In June 1932, in the northeast, in the area of Jinzhou, it is said that the occupation area is a mountainous area, the road between the two mountains, the more common terrain in the northeast mountains, there is a pillbox built by the army on the hill not far from here, and a squad of devils is stationed, condescendingly, blocking this more complicated traffic channel with heavy machine guns, the Jinzhou war has been fierce for several months, and it has always been one of the main roads of the army leading to the battlefield of Jinzhou.

In the morning light, a convoy of the army drove from a distance, and the devils in the bunker also came out, holding the 38 big cover with the plaster flag, standing up and saluting, and playing a signal flag to signal to the convoy that everything was normal, and watching this batch of heavy materials pass.

After receiving a safety briefing from the outpost troops, the army's baggage convoy started the car engine again and prepared to pass through this somewhat long valley under the open road of the patrol motorcycles at the outpost.

At this time, in the bushes not far from the highway, a group of guerrillas were lying on their stomachs, with their faces covered in ink and tree branches on their heads.

This is an excellent barrage, and compared to the terrain within a radius of 100 miles, it is very conducive to setting up ambushes. However, it is precisely for this reason that the army has also set up checkpoints at both ends of the valley and sent patrol motorcycles to monitor this traffic artery at night. The partisans had been lurking here for most of the night for this ambush.

"Hit!"

When the last truck of the convoy also entered the valley road, the leader of the guerrilla squad finally gave the order to attack.

I saw two guerrillas who had been preparing for a long time, carrying a long cylindrical object, standing up slightly, pulling the trigger, and with two groans, two shells were fired at the two trucks at the head and tail of the army.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the first and last two cars of the army were hit by rockets, producing a violent explosion sound, the rockets originally designed to hit tanks and fortifications played a terrifying role at this time, a cannon down, in the violent explosion, the army truck turned into a big fireball.

Almost at the same time, in the grass about 100 meters away from the two pillboxes of the Japanese army, a guerrilla also stood up, carrying a bazooka made in the southwest on his shoulder, pulled the trigger, and fired the rocket of revenge fiercely.

A little slower than the bazooka was the mortar group, and the four guerrillas quickly adjusted the mortars hidden in the grass, fired the two shells almost simultaneously with a relatively small shot, pulled up two parabolas, flew over a distance of more than 100 meters, and fell into the convoy of the Japanese army.

"Da Da Da ......"

Light machine guns and rifles were also fired at this time, and although the guerrillas were not numbered, only 13 men, they were very fierce, much stronger than the guerrillas encountered in other places.

The squad of the army escort suddenly sounded something, and a military officer Cao said in a lost voice: "Baga, it must be the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation." ”

…… This is just a very ordinary guerrilla warfare, and similar battles are being staged all over the Northeast, most commonly this kind of road blockade.

After occupying the northeast, at the beginning, the army bayonet guarded the road, and the highway originally built by Zhang Zuolin became only used by the army, and barbed wire was pulled up on both sides of some important road sections, not to mention allowing Chinese to pass, even if they got close, they would be killed by a bullet or a bayonet. The efficiency of this transportation channel is very high, and a considerable part of the logistics supply tasks of the Jinzhou battlefield have been completed.

The reason why the Yue army was heavily guarded was that after the Battle of Shenyang, the Yue army was attacked by some large and small attacks in the northeast. These attacks were basically launched by the old headquarters of the former Northeast Army, and they did not have time to withdraw to the Guannai, nor were they able to start a large-scale battle with the Yue Army, and under the encouragement of an officer of the Northeast Army named Qu Zhongyi, guerrilla warfare in full swing began to be staged in the northeast.

After Qu Zhongyi left Shenyang with the remnants of the special operations battalion, he quickly went into the mountains of northeast China and established a guerrilla base in a ravine called Qifengling.

In the beginning, although Qu Zhongyi's guerrillas numbered nearly 200 people, it was a problem to even eat, let alone obtain long-term supplies. At that time, Qu Zhongyi's troops retreated from Shenyang too quickly, and did not carry any materials that could be used by the special operations battalion, and there were no important things such as food and machinery and equipment.

However, until one day, Qu Zhongyi's old instructor when he was in the southwest came to the door, which shocked him and completely figured out all the problems. It was only at that moment that he received further orders for action from the instructors.

The instructor of the Special Intelligence Department, who gave him special training in the southwest of the country, not only brought him a piece of order, but also brought him a batch of weapons, ammunition, and food, in addition to a batch of small machinery and equipment, including small generators and diesel engines.

It was not until that moment that Qu Zhongyi understood how well the arrangements of his superiors were, and that he had already hidden a batch of necessary materials in the northeast to support his guerrilla warfare.

In this way, Qu Zhongyi, who was officially appointed as the commander of the second lieutenant colonel of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Front of the Southwest People's Army, stayed in this Qifengling and began to join forces with his instructor, Wen Bingyin, an all-powerful agent of the Special Intelligence Department in his eyes, to develop and strengthen the guerrilla cause in the northeast.

Under the leadership of the two men, after establishing a guerrilla base area, the special operations battalion first stepped up the training of reserve soldiers, and then tried to plant a new wheat variety suitable for the soil and geological conditions in the northeast in the Qifengling area.

Then, the special operations guerrilla force, which was officially renamed the 'Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Allied Army,' organized several operations against the Japanese in a hurry.

On one occasion, the devils in a nearby county town were diverted from the mountain by the fighters of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and the guerrillas took advantage of the situation to attack the city, opened the granary that they had looted and released grain, and not only grabbed a batch of important supplies, but also lit sky lanterns on the spot by the captain of the army squad and several Han An, who had taken refuge in him.

Soon, the deeds of the anti-Japanese coalition forces fighting guerrillas spread. Their military operations such as killing devils, punishing Han annihilation, blowing up bunkers and picking up sentry posts, and medium-distance sniping of devils were quickly imitated by anti-Japanese heroes in various places.

Due to the fact that the main force of the Northeast Army retreated to Jinzhou after the defeat in the Battle of Shenyang, many local garrisons of the Northeast Army far away from Jinzhou were weak, and soon suffered heavy casualties in the battle with the Yue Army, and many troops were scattered.

After seeing the atrocities of the Yue army in various parts of the northeast, these soldiers who returned to their hometowns regretted their actions at that time, thinking that even if they died, they should fight to kill a few of them. In many places, there was even a case of one or two or three Northeast Army soldiers hiding on the side of the road with guns and shooting themselves coldly, and there was even a company commander of the Northeast Army who was about to defile a weak woman when he was about to defile a weak woman, and finally pulled off the grenade that he had hidden with him when he returned home.

However, the struggle of the will of these stragglers and guerrillas will only cause the scattered resistance forces to be lost step by step, until the guerrillas led by Qu Zhongyi raised the banner of the Northeast People's United Resistance Army and published a 'Letter to the Fathers and Elders of the Northeast' and ' After the Northeast People's Resistance to the Coalition Army and the Xuandian, these hot-blooded men scattered in the Northeast suddenly woke up and understood that only by relying on the strength of the organization and blending these resistance forces together could they cause substantial harm to the army, instead of relying on their own courageous and unconscionable suicide attacks.

As a result, anti-guerrilla units began to spring up like mushrooms in various parts of the northeast, and once these guerrilla units were established, they would soon receive some help from outside, and the southwestern intelligence officers who were secretly lurking in various parts of the northeast gave them special guidance in their capacity as comrades of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation, and in addition to providing them with a certain amount of weapons and ammunition, they would also teach them how to conduct guerrilla warfare.

These small guerrillas recognized the leading position of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army one after another, and began to echo each other through various means of communication, staging one guerrilla war after another in the northeast.

Compared with the guerrilla warfare in the northeast that was in full swing, Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army still held the Ningjin defense line, repelled the fierce attacks of the Yue army many times, and nearly 100,000 Yue troops were firmly blocked from the strong fortifications of the Ningjin defense line.

What made the Yue army extremely angry was that although it once caused heavy casualties to the Northeast Army, and even broke through several lines of defense and reached the city of Jinzhou, it not only failed to break through Jinzhou, but was driven back to its original place by the sworn countercharge of the Northeast officers and soldiers.

When the battle was at its most intense, some nearby peasants ran to the battlefield to learn and use them, picking up the weapons of the officers and soldiers who had died in the northeast to help resist the Japanese army, not to mention the recruits who had only been training for a week or even a few days, and they were also fearless to rush to the battlefield.

What made me feel even more pressure was that as the battle in Jinzhou continued day by day, the positions of the Northeast Army became more and more complex, and the means of defensive operations such as compound defensive positions and underground tunnels appeared on the Jinzhou battlefield one by one. In a raid to break through the Jinzhou city gate, the Yue army could not enter the city for half a step, because the Northeast Army regarded every house in the city as a battlefield, and the Yue army only attacked half a street, and suffered heavy casualties.

In addition to these, southwest China in particular has made Yue himself feel angry.

They borrowed the Daxing Airport near Beiping to bomb the Yue Army, covering the retreat of the Chinese [***] team to the new defense line under the city of Beiping, and at the same time sent transport planes to the north. The new heavy machine guns and ammunition were sent to the northeast, but the heavy artillery was not directly delivered to Zhang Xueliang.

In their opinion, the Chinese have always liked infighting, and the northeast is not the southwest's sphere of influence, so why don't they sit back and watch the fight, but instead do what should have been done by Chiang Kai-shek to support Zhang Xueliang's resistance?

On June 29, 1932, the long-brewing Battle of Beijing and Tianjin between the two sides finally broke out.

Chiang Kai-shek issued the "Declaration of Cooperation on Uniting All Forces to Further Resist the Liberation" in Nanjing. Under the wave after wave of protests throughout the country, weighing the pros and cons of various parties, and finally gaining the support of Britain and France, the Nanjing Nationalist Axe finally made up its mind to concentrate military forces to start a local general battle with the Yue army.

In the declaration, Chiang Kai-shek first affirmed the heroic battles of the Kuomintang and the two armies in the southwest on the battlefield of resistance against the Japanese and the rich results they had achieved. The chairman of the NPC Standing Committee believes that the country has reached a critical point of survival, and it should have the supreme courage to fight to the death against the army.

He called on hot-blooded men to join the army enthusiastically, and hoped that overseas Chinese all over the world could support this battle for national survival as they did in the prime minister's revolution. In his speech, when asked by a reporter how he viewed the achievements of the Southwest Air Force, he said that he would further build up the air force and navy in the hope that he would be able to compete with the Chinese army in the future.

Throughout the early stage of the battle, the Nanjing National Political Axe successively mobilized four central elite divisions, including the 18th and 19th divisions (Chen Cheng's two divisions were supplemented during the war), six integrated divisions (first-class divisions), and eight second-class divisions of Song Zheyuan's and other divisions, with a total of 18 divisions and 130,000 soldiers. Even fist troops, including the ironclad chariot convoy and the air force brigade garrisoning Nanjing, were dispatched to participate in the battle.

The action in the southwest is also very large.

Under the large establishment of the 19th Route Army, a total of four divisions were incorporated, including the 3rd Division, the main force stationed in Chengdu, the 4th Division of the main force stationed in Chongqing, the 8th Division of the Garrison Division, the 12th Division of the Garrison, and more than 60,000 troops in the four divisions.

Chiang Kai-shek, who had already been beaten out of the real fire and was unwilling to lose face in front of the people of the whole country, not only acquiesced to the Daxing Airport, the front-line airport of the Southwest People's Army in Beiping, but also acquiesced to the '19th Route Army' of the Southwest Army for the sake of the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Before the final battle, the two sides had a combined army of 190,000.

The reason why so many troops were mobilized was not without reason, after the two aircraft carriers were sunk or seriously damaged, the domestic political situation was seriously shaken, and the frenzied people could not accept the fact that they were defeated by the Chinese, and they hoarsely demanded that the political axe attack to the end. Some militarists have even taken matters into their own hands in front of the palace, and the whole nation has fallen into complete madness.

The Emperor, who had been cornered by various forces, personally instructed the military department to immediately come up with a plan to organize further military operations to calm the situation. The authorized military headquarters soon dispatched two aircraft carrier task forces with countless anti-aircraft firepower to China, and at the same time, the support forces of the two divisions also arrived in Tianjin.

With five divisions and more than 110,000 troops, the strength of the Tianjin Dispatch Army has surpassed that of the regular troops of the Northeast Army, and a life-and-death battle between China and China is about to be staged under the city of Beiping.

(To be continued)