Section 4 Prelude to the Decisive Battle IV

There was nothing to do all night, and the next day when Zhuang Jihua arrived in the war room. /。 qВ5, cOm/to Zuyi was already there, Gong Chu stayed up all night, holding a teacup in his hand, and there were two nests on a plate next to him, Gong Chu was reporting to Xu Zuyi the report he received last night.

Seeing Zhuang Jihua coming in, the two of them greeted him together.

Gong Chu simply reported to him the situation last night. Not much happened last night. The 167th Division of the 23rd Army of the Eastern Front pursued the Japanese army. Blocked by Japanese troops near the horse factory, the two sides disengaged after a short fierce battle. The Central Group also sent troops in pursuit. However, the Japanese retreat was extremely fast, and Sun Zhen, who was in charge of the pursuit, was very cautious, and after occupying Hejian, he categorically stopped; On the Western Front, Tang Enbo did not fully comply with the order and still sent the 85th Army to pursue. However, after the 85th Army pursued to Dingzhou, it also stopped the pursuit, and there was no fighting between the two sides.

The most critical unit of the Northern Front, Peng. Huai and Fu Zuoyi both telegraphed and had ordered a retreat of 10 li in accordance with the order, and by this morning, the 35th and 86th armies had retreated to the second line of defense, and the 6th and 7th armies had also shrunk westward. Still, Peng. Huai called, the hostile situation around Zhangjiakou has not changed.

After Zhuang Jihua listened to the report, he asked Gong Chu and other personnel on duty to rest, he picked up the telegram and flipped through it and threw it aside, walked to the sand table and looked at the sand table, the latest situation has been marked on the sand table, but I don't know if this situation is the final situation.

, "telegraphed to the groups. Continue to search until you come into contact with the person and report to the chairman. Our army recovered Shijiazhuang......

The restoration of Shijiazhuang caused a stir of jubilation among the people, but attentive readers found that the propaganda of the news media was much more low-key than before. Although the commentary of the Central Daily emphasized the military prestige of the national army. However, it is also admitted that the Japanese army gave up on its own initiative, and the goal of destroying the enemy was not achieved. However, what was surprising was the Xinhua Daily, which published a long commentary "pointing out that with the victory of the Battle of Shandong." The Japanese army in China has been fully turned into a defensive position, the Japanese army took the initiative to abandon Shijiazhuang for only one reason, he did not have the confidence to fight against the national army in the plains, the Chinese army has a huge advantage in terms of strength and technical equipment, and victory in the war is just around the corner!

However, the continuous recovery of large cities has caused great jubilation among the people, "citizens of Chongqing, Chengdu, Wuhan, Xi'an, Guangzhou, Zhengzhou and other cities have taken to the streets to celebrate the victory", and the people in the newly recovered areas simply celebrated the Spring Festival and victory together.

In contrast to the buzz among the people, government officials, especially those at the top, have maintained tremendous calm. He Yingqin and Chen Cheng were very low-key in their interviews with reporters, and Chiang Kai-shek simply did not make any comments.

Two days later, the exact situation was brought together at the Dexian Command. The Japanese army on the Western Front abandoned Baoding. The Japanese army on the central line retreated to Bazhou. On the Eastern Front, the Japanese army retreated to Jinghai, close to Tianjin.

The sudden retreat of the Japanese army and the relinquishment of several strategic points in North China, including Shijiazhuang, Baoding, and Cangzhou, made the senior generals of the entire North China Theater feel a little aggrieved, and there was no joy of victory at all. But ordinary soldiers are completely different" The morale was high, and the singing of the troops marching north rang out again. The laughter was endless.

After determining the situation of the Japanese army. Zhuang Jihua ordered all groups to adopt a main rear strategy. Inform the armies. The above-mentioned operational plan will be invalidated, and the theater will reformulate the operational plan in light of changes in the enemy's situation, and at the same time inform all armies that the Kwantung Army may enter the customs area, the strength of the troops is unknown, the area where it is stationed is unknown, and the launch time of the offensive in the North China Theater will be delayed

In order to find out the details of the Japanese army. The spy system under the control of Wang Xiaoshan and the Zhou army under the control of Wen Qiang were operating at full speed in North China, and the intelligence officers searched for every gap in the Japanese army and inquired about the changes in the strength of the Japanese army. Among them, Wu Qixiu attracted the most attention, from Chiang Kai-shek to Wang Xiaoshan and Dai Li, all looking forward to him.

Wu Qixiu was sitting in the café of the Six Nations Hotel drinking coffee at this time, and he set off from Shandong. Airdropped to eastern Hebei, from eastern Hebei to Beiping, what surprised him very much was the difficulty of entering Beiping. He was stopped in Huairou, at this time Beiping has been locked down, there is no Beiping's good citizen certificate, outsiders want to enter Beiping, must be filed with the local police bureau, Wu Qixiu's good citizen certificate was opened in Qian'an, "must be registered in Qian'an." Wu Qixiu tried all kinds of methods but did not get a pass to enter Beiping.

Surprised, Wu Qixiu returned to Qian'an, filed with the police through a local company, and went to Beiping again in the name of the staff of the company's office in Beiping, and this time he successfully obtained the pass. But not long after entering Beiping, Wu Qixiu found that there was a tail behind him, so he didn't dare to send a contact signal easily, and worked in the office every day, secretly paying attention to the flaws there.

After a month in this way, the tail behind him disappeared, and he secretly contacted the Beiping Station of the Military Commander, and only through the Military Commander did he learn that the Japanese military police and the special high school class. Under the command of the Lan organ, a spy organization in North China, it monitored every Chinese who entered Beiping at this moment. Only then did Wu Qixiu understand why he was being followed and monitored.

After obtaining the radio station from the military commander, Wu Qixiu sent the first telegram back to Wang Xiaoshan to report the situation in Beiping. Wu Qixiu found it almost impossible to send a communication signal, and most of the Chinese newspapers and periodicals were suspended due to the flight of Pingjin citizens, including the Beiping Business Daily, the Great East Asia Daily, and the Peiping Gongrong Bao, which were designated to send news.

This almost forced Wu Qixiu into a desperate situation. During this time, "the Chinese people in the city launched a larger-scale exodus, and what made him strange was that the Japanese army did not stop them, but let them flee." Soon he understood the intentions of the Japanese army, Wu Qixiu felt the danger, there was almost no business in Beiping, and after a while, I was afraid that he would not even be able to pretend.

Wu Qixiu felt that he had to take a risk, so he activated the last contact plan, secretly hung three strings of paper huā of different colors outside the original contact point in the evening, and then went to the coffee shop of the Six Nations Hotel every Friday afternoon to drink coffee and wait for the arrival of the liaison.

Today is the fourth contact. The previous three contacts did not appear, and Wu Qixiu was anxious. Two days ago, the Japanese army abandoned Shijiazhuang and Baoding, and the whole line retreated to the periphery of Pingjin, and Wu Qixiu was even more anxious. He knew that from the commander of the theater to Chongqing, he was waiting for the intelligence he wanted to bring back.

There was a commotion outside the café, and the waiter rushed in with a shout, and sat down to let the waiter take the wine and ask for sake, and the waiter told them in embarrassment. This is the café. Sake is not served. The officer was still angry, stepped forward and continued to punch and kick, the café manager hurriedly came out, and the officer still did not give up, and ordered the manager to bring wine immediately, otherwise the hotel would be burned.

"Bastard!" With this angry shout. Stand up from a corner of the café and present this day. The officer strode up to the troublemaker. Wu Qixiu saw that he was a major general, and that he was not a major general who came alone, but with other two other officers. After they came, they sat in a corner, and Wu Qixiu had paid attention to them. But I didn't find anything out of it.

The rank of the officer who came over the day of the day. All stood still, "Bang Bang Bang." The major general was furious and slapped one of them: "Lose the face of the imperial army!" ”

"Your Excellency!" The officer wanted to distinguish, but the major general didn't let him continue, raised his hand and slapped him again: "The big war is coming, you are not in the army." But here are fooling around! In a situation like yours, can you defeat the Shina army!? ”

The major general was furious. The fury erupted from Shuangri seemed to burn the troublesome officers to ashes, and he reprimanded: "When you are in battle, you must be calm and not chaotic, what about you? When the battle is about to be a soldier, the officer should be an example for the soldiers? What an example you are doing! I don't think you are worthy to be Imperial officers! ”

The major general was about to step forward, Wu Qixiu noticed that another major general walked up to him: "Ligaojun calms his anger", sighed after speaking, looked at those officers, and reprimanded sternly: "As an imperial warrior." You must not lose the dignity of a samurai at any time, and your martial arts are not used here, but on the battlefield! Apologize to them, then go back to the barracks, confinement for a day, and I will ask your commander about the results. ”

"Hello!" The officers didn't dare to say anything more, and turned around and apologized to the manager and the waiter. Tatetakanosuke looked at their backs, looking like he hated iron but not steel. The major general also shook his head slightly: "Li Gaojun, forget it, they are from the 176th Division, they just came from Mongolia, you know Mongolia." It is also understandable that in that icy and snowy place, it is understandable to come to the huāhuā world of Beiping to relax. ”

"Noguchi-kun, you don't see that their mentality is not right, there is a serious problem." Tatetakanosuke criticized indignantly: "If this mentality is not eliminated. ”

"I know, Ligaojun, that's why I let them go back to confinement." Major General Noguchi also sighed, the Six Nations Hotel is the best hotel in Beiping, and the Japanese army has occupied Beiping for more than six years, except for a few times. The special high school department came here to handle the case, and even the gendarmerie rarely came, and this is the window for the "day" himself to prove the prosperity of Beiping.

As he spoke, he swept his eyes inattentionfully towards a Chinese man over there, and when they came in, the Chinese sat there, holding a book in his hand to read, and when the Japanese officer made trouble just now, several other Chinese people in the café were a little flustered, but this Chinese person did not move at all. Just silently looking at this side.

After returning from Shinkyo, Tatsutakanosuke eagerly waited for the contact callsign, but the expected callsign never appeared, and soon found that the scheduled newspaper had been suspended, a blow that almost made him desperate, and he could almost conclude that it was Qingcheng Kozan's work in order to cut off his contact.

In an almost desperate wait, Qingcheng Xiaoshan suddenly invited him to drink, and deliberately took a detour past the original contact point, only then did he see an emergency signal asking for contact, which made him feel extremely dangerous at the same time. It also gave him hope.

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