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Chapter 1188 - Preemptive Strike (12)

In the east of Xinfeng Town on the south bank of the Wei River, artillery fire roared and gunfire was endless, and Wang Yizhebu of the Northeast Army, who occupied favorable terrain, was very calm and held back. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the fierce battle from the beginning of the early morning to two o'clock in the afternoon, the two sides suffered heavy losses, and the two divisions of the Northeast Army took the initiative to withdraw from Weinan and retreated to the front line of Xinfeng, withstanding the two-way onslaught of the well-equipped and morale-like Central Teaching Corps, and gradually recovering the declining momentum, grasping the initiative little by little.

On the Daiwangmiao Heights south of Xinfeng Town, Wang Yizhe, commander of the 67th Army, held up a telescope to observe the forward positions filled with gunsmoke, and the corpses and four burning British tanks left by the officers and men of the Central Teaching Corps were vividly visible, and scattered German-style steel helmets and Mauser rifles with bayonets abounded.

However, the officers and men of the Teaching Corps, who had retreated to the offensive position, were still gradually assembling and were apparently preparing to devote all the reserves of the two regiments to a more intense attack.

Wang Yizhe sighed, his heart swelled with sourness, the reason why he ordered the two divisions under his command to withdraw from Weinan was to gain time, stop the fighting, and avoid greater casualties on both sides, but now it seems that the teaching corps has been red-eyed if it does not stop, and the 67th Army, as the main force defending Xi'an, can no longer retreat, and if it retreats, it will retreat to Lintong, and then Xi'an City will be in chaos, and anything can happen.

"Report to the military seat, the armored regiment is ordered to come and reinforce! Division Commander Liu's independent division also came with our regiment. ”

Colonel Liu Yuze, the commander of the armored regiment who ran up, reported loudly.

Wang Yizhe turned around and jumped off the ridge, saluted back, and then patted Liu Yuze on the shoulder cordially: "Xiao Qi, you guys came quite quickly, how about it?" You ready? ”

"Everything is ready, just wait for the military seat to give the order! Our armored regiment has been training hard for a long time, and as long as the military seat gives an order, it will definitely not give the Central Army on the opposite side the slightest chance to return the phone! ”

Liu Yuze was very excited, his eyes flashed with the intensity of seeking battle, and it was undoubtedly the greatest honor to be able to obtain the respect of Wang Yizhe, who was extremely respected and loved by the Lingquan soldiers.

The surrounding generals laughed when they heard this, and Wang Yizhe nodded: "Okay!" The current situation is that we can no longer retreat, and the current short truce is only a prelude to a larger battle, and the Central Army on the opposite side has obviously killed the red eye, and is gathering forces and preparing to launch a large-scale offensive.

"Xiao Qi, I'll give you half an hour to prepare, and when the enemy's charge begins, your armored regiment will meet it at full speed, kill a passage with the strongest firepower, disrupt the enemy's charging formation from the front, deter its main force, and then drive at full speed, along the railway straight into the rear of the enemy's Chinese army Yejiapo, and give me Gui Yongqing's headquarters flat!"

"Our two divisions will launch a counter-charge on your flanks, and the cavalry regiment will deal with the enemy's artillery positions, you don't need to worry, you just lead your troops to charge and fight. In this battle, we must fight back to Weinan in one go, teach the Central Army in front of us a hard lesson, and take Weinan back! ”

"Yes!"

Liu Yuze replied excitedly.

"Ah, An Jiajun's plane is here again......"

Wu Keren, deputy commander and commander of the 117th Division, cried out in annoyance.

Wang Yizhe and the generals hurriedly looked up and watched, and were surprised to find that the dozen or so fighters in the sky were very different from the previous routine reconnaissance; three A25 attack planes were constantly circling, and a full six large bombers, under the cover of the two groups of attack planes, suddenly lowered their altitude, made a huge roar, and flew over the open ground between the warring positions of the two armies; under the stunned gaze of more than 50,000 officers and men on both sides of the war, they dropped a series of bombshells one after another, and earth-shattering explosions rang out one after another, and huge fireballs and thick smoke rose into the skyIn the open area, the mud and rocks rushed to the sky in a blink of an eye, a mess, and the flames and smoke that soared into the sky covered the sky.

After the plane finished dropping its bombs, it flew away, and several reconnaissance planes hovered high over the battlefield and continued to monitor, and under the ground, a zone of more than 300 meters long was blazing with flames, and the blazing air was filled with gunpowder smoke and the unpleasant pungent smell of chemicals.

Wang Yizhe, who was covered in dust, got up from the ground and looked at the formation of An Jiajun fighters flying south, his mood was extremely heavy, thinking of the armistice order he received from An Yi in the morning, and he understood that this was a stern warning issued by An Yi.

If these bombs fall on the positions of the headquarters, I am afraid that this battle will no longer be able to be fought, and the main forces of the various units, including the armored regiment, will end up with heavy losses.

The surrounding generals got up, shook off the dust on their bodies, pointed to the sky and scolded, how ugly it sounded, Wang Yizhe shouted loudly to stop everyone, and said "The people are merciful", so that everyone understood, and soon under Wang Yizhe's order, they left dejectedly.

At this time, Jin Kuibi, the chief of the operations department, urgently reported: "Military seat, the assault brigade of the 44th Division of the Anjia Army has crossed the cordon 15 kilometers south of our side, and the next two brigades and an armored battalion are constantly pouring towards the battlefield. ”

Wang Yizhe was taken aback: "Kuibi, you should go there immediately and in person, and you must meet General Wu Liheng, the commander of the joint logistics who led the 44th Division, and personally ask him what is going on." General An Yi, commander of the An Jiajun, sent a telegram to the young marshal in the morning, clearly opposing the fighting between the two sides, saying that his army would never take the initiative to attack Xi'an and occupy Hanzhong and Shangluo in order to resolve the incident peacefully. Now that his 44th Division is suddenly heading north and forcing us to the main battlefield where we are fighting with the Central Army, what do you want to do? I immediately telegraphed to the major marshal to report that all units of the army had ceased all military operations and were ready to wait for orders at any time. ”

At 2:50 p.m., Yejiapo, east of the battlefield, the front headquarters of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps.

Lieutenant General Captain Gui Yongqing, Chief of Staff Fu Zhaoqi, and more than a dozen other generals and colonels stood behind the bunkers on the slope of the mountain, looking at the open position in front of them with raging flames and smoke, and there was silence.

On the sortie positions a little earlier, more than 10,000 officers and men who were ready to attack were completely unprepared for this sudden situation, and they still did not wake up from the huge explosions that shook the mountains just now, and the officers at all levels gradually became timid in their hearts and did not dare to move, for fear that the planes of the An Jiajun Army, whose friends or enemies were unknown, would again bomb fiercely.

"Old Fu, it seems that you have to work hard, go to the south of Bawangzhuang to meet that bearded Wu Liheng, and ask him what he wants to do? Do you want to go against my Central Military Academy Teaching Corps? Gui Yongqing gritted his teeth and ordered the chief of staff beside him.

Fu Zhaoyu hesitated: "It is estimated that it is more useful to call Senior Brother An immediately to ask, Senior Brother An in the name of the Military Commission, two consecutive armistice orders have been issued, and we have not replied to him, it is likely to annoy him because of this, so I sent planes to make trouble with the 44th Division, and my subordinates are worried that these generals of the An Family Army really dare to fight." ”

Gui Yongqing looked up at the reconnaissance plane hovering in the sky, and shook his head helplessly: "No matter what, you should go for a trip, I will call the Military Commission and Commander-in-Chief He to report, and by the way, ask Senior Brother An what he wants to do." ”

"It's good! I'll go. ”

Fu Zhaoyu took the adjutant, strode down the hill, called the two guards to jump on the military vehicle parked on the side of the road, and drove south.

Gui Yongqing returned to the bunker, the communications staff officer hurriedly met him, handed him a telegram, Gui Yongqing read He Yingqin's order to "stop advancing, lead the troops to return to Tongguan to stand by", a faint sigh, his face was full of frustration, he vaguely realized that Nanjing might have changed, otherwise, He Yingqin, who was bent on a resolute crusade against the war, would not have given such an order, and the Luoyang Air Force controlled by Zhu Shaozhou would not have come to help in the war, and the two divisions of the Central Army stationed in Luoyang and Huayin were said to have stopped advancing and waited for further orders from the Military Commission.

Baoji, Shaanxi, Headquarters of the First Army of the Central Army.

Hu Zongnan, deputy army commander Fan Hanjie, deputy division commanders Li Wen and Luo Lie, 78th Division commander Ding Delong, brigade commanders Li Zhengxian, Zhan Zhongyan, Wen Chaozhi, Liao Ang and other Whampoa generals greeted them out of the camp, and hurriedly saluted Guan Linzheng, Wang Yaowu, Li Jilan and other brothers who hurried by car, exchanged a little greeting, and walked to the headquarters together.

At noon on the day of the Xi'an Incident, Guan Linzheng, who was leading his troops to suppress the Communist Party together with Ma Hongkui, commander of the Ma Jiajun Army, in Yinchuan, Gansu Province, received a phone call from Hu Zongnan, and was shocked to learn that Chiang Kai-shek had been detained. After a while, representatives of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng suddenly arrived and wooed Ma Hongkui, chairman of Gansu Province, to jointly oppose the central government.

Ma Hongkui and Hu Zongnan had a very stiff relationship, but he had a deep friendship with Guan Linzheng, and when he heard the words of Zhang and Yang, he was taken aback, and shirked the importance of this matter and allowed consideration, and after sending Zhang and Yang's representatives, Guan Linzheng came later, Guan Linzheng was strong Chen Dayi, and said angrily:

"The situation is critical, and everything is in Chairman Ma's thoughts. If you want to cooperate with Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng and disobey the central government, please detain me; If you decide to continue to follow the central authorities, you should detain the deputies of Zhang and Yang, and you must not deal with them both ways, otherwise you will not please anywhere. ”

Ma Hongkui listened to Guan Linzheng's words and made a decision on the spot: "Yudong (Guan Linzheng), don't you know that I am obedient to the central government and loyal to Jiang Gong?" I immediately put Zhang and Yang's representatives under house arrest. ”

Ma Hongkui's uncle was beside him, and when he saw this situation, he said: "Hongkui! At this time, you had better swear your brothers. ”

When Ma Hongkui heard this, he knelt on the ground, and Guan Linzheng also knelt on the ground, swore to the sky, and became brothers.

Three days ago, Guan Linzheng and the surrounding divisions of the Huangpu generals were ordered by He Yingqin to lead their troops to besiege Xi'an, yesterday afternoon on the way to receive a secret telegram from An Yi, the generals met together, and found that An Yi sent a secret telegram to each of the leading generals, giving a detailed report on the situation in Nanjing, stating the stakes of the siege of Xi'an, and the serious consequences that may lead to the death of the principal, suggesting that all departments stop advancing and wait for further orders from the Central Military Commission, instead of following the orders of He Yingqin's so-called thief command, and finally tell everyone very frankly in the name of his junior brother:

The 16th Division has been successfully stationed in Nanjing, and under the leadership of the Supreme Council of the Central Military Commission, composed of Commander Gu Zhenglun, Feng Yuxiang, Li Liejun, Zhu Peide, and other veterans, it is striving to rescue the principal as quickly as possible through military oppression, political mediation, and influence of public opinion, so as to avoid another split and civil war in the whole of China, and to prevent the Japanese invaders from taking advantage of the situation and invading them in an all-out way.

After Guan Linzheng discussed with Wang Yaowu and others, he immediately contacted Hu Zongnan, so there was this Baoji gathering.