Qiao Anbang's reply soon flew to Yucheng, and when Wang Shihe finished reading the telegram, Chairman Jiang jumped three feet high again in anger, and roared with a blue face like thunder: "Thief Niangpi, the deception is too much, too much, what qualifications does he have as the commander of a group army to decide the location of Tang Enbo's department!" ”

Wang Shihe was silent as if he was silent, and said in his heart, why did Qiao Anbang do this, can you still not understand, Tang Enbo's department has seriously threatened the safety of Qingdao, Xuzhou and other Qiao Jiajun garrisons, just as the so-called couch does not allow others to sleep soundly, Qiao Anbang's purpose is already obvious.

After letting Chairman Jiang finish venting, Wang Shihe comforted him in a timely manner: "Commission, don't you just remove Tang Enbo's department, as long as the strength is there, we will have a chance at any time in the future." ”

"You know the." Rao is Chairman Jiang basically did not have any anger at Wang Shihe, this time he couldn't help but be very angry, he knew that Qiao Anbang's 11th Army threat to his status had gradually exceeded [***], if no measures were taken to control the elbow, at that time, Qiao Anbang was full-fledged, and it was no less difficult to control him than to ascend to the sky.

"Hmph, I have deployed nearly a million troops in Shandong, Henan and other places, and it is not yet known who will kill the deer! Telegraphed Hu Zongnan, Liu Zhi, Xue Yue and Tang Enbo to prepare to attack immediately! Chairman Jiang snorted angrily and ordered Wang Shihe.

"Don't! We can't go to war with Joan Bang right now. Chen Cheng hurriedly persuaded.

"Shut up, I've got my own measure!" Chairman Jiang said coldly, in the final analysis, Chairman Jiang was still unwilling to give in to Qiao Anbang and withdraw Tang Enbo's troops from Shandong, and there was always a desire to try in his mind, maybe this is the so-called not seeing the coffin and not shedding tears, or it may be that his confidence in his million-strong army makes him unwilling to bow his head and admit defeat.

Chen Cheng lowered his head in silence and didn't say much.

"What are you still doing in a daze, execute the order immediately!" Seeing that Wang Shihe was still standing still, Chairman Jiang couldn't help but roar in anger.

"Oh, yes, do it right away!" Wang Shihe originally thought that Chen Cheng could persuade him, so he didn't leave immediately, but he didn't want to be scolded by Chairman Jiang angrily, so he hurriedly turned around and left.

………………………… When Chairman Chiang's military order was handed down, Hu Zongnan, Liu Zhi, and Xue Yue, who had long been eager to try, as well as Tang Enbo's troops, who had already been unable to bear it, quickly and thoroughly carried out Chairman Chiang's military order.

Hu Zongnan first took the initiative to attack Qiaojia's army's eastern Henan defense line, and then another part cooperated with Liu Zhi's main force to launch an offensive against the Xuzhou defense line of the 11th Group Army.

At the same time, Xue Yue's troops in Huainan and Gu Zhu's troops were in charge of Nanjing, and the remnants of Li Zongren's troops in the former Fifth War Zone also attacked the Huaihe defense line of the Tiger Ben Army with no less than 300,000 troops.

On the eastern Henan front, Chu Jingming's Fourth Organized Division, with the assistance of the three newly organized divisions and the full air support of the Second Flying Regiment of the 1st Air Division at Longshan Airport, completely smashed the many attacks of Hu Zongnan's army, which was several times larger than itself, by virtue of its advanced weaponry and equipment, and the superiority of artillery fire and aerial firepower.

The main force of the Fourth Integrated Division even launched several counterattacks and counteroffensives against the southern part of Hu Zong, under the personal leadership of Major General Wang Baoshan, the regiment commander and deputy division commander.

On the Huaihe battlefield, Li Jupeng and Cao Er did not even use the four newly organized and integrated divisions deployed in their rear, and with the comprehensive support of the second and third integrated divisions and the comprehensive support of air firepower, they repelled the allied forces of the Third and Ninth Theaters, which had been exhausted from afar and had just suffered defeat in Shanghai, with low morale and weak combat effectiveness.

Liu Zhi's division in the middle of the road was even more in the joint defense line composed of the 6th and 7th divisions of Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun and Liu Guodong's 8th integrated division.

The strength of the three integrated divisions is close to 100,000 troops, well-equipped, powerful firepower, and strong air fire support; although Liu Zhi's unit has a large number of troops, its combat effectiveness is not at the same level as that of the three integrated divisions, and it is strange that he can make progress with him, an incompetent general.

In just a few days, Chairman Chiang's million-strong army offensive was declared a failure one after another, and the two sides returned to their previous confrontation posture in eastern Henan, Huainan, and western Anhui.

This was still the case when Qiao Anbang strictly ordered all his troops not to take the opportunity to counterattack and expand the results of the battle, otherwise Chairman Chiang's million-strong army might repeat the historical tragedy of being defeated for thousands of miles.

Qiao's army won defensive victories in the above-mentioned three-front battles, while in Shandong, Tang Enbo's department, which was the cause of this battle, was dumbfounded.

Neither Tang Enbo nor his senior generals expected this result, they never imagined that Chairman Chiang's army of nearly one million would not be able to defeat Qiao's army fighting on three fronts.

Therefore, Tang Enbo directly abandoned the execution of Chairman Chiang's previous order to lead his troops to attack Qiaojia's army on the Jiaodong Peninsula in order to contain Qiaojia's army in Shandong.

Therefore, the south of Xuzhou and the north of the Yangtze River almost turned the sky upside down, but the Shandong battlefield north of Xuzhou was surprisingly quiet, Tang Enbo's troops did not dare to attack, and Qiao Anbang did not order the troops to attack them, and the two sides confronted each other as usual.

………………………… Tang Enbo was shocked, and Chairman Chiang, who was far away in Chongqing, almost vomited blood in anger after hearing the news that his hundreds of thousands of troops had failed in their attacks.

"Commission...... Commissioning ...... Are you alright? Wang Shihe, the chief of the guard who reported the news to Chairman Jiang, saw that Chairman Jiang's face was wrong and his body was a little shaky, so he hurriedly stepped forward to support him with concern.

Chairman Jiang tried to stand still, waved his hand in anger and said, "I'm fine, summon Chen Cheng to see me immediately!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Shihe didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly obeyed the order.

About half an hour later, Chen Cheng rushed to the order in a hurry, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Chairman Jiang sitting behind his desk with a gloomy face, without saying a word.

Hurriedly saluted: "Bench, are you looking for me?" Chen Cheng had already learned the news of the failure of the offensive in the various theaters of the front, so his tone was very careful.

After a long time, Chairman Jiang sighed and said: "Resignation, now I have something to hand over to you to do, it is related to the fate of the party-state, please don't shirk!" ”

"Please make it clear that the resignation will go all out!" Chen Cheng's heart sank, but he still said hard.

"Go to Qingdao, go immediately, and negotiate with Qiao Anbang!" Chairman Chiang said without waves.

"Qingdao? I don't know how the commissioner plans to negotiate with Qiao Anbang? Chen Cheng asked cautiously.

…………………………………………………… Qingdao, Qiao Mansion.

Qiao Anbang was nodding with satisfaction with the good news sent by the reorganization, Yali walked in at this time and said to him, "Headquarters, Yucheng is calling." ”

"Oh? What did Jiang Gong say? Qiao Anbang was in a good mood and asked.

"He wants peace talks with us, for the sake of the Chinese nation's united front of resistance and for the sake of China's common interests, he has decided to send Chen Cheng to Qingdao to discuss with us the specific terms of peace talks!" Yali said.

"Hmph, don't shed tears if you don't see the coffin! Don't hit the south wall and don't look back! Jiang Jun, the commander of the Fifth Division on the side, snorted coldly.

Qiao Anbang smiled and nodded: "Call back to Gong Jiang, after careful consideration, I agree to his request for peace talks, and I will personally go to the airport to greet Brother Ci!" ”

The next morning, a transport plane landed at Qingdao Airport, and when the plane landed, Qiao Anbang, who had been waiting for the plane for a long time, immediately led Li Pinxian and other senior generals under his command to meet the plane.

As soon as Chen Cheng got off the plane, he saw Qiao Anbang and the others, and when he saw Qiao Anbang coming to the airport to greet him in person, he couldn't help but be flattered, and hurriedly stepped forward to shake hands with Qiao Anbang and saluted: "Brother Qiao personally picked up the plane, it's an honor to resign!" ”

"Hey, Brother Ci Xiu has worked hard from afar, it should be!" Qiao Anbang smiled.

"Chief Chen has worked hard all the way, our head office has prepared a banquet for you to pick you up, please hurry up and get in the car!" Jiang Jun, the commander of the Fifth Division, who accompanied him, said with a solemn hand.

"Yes, Brother Ci, I have prepared a high-quality apricot blossom aged wine for you, today you and my brother will not return if you are not drunk!" Qiao Anbang kindly pulled Chen Cheng's right arm and said.

"There is work, there is work!" Chen Cheng is still a little uncomfortable with the enthusiasm of Qiao Anbang and other Qiao family soldiers, but after all, he is one of the famous high-level leaders of the national political axe, and he has met officialdom and military circles for a long time, what kind of scene he has not seen?

So he quickly returned to normal, and nodded with a smile and said, "Then the resignation is better than obeying the fate." ”

The group got into a few cars, left Qingdao Airport under the escort of a large number of security troops, and soon entered Qingdao and came to Qiao Mansion.

At this time, Qiao's Mansion has become the residence of the head of Qiao's army, not to mention the guards, although the decoration is not luxurious, but it is definitely one of the famous places in Qingdao.

There are countless newspaper reporters and a large number of foreign journalists waiting on the streets near Qiao's mansion every day, so Qiao Anbang must take a large number of guards with him when he travels, not only to escort them, but also to be responsible for opening the way and stopping the foreign journalists who are haunted like flies.

Although Qiao Jiajun is nominally subordinate to the National Revolutionary Army, it is actually a self-contained faction, and Qiao Anbang is secretly called the youngest warlord with the fastest rise in China by reporters and even journalists from all over the world, and is even very likely to replace Jiang as a rookie in the [***] general.

Moreover, it is no secret that the grievances and grievances between Qiao's army and the national political axe headed by Jiang have long been a secret, and these reporters have also heard of the frequent movements of Liu Zhi, Hu Zongnan, and Xue Yue of the Yucheng Army recently, and the news of the war clouds in East China.

In order to confirm these news, they will pour into Qingdao, where Qiao's army's current military and political center is located, in order to gain something.

When Qiao Anbang, Chen Cheng and others had just gotten out of the car, Wang Gensheng, the commander of the guard brigade who had been instructed by Qiao Anbang in advance, secretly ordered the guard troops to release a group of reporters who had been inspected and suddenly rushed to the gate of Qiao's mansion.

stopped Qiao Anbang and Chen Cheng, who had just planned to enter the mansion together, and questioned the news that the Yucheng Political Axe Army and the Qiao Family Army were at war.

Qiao Anbang looked at Chen Cheng who was thinking about it with a smile on his face, waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and said loudly: "Fellow journalists, please be quiet and listen to Qiao's words." ”

Qiao Anbang's voice was very high, and the reporters present could hear it clearly, because they all wanted to get some long-awaited news from Qiao Anbang's mouth, so they all quieted down.

Qiao Anbang paused before saying: "First of all, on the question that you are most concerned about and mentioned the most often, I will give you an absolutely true answer, I, Qiao Anbang, am a Chinese, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers I formed to command the 11th Group Army are also the same as myself, we will never do stupid things that are bitter to the enemy, so we will never kill each other with other friendly brother forces!" The outside world's news that our 11th Group Army and other friendly units have met each other and fought in a big way is entirely a plan to sow discord carried out by the person himself, and that his sinister intention is to sabotage the united front of our whole nation's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and profit from it.

Therefore, Qiao said here that he would never take the initiative to shoot at any of the [***] teams. Moreover, I think that our leader, Mr. Chiang Chung-cheng, chairman of the National Military Commission, will never take the initiative to provoke trouble and sabotage the anti-Japanese united front, because that act is no different from the Han annihilation! ”

"If you don't believe my family's words, then you can ask Chief Chen Cheng next to me, he came to Qingdao to inspect our department on the order of Chairman Jiang and guide the future battle plan and strategic policy. After speaking, Qiao Anbang turned to Chen Cheng and said, "Isn't it Chief Chen?" ”

"Huh?!" Chen Cheng was a little at a loss, and hurriedly nodded with a smile: "Yes, Commander Qiao and even the anti-national heroes, the 11th Group Army is a heroic unit of the anti-Japanese army that has made great achievements, not a renegade Han annihilation army, how can it start a war with the political axe?" These are all false rumors, I hope you don't believe them. ”

Although the foreign reporters present were suspicious, they had no choice but to deny that there was such a thing, so they could only give up.

When the reporters left, Qiao Anbang also specially asked them to take a few group photos of himself, Chen Cheng and others to show his intimacy with the national political axe.

After the incident with the reporter just now, Chen Cheng understood in his heart that Qiao Anbang was smiling and hiding a knife to directly cover up the previous battle, and now, the loss in the previous attack of the national political axe can only be dumb and eat coptis chinensis There are bitter words, knocking out teeth and swallowing blood in the stomach.

So without waiting for the wine to pass the three rounds of food and the five flavors, Chief Chen Cheng Chen said straight to the point: "General Qiao, I can't hide it, Brother Fool came this time on the order of the commission to discuss with you about the friction between our two armies some time ago. ”

"Well, this little brother knows, Brother Ci Xiu can say anything directly!" Qiao Anbang took a sip of the wine cup and nodded.

"The commission explains, as long as you withdraw the small forces and armored forces that are inserted into the sphere of influence of Tang Enbo's department, the commission will order Xue Yue's troops to retreat south of the Yangtze River, and at the same time guarantee that Hu Zongnan and Liu Zhi's troops will not be ordered to attack your northern Anhui base area."

Before Chen Cheng finished speaking, Qiao Anbang put down the wine cup and said in an unquestionable tone: "No, Tang Enbo's troops must all withdraw from Shandong, otherwise there is no need to talk about this matter!" ”

"You?" Chen Chengqi's face turned red, and finally he relieved himself and said: "General Qiao, you have to think clearly, in fact, the commission is still very important to you, and it will not end well for you to go against him again and again, after all, he is our leader!" Moreover, the stationing of Tang Enbo's troops in Shandong was a strategic decision of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, so how could it be easily mobilized? You let them evacuate Shandong, and let the commission transfer them there? ”

"Weight? If he is heavy, he will not force my father to death, and he will not gather hundreds of thousands of troops around me in an attempt to annihilate me in one fell swoop. Qiao Anbang's tone became indifferent and said: "You and I are well aware of the current situation of resistance, there is no longer a Kou in Shandong and even in the whole of North China, wouldn't it be a waste of valuable troops for his Tang Enbo Department to deploy here?" As for transferring them there, that's his own business, and Qiao has no right to ask! ”

Chen Cheng was speechless, and said after a long silence: "Okay, I will reply to the commission in time, but when Tang Enbo's department withdraws from Shandong, your people can't have any difficulties." ”

"Don't worry, Qiao Mou said, I will never take the initiative to shoot at my comrades, as long as Chairman Jiang does not take the lead in provoking, I will never attack you." Qiao Anbang said frankly.

Chen Cheng nodded, no longer spoke, Chairman Jiang gave him the bottom limit is that if Qiao Anbang does not agree, the conditions previously offered, then agree to withdraw the 100,000 troops of Tang Enbo's army from Shandong, and now his task can be said to have been completed, and he can't help but feel relieved and begin to sigh.

The fact that the Central Army of the Nationalist Axe could not help a local group army with the surname of Qiao Anbang was definitely a bad sign for the party-state and Chairman Chiang.

In the next few days, after receiving the secret order of Chairman Chiang, Tang Enbo was forced to evacuate the central area of Luxi and Luzhong one after another, and was ordered to go to Jiangnan to prepare to recapture Shanghai in conjunction with the Ninth and Third Theaters.

As soon as Tang Enbo's front foot was withdrawn, Qiao Anbang ordered the First Reorganized Division and the Eighth Reorganized Division to be stationed in Jinan, Jining and other important places in Shandong, so far, Qiao Anbang officially and completely occupied all of Shandong, and the base area was expanded to most of Shandong and Anhui provinces, most of Jiangsu and some parts of Henan, and the population of the base area exceeded 50 million, and the basic strength has risen to an unprecedented height.

(To be continued)