And Liu Lang didn't come, and he avoided facing a very important problem.

That is, the question of the post-war ownership of the Great Wall Regiment.

Naturally, between the heat of wine and hot faces, Lieutenant General Song, commander of the 29th Army, put this matter on the table.

Of course, when the bigwigs spoke, no one among the officers of the Great Wall Regiment could interject, so they could only listen in a proper manner.

According to Lieutenant General Song's idea, it is very simple, the existence of the temporary number of the Great Wall Regiment is just a helpless move in wartime in order to integrate forces and unify the enemy.

The officers and men of the 288th and 289th regiments were reorganized into the 29th Army, and the officers and men of the 2nd Independent Regiment were reorganized into the 2nd Division. From Song Zheyuan's point of view, although there are only 1,300 people left in the two regiments until now, these 1,300 people are elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and their combat effectiveness is not weaker than the previous 5,000 people.

As for Huang Jie's side, he was neither very urgent but also did not say no. Although the Independent Regiment fought a glorious battle and added a lot of aura to the Second Division, from the perspective of the high-level, Liu Lang, the hot anti-Japanese hero, is now a hot potato, and it is difficult to take it back!

So it's basically a one-man show by Lieutenant General Song, but what he said is very logical and there is nothing wrong with it.

Unexpectedly, as the first person in the military and political affairs of the north, General He did not make a final statement on the current ownership of the Great Wall Regiment, and the reasons he said made the two lieutenant generals unable to refute.

It is really a bit unreasonable for Liu Lang, the temporary commander of the Great Wall Regiment, to split the troops before he returned, and the meritorious service award ceremony belongs to the entire Great Wall Regiment.

Since he was the first person in the military and political affairs in the north to speak, the two lieutenant generals had to save face, and the matter of returning to the country was naturally put on hold first.

Moreover, I am afraid that this shelving will take a bit longer, and Liu Lang, the chief officer of the regiment, will not return to Beiping, and the matter of awarding meritorious service can only be put on hold for the time being.

It can be said that from this meal, what is most looking forward to Liu Lang's return to Beiping is not the thousands of people up and down the Great Wall regiment, or even Ji Yanxue, who is looking forward to his lover's return to Beiping to settle down, but the Lieutenant General Song who suffered a lot of losses in this Battle of the Great Wall.

In this battle, the 29th Army lost 10,000 or 20,000 people, and more than 6,000 people died on the battlefield, not to mention the wounded.

However, these Liu Lang obviously expected it a long time ago.

After the banquet, Qi Guangyuan and Dong Shengtang went to Lieutenant General Song's military headquarters in Beiping City together, and reported the military situation to the army commander as subordinates, which was completely normal.

It's just that after reporting the military situation, Qi Guangyuan brought a secret letter written by Liu Lang to Lieutenant General Song before leaving.

The content of the letter is not much, and there seems to be no impassioned words or sensational language, most of them are columns of numbers.

Then Lieutenant General Song froze, and even the two subordinates saluted him and said goodbye, he didn't see it, his eyes kept on the letter.

After a phone call, high-ranking officials at and above the division commander level of the 29th Army gathered at the military headquarters.

I don't know what Liu Lang's letter actually wrote, from Lieutenant General Song Zheyuan onwards, deputy army commanders Qin Dechun, Tong Linge, chief of staff Zhang Weifan, 37th Division commander Feng Zhi'an, 38th Division commander Zhang Zizhong, provisional 2nd Division commander Liu Ruming, a lieutenant general and six major generals stayed all night at the brightly lit 29th Army military headquarters.

I don't know what they're doing, but it shouldn't be a horse hanger anyway.

When Liu Ruming, the commander directly under the 288th and 289th regiments, accompanied by Qi Guangyuan, rode a car for 300 miles a day to Qinglong Mountain, Lieutenant General Song never mentioned the matter of the two battalions of the Great Wall Regiment being rebuilt.

The 6th Division in Chengde City also repaired in Chengde City for two days, except for a brigade left to garrison Chengde Kongcheng, the rest of the large army began to march to the north of Rehe.

His Excellency Lieutenant General Masaemon Sakamoto is in a terrible mood, and it can be described as terrible.

Not to mention that the transit baggage warehouse for the entire army to go south was emptied, and the entire Chengde City, the capital of Rehe Province, became an empty city. This was too great a blow to the Kwantung Army, almost halving this strategic victory of their capture of Rehe.

The reason is simple, the Kwantung Army can no longer claim wealth from this city, nor can it get supplies on the spot from cities that can make their own blood. It can be said that a city without people has lost the meaning of occupation.

Moreover, the total annihilation of the commerce of Chengde City would also be devastating to the economy of the entire Rehe, and what the Kwantung Army needed was not only a bridgehead for an all-out war against China, but also an occupied area that could generate wealth and supply blood to the mainland.

But now, they have been overthought by the Great Wall Regiment.

Thinking about it in a big way, Your Excellency a lieutenant general who is "worried about the country and the people" will inevitably make small calculations after worrying about major national affairs.

However, the little abacus he made for himself also came to naught. Since the attack on Rehe, the two Japanese lieutenant generals have actually communicated with each other, and the Eighth Division mainly attacked the relatively rich middle of Rehe, and by the way, plundered the wealth of the Chinese and transported it back to the mainland.

The big head belongs to the state, and leaving a little bit of the small head naturally belongs to the two lieutenant generals who have been assigned combat tasks. Otherwise, His Excellency Lieutenant General Masaemon Sakamoto would not have attacked from the barren direction of the north of the Atahe River, except for the mountains and grasslands.

You know, in that broken area, the herdsmen have their favorite silver ornaments except for cattle and sheep that can be used as military rations, but can that thing compare to gold? With the Eighth Division, which could grab money, Sakamoto Masaemon, who was forced by the military situation, led the army under his command and didn't stay at all, so naturally he didn't grab anything.

Sakamoto Masaemon, who was expecting to be able to share some money from the Eighth Division, didn't even see a single bit of the silver he looked down on, let alone the imaginary little yellow croaker. To be exact, he only saw the storage room where a large amount of gold had once been parked.

The mood was already very bad, but more than 400 miles away, there was a telegram three times a day urging them to go north, as if they were two days late, and those wine bags and rice bags would starve to death.

Since learning that Lieutenant General Nishiyichi was injured and was still in a coma, and now it is the chief of staff who is in charge of the overall situation, Tanibe Terubei, and Sakamoto Masaemon has not had a good tone towards the Eighth Division. did not scold in the telegram that the 8th Division, which was now a shame for the Kwantung Army, up and down, was the result of Sakamoto Masaemon's strong self-restraint.

You must know that his direct brigade commander Matsuda Kunizo has long been scolded by him to the point of blood, and it is not a matter of urgency, and he will never send a telegram to His Excellency Masaemen Sakamoto again.

Actually, Terube Tanibe hasn't told the truth to His Excellency the commander of the Sixth Division, who has been angry all the way.

Because, to be honest, it's humiliating, although the 8th Division has no face now. Not only has it become a joke in the base camp of the Kwantung Army, but the most daily greeting that the consuls of Western countries now encounter the consuls of the Empire of Japan is, is the Eighth Division of your country okay?

The Eighth Division, one of the 18 permanent divisions of the Japanese Empire, except for a few thousand wounded who could not move, the rest of the movable ones all went up to the mountains to hunt and dig wild vegetables, and played farming!

It didn't take two days for Terube Tanibe, who asked for a little face, to understand a truth.

It's okay to save face whenever you want, but you can't ask for face on the battlefield. Otherwise, you'll lose your head.