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Chapter 1371 is cut first and then played

Nanjing, Guofu Auditorium. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although the hour hand had pointed to 12 noon, the meeting still did not mean to end.

At the morning meeting, Chiang Kai-shek, after soliciting the opinions of the participants, mobilized the 89th Division stationed in Hankou and recruited more than 300 passenger and cargo ships from the water transport company under the Jiangnan Group to concentrate in the Shanghai area by waterway, citing the tough attitude of the Japanese side in the negotiations on the Hongqiao incident in Shanghai. transferred the 169th Brigade of the 57th Division from Jiaxing to Longhua, Shanghai; The second battalion of the 10th Artillery Regiment stationed in Yixing was concentrated in Wu County. The above divisions were under the command of Zhang Zhizhong, commander-in-chief of the Ninth Group Army. In addition, Zhang Fakui, director of the Appeasement Office of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Border Region, was appointed commander-in-chief of the Eighth Group Army, under the command of the 69th Army, the 52nd, 61st, and 62nd Divisions, and quickly assembled all units to rush to Shanghai.

The agenda item currently under way at the meeting is to discuss the issue proposed by General An Yi, member of the Standing Committee of the National Defense Council, to relocate the Taiwan people stranded in Fujian to the old Nanchang for resettlement. Because An Yi promised to buy back the old Nanchang property from the original owners and distribute it according to the wishes of the Taiwanese people, it may meet the requirements of the majority of the people, and the national government does not need to spend a penny on this. At the same time, the old Nanchang is located in the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, and the surrounding areas are full of the Second Route Army, which is not afraid of the scourge of rebellion, but can activate the local economy and increase government taxes.

As the members of the National Defense Committee stood up and the meeting was about to be announced, Xu Zuyi, director of the Second Department of the General Staff Headquarters, quickly walked inside, approached Chiang Kai-shek, who was sitting in the front row of the rostrum, and hurriedly handed over the telegram.

After reading it, Chiang Kai-shek's face changed, he raised his hand to announce the dismissal of the meeting, and then called Chen Cheng, He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi and other confidant generals to come to the war room of the Military Committee in the West Courtyard of the State Palace.

Xu Zuyi strode up to the large map of North China that the staff officers quickly hung up, raised his baton, and pointed to Beiyuan in the north of Beiping:

"An hour ago, the Japanese army gathered a large number of troops, first bombarded with heavy artillery, and then dispatched tanks and armored vehicles to storm Beiyuan, and the two divisions of the 77th Army of Song Mingxuan's 29th Group Army stationed in Beiyuan finally failed to support after stubborn resistance, and retreated to Shunyi County, where they converged with the 59th Army, the 69th Army and the troops directly under the headquarters of the Group Army, and prepared to stick to the line from Shunyi to the *** battalion.

At the same time, the Japanese army stormed Huilongguan northwest of Beiping, and General Tang Enbo, the former commander-in-chief of the Seventh Army, ordered the 89th Division of the 13th Army stationed there to fight back. Because Lu Yixuan's Fifth Army supported a large number of artillery and 37th anti-aircraft artillery of the 13th Army before retreating to Datong, the 89th Division relied on its superiority in artillery fire to defeat the Japanese attack many times, and the current Huilongguan line is still fiercely exchanged fire.

"According to the high-altitude reconnaissance of our reconnaissance planes, the Japanese troops in the direction of Chabei and Tianjin have all signs of movement, and based on the analysis of the above situation, the Japanese troops in North China have begun to carry out the second phase of the operation. General Song Mingxuan asked the Military Commission for instructions, if necessary, could he give up Shunyi, Huairou, Miyun and other counties? After retreating to Nankou, the 29th Army, together with General Tang Enbo, will hold the eastern section of the Pingsui Railway and prevent the Japanese army from attacking to the northwest. ”

Chiang Kai-shek carefully looked at the map and asked left and right: "What do you think?" I thought Song Mingxuan's request could be granted, the south entrance is the throat of the Pingsui Railway, more than 40 kilometers away from Beiping, located in the northwest of Beiping, is the traffic artery of the inspection, the terrain is steep, and it is known as the "key to the northwest". The Japanese army wanted to open up the Pingsui Railway, and Nankou was the place where it must be fought. ”

Chen Cheng observed slightly, nodded and agreed: "The chairman is wise." The geographical location of Nankou is extremely important, and if I gather a large army here, we can not only echo the battlefield in the northern part of the country, but also form a local superiority in troops and ensure the stability of the northwest. ”

Bai Chongxi was radical: "If it is realized, you can order General Song Mingxuan to organize the people to move outside the mouth, and be ready for a scorched earth war of resistance at any time." Ladies and gentlemen, please see, now back to Longguan-Tangshan-*** Battalion-Shunyi line, the entire long front of more than 40 kilometers is in a flat state, and the area of battle with the enemy is too huge, and the terrain in this area is flat, and the transportation extends in all directions, which is very convenient for the attack of the Japanese mechanized troops. If Song Mingxuan moved the people of Miyun, Huairou, Shunyi and other places to the outside of the mouth, all the materials were transferred, and then decisively destroyed all the city walls, houses and other facilities, and poisoned the wells, and the army took the initiative to retreat to the south entrance, so that the place obtained by the Japanese army was just a ruin, and our army could gather inside and outside the south mouth to form an echelon defense, greatly reducing the probability of contact between the various departments and the Japanese army, which was conducive to preserving the vital forces, firmly attracting the Japanese army to North China, and facilitating our implementation of the Shanghai battle plan. ”

Bai Chongxi's suggestion caused a burst of whispering, and then Chiang Kai-shek closed the coffin and came to a conclusion: "That's it, let General Song Mingxuan immediately organize the people to transfer, not leave a grain of grain or an iron nail for the Japanese invaders, and all the crops that have not been harvested will be burned, and the central government will allocate funds to subsidize the losses of the people." At this time when the Shanghai War of Resistance was about to start, as long as North China could maintain the current war situation, it would be a great victory. ”

Qian Dajun, director of the first division of the chamberlain's office, recorded Chiang Kai-shek's order and immediately handed it over to a special person to send it.

Xu Zuyi then came to the large map of China, and reported in detail the dynamics of the government and the army obtained by the second hall: "Since the day before yesterday, the puppet local federation of Hebei Province's eastern and central Hebei counties held its inaugural meeting, and yesterday, the traitor Chi Zongmo Tangshan organized the puppet government, and the commander of the North China Front Army, General Terauchi Shouichi, sent Kobayashi Harada to serve as an adviser to the Beiping Maintenance Association, and the cabinet announced yesterday afternoon that the northern part of the three provinces of Chahar, Suiyuan, and Shanxi will be subordinated The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of our country has refuted Japan's act of sovereignty this morning.

"In the past few days, the consulates in our provinces and municipalities have been closed, the Hankou Consulate Office was closed at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and the Japanese consul Matsudaira was worried that he would be detained by the Jiangfang troops on the way back, and asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send a special vehicle to pick him up. Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe demanded that our side release the Japanese detained expatriates and warships, and Wang Liangchou said that this move was a private action of the local army, and although the central government had repeatedly applied for punishment, the local army still went its own way, and the central government had no choice but to do so. On the other hand, it is a unified state, and there will be no situation where China's current military orders and government orders are not unified. ”

Chiang Kai-shek laughed: "This Wang is favored, but he is a little anxious, and he knows how to push things on An Yi, why is he panicking?" ”

Hearing this, the generals turned their heads in surprise, only to see Chen Bui sweating profusely, striding to Chiang Kai-shek's side, and reporting in a low voice: "Chairman of the National People's Congress, envoys from various countries in China have gathered in groups to ask for guilt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Minister Wang Liangchou's desk has been overturned by the angry British Ambassador Xu Gesen. At present, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in chaos, and several deputy ministers and secretaries have been injured by envoys of various countries, and the situation is in chaos. ”

Chiang Kai-shek was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Yan Ji, do you know what caused the envoys of various countries to be so angry?" ”

Chen Bui looked a little inexplicable: "For some reason, the ambassadors of various countries have gossiped and directly accused the Chinese government of using three giant oil tankers to block the main channel of the Yangtze River, making it impossible for large merchant ships to pass through the mouth of the Yangtze River, causing extremely heavy losses to various countries. Envoys from various countries have demanded that the Chinese Government dispatch salvage ships from now on to eliminate the dangerous situation on the Yangtze River, and that no matter what method is used, it is necessary to resume shipping on the Yangtze River as soon as possible, otherwise the Chinese Government will bear all the consequences. ”

The generals looked at each other, Chiang Kai-shek's face turned pale, and he looked at Xu Zuyi: "Yan Mou (Xu Zuyi), do you know what's going on?" ”

Xu Zuyi shook his head: "After receiving the news of the war in North China, our colleagues in the second hall confirmed that the Japanese offensive had been in full swing after intelligence summary, so they rushed to the Guofu Auditorium to report the matter, and the news from Shanghai was not clear. But I believe that General Zhao in the fourth hall must know about this, and he can quickly recruit General Zhao to come and report."

Before Xu Zuyi's voice fell, Zhao Rui, director of the Fourth Department of the Military Commission, had already walked into the war room.

Zhao Rui, dressed in a lieutenant general's uniform, walked to Chiang Kai-shek's side and saluted solemnly, and handed over a document with both hands:

"This is a detailed report on the shipwreck incident at the mouth of the Yangtze River, which Vice Minister An asked me to transmit. They thought that their connivance with China could lead the water to the Soviet Union, so that Japan and Germany, which they thought they could exert influence, would be encircled from the east and west, so that the long borders of the Soviet Union would consume the national strength of Japan and Germany, so as to achieve the goal of seeking world peace. Since the start of the war between China and Japan, Britain and the United States and other countries have been watching from the sidelines with the mentality of watching the show, and their so-called neutrality cannot affect the normal operation of the war machine at all, and they can still obtain a steady stream of resources from all over the world, but we, since the war in North China in July, more than 200 merchant ships have been seized by the navy, and now all of them are concentrated in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagasaki, Kaohsiung, Ryukyu and other ports, and tens of millions of goods have fallen into the hands of the Japanese invaders. Therefore, we cannot blindly tolerate the great powers, and we must be tough when it is time to be tough. The Shanghai operational plan originally drawn up by the General Staff Department has spent a great deal of painstaking efforts and will be of great help to reversing the current unfavorable war situation, and must be resolutely implemented. Now that the main channel of the Yangtze River is blocked, the Japanese fleet cannot freely enter and exit Wusongkou, as long as we fight this battle well, and the people lose their temper, the great powers will re-examine the balance of strength between China and Japan, and consider how to protect the interests of each country. Only in this way can it be possible to truly achieve peace, otherwise, it will increase the arrogance of the Japanese invaders, and make our military and *** fall into passivity. ”

Chiang Kai-shek took the document, read it carefully page by page, closed it and scolded with a smile: "Niang Xipi, An Yi actually came to this trick again, cutting first and then playing, so that I can't open my mouth to object." When I met with him two days ago, he said that he wanted to sink a few ships at the mouth of the Yangtze River, disgusting people, I thought that it was more than a few small-tonnage merchant ships produced by Luzhou Shipyard, who knew that he would use a 50,000-ton oil tanker to *** the Yangtze River? That's it, anyway, the Yangtze River can't pass normally, and the envoys of various countries can do whatever they want, and the bad is just like that, what else can it do? Let's hurry up and take advantage of the fact that the Japanese warships can't help the war, and drive the *** people out of Shanghai in one fell swoop. ”

"Be wise!" Zhao Rui was in good spirits, praised Chiang Kai-shek from the bottom of his heart, and then respectfully saluted and turned to leave.