August 8, the 26th year of the Republic of China, at 7 o'clock in the morning, in the special care ward of Nanjing General Hospital.
After holding An Yi up and sitting on the bedside, Feng Jieyun consciously stepped back. Sitting in the ward were three generals: Yin Jinan, Yang Fei, and Qu Muchen. After listening to Shen Fengdao's report, An Yi pondered for a moment:
"The situation in North China deteriorated rapidly, and the good situation was lost in a blink of an eye. There was no news from Huzi and Brother Chengzhu... Ye Cheng's New Second Army could not rush to North China in time... Alas, everyone Tell us what you think!"
Yang Fei has been in the intelligence department for many years and knows much more about the affairs within the Anjiajun system than the average person. Therefore, he comforted: "Commander, Huzi is not that easy to get into trouble. Even if they cannot break out of the encirclement, they can escape into the mountains of Jixi to fight." Guerrilla. All units of our Anjia Army have received special mountain warfare training, and our fighting will is far beyond that of other armies, so we are not easily broken."
Yin Jinan also said: "Yes, brother, we have been working with Hu Hu for so many years, and we still don't know what he is like? The war must be urgent, and he has no time to report the situation to us. When the situation relaxes, he will call us. ."
An Yi shook his head: "Don't comfort me. I made a rough estimate in my heart. To launch such a large offensive at the same time in the Jidong and Pingjin areas, the Japanese army would have to mobilize at least fifteen or sixteen divisions to encircle Huzi. They are no less than five divisions. Yes, the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of the Seventeenth Army is stronger than that of the Japanese, but that is under normal conditions. Now the Seventeenth Army has successively defeated two Japanese armies through continuous forced marches. After the main division's defense, and then the digging of fortifications overnight, and the nearly twenty hours of non-stop fighting, the soldiers were already exhausted, and I would say God bless them if they could exert 70% of their usual combat power. In such a situation Under such circumstances, we all know what the consequences will be if we engage in battle with the enemy..."
At this point, An Yi's eyes turned red: "Originally, I thought I would walk in front of Huzi and the others, but now I see my brother approaching danger and being unable to do anything about it. I feel heartbroken!"
Qu Muchen said: "Based on the time when the last news came from the Fifth Army Headquarters, the battle should be taking place at the western foot of Panshan Mountain. Our reconnaissance plane has taken off from Baoding Airport, and there will be specific news soon."
"No matter what, the Japanese plotted against me first and my brother after them. How can I be a human being if I don't avenge this revenge? Moreover, now that the Japanese fighter planes are gathering in North China, it is a great opportunity to use thunderous means to deter the Japanese. "I have decided to carry out air strikes on Taiwan, Ryukyu, Taiwan, North Korea and other places. What do you think?" An Yi asked for advice.
"good!"
Yang Fei was the first to express his position: "Since September 18th, the flames of war have been burning on Chinese territory. Now it is time for the Japanese to have a taste of war. Commander, give the order!"
"But--"
Qu Muchen hesitated: "Commander, this matter is of great importance. Do you want to ask the Military Commission and Chairman Chiang for instructions?"
Yin Jinan thought further: "Brother, international relations are complicated now. Will our air strikes cause the situation to get out of control? The positions of Britain, the United States and other countries are already wavering and unclear. Will the air strikes bring bad consequences to our country? as a result of?"
"Only the *** are allowed to set fires, but we are not allowed to light lanterns?"
An Yi smiled coldly: "If you look forward and backward, you can't do anything. Old Shen, has the Second Air Corps stationed at Hangzhou Airport?"
Shen Fengdao nodded: "All air force departments are in place. Air Force General Huang Chunyi said that the air force officers and men will resolutely implement the commander's orders."
"Okay, let me make the decision on this matter, Lao Shen, record my orders..."
"yes!"
"Two squadrons of bombers from the Second Air Regiment, escorted by fighter squadrons, took off immediately to bomb Taiwan's military airports, military camps, and colonial government buildings, destroying the Japanese army's fighting will and destroying its air combat capabilities; all strategic bomber squadrons stationed at Bengbu Airport, Carry napalm bombs to bomb military airports in Ryukyu, North Korea, and Kyushu in Japan. It is best to carry some Japanese anti-war leaflets written and printed by Communist Party organizers and spread them to the cities and towns in Japan. , let the Japanese people understand that war involves bombs and dead people; finally, ask Uncle Dao and Mr. Jiang to quickly draft a declaration of protest against Japan. After completion, it will be broadcast uninterrupted in various programs of Xufu Radio. When I tell you about the incident of my plane crashing due to the shameless sneak attack by the Japanese Air Force, I will tell you what I, An Yi, said. I am waiting for the little ***'s next conspiracy. As long as I, An Yi, have a breath left, I will fight the Japanese invaders to the end!"
Shen Fengdao quickly finished recording and turned to leave.
Seeing Yin Jinan and Qu Muchen's worried looks, Yang Fei comforted him: "Now the *** people have done everything first. We are just learning from each other, so there is no need to be afraid. Besides, the worst is just... What else can we do now?"
Yin Jinan and Qu Muchen looked at each other and nodded silently.
An Yi saw the expressions of the two people in his eyes and sighed: "I know what you are worried about, but even if we don't take the initiative, will Britain, the United States and other countries come forward to stop Japan's aggression? Can China win over European and American countries? Can our selfless assistance be changed? Can it change the fate of Japan using its third-largest fleet in the world to continuously obtain resources from all over the world, while we can only rely on our own efforts?
"No, nothing can be done! The only thing we can do is to use our actual actions to warn the Japanese people that rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry. War is a life-and-death fight, and the Japanese people are also suffering from Just like the Chinese who have been bullied by the war, they may enjoy the bomb greetings sent by China at any time. At the same time, it also shows our courage and determination to never compromise and fight to the end."
Yin Jinan and Qu Muchen looked horrified and responded in unison. All hesitation disappeared in an instant, and what remained was only the tragic and heroic feeling of swearing to die to serve the country.
At this time, An Yi's intelligence chief Liu Qing walked into the ward quickly. When he saw An Yi, his eyes turned red and tears burst out. An Yi smiled and shook his head: "I'm not doing well, what's wrong with me?" Cat urine, let Ji Nan and the others laugh at you... By the way, is that matter settled?"
Liu Qing smiled sheepishly at Yin Jinan and others, wiped away his tears, and strode to the hospital bed: "The Jade King Tie Wanwan and his jewelry, jade and antiques worth tens of millions of silver dollars have all been safely transferred to the Xu Mansion. He generously donated two million to the Pacification Office, but we rejected it. He immediately used the money to buy food and help the government in disaster relief. The Office has awarded him the title of 'Model Citizen of Syria'."
An Yi turned his head and saw the inexplicable expressions on Yin Jinan's and others' faces, and instructed Liu Qing: "Tell them the whole story so that they don't get confused."
Liu Qing nodded and immediately listed out the tasks he had been responsible for during this period.
It turns out that Tie Wanwan, whose surname is Tie Wanshan and whose given name is Baoting, is currently China's well-deserved world-class jewelry and antique super giant. "Tie Wanwan, the Jade King" is the nickname given to him by current Chinese and foreign businessmen. In the late Qing Dynasty, Tie Wanwan
Guangshan opened the "Deyuanxing Jewelry Store" in Ertiao Lane outside the front door of ***. He worked hard day after day and developed a pair of "eyes" for appraising jewelry and antiques and an extremely superb business acumen.
With repeated successes, his business became more and more prosperous and his strength became stronger and stronger. Many foreigners also came here to purchase jewelry, and some even became friends in the business world. He has been invited by Japan, Europe and the United States and other countries.
Carrying precious collections and exquisite jade carvings and other artworks that he personally directed, he participated in international expositions such as Paris and Chicago, repeatedly causing a sensation, and his business became increasingly prosperous.
In the early years of the Republic of China, Puyi, the abdicated Qing Emperor, was unable to make ends meet, so he used a large amount of palace jewelry as collateral to borrow money from Citibank and HSBC. Because he was unable to repay when due, the mortgaged jewelry became a "dead asset". Citibank and HSBC
The bank did not understand the true value of these jewels, so in order to recover the principal and interest in time, it hired Tie Baoting as an authoritative appraiser to sell them. Tie Baoting not only priced the jewels reasonably and gained the trust of the bank, but when he learned that the Japanese businessman wanted to be the first to sell them,
When rushing to buy these national treasures, he went to great lengths to ask Ma Hongkui, who served as the military attaché of Yuan Shikai and Li Yuanhong, to provide support. He raised huge funds and contacted many giant jewelry and antique merchants in the capital to jointly purchase these treasures from the palace and try not to leak them out.
Inspired by this, Tie Guangshan gradually changed his business policy and vigorously purchased valuable jewelry and antiques (even if they were transferred, they were only available to domestic foreigners), and even tried to recover antiques and treasures that had been bought by foreigners at large sums of money to stop them.
Foreign businessmen were both surprised and admired this; for external sales, they mainly purchased their own raw materials and personally planned and guided the processing. They produced many exquisitely carved jewelry and large jade carvings. Sales became increasingly strong and became a world-famous brand.
Jade King.
Tie Baoting is indifferent, clean, and lives a simple life. He is very stingy. His family often lives a simple life. Although there are electric lights, in the evening, except for the children doing homework, everyone else lights kerosene lamps. He eats with the employees in the shop every day
Most of the same meals were a bowl of broth or cabbage brought from a cooked meat shop at "Yue Sheng Zhai". He never smoked, drank, went to the theater, or even drank tea, let alone sensuality.
When he goes out to do business, he always walks and pawns, and rarely takes a car. When he is thirsty while walking in the summer, there are some people selling popsicles and sour plum soup on the roadside, but he never buys them. He just finds a well to beg for a ladle of cold water to drink.
Although he was wealthy when he went to other places to do business, in addition to entertaining when necessary, he often brought a small jar of fried sauce and mixed it with water noodles cooked for two copper coins. However, he was very generous in charity, establishing and sponsoring 4 primary schools.
and two middle schools, and provided aid to poor people and small traders all year round. Therefore, he also left people with the reputation of "the Iron Great Good Man".
After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out, Tiebaoting was worried that the national treasure-level cultural relics in his collection would fall into the hands of the Communists, so he deposited rare treasures worth tens of millions of dollars in the vaults of several foreign banks in Peiping. One of the treasure hiding places was
One is the backyard warehouse of the Russian Huayosheng Bank located in Dongjiaomin Lane. This bank warehouse is located on the inside of Shuncheng Street under the city wall at the south end of the east entrance of Dongjiaomin Lane. There are five large south rooms, and two warehouses are rented by three jewelry stores. Among them
Deyuanxing Jewelry Store and Baoquan Jewelry Store in Langfang Ertiao share a large room in the middle. Another Juyuanlou Jinzhu Jewelry Store rents a large room in the west. Since the warehouse is adjacent to the city wall to the south and the U.S. Army Food Warehouse to the north
, a barbed wire fence is installed on the high fence. On the surface, it can be described as a high wall and an iron gate. The barriers are tight, there are many checkpoints, and it is impregnable.
Chen Yanshou, Li Guangsui and other traitors, who had coveted this batch of jewelry for a long time, took advantage of the chaos in Peiping to secretly climb the southern city wall to spy secretly, and found that the surface of the backyard warehouse of the Russian-Russian Daosheng Bank rented by Tiebaoting was
It seems airtight, but in fact there are many loopholes. In particular, the U.S. Army Food Warehouse adjacent to the north of the yard is only separated from the Dowson Bank Warehouse by a wall. The wall there is not too high. The U.S. Army
Inside the wall on one side of the warehouse, there are tall grain stacks. It is still possible to climb over the partition wall from the top of the grain stacks into the Daosheng Warehouse. Moreover, the defense of the US Army Food Warehouse is relatively lax, especially against the Americans wearing military uniforms.
Foreigners and blond-haired and blue-eyed foreigners come in and out with almost no precautions. This is the "soft spot" in the defense of the Daosheng Bank warehouse. If they can collude with the foreigners, it is possible to take advantage of it. In their hearts
They kept thinking about clever ideas and agreed that if they wanted to successfully rob the jewelry in the Daosheng Bank warehouse, they would have to join forces with foreigners.
As a result, this group of gangsters contacted two Belarusian nobles with American citizenship who were negotiating business in Peiping, hoping to join forces to do this business. Naturally, these two Belarusians were intelligence agents of the An family army, and they easily obtained this business.
A top secret message.
After receiving the report, An Yi appointed Liu Qing, the intelligence chief who was still in Nanjing at the time, to be fully responsible for handling the matter.
After Liu Qing contacted two Belarusian intelligence officers, he quickly rushed to Tiebaoting's house and mobilized him to take these treasures south to the Syrian government to preserve this precious cultural wealth for the country and the nation, but he was deeply wary of the warlords.
Tie Baoting politely declined Liu Qing's kindness.
Liu Qing was not discouraged and paid close attention to the development of the situation. After the gangsters contacted more than a dozen European and American people, they became emboldened and collaborated to rob the treasures stored in the backyard warehouse of the Russian Daosheng Bank in China. On the way to escape from the embassy area, he was arrested.
Liu Qing led his troops and captured them all. Tie Baoting personally participated in the interrogation of the gangsters. When he learned that these gangsters wanted to use these jewelry and jades to donate to the Japanese in order to gain wealth and prosperity, he was greatly touched.
, finally made up his mind to take the jewelry to the inland Xufu.
Tiebaoting's influence was extremely huge. After learning the truth of the matter, the antique dealers in Peiping approached Liu Qing one after another and asked to go south under the protection of An Jiajun. Therefore, Liu Qing stayed for a while longer, and did not find out until he returned to Nanjing after finishing his work.
After hearing the news that An Yi was seriously injured and hospitalized, we immediately came to join them.
"here you go!"
An Yi praised: "Liu Qing, you have gained a lot from this trip, and the timing is just right. If it is a few days later in the evening, the Beiping City will be taken over by the little devils. By then, all these antique jades will be available."
If you put it into the pocket of a *** person, wait for a few years, and you can't even find a ghost, who can you turn to to complain?"
Yin Jinan said: "Yes, the Japs' attack was so fierce. From Jidong to Beiping, in just three or four days, it swept through most of Hebei. Especially the wave of offensive launched last night captured the essence of blitzkrieg."
, I suspect that there are extremely clever tacticians in the Japanese army."
"After unremitting efforts, our intelligence personnel finally obtained the main division numbers of the Japanese army in North China and the directory of their commanders." With a deep voice, Du Yi, the intelligence leader in southern Sichuan, walked into the ward and paid An Yi a concerned look.
After a glance, he continued:
"The commander of the Japanese North China Front, Juichi Terauchi, was born in a very prestigious and powerful hereditary aristocratic family in Yamaguchi County, Japan. His father, Count Masaki Terauchi, was a figurehead of the Meiji period and served as director of education, land minister, governor-general in Korea, and prime minister.
Grade 1. Juichi Terauchi has a complete career record since he joined the army. He has a cheerful and open-minded personality and has the courage to take responsibility for his subordinates. He became the Minister of Army after the February 26th Mutiny last year. After he took office, he eliminated the Emperor Dao sect, reformed the system, and formulated
A plan to explore the Northeast and invade China. In February of this year, this person was changed to the Army Education Director. When the war situation in North China was unfavorable, he was urgently appointed as the Commander of the North China Front.
"Major General Kanji Ishihara, Chief of Staff of the Front Army, is familiar to everyone. He is the culprit of the September 18th Incident. It is said that he is extremely intelligent and can often think of things that others cannot think of. Originally, he was firmly opposed to war with China, so he was
He was relieved of his post as head of the First Department of the General Staff, but saw that the Japanese army in North China had been defeated in consecutive battles, and if things continued like this, even the Northeast might not be safe, so he took the initiative to ask for war and was appointed by the Japanese emperor as the chief of staff of the front army."
Everyone nodded after hearing this, and Yin Jinan couldn't wait to ask: "Do you know how many divisions the Japanese army invested in North China?"
Du Yi nodded: "The Japanese army invested seventeen divisions in North China. If we add the Chahar Front with the Kwantung Army as the main body, the Japanese army only invested twenty-two regular divisions. Plus
With ten Japanese mixed brigades and supplementary brigades composed of more than 100,000 soldiers in the countryside, the Japanese army invested almost 600,000 troops in North China."
When everyone heard this, they took a deep breath. An Yi's face turned pale and he murmured: "The beard is in danger, the beard is in danger..." He felt anxious, blood rushed to his forehead, and he fainted immediately.