At the Battle of Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek meant to fight the Japanese army outside Wuhan, so there were not many troops stationed in the three towns of Wuhan. There were only Guo Chen's 94th Army, Fang Tian's 185th Division, and Fang Jing's 13th Division, all of which were Chen Cheng's concubines.
On September 19, the weather in Wuhan was still too hot to breathe. At this time, Fang Jing's 13th Division was still building combat fortifications on the outskirts of Wuhan. Suddenly, he received an order from Chiang Kai-shek to lead his troops in 150 trucks and rush to Xuanhuadian on the border between Hubei and Henan to block the Japanese army.
At the time of the Battle of Songhu, Fang Jing was a brigade commander in Xia Chuzhong's 98th Division, and after three months of flying bullets, he fought until the Battle of Shanghai, Xia Chuzhong was promoted to commander of the 79th Army, and Fang Jing was promoted to deputy commander of the 76th Division. After coming down from the Xuzhou battlefield, the commander of the 13th Division had been missing, so Chen Cheng had been transferring orders to transfer Fang Jing to become the commander of the 13th Division.
Chen Cheng did this, ostensibly to attract talents, but there was actually a game between him and He Yingqin behind it.
Fang Jing also graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy and belonged to the Whampoa military talent. He was willing to come to the 13th Division, on the one hand, he did a good job under Xia Chuzhong, and rushed to the 13th Division, the situation was not familiar, afraid of commanding them not to move. On the other hand, Fang Jing and the 13th Division had a vendetta.
It turned out that in 1933, Fang Jing was still a brigade commander in the 98th Division and was encircling and suppressing the Red Army in Jiangxi. Once, when he went to the front line to supervise, in order to avoid the attack of the Red Army, he sat in the armor planning, and did not want to have a misunderstanding with another unit stationed in Linchuan City, and there was a local exchange of fire.
The main reason was that Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling were in Linchuan City at that time, and another unit thought it was a mutiny.
After the final investigation was clear, Fang Jing was detained and imprisoned in the division headquarters of Linchuan City, and the 13th Division was stationed in Linchuan City. This 13th Division, also counted as Chiang Kai-shek's concubine unit, was formed in Guangdong and has a very long history, and the internal relations of all such units are intertwined.
Chen Cheng transferred him to the 13th Division as a division commander, and he really had no confidence in his heart.
Although Fang Jing was under Chen Cheng, his relationship with He Yingqin was also good, and when Chen Cheng inspected the front line, Fang Jing found He Yingqin, so he had the following conversation:
He Yingqin said: The combat strength of the 13th Army is not weak, after all, it is an old team.
Fang Jing asked: Worried about the people below, they will only go their own way.
He Yingqin replied: How difficult is this? I'll help you transfer one of the brigade commanders of the 13th Division to the Central Military Commission as a staff officer, and the remaining brigade commander, after you take office, promote him to deputy division commander. As for the four regimental commanders, you first choose two, one promoted to brigade commander and one to deputy brigade commander, so that there is still a vacancy for a brigade commander, a deputy brigade commander and two regimental commanders, and then four people are transferred from the old unit and stuffed inside, which is completely equalized!
At this time, Fang Jing also showed a satisfied smile! In this way, with the help of He Yingqin, Fang Jing completely controlled the 13th Division, and this time the game between Chen Cheng and He Yingqin was either win or lose, and we will introduce it to you in future articles, mainly from the perspective of Fang Jing's performance.
After Receiving Chiang Kai-shek's order, Fang Jing immediately took a truck to Xuanhuadian and engaged the nearby Japanese 3rd Division, but by this time, it was already a little late, and there was no way to recover the loss of Liulin Station and the cut off of the Pinghan Line.