Chapter 589: Plan ahead

The plenary meeting of the Nanjing Military Commission on 8 February was originally intended to discuss how to deal with Tang Qiuli and to use extraordinary means to resolve the issue of the Eighth Army Corps.

Tang Enbo fled before the battle, lost the city and lost the land, so that the war situation almost fell into a situation of erosion on the whole front, and he deserved to die for the crime, and reported this matter to the whole army, so as to arouse the vigilance of officers and men at all levels and strengthen the determination to resist the Japanese army.

This is the basic content of the circular sent by the Military Commission of the State Government to various localities, and the pathetic Tang Enbo was lost his life and infamy through the ages, and he was also regarded as a negative example by Chairman Chiang to warn the officers and men of the whole army that his people and deeds are really shameful and hateful.

Tang Qiuli, who was far away in Xiangfan, did not know what happened at the plenary meeting of the Nanjing Military Commission, he was almost treated as Han Fuyu and his ilk, and he was busy digesting the soldiers of the original Eighth Army Corps, but he judged by the experience of later generations that this matter, once it was stabbed in Nanjing, would inevitably cause an uproar, and the bigwigs of the Military Commission would definitely discuss various ways to deal with this matter.

The reason why he dealt with Tang Enbo decisively was because he knew very well that once Tang Enbo and his senior officers were deported to Nanjing according to the normal procedures, not only would Tang Enbo not die, but the Eighth Army would also be quickly relocated, and let Tang Enbo, a guy who should have died 10,000 times, not count, but also left himself with hidden dangers.

Therefore, he first did the thing, created the established facts, and let all the evidence be in his hands, and in the division headquarters of those divisions, he searched out the secret orders given to them by Tang Enbo, and no one could say anything, and as for the Eighth Army Corps without going through the normal procedures, the Eighth Army Corps was dealt with, for the very simple reason that in extraordinary times, extraordinary means had to be used, in today's parlance, special affairs.

On 10 February, he received a notice from the Military Commission that, in view of the fact that the current war situation was stable and that the Japanese army's attacks in all directions had been repulsed, he planned to convene a national defense mobilization meeting in Nanjing on 15 February to discuss the next operational policy against Japan.

Tang Qiuli took this telegram and played with it for a long time, Chairman Chiang's intentions were self-evident, his descendants' troops fought hard with the Japanese army for several months in the Songhu and Hangzhou Bay areas, and the losses must have been very heavy, although in the end the Japanese army failed to allow the Japanese army to occupy the Songhu area and thwarted the Japanese conspiracy, the old man was also a little unbearable, and if he continued to fight like this, his old book would be almost consumed, and the purpose of this meeting was nothing more than to ask a local powerful faction to undertake more combat missions against Japan.

This meeting, I must participate, Shanxi, a treasure land, I have been thinking about it, but Yan Xishan's iron abacus, the tiger is not easy to deal with, how to make him obediently hand over Shanxi, but also use more brains, and Shandong, after Han Fuyu was shot by Chairman Jiang, there has been no clear ownership of the problem, although his troops have an absolute advantage in Shandong, but according to the information sent back by Liu Tiehan, Li Zongren of the Gui family is very interested in Shandong, all kinds of signs show that Li Zongren has the intention of entering Shandong, this qiē, It will all have to be resolved at this meeting.

Liu Tiehan, Tang Qiusheng, Feng Jiwu, and Li Honggang, including Chang Feng, did not want Tang Qiuli to personally go to Nanjing to attend this meeting, they were worried that Tang Qiuli would leave here, and there would be more than one bad luck, Zhang Xueliang and Han Fuyu were obvious examples, and it was not a trivial matter to kill more than 100,000 people in a regiment of the Central Army, after all, Chairman Jiang was the first person in the Republic of China, and once the division commander was detained in Nanjing, the future of the troops was worrisome.

Tang Qiuli disagreed, to this day, he has such a strong strength as a backing, and Zhang Xueliang and Han Fuyu are not the same, the most important thing is that he blocked nearly a million Japanese troops for the old man, just by virtue of this, the old man can't turn his face with himself, he doesn't know that Chairman Jiang is afraid of this aspect, so he swallowed this breath, he is completely sure. This trip to Nanjing will definitely have a lot to gain.

At the same time, he also sorted out his thoughts: From 5 November 1937, when the Japanese troops landed at Hangzhou Bay, to now, until 10 February 1938, for more than three months, the troops have been engaged in battles with the Japanese army in North China.

After more than three months of fierce fighting, about 400,000 Japanese troops in North China were killed, and the total strength of the Japanese army in North China dropped from the initial 1.1 million to less than 700,000 now.

The troops need to rest and recuperate, replenish their troops, take advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army in North China to take a defensive position, vigorously expand the troops, occupy important strategic areas, such as Shandong and Shanxi, and connect the Yellow River defense line as a whole, which is the strategic layout that he has considered for a long time.

Tang Qiuli is twenty-two years old this year, with the growth of age, the deepening of experience, and the constant edification of war, his vigorous ambition has inexorably swelled up, from the initial simple fight against the Japanese invaders, to recover the rivers and mountains, to now, the idea of wanting to establish a foundation, what kind of passionate hope, the ambition of a man, always impacts his heart, sometimes, he is shocked by his ideas, these ideas, he has not mentioned to anyone, including Liu Tiehan and Brother Qiusheng, as well as his wife Mei Ting.

On 13 February, he returned to Zhengzhou from Xiangfan, temporarily set up his division here, and made new adjustments to the troop deployment in the whole of North China, and Li Honggang's 29 th Corps left Xiangfan and was stationed on the Yantai, Weihai, Qingdao, and Rizhao lines on the Shandong Peninsula to lay the foundation for his next step in passing through Shandong.

The 29th Corps has been supplemented with 10,000 soldiers from the former Eighth Army Corps, and four new brigades have been added from the independent division training headquarters, and the strength has reached about 60,000.

He ordered Wu Hongtao, commander of the Independent Division's Training Headquarters, to assign all the recruits recruited by the 29 Corps in the Maozhou area to the 29 Corps after the training, and his idea was that the total strength of Li Honggang's 29 Corps should reach about 100,000 in order to ensure the defense and security of the Shandong Peninsula.

Han Tie, chief of staff of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps, was transferred to serve as the commander of the Yellow River Henan Garrison Corps, and the corps had more than 48,000 troops, and immediately went from the Taihang Mountains to the front line from Anyang to Zhengzhou, and the troops of Yuan Jinghao, commander of the Shaanxi garrison, were responsible for the defense of Henan together.

Sun Zhenbang's troops immediately went to the front line of Licheng to guard the direction of Shexian County, and the rest of the troops were trained on the spot, strengthened their vigilance, and prevented new military operations by the Japanese army.

Tang Qiuli had a premonition that the Japanese opponents in North China were going to be replaced, and the Kwantung Army went south to the corps, after losing the strength of a wing, there was no new move, and after relieving the siege of Shexian of the Second Army, not only did not take the opportunity to attack Licheng, but retreated to the front line of Handan, which did not conform to the arrogant character of the generals of the Kwantung Army, and the Japanese troops in various places were very quiet, and all kinds of signs showed that the Japanese army was making strategic adjustments, and there were heavy personnel changes at the top of the Japanese army in North China.

The Okamura Ningci, who led the Kwantung Army south, is a celebrity, among all the Japanese generals, he is also known for his tricks and good fighting, he will definitely be his new opponent in North China, Tang Qiuli is almost certain, because in history, during this period, it was when Okamura Ningji showed his skills in North China, he created many new tactics of the Japanese army, and caused great losses to the Taihang Mountain base of the Eighth Route Army at that time.

Thinking of this, Tang Qiu couldn't help but smile, looking forward to fighting this famous old fox, however, he should also find a new opponent for Okamura Ningci, Yan Xishan and Okamura Ningji are not at the same level, facing Okamura Ningci, Yan Xishan will definitely lose.

Tang Qiuli stood up, came to the outside of the house, his eyes crossed the western Henan Plain, crossed the rolling Taihang Mountains, and fell on the barren land in northern Shaanxi, where is Okamura Ningci's opponent, when he arrived in Nanjing, it should remind Chairman Jiang of them, North China has been fighting for more than half a year, and the government has not been able to take care of them, presumably those communists who are in caves and have their hearts in the land of China must be unwilling to be lonely and anxious, right?

Tang Qiuli's thoughts, flying to the distant future, a complete strategic concept, gradually became clear, the future war situation in North China and even the whole of China, will be fulfilled in this blueprint, this moving feeling, let him feel relaxed, there was a slight footstep behind him, a faint fragrance hit.

Tang Qiuli didn't need to look back to know that this was Mei Ting, he was too familiar with the smell of his wife, sure enough, a pair of warm little hands, blindfolded his eyes, he took the moving delicate body in his arms with his hand, and saw his wife's smiling face like a flower, Tang Qiuli was very puzzled, wasn't Mei Ting in Huangya Cave, how did she get to Zhengzhou?

(To be continued)