Chapter 80: No Soldiers
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The sound of guns and cannons in Chengde touched the nerves of Zhang Xueliang in the palace of Shuncheng in Beiping, and hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated in just ten days, and a good defeat was like a mountain! Zhang Xueliang was horrified and found that he didn't know when it started? Has his Northeast Army become so unbearable? This was an unexpected rout!
If it weren't for the fact that he lost so many elite troops in the Battle of the Middle Road, why would he be so passive now? Tang Yulin, who ran without a trace, Zhang Zuoxiang, who wept alone in Beiping, Sun Dianying, who did his own thing, Song Zheyuan, who was unruly, and the various units of the Jin army who did not listen to the dispatch, Zhang Xueliang was in turmoil for a while, and the three divisions promised by Nanjing have now become his lifeline.
It seems that the hundreds of thousands of troops with a large number of people are just the appearance of a strong force in the middle and outside, and how many troops can there be who can really command and fight desperately? Now Chengde, which has only one division, is surrounded by at least two divisions of the army, and it has become precarious!
Although Zhang Xueliang does not have any outstanding strategic vision, nor does he have outstanding political acumen and excellent tactical action, but this does not mean that he is a fool, Zhang Xuewu can defend alone when the army is attacking on a large scale has moved him very much, as the so-called father and son soldiers go into battle, fight tiger brothers, but even if the hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army that have been dispersed are reorganized, I am afraid it will be difficult to fight again in the short term.
Zhang Xueliang, who has a nominal army of hundreds of thousands, is anxious at the moment, if Chengde is lost, then his last chance to turn over as a non-resistant general will also be lost, and the only way can only be to give up the Northeast Army and run away from the wilderness, which Zhang Xueliang absolutely does not want to see, and it is also the result he is most afraid of.
Can Zhang Xuewu hold Chengde? Zhang Xueliang was really a little uneasy in his heart, recalling that he dared to stick to the Beida Battalion and almost a division of the army with the remnants of a regiment, and now Zhang Xuewu, who has a whole division in his hands, will also be able to create a miracle? But the new 1st Division wants to hold on to the key point of Chengde for at least ten days under the siege of more than 100,000 troops? Is this possible?
Zhang Xueliang looked at the map, and about 36,000 people from Shang Zhenzhi's 32nd Army were still assembled near Tangshan. The 29th Army of the 3rd Army of Song Zheyuan transferred from Chahar Province has about 20,000 people, scattered in the Jixian, Zunhua, and Yutian areas in the northeast of Beiping. It's tantamount to letting Shen Ke feed the wolf!
But Zhang Xuewu, who is trapped in the siege of Chengde, is holding on for himself! As soon as Chengde lost the hot river, the gate was opened, and the army only needed to attack the mouths of the Great Wall to threaten Pingjin and North China!
After thinking about it, Zhang Xueliang personally took up the pen as if it was a thousand pounds and drafted a telegram: I hereby order the headquarters of the 106th Division to rush to the aid of Chengde and attack and advance!
In addition to the 106th Division, the only thing Zhang Xueliang can handle is the air force of the former Northeast Army, and the 147 combat planes far surpass the Kwantung Army flight team in terms of the number and quality of fighters and even the quality of pilots; according to relevant intelligence, the Kwantung Army's flight team participating in the exhibition this time is a total of seven squadrons (the Kwantung Army flight team has nine squadrons under its jurisdiction), and there are about 60 combat planes. This was the largest number of aviation combat units ever put into the army since the Shenyang Incident.
Because China has about two air force squadrons in the Pingjin area, and these seven squadrons are stationed at the airfields of Lianshan, Suizhong, and Jinzhou, and at the same time, in order to guard against a surprise attack by the Chinese air force, a large number of air defense units have also been deployed, and at the same time, the logistics organs of the army aviation department have accumulated a large number of aerial bombs at the three airfields of Suizhong, Jinzhou, and Tongliao, of which the Jinzhou airfield is the largest, Zhang Xueliang's plan is to first use the superior air force to destroy the air force of the Yue army, but now it seems that supporting Chengde has become a delay.
Unlike Zhang Xueliang, Song Ziwen, President of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Finance, He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs, Yang Jie, Deputy Chief of Staff, Xiong Bin, Director of the General Staff Department, and others in Beiping also gathered together, and the atmosphere in the conference room on the second floor of the Huang Mansion at the mouth of the Grand Cross Hutong was particularly solemn at the moment.
The more than 100,000 [***] teams in Rehe collapsed like sand, and there were even many people who defected in groups and brigades, which neither Song Ziwen nor He Yingqin expected at the beginning, and now the entire Nanjing political axe has fallen into passivity, is it war or talk? Is it talking and fighting? Or is it a bloody battle with Yue Kou to the end? The four people in the room have their own little Jiujiu, just like the various armies that have been defeated in Rehe, Sun Dianying and Song Zheyuan are busy annexing the scattered departments of the Volunteer Army and the Northeast Army, and the Jin Army is even more majestic and fled without a trace, and the only one who sticks to Chengde is the new version of the First Division under the Military Commission!
He Yingqin was very dissatisfied with the battle situation of the year, and all the big men in Pingyue used the protest to make excuses, but when he really called him, he tried to preserve his strength one by one and retreated, Zhang Hanqing was still a handsome boy when he danced, and his ability to control the troops seemed to be too far behind?
The two divisions of the Yue Army have already fallen to the city of Chengde, and the strength of the two fully manned divisions of the Yue Army is not the non-wartime establishment of many divisions and regiments in the Shenyang Incident, but the standing A divisions that are really being strengthened in battle, and the strength of the two divisions and regiments exceeds 42,000 people, which is more than three times that of the new First Division, and the fall of Chengde and the annihilation of the new First Division seem to have formed a foregone conclusion.
In retrospect, on February 11, after Song Ziwen, the premier of the National Political Axe Executive Yuan, and 27 generals including Zhang Xueliang jointly defended Rehe in Beiping, on February 21, the War of Resistance against Rehe broke out. It's really a pity that Zhang Xuewu's strong brigade marched fast, and before he had time to ask the Nanjing Military Commission to withdraw the new first division, the new first division was surrounded by the regiment.
He Yingqin was a little annoyed at the moment that Chiang Kai-shek finally gave Zhang Xuewu the order, which was equivalent to sentencing the newly formed First Division to death, and defending the Jedi alone with the army of one division? He Yingqin is also a person who came over in the Northern Expedition, he sees many things very lightly, but he really can't let go of the hard-won power in his hands, Zhang Xuewu's new first division is the best object he has wooed, but now this object has fallen into the siege of the Yue army and died? Captured? Even surrender, no matter which one, Zhang Xuewu will fade out of Nanjing's sight.
And Chiang Kai-shek, who was in the camp in Nanchang, was furious, and every time he entered the most critical moment, he would jump out and make trouble? This was the case in the 20th year of the Republic of China, and even now! It seems that he has become the savior of some forces?
Chiang Kai-shek stood in front of the huge map, his eyes were tightly locked on this point in Chengde, Chiang Kai-shek sent Song Ziwen and He Yingqin to Beiping on the one hand to help Zhang Hanqing, on the other hand, it also had the meaning of cleaning up the mess for Zhang Hanqing, the new first division of the Central Army in Rehe is now trapped in Chengde, this army is a wedge for Chiang Kai-shek to nail into the Northeast Army, it was originally not allowed to be lost, Zhang Xuewu took refuge in himself can be said to have given a clear signal to the generals of various local factions, That is, even if you are reorganized, you will still not have any loss, since Jiang can treat Zhang Xuewu well, he can treat other people well.