Chapter 20: Meet the Chairman for the first time!
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Zhang Xinghan brought his backpack to the brigade headquarters. At this time, General Zhao Dengyu had already prepared. In addition to Zhang Xinghan, there were two guards accompanying him.
Seeing Zhang Xinghan coming, General Zhao Dengyu immediately took three people out of the brigade headquarters and got on a jeep that had been waiting for a long time. After the four of them got on the jeep, the driver immediately started the car and then left.
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The distance from Xifengkou to Jixian should be about 90 kilometers. Zhang Xinghan and General Zhao Dengyu took a car and arrived in Jixian for nearly three hours.
At this time, Jixian was still in the rear, and the Third Corps Headquarters was located in Jixian.
Ji County was called Yuyang in ancient times. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was called Wuzhongzi Country. During the Qin Dynasty, it was affiliated with Youbeiping County. It was renamed Jizhou in the Tang Dynasty. In the second year of the Republic of China, it was renamed Jixian.
This thousand-year-old ancient city is located in the hinterland of Ping, Tianjin and Chengcheng. In order to facilitate command of the frontline troops, Song Zheyuan, commander of the Third Corps, set up his command center here.
After Zhao Dengyu and Zhang Xinghan and others arrived, a special person immediately brought them to the Third Corps Command in Jixian County.
"You are Zhang Xinghan who killed the Japanese major general?" In the headquarters, General Song Zheyuan looked at the young Zhang Xinghan in surprise.
"Report to the commander! Yes!" Zhang Xinghan hurriedly stood attentively and replied loudly.
"Okay! It's such a young man!" General Song Zheyuan nodded with a smile, and then said to Zhao Dengyu: "Shunchen, this time we went to Baoding to meet the committee seats, we will be with you and I, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Pang (Pang Bingxun) and Senator Qin (Qin Dechun, former Anhui figure, later after the Central Plains War, surrendered to the National Government, first served as the Chief Executive of Zhang Xueliang, and now the General Senator of the 29th Army.) Of course, our anti-Japanese hero Zhang Xinghan!"
"Oh! By the way, General Pang Bingxun, where has General Pang Bingxun gone?" Zhao Dengyu couldn't help asking because he did not see Pang Bingxun in the headquarters.
"Oh! He returned to the 40th Army to explain the aftermath and the command of the troops. Let's go first and meet him in Peking!" Song Zheyuan said.
"Oh! When will we set off?" General Zhao Dengyu nodded and asked again.
"Half an hour later! You guys are here for a while, I'll go and prepare!" General Song Zheyuan said to Zhao Dengyu and others.
"Yes!" General Zhao Dengyu and Zhang Xinghan quickly saluted.
After watching Song Zheyuan leave, Zhang Xinghan and General Zhao Dengyu found two chairs in the headquarters and sat down. After sitting in the car for several hours, the long distance was bumpy, both of them had a sore back.
Half an hour later, Zhang Xinghan followed Zhao Dengyu and General Song Zheyuan to head towards Beiping.
In the accompanying team, there were two jeeps and more than ten trucks. Song Zheyuan, Zhao Dengyu, Zhang Xinghan and others were riding on the two jeeps. The ten trucks were riding a well-equipped guard company.
This guard company has about 200 people, which is an infantry company directly under the jurisdiction of the 29th Army. Its main task is to protect the 29th Army.
The members of the Guard Company were tall and stubborn men with thick arms, and the weapons they were equipped with were relatively advanced. About half of the officers and soldiers were equipped with MP18 submachine guns, commonly known as Huaji. This submachine gun is naturally not an authentic German product, but a Jin-made submachine gun made by the Jinsui Army, but its power is not smaller than that of genuine products.
Although the Hua Machinery was the equipment of the German army during World War I, this automatic weapon is quite advanced in China, with a weak industrial foundation at present, and is used to deal with handheld specializing in fighting a Japanese soldier. It is almost invincible in close combat.
Jixian is nearly 300 miles away from Beiping. The convoy drove for two days and one night before reaching the Fengtai Station in Beijing in the early morning of March 18.
Due to the urgency of the trip, Chairman Jiang will arrive in Baoding tonight.
Therefore, after arriving in Peking, General Song Zheyuan didn't even have time to meet with the commander-in-chief Zhang Xueliang at this time, so he took Zhang Xinghan and Zhao Dengyu directly to Fengtai Station, preparing to board the bus from Fengtai and rush directly to Baoding.
Just as the convoy of the 29th Army arrived at Fengtai Station, Pang Bingxun, deputy commander-in-chief of the Third Army and commander of the 40th Army, also drove here.
At this time, Pang Bingxun was not only the commander of the 40th Army, but also the commander of the 39th Division. Pang Bingxun is over fifty years old and has a slightly fat figure. When he saw Song Zheyuan, he quickly got out of the car and smiled with a salute and said, "Chief, you are here so quickly!"
"Brother Pang, you are not slow either! Okay, get on the bus quickly! Time is urgent! The commission may have arrived." Song Zheyuan smiled.
As he said that, the group started to board the train. The special train had been waiting for a long time. After asking about it, the station garrison began to release it. Song Zheyuan and the Third Army were waiting for the train one after another.
Zhang Xinghan followed General Zhao Dengyu and sighed as he watched Pang Bingxun, a lame general who fought with the Japanese Banheng Division for more than a month in the Battle of Xuzhou in the future and won the Linfen Victory. Who knew that he would commit to the Japanese in the Zhongtiaoshan area in the future, and put a trace of indelible stain on his life.
However, his great military achievements in the Battle of Xuzhou are also worthy of praise.
After everyone got on the train, the train drove slowly, panting, and a long sound, rumbling and rumbling, heading towards Baoding.
I was speechless all night, and the next morning, the train arrived at Baoding Station.
The person who went to the station was Chairman Jiang's personal attendant Wang Shihe. After Zhang Xinghan got off the train with everyone, he got on Wang Shihe and prepared the car. The guard company of the 29th Army followed him and ran forward.
As Chairman Jiang's personal visit to the anti-Japanese hero, Zhang Xinghan was of course riding in a car. In addition to the brigade commander Zhao Dengyu, he also had the commander of the 40th Army Pang Bingxun.
Because of the news that Zhang Xinghan killed a major general in the Japanese army, with the unstoppable publicity of the National Government, Pang Bingxun had already spread throughout North China and the whole country.
However, it may be because of the gap between military rank and position. After asking a few simple questions, Pang Bingxun didn't speak. Indeed, he, a commander and a major general of the National Government, could not have much common language with an ordinary soldier. Moreover, Zhang Xinghan was not interested in making friends with him at this time. He just wanted to deal with the errands earlier and then go back to continue fighting the Japanese.
So, except for Zhao Dengyu and some words to him, he was basically speechless.
The car drove for about twenty minutes and arrived outside Chairman Jiang's headquarters in Baoding.
As the car door opened, Zhang Xinghan, who followed General Zhao Dengyu to get off the car, looked up and saw a brilliant administrative office building in front of him.
On both sides of the street, there were many guards carrying guns and ammunition. Zhang Xinghan had just turned his eyes to the entrance of the building and saw a few people slapped at the door. After a closer look, one of them was Chairman Jiang, the current President of the National Government.
Chapter completed!