Chapter 55: A Letter to the Compatriots in the Northeast

(First of all, this is a big chapter, and it covers a lot of knowledge, so I don't hide it from you, and I wrote it for four hours.) Because of the fear of Ma Zhanshan, Li Du and other generals of the Northeast Army were reluctant to rush to reinforcements, Zhang Xinghan thought about it and decided to write a letter to the Northeast compatriots, "I have recently learned that the thief's heart is not dead, and he has gathered heavy troops to attack Shenyang, Xinghan is afraid of insufficient troops, and hereby calls on all friendly fraternal troops in the three northeastern provinces of our country to focus on the national righteousness and the country, not afraid of sacrifice, and lead the troops to Shenyang.

At this time when the situation is serious, when our generation of soldiers are serving the battlefield, I hope that my father, old and sons, thinking of the dying danger of the country, and the pain of the future, unite to go to the national disaster together, and have no hesitation.

Zhang Xinghan, colonel and brigade commander of the Shenyang Garrison Brigade of the National Revolutionary Army Army, begged for it. ”

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At the same time as Zhang Xinghan wrote the book of compatriots in the northeast of Gaodong, he was outside the gate of a courtyard house in the north of Shenyang.

A young woman wearing a long-sleeved white shirt, black breeches, and high-heeled leather shoes with a parasol looked left and right to find the entrance of this courtyard.

Looking at the house number, the woman stepped forward and gently knocked on the door of the courtyard three times.

Not long after the three knocks on the door sounded, a man's voice came from the courtyard: "Who?" ”

"Hello, is this Dr. Cao's house?" The woman asked, following the pre-prepared command.

"Doctor Cao? You're here for a veterinarian, right? The voices in the courtyard rose again.

"No, I just came to see Dr. Cao, I heard that Dr. Cao has excellent medical skills in this Fengtian City, and my brother occasionally has a strange illness, so I came to ask Dr. Cao to go home with me to treat my brother." The woman said unhurriedly.

"What kind of disease does my brother have?" The man in the courtyard said tepidly.

"Erythema all over my body, I don't know how to do medicine, and I can't see what the disease is." The woman looked around, made sure she was okay, and continued.

At this time, the far door creaked open, and a middle-aged man about forty years old, wearing a Confucian suit, cloth shoes, combing four or six points, and wearing glasses, walked out.

"Are you Comrade Su Hanyun?" The middle-aged man looked at Su Hanyun and asked.

"Well, you are Comrade Cao Xingwen?" Su Hanyun also looked at the connector in front of him and said.

"It's me, Comrade Su, come in quickly." Cao Xingwen glanced outside very vigilantly, and hurriedly dodged and said solemnly.

Su Hanyun put away the sunshade paper umbrella and walked in.

After following Cao Xingwen into the hall, Cao Xingwen greeted her and said, "Comrade Hanyun, please sit down, I will pour water for you." ”

"Comrade Cao Xingwen, thank you for not being thirsty, let's talk about business." Su Hanyun sat down and stood up again.

"yes, okay." Cao Xingwen poured a glass of water for Su Hanyun, sat opposite her, and said, "Comrade Hanyun, everything is going well on the road, right?" ”

"Well, it's all going well, thanks to the Seventh Brigade of Reading Force and the Shenyang Garrison Brigade who picked up the escorts along the way." Su Hanyun nodded.

"General Wang Yizhe and Zhang Xinghan are both lovers of [***] people, and it is reasonable that they will do this." Cao Xingwen said.

"Comrade Cao Xingwen, when I left Yanjing, Director Cao once said to me, when I came to Shenyang to look for you, you would naturally tell me the task given to me by the organization, did the organization assign me the task?" Su Hanyun asked straight to the point.

"It's down." Cao Xingwen got up as he spoke, walked towards the back room, came back with a secret telegram, handed it to Su Hanyun and said: "Comrade Hanyun, the task assigned to you by the organization is to ask you to join the garrison brigade as a patriotic young student, and it is best to enter the command center of the garrison brigade, so that you can carry out your work, remember that your task is to instigate and win over the commanders of the garrison brigades and the commanders of each regiment as much as possible, even if you cannot absorb them into our party, you must develop them into comrades-in-arms who have a close relationship with our party and our army. In order to facilitate the development and activities of our Northeast Revolutionary Army in the future. ”

"Well, please rest assured that Su Hanyun will go all out to complete the task assigned to me by the organization." Su Hanyun hurriedly got up and stood upright.

"Comrade Hanyun, your work ability, after several years of training in Yanjing, has been completely recognized by your superiors, you sit down first, I have to explain some things." Cao Xingwen waved his hand.

Su Hanyun nodded and sat down, and Cao Xingwen said, "I heard that you and Zhang Xinghan's siblings are very close?" ”

Su Hanyun's cheeks flashed crimson, and she nodded in acknowledgement.

"This is a good breakthrough, this person has a high use value, you can do work from him first, and strive to develop him into our person first, which is more conducive to your future work." Cao Xingwen said with a sly look flashing in his eyes.

Su Hanyun frowned, was silent for a while, and then nodded reluctantly.

"Okay, if there is nothing else, you can go back quickly, I have gathered heavy troops again, and I will attack Shenyang soon, and now the garrison brigade should be busy, at this time, it is the best time to break into the garrison brigade." Cao Xingwen got up and said.

"What, the army will attack Shenyang soon? Does he know about Zhang Xinghan? Did you prepare in advance? Su Hanyun was worried for no reason, and asked anxiously.

"Don't worry, the organization has ordered me to anonymously inform Zhang Xinghan of this information, and now he should have begun to prepare for resistance." Cao Xingwen smiled firmly.

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Because Zhang Xinghan defeated the main force of the Kwantung Army in Shenyang, the situation in the Northeast at this time was completely different from history.

In history, at this time, the army should have broken through Changchun, the capital of Jilin Province, and swept most of the cities and strategic points in the two provinces of Liaoji.

Due to the urgency of the Kwantung Army in the direction of Shenyang, the Yue Army was forced to abandon the attack on Changchun and other places, and with Zhang Xinghan leading the city defense army to achieve an unprecedented victory in the defense of Shenyang.

The Kwantung Army's offensive against various parts of Jilin was also helplessly stopped, and so far, the area occupied by the Kwantung Army is only the towns along the South Manchurian Railway in eastern Liaoning, the towns along the Southwest Manchurian Railway in Shenyang to Siping, and coastal counties such as Yingkou.

The vast area in the north and south of Shenyang has not yet fallen.

As for the vast Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, they are still in the hands of the Northeast Army Provincial Defense Army and some cavalry units.

In the eighteenth year of the Republic of China, Zhang Xueliang led the Northeast Army to change its banner and submit to the central government in Nanjing, and reorganized hundreds of thousands of Feng troops into the Northeast Frontier Army and the Provincial Defense Army.

The border guard army is the elite main force of the Northeast Army, and the provincial defense army is somewhat similar to the second-line reserve force, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the provincial political axe, and the establishment of the provincial defense force is slightly different from the first-line border defense army of the regular army.

The cavalry units of the border guards are all organized in the same way as the main infantry brigades, and the cavalry units of the provincial defense forces are simply organized in cavalry regiments.

Due to the special topography of the western Liaoning Plain, most of the provincial defense troops deployed by Zhang Xueliang in Heilongjiang and Jilin were cavalry units.

Because of the Central Plains War in the nineteenth year of the Republic of China, Zhang Xueliang led more than 100,000 elite troops of the Northeast Army to enter the pass to support Chiang, and later because of the crusade against Shi Yousan to seize North China, tens of thousands of elite border guards were transferred into the pass.

Except for the 3rd Infantry Brigade of Ma Zhanshan, commander of the Heihe Garrison and commander-in-chief of the cavalry of Heilongjiang Province, and the 24th Brigade of the Infantry of Li Du, deputy commander of Jilin City Defense, they are all provincial defense troops.

In Liaoning, several front-line frontier infantry brigades, the 19th Infantry Brigade, the 20th Infantry Brigade, and the 3rd Cavalry Brigade have all been evacuated from Tongliao and Taonan to Jinzhou under Zhang Xueliang's order.

As for the envoy of the eastern province of Liaoning to Zhishan, and Zhang Haipeng, the envoy of Taonan Town, the two of them were not Zhang Xueliang's descendants in the Northeast Army, and they did not agree with Zhang Xueliang, after the outbreak of the 918 Incident.

Both of them have taken refuge in Yue himself.

It is precisely because the two provinces of Jihei have not yet fallen, and tens of thousands of provincial defense troops still exist, that Zhang Xinghan thought of sending a telegram to Ma Zhanshan and Li Du, two famous patriotic generals in history, asking them to lead their troops to Shenyang.

It's just that when Zhang Xinghan didn't expect it, the two provinces of Jihei at this time were already changing, and chaos was coming.

In Jilin in particular, because Zhang Zuoxiang, commander of the Jilin Provincial Urban Defense Command, was holding a funeral in his hometown at the moment, the military power of the Urban Defense Command had completely fallen into the hands of his chief of staff, Xiqia.

At this time, Ji Xing, the commander of the 27th Brigade of the defending provincial defense army stationed in Changchun, was the same as Xiqia, both of whom were Manchu and wanted to do evil, and Ji Xing was a descendant of the royal family.

If it weren't for the Kwantung Army's swords and sand under the city of Shenyang, which was forced to terminate the march to Changchun, Xiqia and Jixing, the two remnants of the former Qing Dynasty and the famous Han Dynasty in history, would have surrendered to the army and surrendered Jilin.

Li Du, deputy commander of the city defense, and his 24th Brigade were far away in Yilan, north of Harbin, and were beyond the reach of the Jilin Provincial Defense Army.

At noon, Yilan County, west of Jiamusi, Yilan Town guarded the embassy.

General Li Du sat on the chair, looked at the telegram brought by the adjutant, and frowned tightly.

This telegram was an urgent telegram sent by Zhang Xinghan from Shenyang asking for help.

Li Du finished reading the content of the message with a solemn face, got up and walked to the door, looked at the southern sky and sighed: "The 27th Brigade and the Jilin Provincial Defense Army are under the command and control of Chief of Staff Xiqia, if they have the heart to support Shenyang, the cavalry will go south along the North Manchurian Railway, and they can arrive within two days, but now there has been no movement, which is really worrying." ”

"The two royalists of Luzuo, Xiqia and Jixing, they are all remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and now that Kou is overwhelmed by heavy troops, they are afraid that they have long been ready to rebel, and they are preparing to surrender and say that they have betrayed the country to seek glory, how can they go to reinforce Shenyang." Zhao Zhenhe, the deputy brigade commander on the side, said immediately.

"I don't know what the attitude of Li Guilin's department and Mu Dechun's 10th Reading Artillery Regiment is." Li Du said worriedly.

"They are all under the jurisdiction of Chief of Staff Xi, and Commander Zhang is not here, so if Xiqia is determined to defect to the enemy, he will definitely pull them up." Zhao Zhenhe analyzed.

"Alas, at the time of the national crisis, Commander Zhang was not in the provincial capital, and he handed over the military power to Xiqia, which misled the country!" Li Du couldn't help but sigh.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and a signal soldier walked in with a telegram in his hand, and saluted Li Du and said, "Brigade seat, General Ma Zhanshan, commander of the Heihe garrison and commander-in-chief of the Heilongjiang cavalry, is in a hurry." ”

Li Du hurriedly took the telegram, opened it and looked at it, the telegram was as follows: "Brother Zhichu, the commander of the Shenyang Garrison Brigade Zhang Xinghan's message for help has been received, Yu Su knows that Brother Zhi Chu is loyal and courageous, and has the country in mind. When the telegram arrived at you, Yu had already begun to gather troops, and was about to lead the army to join the first brother Zhi and gallop south to help Shenyang, but suddenly heard that a brigade of Kou had set out from the territory of Korea, and had now crossed the Yalu River, and was rushing towards the hinterland of our Heilongjiang Province.

Although I could not personally lead reinforcements to Shenyang, I had already sent a regiment of cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Salib, to reinforce Shenyang with you, Brother Zhichu.

In addition, the 28th Brigade of Ding Chao of the Harbin Garrison, as the commander-in-chief of Heilongjiang, I have ordered him to lead his troops to go south with Brother Zhi to reinforce Shenyang.

After repelling the Korean invasion, Zhan Shan led the main cavalry of our province to the south. Ma Zhanshan, commander of the Heihe garrison, was in Heihe on September 25, the twentieth year of the Republic of China. ”

After Li Du finished reading it, he suddenly closed the telegram, and said to Zhao Zhenhe with an awe-inspiring expression: "Deputy Brigade Commander Zhao." ”

"Yes!" Zhao Zhenhe hurriedly stepped forward and responded.

"Pass my order, the whole brigade will gather immediately, and as soon as Sabuli's cavalry regiment arrives, immediately march towards Harbin, and join the Ding brigade to go south to reinforce Shenyang!" Li Du cut the way categorically.

"Yes!" Zhao Zhenhe replied excitedly.