Chapter 1: The Darkness Before Dawn (10)
Just when Liu Zheliang began to make a big move in Dongshan. Wanping, the historic battle began. At about ten o'clock in the evening of March 17, after the unreasonable request to enter the city to search was sternly rejected by the garrison of the Xuebing Army, Hirano Ikehide issued an order to open fire on the two pillboxes in the Lugou River on the side of the Lugou Bridge, and then launched an attack on the Lugou Bridge with a small team.
In Wanping City, since the little devil made an unreasonable request to enter the city, Fu Kaiming and his staff team were ready to fight. As Wanping's throat, Lugou Bridge was originally garrisoned by one company, but now it has increased to two companies. On the city wall corresponding to the Lugou bridge section, Fu Kaiming also arranged a battalion of defensive troops. In addition, an anti-aircraft artillery company and a field artillery company, which were added only at the end of last year, also quickly entered the position. After Li Tieshu arrived with the 001 Brigade 001 Regiment and several military district staff officers, he made a little adjustment, among them, with the strength of a battalion, he walked out of the east gate of Wanping (Wanping City has two gates on the east and west, of which the west gate is next to Lugou Water, and the bridge on Lugou Water is Lugou Bridge), and it is hidden in the courtyard between the two pillboxes outside the east gate.
There were no bunkers outside the east and west gates of Wanping City, but after the Xuebing Army took control of Wanping, Ouyang Yun was familiar with this history, so he built two bunkers on both sides of the Lugou Bridge outside the east gate about 150 meters outside the east gate and outside the west gate. Among them, a wall about three meters high was built between the grain bunkers at the east gate, forming a small outer city outline.
The four bunkers of Wanping are built very firmly, of which two on the water of Lugou are particularly so, with a diameter of more than 50 meters and a height of more than 30 meters, all of which are built with a width of more than half a meter, that is to say, the thickness of the wall of the bunker has reached half a meter.
As soon as the little devil's cannon fired, the chief officers in the two pillboxes on the Lugou water dialed the phone number to the regiment headquarters one after another, and the one who seized the opportunity was Wang Deshui, the platoon commander of the third company and one platoon of the second battalion. When Fu Kaiming's hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone, Wang Deshui shouted in a tone of excitement and joy: "Tuanzao, the little devil is **, the little devil is **!" ”
Before Fu Kaiming could respond, Li Tieshu next to him heard it and couldn't help wondering: "The Japanese have started to attack, but what is this kid happy about?!" ”
Fu Kaiming smiled, first issued an order to meet the battle, let Wang Deshui beat him hard, and then said to Li Tieshu with a shy smile: "Deputy military seat, you don't know the way, since the victory in Tianjin, the brothers have been holding back a lot of strength in their hearts, and they are all looking forward to fighting as soon as possible." Hehe, now that the little devil dares to take the initiative to find trouble, we naturally can't ask for it. ”
Li Tieshu listened to his lofty remarks, first he couldn't cry or laugh, but then he remembered something but became serious, and asked: "Commander Fu, listen to what you mean, do you think that the Japanese are particularly vulnerable?" ”
Fu Kaiming said without thinking: "Of course, even the 38th Division can easily defeat them, let alone us!" ”
After Li Tieshu heard what he said, his brows couldn't help frowning, thinking that this was a serious problem, he said with a straight face: "Commander Fu, you have confidence and courage, this is good." However, if you think that the Japanese are vulnerable based on the battle of Tianjin alone, you will be guilty of arrogance. Well, I'll call the military seat first, and you can go to the castle tower to command the battle! Give me a little calm, the little devil is not a tofu block, you can knead it at will! ”
Li Tieshu's words were actually a bit heavy, but Fu Kaiming didn't seem to hear it. He answered, and then hurried out of the headquarters with a few regimental staff officers and went straight to the city tower.
Ren Qiu, in the large conference room of the military camp of the Xuebing Army, in addition to Ji Xingwen and Li Tieshu, other senior generals of the Xuebing Army, including Jiang Shuren and Fan Xudong, have arrived.
Next door to the conference room, the staff officers of the military headquarters of the Cadet Army were doing their homework around the sand table centered on Wanping.
There was silence in the large conference room, and everyone stared at the three phones in front of Ouyang Yun. Suddenly, the crisp phone rang, Ouyang Yun pinched the cigarette in his hand into the ashtray and grabbed the microphone: "Hey, I'm Ouyang Yun!" ”
"Throne, it's on!" Li Tieshu's voice came from the phone, and everyone exhaled in unison. Among them, Jiang Shuren and Fan Xudong's faces became solemn, while Guo Biao and Shan Xiong had bright eyes. Zhang Zhen and Ouyang Yun's expressions were a little similar, that is, they didn't have any special expressions on their faces.
"Lao Li, Wanping will be handed over to you!" Ouyang Yun said so, and said a few more words to Li Tieshu, he put down the phone, glanced at everyone, and then dialed the phone number directly to Ji Xingwen.
Ji Xingwen was still in Zhangjiakou at this time, and at this time, he was with his deputy division commander and chief of staff, including the following brigade commanders, who were all qualified to participate in the conference call. Just like Ouyang Yun and them, they were also waiting quietly, the phone rang, he took it, and heard Ouyang Yun's voice, he asked, "Junzao, has it finally started?" ”
"It's started, are you guys ready over there?"
Ji Xingwen put the microphone in front of a microphone and said, "Okay! ”
Ouyang Yun took the phone, glanced at Zhang Zhen and them, and said, "Everyone, everyone heard it. Now, I declare the Cadet Army and the Jicha Autonomous Government to enter a state of war. According to the Director-General's Decree No. 36015 of the Autonomous Government, all counties and cities under its jurisdiction have entered the wartime system, all official actions to meet the needs of the war are the first priority, the garrisons and self-defense forces in various regions have entered the battle, all officers and soldiers have stopped all vacation activities, and government workers, foreign affairs workers, and personnel stationed abroad are not allowed to leave a specific area without authorization and are not allowed to give interviews to the media without authorization. Do you have any objections? ”
"Nope!"
"Okay, let's do a specific division of labor for the current work. Minister Jiang, from today onwards, government affairs will trouble you; Mr. Fan, industrial and agricultural production requires you to worry a lot. Lao Zhang ...... "Ouyang Yun began to assign tasks one by one, first political, economic, diplomatic, and then military.
After the victory in Tianjin, Ouyang Yun knew that the day would not be too far away. After learning that a military coup had taken place in Japan, he firmly believed that by the end of this year at the latest, the Japanese would definitely take action. From that moment on, he wondered what would happen to the areas under his control on the front lines if the war was in full swing.
As a traverser, Ouyang Yun actually does not have the talents of a politician and a military strategist, but because of his insight into history, and he is diligent enough, he knows that the stupid bird flies first, so although this wartime system that consumes a lot of his brain cells is not perfect, it is enough to make the Jicha Autonomous Region and the student army normally transition to wartime. And what he needs to do next, what he can do, is to do his best to use the army to throw bricks and lead the jade, and pull the entire military strength of North China and even China into the big oven of resistance against Japan - sooner or later, China and Japan will start fighting, North China is destined to become the front line, only this time, will it be easily occupied by the Japanese like that period of history?