When this heavy telegram was sent to Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek's figure shook slightly, and even the telegram slipped from his hand without noticing it, as the so-called expectation is greater, the greater the disappointment, the Chinese political axe has great expectations for the fair surname of the League of Nations, and Britain, France, the United States and other countries have also given corresponding commitments, and as a result, they have encountered an extremely shameless and extremely shameless book, I will not play with you! It can be said that this slap also woke up Chiang Kai-shek, who had a trace of illusion about the League of Nations, and it was better to ask for others than for himself!

As long as Rehe can persist for at least three months, as Zhang Hanqing said, then he will be able to mobilize 10 divisions of troops from the front line of suppressing bandits, and transfer all these troops from Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Hunan to the front line in North China, and fight a battle of land recovery with himself, bend the bow and shoot the wolf!

After a long while, Chiang Kai-shek, whose face was a little pale, asked Qian Dajun on the side: "Does the League of Nations have any countermeasures?" What is the plan for sanctions? ”

Qian Dajun said helplessly: "The League of Nations is still holding a meeting to study specific countermeasures, but the United States, Britain, and France all have huge international trade with Yueben, and their trade volume is not below our country, and the current world economy is in a recession, so it may be difficult to expect the League of Nations to impose economic sanctions on Yueben!" ”

"!" Chiang Kai-shek slapped the table hard and said, "I said that I took our tolerance as a good bully?" Go and ask Dean Song to come over, the army has not moved the grain and grass first, and we can't do anything without him, the God of Wealth! ”

Soon, Song Ziwen, who rushed to get the news, told Chiang Kai-shek that the Nationalist Axe really had no money, and at most he could only take out four or five million to maintain the situation in Rehe, which could barely last for two or three months, because the suppression of bandits had already consumed a large amount of the central budget! If three more divisions of the Central Army were to be sent to Rehe to participate in the war, the deficit in the central government's finances would increase, and this would only be February, and it would be too early before the end of the year.

Chiang Kai-shek looked at the worried Song Ziwen and sighed and said: "I promised Han Qing that I would give him six divisions of the Central Army as a reserve, and now with Zhang Xuewu's new first division and three divisions of the Seventeenth Army, there are still two divisions left, I can't break my promise in this matter, Han Qing is under more pressure than me, and I still have to think of a way." ”

Song Ziwen spread his hands and said: "I have nothing to think about, there is no news about the loan from the United States, let the local government escort all the taxes they owe to the central government to Nanjing, not to mention two divisions, even twenty divisions can ensure sufficient transportation to the front line." ”

After Song Ziwen left, the gloomy Chiang Kai-shek sighed and came to the map, he was really a hero! For a while, Chiang Kai-shek sighed for a long time, he wondered if the Emperor Hirohito in his country was also worried because he could not mobilize the army without military funds?

Seeing this scene, Qian Dajun hesitated for a moment and said, "Chairman, why don't we launch a fundraiser?" Just like the previous time when all walks of life in Nanjing raised more than one million for the Northeast Volunteer Army! ”

"Fundraising? Another cocktail party? Chiang Kai-shek, who was born and didn't like luxury occasions, frowned slightly and said: "The national crisis is at hand, and it is inconvenient for me as a leader to go out so much on luxury occasions, so I will discuss it with my wife!" She is an expert in this area, and I can rest assured that she will have better results. ”

The army's occupation of Yuguan and its step-by-step march to prepare for the war to Rehe have aroused the attention of the people of the whole country. Under the pressure of public opinion at home and abroad, Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang political axe successively sent Song Ziwen, acting premier and minister of finance, He Yingqin, minister of military affairs, Luo Wengan, minister of foreign affairs, and Huang Shaohong, minister of the interior, to Beiping.

In the war room of the Beiping Army Branch, Zhang Xueliang frowned and stared at the map, saying that the army's large-scale attack was really a little too menacing, which made Zhang Xuewu, who had repeatedly sworn to the outside world to defend Rehe for at least three months, felt a trace of worry, but he had no way to retreat, and the three eastern provinces retreated without a fight.

Can Tang Yulin and Wan Fulin resist the pincer and attack of the two-way army of the Yue Army? Zhang Xueliang hurriedly sent an urgent telegram to Zhang Zuoxiang, asking Zhang Zuoxiang to lead the seven brigades of the reserve to Rehe to supervise the division, but Zhang Zuoxiang, who received the telegram, was immediately dumbfounded, because Zhang Zuoxiang had not yet assembled and mobilized except for his son Zhang Tingshu's twelfth brigade at this moment? At the beginning of the campaign, the general reserve will be used? Zhang Zuoxiang's heart was also cast with an indelible shadow.

In desperation, Zhang Xueliang had no choice but to ask the Nanjing side for instructions, and on the night of 21 February, he sent several phone calls and seven telegrams, almost in a begging tone, demanding that Xu Tingyao's 17th Army rush to Rehe.

Chiang Kai-shek did not know the truth about the Rehe front, but the news that He Yingqin brought back was not optimistic. The disparity between the enemy's and our forces is of course the reason, but there are many mountains and passes in Rehe, and it is also a fact that our army occupies a terrain advantage, so we must not have another big fiasco! Otherwise, whether it was Zhang Hanqing or Jiang Zhongzheng, it would be difficult to escape the blame in front of the people, so Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered the 17th Army Xu Tingyao's headquarters to rush to Chengde to assemble in the starry night.

Chiang Kai-shek knew very well that in terms of the volume and transportation capacity of the railway, it would take at least half a month for the 17th Army, which had not yet been assembled, to reach Chengde. The Northeast Army of more than 200,000 plus the Northwest Army of nearly 50,000 people and the various departments of the Jin Army, a total of more than 300,000 horses! The Central Army of its own four divisions is not counted among them, and it seems that there is no need to worry too much about occupying the dangerous terrain for defense?

Chiang Kai-shek breathed a long sigh of relief, although the Feng Department and the Northwest Army had very deep contradictions and estrangements, all the warlord melee battles were shouted more fiercely than fought, for example, the Sichuan Army often dispatched more than 100,000 horses to fight for three months, and the result was less than 1,000 casualties, but the Feng Army and the Northwest Army were really fighting, the bravery of the Northwest Army and the artillery of the Northeast Army, both sides were wounded to the bones, and now they have not given up their previous suspicions, and whether they can cooperate is also a problem.

Maybe they can all see the face of the country's peril, right? Chiang Kai-shek did not realize that he seemed to have overestimated the consciousness and affection of some of the generals in the factional warlord forces.

After giving the order to the 17th Army, Chiang Kai-shek, who was completely sleepy, remembered the instructions he had given to He Jingzhi before, and the newly formed 1st Division was the only unit of the Central Army in Rehe at this moment.

Chiang Kai-shek, after repeated considerations, decided to send Zhang Xuewu a telegram with clear instructions, which can be vague to others, but the newly formed First Division under the Military Commission is now a unit of the Central Army, how can it be sacrificed at will, and He Yingqin's report said that Zhang Xuewu's training and training ability is indeed extraordinary, and the combat effectiveness of the newly formed First Division is not weaker than that of the 87th or 88th Division, and it is really a pity that such a unit is simply sacrificed!