The shouting outside continued to be repeated, and despite the low temperature of 20 to 30 degrees below zero, cold sweat continued to break out on Liu Yanchun's forehead.

The adjutant was also so frightened that his legs were trembling a little, and he asked in a low voice: "Sir, what should we do?"

"Damn it, I really can't understand how Chairman Tang could give such a bastard order!" Liu Yanchun said in bewilderment and extremely angry.

"Brigade, now is not the time to blame Chairman Tang. Let's make a decision quickly. Otherwise, look at the tanks outside the city. The artillery is much larger than the previous tanks of our Northeast Army. If the cannon is fired, the entire Lingyuan will be destroyed.

Razed to the ground!" the adjutant said in horror.

At this time, the shouts outside the city became more severe: "Friends of the 108th Brigade, half an hour is coming. If you refuse to carry out Chairman Tang's order, we will fire."

"Don't fire, don't fire, I obey Chairman Tang's order." Liu Yanchun gritted his teeth and quickly stood up from the wall, waving his hands.

"Open the city gate and gather everyone outside the city. Throw all weapons and equipment together." Liu Jianguo excitedly grabbed the simple shouting microphone from the hands of his subordinates.

Half an hour later, Liu Yanchun's brigade headquarters and a regiment, totaling more than 5,000 troops, became the "prisoners" of Duli's division.

Liu Jianguo divided his troops into one group and went to Jianping County, northeast of Lingshui, to follow the same pattern and integrate all the other regiments under Liu Yanchun's command.

Then one cavalry regiment, one motorized infantry battalion, and the motorcycles and military trucks of the motorized infantry regiment were used to pull Liu Yanchun's two regiments plus the brigade headquarters, a total of more than 8,000 people, and transport them back to the Tongliao base area.

That afternoon, the 4th Division of the Japanese Army received reinforcements from the 7th Division, and the main force marched forward to Pingquan County.

Zhang Xinghan transferred back the tank regiment and motorized infantry regiment to deal with the 106th Brigade in Longhua in the same way, but unfortunately, the 106th Brigade Commander Zhang Congyun had already made contact with Tang Yulin who had withdrawn to Shuangluan.

Naturally, he would not be fooled. Just when Zhang Xinghan was about to order Liu Jianguo to "beat and beat" Zhang Congyun in order to force them to leave the city and accept recruitment.

The cavalry and air force scouts brought back news that the Japanese army had arrived in Pingquan.

In order not to cause a fight with Tang Yulin's troops for the time being, so as not to force them to defect to Japan and become Han soldiers.

Zhang Xinghan ordered Liu Jianguo to withdraw his troops, and at the same time ordered the air force to fly to Pingquan to conduct bombing and air raids against the Japanese army.

At the same time, Song Zheyuan's 29th Army and Sun Dianying's 40th Division rushed to Rehe one after another.

Sun Dianying's arrival was beyond Zhang Xinghan's expectation, but he was relieved when he thought that the only shining point in Sun's life in history was his good performance in the 32-year War of Resistance in Rehe.

This capricious guy did not really come for the so-called national justice, but came for prestige in order to make a comeback.

He wants to earn reputation for himself in the name of resisting Japan. At the same time, he is also suspected of fishing in troubled waters.

Whether it was Song Zheyuan or Sun Dianying, they must have learned about Tang Yulin's escape without a fight, and they all wanted to take the opportunity to pick some "peaches".

However, when the second officer learned that Zhang Xinghan had led his troops to Chengde, his heart dropped. Everyone was well aware of each other's intentions.

Sun Dianying led his troops to the Chifeng area and stopped advancing. Song Zheyuan's troops also stayed near Ningcheng, adopting a wait-and-see attitude.

At the same time, news came from the Tongliao base area that four divisions of the Japanese army launched an attack on Tongliao from two directions.

Huang Xiansheng, Zhao Zhenfan, Wang Yizhe and others led their troops to resist with all their strength.

In view of this situation, Zhang Xinghan led his troops to quietly leave Chengde that night and advance towards Pingquan.

He wanted to defeat the Japanese army as soon as possible, thwart their plot to occupy Rehe, and then return to Tongliao as soon as possible.

Zhang Xinghan knew that the situation in Rehe had changed strangely because of his arrival. He could only withdraw temporarily and let Song Zheyuan, Sun Dianying, the Northwest Army, and Tang Yulin's Northeast Army fight with the Japanese to defeat both sides.

It would be most appropriate to clean up the mess later.

Since he had already absorbed one of Tang Yulin's brigade, Zhang Xinghan's trip was already worthwhile.

However, before leaving, Zhang Xinghan still wanted to give the Japanese army some color, so as not to make it too disparate in strength with the Chinese local miscellaneous troops in the Jehol area, so that they could maintain a certain balance and stalemate and consume each other.

Another reason that prompted Zhang Xinghan to return quickly was that the Japanese army began to attack the base area aggressively.

Jiang Baili suggested to him that he could take advantage of the Japanese attack and rely on the favorable terrain and established positions to allow divisions and regiments to take turns participating in the battle and use this actual combat to train troops.

However, just in case, Zhang Xinghan had to take the tank regiment back, which was exactly the purpose of sitting on the sidelines and watching the situation in Jehol and finally reaping the benefits.

At twelve o'clock in the morning that night, Zhang Xinghan led the tank regiment, the first motorized infantry regiment (less than one battalion), and the cavalry regiment (less than one battalion) in a forced march to Pingquan.

Taking advantage of the darkness, with one hundred No. 4 tanks as the main assault force, they launched a surprise attack on the 4th Division of the Japanese Army.

A torrent of steel composed of a hundred tanks broke into the Japanese army's position with ease. The tank guns and vehicle-mounted machine guns caused all the Japanese soldiers to be shot and fell to the ground wherever the tanks went.

Thousands of officers and soldiers of the cavalry and motorized infantry regiment took advantage of the situation to cover up the enemy. The 4th Division, a merchant division from Osaka, was defeated in less than an hour.

Li Zhenyuan and Sabuli led the tank regiment and cavalry in hot pursuit until dawn, killing the 4th Division and bleeding into rivers. They stopped the pursuit only after the dead and wounded were lying dead, and quickly withdrew to Pingquan. Soon, under the leadership of Zhang Xinghan,

Withdrew towards Tongliao.

When the Japanese Air Force heard the news and came for reinforcements, Zhang Xinghan's troops were nowhere to be found.

After the defeat of the 4th Division, the Japanese attack on Rehe was immediately suspended. The remnants of the 4th Division were temporarily stationed in the Qinglong County area to be supported by the 7th Division.

Just as Zhang Xinghan led his troops back to the base area, thousands of miles away in Shanghai, a conspiracy directed and acted by the Japanese had been launched two days ago.

Two days ago, on April 5th, Japanese agents instigated and directed several Japanese monks to have a dispute with workers' volunteers from Shanghai Sanyou Industrial Company, and a fight broke out between the two parties.

Japanese agents secretly instructed some Japanese monks to mingle among the workers and took the opportunity to seriously injure several Japanese monks.

Later, the Japanese announced that a monk had been beaten to death. They used this as an excuse to put pressure on the Shanghai authorities, and instigated young Japanese expatriates in Shanghai to burn Sanyou Industrial Company at night.

They also hacked to death the three Chinese police officers who rushed after hearing the news.

On April 6, Japan gathered thousands of Japanese people to hold a demonstration in Shanghai, strongly demanding the intervention of the Marine Corps and the Imperial Consulate General in Shanghai.

Japan's Consul General in Shanghai, Attaché Murai Somatsu, made four unreasonable demands to the Shanghai mayor: apology, punishment, compensation, and disbandment of anti-Japanese groups.

At the same time, Commander Shiozawa Koichi of the Japanese Navy's 1st Foreign Deployment Fleet stationed in the waters of Shanghai issued a threatening statement, stepping up preparations for war on the grounds of protecting overseas Chinese, and began to mobilize troops from Japan to Shanghai.

War is about to break out in Shanghai.

At this time, almost three months had passed since the Battle of Tongliao. The five Japanese army divisions that had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Tongliao and had been transferred back to China had been reorganized and reorganized.

In order to provoke a war in Shanghai and cope with the Kwantung Army's actions in the north, Japan transferred the 9th Division (after reorganization), which suffered minimal losses in the Battle of Tongliao, and sent an additional 3rd Navy Fleet to Shanghai to increase its troops.

……………………Tongliao Northeast New Army Base Area.

Zhang Xinghan led his troops to successfully return to Tongliao on April 7. At this time, various departments of the New Army were already engaged in fierce battles with the Japanese army in the Qinglong Mountain, Turji Mountain, and Qinghe area.

In addition to the three divisions storming Qinglong Mountain, the Japanese 10th Division set out from Shuangliao and launched an attack from the east of Tongliao along Turji Mountain and the Qinghe River Basin.

However, due to the dense mountains and dense woods here, the attack of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army did not go smoothly. A regiment of the 1st Motorized Infantry Division, with the cooperation of the Air Force, relied on the favorable terrain to block the 10th Division in the north of Turki Mountain.

The first line of foothills.

After learning in detail about the general situation of the various Japanese armies, Jiang Baili immediately suggested to Zhang Xinghan: "Master, of the two Japanese armies, only the 10th Division on the east route is the weakest. I think we can concentrate our superior forces.

, use armored brigades and cavalry regiments to form an assault force, adopt frontal assault, roundabout and outflank tactics, and strive to eat up the 10th Division."

"However, because the new recruits of the armored brigade have not yet completed their patrols, the armored air defense regiment is basically unable to participate in the battle. Turki Mountain is a mountainous terrain, which is not conducive to the mobile operations of our armored forces. I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve the expected results." Zhang Xinghan hesitated.

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While the two were discussing, a communications soldier suddenly hurried in, saluted Zhang Xinghan and others and reported: "Commander, I just got the news that a few hours ago, the Japanese Marine Corps suddenly attacked our No. 1 troops in Zhabei, Shanghai.

The 19th Route Army launched an attack, and the commander-in-chief of the 19th Route Army, General Cai Tingkai, has issued a declaration of resistance, vowing to defend Shanghai and Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou to the death! The 78th Division currently stationed in Shanghai is already at war with Japan."

"What? The Japanese army attacked Shanghai?" Everyone including Jiang Baili and Huang Xiansheng were shocked when they heard this.

Zhang Xinghan lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and then he understood that this was a trouble deliberately provoked by the Japanese in order to cover the Kwantung Army's invasion of Manchuria.

Although the Shanghai incident happened three months later than in history because of his own arrival, it still happened.

Huang Xiansheng waved his hand to the signal soldier to signal him to leave. The signal soldier saluted and turned around to leave.

Huang Xiansheng looked at Zhang Xinghan and Jiang Baili and asked: "Commander, Chief of Staff, what do you think of this?"

Zhang Xinghan did not speak, but Jiang Baili smiled slightly and said: "Don't worry, everyone, the Japanese will not really invade Shanghai, let alone Nanjing. If they really shift their strategic focus southward, strategically speaking, the harm will be far less than

The Japanese army invaded Manchuria and encroached on North China's policy.

In a word, China is not afraid of being swallowed by whales, but of being cannibalized."

Zhang Xinghan nodded in agreement. It seemed that Jiang Baili had already made a clear strategic plan for the possible war between China and Japan in the future.

"The top priority now is to take advantage of this rare opportunity to practice defensive warfare to train the various units of our new army, so as to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops as soon as possible. Order each regiment to take turns to go into battle and conduct actual combat training! Without my order, no one is allowed to take risks.

Then attack." Zhang Xinghan immediately ordered.
Chapter completed!