Chapter 1081 I have the final say on my territory (2)
At the Luzhou Yangtze River Pier, An Yi stood on a high platform and looked at the 15,000 fully armed soldiers lined up in neat rows. He looked at the excited faces reflected in the hunting flag, and his heart was filled with complex emotions such as pride, pride, and reluctance.
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These three brigades are the mountain brigade, the anti-aircraft artillery brigade and the army's first mechanized assault brigade. Nearly half of the soldiers are veterans of the Anjia Army. The company and platoon leaders are all from the sergeant school. They are served by outstanding graduates of the Xufu Aviation School.
The officers and soldiers of each brigade have gone through arduous training for half a year to a year. Today they will go to North China to join the ranks of Hu Jialin's 17th Army and shoulder the heavy responsibility that the times have given to the Chinese people.
Hu Jialin's 17th Army is the direct line army in the Central Army sequence. It is a meritorious unit that Chiang Kai-shek places great hope on. Three of the four divisions under its jurisdiction are all iron-blooded troops from the same lineage as the Anjia Army. They are the trump card troops*
** Division, Lu Yixuan's 17th Division, and the 39th Division originating from Yang Jiuxiao's Northeast Volunteer Army are all honorary units that participated in the war against Japan. From the division commander to the soldiers, they are all branded as "Model Battalion", plus
Zhang Chengzhu's cavalry division was transformed into a mixed cavalry and infantry division. The entire army was composed of veterans who had experienced many battles. Their discipline, cohesion, and combat effectiveness were far superior to those of the armies in North China.
The Seventeenth Army is called an army in name only, but it is actually at the level of a legion. It is the powerful deterrent force formed by the Seventeenth Army's dominance in central and southern Hebei that makes the current situation in North China difficult.
As for the continued deterioration, the Japanese invaders and traitors were wary and did not dare to rashly expand the scope of military provocations.
However, due to the disorganized military reforms in recent years and the central government's financial constraints, the four divisions of the 17th Army are the same as the direct troops of the Central Army. The establishment of each division is limited to less than 12,000 people, and the total number of officers and soldiers in the entire army has been
There are less than 58,000 troops, which is quite different from the Anjia Army's three brigades and two directly affiliated regiments per division, three regiments per brigade, and no less than 2,000 officers and soldiers per regiment. At present, North China is increasingly tense.
In the severe situation, the Seventeenth Army, which has less than 60,000 soldiers directly under the military headquarters, is under heavy pressure and has a long way to go. Due to the lack of well-trained new professional troops to supplement the force, there are many worrying hidden dangers and shortcomings.
At the request of generals such as Hu Jialin, Lu Yixuan, and Wu Liheng, and after repeated discussions with his brothers, An Yi decided to add three special brigades to supplement them. He received Chiang Kai-shek's acquiescence and support six months ago.
Chiang Kai-shek, who has regarded the Seventeenth Army as the most important military force stationed by the central government in North China, has made it clear that once three well-equipped and powerful special brigades join the Seventeenth Army, the Seventeenth Army will immediately be upgraded to the Seventeenth Army.
Corps, and maintain the designation of the Corps. No matter how tight the military budget is, priority will be given to meeting the needs of the Corps, and it will exist as an experimental model of the Central Army for a long time.
On the high platform, Yang Bin, Ye Cheng, Gu Changfeng and other generals standing next to An Yi felt reluctant to leave. The fifteen thousand soldiers in front of them were all well-trained new units of the Anjia Army. Their military appearance
Military discipline, political ideology, military skills and sophisticated equipment are all first-class. In terms of literacy rate reaching 100%, the quality of officers and soldiers is far higher than that of other troops in the country, not to mention that all middle and low-level officers of the three brigades have received
Having received formal military education, they are well-known and excellent troops wherever they are placed, and they are among the first batch of troops to be transformed after An Jiajun's army founding ideology and training improvements.
"Commander, please say a few words. After our brothers go north, it will be rare for them to hear the commander's instructions again." Zhang Zhan, director of the *** Department, asked in a low voice behind An Yi.
Jiang Defense Commander Li Guang and Chief of Staff Mu Zhuiyi, who were in charge of transporting troops, also whispered in agreement: "Say a few words, Commander, the brothers are all looking at you eagerly."
An Yi's tall and tall body moved, slowly took a step to stand, took a deep breath, and said loudly:
"Brothers, your instructors and your superiors have told you many things. I think you know very well what you represent here and what kind of responsibilities and expectations you shoulder. What I want to tell you today is,
You are the best troops in the Communist Party of China. You are specially trained elite soldiers who are full of sincerity to serve the country. You are good men and you have traveled thousands of miles. No matter where you go from now on, southern Sichuan will be your home. People of southern Sichuan
We are all your relatives. The 20 million fellow villagers in southern Sichuan and the brothers and sisters of Anjiajun are all looking at you. I, An Yi, and all the generals around me are looking at you. You not only carry the honor of Anjiajun, but also carry the honor of southern Sichuan.
The expectations of 20 million people also bear the unshirkable responsibility of the Chinese Communists! Brothers, hold your heads high, move forward bravely, and use your blood and lives to realize your majestic ideal of serving the motherland. You will
Become the backbone of the country and the nation!”
"Expel foreign insults and serve the country with loyalty—"
"Expel foreign insults and serve the country with loyalty—"
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The powerful shouts of 15,000 soldiers were earth-shattering and penetrated into the sky. An Yi and his generals saluted solemnly on the high platform. Finally, Yiyi watched the soldiers singing "Serve the Country with Loyalty" as they drove out of the battlefield and headed towards the water transport.
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The female soldiers of the art troupe forgot their carefully prepared propaganda lyrics and excitedly beat the Allegro and gongs and drums. With tears in their eyes, they sang loudly together with the soldiers heading to the dock. Nearly 100,000 Luzhou people waved to each other on both sides of the river.
Everyone knows the heavy responsibility that the more than 10,000 Anjia Army officers and soldiers shouldered when they went to North China.
That night, the Southern Sichuan Radio Station only reported one sentence of news without any further comments or explanations. This simple news attracted great attention from the entire Chinese and foreign military circles: The newly recruited troops of the 17th Army of the Central Army left Luzhou.
Go north.
In the Japanese Concession of Tianjin, meetings were held continuously in the headquarters of the Japanese garrison army, and intense discussions were held on the "new recruits" "recruited" by the 17th Army from southern Sichuan. Since the Communist Party did not have any offices in southern Sichuan, the Anyi Group, which was tough on Japan,
It has no dealings with any communist industrial and commercial enterprises or Chinese companies with communist backgrounds. The spies and traitor intelligence agents hidden in southern Sichuan are working day and night in the Anjiajun counterintelligence agency, and they "would rather kill by mistake than miss by mistake."
All of them were eliminated under the special investigation and investigation. The Japanese military could only obtain various intelligence about An Jiajun through the Chongqing Consulate and hidden traitors in the Sichuan business community. Secondly, it collected relevant information from major news organizations in Europe, the United States and China.
intelligence in southern Sichuan, so they attached great importance to the "recruitment" of the Seventeenth Army stationed in North China from southern Sichuan.
According to the practice of Chinese garrison, the garrison is usually used as the source of troops for the unit. Now the 17th Army looks far away and recruits new soldiers from the defense zone of An Yi, China's most powerful military force. This cannot but arouse the high vigilance of the Japanese army.
Everyone from the Japanese intelligence agency to the garrison generals believed that this matter was not trivial.
After repeated deliberation, the Japanese secret service in Tianjin finally made a plan to conduct an exploratory provocation against the Seventeenth Army, hoping to detect the reaction level of the Seventeenth Army, the main force of the Central Army, and then speculate on the response of the Central Army.
Japanese resistance confidence, once the Seventeenth Army, like Song Zheyuan, Yu Xuezhong, Shang Zhen and other troops, chooses to give in step by step, the *** North China Garrison Army will place the "Early Summer Exercise" location within the Seventeenth Army Defense Area
Hengshui to Cangzhou line, and then used a combination of military threats and diplomatic intimidation to "completely drive out the Central Army troops stationed in North China that seriously threaten the Communist Party's interests in North China."
On March 25, on the morning of the quarterly meeting of the Communist troops stationed in China in Tianjin, more than 700 "autonomy representatives from all walks of life in North China" held high five-color flags and shouted various traitor slogans, marching from Baoding Railway Station in a mighty manner.
They wandered into the city and finally gathered in front of the office compound of the Nanjing central government and the Communist Party stationed in Hebei.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the guard sentries immediately closed the gate and carried out the horse and other obstacles to isolate the crowd. The emotional "Autonomous Representatives from all walks of life in North China" angrily overturned the horse, removed the obstacles, and rushed to the closed gate.
They beat up two military policemen on duty and thirteen garrison officers and soldiers who came to maintain order after hearing the news. They used logs, stones, and bricks to smash the door of the agency, and removed the nameplates, military and government symbols, flags, badges, and even lights hanging on both sides of the door.
They were all smashed until hundreds of policemen from the Baoding Police Station swarmed in to stop the situation from deteriorating further. However, three of the fifteen military policemen were seriously injured and were unconscious, and the other twelve were all injured and unable to do anything.
During the operation, all the weapons and ammunition they carried were robbed.
After the incident happened, the local governor of Baoding and officials from central ministries in North China were frightened and immediately called He Yingqin in Peiping and Wang Jingwei in Nanjing to complain and request instructions.
He Yingqin's call back was very timely, and he solemnly requested the Baoding government and the central temporary agencies not to "expand the situation" and that the Beiping Communist Party Branch of the Central Committee should conduct "stern representations" with the Communists; Wang Jingwei's call came back a little later, warning his personnel
It is not allowed to make remarks that "damage Sino-Japanese relations and hinder friendly diplomatic relations".
Baoding City, which was originally peaceful and well-ordered, has suddenly become panicked and rumors are rampant. Many people who don't know the truth say, "It's over! General Hu's team doesn't dare to offend the traitors who come to bully Baoding City."
Just like Tianjin and Peiping, they can no longer bear it."
The news reached the ears of Hu Jialin and the soldiers of the Seventeenth Army, causing an uproar. After officers at all levels suppressed their excited subordinates, they rushed to the headquarters of the Seventeenth Army and asked Commander Hu Jialin to give a clear order.
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All of a sudden, the headquarters was filled with people and angry people. Roars and curses were heard one after another, which was deafening. Even the sentry on duty at the door gritted his teeth and his chest heaved with anger.
The Seventeenth Army Headquarters moved into the Baoding Military Station where the Communist Division was originally stationed just two days ago. The reason was that the Central Gendarmerie and the Party headquarters' headquarters had withdrawn from Peiping under the threat and conspiracy of the Communist military.
Temporarily moved to Baoding City, which occupies an important strategic location. In order to make room for the central agencies stationed there, the 17th Army Headquarters, which was originally located there, just moved the headquarters to the military station where the *** Division is stationed two days ago.
The important strategic base An Yi bought during the Anti-Japanese War in North China and continued to build and improve it is now the best military garrison in North China. Moving the headquarters here is more convenient than in the city.
Hu Jialin was not angry this time. He waited until his generals had scolded enough and calmed down, then stood up and said in a deep voice: "Do you think the matter is so simple? Do you think that the places where hundreds of *** traitors attacked were only the Baoding government and central agencies?
Have you forgotten where our headquarters was two days ago? Have you asked about the specific situation of your brothers under your command? Have you ever considered why there are Koreans and Japanese ronin among those hundreds of traitors?"
The brothers were stunned immediately. They all looked at each other and did not dare to yell any more.
Hu Jialin sneered a few times, ordered all units and stations in the army to immediately enter a state of combat readiness, and then waved his hands to let the brothers go and do it immediately.
As soon as the generals left, Hu Jialin immediately held urgent discussions with his generals. Ten minutes later, a secret message was sent to An Yi, who had just arrived in Nanjing to attend the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China meeting.