Beiyang reactionaries

Many of the current disaster relief mobile units are recruits who have never fought a war, and they mainly train how to provide disaster relief every day.

"It's pretty clear. You should know how our Second Army is organized. You all know how many rifles, mortars, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns we have in a brigade. We are a disaster relief mobile force , Why do you think that we can receive so many mortars, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns from the arsenal. Why do you think that the arsenal will send us so much ammunition."

When Xie Hongxun said this, everyone was indeed baffled.

Something is really wrong.

After the establishment of the Second Army of the Disaster Relief Mobile Force, although the artillery units of the army were incorporated into the First Artillery Brigade and the Second Artillery Brigade, it seemed that the loss was huge, and everyone complained constantly.

But as Xie Hongxun said, the rear troops have been receiving heavy weapons such as mortars, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns.Originally, although Xie Hongxun's army equipment was good, it was completely incomparable with Duan Xun's army.

The equipment of some heavy weapons is not as good as that of Duan Xun's troops.

However, with the receipt of these weapons, although the artillery unit is lacking, the weapons and equipment have indeed improved a lot.And the troops are still equipped with reorganized rifles and sufficient ammunition, no different from the front-line troops.

It's just that everyone has a lot of complaints and complaints, and no one thinks about these issues.

Now that Xie Hongxun said this, everyone really discovered some problems.

It is indeed wrong.

Xie Hongxun continued: "Why are our troops deployed in Yichang, Jingzhou, and Yueyang? Do you think they are really here to prevent floods? In the past few months, several of your troops have been practicing flood control. Let me tell you that the military department transferred us to We came here to deal with the Japanese docks. It’s just that there is no excuse. We are worried that the Japanese army will not agree, or that the Japanese government will protest. So we put our establishment into the disaster relief mobile force and stationed in these areas under this name. Our military expenditure is used for disaster relief Mobile units are accounted for separately. Just now, the Ministry of Military Affairs has decided to restore the designation of the 52nd Army of our department, and there is no need to continue to use the designation of the Second Army of the Disaster Relief Mobile Force as a cover. Zhu Shaoliang, Zou Zuohua."

"arrive."

"Decree of the Ministry of Military Affairs: The First Artillery Brigade and the Second Artillery Brigade belong to the 52nd Army and are under the command of the 52nd Army."

"Yes."

"Now, who of you still has objections?"

"No."

"Then follow my orders."

Following Xie Hongxun's words, all the officers immediately stood up.Everyone is dizzy now.But everyone understood.It is only an expedient measure for our own troops to join the disaster relief mobile force, and it is to paralyze the Japanese army.

Now that the two sides are tearing their skins apart, this is no longer needed to cover up.

381 Declare War

"For such provocative behavior by Japanese warships, our government cannot bear it, and will never back down. Our government cannot allow the military of any country to threaten the lives and property of our citizens so brazenly in our territory. In view of the fact that Japanese warships harm our country The cabinet decided to immediately abolish the 'dock concession agreement' signed by the government and the Japanese government, and take back the six docks along the Yangtze River leased to the Japanese government, as well as the ports of Ningbo and Zhanjiang."

"Before I came here, I had just met with Pan Youji, the Japanese Minister to China, and expressed our government's anger on this matter and the result of the handling of this matter. Our country requires that all Japanese in the Yangtze River be within three hours. The warships all left the Yangtze River, and the warships that did not have time to leave the Yangtze River had to hang white flags to show that they did not have any malicious intentions, and then left the Yangtze River. The Japanese army and Japanese police in the wharf had to lay down their weapons after three hours, and then left China as a whole. "

After talking with Pan Youji, Yang Yongtai, as the deputy prime minister of the cabinet, brought the cabinet secretary-general Liang Hongzhi, and Chen Bulei, the chief of staff of the cabinet and also the cabinet spokesman, to the press conference.

First, Chen Bulei briefed on what happened.Yang Yongtai then spoke to announce the cabinet's decision.

There was an uproar.

Today's information development is not as fast as later generations.It doesn't take a few minutes for the whole country to know what happened in one place.It is more difficult to deliver a message now.Because at present, most of the telephones and telegrams in the country are controlled by the General Post Office, or controlled by foreigners.There are still very few folks who own long-distance telephones and telegraphs.

Therefore, the transmission of many messages is more difficult.

Therefore, except for some well-informed large newspapers who already knew that there was a military conflict between China and Japan in Anqing, most newspapers heard such a thing for the first time.

It turned out that there was a conflict between the Chinese army and the Japanese warship.

And it's no ordinary conflict.

According to the situation reported by Chen Bulei, there was a fierce exchange of fire between the artillery units of the Chinese army and the Japanese warships.

More than that.

Chinese troops and Japanese army units at the pier also exchanged fire.

Casualties were not small on both sides.

Very surprised.

The conflict between the two sides was already very surprising, and now the cabinet's decision surprised them even more.

Three hours?

What can you do in three hours.It is estimated that it will take three hours to pass this matter back to Japan, and to the various warships and Japanese docks.Therefore, the three-hour limit given by the cabinet completely does not give the Japanese government and those Japanese warships any chance to respond.This completely made the Japanese warships, Japanese soldiers, and Japanese police have to hang the white flag and surrender three hours later.This is a disgrace to any country and any army.

Can Japan accept it?

This is completely stimulating the Japanese army.

Let the Japanese army hang the white flag against China?How could they accept it.With the pride of Japan, it has always looked down on China and the Chinese army.Asking them to hang a white flag to surrender is completely out of the question.If they don't accept it, what will the Chinese government do?

beat?Still don't fight?

The big talk has already been uttered, how will you step down when the time comes.

So everyone scrambled to ask Yang Yongtai.It's just that everyone is a gentleman, especially a reporter who follows political news, and they are all famous figures in the media circle.Know the rules of such a press conference.

Seriously.

This is no entertainment tabloid.Although there are many newspapers in China at present, the ones that can report first-hand information on politics are all newspapers with names and surnames in China.

If someone breaks the rules and is blacklisted, those newspaper reporters will not be invited to this kind of press conference.Without these first-hand political information, the authority of their newspapers will drop a lot.Gradually, they will no longer be qualified to run political news.

So they know the rules very well, raise their hands and wait for themselves.

"Prime Minister Yang, can we know more details. Especially about Anqing."

The situation reported by Chen Bulei was not very detailed.

Just a brief report.

Tell everyone that military conflicts occurred in Anqing because of the provocation of the Japanese army.

But this bit of information alone made everyone dissatisfied.So the first reporter who stood up asked Yang Yongtai if he could disclose more details.Yang Yongtai nodded slightly, and then said: "It's not a secret. It's just that what happened this time was too sudden, and the cabinet just finished its meeting. Therefore, the press conference was held in a hurry, which led to insufficient preparation on our side. The communication between us is also insufficient. I hope all reporters can understand. I can disclose more information here. At around 9:20 this morning, Japanese warships bombed Anqing and asked us to hand over the Japanese ronin and shoot them. As you may know, the Japanese ronin arrested in Anqing were involved in the previous riots in Anqing, involving a major criminal case involving more than 20 casualties. The Army rejected Japan's unreasonable request. And the 21st Army responded to the Japanese warship's provocation around 21 o'clock, and mobilized the artillery units of the army to fight back."

"The two sides had a very intense exchange of fire. The two sides fired a total of more than 400 shells. The final result was that two Japanese warships were sunk, one warship was captured, and the wounded warship fled Anqing. We also had More than 100 casualties, more than a dozen infantry guns were damaged. And just as our army was exchanging fire with Japanese warships, the Japanese army troops at the pier were preparing to reinforce the Japanese warships, but were beaten back by our troops. The casualties of the Japanese troops on the periphery of the pier reached More than 300 people retreated to the fortifications of the pier. Before I came here, the 21st Army had cooperated with the Yangtze River Fleet to attack the Japanese pier in Anqing. More accurate information will come in an hour or two."

Yang Yongtai gave a general account of the situation in the hands of the cabinet.

Including casualties and so on.

Make everyone even more shocked.

The scale of the conflict is so large.Two Japanese warships were sunk, one warship was captured, and more than 300 casualties were suffered outside the docks.In this way, how many casualties Japan has suffered.

"Premier Yang, our government has issued a three-hour ultimatum to the Japanese warships and soldiers and police at the Japanese docks. What will happen if they don't accept it?"