Zhang Xueliang admitted that he had made a major mistake in his judgment during the Shenyang incident, which was a major mistake that made him chagrined, at that time he unconditionally believed in his alliance brother, thinking that the alliance brother who put his heart into his heart would not harm himself, and as a result, he and hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Northeast Army became rootless, and he was burdened with the monstrous infamy of the countrymen.

Right now, He Yingqin, Song Ziwen and others are in Beiping, plus Huang Ying, who has just arrived, what are these people doing in Beiping? Especially that Huang Yin is said to be the chairman of the Beiping Sorting Committee, what does Beiping need him to sort out? The meaning can be said to be extremely obvious, so let him Zhang someone come to force the palace to clean up the mess.

Therefore, Zhang Xueliang can only have one way to go at the moment, that is, to fight with Yue Kou to the end and recapture Rehe! Otherwise, he would have to go out into the wilderness.

After all, it's still my own relatives! At the critical moment, no one can be relied on, only this cousin of his own, recalling every request and action of Zhang Xuewu, Zhang Xueliang even thought that Zhang Xuewu could have a foresight? Think about it, where could there be any foresight? If so, how can you put yourself in a desperate situation without advice?

Zhang Xueliang didn't know that the sacrifice of all the officers and soldiers of Shen Ke's 106th Division only bought Zhang Xuewu one day.

The well-trained peacetime and wartime conversion system of the first division of the army to supplement the troops to go to the expedition is only a matter of two to three days, and the same one [***] takes at least seven to ten days, and the tactical offensive and defensive conversion at the division and regiment level is even faster, and the more than 100,000 troops of the army are camping in the ice and snow, which is also not expected by the army attack and heat command before, originally this battle was to cooperate with diplomacy to maintain a strong attitude to the League of Nations at the end of February, In fact, the preparations for the campaign were to completely occupy Rehe and the passes along the Great Wall in three months, threatening the Pingjin region and forcing the Chinese political axe to sign an alliance under the city.

From the commander Muto Nobuyoshi to the division commanders, brigade commanders, wing commanders and even soldiers, they all saw the general trend of sweeping the Rehe and sweeping the Great Wall, as long as they took Chengde, the gateway connecting the Rehe River to the Pingjin River, then the troops could enter to rest and hoard the necessary war materials, and wait until the spring was warm to implement the second step of the battle plan to attack the passes of the Great Wall and force Pingjin.

But now what embarrassed the Yue army is that it only took them more than ten days to sweep the entire Rehe, but in the end they were blocked out of Chengde by the strength of a Chinese division?

Even if the army is well prepared, but in the face of the severe cold in northern China, the army is also caught off guard, cotton tents, spare cotton clothes, shoes and hats, and heating stoves are all lacking, so the army can only make a desperate attempt to storm Chengde, in order to end the Rehe Campaign and let the troops return to rest as soon as possible.

Zhang Xuewu in the combat headquarters stood in front of the map and thought hard about the almost impossible way to retreat from the enemy, and for a long time he helplessly picked up the water cup and took a sip? Didn't even drink water? Surprised, the ice in the water cup was so thin that it broke, and a glass of water spilled Zhang Xuewu's body, and even flowed into Zhang Xuewu's collar? A chill made Zhang Xuewu fight a few cold wars in a row and jumped in a row, and Huang Tao on the side looked at Zhang Xuewu's actions in surprise.

Zhang Xuewu reluctantly put down the water cup, he remembered that this glass of water obviously didn't pour for long? In Rehe, a ghost place where the wind only blows twice a year for six months at a time, the cold wave in March is probably the coldest time before the beginning of spring at the beginning of the year. Even in later generations, when the troops camped in the wild for a long time in such severe cold, the non-combat attrition would be extremely staggering.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xuewu instantly seemed to add countless self-confidence, and now the silence before the war is just an illusion, and he will definitely launch a fierce attack on Chengde with a very fierce offensive, because he can't hold out for too long in this ice and snow, and Zhang Xuewu remembers that in the relevant information released by the General Staff Headquarters of the Army in later generations, the Kwantung Army launched the Rehe Campaign in a very hurry, and forty percent of the materials needed were transported from the mainland to North Korea, and then North Korea arrived at the front line through Anton. The remaining forty percent of the materials were used to seize the material reserves of the Northeast Army, and the other half were forcibly plundered and collected by the people in the Northeast, but considering that in history, the army only mobilized two divisions and two reading forces to form a mixed brigade, and the current strength is fully double that in history.

Zhang Xuewu dragged the map, he seemed to see the weak point of the army, that is, the material reserves of the army were seriously insufficient, and the reason why the army was dispatched was to oppress the Chinese side with the momentum of the city, in order to achieve the goal of surrendering the army without a fight.

Zhang Xuewu's hand followed Chengde, Chifeng, and Chaoyang, and finally stopped in Jinzhou, where the Kwantung Army Air Force, which frequently bombed Chengde, seemed to be gathered in Jinzhou, the former enemy headquarters of the army, and the location of the material distribution center!

Zhang Xuewu drew a circle in Jinzhou with a pen, and then rubbed his numb hands and looked at Huang Tao, who was chewing dried sweet potatoes, and said, "Where did it come from?" ”

Huang Tao was slightly stunned, looked at the sweet potato in his hand full of tooth marks and said, "Yours!" Huang Fei'er, the director of the secret electricity room, left you a big bag before leaving! It was left to you by their group of girls who dried it, saying that you always need to eat something if you stay up late, and it seems that there are more than ten catties of oil tea noodles. ”

"How did I not know?" Zhang Xuewu was very surprised, what he gave himself would not know about it?

Huang Tao smiled and said: "You drove everyone away crying, you deserve not to eat it, but then again, the oil tea noodles fried by our Director Huang are very fragrant!" The meat oil is fried, and the heat is just right! ”

Zhang Xuewu waved his hand and said: "The camellia noodles are all sent to the field hospital for the wounded to drink, where do I still have some American almond chocolate and Swiss delight that Dean Song gave me last time, take them all, give some to the doctors, they can't be tired, the battle will only get more and more fierce, I can still count on them!" ”

Huang Tao nodded, and just as he was about to leave, Zhang Xuewu stretched out his hand and said, "Give me two pieces of dried sweet potatoes!" ”

Huang Tao took out his pocket a little helplessly, took out two and put them on the table and said: "The taste is okay, it is said that it is coated with honey, but it is too hard!" ”

After Huang Tao left, Zhang Xuewu hesitated for a moment and came to the secret room and said, "Send a report!" Falcon Strike! ”

He did not give Zhang Xuewu enough time to strengthen the fortifications, because his own situation was already extremely difficult, and it seemed that hundreds of thousands of soldiers were so majestic in the city, but if you take into account the food, drink, housing, heating, and war-related weapons and ammunition materials of more than 100,000 people, what kind of transportation will it be? Rehe is mountainous, the road is rugged and inconvenient, and the railway has not yet been opened to traffic due to many damage caused by the war.

Sure enough, at dusk on 9 March, two field heavy howitzer artillery wings under the heavy artillery brigade of the Yue Army began to carry out fierce artillery bombardment on the front line of the Mengguanfeng and Majiagou side ridges.

The power of this shelling differed from those seventy-five mm mountain field guns, which were real one hundred and fifty mm field howitzers, boom! Rumble! Every shell that falls will make the earth tremble slightly, and the huge explosion sound and the column of smoke that rushes up dozens of meters high make people intuitively experience the horror of modern warfare.

The Meiji 38-style 150 mm field howitzer can be said to be a downright antique, in 1911, the old antique surname of the equipment of the army has been completely backward, 12 times the caliber of the body tube, even if the full charge can only fire the shell to a distance of less than six kilometers, the weight of more than two tons is a lightweight player for a field howitzer with a caliber of 150 mm, but this is also the biggest limit of the Mitsubishi ** artillery tractor.

But even such an old antique is still unattainable for the squadron [***], which calls the seventy-five-mm gun a cannon.