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Chapter 1148: Fierce Confrontation (1)

On 15 September, Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe and Foreign Minister Zhang Qun held talks in Nanjing on the "Chengdu Incident" and general issues between China and Japan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Shigeru Kawagoe put forward four requirements: (1) to allow the long-term stationing of troops in the Yangtze River basin; (2) Revise the part of the textbooks of schools at all levels in China; (3) Acquiescing in the puppet Manchurian state and allowing the autonomy of the five provinces in North China; (4) Adopt the Sino-Japanese economic cooperation plan proposed by ***.

Zhang Qun, who has a calm and sleek personality, is like a piece of kraft candy, sticky and moist, arguing with reason but speaking softly, so that Kawagoe Shigeru has no way at all, and the more than three hours of talks have no results, and the two sides can only talk again at a later date.

On the afternoon of the same day, the Central Military Commission held an "all-army meeting" in Nanjing, attended by more than 180 generals of various armies except North China and Northwest China and divisions directly under the Central Army; Chairman Chiang Kai-shek and Vice Chairman Feng Yuxiang made important speeches at the meeting; Zhu Peide, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, chairman of Yunnan Province, and commander-in-chief of the 10 th Route Army, briefed the participants on the situation of joint military-civilian construction in Yunnan.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of the next day, Chiang Kai-shek walked up to the rostrum of the auditorium of the Central Military Commission and returned the salute to the more than 180 generals who had saluted neatly.

The generals saw that Chiang Kai-shek was still standing straight at the front desk, and Vice Chairman Feng Yuxiang and Training Director Tang Shengzhi also came to Chiang Kai-shek and stood straight on the left and right.

After a while, the tall Admiral Tang Shengzhi took a step forward, aimed at the floor-standing microphone, and announced loudly: "Emergency order: Today's meeting will be changed to an on-site observation meeting, and within five minutes, all the participating generals will board the car and go to the airport." Venue: Kaifeng, Henan. Complete! ”

More than 100 generals looked at each other, extremely surprised, for a while no one could believe that there would be such an unprecedented meeting arrangement, but seeing Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yuxiang, Tang Shengzhi and a group of other generals on the stage leaving the rostrum and walking out of the auditorium, no one dared to slack off at the moment, and left the venue in a hurry while discussing.

Walking out of the auditorium gate, I saw that more than a dozen troop carriers from the gendarmerie headquarters had been neatly parked on the passage.

Forty minutes later, the convoy drove into the airport, and the generals got down from the tightly covered carriages, and the generals were even more surprised by a large transport plane sprayed with the "Flying Fox" pattern on the fuselage.

The thoughtful generals immediately realized something, and saw Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yuxiang and others boarding the plane numbered 5029 in the middle, and followed the personnel of the training director department to the spiral ladder.

At 9:45 a.m., when all nine large transport planes took to the air, more than 10 silver fighters of the attack plane group of the 1st Regiment of the Southwest Air Force suddenly appeared, quickly joined up with the transport plane group, skillfully formed a formation, and calmly flew north.

Some of them looked out the window at the silver attack planes and pointed at them, some whispered that Chiang Kai-shek and a group of bosses of the Central Military Commission were mysterious and secretive, and did not disclose the reason in advance, while others ridiculed that the top brass of the army had become suspicious because of several major leaks, and that they could not even believe their own people.

The staff officers of the attendant rooms who followed the planes stood up with a stack of documents in their hands and distributed them, and the puzzled generals took the documents, saw the top-secret seal on the cover and the five-star secrecy level mark, and immediately realized the importance of this document, and then saw the "No. 17 Military Confrontation Exercise Plan" under the letter of the General Staff Headquarters of the Central Military Commission and the Training Director's Department, the generals immediately closed their mouths, and all realized that the purpose of this trip was to observe the confrontation exercise, and then they thought of the live-fire exercises held by the Japanese army in the Pingping and Tianjin areas in the past week. As well as the sudden expansion of the battle between the puppet Mongolian and puppet Manchurian troops in the Suicha direction and Fu Zuoyi's troops and Tang Enbo's troops, who quickly rushed to the battlefield, none of the generals said a word of complaint, and they couldn't wait to open the top-secret plan and read it carefully.

Only the sound of the plane's engine and heavy breathing were heard in the cabin of each plane, and the generals on board began to communicate nervously after reading the plan:

The exercise mobilized 48 planes of various types from two air groups of the Southwest Air Force, the 17th Army's first armored assault regiment, the 17th Army's first armored assault regiment, the 17th Army's Engineer Regiment, which has won the title of the first in the whole army for five consecutive years, 43,000 officers and men of two divisions and a brigade of the 40th Army of Pang Bingxun in northern Henan, and 16,000 officers and men of Wan Fulin's 53rd Army. Not counting the two air regiments sent to support the exercise and the alert troops stationed in Henan under Liu Zhi's command.

It is no wonder that Chairman Chiang and the others adopted the highest secrecy measures, and there was not the slightest hint of information revealed in advance, and the quick-reacting generals finally understood the reasons for the large-scale feints of the Second Route Army in southern Sichuan and the Third Route Army in Shandong, the military stations directly under the Central Military Commission, and the military representative offices in the north of the Ministry of Railways rushing up and down in the past week.

Transport Plane No. 5029 was An Yi's special plane, and Chiang Kai-shek in the cabin still had a stern face that did not smile, looking out the window at the attack planes that appeared from time to time, thinking quietly.

Song Ziwen, who was sitting next to Feng Yuxiang opposite, put down the plan, took off his glasses, wiped it carefully with a handkerchief, and saw that Chiang Kai-shek had turned his head, looked at himself with an inquiring gaze, put on his glasses and sighed slowly:

"An Yi, this guy is really a rare talent! With such a huge exercise, only he can calmly dispatch and organize it precisely, and judging from the various auxiliary operations specially arranged for this exercise, the ability of An Yi and the group of generals of An Jiajun is much higher than that of other departments.

"I am a layman in the military, through the establishment of the tax police corps, training and several regiment-level exercises, I still know some, this plan, so far I have seen the most standardized, the most accurate, but also the most rigorous plan text, very exciting, if not for the prior notice of the commission, I and the generals of the tax police corps may have missed this precious opportunity."

"Yes! I also deeply agree with this, An Yi and his generals are far above the armies in their organizational skills. Feng Yuxiang then expressed his opinion:

"Carefully pondering the plan, and then in connection with the various military feints carried out to ensure this exercise, I can appreciate the good intentions, General An Yi's starting point, I am afraid is to be as close to the war as possible, close to the actual combat, judging from the current arrangement, most of the 40th Army on the defending side is the old subordinates of our Northwest Army, and the fighting spirit is still guaranteed, and the officers and men of the whole army have also changed their outfits in advance because of this exercise, and their combat effectiveness has been doubled, and they have already had a 30-day defense preparation period; Deployed 60 kilometers east of the defensive line, the instructor of the Wan Fulin Division, which was also composed mostly of veterans of the army, would rush to the battlefield as fast as possible after the attacker entered the northern border of Henan, and assist the 40th Army in holding the right flank of the 35-kilometer defensive line.

Although the attacker has aircraft and armored vehicles to participate in the battle, it needs to suddenly start from Baoding, quickly move south 340 kilometers, and after entering the undulating hills and small rivers in northern Henan, how to quickly achieve the goal of a quick battle and a quick victory required by the plan has become a difficulty for the first division to overcome.

It can be seen from this that the formulation of this plan is not easy, and it will depend on how the various departments of the exercise will be carried out. To tell the truth, I am very much looking forward to it at the moment, and I really want to see with my own eyes how General An Yi shows the characteristics of modern warfare to the nearly 200 generals of the whole army, and I also very much want to see how our regular troops perform under the fierce attack of the powerful *** division? How many days can it hold. ”

Chiang Kai-shek nodded slightly: "These are the things we need to master the most." Last night, An Yi sent me a sealed telegram to report on his work, and from the last paragraph of the summary, I could see that he was very worried, and he said, maybe the exercise will end soon, and it will not be good-looking.

"I thought about it for a while and understood that An Yi, as the commander-in-chief of this exercise, had already understood the action plans of both the offensive and defensive sides, although he let go of the offensive and defensive plans and on-the-spot command of both sides, and would not divulge the secrets of both sides, but he had already seen the problem, so he felt that there was no suspense in this exercise, and he felt very worried in his heart.

"However, if the defenders lose too quickly, it will be difficult for us to find more problems, so I later called back and made a suggestion, so that the *** division that simulated the attack of the Japanese division should withdraw the mortar battalions and special battalions of each brigade, and only allow the use of 60 mortars equipped to the company level, hoping to find a balance that is more suitable for our needs by reducing the fire intensity of the attacking side. This morning, Hu Jialin telegraphed back and said that he would obey the order, and that the special service regiment directly under the division and the mortar battalions of all brigades would not participate in the exercise. ”

Feng Yuxiang and Song Ziwen were taken aback, Song Ziwen was unfamiliar with military affairs, and he was savoring Chiang Kai-shek's words, so he didn't speak, but Feng Yuxiang asked with great concern: "So, the attacking side has reduced more than 4,000 people at once, but it has been supplemented from other departments?" ”

"No, the arrogant brother of the *** division also knows that they will never emphasize difficulties because of temporary non-combat attrition, but will only face difficulties and quickly adapt. In the past few years, I have inspected this army several times, watched their training and small-scale exercises, and talked many times with Yang Guan and other generals who would rather not be the chief of staff at the army level and serve as the commander of the first division, and found that this army has not changed, and it is still as persistent and stubborn as when An Yi led it, and never give up.

"It can be seen that the spirit of the model battalion has been completely dissolved in the blood of every officer and soldier of this army, and the 'iron-blooded division' of that year has become stronger through the improvement of weapons and equipment, which has influenced and driven the entire 17th Army, so I insisted on putting them in the central and southern Hebei regions to deter *** people.

"Most of the divisions of the 17th Army are meritorious troops, extremely loyal to the party and the state, and never compromise with the enemy, everyone has seen what has happened in the past two years, and with them as the mainstay to protect the safety of North China, the central government is much more relieved!" Chiang Kai-shek said with great relief.

Feng Yuxiang nodded appreciatively, thinking of the 400,000 powerful Northwest Army under his command in the past, and couldn't help but feel sad.

Only Song Ziwen looked out the window with blazing eyes, thinking about how to find out the gap between the tax police regiment under his command and the strongest unit in the whole army through this exercise, so as to make up for and strengthen it as soon as possible.