Immediately, after a few more banter with Ichiro Jono, Zheng Yaoxian returned to the office to handle official duties as if nothing had happened. He did not even go home immediately after get off work. Instead, he took several other powerful section chiefs and went to an izakaya to get drunk. !
It wasn't until he was drunk and made trouble and molested the geisha that he was dragged back to his residence by several people. He quickly jumped up and opened a corner of the curtain to watch the people drive away. After making sure that there were no suspicious people around, he took a cold shower. The biting cold water washed over my cheeks and regained my best sense. Then I went to the secret passage in the attic to take out the transmitter under the plywood and sent a report to Beiping Station!
Late at night, Li Yunfeng held the message from Peking Station that Zheng Yaoxian had sent from the Security Bureau of the Peking Police Department, and clasped his hands behind his back, thinking deeply.
Undoubtedly, the dual intelligence from Heydrich and the Peiping Station verified the fact that the Kwantung Army was about to move south in a large scale.
Moreover, unlike the North China and Central China Front armies that require local supplies, the Kwantung Army has been entrenched in Manchukuo for many years, and its strength and economy are deeply rooted. It has been ready and prepared since the July 7th Incident. Now, under the instigation of Hilam, it finally can no longer hold back its demands. His mouth was wide open.
"Hmph! Want to eat me in one bite? You have to have teeth made of titanium alloy!"
Immediately, he sent someone to summon the officers of the National Defense Force and the Garrison Corps to formulate a detailed combat plan in response to the Kwantung Army's imminent move south.
After everyone heard this, they started discussing and quickly drafted a rough charter!
"Hey, Commander-in-Chief! Why don't we bring out the Tiger tanks and take this opportunity to actually fight!"
Among the dense crowd, I don’t know who made such a remark.
"no!"
"no!"
Just as he finished speaking, Li Yunfeng and Zhang Chu spoke in unison. The two immediately turned to look at each other. Li Yunfeng nodded, and Zhang Chu said righteously:
"If this battle is not a last resort, the Tiger must not be dispatched! There are three reasons. One column of equipment is insufficient. When the Kwantung Army marches south, even if we add training tanks, we will only have 20 tanks at most. A hungry tiger cannot stand up to a pack of wolves!
Secondly, premature exposure of the Tiger will put our ally the German Wehrmacht into a passive position. After all, they regard the Tiger as a secret treasure for conquering Europe! "
"Third!"
Before Zhang Chu closed his mouth, Li Yunfeng took over the conversation, and everyone immediately focused their attention on their commander-in-chief.
"The Tiger is just a medium for us to connect the Allied Defense Forces. After it, our army will also be equipped with more powerful and longer-range heavy tanks! Before that, we must ensure its mystery to the outside world! It is not only aimed at the Japanese army, but also against other Everyone!”
Hearing this, everyone suddenly realized, but it was not surprising, after all, their commander-in-chief has always been like this!
【October 7th】
The day after the meeting
The North China military continued to ask for gasoline from various powerful departments, and the Security Department was naturally not immune. Zheng Yaoxian waved his hand, and another amount of fuel, enough to supply a brigade for three days, was taken away by the other party;
At the same time, a certain unit of the 13th Division in southern Hebei adjacent to Peiping began to move secretly, and the positions under its jurisdiction were immediately occupied by the first unit of the 23rd Division of the Kwantung Army; thanks to the previous troops from Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Cha, and Sui When the security bureaus in various places implemented strict blockades and hunted down and suppressed the intelligence forces of various Chinese ministries, neither the Central Army nor the 18th Group Army knew anything about it. Even the people in the occupied areas thought it was normal. Switch defense.
At the same time, Li Yunfeng was not idle either. Since the end of the Changzhi Campaign, the garrison, which had not been expanded since the end of the Changzhi Campaign, began to expand; Zhang Lingfu, Chief of Staff of the National Defense Force and Commander of the Fourth Regiment, also announced that he would recruit people with a junior high school degree or above nationwide. Young people with entry-level physics skills can join the army. Those with experience in the automotive, aviation, or mechanical fields but no academic qualifications can also apply to join the National Defense Forces directly.
When the two news came out together, public opinion was boiling!
Since its establishment, this is the first time that the Chinese National Defense Force has recruited young people without any military experience to join the army. As soon as this news came out, a large number of young students from occupied and unoccupied areas who had long admired Li Yunfeng began to travel across mountains and rivers to Shanxi.
On October 7th alone, 58 people passed the assessment and were incorporated into the National Defense Force Reserve Regiment!
As for the zero threshold, only the garrison corps that is healthy and politically reliable is required to be expanded into a detachment with a few thousand people on the first day!
When the North China Front heard the news, they thought that Li Yunfeng had mastered the intelligence of the Kwantung Army's southward operations in advance. He was so frightened that Neji Okamura called Kita Seiichi to his office overnight to scold him.
The latter immediately ordered a thorough investigation of the case and at the same time proposed to the Kwantung Army to suspend troop deployment!
However, the latter declined politely. Fortunately, after several verifications, it was discovered that Li Yunfeng's discovery of the Kwantung Army going south was completely false. Instead, there were rumors in the Sanjin area that the Chinese Defense Forces were going to counterattack Hebei and regain Shandong!
Doesn't this play into the Kwantung Army's ambitions?
Ueda Kenkichi then asked the North China Front Army overnight to move a large number of Kwantung Army southward into Hebei in the name of being prepared for the invasion of the National Defense Forces and the troops were in urgent need of defensive preparations.
Until, November 7th
A full month later, the 13th Division of the North China Front Army originally stationed in Hebei has been transferred back to Peiping, responsible for replacing the five divisions of the Eastern Army in the Hebei Province Defense Area!
At the same time, the First Aviation Detachment under the Kwantung Army and the Bomber Group and Fighter Group of the North China Front were merged into a mixed flying brigade! It has four flying groups under its jurisdiction, with a total of 120 fighters and 120 bombers!
In order to avoid the tragedy at the Tianjin Combat Readiness Airport last time, the four flight brigades were all organized into squadrons and were stationed in the counties and cities at the junction of Shanxi and Hebei provinces! At the same time, a special air defense brigade was formed from Fengtian and stationed intensively along the perimeter of the Tongpu Line. They monitored the air situation 24 hours a day and night, and shot down all passing aircraft regardless of which force they belonged to!
Even the training aircraft sent by the Central China Front Army to Henan for training were not spared, which made Matsui Iwane furious and asked the Army Ministry for a copy of Ueda Kenkichi!
So, the storm is about to come!
The smell of war began to spread in North China, and people gradually realized that the "North China Front Army" seemed to be making big moves against Shanxi!
Soon, people from all walks of life began to frantically search for intelligence in various places, intending to find out the true intentions of the Japanese. However, with the full popularity of Okamura Neji's strategy of governing China in the land of China, a large number of espionage personnel continued to work in the special high school. Instead, it fell into the hands of our own people!
Especially in Shanghai, under the personal control of Kenji Doihara, the entire Central Command was wiped out and the military command was overturned. Only the Eighteenth Army and the Defense Force Liaison Station were able to protect themselves!
For a time, the intelligence front suffered heavy losses, and people had to place their hopes on the frontal battlefield of the Defense Forces!
For this reason, the brigade commander came to Taiyuan from the rear holy land!
