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Beijing-Fenghuang Railway, Peking Station.

The Peking Station of the Beijing-Fenghuang Railway has long been alerted by soldiers of the Southwest Army. A train coming from the Ningjin Defense Line has just entered the station. After the battle on the Tianjin-Beijing battlefield, the Beijing-Fenghuang Railway, which is a matter of life and death for the Ningjin Defense Line, finally finally

Escaped the bad luck of being cut off by the Japanese.

"salute"

The train stopped, and a group of Southwest officers and soldiers got out of the passenger car in front. The first one had a shining general star on his shoulder and was wearing a high-ranking officer uniform made of high-end Southwest specialty materials. This person turned out to be a major general officer from Southwest.

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"General Huo, Adjutant Lu, and I, Wang Jun, commander of the First Regiment of the Fourth Division, would like to welcome you both to Peiping."

The person in charge of picking up the car was Wang Jun.

In order to support Zhang Xueliang's resistance war on the Ningjin Defense Line, the Southwest Army implemented Zhang Shusheng's order after the Beijing-Tianjin Conference and stored some artillery and "drugs" as well as light and heavy machine guns, submachine guns, etc. at the Beijing-Fenghuang Railway Station, waiting for the Northeast Army to receive them.

, loaded up the truck and headed north to continue to participate in the battle with the Japanese army.

"Lieutenant Colonel Wang Jun, we meet again."

"Reporting to the instructor, the ninth batch of the Chinese Military Academy, infantry science student Wang Jun is reporting to you."

"Haha, good job, you've become the group leader."

Speaking of this Wang Jun, Huo Weiguo is familiar with it. When he served as the staff officer of the Southwest Army, he happened to teach Wang Jun during his part-time teaching at the Huaxia Military Academy. Time flies so fast. The staff officer back then is now a major general.

, and the student also became the leader of the main division.

Lu Zhengde also returned a military salute. The relationship between the two parties is now so close that only he, Zhang Xueliang's adjutant, knows best. As the young marshal's special commissioner, he not only followed Huo Weiguo to Peking to receive this batch of equipment, but also to meet the higher-level people in the southwest.

Official. "Thank you for your hard work, Commander Wang. Your army fought bravely and just won a great victory over Tianjin and Beijing. It is really admirable."

"Adjutant Lu, you are so polite. The Northeastern Army fought very well in Jinzhou. Adjutant Lu must have been fighting on the front line often." Wang Jun was not lying. Lu Zhengde had several scars on his face. The most shocking scar was from

The temples are stretched to the corners of the eyes, and anyone who has been on the battlefield will know at a glance that they were left by a child passing by.

After being polite, the three of them boarded a jeep and headed to the Southwest Army garrison in Peiping.

Huo Weiguo looked at the undulating scenery outside the car, but thought of the current situation in Peiping.

The Southwest Army and the Japanese army joined forces to defeat the Japanese army and won the battle of Tianjin and Beijing, but a problem arose.

The top leaders of both parties almost immediately issued orders to quickly control the two cities of Peking and Tianjin.

In Tianjin City, because the Southwest Army sneaked into the city from the tunnel, after the battle, two regiments of troops quickly took control of all parts of Tianjin City, opened the city gates, and only allowed the Southwest Army to enter the city.

The furious Nanjing "government" set its sights on Peiping.

Although the Nanjing "government" was furious, when the two armies signed the "May Day Cooperation Agreement" to fight together, there were no clear provisions on the distribution of spheres of influence after the war.

Perhaps at that time, the Nanjing National Government was not very optimistic about this battle, or perhaps it did not expect that the war would end so soon. When the problem was put on the table, the Nanjing Government realized that the Southwest was also sending troops and people, and almost

Tens of thousands of troops go on a battle, and they cannot go back empty-handed. They have to get something.

As a result, Chen Cheng, who received Chairman Chiang's death order, immediately began to take over matters in Peiping.

Almost at the same time, Chen Jun also ordered the Eighth Division of the Garrison Division, which had been dismissed for rest and recuperation before, to quickly take over Peiping.[

After receiving the report from his subordinates, Chen Cheng did not dare or was unwilling to open fire with the Southwest Army. He ordered the troops to enter the city from the north gate, while the Southwest Army entered the city from the east gate. As if there was a tacit understanding, the two sides quickly divided the huge Peking.

There are two halves, the North City is controlled by the ***, and the South City is controlled by the Southwest Army.

In Tianjin City, under the strong bayonets attached to the rifles of the Southwest Army, Chen Cheng had to give up after receiving the latest instructions from Nanjing.

Now it seems that the Southwest Army has taken a slight advantage. In fact, if it were not for the tunnel leading to Tianjin City, the outcome of the Tianjin-Beijing battle would have been equally divided between the two sides at most.

It's not that Zhang Shusheng thought that he was "too hasty", but because of the war in Northeast China and in order to prevent Ningjin's defense line from being lost, he decided to capture one city and one land. Tianjin was close to the sea and the terrain was much better than that of Peking, so it was

The Southwest Army decisively captured it.

As for Peking, there are other considerations.

Chen Jun and Jiang Baili were in charge of Tianjin, and the Nancheng of Beiping City was led by the Eighth Division Commander Ye Jianxiong. Relying on the main force of the Eighth Garrison Division entering the city and Daxing Airport, which was very close to Nancheng, the southwest could be considered as stably covering half of Beiping City.

The land is in your hands.

"Weiguo."

When Huo Weiguo and the two came to the headquarters of the Eighth Division, they unexpectedly met Jiang Baili. After Huo Weiguo was brought back to the southwest by Cai E, he worshiped Cai E as his mentor. Naturally, Jiang Baili could also be regarded as his uncle.

Senior.

"Chief of Staff" Huo Weiguo and Wang Jun saw it was Jiang Baili and immediately stood at attention and saluted.

Accompanied by Ye Jianxiong, commander of the Eighth Garrison Division, Lu Zhengde went to visit the display of the results of the Beijing-Tianjin battle. He came to Peiping for another important task, and he also had to contact high-level officials in the Southwest. Now he knew that the Southwest Army had

It's about housework, so I'm not in a hurry to see Jiang Baili.

Apart from a clerk from the staff department, the only ones in the room were Huo Weiguo and Jiang Baili.

"Chief of Staff, what is the current situation in Tianjin and Beijing?" As a member of the Southwest, this is what Huo Weiguo is most concerned about. After sitting down, he asked about the current situation.

Jiang Baili opened a map, which clearly marked the comparison of the distribution of forces between the Southwest Army and the Kuomintang in the Beijing-Tianjin area today.

"From the current point of view, the city of Tianjin is under the firm control of our army. Chen Cheng was afraid of a conflict between the two armies, so he gave up his plan to force the troops to enter the city. Now, in addition to controlling the coastal city of Tianjin, we also control the southern city of Peiping.

under our firm control.

However, after all, both sides contributed a lot in this Tianjin-Beijing battle, and nominally, Tianjin and Peiping are also within the sphere of influence of the Kuomintang. In order to dispel the possible hatred of the Communist Party grassroots against us, and to find an excuse, we declared to the outside world that we were stationed in Tianjin.

, to prevent changes in the Ningjin Defense Line and to prepare for the subsequent Anti-Japanese War. As for Peking, Foreign Minister Li Zongren has personally called the Nanjing ‘government’, stating that the southwest ‘government’ is willing to negotiate with the Kuomintang regarding the garrison in Peking.”

Huo Weiguo nodded. Although Southwest really wanted to occupy Tianjin and leave a northern advance base, if it really evacuated and sent the entire army back to Southwest, not to mention that the Japanese army might make a comeback. When the battle to liberate Northeast China was launched in the future, it would not be possible.

Will be at a loss.

And if the Ningjin defense line is breached by the Japanese army, it will probably be difficult to resist the southward Japanese army alone with weapons. The Beijing-Tianjin area, which took a lot of effort to save, will most likely fall again.

This is also the reason why Chiang Kai-shek did not completely break his face. Since he wants to pull the Southwest Army into the queue to resist the Japanese army, he needs to provide a garrison for the Southwest. Obviously, if Tianjin is occupied, it will become the forward base of the Southwest Army, and Peking

You have to get it back through negotiation.

"In the direction of Jinzhou, the Japanese army's offensive momentum is no longer as fierce as in the past few months. There are signs that the Japanese army is building a strong position in the direction of Jinzhou. Judging from various signs, the Japanese army has most likely given up the plan to break through the Ningjin defense line.

And entered defensive operations with the intention of digesting the entire Northeast." As the general adviser of the Volunteer Army, Huo Weiguo still had a clear view of the strategic situation. At this time, if the Southwest and the Kuomintang put aside all their prejudices and formed a coalition to go north, they would most likely be able to do so in one fell swoop.

To recapture the Northeast, however, he knew that this was just wishful thinking as a soldier. Neither the Southwest nor Chiang Kai-shek would hastily move north again.

Since Zhang Xueliang has not been defeated, he can only continue to persevere alone. The reason why the Tianjin-Beijing battle touched the nerves of both sides is that the Japanese stretched their hands too far, and neither side could tolerate the loss of the entire north of North China.

Similarly, it is impossible for both sides to actively mobilize their armies to move northward in the face of domestic confrontation and plunge their elites into the possibly distant war to liberate Northeast China.

"How is Zhang Xueliang doing his work?" This is a question that Jiang Baili is very concerned about. In the next series of strategic plans, Zhang Xueliang's Northeastern Army will be a very critical chess piece.[

"The plan is progressing very smoothly. Before I left, Wang Gongliang was officially seconded and appointed as the commander of the 17th Division of the Northeast Army. Many other officers have already joined the Northeast Army's staff department to carry out work. Our people

They all performed well, dared to fight, and never regarded the war as a matter of the Northeast Army. A volunteer officer named Chai Chun, when he served as a recruit battalion commander, actually pulled a regiment of recruits to go when the war was urgent.

He provided support and defended the precarious position. Afterwards, due to his outstanding performance, Zhang Xueliang promoted him to the commander of the new regiment."

In fact, the reason why Huo Weiguo stood out and served as the general adviser of the Southwest Volunteer Army in Jinzhou was because the plan itself was proposed by him. A series of plans surrounding the win over Zhang Xueliang were formulated before the Japanese army attacked Jinzhou.

In the final analysis, Chiang Kai-shek was too timid at the time. He asked Zhang Xueliang to hold off the Japanese army alone and waited for both sides to weaken each other before sending troops. At the same time, he sent Chen Cheng to lead his troops to station in Tianjin and Beijing, which was considered to have included Tianjin and Beijing as a direct force of the Kuomintang.

scope.

In the tense situation of the war, Zhang Xueliang only received assistance from the southwest. In addition, although the Kuomintang also carried out some supplies, they did not send any troops. Instead, several so-called field correspondents asked the young man to

Handsome and extremely hot.

Time waits for no one. When Southwest's actions in Jinzhou became more and more serious, and the news from all sides became more and more unfavorable, Nanjing was finally preparing to mobilize heavy troops to go north in the name of supporting the Ningjin defense line, but the Battle of Tianjin and Beijing broke out again.

"Well, the Kuomintang can't spare any time to take care of Jinzhou for the time being. You have to do more work to get through Zhang Xueliang. On the other hand, since this Lu Zhengde is Zhang Xueliang's envoy, do you know some of his trump cards?" Jiang Baili reminded.

"I don't know, I deliberately tried to trick him along the way, but this guy is also a good person, so I'll just leave him alone, but I think it won't be a big problem."

The two talked about some key points of the Northeast Plan, and then asked people to retrieve Ye Jianxiong who was taking a walk. Jiang Baili and he would have a secret meeting.

The two of them didn't know what they said. They only knew that Jiang Baili personally delivered Lu Zhengde to the headquarters and waved goodbye with a smile.

"The chief of staff is in a good mood." Ye Jianxiong said jokingly. He could also guess that the secret talks between the two should have achieved some breakthrough progress.

"You boy, come on and accompany me to the theater. As soon as the fighting stops, I will start talking about the old tunes from the Peking theater." Jiang Baili was in a good mood when he thought of his secret conversation with Lu Zhengde.

In August 1932, in the Southwest, which had just won a great victory in the Beijing-Tianjin battlefield, the Kuomintang troops did not send their troops northward as the domestic people expected, but instead stayed in Beijing and Tianjin. The Kuomintang troops used the excuse of lack of logistics and were in urgent need of troops.

It needs to be rectified, and it is said that it is appropriate to restore the Northeast to Xu Tu.

The southwest also consumed a lot of "medicine" and needed some time to rest and recuperate, but it was promised that the southwest army would never return to the southwest before the northeast was liberated.

At the end of August 1932, after negotiations, the Southwest Army withdrew from Beiping and handed over the city of Beiping to the Kuomintang "government", but would station troops along the Tianjin-Langfang-Daxing Airport line.

"Please come in."

Hearing a knock on the door, Chen Jun, who was checking the latest military information, raised his head and saw Chief of Staff Jiang Bailimen walking over.

"Chen Jun, what are you looking at?"

"This is the Chief of Staff. Please sit down quickly. I'm reading a transfer order just issued by the military department. Come, please have tea."
To be continued...