Li Long and Wang Bozhang hurried to the south gate with people again, and the same scene was staged at the south gate again. After the two of them were busy with me, they hurried back to the Provincial Political Axe Building, which is now the garrison headquarters.

As soon as Li Long walked into the door of the headquarters, Chang Sheng said happily, "Congratulations to the commander on his promotion!" ”

"Congratulations!" Li Long said angrily, "After stumbling for a long time, Lao Tzu is almost exhausted, and now I can finally rest." As he spoke, he sat down in a chair and closed his eyes to enjoy a short leisurely time.

Chang Sheng said with a smile, "Commander, just now Zhang Shaomarshal in Beiping sent a telegram, officially appointing the commander as the commander of the Chengde City garrison, and Nanjing also called back, not only appointing the commander as the commander of the garrison, but also giving a number of the Chengde garrison brigade. Commander, now you are the major general and brigade commander appointed by the Eighth Political Axe! ”

"What did you say?" Li Longpu sprang up from his chair suddenly.

It turned out that just before Li Long went to the West Gate, Wang Bozhang had sent a telegram to Beiping and Nanjing in advance, giving them a brief introduction to the situation in Chengde City, and requesting that Li Long be appointed as the commander of the Chengde garrison, responsible for organizing the military and civilian resistance in Chengde City.

Whether it was Zhang Xueliang in Beiping or Lao Jiang in Nanjing, when they learned that Tang Yulin had fled without a fight, they scolded angrily. But no matter how angry you are, it's useless, Tang Yulin has run away now, Chengde has to be guarded! After all, Chengde is the capital of a province, and if it is easily occupied by Yue, the impact will be too bad. Moreover, Zhang Xueliang has already been saddled with the name of a non-resistance general because of the 918 incident, and he was forced to go into the wilderness. Now although the official has been reinstated, his reputation has been completely ruined. I originally wanted to save some reputation during the Rehe War of Resistance, but it was only a few days after the war, and the front line was completely defeated, and Tang Yulin fled without a fight, causing Chengde City to fall into chaos, and now since Li Long wants to take over the defense of Chengde City, Zhang Xueliang is asking for it, although Zhang Xueliang has no hope for Li Long's motley army, but even if you can only hold on for half a day, it is better than fleeing without a fight! Therefore, Zhang Xueliang officially appointed Li Long as the commander of the Chengde garrison, and ordered Li Long to hold Chengde for more than seven days. And Nanjing's Lao Jiang and Zhang Xueliang have similar ideas, but Lao Jiang is the leader of the country after all, and he is naturally generous, and he is a major general as soon as he makes a move.

Chang Sheng told Li Long about this matter in detail, and Li Long laughed and said, "Haha, then say so, Lao Tzu is now a major general!" I remember that my eldest brother was just a colonel now. ”

Chang Sheng frowned and said, "It's naturally gratifying that the commander has been promoted, but the problem now is how to stop Yue himself and hold Chengde City, both Beiping and Nanjing want us to hold Chengde City." ”

Li Long said indifferently, "Chengde City is surrounded by mountains, and the terrain is dangerous. At the beginning, we even guarded Wu Song, but couldn't we keep Chengde? ”

Chang Sheng said, "The main force of the army has arrived at Xifengkou, Gubeikou, Jielingkou and other Great Wall routes. Now Zhang Xueliang is organizing troops to resist the Yue army on the front line of the Great Wall, and he is temporarily unable to give us reinforcements, and Sun Dianying's troops on the northern front have also been defeated and retreated back to Chahar, and the 6th Division of the Yue Army has successfully occupied Chifeng. That is to say, now Rehe Province, except for Chengde and a few counties southwest of Chengde that are still in our hands, all other places have fallen, and we have now become a lone army. ”

Li Long smiled and said, "If you are alone, you will be alone!" Lao Tzu is still afraid that reinforcements will come and take Lao Tzu in? It seems that what happened in the past few days has made Li Long still have lingering palpitations.

At this time, Wang Bozhang hurriedly ran in, saluted Li Long and said, "Sir! More than 1,000 people have now gathered in the barracks. ”

"So many people?" Chang Sheng said excitedly.

But Li Long shook his head in disappointment and said, "That's more?" You must know that we are facing the main force of the Eighth Division of the Yue Army, even if there are 10,000 people, Lao Tzu is not too much. ”

Wang Bozhang grabbed a tea jar on the table, took a sip of tea and continued, "Commander, there is another problem, that is, most of these officers and soldiers are soldiers, and there are very few officers, and there are only two majors with the highest ranks. ”

Li Long was not worried about this problem at all, the fewer officers the better, so that it would be more convenient for Li Long to control this army. Li Long thought for a while and said, "It's no problem to have fewer officers, you can transfer some of our original troops." I plan to reorganize our current troops into two regiments, the first regiment with our North China Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army as the team, and the second regiment with the newly recruited officers and men as the team. I intend to make you the chief of staff of the 2nd Regiment, with the rank of major for the time being, and then after meritorious service. ”

Wang Bozhang said happily, "Commander Xie cultivates!" ”

Li Long nodded and said, "As for the position of head of the regiment, I will take it for the time being!" Li Long was also helpless, Jin Zhao sent a lot of low-level officers to Li Long, but there were very few middle and senior officers, especially Chen Zhenpeng, who could serve as the head of the regiment for the time being, was barely competent. Chen Zhenpeng needed to serve as the commander of a regiment and send others over, and Li Long was afraid that he would not be able to suppress those arrogant generals of the Northeast Army, so he could only serve for the time being.

Wang Bozhang nodded and said, "Everything is up to the commander's arrangement!" ”

At this time, Chang Sheng walked up to Wang Bozhang with a smile, handed a document to Wang Bozhang, and said with a smile, "Chief of Staff Wang, this is the reorganization plan of the Second Regiment, we don't have much time now, I hope you can hurry up." ”

Li Long patted Wang Bozhang on the shoulder and said, "If there are any difficulties, even if you put it forward, I will transfer it to you if you are short of people, and if you are short of guns, you will go to the logistics office to get it, but I can only give you one day, and you must complete the reorganization within one day." Fortunately, Tang Yulin ran in too much hurry and didn't have time to bring anything. After Li Long took over Chengde City, under the guidance of Wang Bozhang, he quickly found two arms warehouses in the city. Li Long made a rough estimate, the weapons and equipment inside are enough to equip the two main divisions, this Chengde is Tang Yulin's lair after all, it seems that this old guy's family background is here. With these weapons, Li Long has more confidence.

"Yes, mission guaranteed!" Wang Bozhang saluted the two of them and said solemnly.

Seeing Wang Bozhang turn around and leave the headquarters, Chang Sheng said worriedly, "Commander, is this Wang Bozhang reliable?" ”

Li Long nodded and said, "Of course, because he is a Huaxia person, a Chinese person with a blood surname!" ”

As soon as Li Long's words fell, a communications soldier came over and gave Li Long a solemn military salute, "Report to the commander, the special combat team has just sent back the news and found that the vanguard of the Yue Army is rushing in the direction of Chengde. ”

Li Long couldn't help frowning, and then said, "Inform the special combat team to try to delay the speed of the army at all costs." and ordered Chen Zhenpeng's troops to prepare for battle. (To be continued.) )