At about 10 o'clock in the morning of May 21, Xu Yihang took the second, third, and fourth battalions to meet with Dongfang Yunming's regimental headquarters and the first battalion and artillery battalion in the Luanping area, and the team advanced rapidly in the direction of Zhangjiakou, the artillery battalion only carried 12 105 howitzers and formed a heavy artillery company and 24 75mm mountain artillery into two mountain artillery companies, and the other howitzers and 75 field guns were all placed in the south of Chengde as bait for devil planes, and most of the mountain artillery had been hidden in various caves.

Because the action of the independent regiment to capture Chengde caused tension in the Kwantung Army headquarters, for fear that the other party would hold the weakness in the process of negotiations with the Nationalist Government, so all the field troops were deployed on the front line of the two armies for hundreds of kilometers to maintain military high pressure, so that the Eastern Independent Regiment was almost unhindered all the way from Chengde to Zhangjiakou, but on the way encountered several Japanese troops from Shenyang to Chahar to the front line of logistics materials, these things met Dongfang Yunming, the result can be imagined, The Japanese convoy could not even send a message, and it was wiped out by the independent regiment, and rushed all the way to Zhangjiakou unimpeded.

Xu Yihang reported to him last night's battle when he met with Dongfang Yunming: "There are too many corpses of devils on the battlefield, we don't have enough time to count them one by one, but there should be more than 3,000 people, plus a brigade they eliminated in Jinchuan before dusk, we have at least killed more than 4,000 devils, and not many have escaped." In total, we suffered about 300 casualties. ”

Although Dongfang Yunming knew that the devil would definitely suffer heavy losses in this battle, he was still a little surprised when he heard Xu Yihang's report: "More than four thousand?!" There are only more than 7,000 devils who attacked, and you killed more than 4,000, so won't there be no one in the Bamboo and Wood Brigade? The minefield I set up in Chengde was not in vain? ”

"Ouch, I really haven't thought about this problem, our fighters' marksmanship is not bad, we can see the devil at night, but the devil can't see us, and as a result, we have inadvertently obtained such a big result." Xu Yihang smiled embarrassedly.

Zhang He said: "It doesn't matter, the little devils will always enter Chengde again in the end, if we get rid of a 33rd brigade, there will be more devils rushing over, anyway, they are all devils, who is not bombing your bomb?" ”

"That's right!"

After dealing with the devil's plane, the cavalry company caught up with the large army in Fengning County, Chahar, as soon as he saw Dongfang Yunming, Baltu excitedly described the tragic situation of the devil's plane, as if the idea was his idea, Dongfang Yunming listened to him with a smile and asked a question that made him unable to answer: "It's so exciting, then how many planes do you shoot down?" ”

"This, there should be seventeen or eight, and the devil only has 5 planes that have not been hit." Baltu stammered in reply.

The deputy company commander and platoon commander on the side couldn't stop laughing, how could the cavalry company have seen this scene, let alone knocking down the devil plane, few people have seen the plane, patronizing and watching the excitement, who has nothing to do to count down a few planes, looking at the expressions of Baltu and Zigger, Dongfang Yunming smiled and said to Rong Shi: "How about it, my big boss Rong, I am willing to lose the bet!" ”

Rong Shi waved his hand and said, "Okay, you won!" ”

"A gentleman's word!"

"It's hard to chase a horse!" Rong Shi reluctantly answered.

It turned out that Rong Shi and Dongfang Yunming were idle and had nothing to bet, Dongfang Yunming said that the people in the cavalry company must have not counted the specific results just by looking at the excitement, Rong Shi said that it was impossible, the cavalry company was a reinforced company, two hundred people, it was impossible not to see clearly, there were always one or two careful, the bet was that if Dongfang Yunming lost, he would be a matchmaker to match Rongyi and Xu Jinchuan, because Rongyi liked Xu Jinchuan since he was a child, if Rongshi lost, he would transfer most of the Rong family's power into the Guannai and take over Zhang Haiyan's Dongfeng Group.

"I'll give you a suggestion, Zhang He is the most suitable for the job of a matchmaker, you have been friends with him for many years, you should know Zhang He's mouth better than me!" Dongfang Yunming leaned into Rong Shi's ear and said, Rong Shi nodded treacherously.

5 days later, that is, on May 25th, all the independent regiments arrived in Zhangjiakou, according to the original history, this day should be the day when the Sino-Japanese affairs stopped, and it was also the beginning of the peace talks, but due to the military action of Dongfang Yunming and their more than 2,000 people on Chengde, the Kwantung Army suffered huge losses, and the officers of the middle and lower ranks of the 29th Army and the 59th Army immediately launched an attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army after receiving the news that the Japanese army was transferred back to Chengde, and advanced the front to the north for more than ten kilometers. Xifengkou, Gubeikou and Changping District have been regained one after another, and the ** of the Eastern Front is also close to Shanhaiguan, and the Kwantung Army has lost more than 2,000 people, so now He Yingqin wants to negotiate peace with Muto Nobuyoshi on the orders of Chiang Kai-shek, but Muto Nobuyoshi has no time to pay attention, because the day before yesterday, the 8th Division of the Eastern Independent Regiment of the Volunteer Army was ordered to recapture Chengde and eliminate the Volunteer Army The 8th Division saw the brigade flag of the 33rd Brigade on the wall of Chengde. After twenty minutes of artillery bombardment of the city wall, Lieutenant General Xiyi ordered all the troops to rush into Chengde, but at this time the brigade flag was taken down from the city wall and taken away, so all the field infantry wings of the 8th Division were full of Chengde chasing this military flag, but I didn't expect that Chengde had been turned into a huge minefield by Dongfang Yunming, and the Japanese soldiers who went in were basically all over the streets and alleys of Chengde, Suo Jie and more than a dozen subordinates planted the military flag of the 33rd Brigade in the gate of the summer resort and detonated all the bombs, Thousands of people were killed and wounded, the main force of the 8th Division, the 3 infantry wings together could move no more than 3,000 people, Xiyiyi's left leg was smashed into a crushed fracture by a flying weight, the 8th Division was basically useless, and they didn't even see the enemy's face - they pressed the detonator and went straight out of the city through the dark tunnel!

The next day, whether it was the three eastern provinces, the mainland Guotong region, or the red base areas such as Ruijin, the newspapers all published the news that the Eastern Independent Regiment of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army had annihilated nearly 10,000 enemies in the Chengde area, and for a time the whole country was boiling. Since the beginning of the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, it is rare to hear good news, although the battle of Xifengkou a few days ago is also a victory, but it is more tragic and magnificent, and this news is definitely unprecedented real good news, Chiang Kai-shek, Chen Cheng of Nanjing, He Yingqin, Song Zheyuan, Fu Zuoyi of the high-level of Pingjin, Wang Ming, Zhou Enlai, Mao ZD and Zhu De of Ruijin have begun to pay attention to this sudden independent regiment of volunteers.

After Muto Nobuyoshi saw the newspaper, a mouthful of blood sprayed on the newspaper, and Okamura Ninji hurriedly supported him: "General! ”

Muto Nobuyoshi waved his hand: "It's okay, order all the imperial intelligence agencies in Manchuria, whether it is the special high school or the Mei agency, to find out the details of the supreme commander of this volunteer army, I want all his information, all of them!" ”

"Hey!" Okamura Ninji agreed, for this volunteer army, he is also frightened, not counting the previous ambush of the logistics convoy, in just a few days, there have been more than 2,000 Manchurian ** and nearly 10,000 Kwantung Army troops lost in their hands, the air force also lost 21 Type 92 fighters and two Type 91 reconnaissance planes, hundreds of artillery pieces, tens of thousands of guns and a large amount of ammunition accumulated in the Chengde arsenal were looted, their results can be said to be shocking, the Kwantung Army in a few months of fighting, In the face of the 300,000 regular troops of the Nationalist Government, there were only a few thousand casualties, and this Eastern Independent Regiment was even more terrible than the 300,000 Chinese government troops, and he was secretly laughing at Junichi Takeki's stupidity, but now, Okamura had to look at these people with admiration, and then issued orders to the intelligence departments such as the Special High Division, the Mei Agency, and the Bamboo Agency.

At this time, it reflects the advantage of Dongfang Yunming and their crossing, they just appeared out of thin air, no matter what intelligence agencies can't find out their details, and finally several intelligence agencies that are not usually dealt with at all in ordinary times after investigating for nearly a month in a row, and after gathering together and summarizing their respective intelligence, there are only a few sentences in the report handed to General Hishikaraka, who succeeded as the commander of the Kwantung Army: "It is reported that in the course of the Battle of Rehe, The armed force that has continuously caused heavy casualties to our Kwantung Army is called the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army Oriental Independent Regiment, the supreme commander Dongfang Yunming, the visual age is about 20 years old, the place of origin is unknown, no military rank, and the educational background is unknown, but it is rumored that he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, no photo, Chief of Staff Gao Wenfeng, visual age is under 30 years old, and his place of origin and education are also unknown, and it is speculated that he is similar to Dongfang Yunming. In addition, there is a commando team named 'Wolf's Tooth' in the armed forces, both the number of people and the background of the commander are unknown, according to analysis, the number should be below a platoon, but the commando team once fought with a street of the 33rd Brigade in Chengde, and within a few minutes completely annihilated more than 100 of our imperial warriors without any damage, and rescued the target and disappeared under the siege of our army. "This report is basically worthless except for the part about the wolf's teeth, and the information of Dongfang Yunming and Gao Wenfeng has been published in the newspaper, but Muto Nobuyoshi can't see it, so he directly handed it to the next Ryoshikaru Takashi, who in turn transferred it to the Tokyo General Staff Headquarters.

The day after arriving in Zhangjiakou, Dongfang Yunming received a heavyweight without taking a breath - Ji Hongchang, he received material assistance from the Soviet Union in Zhangjiakou to form the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Alliance, which was announced today, Dongfang Yunming ordered the troops to move to Zhangjiakou in Chengde is to have this plan, the troops can only get the best training in battle, and he also needs political prestige now, if you want to open up the situation in warlord China, you must have enough prestige, Let all the warlords in China know the combat effectiveness of their troops.

Ji Hongchang learned that the Eastern Independent Regiment arrived in Zhangjiakou after the brilliant results immediately came to visit Dongfang Yunming, the Soviet Union promised to support his weapons and equipment, Feng Yuxiang was also willing to send troops, now what he lacks is a commander who has a record of victory in the battle with the Japanese army, seeing the newspaper article about the Oriental Independent Regiment, as if he had found a treasure, he hurriedly took his own guards to the regiment headquarters of the Independent Regiment.

From entering the gate of the camp of the independent regiment headquarters, Ji Hongchang saw that this army is indeed different, although the soldiers do not have a unified uniform, but the spirit is very good, every soldier reveals the temperament of the regular army, and the weapons and equipment are better than the regular army.

At the door of the war room, the guards announced: "General Ji Hongchang of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army has arrived!" ”

After a while, a voice came from inside the tent: "General Ji, please come in!" ”

Ji Hongchang, who entered the war room of the regiment headquarters, saw a young man standing in front of a map spread on the table, and when he saw him come in, he put down the red and blue pencil in his hand and walked over with a smile, so Ji Hongchang asked: "Little brother, where is your regiment commander?" ”

Dongfang Yunming was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that Ji Hongchang regarded himself as a small staff officer of the regiment headquarters, no wonder, he looks like he is in his twenties now, and people of the same age and generation are older than later generations, so when he saw Dongfang Yunming for the first time, Ji Hongchang subconsciously didn't think that he was the regiment leader.

Dongfang Yunming smiled, saluted a standard military salute and replied: "General Ji, under Dongfang Yunming, the head of the independent regiment!" ”

This time was really beyond Ji Hongchang's expectations, and he hurriedly said: "Oh, you are the head of the Oriental Regiment!" Oh, it's really 'a hero from ancient times', I'm afraid the Japanese can't imagine that Dongfang Yunming, who has brought them so much trouble, is such a personable and beautiful boy! ”

"General Ji has won the award, please take a seat!" Dongfang Yunming pulled a stool, "Today, the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Allied Army was officially established, and the Independent Regiment did not respond with electricity, I am really sorry, we actually do not plan to join the Anti-Japanese Allied Army, because we have other plans, and I hope that Commander-in-Chief Ji will forgive us." ”

"Where, you and I are both soldiers, don't say this kind of polite words, in fact, I came here to invite the commander of the Dongfang Regiment to join our anti-Japanese allied army, the brilliant achievements of the independent regiment show that you Dongfang Yunming has a good command, if the commander of the Dongfang regiment can serve as the commander of the 2nd Army of the Allied Army, I believe that we will be able to recover Rehe, maybe we can fight to the three eastern provinces!" Ji Hongchang said.

Dongfang Yunming shook his head and said, "Thank you General Ji for your kindness, I don't know if I should say something next?" ”

"If you have anything to say, please say it directly!"

"If you want to defeat the Japanese, you must gather the strength of the whole of China, but at the moment our Chairman Chiang is not here, the Nationalist Government has gathered 300,000 troops south of the Great Wall, and the Japanese Kwantung Army has less than 100,000, but now both sides are already seeking peace talks, why? Because we, the chairman of the committee, want to suppress the Communist Party, and the heads of a country are dragging their feet, how can the war be won, so I don't want the independent regiment to join the anti-Japanese allied army, and at the same time, I also suggest that the commander-in-chief Ji should preserve the strength of the allied army in the process of fighting against the Japanese army, and not fight too hard with the devils, which would be sacrificing the lives of these hot-blooded men in vain. ”

Ji Hongchang said with some anger: "Could it be that if the national government does not resist, we will be willing to be slaves of the country?" If we don't resist, won't China be ruined? ”

Dongfang Yunming said calmly: "The commander-in-chief is angry, I didn't say that we don't resist, the soldiers of the independent regiment are all hot-blooded men of the Chinese nation, we have eliminated more than 10,000 devils before and after Rehe, I, Dongfang Yunming, am not greedy for life and death, greedy for fame and fortune, it is not a secret, I used to be a staff officer of the 19th Route Army, last year in Shanghai did not kill less Japanese, Chiang Kai-shek transferred the 19th Route Army to Fujian to suppress the Communists, I don't want to point the gun at the Chinese before I came to Rehe as a deserter, It's just that the government is already seeking a so-called peace with Japan, and if we hurt the Japanese, they will put pressure on the Nationalist Government, and with Chiang Kai-shek's single-minded intention of suppressing the Communists, they will definitely attack the Allied forces, so that the brothers will not die in the hands of the little devils, but they will be wronged by their own people with knives in the back. ”

"Hmph, no matter how shameless Jiang is, he won't risk the world's condemnation to fight against Japan's armed forces!" Ji Hongchang said.

Dongfang Yunming said with a smile: "It is true that he does not dare to deal with the anti-Japanese forces blatantly, but he dares to deal with GCD blatantly." ”

"What do you mean?"

"The commander-in-chief secretly joined the GCD last year, do you think the person surnamed Jiang will do something to you if he knows about this situation?" Dongfang Yunming said in a low voice.

Ji Hongchang was surprised at this time, he joined GCD in Beiping last year in secret, but how did the young man in front of him know, and would Chiang Kai-shek also know? So he forced himself to calm down and asked, "How do you know?" ”

"You don't have to worry about this, although Chiang Kai-shek doesn't know it yet, but I think the Fuxing Society and the Central Party Department Investigation Department will know sooner or later, you should think about what to do in such a situation? Can the Anti-Japanese Allies continue to fight? And most importantly, how to solve the problem of food for so many people in the Anti-Japanese Allied Army, the land of Chahar cannot support so many people. Dongfang Yunming said.

"This ......" Ji Hongchang was a little at a loss, Dongfang Yunming said that he had to think about it, this young man is too powerful, whether it is military or political mind, it is not simple.

Dongfang Yunming looked at Ji Hongchang's expression, and then said: "The establishment of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army is of great significance to China, but the purpose of the Allied Army's operation should be to wake up those Chinese people who have spent time in confusion and nightmares, and to show the world that the Japanese army can be defeated, that's all, as long as the enthusiasm of the whole country for the war of resistance is aroused, and when Jiang is determined to resist Japan, he will be able to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese by gathering the strength of the whole country." Otherwise, the operational goal of recovering Rehe would not have been achieved, and the enthusiasm for the war of resistance throughout the country would have been dealt a heavy blow. ”

Ji Hongchang nodded and said: "The commander of the Dongfang Regiment has extraordinary knowledge, in this case, why didn't the independent regiment join the Anti-Japanese Allied Army, doesn't your combat effectiveness show that the little devil is not invincible?" ”

"In fact, there is some truth in what Chiang Kai-shek said, he said: 'China's guns are inferior to people, artillery is inferior to people, education is inferior to people, if you resist Japan, you will lose the country in 3 days.'" Although this sentence is too long for other people's morale and extinguishes their own prestige, it is a fact that the weapons and equipment of the squadron are not as good as Japan, and if you want to defeat the Japanese, you have to fill in with human lives, even if the war is won, China's losses are extremely heavy, so we must start to change this status quo now, but our independent regiment will leave armed forces in the northeast region and fight with little devils, so we will be friendly forces, but I and most of the troops will go to the south to develop. Commander-in-chief, if one day Chiang Kai-shek really attacks you, I, Dongfang Yunming, am willing to do my best to help you get through the difficulties. ”

"Alright! I understand the kindness of the head of the Dongfang regiment, I Ji Hongchang will not bow to the enemy even if he dies, now we are still friendly troops, what does the independent regiment need my help, although the commander of the Dongfang regiment came to me! I'll take my leave! ”

"Okay, Commander-in-Chief Ji, please go slowly!" Dongfang Yunming stood up.

After a while, Zhang He and Gao Wenfeng walked in, and Zhang He asked Dongfang Yunming: "It was General Ji Hongchang who went out just now, right?" ”

"yes, you know? Oh, the old Gao knows! ”

Gao Wenfeng asked: "He should want us to join the Anti-Japanese Allied Army, right?" ”

"Well, but I politely declined." Dongfang Yunming still had a calm expression.

Zhang He's eyes widened: "Why, can we just accept it when we see it like this, and stop fighting?" ”

"Of course not, the affairs in the south must be started, the independent regiment will leave a part of the troops here to insist on guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, and the others will go to the southwest, yesterday Ye Gongjian had already sent a telegram urging Rong Shi to take over the Dongfeng Group, he is now eager to go to the United States to open up the situation, and when the financial crisis passes, it will be much more difficult to open up the situation." Dongfang Yunming said.

Zhang He thought for a while and said, "I know that you are not in the pool, indeed, it doesn't make much sense for us to fight the Japanese like this, but there must always be people fighting in China, so you go and implement your plan, and I will stay here." Hey, don't be stingy when you need your support weapons when the time comes, my superiors have already died, and now that Sojie and I are out of touch with the organization, we can only count on you. ”

Dongfang Yunming smiled: "Don't worry, you can use any weapon you want at that time, as long as you know how to use it." ”

The three of them discussed with all the officers, and finally decided to leave 800 people, including the cavalry company, to form a brigade, which was called the Flying Fox Brigade of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, and left Hu Zhiyuan, a non-commissioned officer and staff officer of the former Thunderbolt Commando, as the captain of the brigade. Zhang He served as the political commissar and deputy captain, Zhao Zhengwen served as the chief of staff and the leader of the 1st squadron, and all the other members of the wolf tooth entered the pass. The brigade has three squadrons and an artillery detachment, the 2nd squadron is the cavalry squadron, the squadron leader Baltu, the 3rd squadron leader Feng San, the artillery detachment captain Li Yunhai, Xu Yihang, Xu Jinchuan and Xu Erhang all went to the southwest. After the plan to divide the troops was completed, all that remained was how to obtain the legal identity to enter the Guannei, and Gao Wenfeng went to Beiping to find He Yingqin, and managed to obtain the approval of the national government with the intelligence of "Unit 731", and gave the brothers an official number. This information is very important to the national government, but for Dongfang Yunming, they are all memories in their heads, who made 731 so famous, but the Japanese in later generations did not admit it, the more the Japanese did not admit it, the more clearly the soldiers of the special forces remembered, so the "intelligence" brought by Gao Wenfeng was actually the information about 731 in later generations that they recorded in their brains, but there were no photos as evidence.