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Chapter 1510 Imperative

In order to boost morale, Hideki Tojo set up his headquarters at Ruyuekou on the front line, held his position with two divisions and two independent brigades, and sent the remaining two divisions and two independent mixed brigades in the middle to attack Fanzhi to the east. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At four o'clock in the afternoon of March 6, Fanzhi County was lost, and an independent brigade arranged by the Jin Sui Army in Fanzhi County was completely annihilated, and Fu Zuoyi, who led his troops to guard Ruyuekou, had to urgently retreat to Shahe County, northeast of Fanzhi.

At the same time, the three group armies of Liu Maoen's division of the Right Wing Army, which had retreated from Pingxingguan and marched to Daixian in the southwest, had also moved to the county seat of Shahe.

The current strategic situation is that with the loss of Ruyuekou, the Japanese army has opened two gaps in the entire defense line of northern Jin, forming two powerful fulcrums that support each other, and it has become a luxury to expel them from Shanxi in a short time.

At the same time, Fanzhi County is the gateway to Wutai Mountain, once the Japanese army decisively moves south, takes Ekou, and then drives straight into Wutai County, then the entire Right Wing Army and the Fu Zuoyi Department of the Middle Route Army will be surrounded by the Japanese army.

Under these circumstances, Yan Xishan, whose confidence was shaken, issued an order to retreat on the whole line, and then, the two group armies of Wang Jingguo and Chen Changjie, who attacked Daixian and Yanmen Pass, also retreated to Lao (guo) County for defense, and Liu Ruming, who was responsible for the loss of Yanmen Pass, led his troops to flee to Yuanping County, worried that Yan Xishan would take the opportunity to eliminate dissidents and punish himself, so he quickly sent a secret telegram to Yan Xishan, expressing his intention of belonging and following.

Yan Xishan was worried about the current war situation, and it was an unexpected joy to get Liu Ruming, who originally belonged to Song Zheyuan's military system, to sell himself to take refuge.

Although Liu Ruming was a well-known general who had escaped, his command was the elite of a hundred battles in the Northwest Army, and the army had two divisions and two brigades under its command, all of which were close to catching up with the establishment of a group army. Song Zheyuan, deputy commander of the First Theater of Operations, had long wanted to ask this unit to pass, but he refused on the grounds of military urgency. In the past, there was Chiang Kai-shek who booby-trapped Han Fuyu, and then there was Li Fuying, who beheaded the head of the Thirteen Taibao under his command with tears.

Yan Xishan was at the time of employing people, so he naturally replied to the telegram and greatly forgave him, asking Liu Ruming to forget the past, focus on the future, and only need to bravely kill the enemy in the next stage of combat to wash away the shame.

The loss of northern Jin made Chiang Kai-shek, who was in Nanjing, feel uneasy, and immediately sent a telegram to Yan Xishan: Shanxi is a barrier in the northwest and southwest inland areas, and there is no room for failure, can the Central Army in Henan go north and enter Shanxi to resist the Japanese invasion?

Now Chiang Kai-shek's troops have accounted for more than half of the country's total troops, Yan Xishan was afraid that the Central Army would not leave after entering Shanxi, and since the beginning of the war, the main force of the Second Theater had not suffered major losses, so he politely declined, and immediately gathered his staff to discuss the next stage of the battle plan.

In addition to the large-scale refugee flow in northern Shanxi, Jinzhong and southern Jinnan were not spared, and the dignitaries and nobles moved to the legendary southwest region as beautiful as a paradise, while the ordinary people supported the old and the young, and the family escaped across the Yellow River and entered the territory of Shaanxi and Henan.

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Nanhua, Xinjing, General Staff Conference Room.

After hearing the news of the loss of northern Shanxi, the generals and colonels of the unified army in Nanhua, southern Sichuan, and southern Yunnan all sent war telegrams, and the three allies of Xiangxi, Qianxi, and Yunnan also asked whether they needed to send troops.

Seeing this, An Yi immediately held a joint meeting of the Central Military Commission and the three general departments to unify his thinking and understanding.

An Yi first introduced the situation in Shanxi, and then narrated the Japanese intelligence he had obtained: "According to the secret report sent back by our people in Tokyo, Japan, the Japanese army base camp did not formulate a battle plan for Shanxi, and this time it was purely the personal behavior of the Chinese army. At noon yesterday, after the chief of the army's general staff, Ishihara Wanji, and the land minister, Seishiro Itagaki jointly issued an order to the Chinese dispatch army to 'do what is done for oneself,' they went together to meet with Emperor Hirohito, and expressed strong dissatisfaction with the bad behavior of the army generals in disobeying orders and ignoring the overall situation.

"Due to the great success of Ishihara's plan to occupy Lanyin, which brought a steady stream of oil and strategic material resources to Japan, especially the influx of a large number of industrial products and grain from the Lanyin colony, Japan's domestic material supply was extremely rich and the social order was orderly, and Ishihara Wan'er was greatly praised by the emperor, the cabinet, the chaebol and the common people.

"Because Hirohito was worried that Ishihara Wanji would resign in anger, he vigorously appeased him, and in front of Ishihara Wanji and Itagaki Seishiro, he asked the attendant to record his dictation, and sent a reprimand telegram to the commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, General Nishio Toshizo, saying that he 'did not think of reciprocating the favor of the king', but instead 'supported the army and used the sword and soldier without self-respect', leaving the emperor and the government where to go? Japan is a country where the emperor is supreme, and Nishio Shouzo was frightened, and said that the Shanxi War was done behind his back, and he only learned about it after the incident, and he was considering how to remedy it.

"How? Sounds interesting, right? This is the case in the Japanese military, where middle- and lower-ranking officers often go their own way, and only after the facts are established do they rush to cooperate. According to the list of participants provided by Nishio Shouzo at that time, the chief of staff of the Chinese Dispatch Army, Shunroku Tsukuda, the head of the intelligence section, Akira Muto, the chief of the operations section, Masamun Inamoto, the head of the combat squad, Takushiro Hattori, and Masanobu Tsuji all participated, in addition to the Kwantung Army and the Korean Army, some staff officers were also involved, and even Kenji Dohihara's stationed organs were not spared, so in the end the matter was pushed back to the Japanese General Staff.

"It is reported that Ishihara Waner was very depressed, and after going back, he dropped a few cups in a row, and received several young and beautiful female admirers one after another, and after a whole night, he couldn't stand on his feet when he went out this morning."

After listening to An Yi's introduction, the generals were shocked by the group's pervasive intelligence and espionage capabilities. You must know that even the meeting between the Japanese Emperor and Ishihara Waner and others is clear, and it is difficult for those who are not involved to do this, and it seems that the level of spy personnel who broke into Japan's high-level is not low.

An Yi naturally won't find out who this person is, in fact, he is also half-skeptical about the information coming from this line, he has always been cautious, and he will never accept it easily, and he is also worried about whether there will be any terrible traps in it.

Looking over the faces of the participants, An Yi then stated his opinion: "Most of the Japanese combat planes have been assembled at the airfields in Northeast China and North Korea, in addition, Japan's Hokkaido is also equipped with a large number of long-range bombers, and the entire Japanese army in North China only has less than 300 fighters, which is the same as the number of our fighters, and the performance of our fighters is much better than that of our opponents." Based on these circumstances, I think that Hideki Tojo's actions will not achieve much success, as long as Lu Yixuan responds appropriately, it will not be difficult to repel the opponent! ”

"I agree with the Chairman's analysis!"

Huang Zhi, deputy chief of the general staff, got up and came to a large map of Shanxi hanging by staff officers on the wall of the conference room, pointing to the vast land in northern Shanxi:

"The Japanese army's offensive seems to be fierce, but in fact it is full of dangers, and its large-scale troop mobilization and material supply can only be transported by Pingxing Pass, Yanmen Pass and Ruyue Pass, and these places are all steep mountains.

"Now the 18th Group Army has launched a high-density raid and harassment operation, the main force of the 115th and 120th Divisions from the east and west to destroy the enemy's flank and rear deep areas, attacking the railway from the Great Wall in Hengshan to Datong, Datong to Zhangjiakou and the highway communication line from Daixian and Guangling to Zhangjiakou, the main force of the 129th Division is used on the Zhengda Road, mobilizing the masses, cooperating with the defenders of our Niangziguan to consolidate the rear, and beware of a sudden attack by the Japanese army in Shijiazhuang.

"The four divisions of our army's Lu Yixuan Division still use the original old establishment of our Anjia Army, and each division plus the attached artillery, air defense and armored troops is a total of 26,000 people, and the four divisions are 104,000 people. Lu Yixuan called Yan Xishan, temporarily moved into Xinkou, built fortifications, and waited for further orders from the war zone, and Yan Xishan had already called back to agree to Lu Yixuan's request. Now that it is snowing in the north of Jinbei, the roads are muddy and difficult to walk, the Japanese army marching in such bad weather will pay several times more energy than ours, and our army will wait for work at ease, and when the Japanese army is exhausted, we should be sure to annihilate the opponent in one fell swoop! ”

Xu Ziliang, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of South China, who was invited to attend the meeting as an observer, said: "At present, our city, county, and township local governments in South China are being formed, and the work of converting military to civilian use is also being carried out vigorously. In principle, cadres at the division level should serve as mayors, cadres at the regimental level should serve as county heads, and cadres at the battalion and company level should serve as township heads, and all cadres must be party members, so as to strengthen the absolute control of our party and army over the localities.

"The professionals who graduated from the Southwest University of Political Science and Law and the Institute of Science and Technology and have worked in the governments of southern Sichuan, southern Yunnan, Xiangxi and Qianxi for three years are assigned to various government departments, so that our government agencies can operate slowly from the bottom up and gradually get on the right track. In my opinion, in the current large-scale personnel transfer from military to civilian use, priority should still be given to local affairs.

"Actually, we don't need to be anxious at all, the eight group armies in the hands of Chairman Chiang in Nanjing are still idle, and even Yan Xishan, who is a landlord, and Chairman Chiang, the supreme leader of the entire country, are not worried. I thought that it was enough for us to have Lu Yixuan's department in the north, and there was no need to be bored at all. It is in our current interests that the situation in South China is truly stabilized, and the formation of self-hematopoietic ability, so that the localities can feed back to the army, and form an endless circulation system. ”

Xia Jian heard Xu Ziliang mention the conversion of the army to the people, and couldn't help but complain to An Yi: "Boss, don't you know, even my subordinates have transferred twenty-three generals to the colonel, this is still implemented under the condition of ensuring the combat effectiveness of the main force and avoiding breaking the muscles and bones, I can't imagine now, what kind of miserable situation will it be if they don't know the beard?" ”

An Yi glared at him: "What, question my decision?" Within the framework of ensuring the intentions of the organization, combined with the wishes of individuals, this is the foundation of our party and national army. Only when the localities are well built can we obtain a steady stream of soldiers, food, guns and ammunition, on the contrary, a chaotic and disorderly place will not only cause the people to complain and deviate from morality, but will also greatly affect our troops and energy, which no one wants to see. In a word, the transfer of military cadres to local posts is a top political task at present, and there is no room for bargaining. ”

Gu Changfeng smiled and comforted: "Lao Xia, are you envious or what?" If you are willing to leave the army and go to the locality, a provincial governor is an indispensable position! ”

Seeing Xia Jian's disdainful gaze, Gu Changfeng said with a straight face: "Our army comes from the common people, so naturally the interests of the people should be the mainstay, anyway, your subordinates don't have no chance to return to the army, didn't the document issued by the Military Commission say that it is good, after working in the local area for a year, there is still a chance to choose to return to the army." Our stall is so big, we will garrison Central Asia in the future, and expanding the army is an inevitable choice, and in the future, we will have the opportunity to lead troops to war. ”

An Yi nodded: "Yes!" Why would I order the generals of the army to serve in the localities? This is because these are war years, and all local work and construction must be carried out around war. Moreover, our officers have all been educated in the spirit of the model battalion, and we hope that they will bring this spirit to the localities and to their daily work, to promote the work of the localities, and to establish a good atmosphere, and we do not want our government organs at all levels to become bureaucratic organs that are superficial in their own affairs, and only by working in a down-to-earth and truth-seeking manner, with the people in mind, and going deep into the cities and villages, can they do their work well. Xia Jian, Tiger Head, I remind you that after your subordinates go to the locality, don't be corrupt and degenerate, if they are found to bully men and women and accept bribes during this period, or if they fail to pass the local government affairs assessment after a year, you will be jointly and severally responsible! ”

Gu Changfeng and Xia Jian glanced at each other, their faces became extremely serious, and they nodded in unison.

An Yi asked: "Do you have any opinions on whether to send troops to Shanxi to support?" ”

Yang Fei saw An Yi looking at him, so he said, "I don't think it's necessary to ...... at all Even if the Japanese pressed up the entire army in North China, the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army were exhausted, and the war deteriorated sharply, we could calmly choose to go south from Mongolia and attack the rear of the Japanese army. Our immediate priority must be to strengthen our local construction, and I am very interested in the "Compulsory Military Service Law" that has just been passed by the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. When South China is truly built and developed, we will have almost inexhaustible military resources, and this is our foundation at present! ”

Gu Changfeng suddenly interjected: "The "Compulsory Military Service Law" passed by Nanhua has caused a lot of discussions, many veterans are okay, their families have already placed jobs, their parents and siblings are in classes, and there is no shortage of their share at home, but some recruits who only joined the army last year are worried that they will not have enough military salaries to receive in the future, and their families will lose their financial resources, so they have asked officers at all levels about the situation!" I think the General Political Department should issue a document to explain it in detail. ”

Zhan Zhi, director of the General Political Department, immediately stated: "We were negligent in this matter, and we thought that most officers and soldiers would be able to understand it, so we did not interpret this newly created law. In fact, to put it bluntly, in the future, there will be two kinds of soldiers in our army at the same time, one is a compulsory soldier, who can only get a minimum living allowance, and the other is a volunteer soldier, that is, a professional soldier. That is, the new law has no effect on our veterans. ”

Huang Yingwu, deputy director of the Political Department, added: "Conscripts are not without any benefits, except for a few allowances, military dependents will receive great preferential treatment in the local area, such as priority in job arrangement, priority in entering the large agricultural farms we run, and if the family conditions are really difficult, they can also get a living allowance from the local government every year." Our system is humane, and we will never ignore the interests of our soldiers just because we save a few dollars, and such an army is doomed to have no combat effectiveness! ”

An Yi saw that the matter was suddenly far away, and he knew that everyone had made a decision on whether to go north to reinforce the Shanxi war, and he was not embarrassed at the moment, so he instructed the Political Department to convey the spirit of the meeting to various departments and then announced the dismissal of the meeting, and then called Xu Ziliang to his office to discuss matters such as the issuance of Huayuan, compulsory education, and conducting a census.