War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 199 Neck crutch!

Shanhaiguan was lost, Captain An was sacrificed, and the situation escalated instantly.

Nanjing sent Lao He to the Northeast Army's garrison to give a speech. Xiao Liuzi also began to speak, but Xiao Liuzi's speech was very interesting. He actually said: "I was forced to defend the territory by force. I had no choice."

Xu Chaoyang no longer remembered what was said specifically, but this was indeed the meaning.

Even when Xu Chaoyang was standing in the military camp, he felt like a coward, the kind of coward that even his compatriots couldn't stand to see!
Because Xu Chaoyang also received an order in the 29th Army, from the old man Song Zheyuan, the order was conveyed by Wang Changhai, the original words were: "See the devils, no matter why - fight!"

There was only one sentence, and I don't know whether it was only conveyed internally or to the public, but it's uplifting to hear it!

Xu Chaoyang also had to change the training plan for the 217th Regiment, changing it to half of the regiment training and half of the regiment guarding the city in the morning; in the afternoon, the regiment trained while guarding the city, and alternated between training and guarding the city, and so on.

At this moment, a sentence that was ridiculed by later generations spread like wildfire. There was a rumor that after the Japanese army captured Shanhaiguan, their morale was greatly boosted, and some people even shouted the slogan: "Destroy China in three months!"

许朝阳记着这一天，这一天，是1933年的1月16号，而1932年的除夕是1月25号；
On this day, Wang Changhai rushed directly into the military camp, asked his men to gather urgently for no reason, and then asked only one question in front of everyone!

"Let me ask you one question. The Japanese say they want to destroy China in three months. Do you agree?"

He didn't shout, but strangely enough, his voice was heard by everyone. Even Xu Chaoyang, who was standing in the crowd, could see the expressions of the people around him.

He saw anger, unwillingness, and a raging flame rising from the bodies of the soldiers of the 217th Regiment.

"No!"

Disorganized voices came from all directions, and then these three words completely disrupted the entire playground.

What was even more strange was that this chaos gradually turned into a unified cry...

"No!"

The sound resounded across the playground, stimulating people's hearts!

Wang Changhai seemed to have lifted a heavy stone from his heart. He looked at everyone with a stern face and asked again, "But people will die in war. Every one of you may die!"

After this sentence, the playground of the 217th Regiment fell into silence...

This group of illiterate people who didn't know what to say searched the whole place with eager eyes, but they didn't know who to search for and looked around randomly. They seemed to be waiting, waiting for someone who could speak to stand up and shout out their voices.

"Wang Tuan, won't we die if we don't fight?"

Old Yang was the first to ask a rhetorical question, and then he asked and answered his own question: "Why did so many people die in the Jinzhou bombing?"

"Then why did the Japanese dig up people's ancestral graves in order to mine, and massacred the entire village when they disagreed?"

Wang Changhai pointed at Yang Jingyu and shouted, "He's right!" "In the eyes of the devils, whether we resist or not, the result is the same. We are all slaves of a conquered nation, and we are all ants that can be killed at will if they are not happy with us!"

"So I'm not afraid of death. I'd rather fall to the bullets while defending our country than kneel down and cry to someone and beg for mercy!"

"And I have only one expectation for you..."

Wang Changhai looked at everyone and shouted sternly: "Soldiers sacrifice their lives and soldiers shed blood. I only ask that you do not back down on the battlefield and never retreat without orders!"

"No orders! Never retreat!"

"All battalion commanders, Xu Chaoyang, hold a meeting in the barracks. The rest of you, disband!"

After a round of shouting, the 217th Regiment was disbanded. After more than half a year of training, the troops were ready to go. They gathered in twos and threes and said the most inspiring words: "If the Japanese dare to come to Chahar, we will pinch their yellow ants out and feed them to the flies!"

But Xu Chaoyang knew that the upcoming Rehe Battle was terrible, so terrible that even Sun Damazi shouted out, "Friendly troops are not friendly!"

If friendly forces can be unfriendly, then can enemy forces be unenemies?
He walked towards the barracks silently. In the empty barracks, Wang Changhai looked at everyone.

"The devils have begun to mobilize their troops."

The troop movements he mentioned were the movements of the large Japanese forces, while small-scale frictions continued all the time.

At this moment, there are three brigades of the Northeast Army and other troops totaling 22 people in Rehe. In addition, the Northeast Army has 4 divisions and two other brigades, as well as four cavalry divisions and other troops stationed in Hebei and the Pingjin area. From the lineup, the two sides are evenly matched. From the perspective of weapons and equipment, the Northeast Army can still fight...

On December 1932, 12, the principal sent a secret telegram, approving the secret preparation of six divisions of the National Army to be transported north at any time for reinforcement. He also stated loudly: The Japanese invasion of Resume is not far away. As for today's situation, only a decisive battle can save the people's hearts. Although we may be defeated, we can still survive. Otherwise, we will be sinners of the nation for all eternity.

It seems that everyone is united, and everyone is determined to succeed...

In February, Song Ziwen and He Yingqin went to Beijing and Chengde to give speeches to raise funds for the Northeast Army, saying: Rehe is an integral part of our country, no different from Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces. We will never give up the Northeast, we will never give up Rehe.

Later, the Northeast Army was changed to eight corps, each corps was divided into two groups. The commander-in-chief of the First Group Army, Xiao Liuzi, including the commander-in-chief of the First Corps Yu Xuezhong and Pang Bingxun of the 40th Army, defended the Jintang area; the commander-in-chief of the Second Group Army Shang Zhen and the commander-in-chief of the 57th Army He Zhuguo defended Luandong; the commander-in-chief of the 29th Army Song Zheyuan defended northern Hebei; the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Corps Yang Jie assembled near Beiping;
The commander-in-chief of the Second Army was Zhang Zuoxiang, and Tang Yulin of Rehe was the deputy commander-in-chief. They were directly responsible for the defense of Rehe and were in charge of the 4th, 5th and 6th Corps, plus the Seventh Corps of Fu's left wing in the Chadong area. The total number of people in the two armies exceeded 20, which seemed very powerful...it seemed.

But what is the real situation?
It was because of Tang Yulin that the entire Second Corps failed to reach the defensive line...Except for the 20,000 defenders in Rehe, only the two armies of Sun Damazi, Wan Fulin and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army participated in the Rehe Campaign.

It’s not that we can’t fight, nor that no one is willing to risk their lives, but it’s difficult to obey orders, and most of the troops were unable to reach the defensive line!

而热河赤峰一线，由孙大麻子的41军及崔兴吾第17旅与义勇军镇守；朝阳一线，由东北军俞兆林部13旅、董富庭38旅驻守；南路凌原至平泉、承德一线由缪成柳16旅、丁喜纯8旅、孙德全19旅驻防。

Under this situation, even if the Japanese guns and artillery were more powerful, the two armies would inevitably engage in a fierce battle that would fill the valley with corpses, but...

Wang Changhai looked at all his subordinates and said in a deep voice, "Tell me, what if the Japanese get angry and attack Chahar? How should we respond?"

　206? It’s only the 4th, and you’ve already earned 206 monthly tickets?
　　What are you going to do?
　　I'm a little scared...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)