Tang Qiuli made up his mind to abandon Beiping, but his heart was a lot easier, he told his wife Mei Ting about the whole process of his inner entanglement, without him, just to seek some comfort from his wife, but also to make himself relaxed. Mei Ting listened quietly to her husband's story, with a quiet smile, and then, gently took Tang Qiuli's head into her arms, leaned on the towering rǔ peak, and slowly stroked his short black and white hair, which was his favorite posture.

"Qiuli, as long as you think about it maturely, what other infamy are you afraid of, if there is, I am willing to bear it with you, I believe that you can take back a complete Beiping City from the hands of the Japanese, and then all the infamy will disappear."

Mei Ting said softly, enough, with Mei Ting's words, Tang Qiuli was full of comfort, he held Mei Ting's white face, and carefully examined his wife's big black and white eyes, there, as clear as autumn water, on his wife's red and plump chún, a deep wěn, until Mei Ting was out of breath, he relaxed, and then laughed.

Ma Heng, director of the Palace Museum, is also the president of the newly established Association of Museums of the Republic of China, a knowledgeable and respected old man who has devoted his life to the protection of Chinese cultural relics.

When Tang Qiuli saw him, the old man was sweating like rain sorting out a cultural relic, and he was quite surprised to see the No. 1 person in Pingjin visiting in person, but he was not flattered on his face, and he was flattering, and indifferently invited Tang Qiuli to sit down.

Tang Qiuli explained his intentions, Ma Heng was very surprised, sighed, his face was dull, his eyes were distracted, he seemed to be muttering to himself, what? Beiping can't be saved, and these cultural relics will be burned again, what are you soldiers doing?

Tang Qiuli was speechless, he couldn't say so many great truths to this pure scholar-type old man Ma Heng, no matter what, Beiping City would not be protected.

Tang Qiuli walked out of the house, Ma Heng followed him, his steps were a little staggering, Tang Qiuli pointed to the majestic Forbidden City, and stroked the Panlong Pillar, "Dean Ma, you said that this can withstand a few shells, and the Japanese will not show mercy!" ”

Ma Heng was silent, he also knew that Tang Qiuli was telling the truth, and sighed, "Commander Tang, what are your plans, the old man is willing to listen!" ”

After asking for the consent of the Nanjing National Government, all the cultural relics of the Palace Museum in Beiping were packed and transported away, but they were not transported to the south first, and after several twists and turns, they were transported to Chongqing. ####

At the same time, all the experts and staff of the Palace Museum in Beiping also went to Dingbian, where the new museum is being built, and the conditions are many times stronger than those in Beiping.

Tang Qiuli transferred the automobile transport troops, after more than ten days of busyness, all the national treasures and cultural relics that could be transported have been loaded into the car, Tang Qiuli sent Liu Chūn's first cavalry brigade to escort all the way, all the experts and cultural relics, arrived safely in Dingbian.

After dealing with these worries, the time was already mid-June, and Tang Qiuli ordered all the troops of the 29th Army stationed in Beiping to go to the outskirts of Beiping, stationed in various garrison points, and build field fortifications.

Although he was forced to give up Beiping in desperation, he also wanted to leave an empty city for the Japanese, and a city version of the fortified wall, so all the residents in the city must be transferred, and those who go to relatives and friends will be responsible for the payment of travel fees, and those who want to go to the Taihang Mountains or the Dingbian Special Economic Zone will be responsible for the independent division to settle their lives.

The evacuation order was issued by the Pingjin Garrison Command, and for a time, the railways and highways from Beiping to other places were crowded with people every day, and cars and trains shuttled back and forth, and they were busy non-stop.

The Japanese troops surrounding the periphery of Beiping looked at this qiē in amazement, at a loss, they didn't know what to do, the devil Tang Qiuli was in China, what kind of ghost was this doing, did it turn Beiping into a pure military fortress, hold on to the city, and fight to the death with the Japanese Imperial Army?

The Japanese army had the intention to stop it, but there was no legitimate excuse, so they could only watch the Chinese leave Beiping every day, and a few days later, in a huge city of nearly one million people, except for the large number of policemen who stayed behind, there was no one else in sight, of course, there were also citizens who did not obey orders and tried in every possible way to hide. They also secretly rejoiced that they finally escaped the catastrophe, who knew that after the Japanese army occupied Beiping, because there were almost no residents in the city, these people became the targets of the Japanese army's oppression, and suffered from dozens of times more bullying and oppression.

On 8 June, the Okamura Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese North China Garrison Army held a military exercise in the vicinity of Changxindian, where the 29th Army was stationed.

The 135th Regiment of the 38th Division of the 29th Army stationed here immediately entered the position, and after asking the commander Tang Qiu to leave, he immediately prepared to attack the Japanese army.

At this time, the Japanese army sent people to liaison, claiming that it was because the artillery misplaced the coordinates, causing the shelling target to leave the exercise area, causing accidental injuries to the Chinese people, and was deeply sorry for this, and was willing to bear the responsibility and compensate for the losses, and the Japanese army immediately withdrew from the area.

On the morning of 13 June, the Chinese defenders stationed at the Nanyuan Airport in Beiping were conducting routine training when suddenly six Japanese fighters and bombers formed a formation and forcibly landed on the runway of the Nanyuan Airport, and were immediately surrounded by the Chinese defenders.

The officer of the Japanese air force who led the team said that because the navigation instruments on the plane suddenly malfunctioned, the group lost its direction, and could not find a way to return to the field, and there was not much fuel left in the plane.

Immediately, the Japanese North China Garrison Army Headquarters also sent personnel to contact, and the Japanese side is making every effort to search for the whereabouts of this aviation unit, and is very grateful to the Chinese people for their great help, so that the pilots of the Japanese Empire were spared.

He was accompanied by several truckloads of fuel and a large number of maintenance technicians, but the Japanese technicians were suspicious and seemed to have taken pictures of the topography of our Nanyuan Airport and explored the airport facilities.

Asking the commander Tang to deal with the opinion, the commander of the Tang army immediately called back, but without restrictions, let the Japanese technicians conduct on-site reconnaissance, the commander of the garrison was puzzled, and many were unwilling, but still strictly carried out the order, the Japanese aircraft and maintenance personnel, stranded at Nanyuan Airport for ten xiǎo hours.

The Japanese planes took off first, but the ground personnel searched the airfield on the pretext that a Japanese technician was lost, and after a few hours, the Japanese technician returned to the team and the Japanese evacuated.

On 19 June, in Gaobeidian, the eastern suburb of Beiping, about a squadron of Japanese soldiers, who did not carry firearms, asked to pass through the defense area of the Chinese defenders and enter the city of Beiping, but the defenders refused.

Immediately, the headquarters of the Japanese North China Garrison Army sent a letter of protest, claiming that the soldiers who were not carrying firearms and were on leave were suddenly attacked by heavily armed Chinese soldiers, and many people were injured.

The Japanese army then sent a senior staff officer of a major general to deal with our department, and was determined to take away our soldiers, but Commander Tang did not come forward in person, and the written reply to the Japanese army was: "If you want to fight, you will fight, what are you talking about?" This kind of xiǎo pediatric trick is still better to put away, if such a clumsy thing happens again, our army will no longer use fists and feet, but bullets! ”

The Japanese major general was angry, claiming that Commander Tang's move was actually a deliberate attempt to provoke a dispute between the two countries, and that he would lodge a stern protest with the Nanjing government and report the matter to the Japanese government, which the Japanese side regarded as a provocation and extreme contempt for the Japanese Empire, and the Japanese side reserved the right to take further action.

Seeing the Japanese envoy leave, all the officers of the military headquarters of the 29th Army once again read Commander Tang's reply to the Japanese army, laughed heartily, filled the room with a bang, and the sound vibrated the roof tiles.

At midnight on 23 June, in Dongguangying, a northern suburb of Beiping, where the 7th Company of the 210th Regiment of the 38th Division of the 29th Army was stationed, it was suddenly attacked by unidentified militants, with about 400 attackers, more than three times the strength of our defenders.

More than 120 soldiers of our defending army, holding on to the danger, fought bloody battles with the attacking enemy, the position was broken through many times, and was recaptured, the two sides fought for Jī Lie, and after about two more than two hours of fighting, our reinforcements arrived, and the attackers retreated.

Observing the direction of its retreat, it was the Shunyi barracks of the Japanese army, and the attackers all used Japanese-style firearms, in this battle, the 7th Company of our 210th Regiment killed 38 officers and soldiers, and more than 40 were wounded, the casualties of the attackers were unknown, and the body of the attacker was not seen at the scene.

After the battle, Commander Zun Tang ordered the defenders of the Dongguang Battalion to be increased to a strong battalion, equipped with a machine gun company, and laid a large number of mines along the direction of the attacker's attack and the surrounding area.

On 28 June, in the vicinity of Xiangshan in the western suburbs of Beiping, the Qingshui Wing of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in North China demanded that the Chinese garrison here, the 1st Regiment of the 132nd Division of the 29th Army, withdraw from the area in the name of conducting a mountain exercise, so as to avoid accidental injuries and disputes caused by the exercise.

The regiment received the order of the Tang army commander, did not give an inch, immediately blocked all roads and passes, and prepared to meet the battle, the Japanese army set up an artillery position at the foot of the mountain, the two sides were deadlocked for a day and night, and then the Japanese army took the initiative to withdraw.

During this period, Tang Qiuli received all the troops of the 29th Army stationed on the periphery of Beiping, and all the situations reported, without exception, were all due to the Japanese army's initiative to retreat, and the tense situation was relieved.

Tang Qiuli was in the command headquarters, in front of the generals, with a sneer on his face, watching the Japanese jump around like monkeys eating chūnyào, busy and happy.

He warned the commanders of the 29th Army at all levels that in early July this year, there would be large-scale battles in the areas of Lugou Bridge and Wanping, and that the current situation was all an illusion created by the Japanese army.

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