The war in the north is in full swing, and Zhang Shusheng is also unable to sleep.

Recently, in addition to dealing with some necessary government affairs, Zhang Shusheng went home to fish in the backyard lake, and it seemed that only the leisure of fishing could make him feel more relaxed in order to think about more problems.

Lu Yunyan, as a confidential secretary, has to deal with the mountains of things in the office, and there is no holiday to accompany him, although He Ning is the deputy minister of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, but she is only idle, except for some public occasions that need to be attended by officials of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, she will attend as the wife of the chief minister and the deputy minister, but there is no busy work. She and Lu Yunyan, one is more like the wife of the chief of the external affairs, and the other is more like the wife of the chief of the personal housekeeper.

He Ning sat next to Zhang Shusheng, snuggling up to him, sometimes staring at the float in the water with a pair of beautiful eyes, sometimes looking up at his face, and occasionally kissing him shyly. The war in the north resumed, and she could feel the tremendous pressure on this husband.

"Be cautious, don't worry so much, we are full of Chinese talents, and we will definitely stop the army from going south." He Ning sometimes wants to share her husband's worries, but as her husband's power becomes higher and higher, she finds that as a little woman, it is becoming more and more difficult to help him, except for occasional appearances as the dignified and virtuous wife of the chief. Gradually, her focus shifted to solving problems for her husband. "I'm your wife, if it's inconvenient for you to tell your subordinates, you can tell me, even if I don't understand, I will be your best listener."

Zhang Shusheng lifted the fishing rod in his hand, re-fished, remembered the war in the Northeast, and couldn't help but say: "Although I have repeatedly warned Zhang Xueliang that the attack of the Yue army will be unprecedentedly fierce, but when they really face Yue himself, there is still a defeat. Relying on superior aircraft and artillery, the elite divisions of the Yue Army launched a week-long onslaught against the Northeast Army.

The information just sent back, taking advantage of the gap between the Northeast Army's change of defense, the army suddenly launched a fierce attack, some key positions were lost, the first two lines of defense have been lost, and the last two lines of defense are still left in the entire defense line of Jinzhou, if these two lines are also broken through, there will be a big problem in the Ningjin defense line. ”

"Although I don't know much about this, I heard that General Huo Dingguo is very good at battlefield command, didn't Zhang Xueliang use him?"

Zhang Shusheng: "Manpower is sometimes poor, Huo Dingguo has outstanding qualifications, and although his command ability is the top three in the southwest, the Northeast Army is not the Southwest People's Army, and its combat effectiveness is much worse. Moreover, he is, after all, an adviser with limited powers. Zhang Xueliang is indecisive, although he is now bent on resisting the war, but he is too conservative, when the position is lost, Huo Dingguo originally suggested that the nearest recruit division should be immediately put into the recapture back, but he wanted to mobilize troops from the rear, and as a result, the army used the position fortifications to block the Northeast Army in turn, but instead beat the counteroffensive troops back, delaying the fighters.

The reason why they were able to stop Yue himself this week, and paid the price of more than 20,000 casualties, was purely relying on human lives. The Northeast Army, although it is poorly trained and equipped with average equipment, can be regarded as a real man, and it has a blood surname. ”

He didn't say that in order to hold Jinzhou, Zhang Xueliang ordered the supervising team to shoot deserters several times, and finally even had to move out 200,000 silver dollars, rewards and punishments in parallel, until the reinforcements of the two divisions behind came up, and he held the third line of defense to the death.

"So many casualties?" He Ning covered her mouth in shock, after all, the woman's family didn't know much about killing battles, in her opinion, the war between the British and the southwest back then also ended with the defeat of the British, and even if the Northeast Army was worse, it shouldn't be so bad. How did she know that the British came from afar, and used the war psychology and military preparations of bullying the third-class civilization to fight a big defeat with an opponent of the same level. "What about me?"

The casualties of the Yue army also greatly exceeded the expectations of their Jinzhou campaign commander Honjo Shigeru. Within a week, nearly seven thousand people were killed and wounded. You don't know, what a staggering number this is.

In particular, during a large-scale attack at dawn, an attacking division of the Yue Army was fired by nearly 200 artillery pieces that had been lurking for a long time by the Northeast Army, causing more than 2,000 casualties on the spot. Zhang Shusheng knew that it was difficult for He Ning, the girl, to imagine the power of 200 cannons to concentrate on the dense attack queue, and she caught the Yue army by surprise. It is a pity that the Yue army only launched this largest cluster charge within a week, and the Yue army, which had suffered losses, was no longer fooled, but constantly sent the air force to bomb the artillery of the Northeast Army, although it was hit by a lot of anti-aircraft guns hidden around the artillery positions, but also blew up a lot of artillery of the Northeast Army.

Zhang Shusheng also knows very well that if the Northeast Army of later generations is replaced, not to mention the battle loss ratio of 20,000 to 7,000, it is estimated that 100,000 to 7,000 is enough. The main reason for achieving such a 'good' result was that the Northeast Army relied on strong fortifications and was too careless in the early stage of the army, and in addition the equipment of the Northeast Army was strengthened, especially the artillery, light and heavy machine guns, mortars, high-explosive grenades, and other sharp weapons of defensive operations that Zhang Shusheng focused on strengthening, which really brought great trouble to the army. The southwest advisers headed by Huo Dingguo have also made great contributions.

Of course, the Northeast Army was watched by the whole country, and it did exchange some results at any cost. It can be said that the Northeast Army, which was not favored at all, had a big accident. Of course, Zhang Shusheng knows best, you must know that the Taierzhuang Battle in later generations, the [***] heavy army battle, and in the end, only more than 10,000 troops were wiped out. The Northeast Army was able to achieve this result, which was already very impressive.

The latest intelligence shows that Huo Dingguo has suggested to Zhang Xueliang to carry out a large-scale night raid to recapture the two lost fortifications in front.

Zhang Shusheng could only pray that the war would go well, otherwise, the whole of North China would be in danger, even if North China was under the jurisdiction of Chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing political axe, but it would be the suffering people who paid for the defeat in the war.

This is also where he is depressed, there are 100,000 elites, but he can't fight with the army.

Compared with the war in the Northeast, he didn't take any provocation from the Northwest Ma family to heart, and he only needed an opportunity to completely clean up the entire Northwest.

However, before this opportunity came, there was another incident that made him angry and the negative emotions of the whole person instantly found a vent point.

"Report, urgent military intelligence! The British were massing troops at the junction of Hong Kong and Bao'an County. ”

As soon as Zhao Ziyun came, Zhang Shusheng's fishing could not continue, and when he returned to the office at home, he opened the information brought by Zhao Ziyun, and suddenly frowned, half a sound, and smashed his fist on the sandalwood table, so frightened that He Ning, who was about to pour tea outside, almost dropped the teacup to the ground.

"The British are crazy!!" Zhang Shu was so angry that he slapped the table again, and said angrily.

Zhao Ziyun was also angry and puzzled, and even when he received the information, he sent a special telegram to the Guangdong branch of the Special Intelligence Department, and the reply reconfirmed the real surname of the intelligence.

"Chief, the whole incident has been investigated very clearly......

Zhao Ziyun began to tell the process of the incident according to the more detailed description of the situation in the callback.

In the morning, on the bank of the Mingxi River in Bao'an County, Guangdong.

Mingxi, which has flowed for thousands of years, is not only a mother river for the sons and daughters of China in Bao'an County, but also a river that has witnessed the shame of China. On one side of Ming Creek is China's Bao'an County, and on the other side is Hong Kong, which was forcibly occupied by the British for 99 years.

In 1930, after the Southwest Army captured Guangzhou and Chen Jitang led his troops to surrender, the whole of Guangdong was included in the rule of the Southwest. Bao'an County is located on the Hong Kong side and close to the sea, and some smuggling activities are rampant.

In order to severely punish smuggling, the coastal areas of Guangxi have long been heavily armed to prevent smuggling, especially since Guangdong has just been liberated, and smuggling is quite rampant. As the products produced in the southwest are gradually leading the trend of the world's advanced products, whether it is clothing or electronic products, home appliances or cosmetics, and even more lucrative new drugs, they are all targeted by smugglers.

Early in the morning, by the Mingxi River in Bao'an County, near Hong Kong, there was a shout.

"Don't run! Run and shoot again! ”

On the banks of the Mingxi River, a platoon of border guards of the Southwest People's Army Garrison Division was chasing several smugglers. This gang of smugglers has always been rampant, and as early as half a year ago, they entered the crackdown plan of the Bao'an County Police Department. At first, the police thought that the gang of smugglers was just smuggling some electronic products or new drugs, but they never expected that when more and more relevant accomplices were arrested, the entire smuggling gang gradually surfaced.

This is actually a very large transnational drug trafficking and smuggling gang. The main messengers behind the scenes were actually two British drug traffickers, a smuggling gang that first smuggled opium from Hong Kong to Guangdong, and then smuggled southwest electronic products, cosmetics, and new drugs back to Hong Kong in Guangdong. Come and go, and make money back and forth.

Although the evidence of the smuggling of this smuggling gang had long been grasped, the Bao'an County Police Department did not take action, mainly because the two British leaders of this gang had unusual identities, one of the leaders, David, was responsible for specific smuggling operations, and the other was actually the commander of a garrison company of the British army stationed in Hong Kong at the Mingxi outpost, Captain Robert.

According to the exact information, this time the smuggling was particularly significant, and the British company commander Robert would also be at the outpost.

The operation went very smoothly, and the drug dealers who were trading were easily arrested, and more than a dozen boxes of opium were seized on the spot, more than 60,000 southwestern dollars. The action team deliberately let go of the five people, led by the British leader, and then chased them to Mingxi. In order to deter the British outpost from handing over the leader of the drug dealers, the police station had already contacted the border garrison, and a platoon of border guards was immediately dispatched to chase these drug dealers into the sky and the ground.

According to the action plan, the operation to arrest drug dealers was reported to the Guangdong Border Defense Office, and it was agreed that the arrest of drug dealers and the removal of the British company commander were also taken down to deter smuggling, which was the goal of the entire operation.

Seeing that he was about to reach the British outpost, Yang Jianye, the platoon commander of the border guards, pulled out his pistol, almost did not need to aim, and raised his hand to shoot.

"Bang!" A shot directly knocked the British drug dealer leader David to the ground at the front, the bullet hit his calf, and the whole person fell down instantly, seeing that the British outpost was in front, and other smugglers who were not shot ran past the British outpost regardless of the gunshot.

The British troops, who had already been alarmed, suddenly rushed out of the outpost, and the British soldiers who had received the order actually ignored the soldiers of the 10th Division of the Guangdong Garrison Division who were rushing in the distance, and wanted to snatch David back to the outpost, who had fallen to the ground after being shot.

"Cuffed!!"

Yang Jianye rushed forward in two steps, only one step faster than the British soldiers, and put the pistol on the head of David, the leader of the drug dealers. The other soldiers of the garrison also quickly caught up, and they all pointed their guns at the seven or eight British soldiers who had just rushed out of the post.

“no，no，dontshot!dontshot!” The Englishman David was shot in the calf, and died of pain, and now he was pointed at the head with a gun, and he was suddenly half frightened to death, and howled loudly, seeing that the Chinese soldiers were indifferent, he actually changed to shout in some skimming Chinese, "Ah!! Don't shoot, don't shoot. Robert, save me, save me. ”

Several British soldiers who rushed out of the outpost, seeing that there was a platoon of the squadron [***] on the opposite side, were immediately a little overwhelmed, and they didn't shoot, and they didn't retreat, and the order of their superiors was to let them take back the British. Moreover, they could not watch David being captured in front of the outpost, otherwise, the whole of Britain would be opposed.

From time to time, the number of British troops at the post increased again, and a British captain came out with a full platoon of British troops, and the British troops lined up and pointed their guns at the opposite squadron. The two sides were suddenly tense.

"Chinese [***] people, why are you shooting our law-abiding citizens of the British Empire for no reason." The captain company commander flicked off the cigarette in his hand and spat on it, not paying any attention to the Chinese ensign in front of him.

"If you can speak English, you're British? Or Captain Robert knew the drug dealer in the first place. Yang Jianye saw the posture of this British captain and guessed that he was the drug dealer leader Robert, who took advantage of his power to smuggle between Guangdong and Hong Kong repeatedly.

"I don't want to argue with you, stupid Chinese, you may not know that our citizens of the British Empire have the right of diplomatic amnesty even in China. I don't know if what you said about drug trafficking is true or not, but you wounded our British citizens with guns, and these upright soldiers saw it with their own eyes. ”

Robert, perhaps with a weak heart, did not dare to argue too much, so he waved his hand and let the British army come forward to rob people. What happened to drug trafficking? My grandfather and father are all big drug dealers. The whole family has been profiting from China since the Opium War. If it weren't for the convenience of smuggling, he would still be living a rich life in London, so why would he come here to be a small company commander.

"Don't move, whoever dares to move one more step, Lao Tzu will kill him." Yang Jianye was not frightened, he had received a signal from the Border Defense Office before he came, but now that the state affairs are difficult, he can't weaken his momentum in the confrontation with foreigners. He immediately pressed David's head to the ground with a pistol, and could have shot him at any moment.

Robert was a little surprised to see that his lieutenant [***] officer was not afraid of foreigners like the previous Cantonese soldiers, but his face was hideous.

He did not experience that Southwestern Campaign, and privately always attributed the defeat of the British and French forces to the poor preparation of the British troops in Burma and the failure of the command of the commander, Major General Knox.

But this is Hong Kong, not the southwest mountains, there are British troops stationed in Hong Kong, there is a detachment stationed in Hong Kong, there is a Far Eastern Fleet that can reach support in a few days, and he is not afraid of the Chinese. In his opinion, although the British small fleet had suffered losses in the confrontation with the Chinese, it was a small fleet, and the strengthened Far Eastern Fleet would be incomparable to the Chinese. And Hong Kong's topography determines the huge role of a strong navy.

"Well, maybe there's some misunderstanding here." Robert gestured with a wave of his hand.

"Show him the pictures you took at the scene." Yang Jianye ordered, and a garrison soldier immediately took out a few photos, and the photos were very clear, it was several drug dealers who were trading drugs, and David who was present and several people who ran into the outpost were also among them.

Robert's face suddenly did not look good, in his heart he had already cursed this damn David a hundred times, even if he was discovered by the Chinese, he actually ran to the outpost to burden himself. Moreover, the bill of exchange on his body made him feel very distressed, 100,000 pounds, the largest transaction in recent times, but he did not expect to be ruined by the damned Chinese.

Robert: "Second Lieutenant, I warn you once again that citizens of the British Empire have diplomatic immunity, and I now, in my capacity as a captain of the British Army in Hong Kong, ask you to hand over this suspect to me, and we will try him afterwards and inform you of the outcome." ”

"Diplomatic immunity? Sorry, I've never heard of it. With us, foreigners do not have any privileges. Yang Jianye didn't care about his threats at all, but threatened David at gunpoint, "Say, who is your connector, and who else is your comrade." ”

"No, no...... David's courage was too small, he was pressed by the muzzle of the gun, he felt that he might be killed at any time, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to say his accomplice Robert.

"Lao Tzu counted three times, if no one instructed you, then you are the first offender, and Lao Tzu will kill you now." Yang Jianye did what he said, regardless of Robert's already blue face, and began to count sharply, "Three, two, one......"

Just as he was about to shoot, perhaps feeling a greater pressure from the muzzle of the gun, David had completely broken down and howled, "It's Robert, Robert, it's Robert who instructed me to smuggle and sell drugs." Everything is Robert, he is the messenger!! ”

David's roar, Robert suddenly became nervous, and he didn't care that the other party was the middle [***] team, and the muzzle of the gun almost subconsciously aimed, and fired several shots at David's waist.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

After firing five shots in one go, Robert turned around and ran, while shouting the order, "Fire!!" Fire!! The Chinese stormed the British Empire outposts, opened fire !! ”

Yang Jianye took a deep breath, knowing that conflict was inevitable, and immediately raised his hand to shoot Robert, hitting him in the hip and knocking him to the ground. Unfortunately, several British soldiers immediately ran over to pick up Robert and ran towards the outpost.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

…… The gunfire broke out, and the soldiers on both sides opened fire almost simultaneously, and several people were shot on the spot, but because the British troops were in a hurry to retreat to the outpost, although they knocked down several soldiers of the garrison division, they suffered heavier losses.

The scene was chaotic, and the British troops opened fire while reclaiming the dead and wounded British soldiers back to their posts. Seeing that the heavy machine guns at the British outpost were about to open fire because of the disengagement between themselves and the Chinese soldiers, the soldiers of the garrison division also quickly retreated to a small hill behind.

Yang Jianye gritted his teeth stubbornly, he didn't expect this British drug dealer company commander to be so arrogant, and the two armies dared to shoot when facing each other, which directly led to the two armies firing. However, his side did not suffer a loss, and after counting, except for two soldiers who were seriously injured, there were only four or five wounded soldiers.

"Quick, stop the bleeding!!"

Each soldier had an emergency medical kit containing special hemostatic medicine, and the other soldiers hurriedly medicated several wounded.

"Machine gun to Lao Tzu!!" Yang Jianye saw that the matter had reached this point, and he was not afraid, and while ordering the ZH24 machine gun he brought to fire, he ordered the communicator who came with the team to send a telegram, "Inform the regimental headquarters, just say that the British have opened fire, and the situation has expanded." ”

When Zhang Shusheng received the information, he was extremely angry. Originally, I didn't want to take back Hong Kong so quickly. After all, he didn't want to make the relationship between the southwest and the British to the extreme.

The Guangdong Garrison Frontier Force is not wrong in what it does, and if the evidence is conclusive, if he is the Border Guard Office, he will also order the arrest of Robert, the murderer, even if he is the commander of the British outpost company, even if he has the protection of the British army.

After all, Hong Kong was humiliatingly occupied for 99 years, which had already made the Southwest Army hold back the fire, and the middle and low-level officers repeatedly suggested that Hong Kong should be recovered. It's just that I didn't expect this Robert to be so bold, in order to escape the crime and eliminate his comrades, he actually dared to provoke a military conflict between the two armies, and slandered that it was the soldiers of the Southwest Army who stormed the outpost.

At this time, the southwest, because it could not participate in the war of resistance in the northeast, had long been holding back the fire in its belly, and from Zhang Shusheng to the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, the war mood was particularly high. And because of the current tense war in the north, Zhang Shusheng deliberately postponed the military operation that was originally scheduled to be launched in the northwest.

But this time, he is not ready to delay, whether it is the army, himself, or hundreds of millions of nationals, he needs to breathe a fierce sigh. Some of the special operations originally planned to be launched against the Yue army were only postponed at this time, and it became inevitable that the British would bear the monstrous hatred of the Chinese to fight back against foreign humiliation.

How many years of enduring humiliation, even if they were convicted by the British army, it was only easy to defeat them, but now, he has to take the initiative to collide with this old empire.

However, he firmly believes that the Southwest and the People's Army, which have endured humiliation for many years, will not let him down!

Picking up the red phone on the table, Zhang Shusheng took a deep breath and ordered, "Yun Xian, notify General Wu Tiejun, Minister of the Army, General Deng Haoqian, Commander of the Navy, General Fan Siran, Commander of the Air Force, and General Jiang Baili of the General Staff, and let them come to see me immediately." ”

Later, he called the secretary of the Operations Department in the General Chief's Office and drafted an order, "Order the 9th Division and the 10th Division of the Garrison Division, the main force stationed in Guangdong, to immediately enter Bao'an County, and order the air force units stationed in Guangdong to be ready to take off for combat at any time, and all units stationed in Guangdong to immediately enter the first-level war preparations!" ”

(To be continued)