On July 16, 1937, the Japanese army successfully mobilized troops under the guise of peace negotiations.

At this time, the Japanese army had the Riverside Zhengsan Infantry Brigade and the 11th Independent Brigade of the Kwantung Army from the Rehe Army out of Gubeikou and had entered the northern suburbs of Beiping; The Chahar Corps of the Kwantung Army, commanded by Hideki Tojo, was independently mixed into the 1st Brigade and also advanced from Rehe to Beiping; The 20th Division of the Japanese Garrison Army in Korea, led by the division commander Kawagishi Fumizaburo, had entered Shanhaiguan and attacked the area south of Beiping; The 5th Division, commanded by Seishiro Itagaki was transported from Japan to North China by sea and landed at Tanggu with the navy; The 2nd Flight Group, Regiment Leader Saburo Ando, 120 Japanese planes flew to Tianjin. The above number of troops is about 60,000 or more.

In addition, there are about 17,000 puppet security forces in eastern Hebei, more than 20,000 Mongolian-Hanhui puppet self-defense troops, about 12,000 puppet Manchurian and Mongolian conquest and Sui joint army, and about 7,000 puppet Mongolian conquest and sui army wings. The Japanese side was equal in numbers to the 29th Army, and its combat strength was far superior to that of the 29th Army.

In just five days, the strength of the Japanese army in Beiping and Tianjin has rapidly increased from no more than 10,000 to more than 100,000 people, and Kawabe Shozo, who got the news of the continuous arrival of reinforcements, looked at the telegrams that kept flying and was excited, but when he knew that the staff headquarters actually ordered that the operation should not be expanded, he couldn't help but frown, if this time it was really over, then wouldn't his immortal achievements fly away like this?

Wanting to stop, Kawabe Shozo immediately ordered the artillery unit in Shagang to carry out artillery bombardment of Wanping City and Changxindian, where the 219th Regiment was located.

Mu Tian Kou Lian in Shagang was very excited when he got the whole order, and immediately took out all the 82 mortars, and cooperated with the latest 41-year-old 75mm mountain guns to hit the military targets in Wanping City that had been discovered in the past few days.

At this time, the commanders of the 109th Brigade, He Jifeng and Ji Xingwen, were inspecting Wanping City, and suddenly heard the whistling sound of artillery shells scratching, and Ji Xingwen immediately shouted nervously, "Hide!" A shot hit the house next to him, and when Ji Xingwen raised his head, He Jifeng had already been buried under the rubble of the house.

The administrative office that had just been set up was blown up by shells again, countless laborers and people passing by on the construction site fell in a pool of blood, and the Lugou Bridge position was also plowed over and over again, Ji Xingwen stumbled all the way back to Wanping's headquarters, Ji Xingwen shouted at the communication soldiers inside, "Let our artillery counterattack immediately!" ”

The communication soldier was motionless, Ji Xing took out his gun and shouted at the communication soldier, "Can't you hear me? Immediately send a telegram to the division headquarters, Brigade Commander He was seriously injured, and the artillery of Shaguo Village, counterattack!! ”

The communication soldier burst into tears, took out a telegram and handed it to Ji Xingwen and said, "The military seat order, the whole army is not allowed to counterattack without an order, Tuanzuo, what kind of battle are we fighting." ”

Ji Xingwen picked up the telegram in disbelief, only to see that it was written that in order to prevent the Sino-Japanese contradictions from further intensifying, no form of counterattack would be allowed unless the Japanese infantry entered and rushed to the position.

Ji Xingwen tore up the telegram fiercely, walked out of the door, saw Wanping City with artillery fire everywhere, and punched the wall next to him fiercely. "What the hell are we doing?" What are we soldiers for? Ah~~~~~h

Song Zheyuan, who was in Tianjin, immediately met with Xiangyue Qingji to protest after getting the news, Xiangyue Qingji was also inexplicable, he was still hurrying to transport ammunition on his side, who started the fight first, and asked carefully, it turned out to be Fengtai's riverside Zhengsan troops.

As soon as Kazuki Kiyoji thought about it, he knew which junior officer was doing his own thing, Kazuki Kiyoji couldn't help but feel a big headache, these people were all dazzled by the war exploits, this reinforcement was coming a lot, but they didn't bring enough supplies and ammunition. There are not enough ammunition, what to fight. These damn red deer should all go back to the military academy and retake them.

Kazuki Kiyoji then called back and said, "This is our mistake, it should be the death of the comrades in Fengtai's army, so I will move the headquarters to Fengtai and suppress those troops who are bent on revenge there." At the same time, I suggest that your army withdraw the 37th Division and punish the person in charge of Wanping. ”

When Song Zheyuan heard this, he was quite sincere, and nodded again and again and said, "Okay, okay, then I will trust your army again." ”

In this way, the headquarters of the Japanese army was moved from Tianjin to Fengtai, and under the pretext of defending the headquarters, troops were constantly dispatched to the vicinity of Beiping, and the troops who came knew in their hearts that this was going to be a big war, and they provoked the 29th Army from time to time, and the confrontation between the two armies happened every day, which made Song Zheyuan, who was bent on seeking peace, also have doubts.

Song Zheyuan thought about it and felt that he couldn't be too unguarded against the Japanese army, but because of the agreement he had just signed with Japan, he secretly ordered the 111th Brigade of the 37th Division to evacuate Beiping, Feng Zhi'an led the 132nd Division to guard Beiping, the other part of the 132nd Division was stationed in Nanyuan, and the Baoding Department of the 37th Division secretly went north, and the 111th Brigade was ready to raid Fengtai at any time, and the 39th Independent Brigade was stationed in Beiyuan, preparing to jointly attack Tongxian with the Nanyuan troops. Zhang Zizhong's division in Tianjin prepared to attack the Tianjin headquarters, and the 142nd Division assembled in Nankou to prepare for an attack on Changping and Goryeo battalions in order to intercept Japanese reinforcements.

But at this time, Pingjin can no longer be described as a sieve, it is simply a map of the Japanese army, Song Zheyuan just issued the order less than two hours ago, the dispatch of the 29th Army lay on the table of Xiangyue Qingji, Xiangyue Qingji looked at the intelligence and smiled coldly.

-- Beiping

At this time in Pingjin, the common people had already smelled the smell of gunsmoke, and all the way were teams that fled to the countryside, Li Qian and his party were really a little conspicuous, but at this time there were troops everywhere, Li Qian disguised himself as the 29th Army, and there was gold to open the way, plus forged documents. Along the way, I walked on the path, day and night, but there was no big basket.

Li Qian came to the outside of Beiping City, thought about it, and said to Wang Yong, "Beiping is now under martial law, and the brothers are all men who look like soldiers, so don't go into the city, I'll go directly to Master Zhao, he and my grandfather are old friends, and they should be fine." ”

Wang Yong said worriedly: "Be careful by yourself." ”

Li Qian nodded and changed into her clothes in Tianjin, because she was a girl and talked about Tianjin, no one checked her.

Zhao Dengyu had just come to Beiping City with his troops at this time, and handed over his troops to Feng Zhi'an to command and defend the city. Looking at the military map in his room now, the 29th Army does not have a professional intelligence department, and it is also accustomed to the warlord combat mode of the past, so when it encounters the modern Japanese army, especially the Japanese army that is not only a step higher in intelligence warfare, it becomes completely confused, and until now I don't know how many troops the Japanese army has reinforced, and what equipment.

The 29th Army could only use the fragmentary information reported by the people, the police, and the squires to analyze the situation, and when Zhao Dengyu learned that Han Muxia's apprentice Li Qian asked to see him, he immediately thought about whether there was some special situation in Tianjin, and hurriedly asked people to bring Li Qian in.

Han Muxia once served as the head of the 29th Army's national arts and taught the famous broadsword team of the 29th Army, and the leader of the broadsword team at that time was Zhao Dengyu, so Li Qian also had several encounters with Zhao Dengyu.

Zhao Dengyu looked at Li Qian and said with a smile, "I haven't seen you in the past few years, it's still exactly the same as when you were a child, is there anything your master asked you to come over?" ”

Li Qian wrinkled her nose helplessly and said, "Uncle Zhao, what do you say, hit me as soon as you come, I'm still young, I will grow taller in the future, I didn't call me here this time." ”

Zhao Dengyu said curiously: "Which one asked you to come?" ”

Li Qian took out the things she had sorted out, handed them to Zhao Dengyu and said, "It was my host who asked me to come, and this is the sincerity of our host." ”

Zhao Dengyu looked at Li Qian suspiciously, took a look at the small notebook, but his eyes were getting bigger and bigger, what was written in this book was actually Japan's military dispatch order, looking at the extremely detailed writing in this book, there was a nose and eyes, Zhao Dengyu also believed eighty percent, but the more he looked at it, the more scared he became, according to what was written in this book, there were already more than 100,000 Japanese troops in Pingjin, and there was a steady stream of troops.

Zhao Dengyu said excitedly: "Are these true? Qian girl, this is a military event, but it must not be a joke. ”

Li Qian nodded with a smile and said, "If you have the opportunity, you will know the strength of our host, Uncle Zhao, this information is true, you can rest assured." ”

Zhao Dengyu saw a big sweat and said, "These Japanese devils are determined to want our Pingjin, then what the hell agreement is a lie, no, I want to report to the military seat immediately." ”

Before Zhao Dengyu could go out, Li Qian said loudly, "Our host said that if you want the 29th Army to be wiped out, you can just tell Commander Song." ”

Zhao Dengyu was stunned for a moment and said, "What do you mean?" Qian girl, you can't talk nonsense, our military seat is for the overall situation, don't misunderstand him. ”

Li Qian shook her head and said, "It's not that I misunderstood him, it's that there are internal ghosts around him, Uncle Feng, think about it, if it weren't for the fact that your army deployment would have been known by the Japanese army a long time ago, how could the Japanese army set up all the troops just enough to surround you." ”

Zhao Dengyu looked at the small notebook, then looked at the map, his face was cloudy, and he asked Li Qian, "Say, who is it?" ”

Li Qian stared at Zhao Dengyu and said, "Those people are not alone, and they are all close to Commander Song, we can't move without evidence." Our hosts mean not to touch them unless there is evidence, and we have further information, but we also need your sincerity. ”

Zhao Dengyu asked: "How do you want us to show sincerity?" ”

Li Qian smiled and said, "This is the condition of our host." Saying that, Li Qian handed another letter to Zhao Dengyu.

Feng Zhi'an glanced twice, nodded and sighed, "If your intelligence is true, you can take those student soldiers away if you want to, they are all dolls who have not been trained for a month, and it is indeed a pity to die on the battlefield like us." In addition, those literati students, I will say that Feng Mifu arranged it for you. ”

The reason why Li Qian came to negotiate with Feng Zhi'an was precisely to cooperate with Yan'an's seed plan, most of these student soldiers were college students or high school students, and it would be a pity if they died in Nanyuan like history, so Jiang Cheng ordered Li Qian to exchange these student soldiers at the cost of intelligence, and let these student soldiers escort those experts, scholars, and students to Yan'an.

Zhao Dengyu knew that it was not too late, but since Song Zheyuan couldn't know, he had to connect with the main generals in the army first, and hurriedly took Li Qian to Nanyuan to meet Tong Linge. At this time, Nanyuan was the opponent with the most concentrated military strength of the 29th Army, and it was also the original military headquarters of the 29th Army. Tong Linge and Zheng Dazhang, the commander of the Ninth Cavalry Division, saw Zhao Dengyu and couldn't help but wonder, "Zhao Da'er, why did you come to Nanyuan?" Is something happening in Peking? ”

Zhao Dengyu said with a blue face, "Two old brothers, take a step to speak." ”

Tong Linge hesitated for a moment, nodded and said to the staff officers next to him, "You go out first." ”

When there were only a few of them in the room, the two of them noticed that this little soldier dressed as a soldier beside Zhao Dengyu turned out to be a Qian girl who had a few encounters before, and couldn't help but wonder, "Zhao Da'er, why did you bring Qian Yatou here." ”

Zhao Dengyu sighed: "This time it's thanks to Qianyatou." ”

Then Zhao Dengyu and Li Qian secretly dispatched the Japanese army, and had mobilized 100,000 troops to Pingjin, and there were tens of thousands of Kwantung Army and Korean Army as follow-up troops, and the matter of transporting ammunition day and night in Tianjin Port was fully revealed.

Tong Linge and the others looked at the distribution of the Japanese army while listening to the map, although they knew that the Japanese army had reinforcements, but they always thought that it was only about 350,000, but now they learned that it was more than 100,000, and there was a steady stream of troops, such a situation has basically announced the demise of the 29th Army.

Tong Linge stared at Li Qian with wide eyes and shouted, "Qian, girl, if you dare to lie about the military situation, your grandfather will not be able to protect you." ”

Li Qian glared back, "If it weren't for the fact that our host valued your bravery at Xifengkou, do you think someone would come to save you?" ”

Tong Linge thought for a while and said, "Since your host asked you to come, what is your purpose?" ”

Li Qian remembered the words in the small notebook. According to the requirements of the small book, he said, "You are good at fighting, we don't have any opinions, now several uncles have known themselves and each other, I believe that they will be able to survive a hundred battles, but we hope that the three uncles will keep this information secret, the intelligence department of the Japanese army is pervasive, and the traitor is around us, so our owner means that you must only set yourself up to be known to the enemy when you really start fighting, and only in this way can you have a glimmer of life." ”

Tong Linge couldn't help but feel a little harsh when he heard it, and said, "A glimmer of life? Can't we win? ”

Li Qian shook her head helplessly and said, "This is a national war, not a 29th Army can win, and you also know the attitude of Commander Song, we are outsiders, it is inconvenient to say who is right and who is wrong, I just want to say that if the Japanese army makes a move, we can not let the brothers of the 29th Army die in vain because of some scum." ”

Tong Linge nodded and said, "What about your request." ”

Li Qian arched her hand and said, "Uncle Tong, our host requires that all the student soldiers of your army be sent to Beiping, once your army is defeated, please order all the student soldiers to escort some of our people into Baoding, and then to Zhengzhou, when the time comes, there will be someone to answer along the way." and make them obey the commands of our men. ”

Tong Linge gasped and said, "Impossible!" These student soldiers will be the seeds of our 29th Army in the future. Wait—are you the Red Party? ”

Tong Linge is different from Zhao Dengyu, Zhao Dengyu is just a martial artist, and Tong Linge is a literati, he knows too well, when knowledgeable people really pick up guns and start fighting, how much difference will be between the combat effectiveness and the combat effectiveness of soldiers born with mud legs, these people are all future grassroots officers!!

Although Li Qian is Zhou Guansheng's younger sister and knows that Wang Yong was sent by Yan'an, she already feels that her owner seems to be a little different. After thinking about it, he said, "We are not the Red Party, we are just Chinese." Then Uncle Tong has to make a choice, if you don't agree, some of our future information will not be provided, believe us, without our help, your army has only one way to be wiped out. ”

Tong Linge thought for a while and said, "If the Japanese army is really exactly the same as the information you said, I will do what you say." ”

Tong Linge thought so, no matter what, it was impossible to completely get the Japanese army's marching route and military force arrangement, after all, fighting a war is to adapt to changes, I'm afraid that even the Japanese commander will not know what changes will occur in the fight.

Li Qian immediately agreed. She completely trusted the information Jiang Cheng gave her.

Tong Linge looked at Li Qian getting farther and farther away, shook her ponytail and sighed, "How I wish that Qian girl would suddenly turn around and say to me, 'I'll tease you'"

Zhao Dengyu looked at the information on the table and said, "I think it should be true, we have to discuss what to do." ”

After Li Qian gave the information to the 29th Army and others, she went out of the city on her own and joined Wang Yong and others, they had other tasks, and the group ran to the field and lurked.

The situation on the Pingjin side was seen by the discerning people in all China, but Song Zheyuan insisted on going his own way, and Jiang Intermediary simply gave up after sending several telegrams to no avail, and could only scold Niang Xipi in the beautiful house of Lushan.

However, the other warlords were highly consistent at this time, reflecting the spirit of the Chinese military.

First, on July 15, the Yan'an Red Party directly sent a telegram, abandoned the Red Army establishment, and changed it to the National Army ready to participate in the war at any time.

On July 16, Liu Xiang of Sichuan sent a telegram, announcing that he would obey the orders of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government and obey the instructions of Chairman Chiang, and that the soldiers of Sichuan would shed their last drop of blood for the resistance against Japan at any time.

On July 17, Chiang delivered the famous Lushan speech in Lushan: "We want peace, not peace; Prepare for battle, but never seek war. "If the war starts, it will be that there is no distinction between the north and the south, the old and the young, and no matter who they are, they all have the responsibility to defend the land and resist the war." He also expressed his views on the July 7 Incident and demanded that the four-point principle must be followed in resolving the incident. The key to resolving the Sino-Japanese issue is to guarantee the inviolability of China's sovereignty.

On July 21, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi of the Gui Department sent a telegram saying that in order to resist Japan, all the soldiers and 13 million people in Guangxi were willing to swear a bloody war of resistance under the instructions of the commission, and they would not hesitate to sacrifice in the face of any sacrifice.

Then Yan Xishan in Shanxi, Erma in Northwest China, Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang, Hanfu District in Shandong, Longyun in Yunnan, and other large and small warlord forces all issued telegrams announcing that they would obey the orders of the central government, and that all armies would obey the command of the central government.

This was the first time since the War of 1840 that powerful factions across the country in China issued a common roar in the face of foreign invasion. Although this roar is now a little weak and ridiculous in the eyes of the Japanese and the world, gradually they will find that this is not just the roar of a few warlords, but the first cry of the rebirth of the entire Chinese nation.

But Song Zheyuan saw these telegrams and scolded his mother, and he finally appeased the Japanese, these people do this, can the Japanese still let themselves go, what you are talking about in the back is lively. really fought, and it was not their own 29th Army that was at the forefront.

At this time, a literati in his fifties wearing sunglasses and a long shirt and a horse coat next to him took the information, looked at it carefully, and sighed: "These people are just afraid that the world will not be chaotic, they only know how to fight, kill and kill, and the people who suffer in the end are not ordinary people?" ”

This person is Pan Yugui, a law graduate of Waseda University in Japan, and is now the director of Song Zheyuan's administrative office.

Song Zheyuan and Pan Yugui are world friends, and their personal relationship is very deep. Pan's father, Pan Wenlou, was the prefect of Guangxi. Song's father was originally a member of Pan's father's staff, and the two families had a deep friendship with two generations, so Song trusted Pan unswervingly and regarded him as a close confidant. Whether in peacetime or wartime, Pan Yugui can always freely enter and leave the military headquarters of the 29th Army, participate in meetings at the highest level, and have access to the most core secrets.

Warlords tend to treat personal feelings as a matter of state, so Pan has access to a lot of core information that no one else can do.

Song Zheyuan nodded and said, "Yes, they all don't have back pain when they stand and talk, alas." But Pan Gong, having said that, I think the sincerity of the Japanese peace talks is indeed insufficient, this military vehicle is endless, and we still have to plan to fight. ”

Pan Yugui looked at Song Zheyuan and nodded with a smile and said, "That's, that's." ”