Chapter 189: He Yingqin's Discussion
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek, as the chairman of the Supreme National Defense Committee and the supreme commander of the China Theater of the Allied Powers, led more than 00,000 Chinese troops, and persisted in the fourteen years of the War of Resistance. Even if Chiang Kai-shek made many mistakes, he should not be vilified and defamed, nor should he be completely denied. Although Chiang Kai-shek had some mistakes, he was still the leader of the nation. It is no exaggeration to say that he was also one of the great men in modern and contemporary Chinese history. In 1943, he attended the Cairo Conference attended by the leaders of the United States, Britain and China.
Looking at the modern and modern Chinese history, if Chiang Kai-shek had not been Chiang Kai-shek, China would have been divided into many small countries by warlords from various places. At that time, China could effectively control the millions of troops of warlords, the Central Army, the Whampoa clan, the quasi-directed and directed branches in all parts of China. There was absolutely no second person except Chiang Kai-shek, so Chiang Kai-shek's existence objectively promoted the territorial integrity of China.
As the narrow dirt road was subject to military control, the wooden wheels coming and going and countless young and strong civilians leaned against the roadside in groups to give up the open space for the troops. These yellow-faced and thin-skinned civilians, like the elderly, still respectfully saluted the convoy despite their expressions of a little confused.
The wounded soldiers on the stretcher, when they saw that Chiang Gong's convoy arrived, struggled to stand up one after another. The wounded soldiers who could not stand alone also stood staggeringly with the help of the stretcher team members, but the same is that the military salute is very standard.
Seeing that the military and civilians were united and working together to defend their country, even He Yingqin, who was sitting in the last car, was moved. He also imitated himself to the appearance of Chiang Gong, opened the window, and kept waving to the crowd. He was a little myopic, and his glasses were blurred. He wiped them over and over again, but they still couldn't wipe them clean.
Although the convoy had slowed down, the slow-moving car finally arrived at the location of the 17th Army of the South Tianmen. The commander of the 17th Army, Xu Tingyao, deputy commander Xing Zhennan, chief of staff Ji Ding, former commander of the 73rd Brigade and acting commander of the 25th Division, Du Yuming, former commander of the 146th Regiment and injured acting commander of the 73rd Brigade, Liang Kai, commander of the 75th Brigade, Zhang Yaoming, commander of the 145th Regiment, Dai Anlan; the commander of the 2nd Division, Huang Jie, commander of the 4th Brigade, and the commander of the 6th Brigade, Luo Qi, have been waiting for a long time.
As the boss of an independent unit, Feng Quan even attended the Nanjing National Defense Military Conference. After receiving the message from the commander of the 17th Army Xu Tingyao, he rushed over from the general's building early. Because the Japanese in the 8th Division escaped with a desperate escape, the body of the division commander Xi Yiyi was ignored by them, and Feng Quan took it to the headquarters of the 17th Army on the way.
Three Plymouth cars were parked in the 17th Army's headquarters in turn. Chairman Jiang, Chairman of the Beiping Military Sub-district and Minister of Military Affairs, Jiang Baili, Senior Advisor of the Military Commission, Qiu Qingquan, Director of the Political Training Department of the Central Army Officer School, who had just been promoted to major general, and Liu Jiashu, Major General, Brigade Commander of the 46th Brigade of the 22nd Division and Chief of Staff of Nanjing Security Command, and others came out one by one from the car.
Chiang Kai-shek's guard, the Chinese military police, had long occupied various commanding heights, and was warned with affectionate and seriousness. The arrangements of mobile whistles, open whistles and secret whistles were very reasonable, and it was obvious that it was an iron-blooded force.
"This is the body of Nishi Yiyi, the commander of the 8th Division of the Japanese pirates of the Kwantung Army? Haha, you are fighting well, put him aside first!"
As soon as Mr. Jiang got off the car, he saw Xi Yiyi's body. He was very happy and patted Feng Quan on the shoulder hard. This situation made other generals of the 17th Army very jealous, but after thinking about the combat effectiveness of his troops, he quickly felt relieved.
More than a dozen people held a military meeting for the Gubeikou Anti-Japanese War in the simple room of the 17th Army of the South Heaven Gate. They were simply gathered together. In the later full-scale Anti-Japanese War, each of them almost became a famous hero of the Anti-Japanese War, which made people feel thunderous and deafening.
The stool was not enough, so the Chinese military police brought some shell boxes over. It was quite appropriate to sit on the stool. When Chiang saw that the generals had already sat down, "Okay, the military situation was tense. I was idle in Nanjing, so come and have a look. Let's take a look. Minister He, let's talk about the specific situation of the Great Wall War."
Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin stood up and said, "A while ago, the good situation of the Rehe Anti-Japanese War was destroyed by hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army. They gave up the dangerous terrain in all parts of Rehe and fled to the pass. For a moment, the troops of General Zhang Zuoxiang, commander of the Second Corps of the Northeast Army, who was in charge of Chengde, almost all of them ran away except for a few guards.
Because the Northeast Army was in a hurry to escape, the roads and bridges of the Rehe River were not damaged in advance as planned. Many landmines and explosives were even thrown by the Northeast Army on the roadside by the Northeast Army, which could not delay the speed of Japanese pirates' pursuit. The little Japanese easily took a large number of Nissan cars and followed the almost intact Rehe Road, without any resistance along the way, and soon approached the various passes of the Great Wall.
The Great Wall has no strategic depth and is not suitable for defense operations. The Rehe Province is vast and is full of mountain plateaus. The Northeast Army can fully use traditional defense warfare and mobile warfare to concentrate superior forces to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army. Even if it cannot encircle and annihilate the Japanese army, it can use the dominant terrain of Rehe to resist step by step.
But not far south of the Great Wall is the North China Plain that is without dangers, especially Gubeikou and Beiping. If the Japanese mechanized troops leave Gubeikou, they can reach Beiping in only two or three days at most.
In this case, I dare not order the Chinese army to put the Japanese into the pass to fight. Otherwise, if the Japanese army's sudden outbreak is not allowed in a short period of time, if the Kwantung Army comes with reinforcements, it will be difficult for us to resist, and then it will be lost in Peking and Tianjin at once. It is too risky!!
In addition, in plains, Japan can give full play to its firepower advantages, so it is better to rely on the dangerous terrain of the Great Wall to resist and defend it. The terrain of the Great Wall is also relatively dangerous, but it is gratifying that the terrain is a bit narrow and the large corps are not easy to deploy, which can weaken the firepower advantages of some Kanto Army.
In short, after the Northeast Army lost Rehe, the Chinese army had no room for retreat. They could only build fortifications in the Great Wall area to fight pure position defense wars. There was a huge firepower gap between the two teams of China and Japan. The situation was extremely unfavorable to the Chinese army, and this kind of outsourcing was difficult for us to win."
The entire conference room was silent, and everyone was listening attentively. Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin paused, took a sip of water, and then said, "What's hateful is that at the Xifengkou position, Tang Yulin, the Fifth Corps of the Second Army of the Northeast Army and the Chairman of Rehe, did not even beat me a report. The Japanese were still far from them, and they actually made an act of fleeing without fighting.
Fortunately) Wang Changhai, the commander of the 217th Regiment of the 109th Brigade of the 37th Division of the Army, personally led 500 Big Sword Teams. With the help of Feng Quan of Nakajoyama, he regained Xifengkou from the Japanese Hatred and Suzuki Brigade Advance Team. What is even more applauding is that Feng Quan and Wang Changhai had more than 400 Big Sword Teams, and the Night Bus Pocket Array, once again wiped out the Kwantung Military Unit Team's brigade's brigade.
Then) the army's 37th Division Feng Zhi'an's headquarters and the 38th Division Zhang Zizhong's headquarters finally arrived at Xifengkou. The Xifengkou position was not as jeopardized as the Japanese!
The battle in Gubeikou was even more tragic. Although Zhang Tingshu's troops in the 112th Division of the Northeast Army fought tenaciously, they also chose not to report the incident and fled.
The 25th Division of the 17th Army of the Central Army had no choice but to hastily and indirectly prevent the Gubeikou position. Because the 25th Division was established late, there were only a few small-caliber mortars, mountain cannons, and field cannons in terms of heavy weapons.
Under the bombardment of Japanese Japanese artillery and planes, the telephone line of the 25th Division to various positions was cut off. The commander of the 25th Division Guan Linzheng personally went to the battlefield, but unfortunately he was injured. Acting division commander General Du Yuming had no choice but to order the surrounding troops to retreat to the Nantianmen 4 kilometers south of Gubeikou.
Just as the Japanese Kwantung Army aviation team and heavy artillery bombed the retreating officers and soldiers of our 25th Division, Feng Quan led the Bei Xuanwu team to arrive in time. He rescued the seven people from Fan Jian's troops who had received the order to retreat, and then shot down 13 Kwantung Army planes. The other planes fled in panic. Then the Bei Xuanwu team successively destroyed the Douding tanks and various fields and mountain cannons from various units of the Kwantung Army's Eighth Division.
In particular, the Northern Xuanwu team recaptured the General Tower, not only destroyed the heavy artillery position of the Kwantung Army located around it, but also killed the commander of the 8th Division.
Our army was able to turn defeat into victory. The Huang Jie's troops of the Second Division of the 17th Army followed one after another, gathered the 25th Division, and the Northern Xuanwu Group had a total of more than 15,000 counterattacks on the whole line. Without heavy weapons, the Japanese pirates had to run to the pig and wolf. According to incomplete statistics, this battle is expected to kill more than 8,000 people of the Eighth Division of the Kwantung Army. Everyone, this is a great victory, a great victory!!"
Chapter completed!