(This story is purely fictional, please do not imitate it!)
July 10, 1937, 6:30 in the morning, Nanjing.
Chairman Chiang had very good personal living habits throughout his life. He always insisted on going to bed early and getting up early. He usually got up at 6 o'clock and went to exercise nearby when conditions were good. When conditions were bad, he would do activities in the yard where he lived.
At 6:30, the Chairman has finished his exercise and is preparing to wash up.
"Report to the chairman of the committee, urgent telegram from Beijing to Tianjin..." Wang Shihe stood at the door and reported.
"Why are you in such a hurry? Didn't you see that I was washing my face?" Chiang Kai-shek still washed his face slowly, then walked to the mirror and looked at the complexion on his face. He felt that there was no problem, so he walked out, "What?
thing?"
"Chief He, Chief Gu, Chief Chen, and Mr. Zhang Zhizhong are all waiting for you in the conference hall." Wang Shihe said.
"Oh, are you all here?" Chiang Kai-shek asked casually, without further delay, he went directly to the conference hall.
"Commissioner, the Japanese have already started to attack the Peking-Tianjin area!" Except for Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, He Yingqin has the highest official position among the people. It is natural for him to report, "In Tianjin, the 9th Brigade of the Japanese 5th Division
The regiment's Noboru Saki headquarters launched an attack on our Tanggu garrison; the 21st Brigade's Miura Sensitive Affairs Department led its troops to launch an attack on our Tianjin 38th Division position; in Nanyuan, Kawagishi Bunzaburo's 20th Division was also fiercely attacking the 29th Army
and the 37th Division; in Zhangjiakou, the Kwantung Army's 1st Independent Mixed Brigade Sakai Hao's Division is launching an attack on our 143rd Division Liu Ruming's Division..."
"Report to the committee, Dai Li wants to see you!" As soon as He Yingqin finished speaking, Wang Shihe walked in.
"Tell him to come in!" The chairman of the committee is still very fond of Dai Li. Except for the situation last night, he can be seen at any time.
"Report to the principal! The Japanese army launched a large-scale attack on our garrison in Pingjin area at 5 o'clock in the morning today. This is the information we collected. In addition, before the Japanese army launched a large-scale attack, our intelligence personnel also collected information that the Japanese army mobilized a large number of people and prepared to take action.
What is particularly strange is that before the Japanese army officially launched its attack, there was a large-scale battle in the Pingjin area, between Fengtai, Nanyuan, and Yuanping, and both sides used at least 75mm artillery!"
Dai Li reported three things, each of which was handed over to Chairman Chiang for review.
"By the way, why is there no news about Wanping and Lugouqiao, which have been fighting since the night of the 7th?" Commissioner Jiang found that among the many pieces of information, this place was completely blank. "In addition, the Shosan Brigade and Suzuki Shigeyasu Brigade by the river
, there is no movement of the three brigades including Guan Guiji’s brigade, what’s going on?”
Who said that the Chairman of the Generalissimo does not understand military affairs? No, when Chairman Chiang asked, everyone looked at each other: Strange, how could the Marco Polo Bridge and Wanping be in peace? Even if the Japanese army wanted to occupy Beiping by capturing other places, Wanping would not be the same.
There should be no movement. Also, the Zhengsan Brigade on the riverside attacked very fiercely yesterday and the day before yesterday. Did they go on vacation when the Japanese army launched a massive attack?
"Extra, extra! The Japanese army launched a massive attack on our garrison in North China, and the Sino-Japanese War officially broke out!"
"Extra, extra! General Zhang Zizhong of the 37th Division said to the soldiers on the expedition: Every inch of our land must be fought for and we will fight to the end!"
"Extra, extra! Intellectuals call for unity and joint resistance to Japan!"
While Chairman Chiang was thinking hard about countermeasures, newsboys in Nanjing and Shanghai had already conveyed the news to the citizens.
"Down with Japanese imperialism!"
"Down with the traitors and traitors!"
"Unite and fight together!"
The newsboys have not yet disappeared, and a group of patriotic students have emerged from the campuses of various universities. They are holding flags, shouting slogans, and expressing their patriotic enthusiasm.
Nanjing. Chairman Chiang's official residence.
"Chairman of the Generalissimo, Zhang Xueliang from Xi'an called: Requesting to send troops to Beijing and Tianjin to avenge the fall of Northeast China that year!"
"Chairman of the Generalissimo, Li Zongren of Guangxi called: At a time when our Chinese nation is in danger, please allow the Guangxi army to march to the front lines of Pingjin and fight the enemy to the death!"
"Chairman of the Generalissimo, a call came from Liu Xiang of Sichuan: The Sichuan Army requested to come out of Sichuan to fight against Japan!"
A telegram came, and Wang Shihe went to read it. After a while, Wang Shihe brought a large telegram, "Chairman, Yan Xishan from Shanxi, Yang Hucheng from Shaanxi, Chen Jitang from Guangdong, Li Jishen from Hong Kong, Mr. Soong Ching Ling from Shanghai, and the National Army
Officers and soldiers stationed in various places sent telegrams one after another, requesting the Chairman to determine the anti-Japanese plan as soon as possible and lead the military and civilians across the country to fight the Japanese army to the death!"
"Well, is there any news from the north of Shaanxi?" Chairman Chiang's thoughts were far away.
"On the 8th, they issued an announcement. Today, there is no news."
"What about Wu Aihua? Didn't he go to northern Shaanxi?" Perhaps it was because of this man that it was difficult for Chiang Kai-shek to make a decision now.
Just before Chairman Chiang finished speaking, Dai Li rushed in excitedly with a piece of information: "Chairman, the latest information: The Japanese army's Shosan Brigade by the river was completely annihilated between 1 and 4 o'clock this morning.
At the Fengtai camp, the Japanese Suzuki Shigeyasu brigade was also wiped out in the Sihezhuang area on the outskirts of Beijing between 3 and 5 o'clock this morning!"
"Ah, who did it?" Not only Chiang Kai-shek stood up in surprise, but also more than a dozen party and government officials in the conference hall stood up.
"I don't know. Our intelligence personnel saw the Japanese army collecting corpses from a distance. However, the Japanese health team in Fengtai also suffered heavy losses during the process of collecting corpses!" Dai Li said.
"Oh, what's going on?" This thing is getting weirder and weirder.
"Our intelligence officers discovered that just as the Japanese were carefully lifting a corpse, a big explosion suddenly occurred in the entire Fengtai camp. In the end, only less than half of the hundreds of corpse collectors survived, and the vehicle preparing to transport the corpse was also
It caught fire in the explosion!"
"Chairman, I think what happened in Fengtai and Sihezhuang is very similar to the methods of the Wu Aihua Department of the Red Army Independent Column." Chen Cheng thought for a while before saying.
"Oh, why do you see this?" The Chairman became interested. This is great! Wu Aihua has made himself lose a lot of face and lost hundreds of millions of legal currency. The Japanese are equally hateful. It would be great if they could attack each other.
Nothing more!
Chairman Jiang's rhetorical question made Chen Cheng speechless. He couldn't tell what happened after he was captured again in public. The Chairman was asking questions knowingly and embarrassing himself.
At 2 p.m., Tanggu fell;
At 3 p.m., Tong County fell;
At 4 p.m., Nanyuan fell;
At 5 p.m., Zhangjiakou fell...
Only Zhang Zizhong from Tianjin is still resisting!
In half a day, the mountains and rivers changed color! Newspapers in Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Peiping, and Wuhan published several warnings to inform the people of the war in a timely manner!
Yuancheng and Marco Polo Bridge, where the Ji Xingwen Regiment of the 29th Army was stationed at this time, were the news centers of the country a day ago. At this time, they are like isolated islands in the Pingjin area that no one cares about.
Ji Xingwen's regiment was lucky because his regiment encountered Wu Aihua's independent column of the Red Army (at this time, Wu Aihua had not yet raised his flag), and he also learned from the side that the independent column of the Red Army had cut off the mess with a sharp knife in the early hours of this morning.
The enemy's Shosan Brigade and Suzuki Shigeyasu's Brigade were eliminated by the riverside (Suzuki Shigeyasu was killed in the battle, but the brigade flag was not captured), allowing his regiment to be preserved, and also leaving Marco Polo Bridge and Yuanping City safe and sound.
"Hey, if only the 29th Army had as good equipment as the independent column!" At the regiment headquarters, Ji Xingwen and several battalion commanders were sitting there, as if waiting for the judgment of fate.
"Commander, I'm not ambitious for others. Even if we have such good equipment, we still don't have the combat effectiveness of an independent column!" Jin Zhenzhong, commander of the third battalion, interjected.
"Why?" Ji Xingwen asked.
"At the Marco Polo Bridgehead, I observed several of their battles. The quality of their soldiers, their tactical movements, and their tactical thinking, including their soldiers' self-confidence, are all beyond what our 29th Army can match. I think the regiment leader should have this
It’s a feeling.”
"Well, it is indeed different from the ordinary army. Unfortunately, Wu Aihua is not from our national army series." Ji Xingwen sighed.
Where did the Wu Aihua they were talking about go?
After the two battles in the early morning, Wu Aihua withdrew his troops 20 kilometers to the vicinity of Tantuo Temple. At the same time, he set up a fake artillery barracks in a place that was very conducive to ambushing Japanese aircraft. However, after waiting for the Japanese aircraft all morning
He didn't come either, which made Wu Aihua very bored.
Immediately, Wu Aihua convened a military meeting with regiment leaders and above, known in history as the "Tan Tuo Temple Meeting."
The meeting first reported the enemy's situation, and the Japanese army had launched a full-scale attack. Then it discussed two major items, one was a summary of the early morning battle, and the second was future strategies.
The former item is very simple, but it also summarizes the weaknesses of the National Defense Forces. For example, soldiers have a weak sense of self-protection and only focus on killing the enemy, but are killed by the enemy. For example, the problem of how to maneuver the tank troops to fight when encountering unfavorable terrain
For example, the self-protection issue of the artillery unit. As a 75mm mountain artillery unit, it was beaten by the Japanese grenade. This is worthy of careful reflection.
The second item is a little more complicated. The officers under Wu Aihua are barely mature in tactics, but they are still very immature in strategy. A few division-level cadres still put forward some constructive suggestions.
Some people say that under the current circumstances, we must not retreat to the south easily, otherwise, what will the Chinese people think? Besides, it is not consistent with what the commander usually teaches us.
Some people say that we should simply go to Tianjin and drive this old Japanese soldier, Xiangyue Qingji, out of Tianjin.
Li Yanbing directly expressed his position, Commander, please give the order. Whoever you say will be hit, our lightning troops will definitely bring back your head.
Some people also say that the troops should quickly raise the banner and at the same time inform the whole country of our victory. This will have an encouraging effect on the confidence of the military and civilians across the country.
Then, the suggestions became closer and closer to Wu Aihua's ideal. Some people said, Commander, since it is impossible to retreat to the south, we should consider building a base somewhere in North China; some even said that we should expand the army in North China. According to the commander's ability,
With the great cause of the War of Resistance in hand, our National Defense Forces will have another 100,000 troops in less than two months.
"Okay!" Everyone's suggestions finally gave Wu Aihua a mature plan: "Immediately send a message to the whole country and the whole world: First, announce the establishment of the Chinese National Defense Force. The Chinese National Defense Force will protect the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation.
, will do its best to attack all enemies who dare to invade, oppress, and deprive the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation, and defend the independence and dignity of our Chinese nation to the death! Second, announce the results of our army in the name of the anti-Japanese advance detachment of the Chinese National Defense Force, especially
It’s the captured brigade flag of the Zhengsan Brigade by the river! Third, announce the location of our army, Fozi Village, Fangshan County, Hebei Province.”
"Ding! Congratulations to the host, you have been awarded the title of National War Hero! Please explore the effect of the title on your own!" Wu Aihua had just finished speaking, and the system that had dealt Wu Aihua a heavy blow heard a pleasant voice again.