Invincible urban management

With the collapse of the financial and monetary system again, the speed of the disintegration of Chiang Kai-shek's Wuhan regime began to accelerate significantly.

——On August 8, Zhongxiang was liberated peacefully. In front of two battalions of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, a division of the Kuomintang army surrendered without a fight.Then the division commander received a severance pay of 19 million US dollars, and immediately left the army happily, preparing to go abroad to Nanyang to become an apartment.

On August 8, the Kuomintang army in the Xiangfan area mutinied. The grassroots officers and soldiers surrendered after killing their superiors.

On August 8, the Poyang Lake water battle broke out. The fast gunboats of the Chinese Red Navy went upstream from the downstream waters. With the assistance of the flying team, they smashed the Kuomintang "navy" dominated by old ships and old ships in the waters of Hukou and Madang. , the control of the Yangtze River waters changed hands.

On August 8, with the cooperation of the fleet's shelling, the 29 workers' and peasants' Red Army led by Xiang Ying successfully captured Jiujiang, and the entire province of Jiangxi was basically liberated.

On September 9, relying on the connection and instigation of the underground party, more than half of the ships of the Kuomintang Navy changed flags and sailed to Jiujiang to surrender.The remaining sailors were also extremely unstable, and Chiang Kai-shek had to order them to be expelled from the ship and escorted to the barracks on the shore for confinement.

On September 9th, Chiang Kai-shek blatantly looted the market in Wuhan, tortured wealthy businessmen, and collected 6+ cash to pay overseas, temporarily stabilizing some troops.

On September 9, Wuhan workers organized an armed uprising, and most of the Kuomintang troops ordered to suppress it had two-sided attitudes and were extremely passive in combat.In the end, it was only by relying on the Japanese garrison in the Hankou Concession that they barely suppressed it.But it also allowed thousands of uprising workers to flee to the countryside, constantly attacking the Kuomintang army.

On September 9, the battle of Tianjia Town.The British and Japanese gunboats stranded on the Yangtze River fought side by side. Relying on the absolute advantages in tonnage, firepower and experience, and the bad weather, the Red Army flight team failed to dispatch, and finally repelled the rookie-level Red Army gunboat formation.

However, the Kuomintang defenders on land have long been infiltrated by the underground party like a sieve. As soon as they fought, they raised their flags and surrendered——Tianjia Town fell.

On September 9, the vast majority of the Kuomintang troops north of Wuhan announced their defection and accepted the reorganization of the Red Army-the current situation has become very clear.The redheads of the Bolsheviks possessed powerful "nuclear weapons" that even overwhelmed Japan, and it was no problem to wipe out the second devil, Chiang Kai-shek... On the other hand, it was a business of sending waste paper to death.On one side are a lot of British and American flowers on paper, and even a fool knows how to choose.

Next, even the southern line of Chiang Kai-shek's heavily armed troops had problems—even the loyalty of the direct troops was not unlimited.

therefore.On the same morning as the nuclear bombing in Nagoya, Japan.Chiang Kai-shek of the Wuhan Nationalist Government also received bad news from the southern front:

"...The Red Bandit Southern Route Army Lin Biao's Department has broken through the Hesheng Bridge! The forward is less than [-] miles away from Wuchang! There are no more soldiers on the southern front!"

"...Mother Xipi! These days, I have torn down the east wall to make up for the west wall, and turned out the last bit of family wealth. I finally piled up six divisions of soldiers and horses in the defensive positions on the front line of Hesheng Bridge and Tingsi Bridge. How can it only take a day? Just be defeated? What are Hu Zongnan and Tang Enbo doing?"

Chiang Kai-shek, who stayed up all night for several days in a row, stared at a pair of blood-red rabbit eyes and yelled almost hysterically.

At this moment, his face no longer had the cold expression of the past.Instead, his face was completely distorted, matching that shiny big bald head.It's really as terrifying as Crouching King Kong, "...they're all fucking idiots! They're all trash! Let those two bastards come back and see me!"

Facing the great anger of the chairman, a group of cunning old fritters looked at their noses and mouths, and finally used their eyes to persecute Dai Li, who is Hu Zongnan's close friend and is also in charge of the party-state intelligence work.And Dai Li had no choice but to go up and answer with a distressed expression: "...Reporting to the committee, after the collapse of the defense line at Hesheng Bridge, the two army commanders were dispersed by the rebel army, and their whereabouts are unknown at present. I can't come back and apologize to you..."

"...These two trash! Count them lucky!" Generalissimo Chiang replied angrily, touching his bald head.

However, no matter how bad the situation on the front line is, the war of "cleaning up the red bandits" will continue to be fought—even though it is no longer known who is going to exterminate whom—in order to avoid Chairman Jiang's wrath and divert the old man's attention , Members of the party and state expressed their opinions on the upcoming defense of Wuhan.For example, General Tang Shengzhi expressed that he wanted to learn from the spirit of the Japanese Empire's "[-] million pieces of jade", and built barricades in the urban area, resisting desperately from street to house; distributed guns and ammunition to the citizens of Wuhan, and organized the whole people to fight against the red bandits... The problem is, in In the three towns of Wuhan that have been miserably harmed by Chiang Kai-shek these days, how many guys are willing to be buried with the "Jiang Ji" Nationalist Government?I'm afraid they will go straight to Jiang Gong's mansion to rebel as soon as they get the gun!

— After an increasingly unreliable discussion, a furious Chiang Kai-shek waved a broom and drove everyone out of the meeting room.

"...Look at what good students I have taught in Huangpu! A few years ago, I alone cleared up hundreds of thousands of Red Party members, and led you bastards to defeat the Beiyang warlords! Unified China! But what about you ? I only know about eating, drinking, whoring, gambling and smoking opium! Get lost!"

Then, he stood alone on a battle map that was almost covered in red, rubbing his scalp in despair and fear—he had also heard the news broadcast of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army’s “encirclement and suppression of Chiang’s bandits,” ... Comrade Mao Zedong made it clear in "Strategic Issues in China's Revolutionary War" that the struggle against encirclement and suppression will be repeated for a long time until the strength of the Red Army surpasses that of the reactionaries. Organize the anti-encirclement campaign with such tenacity, as long as you organize an encirclement campaign, the building will collapse..."

——Chiang Kai-shek had to admit that his Wuhan Nationalist Government was indeed destined to be unable to survive even the first encirclement and suppression campaign by the Red Army.

Hey, I never imagined that just a year ago, I would manage to mobilize an army of one million to launch a massive siege against the red bandit base in the mountains of southern Jiangxi; I didn't expect that the two sides are now changing positions.It turned into people clamoring to "encircle and suppress the generals"... In these years, the ups and downs of various life encounters really made Chairman Jiang unfulfilled.I deeply feel the impermanence of the world and the strangeness of fate...

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Although Generalissimo Chiang kicked out a group of party and state officials who made him furious with his broom in the morning, but in the afternoon of the same day, with the intensive gunfire on the streets of Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to An emergency military meeting had to be called again.

Unfortunately, the scene of the meeting this time.It seemed to be even more bleak than the scene in the morning, and almost none of the party and state officials who were shining stars disappeared at this time—not only Tang Shengzhi, who had vowed to fight a battle to defend Wuhan, had already fled in disguise.Even the Minister of Finance, Kong Xiangxi, ran away, and Chen Lifu, Chen Guofu, Wu Zhihui... and the navy commander Chen Shaokuan who was released from the Japanese side disappeared at the same time. The unlucky Dai Li, the doormat, reported the latest battle situation to Generalissimo Jiang in a trembling voice.

——After the defensive positions on the front line of Hesheng Bridge and Tingsi Bridge were broken through.The various Kuomintang troops huddled in the outskirts of Wuhan were already in panic all day long.The whole row and the company deserted.Only a few generals organized a supervising team and killed thousands of deserters in one go, so that the battle line was barely stabilized.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the political personnel of the Red Army once again resorted to the silver bullet tactics, openly sending planes to drop leaflets, with various rewards clearly marked on them: as long as the Kuomintang officers are willing to collect money and leave their posts, they will be given 300 million yuan for each division they bring over. Dollar.Pull over a group and give 20 US dollars.Even if a company is brought over, they will be given [-] US dollars!The only requirement is that the time limit is [-] hours, no waiting after expiration...

As soon as this ultra-luxury price list was thrown out, the tens of thousands of Kuomintang troops assembled in Wuhan for the final decisive battle immediately went into an uproar.Even if the generals of the Huangpu line at the top still think of "repaying the king's kindness with death", the regiment commanders and company commanders who have received waste paper for several months at the bottom don't care about the "kindness" of the chairman, and they all lose their integrity in exchange for money. Raising the red flag or white flag turned against the enemy on the spot, making the front of the Red Army's position full of people for a while...

Next, when a small advance team of the Red Army sneaked into the urban area of ​​Wuhan, rather than resisting, a considerable part of the city defense troops took the initiative to tie up the diehard officers to come out as certificates, and at the same time enthusiastically led them the way... Besides, The staff of the underground party also urged the chief of police in this city, saying: "This time you have to make up your mind, and you cannot go back on your word!" The chief of police repeatedly said: "It's decided, it's decided!"

——Seeing that this year's Red Bandit has turned from Jedi, even a little Japanese can be blown up, and a British guy can be easily knocked down, even the most opposed guy can't help but feel uneasy.However, these red bandits sprinkled money very wisely, causing many impoverished reactionary class henchmen to scramble to tie up their superiors to join the Communist Party, fearing that they would not be able to exchange US dollar bills if they were tied up too late, or that even their bosses would "depart to the Communist Party". bright".

In an instant, more than half of Wuchang, located south of the Yangtze River, had fallen, and the workers and citizens of Hanyang once again launched an armed uprising, occupying several blocks, and were fighting with a few of the most loyal "party-state righteous men" and the Japanese and French garrisons who came to suppress it. In the midst of a fierce firefight...

After Dai Li stammered his report on the current battle situation in Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek's face was already black and black like the bottom of a pot, and then he roared even more:

"...How could you allow the red bandits to enter the three towns of Wuhan! Has the intelligence agency of the party state been corrupted to such a degree?! All the officials are trying to deceive me, even the Fuxingshe! Every bureaucrat and general is These disloyal and unjust cowards! I did not hesitate to lose my power and humiliate the country. I borrowed so many foreign debts from the imperialist powers to support you cowards, traitors, and idiots... What happened? I bought so many people with just a few boxes of banknotes? Whampoa Where did the spirit go?! These people are the scum of the party-state! They have no sense of honor as soldiers!"

Generalissimo Jiang glanced fiercely at two or three big cats and kittens present, causing them to bow their heads one by one... But the problem is that roaring and roaring cannot replace bullets, and the spirit of the party and the country is not worth military pay. No matter how the grown-ups broke out hysterically in the conference room, smashing all the vases, fish tanks, and teacups they could grab, they still couldn't stop the Wuhan Nationalist Government from falling into the abyss of destruction step by step.

——until a pair of jade hands placed on his shoulders, temporarily dispelling the stagnant anger in his heart.

"...Darling. Calm down! No matter how angry you are right now, it won't help,"

Soong Meiling, who was wearing a Shanghai-style cheongsam, quietly stood behind Chiang Kai-shek at some point.While gently beating his shoulders for him, he said in a pleasant and soft voice, "...Darling, it seems that Wuhan can't be defended no matter what, we should think about the next retreat!"

"...Retreat? Where else can we retreat? Where else can we retreat?" Chiang Kai-shek muttered in a low voice.

"...Take a boat on the Yangtze River waterway and go west to Sichuan! Right now, Chen Cheng is still desperately guarding Yueyang. The waterway from Wuhan to Sichuan is still smooth, and the Japanese, French and British gunboats in the Hankou Concession also expressed their willingness to escort us ——They are also transferring overseas Chinese to Chongqing...

"...Enter Sichuan? So what if we enter Sichuan? Right now we no longer represent the central government. We have become bereaved dogs. Liu Xiang and other Sichuan warlords may not welcome us, but they may treat us as fat The sheep are coming to slaughter. Moreover, the red bandits are now in a state of great difficulty. Britain, France, the United States and Japan can't suppress them even if they send troops together. It is even more impossible for those Sichuan rats in Shu to have any hope..."

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head in frustration, "...with the current tragic state of the party-state, it is impossible to take root in Sichuan and continue to confront the red bandits head-on-don't forget, both northern Sichuan and Guizhou belong to the red bandits now. Under attack from both sides, how many days can the Sichuan army last?"

"...Darling. My original intention was not to make a home in Sichuan, and I didn't have much hope for those Sichuan rats. Instead, I suggest that you enter Sichuan first, and then go abroad through Yunnan to organize a government-in-exile in Burma, India or Malaya. ..."

Song Meiling smiled slightly, squinted her eyes and said, "...Although the red bandits rely on their nuclear weapons, they are in a difficult situation for a while, but they have already made enemies with the friends of the world for their rampant behavior. Therefore, as long as we can escape the border, Britain, the United States, and France will all support us and provide us with sufficient funds and arms assistance. Next, we only need to rest patiently, gather strength, and actively look for opportunities, then with the help of civilized countries all over the world, the party-state Sooner or later there will always be a comeback day..."

After hearing Soong Meiling's words, Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, which were as hopeless and haggard as rotten wood, finally gradually became more radiant...

——On September 9, after capturing Hanyang and Wuchang relatively easily, after a messy and fierce street fighting, at the cost of thousands of casualties, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army finally annihilated the Japanese and French garrisons in the Hankou Concession area, completely Occupied the three towns of Wuhan.

But the problem is that Chiang Kai-shek and many important officials of the Wuhan Nationalist Government had already boarded the ship a day earlier, escorted by two Japanese gunboats, fled upstream by water, and arrived in Chongqing on September 9. The British Consulate issued the "Declaration on Fighting the Chaos and Saving the Nation", vowing to fight the Red Army to the end, thus winning praise from the imperialist powers, calling him "the dragon-slaying warrior against the Bolshevik dragon"!

Next, Chiang Kai-shek and others continued to turn west, and finally boarded a British plane at Kunming Airport, successfully flew to New Delhi, India, announced the establishment of the "Republic of China Government in Exile", and sent telegrams across the Himalayas to "remotely control" the civil war ——Unfortunately, it seems that none of the powerful factions are willing to treat him as a green onion.Only a group of Red Army generals on the battlefield between the two lakes sighed with regret because they failed to catch this old enemy.

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On the other hand, in Shanghai, thousands of miles away, the leaders of the Fifth Red Front Army did not pay much attention to Chairman Jiang's "successful transfer"—in any case, this "peanut" had already been beaten. The dead dog, the territory and the army were completely lost. Even if they escaped, at most they would add some disgust to the Party Central Committee in propaganda and public opinion... I guess it would be about the same level of trouble as the great monk in Tibet in the future.

On the contrary, some "left-leaning putschist mistakes" of the Guangzhou Party Central Committee are making them feel quite embarrassing, and even their heads are as big as a bucket...

——Although in the eyes of the Red Army comrades in this time and space, these suggestions and plans are extremely reasonable and extremely urgent.

"...What? Want us to provide technical support to salvage and repair the more than 20 tons of British naval vessels sunk in Hong Kong, especially those battleships and battlecruisers?! Let the new red China immediately have a world-class army Navy?! What kind of joke is this?!!"

In the conference room of the headquarters of the Red Fifth Front Army in Shanghai, Wang Qiu slapped a telegram on the table almost dumbfounded, "...what on earth does the Party Central Committee think the ocean navy is doing? Even if it fished out a few giant ships Ship, does China currently have supporting port facilities? Are there large docks and shipyards capable of maintaining battleships? Are there qualified shipbuilding experts and seafarers? Especially battleships...a battleship of tens of thousands of tons, It usually takes [-] to [-] sailors to maintain the operation. Even the excellent sailors of the imperialist powers have to board the ship for about a year before they can operate it proficiently—and the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army doesn’t even have a decent naval school right now. None!" (To be continued...)