After reading the telegram, Taizu was sure in his heart, but considering that Lao Jiang might not agree, he asked Zhou Gong to say that the 15th Army could send troops to Zhongtiao Mountain and Lanfeng Defense Line, so that mobile forces could be freed up to strengthen Xinkou and other battlefields, Lao Jiang was worried that if the 15th Army was stationed in the Lanfeng Defense Line, the whole of Henan would fall into the hands of the Red Party, so he did not dare to agree at all, so he only agreed to the 15th Army to enter the Zhongtiao Mountain Defense Line as Taizu expected, and Hu Weidong's goal was easily achieved. At the same time, he said that if the 15 th Army lost Zhongtiao Mountain, then the Military Commission would cancel the number of the 15 th Army, but Hu Weidong, who was full of confidence in defending Zhongtiao Mountain, agreed without hesitation, and only demanded that the Military Commission no longer assign tasks to the 15 th Army in the future, and that the 15 th Army should completely make its own decisions on how to fight against Japan in the future.

Lao Jiang immediately agreed after learning about it, in his opinion, if the 15th Army fights a defensive war, it will only get weaker and weaker, and let the 15th Army garrison Zhongtiao Mountain, not only can use this to consume all the elite soldiers and good generals of the 15th Army, or revoke its number, but also reduce the pressure of the War of Resistance, no matter how you look at it, it is a plan to kill two birds with one stone, and the mood is in a big mood Lao Jiang also handed over the defense task of Wangwu Mountain to the 15th Army, but he did not make a hard requirement, and at the same time appointed Hu Weidong as the former enemy commander-in-chief of the first theater, Nominally, he even had the right to command the 32nd Army of Shang Zhen, the chairman of Henan Province(Note 1), in order to motivate him to defend Zhongtiao Mountain (Zhongtiao Mountain was since transferred from the Second Theater to the First Theater).

As everyone knows, Hu Weidong was also secretly happy, he only paid a small price for the loss of the mobility ability of a division, and obtained the strategic location of Zhongtiao Mountain. It also got rid of the shackles of the relevant clauses in the previous bipartisan agreement requiring the 15 th Army to cooperate in frontal combat if necessary (mainly for fear of being dragged down by friendly forces like pigs). "That's it

As early as the beginning of June 1937, Fumiko Konoe came to power to form a cabinet and became the new prime minister of Japan, and Hidemi Ozaki, an "expert on China" with whom he had a close personal relationship, immediately became Prime Minister Fumima's "advisor" (advisor) and private secretary, and was free to enter and leave the prime minister's residence. After participating in the think tank meetings of Konoe Fumiro, he sent important information to Lanzhou many times, which played a great role in the decision-making of the Red Party and the subsequent War of Resistance. What's more. After the telecommunications center in the Central Plains Border Region compared this information with the intercepted Japanese code, the automatic decoding machine, which had been further improved, finally succeeded in deciphering the devil's telegram code, and thus Hu Weidong was well aware of the slightly important military intelligence of the Japanese army

By deciphering the telegram. Hu Weidong learned that the main culprit of the Nanjing Massacre in history, the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, believed that it was strong, and ignored the orders of the base camp, crossed the Yongding River and moved south along the Pinghan Line alone, and the 29th Army, which was panicked after abandoning Pingjin, was unable to resist, and the 6th Division of the Japanese Army captured Zhuozhou and Baoding, two important cities, in just 10 days, and the front of the army was directed at Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province.

Although the Japanese army in North China has as many as 7 divisions and 200,000 people, five of them have already been engaged in the Xinkou Battle that has just begun, and the devils in Pingjin and Pingsui have to maintain sufficient troops to strictly defend them anyway. As for the troops in the northeast and in China, it will take time to send them to Hebei, and they will also be limited by the railway capacity, so once the 6th Division is surrounded, the Japanese army in North China will not be able to send decent reinforcements for at least half a month.

So Hu Weidong thinks. If it is grasped well, it is completely possible to concentrate superior forces to encircle and annihilate the lone 6th Division, just as Huaye annihilated and reorganized the 74th Division in history. Considering that the 6th Division was transferred to the Songhu battlefield shortly after, and committed countless crimes in the Nanjing Massacre that followed. Hu Weidong, who was worried that the 6th Division would run away, did not want to waste even a day, and after a brief discussion in the military headquarters, he immediately convened a meeting of all brigade-level cadres of the whole army. and, uncharacteristically, an impassioned on-the-spot mobilization...,

"Comrades, nine years ago, it was this beast unit that killed more than 6,000 of our compatriots and more than a dozen diplomats in the city of Jinan, and their new division commander Gu Shoufu even openly declared that 'plundering and killing during the war) (the original translation is 'robber', but it obviously does not make sense, and it is more accurate to translate it as killing. Rape is an important means of maintaining morale', and now the beast soldiers of the 6th Division have been connived at, and they have become even worse, and every day they stay in China, our compatriots will have to suffer one more day, what do you say? Hu Weidong stood on the podium and waved his hand and asked his subordinates.

"Destroy them! Destroy them! Destroy them! The audience was like an explosion, and all the generals were high-spirited, vowing to annihilate all the devil troops that were inferior to beasts, and they took the initiative to ask for war without waiting for Hu Weidong's order.

"I am very pleased that the comrades have such a fighting spirit, but everyone must also remember that although the military discipline of the 6th Division is corrupt, its combat effectiveness is quite strong, and it can rank in the top three among the permanent divisions of the Japanese army, but it is not as easy to deal with as the 12th Division that we eliminated before." Hu Weidong immediately poured cold water on everyone, and waited until his subordinates' emotions basically calmed down before officially issuing an order, "In this battle, we must make full use of the convenience of the railway and put our troops on the front line as quickly as possible, so the army commander decided that the 94th Division will be the main attacker, the 42nd Division will cover the flank, and the 17th Division will be used as the reserve."

Everyone knew very well that whether it was weaponry or the quality of soldiers, the strength of the three integrated divisions of the 15 th Army was the 17th Division> the 42nd Division> the 94th Division, and the 17th and 42nd Divisions were all personally commanded by the army chiefs. However, the cadres of the 94th Division were excited, and Hu Lian's eyes were even redder, and there was a pride in his heart that "the soldier dies for his confidant".

Note 1: Because the 15th Army alone is already very powerful in this time and space, the 29th Army and other troops that have been included in the first theater in history have been assigned to other theaters, and the first theater only has the 15th Army and Shang Zhen's 32nd Army. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )