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Chapter 1176 Sincere Cooperation

An Yi, who was full of worries, hibernated after returning to Baoding, staring at the outside of the pass with one eye and looking at the northwest with the other. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

On the 17th, Chiang Kai-shek personally flew to Taiyuan to have a secret talk with Yan Xishan.

The next day, Wan Huihui's 25th Army marched from Luoyang to Shanxi, and Chen Cheng was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, commanding all the departments of the Central Army in Jin, and urgently supporting the Suiyuan front. The cavalry division commander Peng Yubin commanded by Fu Zuoyi attacked head-on and quickly bypassed, smashed the bandit puppet army Wang Ying, Li Shouxin, and Yin Baoshan's troops to recover Honggertu with an unstoppable momentum and destroy the headquarters of the Northwest Mongolian and Han Defense Communist Autonomous Army, commonly known as the "Great Han Righteous Army".

On the 19th, Chiang Kai-shek flew to Jinan to meet with Han Fuqu, who had hesitated in dealing with the crisis of instigation of the Japanese invaders, and after receiving Han Fuqu's clear assurance, he flew to Baoding with great satisfaction, and had secret talks with An Yi, Hu Jialin, and other generals at the airport for an hour and a half, and then returned to Luoyang by plane.

On the 20th, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nanjing Nationalist Government unexpectedly issued a strongly worded statement: We will absolutely exterminate the bandits or any forces that invade Suiyuan!

After the people were shocked, their spirits were lifted, but the envoys of European and American countries in China scoffed at this, believing that this was another perfunctory gesture that the Nanjing government had to stand up under the strong pressure of the Chinese people.

On the 22nd, Cao Fulin's 29th Division under the command of Han Fuqu marched into Dezhou City on the banks of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in northwestern Shandong Province, surrounded and disarmed the Dezhou Security Brigade that was secretly colluding with the Japanese invaders to conspire for autonomy, and arrested more than 300 officers and gentry inside and outside the city on charges of "colluding with the Communist Party" and "conspiracy to riot."

Before they entered the territory of Hebei, they were easily arrested by Yang Jiuxiao Division and Lu Yixuan Division of the 17th Army, who had been waiting at various ferries, wharves and checkpoints, and the heinous criminals and those carrying weapons were killed on the spot, and the rest of the prisoners were escorted to Dezhou and handed over to the Han Fuqu Department for disposal.

After this thunderous suppression, the hidden dangers in the border area of Hebei and Shandong were basically eliminated.

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At one o'clock in the morning of the 24th, after careful planning and arrangement, the battle of Fu Zuoyi's division of the 35th Army to attack Bailing Temple and recover the territory of the country was in full swing, and the puppet Mongolian army, under the command of the Japanese secret service agency Changmori Island Kakufang, stopped the advance of the Jin Sui army with powerful superior firepower.

Three hours later, Fu Zuoyi resolutely gave the order, quickly changed the formation, gathered the main forces of each brigade, and attacked the enemy's two flanks successfully, and the attacking troops quickly tore through the enemy's defense line, penetrated deep into the enemy's positions, and fought close to each other, eliminating the threat of the enemy's superior artillery fire.

On the eve of dawn, Fu Zuoyi was deeply afraid of the enemy's fighter planes to help in the battle, and urgently ordered the whole army to give it a go, and Sun Changsheng, commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division, and Sun Lanfeng, deputy commander-in-chief of the 211th Infantry Brigade, personally rushed to the front line to direct the operation, and the artillery regiment commanded by Yuan Qingrong risked death to move forward and launch a fierce bombardment of the enemy's position.

After repeated and fierce struggles, the spy battalion finally broke through the enemy position and broke into the Bailing Temple, the enemy army was shaken on all fronts, and the troops were defeated like a mountain, and the Japanese secret service Chang Morishima Kakuyoshi took the lead in fleeing desperately, and the Japanese army's senior military adviser Tobacco Valley and the commander of the 7th Division of the puppet Mongolian Army, Muke Dengbao, were not far behind, and fled all the way east in embarrassment by car.

At 9:30 a.m., the officers and men of the Jin Sui Army commanded by Fu Zuoyi all recovered the Bailing Temple and the surrounding areas, and achieved a brilliant record of destroying 800 enemies and capturing nearly 1,000 prisoners, capturing three enemy heavy artillery, three radio stations, hundreds of light and heavy machine guns and rifles, as well as 20,000 bags of flour, a large number of ammunition and fuel, and only 300 casualties.

When the good news came out, the whole country was thunderous, and the people who had been suppressed for a long time held a grand celebration parade, and the name of Fu Zuoyi, a famous anti-Japanese general, resounded throughout Kyushu.

After this battle, the puppet Mongolian army suffered heavy losses, suffered serious losses, and had to retreat a hundred miles in a hurry, and its arrogance was completely lost.

The Kwantung Army Command did not expect that the Jin Sui Army under Fu Zuoyi would be so brave and strong, and the four main divisions of the Nanjing Central Army were slowly moving north to reinforce the Suiyuan line, and the Kwantung Army's attempt to occupy Suiyuan and deter and oppress North China was completely bankrupt, so it could only order the reinforcements to stop advancing, retreat in an orderly manner, and confront the morale of the Jin Sui Army, and then brazenly issued a statement, claiming that the Mongol army's attack on Suiyuan was purely for defense against the Republic and self-defense, not for other purposes, and warned that "the squadron will be affected in case of this involving Manchukuo." or in the event of a dangerous situation in which the whole of China is on the verge of redness", the Kwantung Army will take appropriate action.

The day after the Kwantung Army's statement was issued, the Chinese Foreign Ministry, at the behest of Chiang Kai-shek, again issued a strong-worded statement: The Mongolian puppet bandit army has flagrantly violated the law, regardless of its background and role, and will resolutely crack down on it, and China's territorial sovereignty will not allow any third party to infringe upon or interfere with it under any pretext, and in the event of such an illegal invasion, it will do its utmost to defend against it.

The Japanese authorities suddenly felt that the situation was not right, and the Kwantung Army and the North China Garrison Army flew to their domestic base camps and sent secret envoys from all walks of life to Beiping, Taiyuan, Jinan, and other places, and Sino-Japanese relations suddenly became tense, and the European and American powers gradually discovered the change in the Chinese Government's attitude toward Japan, and sent envoys one after another to visit the Nanjing Government and various warlords.

At this time, An Yi and his staff team quietly moved to Qingyuan Airport, and transferred Zhang Chengzhu's teaching group to strengthen the airport defense and vigilance, and all the reporters who rushed to Baoding rushed to the air.

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On December 3, the first snow in northern China arrived early.

At noon, after the snow had cleared, a Junkers three-engine transport plane with only the blue sky and white sun emblem without any number slowly landed at Baoding Airport.

The plane turned off and the hatch opened, An Yi, Hu Jialin, Huang Yingwu and other generals strode up to meet them, and cordially saluted Fu Zuoyi, commander of the 35th Army, Ye Qijie, deputy commander of the 35th Army, and other generals who stepped off the plane, and soon walked to the newly built courtyard on the west side of the command tower.

At the beginning of the sumptuous reception banquet, An Yi raised his glass and delivered a speech, saying that the reception banquet was a celebration banquet, representing the 300,000 soldiers of An Jiajun, and paying tribute to Fu Zuoyi and other generals.

Fu Zuoyi and the others hurriedly stood up, raised their wine glasses, and expressed their deep gratitude to An Jiajun for their strong support.

Halfway through the banquet, Fu Zuoyi asked An Yi with a smile, what do you think of the sudden appointment adjustment made by the central government and the Executive Yuan? The generals then stopped talking, and focused on An Yi and Fu Zuoyi, savoring the purpose of this adjustment in their hearts - on December 1, the Executive Yuan suddenly issued a decree: transfer Huang Shaohong, chairman of Zhejiang Province, to the chairman of the Hubei Provincial Government, and Zhu Jiahua to the chairman of Zhejiang Province; appointed Chen Cheng as the executive secretary of the Ministry of Military Affairs; transferred Zhang Fakui to the director of appeasement in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang border region; Liu Jianxu was appointed director of appeasement in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Anhui Border Region, and Chen Jiji was appointed director of appeasement in Henan, Hubei, and Shaanxi Border Region. At the same time, the Wuhan camp, which had been canceled, was resumed again, with He Chengjun serving as the director of the camp, Chen Cheng, the deputy minister of military affairs, concurrently serving as the deputy director of the Wuhan camp, and the director of the Yichang camp becoming An Yi again.

An Yi did not have any concealment: "At the end of last month, when the commission inspected Jinan and returned to Luoyang, he secretly flew to Baoding halfway, and it was in this small courtyard that he told the younger brother the opinions of the central government, and solicited the younger brother's opinions on the relevant affairs of the Yichang camp and the Wuhan camp. To be honest, the younger brother had no idea about this large-scale adjustment in advance, and he did not expect that he would be reappointed as the director of the Yichang camp.

"All this is to prepare for a possible Sino-Japanese war in advance, especially the Wuhan camp and Yichang camp, because of their important strategic hub status, will be responsible for most of the military logistics supply, so these two places need members of the Military Commission to sit.

"The younger brother thanks to the trust of the principal and the seniors, fortunately among the members of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission, after Brother Ci Xiu was promoted to the Standing Secretary of the Military and Political Council, he also entered the Standing Committee of the Military Commission, which just meets the requirements of the Military Commission and the commission, from this point of view, General Huang Jikuan was transferred to the chairman of Hubei Province, it is not difficult to understand, because Brother Ji Kuan and Brother Ci Xiu and the younger brother can get along, and with him as the chairman of Hubei Province, the entire Yangtze River waterway and the Pinghan Line will have a strong guarantee."

The generals suddenly realized, Fu Zuoyi couldn't help but be excited, and asked with a smile: "So, the war against Japan will be fought at the latest in the spring?" ”

An Yi hesitated, he could not say the general offensive plan outside the Guanwai that the German advisory group and Yang Jie and Chen Cheng were trying to implement, nor could he say that Yan Xishan resolutely disagreed with the request of Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng to pursue and recover the six northern counties of Chabei by taking advantage of the victory, let alone say that a major change that might happen in Xi'an was about to happen. All these factors will seriously affect the implementation of this huge strategic plan.

"General An, doesn't he have something unspeakable?" Ye Qijie saw An Yi's hesitation, and broke the silence with his words.

An Yi nodded: "That's true, so far, the younger brother still can't see the whole situation clearly, after the Suiyuan War of Resistance has achieved fruitful results, the Japanese army has realized its own weak link, and Japan urgently transferred two or three divisions from China to reinforce Northeast and North China."

"You may remember some time ago in the little brother to make a fuss, the North China garrison deputy chief of staff Koichi Ishikawa who came to Baoding to visit the little brother, a few days ago has quietly left Tianjin, according to the little brother got the news, this person appeared in Dalian Port yesterday, turned into a brigade commander of an army independent mixed brigade just from Japan, the specific number is unknown, if the little brother guessed well, this person is likely to lead the troops to Chahar, is a strong opponent!

"Therefore, at present, the younger brother does not dare to assert what measures the central government will take, where the focus of the strategy will be located, and whether the situation will change greatly from now until the beginning of next spring.

A hint of disappointment flashed in Fu Zuoyi's eyes, Ye Qijie and others did not have Fu Zuoyi's good cultivation, and sighed and complained that the central government had missed the opportunity to recover northern Chabei, and was very dissatisfied with the more than 300,000 main forces of the central army gathered on the front line of Shanxi and Shanxi, saying that only 20,000 communist troops, where can they use the position of killing chickens with knives? Yang Hucheng's 150,000 troops and Zhang Shaoshuai's nearly 100,000 troops, can't they still win against more than 20,000 poorly equipped **?

An Yi didn't speak, and found that Fu Zuoyi was staring at him thoughtfully, and he smiled and deliberately changed the topic: "Brother Yisheng, the younger brother has good news for you, according to the instructions of the commission and the latest decision made by the Military Commission, the two arsenals of the junior brother will be responsible for providing weapons and equipment for the two brigades to your department within forty-five days, if Brother Yisheng has other special requirements, please speak out, as long as the junior brother can do it, he will definitely go all out."

"In addition, according to the account of Commander Hu after his return, as well as Brother Yisheng's current arrangement, the younger brother speculated in vain, and felt that Brother Yisheng seemed to have the intention of directly attacking Huanglong, and the younger brother was willing to take advantage of this difficult moment in the ice and snow to send a small team of elites to fight side by side with Brother Yisheng and the officers and men of the 35th Army, sincerely cooperate, formulate a practical special operations plan, and teach the Mongolian king a good lesson."

Fu Zuoyi was overjoyed, and shouted orders to serve wine in excitement, Ye Qijie and the others had never seen the calm and serious Fu Zuoyi so happy, and immediately stood up and took the wine in the hands of the guards and filled it for everyone, and expressed deep gratitude to An Yi and An Jiajun.