Zhao Dengyu and Zheng Dazhang were both people who knew Li Qian's information, and they didn't say anything, but after learning that Langfang was really attacked, they all jumped up and down in a hurry, just waiting for Song Zheyuan's order.

I have to say here that many people don't understand why many times during the Republic of China period, the enemy army has already hit the doorstep, and the army still does not dare to fight back.

This is the warlord style that has traversed China for thousands of years.

The most obvious and familiar saying of the warlord's style is "I am a soldier of so-and-so, and I don't listen to it except for so-and-so, the king of heaven, and Lao Tzu." ”

This is not rough, the army between the warlords is clearly divided, your soldiers are your soldiers, my soldiers are my soldiers, even if you are a division commander, don't want to command my squad leader to do anything.

At this time, the highest military rank in Nanyuan is naturally the deputy commander Tong Linge, but Tong Linge is a scholar and has been training in the 29th Army, but he has not fought in seven or eight years, and he has no descendants of his own troops, and only the special brigade and training corps listen to his orders, Zheng Dazhang led the cavalry division, which has no role at all in the upcoming defensive battle, but the most important infantry unit Zhao Dengyu is not in Nanyuan. This made Tong Linge unable to command the infantry troops at all, how could he defend without the infantry troops?

Therefore, Tong Linge urgently needs Zhao Dengyu to lead the army to rescue Nanyuan. Before Tong Linge came, Tong Linge ordered all the student soldiers to leave Nanyuan immediately and move towards Baoding according to the initial agreement.

He also ordered the special brigade to deploy the front of Nanyuan, with two regiments of the 38th Division to the west and one regiment of the 9th Cavalry Division to the southwest.

Because Song Zheyuan's reaction was one day faster than in history, the Japanese army had not yet broken through Tongzhou at this time, and the original bloody battle of Tuanhe in history did not break out, and Zhao Dengyu led the main force of the two regiments to Nanyuan smoothly.

Zhao Dengyu, who was tired all the way, entered the office, took Tong Linge's water cup, and poured it up. Exhaled and said, "I'm tired of my old Zhao Dengyu, and I finally arrived, what's the situation now?" ”

Tong Linge handed over a telegram and sighed: "The news just came, Tongxian has been lost. Tuanhe is under siege. ”

It turned out that Pan immediately notified the Japanese army as soon as he got the information, and the Japanese army immediately attacked Tongxian in a hurry. Tongxian was only the strength of one battalion, and it only lasted three hours before breaking through.

At this time, the Japanese army had surrounded Beiping on three sides, and only the south still retained the passage due to the desperate resistance of Ji Xingwen. The Japanese army had two options for attacking, one was to attack Nanyuan and then Beiping, and the other was to attack Lugou Bridge by detour. Wanping City, after completing the entire encirclement, attack Beiping City.

At this time, the main forces of the Japanese army were the 20th Division, two brigades of the Kwantung Army and the former North China Garrison Army.

Among them, the North China Garrison Army is in Fengtai and the other is east of Nanyuan, the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade of the Kwantung Army is in Tianjin, and the 1st and 11th Independent Mixed Brigades of the Kwantung Army are in the Goryeo Battalion north of Beiping. Xiangyue thought that as long as Nanyuan was broken, the main force of the 29th Army would be eliminated. Wanping City will go down without a fight, and the Lugou Bridge will no longer be a problem.

He ordered the main force of the 20th Division and the North China garrison army to jointly attack Nanyuan, with a total of more than 10,000 infantry, hundreds of combat vehicles, hundreds of artillery, and dozens of planes attacking Nanyuan.

Zhao Dengyu immediately ordered urgent preparations, one of Zheng Dazhang's cavalry regiments spread out to visit the information, and the others all rushed to dig the fortifications, knowing that at this time, Nanyuan only had a three-meter-high earthen wall as the only defense.

He also sent a report to Song Zheyuan, requesting that anti-aircraft artillery and heavy artillery from Beiping be dispatched for support, and that the soldiers cut down trees and clear the fields. In order to empty the firing space.

Just decided, Zhao Dengyu suddenly had a wit in his heart, if the spies around Commander Song could really get the latest military layout at any time, would he immediately lie on Xiangyue's desk with this arrangement?

Zhao Dengyu was originally a hero. He took a serious look at it and decided to take a risk, and viciously gave the latest order. smiled at Zheng Dazhang next to him, "If Qian girl deceives us, we will be miserable." ”

Zheng Dazhang rubbed his saber and said, "It's just a death, but if the Japanese army really knows our deployment at any time." If we do this, we can pit the Japanese army hard. ”

At this time, the Japanese army had already received the news that Zhao Dengyu had brought two main regiments to Nanyuan, although the ambush failed, but Nanyuan could really block the iron hooves of the Japanese army?

Zhao Dengyu has been stationed in Baoding for a long time, in fact, he doesn't know much about the geography of Nanyuan, but because of the habits of warlords, Tong Linge didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Zhao Dengyu's command.

Zhao Dengyu and Tong Linge patrolled all the way, and suddenly saw a group of soldiers who were obviously rusty with their movements digging trenches and training shooting movements.

Tong Linge jumped up in anger and shouted, "Who is it?" Who made you disobey? Didn't you go to Baoding and stand by immediately? When has this been, and why are you still here? ”

These people are actually the student training group that should have left a long time ago.

The head of the training regiment, a student from Yenching University, said, "We also have to go into battle to kill the enemy, and now is the moment of decisive battle. We've all decided, we'd rather be dead ghosts! Don't be a slave to the country! ”

The staff officer in charge of this place whispered, "These students don't listen to what they say, and they are all rushing to be death squads, and they are about to fight, I see-"

Before the words were finished, Zhao Dengyu directly whipped the past, Zhao Dengyu was the most rigorous in managing the army, and he once severely punished his nephew for being late, where could he endure in the face of such a disobedience to military orders.

Zhao Dengyu shouted to the student soldiers, "You can't even shoot guns, what are you doing here?" Waiting to die? Get out of here! A bunch of guys who waste bullets. ”

The students who said this were all unconvinced and quarreled.

Zhao Dengyu was not polite, and said directly to Tianyi, "Soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, either you choose to disobey military orders and be shot, or obey orders." I order, you should return to Beiping City immediately, travel lightly and go to Baoding to stand by!! ”

These student soldiers looked at each other, and a few of them simply sat on the ground and cried, saying "Why don't you let me go to the battlefield, you warlords, why don't you let me fight the Japanese devils." ”

Zhao Dengyu couldn't smile bitterly, and said to Zheng Dazhang, "Trouble brother send a cavalry to take these people away, fortunately, we found out early, and when the war really starts, just these people." It's nice not to add to the mess. ”

At this time, the Chinese army still looked down on scholars, on the one hand, because most of the Chinese students in the Republic of China period studied liberal arts and could speak well, but they were not good at practical things, which made the army think that students should do literary work, and the things of war still had to rely on their own rough talents.

As for later, the army found that the students were smart and flexible, and often led the troops to win surprises, and attaching importance to the student soldiers was already a matter of the future.

Song Zheyuan received the news and agreed with this matter. He didn't want these officers of the 29th Army to die on the battlefield in vain, and now that Zhao Dengyu was the villain, he immediately ordered these student soldiers to leave Beiping, and go south to Baoding while the battle had not yet started.

When the student soldiers arrived in Beiping, they found that the city of Beiping was already full of refugees, and the soldiers of the escort team escorted these seeds and embarked on a long journey south.

On the other hand, Li Qian and the others looked at things exactly as the owner said, and they admired Jiang Cheng. Li Qian asked Wang Yong, "The owner has given us three tasks, what should we do now?" ”

Wang Yong only knows how to fight and kill, and it would be difficult for you to make a judgment if you want him to make a judgment, he thought for a while and said, "Why don't we divide our soldiers into three ways?" ”

Li Qian shook her head and said, "No." We are understaffed, so we have to prioritize them. Li Qian thought for a while and said, "There is a saying in martial arts that attacking it must be saved, and the owner asked us to find an opportunity to delay the Japanese army's attack, I think this can be completed by using the third task to sneak attack the Japanese army's ammunition depot." And the second task of blowing up the military factory and the additional mission of sneaking up the Japanese bank I think is less difficult. After all, the military factory is in the hands of the 29th Army at this time, and the bank will not be too strong in defense, so I don't think so. I'm from Tianjin, I'm going to hit the bank, after all, I'm more familiar with the city of Tianjin, you take someone to the bomb depot first, the factory is in the port, and there are also some troops of the 29th Army, so we'll bomb it last!! ”

Wang Yong touched his head and said, "You have the final say, the owner said, your brain is better than mine." ”

Li Qian blushed slightly and said, "Virtue~~"

September 27, 1937

Song Zheyuan, who was restless in the city of Beiping, finally waited for the Japanese ultimatum to let the 29th Army withdraw from the Beiping area by the 28th.

Only then did Song Zheyuan realize that the Japanese had been playing with themselves all along. Immediately ordered the troops of the 37th Division around Fengtai to start attacking the Japanese army in Fengtai, and at the same time sent a telegram to warn Zhao Dengyu of Nanyuan and once again issued a telegram to all walks of life in the country to defend themselves and defend the territory. Beiping was surrounded, and fierce battles broke out in the suburbs. And reinforcements are needed, but this time is no longer too late.

Although at this time, the White Party had 5 divisions concentrated on the Cangzhou (Zhou) Bao (Ding) line, using this as a cover concentration area; Another five divisions are being transferred to the Dezhou and Shi (Jiazhuang) lines, but it will take at least four or five days for these troops to rush to the Pingjin line and join the battle.

Jiang sent a telegram to Song Zheyuan and ordered, "First of all, we should stick to the cities of Beiping, Baoding, and Wanping." Don't let it slip through. Baoding defense should have a certain force responsible for holding it."

At the same time, Chiang ordered that the whole country enter the war mechanism, and all factories in East China were ready to be demolished.

At this time, Japan was still relatively reserved for the war of aggression against China, and with the approval of the emperor, the battle line was generally limited to the north of the Baoding and Duliuzhen lines; The operation in Shandong, considering Han Fuyu's attitude, was initially reserved. However, Japan's Admiral Shimo-Ke told the world how chaotic and disorderly the Japanese military circles were.

At this time, where does Nanyuan still need Song Zheyuan's reminder, it is already a mess.

After a day of emergency fortifications, Nanyuan finally had a bit of a defensive position, Zheng Dazhang's cavalry division also exchanged hands with the Japanese cavalry scouts, and in just one night, the 9th Cavalry Division fought out hundreds of cavalry in the scout battle, and Zheng Dazhang's distressed teeth rattled.

Zhao Dengyu and Tong Linge were studying the military map when they suddenly heard the sound of a motor. The two looked at each other, and when they went out, they saw that a plane was constantly hovering in the sky, Zhao Dengyu snorted and said, "It's the devil's reconnaissance plane, how long do you say the devil has come." ”

Tong Linge said with a stern face: "An hour at most." ”

Zhao Dengyu nodded and said, "Is it really okay for us to do this?" Will the devils really get our deployment? ”

Tong Linge sighed: "The intelligence shows that there are hundreds of chariots of the Japanese army that came this time, and we can only have a chance of winning if we believe in Qian's words." It's just that we don't know who this inner ghost is, otherwise we can take targeted actions. ”

Zhao Dengyu looked at the distant plane and said, "There are a lot of suspicious people around the military seat, maybe Qian Yatou doesn't know who it is, no matter who it is, we fight our battle well, although the preparation of the day is a bit rushed, but if the intelligence is true, we also have a chance to win." ”

Zhao Dengyu and Tong Linge walked back to the military headquarters and didn't say a word, when they suddenly heard a commotion outside, Zhao Dengyu went out unhappily and asked, "What's wrong?" An earthquake-like tremor came and knocked him down. Then there was a thunderous explosion - the Japanese army began to attack.

The commander of the Japanese army was the commander of the 20th Division, Kawagishi Fumizaburo.

At this time, the sky of Nanyuan was completely dominated by the Japanese army, and dozens of planes continued to drop bombs on the ground, which was to hit the morale of the defenders of Nanyuan.

I saw that the planes kept dropping bombs on the northeast corner of Nanyuan, which was where the cavalry division was located, mainly to frighten the cavalry division's war horses in order to further disturb Nanyuan's troops.

But what the Japanese army didn't know was that there was no one in the northeast corner at this time, and there were only about a hundred war horses deliberately exposed to the outdoors, Zheng Dazhang was hidden in a forest about a kilometer north of Nanyuan, and Deng looked at Nanyuan in the distance in a cold sweat, which fortunately believed the words of the girl, otherwise he would have to take all his belongings into it.

The bombing lasted for dozens of minutes, and the planes left one after another after the bombs were dropped, and in order to ensure that the Japanese army did not suspect it, Zhao insisted that all the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns that had arrived from Beiping were hidden in the hidden bunkers that had been dug and not a single shot was fired.

When Zhao and Tong exhaled lightly, the heavy artillery of the Japanese army began to wield its might.

Dozens of cannons kept spitting flames at Nanyuan, and the defending troops were so crushed that they didn't dare to stand up in the fortifications they were digging for.

I only saw the heavy artillery of the Japanese army bombarding in turn in the order of the barracks barracks,

Kawagishi Bunzaburo looked at Nanyuan with a telescope and nodded, "The courage of the Shina army must have been crushed by us, I order-"

At this time, a young staff officer said, "General, something is wrong. ”

Kawagishi Bunzaburo asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”

The young staff officer shook his head and said, "Look, General, the military camp in China has indeed been destroyed by us, but you see, whether it is in the military camp or in the field, we can't find many corpses, and there are not many blood stains, as if it was an empty camp. ”

Kawagishi Bunzaburo took the telescope and looked at it carefully when he heard it, frowning, indeed, according to the way he fought just now, the defenders of Nanyuan would have to suffer at least a thousand casualties, but now, no matter how it feels, there are less than 100 casualties.

Could it be that the other party had already prepared, Kawagishi Bunzaburo couldn't help but be a little puzzled, after all, Zhao suddenly led the troops to reinforce Nanyuan and surprised Kawagishi Bunzaburo, although the information arrived in time, but too much time was wasted in order to defeat the damned Tongxian defenders. (To be continued......)