Feng Zhi'an in Beiping City asked He Jifeng to resist resolutely, and at the same time, the telegram had been transferred to the military headquarters in Baoding, and the military headquarters at this time was also busy, and Song Zheyuan had a gloomy face and did not speak.

Zhang Yueting came to salute and said, "Military seat, the Japanese army has moved, what should we do?" ”

Song Zheyuan slapped the table and said, "What should I do?" Beat, give me a hard beating, this Beiping is ours, and no one can take it away. ”

Song Zheyuan lost his temper and slowly sat down and said, "But you can't fight dry, send electricity, electrify the whole country, just write - the Japanese army attacked Wanping City at night, Lugou Bridge was full of blood, Wanping is in danger, Beiping is in danger." Then he sent a telegram to Chairman Chiang, asking for money, guns, and artillery. But don't send reinforcements. -- Also, let Mayor Qin negotiate peace with the Japanese army, if it can be resolved through peace talks, then it is better to not shed blood. ”

-- Lushan

Jiang intermediary was woken up by a hurried knock on the door, and said angrily, "Niang Xipi, why are you in such a hurry?" Hurry to be reincarnated. ”

Song Meiling feigned anger and pushed Jiang Agent.

Jiang Intermediary calmed down and said, "Come in and say, what's the matter?" ”

Dai Li hurriedly took a telegram and said, "Headmaster, something happened in Beiping, and the Japanese army attacked Wanping City. ”

Jiang Intermediary sat up and said hurriedly: "Is the situation true?" ”

Dai Li nodded and said, "Since Jiang Cheng sent a telegram saying that there would be an accident in Beiping soon, I have sent additional people to the direction of Beiping, which is the news from the Blue Coat Society in Wanping City. ”

Jiang Intermediary snatched the telegram, glanced at it, closed his eyes and shook it hatefully, "It's too fast, it's too fast." ”

Song Meiling worriedly held Jiang Agent, and Jiang Intermediary patted Song Meiling's hand and said that she was fine.

Before Jiang could speak, Chen Bui walked in again and said, "Commission, the emergency and power of the 29th Army." ”

Jiang Zhong took a look at it, trembled angrily and said, "Warlord style, warlord style, what does Song Zheyuan mean?" asked for money, guns, and artillery, but thought that the Wanping incident could be solved by the 29th Army on its own, and did not need the support of the Central Army. ”

Chen Bui sighed: "It seems that the 29th Army is afraid that our Central Army will annex in the name of resisting Japan." What are we going to do? ”

Jiang Zheng shook his head and patted him, "Alas, these warlords, when are they?" But we don't care, can we? The final bottom line we set back then was Beiping, what else could we do? Can you still give up Beiping? Am I even more incompetent than the Second Emperor Huiqin back then? Record Commands! ”

Chen Bui nodded excitedly and took out a pen and paper.

Jiang Zhong thought for a while and said, "Order the 29th Army, Wanping City should be held and not retreated, and all must be mobilized in case the situation expands, and then send a twelve-word secret telegram: do not yield, do not expand, do not seek war, and will resist." After speaking, he said, "The 29th Army doesn't trust us now, show this information to Feng Yuxiang, he knows what to do." And now we don't know what the purpose of the Japanese is, so we ordered General Falkenhausen to assemble all the German armourers to prepare for war, send electricity to Germany, let the Germans ship the ordnance as soon as possible, and send other power to the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union to seek international help. In addition, we must make an appointment with the Japanese ambassador as soon as possible, and we must first find out what the Japanese want to do. ”

-- Yan'an

Mr. Zhu, Chairman Mao, and Zhou Guansheng sat outside the confidential room together, and the staff passing by were guessing what was going on, and they actually asked all three of them to wait for news here.

Ren Bishi and others, who heard the news, inquired about each other, but they didn't know what was going on, and asked Chairman Mao and others. The three of them didn't say anything, they just said that news would come soon.

It was, a telegram was translated, and one of the fighters said in a loud voice, "Report, the 29th Army is telegraphed." ”

Chairman Mao snatched it, swept his eyes, nodded, turned around and said to the people outside the house, "The Japanese army has attacked Wanping City, the 29th Army is electrified, Wanping is in danger, and Beiping is in danger." Come in and have a meeting! ”

At the meeting, everyone unanimously agreed to negotiate the united front issue with the White Party in the shortest possible time, and sent a telegram to support the 29th Army.

After the meeting, Chairman Mao said to Mr. Zhu: "Sure enough, it has begun, this war will be an extremely difficult war." ”

Mr. Zhu looked at the rising sun and said, "It will also be the new life of our nation." ”

At this time, Zhou Guansheng, who had finished sorting out the minutes of the meeting, heard the conversation between the two and saw that there were no outsiders at this time, and said: "It is also the new life of our Red Party, and with the support of Comrade Jiang Cheng, we will definitely be able to achieve the final victory faster than history." ”

Chairman Mao nodded and said, "But everything has to wait until the Japanese invaders are driven out, and the accounts between us and the White Party will be settled when the time comes." ”

July 8, 1937

The Central Committee of the Red Party issued "The Chinese Red Party Electrified the Japanese Army's Attack on Lugou Bridge", calling for a unified national war of resistance. On the same day, the Red Party sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, saying that the officers and men of the Red Army were willing to serve the country and fight the enemy in order to achieve the goal of defending the country. It is required that this "will be the purpose of the War of Resistance against Aggression, the implementation of a national general mobilization, the defense of Pingjin, the defense of North China, and the recovery of lost territory". At the same time, the Red Army generals called Song Zheyuan and said that he would "swear to be the backing of your army."

-- The position of the Dragon King Temple

By the time Kim Jin-jung regained consciousness, he had already been carried to the bunker. Gao Xueli was by his side, Jin Zhenzhong shook his head and sobered up for a while, and asked weakly, "How is it?" How's the position? ”

Gao Xueli was also exhausted at this time, and said weakly, "Half of our eleventh company has been defeated, Captain Sun died before you fainted, and the tenth company has also been fought three times, we repelled the devil's four charges, but the machine gun has been knocked out by the devil." Battalion commander, we can't hold it anymore, the devil's artillery has suppressed us all, and our artillery can't hit Shagang at all, what should we do? ”

Kim Jin-jung asked, "What time is it?" ”

Gao Xueli said, "It's three o'clock in the afternoon. ”

At this time, a signal soldier came in and said, "Battalion commander, regiment commander's phone"

Kim Jin-jung took it, "Hey, I'm Kim Jin-jung." ”

Ji Xingwen asked, "Camp Chief Jin, I'm Ji Xingwen, how long can you last?" ”

Jin Zhenzhong replied, "Tuanza, our firepower has been defeated by the devils, and the Japanese artillery has suppressed us all." Tuanzao, can you shoot down the cannons of Shagang? ”

Ji Xingwen said: "Don't tell me that those are useless, Shagang is the commanding height, our artillery can't hit Shagang at all, find a way to fight close combat with the devils, it's really not possible, I order you to retreat to Shaguo Village west of the railway bridge, there is devil's artillery suppression during the day, the big army can't go up, we will give them a ruthless one at night." ”

After making the call, Ji Xingwen said to the signal soldiers: "Order all submachine guns, short guns, and light machine guns to be concentrated, and all of them will enter Wanping City overnight at night." ”

-- Beiping City

This is where the headquarters of the 37th Division is located, and at this time, Qin Dechun went to negotiate with the Japanese, and the deputy army commander Tong Linge and the commander of the 37th Division Feng Zhi'an presided over here.

Tong Linge looked at the map and said with a smile: "These little devils are so bold, they are only a wing of troops in Fengtai, so dare to fight my idea of Beiping?" Do they really think that our 29th Army has no one? ”

Feng Zhi'an nodded and said, "I think we can take advantage of the light enemy of the Japanese army at this time and the army has not yet been mobilized, make a time difference, and swallow this part first." ”

Tong Linge slapped the table and said, "It's done, order He Jifeng to lead the troops to Fengtai to press over, and the 111 Brigade will go out of Beiping City to Chen Guosi to stand by, once all the deployments are completed, they will attack Fengtai together and pull out this nail for me." ”

At 6 o'clock in the evening of July 8, 1937, after holding out for 13 hours, Jin Zhenzhong was ordered to evacuate the Longwangmiao position to the Shaguo Village position and the troops of Dawangmiao blocked the railway bridge because of heavy casualties. In this battle, more than 250 people were killed in the camp of Jin Zhenzhong and the security brigade, and more than 200 corpses were left behind by the Japanese army.

"Bang", the brigade commander who rushed to Fengtai in a hurry, Kawabe Shosanichi slapped Mutaguchi Ryoya in the face and scolded: "Rice bucket, after occupying the commanding heights, you actually fought like this, His Majesty the Emperor's warriors are all dragged down by your stupidity." ”

Mu Taguchi also defended, "Your Excellency Brigade Commander, this is mainly because our artillery is too small, and we can only take care of one side, but I believe that the Chinese artillery in Wanping City has been basically destroyed by our army, and our army has taken the railway bridge, as long as we take the Lugou Bridge again, Beiping will be a lonely city." ”

Hebe Zhengzo slapped him again and shouted, "Then why don't you wait for reinforcements to arrive, and fight if the enemy situation is unknown, is this your art of war?" ”

After scolding, he looked at the map and nodded, "But what you said is very right, Lugou Bridge is our battleground, I have reported to General Tashiro Wanichiro, I believe that the military headquarters will soon have news, order the troops to rest for a while, and continue to attack the Lugou Bridge position tomorrow, you go and lead the artillery team to Shagang to arrange artillery positions." ”

Late that night, Ji Xingwen led the selected 150 daredevils to enter Wanping City by night, from which you could see hundreds of Japanese troops resting on the railway bridge and the Dragon King Temple.

Ji Xingwen took a deep breath and said, "Deputy Jiang Tuan, I don't know if I live or die in this night attack, if I die in battle, you must take your brothers to defend Wanping and Lugou Bridge, and wait for Beiping's rescue." ”

Deputy Head Jiang hurriedly said, "Tuanzao, or I'll go." ”

Ji Xingwen shook his head and said, "During the big war, if I don't step forward, who dares to step forward?" So it was decided. After saying that, Ji Xingwen and more than 100 death squads, each with automatic firepower, carrying a big knife on their backs, carrying a grenade in their arms, secretly descended the city wall from the north with a rope, and ordered Jin Zhenzhong to cover up once he heard the gunshots so that he could be attacked from both sides.

The weather was a little gloomy on this day, and the death squads were all wearing black clothes, which was also a lot of ordinary people in Wanping City, otherwise it would be really difficult to find more than 100 black clothes. The death squad sneaked to the junction of the Dragon King Temple and the railway bridge, Ji Xingwen waved his hand, and everyone was divided into five groups. Three groups touched the Dragon King Temple, and he personally led two groups to the railway bridge.

A Japanese soldier who got up to relieve himself whistled and went to the grass by the bridge to urinate. was cool, suddenly found that the grass in front of him seemed to be a little wrong, he rubbed his eyes, then took a bayonet to the grass and prepared to stab, before he could do it, he was covered by a pair of black hands to cover his mouth, a dagger slashed through his throat, blood gurgled out, and he was not alive at all, the owner of the black hand smiled, and was about to continue to touch the bridge, but he didn't expect that the Japanese soldier actually pulled the martyrdom bomb on his chest before he died.

"Boom" woke up this position, but unfortunately it was too late, the death squad had already touched the position at this time, Ji Xingwen immediately shouted "hit" and picked up the submachine gun and swept at the Japanese army who were still confused. For a time, the railway bridge was full of submachine guns, machine guns, and pistols, the explosion of grenades, and the snorting of big knives entering the flesh everywhere.

Setsuro Shimizu stationed at the railway bridge hurriedly organized the troops to counterattack, at this time Gao Xueli, who had been waiting on the other side for a long time, rushed up with the troops, and a charge rushed onto the railway bridge, Setsuro Shimizu looked at the figure of Chinese soldiers on the bridge, his troops had completely lost control, and he grabbed a Type 92 heavy machine gun in a hurry, and desperately swept the three battalions of troops who rushed to kill the bridgehead, at this time the bridgehead was already hand-to-hand combat, the Chinese and Japanese armies were mixed together, and Shimizu Setsuro no longer cared, regardless of the shooting of friends and foes, The bridge was not wide in the first place, and this time the soldiers of the third battalion were suppressed to death.

Setsuro Shimizu shouted, "Don't mess around, the third squad and the second squad will attack the troops in the rear, and the others will block the front." ”

Before the words fell, several grenades hit him, and after a few explosions, this important promoter of the 77 Incident was already covered in darkness, and blood seeped out from time to time. He stared at the Yongding River under the railway bridge, as if he saw the scene of himself being received by the emperor on a tall horse, and as if he saw the tragic situation of the whole of Japan being plunged into a sea of fire because of himself, and went to see him without leaving a word.

Jin Zhenzhong could only command in the rear at this time due to serious injuries, and when he saw that the Japanese machine gun point was dumb all of a sudden, he smiled and patted the soldier holding the grenadier next to him and said, "Good job, just like that." ”

Mu Taguchi Lianya, who was in Shagang, also pinched the binoculars and his hands turned blue, and he said tremblingly, "Shelling, shelling the railway bridge!" ”

The artillery captain on the side hurriedly said, "No, once the railway bridge is destroyed, we will have no effect even if we lay it." And the railway bridge is so narrow, it's hard for us to hit it. ”

Mutaguchi said angrily, "Then use infantry artillery, use light mortars, and order the troops of the Dragon King Temple—"

Before he finished speaking, there was a loud bang from the Dragon King Temple. It turned out that the death squad had already blown up the temporary ammunition depot of the defenders of the Dragon King Temple at this time.

Ji Xingwen heard this voice and understood what it meant. Excitedly said, "Hurry up and solve the battle, everyone will follow me to recapture the Dragon King Temple!" ”

The Dragon King Temple has been beaten by the death squad at this time, because the Dragon King Temple has been garrisoned by China for a long time, especially the Ji Xingwen Tuan is more familiar with this place, and the defenders of the Dragon King Temple are not as good as the railway bridge, so they were beaten everywhere for a while. Ichiki Kiyoshi, who was stationed here, resisted for a while and waited for the ammunition depot to be bombed, and was afraid that it was the 29th Army that was counterattacking with all its might, and found that the gunfire of the 38 big cover and the sound of the 92 heavy machine gun in the direction of the railway bridge slowly disappeared, and the frightened Ichiki Kiyoshi finally gave the order to retreat, and in this way, the Longwang Temple, which had just been in his hands for less than ten hours, was recaptured by the 29th Army.

By daybreak, the battle was over, the railway bridge and the Longwang Temple were back in the hands of the Chinese army, and the 2nd Squadron of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Wing of the Chinese Garrison Army, which provoked the battle, was completely annihilated. The headquarters of the 3rd Brigade was heavily damaged.

Mu Tianguchi Lian of Shagang also bombed the position of the Dragon King Temple like crazy, but at this time, the order came from Shozo Riverside, and the whole army stopped attacking. It turned out that the 110th Brigade and the 109th Brigade had already cut off the Japanese army in Fengtai, and if there was another battle at this time, the First Wing was very likely to be wiped out. Hebe Shozo hurriedly sent a telegram to the Tianjin Garrison Army Headquarters to request tactical guidance.

The commander of the garrison army in Tianjin, Tashiro Wanichiro, was already seriously ill at this time, and he already had a serious heart attack. When he saw the telegram that the 8th Squadron was completely annihilated, the 3rd Brigade was severely damaged by the night attack, and the 1st Wing was cut off and the whole army was surrounded, he vomited blood on the spot. Xiangyue next to him hurriedly said, "Your Excellency Commander, are you okay?" Take care of yourself."

Tashiro Wanichiro said angrily, "Rice buckets, they are all rice buckets, the samurai of the empire have been ruined by them, Kazuki-kun, I can't command the battle in my current state, send this matter to the country, remember to send a report that I suggest that you take over from me to continue commanding." At the same time, he sent a report to Matsui, the negotiations must continue, and they cannot be stopped, Song Zheyuan and I know this person, as long as we are still negotiating to give him a glimmer of hope, Song Zheyuan will not dare to fight Fengtai. ”