Dexian is now the center of political and military affairs in North China. Before DXP and Chen G's convoy arrived at Dexian County, they saw a large number of people gathered at the city gate from afar, and many people were holding banners. The two were shocked. Although DXP did not come to North China secretly, the Kuomintang would not welcome him with such a big fanfare.

When the convoy arrived at the city gate, DXP ​​had a good eye. First, see the words on the banner: "Welcome Mr. Stu Leiden to escape from danger!" "Shen University students welcome President Stu Leiden!"

"It seems that we are self-indulgent, and welcoming Stu Leiden." Chen G shook his head and sighed, as if he was not welcoming them, and dxp helper couldn't help laughing.

The ** team invaded eastern Hebei and liberated a concentration camp in Luan County. A large number of British and American people were detained in the concentration camp. These British and American people were British and American expatriates in North China detained by Japan after the Pearl Harbor incident. Most of these expatriates were originally detained in the Weixian area. After the ** team occupied Xuzhou, Okamura Yasuji ordered the transfer of these expatriates to the Tongzhou area. Before the Battle of North China, these people were transferred to Luan County and a temporary concentration camp was built in Luan County.

The military situation was tense during the Battle of North China, and Mijiro Umezu began to be very confident in defending Tangshan. However, after the complete army of Masahiro was destroyed by the Riverside, the Kwantung Army retreated urgently and had no time to deal with the concentration camp. Moreover, these people were just expatriates, but some of them were famous people, the most famous of which was Stu Leiden.

Stuart Leiden is an American, but was born in China and spent most of his 68 years in China. He is a famous education expert and the famous president of Yenching University, "under his leadership", Yenching University has developed into one of the most famous universities in China.

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, the National Government sent people to hope that Stuart Leiden would move Yenching University inward, but Stuart Leiden refused. "Stuart Leiden believed that the War of Resistance was a long-term process. The Chinese people in the occupied areas needed education to resist the slave education promoted by Japan. Yenching University should become a banner of resistance in the occupied areas.

In the next four years, Yenching University insisted on running schools and refused to cooperate with the Japanese occupation forces. The university campus became the base camp for teachers and students of the Anti-Japanese War. With the secret support of Stu Leiden, the teachers and students engaged in various anti-Japanese activities. Japan was not unaware of this, but Stu Leiden's reputation was extremely high and the US and the government were extremely concerned, which made the Japanese myself "no way to go."

On the eve of the outbreak of the Pacific War, the US government had already realized that the war might break out at any time. The consul of the US Consulate in Peking personally visited Stuart Leiden, hoping that he could leave Peking and go to the rear, but Stuart Leiden still refused.

It’s not that Stu Leiden didn’t know that danger was coming, but he knew better that as the president of Yenching University, he had become a symbol of resistance in the minds of all students of Yenching University, while Yenching University is a symbol of resistance in the educational circles of Peking. As the president of the university, he must stick to his post and fight to the last moment.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Stuart and all foreign teachers at Yenching University were arrested, but he was different from others. The United States also seized Japanese diplomats and expatriates in the United States. The US government conducted diplomatic exchanges and negotiations with the Japanese government in accordance with diplomatic practices in Switzerland, a neutral country.

During the negotiations, the US government clearly requested that Stu Leiden be included in the exchange list. The Japanese government rejected this request, which reminded the Japanese government that it believed that this was a strange product and should be kept at the important time to play a role. It was based on this judgment that Stu Leiden was not sent to the concentration camp in Weixian, but was carried in Peiping.

Before the Battle of North China, Okamura Yasuji felt that Peking might be surrounded, so he left Stu Leiden in Peiping without any benefit, so he sent Stu Leiden to Luan County to lock in a jar with other British and American expatriates. After being rescued, these British and American expatriates were not sent back immediately, but stayed in the Tangshan area. After doctors checked and recuperated, Stu Leiden was too famous. The National Government and the US Embassy sent a special person to visit. A Sino-US medical team was sent to Luan County.

Zhuang Jihua did not go to Luan County, but he also sent people to Luan County to visit and arrange these rescued British and American people on his behalf. However, Stu Leiden was different. His reputation was too high. Zhuang Jihua also sent Li Zhilong, who had just returned, to visit Stu Leiden, and specifically told him to meet all Stu Leiden's requirements.

But today's welcome ceremony, Zhuang Jihua did not appear at the city gate of De County. The results of the North China Battle were unprecedented, but the consumption was also amazing. Judging from the casualties, it was not very large. The firepower of the troops was greatly enhanced. The casualties of the Chinese and Japanese armies were the most recent. The casualties of the Japanese army exceeded the "China" team for the first time. In the entire North China Battle, the casualties of the North China Theater were only more than 210,000 casualties, of which more than 80,000 were killed, more than 60,000 seriously injured, and about 70,000 slightly injured.

The most consumed was the materials. The base of shells in the North China War Zone dropped to a base, the base of tank fuel dropped to a dangerous half-base. It was okay to say that bullet grenades were good, but the most serious one was still food. As Chen G said, nearly 10 million people (arithm error, no 100 million people) were pointing at him for dinner. After a big fight with Hong Junqi that day, Hong Junqi finally agreed to stop all military transportation within ten days and mobilize 50 million kilograms of grain to North China. The rest were solved by Zhuang Jihua in the North China War Zone.

Hong Junqi clearly told Zhuang Jihua that Xinjiang needs food and weapons and ammunition to combat rebellion. The Dilan Railway has limited capacity. A rebel ranger recently sneaked into the Hami area and specifically destroyed the railway and attacked a small convoy. The railway was open and blocked. Almost all cars in the Eighth War Zone were used to transport food and weapons and ammunition. Bai Chongxi was very dissatisfied with the assembly and logistics of the troops. Hong Junqi had no choice but to transfer the plane originally used to transport supplies to the North China War Zone to him.

Zhuang Jihua had no choice but to use his abundant manpower to deliver supplies to the front line, but Bai Chongxi had no choice. The Battle of North China has reached its end stage, and the large-scale military operation has ended, leaving only Peking and Tianjin. Zhuang Jihua had other ideas for these two cities, and the military operation was temporarily stopped.

In addition to Peking and Tianjin, Wei Lihuang attacked the Central Méng border without a large-scale battle. The 300,000 troops were waiting for the enemy. The attack on Méng Gu was already on the string, but it stopped because of the reason for being trapped by food and ammunition.

Going there to get food? Zhuang Jihua was almost worried. Feng Gui suggested collecting food in Shandong and Henan, but Zhuang Jihua refused. Zhuang Jihua believed that the order to exempt Shandong and Henan agricultural tax for one year had not passed, and the government could not break its promise. If he broke his promise because of temporary difficulties, how could he win the trust of the people in the future?

Forced by helplessness, Zhuang Jihua asked Mei Yuntian for help again. Mei Yuntian moved east and west to buy 1,000 kilograms of grain in Myanmar and transported it to North China via the Yunnan-Burma Road. The transportation line was long and the time was delayed for a long time.

"A lot of 100 million kilograms of grain, but in fact, each person only has ten kilograms. I can eat it for a month after saving it. What about a month later?" Feng Gui asked Zhuang Jihua with a sigh.

"It cannot be entirely dependent on the rear," Cai Tingcuo frowned and said: "It is necessary to mobilize people to produce and save themselves, and at the same time, the difficulties in North China are reported to the whole country. The National Rescue Association in various places mobilizes the people to donate voluntarily as much as they can."

Cai Tingcuo's idea was adopted by Zhuang Jihua, and the rescue meetings in various places began to take action. Jia Zhongxian was in Henan, and He Siyuan called for the people of Shandong to "Everything is for the War of Resistance!" Yuzhou Evening News Central Daily reported on the difficulties of refugees in North China. The rear side launched a donation campaign again. Shandong, Henan, which had just survived the famine, also donated more than 10 million TAB grains, which were transported to North China through the Jinpu Railway and Pinghan Railway.

This series of measures made Zhuang Jihuasong \\1 However, food was just one of the things that bothered him. Another thing was that ammunition supplements were supplemented by Bai Chongxi after he took office in Xinjiang, Chiang Kai-shek transferred a large number of troops from various war zones. The North China War Zone was also transferred.

Zhuang Jihua ordered the transfer of the Third Army of the 52nd Army, the 98th Army of the 31st Army, which had just encircled and annihilated Zheng San, Hebian, to Xinjiang. These two troops were gathering in Zhengzhou and preparing to transport it to Xi'an along the Longhai Railway, then transport it to Lanzhou, and then to Xinjiang via the Dilan Railway.

But neither the Third Army nor the Ninety-Eighth Army were willing to go to Xinjiang. Among them, the 98th Army was the 98th Army, which was mainly composed of the Northwest Army of Yang Hucheng. The commander of the army, Wu Shimin, had a firm support for Yang Hucheng during the Xi'an Incident, so this army has been suppressed in the Kuomintang army, and its situation is miserable, and its military pay and equipment have always been short.

After the 98th Army entered the 31st Army, Tang Enbo wanted to reorganize this army several times, but they were blocked by Mu Shimin. Tang Enbo piled him up, like holding a hedgehog, who wanted to eat but couldn't eat it, but he was unwilling to give up just like that.

After Zhuang Jihua took office as North China, he did not take special care of the 98th Army. However, from Deng Yanda, the news that Samushimin had agreed to join the Third Party, but Zhuang Jihua received the news that the GC in the 98th Army was very powerful, and the commander Samushimin's tendency was very strict. The 98th Army was not Zhuang Jihua's idea, but Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered that Zhuang Jihua guessed Chiang Kai-shek's purpose. After the 98th Army arrived in Xinjiang and participated in the suppression of the rebellion, on the one hand, he could cut off his ties with **: on the other hand, he could lay the foundation for reorganization.

The troops in Xinjiang are either the Central Army or the Northwest Army and the Xinjiang Provincial Army that have no connection with the **. The Xinjiang Provincial Army has been fighting with Xinjiang separatists for a long time. This Xinjiang rebellion suffered heavy losses and will not be related to the Soviet Union and then to the **.

But what made Zhuang Jihua difficult was that Cai Ting misunderstood that the commander of the 98th Army, Mu Shimin, and the main generals in the army, had joined the Third Party, hoping that he could find a way to keep the 98th Army in North China. Zhuang Jihua then ordered Mu Shimin to gather on the Longhai Line, and on the other hand, he did not urge the 98th Army to speed up the operation.

On the grounds that the war had just ended, the army was exhausted and the material losses were severe, the joint third army Tang Huaiyuan asked the theater command to suspend the movement. Zhuang Jihua did not persuade him and transferred the situation to Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek was also tricky to hold it. According to military common sense, after such a war, the troops would have to rest for two to three months, and theoretically, no loopholes in the two armies could be found.

Chiang Kai-shek did not urge him after receiving the telegram. The transportation capacity of the Dilan Railway was tight, and the troops transferred from various places were constantly gathering towards Dihua. Before Bai Chongxi, after Hu Zongnan arrived in Dihua, the first thing he did was to repair the airport near Dihua. By the time Bai Chongxi arrived, three airports near Dihua had already built, plus the original three airports, there were six airports near Dihua that could take off and land bombers, and two radar stations were also built.

When Chen G and DXP arrived at the headquarters, Zhuang Jihua was discussing an attack on Tianjin with Xu Zuyi. When he heard Chen G was coming, Zhuang Jihua couldn't help but a layer of anger flashed across his face, and he felt very unhappy.
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