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Chapter 1081: My Territory, My Decision (2)

At the Yangtze River Wharf in Luzhou, An Yi, who was standing on the high platform, looked at the 15,000 fully armed soldiers neatly arranged, and looked at the excited faces reflected by the hunting flag, and his heart was full of complex feelings such as pride, pride, and reluctance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

These three brigades are the mountain brigade, the antiaircraft artillery brigade and the first mechanized assault brigade of the whole army, nearly half of the officers and men are composed of veterans of the Anjia Army, and the company platoon commanders are all outstanding graduates of the non-commissioned officer school and the Syrian Aviation School.

Hu Jialin's 17th Army is the descendant army of the Central Army, and it is a meritorious unit that Chiang Kai-shek has placed great hopes on, and three of the four divisions under its jurisdiction are iron-blooded divisions in the same vein as the An Jiajun, and the ace army *** division, Lu Yixuan's 17th division, and the 39th division from Yang Jiuxiao's Northeast Volunteer Army are all honorary troops that participated in the war against Japan, and the "model battalion" is branded as a "model battalion" from the division commander to the soldiers, plus the cavalry mixed division transformed by Zhang Chengzhu's cavalry division, the officers and men of the whole army are composed of veterans who have experienced many battles. Discipline, cohesion, and combat effectiveness are far superior to those of the armies in North China.

It is precisely because of the powerful deterrent power formed by the 17th Army's presence in central and southern Hebei that the current situation in North China will not continue to deteriorate, and the Japanese and traitors will not dare to rashly expand the scope of military provocations.

However, due to the unorganized changes in the army in recent years and the financial constraints of the central government, the four divisions of the 17 th Army are also the same as the subordinate units of the Central Army, and the establishment of each division is within 12,000 men, and the total number of officers and men in the whole army is less than 58,000, which is very far from the establishment of three brigades and two regiments directly under each division of the Anjia Army, three regiments per brigade, and no less than 2,000 officers and men in each regiment. Due to the lack of well-trained new specialized arms to replenish them, there are many worrying hidden dangers and shortcomings.

At the request of Hu Jialin, Lu Yixuan, Wu Liheng and other generals, An Yi and his brothers, after repeated discussions, decided to transfer three additional special brigades to supplement them, and received Chiang Kai-shek's acquiescence and support half a year ago.

Chiang Kai-shek, who regarded the 17th Army as the most important military force stationed by the central authorities in North China, made it clear that once the three well-equipped and powerful special brigades joined the 17th Army, the 17th Army would be immediately upgraded to the 17th Corps, and the number of the corps would be maintained, and no matter how tight the military expenditure was, it would give priority to meeting the needs of the corps, and it would exist for a long time as an experimental model for the Central Army.

On the high platform, Yang Bin, Ye Cheng, Gu Changfeng and other generals standing beside An Yi all had a sense of reluctance in their hearts, and the 15,000 soldiers in front of them were all well-trained new-style troops of the An Family Army, and their military appearance and military discipline, ideology, military skills and sophisticated equipment were all first-class, only from the point of view that the literacy rate had reached 100 percent, the quality of officers and soldiers was far above all units in the country, not to mention that the middle and low-level officers of the three brigades had all received formal military education, and they were all excellent troops with a loud croaking wherever they were placed. Moreover, it is the first batch of transformed troops after the improvement of the thinking and training of the Anjia Army.

"Commander, say a few words, after the brothers go north, it is rare to hear the commander's instructions." The director of the department stretched out a whisper behind An Yi and pleaded.

The commander of the Jiang Defense Army, Lu Guang, and the chief of staff, Mu Chaiyi, who was in charge of transporting the troops, also echoed in a low voice: "Say a few words, commander, the brothers are all looking at you." ”

An Yi's tall body moved, slowly took a step and stood still, took a deep breath, and said loudly:

"Brothers, many words, your instructors, your commanders have told you, what do you represent, what kind of responsibilities and expectations you shoulder, I think you are very clear in your hearts, what I want to tell you today is that you are the best troops in the squadron, you are the elite soldiers who have been specially trained with the heart of serving the country with sincerity, and you are a good man, no matter where you go in the future, southern Sichuan is your home, and the people of southern Sichuan are your relatives. The 20 million fathers and villagers in southern Sichuan and the brothers and sisters of An Jiajun are looking at you, and I, An Yi and all the generals around me, are looking at you, you not only carry the honor of An Jiajun, carry the expectations of 20 million people in southern Sichuan, but also shoulder the unshirkable responsibility of the Chinese people! Brothers, hold your heads high, forge ahead bravely, and use your blood and lives to realize your majestic ideal of serving the motherland, and you will become the backbone of the country and the nation! ”

"Drive away the humiliation and serve the country loyally—"

"Drive away the humiliation and serve the country loyally—"

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The majestic shouts of 15,000 soldiers, earth-shattering, straight through the sky, An Yi and his generals solemnly saluted on the high platform, and finally sent the soldiers who sang "Loyal to the Country" out of the field and walked to the water transport wharf.

The female soldiers of the art troupe forgot the propaganda lyrics they had carefully prepared, excitedly beat the allegro and gongs and drums, and sang loudly with the soldiers who were heading to the wharf with tears, and nearly 100,000 people in Luzhou waved their hands on both sides of the river, knowing the heavy responsibility of the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Anjia Army who went to North China.

That night, the South Sichuan Radio Station reported only one sentence of news, and there was no more commentary or detailed explanation, but this simple news aroused great attention in the entire Chinese and foreign military circles: The newly recruited troops of the 17th Army of the Central Army left Luzhou and headed north.

Tianjin Japanese Concession, the headquarters of the garrison held a series of meetings, the 17th Army from southern Sichuan "recruited" to carry out intense discussions, because there is no office in southern Sichuan, the first An Yi group does not have any business and commercial enterprises with a high background of Chinese enterprises at all, hidden in the southern Sichuan spies and traitor intelligence personnel in the Anjia Army counter-espionage agency day and night, and is "rather killed by mistake than omitted" screening and investigation, all were cleared, *** The military could only obtain all kinds of intelligence about the An Jia Army through the Chongqing consulate and the traitors hiding in the Sichuan business circles, and secondly, it collected intelligence on southern Sichuan through relevant reports from European and American countries and major news organizations in China, so it attached great importance to the "recruitment of new recruits" from southern Sichuan by the 17th Army stationed in North China.

According to the practice of the Chinese garrison, the place where it is stationed is usually regarded as the source of troops for the unit, but now the 17th Army is seeking to seek the near and far, and it is recruiting new recruits from the defense zone of An Yi, the most powerful military force in China, cannot but arouse a high degree of vigilance and speculation on the part of the Japanese army.

After repeated deliberations, the Japanese army's Tianjin secret service finally made a plan to carry out a tentative provocation against the 17th Army, hoping to detect the reaction degree of the 17th Army, the main force of the Central Army, and then speculate on the confidence of the Chinese army to resist Japan. "Completely drive out the troops of the Central Army stationed in North China that seriously threaten the interests of the Central Army in North China."

On the morning of 25 March, the day when the quarterly meeting of the troops stationed in China was held in Tianjin, more than 700 "representatives of all walks of life in North China" held high five-color flags and shouted all kinds of traitor slogans, entered the city from the Baoding Railway Station, and finally gathered in front of the Nanjing Central Government and the official compound stationed in Hebei.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the guards immediately closed the gate and lifted out the horses and other obstacles to isolate the crowd, and the emotional "representatives of the autonomy of all walks of life in North China" angrily overturned the horses, removed the obstacles, and crowded to the closed gate, beating up two gendarmes on duty and 13 officers and soldiers of the garrison who had rushed to maintain order after hearing the news, slammed the gate with logs, stones, and bricks, and smashed all the nameplates, army and government symbols, flags, badges, and even lights hanging on both sides of the door, until hundreds of policemen from the Baoding Police Station swarmed in. The further deterioration of the situation was stopped, but three of the fifteen gendarmes were seriously injured and unconscious, and the other 12 were all wounded and unable to move, and all the weapons and ammunition they were carrying were looted.

After the incident, the local governor of Baoding and the officials of the central ministries in North China were so frightened that they immediately called He Yingqin in Beiping and Wang Jingwei in Nanjing to cry and ask for instructions.

He Yingqin's reply was very timely, and he seriously demanded that the Baoding government and the central temporary institutions should not "expand the situation", and the Beiping Branch of the Central Committee would make "solemn representations" to the people; Wang Jingwei sent a telegram back a little later, warning his personnel not to make remarks that "damage Sino-Japanese relations and hinder friendly diplomatic relations" because of this.

Baoding City, which was originally considered to be stable and orderly, was panicked and rumors rampant, and many people who did not know the truth said, "It's over!" General Hu's team didn't dare to offend the *** traitors who bullied the door, and Baoding City may not be able to bear it like Tianjin Beiping."

The news reached the ears of Hu Jialin and the officers and men of the 17th Army, causing an uproar, and after the officers at all levels drank the emotional subordinates, they rushed to the headquarters of the 17th Army and asked the army commander Hu Jialin to give a clear order.

For a time, the crowd in the headquarters was surging, the crowd was angry, and the roars and scolding came one after another, which was deafening, and even the sentries on duty at the gate gritted their teeth, and their chests rose and fell with anger.

The headquarters of the 17th Army was moved into the Baoding Military Station where the original *** division was stationed only two days ago, because the central military police and the party headquarters were temporarily moved to Baoding City, which occupies an important strategic location, after evacuating from Beiping under the threat and conspiracy of the military, the headquarters of the 17th Army originally set up there in order to make room for the central garrison agencies, just moved the headquarters to the military station where the *** division was stationed two days ago, which was an important strategic base bought by An Yi during the Anti-Japanese War in North China and continued to build and improve. Now it is the best military garrison in North China, and it is more convenient for the headquarters to move here than in the city.

Hu Jialin didn't get angry this time, he waited for his generals to scold enough and quieted down before he stood up and said in a deep voice: "You think things are so simple? Think that the place where hundreds of *** traitors are impacted is just the Baoding government and the central government? Have you forgotten where our headquarters was two days ago? Have you ever asked yourself what happened to your brothers? Have you ever considered why there are Koreans and *** ronins among those hundreds of traitors? ”

The brothers froze, and one by one they looked at each other, not daring to shout again.

Hu Jialin sneered a few times, ordered all units and garrisons of the whole army to immediately enter a state of combat readiness, and then waved his hand to let the brothers do it immediately.

As soon as the generals left, Hu Jialin immediately consulted urgently with the generals under his command, and ten minutes later, a secret telegram was sent to An Yi, who had just arrived in Nanjing to attend the Central Committee's meeting.