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Chapter 10** Honor (4)

During He Yingqin's trip to Baoding, he did not see Hu Jialin, who led his troops to participate in the exercise, and did not see any of the headquarters of the 17 th Army and the generals of various divisions, including the generals of the second and third phases of Huangpu, and only Huang Yingwu, deputy commander of the corps who stayed behind, received He Yingqin very politely. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

There is no relationship between Huang Yingwu and He Yingqin, strictly speaking, Huang Yingwu, who is a student of the first phase of the Central School, is not only an old subordinate of An Yi, the deputy chief of staff of the whole army, who is not on the same page as He Yingqin, but also a cadre who attaches great importance to the CC department. He Yingqin, who was so angry that he thought highly of himself, turned his head and left.

At this time, He Yingqin, who had always advocated compromise with Japan, finally knew that the 17th Army, which was deeply valued by Chiang Kai-shek and had An Yi's full support behind him, would no longer buy him as the Minister of Military Affairs any more face.

From the night of that day until the morning of the next day, the confrontation exercises of the men and horses of the 17 th Army were in a state of intense intensity, and the traitors and autonomous armed forces of all sizes in the eastern part of the central Hebei Plain, such as Dongyang Town outside Bazhou City, Daliu Town, across the river, Balipu in the north of Hejian City, and the old Fort of Machang north of Qingxian County, were full of artillery roaring, gunfire was intensive, and the shouts of killing were incessant.

At nine o'clock in the morning, more than 20 silver fighters suddenly appeared in the sky, in the form of battle formations, circling at low altitude around the defense area of the squadron outside Tianjin, the huge noise, shocked the exclamations inside and outside Tianjin, a chaos, a military truck and assault vehicles, full of murderous Lu Yixuan's 17th Division and 51st Brigade soldiers, rushed into the southwest of Tianjin, more than 7,000 camouflage uniforms, fully armed soldiers surrounded Chengguan Town in a blink of an eye, erected a new general-purpose machine gun, The assault chariots dragging long bullet belts entered the city from four directions, and the more than 800 people of the Jidong Autonomous Army, who had not had time to withdraw, were so frightened that they threw down their weapons, took off their clothes, and fled in all directions, disappearing completely in the blink of an eye.

The officers and men of the 51st Brigade seized a large amount of weapons and equipment without firing a single shot, confiscated all the materials in the barracks of the autonomous army that had escaped, and immediately dispatched officers and men to pacify the people, and the main regiments assumed the posture that they would attack at any time.

A brigade of the Japanese army, which was guarding outside Tianjin and less than a kilometer away from Chengguan Town, had always been arrogant and disdainful of the equipment and combat strength of the squadron, but at this moment, seeing the officers and men of the 17th Army with a completely different spiritual outlook and sophisticated weapons from the squadron they had seen before, they were so frightened that they did not dare to make any radical moves, let alone send people to the town to support the Eastern Hebei Autonomous Army they supported.

It was not until 4:30 p.m. that the officers and men of the 51st Brigade who received the order to end the exercise swaggered and retreated southward, and the Japanese troops who were so nervous that they were sweating all over their bodies and Song Zheyuan's Tianjin garrison were slightly relieved, and at the same time, they all wanted to poke the 17th Army up and down to the ashes that had made them lose enough face.

The confrontation exercises carried out by the 17 th Army have done a good job of testing the reaction speed of the troops and how to give full play to their combat effectiveness in the event of an emergency, discovering many hidden dangers and finding out many deficiencies; more importantly, they have greatly deterred the Japanese and traitor forces, and greatly changed the atmosphere of the entire society.

After learning that the exercise had ended smoothly and that there had been no "accidents," the British and American countries were all secretly glad and relieved. At the same time, through the reaction of the Japanese army during the exercise of the 17th Army, the experts of various affairs also clearly saw the real strength and concerns of the garrison army that grinned and constantly provoked incidents, and the image of the paper tiger was very suitable for this trouble-making army, and they were amused by the step-by-step retreat of Song Zheyuan, Yu Xuezhong and others, and also saw the deep meaning of Chiang Kai-shek's dispatch of the 17th Army to North China.

The exercise ended smoothly, and all the forces in North China were moved, and He Yingqin, Song Zheyuan and others, who were retreating step by step under the pressure of ***, saw the cowardice of the *** people, and felt a little touched in their hearts, and examined whether they had compromised too much before? The eyes of the people were bright, and the 17th Army, which had greatly increased the face of China and boosted the morale of the whole people, was once again praised by patriotic people and students from all walks of life, and the panicked military and political officials and celebrities and gentry finally quieted down and began to carefully evaluate their future and road.

Surprisingly, he didn't ask for any explanation, but silently looked at the stations of the 17th Army, which suddenly became unfamiliar, and pondered how to get along with the tiger around him in the coming days. Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Guiyang and commanded the chasing army, accepted it when he saw it, and sent a secret telegram to An Yi, who was in Syria, to give him some advice, so that the major military exercises of the 17th Army were not hyped up by the news media and radio - the purpose of the exercises had been successfully achieved, and the rest should be to wait quietly.

An Yi was able to calm down, but Hu Jialin could no longer live a peaceful life, the news of the exercise spread all over North China, and countless patriotic young people in the Pingjin area who were deeply inspired flocked to the location of the military headquarters of the 17th Army in Baoding. On the day of International Labor Day, tens of thousands of patriotic young people came to the gate of Baoding Military Station, held high pennants and slogans, and shouted slogans such as "throwing pen to Rong" and "defending the country", and strongly demanded to join the 17th Army and dedicate their meager strength to the country and the nation.

At this time, Hu Jialin, Huang Yingwu, Yang Guan, and other generals of the 17th Army were in a dilemma, and after the officers and men of the Ministry of Education and the Guard Regiment warmly received the youth representatives, they happily met the requests of the patriotic youths to visit the barracks and talk with the officers and men, but the large number of students and young people from all walks of life present could not be arranged one by one, and many new problems suddenly appeared.

An Yi received Hu Jialin's urgent telegram, and after thinking about it repeatedly, he suddenly came up with a set of workarounds, he called Hu Jialin and asked him to immediately summon the responsible persons of the student unions of various colleges and universities in Pingjin, and proposed that the headquarters attaches great importance to the patriotic spirit of the students, understands the students' strong desire to experience military life, and can arrange for students to enter various units of the 17th Army for short-term military training in an organized and planned way, so as to not only cultivate students' basic military knowledge, but also enable students to have a clear and intuitive understanding and experience of military life.

Students who still require enlistment after the completion of military training can be given priority treatment after completing their studies or with the consent of the school, and outstanding students who want to enter military academies to continue their studies will receive *** from the 17th Army Headquarters.

Hu Jialin and Huang Yingwu conveyed this opinion to the teachers and student representatives of various colleges and universities, which immediately caused a sensation in the entire Pingjin area, and dozens of colleges and universities, from the presidents to the students, attached great importance to it, and all believed that this was the most ideal and reasonable solution.

The teachers are very sorry for their students, but in the face of the continuous all-round aggression of the Japanese invaders and the danger of the country, the teachers can understand the grief and indignation of their students and their desire to serve the country, and the methods proposed by the 17th Army Command fully take into account the interests and future of the school and the students. Continue to complete your studies without wasting years of hard study.

University President Jiang Menglin, Tsinghua University President Mei Yiqi, Yenching University President Lu Zhiwei, Jiang Tinghuang, Ren Hongjun, Yuan Tongli, Fu Sinian and other professors very much agree with Hu Jialin's opinion, and unanimously believe that the way to serve the motherland should not just be to carry a gun and embark on a road on the battlefield, and the construction of the country needs a large number of talents with modern knowledge, and the method of the 17th Army is the most effective, which can not only allow passionate students to experience the military career firsthand, but also let the students calm down. Choosing one's life goals carefully is more convincing than the painstaking words of teachers to comfort and persuade them.

The military training agreements between the 17th Army and various colleges and universities in Pingjin were successfully reached, and they also received strong support from the General Staff Headquarters and the Training Director Department.

To this end, the Anjia Army General Headquarters allocated 500,000 yuan for military training, the Xufu Military Uniform Factory in southern Sichuan rushed to produce 15,000 sets of summer camouflage uniforms and new-style military hats inlaid with red-edged collar badges on a green background, and the Anjia Military Station urgently allocated 10,000 pairs of combat shoes and 500,000 rounds of ammunition, all of which were transported to the Baoding Military Station within a week as training expenses for military training trainees, so as to alleviate the limited financial expenditure of the 17th Army.

Beginning on 10 May, a total of 8,500 teachers and students from the eight universities that entered the four divisions of the Anjia Army for military training arrived in Baoding by several trains. On the morning of the next day, the 8,500 cadets were disrupted and reorganized in one fell swoop in accordance with their own choices and in light of the actual situation of the 17th Army, and were divided into infantry cadet brigades, armored cadet brigades, air defense cadet brigades, and ambulance cadet brigades. After the regrouping was completed, and without giving the students any opportunity to say goodbye or communicate, the instructors of each division immediately took the students who had put on military uniforms and began a four-week military training.

In the first week, a total of more than 1,800 students chose to quit due to injuries or unbearable reasons, and were sent back to school by the fierce and vicious, off-field but very friendly instructors and officials of the Ministry of Education, and when the eliminated students learned that the "inhuman torture" they endured was only half of the intensity of the training of recruits of the 17th Army, the resentment in their hearts suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by deep guilt and reverence, so they slowly recalled the bits and pieces of training, Recalling that those captains and instructors who had made great achievements in the war ate the same pot of food and slept in the same barracks as they did every day, got up earlier and slept later than themselves, and worked more tiring than themselves every day, what impressed all the cadets was that the officers and men of the 17 th were strict in military discipline and good quality, and all the officers and men could not see the kind of casual and slack-lacker or even out-of-the-box style of the local army.

At the end of the second week, more than 900 students chose to quit, but from the third week onwards, it was professional military basic skills training, and the extremely excited trainees were finally able to receive their own weapons and equipment after two weeks of hard work, and finally to follow various professional instructors to carry out further study.

This process surprised and shocked the students, because the guns on their bodies, the steel helmets on their heads, the new general-purpose machine guns, the vehicle-mounted twin anti-aircraft guns, the military trucks, assault vehicles and armored vehicles were all marked with Chinese nameplates and logos. They have long known the legend of An Yi, the commander of An Jiajun, the thousands of international students funded by An Yi's education fund every year, and the strong faculty and scale of each university under An Yi, but it is the first time for all students to see such a strong manufacturing capacity and advanced technology level displayed by An Jiajun.

After four weeks of military training, more than 6,000 trainees who had undergone tremendous changes in their physical fitness and ideological concepts were taken to Baoding Airport to line up in front of the fighters of the No. 1 Regiment and No. 3 Squadron of the Anjia Military Air Force.

Under the envious gaze of thousands of teachers and students, the transport plane full of outstanding students followed the six attack planes and flew into the blue sky, soaring into the sky of North China under the escort of fighter planes, overlooking the magnificent rivers and mountains of their motherland, overlooking the ancient Beiping City and the ancient Great Wall that winds for thousands of miles.

The generals of the 17th Army who accompanied the outstanding students on the air proudly introduced: Students, the plane you are flying on, as well as the new fighter planes guarding us outside the window, are all products of our Syrian Aircraft Factory, can you think of how honored you are?

The students had mixed feelings, and when they stepped off the plane, their hearts were full of excitement and tears, no matter what their future choices were, the four-week military training had left an indelible memory in the depths of their hearts, and there were only five words in their hearts at this moment, and they were the five words summed up by General Hu Jialin, who has become a national hero: honor and responsibility!

The special train that the students took slowly went north, and the faces in the windows were full of sadness and reluctance, almost all the female students were in tears, unable to control themselves, and the male students generally had flushed eyes and sighed.

The teachers in charge of student management commented with emotion: Our harvest is incomparably huge, this is an iron army, the founder and successor of the spirit of the model battalion, the backbone and hope of the country and the nation, and worthy of the honor of the iron-blooded hero.