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Chapter 760: Mutation

Due to Chiang Kai-shek's strong support for his brother Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Xueliang's close friend Song Ziwen, Minister of Industry Kong Xiangxi, Minister of Organization Chen Guofu and other powerful figures of the central government also expressed their support for Zhang Xueliang in taking charge of North China affairs. Sun Ke, who had been eyeing him all along, also stopped attacking Zhang Xueliang in order to return to the core of the central leadership, and subtly claimed that he had "high hopes" for the new government in Beiping. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Jingwei's resignation greatly improved Zhang Xueliang's political situation, so the Beiping military and political conference that began on the 9th took only one day, and it was a routine procedure to determine Zhang Xueliang's unshakable core leadership position in North China, and to give Zhang Xueliang greater military and political jurisdiction.

At this point, Zhang Xueliang and the generals of the Northeast Army finally made up their minds and expressed their support for the central government and the Central Military Commission, and since then a consensus has been formed to prepare for the War of Resistance in unison.

In the early morning of 10 July, a special train carrying Zhang Xueliang and other civil and military officials of the Northeast Army and most of the representatives of the central delegation left Beijing in the cold wind of the call sign, quietly headed south, and headed to Hankou to report to Chairman Chiang, who was directing the attack there, to discuss how to deal with the critical situation in North China's rapid decline.

The young marshal hurriedly went south this time, nominally as a routine debriefing to discuss the economic development plan for Beiping and North China in the coming year and various specific measures for the people's livelihood, but in fact it was because during the meeting he suddenly obtained an important piece of news: The Soviet Russian radio station and the Japanese newspaper reported at the same time that Soviet and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Garrahan and the Japanese Emperor's Chargé d'Affaires Tenha, who was visiting Moscow, jointly held a press conference to announce that Soviet Russia and Japan had reached a consensus in many aspects through friendly consultations, and it was expected that the "Russia and Japan" would be smoothly concludedand the Non-Aggression Pact of the Three Kingdoms".

As soon as this news was announced, it immediately caused an uproar around the world, and the European and American powers quickly adjusted their Asian strategies to protect their vested interests in Asia, especially in China. The Chinese government and the Chinese people have become the biggest victims of Soviet Russia's gross interference in China's internal affairs and its brazen support for the traitorous government in northeast China that split China. This move by the Soviet government is tantamount to clearly telling the world that it supports the independent establishment of the country by the puppet Manchu separatist forces in Northeast China, supports the separation of Northeast China from Chinese soil, and recognizes the legitimacy and independence of the puppet Manchu government. Soviet Russia was so sinister and hostile and humiliating and contemptuous of the Chinese government and people, which finally aroused the indignation of the entire Chinese people, and countless Chinese were originally full of yearning and identification with the Soviet Union, which claimed to be "the most progressive and civilized Soviet republic of mankind", but now in the face of the cruel reality, they have become desperate and sad, and even have great hatred in their hearts.

In the face of such naked humiliation and provocation by Japan and Soviet Russia, the central government in Nanjing was helpless except for resolute opposition and strong protest, and all the central and local governments were shrouded in an atmosphere of pessimism and disappointment, and almost everyone clearly saw that the Japanese had completed their war preparations for aggression against China, and a major war between China and Japan was about to break out, and North China was the place where North China bore the brunt of the disaster.

It was also at such a critical juncture that the young marshal Zhang Xueliang and the officers and men of the Northeast Army could no longer sit still, and the original divergent opinions were instantly unified, whether they sincerely rose up or pretended to resist the war, no one dared to put forward the opinion of passively retreating and seeking perfection, because the Northeast Army, which had lost the Northeast Army, which had already disappointed the whole Chinese fathers and villagers, no longer had any way to retreat, and the two-day road in front of them became very clear: either fight with all your bloody strength, or completely sink and once again become a sinner of the country and the nation.

Two hours after the young marshal Zhang Xueliang hurriedly went south, An Yi and his team, under the personal care of Zhang Zuoxiang, the auxiliary commander of the Northeast Army, and General Yu Xuezhong, the commander of the Pingjin garrison, quietly moved out of the marshal's mansion and went to the Tangshan Hot Springs on the outskirts of the city, where they were stationed in the Tangshan Pavilion of the Central Government, which had been purchased and vigorously expanded by the central government three years earlier.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of the 10th, the guard unit of the Northeast Army Headquarters, which served as the escort of the Tangshan Hotel, finally saw the arrival of the mysterious elite unit of An Jiajun, the special service group directly under An Yi.

After a brief meeting between the two sides, the defense handover was quickly carried out, and the brothers of the Northeast Army saw more than 1,500 officers and men of the special service regiment wearing winter camouflage uniforms and possessing all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment, dozens of off-road jeeps sprayed with camouflage and equipped with heavy machine guns, 10-wheeled personnel carriers covered with camouflage nets, new modified fuel tankers more than eight meters long, two box-type medical vehicles painted with the Red Cross logo, and two box-type communication command vehicles with strange antennas erected squarely. He was envious of the equipment of the Anjia Army and the strict military discipline of the officers and soldiers.

From this moment on, it was heralded that the An Jiajun had officially entered the North China battlefield in accordance with the secret agreement signed with the Northeast Army, and the arrival of the special service group meant that the other three main divisions of the Central Army, which were well-known throughout the country, would not be too far from here.

On the balcony of the second floor of the main building of the hotel, Huang Shaohong looked around at the light and dark checkpoints and firepower points, gathering points, and observation posts deployed by An Yi's special service group in just half an hour, and asked An Yi from time to time in a low voice about the significance of choosing and setting up a certain warning point around him.

This is the first time Huang Shaohong has seen the formal military deployment and action of the An Jia Army, although it is only a regiment of troops within a radius of two kilometers of the defense arrangement, but every detail of it shows the speed and efficiency, so that Huang Shaohong sighed, deeply impressed, he knows that the reason why these officers and soldiers in front of him can reach such a high military level, absolutely not a day or two can be trained, from the analysis of the action, coordination, equipment, subordination and other aspects of this elite army, the reason why the An Jia Army has the world's strongest combat effectiveness, Not surprising at all.

Neither Huang Shaohong nor An Yi followed the young marshal Zhang Xueliang to Hankou, and the sudden situation forced Chiang Kai-shek to attach great importance to the imminent Sino-Japanese war.

According to the secret order sent by Chiang Kai-shek, the Central Military Commission will set up a staff group of the Central Military Commission within a few days, and transfer five main divisions to quickly form the 17th Army to fight the war in the north. More than 50 senior generals of various departments under the Central Military Commission and outstanding staff officers drawn from various armies are gathering in Hankou one after another to form a staff group and head north; Huang Shaohong was appointed chief of the staff group, while An Yi and Major Marshal Zhang Xueliang set up the North China Command together to jointly command the military operations of the armies of various units according to the original arrangement. Therefore, both Huang Shaohong and An Yi continued to stay in Beiping, closely monitoring the movements of the Japanese army together with the generals of the Northeast Army Command who remained behind, quietly making targeted military deployments, and cooperating with each other to formulate the most perfect possible action plan.

"This tanker truck is really big, it can hold at least five tons of oil, right?" Huang Shaohong asked.

An Yi looked at the tanker truck that slowly drove into the warehouse on the west side, and explained in a low voice: "If you load water, you can hold more than five tons, gasoline is relatively light, these two oil tanks look very big, in fact, they can hold four tons when the sky is in the sky." Originally, our Jiangnan Automobile Factory modified a tank truck that could pull eight tons on the basis of heavy trucks used by the United States, but on the way from Nanchang to Suzhou, many small bridges could not be crossed, causing a company of sappers to work very hard, and they were busy paving bridges and roads from beginning to end. After analyzing the highway construction data of seven provinces in the Yangtze River basin, we stopped the modification of heavy vehicles of more than five tons, and made every effort to produce and modify various trucks of two to five tons according to the actual situation of China's roads. At present, General Hu Jialin's independent division, the First Army, the Second Army, and the General Headquarters of the Suppression are equipped with seven, the headquarters of the 24 th Army and each division have one each, and the younger brother has two by himself by virtue of his official position, so as to facilitate communication with the front and rear departments. ”

Huang Shaohong was envious: "Tsk, your regiment is equipped with nearly 60 large and small military vehicles, which is more than many local troops in one army or even a group army, and the transportation, operations, logistics and ambulance are all complete, how can people compare with you?" I estimate that the elite troops of your regiment can easily annihilate a division if they are pulled out. ”

An Yi hurriedly explained: "This is only the junior brother's direct regiment has this ability, the other divisions are not comparable, if it is not for the needs of command, the younger brother is not willing to occupy so many resources by himself, as soon as the burden is really fought, this regiment will shoulder the arduous task of defending the entire headquarters, if necessary, it will also divide one or several divisions to support the battle of each division, it is a reserve force mainly to defend the vigilance, and it will not work if it is not strengthened." ”

Huang Shaohong smiled: "It is very suitable for you to choose the more remote Changping Wohu Mountain garrison, which will not affect the existing deployment of the Northeast Army, but also solve the problem of supply logistics and troop security vigilance...... When will several of your divisions arrive? ”

"The independent division has arrived in Baoding, and is secretly stationed in the large camp on the outskirts of Baoding of the Northeast Army, waiting for further instructions; after the 17th Division has replenished its troop resources, it has conducted short-term training, and is currently making final preparations at the Chuzhou garrison, and it is expected to arrive within three days. The 44th Division led by Gu Changfeng disembarked at Hankou in the middle of the night tonight, and they will take two special trains to the north in batches, and I will have them stationed here as my strategic reserve. Because the target was too big, it was estimated that the whereabouts of the three divisions could not be hidden, at least the Japanese should know that the independent division had arrived in Baoding, so we simply drove it generously to give the Japanese a kind of silent deterrent. An Yi shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Huang Shaohong shook his head helplessly when he heard this, in the past two days, he found from a large amount of confidential information that An Yi had read to him that the intelligence agencies of the Japanese army had infiltrated every corner of North China, especially in the army on the front line of the Great Wall and the Suiyuan region where the Northeast Army was stationed, and many generals were hesitant about the decision to fight the war, which was very subtle and extremely safely secure; In the city of Beiping, in addition to the Japanese embassy in Dongjiaomin Lane, An Yi's intelligence delineated as many as eleven intelligence points of the Japanese puppet military and political departments, these intelligence points are all under the guise of Japanese trading companies, chambers of commerce in Beiping in Northeast China, cultural institutions of various names and even charities, and more seriously, more than ten senior officials at or above the director level in the administrative system under the command of the young marshal have frequent contacts with the above Japanese pseudo-intelligence points, and the evidence listed is very conclusive and detailed, which shocked Huang Shaohong. I also have to marvel at An Yi's intelligence detection ability.

"The Japanese have been painstakingly running the Northeast for nearly 20 years, and the Northeast Army can be said to have developed and grown with its support, and their claws have penetrated into all strata of the Northeast Army and stretched out to North China, which is not difficult to imagine, but the foolish brother never thought that the situation would reach such a serious and dangerous state, no wonder you did not say a word at various meetings, never expressed your position on any issues, it turned out that you had such concerns. Brother, are you going to tell the young marshal or the assistant marshal about those Japanese pseudo-suspects? Huang Shaohong asked curiously.

An Yi shook his head: "No, we have to wait for the opportunity, after all, many spies have a certain status in the Northeast Army, and their backgrounds and social relations are complicated, and our sideways intervention will cause the Northeast Army to be unhappy, so until the last moment, the younger brother will not take the initiative to find out." I intend to concentrate my forces and use all means to eradicate those Japanese puppet intelligence stations that do not belong to the Northeast Army system and have already been confirmed, and strive to get rid of the Japanese troops before they make a move, and to remove as quickly as possible the ears and eyes of the Japanese invaders in Beiping, Tianjin, Langfang, Baoding, and other places, so as to strengthen the secrecy of the military operations of our anti-Japanese army, such as the mobilization of various units and logistical supply, and so on, and to provoke the Japanese troops and the puppet Manchurian regime to provoke the invading Japanese troops, and to provoke the puppet Manchurian regime, as long as they are angry, they are prone to make mistakes, and as long as they make mistakes, it will be beneficial to our operations. ”

Huang Shaohong felt very reasonable, nodded in approval, he stared into An Yi's eyes, and said with a smile: "Brother, it is a terrible thing to be an enemy of you, fortunately we are comrades in the same trench, otherwise we wouldn't even be able to sleep well at night!" ”

An Yi smiled bitterly and waved his hand: "Big brother, don't dare to praise the little brother so much, to tell you the truth, it's not the little brother who is terrible, but the upcoming crisis, you look at it, within two days, there will be a crowd of people fleeing from the battle-clouded Beiping City, all kinds of order will be chaotic, people who fish in troubled waters will run rampant, ill-intentioned people and clowns will come out of the foreground, those in the Northeast Army who have been bought by the Japanese or are timid and afraid are likely to jump out and shout, at this time, this situation, It's not something that outsiders like the eldest brother and the younger brother can control, although you and I both represent the central government, represent the highest authority, and are both Kipchak ministers with heavy responsibilities, but, after all, North China is not Jiangnan! The younger brother is now worried and worried, and he has no bottom in his heart, so he can only do his best......"