I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Seeing this telegram, Song Zheyuan was shocked, and hurriedly sent telegrams repeatedly, asking Qin Dechun and Tong Linge to "stop deploying troops", but Qin and Tong either avoided the important ones in replying to the telegrams, or did not reply directly, and "notified" when things were done. "Song Zheyuan.

"Feng Zhi'an has successfully recovered Fengtai District! The Japanese army in Beiping has been wiped out!"

"Zhang Zizhong's troops have successfully recovered Li Mingzhuang! Destroy the Japanese airport!"

"Zhang Zizhong's department is launching a general attack on Haiguang Temple! Haiguang Temple is surrounded by our army!"

Seeing the telegram sent by Qin and Tong, Song Zheyuan remained silent for a long time. Thousands of thoughts were surging in his mind, one of which was: Did Chiang Kai-shek send Qin Dechun, Tong Linge, Feng Zhian, Have Zhang Zizhong and the others been bribed?And I've been kept in the dark?As for sending Jiang Weiguo to Pingjin, is it the "last link" of Chiang Kai-shek's series of plans?

People are most likely to think wildly when they are in a mess, and Song Zheyuan is like this.

Song Zheyuan strongly suspected that Chiang Kai-shek had bought his subordinates long ago. As we all know, Chiang Kai-shek liked and was the best at using this tactic in the melee of warlords, and it was tried and tested repeatedly (Jiang Jieshi’s tactic was completely ineffective against the Gui army, and it had no effect on the Jinsui army. But it is most effective against the Northwest Army, because the Northwest Army is the poorest).

In the end, Song Zheyuan gave a wry smile and sighed to the sky: "War is absolutely inevitable!"

There are two main reasons why Qin Dechun and Tong Linge "follow Song Zheyuan while respecting others and disobeying others". First, they are staunch anti-Japanese faction and main combat faction; And they have visited Jiang Weiguo's troops, and they have great confidence in Jiang Weiguo. At the same time, Jiang Weiguo's "charisma", eloquence, and the large amount of money he sent are also important reasons for their determination.

In fact, this is the purpose of Jiang Weiguo. The 29th Army must abandon those miscellaneous ideas and unite as one, so that the Pingjin Campaign can develop in the direction that is most beneficial to China.

Regarding this situation, although Song Zheyuan was very unwilling, unwilling, and dissatisfied, he finally adopted a tacit attitude. On the one hand, he has realized that the situation cannot be changed by him; Patriotic general.

At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek was also judging, calculating, thinking, guessing, estimating, and analyzing in all aspects of Mount Lu. He naturally looked at problems from a more macroscopic perspective than Song Zheyuan, and his thinking was more comprehensive.

When the Wanping City Incident broke out, Chiang Kai-shek was very surprised. After the Wanping City Incident officially turned into the Wanping City Battle, Chiang Kai-shek was basically sure that the war was inevitable. Prepared, and did not mess up.

After thinking for a while, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to He Yingqin, who was presiding over the Chuankang Army Consolidation Conference in Chongqing, and asked He Yingqin to return to Nanjing as soon as possible, instructing Cheng Qian, chief of staff of the Joint Military Commission, Chen Cheng, director of training, Chen Tiaoyuan, president of the Military Senate, and the Military Commission. Xu Yongchang, director of the General Office, and other officials of relevant military institutions formed a meeting of the military command to discuss countermeasures.

After issuing this order, Chiang Kai-shek contacted Wang Chonghui, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and instructed him to "temporarily file a verbal protest with the Japanese embassy in China" in order to test the attitude of the Japanese high-level officials.

In fact, Tokyo, like Nanjing, was caught off guard at this time.

The armies of the two countries have already fought blood and blood, but the governments of the two countries have not yet "entered the state", and are rushing to carry out "state adjustments."

It can be said that the Japanese Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro, who had just taken office for more than a month, knew far less about the situation in Pingjin than Chiang Kai-shek at this time. Wenmao is naturally ignorant.

As always, Jiang Weiguo did not disappoint Chiang Kai-shek.

After waiting anxiously for more than three hours, Chiang Kai-shek finally waited for the first good news from Jiang Weiguo. Jiang Weiguo had won the Battle of Wanping City, and had to make Chiang Kai-shek overjoyed and elated, but Jiang Weiguo did not listen to Chiang Kai-shek's words next, and did not Instead, he "made an inch" and took the troops to Tianjin to participate in the war, which made Chiang Kai-shek fall into anxiety again. However, Jiang Weiguo had already created miracles with ease. He sent a second letter to Chiang Kai-shek in the early morning and morning of the next day. , The third victory report is about the Battle of Li Mingzhuang and the Battle of Haiguang Temple.

The results were so brilliant that Chiang Kai-shek could hardly believe it: about 30 Japanese troops were wiped out, the headquarters of the Japanese Army Garrison in North China and the brigade headquarters were captured, the Japanese airport was destroyed, the Japanese military warehouse was occupied, and more than [-] Japanese aircraft and about [-] tanks were destroyed. , nearly a hundred Japanese cannons, killed a lieutenant general, a major general, and six senior officers of the Japanese army, including more than a dozen senior officers, and seized countless supplies and trophies.

Chapter 137 Melaleuca (1)

Encouraged by the victory of Jiang Wei's national flag and the victory in the first battle, Chiang Kai-shek, who was inclined to go to war against Japan, strengthened his determination to resist the war. To be more precise, Chiang Kai-shek strengthened his determination to be tough against Japan. However, at the negotiating table, there will definitely be no more concessions. On the other hand, the victory of the army on the battlefield is the source of confidence and the most important bargaining chip for politicians to negotiate at the negotiating table. If he wins, Chiang Kai-shek can deal with the Japanese with ease. In negotiations, as the winner, Chiang Kai-shek can deal with the Japanese calmly. It is impossible to retreat. It is more than enough to maintain the status quo. It is very possible to force the Japanese to make concessions. Like Li Hongzhang after the Sino-French war, he signed an unequal treaty even though he won the war. Of course, the Japanese, as the defeated party, would not be able to defeat and force the Chinese side to make concessions at the negotiating table; Quite a lot, although he is still very afraid of the strength of the Japanese, but the main reason is that the fear factor has indeed been greatly reduced.

Later someone pointed out that Jiang Weiguo's victory in the first battle in Pingjin was just "a fluke". And Jiang Weiguo's recklessness, this produced such absurd battles and the flashy victory of the national army", and it was precisely because Jiang Weiguo "played too smoothly" that the top military and political leaders of the National Government headed by Chiang Kai-shek "more or less despised Japan and the Japanese army strength”, and believed that the Japanese and the Japanese country were “strong on the inside, strong on the outside, but weak on the outside, superficial and vulnerable”, and then had bad consequences: the Nationalist Government could obviously take advantage of the Battle of Pingjin, which was “basically a victory won by luck.” "And the great situation that the victory brought about is beneficial to China, forcing the Japanese to make concessions on the negotiating table, and controlling the war situation that was about to get out of control as soon as it was good, thus successfully delaying time again and allowing China's combat readiness It is fuller because of more precious time, but because Chiang Kai-shek "fainted", not only did not see the good, but was not greedy enough, "recklessly and recklessly adopted excessively tough countermeasures against Japan, which stimulated the original plan not to deal with China. The Japanese government and the Japanese military that started the war became furious and decided to start a full-scale war against China, which eventually led to the early outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, which was not conducive to Japan but even less conducive to China."

According to Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, the Nationalist Government's Military Commission, the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Central Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang, and the "Central Daily", "Sweeping Daily", "China Daily" and other propaganda agencies and official mouthpiece media that belonged to the Nationalist Government and the Kuomintang have not yet fought in the Battle of Pingjin. When it was completely over, they went all out to publicize the "unprecedented victory of the national army on the front lines of Pingjin", and the propaganda intensity could be described as "boasting". Knowing what Chiang Kai-shek meant, as government propagandists, they had already mastered the skill of "reading the leader's thoughts" to the point of perfection. In terms of politics and diplomacy, the second is that Jiang Weiguo, the youngest son of Chiang Kai-shek, was among the commanders of the national army in this battle. The more vigorously the Pingjin Campaign was publicized, the more political experience and military capital Jiang Weiguo gained in this battle. .

It is precisely because of this point of mind that "it can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words", when "Central Daily" published the explosive news of "Pingjin Great Victory", the headline was Jiang Weiguo, who took up one-third of the entire page. As for Du Yuming, Peng Mengji, Sun Liren, Feng Zhi'an, Zhang Zizhong, Qin Dechun, Tong Linge, Song Zheyuan and other national army commanders whose military ranks are higher than Jiang Weiguo's, not only are the photos so small that you have to use a magnifying glass to see who they are. Who it is, and they are all squeezed into the corner of the frame by Jiang Weiguo's "extra large photo".

As for the content of the news, three-quarters of the endless articles introduced the Battle of Wanping City, and more than half of the three-quarters of the content described "how Jiang Weiguo calmed down in battle, conquered stubborn enemies, took the lead, and fought bravely." Kill the enemy", the words can be described as extravagant and eloquent.

Suddenly, in the battle of Pingjin with more than [-] troops participating in the battle, Jiang Weiguo, the major battalion commander, was the protagonist of the first battle (the National Government did not have a propaganda department, only the "KMT Central Propaganda Department", referred to as the Central Propaganda Department, "Central Daily "is the party newspaper of the Kuomintang, and the director of the newspaper is concurrently held by the head of the Central Propaganda Department; "China Daily" is also the party newspaper of the Kuomintang, which is controlled by Wang Jingwei's political faction.

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On the morning of July [-]th, the Nationalist Government sent a telegram to the whole world to announce:

On the afternoon of July [-]th, the Japanese North China Garrison Infantry Brigade's First Regiment and other units brazenly dispatched troops under the command of Colonel Mutaguchi Renya to encircle Wanping City, Beiping City. The outrageous and unreasonable military ultimatum required the national army garrison in Wanping City to evacuate Wanping City before dark, and hand over Wanping City, which belongs to Chinese territory, to them. The Japanese army bombarded Wanping City and carried out a military attack, which seriously violated international conventions and Chinese laws. Day to sign the peace treaty.

The garrison troops of the national army in Wanping City rose up and resisted when they couldn't bear it and could not retreat. After three hours of bloody battle, the Japanese troops who invaded Wanping City were wiped out by the national army of Wanping City. The national army killed 8848 enemies and captured 365 enemies. A large number of weapons and equipment were seized, and Mutaguchi Renya himself was shot dead by the national army in the fierce battle; then, the rest of the Japanese army in the Hebei area attempted to retaliate and took the initiative to attack the national army stationed in the Pingjin area. In two nights of fierce fighting, the Japanese army in Pingjin was completely wiped out by the national army. The national army killed more than 15000 enemies, captured more than 1000 enemies, destroyed more than 50 Japanese aircraft, more than 180 tanks, and more than 150 cannons. After a few days, the Japanese North China Garrison Headquarters and the Japanese Infantry Brigade Brigade Headquarters were captured, and Fengtai, Tanggu and other Chinese territories illegally occupied by the Japanese army were recovered. Major General, Chief of Staff of the Garrison Brigade, Lieutenant General Toru Morita, Commander of the First Wing of the Garrison Brigade, Colonel Renya Mutaguchi, Captain of the Second Wing, Kosuke Kazuya, Captain of the Artillery Wing, Suzuki, and Chief Michi, and Captain of the Battle Team Senior Japanese generals such as Kita Takeki Dazuo were killed by the national army.

The Japanese Army Garrison in North China was annihilated in this battle. The infantry brigade, artillery regiment, chariot team, cavalry team, engineering team, communication team, and gendarmerie under the army were completely wiped out by the national army. The Japanese army suffered losses. unprecedented.

"Fuck! Isn't this too bragging?" Jiang Weiguo was dumbfounded as he read the national government's telegrams and official newspapers such as "Central Daily" and "Sweeping Daily", because the results announced above were severely suppressed. A lot of water has been injected into the ground, where is the propaganda, it is simply blowing.

"Brother Haoran..." Jiang Weiguo looked at Xiao Yao beside him speechlessly, "The bureaucrats of the Central Propaganda Department are more bragging than you! You blow 5000 people into 7000 people, but they blow 5000 people into 9000 People, go to the next level!"

"Propaganda..." Xiao Yao said disapprovingly, "It's just bragging and lying!"

Jiang Weiguo thought about it, and it is true. What did the German Propaganda Minister Goebbels say?A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.

The Propaganda Department is such a department that opens its eyes and tells lies. Bad things must be said to be good things, and good things must be blown into great things.

The two were in the underground command room of Wanping City at this time, the distance was less than three meters, but they had to speak loudly to each other, because the deafening sound of firecrackers and fireworks was in their ears. The guns and guns of the battle exploded. At this time, Beiping City was immersed in an atmosphere of ecstasy far beyond New Year's Eve. The whole city was decorated with lights and festoons, celebrating with joy, and the sound of crackling firecrackers never stopped, and the fireworks in the night sky were springing up. , One after another, the blooming makes Beiping City under the night curtain as bright as the flashing ripples of the day, the shelves in the firecracker shops and hotels are empty, the firecrackers, fireworks and drinks are all sold out by the rushing crowd, the restaurants, restaurants, teahouses, theaters Customers lined up in a long queue, and the whole city was full of carnival.

On the brightly lit street, newsboys ran with their newspapers and shouted: "Read the newspapers quickly! The national army has won the battle! The Japanese devils have suffered a big defeat!" In the extreme excitement and excitement, the people on the street paid out their money to buy newspapers. Newspaper: "Get one!" "Give me one too!"

Newspapers in short supply are already very expensive in Luoyang. The staff of the newspaper office all burnt the lamps and nights, writing hard, and then loaded the car with a large bundle of numbers and sprinkled them all over the street. Excited people rushed to tell the good news.

Every household in Beiping hangs a red national flag in front of the door to show patriotism, and there are large slogans everywhere in the city; in the streets and alleys, teams of the most passionate students and tens of thousands of equally passionate citizens form a team. Holding up torches, the parade celebrated. The excited and joyful students shouted: "Celebrate the great victory in Pingjin!" ! Recover the Northeast!"

This is the case with Beiping, and so is Pingjin. That night, it was a never-sleep city full of fireworks and buzzing with people. Not only Pingjin, but also Nanjing, Wuhan, Shanghai and other major cities in the Kuomintang-controlled areas celebrated this "Pingjin victory" day and night.

It is no wonder that the common people in China are not boiling. In the past hundred years, China has been bullied by great powers, among which Japan is the most prominent and the worst. In addition, in the past six years, the Japanese first swallowed up the Northeast, then invaded Shanghai, and then invaded China. In North China, the humiliation and resentment accumulated in the hearts of the Chinese people have long been looking forward to a big victory for the Chinese army to vent their anger.

In fact, when the news of the Battle of Pingjin spread throughout the country, most of the Chinese people, including the top officials of the Nationalist Government, felt very surprised, very suddenly, because China and Japan had not officially started war after all, and a "Pingjin Battle" popped up all of a sudden. "Great Victory" was indeed very sudden, but the frontline troops did not have groundless rumors. The newspapers were full of photos that could prove the victory of the national army: piles of loot, Japanese corpses scattered everywhere, dilapidated but waving Chinese flags. People from military institutions, dejected Japanese captives, Chinese soldiers cheering for victory standing among mountains of blood and ruined walls... Although there are still various complex ideas at the top of the government, the thinking of ordinary people at the grassroots level is very straightforward: no matter what the No matter how the victory was fought suddenly, no matter why the victory was fought, but the national army won a big victory, which is enough to make the people excited and ecstatic.

Perhaps someone in the upper echelons thought, "It is better to lose this battle than to win it," but the common people were not so "foresighted or far-sighted." The good news immediately caused joy in the country like a fire igniting the grassland.

Among them, the residents of Beiping and Tianjin are the most excited.

Excluding Northeast China and Taiwan, the people in China who suffer the most from the Japanese bullying are the residents of Beiping, Tianjin, and Shanghai, because the Japanese troops are stationed in these three places, and the local people have long seen enough of the Japanese arrogance , domineering face, and the residents of Pingjin and Shanghai are also the most directly living in the shadow of the threat brought by the Japanese.

For the people of Pingjin, first of all, they witnessed the "exciting and satisfying scene" of their own army beating the Japanese army (more than [-] residents of Beiping City watched the battle of Wanping City alone on the west bank of Yongding River). The victory of the army, and secondly, the Japanese who were entrenched in their homes were driven away, which made them not only excited, but also safe. The combination of the two reasons naturally made the people of Pingjin extremely excited.

Between the Eight Streets, Nine Mos, and Nine Ques in the two cities of Pingjin, there are all empty alleys and crowds of people, the whole city is full of people, the sound of people, the sound of gongs and drums, the sound of firecrackers, and the sound of laughter and passionate slogans soaring into the sky; The old and the young took to the streets to sing and dance, singing and dancing. The dense candlelight made the two cities resplendent and brightly lit, and the firecrackers and fireworks confetti on the ground were several inches thick.

All the restaurants and restaurants in the city had tall lanterns and fluttering colorful flags, and the chatter and applause of the diners filled the market, especially the citizens who were "fortunate (at the risk of their lives)" to witness the battle with their own eyes. The star characters on the three floors inside and outside the three floors are full of energy, beaming with joy, spitting, and vividly stretching their necks around them curiously, without blinking their eyes, looking anxious and worried, as if they are burning in their hearts. The cat was scratching, its ears were pricked up to listen intently, and the crowd of listeners who felt sorry for not being able to see the battle with their own eyes told the scene on the battlefield at that time:

"You didn't see it at the time! The little devil was too deceitful. He not only surrounded Wanping City, but also fired bombardment at Wanping City. Yes! I saw several human legs flying in the sky with my own eyes! Then when I started fighting, my God, the national army in Wanping City is really incredible! There are thousands of steel chariots, and they drove to the small town. In the crowd of devils, the little devils were immediately beaten to the point of losing their helmets and armor, crying for their father and mother, and the iron wheels directly crushed a large number of little devils into meat, ouch... the little devils are so miserable, I feel sorry for them and get up!"

"These little devils really don't know how to live or die!" Some audience members sighed, "The national army in Wanping City has cannons and armored vehicles. Didn't the little devils die?"

"Hey! You know what! Do you know whose army the national army in Wanping City belongs to?"

"Who? Who is it? We've been guessing!"

"You didn't read the newspaper? The national army in Wanping City is the army of Chairman Jiang's second son, Jiang Weiguo!"

"That's how it is! No wonder the national army is so strong. It turned out to be the army of Chairman Jiang's son!"

"It's all right now! Chairman Jiang sent his son to Peiping. It seems that Peiping is all right!"

"That's right! I used to be worried that the little devil would really attack Peiping. Song Zheyuan's 29th Army might not be able to stop it. Now it's all right, the Central Army is here, and Peking can rest easy!"

In Pingjin City, everyone was smiling and chatting happily. The chatter and laughter of tens of thousands of people merged into a huge sound wave, which was deafening and resounded through the blue sky. paralyzed.

In order to inspire the hearts and minds of the people, the 918th Regiment, the 10th Artillery Regiment, the 37th Division, and the 38th Division and other participating troops set up a number of "trophy exhibition sites" in the urban areas of Pingjin City to show the troops seized during the battle. At the same time, there are hundreds of photos of the Japanese military equipment, some of which are battle scenes, some of which are details of the battle, some are photos of senior commanders of the two armies, and more are photos of Japanese corpses.

The corpses of the Japanese certainly cannot be brought into the city for exhibition. They are disgusting and unhygienic. After all, it is midsummer, and the corpses will rot and stink after a day or two, so we took all-round photos, especially Kanichi Tashiro General, Major General Hashimoto Gun, Mutaguchi Renya Colonel and other senior Japanese generals, and cameras and video cameras took turns to take close-up photobook-like shots.

Chapter 138 Melaleuca (2)

After the Battle of Pingjin, the national army dealt with the officers and soldiers killed in the battle in this way: all the brothers who died in the battle were buried in the ground, and the officers and soldiers killed by the Japanese army were also buried in the ground.

Jiang Weiguo originally planned to transport the corpses of the Japanese soldiers on the battlefield to the field, pile them up into a hill, and set them on fire.

But after repeated consideration, Jiang Weiguo decided to "treat each other with courtesy" to the Japanese army's killed officers and soldiers. This was not because he respected the Japanese army, but because he knew that although the eight-year war of resistance had begun to be changed by him, the initial changes would not be special. Big, Pingjin will be lost in all likelihood, sooner or later it will still fall into the hands of the Japanese, if Jiang Weiguo "spoils" the corpses of the dead officers and soldiers of the Japanese army, when Pingjin falls into the hands of the Japanese army, they will be buried in the 918th Regiment and the 10th Artillery Corps in Pingjin The remains of the fallen officers and soldiers of the regiment and the 29th Army may be retaliated by the Japanese army digging their graves (the remains of the fallen officers and soldiers of the national army must have been buried collectively in the local area, and it is impossible to be taken away. The remains should be cremated and the ashes taken away Although it works, the practice of burning the remains of one's own dead officers and soldiers is a bit "psychologically unacceptable", and there is no special crematorium at this time, so they can only be burned in the open air. It is too cruel and inhumane to pile up and burn together , It’s too inhumane, and it’s too troublesome to burn each one separately, so it’s best to bury them in peace), so this is done.

Of course, although they are all burials, there are still differences.

The officers and soldiers who died in the national army each had a coffin, while the officers and soldiers who died in the Japanese army were thrown directly into the pit without even a mat.

It is also worth mentioning that Lieutenant General Tashiro Kanichiro, Major General Hashimoto Gun, Mutaguchi Renya and other senior Japanese generals who died in this battle were "precious trophies". Although their bodies were buried, they were all They were buried only after being stripped down to their underpants, because their military uniforms, military caps, military boots, and brief watches were all exhibited in Beiping and Tianjin by the national army as high-level trophies and evidence of great victories, and finally sent to the Nanjing to continue the exhibition.

Celebrities in the two cities of Pingjin organized labor delegations one after another. The head of the delegation was a well-known figure, Wu Peifu, the former leader of the direct line of warlords in Beiyang and the first to appear on the cover of "Time".

Wu Peifu has lived in seclusion in Beiping since his complete defeat ten years ago. Although he was an opponent of the Nationalist government, he was also a loyal and unyielding patriot. The head of the city's labor force delegation traveled to Pingjin National Army to give condolences, and also came to Wanping City to meet the "young hero Jiang Ergongzi", but Jiang Weiguo was sleeping soundly at the time, so he didn't bother him.

After the Battle of Pingjin spread all over the world, it can be said that one stone caused a thousand waves abroad and internationally, and caused an uproar in all directions. In the same way, they were deeply caught off guard.

First of all, although the relationship between China and Japan is deteriorating day by day, they are still in a state of "playing Tai Chi". The sudden start of war really surprised all the great powers; secondly, the beginning of a war or a battle will start with For a minor conflict, if the Chinese and Japanese troops in the Pingjin area first had an armed bloodshed incident where they fired at each other, and a few or a dozen people died on both sides, and then the two sides fought a big fight, this is naturally in line with the logic of the development of the situation. , but the Battle of Pingjin was very sudden. The two sides did not have any bad prelude or fuse in advance. Suddenly, a battle of 4 troops and [-] casualties broke out, which further surprised the powers.

It is said that when President Roosevelt of the United States learned of this incident, his first words were: "Is today April Fool's Day?" Because of slowness, confusion, caution, etc., it took a day or two for major powers to express their views one after another. Generally speaking, the attitudes of the major powers are generally "neutral", they are "deeply shocked", "deeply regretted" and "call for restraint on both sides". Only Germany's attitude is obviously slightly inclined to China. The Daily News reported on the Pingjin battle that shocked the world with the headline "The fierce battle broke out between the Chinese and Japanese armies in Pingjin, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, and the casualties were huge." Situ Gong, Mr. Chen and other overseas Chinese leaders also sent congratulatory messages, and the Jews also sent congratulatory messages. After this victory, Hitler was more optimistic about Jiang Weiguo and China, and the Jews also had confidence in the Chinese government and the Chinese army. The increase greatly made Situ Gong and others couldn't help but feel that "the money is not wasted".

Taking advantage of the encouragement brought by this victory to overseas Chinese, Situ Gong and others prepared more than 500 million U.S. dollars in the next month and remitted them to Jiang Weiguo. Hitler also sent 100 million U.S. dollars, and the Jews sent 200 million U.S. dollars. Finally, the blood that Jiang Weiguo consumed in the battle was replenished.

For a time, foreign news media, newspapers, radio stations, broadcasting, and publications tried their best to report the Pingjin Battle just like domestic ones. The crucian carp of the river traveled between Nanjing and Tokyo, while military observers and journalists from various countries also flocked to Pingjin.

For a while, Pingjin became a place where foreigners flocked, and the number of domestic and foreign journalists going to Pingjin increased day by day.

The domestic and foreign journalists who came to Pingjin wanted to interview Jiang Weiguo the most, because the official media and propaganda agencies of the national government had always regarded Jiang Weiguo as a "key bragging target" when reporting and promoting the "Pingjin Great Victory", making Jiang Weiguo the "Pingjin Great Victory" Jiang Weiguo was caught off guard by this and was bored. He was actually very anxious because the Battle of Pingjin was just the beginning, the first battle of the War of Resistance, not the end, and not the last battle of the War of Resistance , it is far from the time to celebrate and show off, so he does not accept interviews at all, nor does he attend press conferences, he only cares about how his father, the Nationalist Government, and the National Army Command will deal with the Sino-Japanese war that has officially begun .

Chiang Kai-shek's reaction speed and troop mobilization speed did not disappoint Jiang Weiguo. In the original history, Chiang Kai-shek began to mobilize troops to the Pingjin front on July 7, the third day after the July 9th Incident. The speed was not slow. At this time, Jiang Weiguo interfered , The speed and the number of troop deployments have been improved to a higher level.

On the night of July 7, Chiang Kai-shek sent more than a dozen emergency telegrams, ordering the 8st Army of Sun Lianzhong's Department, the 1th Army of Pang Bingxun's Department, the 40th Army of Liu Duoquan's Department, the 49st Army of Yu Xuezhong's Department, and the 51st Army of Wan Fulin's Department. The 53rd Army, the 57th Army of Miao Chengliu's (Miao Zhengliu) Department, the 67th Army of Wu Keren's Department, the 2nd Cavalry Army of He Zhuguo's Department, the 7th Army of Feng Qinzai's Department, and the 38th Army of Sun Weiru's Department headed to the Pingjin area or Hebei Province. The total strength of these ten troops exceeds 25. It is worth mentioning that these ten troops are all local troops. Sun Lianzhong and Pang Bingxun are the remaining lines of the Northwest Army. The Northeast Army, Miao Chengliu's Department, Wu Keren's Department, and He Zhuguo's Department are all Northeast Army troops. In fact, the Northeast Army was reorganized into these six armies after the Xi'an Incident. Yes, Chiang Kai-shek sent such a large number of local troops to the front line of Pingjin, and his intentions are obvious. One is to resist the Japanese, and the other is to kill people with the help of the Japanese army. Of course, Chiang Kai-shek did this very, very Righteous and justifiable, especially the Northeast Army, "Didn't your Northeast Army keep saying that you want to resist the Japanese? Didn't Jiang, who detained me in Xi'an, force me to resist the Japanese? Well, the Anti-Japanese Battlefield is right in front of you, and my youngest son is already there." You have been fighting with the Japanese in full swing, and Hebei Province is the closest to the Northeast. If you want to fight back to your hometown in Northeast China, you must take the road of Hebei Province. Now, how can your Northeast Army not go up?" On the other hand, Chiang Kai-shek I also know that these local troops know his intentions, and they are probably not willing to fight the Japanese willingly. Therefore, if they want to block the front of the Japanese army on the Pingjin battlefield, they still have to dispatch the direct line of the Central Army, so Chiang Kai-shek ordered Tang Enbo's 13th Army Going north quickly, not only that, Chiang Kai-shek formed the 19th Group Army according to Jiang Weiguo's request. Xue Yue served as the commander of the group army and went to North China to participate in the war. The 36th, 87th, and 88th divisions, the three elite divisions with the highest level of German mechanization except the 918th and 128th regiments, are among them, and the other six divisions also belong to the first or second batch. Mechanics, but the level of mechanization of these six German mechanizers is not high, but it is enough to make this group army the most powerful force on the North China battlefield; in addition, Chiang Kai-shek sent telegrams to the chairman of Shanxi Province Yan Xishan and Han Fuju, chairman of Shandong Province, asked the two to send "not less than three divisions and 3 capable troops from Shanxi and Shandong provinces to fight on the front lines of Pingjin and Tianjin." Yan Xishan basically cooperated with this , but also compromised, and sent Sun Chu to lead the 33rd Army (the Jinsui Army, which has two divisions under its jurisdiction) into Hebei Province, but after driving to Baoding, he hesitated and refused to continue north, because One hundred and eighty kilometers to the north is the bloody Pingjin front line. As for Han Fuju, he pushes, drags and studies, and is unwilling to let his Lu army "go to block bullets for the Central Army."

At this time, Han Fuju's Shandong Army had five divisions, one independent brigade, and five local militia groups, with a total strength of more than [-].

These reinforcements from all parts of northern China, with hundreds of rivers entering the sea, are indeed very large in number. If the 29th Army, which was already at the forefront, is added, then, within half a month, the North China front line The total strength of the Chinese army will reach more than 50.

In addition to the army, the air force on the front line in North China has also been greatly strengthened. Follow-up aircraft have continuously arrived at the air bases in Baoding, Taiyuan, and Jinan. The second echelon air bases in Handan, Linfen, and Linyi have also added a batch of aircraft and A lot of aircraft parts, aviation fuel, aviation ammunition.

There used to be Nanyuan Airport with relatively complete facilities in Beiping City. The airport was built in 1910 and was the first airport in China. Yuan Shikai once set up the first aviation school in China, Nanyuan Aviation School. Fengtai District, Beiping City, Fengtai District was controlled by the Japanese army before the Battle of Pingjin. Naturally, the airport could not be used by the Chinese army, but Fengtai District had been recovered at this time. Therefore, Feng Zhian ordered the 37th Division to rebuild the airport at night. The first line airport on the Pingjin front line.

As for the airport built by the Japanese in Limingzhuang, Tianjin, the damage was serious, so it was completely abandoned and no longer used.

Within a week, a total of seven airports on the North China front were used by the Chinese Air Force, and more than 300 aircraft were put into the North China battlefield (three quarters of which were fighter jets), providing the Chinese army with powerful air power on the North China battlefield.

It is also worth mentioning that, because Han Fuju was unwilling to dispatch the Lu army to fight in Hebei Province, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Air Force to withdraw all the planes stationed at the airports in Jinan and Linyi, and also transferred all the artillery from Han Fuju's department to supplement the troops. Xue Yue's 19th Army seriously weakened the Lu army's ability to defend Shandong, which made Han Fuju very angry and held a grudge because of it.

In the original history, after the July 29th Incident broke out, although Chiang Kai-shek dispatched all his troops to the front line in North China, Song Zheyuan prevented the reinforcements from entering Hebei Province because of selfish motives, because he imagined that the matter would be resolved peacefully and prevent "please God is easy to send God away" This is also an important reason for the rapid fall of Pingjin and Hebei Province: the Japanese army launched a large-scale attack after adequate preparations, and the [-]th Army could not support it alone.

But right now, Song Zheyuan has adopted a tacit attitude. One is that Jiang Weiguo has made such a big commotion, and a peaceful settlement is already impossible. It is impossible for the 29th Army alone to stop the follow-up main force of the Japanese army; It is no longer up to him. It is impossible for the 29th Army to fight against the Japanese army while still fighting openly to block the reinforcements of the country. If it is a mantis arm, it will also attract the whole country's resentment. Moreover, Jiang Weiguo's two regiments have been nailed to the core of Song Zheyuan's territory like nails, and Jiang Weiguo is the son of Chiang Kai-shek, and it is impossible for Chiang Kai-shek to sit back and watch his son fall into a dangerous situation of fighting alone without sending an army to rescue because of Song Zheyuan's obstruction.

On the evening of July 7th, with extremely complicated thoughts, Song Zheyuan arrived at the front line of Pingjin, and a special train entered Fengtai District Railway Station. Qin Dechun, Tong Linge, Zhang Yueting, Zhang Kexia, Feng Zhian, Du Yuming, Jiang Weiguo and others greeted Song Zheyuan grandly on the platform Most of the senior generals of the 9th Army, such as Zhang Zizhong and Zhao Dengyu, did not come because they were busy in a rush and lacked skills.

"Minggong! You're back!" Seeing Song Zheyuan walk out of the carriage, Qin Dechun and others stepped forward to salute with joy.

"Ming Gong, hello!" Jiang Weiguo also stepped forward with a smile on his face and saluted Song Zheyuan.