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Zheng Guanxi gave him a disgusted look and said, "If you keep yelling, I'll kill you right now, do you believe it?"

Liu Dongqiang immediately became honest, nothing happened, suddenly a man rushed over and kicked Liu Dongqiang straight on the forehead, Liu Dongqiang suddenly felt severe pain, looked up, isn't this Gao Qiang?Then I fainted. . .

More than 120 traitor soldiers were settled without much effort. Except for an uninformed sentry who was slaughtered by Shu Wenqing, the rest were all trapped under the covers and became prisoners.Little Japan was not so lucky, the sneak attack was unsuccessful, the Japanese army was very regular, okay? They also had two posts and two posts, but the sneak attack was unsuccessful, and three brothers were lost.Li Weidong immediately ordered the hypothetical machine gun to suppress the Japanese army's firepower, and the other soldiers also followed the training requirements, took out a grenade and threw it directly into the Gao's compound. After a violent explosion, the Japanese army came from inside. screams.However, the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Company who broke in were still attacked tenaciously by the Japanese army. Captain Mao Li stubbornly commanded the team's only machine gun to shoot at the gate, and the three soldiers who rushed in first were directly overturned.

Seeing this posture, Li Weidong immediately ordered the use of grenades. As a result, three grenades were fired exactly where Maori was.Captain Maori flew into the sky with the machine gun beside him. In 10 minutes, all 49 Japanese soldiers were killed, including eleven seriously wounded.According to the pre-war training requirements, it is strictly forbidden to approach the seriously wounded Japanese soldiers, and they must be shot from a long distance. The reason is to prevent these vicious guys from blowing up with grenades.Gao Qiang didn't have the chance to eat Mao Li raw, a beast that had been blasted to a bloody mess, so naturally he slashed Liu Dongqiang alive in front of the whole village.And the officers under Liu Dongqiang's command were also selected by Li Weidong to execute them all by shooting. If no one confessed the crime, the soldiers would be dismissed on the spot.

This is the famous "Gaoxinzhuang Battle" in history. In this battle, the youth army killed nine people, injured 13 people, and killed 49 Japanese soldiers.What Li Weidong didn't know was that this battle was actually the first battle of the Sino-Japanese Shandong War. The first shot fired by the Ninth Company against the Japanese invaders became the first shot fired by the Chinese Army against the Japanese army since the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China. gun. . .

Chapter 450 Bloody Battle in Shanxi

At 1919 a.m. on October 24, the eighth year of the Republic of China (AD [-]), at the gate of the Daxing Palace in Nanjing, the official residence of the chairman of the National Government.

"Squeak..." With the screeching sound of violent friction between the tires and the road, Mr. Wang Jingwei, the vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, rolled out of the car in pajamas, scaring his driver to slam on the brakes .

The soldiers of the national government chairman's guard guarding outside the Daxing Palace were also taken aback, thinking that something important had happened, they immediately raised their guns and asked, "Who is it?"

Wang Jingwei got up hastily, not bothering to pat the dirt off his pajamas, and shouted at the guards: "I am Wang Zhaoming, and I have the right to see Chairman Sun at any time, get out of the way..."

Sun Wen also walked to the living room in his pajamas with Soong Ching Ling's support, and couldn't help but yawned, "Zhao Ming, it's only ten o'clock in the morning, why are you looking for me in such a hurry?"

Although the national government does not have actual military power, the civil affairs and administrative power are truly in the palm of the hand.In addition, in recent years, Wang Zhenyu has a wealth of skills and powerful policies, so the national government is still very busy.Especially Sun Wen, chairman of the national government, has a lot of documents and decrees that need to be signed by him every day, and he has to prepare for the general election in the second half of next year.For this reason, Chairman Sun, who has a lot of things to do every day, specially changed his work and rest time. From [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm he sleeps, and from [-]:[-] pm to [-]:[-] am the next day is his working time.When Wang Jingwei came, he had only slept for less than two hours, so he was naturally out of spirits.But Wang Jingwei didn't care about these anymore, he shouted emotionally: "Sir, there is a fight, there is a fight."

"Don't worry, speak slowly, what's the fight?"

"It's Shandong, it's Shandong. The Japanese army in Qingdao issued a notice. Last night, Wang Zhenyu's army suddenly attacked the Japanese army and killed more than 40 Japanese soldiers. The Japanese have issued a solemn statement. From now on, they are in a state of war with our national government. Yes, just now Foreign Minister Tang Shaoyi was urgently invited by the Japanese side to make a briefing."

"Ah..." It was not Sun Wen who was surprised, but his young wife Soong Ching Ling.

Sun Wen didn't say anything, but calmly patted his wife's hand and said to the part-time secretary: "Go and invite Mr. Hu and Mr. Liao. I want to have a lunch with them..."

And at the headquarters of the Qingdao-Shandong dispatched army, Yuheng Kassei was crazily scolding Honjo Fan over the telephone line, "Baga, waste, unexpectedly a small group of Imperial Army warriors were killed by the Chinese, Honjo-sama, this is how you serve the Emperor Is it?... Immediately send troops to punish this Chinese army who dared to offend and desecrate the imperial army, and all of them will die."

In Jurentang, Beijing, Zhang Zuolin was in an unusually good mood at noon that day. He even ate two extra bowls of rice, and he did not forget to ask Yang Yuting to eat with him: "This time I see how arrogant Wang Zhenyu can be. I was thinking about how to find an excuse for the Japanese to beat him up. This is good, he went to provoke the Japanese before I could find it. Linge, you should send a telegram to Sun Liechen, Zhang Jinghui and the others immediately, and the military action in Shanxi will be sent to you. Let me hurry up, doesn't Yan Laoxi like to dance on eggs? Then I will smash his eggs and see how he jumps down?"

And in Tokyo, the worried Prime Minister Hara Kyoshi looked at his Minister of War Yoshiichi Tanaka and said very dissatisfied: "What's going on? Why did so many imperial soldiers die?"

Tanaka Yoshiichi smiled rebelliously and said: "This is normal. The violent attack was extremely shameful. These brave warriors have devoted their allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor. Your Excellency, I think it is time to consider using the navy. We should attack the Southern China Nationalist Government in an all-round way, and stop worrying about the ideas of the British and American powers. As long as we can severely crack down on the Southern China tyrants, then I believe that the high-level people in South China, including Sun Wen, will seek to cooperate with the empire and jointly To deal with that lawless Southern China warlord."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Yuan Jing to express his position, Tanaka Yoshiichi got up with a relaxed face, bowed and left very rudely.The angry Yuan Jing sighed in his heart: "This person is a devil at all. In order to achieve his goal, he didn't take the life and death of the people seriously at all..."

However, although he was very dissatisfied with Tanaka and the military, Yuan Jing still instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to lodge a strong protest, and stated to Britain, France and the United States that in view of the atrocities committed by the Chinese army, the Empire of Japan considered going beyond the boundaries of Shandong to conduct punitive operations against the entire South China. . .

Even the British Minister Zhu Erdian couldn't help frowning and said: "Don't these little Asians who seem to be righteous don't know that their army was killed on the Chinese territory? Don't they think that the squadron went to Tokyo to kill them?" people?"

However, no matter how abominable the Japanese were, Zhu Erdian still proceeded from the overall interests of the great powers in China, and chose to send a note to the governments of Beijing and Nanjing, asking them to immediately accept the mediation of the great powers and agree to accept the investigation.But until this time, the British did not agree with the Japanese to fight beyond the boundaries of Shandong. Just kidding, the British have no interest in turning the British Empire's investment area in China into a battleground between China and Japan.

As Wang Zhenyu mentioned in his speech to the senior officers of the Youth Army: "There is no axiom and justice in this world at all. All right and wrong are only between victory and defeat. Winners and losers are the same in ancient and modern China and abroad. . .”

Li Weidong is a very bold guy. After killing so many Japanese in Gaoxinzhuang, he did not immediately choose to retreat like ordinary people. He hid as far away as possible.Because his intuition told himself that the Japanese would definitely not give up after losing so many troops at once. At this time, if such a small number of people play escape, there is a high probability that they will not be able to escape.So Li Weidong did the opposite, and together with Gao Qiang and other locals, instead advanced towards the hinterland of the Japanese army.

This trick was beyond the expectations of the Japanese, and the result was that Fan Zhuang dug three feet into the ground but couldn't find Li Weidong and the others. Fan Zhuang could only jump in anger, and then repeated the title of trash he got from Yuheng Yicheng Send it out level by level.

As a result, the Benzhuang Fan Division became a waste division, and the waste division gave up the task of searching for a small Chinese army, and began to cross the Jiaolai River and march towards Jinan.

Zhang Zizhong naturally received the news. In order to avoid the loss of a small group of troops, except for the Ninth Company, which lost contact due to the sudden rush, the other teams asked to retreat to the Linzi defense line.Zhang Zizhong's intention is obvious, to prevent small groups of troops from vainly sacrificing in front of the overwhelmingly superior Japanese army.

Later generations have such an evaluation of the history of the Republic of China. Warlords are everywhere, but there are two like Wang Zhenyu and Yan Xishan who like to engage in construction. Therefore, China not only did not become weaker because of the civil war, but became stronger during the war. Yes, this cannot but be said to be a miracle.However, it is the same construction, and there are still differences in actual operation.Yan Xishan started construction behind closed doors in Shanxi, which is a bit like a self-cultivating farmer, so the speed is naturally not fast enough.But Wang Zhenyu is different. From mobilizing the internal potential of the major business gangs in Hongjiang, to contacting Luxembourg with external forces, and finally "colluding" with Britain and France to obtain resources, every step is cheating and abducting by all means. The speed of development achieved under such conditions is naturally not Yan Xishan. This little local tyrant is comparable.Then again, if Yan Xishan is like Wang Zhenyu, Zhang Zuolin wouldn't dare to make Shanxi's idea with ten guts?

With a whole body of meat and no sharp teeth, who would not be slaughtered by such a pig?

Under Beijing's three reminders a day, Feng Jun naturally attacked with all his strength, and it seemed that he did not hesitate to kill or die.Chief of Staff of the Fengjun Yang Yuting also came to the front line to supervise the battle, and he did not come empty-handed. He brought a full 300 million cash, saying that he would pay the whole army after the capture of Shanxi, and it was cash.You must know that Fengjun’s salary is depreciating every day. You can buy three catties of pork for ten yuan in the morning, but you may only be able to buy three apples at night. It costs 100 yuan to buy it.

So as soon as Yang Yuting said he found Dayang, Feng Jun's morale immediately rose.

The rewards offered by the Jin Army are more substantial than those offered by Feng Jun. Yan Xishan has cashed out the entire provincial treasury. As long as he can block Feng Jun, among other things, 150 yuan per person will be cashed out.But the Jin army was quite convinced of Yan Xishan, and secondly, they also knew that these Fengjun came like locusts. From the perspective of protecting the country, they couldn't help but fight desperately.

So Shanxi was immediately turned into a piece of scorched earth, but generally speaking, the Jin army was at a disadvantage.

For the sake of the battle, Yan Xishan has lost his temper. He only has two things these days. He goes to the office in the morning to listen to yesterday's defeat report, and goes home in the afternoon to drink tea and chat with Yang Yongtai, the representative of the South. The matter of making a living in the national government.

In fact, everyone has no opinion on the overall direction, and the main problem lies in the treatment.Yan Xishan is a land rich man in Shanxi, his thinking is very clear, he also wants the land and the army.And it is impossible for Wang Zhenyu, who has clearly determined to complete the national unification, to allow a future China to appear as a country within a country, let alone the existence of warlords.The national government can only provide Yan Xishan with high-ranking officials and generous salary. As for the others, I am sorry that there is no more.

Naturally, Yan Xishan quit. After all, the Jin army is still working hard to resist the enemy, and his family fortune is basically still there. The psychology of luck makes him always fantasize about breaking through the situation.Surprisingly, Yang Yongtai was not persecuted. He just drank tea and chatted all over the place every day, and finally said goodbye and left.Although the youth army of the five divisions in the Zhengzhou area built a pontoon bridge to cross the river, they insisted on staying calm. Anyway, they would not cross the river without Yan Xishan's invitation.Needless to say, Yan Xishan was moved by this bit of gentlemanliness.

Chapter 451 Bloody Battle in Shanxi ([-])

The battle in Shanxi started on the 24th and ended on the 15th. It has been No. [-] days. The casualties of the two armies of Shang Zhen and Xu Yongchang are not small.Especially Shang Zhen, who was directly facing the troops of Feng Jun's elite Zhang Jinghui, suffered a lot in the fight.From Datong to Shuozhou, it was a full [-] kilometers. Thanks to Shang Zhen's ability, he was able to fight repeatedly and keep his army from collapsing while causing certain damage to the Feng army, and finally retreated smoothly into Shuozhou City. .On the east side, Xu Yongchang was very rare to stabilize his position. With the help of favorable terrain, he was firmly stuck in Yangquan. No matter how Sun Liechen organized a death squad, he refused to give up an inch anyway, and he relied on the Jin army himself to block Sun Liechen.

"Overlord, just let me attack. I promise to block Zhang Jinghui's troops in Shuozhou and never let them go south. Please don't hesitate any longer. Once Fengjun soldiers come to Taiyuan, we will sit in the isolated city and they only need to divide their troops. Entering southern Shanxi, we are doomed." Fu Zuoyi, who was trusted by Yan Xishan to serve as the commander of Taiyuan's security, has been begging to see Yan Xishan every day these days, in short, he wants to lead troops north to defend Shuozhou and stop Feng's iron hooves going south.

Yan Xishan didn't know anything about military affairs. What he was worried about was that there would be no army in Taiyuan.This made Yan Xishan very scared, what is a warlord without the protection of the army?Just shit.So no matter how determined Fu Zuoyi's attitude was, Yan Xishan couldn't make up his mind after thinking for a long time.

Fu Zuoyi was in a hurry. He shouted to Yan Xishan: "Overlord, if Shuozhou loses again, the whole war will be irreparable. I suggest you surrender to the Southern Nationalist Government immediately. This is the right way."

Yan Xishan seemed to have been hit hard in the chest, and he didn't want to go to Wang Zhenyu unless he had to. The reason why he would rather be a chicken head than a queen is very popular.So Fu Zuoyi's words directly hit Yan Xishan's vital point. Yan Xishan murmured: "Then I will let Yisheng you defend Shuozhou. This battle must be a hard one. No matter whether we win or lose, our Shanxi is still our Shanxi." People's Shanxi?"

Hearing this, Yan Xishan's military advisor, Zhao Daiwen, immediately fainted. He got up and tried to persuade him, "Baichuan, you are so confused, you are still hesitating here even though it's an inevitable situation. You might as well listen to Yisheng and let go." If we try, even if we fail, we will be worthy of Tiandi and the folks in Shanxi, and the honor of the Jin army is also worthy of you, the head of the family, to defend."

Yan Xishan saw that both Zhao Daiwen and Fu Zuoyi advocated fighting Fengjun in Shuozhou, nodded his head and said, "Then it's up to you, Yisheng, you will draw elites from the defenders in Taiyuan to form a mixed brigade, and you will serve as the brigade commander yourself. Go to Shuozhou. As for Shang Zhen's troops, you will take over after you arrive in Shuozhou. Shang Zhen and the three division commanders will return to Taiyuan to report on their duties..."

The next day, Fu Zuoyi took [-] elite Jin troops to Shuozhou, where they would write the most important stroke in the history of the Jin army.

Fu Zuoyi is almost an outlier of the Jin army. Since ancient times, Shanxi people have been good at business and trade but not military. This has a lot to do with their geographical environment.They are not as rich as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, their harvests are limited, and they are always threatened by northern nomads.If the Shanxi people still rely on martial arts to confront foreign enemies head-on at this time, then this day will be difficult.So since the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi merchants have been used to dancing on two eggs, and they are hooked up with Mongolian and Manchurians.No way, otherwise they would not be able to survive, let alone grow.Regardless of right or wrong, this kind of regional culture has naturally created very civilized and friendly Shanxi people. They are used to solving problems with their mouths instead of their hands.In such a social atmosphere, the life ideal of the officers and soldiers of the Jin army is naturally to get promoted and make a fortune, not to conquer the world.Fu Zuoyi is different. This person seems to be a born soldier. His ideal in life is naturally to build a strong army that can sweep the world and complete the unification of the motherland.Therefore, the soldiers led by Fu Zuoyi have always been the existence of the Xiongguan Jin Army, and compared to the Jin Army, he himself is indeed a secret voter.

However, Fu Zuoyi did not complain. After obtaining the rank of major general and the command of all the Jin troops in Shuozhou, he rushed to Shuozhou as quickly as possible, and began to reorganize his troops. He planned to rely on this ancient city to fight to the death with Fengjun.

But when he arrived in Shuozhou, Fu Zuoyi realized that the situation was extremely unfavorable for his side.The morale of the Jin army was the first to bear the brunt. The morale of the Jin army had long been lost after the Feng army had been driven back a full [-] kilometers from the northern line.The performance of the army's loss of morale is nothing more than two points, one is the lack of military discipline, and the other is deserters in groups.

Fu Zuoyi had to end his inspection of the Jin army ahead of schedule, and summoned the officers of the entire Northern Front Corps to give a lecture: "I know that failure has made you lose the courage to continue fighting, and fleeing has made you lose the blood of soldiers. Many of you may have never been on the battlefield before the invasion of the Second Feng Army, but your enemy is a tiger-wolf division composed of thugs. To be honest, it is already a blessing for me to be able to persist in the face of such a ferocious enemy until now. It’s a very surprising thing. In my opinion, failure, fear, and disintegration are your due destiny. Now, you are only one step away from this destiny, and you can collapse at any time. But I want to ask you softly One word."

Fu Zuoyi made a soft voice and suddenly shouted loudly: "You can escape, you can give up your self-esteem as a man and your responsibilities as a soldier. But what about your fathers and fellow villagers? They deserve to be blackmailed and searched by the Fengjun. What about your sisters, wives and daughters? They should be humiliated wantonly by the Fengjun? Look at the people in Zhili and Shandong, how did the Fengjun treat them? Touch your eggs to see if you are a man? Look at the military uniform on your body , look at your own performance, whether it is worthy of the honorary status of an officer. Your performance in the past ten days is simply a disgrace to our Jin army. I, Fu Zuoyi, don't believe that anyone is born a hero, let alone a coward. If you are still a man, have a little soldier's blood, and know what shame is, then don't be so selfish, be brave, right here, Just on the city wall we are stepping on, use your life to defend our fathers, fellow villagers, sisters, wives and daughters. Use your bravery to tell the grandsons of Fengjun, who is the real man?"

The effect of Fu Zuoyi's lecture was obvious. At least these officers who had become dizzy now remembered their responsibilities. They began to strictly enforce the military discipline of their respective units. The phenomenon of desertion immediately decreased, and each unit also started strict training and civil engineering work.But the effect of a lecture alone is very limited. Fu Zuoyi chose a big stick and a carrot.

First of all, thirteen deserters who were captured were executed by the ruthless Fu Zuoyi in front of the officers and soldiers of the whole army. Immediately, no one dared to be deserters anymore.

The second is to announce various rewards and rewards. Anyway, Yan Xishan is rich, so almost everyone has rewards.This is critical, at least the morale that had plummeted due to consecutive losses has returned to normal again.More importantly, Yan Xishan is not only rich, but also has an arsenal. Although the Taiyuan arsenal has not reached the largest scale in its history at this time, it is more than enough to arm the [-] Jin troops in Shuozhou City.

Then Fu Zuoyi personally went down to the front line to urge the ministries to strengthen the city wall and build outer fortifications. Fu Zuoyi's attitude was to defend the city and not fight on the city wall.Therefore, outside the north gate of Shuozhou, Fu Zuoyi built three lines of defense relying on favorable terrain. The last line of defense was based on two mountains and set up a firepower line, which was definitely an existence that was easy to defend but difficult to attack.At the same time, Fu Zuoyi also pulled all the 75mm imitation Japanese mountain cannons on his hand to the mountain. Forty cannons are condescending, and once they are fired, their power must not be underestimated.Due to the terrain, these cannons could even support the first two lines of defense.

As for the trenches, Fu Zuoyi, who had been strictly trained at Wuhan Army University, strictly constructed the youth army's position construction method, and even built bunkers, which can be regarded as moving the elastic defense to Shanxi. However, the Jin army, which lacks a strong industrial foundation and advanced equipment support, took It is still unknown how much power such a position can exert.

But no matter what, Fu Zuoyi secretly encouraged himself, he must stop Fengjun in Shuozhou, fight for the Jin army, fight for Shanxi, let those self-righteous Northeast people see, who is the real man?

On the eighth day after Fu Zuoyi arrived in Shuozhou, on November [-], Feng Jun finally arrived late. . .

There is a reason for Feng Jun's late arrival. Compared with Jin Jun, they have more difficulties.As the front line continued to advance, the supply line of Zhang Jinghui's department became longer and longer.The Wan Fulin Division and Kan Chaoxi Division, who were in charge of the main attack, were not fuel-efficient lamps, and soon stopped their pursuit towards Shuozhou on the grounds that the ammunition was too much to sustain, and the officers and soldiers were exhausted from repeated battles.This also left time for Fu Zuoyi, otherwise he would chase up at a normal speed, not to mention Fu Zuoyi, even if Kong Ming was alive, he could only continue to flee.