Chapter 353 North China is busy with troops

Different experience, new feelings, so that Mei Ting's inner world, has undergone fundamental changes, she in the diary, the real record of this change, "love has come, although it is the first taste, has made me wash the dust, floating like a fairy, this beautiful feeling, often make me laugh in my dreams." ”

"In the middle of the night, looking carefully at this sleeping big boy beside me, it feels like in a dream, he has occupied all my body and mind, I can't imagine what it would be like without him in my life."

"Thank you to the heavens, let me come to North China, met him, and become the most precious treasure in my life, he is like a thick book, I just turned the first few pages, I will use the whole of my life to understand him."

"Today, that cute little warrior, called my sister-in-law, the first time I heard someone call me like this, my heart was like a drum panicked, but I felt happiness that I had never had, Qiuli was very happy that everyone called me like this, from his gaze, I saw the expectation and encouragement, perhaps, I should change and give up a lot, and strive to be this sister-in-law."

Mei Ting has the habit of keeping a diary, she recorded many feelings in North China in the diary, between the lines, is a vivid Mei Ting, in front of you, telling her heart.

Later, whenever Tang Qiuli opened these diaries and saw the familiar handwriting, Mei Ting's crisp and sweet voice would always ring in his ears, and he couldn't help but shed tears on his clothes, unable to restrain himself, these diaries became his most precious beloved things, accompanying him, rushing around the battlefield of blood and fire, and fighting in the vast land.

In the busy days, time flies, in a blink of an eye it has come to the end of September, the weather is gradually getting cooler, occasionally see flocks of geese, flying overhead, the sound of Qingyue, resounding in the vast, clear sky.

In the depths of the valley, you can already occasionally see the maple leaves dyed red by the early frost, and on the Great Plain of North China, all kinds of crops are full of ripe fruits, bulging and rising, and a scene of a bumper harvest should be a happy season.

But the turbulent situation has made people lose a lot of smiles on their faces.

Although the Japanese did not make any major moves, they continued to increase their troops from the mainland to North China, and large Japanese cargo ships entered and exited the port of Tianjin every day.

The content of the information transmitted from the intelligence network of the three channels in Tianjin was surprisingly consistent, and it was all the news of the Japanese army's troop increase.

In addition to the original 40,000 troops of the Japanese garrison in North China, the Japanese army base camp has successively transferred six divisions and other units from the Japanese mainland.

These six divisions are all permanent first-class field divisions of the Japanese Army, fully manned, with heavy artillery wings, and the combat effectiveness and firepower of the soldiers are very strong.

After the agents of the intelligence department of the independent division ascertained in many ways, they had already understood all the troops of the Japanese army, and Yu Deshui, the intelligence director of the independent division, sorted out this information and handed it over to the division commander.

The Japanese troops newly transferred to North China were numbered as the 8th Division, the 11th Division, the 12th Division, the 16th Division, the 17th Division, the 21st Division, the Katayama Mixed Brigade, the Akiba Mixed Brigade, the Small Field Tank Wing, the Kuniki Detachment, the Takashima Detachment, and the Murakami Task Force.

In this way, the total strength of the Japanese army in North China has reached 280,000, which is far more than the total strength of the 29th Army and the independent division.

In addition, the Kwantung Army also sent two first-class divisions to the line from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan, ready to respond to the military operations of the Japanese army in North China.

All kinds of indications show that the Japanese army in North China will definitely fight in a big way, and it is only a matter of time, and an accidental opportunity will become an excuse and reason for the Japanese army to start an all-out war, and there is no need for any excuse or reason.

This qiē was all expected by Tang Qiuli, but there was a big discrepancy with the historical information he had, and historical records recorded that at this time, the total strength of the Japanese army in North China was only about 120,000 people, and there was no small field chariot wing.

Is history untrue, or is it because of his own appearance that history has changed?

Tang Qiuli couldn't figure it out, anyway, he knew a little bit, the squadron was already at a disadvantage in North China, perhaps, without its own independent division, the Japanese army base camp would not have invested so much to transfer most of the permanent divisions in China to North China.

It is conceivable that once the war starts, the independent division will become the first target of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army will definitely do its best to besiege and remove the independent division as a thorn in the side, so as to eliminate the threat behind it, otherwise, the Japanese army cannot and does not dare to go south and attack the hinterland of China, so as to realize its strategic ambition of occupying the whole of China.

In order to cope with this situation, Tang Qiuli issued an order to the 29th Army and all units of the independent division to prepare for combat at the first level, and the logistics department allocated ammunition and materials to all units in accordance with the temporary standard, and all officers and soldiers were to cancel their vacations, and those who were already on vacation should immediately return to the team.

Li Honggang of the 1st Independent Brigade, Su Jingfeng of the 2nd Independent Brigade, Han Tie of the 3rd Independent Brigade, Yuan Jinghao of the 4th Independent Brigade, Zheng Yong of the 1st Artillery Brigade, Shen Jingshan of the 2nd Artillery Brigade, Liu Chun of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, and Tong Batu of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade left the Taihang Mountain base area and went to the Huai'an, Weixian, and Laiyuan lines in the western direction of Beiping, and stood by to monitor the movements of the Japanese troops in the direction of Beiping.

Sun Zhenbang's division of the Fifth Independent Brigade, Zhang Hansheng's division of the Sixth Independent Brigade, Yang Hu's division of the third artillery brigade, and Zeng Shiqiang's division of the third cavalry brigade, were unified under the command of Feng Jiwu, chief of staff of the independent division, and went to the Cangzhou and Renqiu lines in the southern direction of Tianjin, and stood by to monitor the movements of the Japanese troops in the direction of Tianjin.

Wang Bingde's division of the 7th Independent Brigade, Tian Shuangxi's division of the 8th Independent Brigade, Jiang Yaoshan's division of the 4th Artillery Brigade, Wu Kefan's division of the 4th Cavalry Brigade, and Li Changjiang's 5th Cavalry Brigade were unified under the command of Liu Tiehan, deputy commander of the independent division.

Liu Tiehan's troops had two tasks, one was to monitor the movements of the Japanese troops in the direction of Pingjin, and the other was to monitor the movements of the Japanese Kwantung Army on the line from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan.

Wang Dazhu of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the 29th Army, as a mobile force, obeyed the command of division commander Tang Qiuli and went to Langfang to stand by, ready to support all directions at any time.

All officers and men of the 29th Army immediately canceled their vacations, were forbidden to go out, checked their weapons and equipment, and all garrison units immediately entered a state of first-class combat readiness.

All divisions were not allowed to clash with the Japanese army, and the formation of strategic deterrence was the main thing.

After the deployment of troops was completed, Tang Qiuli issued a conscription order to the Huangyadong Base Area and the Dingbian Special Economic Zone Garrison Headquarters, and the Huangyadong Base Area completed the task of recruiting 20,000 new soldiers for the entire North China region at the end of 1936, and formed a combat strength in February and March 1937.

Within the scope of the Dingbian Special Economic Zone, the Dingbian Garrison Command recruited 50,000 recruits for on-the-spot training, and in order to build up its combat strength by March 1937, the logistics department of the independent division mobilized weapons and equipment from Huangyadong to arm the recruits recruited from Dingbian.

The Huangyadong Garrison Brigade was expanded into a reinforced brigade with six regiments and a strength of 20,000 troops, which served as the mobile force of the independent division and took over the defense of the various defense areas in the Taihang Mountain base area after the field troops went to the front line.

Tang Qiuli must achieve a certain balance with the Japanese army in North China in terms of troops, and moreover, he is also brewing a reserve military service system, which is mainly implemented in the Dingbian Special Economic Zone, which has a population of nearly one million and contains abundant human resources, which can provide a large number of reserve soldiers for all units of the independent division.

Although the history records that it was July 7, 1937, it is not possible to ensure that the Japanese commander smoked the sheep's horns and lit the fuse of the war, and the Sino-Japanese war broke out in advance, and the troops could not be beaten passively.

A period of dispatch of troops, the units of the independent division, has formed a joint attack on the Japanese army in the Pingjin area, a little troublesome is the troops that went out to Tangshan and Zunhua in eastern Hebei, which is the territory of Yin Rugeng of the ** autonomous government in eastern Hebei.

Boss Yin Rugeng was reluctant to do so, and repeatedly stressed that this was a military zone in eastern Hebei, and sent three telegrams of protest to the Political Affairs Committee of the Hebei Procuratorate, which were very strongly worded, and said that he had already informed His Excellency the commander of the North China Garrison Army of the Japanese Empire of the incident and that the Chinese side would bear all the consequences arising therefrom.

Tang Qiuli looked at the protest telegram of this big traitor, and he was angry, this guy, as if he was not Chinese, seemed to regard himself as a head of state, and threatened the Japanese, the Japanese are your own father?

Tang Qiuli personally drafted a reply to this big traitor, and the telegram was also unkind, "The troops of our North China Independent Division entered the eastern Hebei region in order to chase down the bandits who slipped through the net in Xiaowutai Mountain. ”

"Intended to disturb the social order in my Pingjin area? If this is the case, please recall, when our North China Independent Division first entered the customs, the fate of the Jidong Security Corps, just imagine, today's North China Independent Division, both in strength and strength, far more than when it first entered the customs. ”

"If Your Excellency is rudely blocking our troops to suppress bandits, Tang doesn't mind the repetition of the Battle of Jidong, even if the Japanese army is dispatched to help you with all its might, Tang will definitely be able to take your head, if you don't believe it, would you like to meet Tang in the Jidong Plain, the military vehicle? Look at who stains the land of eastern Hebei with blood, in the future, such nonsense, don't bother me"

If it weren't for the hindrance of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, the ground in eastern Hebei, and Yin Rugeng's turn to speak, would also take the opportunity to cut off the convenient passage for the Kwantung Army to enter the pass south, and cut off the connection between the Kwantung Army and the Japanese army in North China.

Tang Qiuli also knew that the excuse of going to eastern Hebei to suppress bandits was too reluctant, and it was simply a strong argument, which was exactly the same as the reason for Japan's occupation of the three eastern provinces and the stationing of troops in North China.

Otherwise, he would have taken off his traitor's head a long time ago and hung it on the city gate of Beiping to show the public, there is no way, speak with strength, fists are the last word.

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