see through the wolf ambitions of the Japanese army, and vainly tries to resolve the incident through negotiations, and the loss of North China is a foregone conclusion."

In view of the current situation, I believe that the most important thing for our army at present is to train the army well and be ready to go to the battlefield of resistance against Japan at any time. It's a pity that Chang Kaishen is still wary of us, and he can't complete the reorganization task for a long time, otherwise we can enter the North China battlefield and fight the Japanese army. ”

"Alas! Lao Chang is the master of a small belly, as the leader of a country, but he is narrow-minded and the pattern is too small. I'm too lazy to deal with him, so let Xiangyu grind with him slowly. On the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the two parties have actually reached a consensus, cooperation is certain, and the difference is only how much establishment we get in the end. ”

Speaking of Chang Kaishen, the commander is also resentful in his heart, but now that North China is about to fall, the all-out war of resistance has begun, and the contradictions between migrant workers and class must be put aside.

"Lao Mao, I think we can put aside the Kuomintang and go it alone, the personal grievances between our troops and Lao Chang are too heavy, even if we reach cooperation, we will definitely split in the future, why do we have to get involved with Lao Chang? Now our strength is second only to Lao Chang's Central Army, and it is stronger than the warlord troops all over the country combined, so we don't need to look at Lao Chang's face at all! "Mr. Peng is such a temper tantrum, he gets mad when he doesn't agree with him, and complains loudly.

Seeing that Mr. Peng was so angry, Zhang Cheng was worried that Mr. Peng would say something excessive to provoke Commander Mao, so he hurriedly came out to persuade: "Mr. Peng, you extinguish the fire, the anti-Japanese united front is the established policy of the central government, and the cooperation of migrant workers will contribute to the overall situation of the country's resistance against Japan, and can improve the anti-Japanese morale of the military and civilians across the country, and the negotiations will definitely be negotiated, we must believe in Deputy Commander Zhou, just wait for his good news!" ”

At this time, the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party headed by Deputy Commander Zhou had been negotiating with the Nanjing authorities on the issue of the reorganization of the Red Army, but Chang Kaishen was worried that the Workers' and Peasants' Party would take advantage of the opportunity to gain momentum and had been arguing about it, and so far nothing had come to fruition.

At present, the Red Army has nearly 250,000 troops after a large-scale expansion, so Deputy Commander Zhou argues with reason on the basis of the current situation and asks the Kuomintang authorities to give our army 10 divisions of the first type.

However, it was impossible for Lao Chang to agree, and he was only willing to give the establishment of three B divisions, and the differences between the two sides were extremely great, which led to the collapse of the negotiations on the first day and the unhappiness broke up.

However, the situation in North China soon proceeded as Zhang Cheng expected, and Song Zheyuan, who had been looking forward to a peaceful negotiation to resolve the incident, was slapped in the face, and the evil wolf had opened its fangs and aimed at the helpless little sheep, how could there be any reason not to swallow it. The incident lasted less than a month, and Song Zheyuan, who was at both ends of the first rat, had to swallow the consequences.

On July 25, the Japanese army unloaded a large number of military supplies at the port of Tanggu in Tianjin, and transported them to Fengtai in 40 vehicles day and night, at this time, the Japanese army in North China had gathered more than 100,000 people. Immediately, the 20th Squadron of the 77th Wing of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army invaded Langfang.

On July 26, Langfang fell, the defenders retreated to Tongzhou, and in the afternoon, the Japanese army issued an ultimatum to the 29th Army, demanding that the 29th Army withdraw. At 19 o'clock, the first brigade of the Japanese army marched into Beiping City through Guang'anmen and was blocked by the defenders.

On July 27, Song Zheyuan, who found that peace was completely hopeless, refused all the demands of the Japanese army, urgently ordered all units of the 29th Army to gather in the Pingjin area, sent people to Baoding in the starry night, and urged Sun Lianzhong to go north to support, and the chief of staff of the Japanese army issued an order to occupy Pingjin by force. The Japanese army attacked the garrisons of the 29th Army in Tongxian, Tuanhe, Xiaotangshan and other places. The defenders retreated to the South Garden and the North Garden respectively.

On July 28, the Japanese army launched a general attack on the 29th Army in the Beiping area under the command of Kiyoshi Kazuki. Song Zheyuan appointed Zhang Zhizhong to act as chairman of the political affairs committee of the Jicha Prefecture, director of the Jicha Pacification Office, and mayor of Beiping City, and left Beiping for Baoding on the evening of the same day. The 37th Division was ordered to retreat to Baoding.

On July 29, Tianjin fell.

On July 30, the 1st Brigade of the Puppet Hebei Mixed Brigade in Tong County entered the high ground west of Changxindian.

On 31 July, the 39th Independent Brigade was disarmed. The garrison brigade occupied the area near the big ash plant. The separate 27th Brigade, reorganized into the security forces, broke through to Chahar and returned to the 143rd Division.

At this time, Pingjin completely fell, and most of North China was under the iron heel of the Japanese army.

In less than a month, Pingxian was declared lost, and the news came out that the soldiers and civilians of the whole country who hoped that the 29th Army could create a miracle to fight against the Japanese invaders were all disappointed, and General Zhang Zhizhong, who lost Beiping, was thrown out as a scapegoat by the Kuomintang authorities, and was once mistaken by the people as a "general who does not resist" and "traitor".

With the fall of Pingjin, Lao Chang at the negotiating table was relieved, but he was unwilling to give the Workers' and Peasants Party the establishment of ten divisions, and only three divisions.

On August 13, 1937, the Japanese army attacked the magic capital, the Battle of Songhu broke out on August 13, and the Japanese army threatened to destroy China in 3 months, and the center of the Kuomintang rule was directly threatened by the Japanese army.

The ruling core was mortally threatened, and Lao Chang could no longer sit still, and in addition to giving the establishment of three divisions of the first division, he also gave the establishment of four miscellaneous divisions of the Workers' and Peasants' Party.

On August 22, 1937, the Kuomintang authorities announced that the Red Army would be reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and the three divisions were 115, 120, and 129.

Different from the establishment of two brigades and four regiments of the B division given in history, Deputy Commander Zhou won a large establishment of three brigades and nine regiments for the three A divisions, and the military salaries and ammunition were all allocated by the Kuomintang authorities.

As for the establishment of miscellaneous divisions, they are all a bunch of garrison divisions, garrison divisions, independent divisions, instructors, and so on, so that people can know at first glance that they are not regular troops, and that military salaries and ammunition must be raised by the Workers' and Peasants' Party itself.

On 22 August, the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission convened a joint enlarged meeting of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission in Yan'an, at which members of the Standing Committee and members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, members of the Central Committee, and heads of the main army corps gathered together to formally discuss the reorganization of the Red Army.