On the same day that the Central Committee announced the reorganization plan of the Red Army, the Japanese Army announced the formation of the North China Front Army and the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and appointed General Terauchi Shouichi as commander of the North China Front Army and Senior General Matsui Ishine as commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army.

He said that his purpose was very clear, that is, to form two large-scale battles on the two fronts of North China and Shanghai at the same time, and use his naval and air superiority to quickly annihilate the main force of the [***] team.

After the reorganization meeting, the units of the Red Army entered the stage of reorganization. Many Red Army cadres and fighters could not figure it out and fought back and forth with the Kuomintang, only to turn out to be Kuomintang troops themselves.

The leaders of all units of the Red Army personally did the work for the cadres and fighters, and talked about the important surnames of unity and resistance and the important surnames of reorganization. He Long said that we are white-skinned and red-hearted, and Liu Bocheng said that no matter what clothes we wear or what hats we wear, we are all a team led by [***], and Chiang Kai-shek cannot command us.

On 31 August, the North China Front Army was organized, with the First Army, the Second Army, and directly subordinate troops, with a total strength of 280,000 troops. Among them, the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, commanded the 6th Division of Toshio Tani, the 14th Division of Kenji Dohihara, the 20th Division of Kawagishi Bunzaburo, the 1st and 2nd Brigades of Heavy Artillery, and other special forces. The commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo, was in charge of the 10th Division of Ryosuke Isoya, the 16th Division of Nakajima Imago, the 18th Division of Kumaya Shimomoto, the 6th Brigade of Heavy Artillery, and special forces. The Fifth Division, the 19th Division, the former North China Garrison Brigade Regiment, Special Forces, and Temporary Aviation Regiment directly under the Front Army. Originally part of the 1st, 2nd, and 11th Brigades of the Kwantung Army, they were assigned to the North China Front depending on the use of the operational area.

Originally, the base camp of the Japanese army wanted General Nobuyuki Abe to be the commander of the North China Front, but in order to release Senior General Shinzaburo Mazaki, who was imprisoned due to the "226 Incident," he had to transfer the arrest of Senior General Shinzaburo Terauchi, who had approved the arrest of General Shinzaburo Masaki, and had no choice but to let Shouichi Terauchi be appointed commander of the North China Front.

Terauchi Shouichi was born into a famous family, and his father, Earl Terauchi Masatsuki and Marshal, was the Meiji Father, and served as the director of education, the prime minister, the governor in Korea, and the prime minister. Terauchi Shouichi looks the same as his father, top-heavy and short-five. He is 48 years old, his head has been highly bowed, and he has a mustache, if he does not wear a military uniform, many people will think that he is a polite scholar, only a trace of fierce light in his eyes can not be concealed, revealing his jackal surname.

After graduating from the Army University, he entered the General Staff Headquarters with work experience in grassroots units, and was given the opportunity to study and work in Germany, and conducted in-depth research on the German army. After returning to China, he was steadily promoted and was an important general of the army. The "226 Incident" that occurred in 1936 pushed Terauchi Shouichi to the high position of Minister of War and made him personally lead the "Suppression of the Army" movement.

This time, he was appointed commander of the North China Front, and his main task was: "Occupy the Pingjin region and its nearby important places, and ensure the stability of the region." Dampen the enemy's will to war, gain the situation to end the war, and quickly annihilate the enemy in central Hebei Province. ”

Unfortunately, Shouichi Terauchi has his own strategic thinking. This army university graduate, a staff officer-educated general, like his arrogant classmates, is a group of politically idiotic, strategically ignorant, and tactically sophisticated guys. In Terauchi's view, China, which was weak and fragmented, was the base for the future development of the empire. With the superiority of the army's air, firepower, and mobility, China could be conquered in one month. Therefore, after receiving the order to take office, he conceived his own strategic blueprint, that is, to annihilate the main force of the [***] team in North China, and then move south, occupy Jinan, take Xuzhou, advance east along the Longhai line, and then go south to join the Central China Front Army in Wuhan. Therefore, he is determined to fight quickly, advance, attack, and completely conquer the [***] team with the elite in his hands. As for the operational restriction line drawn by the base camp, he did not care about it at all.

Now, this old devil is sitting in the headquarters of the North China Front Army in Tianjin, looking at the generals sitting on both sides of the conference table, Terauchi Shouichi is in a trance in his heart, he is in command of the largest overseas combat unit since the Russian War. Such a powerful force, if it does not conduct a decisive battle in North China and quickly bring China to its knees, it would be too sorry for the emperor's trust in him.

So, Terauchi Shouichi smiled and said a few words: "Ladies and gentlemen, Shina has always regarded itself as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire in the past, and the people of the emperor have not been able to raise their heads. Now, they are the sick men of East Asia, but they still hold an incomparably precious piece of jade in their arms, that is, the vast fertile fields, beautiful cities, endless mineral deposits, and countless maidens, waiting for us emperor's warriors to conquer, take back the beautiful jade, and mark it with the mark of the Great Emperor's Empire. Our front forces account for one-half of the total strength of the Imperial Army, and have aviation and special forces, and their combat power is strong. I look forward to your efforts to build up your legacy for His Majesty the Emperor. ”

Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, Chief of Staff, sat on the side, thinking to himself, His Excellency the Commander is worthy of being a veteran general in the army, worthy of being the son-in-law of Marshal Masashi Terauchi, and worthy of being a man who has been a land minister.

After Terauchi Shouyi finished speaking, the eyes of the group of generals below lit up, as if there was a royal princess in front of him who stripped off her clothes and danced, but thinking about it, etiquette in the army is indispensable, so they stood up together, bent down and bowed their heads, "Hai" constantly.

Terauchi Shou waved his hand and asked this group of emperor warriors to sit down, and directly issued a "battle order to enter the front line near Yizhou, Dingxing, Baigouhe Town, Baxian and Machang, and prepare for the attack on Baoding and Cangzhou", and prepared the order for a decisive battle in North China with the [***] team.

After giving the order, Terauchi remembered that he had not yet inspected Beiping Street after taking office, so he took Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, chief of staff, and a group of staff officers to leave the headquarters of the former Duan Qirui ruling axe in Tieshi Hutong, and took several cars to inspect Beiping City under the escort of the guards.

At this time, Beiping City was lifeless. Except for those Han annihilation, everyone else who could run ran away, and those who couldn't run were also panicked by the army's verification of the population and the strengthening of public security. Many shops were closed, but they had to open under the coercion of the army. However, most shops close early at around 5 p.m.

Along the way, only the concession was still relatively prosperous, and the rest of the place was in depression, and this old devil thought that when the war was over, he would immediately find those Chinese who were willing to cooperate, set up a political axe, and restore the prosperity of the market, so as to show that the empire was not only strong in martial arts, but also first-class in culture.

Near a market, Terauchi Shouichi signaled to stop the car and led a group of people into the area to inspect.

At this time, two soldiers were buying meat in front of a meat stall. The meat vendor wanted to close the stall as soon as he saw the devil, but unfortunately it was too late, so he had to deal with it.

The stall owner couldn't understand the devil's chirping birds, so he had to cut a piece according to the devil's gesture.

The two devils saw that they cut a little little, so they chattered and compared again, and the stall owner had to cut another piece and weigh it together, exactly thirty catties.

The two devils put the meat in the basket, put it on and left. The stall owner was really distressed, and he was afraid that the devils would turn their faces and commit murder, so after thinking about it, he ran out and stopped the two devils, and kept bowing.

A devil took a steel coin out of his trouser pocket and threw it in front of the stall owner.

When the stall owner saw that this steel coin was only equivalent to a penny of the national currency, he hurriedly bowed non-stop.

The devil got a little impatient, took out another steel coin, and threw it over.

The stall owner thought, 30 catties of meat, is it only worth 2 cents? Just keep bowing.

Now the two devils quit, one took off the bayonet, turned around and walked to the meat stall, took the stall owner's whetstone, and sharpened it one by one.

The stall owner turned pale with fright and sat down on the ground. The two devils picked up the meat and walked out.

At this time, Terauchi Shouichi, Okabe Naosaburo and others stood aside and saw this scene clearly.

Okabe Naosaburo was afraid that the commander would think that these two soldiers had corrupted military discipline, damaged the majesty of the Imperial Army, and were not conducive to the public security of Beiping, so he wanted to pat himself on the back and show a good performance. At the signal, the guards stopped the two soldiers.

Naosaburo Okabe stepped forward, slapped the two soldiers a dozen times with a crackling, and ordered them to pay according to the price. Just then, he heard the commander cough, and when he looked back, the commander had come over. Hurriedly lowered his hand and stepped aside.

Shouichi Terauchi walked over, stroked the swollen faces of the two soldiers with his white-gloved hand, and said with a smile: "The occupiers are unrestrained, and the emperor's warriors can only conquer with bayonets, instead of settling with hawkers and paying the occupied." You must know that the resources of the empire are limited, and the money must be used to buy steel and oil. Yours, understand? ”

The two soldiers immediately straightened up with Hai, and then ran triumphantly over to the stall owner, who had snatched all the money from his money, and walked away happily with the meat.

Shouichi Terauchi smiled when he saw it, touched his chin with his hand, and said, "Jose! After saying that, he turned to Okabe Naosaburo and said, "What we need are warriors who will destroy the will of the Shina people to resist, not model soldiers who are bound by military discipline." ”

For the next few days, Shouichi Terauchi was very depressed. Because both he and the base camp judged that the [***] team would definitely put the main force in North China to fight a decisive battle with the Yue army, they concentrated most of their forces on the North China side. What he did not expect was that Chiang Kai-shek had followed the advice of his staff at this time, transferred the main force to the east, and fought with the army in the direction of Shanghai, so as to save the crisis in North China. In North China, defensive operations were adopted. The [***] deployed on the front line in North China is divided into several systems, and the command is not unified when fighting, and it cannot form a joint force, but when it retreats, it is unusually fast.

Terauchi Shouichi thought that he couldn't find the object in the decisive battle, so he was naturally angry, so he decided to take the initiative to attack and capture the main force of the [***] team. On September 4, Terauchi Shouichi ordered the first army of Xiangyue Qingsi to launch the main attack along the Pinghan Railway, and the second army went south along the Jinpu Road, and then attacked to the west, forming an assist on the left flank.

At this time, [***] The deployment of [***] in central Hebei was: the Central Army Wei Lihuang Department of the First Theater and the troops of Sun Lianzhong of the Northwest Army jointly defended the Pinghan Line; Song Zheyuan's 29th Army defended Jinpu Road; Shi Yousan and Han Fuqu defended Jinpu Road.

With such a position on both sides, the result of the battle in central Hebei can be imagined.

On September 6, the Red Seventh Army held a meeting of cadres above the company level in Hancheng to announce the reorganization order of the Central Committee and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and carry out reorganization and mobilization.

The meeting was presided over by Luo Ronghuan, and after Cai Zhong read out the order of the central authorities, he also read out the order for the reorganization of the instructors, and the brigades were renamed the "× Brigade of the Shaanxi Anti-Ming Cooking Special Administrative Region of the Republic of China" and the "Teaching Artillery Brigade and the Teaching Cavalry Brigade×" for short. The units directly under the original corps were renamed "instructors ×× regiments".

After Cai Zhong read out the order, some cadres immediately proposed, Lao Tzu should not be a white dog, how many of us have been killed by the white dog, this revolution will come and go, and Lao Tzu will be revolutionized into a white dog! Lao Tzu's Red Army can still fight this devil.

Seeing that the cadres were emotional, Liu Yimin stood up and said: "Comrades, our Red Army has been reorganized into [***], and everyone can't figure it out. I myself was very reluctant to wear the cockade of the blue sky and white sky, and I wanted to throw it away. However, now that the devil has already called, he will soon hit the Yellow River on the opposite bank. If we do not unite with the Kuomintang, it will still be a situation of civil war, which will be broken by each of them. In order to resist the words, we have to adapt. Rest assured, although we are wearing [***] clothes, our hearts are still the Red Army. After defeating the devils, we will settle accounts with Chiang Kai-shek, take revenge, avenge grievances, and never let them go! ”

With this statement, the cadres gradually calmed down.

On September 8, the instructor held a pledge meeting in Hancheng.

It was drizzling, and more than 90,000 people lined up to stand in a large open space on the outskirts of Hancheng. Suddenly, from the first regiment of the 1st Brigade came the voice of reading the "Anti-Yue Sanzi Sutra":

"The surname of the Japanese is the most unpredictable, afraid of power, bullying the weak, really belligerent, pseudo-common prosperity, seeking expansion, and trying to do evil. Shenzhou Xing, Han Tang Sheng, Sihaiping, the Japanese people were confused, sent envoys, and came to pay tribute. Learn culture, etiquette, system, and classics. The Yanhuang people are the most loyal, and they are benevolent and righteous to the Japanese people. As everyone knows, the ghost is hidden, and after the smile, the hidden killing machine. After the Song and Yuan dynasties, the national strength was weak, and the surname of the Japanese was hideous. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, he eventually became a coward, disturbing my people and plundering my things. King Hideyoshi, rampant enough, occupied Goryeo, and began to expand. The Qi family army is the most heroic, chasing the widows, showing heroism. The Qing Empire, weak and incompetent, the power of the country, said to be prosperous, annexed to the heart, said to be gradually formed. The First Sino-Japanese War, the destruction of the Beiyang, the Maguan Treaty, Taiwan. Since then, I have been weak, bullied by the great powers, and Kyushu is in danger. At the beginning of the Republic of China, it was even more arrogant, twenty-one, and rampant. Ninety-one-eight, the most hurtful, the three eastern provinces, pay the wolf, the country has been broken, the family is peaceful, the wife is lost, and the father and mother are lost. ”

Soon the 2nd Regiment, 3rd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Brigade, and all the troops began to read aloud in order, and the sound was earth-shattering.

At seven o'clock, Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, Zeng Zhongsheng, and Cai Zhong took the rostrum.

Liu Yimin took off his Red Army hat, put on his [***] hat, and said loudly: "I swear: For the sake of national liberation, for the prosperity of the country, for the happiness of our compatriots, and for the sake of future generations, we must fight to the end and drive out the invaders!"

(To be continued)