Li Tie felt ridiculous at Song Zheyuan's political naivety, and he could only persuade again: "Commander Song, of course I want to donate these arms to the Nationalist Government, and then the Nationalist Government will transfer them to you.

But not only do I know, but even you know that once these weapons are donated to the Nationalist Government, Commander Chiang is preparing a large number of German armourers, and seeing that I have so many munitions, he will definitely give priority to supplying his German armourers. And it will never be given priority to supply your 29th Army.

More importantly, I have received reliable information that in a few days at most, the Japanese army will launch an attack on your station, and if you secretly accept my arms now and immediately distribute them to the garrisons in various places, then in the Sino-Japanese war in a few days, you will still have some strength to fight back.

If you continue to refuse to accept my arms, then your 29th Army will die without a place to bury, and you will soon lose the Pingjin area, and then you will become a sinner of the country. ”

Seeing that Song Zheyuan was still frowning and contemplative, Li Tie did not continue to persuade him. However, Feng Zhi'an, the commander of the 37th Division of the 29th Army beside Song Zheyuan, first couldn't hold his breath.

"Junza, what Brother Li Tie said is right, now that our 29th Army is surrounded by strong enemies, if we don't want to find a way to enhance our strength.

When the two armies really fight, our 29th Army will definitely not be the opponent of the Japanese, and our brothers will probably have to die in vain. ”

"Yes, Commander, what kind of weapons do you have now? It's either old-fashioned or rifling-smoothed. But even if it is this kind of broken gun, it cannot reach one per person.

As for other light and heavy machine guns, there are even fewer grenades, and many of the dilapidated machine guns were donated to us by Li Tie during the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War.

Now that these weapons have been used for several years, it is long time to be scrapped, but everyone is still scrapping together to repair them and continue to use them.

Although nominally we are a regular army, in reality we are not much better than when we were a ragtag army.

I think that when we were on an errand under Feng Yuxiang, although we didn't have good weapons, Feng Yuxiang treated us like nephews, when did you see us and not be warmly entertained?

It's good now, we are in the Central Army, and we are more pitiful than the children born by our stepmothers. The weapons and equipment were not in place, and even the monthly salary was not enough.

I went to the people in the logistics department to ask for it, and they almost didn't out with a stick. Now Brother Li Tie has traveled thousands of miles to send us military salaries and weapons, but people don't say they want to buy us.

I think so, anyway, you Beiping soldiers are not inferior to these guns, why don't you give us the 38th Division? I am not afraid that Commander Chiang will remove me from my post.

Besides, there are a lot of Japanese troops near Tianjin, and I just took these weapons to defend my family and defend the country, maybe I just exchanged fire with the Japanese army, and our old Zhang will be martyred. "Zhang Zizhong, the commander of the 38th Division, is not polite, such a good weapon, others don't want him.

Song Zheyuan also didn't turn a corner for a while, and after Zhang Zizhong's reminder, he also figured out that with his current strength, if he fought with the Japanese army, he would die heroically nine times out of ten.

When he dies, who will find out where his weapons came from. And it is better to have good weapons than nothing, after all, the 29th Army is its own descendant troops.

He couldn't bear to really look at his brothers, holding a big blade to fight the Japanese, so under the persuasion of many division commanders, Song Zheyuan finally agreed to accept Li Tie's military assistance.

Then, within three days, the infantry divisions and cavalry divisions of the 29th Army went to the Tianjin dock to receive munitions. It's just that when the men and horses of these divisions arrived at the dock in Tianjin, they were all stunned by the weapons unloaded from the ship.

Tens of thousands of rifles, thousands of machine guns, countless bullets, half a ship of grenades, all German goods. No wonder Li Tie was worried that these weapons would not be distributed to the 29th Army if they were donated to the Nationalist Army.

Not to mention the National Army, even General Song Zheyuan, who saw these weapons with his own eyes, also loved it. Looking at so many weapons and ammunition in front of him, Song Zheyuan was happy like a child for the first time:

"My God, with so much ammunition, how long will it take for our 29th Army to run out?"

Li Tie on the side couldn't help laughing and said: "I know that you have a bad battle to fight, so I will send you more ammunition, I don't know how many bullets you need to use in a battle, anyway, I calculate it according to each soldier's shot." ”

Song Zheyuan slowly understood Li Tie's words, and finally muttered to himself: "One shot, one shot?" That's too extravagant, isn't it? ”

No matter how surprised Song Zheyuan was, the 29th Army, which had been replenished with weapons and ammunition, was full of joy, and everyone quickly loaded the weapons at the wharf and transported them to the 29th Army's garrison in the Pingjin area.

In order to support the 29th Army's future anti-Japanese war, Li Tie transferred all the cars of Huaxing Company in Pingjin to Tianjin.

With the help of these automobiles, and with the overtime work of the Huaxing drivers day and night, two full truckloads of munitions were unloaded and transported to the various garrisons of the 29th Army in the Pingjin area within three days.

The 29th Army was finally equipped with the latest German rifles before 1 July. At the same time, he received a military salary donated by Li Tie, and the morale of the 29th Army was once again boosted.

When the time came to the night of July 7, just like the original history, the despicable Japanese army still asked to enter Wanping City to search on the grounds that a soldier had been lost outside Wanping City.

The 219th Regiment of the 37th Division of the 29th Army, which was responsible for garrisoning Wanping County, rejected the unreasonable demands of the Japanese army, so the Japanese army began to bombard Wanping County that night and stormed Wanping County, but was desperately resisted by the 219th Regiment and returned in vain.

The next day, a large Japanese army surrounded the county town of Wanping and attacked the Lugou Bridge, while a large number of Japanese troops who had already been ambushed in the Pingjin area began to attack Beiping and Tianjin at the same time. The officers and men of the 29th Army in Beiping and Tianjin rose up to resist.

Because the Lugou Bridge is the main transportation route for Beiping to the south, as long as the Lugou Bridge is occupied, Beiping will be surrounded by the Japanese army on all sides, which is equivalent to a dead city.

As long as the Japanese army occupied Beiping, the Japanese army would be equivalent to opening a passage to the south, laying a solid foundation for the Japanese army to fully occupy China in the future.

So a Japanese infantry brigade began to attack the defenders of the Lugou Bridge. In their original intelligence, the 29th Army had low firepower, and the Japanese army would have no ability to resist them.

However, the fact did that the Japanese attacking force almost collapsed.

When the soldiers of a large group of Japanese troops came to the vicinity of the Lugou Bridge in a majestic manner, the arrogant Japanese soldiers only symbolically fired a few shells at the defenders of the Lugou Bridge and fired hundreds of shots at the defenders.

They thought that the Chinese defenders on the opposite side, who were short of guns and ammunition, would soon collapse, but before the Japanese soldiers could shout to persuade them to surrender, they saw the defenders on the opposite side fire all kinds of light and heavy machine guns together, and suddenly the Japanese squad that rushed forward was almost wiped out.

And that's not even counting the fact that when the Japanese soldiers, who had managed to dodge the dense machine-gun fire of the Chinese defenders, were ready to retreat, they were again attacked by the mortars of the Chinese defenders.

I saw that the mortar shells of the Chinese defenders fell like raindrops, and from time to time smashed into the ranks of the Japanese troops who were crawling forward.

In just a few rounds of shelling, a squadron of Japanese troops attacking in the first wave lost most of it.

Then the Japanese army, which was awakened by the Chinese defenders, began to face up to the Chinese defenders, and the Japanese began to return fire with various mountain artillery. At this time, it became clear that the Chinese defenders were deficient in heavy firepower.

When the Japanese mountain artillery sounded, the mortars of the Chinese defenders suddenly lost their sound, because the firing distance was far from the opponent of the Japanese mountain artillery, and at the same time, the power was too different.

And in order to protect the limited mortars and artillery, as soon as the Japanese mountain artillery sounded, the mortars at the Lugou Bridge disappeared.

Seeing the defeat of the Chinese artillery, the Japanese army began to run rampant again. They again organized an attack, this time with the support of mountain artillery and under the cover of light and heavy machine guns.

So the Japanese infantry quickly killed under the Lugou Bridge. Just as the Japanese were preparing to launch a charge, they wanted to repel the defenders on the bridge and occupy the Lugou Bridge in one fell swoop.

I saw hundreds of grenades flying down from the bridge, and at such a close distance, the Chinese army was condescending again, and soon when hundreds of grenades exploded, there were not many living Japanese troops under the Lugou Bridge.

The commander of the Japanese brigade, who had been thwarted again, was furious, and he immediately called for support from aircraft and tanks, and soon more than a hundred Japanese soldiers with the help of several tanks began to attack the Lugou Bridge again.

The defenders of the Lugou Bridge did not have very good weapons to attack the tanks, and as a result, the Japanese tanks inflicted great casualties on the defenders of the Lugou Bridge.

Several times, the Japanese army had occupied the Lugou Bridge with the help of tanks, but the Chinese soldiers who were not afraid of death used cluster grenades and self-detonated bombs to blow them up.

Seeing the Chinese defenders working so hard, the Japanese army was also inspired to be fierce, and as the most powerful unit of the Chinese garrison, the captain of the attack on the Lugou Bridge personally led the team to launch a desperate attack on the defenders of the Lugou Bridge.

The soldiers on both sides are entangled, you stab me, I shoot you, you reach out and pull the grenade on my body, I reach out and pull the grenade on your body.

The Japanese soldiers shouted "Long live the emperor" and rushed to the positions of the Chinese defenders, and the Chinese defenders shouted the slogan of defending the country and rushed out of the defense to fight the Japanese army.

The soldiers on both sides were not afraid to die for the honor of the soldiers. After only a few attacks, the defenders of a regiment at Lugou Bridge had already suffered most of the casualties, and half of the Japanese troops of the same number had been killed.

Seeing that the battle was so fierce, neither of the main generals on both sides expected that the other would be so fierce. The captain of the Japanese attack on the Lugou Bridge was deeply suspicious of the information of the intelligence department.

Didn't you say that the Chinese defenders on the opposite side were vulnerable? Didn't you say that the defenders on the opposite side were desperately short of ammunition? But why did they resist one by one?

What's even more excessive is that all kinds of their rifle and machine guns are fired vigorously with the trigger, as if they have never been able to pass the frame, is this a manifestation of the extreme shortage of ammunition? Are all the people of the Imperial Intelligence Service blind?