After receiving the news from Ou Yaoting through the Yangon Intelligence Station, An Yi finally felt relieved and ordered Dai Zhengliang, the commander of the southern Yunnan garrison, to build the Gengma to Hoban, Myanmar, Simao to Mongla, Myanmar as quickly as possible, efficiently and with high quality. The three strategic highways from Lancang to Mengbao in Myanmar will completely open up the traffic bottleneck with Myanmar. The Syrian government base camp will provide the greatest financial and material support for this. If necessary, it can even recruit the Zhouqiao Brigade directly under the 26th Army for assault construction. Actively mobilize people from all walks of life along the route and strive to complete the entire line within five months.
The three important customs clearance trade routes on the China-Myanmar border are all under intense construction. An Yi felt relieved and turned his attention to the crisis-ridden North China. Three brigades from the Anjia Army Headquarters attached to the 17th Army have arrived one after another. The appearance of a large number of armored vehicles, ten-wheel heavy-loaded artillery tractor trucks, and light off-road assault vehicles in Baoding and Shijiazhuang will definitely cause a strong reaction from the Kuomintang secret service agencies and the Tianjin Kuomintang garrison. I am afraid that Song Zheyuan, who is kneeling at this time, will Xuezhong, Shang Zhen, Wan Fulin and others could not sleep.
This large-scale mobilization of troops is not only a strong support for the 17th Army stationed in North China, which plays a decisive role in the sea, but also an important practice for the Anjia Army Headquarters to quickly mobilize new types of troops over long distances.
This time, the three brigades set off from Luzhou almost at the same time. The Yangtze River waterway from Luzhou to Wuhan is nearly 600 kilometers long. It is jointly managed by the Jiang Defense Force and the Southern Sichuan Yangtze River Shipping Company. The nearly 1,000 kilometers of railway transportation from Wuhan to Baoding is carried by The General Staff Headquarters of the Military Commission and the Ministry of Railways were jointly responsible for the whole journey, which took fourteen days and seventeen hours. An Yi and the generals around him were still not satisfied with the speed. Progress reports and handling measures continued to be sent along the way, and they found that there were still problems. The potential can be tapped, and the key to the problem has been identified one by one, and further improvement plans have been made.
The various ministries of the Communist Party of China and the Ministry of Railways were shocked. They had never seen such a heavily mechanized force with such powerful firepower and equipment before. The three brigades added up to nearly 300 large and small vehicles. Thirty-six new 120 howitzers, 18 150 heavy guns, together with ammunition and supplies and other equipment, fully used 26 double-head special trains, fully loaded with up to 10,000 people including the logistics and baggage department. With a strength of 9,000 officers and soldiers, ubiquitous staff groups composed of nearly 1,000 officers of all levels quickly moved northward.
Within ten days, one-third of the Pinghan-Hankou Railway's transport capacity was fully mobilized, giving priority to ensuring this important military operation from the highest order. As many as 26 regiments of provincial troops were ordered to be on guard along the railway line.
To the great surprise of the officers and soldiers on guard in various places, all the soldiers who took the special train and went north with their equipment were all in a battle-ready state with guns and ammunition. Except for adding water, they had not touched any food provided by the Military Agency at the stations along the way, from generals to privates. , all of them have strict military discipline and cold expressions. They only respond with apologetic smiles when asking curious questions about friendly troops along the way. When they see a fellow soldier who they like or have the same accent, the officers and soldiers on the carriage throw one or two packs of good cigarettes produced in southern Sichuan. As a token of gratitude, none of the soldiers spoke.
Tianjin Garrison Headquarters.
More than a dozen generals including Yoshijiro Umezu, the commander of the garrison, Doihara Kenji, the head of the Fengtian Secret Service who actually oversees the secret services such as Beiping, Tongzhou, Shanhaiguan, and Tangshan, and Suzuki Mitsuchi, the Japanese military attaché in North China, gathered together for urgent discussions.
Emergencies in Baoding and Shijiazhuang.
Kenji Doihara, who had just returned to Tianjin from Nanjing, became the host of the meeting. Starting from February this year, Kenji Doihara took advantage of his classmate relationship with Yan Xishan and other senior Chinese generals to frequently travel across the country, sparing no effort to divide the country.
Winning over warlords from all over the country to jointly oppose the Nanjing government.
On February 6, Kenji Doihara successfully instigated rebellion against Yin Rugeng in Peking; on February 11, Kenji Doihara successfully negotiated with the former Minister of Finance of the Beiyang Government and current Political Affairs Councilor of Peking at the banquet hosted by Song Zheyuan for him.
Wang Kemin and other pro-Japanese figures in North China established a liaison mechanism; on February 18, Doihara Kenji met Huang Yong secretly in Shanghai. Unexpectedly, he bumped into this widely rumored leader of the capitulation faction.
Although he was disappointed, he was not discouraged and rushed to Nanjing in style to attend the banquet specially held for him by Wang Jingwei. After figuring out Wang Jingwei's idea of appeasement and compromise, he returned to Shanghai on the 22nd.
He began to frequently visit Yu Qiaqing, Feng Jingyao, Zhang Jingjiang and other Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols, as well as gang leaders such as Huang Huangrong, Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin, to try to figure out the different attitudes held by various circles in Shanghai towards Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek.
On March 2, Kenji Doihara rushed to Hong Kong to meet with Hu Hanmin, the veteran of the Communist Party of China, and expressed that the Communist Party would fully support Hu Hanmin in reorganizing the Communist Party and rebuilding Sino-Japanese friendly relations. But what kind of person is Hu Hanmin? Although he
He was very dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei, and had great differences with Chiang Kai-shek on the concept of democracy. However, Hu Hanmin would never do anything to lure a wolf into the house for personal gain, so he dismissed Doihara with a few words.
Kenji Doihara was not discouraged and immediately transferred to Guangzhou, where he was warmly received by Xiao Focheng, Zou Lu and Chen Jitang. They had three banquets a day and had a great time chatting. Chen Jitang, who had been gathering for several days and still had unfinished business, even sent a plane to fly Kenji Doihara away.
Go to Nanning so that Doihara can save time and visit Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi more smoothly in order to jointly form an anti-Chiang alliance.
As a result, Doihara Kenji got a bad rap from Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi. When Doihara reached a lot of consensus on how he got along well with Chen Jitang, Xiao Focheng and other Lingnan heroes in Guangzhou and invited Li Zongren to participate in the grand event, Li Zongren said with a smile
If General Bonan (Chen Jitang) hadn't sent troops to prohibit newspapers from reporting on your visit, I'm afraid the city of Guangzhou would have been in turmoil by this time.
Kenji Doihara was very confident in his secret whereabouts and laughed loudly saying it was absolutely impossible. Bai Chongxi left for a while and handed Doihara a telegram when he came back. After reading it, Kenji Doihara's smile disappeared and he immediately gave up his previous relationship.
The idea of visiting Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui in Chongqing and Chengdu was because the message clearly stated, "In compliance with the opinions of Tokugong and Jiangong, I will not comment on Dofeihara's trip to Guangzhou for the time being." The name on the message was something Doihara hated very much.
An Yi.
Doihara Kenji, who was fluent in Chinese and spoke standard Peking dialect, knew very well that if Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi had not tried to dissuade him due to the quarrel between Guangdong and Guangxi, An Yi would have definitely mobilized the entire Chinese Communist Party to attack his trip to Guangzhou.
Even if Chen Jitang is capable of verbal and written criticism, he can't stop the reputation of being a traitor. How many Chinese local military and political celebrities will dare to meet him, the leader of the Communist Party's secret agents, in the future?
It is precisely because of his frequent visits that Kenji Doihara has the clearest understanding of the Chinese Communist Party. At the same time, because he holds the important leadership of the intelligence agencies of the Japanese military stationed in China, Kenji Doihara naturally deserves to be the host of the meeting.
people:
"As early as thirteen days ago, our intelligence officers stationed in Chongqing sent back the news that a brigade of the Anjia Army was taking a ship down the river. Because our intelligence officers lacked sufficient understanding of the various establishments of the Anjia Army, they mistakenly thought that during the day
The officers and soldiers of a brigade passing through the Chongqing River Section were marines from the newly established Jiang Defense Command in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and they mistakenly judged that this brigade would be stationed in Yichang, an important military base for the Anjia Army.
"It is undeniable that the Anjia Army did a good job in keeping the intelligence secret. Their huge fleet quietly passed through the Chongqing River section on a rainy night. This fleet was loaded with a large number of wheeled armored vehicles, heavy artillery, military trucks and other imported vehicles.
It was not until the small off-road assault vehicle manufactured by American technology that we reached the Jingzhou section of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River that our intelligence personnel obtained relatively complete information and sent back an emergency report saying that three divisions of Anjiajun troops were flowing down the river.
Where to go.
"Our agency headquarters was very surprised after hearing the news, and immediately mobilized important intelligence personnel in the direction of Nanjing to conduct an investigation. Only then did we draw a preliminary judgment from the situation of the special train urgently collected by the Ministry of Railways of the Nanjing Government, and thus learned a week in advance that this equipment
A large number of advanced weapons and a new elite force of up to 20,000 people, with the purpose of
The location is North China, but judging from the seven consecutive days of investigation, we do not fully understand the actual equipment of this unit, nor have we obtained the specific number of the unit. Since the unit has currently been stationed in the 17th Army in Shijiazhuang and Baoding,
Camp, it is estimated that there will be further information added within the next twenty-four hours."
The generals looked serious and nervous. Lieutenant General Umezu Yoshijiro, who stood upright, asked: "Can you give us a detailed introduction to the establishment of the An family army? According to the report from the secret service headquarters, it seems that the young general An Yi of China led
The troops are very different from Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army departments. Why is this? Can Chiang Kai-shek, the commander of the Central Army, tolerate this situation?"
Doihara saw that almost all the generals who had changed after the Great Wall War had such doubts. After thinking for a moment, he still shook his head:
"I'm sorry, gentlemen, the things involved are very complicated, and involve the relationship between local warlords and the central government throughout China, the tradition of warlord separatism, and the complicated conflicts between local and central generals. It is difficult to
Explain clearly. Especially this An Yi’s department
The force was a direct line force from Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army. In just eight years, it developed rapidly and fought two equally matched battles with us in Shanghai in 1932 and in North China in 1933.
Let me briefly explain what our army must know."
Doihara Kenji sorted out his thoughts for a while and said loudly: "Since the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived in Jiangbei, An Yi's troops have been called the Anjia Army by the Chinese for their strict military discipline, excellent performance and strong combat effectiveness. At that time,
An Jiajun is just a
It was an ordinary main division, with a maximum number of 18,000 people and a minimum number of more than 9,000 people. The first Northern Expedition was marked by Chiang Kai-shek's resignation as a sign of failure. The Anjia Army was defeated miserably in the struggle within the Chinese Communist Army.
When they returned to Nanjing, there were only more than a thousand people left.
, and most of them were injured, including An Yi himself. Due to the rapid rise of the Guangxi army and its dominance of the central power in Nanjing for a time, this army was also disbanded. An Yi returned to Nanchang with the remnants to start business, and was very successful.
, created an industrial and commercial miracle in China and even the world. An Yi also slowly gathered the remnants and attached themselves to the then-Chairman of Jiangxi Province Zhu Peide. He used the huge profits earned from business and industrial investment to quietly purchase from Germany and the United States.
weapons and equipment, and secretly expanded.
"After Chiang Kai-shek came back to power, An Yi was reused, and with his outstanding performance, he conquered the veterans in the Communist Party of China. At a young age, he became the former chief of staff of the Northern Expeditionary Army's Eastern Route Army. Perhaps you may have heard of the Jinan incident
We are all familiar with the battle between our army and the Chinese *** team in Jinan
That battle took place under the command of An Yi. As a result, we did not gain any advantage. That is to say, from that time on, An Yi entered the files of the Army Provincial Intelligence Department, so there was An Yi in Peiping.
In that assassination incident, it was a pity that he could not be killed that year."
The generals nodded frequently, and Doihara Kenji continued: "After that, An Yi's military rank was promoted rapidly. In the Jianggui War, the Central Plains War, the Southwest Battle of Japan and other battles, An Yi and his army showed great
The command level and combat effectiveness have attracted the attention of all political circles in Europe and the United States. We have also begun to focus on An Yi and his army. Unfortunately, September 18th
After that, the army focused its energy on the Northeast, and then on North China. The research on the Anjia Army, which suffered heavy losses after the Shanghai War and was dormant in the far southwest of China, was also stopped. Until our army launched the Great Wall War and invaded western Liaoning, the Anjia Army
Quickly went north and fought fiercely with our army in western Liaoning and inside and outside the Great Wall. I won’t tell you what happened next... What I need to tell you here
Yes, the Anjia Army is now the most powerful local military force in China and has the strength to compete with the Central Army. In name, they belong to the Central Army, but in fact they are a group of their own. Chiang Kai-shek must go through An Yi to mobilize the Anjia Army.
Each soldier of the army is one soldier, and the Anjia army is only subject to the Nanjing government in terms of designation. The army has its own organization, because they do not need
The Nanjing government allocated a penny of military expenditures to them, and they developed even more rapidly after occupying the fertile border areas of the four southwestern provinces. In the late stages of last year's Sino-Burmese border war, the 26th Army of the Anjia Army defeated them in just a few hours.
The defense line of two divisions of the Burmese army and one brigade of the British army was occupied, and hundreds of square kilometers of land in northern Myanmar were occupied. This shows that the combat effectiveness of the Anjia army has been increasing."
"Doihara-kun, why do you praise the vulnerable China army so much? No matter how powerful the An family army is, can they stop our Imperial Army? In addition to mountain warfare and guerrilla warfare, can they withstand the frontal attack of our Imperial Army?"
Takashi Sakai, the chief of staff of the garrison, cried out in dissatisfaction. This maniac in the Japanese army who served as the military attaché of the Jinan consulate and was one of the perpetrators of the Jinan tragedy had not experienced the tragic wars in Shanghai and the Great Wall.
An Yi and even the entire Communist Party of China hated and despised An Yi immensely. In fact, in just two years, the generals of the Communist troops stationed in China almost went through a round of changes.
Yi and An Jiajun became very strange.
Doihara Kenji was stunned for a moment, then shook his head slightly and smiled bitterly: "Sakai-kun, I say you must know this person. He is a young general of our army whom you rarely admire, and he is also one of the few outstanding generals you have praised."