Chapter 115: The Guang'anmen Incident

At noon on the 26th, Xiaolu said goodbye to Song Zheyuan and wanted to go to Nanyuan to fight with his subordinates. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info At three o'clock in the afternoon, Xiaolu quietly got into the car that Zhang Kexia had prepared for him. Xiaolu asked the driver to park the car on the side of the road on the south side of Guang'anmen and wait for him, holding the rifle prepared by Zhang Kexia, and disappeared outside Guang'anmen.

Xiaolu is preparing for the Guanganmen incident.

Historically, the Guanganmen Incident was like this, on July 26, the Japanese commander in Tianjin, Kiyoshi Kazuki's Hirobe Brigade, set off from Tianjin and went straight to Beiping, under the command of Okamura, the captain of the garrison left behind in Beiping. The Guangbe Brigade arrived at Fengtai at 2 p.m. Matsui, the head of the Peiping secret service, Okamura and Takeo Imai, decided to pretend that the Japanese embassy team had returned from the exercise, and entered the city by 26 cars from Guang'anmen Gate, arriving at about 6 p.m.

The Guang'anmen garrison unit was the 679th Regiment of the 27th Independent Brigade of the 132nd Division of Zhao Dengyu's Division, and the regiment commander Liu Ruzhen lured the Japanese army into the middle and advanced halfway, Liu Ruzhen ordered to shoot, and the Japanese army was divided into two parts, inside and outside the city, and fell into chaos. Outside the city, 13 cars entered the Japanese barracks in Dongjiaomin Lane.

Xiaolu waited outside Guang'an Gate for a while, and after two hours, the car convoy arrived. At six o'clock in the evening, they began to enter the city. More than 30 cars, thousands of people into the city, this is still enough.

The defenders did release some of it, and at this time, the trail fired.

There were officers in the cars entering the city. There were none in the first four or five cars, and from the sixth, in the cab sat officers. The officer in the sixth car was shot at the trail.

Gunshots were heard at the gates, and they opened fire.

The trail was fired from south to north, and five shots were fired, and someone in the car had already spotted him. The three men jumped out of the car and rushed towards him.

At this time, the Japanese military vehicles were in chaos. The defenders fired intensively, and the Japanese returned fire.

Three Japanese rushed to the mound where the path was hidden, ran a few steps, reached one, and after a few more steps, another one died. Then, the third also died.

The trail changed places, looked at the officer in the car, and shot again. By the time the gunfire at the city gate stopped, Xiaolu had already fired more than thirty shots, and almost all the devil officers had been reimbursed.

At this time, the Japanese army got the news and began to negotiate with the 29th Army. Due to the involvement of the trail, the Japanese troops who entered the city had only five vehicles. What Xiao Lu didn't know was that the Japanese army lodged a strong protest against the death of almost all the officers in the car team.

Xiaolu saw that the opportunity was gone, sneaked back to the car, and rushed to Nanyuan.

Xiaolu knew that the Japanese garrison was about to issue an operational order to attack the 29th Army.

When he arrived in Nanyuan, Xiaolu went to see Tong Lin Ge, talked about the Guanganmen incident, and said: "This is a signal, the devil wants to send some people into the city to make drums and fleas, and wants to come to the inside and outside to outwit the Daimyo's Mansion." This was the signal for the beginning of the Great War. Please inform General Song Zheyuan that the 29th Army will immediately prepare for battle and enter the combat position. Wait for the day. ā€

Tong Linge said: "This afternoon, the army commander received an ultimatum. A big war is inevitable. Commander Song had already understood it, and in the afternoon he issued a telegram of "self-defense and defending the territory." When do you think the war will start? ā€

Xiaolu said: "The devil will prepare at night and attack in the early morning." This is their most common tactic. ā€

Xiaolu immediately telegraphed Li Sen to blow up the railroad again at any cost and delay the speed of Japan's troop transportation to North China. At the same time, a telegram was sent to the North China Bureau, asking the Rehe advance team to destroy the railway and highway and delay the enemy's transportation of troops from Rehe to North China.

On the morning of the 27th, the Japanese attacked the garrisons of the 29th Army at Tongxian, Tuanhe and Xiaotangshan.

Only then did Song Zheyuan order the garrisons everywhere to prepare for battle.

At noon on the 27th, Xiaolu consulted with Tong Linge again, and according to the situation of the troop movement, he believed that the Japanese would inevitably attack early tomorrow morning. This time, Tong Linge also firmly believed that the enemy would attack early tomorrow morning.

Lao Jiang sent another telegram to Song Zheyuan: "Please calm down and be cautious, and fight steadily for three days, then the atmosphere will be frustrated, and our army will be easy to do." Strictly order all the troops to deepen the trenches and hold on and not retreat. The central government will go all out to reinforce it. ā€

Song Zheyuan called back to Lao Jiang: "Beiping is an important town in North China, and the people's hearts are related to the general trend. Now it has become a situation where enemies are on all sides. Tong County started at 3 o'clock this morning and was also in the midst of fierce fighting. Entrusted by the people of the country, he has determined to stick to Beiping, to calm the people's hearts, and to make morale, and never dare to be afraid of it. ā€

On the same day, the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters issued an order to send additional 5th, 6th, and 10th divisions to North China.

At noon, Division Commander Zhao Dengyu arrived at Nanyuan by car from Renqiu, Hebei, and the 2nd Traveling Army of the 132nd Division went to the area west of the Tuanhe River, where it had an encounter with the Japanese army, and failed to arrive at Nanyuan with Division Commander Zhao, and retreated to the vicinity of Gu'an County.

That night, Zhang Zizhong transferred the 38th Division to Nanyuan to serve as the defense of Beiping, and the remaining defense was handed over to the 132nd Division to take over. Because the 132nd Division had not yet arrived, Zhao Dengyu, the commander of the division, stayed with Dong Shengtang to take charge of the original defense.

For more than a day from the 26th to the 27th, the trail was busy and sweating profusely.

He was busy strengthening the air defense of Nanyuan. Xiao Lu raised the danger of air raids with Tong Linge, which made Tong Linge sweat and said, "Then what can you do?" My bomb shelter isn't enough? ā€

Xiaolu said: "Not enough. What needs to be done is, first, put a large number of non-combatants in combat positions, give them guns, and go into battle. There are many positions that are unmanned and easy to break. Second, sixteen machine guns were transferred to the four corners for anti-aircraft armament. I'll train them how to jerk off. Third, it is necessary to disperse the command organs, especially the communications equipment, in several places to prevent a single aircraft bomb from destroying all the communications equipment. Fourth, food, which was prepared overnight for three days, was distributed to everyone. ā€

Tong Linge said: "Staff officer, execute it immediately!" ā€

By the evening of the 27th, Xiaolu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Now, because of his arrival, things have changed.

The first change was that there were some differences in the general situation: the Northeast Railway was destroyed, the transportation of troops and war materials was delayed, and the war in Japan did not go smoothly and could not be held out for a long time. Song Zheyuan ordered all troops to strengthen their vigilance and armament in advance, and his own fighting spirit was a little firmer. Historically, Song Zheyuan was surrounded by a large number of traitors, and these so-called lords and factions kept instilling in him the idea of maintaining the status quo, and Nanjing was not very firm, so he always believed that the status quo could be maintained.

The second change is that the arming of Nanyuan has changed. It turned out that a large number of non-combatants went into combat positions, all kinds of equipment were dispersed, and air defense forces were built. Although there is only a machine gun, it is better than nothing in the end.

The third change is discussed in the retreat route of Nanyuan. The original retreat route was to go north along the Dahongmen into Beiping. It is recommended to take a detour to the southeast, either into Beiping, or simply walk away. There was still some controversy among the commanders about the retreat route, and most of the commanders still stuck to the original route.

Tong Linge and Zhao Dengyu also insisted on the original path, but promised that Xiaolu could lead an army to explore other retreat routes.

The fourth change is the one that suits Xiaolu's heart the most, that is, there has been a change in the quality of the student soldiers, and the accelerated military training has achieved certain results. Compared with Qian Jinxin, these veterans of a hundred battles are far behind, but compared to the original, they have indeed turned over. In addition, the activities of the party organizations in the student soldiers became more frequent, and many people fully recognized the members of the Anti-Japanese Federation. Of course, this is related to the popularity of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation.

The big war is about to begin.

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1. Although there are many troops in the Nanyuan barracks, there are a large number of non-combatants.

2. The events of the Guanganmen incident were actually the beginning of a full-scale Japanese offensive. One of the officers was killed in the Guanganmen incident. The Langfang incident caused the Japanese to pull out a nail in the western part of Beiping, and the conditions were ripe for an all-out attack on Beiping.