Chapter 55: The Twenty-Ninth Army
Of course, it is not easy for Li Han to do this, and it can be said that there is still a long way to go. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoLet's not mention that the Japanese are eyeing Chahar and may choose someone to devour them at any time.
Within Chahar alone, there are already many factions, with tens of thousands of militias and bandits in the province combined, and tens of thousands of regular troops of the Northwest Army stationed in Chahar.
Among them, there are also the famous 29th Army, the Northeast Volunteer Army and the Rehe Army also have tens of thousands of people, in front of these predators, Li Han is not even a small fish and shrimp.
No, during the period when Li Han was making waves in Guyuan, at the meeting of the top level of the Northwest Army, the small role of Li Han was also mentioned.
"Chairman, a chaotic army has come from nowhere, and people pretending to be the 57th Army have wantonly grabbed territory in the Guyuan area, and they don't take our 29th Army seriously at all."
An officer with the rank of colonel on his shoulders said indignantly, looking at his gritted teeth, as if he had a grudge against Li Han in his previous life.
This colonel officer is Zhang Biao's second brother, Zhang Fang, who is currently a colonel regiment commander of a subordinate unit of the Chahar Garrison Command
For Li Han to use violence to take away his brother's territory, openly raided his hometown, and also made a big show in the Guyuan area, Zhang Fang hated it in his heart.
This time, Song Zheyuan held an all-army meeting, and the Chahar garrison army was also regarded as an army under the 29th Army, so he also attended the meeting.
Zhang Fang naturally wanted to take this opportunity to find a legitimate opportunity to exterminate Li Han's bandit army.
Originally, when he knew that his eldest brother was driven out of Guozhen, he wanted to directly lead someone to destroy Li Han, but when he heard Zhang Biao say that Li Han also had more than 1,000 people, he chose to endure this breath for the time being.
Although Zhang Fang's regiment had more than 2,000 people, the troops were not his alone, and he pulled the troops out to fight without an order.
If he wins the battle, it is fine, if the losses caused by the battle with Li Han are too large, then he can't afford this responsibility, and if even he collapses, then their Zhang family will be completely finished.
Of course, this does not mean that Zhang Fang is willing to let Li Han go like this, on the contrary, during the period of expansion of the fourth battalion, Zhang Fang has been moving around in the Northwest Army.
As a colonel officer, he is also a middle and high-level officer in the 29th Army, and he is also a landlord, so he is more generous on weekdays, so he has a good relationship with many regiment commanders and even brigade commanders of the 29th Army.
In July last year, Song Zheyuan was appointed chairman of Chahar and concurrently served as the commander of the 29th Army, and it can be said that Chahar has been the territory of the 29th Army since then.
Li Han is blatantly expanding in Guyuan, and he does have some intention of breaking ground on Tai Sui's head.
Some high-ranking officers in the 29th Army were also very angry when they heard that Li Han dared to make waves on their territory, and in addition, Zhang Fang continued to add fuel and vinegar to it, and some high-ranking officers who were not very good-tempered even bluntly said that they wanted to exterminate Li Han, a chaotic army that dared to provoke the military might of the 29th Army.
But they also have their own scruples, if Li Han is a member of the Northeast Volunteer Army or the Rehe Army, or as Li Han said, it is really the anti-Japanese advance team sent by the 57th Army.
If they eliminated Li Han, it was tantamount to offending the forces behind Li Han, and for the sake of a poor Guyuan County, offended such a big force with tens of thousands of soldiers, which would inevitably be too much to gain and lose.
At this time, the 29th Army had not yet participated in the Great Wall War of Resistance, and its number was only a little more than 30,000, and it was not yet well-known in China.
If it weren't for the fact that the young marshal was not angry, he lost the Northeast and Rehe one after another, and the 29th Army could only be regarded as a horse boy under the name of the Northeast Army at most.
Even the name of their 29th Army was given by the young marshal. Because when faced with the possibility of involving the Northeast Army, they are still worried.
Of course, if it is after the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, then it is another story. At that time, the whole country knew that the 29th Army was an anti-Japanese army, a heroic army that killed with a big knife and cried for the devil to cry for his father.
"Zhang Fang, this kind of trivial matter, don't take it to this meeting, the theme of our meeting is how to prepare to deal with the little devils, the troops will set off soon, don't you know?"
Song Zheyuan, who was slightly chubby and had a beard that was iconic of this era, waved his hand a little impatiently, his expression was slightly uncertain, as if he was reproaching Zhang Fang for not being able to distinguish the priorities of things.
At this time, where does Song Zheyuan still have the heart to care about a small role like Li Han, and all his thoughts now are on dealing with the Japanese.
Because the Japanese army, which had completed the occupation of Rehe, was not satisfied with the achievements made now, and began to attack the Chinese territory in the Great Wall area on a large scale, which also threatened Song Zheyuan, who was known as the Five Tiger Generals in the Northwest Army.
The 29th Army not only has territory in Chahar, but because of the Japanese, even in the Beijing-Tianjin area, the army of the central government is very small, so most of the areas around eastern Hebei are garrisoned by Song Zheyuan's troops, which can be regarded as his territory.
At the same time, the order of the central government also came down, requiring Song Zheyuan to lead his troops to Beiping to prepare to participate in the Great Wall War of Resistance.
But even in normal times, he doesn't need him Song Zheyuan to speak when dealing with a character like Li Han, he is an old warlord, and he personally deals with a hairy boy in his twenties, and if the matter spreads, it will damage his prestige.
In order to keep the hard-won territory, and at the same time to combat the arrogance of the little devils, the 29th Army officially electrified the whole country and swore to fight to the death.
Soon, Song Zheyuan led more than 20,000 people from the main force of the 29th Army to participate in the Great Wall War of Resistance. Li Han was also lucky to escape this catastrophe.
Japan's attack on the Great Wall was like stabbing a hornet's nest, and as the top level of the central government, he couldn't sit still, and quickly dispatched Xu Tingyao's division of the 17th Army of the Central Army to the front line of the Great Wall to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance.
Speaking of Xu Tingyao, many people may not know who he is. But these officers in his unit may be familiar to everyone.
For example, Du Yongming, Huang Jie, Zheng Dongguo, Dai Anlan, Liao Yaoxiang, Qiu Qingquan, etc., each of them is a remarkable figure in the military history of the Republic of China.
As the saying goes, there are no weak soldiers under a strong general, and a person who can bring out such a group of fierce generals will be an idle person.
It's embarrassing to say, it is precisely because the Japanese are pressing forward step by step that Li Han has a chance to breathe.
However, Li Han would not be grateful to the Japanese, if it weren't for the little devil, he and the brothers of the Fourth Battalion and even the entire Northeast Army would not have become a lost dog.
The main forces of Song Zheyuan's 29 main forces all went to resist the Japanese, and Duolun and Guyuan were close to Rehe, which had just been occupied by the Japanese army.
In order to avoid arousing the idea of the Japanese army, the remnants of the Northeast Army and the main force of the Volunteer Army, which had retreated from Rehe to Chahar, were also transferred to the Chanan area, and now the defense force of Duolun, an important border town, was garrisoned by only a few hundred militia groups.
The troops left in Chahar by the 29th Army were only a few thousand people under the command of the garrison headquarters, and the guards of the huge Chahar were already overstretched, and they could not take care of Li Han in a short time.
The work arranged by Li Han was carried out in an intense and orderly manner, and the scope of activities of Wang Dazhu's cavalry became larger and larger, and the situation of the enemy around him became more and more clear.
Since Li Han and his company platoon commanders had their own things to do, Li Han also deliberately transferred Wang Wei from the heavy machine gun company to supervise the affairs of various places.
There are not many scholars in the fourth battalion, so Wang Wei has received an orthodox education. Of course, his education was also an unsuccessful education, otherwise he wouldn't have even been admitted to the Northeast Lecture Martial Arts Hall back then.
Most of the original officials in Guyuan County were from big families, not to mention that they were all at the level of Xiucai, but it was definitely no problem to read and write, but the problem was that Li Hanxin couldn't trust them.
Not only Li Han believed in them, but the local squires also had no confidence in Li Han. Because Li Han occupied Guyuan with the four battalions, he did not get the recognition of the provincial government, that is, there was no name of righteousness.
They are now in Li Han's team, and if the 29th Army returns in the future, they will settle accounts after the autumn, and the loss of some property will be light, and they will be treated as bandits.
So far, it is useless to complain, and Wang Wei can only learn while doing it. Didn't we do the same after the founding of New China, and most government officials came directly from the military, and did not just make the country's governance prosperous.
Li Han's requirements for Wang Wei are not so high, as long as he ensures that the source is not chaotic. But Wang Wei didn't think so, and if he wanted to do it, he had to do it well.
When he failed to apply for the Northeast Lecture Martial Arts Hall, he was deeply ashamed. After returning home, I worked hard for a while.
It's a pity that the conditions at home are too poor, and in order to make a living, I had to bow to reality, and finally I had no choice but to give up my pen and become a big soldier in the army.
This time Li Han gave him this task, and Wang Wei felt that the opportunity to express himself had come. His military talent was not particularly outstanding, especially in the past year, the war continued, and although the soldiers of the unit changed several times, several major officers were basically retained, and gradually grew up in the war.
Seeing that the old brothers in the past all had a tendency to develop in the direction of anti-Japanese generals, Wang Wei was of course not to be outdone, but he wanted to develop in the army again.
Even Li Han is only a battalion commander, and he is now a company commander, so there is no hope of promotion for the time being.
However, if you want to develop, you don't necessarily get in the army, and there has never been a place of its own for the fourth battalion before, so there is no need for civilian cadres.
Now it is different, the fourth battalion also occupies the territory of a county, and all the affairs of this county are in charge of Li Han, so it is inevitable to prepare some administrative personnel.
The people in the original government department must also be retained, but there is no mutual trust between the battalion commander and them, so it is necessary to have their own people in charge.
However, in the case of the Fourth Battalion, there is no talent in this area, and they are not well-known, so it is even more impossible for others to take the initiative to defect.
As the first person to eat crabs in the fourth battalion, Wang Wei felt that he had to take a good lead and build Guyuan into a solid backing for the fourth battalion, and felt that he could not live up to the careful cultivation that the battalion commander had been cultivating him.