Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 417 Five divisions go north to take over Changzhi
1940 10 Month 22 Day.

After yesterday's negotiation, the three finally reached an agreement that the [-]th Army and the New Fifth Army each sent a division to cooperate with the [-]th Army to go north.

In terms of specific arrangements, the [-]th Division of the [-]th Army, the Eighth Division of the Pre-[-]th Division, and the military headquarters continued to go north from Gaoping, and the other route was to use the [-]th Division of the [-]th Army as the vanguard. The [-]th Division and the Provisional Fifth Division of the New Fifth Army followed closely behind.

Fan Hanjie engaged in such a big battle, not because he wanted to fight the Eighth Route Army. The various units of the Eighth Route Army were holding on to the Japanese army to buy time for the national army in Zhongtiaoshan. Although Jiang regarded the Eighth Route Army as a serious problem, at this time Definitely not so unwise.

And Fan Hanjie, as someone Jiang's confidant, will of course understand what he wants, and taking over Changzhi City is the most important thing at this time.

The words are divided into two parts.

Zhou Weihan is also a courageous person with high skills. Now the Changzhi City Regiment Battalion and the regiment directly under the regiment headquarters are stationed here, and the other two battalions are still in the suburbs of Changzhi to cooperate with local comrades to do side jobs.

The artillery battalion is stationed in the suburbs outside the city, and the cavalry regiment is still distributed in the southern part of Changzhi for scattered security.

The Second Regiment and the huge transportation and captive teams all joined the guard company led by Zhou Weiguo and the Pingshun local armed forces in Pingshun.

In the headquarters, Zhou Weihan first received a telegram from the Cavalry Regiment, and then the Fourth Regiment at Changzhi Airport also sent a telegram.

The scouts who had dispersed from the two regiments met the marching Chinese troops at the same time.

"Look, once the battle in the south of Changzhi was over, Fan Hanjie couldn't bear it anymore. I guess Lao Jiang's side is also pressing hard!" Zhou Weihan couldn't help complaining.

"There are quite a few national army teams coming to Changzhi this time. The east and west sides are going hand in hand. It seems that the New Fifth Army and the Forty Army have also joined in. Fan Hanjie really takes us seriously!" Xing Zhiguo laughed. said.

It is reasonable to say that the national army is pressing down on the border, even if the war is not lightly started, Zhou Weihan will feel a lot of pressure.

But at this time Zhou Weihan didn't take it seriously at all, all the mobile personnel left in the city could evacuate at any time, leaving only an "empty city" to Fan Hanjie.

"How about Jing Dagang and Zhao Wenjiang?"

"This morning, Jing Dagang sent a telegram that about 32000 mu of land was sold, all of which were high-quality fields, and the price was 35 silver dollars per mu. Since the grain was not easy to carry, all of them were replaced with cash. There is still a backlog of nearly [-] mu!" Xing Zhiguohui reported.

"It's a good price to sell the cultivated land. Now it's a time of war, a lot of land is barren, and the land is worthless!"

"Notify Jing Dagang and the others that before noon today, no matter how many fields are sold, people from all over the place must gather in Changzhi."

In the 6th year of the Republic of China, the Bureau of Statistics of the National Government published the book "Statistical Analysis of Land Issues in China". When it comes to one yuan, the land in Gansu province is less than ten yuan per mu, and in Henan province it is thirteen yuan per mu. The average land price in Guangdong, Guangxi and Zhejiang is the highest, only fifty yuan per mu.

It can be seen that low land prices in that era have become a common phenomenon.

By noon, all the members of a regiment had gathered in the city, and Zhu Dashan's cavalry regiment also rushed to Changzhi.

"Old Xing, take the first regiment and withdraw first, go to Changzhi Airport to join the fourth regiment, and then retreat to Pingshun together!" Zhou Weihan instructed.

"You won't withdraw? You didn't say you would stay here before!" Xing Zhiguo was taken aback.

"Hey, the handover of Changzhi City is a major event agreed upon by both parties. Someone must be present, right? I'll keep the cavalry regiment. Maybe it will be smoother than you!"

"But, you"

"It's nothing to worry about, time waits for no one, so let's do it!" Zhou Weihan said without refusal.

After three o'clock in the afternoon.

Since the [-]th Division and the Eighth Division under the leadership of Fan Hanjie set off from Gaoping, they were in a straight line distance from Changzhi, and they arrived earlier than the national army troops on the East Road.

"Detachment Captain, the 259st Company of the Cavalry has encountered the [-]th Regiment of the [-]th Division of the National Army's vanguard, less than ten miles away from the south gate of Changzhi!" Zhu Dashan urgently reported the situation to Zhou Weihan.

Zhou Weihan thought for a while, and immediately ordered the cavalry regiment to gather at the south gate except for those who stayed at the four gates.

Not long after, I saw dust and smoke billowing from the south, and the cavalry company first showed their tracks, and a group of cavalry from the national army came.

"Detachment leader, the guard of the commander of the [-]th Army is behind, and Fan Hanjie is among them!" Chen Jiandonghui, the commander of the first cavalry company, reported.

Zhou Weihan looked around and saw his guards stopped two or three miles away from the city gate, obviously they were on guard.

"Go, go up and have a look!" Zhou Weihan clamped his horse's belly after speaking, and shouted at the crowd to gallop towards the direction of the [-]th Army Guard.

When the distance between the two sides was more than [-] meters, Zhou Weihan stopped his horse and shouted towards the opposite side: "The opposite side is Commander Fan of the [-]th Army!"

"Haha, it's Fan, Brother Zhou is so courageous, he dared to come to our army with a dozen guards!" Fan Hanjie on the opposite side responded with a big smile.

"Commander Fan is a famous general in the Northern Expedition, I don't dare to be my brother!" Zhou Weihan waved his hand.

Fan Hanjie is 44 years old this year, and Zhou Weihan is 26 years old. In this early age of marriage, they are old enough to be Zhou Weihan's parents.

No matter how the guards on both sides confronted each other, the two seemed to pretend they hadn't seen it, and instead they got off their horses and shook hands.

"I have always regarded Mr. Zhuo Yuan as an elder, and according to this calculation, it is appropriate for me to call you Brother Zhou!" Fan Hanjie said, holding Zhou Weihan's hand.

Seeing that Zhou Weihan didn't speak, Fan Hanjie didn't feel embarrassed, and continued: "This is Liu Jin, deputy commander of my [-]th Army, and Chen Sunong, commander of the Eighth Division!"

Zhou Weihan nodded, but he didn't want to get too entangled, and said directly: "Mr. Fan, your army has traveled a long distance to Changzhi. It's getting late. You should take over Changzhi's city defenses as soon as possible. I won't delay any longer!"

"That's good, that's good! I'm busy right now. After a while, I'm inviting Brother Zhou to a banquet in Changzhi. I'll treat you well then!" Fan Hanjie said with a smirk.

"Then I will take my leave!"

No matter what they think in their hearts, the few people present have done their best on the surface anyway.

Then Zhou Weihan didn't delay, he signaled the soldiers accompanying him to inform the people left behind at the four city gates, and then drove away.

Looking at the back of Zhou Weihan going away, Fan Hanjie couldn't help asking: "What do you think of this person?"

"The members of the Zhou family are all young and promising. Compared with Zhou Weihan, we all look old. At the age of [-], I just graduated from Huangpu, but Zhou Weihan is in charge of the Eighth Route Army alone!" Forty-year-old Chen Sunong said with emotion.

"Just now, he seemed to be passable, but there was a sense of alienation between his words. I'm afraid this person is with the Eighth Route Army!" said Liu Jin, the deputy commander at the side.

The 259th Army first stationed the [-]th Regiment in Changzhi City, while the military headquarters and the rest of the troops stayed outside the city.

Not long after, a soldier of the national army came out from the city and reported: "Military seat, the Eighth Route Army has moved all the factories in the city, not even the tables, chairs, benches, pots and pans in the Japanese headquarters!"

Fan Hanjie's face darkened obviously after hearing this, and he immediately scolded: "Just like his mother's Zhou Weiguo, who looks like a bunch of people on the surface, but is actually very dark in heart, go to the city!"

Zhou Weihan's eldest brother, Zhou Weiguo, and Fan Hanjie belonged to the Hu Zongnan faction. Before that, Fan Hanjie wanted to compete with Zhou Weiguo for the commander of the First Army, but unfortunately he was overwhelmed in the end.

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