Anti-Japanese War: From Becoming Chu Yunfei to Rising

Chapter 127: Chang Kai-shek sends a telegram to the entire army, Chu Yunfei invites the commander of the 386th Brigade, Chen (Subscription Request)

The 196th Regiment is specifically under the jurisdiction of:

Head of delegation: Qian Bojun, deputy head of delegation: Luo Weiguo.

The first infantry battalion, the battalion commander is: Bian Fucheng.

The Second Infantry Battalion, the battalion commander is: Xue Jie, the deputy battalion commander is: Liu Wang.

The Fifth Infantry Battalion, commanded by Ji Yuesong (formerly the commander of the Thirteenth Company.)
Engineer Company (to be built)

The mortar battalion has two artillery companies under its command, and the battalion commander is Qi Lin, the former company commander of the first artillery company.

In addition, the 196th Regiment also has related non-combat personnel such as the baggage transport company, communications platoon, and medical team.

After the reorganization, the combat strength of the 196th Regiment barely reached the level of a previous battalion.

But after the corresponding adjustments.

The firepower did not decrease, but increased slightly.

The regiment had a total of 22 heavy machine guns and 74 light machine guns.

Fifteen grenade launchers and sixteen 60mm mortars.

New Infantry Regiment.

It is organized according to the regular Jinsui Army infantry regiment.

Three infantry battalions, each with three infantry companies.

Below the company are three platoons, and below the platoon is the squad.

There are six to thirteen students in a class.

The full strength is thirteen people, and the squad leader's standard equipment is the Jin-made Thompson.

Of course, this is an idealized state.

The various troops under Chu Yunfei's command.

It would be the limit if every rifleman could have a Type 65 rifle or a Type 38 rifle made in Jin.

During the 358th Regiment period, company and platoon leaders would have a pistol for self-defense.

And now, after the war.

The number of weapons, ammunition, and even artillery shells and grenades has dropped to a level compared to before.

Fortunately, the army distributed cotton clothes in advance, otherwise Chu Yunfei would have had a headache this winter.

As for the mountain artillery regiment.

Basically, there is no difference from before, there is only one battalion under the regiment.

A battalion of Bamenshan artillery was organized according to the regular Central Army artillery battalion.

It has two artillery companies: Artillery 1 and Artillery 2.

A company artillery platoon, with two mountain cannons in one platoon (two artillery squads).

The company consists of the company headquarters, communications squad, computing squad, and ammunition team (two squads).
The baggage and supply troops were merged together.

After all, it is an artillery unit...it needs horses to tow and tug.

So there are breeders who feed the sergeants.

This old guy takes care of his precious baby.

Chu Yunfei also needs to be polite when facing them.

The mountain artillery regiment had 75 riding horses and 180 pack horses.

People eat what horses chew.

It’s more money than Qian Bojun’s 196th Infantry Regiment spent.

There is also a 30-artillery regiment.

Twelve 88 mm field guns.

A regiment had 100 riding horses and 130 draft horses.

This is even more of a big spender.

As soon as the adjustment plan came out, Chu Yunfei became more determined to crack down on the local tyrants and evil gentry.

Fang Ligong has not yet completed the industrial survey of the region
Chu Yunfei's troops received a new telegram.

"To the commanders-in-chief of all theaters of war, all commanders-in-chief, all corps commanders, all army commanders, division commanders, and brigade commanders:"

When Chu Yunfei saw this just now, he couldn’t help but be shocked.

This is a call to the entire army, most likely because something big has happened.

"In order to adapt to the strategy and coordinate the overall situation, the National Government has moved to Shancheng on the 20th and announced a declaration. I believe you have all heard of it.

This measure is to protect the central core from the threat of enemy violence, to implement our purpose of protracted resistance, and to break the Japanese invaders' illusions and cunning plots. Our military operations at the front will not only be completely unaffected, but will be carried out more resolutely. Once the head is secure, the limbs and other parts will be able to play their full role; when the rear is extended to the whole country, military planning will have a permanent and reliable basis.

As far as the whole plan of the War of Resistance is concerned, it is actually the starting point for further developing the strategy. The enemy's cunning and evil plot has been ineffective. If we pour our troops deep into the territory, the difficulties will be even greater, and our initiative will be even stronger.

From now on, our frontline officers and men should concentrate on killing the enemy without any worries. They should be determined to fight to the death and strengthen their confidence in the final victory. They will fight with their flesh and blood for every inch of land. Over time, the enemy will be destroyed. Follow a planned and step-by-step strategy and fight more resolutely and bravely.

Chiang Kai-shek will share the safety and danger, life and death with all our officers and men, fulfilling the bounden duty of our revolutionary soldiers and planning for a glorious victory. We have high hopes for you all, and we will work hard together.

Zhongzheng. "

"Hoo~!"

Even if you are prepared in your heart.

Chu Yunfei still sighed after receiving the power.

To deal with the Japanese, we must have the determination to fight to the death and pledge to support the country with our flesh and blood.

Chiang Kai-shek had no other choice.

The Brussels Conference, which he had placed high hopes on, has now been adjourned because it is simply impossible to continue.

The League of Nations, an international organization, never met again after that.

Not only did the meeting fail to reach any resolution on sanctions against Japan.

These participating countries were even reluctant to characterize Japan as an "aggressor country."

The Japanese army immediately put the capture of Nanjing on the agenda as a strategic goal.

The Central China Expeditionary Force was the main force, cooperating with the navy to capture Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China.

At this time... Chiang Kai-shek wavered.

He knew that he could no longer count on the Brussels international conference.

He also learned that Japan would attack Nanjing.

He convened a meeting of senior generals in Nanjing to discuss whether negotiations were possible.

At the meeting, what happened was beyond Chang Kai-shen's expectations.

Xu Yongchang and Gu Zhutong both believed that negotiations were possible.

Bai Jiansheng put it more bluntly: "If these are the only conditions, why must we go to war?"①
Let’s get back to what happened earlier.

The full picture of the meeting may not be revealed.

But it can only be discovered from the few words recorded in historical documents.

Chiang Kai-shek's attitude had changed at this time.

In addition to territorial sovereignty, he said that the Hans could act as intermediaries in negotiations and make appropriate concessions in economic development and resource supply.

That is: to exchange peace for the loss of some economic sovereignty. He met with Hans Ambassador Tao Demann that evening and conveyed the above position.

But these old devils obviously did not agree.

And they believed that the basis for the renegotiation was that there were certain doubts about the negotiations based on the draft before the great military victory, and that they needed to wait for the headquarters to re-examine the matter before giving a response.

This so-called great military victory obviously refers to the capture of Nanjing!

From a ZZ perspective.

There is no reason not to defend the capital.

From a military perspective, there was absolutely no possibility of defending Nanjing.

To the east is Purple Mountain, to the north and west is the Yangtze River, and to the south is open land.

There is absolutely no danger at all.

Since ancient times, guarding Nanjing has always been a difficult problem.

As long as the Japanese army captured the outer stronghold of Jinling, it would be easy to achieve.

Fighting a desperate battle...Although we have the courage to burn our boats, it is a taboo for military strategists in most cases!

Regarding the question of whether to defend Nanjing.

A group of senior generals could not reach a consensus.

But the vast majority of people think it is undefendable.

First, Li Zongren thought it was undefensible: the reason was that from a tactical point of view, the newly defeated troops were trapped in an isolated city with no fresh troops, no strategic location to defend, and no way to retreat. It was likely to become the next Taiyuan. Li Zongren also suggested declaring Nanjing an undefended city to prevent the enemy from using it as an excuse to burn and kill civilians.

Bai Jiansheng naturally agreed very much with Li Zongren's opinion.

General Liu Fei (then the Chief of the Military Affairs Department) said: "It is a symbolic defense. Like Taiyuan, we should adhere to the principle of protracted war and consumption. We should not care about the gains and losses of a city or a place. If we drag it out until the Japanese army has to allocate a company or a battalion of troops to each place in the occupied area.

Even if the Japanese army achieved a tactical victory, they would still lose the war.

We definitely cannot defend it!
But not defending is absolutely not an option, and we cannot give up without offering any resistance.

After a proper resistance, we will retreat. In terms of manpower, eighteen regiments at most will be enough."

Chen Cixiu's ideas were not much different from Liu Fei's.

He believed that although the Japanese army had won tactically at this time, the National Army had won strategically. The Japanese army had changed from attacking from north to south to advancing from east to west.

Now we should quickly leave the battlefield and withdraw to southern Anhui, using Nanjing as our vanguard base to carry out the goal of a protracted war of resistance.
Only one person advocated defending to the death.

That is Tang Shengzhi, Director of the Training General Department.

The reasons he used to persuade Chiang Kai-shek actually hit the mark exactly what Chiang Kai-shek wanted.

"The capital city is an international attraction. We should first build the prime minister's mausoleum. If we abandon Nanjing, how can we face the prime minister's spirit in heaven?"

Chiang Kai-shek was persuaded by Tang Shengzhi and was appointed commander-in-chief of the Nanjing Garrison.

The vast majority of historical materials believe that he volunteered.

And believed that there was something wrong with his mental state.

Because in this meeting, Tang Shengzhi jumped up and down and spoke in an impassioned tone.

He jumped onto the table and stepped onto the chair in front of many generals.

The vast majority of the generals present at the meeting believed that Tang Shengzhi had always been unsuccessful and wanted to make a comeback with this battle.

As for what Tang Shengzhi thinks...only Tang Shengzhi himself knows.

But from his memoirs, we can see that...it was not Tang Shengzhi who volunteered, but Chiang Kai-shek assigned him the task of defending the city.

After all, the others are "too inexperienced".

If Tang Shengzhi didn't stay.

Then it can only be Chiang Kai-shek who stayed.

Now that things have come to this, Tang Shengzhi has to stay.
Faced with such a desperate situation, many people in high positions are afraid of death.

There is no historical record of him seeking personal gain.

On the contrary, his entire family is in Jinling City.

Unlike Yan Laoxi, who first sent his family out of Taiyuan City and then fled in the face of the enemy.

In this regard, Tang Shengzhi is still very good.

The lack of manpower caused major problems in the subsequent defense deployment...it was also a tactical choice caused by objective reasons.

Before the battle started, Bai Jiansheng, He Mianhua and Wang Jun (Deputy Minister of the Military Affairs Department) were all very worried about this.

But the arrow is on the string and must be shot.
Tang Shengzhi made a speech in front of reporters, vowing to live and die with Nanjing, and made a bold move to withdraw all ships. Any evacuation of troops and individual soldiers should be stopped.
This also laid the groundwork for the tragedy that followed.
Jinling City.

Jinling~!

It is an unspeakable pain in the heart of every Chinese.

Chu Yunfei frowned.

At this moment, I just hope to kill more Japanese devils and avenge my compatriots!
Time, time!
What we lack most is time.

He couldn't help much in Jinling, but he couldn't let the tragedy in southern Shanxi happen again.

"Sun Ming!"

"Have!"

Chu Yunfei frowned and ordered, "Have Sun Weimou and the others returned?"

"Report, not yet."

"Send someone to urge... to inquire about the progress!"

"Yes!"

Sun Ming did not dare to neglect him as he was the closest adjutant to Chu Yunfei.

He could feel Chu Yunfei's urgency.

There is a high probability that something happened.

The next day, early in the morning.

Sun Weimou hurried back to the command center and came to Chu Yunfei.

"How's the situation?"

"Two were hesitant, and the rest all refused."

"What do the rest of the group say?"

Sun Weimou hesitated for a moment, but still reported truthfully: "They threatened that if Chief Chu did anything bad to them, they would make him pay the price."

Chu Yunfei laughed out loud when he heard this.

Let me, Chu Yunfei, be in big trouble.

Who the hell has the guts to be so arrogant in Shanxi?
"I sent someone to investigate. These landlords and gentry do have relatives working in the Second War Zone Commander's Headquarters."

"Some of them have already held high positions and important posts... There are Chief Zhou of the Salary Department and Zeng, the Staff Officer of the Operations Room."

“Here is the list”

This was the situation with the old warlord armies. Even in the new century, there are many similar problems.

Even Chu Yunfei found it very difficult to deal with the nepotism everywhere.

Just as Long Wenjian said.

This is how the world is.

No one is spotless, we breathe in dust every day.

It's just that we can make this less bad, we can do better.

No one can stand the criticism of others.
Chu Yunfei was also thinking about doing this matter better (more thoroughly).

"I understand... Go down and rest first, you've worked hard!"

Sun Weimou nodded.
Chu Yunfei tore up the list in his hand and walked towards the confidential room.
At noon that day.

The 386th Brigade, which was operating on the front line of Matan and Weijiawan, received a telegram from Chu Yunfei.

Chief of Staff Li looked at the telegram in his hand and found the brigade commander who was observing the terrain.

"Brigade Commander... Chu Yunfei asked you to invite our 386th Brigade to the Changzhi front line... He said there was something important going on."

"Oh?"

The brigade commander was a little surprised: "What do you want from us?"

What Chu Yunfei said in the telegram was relatively official.

Invite the brigade commander to Changzhi to discuss joint operations in southeastern Shanxi.

Joint operations?

The brigade commander admitted that they had a good working relationship before.

When the 129th Division won the victory, Chu Yunfei was the first to express his gratitude to them.
But...they had no interactions before the Anti-Japanese War, let alone any close friendship.

There are no Red Party members around Chu Yunfei.
What on earth is Chu Yunfei up to? Why did he suddenly invite them to join forces?

The brigade commander hesitated for a moment.

So he sent someone to ask Commander Liu for his opinion.

After Commander Liu heard the news.

The first thing I suggested was to go and see what was going on.

Chu Yunfei is from the fifth class of Huangpu Military Academy.

Even if Chu Yunfei was not a Whampoa student, it would be unlikely to do anything bad to him.

What's more, the Eighth Route Army is still a friendly force after all.

Its legitimacy was also recognized by the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army (Eighteenth Group Army).

Theoretically speaking, they are all members of the national army and are our own people.

The brigade commander immediately left behind the 771st and 772nd Regiments as the main force.

It was put under the direct command of Division Commander Liu, and cooperated with the Third Army's Zeng Wanzhong's unit and the Thirteenth Army's Tang Enbo's unit to fight against the Xiyang Detachment of the Japanese Army.

The brigade commander led more than 300 people from the New 1st Regiment under Li Yunlong and headed south to Changzhi.
The monthly ticket is about to reach one thousand, brothers, work harder~!

①, Chronicles of the Republic of China - Anti-Japanese War Period) (V) Edited by Wei Hongyuan, Liaoning People's Publishing House, P208
Memoirs of Chen Cheng. - Chen Cheng - Oriental Publishing House P38
Memoirs of Li Zongren-P697
Battle of Nanjing - Personal Experience of the Former Kuomintang Generals in the Anti-Japanese War - Tang Shengzhi, Liu Fei P52
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