Chapter 148 Rehe Legion

Zhang Xueliang looked at Zhang Xuewu and said, "This battle of Rehe, you are really lucky to win! You can't be so reckless after that!"

Zhang Xuewu smiled and said, "I admit it, but why didn't I come with a fluke mentality? No materials or ammunition arrived from North Korea. It was said that I dared to mobilize the army to launch an offensive in the cold winter. In fact, I was carrying out a big adventure. The initial defeat of our army helped my arrogance, so they temporarily revised their campaign plan, captured Chengde to hoard supplies, and waited for the beginning of spring. Then attack along the Great Wall and even threaten the Pingjin area! I just saw this. I bet that I also lacked the preparation to deal with the severe cold, and that my army has not carried out any large-scale operations since the Russian War. At best, they are the elite on the training ground!"

Zhang Xueliang smiled and said, "You! Can't you be modest?"

Zhang Xuewu waved his hand and said, "Our soldiers use their lives. The fortifications are strong and the firepower is strong. There are aircraft support in the air, and there are also artillery and tanks on the ground. The firepower of light weapons is several times stronger than that of the Japanese army. For me, who still uses intensive infantry groups to charge, I don't even know him, even if it's right. Let them up! The winner also wins. What should I be modest about with a group of losers? Raise their ambition to kill their own prestige?

Zhang Xueliang smiled helplessly, put a few small sweet potatoes beside him next to the stove, and stirred the charcoal fire in the stove with iron pliers and said absent-mindedly, "Chengwen, in a few days, Nanjing will give a promotion order. You will be the youngest lieutenant general commander in China now. When I am the commander, it will be the warlord's. It's the period of the Republic of China. The teenage major generals and the governors in their twenties are all jokes in the early years. Your position is spelled out by your blood. Everyone is jealous of the credit wherever they are! But not everyone thinks so. This time, Nanjing Jiang Gong promoted all of you and everyone. I'm afraid many of them have bad intentions. These people just want to kill you. I believe you understand the truth that Mu Xiu and Lin Feng will destroy it.

Zhang Xuewu nodded solemnly and said, "Nanjing's political axe is so spared no effort. It's nothing more than the idea of an official who can beat the iron barracks. Our Northeast Army has lost three provinces, and Rehe is my last place to stand. Now, although you are still restrain the provinces, I'm afraid it's not as powerful as before. ! Although I am nominally the Central Army, in fact, you and my brothers are related by blood. I want to train a strong army. If someone violates my hot river again, or if I am actually mature, I should raise an army and sing fiercely to the battle to restore the earth. At that time, the Nanjing political axe will be dragged in by me even if I don't want to. The northeast is my generation to settle down, and my ancestors' house. How can I let myself occupy the place where it is?

Zhang Xueliang took a deep breath. At this moment, Zhang Xueliang must admit that his cousin Zhang Xuewu is very good at agitating people and planning with Chengwen. It seems that he has become bold!

However, Zhang Xueliang is not Zhang Xuewu after all. His indecisiveness in his surname makes him more calmly think and analyze. In fact, it is more courage and courage to line up and launch a war. The more you think, the more problems you will find. The more problems you have, the more problems you will find, the more unfavorable it seems to your side? My courage has been exhausted by rational analysis.

At this point, Zhang Xueliang also knows his weaknesses. Compared with myself in the Shenyang Incident and myself in the Rehe Battle, it seems that I have been taking risks. If I have a two-point chance, I dare to fight, and if I have a three or four-point victory, I dare to fight to the death of the whole country? What a crazy nation-state this is?

Zhang Xueliang threw a hot sweet potato to Zhang Xuewu and said, "Rehe is such a hot sweet potato. The nearby Chahar and Suiyuan are also like a hot charcoal fire. It is not wise to take chestnuts in the fire, but it also depends on whether the means of taking chestnuts in the fire are smart or not. Do you understand?"

Zhang Xuewu looked at Zhang Xueliang meaningfully. It can be said that now the two of them are really grasshoppers tied to a rope. Previously, as the head of only one division, he did not have this qualification, so Zhang Xueliang did not talk much with him. Obviously, now he has been promoted to the commander of the lieutenant general, and the land of the ruling province, as if I have such a qualification.

While peeling the sweet potato, Zhang Xueliang said with a blank face, "The main reason why you want wind and rain on Jiang Gong's side in Nanjing is that you have my cousin. There are 300,000 Northeast officers and soldiers under my command. These people are not the direct line of Nanjing, but Nanjing's confidants. With me, Zhang Hanqing is on one side, and I have me. 100,000 Northeast army soldiers, you will have a good life in Nanjing, and on the contrary, the cunning rabbit and dead hounds will cook! I believe that I don't need to tell you such a simple truth. How to rectify the place is your problem. Whether it is Chahar or Suiyuan, as long as you have the ability, you can eat it. Do you understand?

Zhang Xuewu frowned slightly. Maybe Zhang Xueliang is not as good as him in terms of strategy and tactics, but he is not as experienced as Zhang Xueliang in how to be an official. At least he is the master who has experienced it, and the door of officialdom is not the kind of a child's play in later novels. A carelessness is a lifetime. Cheng! ah!

Zhang Xueliang smiled meaningfully and said, "If Chahar and Suiyuan are in turmoil and the officials who go to office are repeatedly robbed, what will happen if they are not cured? You are a soldier. Although you have the name of the chairman of a province, can you know that the Executive Yuan has deeply abhorred that the military is also the chairman of the province? But those scholars can only shout slogans, and most of them are corrupt officials and incompetent people. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Zhang Xuewu looked at Zhang Xueliang in surprise. If Zhang Xueliang's so-called attainment in military strategy and tactics really dared not make him compliments, but in terms of playful tricks, Zhang Xuewu felt that he had to learn too much. Previously, he just imagined that he would control Chahar and Suiyuan in his own hands. It is a strategic point, especially its capital Zhangjiakou, and Suiyuan is close to the border area of Su and Mongolia.

Now Zhang Xueliang has pointed out the way and practice for himself. It can be said that Zhang Xueliang came here today to tell Zhang Xuewu. The so-called brothers work together, and his strength is broken! This means that all actions of Zhang Xuewu will be supported and helped by Zhang Xueliang.

There is no doubt that Zhang Xueliang, who is ashamed of his heart, is extremely generous. Nanjing has news that he plans to add 600 grass-roots officers to Zhang Xuewu, but because it is impossible to transfer enough grass-roots officers for a while, only 300 can be added for the time being, and a fully established main regiment is transferred from each of the three divisions of the 17th Army. He was directly allocated to Zhang Xuewu. Fortunately, Zhang Xuewu asked people not to be equipped. Even so, Guan Linzheng, Huang Jie, Liu Yu and others were so painful that they scratched their hearts. Zhang Xuewu once found Guan Linzheng's commander Dai Anlan, but Guan Linzheng gave him a big white eye and returned home.

In addition to Nanjing, Zhang Xueliang waved his generous hand, 500 platoon-level grass-roots officers, 10,000 carefully selected veterans, 20,000 recruits trained in Tangshan, and two in Peiping, all of whom are soldiers with a middle school degree or above, all of which are supplementary. It was charged to Zhang Xuewu, and the remaining part of the insufficient troops was solved by Zhang Xuewu's recruitment and recruitment.

Zhang Xueliang was in Chengde for a few days. After sending Zhang Xueliang away, Zhang Xuewu felt that everything in front of him suddenly became clear? With the dual support of Nanjing and Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Xuewu can definitely make great achievements in the vast world of Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan.

In Zhang Xuewu's memory, after the Battle of Rehe, in the face of the ambitious Japanese Empire, China and the Soviet Union will soon resume diplomatic relations, which is undoubtedly a good thing for Zhang Xuewu. The greed of the polar bear makes it easier for Zhang Xuewu to obtain weapons, and some of Zhang Xuewu's designs and ideas should also be implemented through the polar bear's military factory. Now, and in the future, if you resist the large-scale invasion of the Japanese army, you must have a backing to rely on.

In fact, Zhang Xuewu has not considered cooperating with other parties. For example, Germany and the United States are one of the choices, but the United States maintains neutrality, domestic isolationism is prevalent, and only recognizes money! Until the end of 1941, the United States was still exporting scrap steel, aircraft engines, refined oil, rubber, grain, etc. to Japan, while Japan converted the resources plundered on the Chinese battlefield into purchasing power. It can be said that from the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance in 1937 to the Pearl Harbor in 1942, several Every dollar is stained with the blood of the Chinese people, which is disguisedly said that the export economy of the United States supported the Japanese war of aggression against China.

So Zhang Xuewu has no special good impression for Americans, and the United States is a Japanese exporter. In some aspects, the arms purchased by himself are not enough for Americans to stuff their teeth. Once the government axe is really stressed, the Americans are likely to unilaterally tear up the contract.

The weapons placed in Germany are indeed very good. Compared with Soviet weapons, the design concept and production process of German weapons are definitely ahead of an era, but Zhurchenov once said that under basically the same equal conditions, when quality is directly proportional to quantity, quality should beat quantity, and when quantity and quantity and quality After the volume reaches the critical point of six to one, the quantity will submerge the quality.

In fact, during World War II, taking tanks as an example, Germany's quality was indeed overwhelmed by the number of Soviet Union, so Zhang Xuewu could only prepare more. As for how to hook up with the Soviets and arouse the interest and attention of the other party, Zhang Xuewu decided to work on the design concept drawings of old tank armored vehicles.

But all this is just Zhang Xuewu's plan. Zhang Xuewu's delay is to start the formation of the Rehe Corps immediately after receiving the appointment of the Nanjing Supreme Military Commission.

(to be continued)