"What is the chairman's mind, I don't know what to do?" Wan Fulin sat in Zheng Weiguo's living room with a golden knife, waving his arms, and said nonchalantly: "Don't you just want me to mess with your brother?" ”

Zheng Weiguo smiled and said, "What do you think about that senior?" ”

Wan Fulin sighed and said: "The Northeast is lost, North China is also lost, the country is almost finished, what are you doing with all these Kahu energy?" He grabbed Zheng Weiguo's hand and said sincerely: "Brother Zheng, China can't afford such nonsense!" ”

Zheng Weiguo nodded and said, "Senior, you are right, if we continue to toss it, we will really be slaves of the country!" Please rest assured, I, Zheng Weiguo, swear to heaven that I will never do anything that damages the 53rd Army. In the future, your two armies will be brothers in the same door, and if you have me, you will have your share. Let's fight Japan side by side and go back to our hometown! ”

Wan Fulin smiled and said, "You don't need to say these things to me, just say them to Quan Wu (that is, Zhou Fucheng, deputy commander of the 53rd Army)." Seeing Zheng Weiguo's confused face, he explained: "I have thought about it, and when the group army is formally formed, the 53rd Army will be handed over to the whole five." If everything is stable, the deputy commander-in-chief of the group army doesn't want to do it, so I should retire as soon as possible so as not to provoke people's suspicions. ”

Zhou Fucheng, the deputy commander who was sitting on the side, was taken aback, hurriedly stood up, and said, "Junzao, what do you mean by this!" Our tens of thousands of brothers in our army can't do without you! ”

Zheng Weiguo also persuaded: "Senior, now is the time to kill the enemy for the country, how can you retreat?" There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, everyone will rely on you in the future! ”

Wan Fulin smiled. The two beautiful mustaches on his lips shook and waved, and said, "Don't put gold on my face." How much ability do I have, don't I know what to do? It's time to make way for the younger ones to make way when they're old and useless. ”

He joked again: "Brother Zheng, tell you the truth." If I were ten years younger, I would have to fight the little devil to the end if I gave up this old life; If I were twenty years younger, I would not have given it to you, the commander-in-chief of this army; If you're thirty years younger, uh, then it's none of your business. Ha Lu Ha ......"

Political Commissar Cheng quipped: "That's what the old-timers said. Thirty years ago, our commander was still in my mother's womb! The crowd laughed.

Wan Fulin said with emotion: "Heroes are teenagers! ”

Soon after, the 53rd Army moved north as a whole and merged with the 97th Army to form the 41st Group Army, with Zheng Weiguo as the commander-in-chief. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Wan Fulin. Chief of Staff Li Liangrong. Kang Ze, director of the Political Department, and Liao Yaoxiang, chief of staff. After the 27-year split of the Communist Party, the national army rarely set up a political department. All of them were downgraded to the Political Training Department. However, in the past two years, there have been continuous defections, and the Military Commission has re-established political departments in some units to strengthen supervision.

The newly formed 41st Group Army has three armies, the commander of the 53rd Army, Zhou Fucheng, the deputy commander of the army is replaced by the former chief of staff Zhao Xiqing, and the chief of staff Zhao Yi is the former commander of the 109th Division; Feng Zhanhai, commander of the 63rd Army, Deng Naibai, deputy commander of the army, and Yan Mingzhi, chief of staff, were upgraded from the former 91st Division headquarters, and the personnel were not moved; Zheng Weiguo, commander of the 97th Army (concurrently), Zhou Yimin, deputy commander and chief of staff (concurrently), Xiong Taiyu, deputy chief of staff (concurrently), and other technical arms such as cavalry, artillery, engineering, baggage, and medicine.

According to the previous plan of the Military Commission, it did not plan to restore the corps-level establishment of Feng Zhanhai's 91st Division, but planned to reorganize Zhang Yinwu's Hebei People's Army into an army and join the 41st Group Army.

In this way, a "non-northeastern" nail was driven into the 41st Army, which was easy to control. However, Zhang Yinwu disagreed, because his Hebei People's Army now has territory and troops, and if it is merged into the 41st Group Army, these territories will be gone. Zheng Weiguo took the opportunity to suggest to the Military Commission that the 63rd Army should be restored, and asked the 97th Army for the number of the 34th Division of the Army.

Chang Kaishen finally agreed after weighing it twice, but the premise was that half of the materials shipped from Germany would be distributed to the central government next time. Zheng Weiguo readily agreed. After all, strengthening the strength of the national army is beneficial to the overall situation of the War of Resistance.

Zheng Huzi then reorganized the 97th Army, and the newly established Hebei Provincial Security Division was renamed the 34th Division of the Army, with division commander Zhao Yunxiang, deputy division commander Ma Biao, and chief of staff Fan Zixia. The 35th Brigade and the 36th Brigade are still under the 33rd Division of the Army, and the division commander Wu Quanfu (formerly the commander of the 35th Brigade), the deputy division commander Jin Kuibi (the former commander of the 107th Division), and the chief of staff Zhao Zhenfan are the former deputy chief of staff of the 53rd Army.

In this way, the 97th Army had two infantry divisions (33rd and 34th divisions) and one cavalry division (Zhang Zhankui's new cavalry 3rd division). The 53rd Army also had two infantry divisions (Zhao Shaozong's 116th Division, Zhu Hongxun's 130th Division) and one cavalry division (Zhang Dongkai's 4th Cavalry Division).

The 63rd Army suffered serious attrition, and although it was upgraded to an army, it currently has only one division, the 91st Division. Zheng Weiguo ordered the night owl's cavalry brigade to be incorporated into the 63rd Army. Admiral Feng Zhan reinstated the formation of an infantry brigade on his own, with a total of three infantry brigades (271, 272, 273) and one cavalry brigade. The 273 Brigade was then combined with the Cavalry Brigade to form the 92nd Division, with division commander Zhao Weibin (former commander of the 273 Brigade), deputy division commander Ye Mingyuan, and chief of staff Zhang Chunxi (former officer of the 91st Division).

In addition to the main force, Zheng Weiguo also hoped to strive for a security division for each of the three military sub-districts in central Hebei, but Chang Kaishen found that there were too many G Party elements in each sub-district and resolutely refused to agree. After repeated requests, it was said that it could be agreed, but the officers needed to be appointed by the war region, but the Eighth Route side did not agree.

The last three military subdivisions were each organized into an independent brigade (the 1st Brigade, the 2nd Brigade, and the 3rd Brigade) and three guerrilla detachments (from the 1st to the 9th detachment in Jizhong). Each independent brigade has three regiments (from the 1st Regiment to the 9th Regiment of the Independent Regiment), and each detachment has three regional teams (from the 1st to the 27th Regional Brigade).

The regional team is a unique establishment in the history of central Hebei, between the independent regiment and the county brigade, and is a relatively regularized local unit, which can not only play the role of training troops, but also serve as a powerful supplement to the main force, so Zheng Huzi copied it as it was.

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At the same time that earth-shaking changes have taken place in central Hebei, there have also been considerable fluctuations in various parts of North China. Needless to say, the driving force behind it. Of course, it is Chairman Chang Kaishen.

Huaxian County, Shaanxi, the temporary station of the 31st Army Corps. The troops were about to march to Zhongtiao Mountain on the east bank of the Yellow River (in the southwest of Shanxi, which is geographically important), but some people spread rumors among the ranks that the central government planned to use the hands of the Japanese army to get rid of them, cross the Yellow River eastward and die for nine lives, in an attempt to incite the soldiers to mutiny. This made people in the army panic, and many people even took the opportunity to desert.

Legion Commander Sun Weiru comforted his subordinates and said, "Don't I know what the chairman thinks? But our trip is not for the central government, not for Lao Jiang, but for our homeland not to be invaded by foreign races. Just hold on to Nakajo Mountain. in order to keep the land of Sanqin. ”

He jumped onto a high platform. He said loudly: "Brothers, we have been supported by the hometown of Shaanxi for many years, and now the enemy has reached the doorstep, shall we fight or not?" ”

The fighters shouted in unison: "Down with the Japanese invaders." Give me back the rivers and mountains! ”

Sun Weiru said happily: "Good job." Brethren. We don't just have to cross the river. We must also resolutely defend Zhongtiao Mountain, and we would rather die than put the enemy into our homeland. We have to let the little devil know that our Shaanxi army is not easy to mess with! After speaking, he waved his hand and shouted: "Let's go!" ”

The 31st Army then crossed the river with its entire army. It was stationed in the western section of Zhongtiao Mountain. In a short period of two years, the Japanese army concentrated tens of thousands of troops of several divisions and regiments, with the cooperation of army aviation and artillery, and carried out 11 rampant attacks on the Zhongtiao Mountain defensive area, among which the "bloody battle of Yongji", "June 6 Campaign", and "Battle of Wangyuan" were the most tragic and tragic!

The Fourth Army, which had been upgraded from the 31st Army Corps, fought hundreds of bloody battles against the Japanese in the Zhongtiao Mountains, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce, sometimes fighting over a hill or a village and town, changing hands several times, and corpses were scattered all over the field. In the face of the strong firepower of the Japanese army, all units of the Fourth Army fought to the death, and casualties of entire battalions and companies often occurred.

In the face of such a difficult situation, General Sun Weiru ordered the defensive line to be retracted, the troops were concentrated, and the attack was carried out flexibly, and suspicious troops were sent to fight movement warfare and surprise raid warfare behind enemy lines, so that the Japanese army could not take care of each other and could not advance as a whole.

In the past two years, the Japanese army frequently changed its combat plan and removed its commanders, but the more anxious it was to cross the Nakajo Mountain, the more it could not move forward, and the combat report it submitted to the Japanese military headquarters had to claim that "although the troops garrisoning the Nakajo Mountains are a miscellaneous force, their combat effectiveness is quite strong and they cannot be underestimated against the enemy."

Sun Weiru led all the officers and men of the Fourth Army to fight to the death without the support of friendly troops and the extreme lack of military supplies, and always stood majestically on Zhongtiao Mountain at the heavy cost of nearly 2/3 casualties (21,000 killed), defending the hometown of Guanzhong with flesh and blood, expressing the fierce loyalty of the soldiers of the Three Qins.

At that time, the Shaanxi newspaper said that "the entire stability of the northwest is due to the hard support of my brave soldiers on the north shore." The Japanese army regarded Zhongtiao Mountain as the "cecum" of the North China battlefield, and the people of the whole country called the Fourth Army the "Zhongtiao Iron Pillar".

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Shexian County, Hebei, temporarily organized as the headquarters of the Fifth Army. The newly appointed army commander Sun Dianying was crooked on the kang, holding a large smoking gun in his hand, and said with a smile while swallowing clouds and spitting fog: "What does the chairman think, I still don't know what to say? Ha Luha, aren't you afraid that I'll get involved with Balu? ”

Chief of Staff Feng Yangtian hurriedly asked, "Junzao, what are you going to do?" ”

Sun Dianying smiled and said, "What should I do?" Cold! You add one more guest house, no, two. One for the Eight Routes, one for the National Army, and one for the Japanese. None of us can be offended! ”

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Wei County, Hebei, commander of the 39th Group Army. Commander-in-Chief Shi Yousan sneered: "What does the chairman think, I still don't know what to say? Isn't it just throwing a bone for me to grab with Balu? ”

His younger brother, Shi Youxin, who is also a mentor, said busily: "Big brother, what are you going to do?" ”

Shi Yousan spat and scolded: "Grandma is a bear!" People have no windfall and no wealth, horses have no night grass and no fat, this job Lao Tzu took it! ”

He slapped the table and shouted, "You immediately ask all the people of the G Party to leave." From now on, all officers and men of our unit must join the Kuomintang. One government, one leader, one doctrine! ”

Shi Youxin hurriedly persuaded: "Big brother, Balu is not easy to mess with!" We finally saved up such a small amount of capital, and if we lose it, it will be all over. ”

Shi Yousan snorted coldly and said, "What are you afraid of!" If we win, we are the masters of this Hebei land; If you lose, let's go to Japan! ”

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Lingchuan, Shanxi, Hebei People's Army Headquarters. Commander-in-chief Zhang Yinwu looked at a letter of appointment from the head of the Hebei Provincial Department of Civil Affairs and sneered, and mocked: "What does the chairman think, I don't know what I do? Don't you just want me to do it against the Eight Roads? Kick it away when you don't need it, and throw a few meat bones when you can use it! ”

Some time ago, Zhang Yinwu jumped up and down, and he really wanted to be the governor of Hebei Province, but who would have thought that Lu Zhonglin would be cheaper after the worst. Zhang Yinwu was very dissatisfied, thinking that Lu Zhonglin did not stay in Hebei Province to persist in the War of Resistance, how could it be his turn to be the provincial chairman! Therefore, he went to Wuhan in a fit of anger and asked to see Chang Kaishen. He asked to see him three times, and often refused to see him three times. So he scolded in anger: "China will not die, it is not the law of heaven!" If China dies, it is not geography! ”

Chief of Staff Zhang Cunshi hurriedly asked, "Commander-in-chief, what do you think in your heart?" ”

Zhang Yinwu said: "I have thought about it, there must be soldiers in your hands and ground under your feet. Otherwise, we will be pawns at the mercy of others! So he ordered the organization of the Hebei People's Army to go north advance detachment, with Zhang Cunshi and Wu Jiamo as the chief and deputy commanders, to Boye County in central Hebei, trying to take over the Boye People's Army, and intended to "recover" Anguo, Boye, Lixian, Shenxian, Anping, Rao County and other places. And these six counties, except for Boye, are all under the control of the first sub-district of Jizhong. (To be continued......)

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