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Chapter 1086 Defending Honor (1)

After receiving the news from Ou Yaoting through the Yangon intelligence station, An Yi finally relieved his mind and telegraphed Dai Zhengliang, commander of the southern Yunnan garrison, to build three strategic highways from Gengma to Khoban in Burma, Simao to Mengla in Burma, and Lancang to Mengbao in Burma at the fastest speed, so as to completely open up the traffic bottleneck between the Syrian government and Burma. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The three important customs clearance routes on the Sino-Burmese border have all entered the intense construction, An Yi's heart was relieved, and he turned his attention to the direction of North China, which was full of crises, and the three brigades of the 17th Army of the Anjia Army Headquarters have arrived in Baoding and Shijiazhuang one after another, and the appearance of a large number of armored vehicles, ten-wheeled heavy-duty artillery tractors, and light off-road assault vehicles will definitely cause a strong reaction from the special services and the Tianjin Garrison Army. Wan Fulin and the others will not be able to sleep.

This large-scale troop mobilization is not only a strong support for the 17 th Army, which plays the role of anchoring the sea in North China, but also an important practice of the Anjia Army Command in the long-distance and rapid mobilization of new-type troops.

This time, the three brigades were dispatched from Luzhou almost at the same time, and the length of the Yangtze River waterway from Luzhou to Wuhan was nearly 600 kilometers, which was jointly responsible for the river defense troops of Chengguang and the Yangtze River Shipping Company in southern Sichuan, and the railway transportation of nearly 1,000 kilometers from Wuhan to Baoding was jointly responsible for the General Staff Headquarters of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of Railways, and the whole process took 14 days and 17 hours. and make further improvement plans.

The three brigades together had nearly 300 vehicles, 36 new-type 120 howitzers, 18 150 heavy guns, ammunition and materials, and other equipment, and 26 double-nosed special trains were fully mobilized, carrying up to 19,000 officers and men, including the logistics and baggage departments. Nearly 1,000 officers at all levels formed an all-pervasive staff group that quickly headed north.

Within ten days, one-third of the capacity of the Pinghan Railway had been fully mobilized to give priority to this important military operation from the highest directives, and as many as twenty-six regiments of troops were stationed in the provinces along the railway.

To the great surprise of the officers and men on the alert in various localities, all the officers and men who took the special train and went north with the equipment were all in a state of imminent battle with loaded guns and ammunition, and they did not touch any food provided by the military representative offices along the way, from generals to privates, all of them had strict military discipline and grim expressions, and they only smiled apologetically when they asked curiously about the friendly troops along the way.

Tianjin Garrison Army Headquarters.

More than 10 generals, including Umezu Mijiro, commander of the garrison army, Kenji Dohihara, head of the Fengtian secret service who actually has jurisdiction over Beiping, Tongzhou, Shanhaiguan, Tangshan, and other secret agencies, and Suzuki Mitsu, military attache stationed in North China, gathered together to urgently discuss the emergency situation in Baoding and Shijiazhuang.

Beginning in February this year, Kenji Tohihara took advantage of his classmates with Yan Xishan and other high-ranking Chinese generals to frequently travel north and south of the river, sparing no effort to divide and win over warlords from various localities to jointly oppose the Nanjing government.

On February 6, Kenji Tu Fei Yuan successfully plotted against Yin Rugeng in Beiping; On 11 February, Kenji Tohihara successfully established a liaison mechanism with Wang Kemin, former Minister of Finance of the Beiyang Government and current political commissar of Beiping, and other pro-Japanese figures in North China at the banquet hosted for him by Song Zheyuan. On 18 February, Kenji Tuhihara had a secret meeting with Huang Yin in Shanghai, but he did not expect to encounter a nose of ashes at this leader of the surrender faction that was widely rumored in the outside world, and he rushed to Nanjing in a very dashing manner to attend a banquet specially held for him by Wang Jingwei, and after finding out Wang Jingwei's idea of appeasement and compromise, he returned to Shanghai on 22 February and began to frequently visit Yu Qiaqing, Feng Jingyao, Zhang Jingjiang, and other chaebols in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as well as gang leaders such as Huang Jinrong, Du Yuesheng, and Zhang Xiaolin. From this, we can find out the different attitudes of various circles in Shanghai towards Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek.

On March 2, Kenji Dohihara rushed to Hong Kong to meet with Hu Hanmin, a veteran, and expressed his full support for Hu Hanmin's reorganization and rebuilding Sino-Japanese friendly relations. But what kind of person is Hu Hanmin? Although he was very dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei, and had great differences with Chiang Kai-shek in terms of ideas, Hu Hanmin would never do anything to lure the wolf into the house for his personal gain, and he sent Tu Feiyuan away in a few words.

Undeterred, he immediately transferred to Guangzhou, where he was warmly received by Xiao Focheng, Zou Lu, and Chen Jitang, and had three banquets a day, and they talked very happily.

When Tu Feiyuan reached a lot of consensus on how to get along well with Chen Jitang, Xiao Focheng and other Lingnan heroes in Guangzhou and invited Li Zongren to participate in the grand event, Li Zongren smiled and said that if it weren't for General Bernan (Chen Jitang) who sent troops to prohibit the newspaper from reporting the news of your visit, I am afraid that the city of Guangzhou would have been turned upside down at this time.

Kenji Dohihara was very confident in his secret whereabouts, laughed and said that it was impossible, Bai Chongxi left for a while, and handed Tu Feiyuan a telegram when he returned, Kenji Dohihara smiled after reading it, and immediately dispelled the idea of going to Chongqing and Chengdu to visit Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui, because the telegram clearly said "I respectfully follow the opinions of Duke De and Gong Jian, and do not comment on the trip to Guangzhou of Tu Feiyuan for the time being", and the name of the telegram was An Yi, whom Tu Feiyuan hated very much.

Kenji Tohihara, who can understand Chinese and speak standard Beiping dialect, knows very well that if it were not for Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi and the relationship between the two Guang lips and teeth to dissuade them, An Yi would definitely instigate the whole of China to criticize his trip to Guangzhou, even if Chen Jitang has the ability, he can't stop the infamy of the traitor on his head, how many local Chinese military and political celebrities dare to receive him as the *** spy leader in the future?

It is precisely because of the frequent visit experience that Kenji Dohihara knows the most about the Chinese world, and because he holds the important leadership of the intelligence agency of the army in China, Kenji Dohihara naturally deservedly became the host of the meeting:

"As early as 13 days ago, our intelligence officers stationed in Chongqing sent back the news that a brigade of the Anjia Army was going down the river on a steamer, and because our intelligence officers lacked sufficient knowledge of the various formations of the Anjia Army, they mistakenly believed that the officers and men of a brigade passing through the Chongqing River section during the day were the marines of the newly established Yangtze River Defense Command, and they erroneously judged that this brigade would be stationed in Yichang, an important military base of the Anjia Army.

"It is undeniable that the Anjia Army did a very good job of keeping its intelligence secret in the early stage, and their huge fleet quietly passed through the Chongqing River section on a rainy night, and this fleet was loaded with a large number of wheeled armored vehicles, heavy artillery, military trucks, and the kind of small off-road assault vehicles produced and manufactured by American technology.

"After hearing the news, our organ headquarters was very surprised, and immediately mobilized important intelligence personnel in the direction of Nanjing to carry out an investigation, and only then did we draw a preliminary judgment from the situation of the special train urgently collected by the Ministry of Railways of the Nanjing Government, and thus learned a week in advance that this new elite unit equipped with a large number of advanced weapons and up to 20,000 people was destined for North China, but judging from the reconnaissance situation for seven consecutive days, we did not fully grasp the actual equipment situation of the unit, nor did we obtain the specific number of the department. Since the unit has already been stationed in the 17th Army camps in Shijiazhuang and Baoding, it is estimated that there will be further intelligence supplements in the next 24 hours. ”

The generals' expressions were grim and quite nervous, and Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, who was straight, asked, "Can you give us a detailed account of the establishment of the An Jia Army?" According to the report of the headquarters of the secret service, it seems that the troops led by An Yi, the general of the Chinese Shaozhuang faction, are very different from the various departments of Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army, why is this? Could it be that Chiang Kai-shek, the commander of the squadron, could tolerate this happening? ”

Tu Feiyuan saw that the generals who had almost changed a round after the Great Wall War of Resistance had such questions, pondered for a moment, and shook his head:

"I'm sorry, gentlemen, but this is a complicated matter, and it involves the relationship between the local warlords and the central government in China, the tradition of warlord separation, and the complex contradictions between the local and central generals, and it is difficult to explain it clearly for a while. In particular, this An Yi's unit was a descendant of Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army, and in just eight years, it developed rapidly and fought two battles with us in Shanghai in 32 years and North China in 33 years. Let me now briefly say what our military needs to know. ”

Kenji Tohihara sorted out his thoughts a little and said loudly: "From the beginning of the Northern Expedition to Jiangbei, An Yi's troops were called the Anjia Army by the Chinese with strict military discipline, excellent performance and strong combat effectiveness, and the Anjia Army at that time was just an ordinary main division, with a maximum of 18,000 people and a minimum of more than 9,000 people. The First Northern Expedition was marked by the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek, and the An Jiajun returned from a crushing defeat in the struggle within the squadron, and when they returned to Nanjing, only more than 1,000 people remained, and most of them were wounded, including An Yi himself. Due to the rapid rise of the Gui army and once ruled the central power in Nanjing, this army was also disbanded, An Yi returned to Nanchang with the remnants to start business, and very successfully, creating an industrial and commercial miracle in China and even the world, An Yi also slowly gathered the remnants, attached to the wing of Zhu Peide, the chairman of Jiangxi Province at that time, and used the huge profits earned from business and investment in industry to quietly buy weapons and equipment from Germany and the United States, and secretly expanded.

After Chiang Kai-shek returned to power, An Yi was reused, and conquered the veterans in the squadron with excellent performance, and became the former chief of the enemy's general staff of the Eastern Route Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army at a young age. The Jinan incident may be familiar to everyone, the battle between our army and the squadron in Jinan took place under the command of An Yi, and the result was that we did not gain any advantage, that is, from that time on, An Yi entered the archives of the intelligence department of the Ministry of the Army, so there was An Yi's assassination in Beiping, but unfortunately, he was not killed that year. ”

The generals nodded frequently, and Kenji Dohihara continued: "Since then, An Yi's military rank has been rapidly promoted, and in the battles of Jiang Gui, the Central Plains, and the Southwest, the command level and combat effectiveness shown by An Yi and his army have attracted the attention of various worlds in Europe and the United States, and we have also begun to focus on the study of An Yi and his army. It's a pity that after 918, the army's energy was put in the northeast, and then in North China, and the study of the Anjia army, which suffered heavy losses after the Shanghai War, hibernated in the far southwest of China, also stopped, until our army launched the Great Wall Battle and *** Liaoxi, the Anjia army quickly went north, and our army fought fiercely in Liaoxi and inside and outside the Great Wall, and I won't say what happened next...... What needs to be told here is that the Anjia Army is now the most powerful local military force in China, and it already has the strength to compete with the Central Army, they nominally belong to the Central Army, but in fact they are in their own series, Chiang Kai-shek must pass An Yi in order to mobilize every soldier of the Anjia Army, and the Anjia Army is only subject to the Nanjing government on the number, and the army is set up on its own, because they do not need the Nanjing government to allocate a penny of military spending to them, and they will develop more rapidly after occupying the rich border areas of the four southwestern provinces. In the latter part of last year's Sino-Burmese border war, the 26 th Army of the An Jia Army broke through the defense line of two divisions of the Burmese Army and one brigade of the British Army in just a few hours, and occupied more than 100 square kilometers of land in northern Burma. ”

"Tu Fei Yuan-kun, why do you praise the vulnerable Shina army so much? No matter how strong the An Army is, can it stop our Imperial Army? Except for mountain warfare and guerrilla warfare, will they be able to withstand the frontal attack of our Imperial Army? ”

Takashi Sakai, chief of staff of the garrison army, shouted dissatisfiedly, this military fanatic who served as a military attache of the Jinan consulate and embassy and was also one of the makers of the Jinan tragedy, did not experience the tragic war of Shanghai and the Great Wall, and hated and despised An Yi and even the whole squadron. In fact, in just two years, the generals of the *** army stationed in China have almost changed once, and they have become very unfamiliar with An Yi and An Jiajun, who have brought them great pain.

Kenji Dohihara was stunned for a moment, then shook his head slightly, and smiled bitterly: "Sakai-kun, I said that you must know a person, it is the young general of our army that you rarely admire, and it is also one of the few excellent generals you have praised. ”

"Who?" It was Takashi Sakai's turn to be stunned.