Chen Kebin, who was transferred to the Chifeng garrison commander, felt very strange about the sudden order of first-level combat readiness? The army actually attacked Chaoyang in a big way? Chen Kebin's first reaction was that his brain was in water? Is this the right weather for combat? Chen Kebin also admitted that he was indeed very adventurous, and he was indeed caught off guard by the 10th War Zone.

Chen Kebin soon received an order, the 7th Division of the Youth Army immediately reinforced the direction of Chaoyang, and his Chifeng garrison commander was temporarily replaced by Zhang Yaoming, commanding the new 7th Division of the Youth Army to reinforce Chaoyang? Chen Kebin felt a little puzzled about the task personally assigned by Zhang Xuewu, why didn't he invest in the first armored division that was resting in the Dingyuan battalion? Rather, let the infantry reinforcements with a relatively slow march? How many kilometers can your own troops march in a day in this weather? Not much faster than a turtle, I'm afraid!

Chen Kebin realized at that time that it was probably the cold weather that affected the mechanized troops, because all the vehicles of the new 7th Division of the Youth Army under his command could not be started, and the herdsmen's camels and horses were requisitioned.

Ling Yuan, the main force of the new Fourth Division of the Youth Army of the Tenth Theater of Operations, which reinforced Chaoyang from Chengde, was stubbornly resisted by the Yue Army, and after Zhanyang launched a full-scale attack on the troops for a day and night, he found that the strength of the Yue Army did not match the intelligence, and the blocking troops of the Yue Army were not a brigade, but several divisions, and the flanks of the Fourth Division of the Youth Army appeared in the Yu Army, and the air force could provide very little support, so Zhan Yang immediately reported the latest enemy situation to Hao Wenbin, the former commander-in-chief of the Tenth Theater, The 4th Division of the Youth Army was blocked from attacking, and began to shrink its defenses, holding on and waiting for reinforcements.

In fact, what Zhanyang encountered was the headquarters of the 10th Division, the 22nd Division, the 35th Division, and the 36th Division under the jurisdiction of the Second Front Army of the Kwantung Army, and the four main divisions of the Second Front Army of the Yue Army assembled and attacked in the southwest direction of Chaoyang from the direction of Jinzhou, and engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the vanguard of the new Fourth Division of the Youth Army in Lingyuan. I don't know how many [***] reinforcements are coming.

If Ryosuke Isoya can seize the opportunity of Zhanyang's all-out attack to carry out a counterattack and outflank and divide it, then the new 4th Division of the Youth Army will be in danger.

The new 7th Division of Hao Wenbin's Youth Army, which had been reinforced from Chifeng, could only march slowly along the railway, and the follow-up engineering troops were repairing the roadbed buried by heavy snow, and two armored trains equipped with 150-mm heavy howitzers were slowly following up.

It can be said that the sudden attack of the army made Zhang Xuewu's tenth theater fall into a comprehensive passivity, Zhang Xuewu has always adhered to the purpose of the people's army for the people, but whenever there is a disaster emergency, Zhang Xuewu is accustomed to thinking of the army, but Zhang Xuewu ignores the ultimate embodiment of the army as a violent organ, that is, to undertake combat missions, which just confirms a sentence, war always breaks out when it is most unlikely to break out.

The 10th Theater of Operations fell into chaos because of the large-scale offensive of the Yue Army, and Li Zongren of the Fifth Theater, who was already preparing to fight to the death with Yue himself on the Jinpu Line, became a spectator, and the Kwantung Army attacked the 10 th Theater on a large scale, and it is estimated that it has become inevitable that the main forces of the North China Army will be transferred to participate in the war, and if the Fifth Theater can take advantage of the gap in the division of troops to first concentrate its forces to defeat the main force of the Central China Front of the Yue Army, recapture Nanjing, and concentrate its forces to deal a heavy blow to the North China Front of the Yue Army, the situation of resistance in the whole country will take a major turn in an instant!

Li Zongren was extremely excited to report his overall plan to the Supreme Military Commission of the Central Committee, but it was like throwing a pebble into a calm lake, at most it was just a backwater, and Chiang Kai-shek, as the supreme military commander, seemed to have no reaction to this?

Li Zongren sent three telegrams in a row, Chiang Kai-shek did not come forward, but Bai Chongxi hurried over from Wuhan, the entire battle plan of the previous battle of Xuzhou was formulated by Bai Chongxi, except for the two group armies of the Gui Department and the elite headquarters of the Central Army, the remaining more than 400,000 local miscellaneous troops were used as cannon fodder, this is a disguised compromise method of Bai Chongxi, this method has also been approved by Chiang Kai-shek, a battle can consume hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous troops, which was unimaginable beforeThe abolition of the number of dozens of divisions is equivalent to reducing the pressure on the supply of military supplies from the central government, and on the contrary, the central army can also create or increase some elite troops.

For this reason, Chiang Kai-shek also reciprocated by giving the 21st Group Army Liao Lei's division a new division number, and for the first time added a part of the Soviet weapons to the Fifth Theater, in fact, for Li Zongren's battle plan, Chiang Kai-shek is still very much approved, but in his opinion, the time is far from ripe, he would rather sit back and watch the Tenth Theater be completely wiped out by the army, so that he himself cut off his biggest henchman.

The 10th War Zone from military aid to mysterious financial support, coupled with Chaoyang, Mongolian gold, can be said to have reached the point of being able to compete with the central political axe, which made Chiang Kai-shek very worried, remembering Zhang Xuewu's humble expression and appearance in the past, Chiang Kai-shek had an urge to vomit blood, sure enough, the most endurable is the true face of the hero, Zhang Xueliang is just a gentleman, but Zhang Xuewu is an out-and-out heroic character, if not stifled, the young Zhang Xuewu will be the biggest competitor in the struggle for power with him.

Now Chiang Kai-shek also understands that the only thing he can control Zhang Xuewu is the righteousness of resistance, under this righteousness, Zhang Xuewu must be supervised by 450 million compatriots, of course, he Jiang is also being supervised, the superior makes rules, and the lower is limited by others, Chiang Kai-shek is definitely not a person who can be limited by others, so many years of trying to compete with him for power and profit have all been knocked to the ground, in this respect he is successful, if the people's livelihood is ruined, the domestic warlords are divided, and they do not accept the central transfer, a country with no status in the world, can come to this point, but also thank himself in disguise, it is the massacre and aggression of Yue Ben that made the people forced to return to a banner.

Li Zongren's telegram did not get any reply, Bai Chongxi, who returned to Wuhan, came to Xuzhou again, Li Zongren already understood the meaning, Bai Chongxi looked at the sullen Li Zongren and said: "Delin!" Don't fight for the length of the moment, the meaning of the commission is very clear, the 10th theater already has a great posture of supporting the army and self-respect, now I am concentrating my forces to attack the 10th theater, the meaning of the commission is to let us make all the preparations, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, the 10th theater and I can be said to be two evenly matched tigers, the 10th theater is also the heart of the Kwantung Army, this battle is imperative, we have to wait for an opportunity, the 10th theater and I are both defeated, At that time, the central authorities will also be able to strengthen their control over the 10th Theater. ”

Li Zongren took a deep breath and said, "The lips are dead and the teeth are cold!" This is a war between the country and the nation, and if we sit back and watch it like this, we will definitely be scolded by the people, I'm afraid this is also Jiang Gong's plan to kill two birds with one stone, right? You and I must not follow the old path of Zhang Hanqing back then! Verbal and written punishment is the same as killing people without seeing blood! ”

Bai Chongxi was slightly stunned and said: "With the strength of the 10th War Zone, it is more to say that it was caught off guard by the army, if the war drags on until after May, then there may be a turnaround, and now because of the blizzard, the huge air power of the 10th War Zone cannot exert its due power, and there are two armored divisions in the 10th War Zone, hundreds of tanks, and heavy artillery!" The heavy blow said that I was expected. ”

Li Zongren nodded and said: "If the Tenth War Zone wins, I'm afraid that our position will be even more embarrassing at that time, when I turn around and concentrate on attacking us, how can Zhang Xuewu help us, who are sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight?" ”

Bai Chongxi shook his head helplessly and said: "I'm afraid that I have also seen through this, that is, to attack our fifth war zone, the tenth war zone will definitely actively respond, and even send troops on a large scale to attack its rear road, but if we fight the tenth war zone, we may sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and I will feel the spleen and surname of our people very thoroughly!" But you also know the temper and virtue of the neighbors, the upper faction and the lower faction, you and I just listen to the order! Now that the commission is holding high the banner of resistance, who keeps greeting? It is the generation of one-man thieves. ”

On the occasion of Li Zongren's secret meeting with Bai Chongxi, he learned that the three successive attacks had all failed, and the troops of Houzhou, who had lost more than 2,000 people, immediately adjusted the focus of attack and defense on the Chaoyang Fortress, and the east side of the Chaoyang Fortress was the weakness of the entire fortress. The Army's Type 97 150-mm cannon is a so-called new weapon in a new bottle of old wine that reduces weight and replaces the gun carriage on the basis of the Type 38 150-mm cannon.

He said that he had always been relatively slack in designing and updating the army's weapons, and always thought that the army's weapons were stronger than the enemy's and could be used, so no one cared about the army's new equipment, but the navy had always been ambitious to build huge ships that even the British did not dare to try.

Dai Peng, as the commander of the garrison of Chaoyang, judged from the large-scale tactical adjustment of the Yue army and the area where the artillery fire was concentrated, that he was going to attack the east of the city, and he was really afraid of anything.

(To be continued)