Chapter 95 Guan Linzheng’s Dilemma

At 2 p.m. on March 5, the eastern suburbs of Peking was filled with people. A large number of soldiers were trembling in the cold wind. A tall, big horse, big national font, big eyes, and light yellow horizontal lines, and heroic young man stood in the cold wind, with a worried look on his face even surpassing the cold wind at this moment.

From time to time, an officer saluted the young man. A triangular star on the neck of the young man's military uniform exposed his identity. Guan Linzheng, the major general of the 25th Division of the Army of the Republic of China, was at this time a young colonel with a thin face and only wearing a woolen uniform came to Guan Linzheng with a coat in front of him and said, "Second seat! I have sent someone to inform the Beiping Military Branch. Vice Chairman Zhang is not here. Minister He promised to think of a solution. Zhu Qinglan, the fan club, was going to go there in person. The soldiers in the snow and ice can't stand it. They were frostbite and frostbite along the way. If this continues, our 25th Division will collapse without the Japanese shooting one by one!"

Guan Zhenglin looked at the colonel helplessly and nodded: "Guangting, we two divided into two groups. You go to find Zhu Qinglan, and I go to find Zhang Hanqing. Let's do a two-pronged approach! First, find a way to get the troops to make a fire in the nearby warehouse to keep warm!"

Looking at the officers and soldiers wearing single-clad straw sandals being forced to move to the nearby warehouse in the cold wind, Guan Linzheng's heart seemed to be snatched by someone. The central government was in financial difficulties, and even the Central Army could only guarantee that each officer and soldier would have a uniform every two years, and the officer had an extra shirt and a pair of leather boots for five years.

Guan Linzheng looked at the coat left to him by Du Yuming, and said to a major adviser beside him: "Go and get it to the frost-killed brother!"

The major staff officer was slightly stunned and said, "Secretary, this was deliberately given to you by Deputy Master Du! You are wearing single clothes in such a cold day. What should we do if you fall down?"

Guan Linzheng glared at the sight and said, "The military stove has not been set up to say hungry, and the military well has not been dug, so how can I not know the truth that the ancients know?"

When he learned that the 25th Division had arrived in Peiping, Zhang Xueliang hurried back to Peiping from He Zhuguo's troops who were training in Miyun. As soon as he arrived, he encountered Guan Linzheng who looked anxious. Guan Linzheng was an old qualification in the first phase of Huangpu. Duke Jiang stepped down from the wilderness and sweared loyalty to death. He also suffered a great purge of He Yingqin twice. However, after being purged by He Yingqin every time, when Duke Jiang came back, Guan Linzheng was promoted and promoted, so that he was one year older than him before being purged. Du Yuming, who had guarded the prime minister's magistrate, could only serve as his deputy.

Before Zhang Xuewu arrived at the main entrance of the military branch, he found a thin-dressed major general standing in the cold wind. More than a dozen officers on the side surrounded him and didn't know what he was saying?

When Zhang Xueliang got off the car, Guan Linzheng rushed over and grabbed Zhang Xueliang's hand and said, "Brother Hanqing, my expectation is like a fire!"

Zhang Xueliang, Guan Linzheng, my cold big hand, hurriedly said: "Zhidao hurry up and go in and warm up!"

Guan Linzheng shook his head and said, "My brothers, nearly 10,000 brothers were all wearing single clothes, wrapped in quilts, and kept warm in the broken warehouse of Dongjiao Station. I was so anxious! Please ask the Vice Chairman to adjust cotton coats, cotton shoes, and tents for emergency needs!"

Zhang Xueliang was slightly stunned and then said, "There is still a part in the warehouse. I immediately ordered someone to open the warehouse and ask someone to buy a part in Peking immediately to ensure that the brothers have cotton coats and cotton shoes! Don't worry!"

Guan Linzheng nodded and said, "Then I won't bother with the Vice Chairman. I can't worry about the troops, and I'll rush back to take a look!"

Zhang Xueliang nodded, took off his coat and slapped it on Guan Linzheng's shoulder, turned around and said, "Take all the coats of the military police guard battalion and the guard battalion to Division Commander Guan and others immediately."

More than a dozen Northeast Army officers on the side hurriedly untied their coats and put them on Guan Linzheng's accompanying subordinates. Guan Linzheng was stunned and was about to refuse. Zhang Xueliang pretended to be displeased and said, "It is my fault of Zhang Hanqing to go north to fight against the sun and fight against the day and night, and let the brothers get frozen. You are not allowed to refuse! This is an order!"

Guan Linzheng was slightly stunned. The iron-clad man's eyes turned red. Although he was the Central Army, he had to go out to solve the problem on his own during the food and wages journey north. Guan Linzheng tasted indifference and rolling eyes all the way. The local area regarded them as locusts, and was not rushing to avoid them. Cooperating with food and food was even more silly. No one could have thought that they were hungry and hungry to fight against Japan. On the way, many officers and soldiers complained and scolded. Guan Linzheng was very helpless and finally gathered in Zhengzhou to speak: "The son does not dislike the mother's ugly, and the dog does not dislike the family's poverty! It is poor and destructive, and no one likes it. This is also our own country and home. For the sake of keeping warm and eating, he does not consider black, white, etiquette, integrity and shame to recognize the thief as his father? That is a traitor!"

Today, when he arrived in Peking, not only was there no contact, but the Ministry of Military Affairs issued a so-called cotton coat before, but Guan Linzheng's heart was as cold as if he had been poured into a basin of ice water. Zhang Xueliang's full support made Guan Linzheng breathe a sigh of relief. As long as there was a cotton coat that could not kill people and there were bullets in the gun, they could perform the duties of soldiers to protect the territory and the people. They had no choice but to fight to the death!

Guan Linzheng's 25th Division was expanded by the Independent Brigade of the Fourth Division, which was expanded into the 3rd Regiment of the Second Division. It was less than three months since its establishment, and its weapons and equipment were not worth mentioning. The entire division did not have a mountain cannon, and all the artillery firepower was only twenty-nine mortars. Even so, Guan Linzheng was never timid in the face of the Japanese army surrounding Chengde, and he always taught the officers and soldiers not to be afraid, to face it, to fight to the death!

After Guan Linzheng left, Zhang Xueliang immediately went to the secret room. He had been unable to contact Chengde effectively before, so Zhang Xueliang ordered the Air Force to drop two new German high-power radio stations on Zhang Xuewu. At this moment, he was eager to know the specific situation of the Chengde defense war. Gao Zhihang and several other pilots who attacked the Air Force were also waiting for him to report in person to observe Chengde's situation.

Guan Linzheng, who was sitting in the car, criticizing Zhang Xueliang's thick fur coat, finally warmed up all over. However, when he thought of his brothers still being frozen, Guan Linzheng sighed long. In fact, Guan Linzheng had his own tactical opinion on this battle, that is, to concentrate all his troops to defend the passes of the Great Wall. After the Japanese army could not capture it for a long time, he set up a pocket formation to open one and two passes to let the Japanese army march straight in, and use our superior forces to encircle the Japanese army.

To put it bluntly, the Japanese are also humans. Guan Linzheng believes that as long as they avoid their firepower advantages and occupy favorable terrain, it is not impossible for the 25th Division to fight against the Japanese invaders, but abandon the terrain advantage of the pass to attack and fight against the Japanese army. Guan Linzheng was very worried that Huang Jie's second division's troops would arrive the day after tomorrow. In addition to mobilizing heavy troops to defend the Great Wall Pass in North China and resisting the enemy on the dangerous front line, Guan Linzheng really couldn't think of any other strategies to retreat to the enemy?

As the 10th Division and the 14th Division were subjected to large-scale air strikes by the Northeast Air Force, Muto Nobuyi was extremely furious and simply put all nine flight squadrons of the Kanto Flying Team into support for Reha, and asked the military headquarters to send army aviation troops to support it through Chief of Staff Koi Aki.

It can be said that although the Northeast Air Force's air strike that unexpectedly hit the Japanese, it inadvertently gave Naoki Matsuki and Shousuke Hirose, who had poor coordination of combat commands, a great opportunity to cover up. It's not that we didn't work hard to fight, but the large-scale air strikes of the Chinese Air Force made our offense fail in the end.

In the evening of March 5, the old building, located in the former Northeast Frontier Defense Forces Police Commander of Xita, was located in the General Command of the Attorney Front in Jinzhou. After seeing the battle reports between the 10th Division and the 14th Division on the front line of Chengde, the commander of the Kanto Army Muto Nobuyoshi, who was showing a ferocious face, could not suppress his anger and threw the cup in his hand to the map on the wall. The hot tea splashed everywhere. Muto Nobuyoshi paced back and forth with his hands behind his back and shouted: "Are Hirose Shousuke and Matsuki Naoki a pig? Are there any shame? These two bastards!"

The commander's anger made the Japanese staff in the front-line command look at each other. Everyone knew that the front-line attack in Chengde was very unsuccessful, but no one knew how bad the specific situation was.

Wuto Nobuyi, who seemed very tired after being furious, took a deep breath and ordered the confidential staff, Grand Secretary Shimoda, and said: "Telephone order, the Sixth Division, the Eighth Division, and the 16th Division, the Independent Mixed 14th Brigade, the Independent Mixed 33rd Brigade, the Heavy Artillery Brigade is under the command of Deputy Chief of Staff Okamura Yasuji. After capturing Chengde, he divided his troops to attack Gubeikou, Lengkou, and Xifengkou. Within two days, he must capture Chengde and wipe out the newly formed First Division of the Nanjing Government Central Army. Do not let one person go, in order to achieve the ultimate goal of shocking the enemy. At the same time, all news controls will be carried out, and all the manuscripts will be collected with the military reporters and the camera will be sent back to Jinzhou under the pretext of safety considerations. All manuscripts will be distributed by the Kanto Military Propaganda Department."

After completing the record, Shimoda nodded and paid tribute, and hurriedly left the combat room with a depressing and solemn atmosphere. Shimoda looked at the original manuscript of the telegram in his hand and was slightly surprised. As far as he knew, the Chinese defenders in Chengde were only the first division. The 10th Division, the 14th Division and the 14th Division were attacking Chengde. Although he heard that the attack was not going smoothly, perhaps the frontier commander made a little slower progress in taking into account the casualties of the troops, it was undoubtedly only a matter of time before the capture of Chengde?
Chapter completed!