Chapter 62 Preparing for Chengde

When Song Ziwen and Zhang Xueliang came to Rehe, it can be said that the most unhappy person from beginning to end was Tang Yulin. When he returned to the house, Tang Yulin immediately summoned his "elite soldiers and generals" together. Tang Yulin paced back and forth and resentful Tang Yulin cursed: "Did Xiaoliuzi (Zhang Xueliang) colluded with Song Ziwen and others to come to Rehe to make up my mind? He has plotted against me?"

Sitting aside and blowing tea cups, tea Yuzhi's reputation is undoubtedly the best. Compared with the Northeast Army, Provincial Defense Department and the Northwest Army, which are afraid of poverty, the quality of the Central Army is undoubtedly revealed. The newspapers from all sides seem to have forgotten that these officers and soldiers were also affiliated with the Northeast Army sequence six months ago and rush to report, which also added a lot of glory to Nanjing.

Zhang Xuewu was entrusted by Zhang Xueliang as the commander of the Chengde security commander, so naturally the military police company of the newly formed First Division took on the handling of the violations of discipline in the near Chengde. Those who were caught for many consecutive days were actually all Northwest Army officers and soldiers. Zhang Xuewu originally thought that the Northwest Army, which had good military discipline, was even more like a wolf and a tiger in Chengde, did nothing to buy things without paying money, ate overlords, prostitutes, and blackmailed them.

After interrogation, Zhang Xuewu realized that the so-called strict military discipline of the Northwest Army also refers to a small number of troops. Naturally, they did not dare to fight in their own garage. This time, they entered Rehe to fight, and did not replenish a soldier, bullet and grain of food on the top of the mountain, and all of them were raised. Therefore, only when the military discipline was good was good, they saw the ghost.

Can such troops have combat effectiveness? As a soldier who is not given supplies to the top, it is a reason to rob the common people? More than thirty robbers and murderers, including those who are prostitutes, Zhang Xuewu executed all the guns with one stroke. For this reason, Song Zheyuan sent a pistol brigade to Chengde to steal people. As a result, Zhang Xuewu dispatched ten tanks. Song Zheyuan's pistol brigade commander did not dare to move. The lawsuit came to Zhang Xueliang. In addition, Tang Yulin was very dissatisfied with Song Zheyuan's extensive incorporation and annexation of various divisions of the Northeast Volunteer Army. Zhang Xueliang retreated all Song Zheyuan's troops to the north of the Great Wall to station.

Zhang Xuewu knew very well that if he followed the current layout, once the Japanese army attacked, the defeat in history would probably happen again immediately. His insistence in Beidaying on the night of the September 18th Incident reduced the losses after the fall of the three northeastern provinces much less than in history. This is also the main reason why Zhang Xueliang is more tough now.

If Rehe is defeated, then the entire North China general will inevitably have the so-called non-armed area. Various traitor regimes emerge one after another. How can we sit and watch the broken mountains and rivers? Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath. He was already the elite elite of the Central Army's army, and he was already qualified to attend an important military meeting at this moment, but this was just a meeting. Zhang Xuewu deeply felt the pain of being lighter.

Advice to the upper hand? Zhang Xuewu thought about it and also did it with the idea of ​​giving his power to the death. As a result, all his advice was in the wastebasket, just like an ordinary farmer in later generations who walked into the mayor's office to talk about the future development plan of the city. The end of the matter was to be sent to the psychiatric treatment center.

Since it cannot influence the direction of history strategically, then you should take the tactics you are good at! However, before the war, Zhang Xuewu had to eliminate the unstable factors around him, that is, Deputy Division Commander Hao Wenbin, Zhang Xuewu transferred 900 backbones from each regiment and handed them over to Hao Wenbin to set up two left-behind offices in Peking and Jinghai, Tianjin, to recruit students from high school or above, preferably high school and university, and form a student corps to receive military training. Because Zhang Xuewu knew very well that if he wanted to form a mechanized unit, he had to have a large number of officers and soldiers with cultural foundations. Can he expect those soldiers whose names even had difficulty driving tanks and armored vehicles?

Hao Wenbin understood Zhang Xuewu's arrangements. Rehe is about to become a battlefield, and it is a good thing to stay away from the battlefield. If Zhang Xuewu is in an accident, it may be his turn to make a fortune!

After the reorganization of backbones, Zhang Xuewu's defense points for the entire Rehe Battle were set in Chengde. Chengde is located in the transition zone between North China and Northeast China, close to Beijing and Tianjin, backed by Mongolia and Liao, and adjacent to two coastal cities in the province, Qinhuangdao, Tangshan, and Zhangjiakou.

The Rehe River is mountainous and the terrain is steep, which is very unfavorable to the rapid maneuvering and deployment of troops in the Japanese army. If Chengde is lost, it will be like the gates of Pingjin to open, and the Chinese army can only rely on the so-called Great Wall for defense.

Zhang Xuewu's total troops were placed in the Xi'an area of ​​Luanhe with the Women's Middle School as the core. Xu Guohui's troops in the First Regiment were stationed in Laohugou, Wang Chuang's troops in the Second Regiment were stationed in Sengguanfeng, and Zhao Xinyu's troops in the Third Regiment were stationed in Majiagou Bianling. Each regiment dispatched a battalion of troops and the mechanized regiment to garrison near the higher terrain of the Women's Middle School. The division headquarters, artillery regiment, guard battalion, engineering battalion, anti-aircraft artillery battalion was stationed in the Women's Middle School, and the cavalry battalion was stationed in the outside line of Chengde.

Chief of Staff Li Xinkai went to the first regiment to supervise the battle, and Director of the Political Department Huang Tao went to the third regiment to supervise the battle. The second regiment was behind the division headquarters, so there was no need to send people to supervise the battle for the time being.

After all this, Zhang Xuewu felt like he was exhausted. The Japanese invaders had hoarded heavy troops in Jinzhou, but so far he did not have a detailed report on the enemy situation. Even the specific number of the Japanese army and the various types of troops were not clear. What kind of battle is this? I don’t want you to know yourself and your enemy, at least you have a rough idea?
Chapter completed!