As the saying goes: if you have a small trouble here, you have to do everything you can to create a bigger problem, and then divert the attention of others to cover up a qiē.

The army of the little devils has always done this, and this is also the root of the "lower gram up".

Gu Shoufu belongs to the fierce generals in the Little Devil Army, and he is not proficient in the above routines, and he is a complete expert!

Now that the 6th Division has been wiped out and is riddled with troubles, it must do its best to launch one or two battles, and then break up today's losses and report them slowly.

Thinking of this, Gu Shoufu stared at the chief of staff, Shimono Kazuho, and said, "What is the current enemy situation, and how should our department move to enter the battle as best of its ability?" ”

Chief of Staff Shimono Kazuho had actually already thought of a "plan to make up for losses", so he said unhurriedly: "Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Tu Feiyuan's 14th Division has surrounded Zhuozhou, and has divided its troops to capture Laishui and Yi County. If we were to fight as much as we could, it would be Gaobeidian, thirty kilometers to the west. ”

"After occupying Gaobeidian, we can immediately go south along the Pinghan Railway to take Xushui. By that time, Baoding was already in front of us. He believed that as long as he could take Baoding, the capital of North China, he would be able to restore the glory of our 6th Division! ”

"In order to make up for the mistakes of my humble position, before His Excellency the Commander returns, I have ordered the 36th Infantry Brigade, the 23rd Wing of the commander of the Ushijima Man Brigade, to use a brigade to occupy the Xinqiao line east of Gaobeidian, and then take Gaobeidian."

"The follow-up troops are currently moving south one after another, and the 11th Infantry Brigade, under the leadership of the commander of the Sakai Tokutaro Brigade, has rushed directly to Xushui and Rongcheng to clear the obstacles east of Baoding. The field artillery wing lost 13 field guns, and the remaining 11 field guns had already moved south with the 11th brigade. ”

Gu Shoufu was still able to laugh: "Shimono-kun, you handled it properly, I am very pleased!" Order all the troops to speed up their advance and surround Baoding within three days! ”

The current Baoding City should actually be Qingyuan County.

In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368 AD), Baoding Road was changed to Baoding Mansion, and Qingyuan County was governed. In the eighth year of Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1669 AD), the governor of Zhili moved from Zhengding to govern Qingyuan City, and the county administration became the capital of Zhili.

In the first year of the Republic of China, (1912 AD), Baoding Mansion was retained and Qingyuan County was abolished. In the following year, the provincial capital was moved from Qingyuan City to Tianjin, and Qingyuan County was restored, and Baoding Mansion was abolished.

In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928 AD), Zhili Province was abolished and Hebei Province was established. At the same time, the abolition of the road-level administrative organization was changed to a two-level system of provinces and counties, and Qingyuan County was directly subordinate to Hebei Province.

In the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1935 AD), the capital of Hebei Province moved back to Qingyuan City, and in the following year (1936), the little devils continued to look for trouble in North China, and the political situation was changeable.

Chi Zongmo betrayed his ancestors to seek glory and created a "puppet government" in eastern Hebei. Hebei Province is nominal and cannot directly manage the counties. Therefore, there is an administrative inspection area, and Qingyuan County is subordinate to the first inspection district of Hebei.

The inspector of the inspection district nodded when he saw the little devil. They have nothing to do, except for supervising Yuan Datou, there is nothing to supervise.

During this period, in the so-called Hebei Province, if you have money, you can be a man, and if you take refuge in the little devil, you are the uncle, and if you have a gun, you are the king of grass!

It is precisely because of the above reasons that Bai Shujie seized the last opportunity and successively formed the Rao'an Independent Division, the Fangshan Independent Regiment, and the Zhangfang Independent Regiment here, with a total strength of more than 10,000 troops.

What the little devil said about capturing the front line of Baoding is actually to capture Qingyuan County.

Qingyuan county is a city close to a square according to local conditions, with a side length of 1.4-1.6 kilometers and a circumference of 6 kilometers. Looking down on Qingyuan County, it is actually a trapezoid. It is slightly narrower on the east, south, and north sides, and slightly wider on the west side. To the south is the Qingshui River, and then take advantage of the favorable conditions of the Qingshui River to dig a moat in the east, north, and west.

In Qingyuan County, the most famous ones are the Governor's Mansion and the Huaijun Office.

There are many celebrities in Qingyuan County who are officials here, not to mention Li Hongzhang, Zeng Guofan, and Yuan Shikai. Later, a TV series "Li Wei as an Official" was called a hit!

Yes, when Li Wei was the governor of Zhili, he lived in the governor's mansion of Zhili.

He won the trust of the two emperors Yongzheng and Qianlong, and also had good political achievements during his tenure as governor of Zhili. He is the best at dealing with robbers and bandits from all walks of life, and also gives relief to the victims, showing no mercy to corrupt officials. No matter what the other party's identity background is, he dares to go under the knife. It's a pity that the current Celestial Empire does not have a loyal minister like Li Wei to punish corrupt elements in the future.

Although Li Wei didn't know a basket of characters, he had great respect for the literati. He also founded the Lotus Pond Academy, also known as the "Zhili Academy", in Baoding, which later became one of the most famous academies in the north.

Qingyuan County is not big, but because it is less than 7 kilometers away from the Pinghan Railway in the east, Beiping in the north and Shijiazhuang in the south, it has become a key place for soldiers. If the little devil wants to use the Pinghan Railway to go south and then occupy the whole of China, the county seat of Qingyuan must be taken first.

On September 19, 1937, Chiang Kai-shek issued an order to Liu Zhi that "our army should fight a decisive battle with the enemy near Baoding". On the same day, Yi County, north of Qingyuan County, was captured by the 20th Division of Little Devils.

On September 20, the 6th Division of the Little Devils broke through the Xushui position, 20 kilometers north of Baoding. On the same day, the three divisions of the little devil (the 6th, 14th, and 20th divisions) had arrived at the line of the Cao River in the north of Qingyuan County. The battle to defend Baoding is on the verge of breaking out.

At this time, the deployment of the Baoding side was: with Guan Zhenglin's 52nd Army as the backbone, Zhang Yaoming's 25th Division to garrison the Caohe defense line in the north of Baoding, Feng Qinya's 14th Army Corps retreating from Pingsui Road to garrison Mancheng, and the east side of the division was defended by Zhao Shoushan's 17th Division.

The city wall of Qingyuan County was garrisoned by the 2nd Division of Zheng Dongguo of the 52nd Army led by Guan Linzheng. In this area, there are also Pei Changhui's 47th Division, Zeng Wanzhong's 3rd Army, together with the troops retreating from the front, a total of more than 60,000 people.

On the morning of the 23rd, three divisions of the Japanese army (the 6th Division, the 20th Division, and the 14th Division) were divided into east, north, and west, and with the cooperation of their air force, launched a general attack on the Baoding city wall. After a day and a night of dramatic battles, Baoding fell.

During this period, I saw the 149th Regiment of the 75th Brigade of the 25th Division of Zhang Yaoming's 25th Division, which was guarding the 426 heights northwest of Mancheng not far away, and fought bloody battles with the Japanese army, and finally all of them died.

The 149th Regiment of the 75th Brigade of Zhang Yaoming's 25th Division, which was guarding the Caohe Iron Bridge position, fought desperately with the enemy when the position was destroyed by enemy artillery fire.

Zhang Erxuan, the head of the Fangshan Independent Regiment, Zhao Sanbao, the head of the Zhangfang Independent Regiment, and Wei Chong, the commander of the Rao'an Independent Division, who rushed over after him, jointly sent a telegram to Bai Shujie: "Seeing that the friendly forces are fighting hard, the officers and soldiers of the department strongly request to participate in the war!" ”

But Bai Shujie not only did not agree to their request to join the war, but ordered them to strengthen their concealment. Whoever dares to expose the target will be shot!

At six o'clock in the morning on September 25, 1937, Bai Shujie finally sent a harshly worded telegram: "In view of the fact that the 20th and 14th divisions of the Japanese army have left Baoding and are carrying out other combat missions separately, I now order you to carry out the following combat contents!" ”

"Wei Chong's Rao'an Independent Division, all of which followed the 6th Division westward in concealment. As soon as the 6th Division occupied Qingyuan County, the Rao'an Independent Division immediately attacked with all its divisions to carry out a counter-encirclement of Qingyuan County, and launched an attack on the enemy in front of it at 8 o'clock this evening. ”

"The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd companies of the reconnaissance battalion that entered Fangshan in the early stage of the Rao'an Independent Division were commanded by Ge Quanzhuang, deputy battalion commander, and Ke Yuxin's machine gun battalion and Yu Zhiqing's cavalry battalion formed a special assault regiment, and Ke Yuxin, commander of the machine gun battalion, served as the commander-in-chief. Make every effort to strike at the enemy in Yixian and Laishui to reinforce Baoding, and ensure the safety of the flank attacking Baoding. ”

"The peripheral attack and blocking battle undertaken by the Rao'an Independent Division is related to the success or failure of the entire campaign. Order all commanders and fighters to be fully mentally prepared: advance without retreat, bloody battle to the end! Even if the whole division dies in battle, it is not allowed to take half a step back! ”

"The lurking troops in the city of Zhao Sanbao and Zhangfang Independent Regiment, from noon today, will closely monitor the interior of Qingyuan County, keep abreast of the garrison of the 6th Division, mark all important strongholds, and then provide artillery coordinates to the heavy artillery regiment and heavy artillery battalion of the Rao'an Independent Division."

"The cavalry battalion and artillery battalion of Zhao Sanbao's Zhangfang Independent Regiment set out from Xiangshan at 6 o'clock this afternoon, moved south with the fastest movement, occupied the Huangcun line in the north of Qingyuan County, and immediately built an artillery position. Then, according to the shelling parameters provided in the city, the shelling was launched at eight o'clock sharp. ”

At 6 p.m. today, the air defense battalion of Zhao Sanbao's Zhangfang Independent Regiment set out from its latent base to set up an air defense position in Dongma Village, northeast of Mancheng, to strike at enemy planes and armored vehicles at any time and provide fire cover for the artillery position in Nanma Village.

"The cavalry battalion of Zhang Erstun's subordinate of the Fangshan Independent Regiment, which was lurking on the front line of Baoyang Mountain, launched a surprise attack on Mancheng and occupied it at seven o'clock this afternoon. This battle must be fast, brave and tenacious, and a brigade of defenders of the city must be annihilated, and no one is allowed to slip through the net! ”

"Zhang Er's Fangshan Independent Regiment was lurking in the Damoshan Heavy Artillery Battalion and the Heavy Artillery Regiment of Wei Chong's Division, leaving the hiding place at 7 o'clock this evening, rushing to the front line of Nanma Village in the east of Mancheng to build an artillery position, and then launching an artillery bombardment at 8 o'clock in the evening according to the shelling parameters provided by the city."

"Zhang Er's machine gun battalion of the Fangshan Independent Regiment left the lurking place of Muzi Mountain at seven o'clock this evening, rushed eastward, and after taking Nanhan Village and Kangzhuang Village, launched an attack on Baoding Railway Station."

"All the brothers participating in the war: This time I chose to encircle and annihilate the 6th Division of Little Devils because the division is ferocious and does all kinds of evil, and it is also the enemy of life and death of our Rehe Front from beginning to end. I hope that you will show a hundredfold courage and sacrifice to avenge those relatives who were killed by the enemy! ”

"I know that after this battle, many of my brothers will never be able to stand up again. However, I will not grieve for you, I will only be proud of you! Today, the country is about to be broken, and it is the time for our hot-blooded men to shed their blood and sacrifice themselves for our dear motherland. ”

"I command you to shoot all the shells and kill all the enemies! I hope that you will show a hundred times the courage to win the final victory. I also hope that you will keep in mind the purpose of the Rehe Front: for the 6th Division of the little devils, regardless of men, women and children, do not take prisoners, and kill them all! ”

"I don't want to see that after this battle, there are still animals of the 6th Division living on the land of China, not a single one! I am confident that you will be able to accomplish this difficult and glorious task! ”

"Long live the Chinese nation! Long live the Rehe Front! Long live all the commanders and fighters participating in the war! This order, Bai Shujie, commander-in-chief of the Rehe Front, and Zhao Jinxi, deputy commander-in-chief. ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.