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After the victory, Song Zheyuan's troops also won the victory of the Xifengkou counterattack. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chiang Kai-shek was stunned for a moment, and then ordered An Yi to return to the headquarters together, and after verifying that it was correct, Chiang Kai-shek's face was flushed and the tide fluctuated very much, and he ordered on the spot to notify the whole country of the "Xifengkou Great Victory" and the commendation order of the Central Military Commission and the central government, and promoted the commander of the 29th Army, Song Zheyuan, to the rank of lieutenant general of the 6th Army, and rewarded 200,000 yuan to the current ocean for encouragement.

It is too timely and too encouraging for the local forces to achieve such a major victory at this extremely difficult time.

An Yi was very aware of the situation of the enemy and us on the line from Xifengkou to Luowenyu, and deeply admired the victory achieved by Song Zheyuan and the officers and men of the 29th Army, and immediately summarized it according to the battle report against the map.

Beginning on the afternoon of 9 March, the Xifengkou line, like Gubeikou, was fiercely attacked by the Japanese army, and the Japanese Hattori Brigade and the Suzuki Brigade of the Eighth Division first united to attack Xifengkou, and after the two main forces made initial progress in the fierce attack, the Suzuki Brigade suddenly divided its troops to attack the adjacent Wanfulin Division of the Northeast Army, successfully cutting off the mutual coordination between Song Zheyuan's Department and Wanfulin's Division.

In the evening, the service brigade used a powerful offensive to occupy the north side of the Great Wall line and Xifeng in one fell swoop. In Dongjiakou and other positions to the east, Song Zheyuan, commander of the 29th Army, commanded the headquarters to resist stubbornly, did not take a step back, and urgently ordered the Zhao Dengyu Brigade of the 37th Division of Feng Zhi'an to urgently reinforce Xifengkou.

Zhao Dengyu was ordered to rush to the rescue, and Wang Changhai's regiment took the lead and arrived at the position at nightfall to repel the continuous frantic attacks of the Japanese army.

At midnight, the fighting broke out in the forward positions. Later, it gradually fell silent, and only the flames of war burning everywhere kept jumping and rolling.

After seeing the Japanese defensive formation clearly, Zhao Dengyu, who had held his foot, met with Wang Changhai and discussed, and immediately selected 500 elite officers and soldiers to form a death squad, put down all machine guns and rifles, hung grenades on their bodies, and carried a big blade that made the Northwest Army famous, and sneaked into the Japanese position in two ways by taking advantage of the night.

On the morning of the next day, the commander of the Japanese Hattori Brigade, who had suffered huge losses, ordered the 26th and 27th Infantry Wings to reinforce Xifengkou and attack from Dongjiakou and Beryllium Pass. Zhao Dengyu immediately went to intercept the enemy, and Song Zheyuan also ordered the 27th Division's Wang Zhibang and Tong Zeguang brigades to support on the left and right flanks and engage in a fierce battle with the enemy.

Seeing that the Japanese Hattori Brigade and Suzuki Brigade could not break through the defense line of the 29th Army for a while, they could only secure the Xifengkou Pass with one part and concentrate the main forces in the area on the north side of the Great Wall, waiting for an opportunity to move.

The fierce battle lasted from sunrise to sunset, and when night fell again, Song Zheyuan decided to adopt a roundabout night attack tactic, attacking the enemy from two directions, left and right.

Zhao Dengyu, who had been fighting for a day and a night and was wounded, led two regiments of officers and men out of Panjiakou from the left flank of the defenders, went around to the right back of the enemy's battle line, and continued to pounce on the high ground west of the Japanese army's Xifengkou.

The officers and men held grenades and broadswords in their hands, and marched forward in the snow under the cover of the night, and sneaked to the Japanese army's Sanjiazi, Xiaoxifengkou, Wolf Dongzi, Baitaizi and other positions at dawn the next day, and once again launched the Northwest Army's extremely fierce and bloody hand-to-hand combat, the Japanese troops who were tired and surrounded by a day of fierce fighting woke up from their sleep and did not find their guns, and pieces of grenades flew like locust boats, and after a violent explosion, pieces of cold and shining broadswords came head-on, and in the blink of an eye, the Japanese army positions screamed again and again, and the dizzy devil officers and soldiers fell down in pieces.

At the same time, Tong Zeguangmu's two regiments from the right flank through the iron gate out of Dongjiakou, detoured to the enemy's flank, and fiercely attacked the enemy on the high ground on the east side of Xifengkou.

The Japanese troops stationed on the front line of Laoma Mountain outside the Xifeng Pass rushed to reinforce them, and the two sides fought fiercely for half a day, suffering heavy casualties, and the exhausted Japanese troops could only retreat to the position of Banbi Mountain in the north.

From the surprise victory to the offensive and defensive battle of the Malaysian Golden Knife, the whole process showed the iron-blooded spirit of the officers and men of the Northwest Army who were indomitable and fearless of death, and showed the firm and resolute fighting style of Song Zheyuan and other generals.

An Yi and the generals of the Central Army also saw the courage in the bones of the officers and men of the Northwest Army through this battle, and saw the excellent quality of the generals of the Northwest Army who were sharp and resolute, so that after An Yi sent a congratulatory telegram to Song Zhewu, he immediately called Hu Jialin, Zhao Rui, Gu Changfeng, Lu Yixuan, and Yang Jiuxiao, and the message was only one sentence: What did you see from the great victory at Xifengkou achieved by the 29th Army with a broadsword?

Soon after the news of the victory in Gubeikou came out, the news of the victory in Xifengkou came one after another, and the whole country - the military and the people were overjoyed after hearing the news, and the encouragement of the military and the people was extremely huge.

An Yi's motorcade left Langfang and slowly drove from Guangqumen into the city of Beiping, only to see that the streets near and far were full of celebratory marchers, slogans and banners undulating, and loud slogans and cheers.

An Yi seemed to think of something, staring blankly at the young and excited faces outside the car window, and lost interest in talking for a while.

Yang Jiuxiao, who was in the same car with An Yi, had just obtained the number of the 40th Division of the Central Army, and was still immersed in great joy, he sent Ni Zhiqiang to the camp in Baoding at the Langfang station, and received the number, so he followed An Yi to Gubeikou to have a look, because Huang Yingwu, director of the Political Department of the 17th Army and party representative of the Independent Division, quietly called Yang Jiuxiao from Miyun, saying that he had got a regiment of Northeast Army brothers for Yang Jiuxiao.

Yang Jiuxiao, who was recruiting troops, was ecstatic, he had long thought that Gubeikou was a disaster, and when he learned that An Yi was going to Gubeikou to inspect, he just got his wish, and he didn't even want to sit in the car he had just obtained, and happily huddled together with An Yi, enjoying the scenery outside the window while talking to his heart's content.

After entering the city, Yang Jiuxiao saw the celebratory scene of the boiling sky, Yang Jiuxiao sighed with emotion, looked around, and finally couldn't help but say loudly to An Yi, who was silently looking out the window:

"Commander, look at most of these marches are young students, even if there are not 100,000 along the way, there are 80,000, if 10% of the young people join our 40th Division, the subordinates don't have to worry, and these people are all educated

An Yi woke up from his contemplation and looked at Yang Jiuxiao with an excited face, he knew the meaning of Yang Jiuxiao's words, in order to ensure that there was no ideological interference in the team, and at the same time, he was unwilling to stab all friendly troops to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, An Yi only asked Yang Jiuxiao to recruit troops and horses in Baoding, Langfang, Zhuozhou, and Gaobeidian, and replenish the soldiers. Moreover, almost all of the more than 2,100 people are simple peasant children in Hebei counties, and most of them have never touched a gun, and if they want to become an army, they need at least three to five months of training.

After hesitating for a moment, An Yi suggested: "Brother Jiu, although almost all of the more than 20,000 people in Wang Yizhe's department went to the two generals He Zhuguo and Wan Fulin, and we didn't get any benefits, but the original Tang Yu's more than 30,000 people from the Fifth Army all fled, and according to our intelligence, Song Zheyuan only collected one and a half divisions under his good friend Tang Yulin, about 108,000 people, and the rest have been scattered all over the place so far...... But I always feel that these people can't go far, and they are probably still hiding in Miyun, Huailai, and even Changping, listening to the wind.

"When you get to Miyun, you discuss with Hu Zi and Ying Wu, and see if you can raise your banner and gather all these stragglers, all of them are veterans of the Northeast Army, and they are all veterans who have been trained and seen blood, take them back and beat them with your heart, and toss him for a month according to the training and education methods in our army, it is estimated that you will be able to use them handily."

Yang Jiuxiao smiled, and nodded again and again: "Don't say it, commander, I still have this intention, that is, without your order, I don't dare to act rashly, with the little false name that my younger brother has won in Liaoxi for more than a year, it is estimated that the brothers in the Northeast Army in the old days will be moved regardless of whether they recognize it or not." ”

An Yi thought for a while and added: "Yes, Brother Jiu, you are now a famous anti-Japanese general who shocked the whole country, plus you are a native of the Northeast, the people of the three eastern provinces and the provinces of North China admire you very much, and the officers and men in the army regard you as their own model, if you don't make full use of this huge advantage, it will be a pity."

"Now although the various departments of the Northeast Army are still holding the same signboard, but with the young marshal going into the field, the auxiliary commander Zhang seniors also took the blame and resigned, and went into hiding, and the generals of the Northeast Army who have no backbone have their own ideas, and the various factions that have been divided internally have secretly embraced each other, and the contradictions have been openly laid out.

In the past few days, Chairman Chiang has been worried about the unknown belonging of some of the Northeast Army, and is deeply afraid that they will defect to the Northwest Army, the Jinsui Army, and even the Japanese, which will make it difficult for the Central Committee to lead and make it even more troublesome.

"Brother Jiu, you are from the Northeast Army, you must know that the previous series of defeats of the Northeast Army was not a nest of the brothers of the Northeast Army, but the leading generals were greedy for profit, greedy for life and afraid of death, if you don't believe it, look at Cui Dalin of Wang Yizhe's department and the more than 600 brothers who escaped and were arrested, although they were deserters, they fought very beautifully in the Gubeikou counterattack, and the brothers of the various armies who looked down on them were also admired, and now they are treated like their own brothers. It can be seen that the fault is not them, but their superiors, the soldiers in the army, who say that there are one soldier and one general, this is the truth. ”

Yang Jiuxiao's eyebrows fluttered, and he rubbed his hands excitedly: "Okay, I'll do it tomorrow!" Whatever the fucking shitty people say, what we have now is money, some is equipment, and the military salary is never in arrears compared to the high three percent of the friendly armies, as long as you climb the heights and shout, you dare not say that the servants are like clouds, and it should not be a problem to gather five or six thousand old brothers within ten days, haha!

"By the way, Commander, there is one thing I didn't have time to tell you, although Langfang, where we are resting, is only a small baby with three or four thousand residents, but because it is a transportation hub leading to Tianjin, Shanhaiguan Railway and North-South Highway, and it is also the location of our army's field hospital and temporary military station, each department has sent a company-battalion-sized team to station.

After the subordinates led their troops to station, they began to change their clothes and pay for the army, and the brothers ate white-flour buns, and there was a meal of meat every day, and they wore new wear-resistant camouflage uniforms, wearing steel helmets on their heads, and high-top thick-soled shoes on their feet. If it weren't for the fear of affecting the good relations with friendly forces, Langfang alone would have been able to recall 3,000 men and horses from his subordinates. ”

"No, no! This is not good, the rabbit still does not eat the grass by the nest, we can't do such things, otherwise we will not get along with each other in the future. ”

An Yi then said his own method: "Isn't it easy to recruit soldiers? When you arrive at the Miyun camp tonight, I will immediately gather reporters from all over the country to tell them the news that you have gone from the anti-Japanese detachment to the independent second division, and then to the 40th division of the Central Hood with the approval of the Central Military Commission.

"Also, the independent division of the bearded man and the seventeenth division of my mentor brother are also making a recruitment plan, so let them meet the reporter with you, you are all heroic troops in the eyes of the whole people, and you are all generals from the north, who doesn't admire the drought people in Pingjin? I will then ask the political capital to set up a recruiting office in Tangshan, Beiping, and we will strive to finish this matter within 10 days.

Yang Jiuxiao was overjoyed: "Great! In this way, the subordinates no longer have to worry about the lack of soldiers...... By the way, why didn't my Tiger Head Brother's 44th Division recruit troops? Now they are only half of them. ”

An Yiwan smiled: "Brother Jiu, please rest assured, Brother Yang Bin has sent two brigades north in southern Sichuan, and they will arrive on time within ten days, these two brigades are elite soldiers who have been trained for more than half a year, and the platoon commanders of the grassroots companies have all participated in the Central Plains War and the 129th War. ”

"His uncle's Gu madman, no wonder he is not in a hurry every time he talks on the phone, and from time to time he says a few cool words to Lao Tzu, it turns out that he has already made up his mind...... No, I'll have to knock him well