Chapter 446 Fighting for Peace?

On 8 September, Chairman Chiang personally rushed to Shanghai to hold a grand ceremony of commendation and awarding of medals at the Broadway Building, and all the officers of the Shanghai Garrison Regiment and above had the honor to attend, with more than 2,400 participants, and it was the largest military merit appraisal meeting in the history of the Republic of China, surpassing the time when Tang Qiu left Nanjing to confer medals.

At the meeting, Chairman Chiang announced that the Military Committee would ensure that all the losses of soldiers and equipment of the troops participating in the war would be made up within a week, and that the proportion of artillery units would also be increased, and that the divisions participating in the war would be awarded the honorary title of Guardian Division, and the division commanders would be awarded a first-class Baoding Medal.

Soldiers participating in the war will be rewarded with 50 yuan per person, and officers will be rewarded according to their ranks, and the soldiers who died in battle will receive a pension of 200 yuan per person, and the local government will also subsidize their immediate family members in cash or in kind every year.

The old man understands this truth, there will be brave men under the heavy reward, and he will also set an example for other central descendants, so that other local powerful factions can see, this time I, Jiang, used my own descendant troops to fight to the death with the Japanese, and the result was a complete victory, you are not afraid that I will take the lead with your troops, right?

Chairman Chiang had a purpose, and when the Battle of Songhu was going on, and the Central Army and the Japanese were inseparable, he held a plenary meeting in Nanjing, ready to discuss the general strategy of the national war of resistance, but those local powerful factions were wary and fearful, suspecting that Chairman Chiang was using a knife to kill people, borrowing the Japanese knife to weaken his own strength, and when he encircled and suppressed the ** Red Army, he did not do this less.

Longyun of Yunnan in the southwest corner, Liu Xiang of Sichuan, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi of Guangxi all excused themselves by excuse themselves, and even Yan Xishan of Shanxi and Han Fuyu of Shandong did not come to attend.

Long Yun, Liu Xiang, Li and Bai of the Xingui department, it is reasonable that they did not come to the meeting, but Yan Xishan and Han Fuyu made Jiang grow up to be a flame, these two people, they don't know whether they are alive or dead, they can't see the danger of the shape, if it weren't for Tang Qiuli's North China Independent Division, in the Hebei area, blocking more than one million Japanese troops for you, your little belongings would have been robbed by the Japanese a long time ago.

According to reason, the two of them should be the most active, and they are also the closest to the Japanese, and they have the most painful skin, but these two people are the most unbearable, Long Yun, Liu Xiang and Li Bai, although they did not come to the meeting, but they have an attitude, and they have said that once the war is needed, the Yunnan army, the Sichuan army and the Gui army are duty-bound to send troops to resist Japan.

Yan Xishan and Han Fuyu are good, they don't count if they don't pull out, and they also opened their mouths to the central lion, asking for guns, cannons, and silver dollars, saying that the Jin army and the Lu army, in the Yellow River and Shanxi, guarded Peking University for the central government, because of financial resources, it is really unsustainable, please support the central government.

Chairman Jiang almost went to telegraph, scolding these two brazen guys, almost letting Tang Qiuli let go of the North China defense line and let the Japanese army enter Shanxi and Shandong, Yan Xishan is okay to say, after all, it is difficult for him to be in Xi'an, this old West is on his side at a critical time, and it is not a pity to give him something, that Han Fuyu actually asked Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng to kill him, it is really hateful, and then I thought, Xiǎo can't bear to make a big plan, swallowed this breath, but the more I hate Han Fuyu.

In this battle of Songhu, they all fought their own descendants, and they also won, this time the princes who supported the army had nothing to say, right? I also know my Jiang someone's determination, the old man does things, he never has a purpose, he has this set of politics, and he is playing perfectly.

After the meeting, Chairman Chiang separately summoned Zhang Fakui, commander of the Eighth Group Army, Zhang Zhizhong, commander of the Ninth Group Army, Tang Qiusheng, commander of the Tenth Group Army, and Chang Feng, chief of staff, to greatly praise Chang Feng and announce on the spot that he would be promoted to major general.

Chairman Chiang inquired with concern about the casualties of Changfeng's troops, and said that if necessary, the Central Army could be supplemented into the 10th Group Army in an organized manner, and he was still joking half-truthfully, that the 10th Group Army was only temporarily transferred to the Songhu battlefield, and that in the end it would be necessary to return the formation of the North China Independent Division and restore the number of the Sulu Mobile Corps of the North China Independent Division.

These words made the delicate Tang Qiu have a trace of doubt, Chairman Jiang has never said nonsense, is this a hint, Sulu Mobile Corps, there is no need to stay in the Songhu area, he thinks that Shanghai is safe, or has other purposes, but there are still more than 40,000 remnants of Matsui's army, just dangling in the area off the mouth of the Yangtze River, neither retreating, nor attacking, the intention is suspicious.

The Hangzhou Bay area, which Xiǎo Qiu has repeatedly reminded, will it be the next main battlefield in the Songhu area, otherwise, with Xiǎo Qiu's military command ability, the Bund in Shanghai will be bloody and bloody, and he will not allow himself to send troops to reinforce, which is very revealing in itself.

In fact, Zhang Zhizhong's main purpose was to thank Chang Feng, without his troops as the core pillar of the beachhead, it was still unknown whether Shanghai could be kept, and on August 25 alone, if it were not for Chang Feng's heavy artillery regiment, the Japanese tanks would have broken through the position of the 87th Division, so it was reasonable to express his gratitude.

The meal was very harmonious, General Zhang Zhizhong was a frank person, Tang Qiusheng and Chang Feng were even more modest and polite, without any arrogance, and when it came to military issues, they were even more hot.

Only Zhang Fakui's feelings are not high, the battle of Songhu was carried out for more than ten days, his Eighth Army stayed out of the matter, and watched the scenery in Hangzhou Bay for more than ten days, after the war, Zhang Zhizhong and the name of the Ninth Group Army were publicized and known to everyone, which made Zhang Fakui feel very uncomfortable.

He is a veteran soldier, I am afraid that Zhang Zhizhong is his junior, not to mention Tang Qiusheng and Chang Feng, who are in their early twenties and less than thirty, when they were fighting, neither of them was born? also carried the general's brand, not borrowing the light of the vice chairman Tang Qiuli.

In particular, this Tang Qiusheng, who deployed more than 100,000 troops behind his own defense line, obviously did not worry about the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Group Army, which hit Zhang Fakui's self-esteem very hard, and he firmly believed that pulling the Eighth Army to the defensive positions in the area of Lion Forest, Wusong, or the mouth of the Chuansha River would not be inferior to Zhang Zhizhong, and Zhang Zhizhong could not compare with him with his decades of battlefield experience.

He may really be old, he only sees the strength of nearly 100,000 people in his hands, and does not see the gap between the soldiers and weapons and equipment of the troops and Zhang Zhizhong's Ninth Group Army, not to mention the gap with Changfeng's troops.

The idea that the Sulu Mobile Corps should be transferred out of the Songhu battlefield and return to the establishment was also mentioned by him to Chairman Jiang, Hangzhou Bay has Tang Qiusheng's Tenth Group Army behind, and he is like a xiǎo child who has been taken care of, Zhang Fakui's heart, not to mention how awkward.

His various thoughts cannot be said to be completely in sī heart and malice, but after he has this kind of thought, he is destined to be a soldier who has been eliminated by the anti-Japanese battlefield, facing the Japanese army armed to the teeth, his head is still stuck in the Northern Expedition War period, and putting the troops into his hands is a tragedy for the soldiers, but also a personal tragedy.

In the evening, Tang Qiusheng reported Chairman Jiang's words, including his own judgment, to Tang Qiuli through the top-secret radio station, and he understood at a glance that the old man's heart was bōlan again, and he crippled Matsui Shigen, he thought that everything was fine, the Japanese were hurt, and it was time to sit down and bargain with the Japanese.

The fact that his own troops were staying in Songhu was an eyesore, and Chairman Chiang was still not confident enough to devote the strength of the country to fight to the death with the Japanese, and this consideration may be reasonable, after all, there is a huge disparity in national strength between China and Japan, and the old man is afraid that he will accidentally break his dragon chair throne.

The point is that the Japanese will not give up, they can't eat the féiròu in their mouths, and the current Emperor Hirohito, sure that his eyes are red, and he has been preparing for the invasion of China for several generations, how can this little loss be stopped? If that's the case, it's not Japanese, and unless you squeeze their blood out completely, you will want to bite you when you fall to the ground, and that's the Japanese xìng grid.

He sent a telegram back to Brother Qiusheng, according to the original deployment, strengthen the alert level of the troops, within the next month, there will definitely be a heavy battle in Hangzhou Bay, unless the military committee of the national government officially issues an order for the Sulu mobile corps to return to northern Jiangsu, and then make another plan, otherwise, no matter what, do not leave the existing position, but also purchase a large amount of reinforced concrete, rush to repair strong fortifications, in addition, the ammunition mobilized to your department from the Huangya Dòng Arsenal has been shipped, pay attention to receiving.

The battle in Songhu was over, and the Japanese army in North China immediately adjusted their tactics and launched a key attack with heavy forces and a large number of aircraft.

On 10 September, the Japanese army attacked Baoding, an important town in southern Hebei Province, with seven divisions and about 250,000 troops, and Tang Qiuli commanded six infantry brigades, two artillery brigades, three cavalry brigades, and two air defense brigades with about 100,000 troops, and launched a major battle with the Japanese army on the periphery of Baoding.

On the third day of the Jī battle, the independent division suffered more than 8,700 casualties, relying on complete fortifications, so that more than 20,000 Japanese troops would lie on the land of North China forever.

At this time, Baoding was already a dangerous city, and a large number of Japanese troops appeared on the left and right flanks, and there seemed to be a tendency to outflank and encircle Baoding, and the troops moved into the city.

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