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Chapter 1264 When the judgment continues, it will be disturbed

“…… It has been learned that in view of the situation of China's military strength, the current strength of the standing army of the first country is about 30 divisions and 27 mixed brigades, plus the local garrisons in Korea, Taiwan and northeast of China, the total strength is about 1.2 million, except for the strength of the defense against Soviet Russia and its native defense, the strength that can be used to invade our country is about 20 to 25 divisions and regiments, and more than 10 brigades, that is, about 50 to 700,000. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Because the Japanese army has superiority over us in armaments and all material matters, it can double or even triple its army at any time if necessary, and it has absolute sea and air supremacy, so the Japanese army will definitely take an active offensive in order to achieve a quick victory in the shortest possible time. Therefore, our army's operational principle should be to fortify everywhere and actively defend as the first priority, and strive to keep the enemy out of the country. ”

Cheng Qian, a veteran who has taken over as the commander of the First Theater and formed the headquarters, still has a loud voice, and he is full of courage and unhurriedness.

Because after the end of the Battle of Langfang, the Japanese army in Pingjin suddenly stopped the military offensive in the entire North China region, Ambassador Kawagoe Shigeru urgently met with Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui and put forward a proposal for truce negotiations, which immediately attracted the echo of the upper echelons of the Nationalist Government and some of the main peace factions of the army. Chen Gongbo, Dai Jitao, and seven others jointly signed a motion to convene an emergency military and political meeting.

After several considerations, Chiang Kai-shek solicited the opinions of the five Standing Committee members, Feng Yuxiang, Li Liejun, Tang Shengzhi, Bai Chongxi, and He Yingqin, and decided to accept the request of the Lord's Peace faction to convene an emergency meeting in order to unify his thinking.

Wang Jingwei and others expounded their respective propositions one by one and questioned the strategic plan of the Military Commission in accordance with the "Organic Law." Cheng Qian was entrusted by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek of the Military Commission to briefly explain the outline of the "1937 National Defense Operations Plan of the Nationalist Government" to the core collectives of the military and political circles attending the meeting.

Cheng Qian saw that none of the participants were solemn and no one asked questions, so after thinking about it, he continued to make a brief addition: "The operational policy of the original national defense operation plan is: Our first team is to defend the national territory and ensure the national defense, and the eastern front is deployed from the coastal areas along the Shandong Peninsula - Haizhou - the lower reaches of the Yangtze River - Hangzhou Bay, and the enemy's landing attempt should be fundamentally eliminated; On the northern front, the enemy should be blocked on the Tianjin-Beiping-Zhangjiakou line. However, after the Battle of Langfang, the situation changed suddenly, and after discussion by the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, several different opinions emerged, and no resolution has yet been formed. ”

Cheng Qian closed the document and sat down, picked up the teacup and drank tea unhurriedly, and the military and political officials attending the meeting discussed with each other in twos and threes, expressing their opinions, and the venue suddenly "buzzed".

Outside the door of the conference room, Secretary-General Ye Chuling smiled at An Yi, who was full of heavy faces: "General An, can you go in?" ”

An Yi nodded and motioned for Ye Chuling to go first, and followed him inside, with his military hat and armed belt around his waist. The two gendarmes guarding the gate felt that the heavy pressure was suddenly relieved, and they unconsciously raised their hands and wiped the beads of sweat from their faces with their sleeves.

Shicai An Yi hurriedly came, heard the sound coming from the room, stopped, grabbed Ye Chuling, who was leading the way, waved his hand at him, and did not immediately enter the report, standing outside the door and listening for ten minutes. An Yi's murderous aura exuded from his body was unbearable for the two internal guard gendarmes, and Ye Chuling, who was smiling, looked very calm, but when he entered the venue, An Yi also saw that his back was soaked.

The participants were very surprised to see An Yi's sudden arrival, Feng Yuxiang laughed and took the lead in standing up and applauding, and the audience immediately stood up with applause and praise.

In any case, An Yi successfully commanded the Battle of Langfang, which shocked China and foreign countries, and the heroic Fifth Army fought a great victory with an eyebrow raised and greatly boosted the morale of the Chinese.

An Yi strode up to Chiang Kai-shek, stood up and saluted, and then saluted everyone to express his gratitude.

Chiang Kai-shek was very happy and pointed to the empty stool next to Bai Chongxi in the lower left: "Sit down, the meeting is halfway through, and no substantive conclusion has been reached, you can also listen to it, and by the way, tell me your own opinions." ”

"Chairman, why don't you first ask General An to introduce the latest situation in the North China battlefield?"

Feng Yuxiang, who was the leader of the War of Resistance, seized the opportunity very quickly, he had already seen the displeasure on An Yi's face, and knew that this tough leader of the Young Zhuang faction would never give the Lord and the faction any face, and at this time, it would be more effective to let An Yi say a few words than the generals present to say a hundred words.

Wang Jingwei, who was sitting in the first place on the lower right of Chiang Kai-shek, glanced at An Yi, the smile on his face slowly disappeared, and he looked sideways, just in time for Chen Gongbo, Gao Zongwu and others to make helpless eye contact, several people seemed to smile bitterly, and looked at An Yi respectively, but An Yi was communicating with Bai Chongxi in a low voice, ignoring anyone at all.

Chiang Kai-shek coughed: "General An Yi, have the final results been counted?" ”

An Yi immediately stood up: "Back to the commission, the statistics have come out, the entire campaign annihilated more than 37,400 Japanese troops and captured 1,353 Japanese soldiers, including more than 4,600 puppet troops in eastern Hebei and more than 730 prisoners; A total of 27 artillery pieces of various types, 175 light and heavy machine guns, about 16,000 long and short guns, grenadiers, sabers, war horses, and military supplies were captured.

"More than 29,400 soldiers and more than 30,000 wounded in the various armies of our Fifth Army Corps, of which more than two-thirds of the 68th Division of the 17th Army suffered casualties, and it was unbearable to fight again; The directly subordinate armored brigade has been withdrawn and rested due to most of the losses caused by battle damage and bombardment by enemy aircraft; More than half of the casualties of the 17th Division were withdrawn to the Baoding battalion for rest and replenishment. At present, the position on the eastern front is being defended by three infantry divisions of Sun Lianzhong's group army, and the 40th division of the 17th Army is assisting in the defense. ”

Chiang Kai-shek had a smile on his face, but there was a faint pain in his heart, with such a strong combat effectiveness and refined equipment of the An Jiajun, he still lost a division, which shows the tragedy of this battle. The generals at the meeting were also thinking quickly in their hearts, secretly surprised, only the civil officials split and applauded again, and the applause rang out again.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded and continued to ask, "What are the movements of the Japanese army?" ”

"The Kwantung Army rushed to the aid of Tianjin's two mixed brigades, landed in Tianjin Port two hours after the battle, and the remnants of the enemy's 20th Division and 109th Division retreated to Tangshan. By the time his subordinates boarded the plane and returned to Nanjing, the Japanese army in Tianjin had increased by 30,000 men, and with the Fifth Division and the troops directly under the garrison army and the overseas Chinese troops urgently recruited, the current Japanese army in Tianjin was between 55,000 and 60,000. An Yi almost didn't have to think about it, and immediately said the exact number.

"In this way, General An has already estimated this situation in advance, and did not besiege Tianjin again to increase casualties, which is very good! As General Kensheng pointed out before the war, the main purpose was to destroy the living forces of the Japanese army, and to respond flexibly and appropriately. Feng Yuxiang commented loudly, the praise was quite high, and the generals echoed the voice, and the venue was "buzzing" again.

An Yi did not sit down, but looked at Chiang Kai-shek and reported loudly:

"Commission, ladies and gentlemen, two divisions of the Japanese army have entered the Bohai Bay by boat, and the three newly formed mixed brigades of the Kwantung Army are taking a special train to quickly pass through Shanhaiguan and go south, and three other Japanese divisions and regiments have left the mainland by boat from yesterday afternoon to early morning today, and the two Japanese special task forces have also sailed to the waters of North China. In addition, according to the secret report of the Shenyang Station of the Fourth Hall and the confirmation from the side of the Beiping Station, the 300 fighters originally assigned to the Kwantung Army have been formed into an aviation regiment, which has been transferred to the control and command of the North China Garrison Army. From this morning to noon for four and a half hours, the three brigades of our Central Air Force had frequent air battles with the Japanese Air Regiment, and our air force suffered about 41 aircraft and the Japanese army suffered about 33 planes. ”

There was silence in the hall, and the smile of victory had disappeared from everyone's faces, replaced by solemnity and worry.

An Yi continued: "I met Secretary General Ye outside the door just now, and I learned that Vice Chairman Wang and several ministers put forward a proposal to respond to the Japanese army's proposal for a cease-fire and peace talks, to be honest, I am very much against it. The Japanese army has always been scheming and untrustworthy, and their massive reinforcements are coming in a steady stream with the aim of expanding the war; North of Beiping to the east of Nankou of the Japanese army's three mixed brigades, is quietly arranged, at any time may attack the 29th Army stationed in the Beiyuan barrier, *** Ambassador Kawagoe Shigeru asked for a cease-fire negotiations, the Japanese fighters are still fighting fiercely with our Central Air Force, as well as bombing the positions of our frontline troops, if my estimate is good, Baoding Airport may have been under the attack of the Japanese army, because, our Central Air Force has too many old-fashioned fighters, many are even the old-fashioned fighters eliminated by the Great Powers after World War I, The lack of pilot training and experience made it difficult to resist the elite Japanese air force, and tomorrow, when the Japanese air corps completes the handover and operational deployment, it will be even more difficult. Therefore, I concluded that the Japanese army did not have any sincerity in the peace talks, and I was very worried that the 29th Army, which had already made up its mind to resist Japan, would once again be paralyzed by the Japanese army's tricks. ”

After listening to An Yi's introduction and analysis, no one dared to stand up and propose peace talks, the eyes of the civil officials showed panic, and the generals were full of melancholy and pondering.

Chiang Kai-shek saw that the atmosphere was not right, and slowly stood up and announced loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, today's meeting is here for the time being, and it will continue tomorrow morning, but we must reach a consensus before noon tomorrow. Meeting! The Standing Committee of the Military Commission remained. ”

Chiang Kai-shek sat down again, and the civil and military officials, except for the Standing Committee of the Military Commission, quickly left, and the Standing Committee members sat on his left and right at Chiang Kai-shek's signal.

"Jiansheng, what I'm worried about now is not the positions of the Fifth Army, but the strategic places of the 29th Army, such as Wanping, Lugou Bridge and Nanyuan, at this moment, there are nearly two wings of Japanese troops and tens of thousands of North China security forces who have secretly defected to the Japanese army, between the various units of the 29th Army, if the Japanese army suddenly attack, it is likely to cause great casualties to the 29th Army." Chiang Kai-shek solemnly asked questions.

An Yi was relieved when he heard these words, knowing that Chiang Kai-shek's heart to resist the war would not be shaken.

Bai Chongxi nodded: "What the commission said is too critical, but it seems that General Song Mingxuan and they still have difficulty making up their minds!" Alas, when the interruption continues, it will be disturbed......"