Daxing Airport, almost circular fortifications on all sides of the entire airport on all sides of the arch tightly, because the construction of the airport was built in wartime, for the defense measures have been very in place.

This is not a field airfield that can be built and thrown away, but considerable manpower and material resources have been invested to build it, and in peacetime, such a large-scale field airfield at the level of a four-runway cannot be built at all without a year.

However, now, just after the end of the war, the Southwest Army is here to confront [***], who is in an offensive position.

Four long fortifications in four directions were guarding the airfield to the death, and at the sound of an order, the officers and men of the southwest, regardless of whether they were on the opposite side [***] or the army, had already loaded their bullets, and the artillery was ready to fire at any time.

For soldiers, what cultural relics are smuggled and what criminals are harbored are not important at all, what is important is an order. Years of formalized military training have made this southwest army banned, and although the confrontation is against [***], who once fought side by side, they still did not hesitate.

The military only needs to carry out the order, and the decision-maker needs to argue about the right and wrong of the event itself, and whether it is won or lost.

The [***] troops that arrived at the periphery of Daxing Airport have changed from one division at the beginning to two divisions. The 22nd and 28th Divisions of the two first-class divisions in the [***] system were carefully confronting the defenders of the airfield while confronting the defenders of the airfield, and in addition to guarding against reinforcements from the southwest in the direction of Langfang.

The 22nd Division was responsible for encircling the airfield, and the 28th Division was on the perimeter to guard the reinforcements of the Southwestern Army.

"Chief, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

In the southwest, Zhang Shusheng's office, Zhuge Sheng, the political commissar of the Sixth Division of the main division, is recommending something to Zhang Shusheng.

Zhang Shusheng sat on the chair, silent, his fingers tapping on the tabletop, but his mind was thinking about the Daxing Airport incident.

He didn't know what Chairman Jiang thought, but he knew that if something happened at Daxing Airport, then Nanjing would definitely kill two birds with one stone.

Judging from the information we have just received, the Taiyuan North Airport, which had been giving the green light to the southwest, was stationed 20 minutes ago with a regiment from Yan Xishan to confront a company from the southwest that had stayed at the airport. However, there is not a single plane left at the North Airport, only some fuel and aircraft parts. Zhang Shusheng was unwilling to take the initiative to intensify the conflict, and ordered this company to take the initiative to evacuate after blowing up the supplies.

Chiang Kai-shek gave himself this trick, but it reminded him of the Southern Anhui Incident in the later generations, and the careless red troops were ambushed by [***] superior forces. Although this cannot be said to be Chiang Kai-shek's fault, at least it proves that Chairman Chiang Kai-shek in later generations is the one who can do this kind of thing that makes relatives and enemies happy.

First of all, after the Daxing airport transferred back a batch of planes, there were still dozens of planes, and the Kuomintang forcefully closed the north airfield, which meant that it would be impossible for these planes to fly directly back to the southwest.

According to the usual trick of the chairman of the committee in later generations, it must be to fence it off first, and then open the road through gold bars to lure Daxing Airport down. In this way, it will not only allow the southwest to suffer a big loss, but also get intact aircraft, and even ready-made pilots.

Once this batch of planes is obtained, the strength of the Kuomintang Air Force will be greatly increased, and the loss of this front-line airfield will cut off an arm of the Southwest Army on the front line of the Tianjin-Langfang-Daxing airport.

This is also the reason why the Southwest Army used a regiment of troops to garrison the Daxing airport, but [***] still took the risk of finding an excuse to surround the airport.

"Captured planes? Even if they all fly to Jinzhou, they won't be left to you. ”

Zhang Shusheng secretly thought to himself that he had no reason to give in to the Nanjing political axe and Chiang Kai-shek. This chairman may have also contributed to the war of resistance against Japan, but in the final analysis, he is still a politician.

"Chief, if we blow up these planes ourselves, then morality is completely on our side. Even if we do not launch a war against Chiang now, we will occupy the moral height in the future when the war for national reunification is carried out. ”

Zhuge Sheng said the suggestion again anxiously, the reason why he came to see Zhang Shusheng was for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. "We can blow up only a small part of the planes, and the rest can fly to the direction of Jinzhou, and we have to move quickly."

"Is that so......

Hearing Zhuge Sheng's suggestion, Zhang Shusheng couldn't help frowning slightly, perhaps, if there is a politician at this time, then he will definitely choose to blow up a few planes, the main force will escape, and the charge of inciting war will be added to the Nanjing political axe. But do you really want to do it yourself?

Judging from the report from the front, Chen Cheng himself was resolutely opposed to the implementation of the plan, and in the end, the Kuomintang Political Department called Wang Mingzhang, the commander of the 22nd Division, and forced him to lead the team. As for the 28th Division, it was an additional unit sent after the situation became serious.

Judging from the report sent back by the agents, Wang Mingzhang himself was also very opposed to the siege of Daxing Airport and the disarming of the Southwest Army.

Zhang Shusheng is not an indecisive person, if the [***] who is forced to act is the troops from other places, not just after participating in the joint anti-Japanese operation, nor in the just-concluded battlefield of Tianjin, he will not hesitate to choose to plant a hand.

However, he was unwilling to let these [***] officers and soldiers who had just survived from the guns of the Yue army, and these [***] who were still fighting with Yue himself a week ago, bear this kind of infamy through the ages, and he was even more unwilling to let Chen Cheng and Wang Mingzhang become a new generation of national sinners. They are all thanks to the nation, and if it is not the last moment, he really does not want to send them to a dead end.

There are many such examples in later generations, some heroes of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, after surviving the battlefield of the life-and-death struggle with the Yue army, had to fight against new opponents, and as a result, they were misunderstood by the people for a hundred years. This is absolutely unfair.

If Zhang Shusheng nodded and gave this order, then it is foreseeable that there will never be any official voice to justify them in the future, and for the sake of rule, they will also become negative figures to be recorded in history.

"Zhuge , as a general, your advice is very good. Unfortunately, I can't. With the same result, we can take another approach. Although it will be a lot of trouble, it can save these anti-Japanese officers and soldiers. Politics is cruel, but they are innocent. Zhang Shusheng sighed and said, once the war starts, then the [***] anti-Japanese army that has not yet left Tianjin and Beijing will definitely start a full-scale war with the Southwest Army, which is a national tragedy, perhaps that Chairman Jiang has grasped this point, thinking that he does not dare to provoke a large-scale war in Beijing and Tianjin at this time, so he dares to openly provoke.

In fact, if there is really a war, the Southwest Army, which occupies Tianjin, will not necessarily be at a disadvantage. It is said that the navy and army are shrinking on all fronts, and the Southwest Army only needs to use its navy to escort a large number of troops to land in Tianjin, and even sail the fleet into the mouth of the Yangtze River, and it is not impossible to attack Nanjing by air.

Zhuge Sheng left gloomily, but secretly said in his heart that President Zhang may never become a hero, but he may develop in another direction, that is, a great man in history. He didn't think Zhang Shusheng's answer was very pedantic, on the contrary, he was shocked, if a leader who had the opportunity to win the title of Heshan said such a thing, and could consider this step for ordinary anti-Japanese officers and soldiers, then this person would have achieved higher achievements than Xiao Xiong.

But Zhang Shusheng knows his own family affairs, others are the teachers of the past and the future, but he is the teacher of the future and not forgetting the past.

"Secretary Mao come in." has already made a decision, Zhang Shusheng called Mao Yunxian.

Immediately, the southwest sent a telegram to Chen Cheng and Wang Mingzhang in the Jinjing area in the form of a secret telegram, and the telegram was dictated by Zhang Shusheng himself.

"Commander, Southwest Secret Telegram!"

At the Kuomintang Military Headquarters in Beiping, Chen Cheng received the secret telegram handed over by his confidant staff officer.

"Commander, I happened to be at the telecommunications office when the secret message came. I translated this secret message myself, and no second person knows about it. The staff officer saluted and said.

"Well, well done." Chen Cheng patted him on the shoulder and motioned for him to go down first, and it was really his cronies who worked at the critical moment.

When he turned on the secret code, there was only one simple sentence, but it was this sentence that made Chen Cheng sigh.

I saw a simple sentence written on the slightly spread out telegraph: The southwest will never retreat in this incident, and I hope that General Chen will always put the nation first.

Almost at the same time, the telegram received by Wang Mingzhang, the commander of the 22nd Division, was another sentence: If the war starts, General Wang will be a national sinner.

"Yes! Resolutely obey orders. ”

Major Chi Yumin, the person in charge of Daxing Airport, put down the phone broadcast live from the military headquarters, and immediately showed the official order document that had just been telegraphed by the military headquarters to several other persons in charge of logistics and security at the airport.

"Major Chi rest assured, before the reinforcements arrive, as long as [***] does not open fire, the airport will definitely be fine." The speaker was Zhu Chi, commander of the Second Regiment of the Eighth Division of the Garrison Division, who was guarding the airport.

Zhu Chi, the fifth cadet of the Huaxia Military Academy, infantry command section. This person is also one of the outstanding graduates of the Huaxia Military Academy, and even received the title of Zhang Shusheng personally together with Wang Gongliang, who is now seconded by the Northeast Army to be the commander of the 17th Division. Although for various reasons, he is still the commander of the garrison division, but he is not the same as an ordinary regiment commander. He was awarded the rank of colonel and had just been investigated by the commissioner of the military department, and if nothing else, he was about to become the youngest deputy division commander in the southwest. In the Battle of Jinjing, when the two divisions of the Yue Army frantically attacked the defensive line under Beiping City, the Second Regiment of the Eighth Garrison Division fought extremely well, not only destroying many enemies, but even daring to boldly seize the opportunity and launch several extremely successful counter-charges. Although this person is not as dazzling as Dai Anlan, who is three years later than him, he is definitely one of the best young commanders among the fifth graduating cadets.

"Well, I hope [***] don't open fire." Although Chi Yumin knew that if [***] opened fire, although it could destroy the airport and even blow up the plane, it would completely become the finger of Wanfu, so that the southwest would get the absolute initiative. But he still didn't want to watch these dozens of fighters blown up, and although the southwest was rich, the planes were still extremely precious. "Order the fighter plane to take off."

"The plane has taken off! The planes of the Southwestern Army took off. ”

Just when the officers and men were busy, the originally quiet and strange Daxing Airport was suddenly overturned by the roar of planes taking off.

I saw that one plane was taking off on each of the four runways in the distance, and the formation of four planes took off almost at the same time. The formation, after takeoff, began to circle in the air.

The fighter plane did not launch an air attack on [***], but only maneuvered at a large angle in the air in the distance, simulating attacks again and again.

"Alas!"

Wang Mingzhang jumped out of the car, looked at the dense plane in the sky in the distance, and knew that it was too late.

According to the plan, if the airfield can be taken in one go, these planes will not have a chance to take off, let alone make the threat of force as they do now.

Thinking of the secret telegram just now, Wang Mingzhang felt that he was one head and two big.

Nanjing's order is difficult to disobey, and the headmaster's personal phone call is so stern that he cannot be allowed to disobey the slightest. The 22nd Division was not directly under the jurisdiction of Chen Cheng, the commander of the 18th Route Army, but it was still under the establishment of the Battle of Jinjing, but in order to bypass Chen Cheng, who protested and did not carry it out, Chairman Jiang gave this order directly to himself, which was to let himself take the blame.

Provoking an incident, or even a possible war, is something that Wang Mingzhang does not dare to think about.

There was no accident, he knew that once the two armies started fighting, the first sinner would be his own Wang Mingzhang, but it would not be Chiang Kai-shek, let alone Chen Cheng. However, if the chairman's order is not carried out, it will not work, even if it is not for the sake of loyalty to the chairman and the party and the state, the responsibility will be liquidated after the fact, and the result of disobedience and disrespect will be the least military law.

"Brothers of the Southwest Army, listen up, we are also acting on orders to track down the smugglers of cultural relics. We are comrades-in-arms who have fought side by side, and we don't want to clash with you, so please hand over the criminals, or let us go in and hunt ......"

[***] The caller is shouting there with an iron cylinder at the top of his voice, although the current situation is already loaded with bullets, the surface work still needs to be enough.

"Stand upright." When Wang Mingzhang walked over, the officers and soldiers all saluted.

"How? Is there a response from the other side? ”

"Report to the division commander, not for the time being."

Wang Mingzhang frowned, it was really a turtle shell, he was stubborn, he squeaked, and he had to give an errand to the top, so silent, he couldn't find an excuse to report to the chairman.

"Woo ......"

However, at this moment, there was a sound of ionization unique to electronic devices on the opposite side, and then, a voice that was more than ten times louder than the shouting sound here suddenly sounded.

"Brother [***] on the other side, our Southwest Army is a people's army, and a week ago you fought side by side, just imagine, how can an army that fights for the people and the nation harbor cultural relics criminals in the region? Under our southwest system, the laws and regulations are very complete, and the military regulations and military discipline of the army are more stringent, not to mention the smuggling of cultural relics, even if it is a cultural relic, it will be tried by a military court...... Please see the situation clearly and do not be led by dirty politicians, otherwise a false war will come......"

When Wang Mingzhang heard this, instead of being angry, he nodded with satisfaction, and called for a communication staff officer, "Send a telegram to the chairman of the committee, saying that Daxing Airport categorically denies harboring criminals, and asks the chairman for instructions." ”

However, before the chairman's order came, he waited for Chen Cheng's order.

"Report to the division commander, Commander Chen asked you to go to the city for a meeting, saying that there is a big matter to discuss."

Wang Mingzhang was stunned, although he didn't know what meeting Chen Cheng was looking for him to hold in the city at this time, but he intuitively seized this opportunity, and he was happy in his heart, this was simply an excellent opportunity to escape.

"Let Deputy Division Commander Xu temporarily command on my behalf, before I came back, whoever fired the first shot, Lao Tzu killed him." Wang Mingzhang asked his henchman Xu Zongming to act as the commander, and made a plan to get rid of the golden cicada, and he almost couldn't help laughing on the spot.

At this time, however, the telecommunications offices of the 22nd and 28th Divisions staged an equipment malfunction at almost the same time, and the telecommunications officers and men on duty only left for various reasons, only to find that the telegraph was unusable.

And Wang Mingzhang, who was about to board the car into the city, got the report, but he just reprimanded him harshly and asked them to repair it, but his heart was happy, and he didn't have to carry the black pot himself this time.

Sure enough, as soon as Wang Mingzhang and Liu Jiaqi, the commander of the 28th Division, entered the city, Chen Cheng was approached by Chen Cheng to discuss the issue of the follow-up battle plan, and on the other hand, Chen Cheng sent a staff officer of the military department with his own handwritten order to restrain the army, and it was necessary to ensure that there would be no conflict, even if it could not be avoided, the first shot must not be fired.

Correspondingly, Chen Cheng and Chen Jun, two senior generals of the two armies in Beiping, also got in touch and began to communicate actively and effectively.

This delay dragged on for two days, and when Chairman Chiang finally couldn't bear it and wanted to send He Yingqin to the front line to supervise him, an incident broke out that made it difficult for the Kuomintang to end.

On the evening of September 1932, the supplement to the declaration was published at about the same time as the Kunming and Southwest newspapers, with the headline "Brothers are stronger, and the outbreak of civil war is imminent", and the entire front page published that the Kuomintang sent troops to surround Daxing Airport, which led to a serious confrontation between the two armies, and the civil war was once again in a state of striking.

On September 4, 1932, huge anti-war demonstrations broke out almost simultaneously in more than a dozen of China's largest cities, including Hong Kong, Beiping, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Kunming, Chengdu, Yucheng, Wuhan, Xi'an, Nanjing, and Hangzhou.

It was as if an invisible hand was driving this huge ideological movement, almost unprecedented, with crowds of students, workers, craftsmen, self-employed and other middle class people taking to the streets in solidarity with the Southwestern Army and condemning the Kuomintang.

Almost all the marches played a sign: stop the civil war, talk about reunification!!

The scale of the demonstrations in Nanjing was particularly huge, and in order to protect the students, newspaper reporters were in the front row, and it was surprising that many of them were foreign journalists. And in the procession, there was a so-called 'international friend team', which made the Nanjing National Political Axe who got the news almost dumbfounded.

When did the issue of reunification of peace talks become even a concern for foreigners? They also came to march in the way of international friends.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of September 4, the procession finally arrived at the main street near the location of the Kuomintang political axe.

"The situation has been basically ascertained, demonstrations have broken out in major cities across the country with the theme of opposing the civil war, and the main force of the marches are young people, who claim that this is a national anti-war action with a national surname, call it the 94 Youth Movement, and the goal is directly aimed at us."

"Enough!"

Chiang Kai-shek waved his hand and interrupted Dai Li's words with bad words, "It's better to move in the southwest." ”

"Yes, there are shadows of Southwest agents in many places, and the Investigation Bureau is understaffed, and so far, only one or two suspicious characters have been found." Dai Li replied with some nervousness, although he knew that this huge anti-war march was fueled by the southwest, but he could not catch anyone, let alone other real evidence. "Do you want to arrest a group of students, so that we can check some more."

"Arrest? Niang Xipi, take a look. ”

In a fit of rage, Chiang Kai-shek threw a document in his hand to Dai Li, which was the military information he had just received.

Dai Li didn't expect the committee to have such a big temper today, and opened the file with some trembling, and just read a line of words, he felt a little confused, only to see that it was full of unfavorable news from the front.

"Guangzhou direction, Yucheng direction, Shaanxi and Gansu direction, Huguang direction...... The Southwest Army has all moved......"

Turning the second page, there was actually a telegram sent by the southwest, the content was very simple, but it was a warning, saying that if the Kuomintang opened fire on the procession or arrested the students, then the southwest would immediately launch military operations against the areas controlled by the Kuomintang. At the same time, the southwest also vaguely announced that in the near future, the aircraft carrier task force will hold a joint military exercise near the East China Sea.

In Chairman Jiang's prediction, if the matter at Daxing Airport was resolved quickly, it would not have caused such a big fuss at all, and in this incident, Chen Cheng and Wang Mingzhang's disobedience was one of the important reasons. Of course, he also had some options for those crazy people in the southwest, and the price he offered to Chi Yumin and Zhu Chi was 300,000 oceans each, which was already very high. In the previous civil war, a division commander drove 100,000 oceans by himself, and the other party was eager to serve immediately.

However, this time, the other party received the money, but still refused to come over, and what he didn't expect was that the other party actually sent a thank you telegram to himself, stating that the 600,000 oceans had been handed over to the Southwest Military Department to improve the food problem of the soldiers.

Everything was unfavorable, the troops carrying out the orders were slow to act, they did not always say anything about disobedience, the guards of the Southwestern Army were again ineffective, and then they were stabbed out, and then there was a large-scale youth movement throughout the country. Of course, there is also the offensive posture of the Southwest Army at the junction of forces across the country, as well as their aircraft carrier task force.

After another two days, instead of ending, the youth movement spread to a wider area, and even peasants and soldiers, who were not easily shaken, joined in some places.

On September 6, 1932, the Nanjing Nationalist Political Axe sent a telegram to the world, stating that the Kuomintang had always taken Sanming and cooking righteousness as its governing policy, paid attention to the nationality, civil rights, and people's livelihood, and was willing to emulate Premier Sun's lofty righteousness and negotiate with the Southwest Political Axe on major issues concerning the entire Chinese nation.

In response, the Southwest United Autonomous Government has always taken the rejuvenation of China as its own responsibility, and the policy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, strengthening the country militarily, and building the country through the legal system, and has tried to rejuvenate China internally and resist strong enemies externally, so as to improve the living conditions of the entire nation and improve the quality of life of the people.

The southwest is willing to hold talks with the Nanjing Nationalist on major political issues such as peaceful reunification.

On September 15, 1932, with the theme of avoiding civil war and internal friction and striving for peaceful reunification, the political peace negotiation conference known as the 'Second North-South Peace Talks' was held in Kunming.

(To be continued)