Chapter 91 The Longest Night (Seven)

A telegram from Zhang Xuewu made the military and political officials of the National Government of Peking and Nanjing destined to sleepless tonight. After two or three days of sleeping, Chiang Kai-shek, who had been in thick velvet pajamas, stood in front of the map of the study and thought hard. He sent telegrams three times in a row to ask about the progress of the 17th Army. The Military Commission asked the 17th Army to quickly move towards Chengde with all three divisions, and rely on the Great Wall to attack to respond to the new First Division's breakthrough.

Compared with the uneasy Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Xueliang was like he was baking on fire at this moment. Zhang Xuecheng, who was ordered to be executed by himself, was already indifferent. Fortunately, Zhang Xuecheng, as a traitor, was willing to drive the Japanese invaders, and killing him was filled with righteous indignation for the Chinese people. However, now his cousin Zhang Xuewu's first division was surrounded by more than 40,000 troops in the lonely city of Chengde by two Japanese divisions. Zhang Xueliang has been unable to sleep or eat in the past two days!

The Japanese army has completed the encirclement. In terms of tactics, the new first division may be difficult to fly and is waiting for assistance. Zhang Xueliang smiled bitterly. According to the current situation, it will take at least twenty days to mobilize enough troops to support Chengde, but can my cousin Xuewu last for twenty days? If Chengde loses, then he can only step down from the wild and apologize to the people. Currently, He Yingqin, Song Ziwen and others are all in the city of Peking. These people are probably the people sent by Mr. Chiang to clean up the mess for him?

"Where did Shen Ke's 106th Division go?" Faced with Zhang Xueliang's inquiry, Huang Jingming, deputy director of the war room, was stunned and hesitated, "The 106th Division is on the way to marching urgently, and the radio station is not on!"

Zhang Xueliang frowned slightly and said, "Call the call every five minutes, hurry up! I want to contact the 106th Division, hoping that they can effectively restrain part of the Japanese army and reduce the defense pressure in Chengde."

After Huang Jingming left, Zhang Xueliang stood in front of the window and looked at his watch. It was almost five o'clock, which means that the newly formed First Division of the Chengde Guard Army had fought bloody battles all night, no! He had to give Zhang Xuewu some practical support!

Air Force! It's its own air force! Zhang Xueliang, who suddenly recovered from his senses, immediately picked up the phone, and now he flew in the Nanyuan, the western suburbs, and the Dongling airports of Beiping, among the 317 aircraft belonging to the Northeast Army, 87 of which were destroyers and 26 were light bombers that could be put into combat immediately.

A shrill alarm sounded at various airports near Peiping. The preparers were doing the final inspection of the plane, and all the rest were cleaning up the snow on the runway. In the pilot's dormitory, He Changhui, the chief instructor of the Northeast Army Air Force, patted Gao Zhihang with a heroic face with thick eyebrows and big eyes and said: "Zhihang, this is the first time our Northeast Air Force has taken the initiative since the Shenyang Incident and has attacked hard! Cover the air bombing aircraft to bomb the Japanese artillery group and reduce the pressure on the defenders."

Gao Zhihang nodded and saluted He Changhui and said, "Please rest assured that the chief instructor, this sky belongs to us!"

Since Gao Zhihang returned from France in 1927, he served as a major member of the Flying Eagle Team of the Northeast Airlines Department of Zhang Xueliang's troops, and then served as a major instructor of the Northeast Airlines Education Class. On the night of the Shenyang Incident, under the cover of the Seventh Brigade, he flew to Jinzhou and then transferred to Peking. Gao Zhihang felt a sigh of anger in his heart. The defeat in the Battle of Rehe made them, the prides in the air, sit and watch the mountains and rivers fall, and could only shed tears. Gao Zhihang and a group of pilots asked for battle many times, but Zhang Xueliang refused and ordered the Flying Eagle Team to protect the Beiping air defense.

Unexpectedly, the battle order was issued so suddenly today? Gao Zhihang vaguely heard that during the Chenyang Incident, the newly-organized First Division of the Seventh Brigade of the Japanese Army, was surrounded by heavy Japanese troops in Chengde. Gao Zhihang took in a mouthful of cold air conditioning, stretched his leather gloves, and stretched his muscles and bones! A feeling of ambition arose, I hope I could meet the Japanese plane today! Li Guidan and Liu Cuigang were also in the same mood as Gao Zhihang!

If Zhang Xuewu knew that the four major air force pilots of the Republic of China Air Force were about to take off to support him, three of them came at a time? I wonder what he would think? The largest fleet of the Chinese Air Force in history was born like this!

Although Zhang Xueliang could not see the entire army of the new First Division, he was really reluctant to leave these expensive aircraft and difficult pilots, so he sent all the fighter planes out at once with the idea of ​​not suffering from the number of people.

At five o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army finally steadily occupied the first position of the defenders on the front line of the Tiger Gou. They broke into the second line of defense several times. The 14th Japanese division quietly hid in the dark like a wounded beast, licked the wounds, and maintained the offensive overnight. Finally, it came to an end. However, Xu Guohui did not relax his vigilance, because he knew very well that this was the Japanese army accumulating strength and preparing to give him the last blow! Xu Guohui, who was injured, was gasping for breath. Just an hour ago, his second-tier position was in danger by the Japanese army, and Wang Chuang pulled out a reinforced battalion from the position and entered the Tiger Gou position, thus driving the Japanese army down again.

The Japanese army built all the bodies of the two soldiers who died at the battle to the other end of the trench, forming a chest block! Thus firmly occupying the first line of defense.

Sure enough, as Xu Guohui judged, the fury lieutenant general Naoki Matsuki, the commander of the 14th Division, personally arrived at the front line to supervise the battle, merged and reorganized the remaining troops, and prepared to break through the enemy's defense line after dawn.

However, it is obvious that Naoki Matsuki made a very serious mistake. He ignored the troops and repeatedly, exhausted his morale, and attacked the Chinese defenders' positions overnight with an uninterrupted offensive. Although the huge casualties caused to the defenders, the Japanese army also abandoned their bodies.

At this point, even Xu Guohui, who had been trying to have immoral relationships with female members of the Japanese Royal Family, was very convinced. The elite and bravery of the Japanese army were really not sarcastic. The interval between continuous attacks has never exceeded fifteen minutes? What does this mean? This means that the speed of the Japanese attacks and the development of the troops was beyond the reach of the new First Division. If it were in the field, it would be the previous Seventh Brigade, Xu Guohui believed that the 8,000 troops of the Seventh Brigade that year might not be able to hold on for even forty minutes!

Zhang Xuewu looked at his watch and nodded to Huang Tao holding the phone beside him. Huang Tao was full of energy and shouted loudly: "Order! Counterattack!"

Tang Ziqiang dropped the phone and jumped into the chariot and waved his hand. Then he drilled into the turret. Zhang Tianpeng's artillery regiment fired the first counterattack. The dense rain of bullets began to extend from the coordinate area of ​​the front to the depth of the Japanese army. Before the panicked Japanese soldiers could react, the roar of the tank's engine and the rolling rolling brought pieces of mud tracks appeared in front of them.

The Chinese army's tank? The Chinese army's tank! With the invasion of a large number of infantry, Japanese soldiers who also lack effective anti-tank weapons inevitably fell into collapse.

Brothers, hurry up! Kill me! Xu Guohui, who was jumping and jumping, was dragged back by several guards and pressed them tightly in the trenches, screaming in anger.
Chapter completed!