Chapter 473: Panicking Han Fuyu

With the formal signing of the Sino-Japanese Nanjing Armistice Agreement, the Japanese Second and Third Fleets hovering off the coast of Hangzhou Bay, as well as the remnants of the former Shanghai Dispatch Army off the coast of Wusongkou, really disappeared from people's sight, and the war was dissipated.

Shanghai has restored the prosperity of the past, and Nanjing has risen to peace with singing and dancing, and the swords and guns have been put into storage, and the horses have been put into the Nanshan Mountain, and everything has been restored to normal, as if the war two months ago, which swallowed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, is already a very distant peaceful scene, and there is no need to even maintain a huge military strength in the Songhu area, and the call for the reduction of the Songhu Garrison Command and the abolition of the Eighth Group Army has gradually become the mainstream idea, and the soldiers are no longer heroes in the eyes of the people.

As for North China, it is far away from us, it seems to be a matter of another world, and besides, there are millions of male soldiers of Vice Chairman Tang blocking it, and the Japanese cannot cross the Yellow River.

Those rich people who can embrace red and green, have famous cars, eat and drink, and spend a lot of money in high-end places have become the objects of admiration of the people again, and even the Eighth Group Army defending Hangzhou Bay must be abolished, and there is no need for the Sulu Mobile Corps of the North China Independent Division to stay in the Songhu-Hangzhou area.

Within the national government, some people even questioned Vice Chairman Tang's intentions, why did the Songhu war disappear, why did he still maintain a huge military force here? It seems that there is an attempt to get involved in the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River, of course Chairman Jiang does not believe it, Tang Qiuli has an opportunity, why make such a decision, but in the telegram, this matter was also hinted at very tactfully.

Of course, this cannot be said explicitly, and Chairman Chiang's reason is that the huge strength of the Sulu Mobile Corps has been stranded in the Jiangnan area for a long time, which may arouse the unwarranted suspicion of people with ulterior motives; not to mention that the necessary supplies are all transported by the Northern Army Branch over long distances, and in the long run, the Northern Army Branch is afraid that it will be overwhelmed to the point of affecting North China's preparations for war, and he also consulted Tang Qiuli on the matter of reducing the strength of the Songhu Garrison Command.

From the moment Tang Qiuli received the news that the Sino-Japanese Nanjing armistice agreement had been signed, he understood that the Japanese were ready and completed their new deployments, that the war would be reopened at the end of October and early November, and that the Japanese heavy army group, which had been organized more reasonably and more well-prepared, was about to pounce on the Songhu area again.

He must rush back to the front line in North China, the Japanese army has made a move in Songhu, how can the millions of Japanese troops in North China be lonely, this also declares that his leisurely good days are officially over, eating his mother's hometown meals every day, her ears are her constant nagging, and the delicate face of his wife around him is like huā, this qiē, will end.

After having lunch at my father-in-law's house, dealing with some military affairs, and Mei Ting rushed to my parents' house, it happened to be dinner, a family of four, gathered around the table, eating delicious authentic Northeast food, my mother suddenly sighed, Tang Qiuli asked in surprise, my mother said, when will you give your father and me a big grandson, this is happy, and it also saves you from having nothing to do all day, and you are in a panic.

Tang Qiuli laughed for a while, hurriedly buried his head in picking up rice, and said in his heart, Mom, this matter is not up to me, it has to rely on her, Mei Ting blushed with shame, and longed for a crack in the ground to get into, her mother-in-law was really outspoken, and when she saw Tang Qiuli laughing, she was so angry that she pinched him hard under the table, and Tang Qiuli grinned in pain, or her father saw his daughter-in-law fù uncomfortable, and sent the conversation over.

On 30 October, Tang Qiuli returned to the North China front from Dingbian, and at the headquarters of the Shijiazhuang Division, Feng Jiwu and Li Honggang reported to him the enemy situation in the recent period, and the Japanese army had not made any major moves in the near future, and the front was in a state of temporary stability, but it was only frequently mobilized, and the troops were mainly concentrated on the front line of Zhangjiakou in northern Hebei, Baoding and Cangzhou in southern Hebei, forming three heavy army groups.

In Zhangjiakou in northern Hebei, the total strength of the Japanese army is about 200,000, the total strength of the Japanese army in Baoding in southern Hebei is about 400,000, and the total strength of the Japanese army in Cangzhou is about 300,000.

Looking at the situation map of the enemy and us, the three thick arrows representing the heavy gathering of the Japanese army, Tang Qiuli fought a cold war violently, the intention of the Japanese army in North China was obvious, they waited for the Japanese army on the southern front to launch an attack, and launched the largest attack in North China, the Japanese army's posture showed that the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou in western Hebei Province must pass through Yangyuan and Dongjingji, attack Datong, and encircle Taiyuan from the north.

The Japanese army in Baoding in southern Hebei must go south to Jingcheng and Niangziguan to attack Shanxi and encircle Taiyuan from the west, and it is also possible to divide a part of the troops and go directly south, passing through Xingtai, Handan, and Anyang, to attack Kaifeng in Henan, as for the Japanese army in Cangzhou, it is a force attacking Shandong, they are all waiting, waiting for a time, this time is the Japanese army on the southern front, and at the same time as the Songhu campaign is relaunched.

In less than a week, there will be large-scale battles in Jiangnan and North China, and this time, it will be a decisive battle of life and death, and he immediately ordered the independent divisions and troops in various places to make preparations for battle, and the Sulu Mobile Corps stationed in Hangzhou Bay will immediately enter the first level of combat readiness, and the troops commanded by Liu Tie and Handong will be deployed along the Yellow River and inform Han Fuyu, chairman of Shandong Province, of the information.

The troops on the Laiyuan, Shijiazhuang, and Hengshui fronts on the Hebei front were ready to abandon the plain towns they were currently stationed in and shrink to the Taihang Mountains to avoid the enemy's edge and look for fighters.

He sent a special telegram to Tang Enbo's Eighth Army Corps on the Yellow River defense line in Henan Province to raise the alert level, and if the Japanese heavy army group was close, it could rely on the defense of Tang Yiīn, Hebi, and Xinxiang to resist step by step, but Zhengzhou and Luoyang on the south bank of the Yellow River must hold on and must not give up.

If the Japanese army attacks with part of its forces, it will be on the front line of Anyang, and the Japanese army will be resolutely blocked, and then there will be a new combat mission, he has a special detail on Tang Enbo's generation, in the final analysis, he is still not worried about this Tang army commander, who knows if he can drop the chain at the critical moment, however, with his 230,000 troops, it should not be a problem to defend the key points on the south bank of the Yellow River.

Thinking about it, he still didn't support it, and ordered Su Jingfeng's garrison corps of the Yellow River Henan Defense Line, with more than 29,000 troops, to immediately enter the front line of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng as the backup force of the Tang Army.

In the end, he personally wrote a long letter to Commander Yan of Shanxi, explaining the dangerous situation facing Shanxi at present, and hoped that he would take corresponding measures to take serious precautions, and that this time the Japanese army would take the capture of the entire territory of Shanxi as their main combat purpose, and that Datong in the north of Shanxi and Niangziguan and Yangquan in the east of Shanxi would be the main battlefields, and the main forces of the Jin army could be concentrated in these two directions, relying on the strong fortifications of the city to delay the attack speed of the Japanese army, and Shanxi would be unharmed.

Shanxi is the main battlefield of this war, he very much hopes that Yan Xishan can pay attention to the current situation, resist the 200,000 Japanese troops on the north road, buy time for himself, so as to free up his hands, wave his troops eastward, meet Liu Tiehan Dongzhi troops, and completely annihilate the Japanese army from Cangzhou to the south to attack Shandong, this battle will be easy to fight, and then, return to the division to the west, annihilate the Japanese army attacking Shanxi all the way, otherwise, with their existing strength, they will be overstretched, and things can not be taken into account.

Once Shanxi's Damén is opened by the Japanese army, the Yellow River defense line will face fierce attacks from the Japanese army everywhere, and it is a matter of time before it collapses.

After Yan Xishan received Tang Qiuli's autographed letter, he twisted his beard, his eyes shone with a cunning light, and asked his generals, what do you think of this matter, there is an old man on top, the senior generals of the Jin army, the one who dares to speak nonsense, all looked at Chief Yan, knowing that the old man already had a plan in his heart, and he just listened to the shouting.

Yan Xishan was very satisfied with the generals' expression, he knew in his heart that this vice chairman of the Tang Dynasty, the idea of beating him 400,000 Jin troops was not a day or two, and this time it came again, however, his own intelligence system also confirmed that in the Zhangjiakou area of western Hebei, a large number of Japanese troops were gathered, and as soon as they carried the tuǐ, they crossed the Jin-Hebei border and arrived at Datong.

Therefore, Yan Xishan's combat readiness situation was that the 12 divisions of the first group army of the Jin army, 260,000 people, led by the commander-in-chief Zhao Chengshou, all drove to the direction of Datong, deployed defenses in the area of Xubao and the ancient city, and built fortifications.

Zhao Chengshou knew the weight of these words, and he knew the position of the Datong mining area in the heart of the old man, so when he arrived in the Datong area, his war preparations were very down-to-earth and fully prepared, which was also the only defense line that the Japanese army did not break through in Shanxi after the battle started, and kept Taiyuan's Peking University Mén, which also gave Tang Qiuli time to readjust his strategy.

As for the line of Yangquan and Niangziguan, after crossing the border is Shijiazhuang in Hebei, he only sent two divisions of troops, the old man thought cunningly, there is Tang Qiuli's independent division in front of him, he can't make a patch for others, he should be a scene, the meaning is very good, this is also the implementation of his order as the commander-in-chief of the theater, no one can find máo disease.

Han Fuyu, the king of Shandong, after receiving Liu Tiehan's report, attached great importance to it and immediately began to act, however, this Han Qingtian's action was not to adjust the deployment, mobilize troops, and prepare for defense, but was busy selling fixed assets and transferring family wealth, and most of the gold and silver treasures were deposited in the Deutsche Bank in Qingdao, and a small part was carried with him.

He also transferred the three divisions of the cronies to the vicinity of Jinan, as his own escort team, busy with this qiē, he lived in the provincial government building every day, living in fear, eight cars outside the mén were filled with fuel, the driver ate and drank in the car, always on standby, once the wind was not right, the chairman of Shandong Province, ready to leave millions of Qilu fathers and elders, run away by himself.

Seeing that it was not a sign of it, Liu Tiehan held a press conference in Jinan in the name of the supreme military commander of the North China Independent Division of the Central Army stationed in Shandong to publicly spread the rumors, which stabilized the hearts of the people.

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