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Chapter 1238 Repentance in a desperate situation

"Order all brigades and regiments to be ready for battle at any time, and at the same time gather as many of the escaped friendly troops as possible from Beishuangmiao, and find out who is in charge of the officers and send them to me immediately. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Guo Peirong, deputy commander of the 17th Division, received an urgent telephone call from the forward position, and without thinking, immediately issued a series of targeted orders.

Jiao Yida, the commander of the 50th Brigade, hurriedly asked: "Deputy Division Commander Guo, do you send the special service companies of each brigade to meet you?" Our forward position is only four kilometers away from the first line of Beishuangmiao, and if the Japanese army is still chasing and killing the brothers of the 3rd Division of the 29th Army who have escaped, we can also help a little. ”

"Good! Lao Jiao, you immediately report to Yuan Jin's 51st Brigade, and I will immediately call the division to report the details, maybe these more than 1,000 devils are a good opportunity for our 17th Division to make contributions! ”

Guo Peirong's irrepressible excitement was beyond words.

Jiao Yida was overjoyed: "Okay! I'll go to Lao Yuan to discuss it in person, deputy division commander, if you can get permission to attack, you have to put our brigade in the main attack position! ”

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At eight o'clock in the evening, the Han family ancestral hall in Gaolu Village, five kilometers south of Langfang, was the headquarters of the former enemy on the eastern front of the 17th Army.

Lu Yixuan, the new lieutenant general and deputy commander of the 17th Army, received an urgent report from the 17th Division on the front line, his expression was solemn, and his fingers holding the telephone receiver turned white from the unconsciously intensified efforts.

Seven or eight generals and colonels, including Huang Zhi, chief of staff of the 17th Army, and Wen Junhao, chief of operations, around the square conference table, almost held their breath and quietly listened to Lu Yixuan's questions and the voice of Zhang Zuying, commander of the 17th Division, in the microphone.

Lu Yixuan deducted the microphone, shook it a few times, picked it up again, and quickly connected the phone of the corps headquarters in Bazhou, and quickly reported the emergency to the corps commander Hu Jialin.

Knowing that Hu Jialin and Zhang Chengzhu, deputy commander and chief of staff of the promoted corps, were discussing the battle situation with General Wan Fulin and discussing the coordination plan, Lu Yixuan happily presented the plan of action he had quickly made, and asked Hu Jialin and the corps headquarters to deliberate and approve it as soon as possible.

(Note: The 17th Army includes two new divisions: the 17th Army, the 40th Army, the 53rd Army, and the 17th Army.) ）

Lu Yixuan returned to the big table and glanced around with a smile: "Although Commander Hu did not make it clear, he has promised to immediately report the incident in Beishuangmiao to Commander An, and it is estimated that Commander Hu will truthfully report our request for action to take the initiative to attack and eliminate the Japanese army in Beishuangmiao for Commander An's approval."

"You know that now our every move will involve the overall situation, in the words of Commander An, it will involve the eyes of the whole people, so we can't be careless; According to today's Japanese broadcast news, the results of the negotiations between the two sides will be announced tomorrow, so we are afraid that the battle we want to fight will not be as soon as possible, but we must make all emergency preparations...... Brother Jiu, your 118th Brigade must immediately enter a state of combat readiness at the same time as the two brigades of the 17th Division. ”

"Got it! I'll give the order to the 118th Brigade. Yang Jiuxiao, commander of the 40th Division, strode to the telephone on the left.

Zhou Mingxi, chief of staff of the 17th Division, asked: "Army commander, what should we do on the front line?" ”

"Don't worry, Division Commander Zhang has made proper arrangements, your two forward brigades have launched active rescue operations, if my estimate is good, most of the brothers of the 29th Army's temporary third division who escaped will run to our position, after all, we have been stationed in this area for three days, and they know very well where our forward position is.

"By the way, Adjutant Chen, you immediately arrange it, it is estimated that in two and a half hours, Director Huang of the Political Department of the Legion and his entourage will arrive, this is a very serious barbaric killing incident, the Political Department will not let go of this rare propaganda opportunity, if it is not good, tomorrow all the newspapers in the country will call this incident a tragedy, we can have a lot of articles to do."

After Lu Yixuan finished arranging, he instructed the brothers to put aside other issues for the time being, focus on formulating a battle plan to eliminate the Japanese army in Beishuangmiao, and put forward the operational requirements of "sudden and violent, rapid and efficient", and then walked to the bathroom outside the side door, relaxed, and walked straight to the telecommunications room.

After 9:30 p.m., the sporadic gunfire at Beishuang Temple had stopped, and there were burning bonfires everywhere inside and outside the town, and the doors of the civilians in the town were smashed open by the barbaric and murderous Japanese officers and soldiers, and all the food, meat, and poultry were looted, and weeping, pleading, and exclamating came and went.

Located on the bank of the small river in the south of the town, two young soldiers who survived the catastrophe soaked their whole bodies on the bank, looking through the dense weeds outside the narrow barracks a hundred meters away.

Ten minutes ago, just as they had made up their minds to flee to the position of the Anjia Army in the west, a squadron of Japanese cavalry quickly arrived and drove into the camp where more than 80 corpses had been cleared.

"Brother Haruko, let's ...... Will we be able to get out alive? His voice trembled and he was frightened.

The black strong man known as Haruko, shivered all over, retracted his head, licked his dry thick lips, glanced at the sky with floating clouds, and was stunned for a long time:

"Simin, brother doesn't know if he can escape, nearly half of our cavalry battalion brothers are dead, the rest of the fleeing escape, hiding, all of them are gone, there are large troops of little devils in the east and south, and in the north is the Jidong Self-Defense Army that acts as a lackey of the devils, and I don't know if everyone can escape alive, alas...... No matter what you say, my brother will take you out, and my brother dragged you to be a soldier, I originally expected General Song to be an anti-Japanese hero, and he would not let our brothers die in vain. Now it seems that my brother is wrong, my brother can't be sorry for your father, your mother and your sister, even if my brother dies, I have to escape with you. ”

"Brother......

"Don't say it, while the devil has just entered the camp and has no time to send out a sentry, we have to hurry up, go west, and flee to the territory of the An Jiajun, and when we get there, we will be safe."

"Brother, can An Jiajun take in people like us?"

"Yes! In this world, there is no team comparable to the Anjia Army, but unfortunately my brother has no ability, I took you out at the beginning, and said that I was going to join the Anjia Army, but I didn't expect to enter the wrong barracks in a daze, originally I thought that Commander Song was also resolutely anti-Japanese, and the song "March of the Big Knife" back then, how majestic? Alas! Don't say it, it's important to escape, if we can get out alive, my brother will give up this face, and also ask the commander of An Jiajun to accept us, and don't agree to let us kneel for him. ”

"Brother......

"Don't cry! Shut up, go, follow my brother, and slowly wade across the river to ......"

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At four o'clock in the morning, the headquarters of the Eastern Front of the Anjia Army.

Two military off-road vehicles that did not turn on the headlights, dressed in stars and moons, drove in front of the Han family ancestral hall, Huang Yingwu and two political department officers in the car jumped out of the car quickly, saluted and greeted Lu Yixuan and others who lined up to greet them, and exchanged two words of greetings, and everyone walked into the gatehouse together and turned to the small courtyard to the west.

The horse's lights were dim, and only the facial features could be seen clearly, and more than 30 men in ragged clothes, many of whom were still wrapped in gauze, sat exhausted and slumped against the wall, mixed with several officers with the rank of the colonel inlaid on their collars.

Dozens of dull-eyed and haggard men heard the footsteps, looked up in some panic, and saw two lieutenant generals walking around in a group of generals, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly stood up and saluted.

Huang Yingwu came to a stop in front of a lieutenant colonel officer, looked at his injured arm hanging from his chest and his cheek that had just been stitched with more than a dozen stitches, shook his head sadly, and asked kindly: "You are Gao Jinde, the commander of the supplementary regiment of the first brigade of the third division for the time being, right?" ”

"Yes...... Sir...... Humble, humble, humble, faceless to see people......"

Bean-sized tears suddenly welled up in the lieutenant colonel's sunken eyes, ran through the long bayonet wound on his cheek, and sank into his thick, dirty beard.

Huang Yingwu gently patted the other hand of the lieutenant colonel: "High school colonel, don't be sad, none of our brothers in the Fifth Army look down on you because of your current situation, on the contrary, they all feel sad and angry like brothers, and they are bent on how to avenge you." It is already very good that you are a new brigade in the provisional division, and it is already very good that you can escape more than 2,000 brothers under such a sudden situation, although I don't know whether the other 2,000 brothers are now alive or dead, but it is a merit in itself that you and the officers here can bring more than 2,430 brothers who have not let go of their guns to us.

"If you really want to be investigated, you can only be held accountable for your division commanders and brigade commanders, as well as your headquarters. Therefore, you and your brothers must not have any ideological baggage, when you come to our army, everyone is a family. ”

The officers were extremely moved, and when they remembered the sudden disaster, they could not help but weep bitterly.

Huang Yingwu and Lu Yixuan glanced at each other, shook their heads sadly, and turned to the men who were crying again: "High school, now is not the time to be sad, we need to ask the high school and brothers to help, and immediately tell us the details of the whole incident, the atrocities of the Japanese invaders, the approximate number and number of the Japanese army, etc., so that we can report to the Central Military Commission in the shortest possible time and come up with countermeasures as soon as possible." ”

Gao Jinde suddenly wiped away his tears, and when he raised his head, the wound on his cheek cracked open again. He pushed away the ambulance soldiers who came up, and stared at Huang Yingwu in great pain:

"General, aren't you An Jiajun? Isn't it to defend the country and resist Japan wholeheartedly? Why not fight? General, give the order, fight over, I don't want anything anymore, just be a small soldier in your Anjia army, okay? ”

The crying stopped, the roar rang out, and more than 30 officers who had fled back from their lives, at this moment, all surrounded them, asking to fight side by side with An Jiajun, their poignant eyes and distorted faces under anger and shame made Huang Yingwu and General An Jiajun sigh.

Huang Yingwu raised his hand and signaled everyone to be quiet: "It's definitely going to be a fight, why are we here if you don't fight?" But when and how to fight is not something I can say. Brethren, I understand your thoughts, don't worry, as long as you have a kind, don't worry that there is no war, maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow, as long as you want, then we will give you weapons to rush forward.

"But before you do that, you have to tell us in detail about what happened after yesterday evening, so that we can understand what is going on. To put it mildly, even if An Jiajun goes to war immediately, he will not fight an unprepared battle, understand?

"Okay, start immediately, I'll be outside, waiting for the results of your statement, and then immediately report to the Central Military Commission."

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At 6:40 a.m., Lushan, the conference room of the Military Commission.

After reading the long message, Chiang Kai-shek stood up with great heaviness, and his cheeks twitched a few times before he slowly calmed down, and asked An Yi, Chen Cheng, Bai Chongxi, and He Yingqin in front of him: "What do you think?" ”

Bai Chongxi's face was calm, his lips were slightly closed, He Yingqin looked at both sides, and then sighed: "Yesterday, his subordinates called Song Mingxuan and asked him to stop negotiations and immediately enter a state of combat readiness, but there was no reply, and now that such a bad incident has happened, I don't know where he is going?" ”

"An Yi, what about you?"

Chiang Kai-shek knew that among all the people in front of him, he could only get what he wanted from An Yi's mouth.

An Yi raised his head and replied loudly: "Headmaster, this is an extremely bad and barbaric massacre that openly tramples on the dignity of our army and the interests of the country, and my subordinates have sent a detailed story to the newspapers under his command and all the familiar news newspapers, calling it the 'Beishuangmiao Barbaric Massacre'. ”

Chiang Kai-shek was stunned for a moment, suddenly came to his senses, and nodded slightly: "Very good, it is good to force Song Mingxuan through public opinion, and boldly expose it, I think how he will face the anti-Japanese voice of the whole people this time?" However, don't come forward for the time being, and don't go to North China, wait and see, wait for two days, just two days......"