Chapter 351 The final reunion
Chiang Kai-shek, who was in Lushan, then sent a telegram saying that he proposed the policy of "not surrendering, not expanding" and "not seeking war, but resisting war."
On July 9, 11 and 19, the agreement reached by the Japanese North China garrison and the Hebei-Chahar authorities three times were proved to be empty text by the intermittent cannon sounds from the Lugou Bridge. "On-site negotiations" won the Japanese army time to increase troops in North China, but it blinded the Hebei-Chahar authorities and slowed down the preparations for the 29th Army to fight, bringing great harm to the Pingjin War of Resistance.
By July 25, 1937, more than 60,000 Japanese troops gathered successively in Pingjin.
After the combat deployment of the Japanese North China garrison troops was basically completed, in order to further launch the war of aggression against China, the Langfang incident and the Guang'anmen incident were deliberately created on July 25 and 26.
On the afternoon of the 26th, the North China garrison issued an ultimatum to the 29th Army, demanding that all Chinese defenders withdraw from the Pingjin area before the 28th, otherwise they would take action. Song Zheyuan refused sternly and issued a telegram to the whole country on the 27th to resolutely defend the territory and resist the war.
On the same day, with the approval of the Emperor, the Japanese General Staff ordered the Japanese North China garrison troops to launch an attack on the 29th Army, and added about 200,000 troops from five domestic divisions to China, and issued a formal combat mission to the commander of the North China garrison troops: "Responsible for the Chinese army in the Pingjin area." It is inevitable that bloody battles in Pingjin were fought. The Chinese army then rose up to resist, staining the Pingjin road, and the heroes served the country's hatred.
In the past ten days, most of the Sichuan Army generals gathered in Yongzhou did not return.
Guo Xunqi looked at the 66th Division, the main force of the five brigades, and the division's direct troops, all of which were on a 15-day holiday and went home to visit relatives.
Return to Yongzhou to assemble on July 28th.
This is the final reunion, a farewell to relatives, this is the belief of dying, and the hero will never return.
He was so brave that the Japanese army was approaching. The Sixty-Sixth Division was not afraid that after his troops returned home, they would never return and become a deserter.
So he gritted his teeth and after reporting to Pan Wenhua, his model teacher also had a 15-day holiday.
In history, Liu Xiang did not travel this time. This time he was called to Mount Lu by someone Jiang. It was simply because of the university's relocation to Sichuan. He remembered that he wanted to be a good person and asked Liu Xiang to express his intention to resettle the school in public.
It was not until Liu Xiang returned to Yongzhou from Mount Lu and ordered all the generals to go back to reorganize the army and prepare for war that the Sichuan generals who remained in Yongzhou suddenly realized that Feng Tiankui's soldiers had all ended their visits to their relatives and began to assemble.
On the night of the 28th, Song Zheyuan evacuated from Peiping, and on the 29th, Peiping fell.
On July 29, 1937, the 38th Division of the 29th Army, led by Li Wentian, launched the Tianjin Defense Battle. The 38th Division attacked the Japanese troops in Tianjin Railway Station, Haiguang Temple and other places, and captured a lot of people, but was bombed by Japanese planes and suffered heavy casualties, so they were ordered to retreat. On the 30th, Tianjin fell.
What should be coming will always come. In these days, the fourteen universities in Pingjin brought tens of thousands of teachers, students, books, teaching tools, took the train, crossed the Qinling Mountains, held hands, and arrived in Yongzhou one after another.
Thousands of people, Lijiaya, were pouring in Dicui Gorge, which was originally hundreds of people, and there were crowds of people. Even the air-raid shelter was used to temporarily resettle teachers and students. Zhou Xiaoshan not only gave up his villa to live in, but also mobilized teachers and students from the Yongzhou Branch of Beiyang University to help free up the residence and squeeze in.
Very busy.
Even Pingjing came to the river to Wu Yunchu, Chen Hong, and Fang Yexian to organize the Chaochuan Mutual Aid Chamber of Commerce.
With the assistance of Yin Changheng, the site was selected, settled, and opened air raid shelters to build.
Pan Wenhua, who also serves as the mayor of Chongqing, is also busy in Chongqing. Central University has arrived and brought Jinling Girls' School, as well as several universities in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
With concerns about China's destiny and their future, teachers and students lived in their temporary residences near Chongqing in crowded areas.
The unprecedented retreat led by the Sichuan Army made the National Government stunned.
This is not only a merit and honor, but also a heart of the people. Liu Xiang cannot be left alone.
In the future, this group of people who move westward will be destined to be the most popular group in the future of the Republic of China.
Ru Mengchu Xing Guofu sent more than a dozen officials including Lin Jiyong to form a committee to move westward and resumption of school and work in the southwest.
Mobilization was launched in Shanghai again to mobilize enterprises to move westward.
The government clearly wanted to take these factories to Changsha, but they wanted to come to Sichuan even more.
As a last resort, the Guofu joined He Guoguang's name to the committee and was also responsible for assisting in the purchase and resettlement of factories without factories after the westward migration.
Zhou Xiaoshan unexpectedly discovered that Feng Tiankui's fourth concubine, Shan Yang Chunni, who was evacuated by He Guoguang after the Xi'an Incident, was also in this committee, and some business owners from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to survey the factory address in Yongzhou.
She was very serious. Yin Changheng couldn't handle things, so she went to the Yongzhou City Defense Command in person and pulled Feng Tiankui to solve them on the spot.
What stunned her the most was that Minsheng Company rented large ships to replace the river transport below the Yichang section, greatly expanding its transportation capacity.
Not only did they announce that the freight rate only increased the insurance premiums of the ships they invested abroad, but they also transported millions of tons of rice and flour to Sichuan again. After getting off the boat at the small train station at Yongzhou Wharf, they went to Nanjiang and Bazhong and evacuated wildly.
After making a speech in Lushan in grief and anger, Chiang Kai-shek saw that the general trend of the War of Resistance Against Japan was irreversible.
Finally, in August, I went down to Mount Lu.
In early August, Liu Xiang was called again to Nanjing for a meeting.
Liu Ziman followed Liu Xiang and conducted a full-time follow-up report.
Zhou Xiaoshan saw the newspaper issued by Ta Kung Pao in Yongzhou and was in a bad mood.
The topic is Liu Xiang’s speech at the National Defense Conference.
"Only by resisting foreign powers, the country can be stabilized. In the War of Resistance, Sichuan can send 300,000 troops, 5 million strong men, and provide several tens of thousands of stones of grain. The weapons and ammunition produced by Chongqing Machinery Repair Office, Sichuan Kang Pacification Office bullet factory, and Hejiang Artillery Factory can be allocated by the central government at a parity. Sichuan only retains the production of Yongzhou Machinery Repair Office, providing supply to the Sichuan Army for a long-term resistance against the war!"
How many years have you been calling Chiang Kai-shek's foreign defenses to calm down the country? Is it appropriate for you to sing the opposite tune like this?
It was similar to history, Liu Xiang was still the third speech at the National Defense Conference and sprayed for an hour.
Not only that, Liu Xiang was also in Nanjing, and met the main leaders of the Eighth Route Army who went to Nanjing, and even fought fiercely with Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Long Yun and Han Fuju.
Oh, in this case, I'm afraid not only Kangze's Rangers have targeted Liu Xiang, but even the Central Command and the Military Control Commission have to focus on Liu Xiang themselves.
Before Liu Xiang's plane took off from Nanjing, Feng Tiankui received a telegram.
Not only him, Luo Jialie, Qin Guoliang, and Zhou Xiaoshan, set out immediately to Chongqing to attend the military conference.
Zhou Xiaoshan dared not go to Chongqing empty-handed.
Fan Xudong and Wu Yunchu also agreed to the Sichuan generals' explosives and grenades.
Sixty trucks set out in Yongzhou. Zhang Ji towed two barges the day before yesterday, and he could almost arrive at the same time as the convoy.
Dozens of trucks loaded with hundreds of tons of explosives, followed the two small cars of the 66th Division to outside Liu Xiang's mansion.
The soldiers escorted the car surrounded him for a long time, and the onlookers were blocked far away. If a cigarette butt was thrown out and exploded, not to mention that the Marshal's Mansion was gone, a large pit could be blown up within a few miles.
It scared the guards very much.
Doing all the unreliable things, Adjutant Li, who was beside Liu Xiang, hurried out and punched the kid, and then took the convoy to the warehouse.
Chapter completed!