Wei Lihuang rushed to the Jielingkou battlefield in time with the 34th Brigade of Reading Li and stabilized the battle line, and the next day Pang Bingxun's troops arrived again, and the battlefield was completely stabilized. Inaba's brave dash attracted the attention of the Naka[***] team, and to a certain extent weakened the offensive of the Naka[***] team at Lengkou and Kimineguchi.

The counterattack of the army continued, and the Motegi Cavalry Brigade, which was transferred to encircle and suppress the Volunteers, gave up the task of encirclement and suppression, launched a counteroffensive north of Kuancheng, and launched a fierce battle with Liu Ruming's 143rd Division on the front line of Niangniang Temple and Zhulin Temple, but the cavalry was cavalry after all, although it was still cavalry, and the mountain attack power was much worse than that of the regular infantry brigade. After three days of fierce fighting, he failed to break through Liu Ruming's defenses, but Song Zheyuan's attack on Kuancheng was even weaker.

Kuancheng was besieged, so that the connection between the Eighth Division and the Eastern Front was completely severed, and the Great Wall battlefield was successfully cut into two sections by the Central [***] team. Lacking ammunition, Xiyiyi's retreat to Gubeikou was extremely difficult, all the shells were exhausted, the army was forced to abandon all heavy weapons, the soldiers were extremely short of ammunition, and had to attack in a white-knuckle manner without the cover of artillery fire. The Gubeikou front line said that the army abandoned the Gubeikou position, fought and retreated west of Hushiha to join the main force of the Eighth Division, and then was surrounded by the swarming [***] team in the area of Liujia's shack.

The Motegi Cavalry Brigade was reinstated, and the Volunteers began to regain their activity, attacking the strongholds of the Yue Army in all directions, ambushing the Yue Army transport convoys, and the Yue Army was forced to abandon almost all the strongholds and shrink to the vicinity of Chengde, while almost all the roads leading to Chengde were destroyed, and there was not a single Army Transport Vehicle in sight on the land of Rehe.

Looking at the situation of the Great Wall as a whole, the 8th Division in the west was surrounded in the lofty mountains between Gubeikou and Fengning; In the middle line, the [***] team rushed out of the Xifeng Pass to surround Kuancheng, cutting the east and west fronts of the army, the 36th Brigade of the 6th Division struggled to attack, desperately relieving the siege of Kuancheng, hoping to reopen the passage of the 8th Division, Zhang Zizhong of the 38th Division fought the East Stick, resolutely blocked the enemy's attack, and the two sides repeatedly saw each other on the East Stick, and finally formed a confrontation.

At this point, the battle situation on the Great Wall was almost in a stalemate, and the main force of the 35th Army, the 61st Army, the 83rd Division and the 87th Division of the 17th Army, Feng Zhanhai, and Tong Linge surrounded the main force of the Eighth Division but could not eat; The Eighth Division struggled to survive on the daily airdrops of supplies from the Air Force.

"From the overall point of view, our army has a slight advantage, but the advantage is not big, if you want to eat the eighth division, you must add at least one more division," Xiong Bin in Jurentang analyzed the current situation to He Yingqin: "Although our army has many formations, it has consumed a lot in the early attack, especially the two central armies of the 83rd and 87th divisions, and the three regiment commanders of the 87th division were wounded and reduced by more than 3,000 people; The 83rd Division suffered even greater casualties in the attack on Gubeikou, with casualties reaching almost 50%; Although the 35 th Army and the 61 st Army were army establishments, the actual strength of the army was only one reinforced division, and the elite troops were greatly consumed some time ago, with the 35 th Army losing one regiment commander, two brigade commanders wounded, and battalion and company commanders suffering numerous casualties. The Sixty-first Army was slightly better, but also lost about a quarter of its troops. Although our army had nearly 70,000 people surrounding more than 10,000 people on this battlefield, more than half of them were Tong Linge and Feng Zhanhai's troops, and these two troops were extremely poorly equipped, and Tong Linge's troops had recently been expanded, and their combat effectiveness was limited.

Song Zheyuan fought well at Xifengkou, Zhang Zizhong and Liu Ruming blocked the counterattack of the Yue army, but the casualties were very large, and the 38th Division was reduced by nearly half, and Song Mingxuan had to transfer a brigade from the besieging troops to join the blockade. At present, the attack of the Japanese army has stopped. …….”

It would be nice if there were two more divisions, He Yingqin couldn't help but think that before he became the chairman of the Beiping Army Branch, he never thought that the war could develop to such an extent, completely subverting the image of the army in his mind for a long time. He looked at Xiong Bin, and the other party's excited face was also mixed with confusion.

"Ji Kuan, what do you think of the next step?" After Xiong Bin finished speaking, He Yingqin turned his head and asked Huang Shaohong next to him.

Huang Shaohong rushed out: "Then it is needless to say, the ninety-nine steps have been completed, transfer troops, and ask the chairman to give us another army to ensure the total annihilation of the Eighth Division." Saying that, he stood up excitedly, waved his hand and said: "Fight a big victory, the dog said that the little one, the deception is too much, thinking that I have no one in China." ”

To tell the truth, when Zhuang Jihua described the counteroffensive plan to him, although he cooperated, he was still skeptical in his heart. First of all, he was very suspicious of the Volunteers' cutting off the transportation lines of the army; Secondly, whether the Chadong counteroffensive can attract the main force of the Eighth Division to the west, and whether the 17th Army can break through the Gubeikou defense line after the main force of the army advances westward, and whether the 87th Division is in Simatai...

In a word, he doubted everything, not only him, but almost everyone in the military branch. But step by step, the situation of the battle has completely changed. Until now, most people have been in the clouds, not knowing how the tide of battle has changed.

When the Volunteers attack behind enemy lines, no one will lose anything except the Volunteers; The Rexi front was mainly a puppet army, and Fu Zuoyi's counterattack was captured, and the losses would not be large. The 87th Division of Sima Tai counterattacked, and the enemy on the opposite side seemed to have only one brigade, and the main force of the 8th Division had already moved west to Fengning, so it seemed that it should not miss. But then the dominoes fell, and in the face of the counteroffensives launched by the various armies one after another, the army was passive everywhere and missed everywhere, and finally evolved into such a situation, an unprecedented favorable situation.

"The chairman has already said that there will be no more troops." He Yingqin's tone was very regretful, although he was called a pro-Yue faction, as a soldier, he was really reluctant to give up such a favorable situation.

Huang Shaohong and Xiong Bin were very helpless, Xiong Bin couldn't help but say: "Acting chairman, do you want to tell the chairman again, he may not know much about the current situation on the front line." ”

He Yingqin smiled bitterly, I'm afraid Xiong Bin himself didn't believe it, since the start of the counteroffensive, Beiping sent the battle situation to Nanchang every day, and it was impossible for Chiang Kai-shek not to understand.

"The chairman wants us to control the scale of the war and not turn into a full-scale war, alas, this is very difficult." In his telegrams, Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly reminded us that we should pay attention to controlling the scale of the war and not turn it into a full-scale war. To tell the truth, He Yingqin thought that Chiang Kai-shek's worries were not unreasonable, but now due to the initial victory of the counteroffensive, the mood of the various armies was high, and even the Northeast Army, which had poor results in the early stage, was also highly motivated and strongly sought war.

"What about the Cultural Revolution? What's his opinion? Huang Shaohong suddenly remembered the real designer of this situation. This counteroffensive is linked one by one, and it is impossible for Zhuang Jihua to have no next plan.

"He's out of nowhere, and I don't know what he's doing." He Yingqin's words revealed a faint bitterness, Zhuang Jihua was injured and stayed in the Union Hospital for two days before being transferred to the army hospital, and then he stopped coming to Jurentang under the pretext of recuperating from his injuries, and only sent Du Yuming to get the latest development of the war, He Yingqin sent someone to go once, but he didn't see him, only said that he went out with Song Yunfei and Wu Ziniu, and no one knew where he went.

"How are the negotiations between Chairman Huang and Yue himself going?" Xiong Bin changed the subject, and after the counteroffensive began, he suggested several times to Yue himself that he immediately conduct armistice negotiations, but he rejected them. After Huang Yin arrived in Beiping, he simply proposed to talk to Huang only, and others did not accept it, which made Xiong Bin very angry, and now that the military situation continues to improve, he really wants to see if his grimace is still so arrogant.

In addition, Huang Ying's chairman is different from He Yingqin's chairman of the military branch, and he is the chairman of the Executive Yuan's Political Affairs Consolidation Committee in Beiping. It has been half a month since he arrived in Beiping, and his mission to negotiate with Yue himself is not a secret among the top leaders, nor even among the people, and certain anti-Japanese groups in Peiping have set up camp outside his hotel, ready to give him a bullet at any time.

"I said that my asking price is very high," He Yingqin said: "insisting that we retreat to the line of Miyun-Yutian-Luanzhou-Luanhe, Huang Yan asked for my opinion, but I refused, and the negotiations are now deadlocked." ”

Xiong Bin and Huang Shaohong shook their heads almost at the same time, saying that their heads really didn't know what to think, the situation was so dangerous, and they still hoped that they couldn't get it on the battlefield.

But He Yingqin didn't shake his head, he knew that his request was not an extravagant hope, and he refused under pressure. Huang Ying was very, very angry at his refusal, and he presented an ultimatum to Chiang Kai-shek, believing that if He Yingqin could not cooperate with him, then all his efforts in Peking would be in vain, and he, the negotiator, would be just a puppet, and in that case, remove him from his post and let He Yingqin talk to himself.

After Chiang Kai-shek received Huang Ying's telegram, he called to comfort him, asking him to continue to work on state affairs, and at the same time told him that He Yingqin only cared about fighting and not negotiating, and Chiang Kai-shek also sent a telegram to He Yingqin asking him to coordinate more with Huang Ying and seize the favorable opportunity. He Yingqin himself knew that if the situation on the battlefield hadn't improved, I am afraid that Huang Yin's telegram would have made him step down.

Just when Ju Rentang was talking about the next move, Zhuang Jihua had already arrived at Huang Yin, and now he knew the situation in all aspects, and the only thing that made him feel at ease was Huang Yin, the old man. The old man's performance in the negotiation made him extremely uneasy, so on the one hand, he secretly restrained him through He Yingqin; On the other hand, they are also looking for an opportunity to have a showdown with him and let him participate in negotiations, and now the opportunity has come.

(To be continued)