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Chapter 1420 Central Response

Nanjing, the auditorium of the national government, the site of the Supreme National Defense Conference. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chiang Kai-shek has been proud of the spring breeze recently, because the enemy army was dragged down by the war in the northeast and could not get out, and the whole ** team was united, under the command of his generalissimo of the army, navy and air, and pressed towards Pingjin with an overwhelming momentum, and the people of the country were excited, newspapers and magazines praised one after another, and international public opinion rushed to report it, and Chiang Kai-shek became an international figure of the year in early September and became the cover character of the American "Time Magazine."

With the decline of the enemy's army, international military strategists and observers stumbled to pieces -- no one could have imagined that the enemy country, which claimed to be a powerful army and had defeated Russia, would actually be a strong foreign country and a Chinese leader, and since the two countries started the war, they have been defeated in successive battles.

Except for a few international dignitaries who understand the chaos in the Northeast, the rest of them are asking the same question: What happened to the enemy country? What happened to the enemy team?

The auditorium burst into applause.

What has just been examined and approved by the Supreme National Defense Council is a motion put forward by the Supreme National Defense Council to reorganize the Red Army in the south into the National Revolutionary Army and go north to resist the enemy.

Chiang Kai-shek was refreshed and in a good mood, and without much thought, he raised his hand in agreement, and the other members of the National Defense Committee greatly admired Chiang Kai-shek's open-mindedness, and except for a few people such as Wang Jingwei and Chen Guofu, who abstained from voting, the rest of the members did not obstruct it, so the Red Army stranded in the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River was formally appointed and reorganized into the newly organized Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with Ye Ting, a famous general of the Northern Expedition, as the commander, Xiang Ying as the deputy commander, Zhang Yunyi and Zhou Zikun as the chief and deputy chiefs of staff, Yuan Guoping and Deng Zihui as the directors of the chief and deputy political departments, Chen Yi, commander of the first detachment, and Fu Qiutao, deputy commander, Commander of the Second Detachment Zhang Dingcheng, Deputy Commander Su Yu, Commander of the Third Detachment Zhang Yunyi, Deputy Commander Tan Zhenlin, Commander of the Fourth Detachment Gao Jingting, Chief of Staff Lin Weixian.

The topic currently being discussed at the meeting is the proposal of the first side to set up a national defense council under the Supreme National Defense Council to mobilize the forces of all walks of life in the country to unite against the enemy.

A few days ago, Chiang Kai-shek not only did not dare to stop Han Fuqu, who had always been vain and unruly to the central government, in the face of the mighty army marching north, but also mobilized the people with good sense to send grain and grass to reward the army.

However, Chiang Kai-shek knew very well that now was not the time to take action against the local warlords, and he repeatedly warned himself that only by completely eliminating the Japanese invaders and then recovering the supreme glory of the country could he exert a thunderous force on the local army and collect local rights and interests from the central government by dignified and upright means. He can openly and honestly call on the people to fight against the local warlords who have turned away from the people's will and will die without a corpse. It is believed that it will not be long before the country will be able to achieve true reunification and move toward the road of simultaneous development of industry and commerce, prosperity and strength.

As long as it is advantageous to fight the enemy, the current Chiang Kai-shek unconditionally supports it, so he once again raised his hand to express his support for the bill. The bill was passed, and soon Chiang Kai-shek had another title on his head - chairman of the National Defense Council. At the same time, Wang Jingwei was elected vice chairman, and Zhang Qun served as the secretary general of the National Defense Council, ** representing Zhou Enlai, Lin Boqu, and Qin Bangxian; Al-Shabaab Zeng Qi, Li Huang, Zuo Shunsheng, Chen Qitian; Kuomintang Chen Bui, Zhou Fohai, Tao Xisheng; Personages without party affiliation, including Zhang Boling, Fu Sinian, Mei Yiqi, Hu Shi, Jiang Menglin, Luo Wengan, Jiang Baili, Huang Yanpei, Liang Shuming, Yan Yangchu, and Shen Junru, were elected members of the National Defense Council.

Just as the meeting is about to enter the next proposal - the proposal for the construction of the Neijiang-Chengdu section of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, which was originally scheduled to start in three or four years and be completed by the end of this year, will be approved for three or three years.

The Neijiang-Chongqing section of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway is still under intense construction, and the Ziliujing-Neijiang section of the railway, which has been renamed Zigong, was completed at the beginning of this year, which has greatly accelerated the construction of the Neijiang-Chongqing section of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway. According to the current construction progress, the entire line from Chongqing to Neijiang will be opened to traffic by the middle of next year.

Today, the total length of railways in the country has reached 22,000 kilometers, and there are still nearly 5,000 kilometers of railways under intense construction, and the mileage of highways is as high as 200,000 kilometers. Just when Chiang Kai-shek wanted to express his thoughts on this, Chen Bui looked solemn, walked in quickly, and handed over a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek was a little unimpressed, but after taking a look, his expression changed greatly, and he was already drenched in cold sweat after reading it.

Chiang Kai-shek was so anxious that he couldn't sit still any longer, so he suddenly stood up, nodded his apologies to Wang Jingwei, Ye Chuling, Tang Shengzhi, Long Yun and other members of the National Defense Commission, and called Chen Cheng, Bai Chongxi and other think tanks and generals to stride out of the national government auditorium.

In the war room of the Military Commission, General He Yingqin, chief of the general staff of the whole army who was on duty, was sweating profusely, and the staff officers were running back and forth, constantly contacting the garrisons in various parts of Zhejiang in accordance with He Yingqin's instructions to find out the movements of the enemy troops in the southeastern part of Zhejiang.

However, until now, no further news has come, and if this news had not been reported by Liu Jianxu, commander of the Tenth Group Army, and confirmed by An Yi, commander of the First Group Army, it is estimated that He Yingqin would have thought that it was a joke made by a boring person: Where is there a large army that does not alarm the people?

Now the dead silence in the southeast of Zhejiang, what does it portend? The more He Yingqin thought about it, the more headache he felt, and then he received a telegram from Liu Jianxu, commander of the Tenth Group Army.

It turned out that Liu Jianxu, who was worried about the safety of the eastern Zhejiang Plain, had already ordered the 52 nd Division stationed in Fenghua to quickly seize the key points of communication on Tiantai Mountain from Fenghua to Xiangshan Port, Xidian Town, and Haining County to prevent the enemy from moving north.

He Yingqin quickly called back to express his support and tactfully reminded:

If it falls into the hands of the Japanese, where will the face of the party-state and the chairman of the committee remain? Please be cautious!

Chiang Kai-shek walked quickly into the war room, went straight to the large map of Zhejiang, looked at his hometown Fenghua, and roared:

"Niang Xipi, what does Zhu Xianglin (Zhu Jiahua), the chairman of Zhejiang Province and the commander of security, eat? In order to strengthen Zhejiang's defense, I specially equipped his security division with radio stations and advanced weapons and equipment, even if he could not resist the Japanese invaders for a while, he should have sent a message a long time ago, so that he would not even know what the situation was now!

"And Liu Huixian (Liu Jianxu), I gave him the important task of commander of the Tenth Group Army to consolidate Zhejiang's coastal defense, what did he repay me? I don't know if Haining County is lost, does it mean that Fenghua City is lost, so that he can come to his senses? ”

Although all the generals know that Liu Jianxu's main defensive direction is on the front line of Hangzhou Bay, but now that Chiang Kai-shek is angry, who dares to touch his moldy head? All of them remained silent, silently looking at the map, trying to figure out the intentions of the enemy.

In the end, He Yingqin couldn't help it, took the initiative to approach Chiang Kai-shek, and comforted softly: "Commission, Brother Xianglin is a scholar, and he is not very proficient in the affairs of the army, so it is completely understandable that he made this mistake!" Who would have thought that the enemy army would first start a war and now attack our country from the front line in the southeast of Zhejiang? ”

After Chiang Kai-shek pondered it carefully, and his anger rested for a while, He Yingqin said again:

"Bench, the situation is critical, and a decision must be made as soon as possible. The enemy army swallowed up our three counties at once without making a sound, and the plan was not small, and it was necessary to resolutely fight back...... Now the troops in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are empty, and all the troops are transferred to Hebei, Shandong, Henan, and Anhui, if they cannot block the enemy army in time on the front line of Tiantai Mountain, and let them enter the eastern Zhejiang Plain, it is now the autumn harvest season, and the damage is really unimaginable. In particular, Fenghua is the ancestral residence of the commission, and if it falls into the hands of the enemy......"

When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, he shuddered, and his eyes involuntarily looked at Shanghai, which was closest to the southeast of Zhejiang and had abundant troops, but then he thought of Shanghai's special strategic position, and he couldn't help but pace back and forth, bowing his head and thinking silently.

Chen Cheng and Bai Chongxi discussed it urgently, and felt that it was not a way to go on like this, so Bai Chongxi said to Chiang Kai-shek: "Commission, the situation is critical, and now we must respond to four questions:

"First, do the troops transferred to North China need to be transferred back to Jiangnan? At present, the war situation in southeastern Zhejiang is confusing, but so far, our army has not found the enemy's main force, and it cannot be ruled out that this is the enemy's plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao; if it is later found out that this is just a nuisance of a small group of enemy troops, and our army is running back and forth and exhausted, the prestige of our supreme command and chairman will be seriously damaged;

Second, the Yangtze River Delta region currently has General An Yi's First Group Army, General Zhang Fakui's Eighth Group Army, General Zhang Zhizhong's Ninth Group Army, General Ci Xiu's 15th Group Army, and General Shangguan Yunxiang's Eleventh Army Corps. According to the comparison of the strength of the two countries on the Songhu front, it is very difficult for the enemy's three divisions and regiments to set off a big storm under the gathering of our army, so the dispatch of one or two group armies into southeast Zhejiang to fight should not harm the overall situation of the current War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Moreover, as long as General An Yi's First Army was nailed to Songhu for one day, the enemy army that feared it like a tiger would not be able to advance an inch;

"Third, General Liu Jianxu's Tenth Army is offensive or defensive, and it is necessary to give clear instructions as soon as possible, otherwise the army's thinking is not unified, and disaster may arise;

Fourth, with the fall of Sanmen and Tiantai counties, the northern Fujian front line was seriously threatened by the enemy. At present, Fujian's defense is empty, and it is necessary to deploy troops to replenish it as soon as possible. ”

Chiang Kai-shek listened to Bai Chongxi's analysis with reasonable evidence, stopped and groaned slightly, and immediately made a decision:

"Ordered Li Yannian's Second Army, which went north to Tai'an, to quickly return to Fujian, and transferred Jiang Mingsan (Jiang Dingwen), director of the Northwest Branch, to Fujian to lead the Fujian garrison to resist the war; Ordered An Yi to transfer the 24th Army and the 26th Army to replace Zhang Fakui's Eighth Army, block the enemy's advance route in Pudong, and defend the front line of Hangzhou Bay. Zhang Fakui's Ninth Group Army was transferred to fight in southeastern Zhejiang. ”

Speaking of this, Chiang Kai-shek called Chen Cheng, patted him on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "Resignation, the stakes are very high, I don't feel at ease when I hand it over to others, so I can only go by you personally." I hereby appoint you as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy in eastern Zhejiang, and lead the 15th Group Army into the eastern Zhejiang region to fight, and the 8th and 10th Group Armies will be dispatched by you. You must defeat the enemy before they enter the Zhedong Plain, and then drive them out into the sea without mercy! ”

"Yes!"

Chen Cheng saluted solemnly and turned to leave.