The most important thing for Chahar is not Yu himself, nor Feng Yuxiang, but Feng Yuxiang's alliance with the Communist Party. Chiang Kai-shek's judgment was that the Communist Party wanted to use Feng Yuxiang as a banner to resist the Chinese language, and the purpose was probably to create a Jiangxi in the north. Zhuang Jihua's mission is to break up this alliance, as long as they don't come together, then no one can make the climate.

The next day, Zhuang Jihua and Song Xilian went to the army hospital to see Guan Linzheng and Liang Kai, after a month of war, the army hospital was already overcrowded, the wounded soldiers were all over the park, there were not enough nurses at all, some female students could be seen in the courtyard from time to time, the white hats or white aprons on their bodies were obviously borrowed temporarily, and the corridors of the inpatient department were also filled with beds, leaving only narrow passages, full of painful moans everywhere. Zhuang Jihua's face was solemn, it was really hard to imagine that with the strength of Beiping, he could not even bear the wounded of such a war.

There were so many wounded that even a high-ranking officer like Guan Linzheng did not have a separate ward, and he lived in the same ward as Liang Kai. Seeing Zhuang Jihua and them coming, Guan Linzheng was both surprised and happy, especially Zhuang Jihua, I haven't seen him for several years, I didn't expect to see him in Beiping, when the Sichuan army was reorganized, he was cleaned up by Zhuang Jihua once, but this did not become a mustard between them, on the contrary, it was Du Yuming who had mustard. Guan Linzheng was tied up like a zongzi, and Liang Kai was slightly better than him, but he was shot in the abdomen, but fortunately, it didn't affect the communication.

"The soldiers of the Yue Army have a strong sense of tactics, the platoon is reasonable in war, and the marksmanship is excellent," when Zhuang Jihua asked about the tactics of the Yue Army, Liang Kai first replied: "In addition, their artillery fire is also very fierce. ”

"Another point, the army's infantry artillery coordination is better; In contrast, our army lacks anti-aircraft weapons, lacks anti-tank weapons, has numerous factions in the troops, and does not have a unified command. Guan Linzheng said with some regret, when he was in Gubeikou, Zhang Tingshu of the 112th Division of the Northeast Army and they guarded Gubeikou together, Liang Kai originally suggested that their headquarters should hold the main position on the first line of Gubeikou, and let Zhang Tingshu guard the flank, but he didn't listen, and insisted that Zhang Tingshu stay on the front line, but Zhang Bu collapsed at a touch, causing him to be caught off guard, and the whole division was divided into two parts, and he was wounded in the battle to open up the connection.

"Actually, on the whole, the tactics of the Yue army are not surprising," Guan Linzheng concluded: "In my opinion, it is not as good as the positive triangle assault that you and Xue Yue made, but their firepower is too fierce, and when my division set off from Bengbu, it was too hasty, and there were basically no heavy firearms, only a few mortars." ”

"I feel this way too, the individual tactics of this soldier are excellent, other than that, I don't feel anything special, except for brute force, nothing out of the ordinary." After the Gubeikou was broken through, Liang Kai commanded the troops to establish a position at Nantianmen, and forced the army for four days and four nights, killing and wounding more than 2,000 people, and paying nearly 5,000 casualties himself.

"Meng Guo, when you want to hand over with the Yue army, you must pay special attention to anti-artillery when building a position, we have suffered a big loss in Gubeikou, there are no tools, we can't dig stones, we can only dig some shallow trenches," Guan Linzheng remembered and was still very annoyed: "Cultural Revolution, now I understand, why did you have to cheat Meng Guo and Guangting their salaries to fight that sapper shovel in the first place, if we have a sapper shovel in Gubeikou, we can defend it for at least three more days." ”

Du Yuming looked at Guan Linzheng and gently suggested: "You can sort out the situation in this regard and hand it over to the principal, the war with Yuben is still long." ”

"Yes, I suggest that you add equipment to the content, increase the firepower at the squad and platoon level, and how to conduct tank fighting and air defense training." Zhuang Jihua added: "Finally, trouble the two of you, give me one. ”

Guan Linzheng looked at Zhuang Jihua and suddenly smiled: "You didn't come to see us, you came to assign us tasks." ”

Zhuang Jihua smiled and stood up: "We still have a lot of things, you take good care of your injuries, if you don't die, you will meet again." ”

Guan Linzheng and Liang Kai looked at them silently, they knew that it was no accident that these people appeared in the ward, Zhuang Jihua was in charge of the development of the southwest, and Song Xilian was known as the commander of the 87th Division of the Imperial Forest Army, they only had one possibility to appear here, shouldering the same task as them.

After leaving the hospital, Zhuang Jihua returned to Zhongnanhai Jurentang, found He Yingqin and asked him to send a platoon to escort him, He Yingqin did not ask why, and immediately ordered a reinforced platoon to be transferred from the headquarters guard regiment to him. Zhuang Jihua's platoon was handed over to Wu Ziniu, and the five soldiers brought by Song Yunfei became his personal guards, the last line of defense he set for himself. He then went to Citibank to withdraw 400,000 silver dollars and 500,000 U.S. dollars, and boarded the train to Zhangjiakou with Huang Shaohong in the evening.

The train was empty, after the loss of Rehe, it was once rumored that the next target of the army was Chahar, the people from all over Chahar fled one after another, the rich people in Zhangjiakou poured to Beiping, and more flocked to Taiyuan, at this time it was not Zhuang Jihua who went to Zhangjiakou and they were soldiers with a mission or speculative businessmen.

The wheels made a monotonous clang, and Zhuang Jihua and Huang Shaohong sat in the box silently, each thinking about their own thoughts. Huang Shaohong's trip was to go to Sun Dianying's department near Guyuan, and by the way, to inspect the defense near Chicheng. Zhuang Jihua was thinking about the problem of the volunteers.

"General Ji Kuan, do you have any situation with the Northeast Volunteer Army?" Zhuang Jihua finally couldn't help but ask, there was a suffocating silence in the whole train, in fact, there were already more passengers on this train, and there were fewer passengers during the day, because it was possible to be bombed by this plane during the day.

"The largest force of the Northeast Volunteer Army is Feng Zhanhai's department," Huang Shaohong turned his head to look at Zhuang Jihua, and said after a moment of silence: "Secondly, Deng Wen, Feng Zhanhai is a native of Liaoning, Zhang Zuoxiang's nephew, once served as Zhang Zuoxiang's guard, entered the Northeast Lecture Hall, after 918, he raised troops in Liaoning, and later retreated to the vicinity of Harbin to join forces with Li Du. The second is Deng Wen, Deng Wen has a relatively high prestige in the Volunteer Army, is a subordinate of Ma Zhanshan, from the northeast all the way over, the strength of the army is about 6,000 people. Feng Yuxiang's basic strength is actually not large, only more than 3,000 people from the Fenyang Military Academy. ”

Huang Shaohong spoke eloquently, his expression was relatively relaxed, and he didn't seem to be worried about Zhuang Jihua at all. Indeed, the demeanor he is showing now is in line with his state of mind. He knew Zhuang Jihua's purpose for asking these questions, although he didn't look at or ask what was in the box that the soldiers carried into the car, he knew by instinct that it was money. He secretly praised Zhuang Jihua's shrewdness in his heart, what was the worst thing about the troops who retreated to Chadong, wasn't it just supplies? Zhuang Jihua had already grabbed their lifeblood before he arrived, so he was very optimistic about Zhuang Jihua's trip to Chadong.

"I don't understand why the military branch didn't send people to collect these weapons?" This question has been haunting Zhuang Jihua's mind since he learned about Chadong's situation, but he has never asked, he estimates that there must be a reason for this, and He Yingqin can't ask anything.

"Alas," Huang Shaohong sighed softly, with a helpless expression on his face: "Cultural Revolution, in fact, it's no wonder that the central government, you haven't been in the country for a long time, and you don't know the situation in the country. It also has a reputation for swallowing up miscellaneous cards. The chairman of the committee wanted to send people to take these people in, but he respectfully objected to them, believing that these people had no other use than to disturb the locality, and that it was better to leave them to fend for themselves. And so it dragged on. ”

Huang Shaohong actually saved face for He Yingqin, and the first proposer of the Chadong counteroffensive was actually not Zhuang Jihua, but Chiang Kai-shek, but Chiang Kai-shek's idea was to counterattack Rehe from Chadong and aim to recover Rehe, but He Yingqin objected, and Chiang Kai-shek was also worried that the battle would be bigger, so he did not insist.

After Zhuang Jihua came, he once again proposed a counteroffensive in Chadong, but the goal of Zhuang Jihua's counteroffensive was to hold the defense line of the Great Wall, which was easier to achieve.

"Cultural Revolution, are you telling me the truth, is it feasible to counterattack from Chadong?" Huang Shaohong asked.

Zhuang Jihua looked up at him and said very seriously: "It is feasible, as long as the goal is not too demanding, I have made three estimates on the prospects of this counteroffensive, the best case is to recover half of Rehe, followed by holding the defense line of the Great Wall, and at worst, it can delay the war time and make Yue himself pay a greater price." ”

"Oh," Huang Shaohong looked at him with some surprise: "Can you elaborate?" ”

Zhuang Jihua shook his head and said: "I don't have a detailed plan yet, only a vague idea. As he spoke, he looked up at the carriage door, and when he saw that there was no movement, he said: "My plan is actually very simple, that is, to cut off the supply line of the Yue army, the longest of which is close to 2,000 li, and the short one is more than 1,000 li, so that the Northeast Volunteer Army and the Rehe Volunteer Army can go behind enemy lines and attack their transportation lines. ”

Huang Shaohong listened and recalled the map, while confirming and imagining the way to play, Zhuang Jihua thought for a while and said: "General Ji Kuan, I have an idea, please refer to the general." ”

Huang Shaohong's train of thought was interrupted, he raised his eyes to look at Zhuang Jihua and said, "Tell me about it." ”

"If Sun Dianying didn't become a Han annihilator, please also ask the general to try to persuade him to send a force south of the enclosure and near Chaoyang, pay attention not to him to counterattack the enclosure or any city, just operate in that area, rob the road and fight the sticks, anyway, just make trouble on Xiao Yueben's transportation line, and force them to divide their troops to protect the transportation line." Zhuang Jihua said.

"Your style of play is a bit strange," Huang Shaohong pondered, "how is it a bit like the guerrilla tactics of the Communist Party." ”

"Hehe, that's their tactic." Zhuang Jihua said with a smile: "Nietzsche said that existence is the truth, although the Red Army is very poorly equipped, but they have used this tactic to repeatedly defeat our army with good equipment, which shows that this tactic has unique characteristics in attacking the strong with the weak, so what does it matter if it is used in this way." ”

"You, I really didn't think that you still studied at the Berlin Military Academy in Germany." Huang Shaohong looked at Zhuang Jihua with interest, few military cadets from domestic regular military academies can afford this kind of tactic, let alone foreign military academies.

"You know, there is a famous great man who once said," Zhuang Jihua said with a smile: "White cats and black cats, catching mice is a good cat." ”

"Who?" Huang Shaohong tried hard to think about who this famous person was.

The distance from Beiping to Zhangjiakou is only about 200 kilometers, even at the speed of the train at this time, at more than two o'clock in the morning, the train arrived at Zhangjiakou Station. Zhuang Jihua and Huang Shaohong looked out, and the station platform was heavily guarded, and sentry posts were all around the platform.

"Go back, don't get out of the car!" As soon as someone jumped off the train, he heard a stern reprimand.

(To be continued)