Chapter 95 Guan Linzheng's Dilemma

At 2:00 p.m. on March 5th, there was a lot of people in the station in the eastern suburbs of Beiping. A large number of soldiers trembled in the cold wind. A tall young man with a big face and big eyes and a light yellow horizontal tweed military uniform stood in the cold wind, and his worried face even exceeded the cold wind at this moment. .

From time to time, an officer salutes the young man and reports that a triangular star in the collar of the young man's military uniform exposed his identity. Guan Linzheng, the commander of the 25th Division of the Army of the Republic of China, was a young colonel with a thin face who was also wearing only a tweed military uniform and came to Guan Linzheng with a coat and said: "Master! I have sent someone to inform the Beiping Army Branch. Vice Chairman Zhang is not here. Minister He promised to find a way. I'm going to go there in person to Zhu Qinglan's side of the support group. These ice and snowy soldiers in single straw shoes can't stand it. More than 300 people were frozen along the way. If it goes on like this, I don't have to say that I will shoot one by one. Bullet, our 25th Division will collapse!"

Guan Zhenglin looked at the colonel and nodded helplessly and said, "Gangting, we are divided into two ways. You go to the support club Zhu Qinglan, and I'll go to Zhang Hanqing. Let's go together!" First, find a way to let the troops go to the nearby warehouse to make a fire to keep warm!"

Looking at the officers and soldiers in single straw shoes forced to move to the nearby warehouse in the cold wind, Guan Linzheng's heart seemed to be fiercely scratched. The central government was in financial difficulties. Even the Central Army could only guarantee each officer and soldier with a military uniform every two years, and the officers had a shirt and a pair of leather boots for five years.

Guan Linzheng looked at the coat Du Yuming left him and said to a major's staff beside him, "Go and give it to the frostbitten brother!"

The major's staff officer was slightly stunned and said, "Master, this is what Vice Master Du deliberately gave to you!" You are also dressed in a single suit on such a cold day. What should we do if you fall down?

Guan Linzheng stared at him and said, "The generals in the military stove are not hungry, and the generals are not thirsty if the military well is not dug. How can I not know the truth that the ancients know?"

Knowing that the 25th Division had arrived in Peiping, Zhang Xueliang hurriedly rushed back to Beiping from the headquarters of He Zhuguo, who was trained by Miyun. As soon as he arrived, he met Guan Linzheng with an eager face. Guan Linzheng was the old qualification of the first phase of Huangpu. Jiang Gong went to the field for the second time and swore allegiance after the horse of Guan Linzheng, and also met He Yingqin's Qing for the second time. Wash, but every time after being purged by He Yingqin, when Jiang Gong returned, Guan Linzheng was promoted to the title, so that he was one year older than him before being purged. Du Yuming, who had guarded the mausoleum for the former prime minister, could only serve as his deputy.

Before Zhang Xuewu arrived at the main gate of the military branch, he found a thinly dressed major general standing in the cold wind, surrounded by more than a dozen officers and surrounded him. I don't know what he was talking about.

When Zhang Xueliang got out of the car, Guan Linzheng strode over and grabbed Zhang Xueliang's hand and said, "Hanqing, my brother, the heart of expectation is as urgent as fire!"

Zhang Xueliang, Guan Linzheng's cold hand hurriedly said, "Zhidao, hurry in and warm up!"

Guan Linzheng shook his head and said, "My brother, a teacher, and nearly ten thousand brothers are all dressed in single clothes, wrapped in quilts to keep out the cold in the warehouse in the eastern suburbs. I'm so anxious! Please ask the vice chairman to allocate cotton-padded clothes, 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 let people buy part of it immediately in Beiping to ensure that my brothers have cotton-padded clothes and cotton-padded shoes!" Don't be in a hurry!"

Guan Linzheng nodded and said, "Then I won't disturb the vice chairman. I can't rest assured about the army, and I have to rush back to have a look!"

Zhang Xueliang nodded, took off his coat and put it on Guan Linzheng's shoulder. He turned around and said, "Take all the coats of the gendarmerie guard battalion and the guard battalion to the commander Guan immediately."

More than a dozen Northeast military officers beside him hurriedly untied their coats and gave them to Guan Linzheng's subordinates accompanying him. Guan Linzheng was immediately stunned and was just about to refuse. Zhang Xueliang pretended to be unhappy and said, "Zhidao went north to fight against it at night. It's my fault for Zhang Hanqing to let the brothers freeze. Don't refuse! This is an order!"

Guan Linzheng was slightly stunned. The iron man's eyes were slightly red. Although he was the Central Army, he had to come forward to solve the problem by himself on the way to the way to the grain and salary all the north. Guan Linzheng tasted indifference and white eyes all the way. The place regarded them as locusts, and he was not in a hurry to avoid them. It was even more stupid to raise food. No one can imagine that they came to the north with hunger. On the way, many officers and soldiers complained about scolding their mother. Guan Linzheng was very helpless. Finally, he gathered the whole division in Zhengzhou to speak: "The son doesn't think the mother is ugly, and the dog doesn't think the family is poor!" In poverty, no one will like us. This is also our own land. In order to keep warm, in order to eat enough food, we ignore black and white etiquette and shame to recognize thieves as fathers? That's the Han Dynasty bastard!"

When I arrived in Beiping today, there was not only no one to contact me. The so-called cotton-padded clothes issued by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs before were not seen. Guan Linzheng's heart was suddenly as cold as being splashed with a basin of ice water. Zhang Xueliang's full support made Guan Linzheng slightly relieved. As long as there were cotton-padded clothes that could not freeze to death and there were bullets in the gun, they could fulfill the military protection of the country. The duty of defending the people is that there is no way to retreat in the face of external humiliation. The only way is to fight to the death!

The 25th Division of Guan Linzheng was expanded from the Reading Brigade of the Fourth Division, which was originally expanded by the Third Regiment of the Second Division. It has been an army for less than three months, and the weapons and equipment are not worth mentioning. The whole division does not have a mountain cannon, and all of them have only 29 mortars. Even so, Guan Linzheng is facing a fierce siege. The German army has never been timid. It has always taught the officers and soldiers not to be afraid, meet them, shake them hard, and fight hard!

After Guan Linzheng left, Zhang Xueliang immediately went to the secret electricity room. He had not been able to make effective contact with Chengde before, so Zhang Xueliang ordered the air force to drop two new German high-power radio stations to Zhang Xuewu. At this moment, he was eager to know the specific situation of Chengde's defense battle. Gao Zhihang and other people who attacked the air force flew. The agent was also waiting for him to report face to face to observe Chengde's situation.

Guan Linzheng, who was sitting in the car, criticized Zhang Xueliang's thick fur coat and finally warmed up, but when he thought that his brothers were still freezing, Guan Linzheng sighed for a long time. In fact, Guan Linzheng had his own tactical views on this battle, that is, to concentrate all his troops to defend the passes of the Great Wall, saying that the army attacked for a long time. After that, he set up a pocket array to open one or two passes to put the army**, and use the superior strength of our army to surround the army. To put it bluntly, he is also a person. Guan Linzheng believes that as long as he avoids their firepower advantage and occupies a favorable terrain, it is not impossible for the 25th Division to fight against the army, but give up the pass. Guan Linzheng was very worried that Huang Jie's second division would arrive the day after tomorrow at the latest. In addition to mobiling heavy troops and resisting the front line of the Great Wall pass in North China, Guan Linzheng really couldn't think of any other ways to retreat from the enemy?

Because the 10th Division and the 14th Division were subjected to a large-scale air attack by the Northeast Army Air Force, Muto Nobuyoshi, in great anger, put all nine flight squadrons of the Kwantung Army's flight team into support for Rehe, and sent the army to the military department through Chief of Staff Kuniaki Koiso. Support from the aviation force.

It can be said that although the unexpected air strike of the Northeast Air Force hurt me, it inadvertently gave Matsuki Zhiliang and Hirose Shousuke, who were unfavorable for combat command coordination, an excellent opportunity to cover up. It's not that we didn't work hard, but that the Chinese Air Force's large-scale air attack made our attack final. It's a loss.

On the evening of March 5, the old building of the commander of the Northeast Border Defense Army in Xita said that the Kwantung Army was located in the enemy's general headquarters before the attack in Jinzhou. After reading the battle report of the 10th Division and the 14th Division of the fierce battle on the Chengde front line, the ferocious commander of the Kwantung Army, Wuto Xinyi, could not restrain his anger. Angry, he threw the cup in his hand hard on the map on the wall, and the hot tea splashed everywhere. Muto Nobuyoshi paced back and forth with his hands behind his back and forth, "Are the two guys Hirose Shousuke and Matsuki Zhiliang pigs pigs? Is there any shame? These two bastards!"

The commander's anger made the Japanese military staff in the former enemy's general headquarters look at each other? Everyone knows that Chengde's front-line attack is not going well, but no one knows how bad the situation is.

Nobuyoshi Muto, who looked very tired after the fury, took a deep breath and ordered the counselor to consult with Major Shimoda: "Electr, the 6th Division and the 8th Division, as well as the 16th Division, the 14th Brigade, the Reading Mixed Brigade, and the Heavy Artillery Brigade all belong to the Deputy Chief of Staff. Gangcun Ningci commanded. After capturing Chengde, he divided his troops into three ways to attack the passes along Gubeikou, Lengkou and Xifengkou. On the two days, he must capture Chengde and completely anniheze the new first division of the Nanjing Zheng Axe Central Army. Don't let one person go, in order to achieve the ultimate goal of shocking the enemy. At the same time, all news control will be carried out, and the manuscripts and phase of the accompanying reporters. All the aircraft were confiscated, and all the military reporters were sent back to Jinzhou under the pretext of safety considerations. All manuscripts were uniformly distributed by the Kwantung Army Propaganda Department.

After finishing the record, Xia Tian nodded and saluted, and hurriedly withdrew from the war room with a depressed and solemn atmosphere. Xia Tian looked at the manuscript of the telegram in his hand. As far as he knew, the Chinese garrison in Chengde was only a soldier of one division? The 10th Division and the 14th Division were in the fierce attack on Chengde. Although I heard that the attack was not smooth, and perhaps the progress of the front commander taking into account the casualties of the troops was slower, there is no doubt that it was only a matter of time before the capture of Chengde?

But now it seems that Xiatian is not so optimistic. Even the news of his own military reporters has been strictly controlled, and the command of the left and right wings of the front have been unified. Five divisions and two reading mixed brigades and the heavy artillery brigades have only one division to attack the defense of Chengde. Question mark Did you give me a two-day time limit?