When the plane was refueling in Wuhan, heavy rain fell in the sky of Wuhan, and Zhuang Jihua was forced to postpone the change to take the train to Beiping, and it was already the afternoon of the next day when he arrived in Beiping.

"Chief Zhuang, Acting Chairman He has an order, please go to the war room as soon as you arrive."

As soon as Zhuang Jihua entered the door of the branch, Adjutant He Yingqin, who had been waiting there for a long time, immediately greeted him and told him, Zhuang Jihua nodded, and asked him to lead the way to the war room.

All the way from Wuhan, the further north you go, the stronger the atmosphere of the war, from Beiping, there are student citizens along the street to form a volunteer team, ambulance team, front team, refugees who escaped from the battlefield crowded the streets and alleys of Beiping. The atmosphere in the Beiping Army branch was also tense, with fortifications built inside and outside, and soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition vigilantly watched the flow of people.

"Report! West..., Zhuang Jihua and Du Yuming were ordered to report to work. When he arrived at the war room, Zhuang Jihua recognized He Yingqin who was surrounded by several senior generals at a glance, and immediately saluted him, he wanted to say the southwest development team, but then gave up, this is not the southwest, and he definitely didn't come here to engage in development.

"Oh! Come so fast, hehe," He Yingqin looked up and saw Zhuang Jihua, immediately walked over quickly, took his hand and said with a smile: "Last year, Liu Zhi came to me and told me that the chairman of the committee locked you up and wanted to punish you for your crimes, I said absolutely not, among the students of the first phase, the chairman of the committee appreciated you the most, how could he cure your crimes, what happened later, hehe!! ”

When he was detained in Nanjing last year, although He Yingqin did not come to see him, he also made phone calls and pleaded with Chiang Kai-shek. Zhuang Jihua said with a smile: "I haven't visited the teacher's house when I have passed by Nanjing several times, and I ask the teacher to forgive me." ”

"What's forgiving, it's all about doing things for the country," He Yingqin said with a laugh: "What's more, I was in Jiangxi at that time, and I wasn't in Nanjing at all, and I couldn't see him when I came." ”

After saying a few words, He Yingqin turned to Du Yuming again, Du Yuming hurriedly saluted him, He Yingqin smiled and returned the salute: "Okay, the elite soldiers and strong generals in the first phase of the classmates are here." ”

Then he introduced to the officers: "This is the leader of the Southwest Development Task Force, the first phase of the Huangpu Committee, the chairman of the committee, Major General Zhuang Jihua, and this is Major General Du Yuming. ”

Zhuang Jihua and Du Yuming hurriedly saluted those officers, and He Yingqin said to Zhuang Jihua again: "This Huang Shaohong, chief of staff of the Beiping Army Branch, General Yu Xuezhong, commander of the 51st Army, General Xiong Bin, director of the Operations Department, General Song Zheyuan, commander of the 29th Army, General Xu Yongchang, Major General Xu Zuyi, chief of staff, General Wei Lihuang and Song Mengguo are acquaintances, you should know each other. ”

"Not only them." Zhuang Jihua secretly said in his heart that he hadn't spoken yet, but Huang Shaohong smiled first: "Respect, the Cultural Revolution and I are also old acquaintances, so I don't need you to introduce you." ”

He Yingqin was slightly flustered, and then remembered it, and he smiled faintly: "Yes, yes, I remembered, he and Minister Song went to Guangxi to negotiate with you back then, and they are old acquaintances." ”

"Cultural Revolution, you are here too, the chairman has played all the trump cards, it seems that you are going to have a good competition with Xiao Yueben." Huang Shaohong said meaningfully.

"General Ji Kuan, I don't know what the principal asked me to do, I received an order in Yucheng to let me go to Beiping, and Wuhan received an order to report to Chairman He." Zhuang Jihua replied calmly, he still did not know what Chiang Kai-shek asked him to do, whether it was to assist in the war or to assist in negotiations; Bringing Du Yuming and Song Yunfei, their purpose was to observe the tactics of the army.

"Bring the chairman's order to General Zhuang to see." He Yingqin instructed his adjutant.

The adjutant turned around and went out, and Zhuang Jihua took the opportunity to greet the generals one by one: "General Song, the 29th Army's Xifengkou Battle showed the morale of the [***] people in my country, before Zhuang left, General Yang Sen and General Guo Xunqi and other officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army entrusted me to the officers and soldiers of the 29th Army!" ”

After Zhuang Jihua finished speaking, he saluted Song Zheyuan with a solemn military salute, Zhuang Jihua's hand made everyone bow, Song Zheyuan hurriedly returned the salute, Zhuang Jihua then turned to Yu Xuezhong, everyone thought that they were going to do the same, but they didn't expect that Zhuang Jihua said: "There are many exiled students in the Northeast and the Shenyang Arsenal workers in the fugitive in the Southwest Development Team. It's a pity that I couldn't see the young marshal or other generals of the Northeast Army, so I had to ask General Yu to convey it. ”

Yu Xuezhong's face turned red, and his heart was hot and painful, these words were too poisonous. He is not from the northeast, but when he heard this, he almost jumped up, what is the heaviest Chinese? Ancestors; They want to go home to worship their ancestors, where are Zhang Xueliang's ancestors buried? Northeast, where are the ancestors of the soldiers of the Northeast Army buried? Or the Northeast, do they want to go home and worship their ancestors? This is simply scolding them to their faces, and the Northeast Army does not want their ancestors.

But Yu Xuezhong didn't know how to answer, the 918 Northeast Army fled without a fight, and the Battle of Rehe was defeated again, even if Wang Yizhe fought hard in Gubeikou for several days, but then Zhang Tingshu abandoned his position without telling him, and took great responsibility for the loss of Gubeikou.

Yu Xuezhong said with shame and anger: "General Zhuang blames me, my Northeast Army must fight bravely and never live up to the expectations of the Northeast fathers." ”

Zhuang Jihua shook his head solemnly and said, "I am not qualified to blame the generals and the officers and men of the Northeast Army. ”

Yu Xuezhong was slightly stunned, he immediately understood, Zhuang Jihua meant that he did not participate in the war, so he was not qualified, and the qualified ones were the fathers and villagers in the Northeast, thinking about this, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart, and then glared at Zhuang Jihua angrily, but Zhuang Jihua didn't care to meet his gaze.

Xu Yongchang and Song Zheyuan saw Yu Xuezhong's embarrassment, and couldn't help but feel the same hatred for the enemy, but they didn't know how to interject, so they had to stare at Zhuang Jihua angrily, and there was a trace of nervousness in the air.

"Cultural Revolution, you, are still so sharp-toothed." Huang Shaohong shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The situation is already very tense now, so don't come to add Mars." ”

"I just told the truth that I engaged in free education in Yucheng, and many graduates came from various provinces, especially after the outbreak of the Rehe Anti-Japanese War, students from Pingjin and Hebei came the most, followed by Shanghai and Shanxi, and the reason why they were willing to go to the poor countryside of Yucheng was a very important reason, that is, these places were facing the invasion of Yuben, and they were worried that their hometown would be like the Northeast, and they would never be able to go back to worship their ancestors in the future." Zhuang Jihua said bitterly.

Xu Yongchang smiled bitterly in his heart, this Zhuang Jihua, I really don't know how thick the sky is, how can these powerful factions be able to move in a few words.

Adjutant He Yingqin came in and handed the telegram to He Yingqin, who handed it to Zhuang Jihua casually: "Cultural Revolution, take a look, the chairman's order is to let you serve as a senior senator of the Beiping Military Branch." ”

Zhuang Jihua looked at it and said, "Yes." ”

"I don't know, what does Zhuang Gaoshen have to say about the current situation?" Song Zheyuan asked coldly, among all the generals, Zhuang Jihua respected him the most, but he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, for no other reason, the Northeast Army and the 29th Army were all miscellaneous cards.

"I don't have anything to say," Zhuang Jihua shook his head and said, "I have no idea about the current situation between the enemy and us, and I have no right to express my opinion." ”

"Director Xu, can you introduce the current state of the front line." The one who knows Zhuang Jihua's ability best is probably He Yingqin, Wei Lihuang only contacted Zhuang Jihua when he was the chief of the intelligence section, Song Xilian was his subordinate in the Seventh Company, and Huang Shaohong negotiated with him in Guangxi, but the Zhuang Jihua they contacted was a partial Zhuang Jihua.

"Yes," Xu Zuyi agreed, walked to the map, picked up the baton, pointed to the situation map on the map, and said: "According to the battle in the past month, the General Staff believes that the deployment of the army is to attack our army on the left, center and right, and the left road out of Shanhaiguan to attack our eastern Hebei region, with a strength of 33 mixed brigades; attacking Lengkou and Xifengkou in the middle, the strength of the 6th Division and the 14th Mixed Brigade was strengthened; The left flank attacked Gubeikou with the strength of the 8th Division. After a month of fighting, the Yue army broke through the Gubeikou, but was stubbornly blocked by Xu Tingyao's headquarters of our 17th Army at Nantianmen, and is currently in a state of confrontation; The enemy's main forces were at Xifengkou and Lengkou, but after the battles of Xifengkou and Luowenyu, the Yue army was defeated and is currently facing the 29th; On the Lengkou battlefield, on April 1, the army occupied Lanruoyuan, and after Liujiakou, it occupied the high ground on the left side of Lengkou yesterday, and the 32nd Army suffered relatively large casualties in 1394; Another dangerous area is eastern Hebei, where the 33rd Mixed Brigade attacked from Shimenzhai and Jielingkou, successively captured Funing and Lulong, and is currently facing off against our army He Zhu across the Luan River. To sum up, the front line is currently in a stalemate, and the General Staff believes that after a month of fierce fighting, the enemy urgently needs to replenish his forces and ammunition, and once they have replenished, they will re-attack. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Zuyi was about to put down his baton, but Zhuang Jihua suddenly asked, "Which unit is defending Dushikou?" ”

"The entire Chadong is defended by General Fu Zuoyi, and at present there are only small units of the army and part of the puppet army, and there is no major war." Xu Zuyi replied.

"Have you found any reinforcements from the Japanese army?" Zhuang Jihua asked again.

"News came from the volunteer troops operating in Rehe that the number of the enemy's 12th Division was found on the road from Lingyuan to Chengde, and the number of the enemy's 7th Division appeared on the Lengkou front." Xu Zuyi said: "However, the information of the volunteers has not been confirmed. ”

"Strange?" Zhuang Jihua muttered: "It's really strange, Director Xu, after the army broke through the Gubei Pass, why didn't the army attack Miyun directly?" Instead, you want to attack the Nantianmen of Jixian County? If it is directly inserted into Jixian County, I am afraid that I will already drink tea under the city of Beiping. ”

"Who's to say it isn't?" Huang Shaohong interjected: "Not only Gubeikou, but also Luandong, the army had already occupied Luandong, but later withdrew, leaving only a few puppet troops stationed, He Zhuguo counterattacked, and recovered Luandong, after more than ten days they ran into a wall coldly, only then did they think of attacking Qian'an from the east side of Luan, and then attacked He Zhuguo again. ”

Zhuang Jihua nodded and asked, "Where are the troops of General Wei Lihuang and General Song Xilian?" ”

"General Wei Lihuang has arrived south of Miyun, the 17th Army suffered large losses some time ago, and the troops are thin, and General Wei Lihuang will take over the Miyun defense line. Song Xilian's army branch will keep the reserves, and Xiao Zhichu's army will support the Lengkou defense line. ”

"Cultural Revolution, what do you think?" He Yingqin saw Zhuang Jihua looking thoughtfully at the red and blue lines on the map, and asked.

"I don't have a clear idea, but I remind Director Xu that the cold mouth can't be lost, and the strength of Xiao Zhichu's department is probably not enough," Zhuang Jihua said after he finished speaking, looked at He Yingqin and said: "Strategy must be matched with political strategy, so what kind of situation does the principal want to be?" ”

(To be continued)