Chapter 217: Dispatch of Troops

As for the indemnity, Chairman Chiang did not believe that Li Han had been in charge of Chahar Province for more than a year, and he would not be able to come up with even five million silver dollars. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

To put it mildly, during this period of time, the smuggling of silver to North China alone was probably more than 50 million silver dollars, and the local forces ostensibly carried out the decree issued by the central government prohibiting the smuggling of silver, but secretly they were the biggest accomplices of the silver smuggling merchants.

"After all, there are 40,000 or 50,000 people in the security army, if we just sit back and watch them all wiped out by the Japanese army and remain indifferent, how will the people of the whole country view the government, and I am afraid it will also have a great impact on the morale of the army." He Yingqin said.

Li Han can ignore the attitude of the central government and start a war with the Japanese, but the central government cannot ignore his total annihilation by the Japanese army, after all, the security army still belongs to the battle sequence of the national army, and Chahar is the territory of the Republic of China.

"Humph! What can we do unless we go to war with the Japanese now. If Li Han hadn't led people to intercept and kill 500 Japanese troops in Yanqing, the Central Army would still have more than 100,000 people in Hebei.

But now in Hebei, except for Song Zheyuan's troops, the Central Army does not even have a single soldier, even if I am willing to order Song Zheyuan to help Li Han, it will be Song Zheyuan's own willingness. ”

Chairman Jiang said depressedly, speaking of which, Li Han is not only not his descendant, but also has nothing to do with him, how can he actually do something to wipe Li Han's ass.

"Commission, no matter what Song Zheyuan's attitude is, the central government at least expresses its own attitude.

Moreover, Li Han's fight with the Japanese army in Chahar was not entirely a bad thing for the central government, at least he attracted the Japanese ideas to Chahar.

Since Li Han dared to go to war with the Japanese, there would always be two brushes, and if the Japanese wanted to completely eliminate the security army, it would definitely not be possible to do it in a short time.

If the central government had secretly supported Li Han, the battle would have dragged on for a longer time, and the central government would have been able to avoid harassment by the Japanese and concentrate on reorganizing the army. He Yingqin said with a smile.

Chairman Chiang also thought about it, since he began to cooperate with the German government, the Japanese have been constantly looking for trouble with the central authorities.

In North China, Guangdong, and Fujian, the Japanese have all had the shadow of the Japanese in several major incidents in which local forces have challenged the authority of the central authorities, and not only that, they have also directly admonished the German government, hoping that the German government will cancel its cooperation with the Nationalist Government.

Fortunately, Germany still urgently needs China's raw material supply, and Hitler did not bother the Japanese government much at this time, so he ignored the Japanese demands.

If the attention of the Japanese had been focused on Chahar, the situation on the part of the central government would have been better, at least until the security forces had been eliminated, and the Japanese would no longer be able to support other local warlords to find their own jobs.

Although this may be a little unfair to Li Han, Chairman Chiang must have considered the problem from the perspective of the whole country, and Li Han was also a small warlord who occupied the land in his eyes, and this time it was he who took the initiative to provoke the Japanese, and he was not just pushing the boat with his hands.

Thinking of this, Chairman Jiang's appreciation for He Yingqin has increased a lot, of course, there has not been an incident of the Xi'an Incident at this time.

Ho Ying-chin has not yet expressed his intention to replace Chairman Chiang as the supreme leader of the government. Of course, if it weren't for that kind of thing, He Yingqin wouldn't have that idea.

"Jingzhi, it seems that you have done a lot of research on this Li Han, but if the central government does not want to fight with the Japanese now, then the central army will not be able to go north, how can you help Li Han drag the Japanese." Chairman Jiang asked with a frown.

Li Han was now fighting the Japanese army, and the best way to support him was to give Li Han reinforcements, but because of the "He-Mei Agreement", the central government could not send troops to North China.

If troops are forcibly sent, not only the Japanese will not agree, but even Song Zheyuan, who is already in charge of Pingjinji, will not agree.

"Commission, the central government can strictly order Song Zheyuan to control the Japanese North China garrison in the Pingjin-Hebei region, and the Japanese North China garrison army now has more than 10,000 troops, which is equivalent to one and a half brigades.

If he joins the battle against Li Han, it will be a very big threat to the security army, and may even directly lead to the destruction of the security army.

Although we cannot send troops to directly support Li Han, the fighting of the troops does not rely on soldiers alone, and we can provide war funds and weapons to the security forces, so as to enhance the combat effectiveness of the security forces.

Moreover, the Ministry of Military Affairs has not paid the security army a military salary for more than a year, and we can hand over the funds to Li Han in the form of military salaries, so that the Japanese will not be able to find an interface with the central government. He Yingqin said confidently.

"Well, do as you say! However, the weapons are counted, and now that the central authorities are reorganizing the troops, and our own weapons are not enough, we will allocate 3 million silver dollars to the security forces as military salaries.

In addition, he sent a telegram to Li Han, saying that if he really couldn't stop the Japanese, he could withdraw to Hebei or Shanxi, and the central government would greet them. ”

After Chairman Jiang finished speaking, he turned around and left, if it wasn't for Li Han to make a big fuss, he wouldn't have had time to take care of Chahar's affairs at all. However, Li Han is the commander of the army, and if he is captured alive or killed by the Japanese, the face of the central government will not be glorious.

Of course, Li Han would not know the reaction of Nanjing, and the all-out war of resistance had not yet officially broken out, and Li Han felt that no warlord except himself would risk offending the Japanese to resist the Japanese with him.

So from the very beginning, he didn't think about who to get reinforcements from, and his plan was to drop as much rice as he wanted.

Of course, Li Han also knew that his idea was a little too much, just like this time the Nanjing government would help him, which he didn't expect before.

After the 31st Wing of the Japanese Army was wiped out, after a morning of repair, Li Han led the army straight to Chengde, and all the Japanese shops were confiscated and the puppet government was overthrown along the way.

Rehe is bordered by Liaoning in the northeast and Beiping in the south, which can be regarded as the hardest hit area for smuggling silver, and in addition, it is also a Japanese occupation area, with the strong support of the Japanese government, there is no pressure on Chinese and Japanese businessmen to smuggle silver here.

However, they would never have dreamed that Li Han would come from Chahar to Rehe, and they all poured blood mold one by one.

After the security forces entered Rehe, there was basically no resistance to the west and south of Rehe, and they were quickly liberated.

All the silver smugglers were arrested, and all the smuggled silver was confiscated, and this seizure alone brought Li Han four million silver dollars.

Kotaro Nakamura, the commander of the 8th Division in Chengde, learned that the 4th Brigade had been severely damaged and that all the jade of the 31st Wing had been shattered, and he sat down on the sofa as if he had been hit by five thunders, but he didn't expect that he would follow in the footsteps of Nishi Yoshiichi after all.

Li Han, a bastard, seems to be born to be the nemesis of the Eighth Division, and he has cheated General Xiyi and now he is coming to pit him again.

Kotaro Nakamura thought that since he became the commander of the 8th Division, he has always strictly restrained his subordinates and told them not to cause trouble for themselves.

Even the commander Nanjiro asked him to make some small moves in Chahar and provoked incidents, which he selectively ignored, but he didn't expect Li Han to still refuse to let himself go, it's really 'uncle can bear it, aunt can't bear it'.

In addition to scolding Suzukita Shin and Muto Nobuyoshi for being stupid and incompetent, Kotaro Nakamura began to concentrate the troops of the Eighth Division scattered throughout Rehe, ready to teach Li Han an arrogant lesson.

Of course, Kotaro Nakamura did not ask the Kwantung Army headquarters for reinforcements, which would be too valuable for him.

Nishiyichi was able to lead the Eighth Division to defeat the three divisions of the Nanjing government and two divisions of the Northeast Army, and he Nakamura Kotaro was no worse than Nishiyichi in any other aspect except that his background was not as deep as Nishiyichi.

And Li Han's security army survived only two divisions, although the intelligence sent by Muto Nobuyoshi before his death showed that there may be more than 10,000 people in one division of the security army, but even these two divisions will not exceed 30,000 people.

As for the other piece of information that Muto Nobuyoshi said, Kotaro Nakamura could only say hehe, no matter how many cannons there are in one army, can there be more than his field artillery wing!

And the battlefield is not only about artillery, it is a question whether the artillery of the security army can be fired, and the aviation of the empire is the nemesis of artillery.

Of course, although Nakamura Kotaro looked down on the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, Li Han was menacing this time, and he killed one and a half of his troops at the beginning, which made Nakamura Kotaro a little nervous.

Counting the four wings directly under the division and regiment, the strength of the eighth division is only eight wings, Li Han killed one and a half at once, and if he came again, the eighth division would directly lose more than half.

It's a pity that even the most ordinary wish of such a gathering of troops cannot be satisfied.

After Lieutenant General Kotaro Nakamura's order was issued, the troops of Rebei and Redong all came to Chengde to line up and assemble.

However, more than 2,000 people from the two infantry brigades of the paddock and Fengning could not come to Chengde to report, not only could they not come, but they also asked Nakamura Kotaro for reinforcements.

Nakamura Kotaro was angry on the spot, thinking: "I asked you to come to Chengde to line up and gather, it doesn't matter if you don't come, I want me to send the people who came to relieve you again." Then when will I be able to concentrate my troops to teach Li Han a lesson! ”

Kotaro Nakamura had to be in a hurry, and the security army entered Rehe and began to quickly liberate all places, and both Resai and Renan were quickly liberated

This made the Eighth Division once again famous among the seventeen permanent divisions of the empire, and its own name was louder than that of Xi Yiyi.

Although the Eighth Division under the leadership of Nishiyichi also suffered heavy losses, Nishiyichi was the aggressor.

Although 'aggressor' is a pejorative term, it represents the strong side, because the weak side cannot be the aggressor.

Now that he Nakamura Kotaro has been reduced to being 'invaded', it is simply the greatest insult that the Imperial Japanese Army has suffered since the Meiji Restoration. If this evil breath doesn't come out, how can I still hold my head up in front of other division commanders.