Chapter 229: The Wind and Rain Periled City

Song Zheyuan, commander of the 29th Army of the National ** Army and chairman of the Political Affairs Committee of the Jicha Army, was in a hurry in the military department, and as soon as Tang Qiuli entered the city, he had a conflict with the Japanese ronin, he had already received a report from his subordinates, and later, the matter was strict again, this Tang division commander actually clashed with the old man's Royal Forest Army Military Police, and the sweat on his face came down.

I really don't know the severity of it In Beiping City, there are two kinds of people who can't be provoked, one is the Japanese, who have the support of the entire Japanese country behind them, and the other is the military police regiment, and behind him stands Chairman Jiang.

Song Zheyuan's life was very difficult; in North China, in addition to the Japanese army pressing the border, the pro-Japanese faction within the Jicha Political Affairs Committee, such as Wang Yitang, Qi Kuiyuan, Wang Kemin, and others, attacked him from time to time at government affairs meetings, and became the spokesman of the Japanese in the political arena in North China.

What is more important is that Army General He Yingqin, minister of the Military Affairs Department of the Nationalist Government and acting chairman of the Beiping Military Branch, has been deeply dissatisfied with himself, believing that he is not from a descendant background, and that he has understood that this General He's intention is inaccurate, and that he has long had the intention of replacing him, but it is only difficult to find a suitable candidate for the time being, so it has been delayed until now.

Recall that since following the old commander General Feng Yuxiang and after the defeat of the War of Resistance on the Great Wall, he was transferred to Beiping to garrison, and the high-level officials of the state government have been quite dissatisfied with themselves, and they have long regarded themselves as dissidents, and they have taken many precautions, and a military police regiment stationed in Beiping was ordered to monitor themselves and the 29th Army.

Thinking of these messy things, Song Zheyuan's mood was even more irritable, he was struggling to survive the situation in North China, but it provoked ordinary people to scold himself for being soft bones, afraid of the Japanese, and the upper echelons were suspicious, how did they know that in the huge North China, there was only a 29th Army with tens of thousands of people deployed here, not to mention the gap in weapons and equipment, once the war with the Japanese started, this little army could support for a few days?

When Tang Qiuli arrived at the military headquarters of the 29th Army, it was when Song Zheyuan was full of sorrow, and when he met this big man in North China, Tang Qiuli was startled, this man's face was dark, his brows were tightly locked, and his face was full of gloom, and there seemed to be many problems that were difficult to solve.

Song Zheyuan was stunned when he saw Tang Qiuli, he seemed to be a little unable to believe his eyes, he didn't expect this Tang Division Commander to be so young, although his secretary general came back to describe it, it was still beyond his expectations.

The first time they met, Tang Qiuli left a good impression on Song Zheyuan, this Tang general, without the slightest youthful ambition, straight military uniform, slender and straight, heroic face, bookish spirit and iron-blooded soldier's killing decision, perfectly fused together, standing there, like a sharp sword hidden in a sheath, but unable to completely hide the cold light.

He looked at himself with a smile, his eyes were warm but sharp, and his good upbringing made him even more personable, a young man that no one dared to despise.

At this moment, Song Zheyuan's heart suddenly swelled up with a strong jealousy, this jealousy is the instinctive jealousy of a man who has entered middle age both psychologically and physically, for a man younger than himself.

Song Zheyuan felt even more relieved in his heart, and someone finally came to share the chaos in North China

He stretched out his hand affectionately from afar and walked briskly towards Tang Qiuli, Tang Qiuli first gave a standard military salute: "Commander Song, commander of the newly formed North China Independent Division of the National ** Army Army Tang Qiuli, report to Commander Song and wait for dispatch."

This is one of his identities, the independent division is under the control of the 29th Army, at this point, Tang Qiuli has done a flawless job, people in the military circles pay special attention to this, the relationship between superiors and subordinates cannot be messed up, let alone go through the motions.

Afterwards, he bowed slightly, "Chairman Song, Tang Qiuli, vice chairman of the Jicha Political Affairs Committee, came to meet the chairman of the committee" This is another kind of identity, and it is a formality that must be taken in the political circles.

After this set of procedures came down, he held Song Zheyuan's hand tightly, Song Zheyuan was even more impressed with Tang Qiuli, full of joy, this young man is by no means simple, the scale between the upper and lower levels is just right, not leaking, it is really Song's luck to have this person as his deputy

With his decades of life experience, the ups and downs of the military world and the sea, Song Zheyuan intuitively felt that this was a person who could be entrusted with big things, his heart was very open, and he had no official desire and profit.

From the door to the military headquarters house, along the way, Song Zheyuan never let go of Tang Qiuli's hand, and shouted one by one, although the age difference between the two people was more than 20 years, and the accompanying adjutants and guards were stunned, the army commander had never made such a move.

Song Zheyuan's invisible actions made Tang Qiuli much more important in the minds of the officers and men of the 29th Army, which was an unexpected gain, and laid a preliminary foundation for him to take over and integrate the 29th Army after the 77 Incident.

After taking his seat, Song Zheyuan was introduced to Tang Qiuli in detail by the current situation in North China, especially the movements of the Japanese, and when it came to the current chaos in North China, Song Zheyuan's mood that had just cleared up became heavy again.

On the periphery of Beiping, in the west were the bandit troops of Li Shouxin and Wang Ying, who had been bribed by the Japanese, and in the east were the security forces of the Autonomous Government of the Eastern Hebei Defense Communists, who were desperately working for the Japanese, and in the north, there were puppet army units assembled in Rehe Province.

The Japanese army, in these three directions, a large number of defenses, formed a Japanese army as the backbone, the puppet army as the attachment of the ring encirclement, only the southwest of Beiping, the Yongding River area, is still in the control of the 29th Army, but also gradually compressed the strategic space.

It can be said that Beiping is embattled on three sides, and the form is critical, like a ripe peach in the pocket of a Japanese, as long as the devil wants to do it, he can do it at any time.

On many occasions, he proposed to General He Yingqin, acting chairman of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government and the Beiping Military Branch, that he should increase his military strength in North China to counter the advancing Japanese.

However, in addition to giving himself a reprimand, General He also said that he had malicious intentions and deliberately provoked an incident in order to undermine the current stable situation in North China and influence the government's principles and policies toward Japan.

A few big hats were pressed down, Xiao is Song Zheyuan has the heart to rearm and fight against the Japanese, but there is nothing to be done, these crimes are too big, and it is possible to lose his head.

After Song Zheyuan finished speaking, he sighed and shook his head again and again, with a helpless face and a sense of frustration.

When Song Zheyuan introduced the situation, Tang Qiuli didn't say a word, just listened quietly, he knew from history the general situation of the military form of Beiping in this period, but when he was in the actual environment of this era, he still had a shocking feeling that the shape of Beiping was so critical that it was far stricter than he imagined.

He heard that Song Zheyuan went to He Yingqin and asked for more troops in North China, and he also sighed secretly in his heart, Brother Song really found the wrong temple door, this General He is a well-known pro-Japanese faction among all the important members of the Nationalist Government, and his experience of studying in Japan in his early years made him have a natural sense of affinity for Japan.

Looking for him to ask for more troops? While presiding over the overall situation in North China, he signed the infamous "Tanggu Agreement" with Umezu Mijiro, deputy chief of staff of the Japanese Kwantung Army, which designated more than 20 cities and counties in eastern Hebei and northern Chabei as demilitarized zones, and all squadrons were withdrawn from the above-mentioned areas.

This agreement alone ceded the northeast and north China passages from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan, and enabled the Japanese army to drive straight into the land of North China and the key points of Pingjin and Tianjin, seize the opportunity, and shake hands with the Japanese troops stationed in the Japanese concession in Tianjin, and the entire northeast became the strategic rear and material supply base for the Japanese army's all-round invasion of China.

Not only that, but under the condition that the Japanese invaders were surrounded by heavy troops, they also transferred Yu Xuezhong's troops out of North China, so that the 29th Army could independently support all the defense in North China.

The Third Regiment of the Military Police stationed in Beiping, which was his thug, approached him to ask for more troops in North China.

Now, Beiping is actually an isolated city, and Tang Qiuli understands why the Japanese devils must launch a full-scale war of aggression against China in Wanping City near Lugou Bridge, in order to cut off the only retreat of the 29th Army in Beiping City and annihilate it on the spot.

Song Zheyuan's mood became heavier and heavier, and Tang Qiuli carefully found that the powerlessness and helplessness of this feudal official, who held tens of thousands of heavy soldiers, from the bottom of his heart, made him full of exhaustion, and the excitement when he first saw himself was dispelled without a trace by the current chaotic situation.

The room was silent for a while, Song Zheyuan looked up at Tang Qiuli, and he was surprised to find that this young general, with a calm face, and in his clear eyes, he still had that calm demeanor, and he didn't seem to be worried about the current sinister situation.

"This person is either bold and confident, or the newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger, the current situation in North China, lack of sufficient attention, no matter from that point of view, the appearance of this person will definitely bring different impacts to the chaotic and dull political situation in North China, he is not alone in the political affairs committee, from the time he first entered Beiping, he did two things that others are afraid to avoid, his position and attitude towards the Japanese, at a glance, this point, to himself quite similar." Song Zheyuan thought to himself.

(To be continued)