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Chapter 1248 Cornered (3)

The atmosphere on Lushan was tense and busy, and after the Central Military Commission meeting for several days in a row decided on the general principle of unity and all-round resistance, the meeting turned from retreat to pragmatism, and the complicated relations in all aspects were exposed, and the dispute over the serial number of the group army was only one part of it, and other issues, such as the replacement and replenishment of weapons and equipment, the replenishment and allocation of soldiers, and the appointment of commanders at and above the army level, all involved the vital interests of various groups and individuals. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

An Yi, who has more than ten positions, is not easy at all, for the interests of the group, naturally can not be detached, but the wealthy An Yi group disdains to fight for what establishment and number, in addition to the Fifth Army controlled by Hu Jialin, An Jiajun now has the headquarters stationed in Yichang 24th Army, the headquarters stationed in Simao's 26th Army, the headquarters has moved to Syria to defend the new Second Army, Xiangxi Zhang Hongluan's 49th Army, Qianxi Shizhen 69th Army five armies, as well as southern Yunnan, Syria, Yichang, Hanzhong four division-level garrisons.

These numbers are now the permanent numbers of the Central Military Commission, which are very different from the group army and corps numbers that can be revoked or promulgated at any time.

What An Yi needs to fight for is the status of the core collective of the army, the actual power he enjoys in the whole team and some important positions that can be fought for.

In the Chinese officialdom in terms of seniority, although An Yi is in a high position, compared with the veterans of various factions in the army, his qualifications are always a big problem, and there is also jealousy and competition within the Whampoa department such as Hu Zongnan, Guan Linzheng, Huang Jie and others, in such a situation, An Yi and his think tanks chose to cooperate and compromise, and did their best to maintain An Yi's leading position in the military and political circles.

One of the things that best illustrates the benefits of this strategy:

In order to balance the forces in all aspects, Chiang Kai-shek reactivated He Yingqin, who had turned his back on him twice but still had important influence in the Whampoa family and military circles, and in addition to the fact that Cheng Qianqian, a veteran of the army, was elevated as chief of the general staff but was elevated, and then took the initiative to ask for resignation, Chiang Kai-shek, while strongly supporting Chen Cheng's control of the military and political department, could not but consider He Yingqin's arrangement, so there was an arrangement for He Yingqin to resign from the post of military and political minister and transfer to the post of chief of the general staff.

Chiang Kai-shek twice recruited An Yi, the leader of the Young Zhuang faction in the army, to do work, and An Yi cautiously supported He Yingqin's proposal to re-appoint himself as chief of the General Staff, in exchange for the Fourth Office of Zhao Rui, which was originally under the General Staff, to be separated from the General Staff Headquarters and upgraded to the Fourth Office under the direct jurisdiction of the Central Military Commission, which is still under the jurisdiction of General An Yi, member of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission and deputy chief of general staff, and is directly responsible to Chairman Chiang and the National Defense Council.

In this way, the fourth hall is virtually equivalent to a promotion of one level, and all the generals and colonels are also promoted to one level, and Zhao Rui's military rank has become a lieutenant general plus the rank of general, and his power is more prominent, and An Yi, who directly leads this important military intelligence department, has also strengthened his actual power.

Chiang Kai-shek instructed An Yi to invite Feng Yuxiang and others in to discuss strategies to deal with the war situation in North China, which showed that Chiang Kai-shek had realized that a major war was imminent, and all behaviors and ideas that would affect internal unity and the competition of interests between them must be stopped. At this critical juncture for the survival of the country and the nation, the energies of the whole party and the whole army must be put into the overall situation of "unanimously defending the country and defending the country."

The reason why Chiang Kai-shek made An Yi ready to fly to North China at any time to preside over the overall situation was undoubtedly to predict the worst outcome: after the loss of Pingjin, how to block the footsteps of the Japanese army to the south? Looking at the whole army, only An Yi, who has the least qualifications but the most firm stance and the most outstanding command ability, is worthy of the great responsibility.

The meeting of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission was convened under such urgent circumstances, and all the generals of the three armed services, including Navy Commander Chen Shaokuan, attended.

Under Chiang Kai-shek's personal chairmanship, a unified opinion was quickly formed at the meeting: Cheng Qian, who had originally planned to be transferred to Xi'an as director of the camp, flew to Baoding within two days to take over Chiang Kai-shek's concurrent post of commander of the First Theater of Operations, and the battle sequences of the various armies in North China were the First Group Army under the command of Song Zheyuan, the Second Group Army under the command of Liu Zhi, and the Fifth Army Corps under the command of Hu Jialin.

When Chiang Kai-shek was in full swing to formulate a strategic plan in Lushan, the North China Garrison Army Headquarters was also holding an emergency meeting, and fierce arguments and angry roars ran throughout. Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, commander of the North China Garrison Army, who has a soft personality and is called "talking on paper" in military circles, has been openly questioned by the Japanese military and political circles and major factions.

More than 160 officers and men were killed, more than 250 Japanese were killed, more than 350 barrels of fuel oil were burned, 18 tons of weapons and ammunition were bombed, and six large and small vehicles and a batch of auxiliary supplies and food were lost.

However, the sensitive timing of this emergency, the major impact it caused, and the blow to the dignity of the Japanese army were far beyond the control of any military and elite leader.

The sudden incident in Wanzhuang Town came so quickly and with such a big momentum that all parties were stunned and shocked.

As of noon, Wanzhuang Town was still burning and overturning in a raging fire, but there was no evidence pointing to either side, but the impact of the explosion was far beyond the estimate of the commander of the Kazuki Kiyoji, in order to keep the secret of the Kwantung Army, General Ueda Kenkichi, in order to divert the attention of the base camp, immediately sent a stern emergency telegram, asking Kazuki Kiyoshi how to deal with the aftermath?

The new commander of the 5th Division, Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, the commander of the 20th Division, Lieutenant General Kawagishi Fumizaburo, the commander of the 1st *** Brigade, Major General Sakai Hoji, and the commander of the 2nd Mixed Brigade, Major General Sekikameji, surrounded Kazuki Kiyoji angrily, and the chief of staff Hashimoto Group, who had been supporting him since Kazuki Kiyoji took office, also changed his previous respectful attitude and complained loudly, and finally prompted the Japanese army's highest military commander in North China, Kazuki Kiyoji, to pull out his saber angrily and make a decisive decision: revenge! Launch a full-scale attack on the 29th Army of Song Zheyuan, which took the initiative to provoke!

At 1:30 p.m., two Japanese wings stationed in Anding Town, the Pingjin transportation hub, finally launched a fierce attack on the 38th Division of the 29th Army of the Chinese defenders stationed in Huangcun, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle on the southeast line of Huangcun.

Half an hour later, the 11th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army suddenly attacked, and with an indomitable momentum, launched an attack on the garrison brigade of the 37th Division of the 29th Army stationed in Miyun County, and drove the defenders out of Miyun in only 30 minutes. At the same time, the troops of the 109th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Qinhuangdao divided into two routes and attacked Tangshan, where Zhang Zizhong's troops were stationed, and more than 40,000 traitors armed with the Jidong Autonomous Army began to attack the important counties and towns garrisoned by various units of the 29th Army under the command of the Japanese secret service.

In a short period of more than two hours, all units of the 29th Army stationed in the Pingjin area were suddenly besieged by the Japanese army and the puppet army, and more than 10 counties and more than 70 townships and towns fell in the blink of an eye.

At this point, the Sino-Japanese war suddenly escalated and started in an all-round way.

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At three o'clock in the afternoon, Song Zheyuan, chairman of the Political Affairs Committee of the Jicha and commander of the 29th Army, who had no way to retreat, sent a telegram to the whole country, counting the atrocities of the Japanese army, declaring that he would never compromise on his determination to resist the war to the end, and called on the whole people to mobilize to resist the invaders.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Chiang Kai-shek issued a telegram to the whole people: peace and despair, rise up to resist the war!

At five o'clock in the afternoon, three Junkers three-engine transport planes, painted only with the blue sky and white sun emblem and no specific number, took off from Lushan Airport, slowly turned in the sky, and flew north.

These three transport planes, which are no different in appearance from the JU52 improved transport aircraft of the German Junkers Company in three or five years, have actually been replaced with the high-horsepower engines newly developed by the Junkers Company; although the Syrian Aircraft Factory has selected a more advanced and stronger support frame on the basis of the original design, thickened the ballproof floor of the engine room, and enlarged the fuel tank, and increased the weight by 450 kilograms, the excellent performance of the high-horsepower engine has been replaced is enough to offset the additional weight and increase the flight speed by 25 percent. The cruising range has also increased to 1,450 km.

The three transport planes flew over the Yangtze River in formation.

The personnel on board were An Yi, deputy chief of general staff of the Central Military Commission, and his guards; after the plane formation entered southern Anhui, it was immediately captured by the radar set up at the Bengbu airport, and the four A25 attack planes of the 1st Regiment of the Southwest Air Force quickly took off from the Bengbu airport, and after joining An Yi's transport plane formation in the sky, they continued to fly north.

An Yi on the plane withdrew his gaze from the window of the plane, glanced at Shen Fengdao and Fang Pengxiang, who were sitting opposite, picked up the command file on his lap, and opened it again.

An Yi went to North China in a very hurry and secretly, and neither the central government nor the central government revealed to the outside world that Cheng Qian, the newly appointed commander of the First Theater, had just flown from Lushan to Nanjing, and was ready to take up the post of commander of the First Theater tomorrow morning, and it would take at least a week to prepare to really reach the front line.

Cheng Qian, who has been absent from the battle formation for a long time, needs to form his own command team, he does not have the kind of staff team that An Yi has a strong lineup, and he can come and go when he is called, and he originally had several generals under him, but now he is full of feathers and is in charge, and his loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek is more than that of the old commander Cheng Qian, Cheng Qian does not expect to be able to mobilize them at all, and the only way is to choose among the idle generals of the old department and the *** ministry.

It is precisely because of this that An Yi is one step ahead, no matter what others think, at least in the eyes of Chiang Kai-shek, Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng and Yang Jie, the actual role played by An Yi is much greater than that of Cheng Qian, the pioneer of the veteran army of the party-state, at least, there are three armies of the Fifth Army, which will obey An Yi convincingly, and the other divisions of the Whampoa family and Sun Lianzhong's department will not have any contradiction with An Yi, who is in power in the upstart army.

Now the only problem is only the 29th Army of Song Zheyuan's department, but now the more than 100,000 soldiers under Song Zheyuan's command are falling into a full-scale melee, An Yi's arrival will only help them and support them, no matter how many grievances there are, at the moment of life and death, it is nothing.