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Inside the tent was indeed a scene similar to a headquarters. A large military map was spread on the map platform made of logs, and several telephones were placed on a small table made of green tin boxes. The young officer who looked like a staff officer was standing there, shaking the phone from time to time and yelling hello, it seemed that he was debugging.

There are two people sitting beside the map table, one is white and fat, the other is black and thin.However, both of them had a standard military posture, and they both wore straight lieutenant general uniforms.The black and thin one, with a tight dry face, is Matsui Iwane, the current head of the No.11 division.And the other chubby, with a pleasant smile, just coughed softly, and seemed to be a little frozen. This is also a very famous figure in Japanese history, named Watanabe Jotaro , is the current commander of the Seventh Division and the former president of the Army University.In addition, he was also the core figure of the ruling faction in the Japanese army.And he also likes to express some liberal views from time to time (with a very serious bourgeois liberalization tendency), so he was slaughtered by Takahashi Taro, the second lieutenant of the Emperor's Army during the 2.26 Mutiny in history.

Chapter 0530 Fierce Soldiers in Liaoxi ([-]) Surprise Attack

Tang Yulin, like most of the generals of the Northeast Army, has always had a somewhat unclear relationship with the Japanese. Even when China and Japan have been fighting successively, he still has a Japanese representative stationed in the Marshal's Mansion in Chengde.

"Commander Tang, on behalf of the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Ling Jilong, I would like to assure you that the imperial army will not enter the territory of Rehe Province after this borrowing. And the remaining half of the army has now returned from Buxin It will be shipped from the county, and it will be handed over to General Tang Yuming tomorrow at the latest."

It was Matsui Iwane's younger brother Matsui Nanao who was having a secret conversation with Tang Yulin in his study.Looking at the dark complexion and tall, bearded soldier in front of him, Matsui sneered in his heart.He had served as a military adviser to Fengjun for a long time, and he had not been dealing with Tang Yulin for a day or two. He had known for a long time that this seemingly rough old bandit was actually as old and cunning as Zhang Zuolin.Let the Japanese woo him in every possible way, but he just refused to go into the water as a traitor in the end.But it is absolutely impossible for him to come up with his old book to fight against Japan.Moreover, Nanao Matsui also knew that Tang Yulin was trying to please the CCP and Zhang Xueliang in every possible way. Apart from preventing their troops from entering his territory, everything else was easy to say.He even sent the Party membership report to Beijing again and again, claiming to be a farm laborer, and definitely belonged to Miao Zhenggenhong!However, it is still this Miao Zhenggen red Commander Tang, after Nanao Matsui sent guns enough to arm 2 people, and promised that the Japanese army would not enter Rehe, he agreed without hesitation to let the Japanese army pass through...

"That's a good relationship. From now on, we will never violate the river water, but this friend still has to do it." Tang Yulin's dark face showed a happy look.

"Commander Tang, you and our Great Japanese Empire are best friends now, it's not a matter of well water and river water." Matsui smiled indifferently: "Right now, General Ling is very dissatisfied with Pu Yi, the chief executive of the three eastern provinces. , I hope that someone with real strength will come out to replace him, and you are the candidate most favored by Your Excellency the General."

Tang Yulin hastily waved his hands and declined: "No, no, the Northeast is the veteran's family business, and it should be inherited by the son of Xiaoliu. If you want to choose a capable person for your Lingda general, it is better to choose him. My old Tang One-third of an acre of land in Rehe is enough."

Nanao Matsui smiled and shook his head: "It's just that General Zhang Xueliang has always ignored the good intentions of the empire. It seems that he wants to follow the Communist Party wholeheartedly. And the Communist Party treats traitors very severely."

Tang Yulin's black face darkened, and he snorted softly from his nostrils, folded his hands in his arms, and leaned back heavily: "I have [-] troops in my hands, and what they want to do to me depends on my army's consent." No promise!"

Matsui clapped his hands: "That's good! Commander Tang, I can assure you that if you need it, our Imperial Japanese Army will rush to help Chengde at any time. And we promise to evacuate immediately afterwards, and we will never leave a single soldier in Rehe. "

These words reached Tang Yulin's heart, and now Rehe has been regarded as his private property, and he will never allow others to get involved.And during this period of time, he had vaguely heard some rumors that Zhang Xueliang and the Communist Party had taken a fancy to Rehe and wanted to use it as a base for counterattacking the Northeast.Therefore, [-] of his [-] troops were deployed near Chengde, claiming to be anti-Japanese, but the guns were pointed at the backs of the Northeast Army and the Communist Party.And this time, borrowing the way to Japan may not mean that there is no meaning of borrowing a knife to kill people.

Seeing Tang Yulin's happy face, Matsui knew that his words hit him, so he further induced: "Commander Tang, your 10 troops cannot be the enemy of the CCP and the Northeast Army, so it must be expanded. If you and the imperial army With further cooperation, the imperial army will expand to [-] people for you, and all weapons and equipment will be provided by the imperial army."

Facing this huge temptation, Tang Yulin's Adam's apple wriggled, not hiding his greed, and after a while, he said with some difficulty: "I don't know... how does the imperial army want to cooperate with this subordinate? We can't do things with Little Six..."

Nanao Matsui waved his hand: "You don't need to deal with Zhang Xueliang, and you don't even need to deal with the Beijing government."

Tang Yulin was taken aback when he heard the words: "Do you want Lao Tang to fight against the Kuomintang..."

Nanao Matsui smiled lightly and said, "It's not the Kuomintang, but the Communist traitor Wang Zhongyi who colluded with the Kuomintang! Now Wang Zhongyi's main force has left Mongolia and entered Heilongjiang. As long as you are willing to send troops to Mongolia, the empire can provide you with enough to arm 5 soldiers." Human weapons and equipment!"

"Okay, it's a deal!" Tang Yulin didn't hesitate anymore, and simply nodded in agreement.He didn't dare to deal with the Communist Party, and he couldn't bear to deal with Zhang Xueliang. It would not be a piece of cake to deal with the Communist traitor Wang Zhongyi, and maybe the Communist Party would treat him differently because of this.

After sending Matsui Qifu away, Tang Yulin immediately called his fifth younger brother Tang Yushu, and said to him with a smile: "Fifth brother, hurry up and send electricity to Beijing and Commander-in-Chief Zhu, saying that he just received a report that there is a quantity Taking advantage of our unawares, the unknown Japanese army quietly passed through the eastern mountains of Rehe, and they may be approaching Chaoyang County now."

"Brother, how good are you at acting?" Tang Yushu asked blankly.

Tang Yulin stroked his beard and smiled, "We can't do everything right, can we? Besides, the tiger like the Communist Party wants to eat people, and the Japanese are good at it? Have you forgotten how the old general died? Let the Japanese fight with the Communist Party... Let's just sit back and watch the tigers fight!"

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The sound of gunfire, explosions and shouts of killing resounded in the dark night.

With prolonged shouts, the Japanese army approached from all sides, covering the walls of Chaoyang County with bullets raining down like rain, and the sound of bullets collapsing into city bricks could be heard everywhere.

Above and below the city, gunpowder smoke billowed and flames blazed.

Fang Zhimin, chief of staff of the Liaoxi Military Region, stood at Chengtou, leaning behind a crenel, staring at the battlefield in front of him.At present, the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Chaoyang has been transferred to Beipiao to fight the Japanese!The only ones staying here are the independent brigade of the Liaoxi Military Region with thousands of people.Moreover, the troops are all deployed in the mountainous area facing Jinzhou, always on guard against the Japanese troops who are confronting the Kuomintang army on the southern line and going north.It never occurred to them that these Japanese would suddenly appear in the north of Chaoyang County with wings!If Tang Yulin hadn't sent an urgent warning call, I'm afraid that Chaoyang County would have been taken by the Japanese by surprise.But even so, the Japanese surprise attack was a great success.

Fang Zhimin only had an independent division with a battalion of recruits and no artillery in his hands. These recruits only had basic military training, could line up and fire guns, and nothing else.It is absolutely impossible to let them go out to fight the Japanese army in the field—besides, this time the Japanese are aggressive, and it seems that there are always 3 or [-] people. Even if the entire Eighth Route Army gathers here, this battle will be terrible!Let alone an independent division with thousands of people!

In desperation, Fang Zhimin simply stuffed these soldiers into Chaoyang County, placed them on the city wall, and each person designated a position, as long as they fired their guns, it was absolutely impossible to retreat!The political commissar has already organized a team of supervisors to patrol around.This is also a matter of no solution, the team formation time is too short, and the political and ideological work is not in place, so...

The four gates of Chaoyang City were all tightly blocked by stones, and thousands of people were packed inside the city.Fang Zhimin also knew that he would not be able to go out if he was beaten to death. Abandoning the city would put the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army in Beipiao's desperate situation.The only feasible option is to stick to it!If the devil's cannons can't be transported for a while, maybe they can hold on until the main force returns to help, and then the mission will be completed!

All the fields are shining with flames, which also reflect the waves of Japanese soldiers approaching from all sides.Before the attack, the Japanese army bombarded the city with mortars and infantry artillery. They did not use large-caliber heavy artillery, nor did they even use 75mm mountain artillery.It looks like it's either not carrying it, or it's still on the way.However, the situation in the Liaoxi Independent Division was even worse. There were only four heavy machine guns on each of the four walls, and the rest were rifles.All the soldiers were in a hurry and kept firing. The Japanese army was still 2000 meters away, and the city was already filled with smoke and muzzle flames.

The Japanese army slowly approached in a skirmish line, under the rain of bullets, no one shot.Although individual soldiers were shot and fell to the ground from time to time, their team was not chaotic, and they just moved forward at a steady speed.Fighting at night, and there are no flares available, the rifle's hit rate is naturally not as good as during the day, and these recruits also shoot indiscriminately. At this distance, it is even more difficult to cause enough damage to the Japanese army, and naturally they cannot suppress the Japanese army. advance!Their machine guns also moved up along with the charging troops, and a series of hot flames began to roll over the Chaoyang city. From time to time, soldiers who were shooting at the city were shot and fell to the ground.The shrill screams were endless.

Fang Zhimin picked at the cracks of the bricks with his fingers, just staring at everything in front of him, watching the outlines of the waves of Japanese soldiers under the reflection of the moonlight, watching countless fiery red rays of light passing over their heads quickly, only a very few are lucky It hit the target, but it was not enough to stop the slowly surging charging wave!It seems that the fall of Chaoyang County is only a matter of time...

At this time, the battle on the front line of Beipiao became fierce again. The roundabout and outflanking was the battle plan designated by the Kwantung Army Command. The purpose was not only to capture the mountainous area in western Liaoning, but also to completely defeat the heavy Chinese Communist army entrenched in the mountainous area in western Liaoning and threatening the rear of the Japanese army. group.According to the information provided by the lurking intelligence agency, there are more than 11 Communist troops gathered in this mountainous area, and there is also the Eighth Route Army, one of the two elites of the Chinese Communist Party.If this part of the communist army can be severely damaged, it is possible to force the Beijing government controlled by the CCP to recognize the chief executive's office of the three northeastern provinces supported by Japan.Therefore, the purpose of the previous Japanese attack was mainly to attract the main force of the CCP around Beipiao, creating the possibility for the success of the surprise attack of the [-]th and No.[-] divisions.Now that this goal has been achieved, the Japanese fifth and sixth divisions deployed on the front of Beipiao naturally began to attack with all their strength, and even the third division, which had never made a move before, also joined the battle group.

As time went by, the Japanese attack became more and more violent, and the artillery fire made the night sky red.Fiery shells, dragging orange-red tail flames, screamed across the night sky, and rushed towards the communist positions around Beipiao City.The roar of shells spread far away, like waves of muffled thunder, sweeping across the mountainous area in western Liaoning.

The officers and soldiers of the Japanese army who looked a little depressed before also returned to their madness. Taking the brigade as a unit, they formed a series of offensive skirmish lines, and launched an attack on various positions outside Beipiao County.

The Japanese army used cannons to open the way, the infantry charged, machine guns, mortars, grenades, and infantry guns suppressed the opponent's firepower, and finally escorted the charging infantry all the way into the opponent's trench.However, the resistance of the Communist Party is also extremely tenacious. Later, it often turns into a rain of grenades and a tragic hand-to-hand fight, until the last defender on the position dies, and the rising sun flag blackened by gunpowder is possible put up.

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In the middle of the night on December 19th, [-]th year of the Republic of China.

Inside the former enemy headquarters of the Communist Party in Beipiao City, there was a noisy sound of telephone ringing.The rumble of guns outside the window echoed around like thunder, making the headquarters even more noisy.Staff officers at all levels shuttled back and forth, delivering various messages and orders loudly.Ever since the news of the Japanese army's raid on Chaoyang arrived, Zhu De sat by the map table in the command headquarters, listening to the progress of the frontline battle constantly reported by the staff officers, but most of them were not good news.

The news of Chaoyang County was completely lost around eleven o'clock in the evening.According to the report of the independent division left behind in Chaoyang County, they were besieged by at least 17 Japanese troops!In other words, the Japanese army used at least one division to implement this outflanking.Now most of Chaoyang County has been captured by them, and the retreat of the Eighth Route Army and No.[-] Route Army has been cut off!

Moreover, the current situation of these two route armies is also very bad. At least three divisions of the Japanese army, under the cover of superior firepower, launched a full-line assault on the various defensive positions on the periphery of Beipiao!The troops standing there were so overwhelmed that they couldn't breathe. Every time the phone rang, a staff officer would shout out that a certain highland was in an emergency and asked for reinforcements!It seems that the Japanese army did not do their best in the attack a few days ago. They were just attracting the main force of the CCP to reinforce Beipiao, creating conditions for the success of the outflanking...

"Boss Zhu." Cai Tingkai, chief of staff of the [-]th Route Army, walked up to Zhu De solemnly, holding a stack of telegrams just received in his hand: "The United Command in Huludao sent us two candidates for selection. Plan. The first plan is to abandon all supplies and heavy weapons and retreat decisively to the northwest, and then retreat to Aohan Banner and Xinhui County in Rehe to rest. The second plan is to let us keep defensive and use Beipiao County The surrounding mountains stand firm and wait for help. The Kuomintang will send a reorganized division together with the Northeast Army's Fifth Route Army to rescue us. Luo Yaoguo promises to rescue us within seven days. But these seven days...they want to know if we are sure Keep it for seven days?"

Hearing that the Kuomintang was coming to rescue him, Zhu De raised his thick eyebrows slightly, and a surprised expression flashed across his face.This thing is really a bit absurd!The strategic main force of the Communist Party was surrounded by Japan, and the Kuomintang army patted their chests and promised to rescue them. Why does it sound like a lie?But looking back and thinking about it, didn't they always have to retreat by themselves or jump north to the outside line?It's just that the central government insists on defending the western Liaoning base area... Is it because I misunderstood the Kuomintang reactionaries?Perhaps they are not so reactionary?Thinking of this, Zhu De made another round of self-criticism in his heart, he cannot have illusions about the enemy.He sighed softly: "How is the army now? Can it be gathered?"

Cai Tingkai shook his head: "Now the Japanese army is attacking fiercely, and everyone is in a hurry. If they want to withdraw... I am afraid it will become a rout. Moreover, the situation in the north is not clear. How did these Japanese troops attack Tang Yulin? What came under your nose?"

Zhu De was taken aback when he heard the words, the cold sweat in his vest had flowed into one after another.In all likelihood, Tang Yulin colluded with the Japanese!If you want to withdraw, it would be a miracle that [-] of the [-] troops here can be withdrawn, and all heavy weapons and supplies must be abandoned... And will the Japanese have other troops waiting for them in Rehe?Wouldn't it be more unclear to die like this?It's better to stay in Beipiao!

"Chief of Staff Cai, you and Luo Yaoguo are both from the Cantonese Army. Do you think he is reliable?" Zhu De's tone was calm, as if he was casually chatting about another friend.

Cai Tingkai was stunned. Although both he and Luo Yaoguo were from the Cantonese Department, they were not very familiar with each other. He was from the First Division of Guangdong Division, and strictly speaking, Luo Yaoguo was from the First Division of Xu Chongzhi's East Route Army.But when it comes to word-of-mouth, Luo Yaoguo is indeed good, at least much better than Deng Yanda.If it was something else, Luo Yaoguo patted his chest, there shouldn't be any problems, but the matter of rescuing the main force of the Communist Party seems to be related to the future of China!It is related to the fundamental interests of the two camps...

"Boss, this matter is of great importance. Should we report it to the Central Committee? Can the Central Committee and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission make up their minds?"

Zhu De waved his hand heavily: "Our former enemy needs to come up with reference opinions, and we can't push everything to the central government. Otherwise, what do we need to do?" He stood up and said what he had just calculated. It came out: "Most of the divisions that took our back road were lightly armed, and there should be no heavy artillery. The road to the north is not easy, and it is impossible to get through with heavy artillery. Now we are cut off by the Japanese army, but that one cut off our back road." The roads of the Japanese division on the road are not smooth. Naturally, the north cannot be walked, and the road leading to Jinzhou in the south has also been blocked by us with landmines, and our guerrilla activities will not be able to get through within a few days. So This division is actually similar to a lone army, Luo Yaoguo probably won't miss the chance to eat it."

Chapter 0531 fierce soldiers in western Liaoning ([-]) Chiang Kai-shek saves the eight roads!

"Beipiao... Eighth Route Army... Rescue..."

Under the dim light, Chiang Kai-shek stood in the study of Qilu and looked at the newly hung map. In the west of Liaoning, various symbols had just been drawn with red and blue pencils.

Yang Yongtai bent over and stood behind Lao Jiang, his old eyes were also fixed on the map.

After a long while, Chiang Kai-shek shook his head and sighed with concern: "It's a pity, it's a pity, what a great opportunity! The Communist Party has a total of seven route armies... Among them, the [-]th route army is empty, and the remaining six route armies The Fourth Route Army and the Eighth Route Army are the leaders. There is an Eighth Route Army in Beipiao! If the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army have [-] troops wiped out by the Japanese..."

"Mr. Jie, it's not too late." As soon as Luo Yaoguo went to Huludao, Yang Yongtai, the chief of staff, was recalled by Lao Jiang. Although his face was haggard at the moment, his spirit was not good enough, and he was called by Lao Jiang in the middle of the night Come on, I'm not tired at all.

Chiang Kai-shek smiled bitterly, and a somewhat helpless expression appeared on his slightly majestic face.Although he was in a good mood, when he thought of the stupid thing that Luo Yaoguo was doing, he couldn't help but frown.

"This Luo Fuwen is good at everything, but a little... how should I put it, it's so reassuring..."

Yang Yongtai smiled: "Mr. Jie, once this battle is defeated, the Communist Party will have no more power to fight against us. And this time, they violated the order of the United Command and insisted on staying in Beipiao. Chaoyang refused to retreat. We really can’t blame us for this fate. As for our rescue, naturally we should do our best. How can we say that they are also our allies now? So I feel that we should not only rescue but also do it with great fanfare! You have to do it yourself Take command and sit in Huludao to rescue the Communist Party... Only in this way can we demonstrate our party's sincerity in uniting all the anti-Japanese forces...Even if the rescue fails in the end, people in the world will not blame our Kuomintang. Do you think so?"

Chiang Kai-shek slapped his hands: "Yes! Yes! Yes! Mr. Changqing, you are indeed my Zhuge Kongming! I am the chairman of the Military Commission, and I will go to Huludao in person. Luo Fuwen should give me some face, right?"