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Chapter 1426 Difficult Choice

Half past eight in the morning, Baoding, Hebei. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In front of the Baoding Military Station next to the railway station outside the West Gate, there are a lot of people.

Surrounded by the crowd, there were the officers and men of the teaching regiment of the 68th Division of the Anjia Army wearing camouflage uniforms, and the officers and men of the division's special service regiment who rushed to support them when they heard the news.

All of these people had guns in their hands, and some of them even dragged out light and heavy machine guns and aimed them at the gate of the Baoding Military Station.

"Why can't everyone eat enough, just your Anjiajun has three meals a day and meat for every meal?"

"We don't have high requirements, two meals a day, and we don't want meat, just be full!"

"Claws? Lao Tzu walked all the way from Sichuan to Wuhan, and then took the train from Wuhan to Hebei, and the shoes (read hai) were worn out three or four pairs, and they didn't give their mouths enough to eat, so they still wanted to bag one? ”

Colonel Chen Shitian, commander of the 68th Division's Special Service Regiment, stood at the gate of the station, and Lieutenant Colonel Gao Xiang, head of the division's teaching regiment, stood beside him. The officers and men of the special brigade of the special task force of the 68th Division formed a thick human wall with three layers inside and three layers outside, and all the bullets of submachine guns, automatic rifles, and semi-automatic rifles were bored, and some even had military spurs installed on the muzzles.

However, in the face of the aggressive and unrelenting officers and soldiers of the various armies, everyone does not know how to deal with the complicated situation in front of them, after all, what the soldiers are facing at this moment is not the extremely vicious devil, nor the shameless dog traitor, but the brother Pao Ze of the brother army who is hungry and screaming.

The chaotic soldiers wearing various military uniforms, all of whom did not care about life and death, held their chests high, and specially touched the muzzles and military stabs, oppressing the human wall composed of officers and men of the special brigade who had experienced a hundred battles, and kept retreating to the door of the military station.

Chen Shishi took the bullhorn and shouted loudly at those chaotic soldiers: "Brothers, everyone is Chinese, and they all came to the North China front because of the anti-Japanese resistance, why bother to come to our Anjia military station***?" All of you are revolutionary soldiers who have their own units and commanders, and the commanders of your units should be responsible for solving the problem of food, and all the food and supplies that our Anjia army eats and uses are our own, and there is not a penny of food and materials from the Nationalist Government and the Military Commission stored in the barracks.

"Moreover, because we have repeatedly supported the grain of various departments in North China before, now we don't even have enough of our own part, and it is a rumor to say that we have meat for three meals a day! I'm sorry, brothers, go back quickly, if we have extra food, we will definitely give you an explanation, but now even we are in difficulty, we are really powerless! Go back, brothers, I believe that since the above wants you to come to North China to fight devils, there will definitely be a perfect arrangement! ”

Although Chen Shidi is a famous big throat and has the help of electric horns, under the agitation of tens of thousands of people, these words did not set off half a wave at all.

"*** fuck! What is the perfect arrangement? I'm the head of our regiment, don't I know what the situation is? Now Shijiazhuang, Xingtai, Handan, Dexian, Yucheng, there is no grain everywhere, this year North China suffered from war, at the end of last month and the beginning of this month suffered a catastrophic flood, coupled with the government's so-called scorched earth policy, the crops in the fields are pitifully small, Shangfeng has thought about all the ways he can think, but still can not raise food, last night the two railway bridges on the Yellow River were blown up by the dog traitors, and the grain of the four trains that would have been transported to Shijiazhuang and Baoding today was originally transported, All of them were blocked on the south bank of the Yellow River, so why can you settle down to eat and drink spicy food? What good things are in your hands, so that we, the troops who are also anti-Japanese, can drink the northwest wind? ”

"Don't listen to him, there is food in the station, and An Jiajun is so rich, how can he not hoard a little more? In the past few years, the wind and rain in the Jiangnan area have been smooth, and the grain has been bumper every year, all of which have been bought by the An Jiajun, how can there be no food in the military station? As long as the big guy rushes in, he doesn't have to go hungry! ”

"Yes! Look at their An Jiajun, they are all black and strong, and their whole bodies are full of tendon meat, and then look at our bodies, they are so thin that only skin and bones remain, and they are not allowed to eat a full meal, and they are not killed in the hands of *** people, but they are starved to death by their An Jiajun! I'm not convinced! ”

"Ge Lao Tzu, today Lao Tzu is going to cut the troops in the station, you stop Lao Tzu from doing it, don't look at you one by one, you are towering and fat, and Lao Tzu is hot and old, and you will be like this!"

Hearing these very incendiary shouts with accents from all over the place, the rebels crowded into the station.

Chen Shidi was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and he stopped loudly again, but it didn't work at all, and he had some doubts in his heart: Why did the commanders of the various units stationed in Baoding not send people to stop such a big movement? Is it really necessary to let these rebels rob the station? Will there be *** people and traitors secretly stirring up trouble in the middle? However, now that it is a mess, even if there are *** people and traitors in the middle, who can tell the difference?

Lieutenant Colonel Gao Xiang, the commander of the 68th Division Teaching Regiment stationed at the station, couldn't stand it anymore, stretched out his head, leaned into Chen Shishi's ear, and said loudly:

"Commander Chen, we can't continue to develop like this, there are a lot of munitions stored in the military station, if these chaotic soldiers squeeze in again, they will rush into the door, and they can't stop it when the time comes, what should we do? Let them rob? ”

Chen Shidi can be regarded as a veteran of the Anjia Army, during the Central Plains War, his ancestral home in Shanxi, because of the family tradition of one-handed blasting, was recruited into the engineer company by the Northwest Army, as a result of the Xiangyang War was captured by the Anjia Army, and then joined the Anjia Army after ideological education, because of the hard training to stand out, was selected into the Anjia Army Special Brigade Demolition Group, successively participated in the Battle of Songhu and the Great Wall of Resistance, and also joined Yang Fei's special operations brigade in the middle, and launched a large-scale anti-traitor action against the Japanese army and traitors in Shanghai.

After the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, Chen Shidi was transferred to the Special Brigade of the 68th Division, from the squadron leader and team leader to the current head of the special service group.

An Jiajun has an iron law, that is, unless forced to do so, the muzzle of the gun cannot be inward. At present, there are weapons and equipment worth tens of millions of yuan in the Baoding military station, and there is indeed not much food; after all, after the successive wars in North China, almost the entire first theater has set its sights on the Baoding military station, and even if there is more food, it cannot withstand the four or five hundred thousand people sitting on the empty mountain.

The Jiangnan Group has already raised transportation capacity, and once the autumn harvest in Henan, Anhui, and Suzhou and other places is completed, it will directly purchase grain from the Henan-Anhui-Suzhou region and transfer it to the Baoding Military Station, so that the vehicles will not delay the westward migration of refugees from Songhu, Qingdao, Rizhao, Lianyun, and other coastal areas affected by the war.

However, if the food in the barracks is robbed today, then even the noon and evening food will not be available, and it will be extremely difficult for the 68th Division to stay in Baoding.

Between how to choose, Colonel Chen Shidi felt unprecedented difficulty, and beads of sweat the size of beans oozed from his forehead.

Lieutenant Colonel Gao Xiang, the head of the teaching regiment, saw that Chen Shishi had been shouting for a long time, but he didn't have any countermeasures, so he stomped his feet hatefully, turned around and gave a loud order:

"The teaching regiment obeys the order, leave the special service regiment alone, and all the officers and men enter the firing position! The machine-gun battalion, mortar battalion, and anti-aircraft battalion directly under the regiment are all in place! ”

When Chen Shishi heard this, he hurriedly grabbed Gao Xiang's hand: "Head Gao, what are you going to do?" Before things come to despair, you must exercise restraint! ”

Gao Xiang turned his head and smiled coldly: "Head Chen, we can't hesitate at this time!" In today's situation, we have to shoot and kill a group of people and deter this gang of rebels in order to solve the actual problem! These guys want to come to trouble our Anjiajun, and we can't be soft! Shoot and shoot, these guys can still do our Anjia army? ”

Chen Shi frowned and pointed to the chaotic crowd outside: "However, they are all middle-class people, they all sacrifice their lives and forget their lives and travel thousands of miles to North China day and night to fight devils, our An Jiajun does not fight devils, but kills their own people, what will the outside world think of us?" How will we face fraternal troops all over the country after we settle down in the army? ”

Gao Xiang shook his hand and shouted indignantly: "Where are they here to fight devils, they are simply here to make trouble!" Millions of troops are gathered in central and southern Hebei, isn't this adding to the chaos? Look at your special operations brigade in front, even if they are iron-clad men, how long can this gang of rebels hold out under the unscrupulous ***? If these guys risk everything to rush into the military station, resulting in the loss of tens of millions of military funds, I, Gao Xiang, am sorry for Division Commander Li and Commander An's trust! Captain Chen, you get out of the way, this matter was done by our teaching group itself, and what went wrong has nothing to do with your spy group. ”

Looking at the inside of the station, on the top of the two-story building facing the gate, hundreds of light and heavy machine guns were erected, and in all the bunkers, the infantry were in place, the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the gate of the station, and the mortar position in the distance, dozens of mortars had been erected, plus the anti-aircraft machine guns in the air defense position of the station had been leveled, once the fire was fired, such a three-dimensional cross fire, even if there were more chaotic soldiers, it would not be enough to fill it, and it would be a scene of corpses and a sea of blood.

Chen Shishi only felt dizzy in front of him, and at this time, there was only one thought in his mind: he couldn't shoot! Can't shoot! If you shoot, An Jiajun's good reputation will be ruined, and An Yi, as the commander of the whole army, will also become the target of Qianfu.

Chen Shishi turned around abruptly and shouted, "Commander Gao, I am on the orders of the division commander to take full responsibility for handling this matter. Although we are both regimental commanders, my rank is colonel, and you are only a lieutenant colonel, and I now order you as a superior not to shoot!" Remove all defenses! Otherwise, you will be blind and do not obey the command, according to the discipline of our Anjia Army, you will be expelled from our team, please think twice! ”

Gao Xiang was stunned for a moment, his heart was in turmoil, and dense beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Seeing that Gao Xiang was thinking calmly, Chen Shishi immediately ordered the officers and men of the special service regiment behind him to enter the station, remove the machine gun positions, infantry defense positions, and mortar positions, and aim the anti-aircraft machine guns at the sky.

Gao Xiang was so distressed that tears couldn't help but rush out, he stomped his feet vigorously, and shouted: "Head Chen, do you know what you do?" The military station is full of baby bumps that our An Jiajun has hoarded for many years, and who can take this responsibility if they lose it."

Seeing that the machine guns, rifles, and mortars in the station were gone, the chaotic soldiers, who were already noisy, greatly increased their confidence, and roared in unison, and the surging crowd finally broke through the thick human wall formed by the officers and men of the special brigade of the Anjia Army who put away their weapons and held hands in order to avoid accidental injury, and rushed into the station in one breath.

At this time, Chen Shidi was no longer able to answer Gao Xiang's question, whether it was the special service group or the teaching group, every officer and soldier of the An Jiajun was like a small wave in the turbulent waves under the impact of the chaotic soldiers close to him, constantly being swept around by the crowd, and he could no longer be autonomous.

Hearing the news, the officers and men of the various units who rushed to the station gathered more and more, and it was obvious that the only gate of the military station could no longer meet the needs of the rebels, and the high walls around the garrison were erected, and they were pushed to the ground by the concerted efforts of the restless rebels.

Seeing that people were constantly carrying bags of rice, flour, boxes full of canned fish, boxes of instant noodles, boxes of chocolates, and other materials, happily returning to their respective units, almost all the officers and men stationed in the surrounding areas of Baoding joined the ranks of looting.

At first, everyone's purpose was just to grab food, but later, it developed to grab everything they saw, and the whole situation turned into a riot.

At least more than 200,000 rebel soldiers, smashed and looted in the station, and the Baoding military station, which covers an area of 2,000 mu and has hoarded countless military funds for five years, was finally destroyed by the rebels.

On the Hangzhou side, the reason why the Japanese army's painstaking sneak attack turned into a frontal attack was entirely caused by a series of coincidences.

At the Hangzhou railway station, because the Japanese army had to send tanks, trucks, and heavy artillery to the front line, and at the same time was worried that the mobilization of large-scale mechanized troops would arouse the suspicion of the reconnaissance planes of the Southwest Air Force in the sky and the people along the highway, coupled with the consideration of saving fuel, the Japanese army stubbornly held on to the trains in Ningbo and other places, and detained one train when they arrived at the station.

At eight o'clock in the morning, I received a call from Ningbo, saying that there was a problem with the Shaoxing section of the Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway, and the trains were delayed in the area east of Shaoxing.

The British adviser who received the news was overjoyed, and hurriedly rushed to the crossing of the Qiantang River Bridge with several assistants to meet the train crossing the bridge. As a result, the first train that crossed the bridge did not obey the signal command at all, and rushed towards the Yuhuangshan branch line on a rampage, without giving the British advisers the slightest face.

Then the second and third trains also rushed to the Jade Emperor Mountain, instead of the pass branch line built along the bank of the Qiantang River as designated by the British advisers, the British advisers were angry, and they sounded the alarm button in the railway dispatching command room at the bridge pass, and said that they had to add a little chaos to you unruly guys, and let those Qiu Babing find your bad luck, otherwise you don't know how powerful my adviser is.

The dispute between British and Chinese investors on the Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway has been a long time, and the contradictions between the British and Chinese employees within the railway company are also very acute.

Prior to this, the reconnaissance plane group of the 2nd Air Regiment, which had received an order from the headquarters to reconnoiter the situation in eastern Zhejiang, was also a little surprised by the three trains on the east bank of the Qiantang River that were in a line and rushed to Hangzhou, leaving one formation and two reconnaissance planes to continue monitoring.

As a result, as soon as the three trains crossed the Qiantang River Bridge, a terrible alarm suddenly sounded from the ground, and the two reconnaissance planes hovering at low altitude immediately swooped down, and the bodies of the planes made a huge roar, making the appearance of wanting to shoot, and the pilots piloting the reconnaissance planes took this opportunity to test the reaction of the trains.

The devils on the train first heard the siren, and then saw the fighters of the Chinese Air Force swooping towards them, and the aviation machine gun in the nose was extremely dazzling, thinking that their whereabouts had been exposed.

Originally, the reconnaissance plane didn't really want to attack, and it had been paying close attention to the reaction on the train below, and when it saw the person wearing a military uniform in the open-top car pulling the anti-aircraft machine gun, he knew that the situation was wrong.

The situation is already obvious, there is a problem in the *** train below, the reconnaissance aircraft formation immediately reported to the 2nd Air Regiment and the Air Force Command: The Japanese army disguised itself as ***, took three additional trains, killed the Qiantang River Bridge, and is approaching Hangzhou City, please support immediately.

Seeing that his whereabouts were exposed, the Japanese commander knew that he could no longer defraud the city of Hangzhou as he wished, on the one hand, he reported the situation to the front army headquarters and asked the follow-up reinforcements to follow, on the other hand, he stopped the train, commanded the troops, and quickly got off the train and spread out the formation along the railway line.

The 10th Division, the 5th Mixed Brigade, and the 10th Pig Assault Brigade were carried out by three men and men of the 10th Division, Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isotani, commander of the 10th Division.

Since entering the North China operation, the 10th Division has repeatedly made a disgraced and fled, which made the division commander Isoya Ryosuke very depressed, and also dispelled the original disdain for the squadron, especially the last time the Japanese army in Tianjin gathered superior forces, and encountered the 68th Division's Jedi counterattack on the front line of Ayutthaya, and the loss of troops made Isoya Ryosuke realize that if he did not take unconventional means, it would be difficult to win the war in China.

Therefore, when the triple jump was achieved after the war against China - Lieutenant General Koichi Ishikawa, who was the commander of the Zhejiang Front, decided to wear the uniforms of the Shina army and conduct unconventional battles, Ryosuke Isoya, who is a China expert, raised his hands in favor and was full of expectations for this ingenious method of warfare.

Lieutenant General Nakajima Imasago Imasa, commander of the 16th Division, which had encountered stubborn resistance from the instructors of the First Army Corps in Yutian County and had reimbursed nearly one brigade of soldiers, agreed that the 109th Division, which had suffered heavy losses in the hands of the An Jiajun and had never recovered its morale, and the Seventh Division, which had suffered enough from the Northeast Group Army and was reorganized in Port Arthur at the beginning of this month, had no objection to this.

Since the high-level unified understanding, there was absolutely no problem with the obedience of the middle and low-level officers of the Japanese army, and the execution was naturally resolute, and then, the Japanese army took advantage of the gap between the three routine reconnaissance of the Anjia Army Air Force at 7 o'clock in the morning, 11 o'clock in the afternoon, and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, dispatched troops, put on the first-class military uniforms produced in Taiwan, and took Ningbo City as the base, along the railway and highway, and moved in the direction of Hangzhou. The local officials and captured *** officers were blackmailed, and they responded to phone calls from the top political leaders of the central government, dispelled suspicions, and continued to fake a false appearance of peace and sound.

In just two days, the county towns of Cixi, Yuyao, Shangyu, Shaoxing, and Xiaoshan had fallen, and the towns of Zhangting, Pusong, Wufu, Sanjiang, and Sanjie had also fallen into the hands of the Japanese army.

The purpose of the Japanese army was originally to take the city of Hangzhou, consolidate the bridgehead into the Jiangnan Plain, and then turn back to clear the countryside along the railway and highway, in the name of the first army, wantonly burn and loot, forcibly requisition grain and people, and try to muddy the water in eastern Zhejiang, and then the Japanese army appeared as a savior, drove away the evil "***", and sought the support and cooperation of the local people.

Ningshao Plain is a thousand years of rich land, not only rich in products, and the coastal area is a famous salt field, and has the advantage of harbor foreign trade, coupled with the fact that it is rarely affected by the war, even if the Northern Expeditionary Army hits Zhejiang, this area is also a peaceful solution, and then after ten years of operation of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols, even if the large factories and enterprises have moved westward, but the remaining countless handicraft workshops, the output value is also extremely considerable.

The wealth accumulated for thousands of years is now owned by *** people, and it is conceivable how much the Japanese army has gained this time. It is conservatively estimated that only from the current urban areas, *** people can plunder hundreds of millions of oceans worth of gold and silver, if you add antiques, calligraphy and paintings, jewelry and jade and other property, the loss of China's national strength is unimaginable.

After the skirmish, the Japanese army divided five Meiji 38 Type 120 field howitzers and lined up along the railway line, aiming at the defenders' positions a kilometer away, and launched a non-stop artillery bombardment.

The Japanese mortar units, grenadiers, and machine gunners quickly moved forward and fired at close range.

Suddenly subjected to ferocious artillery and machine-gun fire, stationed on the front line of Hupao Mountain and Daci Mountain, the officers and men of the 37th Brigade who were unprepared suffered heavy casualties, and then in the Japanese attack like a tide, the defense line collapsed, and the officers took the lead in escaping, the defenders scattered in a hurry, and they were lifeless to the rear of the position.

The two 3 reconnaissance planes formed a combat formation in the sky could distinguish between the enemy and the enemy at the beginning, and they only needed to constantly repeat the actions of diving, pulling, and diving, and shooting at the Japanese troops on the ground, and achieved great results, killing at least nearly 100 people, but then with the pursuing Japanese troops and the fleeing *** soldiers mixed together, looking down from the sky, the green military uniform, completely unable to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy.

In desperation, the reconnaissance plane formation had no choice but to return to the side of the railway and shoot at the five heavy guns of the Japanese army, which were constantly carrying out extended artillery bombardment, and the artillery of a small group of Japanese troops did not retreat until the last person was killed in the battle.

It turned out that the sacrifice of this squad of artillery was also included in the Japanese army's action plan.

Using this artillery team to attract the attention of reconnaissance planes, the rest of the Japanese combat units went to the surrounding mountains at high speed. The frenzied devils arrested all the people in the nearby villages who had not been able to flee, tied their hands behind their backs, and rushed to the vicinity of the artillery, anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns and tanks that had just been concealed like sheep.

The battle lasted for a quarter of an hour, and the fighter group of the 2nd Air Regiment that took off from Jianqiao Airport in the north finally arrived, and after flying around the sky, just like the predicament encountered by the reconnaissance plane, it is not clear now, which part of the battle is being fought on the ground, which part is ***, which part is the Japanese army?

The current defenders had not yet formed a consolidated defensive position, and there was no offensive and defensive pattern between them and the Japanese army, so it was difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy for a while.

In desperation, the group saw that a large number of troops were rushing towards the bridge on the east bank of the Qiantang River, and hurriedly abandoned the melee below, killed the Qiantang River, and rushed towards the army that was obviously a Japanese reinforcement.

As one after another aerial bombs fell on the heads of the ground troops, the aerial machine guns fired at all moving targets, and the Japanese reinforcements suffered heavy casualties.

Just when the officers and men of our air force were in full swing, the Japanese ground anti-aircraft artillery that had been deployed in place suddenly opened fire, and a bomber of our army that was doing dive bombing was accidentally hit in the fuel tank, and after the fire broke out, it exploded in the air.

When the officers and men of the 2nd Air Force Regiment were surprised to evade one after another, trying to solve the Japanese ground anti-aircraft fire first, and then kill and injure the Japanese reinforcements, they were surprised to find:

The vicious devils have gone so far as to occupy the houses on both sides of the railway and highway and transform them into anti-aircraft fire points, and around the antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns, which are constantly spewing out tongues of fire, the devils have captured hundreds or thousands of ordinary people and firmly surrounded the strongholds, and any bombing and strafing behavior may bring huge casualties to the people.

It has to be said that the commander of the Japanese army, fully aware of the "benevolent" side of the Chinese in his bones, ruthlessly threw such an almost cruel moral choice problem to the air force officers.

Faced with such a situation, Colonel Liu Yuxi, deputy of the 2nd Air Regiment, who commanded the operation of the aircraft group, was a little at a loss, and hurriedly reported the situation to the regiment headquarters, and then this thorny problem was passed back to the headquarters of the Anjia Army.

To the north of the Qiantang River, the fighting continues to heat up.

Taking advantage of the situation to take Ma'anshan, the peak of the left flank on the north bank of the Qiantang River Bridge, and setting up the headquarters on the second floor of the headquarters of the 37th Brigade of the Tenth Group Army, the Japanese commander Ryosuke Isoya saw that the first-line defense of the entire Qiantang River Bridge had been initially stabilized, and immediately issued an order:

The 8th Brigade continued to attack the Qinglong Mountain and the South Peak of the Northern Front, and if possible, to take the Wulao Peak, immediately repair the position, and wait for follow-up reinforcements to arrive;

mixed into the fifth brigade and sent a wing to deploy along the line of Dahua Mountain and Jiuxi to block reinforcements from the direction of Fuyang, Tonglu and Lanxi;

The 33rd Brigade will be tasked with attacking the fortified positions on the eastern front, attacking the high ground on the periphery of Hangzhou City, such as Lianhua Peak and Jinjiashan, and once the Lotus Peak is taken, it will immediately mount the cannon on Lianhua Peak and shell Hangzhou City, completely breaking the defenders' will to fight.