Chapter 145: The Army is Called the Tiger Ben

In fact, many times, Chiang Kai-shek was not a person who liked to dictate the cadres, and he seemed to prefer to listen to the opinions and suggestions of the people.

However, if a talent reader gathers a group of pigs around him, then it is heaven and earth, and human love cannot help!

Chiang Kai-shek knows He Yingqin's calmness, what he takes is He Yingqin's defense, although he is not enterprising enough, but at least there will be no big mess, and He Yingqin has no foundation at the moment, in contrast, Chiang Kai-shek wants to get Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi to Nanjing, and give them a general commander or minister of military affairs to pick them up, so as not to jump up and down again when there is a storm, but Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi are not fools, he Jiang is the little brother who comes and goes when he is called, and it is the two giants of the Gui family.

Now the battle of Rehe finally has a good result, that is, to keep Rehe, and in front of the League of Nations to promote the force of the [***] team, with Zhang Xuewu's first division of the army Chengde's desperate resistance to the enemy, the previous battle of Rehe was not a rout, but a strategic turn, said that Kou deceived people too much, I had to stick to the counterattack.

It is said that the Kwantung Army gathered elites to attack our Chengde for more than half a month, Chengde did not move, and more than 50,000 people were killed and wounded, and more than 200,000 troops were blocked under the city of Chengde, whether it was the help of the cold weather, or the decisive spirit of the new first division to serve the nation-state, the battle of Chengde can be called a miracle among miracles.

Who would dare to say that I [***] am ineffective? Keep your eyes open and look at my Mechanic! Let's see who else dares to jump out and obstruct the reorganization of the whole [***] political unity? Is it an elite division like the newly formed first division, or is it a defeated army with hundreds of thousands of remnants who can only herd sheep and lose their land!

Some high-spirited Chiang Kai-shek has not drunk for many years, but at this moment he suddenly has the ** and urge to have a glass of aged Shaoxing Huadiao.

Chiang Kai-shek was excited and smoothed out his thoughts, He Yingqin suggested that Zhang Xuewu be the chairman of Rehe Province, and give him a promotion of military rank and rank as appropriate.

Moreover, Zhang Xuewu is Zhang Xueliang's cousin, Zhang Xueliang will not have a strong or even fierce response, as long as he spends a little more money, he can win over this little guy who seems to like the orthodoxy of the Republic of China, the young people are different from the old guys, if you change any of your own Huangpu protégés this time, I am afraid that the first consideration is how to preserve the strength of the retreat, rather than carrying the hard top, of course, it is even more unwilling to have the possibility of today's Rehe victory.

Judging from the number of troops invested by the two armies, it seems that it has been escalated to the level of strategic warfare, and the two countries that have not yet declared war and established diplomatic relations have mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to fight in the dark for dozens of days.

In fact, it was not that Chiang Kai-shek did not want to declare war, but he really could not declare war, from 1912 when the five-color flag of the Beiyang political axe on behalf of the Republic of China was raised, until the capture of Yanjing in 1928 and the name was changed to "Ping", and the national flag was changed to the blue sky and white and the ground was red, since the Northeast changed flags in 1929, the Republic of China only maintained a nominal unity, in fact, only three of the 22 provinces paid taxes to the Central Ministry of Finance.

The annual tax receivable of the Nanjing Central Political Axe was 270 million yuan in 1932, and the monthly military expenditure was 23 million, that is to say, the country's income was nothing, and it was not enough to support the family foundations of the large and small warlords in various places, and the salaries and office expenses of the nearly 6 million political axe officials who were in deficit every month were all borrowed from the east and west. The short-lived Sun Ko cabinet did not hold out for even a month.

In a huge country, how can a scholar with a red mouth and white teeth rely on people to fool things and guide the country? Obviously not, the domestic military industry has almost stopped, the steel production is almost insignificant, not to mention the qualified military-grade steel, even the pointed 7.92 mm 57 Mauser bullets used in the rifle need to be imported, once the Warring States Alliance implements a military embargo, it is not Yuben who suffers, but China!

However, what worries Chiang Kai-shek the most is not that he is in trouble, nor is it a red trouble, but a large number of local powerful factions in the country, these people are shouting and protesting on the one hand, and withholding local taxes on the other hand, Liangguang, Lianghu, Shanxi, the whole of North China, Yunnan and Guizhou, Gansu, Shaanxi, Ningqing, Xinjiang Province, and Tibet Province.

It is better to threaten others than to threaten others, this is one of Chiang Kai-shek's tenets of life, so Chiang Kai-shek decided to adopt He Yingqin's suggestion this time, and push Zhang Xuewu to the position of a feudal official, and also to expand Zhang Xuewu's department, and it is ideal to be involved in politics in Rehe as a soldier, and in this way, the central forces have rightfully entered Rehe, Chahar and other places, which is equivalent to inserting a sharp knife in the back of Yan Laoxi, who has always been unstable.

Rehe has become the frontier of the country, Chiang Kai-shek slapped his hand on the table, it can be said that Chiang Kai-shek is not a broad-minded person, Chiang Kai-shek's broad-mindedness is actually very emotional, for the number of times he humiliated his majesty, Chiang Kai-shek has been recorded in the record one by one, Chiang Kai-shek, who does not know much about the military and political system of the city, and Zhang Xueliang have suffered a big loss from the same thing, especially the withdrawal from the League of Nations, if it were not for the unexpected reversal of the Battle of Rehe, Chiang Kai-shek may have to lose his army and protect the commander.

However, what really made Chiang Kai-shek difficult was how did Zhang Xuewu arrange it? Legion Commander? Zhang Xueliang took the post of corps commander at the age of twenty-two, speaking of which Zhang Xuewu is already twenty-four years old, and in terms of qualifications, he can be regarded as a protégé of the Son of Heaven in the sequence of Nanjing Army University, and his exploits are naturally obvious to all.

Chiang Kai-shek was a little enthusiastic for a while when he inserted a corps of the Central Army in Rehe, after all, he was an officer and soldier who fought the battalion with iron and water, and at first sent the backbone of the Huangpu department of the grassroots level, and then gradually sent senior officers to strengthen the control of the German advisory group and give it greater guidance, so that even if Zhang Xuewu did not stop dispatching himself one day, his troops would not be out of the control of the Nanjing political axe.

And the establishment of this corps can be described as very good, because in [***], there are corps commanders from major generals to generals, and the establishment ranges from five regiments to five divisions, since Rehe has become the front line of the battlefield, then the establishment of Zhang Xuewu's Zhang Corps is not too small, isn't it?

Each elite department has an internal call sign, which is also a symbol of honor, and Chiang Kai-shek decided to also give Zhang Xuewu's Zhang Legion a call sign! "Tiger Ben"!

King Wu's attack on Yin Ye, King Wu turned his own car 300 taels, and 3,000 tigers. The so-called tiger Ben's sword, then the tiger Ben, Shi also, one by ten, three hundred and two three thousand people!

The lone army was trapped in the Jedi to resist more than ten times the enemy, and turned the tide, and Chiang Kai-shek believed that the new 1st Division was worthy of the code name of Tiger Ben.

However, when Chiang Kai-shek was discussing with Zhang Xueliang about how to expand the Rehe Army for Zhang Xuewu as the chairman of Rehe Province, the Chengde defenders concentrated the remaining twelve tanks under Zhang Xuewu's organization, cobbled together the strength of fifteen companies, and pursued the 11th Infantry Brigade of the Sixth Division behind the palace!

The 11th Infantry Brigade Matsuda Guosan Division suffered heavy losses in the Chengde offensive and defensive battle, and although the casualties in the fierce battle at the Great Wall Pass were not large, the troops were extremely tired and consumed a lot of ammunition.

This is a contempt and insult to the Imperial Army, but at this moment, the 11th Infantry Brigade is not a strong general at the beginning of the Rehe Campaign, and the 11th Infantry Brigade has long been beaten to the point that it has lost its temper, and in the face of the central chariot group charge, the flank is flanked by the infantry company, and the 11th Infantry Brigade, which has less than 2,000 people left, immediately fell into a desperate situation.

The panicked Matsuda Kunizo didn't care about bragging and ruthless words, and hurriedly asked the division headquarters for tactical guidance! After receiving Matsuda Kunizo's request for help, the commander of the 6th Division, Itamoto Masaemon, immediately realized the seriousness of the situation, Matsuda Kunizo was a guy who would not complain easily, and if even he shouted for help, then the situation of the 11th Infantry Brigade was likely to be extremely bad.

Itamoto Masaemon hurriedly sent the Fourth Cavalry Brigade Motegi Kennosuke to the rescue, after a fierce battle, Zhang Xuewu and Motegi Ken Sukesuke both suffered losses, and also gave up the siege of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the Yue Army, and the 11th Infantry Brigade of the escaped Yue Army rushed on foot for two days, leaving the Fourth Cavalry Brigade behind him for more than ten miles, which can be said to have created a record of individual armed marching of armies on foot in various countries around the world.

It is said that many officers and soldiers fell to the ground and died while running, and after a short break, they changed from running to forced march to march on foot, and many soldiers fell into the snow on the side of the road and never got up again.

For themselves, they will not admit this record, and the dignified Imperial Army will be frightened by others? What is a record of a march on foot? To put it bluntly, it is a shameless escape.

The 11th Infantry Brigade finally escaped the doom of being completely annihilated, if once entangled by the Chengde defenders, the Central [***] along the Great Wall completed the encirclement, and the precedent of a brigade being annihilated by the formation was unique in the era of the Qing War and the history of the army.

In fact, this is also thanks to the blessing of my own cheekiness, the conventional annihilation or loss of more than seventy percent of the living combat power is regarded as being completely annihilated, during the Russian War, the army attacked the Lushun fortress can be described as a sea of corpses and blood, several infantry brigades and regiments were also wiped out in the attack, but I have an outstanding ability to distort the facts, Sun Tzu I don't admit it! What can you do with me?

Therefore, the Imperial Army still maintains a good record so far, but what makes Itamoto Masaemon really difficult to let go of is that his Sixth Division has any deep hatred with Zhang Xuewu of the newly formed First Division? Needless to say, the trap of Lao Cai was directly pitted into the strength of a multi-wing unit of the Sixth Division, and during the entire Chengde campaign, at least three-fifths of the shells of the middle [***] team were smashed on the head of the Sixth Division.

Risking death with the remnants of the army to attack and rob the troops behind their own divisions? Who offended Zhang Xuewu? The hatred that led to such a madness called the Imperial Army? Oh no! It should be the Kumamoto Sixth Division, right, and Idamon is puzzled by this?

Just when Zhang Xueliang was determined to take advantage of the victory to pursue and fight the army, news came from the Nanjing political axe, saying that a delegation from the present side on the negotiation settlement of the territorial dispute in Manchukuo had arrived in Shanghai, saying that the present side demanded a complete truce and asked Britain, France, and the United States to intervene in mediation.

Students and people marching and demonstrating in Beiping, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Guangzhou took to the streets, and they slapped the entire League of Nations on the issue of withdrawing from the League of Nations; although the United States was not a member of the League of Nations, the United States also played an important role in the joint investigation team, and it can be said that his own big slap also slapped the Americans.

However, what is needed in international relations is not the so-called face, but benefits, there is a huge trade surplus between Europe and the country, and the compensation obtained by the war between the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty is basically all used on the use of military force, and it can be said that 70 percent of it is consumed in Europe, and the main trade exporter of Europe and the United States is seven times that of China, and the total trade volume between the country and Europe and the United States is seven times that of China, and the country also has the world's third largest fleet after the treaty navy, as the victor of World War I. It is said that this is completely capable of adding big characters in front of the name of the country, and it is said that this empire!

Said that I said that I would fight? If you defeat it, you have to talk about it? What kind of theory is this? Zhang Xuewu didn't know how many times he had fallen in the teapot a day, Li Songtao looked at the poor teapot covered in bruises and was a little helpless, Li Songtao was very strange? How could Zhang Xuewu not see the international trend clearly?

In Europe, the policy pattern of Europe is still stuck in the era of World War I, and in fact, World War I is just an intermission after the spoils are divided, in order to accumulate strength for the next battle.

It is said that they are not members of the League of Nations, and naturally Britain and France cannot use the name of the League of Nations, so the British and French consuls general and plenipotentiary ambassadors in Nanjing have become the busiest people these days, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has been deserted for a long time, has also become lively.

Now that the army has won the war, although it has been stopped by foreign forces and cannot expand the results of the war, the tens of thousands of corpses left by the army in the Battle of Rehe cannot be faked, and if the army wins the battle, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will speak louder.

In fact, everyone knows how much sincerity there is in his negotiations, this is just because the Kwantung Army suffered a big defeat, and the political axe was forced to come out to put out the fire, although the military department does not take the political axe seriously, but the political axe does not dare to watch the Kwantung Army playing with fire [***] to fend for itself, there are only 17 standing divisions in total, and they were reimbursed for the equivalent of six or seven divisions, and they can't afford it at all!

Therefore, the political axe of Yuben, who had been watching the excitement, had to once again carry forward the national spirit of shameless Yamato, and begged Britain, France, and the United States to mediate.

(To be continued)