The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Chapter 424 Deterrence by force
"They also interrupted electricity transmission and destroyed radio stations, making it impossible for news from Qinhuangdao to get out."

Having said this, Jiang Cheng looked around at the generals and paused for a moment. The military train speeding along the South Manchuria Road made a brisk clicking sound, and everyone remained silent and looked solemn.

Everyone knows that this batch of equipment includes not only the next batch of French tanks, but also some equipment eliminated by Britain and France... The most important of these are the spare parts for thermal power plants purchased by French businessman Fernand.

The thing was produced in Belgium and almost gathered the most advanced technology in the world regarding thermal power generation at that time: no matter the pressure bearing capacity or the amount of water processed per hour, it far exceeded any power station in China during the same period.

Although Jiang Cheng is not a professional, after listening to Yan Ziwen's analysis, he knows that the technological content of this batch of equipment is not only world-leading, but once assembled and installed successfully, the entire Jilin Prefecture area will completely bid farewell to the dilemma of power shortage.

In other words, this batch of equipment is related to the future development of the entire Jilin Province... Whether it can take off or not depends on this batch of equipment.

"If our Chief of Staff Yang had not had many acquaintances in the interior, we would probably have been kept in the dark."

Jiang Cheng finished analyzing the entire situation and looked around at his brothers. "Whoever gets the credit for this battle... I'll promote him to be my deputy!"

"When the army is expanded in the future, who will be the leader of the new army?"

In this battle, except for Zhang Xuecheng, Jiang Cheng did not bring Hai Pingchuan, Ting Lan and Ting Shu, the core members of the 29th Division.

Jilin has abundant money and grain, and large quantities of weapons are continuously transported in from various countries, so military expansion is imminent.

Their supreme commander clearly intended to use this battle as a philosopher's stone to test who among his men was more suitable to be the commander of the new army.

The eyes of the people who understood this intention lit up, and they all expressed their opinions, saying that the hateful Zhi army was really shameless and that they would definitely win this battle.

Jiang Cheng didn't like to hear these polite words: "Okay, stop using these words to irritate me, just pick out the important things one by one."

Guo Xipeng exchanged glances with several people and said first: "Master Jiang, this is a bit strange——"

"Now the Zhili army has trapped Chief of Staff Gao in Qinhuangdao, but they are surrounding him without attacking him. Their purpose is worth our further consideration."

Wang Junshan looked at him and continued, "Earlier, Cao Kun contacted our commander to send troops to mediate. Later, when the war broke out, it was also Division Commander Sun Liechen who sent troops south—"

"Logically speaking, the Zhi army should be our ally... but now they have seized our equipment and blocked the news, which makes people feel confused."

These two people have different personalities, one has a hot temper and the other is calm, and they express their views from different angles.

After all, neither of them is a time traveler, but Jiang Cheng is very clear that in the next two years, the struggles between Zhili and Fengtian will turn into a confrontation and cold war, and finally a war will break out one year after the feud.

But at present, Cao Saner and Zhang Dashuai are still in the "honeymoon period" of cooperation, and there is also the affection of their children's marriage -

It is very interesting that this time Wu Peifu ordered his men to seize the equipment that Gao Wensheng personally escorted.

"I think that the Zhi army, from top to bottom, may not be aware of the importance of this batch of equipment. They just want to suppress this batch of equipment to test our reaction."

Wang Junshan took a deep breath of the slightly stagnant air and continued, "If we react strongly, we can conclude that there are important supplies here... and we will definitely try every means to seize them;"

"But if we pretend nothing happened, Wu Peifu might become even more arrogant. If he finds out what's in this batch of goods, I'm afraid it will be..."

He didn't finish his words, but these experienced generals heard his hidden meaning. Zhang Xuecheng, who had been silent, also spoke up: "The key is that even if we use our connections to get the stuff out this time...what about the next time, and the next time? After all, our cooperation with foreign countries is not just once or twice. It would be too bad if they get used to taking advantage of us every time."

It was this dude who hit upon the crux of the matter: before departure, Wang Junshan had suggested that Jiang Cheng go through Haipingchuan to find his father-in-law, Cao Kun;

Let him consider the relationship between Zhili and Fengtian, try to put pressure on Wu Peifu, and then release this batch of equipment.

Jiang Cheng's thoughts at that time were similar to Xue Cheng's current thoughts. He immediately brought up the old matter again and said, "My brother's words hit the nail on the head—"

"If we don't use some tough measures, any random person will be able to find some trivial ways to seize our goods in the future."

Jiang Cheng knew very well that even if Wu Peifu had not found out what was in this batch of goods, one thing was certain: the warlords, big and small, inside the Great Wall must have heard of the "Iron Lump" of the Battle of Jiangqiao.

"The 132nd and 134th Brigades have selected elite troops to accompany us. I have already contacted the Rehe headquarters. Father has ordered all personnel of the two mixed brigades to be on standby."

Jiang Cheng tapped the topographic map on the table. "This time, we won't use courtesy first and then force. We will use force to intimidate!"

"Whoever dares to stop our Jilin goods will know the consequences!"

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The news of the Jilin troops' massive southward advance soon spread like wildfire to Cao Kun's troops in Tianjin.

This warlord, who was born a cloth merchant, was so frightened that his face turned pale. He even stopped caring about his new concubine and breathlessly called his children and in-laws.

"Little Zhang! Are you here to mess with me? You sent your lackey Jiang to Shanhaiguan..."

Cao Saner had just driven Zhang Xun, the leader of the queue army, and Lao Duan and Xiao Xu out of the capital and was planning to become the leader of the Beiyang government. Unexpectedly, before he could realize his dream, someone slapped him in the face.

"Captain Cao, even if you are in a hurry to curse, you should at least find out who is answering the phone, right?"

Yang Yuting responded lazily.

In fact, it was Marshal Zhang who picked up the receiver. After hearing his in-laws' rude remarks, the old fox turned around and... handed the receiver to the Chief of General Staff next to him.

Damn it, you guys, I relied on you to stabilize the world, and now you want to destroy the bridge after crossing it.

Seeing that his boss was quite disdainful, Yang Yuting continued: "You might as well make your words clearer."

When Cao Kun heard that it was Yang Yuting, he immediately got angry: "Yang Yuting! You actually went back to the Northeast? Fine, fine... you are awesome. Okay, since you answered the phone, I will make it clear. Please tell little Zhang."

"Are you trying to tear each other apart or what? Why did you send that brat here for no reason?!"

Last time Feng Huafu borrowed 4000 million worth of equipment from Tanaka Yoshiichi, you sent this guy to intercept it... What are you doing here this time?
"Hey, Commander Cao, you're asking this even though you already know the answer?"

Yang Yuting's tone was even more embarrassed. "The batch of goods that the 29th Division of the Jilin Army entered the customs from Qinhuangdao seemed to have been intercepted by your Marshal Yu."

(End of this chapter)