Chapter 262: The Great War is about to begin

Chahar 7th Theater Command

Su Tong was walking with Jiang Baili in the Xiǎo woods behind the headquarters, Su Tong was still dressed in a very serious uniform, but Jiang Baili was wearing a shirt with short sleeves, and he didn't look like the chief of staff of a war zone at all.

"Jianming, Rehe has recovered, and Beiping is also in our hands, what are your plans next?" Jiang Baili's tone was very casual, and he didn't have to put on a serious look in front of Su Tong at this time. After getting along for so long, the two have established a deep jiāo relationship, which is more like the relationship between father and son than between superiors and subordinates.

"What can I plan, now that we have gone through so many battles, several main forces are already very tired, and the casualties are not xiǎo, it is time for them to rest." Su Tong said helplessly.

"Yes!" Jiang Baili nodded, "Our troops should take a break, just like Wang Dayong's Fifth Division, from Siberia to Rehe, didn't have a good rest, and the troops were already very tired." ”

Su Tong was stunned for a moment and said: "I plan to transfer back the 10th Division, the 12th Division and the troops in Chengde in Beiping, and let the 34th, 35th, 39th, and 40th Divisions stationed in Ningxia and Qinghai be transferred back to garrison Beiping and Rehe, what do you think?" ”

Jiang Baili thought about it, and finally shook his head.

"No, if they all come back, what about Ningxia and Qinghai? Do you want the 44th and 45th divisions to guard them? ”

"Can't you?" Su Tong asked rhetorically.

"It's not good, Jianming, if you want to train your troops, you might as well send them to Rehe, where you might as well confront the Kwantung Army directly." Jiang Baili saw at a glance his family's intention to be a cheap son-in-law.

Su Tong touched his nose and smiled embarrassedly, it seems that his cheap father-in-law still understands his own thoughts.

After a pause, Jiang Baili asked slowly: "What do you think of what is happening in Shanghai at present?" ”

Su Tong was stunned, and was a little puzzled by Jiang Baili's somewhat heartfelt question, why did he ask such a roundabout question, and directly asked himself if he would help the chairman of the committee, isn't this your Chief of Staff Jiang Da?

After thinking about it again, he realized that Jiang Baili was afraid that he was still angry with the chairman, and last time Chairman Jiang sent a telegram to reprimand him, ordering him not to send troops to cross the defense area at will, for fear that he would take the opportunity to occupy Beiping. This matter made me very angry.

But now that Beiping has also been occupied by himself, what else is there to say. Besides, in the face of the major rights and wrongs of the country and the nation, I won't be so confused.

Thinking of this, Su Tong smiled: "It turns out that my general chief of staff also has a time when he is hidden, although I, Su, do not dare to call myself a loyal person, but in the face of this kind of problem related to the fate of the country and the nation, I am not so confused." I'm still the same sentence, as long as I fight the Japanese, what else can I Su be reluctant to? ”

"Oh? So what do you think about the situation and your views on the Battle of Shanghai? Jiang Baili raised his thick eyebrows, and looked at Su Tong with bright eyes.

There is a saying in Huaxia that if you are not in your position, you will not seek your own politics, that is to say, which chair your ass sits on must look at the problem from which angle. You can't expect a village chief to think about the future of a country from the perspective of the whole country, and the leader of a country will not think about the affairs of a place.

After being the commander for so long, Su Tong's perspective on the problem has also sublimated a lot, and he can also look at the problem from the perspective of the overall situation. After thinking about the current situation and combining it with the memories of future generations, Su Tong slowly spoke.

"Shanghai is Chairman Chiang's money bag and one of the main sources of tax revenue in Nanjing, and the chairman will not give up. And the Japanese have long coveted the rich land of Shanghai, which is inevitable. One wants, the other doesn't want to give, what to do? The two sides had to fight and divide the winner! It's just"

Speaking of this, Su Tong couldn't help but think of the tragic Battle of Lilu in later generations, where countless soldiers faced the continuous bombardment of the Japanese army's large-caliber naval guns one after another, and died generously in the overwhelming artillery fire. Countless soldiers of the Sichuan army wore straw sandals and fought fiercely with old-fashioned singles and sleeves that had to be tied with strips of cloth so that they would not fall apart. Tens of thousands of Bagui's sons lined up in a dense formation against the heavy artillery of the Japanese army, and launched a decisive attack under the bombardment of the Japanese planes and heavy artillery, and almost all of them were killed in the end. In the Battle of Lilu, the number of casualties was as high as 500,000. Su Tong seemed to see countless heroic Chinese soldiers and soldiers falling one after another in front of the attacking road.

Maybe I don't have the strength to send a large number of troops to Shanghai, thousands of miles away, but the Japanese, since you are here, why do you have to give you a greeting gift, otherwise wouldn't you be sorry for coming all the way to Shanghai?

Thinking of this, the corners of Su Tong's mouth couldn't help but show a sinister smile.

"Jianming, Jianming!" Jiang Baili, who was beside him, saw that Su Tong didn't answer for a long time, so he couldn't help but scream.

"Yes!" Su Tong came back to his senses and smiled embarrassedly: "Is there something that the chairman has found mén again?" ”

"Hehe, you, you're getting smarter and smarter now, yesterday Yang Yongtai (Secretary General of the Political Committee) sent me a letter from Chairman Chiang, saying that he hoped we could sell them a batch of planes. You see if it's not."

Speaking of this, even Jiang Baili was a little embarrassed, he just sprayed the blood of the dog who was scolded by others a few days ago, but now he is begging others to sell him a plane for him, and whoever is on this matter has to be angry.

In the end, he had to play a side ball and begged Jiang Baili's head, but Jiang Baili had no choice, because Su Tong seemed to be very generous, and he was very decentralizing to his generals, and he seemed to care about training and how to fight on weekdays, not to mention Jiang Baili, who was the chief of staff of the theater, and Jiang Baili's request on weekdays Su Tong almost never refused.

But Jiang Baili, who is the party concerned, knows very well that his cheap son-in-law is giggling on weekdays, and he is basically like a big shopkeeper on weekdays. But behind the indifference, there are a few things and the ministry that are firmly in the hands. That is, financial, personnel and logistical.

Now Chahar's finances are in the hands of Xi Hanqian, the secretary general of the government, and Xi Hanqian was raised by Su Tong, and he can be said to be loyal to Su Tong. Personnel is in the hands of Su Tong himself, and what about logistics, Su Tong has been in the hands of Ma Jun, the head of logistics, since the beginning of the Chahar militia, who is Ma Jun? He is known as one of Su Tong's two loyal dogs.

Don't look at the bullets used by the Chahar army in the battle on weekdays, but everyone knows that without Su Tong's nod, no one can think of taking out even a single bullet from Ma Jun, a person who always has a poker face, even if it is Jiang Baili, the chief of staff.

For this, the generals in the Chahar army were also like mirrors in their hearts, so no one dared to stab in front of Su Tong again. Whoever has two hearts, Su Tong doesn't have to do anything else, as long as the supply of the troops is stopped, the troops will be dispersed in less than half a month, and no one will believe that there is a soldier who is used to using automatic weapons on weekdays and receives a generous salary will follow his commander to commit a mutiny. What's more, Chahar's patriotic education in the past few years has gradually taken root in the hearts of the people, and those who declare their allegiance to Su Tong's portrait every day, and the officers who graduated from military academies have gradually spread to the grassroots level of the army.

Mutiny? Now it seems like it's just a joke. Now Jiang Baili is not sure to persuade Su Tong to sell the plane to Nanjing Zhengfǔ, so he has the temptation just now.

Unexpectedly, Su Tong didn't even think about it, so he opened his mouth to win: "No problem, what plane does he want to buy, how many planes, report a list for me, and I'll let Ma Jun do it." ”

"Jianming, I find that you are getting more and more big-picture!" Jiang Baili couldn't help but praise.

This sentence provoked the eyes of Chief Su, looking at what you said, buddies have always been the best at seeing the overall situation. Who wants to say that buddy doesn't have a big picture this time, and brother is in a hurry with him.

In July and August 1937, the land of China was covered with artillery fire and scars. In the air, the pungent smell of burnt paste and thick

The smell of blood was everywhere. In the dim sky, groups and waves of "88-style", "94-style", and "96-type" Japanese fighters, like devils who are full of Chinese blood, proudly fluttering their wings, ghostly flying around the sky, throwing the flying kiss of death to the ground.

The sharp and piercing dive tore at the nerves of the Chinese soldiers and civilians who had rarely seen airplanes. Tons of bombs, with a frightening roar, flew towards the positions of the Chinese defenders, flew towards the peaceful city, and flew to the crowds of people who had fled on the main road.

The earth cracked open in a tremor, and the sky was stained red with flying blood. The distorted and deformed faces, the frightened and frightened eyes, revealed the horror of this sword of war.

Huaxia lagged behind again. While the "Air Force Victory Theory" of the world's air force theorist Du Hei was prevalent in the world for a while, the warlords and politicians in China were fighting to the death for pieces of land, piles of money, and even for a single NV person. The chairman of the committee is also throwing a lot of white flowers into the ocean in order to stabilize the country and eradicate heresy. The Army is swelling in a deformed way. However, the chairman of the Air Force, a new branch of the armed forces that is recognized by the world's military circles as having the potential to dominate the fate of future wars, does not even know much, and naturally no money will be thrown at the Air Force. When war suddenly came, the Chinese Air Force could put into operation less than 100 fighters. Before the war began, China was already in danger of losing its skies and many opportunities for victory.

The Japanese Air Force apparently realized this as well. The proud Japanese Air Force, piloting advanced fighter planes, swept over the treetops and rooftops. In their eyes, perhaps just a few ultra-low-altitude flights, just a few sharp hisses, the Chinese people have already flown out of the sky.

They never seemed to think about the danger. Flying and fighting in the skies of China is like walking on a sunny and refreshing green space. What is the Huaxia Air Force?! Do they have an Air Force ?! In the ridicule of the frivolous Meng làng,

The "Japanese samurai" flew lower, exploded harder, and swept harder. Carrying out bombing missions, clumsy bombers do not even need destroyer escorts. They even think that the air force of the Nanjing government is hiding in which wilderness in the rear at the moment is learning to fly?!

The Japanese Air Force was also brutal. They never return with bombs, and there are bombs at the base anyway. Of course, they will not throw the bomb in vain. After bombing the positions of the Chinese defenders, piles of superfluous bombs flew towards the city and the unarmed Chinese people in their laughter. The terrible screams and the flying blood turned into the cruel jokes of the beasts. The Japanese Air Force is like holding a blood-stained sword, waving it over the heads of the Chinese people without stopping. They want to wield this sword to the fullest, and they want to make the Chinese people paralyzed by this sword.

The sky of China has become a stage for demons to display their swordsmanship for a while. Huaxia lost its stable and tranquil rear for a while. The defenders of Huaxia were also entangled by this fierce sword for a while. The Chinese people were shocked and hated, and their teeth were gritted loudly. The chairman of the committee was also frightened and remorseful, and his head was full of fire. One after another, gold medals were successively landed in various parts of the Chinese Air Force; The Air Force is going to go to war, it's going to strike, it's going to take back the sky.

In a battle with the Japanese army, the disadvantage of the Huaxia Air Force's lack of strength and slow delay was clearly exposed. What is especially a headache for the officers and men of the Air Force is that those imported classic planes in their hands are more difficult to wait for than anything else. Not to mention war injuries, sometimes they are minor, and the damage caused by just a few parts can send the entire plane to the hangar like scrap. What's the solution? Some aircraft spare parts are in the hands of other countries, and if they don't give them, you can only stare if you have money. Some are even worse, the aircraft has long been eliminated, where to find spare parts? Dry breath holding.

However, at that time, most countries in the world were reluctant to sell planes to Huaxia, and even the price that they were willing to sell had risen to the sky, not to mention that far water could not quench their thirst.

What made the chairman even more troublesome was that this kind of military shadow in turn infected politics. Wang Jīngwei, Dai Jitao, and a group of leaders and factions had already watched his excitement from the sidelines. In recent days, the situation has been getting worse and worse, but this group of people has frequently met and rallied, and their actions are secretive. He knew it had something to do with him. At this time, if he can't play one or two trump cards, how can he shock this group of people and convince the people's expectations. Anxious and stuck, he had to keep a thick face and reach out for help.

In this context, the chairman of the committee, who was helpless, had no choice but to write this letter with an old face and asked Yang Yongtai to transfer Jiāo to Jiang Baili, hoping that Jiang Baili could use his influence to persuade Su Tong to sell some fighters to him at a reasonable price.

Even Chairman Jiang didn't expect that he came to Chahar to buy something with the mentality of buying sesame seeds, but he bought a watermelon.

Chahar not only agreed to sell the plane to the Nanjing government, but also sold the German Messerschmitt ME-109 fighter jet, which belongs to the most advanced sequence in the world.

In addition, there is another kind of aircraft that no one has thought of, that is, Japan's Type 97 heavy bomber, which is a new type of bomber that the Japanese Army has just put into service this year. With a bomb load of 1,000 kilograms and a range of 2,500 kilometers, it is definitely one of the most advanced bombers in the world at present.

The purpose of selling this plane to Nanjing Zheng fǔ was also that Su Tong wanted to disgust and disgust Japan, add some blockage to them, and by the way, they ordered Niu Ben to stay in the moon base and urgently made a batch of them to Nanjing Zhengfǔ.

So, in the case that both parties are very happy, both parties have jiāo money in one hand and jiāo goods in the other. Chahar signed an agreement with Nanking on August 20 to sell them eighty ME-109 fighters and thirty-five Type 97 heavy bombers.

At this time, when the first echelon of the Japanese army's 3rd Division landed near Zhanghuabang, it was stubbornly resisted by the Zhangzhi Central Police Corps. After the main force of the 3rd Division landed, the police corps was not supported and withdrew to the west bank of the Nansitang River to defend it. Zhang Zhizhong organized reinforcements from the 87th and 36th Divisions to thwart the Japanese attack, and the two sides confronted each other across the river on the 25th. The first echelon of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army landed at Chuanshakou and Shidòngkou on the 23rd, and because the troops of the 15th Group Army did not arrive at the designated position, the Japanese army immediately captured the Shishilin Fort, Yuepu and Luodian, and then attacked Liuhe and Baoshan respectively. In the afternoon, Chen Cheng's troops arrived one after another, and the 18th Army coordinated with the 54th Army to carry out a counterattack, recovering Luodian that night, and Baoshan, Lion Forest and Yuepu the next day. On the 25th, the two sides formed a confrontation at the line from Lion Forest, Yuepu, Xinzhen, and Luodian to Liuhekou.

The official residence of the leader of Nanjing

The chairman of the committee, who got up early this morning, was in a very good mood, and the letter had a very good effect, just after all the 115 planes promised by Chahar yesterday had already arrived. Air Force Commander Zhou Zhirou reported that after the pilot's test flight, it was proved that the planes were very good.

However, although Chahar sold the plane to the central government, he also made a request, and they asked to send a force to Shanghai to participate in the war. Chairman Shen Yin also agreed, now is the time to use soldiers, one more troops will have more strength! However, the chairman of the committee also put forward a request, that is, no more than 30,000 troops, which is also to prevent Chahar from taking the opportunity to control the pass. Unexpectedly, Su Tong also readily agreed.

Not only that, Su Tong also promised to send a flying regiment out to help in the war, and defend the sky of southern China with the air force of the Nanjing government.

Although Su Tong did some things that seemed 'stupid' to some people, Su Tong himself didn't think that the anti-Japanese country was doing stupid things. Su Tong sent out the 102nd Infantry Division, which is recognized as one of the most combat-effective infantry divisions in Chahar, and has always been the fist force in Su Tong's hands. The division commander Hu Lian has the title of 'cunning as a fox and fierce as a tiger'!

In addition, Su Tong also assigned the Fourth Artillery Division to Hu Lian, anyway, Su Tong hoped to use these advanced weapons and artillery fire to cause more trouble and blows to the Japanese army.

At the beginning of September, a flying regiment sent by Chahar began to officially enter the Shanghai airport, and Hu Lian led the 102nd Infantry Division to Shanghai by train, and they vowed to let the Japanese devils taste their power!

The Great War is about to begin