After a few words of greeting with Li Han, Song Zheyuan went to greet the other guests, compared with the powers of various countries, the political figures in Beiping, Li Han's identity is still a little insufficient, Song Zheyuan can come to greet Li Han, he can already afford him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the guests invited by Song Zheyuan basically arrived together, including the Japanese consul in Beiping, the consuls in Beiping of Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, France, and Italy, and a total of six countries in Beiping, which shows Song Zheyuan's status in the Beiping area.

The 29th Army's exercise was specifically designed to deter the Japanese, so of course it was to shake off its wealth in front of the Japanese.

The newly built viewing platform for the exercise was built in the Fengtai barracks of the 29th Army, which was more than four meters high, and a staircase for the stage was built in the rear, which was large and wide, and the width was on par with the size of the viewing platform, and it was made of reinforced concrete, which looked very atmospheric, and it was obvious that the 29th Army had made a lot of preparations for this exercise.

Before the exercise, a military parade was held, and the military parade at this time was naturally not as grand and luxurious as that of later generations, but the form was similar, that is, to pull the troops out to see and show off their family background.

More than 40,000 people took part in the parade, and the regiment was the unit that walked in front of the viewing platform, and the first person to pass by the viewing platform was Zhang Zizhong's 38th Division, which is now the absolute main force of the 29th Army.

The division has three regular brigades and two independent brigades, with a total strength of nearly 30,000 troops, and each regular brigade has two infantry regiments, one pistol guard company, and each regiment has three infantry battalions, one 82 mortar company, and one machine gun company.

There are four infantry companies in each battalion, three platoons per platoon, three squads in each platoon, and 14 people in each squad plus the chief and deputy squad leaders, and about 14 or 50 people in the whole company, and about 600 people in each battalion.

The 38th Division is equipped with more than 700 light machine guns, which is more than double the number of divisions of the Central Army.

At this time, the 29th Army's combat effectiveness was also in the top few positions in China's army, however, compared with its opponents, the 29th Army's degree of modernization was basically no armored troops and other technical arms, and the mainstream of the 29th Army was still machine guns and artillery, as well as the Northwest Army's characteristic pistol team.

However, although the weapons and equipment of the 29th Army and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers have improved, the thinking of their officers, especially a group of high-ranking personnel headed by Song Zheyuan, is corrupting, not because they have become afraid of death, but because they have become greedy for glory and wealth.

When they faced the persecution of the Japanese again, they did not have the courage to resist to the end before, because once they fought with the Japanese, their current rights and wealth would inevitably be lost.

Of course, it's a bit far, but at present, the morale of the twenty-nine is very strong, and the twenty-nine soldiers are not afraid of the Japanese at all.

During the Great Wall War of Resistance, they were killed and wounded thousands of Japanese soldiers under such difficult conditions, and now there are many generals, there are guns and cannons, and there are enough bullets, and the morale of the soldiers is high, and they can't wait to kill him ten or eight devils at once to relieve their anger.

Eleven regiments lined up in a neat phalanx, "Huo! Clear! The neat footsteps of the soldiers were on the ground, and the concrete floor was vibrating rhythmically with the footsteps of the soldiers.

"One, two, three, four!"

"One, two, three, four!"

Although the soldiers of the 38th Division were not as neatly rehearsed as the military parades in later generations, and they did not step forward when they passed the rostrum, they were even more enthusiastic.

Because all of them were on the field with real guns and live ammunition, all the soldiers' rifles were loaded with bayonets, and they truly performed what it means to be like a forest of knives and guns, and every soldier was also sharp-eyed and murderous. A discerning person knows at a glance that this is an army that has been on the battlefield and a division that has fought a hundred battles with the enemy.

After the infantry is square, it is the division's artillery unit, and the 38th Division is actually equivalent to the size of an army, so his artillery is also one more battalion than several other divisions, with two artillery battalions, a mountain artillery battalion and a field artillery battalion.

Many radical students from the major schools in Peiping have begun to chant the slogan of "Long live the 29th Army," but fortunately they did not shout "Down with Japanese nationalism," otherwise Song Zheyuan would have been embarrassed by now, because the Japanese consul in Beiping, Okita, was also at the scene.

But in any case, the mood of the whole Peiping was completely mobilized by the military exercises of the 29th Army.

"Elite soldiers, the soldiers under General Zhang's command are not bad even with the elite troops of the Central Army!"

Li Han sighed that he was very happy to use the captured artillery of the Fifth Brigade to pull up a two-battalion artillery regiment, thinking that the security army could be regarded as a leader in the national army.

But now, the artillery of a 38th division of the 29th Army has caught up with the number of artillery of his security army. It's really more people than people have to die, and the goods are thrown away.

This was the 29th Army that occupied Hebei, and under the Nanjing government, it was the most prosperous area in China during that period, and the equipment of the Central Army should not be bad. Of course

However, Li Han also knew that the account could not be calculated in this way, the Nanjing government was rich, but it was only relatively speaking, and the Central Army also had more troops and a wider range of places to take care of, and the government could not use all the financial revenue to buy weapons.

Besides, although the Central Army is divided into lineage and miscellaneous cards, no matter how miscellaneous they are, they should always give them weapons, and they must not let the soldiers fight the enemy with their bare hands.

"Commander Li has won the award, but I think your security army is even more powerful, and it has fought several battles with the Japanese in Chahar, and it has not fallen behind at all, and even used 10,000 people to repel a brigade of the Japanese army."

The troops he brought out with his own hands received Li Han's praise, Zhang Zizhong also smiled slightly, and while speaking, he also gave Li Han a thumbs up.

Li Han chuckled lightly twice and didn't speak again, his own family's affairs were known to his family, they were able to defeat the 46th Independent Brigade of the Japanese Army, and the poison gas bomb accounted for a lot of credit.

Besides, their opponent only had one brigade after all, and the Japanese army did not exert all their strength at the beginning, giving him various opportunities to break through, unlike the 29th Army and other national army units on the battlefield of the Great Wall, facing the all-out attack of tens of thousands of Japanese troops.

Although there were a large number of troops participating in the exercise, the actual military parade did not last long, and the main reason why the troops in the exercise wanted to go to the viewing platform was to let the Japanese and other powers feel the strength of the 29th Army, but their theme this time was a military exercise rather than a military parade.

However, I have to say that Song Zheyuan's first goal was achieved, and at this moment, the face of the Japanese consul was ugly, of course, he was not shocked by the 29th Army.

Before the Northeast Army lost the three northeastern provinces, not only was it much larger than the 29th Army, but its weapons and equipment were not comparable to the 29th Army, but the Kwantung Army was not still in the same position.

What really made Otian angry was that the 29th Army had unknowingly grown to such an extent, but their intelligence agency did not report to the North China garrison army and the base camp, and a chill surged behind his neck when he thought of this.

He also knew that the 29th Army had been expanded to four divisions, and the total strength of the 29th Army was estimated according to the regular division of the Central Army of the National Army, but in this way, 29 was at most 50,000 people.

However, now they have more than 40,000 troops in the exercise alone, at least more than 5,000 people from the Guards Brigade of the 29th Army did not participate, and the troops of the other two divisions stationed in various parts of Hebei did not participate in the exercise.

Not only did the difference in strength he expected to be huge, but even the weapons and equipment were very different from what he thought, and the equipment of the 38th Division alone could completely crush an infantry brigade of the empire.

How could this not make the loss of land restless, but the North China garrison army and the Kwantung army were always ready to wave their troops to take North China. If they had according to their previous estimates, dispatching a division plus more than 10,000 troops stationed in North China would be enough to deal with the 29th Army.

Now it seems that if the original plan is carried out, not only will it not succeed, but it will be a surprise and cause the 29th Army to counterattack with all its might, and then they will have to pay a greater price if they want to take Pingjin and Hebei.

After Oda had decided to go back, he immediately reported the situation of the 29th Army to the base camp, and at the same time asked the base camp to strengthen the intelligence penetration of the 29th Army to make up for the negligence during this time.

In fact, it doesn't matter if the Japanese army knows the details of the 29th, the national army does not have many secrets for them, and there are many military secrets for the Japanese garrison at their doorstep.

The most important thing is to look at the determination of the 29th Army to resist Japan, if Song Zheyuan had made every effort to block the Japanese invasion of North China immediately after the July 7 Incident, the Japanese would not have occupied the Pingjin area in just ten days.

Moreover, several divisions of the Central Army were also reinforced at this time, and even if Pingjin could not avoid losing in the end, the Japanese would have to fight for at least a few months at that time, and then fall and fall tens of thousands of people before they could do it.

Two days ago, the North China garrison army conducted a small-scale military exercise against Beiping, and in the blink of an eye, the 29th Army held such a military exercise against the empire.

"Chairman Song, the empire has always advocated Sino-Japanese friendship and hopes to work together with the Nanjing government to establish a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. At the same time, he also hopes to cooperate with Chairman Song to establish an autonomous government in North China and make North China more prosperous.

However, in order to confront the Japanese Empire, Chairman Song held such a large military exercise, did Chairman Song want to start a war with the Empire? ”

Lost field hurriedly walked in front of Song Zheyuan, and said aggressively as soon as they met.