A dry wind blew from the east. Plundering the continuous Liao, the veins, blowing the Great Wall, and rolling up the sand and dust in the sky. The vast land, a group of scenery outside the plug.

Cross the Great Wall, go south again, is Zhangjiakou, here since ancient times is the important town of Guansai, but also is the north of the Saibei business center, north-south traffic channel, since the completion of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway, Zhangjiakou has further become the connection between the port and the inland transportation hub, at the beginning of the year, Zhangjiakou railway was also completed and opened to traffic, this railway connects Zhangjiakou and Shenyang, passing through Chengde, Chaoyang and other places. It is a railway line parallel to the Beijing-Shenyang Railway, after the completion of the Zhangshen Railway, it has greatly improved the railway traffic inside and outside the Guan, and more importantly, after the completion of this railway, if you want to transfer troops from the Guannai to the three eastern provinces, you do not have to rely on the Beijing-Shenyang Railway, this railway branch line far from the coast is very important for military transportation.

Zhangjiakou, railway station, eight o'clock in the morning.

Another military train pulled into the train station, and the platform was even more lively.

A staff officer hurried out of the dispatch room and boarded the column. The military train, which entered the station, handed a telegram to a lieutenant colonel. After several changes of hands, the telegram finally fell into the hands of Brigadier General Zhang Guoping, who was actually carrying half a brigade of his troops, the Independent Cavalry Division.

After reading the telegram, Zhang Guoping slapped the telegram on the table, and then raised his hand. Scratching the back of his head hard, he complained a few words to the senior officers standing in front of him.

"The 6th Military Department is bullying our cavalry for growing four more legs, and now the 6th Military Department has asked us to vacate the military column and load the infantry, as for our cavalry, we have to ride to Shenyang by ourselves."

"Division commander, let's come from naturalization all the way, there are not many stunned people who accompany us, if we ride all the way to Shenyang, the supplies along the way may not be able to keep up.

A staff officer muttered.

"The 6th Military Department has also figured it out for us, let's ride a horse to Chengde first and join the dark horse team. Take the supply directly from Chengde, then combine it with the dark horse team, and then go to Chaoyang, and when you arrive at Chaoyang, you will resupply again. Then, I went straight to Shenyang. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Guoping picked up the telegram manuscript on the table, twisted his brows and pondered it

"But we have only half a brigade in Zhangjiakou now, so are the follow-up troops also riding horses to Shenyang? It's been a long walk, but it's enough, and we need to get some more horses to spare. Another staff officer reminded.

"Or, let's take a telegram and tell the 6th Army Headquarters to wait in Zhangjiakou for two days, wait for the follow-up troops 6 to come over, and then the whole division will go to Shenyang." Said a regimental commander.

Zhang Guoping shook his head. He handed the telegram to the regimental commander and said, "The telegram from the 6th Army Headquarters says that it is very clear that we, the cavalry, must leave for Shenyang before noon tomorrow, and we must not stay too long. ”

"Could it be that Shenyang has already seen a battle?" The regimental commander guessed.

"That's not a good thing to say, since the "626 incident." Since. This battle is basically impossible to dodge, I see, the center is very determined this time, and it will not give in easily. Besides. Our China has always made concessions in front of foreigners over the years, and this is holding back the fire in our hearts, and now if the center really wants to settle accounts for the Japanese, I will resolutely support it, and our independent cavalry division is the center's pawn crossing the river. After leaving naturalization, there is no way back. ”

Zhang Guoping said this when he was in high spirits, as a senior officer promoted by Zhao Bei, he has been waiting for this day for a long time, the fate of the soldiers is on the battlefield, and the glory of the soldiers will also be achieved on the battlefield, as a Chinese soldier, Zhang Guoping is very fortunate to be able to catch up with this national war, although the center has not yet clearly told the soldiers that they are going to fight with the Japanese, but like many senior officers, Zhang Guoping firmly believes that this war cannot be avoided, otherwise, It is not possible to explain why the center has been sharpening its knives for the past two years, China's national defense force is not an ornament in the first place, this army is destined to usher in glory on the battlefield.

"Don't be stunned. Summons, everyone get off! Take all the war horses down, and then send some people to the dispatch room, let them send people to lead us to the warehouse, the first batch of supplies for the 6th Army Department has been waiting for us here for half a day, let's take a rest and go out in the evening. Go to Chengde first. ”

Zhang Guoping ordered. Everyone was busy, the soldiers jumped off the train in a daze, and under the command of the officer, they were busy unloading the horses and spokes off the train. It took more than an hour to complete the unloading task, and then, a whistle. This empty military column is heading south of the boat with a sonorous sound, and now there are too many troops transferred out of the pass. The Beijing railway station is already congested, the 6th military headquarters called the cavalry to vacate the train, but it is also a helpless way, under the current situation, the sea is too risky, after the "626 incident". In order to appease the people at home, the Japanese government has sent a combined fleet to cruise along the coast of China. At present, the central troop transfer plan mainly relies on six routes of transportation.

When the train was far away, some stupid soldiers reacted, it turned out that they had been thrown at this Zhangjiakou. Some bad-tempered soldiers inevitably scolded, originally they planned to take the train to Shenyang full of foreign spirits, but now it seems that they can only ride war horses and pass with a disgraced face.

The grassroots officers reacted to the grievances of the soldiers, and Zhang Xian did not hesitate to order. The officers and soldiers of the warehouse body were on holiday in Zhangjiakou. As long as you don't violate military discipline, as long as you don't leave Zhangjiakou, Division Commander Zhang will never ask them what they are doing during the holidays, so, soon, there are many more stupid soldiers who don't wear military uniforms in the flower street and willow lane of Zhangjiakou, and now a soldier knows that this time I don't go to Zhangde, I go to Shenyang instead, I'm afraid that I will fight with the Japanese, there is some pressure, there are many ways to vent pressure, it seems to be more normal to find a woman, but it scared the military medical officer who acted with the army. Later, Zhang Guoping had to add an order that the officers and soldiers were not allowed to look for secret prostitutes, but only those licensed fireworks women, because these fireworks women were regularly undergoing health inspections.

While the officers and men shouted the slogan "Long live the division commander" and visited the kiln with high morale, Zhang Guoping led several adjutants and staff officers to the aviation base in the northwest suburbs of Zhangjiakou.

When the car was unloaded just now, the dispatching room of the railway station forwarded an urgent telegram to Zhang Guoping, although this urgent telegram was forwarded by the 6th Military Headquarters. However, the person who took the newspaper was not the 6th Military Department, but the Commander's Hall, which was an order from the Commander's Hall, and the order was very simple, let Zhang Guoping immediately go to Beijing to attend a military meeting, and as for the troops, they would be handed over to the brigade commander to command.

The meeting time was half past eleven in the morning, and it was too late to take the train, so I had to take a plane. Fortunately, there is an airport in Zhangjiakou. Zhang Guoping took the telegram and ran to the airfield with his adjutant, and the commander of the base did not hesitate to send a light bomber to Beijing for a meeting.

In order to save time, the pilot made an exception and did not land at the Nanyuan Aviation Base, but directly landed the plane on a dirt road outside the city.

In the conference room of the Commander's Hall, Zhang Guoping unexpectedly saw Bai Lang, the commander of the armored corps, but both of them arrived a little late, and there was no chance to speak in the Commander's Hall.

Except for Zhang Guoping and Bai Lang. The content of the meeting was still about the basic situation of the troops, and the most important topic was the mood and fighting spirit of the soldiers. For this battle, the center is very confident, but also very cautious.

The meeting ended at one o'clock in the afternoon, and after lunch with Mr. President at the Presidential Palace, Zhang Guoping hurried to Zhangjiakou again, originally he wanted to fly back, but the president still suggested that he take the train back to Zhangjiakou for safety reasons, and coincidentally, Bai Lang was in the same car with him.

Zhang Guoping and Bai Lang rushed to the train station. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the adjutant of the chamberlain's room to contact the train for them, the two had a good time reminiscing, and Zhang Guoping learned that Bai Lang had arrived in Beijing yesterday, and that he had come from Shenyang, and that compared with the infantry and cavalry, the armored troops were the first to rush to the three eastern provinces to set up defenses.

The two didn't talk deeply, after all, it involved military secrets, and soon the adjutant contacted them on the train, this train is also a military train, and it is the train vacated by the Independent Cavalry Division in Zhangjiakou, and now this train is not only full of infantry, but also has some flatbed trailers towed behind it, and the cars are loaded with all heavy crawler tractors, but unlike ordinary agricultural tractors, these tractors have been modified, and they have been welded with steel plates all around, becoming a boxy steel box. And there are also shooting holes in the steel plate, and at a glance you can see that this is by no means an ordinary tractor.

"I won't hide it from you, this is the armor of our armored troops, in fact, these armored vehicles have not been modified yet, and when you arrive in Shenyang, you can open your eyes."

Bai Lang was quite proud to show off to Zhang Guoping, and then, with the cavalry division commander, boarded a flatbed trailer, and squeezed together with a group of stupid soldiers, no way, the train was seriously loaded, and the carriage was already crowded, so he had to wronged the two senior officers, fortunately, neither of them was pampered, and on a hot day, the open-air trailer was cooler.

When a state-of-the-art American-made locomotive was hung up from the back, the train blew its whistle and was pulled by two locomotives. Roaring in the direction of Zhangjiakou, it will carry soldiers and heavy equipment from the Zhangshen Railway to Shenyang to strengthen the defenses there.

The train was sonorous and morale was high. The weapons are excellent, Zhang Guoping and Bai Lang are both high-spirited, the two of them take the lead in singing, in the generosity and heroism of this Guanshan Feidu, longing for the glory and glory on the battlefield.

At the same time, the same scene was playing out in various parts of China, with railway stations, docks, roads, and railways "running at a high rate under the support of modern means and tools of transportation." Under the present situation, there is no need to deliberately emphasize the concealed nature of this military move, and the people's will and morale have also risen unprecedentedly high under the encouragement of this military move, and the outbreak of war is only a matter of time.