"Your Excellency, please mourn! Ji Jiajun fought for the Great Empire, died for the great mobilization and common prosperity, and was loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, although he died a glorious death! His heroic soul will forever protect my Imperial Army! The riverside on the side was silent for a while, then looked up and said.

Hata Junroku nodded silently and said with a sigh: "Hebian-kun, at the moment, the Ninth Division has no leader, who do you think is suitable for the position of the commander of the Ninth Division?" ”

Kawabe Shozo thought for a while and said: "General, the position of the commander of the Ninth Division needs to be appointed by the base camp, and before the appointment of the base camp is not down, it is recommended that Major General Yoshiyoshi Akiyama, the commander of the Sixth Brigade, temporarily take the position of division commander!" ”

"Well, that's it, Hebian-kun, and report the news of Ji Jiajun and the 7th Infantry Wing's jade shattering martyrdom to the base camp!" Shunroku Hata nodded and waved his hand.

"Hay!" Riverside Shozo bowed his head sharply in response, turned around and walked out.

………………………………………… Wuhan Leader Xingyuan.

After returning from the conference room of the Central Military Commission, Chairman Chiang first accompanied his wife to dinner, and then went straight into his study, where Chairman Chiang would work every day, and when he was busy, he might stay until late at night.

Chairman Jiang had just sat down and took a document in his hand, when footsteps suddenly sounded in the corridor outside the study, he looked up, and saw that Wang Shihe, the chief of the guard, had already walked in in a hurry, and came to Chairman Jiang. ”

"Oh?" Chairman Jiang was slightly surprised and asked, "Qiao Anbang?" What's the matter? ”

Wang Shihe respectfully handed the telegram in his hand to Chairman Jiang, who took the telegram with questions, opened it, and his face gradually became solemn.

After a long time, Chairman Jiang sighed deeply and said: "That's it, call Qiao Anbang back and grant his request, but ask him to win the battle of Xuzhou and annihilate the main force of the North China Front, otherwise military law will be engaged!" After all, the great enemy is currently the present, and they still need to join forces against the enemy in order to win this battle, as long as the Tiger Ben Army and the 11th Group Army are combined, then they will have the opportunity to provoke and use them in the future, and the Gui family and Qiao Anbang will never be without trouble.

"Yes!" Wang Shihe bowed his head in response, and then turned around and walked outside.

"Hey, Shihe wait!" Chairman Jiang suddenly remembered something and raised his hand to stop Wang Shihe.

Wang Shihe stopped and turned around when he heard the sound, and asked, "Commission, what else do you command?" ”

"You go and inform Dai Li, last time I explained what he did, let him suspend his action, and wait for the battle of Xuzhou to end before making a decision!" Chairman Jiang said.

"Yes, I will do it immediately."

………………………… Huaiyin County, Headquarters of the 11th Group Army.

Qiao Anbang and Li Pinxian and others sat separately, Wei Yunsong and others sat under the two of them, and everyone was waiting for Chairman Jiang's reply, after all, Li Pinxian's stay can only be counted if Chairman Jiang nods.

In the silent waiting, a guard brought by Qiao Anbang walked in with a telegram in his hand, Yali hurriedly got up and took the telegram, and then walked to Qiao Anbang and stood up and saluted: "The general seat, the commission called back, agreeing that Li Pinxian should remain as the deputy commander-in-chief of the 11th Group Army, and at the same time, the commission also asked us to win the battle of Xuzhou, and we must completely annihilate the main force of the North China Front Army to win the opportunity for the big counteroffensive!" ”

"Hmm!" Qiao Anbang nodded, and then said to Li Pinxian next to him: "Brother Heling, from today onwards, we will work together to fight together!" ”

"It's an honor to do my best, and Heling will do my best to help!" Li Pinxian was excited in his heart and stood up and saluted.

"Okay, time is pressing, I'll make a long story short, now that the war situation in Xuzhou is in full swing, I intend to postpone the reorganization of the troops and many other matters, and invite several generals to lead the soldiers of their headquarters to go north to Xuzhou with me to participate in the battle of encircling and annihilating the main force of the North China Army, I don't know what you think?" Qiao Anbang also stood up and looked around at everyone.

"This ......" Wei Yunsong, Zhang Yichun and others looked at each other with embarrassed faces.

Qiao Anbang saw that everyone had a difficult look on their faces, and immediately asked puzzledly, "What's wrong with you?" Now the national crisis is at the head, the nation is in danger, our Chinese nation is not divided into north and south, people are not divided into men, women and children, the whole country, go to the national disaster together, everyone here is a descendant of Yan and Huang, a Chinese [***] person, shouldering the historical mission of protecting the family and defending the country and expelling the Tartars, how can they be cowardly and afraid of death? ”

Li Pinxian saw Qiao Anbang's misunderstanding, and hurriedly explained: "You don't know, in the previous battle of Xuzhou, all units of our 11th Group Army suffered heavy losses, and the guns and ammunition were even more seriously insufficient. After saying the last sentence, Li Pinxian's face could not hide his shame.

"After losing the battle, it's just that we can't get supplements, the chairman of the committee didn't even pay us the slightest military salary, and the troops now even borrow food from the squires of the Huaiyin people, lack of guns and ammunition, what do you let your brothers take to fight?" Zhang Yichun complained with a big grin.

"I see!" Qiao Anbang was relieved when he heard this, the 11th Group Army was nominally subordinate to the central government, but in fact it was a Gui army, and it was defeated, and the previous situation was critical, and northern Jiangsu had almost become a Jedi, and it was normal to not get food.

After pondering for a while, Qiao Anbang raised his head and said solemnly: "In this way, from now on, the salaries of all the officers and men of the 31st Army and the 48th Army will be paid as usual, and in terms of weapons and equipment, I will replace all of you with German-style equipment equipped by the divisions of my Huben Army." ”

As soon as Qiao Anbang's words came out, Li Pinxian, Zhang Yichun and others were suddenly shocked, and Li Pinxian asked uncertainly: "Boss, is this true?" ”

"Of course, Qiao always counts when he speaks." Qiao Anbang said calmly: "Military salaries and equipment must be transported from my base area, you first lead the troops to the front line, and when you arrive in Xuzhou, you will change clothes and receive military salaries!" ”

After speaking, Qiao Anbang suddenly thought: "Oh, by the way, from today onwards, the monthly ringing of soldiers will be distributed according to the standard of each division of our department, and each person will have six oceans per month. ”

"Yes!" Li Pinxian, Wei Yunsong, Zhang Yichun and others were overjoyed and stood up at the same time, they had already heard of the treatment of the Tiger Army, and what excited them the most was the excellent weapons and equipment of the Tiger Army, with these equipment, the combat effectiveness of the troops could be improved instantly.

"Alright, let's go and prepare, I'll be the first to go!" Qiao Anbang waved his hand, and then got up and walked outside, Yali and Liang Jiahan hurriedly turned around and followed.

Li Pinxian and others also got up to send each other off, and sent Qiao Anbang outside the headquarters, and saw Qiao Anbang and the other three get into the jeep, Li Pinxian said: "The head seat goes first, and we will set off later!" ”

Qiao Anbang nodded, and immediately motioned for the driver to drive, and the jeep started violently, driving forward like an arrow from a string, and more than a dozen guards with loaded guns and ammunition hurriedly ran to accompany him.

……………………………… Guanqiao Town, Headquarters of the Fifth Division.

Seishiro Itatsuro was furious, and not long ago, he received two big pieces of bad news almost at the same time.

The first is the retreat of the Central China Front on all fronts, which directly leads to a doubling of the pressure on the trapped 5th and 10th divisions.

The second news made Ita Heng Seishiro almost vomit blood, in order to protect the large occupied area north of the Yellow River, Terauchi Shouichi actually asked several of their divisions to postpone the breakthrough and stick to the place, so as to contain the main force of the [***] team and win time for the Kwantung Army to move south.

When Itachi Seishiro received this order from Terauchi Shouichi, he angrily greeted almost all the family members of Terauchi Shouichi, in his opinion, Terauchi Shouichi did this as if he was pushing several of their divisions to a dead end.

"Your Excellency, please calm your anger." Chief of Staff Sakurada Takeshi, who had been standing beside Itatsune Seishiro, saw that his anger had stopped for a while, and he lost no time in persuading.

"Humph!" Ban Heng Seishiro snorted coldly and said: "Sakurada-kun, you don't know, this decision of the commander of the temple will be a disaster for us, now that the Central China Front of the Imperial Army has retreated on all fronts, Qiao Anbang can already transfer his troops deployed on the southern front to reinforce the Xuzhou battlefield, if we don't break through as soon as possible, when the reinforcements of the Tiger Ben Army arrive, it will be difficult to break through again." ”

"Why don't we send a telegram directly to the base camp to explain the current battlefield situation and the situation between us and the enemy?" Takeshi Sakurada: "Hey, I'm afraid the base camp won't be able to listen to our advice now. Itachi Seishiro said with a gloomy expression.

"So what are we going to do?" Sakurada Takeshi said with a worried face: "Are you just sitting still?" ”

Itachi Seishiro pondered for a moment, and said in a thoughtful voice: "The only way to do this is to give it a try." ”

…………………………………… Taihe City, Huben Military Guanji Arsenal.

After receiving Qiao Anbang's order, the thousands of mechanics who had just returned to the arsenal began to load the weapons and ammunition that had been hoarded in the arsenal warehouse.

At the same time, Qiao Anbang also ordered Wang Baoshan to send a part of his troops to escort this batch of weapons and equipment along the way to ensure a smooth arrival at the front line.

In addition, the mechanics of the former Yongsan Arsenal, with the help of the common people, also began to transport various production equipment back to the Yongsan Arsenal.

In addition to the actions of the Tiger Army, nearly one million people who had been evacuated to Taihe and Jieshou and Huainan also began to return to their hometowns in large numbers.

For a time, a large-scale wave of homecomings emerged in the base area of the Tiger Ben Army, and tens of thousands of people dragged the old and young along the highway to return home.

Just in case, Wang Baoshan, who stayed in Yingzhou, sent all the militia units in the Yingzhou area out to guide the people, crack down on the ruffians who took advantage of the opportunity to steal and rob, maintain public order, and protect the safe return of the people along the way.

On a dirt road leading to Pheasant and Ji, thousands of people were slowly walking along the road, and a sturdy man in his thirties in the crowd looked at a group of accompanying militiamen not far away, this person was Zhang Dequan, a military commander agent who had infiltrated Pheasant Heji on Dai Li's orders to assassinate Qiao Anbang.

It's just that Zhang Dequan is very lucky, a month ago, when he finally sneaked into Pheasant and Ji, it happened that the Tiger Ben Army evacuated the people on a large scale, and the entire Pheasant and Ji and hundreds of thousands of people around it were all evacuated overnight, and he was also forced to retreat west with the flow of evacuees.

(To be continued)