Dexian is now the political and military center of North China, and before DXP and Chen G's convoy arrived at the county seat of Dexian, they saw a large number of people gathered at the gate of the city from a distance, and there were many people holding banners. \、Qｂ⑤.coM\

When the convoy arrived at the city gate, DXP's eyes were good, and he first saw the words on the banner: "Welcome Mr. Situ Leiden back from danger!" "Yan University students welcome President Stuart Leiden!"

"It seems that we have made a fool of ourselves, and we welcome Stuart Leiden." Chen G shook his head and sighed, as if he was very sorry for whether he welcomed them or not, and DXP couldn't help but laugh.

The squadron invaded eastern Hebei and liberated a concentration camp in Luanxian, where a large number of British and American people were imprisoned, these British and American people were British and American expatriates in North China who were detained by Japan after the Pearl Harbor incident, most of these expatriates were originally imprisoned in the Weixian area, after the squadron occupied Xuzhou, Okamura Ningji ordered these expatriates to be transferred to the Tongzhou area, and before the North China War, these people were transferred to Luan County, and a temporary concentration camp was built in Luan County.

During the Battle of North China, the military situation was tense, and Umezu Mijiro began to be very confident in holding Tangshan, but after the destruction of the entire army of Shozo by the riverside, the Kwantung Army retreated urgently, and it was too late to deal with the concentration camps, and these people were only expatriates, but some of them were famous people, the most famous of which was Situ Leiden.

Stuart Redden, an American who was born in China and spent most of his sixty-eight years of life in China, was a renowned education expert and president of Yenching University, and "under his leadership" Yenching grew into one of China's most famous universities.

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Nationalist Government once sent people to hope that Situ Leiden would relocate Yenching University inward, but Situ Leiden refused: "Situ Leiden believes that the War of Resistance is a protracted process, and the Chinese people in the occupied areas need education to resist the enslavement education promoted by the Japanese, and Yenching University should become a banner of resistance in the occupied areas."

In the following four years, Yenching University has always insisted on running the school on its own and refused to cooperate with the Japanese occupation forces, "The university campus became the base camp of teachers and students in the Anti-Japanese War, and the teachers and students engaged in various anti-Japanese activities under the dark support of Situ Leiden.

On the eve of the outbreak of the Pacific War, the US Government was already aware that war might break out at any time, and the consul of the US Consulate in Peiping personally visited Situ Leiden, hoping that he could leave Beiping and go to the rear, but Situ Leiden still refused.

"But he knows better that as the president of Yenching University, he has become a symbol of resistance in the minds of all students of Yenching University, and Yenching University is a symbol of resistance in the education community of Beiping.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Stuart and all foreign faculty members at Yenching University were arrested, but he was at odds with others: "The United States also detained Japanese diplomats and expatriates in the United States, and the United States government negotiated the exchange of diplomatic personnel with the Japanese government in the neutral country of Switzerland in accordance with diplomatic practice."

During the negotiations, the U.S. government explicitly demanded that Stuart be included in the exchange list, and the Japanese government rejected this request, which reminded the Japanese government that it believed that this was a strange commodity and should be saved for the important time. It was based on this judgment that Situ Leiden was not sent to a concentration camp in Weixian, but was detained in Beiping.

Before the Battle of North China, Okamura felt that Beiping might be besieged, and it was useless to keep Situ Leiden in Beiping, so he sent Situ Leiden to Luan County and other British and American expatriates in a pot, and after these British and American expatriates were rescued, they were not immediately sent back, but stayed in the Tangshan area.

Zhuang Jihua did not go to Luan County, but he also sent people to Luan County to visit and place these rescued British and American people on his behalf. However, Situ Leiden did not agree, his reputation was too high, Zhuang Jihua sent Li Zhilong, who had just returned, to visit Situ Leiden, and specially told him to meet all Situ Leiden's requirements.

But today's welcome ceremony, Zhuang Jihua did not appear at the Chengmen of Dexian County, the results of the North China Battle are unprecedented, but the consumption is also amazing, from the point of view of casualties, it is not very large, the army's firepower has been greatly enhanced, the casualties of the Chinese and Japanese armies are the recent, the Japanese casualties for the first time across the squadron, the entire North China battle, the North China Theater army casualties are only more than 210,000, of which more than 80,000 are killed, more than 60,000 are seriously wounded, and about 70,000 are lightly wounded.

The most consumed is materials, the base of artillery shells in the North China Theater has dropped to a base, the base of tank fuel has dropped to a dangerous half of the base, bullets and grenades are fine, but the most serious is food, as Chen G, nearly 10 million people are pointing to him to eat, after a big quarrel with Hong Junqi that day, Hong Junqi finally promised to stop all military transportation within ten days, and make every effort to gather 50 million kilograms of grain to North China, and let Zhuang Jihua solve the rest by himself in the North China Theater.

Hong Junqi clearly told Zhuang Jihua that Xinjiang needs food, weapons and ammunition to counter the insurgency, and that the capacity of the Dilan railway is limited, and that a special unit of the rebels has recently infiltrated the Hami area to sabotage the railway, and also attacked the convoy of troops, and the railway is in arrears from time to time. Almost all of the cars in the Eighth Theater were requisitioned for this transportation of food, weapons and ammunition, and Bai Chongxi was very dissatisfied with the assembly and logistics of the army, so Hong Junqi had no choice but to transfer to him the plane that was originally used to transport supplies for the North China Theater.

Zhuang Jihua did not have the slightest example of this, he could also use sufficient manpower to send supplies to the front line, but Bai Chongxi did not have any example, the Battle of North China had reached the final stage, the large-scale military operation had ended, and Tianjin was left in Beiping.

In addition to Beiping and Tianjin, Wei Lihuang reached the Zhongmen G frontier without a large-scale battle, and the 300,000 troops were waiting to fight, and the attack on Meng Gu was already on the line, but it stopped, and the reason was also trapped in food and ammunition.

Where to get food? Zhuang Jihua was almost sad to death, Feng Yi suggested collecting grain in Shandong and Henan, but Zhuang Jihua refused, Zhuang Jihua thought that the order to exempt Shandong and Henan from agricultural taxes for one year had not yet passed, and the government could not break its promise, if it broke its promise because of temporary difficulties, how to win the trust of the people in the future.

In desperation, Zhuang Jihua asked Mei Yuntian for help again, and Mei Yuntian bought 1,000 kilograms of grain in Myanmar and transported it to North China through the Yunnan-Burma Road.

"100 million kilograms of grain is a lot, in fact, each person is only 10 kilograms, saving a little can eat for a month, what about a month later?" Feng Yi sighed and asked Zhuang Jihua.

"It's all up to the rear," Cai Tingcuo frowned and said: "We must drive the people to produce to help themselves, and at the same time inform the whole country of the difficulties in North China, and ask the local salvation associations to drive the people to donate voluntarily. ”

Cai Ting's wrong idea was taken by Zhuang Jihua, and the local salvation associations began to take action, Jia Zhongxian was in Henan, and He Siyuan issued a call to the people of Shandong, "All for the war of resistance!" The Yuzhou Evening News and the Central Daily reported on the difficulties of the refugees in North China, and the rear once again initiated a fund-raising campaign, and Henan, Shandong, which had just survived the famine, also donated more than 10 million pieces of grain, which were transported to North China through the Tianjin-Pudong Railway and the Pinghan Railway.

This series of methods made Zhuang Jihua sigh of relief, but food was only one of the things that bothered him, and the other annoyance was that after Bai Chongxi took up Xinjiang, Chiang Kai-shek transferred a large number of troops from various theaters, and the North China Theater was also transferred troops.

Zhuang Jihua ordered the Third Army of the 52nd Group Army and the 98th Army of the 31st Group Army, which had just encircled and annihilated the 33rd Group Army by the riverside, to Xinjiang. The two armies were assembling in Zhengzhou, preparing to transport them along the Longhai Railway to Xi'an, then to Lanzhou, and then to Xinjiang via the Dilan Railway.

However, neither the Third Army nor the 98th Army refused to go to Xinjiang, among which the most vetoed was the 98th Army, the 98th Army was mainly composed of Yang Hucheng's Northwest Army, and the army commander Wu Shimin's attitude in the Xi'an Incident was to resolutely support Yang Hucheng, so this army has been suppressed in the Kuomintang army, the situation is bleak, and the military salary and equipment have been lacking.

After the 98th Army was included in the 31st Group Army, Tang Enbo tried to reorganize this army several times, but was blocked back by Wu Shimin, and Tang Enbo piled him up like a hedgehog, wanting to eat but unable to eat, but he refused to throw it away like this.

After Zhuang Jihua took up the post of North China, he did not take special care of the 98th Army, but the news from Deng Yandana that Wu Shimin had agreed to join the third party, but the news obtained by Zhuang Jihua when he joined the army was GC in the 98th Army. The event is very powerful, the GC of the military commander Takeshi Min. It was not Zhuang Jihua's idea to transfer the 98th Army to the concubine, but Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered it, Zhuang Jihua guessed Chiang Kai-shek's purpose, and after the 98th Army arrived in Xinjiang and joined the counterinsurgency, on the one hand, it could cut off his ties with it: on the other hand, it could lay the foundation for reorganization.

At present, the army in Xinjiang is either the Central Army or the Northwest Army and the Xinjiang Provincial Army, which have no connection with each other, and the Xinjiang Provincial Army has been fighting against Xinjiang separatists for a long time.

But what made it difficult for Zhuang Jihua was that Cai Tingcuo urgently informed him that the commander of the 98th Army, Wu Shiminji, and the main generals in the army had joined the third party, hoping that he could find an example to keep the 98th Army in North China. On the one hand, Zhuang Jihua gave an order to Wu Shimin, ordering the 98th Army to assemble on the Longhai Line, and on the other hand, he did not urge the 98th Army to speed up its actions.

On the grounds that the war had just ended, the army was fatigued, and the material losses were serious, Wu Shimin and Tang Huaiyuan of the Third Army asked the theater command to suspend the movement, but Zhuang Jihua did not persuade him and transferred the situation to Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek was also tricky to hold, according to military common sense, after such a big battle, the army would have to rest for two to three months, and theoretically could not find any loopholes in the two armies.

Chiang Kai-shek received the telegram and did not urge again, the capacity of the Dilan Railway was tight, and the troops transferred from all over the country were inexhaustibly assembling in Dihua, before Bai Chongxi, after Hu Zongnan arrived in Dihua, the first thing was to rush to repair the airport near Dihua, and when Bai Chongxi arrived, three airfields near Dihua had been built, plus the original three airfields, the number of airfields near Dihua that could take off and land bombers at Exit B had reached six, and two radar stations had also been built.

When Chen G and DXP arrived at the headquarters, Zhuang Jihua was discussing with Xu Zuyi about the attack on Tianjin, and when he heard Chen G coming, Zhuang Jihua couldn't help but have a layer of anger on his face, and he was very no

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