Chapter 71: Poaching people

In the telegram, Chiang Kai-shek clearly instructed Zhang Xuewu to make complete preparations for the enemy and stockpile weapons, ammunition and medicine. As the commander of the Rehe Police Chengde, the newly formed First Division has the obligation and responsibility to defend Chengde to the death, but before facing the enemy, it is necessary to ensure the smooth progress of the strategic transformation route.

What is the strategic transformation route? According to Zhang Xuewu's understanding, it is his own retreat. If you defeat a war, you cannot say that you will lose your war to avoid affecting your morale. So, it is tactful to say that you will change forward. Just like the Japanese demand reinforcements, you always have to say that you need tactical guidance!

Chiang Kai-shek gave Zhang Xuewu a clear indicator and date, that is, at the latest March 20th, Huang Jie's Second Division and Guan Zhenglin's 25th Division will arrive in Chengde and join him. He must stick to Chengde before. He must not retreat without the order of the Central Military Commission! This order was sent to the Beiping Military Branch in the form of a telegram.

Zhang Xueliang was also amazed at the good intentions of Chiang Kai-shek on this telegram. He could see that although Chiang Kai-shek was reluctant to leave the new First Division, and Zhang Xuewu was the first person to surrender to him. Before the national army was unified and reorganized, Zhang Xuewu was unmatched by Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek needed an example to let everyone follow, and Zhang Xuewu became this role model. Zhang Xueliang was also very impressed by Zhang Xuewu's decisive vision.

"The Japanese pirates invade the north, and the deadline is not far away. Today's events can only be determined to save the people's hearts. Even if they are defeated, they can still survive. Otherwise, they will be the sinner of the nation for the ages." Old Chiang Kai-shek's words made Zhang Xueliang really determined to fight the Japanese invaders to the death because of the endless reign.

However, Zhang Xuewu's new first division is in a storm at this moment, and the Japanese pirates invaded the territory and could not retreat without fighting to protect their strength. At this time, the Central Army often set an example to fight the enemy and set an example for local divisions. Therefore, two divisions of the Central Army were launched, and three divisions were piled up in Chengde. Even if Chengde was in a loss, the three divisions could rely on each other and fight and retreat.

Zhang Xueliang also inherited Zhang Xuewu's new first division stationed in Chengde, because he was much more at ease with the new first division in Chengde. In the final analysis, it was due to distrust of Tang Yulin's military command ability.

Zhang Xuewu was very dissatisfied with the strategic and tactical arrangements of the overall Rehe Battle. He was not satisfied with the war and he was holding his head and crouching into a ball before the war started. However, with the current overall situation in Rehe, even if he was handed over to Zhang Xuewu for command, he would probably be unable to turn things around and be sad.

On February 27, 22nd year of the Republic of China, Chengde began to turn against a large number of troops on the front line, and the fall of Chaoyang, the Japanese army was approaching the city soon. In addition, the defeat of the army passed by from time to time. Those who were still watching their hometowns could only pack up their simple burdens and leave their homeland. They turned around and left Chengde in three steps. No one knew where the road was? But everyone knew that from today on, they had become refugees and refugees!

Zhang Xuewu did not go to Tang Yulin's general command center, because Chengde only had three brigades of Tang Yulin's troops stationed at this moment. Moreover, in history, Shao Benliang, the main force of the Dong Futing Brigade of the Chaoyang defender, turned against the front line. In addition, the Japanese army invested three armies in such a narrow triangular area to defeat the city and invade the city, so the Tang army would soon lose strategic rush such as Nanling, Beipiao, Chaoyang and other strategic rush.

The loss of the triangular area also put Ling Nan, who was defended by Wan Fulin's three brigades, into a state of being alone. Wang Yongsheng, the 29th Brigade, the most combat-capable 29th Brigade, and the 30th Brigade of Zhaolin, were all engaged in defensive operations against Chaoyang's flanks. Chaoyang's rapid loss will also put these two brigades under the enemy. If the elite troops of Wan Fulin's 29th and 30th Brigades were defeated, then the combat power of the Wan Fulin Legion would be reduced by half immediately.

In front of the war map, Zhang Xuewu looked at the three black arrows representing the Japanese army going deep into the Rehe River, and secretly sighed in his heart that the gap between the Chinese army and the Japanese army in terms of large-scale corps operations is really a world of difference, although there are many problems in the deployment of the Japanese army's strategic and tactical strategies.

For example, the Japanese army used heavy troops to launch heavy troops in the narrow Rehe Triangle area to conduct heavy troops on assault. If this battle was replaced by the French or German troops in Europe, the Japanese army would stage the most tragic massacre after World War One. Unfortunately, the Chinese army's mobility is not as good as the Japanese army, and the density of firepower projection is only one-thirty of that of the Japanese army. Although there is air support and cover, it lacks the necessary ground-to-air cooperation exercises.

Therefore, the old-fashioned tactics used by the Japanese army during World War I were very easy to work. In terms of strategy, if the Japanese army used fixed-point defense to delay the Japanese attack, and attacked the Shanhaiguan line with three to five divisions, and then turned to Jinzhou to destroy the Japanese forward material transfer station, then the 200,000 Japanese troops who attacked the Rehe would be in a situation of exhausting ammunition and food in the snow. At that time, the main force of the Central Army would be surrounded and annihilated, which would definitely shock the entire Japan. Can the Japanese army, which only had sixteen divisions, with the opportunity to recover the Yalu River in the three northeastern provinces.

These are just strategic plans that Zhang Xuewu imagined. It is important whether the enemy has strategic and tactical flaws, but whether they have the ability to find fighter planes to capture the flaws of the Japanese army is another matter. Just like Zhang Xuewu looks at the Japanese strategy, the tactical deployment of the staff plan is like a pig's head, which is ridiculous.

However, the cruel reality slapped Zhang Xuewu in the face, that is, the Japanese army made rapid progress with this tactical plan with loopholes. No matter how good the strategy and tactical plan are, they can only shrink in Chengde to reinforce fortifications every day. Zhang Xuewu also wanted to attack, but in the narrow strategic offensive channel, his new first division was clamped and divided and surrounded by two heavy troops of the Japanese army. The only result was that he was crushed and crushed.

Apart from defending Chengde, a crucial portal point in Rehe, Zhang Xuewu had no other choice. Because the Japanese army divided their troops into Rehe, the ultimate goal was to reach Chengde. So what he could do now is to always pay attention to Tang Yulin's movements and strengthen the defense system in Chengde urban area.

Zhang Xuewu remembers that in history, the three brigades arranged by Tang Yulin in Chengde and his guards were all elite under their command, but except for his guards, the other three brigades had not paid their military pay for half a year, so the troops were not stable at all, and the three brigade commanders were busy transferring their property.

At noon, Zhang Xuewu received a report from Huang Tao that Tang Yulin actually sent people to rob the thirty Ford two-ton and three-trains of the newly formed First Division at the railway station, a total of more than 60 vehicles. Huang Tao ordered the division headquarters guard battalion, military police company and a company left behind by the mechanization regiment to quickly rush to the blast, and if necessary, extraordinary measures should be taken.

As soon as Zhang Xuewu finished speaking, Li Xinkai hurried in and opened his mouth and said, "Teacher seat! Tang Yulin said he wanted to rush to the front line to supervise the battle! He ordered the other three brigades to defend Chengde. He had already left the city with a battalion guarding troops, and the other three battalions were moving him to Tianjin, and there were more than a hundred trucks alone."

Zhang Xuewu frowned and looked at Xu Guohui and Wang Chuang who were rushing with Li Xinkai and said, "How are you doing in those three brigades of Tang Yulin?"

Wang Chuang smiled and said, "That's natural. Even the platoon level basically has to follow us. The soldiers below are indeed good soldiers and their weapons are also good. If Tang Yulin doesn't pay a salary for half a year, it will cause a mutiny. Those who join the army are also people, and they have to eat to support their families, right? We use the relationship between fellow villagers, classmates, relatives and friends to basically connect at least 60% of them."

Zhang Xuewu nodded and said, "I'm still saying that. I'll bring a battalion over and I'll give him the battalion commander. I'll give him the deputy commander of a regiment. All the wages owed will be paid. The list will be included in my new first division. From now on, they will all be the Central Army."

Wang Chuang smiled and said, "Master, don't go back on your word, don't you think there are too many people?" Zhang Xuewu glared at Wang Chuang and said, "You will take your regiment to Tang Yulin's house immediately, surround his guards, and execute him if you dare to resist, and seize all his property in the name of the Security Command. I am poor now, so it is not too much to borrow Tang Erhu to do some flowers."
Chapter completed!