Chapter 61: My Will Has Been Decided
"The same old saying goes, the best defense is attack! If we wait for the Japanese to come to the door, our group of new recruits who have never really been on the battlefield will not be able to stop the Japanese's elite troops!
So they must be taken out to meet the blood so that they can truly become iron-blooded soldiers!”
Yang Fan nodded gently and said in a heavy tone: "There is no way. Since ancient times, wealth and kindness have not been in charge of military affairs and righteousness, and they have to bleed and sacrifice when fighting!
Juanzi, when you go back tonight, you will send a letter of request to Chairman Han, asking him to allow me to lead the Gaomi militia to help Peiping!"
Wu Juan was shocked and stared at Yang Fan with a trembling voice, "Brother-in-law, are you going to lead troops to the battle now? Peiping is thousands of miles away from our Gaomi County, and the Japanese devils are now full of heavy troops. Is this really possible?"
"It will only take a day to drive there if we drive there!"
Yang Fan grinned and comforted softly: "Juanzi, I know you are worried about my safety, but the arrow is on the string and has to be fired! Just do what I told you, don't worry, I am the chosen one of God, and the enemy who can hurt me has not yet been born!"
Wu Juan bit her lips and nodded, "Okay, brother-in-law! I will send a telegram to Chairman Han as soon as possible after I go back! However, according to Chairman Han's style, he should not agree to your leadership of his troops to help, right?"
Yang Fan smiled and said, "I will not accept the orders outside the king. I just say hello to him. It doesn't matter whether he agrees or not!"
Now that Yang Fan has a lot of wings and has occupied the righteousness of defending his country and defending his territory and fighting against the war, even if Han Fuju feels unhappy, he will not do anything to him!
What's more, Yang Fan's civilian army is not a regular army of the Third Route Army, and has never received a penny of military pay from Han Fuju. Boss Han naturally would not care too much about the life and death of this "miscellaneous army"!
"Okay, since you have decided, I will act on orders!"
Wu Juan took a deep breath, then said with a resolute expression: "Brother-in-law, I beg you to take me to help Peiping. I am no longer a weak woman without any power! I can..."
"Okay! You don't need to say more, obey the order!"
Yang Fan waved his hand without saying a word and said in an unquestionable tone: "I'm just going to train troops this time and I won't be interested in fighting. You should protect Gaomi at home! You must be careful of others. Our hometown cannot be aware of people!"
Yang Fan’s concerns were not overly worried. As Gaomi County’s economy soared, Li Hanzhang’s troops from Jiaozhou garrison came to fight for the autumn wind twice. If Yang Fan hadn’t been to the right place to go directly to Tianting, Gaomi County would have changed hands long ago!
"Why!"
Wu Juan could only stomp her feet and sat in the passenger seat unhappily!
Soon Yang Fan drove back home, and after a while of greetings, he walked straight into the restaurant for dinner.
"Ah, what? Brother Fan, do you want to lead the troops to aid Peiping?"
"Sir, this is a thousand miles away, how long will it take for you to go? Can you bear it? And the Japanese are so powerful!"
"Dad, I don't want you to go so far. Xueer is afraid! How great is our family to be together!"
After dinner, Yang Fan told his family about his plan to send troops to aid Peiping, which made everyone startled and scared. They turned their heads and looked at Yang Fan, with sad expressions on their faces!
"It's hard to go out for a thousand days at home. No one wants to leave home, let alone a thousand miles of life and death to rush to the war of resistance! However, we must go out, and staying at home is the stupidest way!"
Yang Fan let out a light breath and said with a firm tone: "In a word, you don't have to worry, and don't persuade me, I'm determined!"
"This is nothing wrong!"
Wu Rongbang nodded with a serious expression and said in a deep voice: "But Peiping has now been surrounded by Japanese devils on three sides, taking up all the right time, place, and people!
The situation in Peking is very complicated and it is hard to describe. It is probably not as simple as a drop in the bucket when we go to help!
If you go to support the War of Resistance, you will probably end up being absent from both ends!”
In 1935, the Government of the Republic of China established the Hebei-Chahar Government Committee in Hebei and Chahar areas, as a buffer zone with the three northeastern provinces occupied by Japan, and gave it a certain degree of autonomy.
According to the He Mei Agreement, the Republic of China needs to withdraw all the Central Army and the Kuomintang Party Headquarters within the jurisdiction of the Hebei-Chahar Government Committee.
The 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army under Song Zheyuan, who was appointed as the director of the Hebei-Chahar Government Affairs Committee, had a total force of 100,000.
At the same time, Japan stationed about 5,000 troops in North China. The main force was stationed in Tianjin, a unit in Fengtai Town, and outside the city.
This abnormal current situation of "I have me in the enemy, and I have enemies in the enemy" is a product of the National Government's appeasement policy. The 29th Route Army is completely in a passive defense of "not expanding, not giving in, and not seeking war"!
Even after the July 7 Incident broke out, the Nanjing authorities and the 29th Army were still hoping to re-arrest with the Japanese army through negotiations and no longer expand the situation!
The Japanese army took advantage of this mentality and played with the conspiracy of "on-site negotiation". On the one hand, they wanted to use negotiations to suppress China's submission, and on the other hand, they used the name of negotiations to gain time to mobilize troops.
"On-site negotiations" won the time for the Japanese army to increase troops in North China, blinded the attention of the Hebei-Chahar authorities, slowed down the preparations for the 29th Army, and brought great harm to the Pingjin War of Resistance.
"Dad, don't worry, I know what to do! My main purpose is to train troops, rather than to live and perish with Peking City. If you win, you will fight hard. If you don't win, you will never touch the stone!"
Yang Fan nodded and smiled, and then asked, "Dad, I don't know if you have any friendship with the senior general of the 29th Route Army. If so, you might as well write me a few handwritten letters, and maybe it will be of use at that time!"
Wu Rongbang pondered: "This is it. If you decide to go, I will ask Chairman Han to write you a handwritten letter. He and Song Zheyuan have been brothers from the Northwest Army for decades, and their relationship is very close!
His handwritten letter must be ten times more effective than me!”
Yang Fan nodded quickly and said, "This is of course great. If you can join Commander Song, you may have some turning points and actions!"
"Chairman Han and Gaomi County Magistrate Yang Fan sent an emergency telegram, begging him to lead his troops out of Shandong to the war of resistance in Peking, and also asked Chairman Han to take a look!"
The next morning, Wu Juan sent the war-seeking message to the Jinan Prefecture Military Information Office, and soon the message was sent to Han Fuju!
"What? This guy is really a newborn calf and is not afraid of tigers. Now he has thousands of civilian troops in his hands and doesn't know what his surname is. He actually wants to attack the Japanese devils thousands of miles away! The Japanese devils have strong cannons and tanks and planes. Is there anyone that easy to fight?"
After reading the passionate message asking for war, Han Fuju was both funny and angry. He had been dealing with the Japanese for so many years, but he didn't know the strength of the Japanese. Even if he had 100,000 elite soldiers in his hand, he would not dare to start a war lightly!
At this moment, Zhang Shaotang, who was standing beside him, said in a shocking voice: "Chairman Han, I think you can give it a try. Haven't we always been unable to see through Yang Fan?
Chapter completed!