Outside the city of Beiping, the original vast farmland has now become a line of fire that stretches for more than ten miles.

Because of his meritorious service in the line of fire, Chen Cheng has been promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang army in the Battle of Tianjin-Beijing, and the commander-in-chief of the front, although it seems to be a deputy theater position, but there are only two supreme commanders in the Battle of Tianjin-Beijing, Zhang Shusheng, the supreme leader of the Southwest Joint Political Axe, and Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Nanjing National Political Axe. Originally, some people in the Kuomintang believed that Chen Cheng's qualifications were insufficient, and Chairman Chiang was only the honorary commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang army, but in fact he handed over the command to Chen Cheng.

Some people proposed that He Yingqin be appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang side in the Battle of Jinjing, but this proposal was resolutely rejected by He Yingqin himself, saying that "the party affairs are busy, it is not appropriate to be distracted, and he will not participate in actual military operations for many years, and important battles should be undertaken by experienced officers." In this way, although he did not express support for Chen Cheng to take such an important position, he did not take the blame himself. Some people also proposed to let Tang Enbo of the garrison in the Central Plains be appointed, but then he was also questioned about his qualifications, and those who opposed him believed that Chen Cheng had rich combat experience and rich experience in fighting with the army.

In the end, Chairman Chiang once again said that the military order must not be changed, and Chen Cheng really sat firmly in the position of the commander of the Kuomintang side in the Battle of Tianjin-Beijing.

The southwest also took the opportunity to announce that Chen Jun had been promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the southwestern front of the Beijing-Tianjin Battle, and that Jiang Baili, who was in charge of the operational plan of the 19th Route Army in the north, would be jointly responsible for the operational command of the southwest troops of the four divisions.

As many as 100,000 people participated in the construction of the Beiping defense line, has completely blocked the only way for the Yue army to enter the city of Beiping, the War of Resistance has entered this stage, from the significance of the battle, to achieve a direct victory in the battle and to hold the city of Beiping is almost as important.

Some urban areas in Beiping, facing the direction of the army's attack, have already been mobilized for war, and people have taken their families to the countryside and to the rear, and at the same time, some of the remaining extremely important cultural relics have also begun to be evacuated. According to the battle plan agreed upon by the Southwest Army and the Kuomintang, as a preparatory plan for the entire campaign, the streets and alleys of Beiping City will be the last barrier to resist the attack of the Yue Army.

Then, since it is impossible to evacuate the civilians in a short time, losing Beiping means a catastrophe, and it is difficult to imagine what kind of beast moves they will make in Beiping City.

Beiping is different from Tianjin, Tianjin is lacking defenders, and the garrison force is captured after a battle, even the Nanjing political axe does not have to bear too much responsibility, because almost the best excuse is that there is no main force near Tianjin.

Today, one of the most elite armies in China has gathered under the city of Beiping, and if the city of Beiping is lost again, no one will be able to bear this huge responsibility, and will be nailed to the pillar of national shame almost instantly.

The entire out-of-town position was equally divided into frontal positions, left-wing positions, and right-wing positions.

After more than 100,000 days of excavation by more than 100,000 migrant workers, and then through the reinforcement and development of the main force, the entire position has already taken on the flavor of a big battlefield. The Kuomintang army, which originally did not pay attention to the construction of fortifications, also learned from the southwest troops under Chen Cheng's personal orders when they saw the results of the strong positions on the left flank of the Langfang battlefield that had been dug by the southwest army for half a month.

The two armies worked together, and for the sake of the common war of resistance, Chen Jun sent many experts in fortification construction to deepen and strengthen the positions on the left and right flanks under the responsibility of the Kuomintang.

The entire battle unit has received such an education, if you want to fight devils alive, you must first dig the trench where you are hiding and tamp it down.

Because the combat effectiveness of the second division was the weakest, the troops of Song Zheyuan and Han Fuqu were arranged in the right flank position where the terrain was conducive to defense and it was difficult to attack, and the four integrated divisions of the Kuomintang were responsible for the overall left flank position, and the frontal position with the longest defense line and more difficult to defend was garrisoned by two divisions of the Southwest Army and two divisions of the Kuomintang.

Except for the troops on the position, the others are reserves, or firefighting teams, although there are as many as 190,000 in the middle [***] team, and there are also a lot of the army, five divisions and regiments, 110,000 troops, although there are many support surname combat troops, but with the army picking up guns is the training level of the soldiers, the extra 80,000 people in the [***] team can not take advantage of the army.

However, because of the presence of four divisions in the southwest, with the gradual arrival of equipment, the superiority of the Yue army is gradually weakening, and when the equipment and baggage of the southwest army are basically in place, the level of equipment supply reaches a certain height, and there is the support of the expanding Daxing airfield, the superiority of the Yue army will be completely lost.

The right flank position, the joint left flank command of Song Zheyuan and Han Fuqu.

"The combat effectiveness of the army is really amazing."

Han Fuqu looked at the casualty report that had just been counted in his hand, and couldn't help but gasp, last night's sneak attack of the Yue army not only broke through the defensive position of his own and Song Zheyuan's two divisions, but also almost made the main force of the Yue army pass by here. If the army took advantage of the darkness of night to touch the position on the right flank, the frontal position arranged in the direction of the army would certainly suffer greater losses.

After fighting for most of the night, the defending troops suffered heavy losses, and in the face of the night attack of a brigade of the Japanese army, hundreds of people were killed and wounded. You must know that this is a night battle, and there is only one brigade in the army.

"The devil really picks and chooses soft gnaws. Old Han, you see, as soon as the troops in the southwest came up, the army suffered a big loss, and a large group of devils was almost wiped out, more than 400 people were killed alone, and more than 200 were captured. ”

Song Zheyuan also felt unbelievable, the truth was revealed after dawn in the battle process last night, and the army took advantage of the paralysis of the 45th Division on the position, and launched a night attack in one fell swoop, and it was a mess, and the 45th Division did not know how many devils came up, and the command fell into confusion and suffered heavy losses.

However, as soon as the support troops of the Southwest Army came, the elite company that rushed to the front was almost armed with a submachine gun, and the army had never seen such fierce firepower, and the soldiers of a brigade did not escape much in the night battle, and the front could not stop the submachine guns of the Southwest Army, and the retreat route was cut off by a battalion, and a brigade almost gave up all of its here.

The submachine guns of the elite companies of the Southwest Army, the flares that could be fired from mortars, all impressed the two army commanders.

"Alas, we are all outdated, we have been fighting for so many years, I thought we hadn't seen a battle, but these eyes are really like blind."

What Han Fuqu didn't say was that at night, when he went to the front line to check the results of the battle, he actually saw an officer of the Southwest Army using something that looked like a telescope.

"Let's not talk about that, should we ask the chairman for supplies in person? The battle has been fought so far, once, twice, three times, each time the supply is not our turn, lucky enough to get some bullets, in addition to the last time the 38 big cover, we have been divided into some of the Hanyang made by them. It's also a protest, it's simply murdering soldiers. ”

Song Zheyuan was a little angry, this was not Chen Cheng's headquarters, of course he had to vent his anger directly. He knew that there were difficulties in Nanjing's political axe, but in the current situation of resistance, the second division should not even go to the war without enough guns and ammunition.

Han Fuqu: "Every time, we are asked to wait, wait and wait, either there is none, or we just give a little charity, we can't let us wait every day for other troops to win, and send the captured weapons and ammunition." The chairman of the committee kept saying that he would fight together, but at this time he treated them differently, and if he continued like this, it would only chill the hearts of the soldiers. ”

Song Zheyuan was silent, he also saw the seriousness of the problem, not to mention guns and ammunition, this contradiction is particularly acute on the issue of food for the troops.

The three major troops stationed outside the city of Beiping, the Kuomintang's Central Division and the Consolidated Division had the best food, and the supply of the Nanjing Nationalist Axe plus the poultry and livestock requisitioned by the troops from the local area, several divisions ate better than anyone else. In order to save transportation capacity, their military rations were mainly purchased openly from Shanxi and Zhengding, Hebei, and the price was slightly higher than the market price, so it was naturally easy to buy.

The worst second-class division has the worst supply every time, and three meals a day will soon turn into gruel and steamed buns.

"This battle has been fought for almost ten days, from the beginning of barely being able to eat, to now basically not enough to eat, for a long time, no guns, no ammunition, no food, I see that the troops did not collapse under the bayonet of Yu, but will collapse by themselves."

This is what Song Zheyuan and Han Fuqu are most worried about, once there is a shortage of guns and ammunition and food, the troops can only go to Beiping City to rob, and only Ren deserters will appear.

Nanjing's national political axe was not to be embarrassed to such a point, but the hastily decided general battle, the supply and transportation became a mess, and the logistics supply of more than a dozen divisions brought tremendous pressure to Nanjing. It will take some time for the supply to normalize.

"Report! General Chen, commander of the 18th Route Army, telephone. ”

At this moment, a signal soldier outside stood up and shouted.

The two glanced at each other, Song Zheyuan walked over and took the phone, "Commander Chen, I'm Song Zheyuan." ”

Twenty minutes later, Song Zheyuan and Han Fuqu arrived at the headquarters of the Eighteenth Route Army of the Southwest Army in Beiping City, near the city gate.

"Commander Song, Commander Han, please take a seat, come here, serve tea to the two army commanders."

Chen Jun ordered cleanly, and from time to time the orderly soldiers brought two books of tea from the southwest, "Last night, the night attack of the army was a little sudden, and the two army commanders were frightened. ”

This is not Chen Jun's hypocritical words, as a second-class division, Song Zheyuan and Han Fuqu can completely move forward slowly, and they can retreat when the battle is unfavorable, and throw the problem to the main forces of the southwest and [***]. But they were useless, although the two troops were poorly trained and poorly equipped and supplied, their will to fight was not bad, and they held their positions to the death before this night attack.

"Commander Chen laughed, compared with your army, we are a little embarrassed, alas, if it wasn't for the end of your army last night, Brother Han and I would have been disgraced and thrown home."

Song Zheyuan also knew that with the strong combat effectiveness shown by the Southwest Army last night, he and Han Fuqu's troops were just a bunch of useless numbers in front of others.

"You can't say that, Commander Song, to tell the truth, although your army's combat effectiveness is not outstanding, its will to fight is not bad, and it can even be called excellent. In last night's battle, many soldiers with grenades and the night attack were killed, not to mention the previous defensive operations, and your army's performance was also remarkable. ”

Chen Jun shook his head, merit is not determined by victory or defeat, as a second-class division, it is already a great achievement for them to have such a will to fight.

"Alas......" Han Fuqu originally wanted to say something, but when he saw Song Zheyuan glaring at him, he didn't say anything.

Seeing the two of them like this, Chen Jun didn't understand, Han Fuqu had something to say, he should have wanted to complain to himself, but he was stopped by Song Zheyuan, after all, in Song Zheyuan's opinion, he and them have never been in the same camp, even if he also gave them the captured guns and grenadiers before.

In China, there is always one thing, that is, the division of camps, even when it comes to the national battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War.

"Let the two of you come this time, there is a gift from the supreme leader of the southwest, Zhang Shusheng, to your army." Seeing that the two of them had some words, Chen Jun didn't say much, some things were not something he could change, but this did not affect his work, and it could not affect the teacher's decision.

Immediately, Chen Jun waved his hand, and the combat staff officer standing in the distance walked over, saluted, and handed him a document.

"Let's take a look."

Song Zheyuan took the document with some confusion, but found that it was a letter.

"Commander Song and Commander Han personally experienced:

At this time of national calamity, when the whole people are resisting, Shen Xing is far away in the southwest, and he cannot go to the front line in person, and he still feels uneasy.

I heard that the two generals had a division of tens of thousands of tigers, and fought a bloody battle under the city of Beiping. I think I am in China, up and down for 5,000 years, there are so many heroes throughout the ages, and there are many people who have defended the country and left their names in history. The two led the troops to resist and fought to the death without retreating, and they are actually the surviving national heroes of contemporary times, which can be sung and respected.

However, the heavens will descend on the people, and they will surely suffer their minds and muscles. It's hard to do a good thing, but that's it. Hearing Chen Jun's report, the two generals' headquarters were short of guns and ammunition, and their supplies were insufficient, and tens of thousands of soldiers had reached a very difficult situation. Although Shen Xing was far away in the southwest, he also beat his chest and felt sorry for the two generals and the brave man who charged with grenades.

Therefore, Shen Xing specially prepared a small gift for the two generals, prepared a number of guns and ammunition, and a sum of military expenses, hoping that the two generals would rely on this to strengthen their determination to resist the Japanese, kill more Japanese criminals, and make new contributions. ”

The payment was made by Zhang Shusheng, the supreme general affairs director of the Southwest United Autonomous Government.

"This, this ......"

Song Zheyuan was still calm at first, but he couldn't help but read it out loud as he read it, and he was so excited that it was difficult to control himself. It is unimaginable that this Chief Zhang, who is far away in the southwest, actually spoke so highly of himself and Han Fuqu, and also gave arms and military supplies.

"Mr. Zhang's style is really admirable." Han Fuqu also sighed inexplicably, thousands of waits, thousands of requests, Chairman Jiang in Nanjing is all kinds of shirks, and the actual surname is always not seen, however, the southwest, which has no supply responsibility for the two of them, actually wants to support himself, which is really absurd and makes people sigh.

"Two army commanders, please, this is a letter from the commander-in-chief, and the first batch of supplies has arrived."

Seeing the shocked appearance of the two, Chen Jun couldn't help but secretly say, the teacher's approach is really so righteous and awe-inspiring, it is absolutely impossible to change one person, in this era, there is only one teacher who can understand the general situation so well and focus on the overall situation.

A few people left the headquarters, and not far away was an empty parking lot, at this time more than 20 large trucks were parked, and a platoon of troops stood next to them.

"Salute!!"

When the guards saw a group of officers from the command approaching, they stood up and saluted, with a majestic momentum.

Chen Jun walked to a car, saluted the guards next to the car, and "Open the car." ”

"Yes!"

The two guards opened the carriage with their hands and feet, revealing the long arms boxes neatly stacked inside. The two climbed up, and two more guards came to help, and only then did they carry one down.

When the arms box was opened, there was a box of rifles, well maintained, and the smell of gun oil wafted out, and the smell was very strong.

"Good gun!!"

Song Zheyuan and the others felt very good just by looking at the shape of this gun, although it could be seen that it was a Mauser gun, but in many places it was much stronger than that made by Hanyang. For example, the gun wood is very meticulous, and some places on the body of the gun can see the faint white marks left after long-term use, but it is not like Hanyang, which has been used for many years, and the gun has been worn and concave, and the gun in it, although it can also be seen that it is an old gun, but it is intact.

The two of them picked up a rifle at random, aimed at it in a shooting position, and found that it felt very good.

"It's a good gun. What model of rifle is this? Han Fuqu also sighed.

"This is our Huaxia Type 1 rifle that has just been reequipped in the southwest, and it is a very good rifle, and its shooting accuracy and recoil are much better than that of Mauser Lao and Hanyang." Chen Jun also couldn't put it down, he used this rifle when he was a young man, and now it has been more than ten years, and the young man of that year is now a man in his early thirties. When the militia was in the past, he used this model.

"Commander Chen, are these for us?" Song Zheyuan and Han Fuqu still didn't dare to imagine it, and asked subconsciously.

"Yes, the first batch of five thousand rifles and ammunition, here is a part, and the rest will arrive tomorrow. In addition to rifles and bullets, there are these things. ”

Chen Jun walked to another truck, signaled to open the compartment, lifted down a box, opened it, and saw that it was actually a disassembled 19-year-old heavy machine gun produced in the southwest based on Makqin.

In addition to rifles and ammunition, the 20,000 rifles on the arms list ordered by General Zhang also included a total of 300 heavy machine guns and 40 mortars. Although these are all stockpiles of arms in the southwest, they have been inspected and found to be completely normal. ”

Chen Jun reported a number that made Song Zheyuan almost not stand firm, and Han Fuqu also opened his mouth slightly, this, this Shusheng is too generous.

With the thinking of Song Zheyuan and the others, where can they understand Zhang Shusheng's approach, when they are still in the era of small families engaged in warlord struggle, Zhang Shusheng is already thinking about how to reduce the deaths and injuries of those anti-Japanese heroes.

"Commander Chen, ask privately, Chief Zhang won't have any hidden conditions, right?"

Han Fuqu asked in disbelief, after all, in his opinion, this is an incomparably large amount of ammunition, especially since the southwest and the Kuomintang are still opponents, how can Zhang Shusheng be willing to arm himself with these second-class divisions, is he trying to pry the door of the chairman?

However, Han Fuqu also had an idea in his heart, if he really wanted to pry the door, he was afraid that he could think about it more. With the style of that Chief Zhang, he does seem to be more promising than the chairman of the NPC National Committee, and he is also more courageous as a leader on major issues of right and wrong.

Chen Jun shook his head, "You don't have to think about it, the chief doesn't have any strings attached." On the contrary, if you accept this munition, you will inevitably be suspicious of Nanjing in the future, and whether you accept it or not, the two military commanders will decide for themselves. This is also the meaning of the chief. ”

The two exchanged a look, and Song Zheyuan sighed, "Yes, why not." took Chief Zhang's guns and ammunition, and there was nothing to repay, only to kill more devils to repay the kindness of the line of fire. As for the chairman, let's wait until we get through the hurdle of being a member of the committee. ”

"Yes, over the years, in his career, Han has also been a little tired. It's just that he died on the battlefield, if he was lucky enough to see Yue Kou defeated, why should Han wait for the chairman to punish him, he would definitely ask for resignation and go home to farm. "Han Fuqu is also a ruthless person, don't, why don't you, resist the big thing, now is the time for a shortage of guns and bullets, no matter how suspicious he is, if you can't win the battle, everything is a bastard, and everything will be said after the battle.

Chen Jun nodded and saluted: "Then Chen will hand over this batch of arms on behalf of Chief Zhang, and I hope the two of you can make new contributions." ”

"I will live up to Mr. Zhang's high expectations!"

Song Zheyuan and the two stood up and saluted almost at the same time.

In the southwest, when Zhang Shusheng received a report that the first batch of arms had been handed over to Song Zheyuan and Han Fuqu, he couldn't help but let go of a concern.

These poorly equipped and poorly trained troops may not need to go to war again after they unify the whole country. With the strength of the Southwest Army, after fully engaging the enemy with the Yue Army, it will be difficult for the Yue Kou to gain any advantage, and the casualties paid for the War of Resistance will be much less. In other words, there is no reunification, and only by speeding up the speed of reunification can we concentrate the strength of the entire nation and develop a more powerful economic and military force.

Letting go of a thing, Zhang Shusheng suddenly felt a little depressed, and wanted to go out for a walk like never before.

Like the previous time with He Ning, it was no longer suitable to travel in disguise, and after thinking about it, he had to come to the secret room and turn on the dream machine.

Sure enough, the Dream Machine didn't disappoint him, and the little kid-like butler Dreamer easily solved this problem for him.

"Dear and great owner of the Dreamer, here's something that best suits your needs, the Disguiser. This is a disguise device commonly used by criminals in the interstellar age, and to put it bluntly, unless those planetary police officers can take the test equipment and examine them, it is completely impossible to distinguish by eyes and senses alone. The use method is also very simple, random selection, intelligent selection, template selection, complete categories, including your satisfaction.

Congratulations, you only need 11 energy to redeem such a product, and it is among your exclusive exchange items. ”

The Dreamer always wears his oversized haha glasses, and his facial expressions and body language can always make Zhang Shusheng laugh, which is worthy of being upgraded to the provincial and municipal system level intelligent housekeeper, which is simply a funny and funny all-round housekeeper.

"What if it's an extra exchange?" The number of exclusive exchanges is limited, and the conditions are also harsh, and they can only be used by Zhang Shusheng himself. In addition to exclusive exchanges, other ordinary exchanges are part of the sequence of additional exchanges. The advantage of exclusive exchange is too obvious, 11 points of energy, the dream machine of the provincial and municipal system can rise in almost an hour. Now that the family is big and the business is big, this dreamer, whose sensing ability is beyond the scope of cognition, is rising in energy all the time.

As for this disguise, he immediately thought of the use, if he used it in the field of espionage, it would be a lot of fun, it would be very interesting to think about, if a spy used this disguise to pretend to be the emperor, and went to the harem to kill the queen, it would be a big scandal, and in other aspects, it would be infinitely useful.

"Dear master, in this product database, I also found a problem. There was a buyer who used this product for his subordinates, only to use it to disguise himself as another person, and then turned around and killed the buyer. This is a problem, and if you are going to exchange it for your men, you should pay special attention to safety. The energy that can be exchanged once, at the current rate of capacity growth, is about 365 days unit, which is a year's energy. ”

"So expensive?? Never mind. ”

Zhang Shusheng thought about it, it seems that this thing can't be used indiscriminately, the cost and risk are very large, and a year's energy can be exchanged for a lot of super-tech things.

After he confirmed the exchange, the Dreamer Kid butler in the virtual workshop pointed his hand, and the Dreamer suddenly lit up, and there was a small instrument on the table.

Zhang Shusheng picked up the phone and informed Mao Yun that he was going to enter the underground laboratory for a day, and then use the exclusive contact device to contact him when there was an emergency.

Immediately, Zhang Shusheng went down from the single elevator to the special laboratory under the headquarters building, where there was a secret passage to the outside world, which was originally reserved for him as an emergency escape channel, but now it became a passage for him to go out. It only took two minutes for Zhang Shusheng to pass the security verification at the end of the passage and walk out of an armored door disguised as a stone.

At this time, he has become a different person.

Feeling the free air, Zhang Shusheng almost wanted to shout excitedly, he had been unable to go out because other people were worried about his safety, but from now on, he would be able to have the opportunity to go out and breathe.

Next, he first ran to buy a Phoenix brand bicycle, turned over and rode it, and the long-lost bicycle rushed out as soon as he pedaled. It was morning, and he had a day to go out. In the case of some emergencies, Mao Yunxian, Lu Yunyan, and He Ning all have long-distance contacts to find him. Because Zhang Shusheng often conducts scientific research in the basement for a long time, Mao Yunxian and Lu Yunyan in the Governor's Office Center are used to it, and as long as he conducts experiments behind closed doors, they will not bother.

This time he was going to go to the countryside on the outskirts to have a look.

(To be continued)