From to 1935 2020

According to Chang Kaishen's idea, it would be best for him to fight a bad battle with the Red Army outside the city of Lanzhou, just like the four horses rejecting his grandson at the beginning. He will only consider taking action when the expedition is a bad battle and he can't advance or retreat.

"Damn Xipi, Ma Hongkui and Ma Hongbin, these two wastes, sit on the natural barrier of the Yellow River, Yinchuan, Lanzhou, two big cities, and they are all lost in only three or four days!"

However, none of the situations he envisioned happened. The "two horses" suffered a disastrous defeat and were the strongest in the end. The green horse he had hoped for gave up Yongjing on his own initiative...but the Red Army gave up after winning Yongjing and announced a unilateral truce , most of the main force began to move eastward...

And after winning Lanzhou, what worried Chang Kaishen the most happened.

On December 24, the day after the end of the Yongjing War, the "Two Thieves Zhang and Yang" issued a statement of "stop the civil war and unite with the outside world" as if cooperating with the Red Army.

The Northwest Red Army responded immediately, claiming to establish an "anti-Japanese national united front."

If the previous alliance of the three families was still secretive, this time, it was unveiled almost in a semi-open manner.

On the 25th, in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, Chen Jitang and the "two thieves Li and Bai" also issued a response statement with Zhang Yang, "I hope that the Chairman of the Standing Committee will put the overall situation first and stop the civil war..."

Immediately afterwards, it seemed that Liu Xiang from Sichuan, Yan Laoxi from Shanxi, and even the pot of "returning to life" in Hunan, Tang Shengzhi and Cheng Qian, two young people who ran back to Hunan to fish in troubled waters, seemed to be colluding secretly. , also booing with Zhang and Yang, shouting loudly to "stop the civil war, the Chinese will not fight the Chinese..."

In the Pingjin area of ​​Hebei, Song Zheyuan, an old-timer, didn't say anything, but students from the two places also took to the streets and started rioting at this time, responding to the warlords' declaration of resistance against war.

All of a sudden, in all provinces of China, apart from Chang Kaishen's own core territory, there were voices from all over the country asking him to stop the civil war, even to the outside world...

"Mother Xipi, mother Xipi! You are all in collusion with the Communist bandits!"

Chang Kaishen, who believed in foreign religions and was about to spend Christmas with Mrs. Cutthroat, kicked over the Christmas tree that had just been set up at home when the weather hit him.

The calibers of several companies were surprisingly consistent, and Chang Kaishen thought with his toes, and he understood what was going on: the local military leaders in the country saw him being defeated repeatedly in the Northwest and Hunan, and wanted to turn the world upside down again!

Chang Kaishen now is far more troubled than at the same time in history.The blame for the Changsha incident is still firmly on his back.The gang of gentry and warlords in Changsha who suffered heavy losses from Huang Ke still firmly believe that they are the murderers of Chang Kaishen.

Even in the past two months, Dai Li's people have captured many fugitives at that time, but whether it is the victim or other warlord forces, they still believe that he did it-even if they know it's not Chang Kaishen, it must be him , because this matter "the one who robbed Changsha is Chang Kaishen" is in the best interests of these warlords.As for the gentry, it is possible to get back the lost money only by insisting that it was Chang Baldzi's hand.As for the red bandits, do they have the ability and courage to ask Li Runshi for money?

That's right, we just see that you are always bald and easy to bully!According to the people of Hunan: As long as you return the money we robbed, Chairman, everything will be fine.....

But in this matter, no matter how much Chang Kaishen was willing to burn money, it was impossible for him to really grit his teeth and pay to compensate them.Without him, if you really do this, it is tantamount to taking the scapegoat to death...

And Li and Bai of the Guangxi Clan were also very dishonest at this time. Hunan was originally the sphere of influence of the Guangxi Clan, and it was swallowed by Chang Kaishen after the defeat in the Central Plains War.After the big incident in Hunan, both Li and Bai and Chen Jitang are now using the resources in their hands to flirt with the local warlords in Hunan. Not spitting it out anymore, after enduring until the end of December, Chang Kaishen finally stretched out his hands to his dwindling purse after being depressed for a month and a half.

Then, he discovered that there is no big warlord in Hunan to unify the small warlords. Using silver coin bombs is like cutting meat to feed the wolves. The efficiency is very poor: without the big warlords taking the lead, directly buying the small warlords below will cost more!And the time and energy spent are many times more.In the past, it was enough to send one person to find a leader. Now that there are hundreds of small army leaders scattered all over the place in Hunan, every little devil has to send someone to the door.

And this gang of insidious Hunan guys, their respective families secretly colluded with each other, jointly raised the price, and slaughtered Chang Kaishen as "Chang Kaizi", which made his cost of buying him rise steadily.

This kind of thing still happens when you cast silver coin bullets. These Hunan people are more like nine-headed birds than Hubei people!

The troubles Chang Kaishen encountered recently are far more than these.

The promotion of legal currency is now beginning to be hindered layer by layer.

During the period of the Republic of China, the various forces ebbed and flowed.Chang Kaishen, who was stabbed twice by Huang Ke, lost the northwest, spit out Sichuan, and Hunan turned into stones, and these problems were caused by the people of Hunan!

First, people from Hunan took the lead in boycotting legal currency using the "Changsha incident" as an excuse, then Sichuan, Guangdong and Guangxi followed suit, and Shanxi stepped in to boycott legal currency.

Yan Laoxi, who seemed to be "honest" a few years ago, has become dishonest during this time, and the reason has something to do with Huang Ke.

After the Central Plains War, Yan Laoxi was forced to step down.A big reason is that he was jointly suppressed by Chang Kaishen, Zhang Xueliang, and Shi Yousan, a rebel general of the Northwest Army who was shot with silver coins.

Shi Yousan was later designed by Chang Kaishen to disintegrate the forces, and Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army, which suppressed him, now created the Northwest Alliance, and even took the initiative to give Yan Laoxi a sneak peek, turning from an "enemy" into a friendly army. ....

As for Jinnan, who is at the top of Yan Laoxi, it is difficult. The Wei Lihuang Department in Henan is now attracting attention to the Northwest Red Army. Chance.

In the four months since the Red Army went north, the Red Army has been "looking at Yan Xishan" constantly, and constantly sending people to secretly lobby him to form a "four-party cooperation" "Great Northwest Anti-Japanese War Alliance"...

As a veteran warlord, Yan Laoxi was very slippery and did not promise on the surface, but he did everything he should be able to do. He did nothing wrong with Chang Kaishen—remember Huang Ke robbed the military ranks in Huairou Is it the "Made in Taiyuan" grenade used at the time?This is what Yan Laoxi secretly sold while doing business with the Red Army recently.Yan Laoxi also sold a lot of flower organs made in Taiyuan, modified components of Thomson submachine guns, and even food to the Red Army.

And when the Hunanese took the lead and various warlords boycotted the legal currency, Yan Laoxi also joined in and made a big fuss.

The report of "French currency is paper! Chang Kaishen is printing paper to collect the wealth of Jin people" has been widely circulated in Shanxi newspapers for a long time.At the same time, in Chang Kaishen's own area, there were also people who stabbed the bald man with black knives.

Newspapers such as "Ta Kung Pao" and "Wen Wei Po" pretended to conduct historical science, but they secretly carried private goods: they kept publishing large sections of "Court Coins" such as "White Deer Coins" in the Han Dynasty and "Remittance Banknotes" in the Ming Dynasty. The "Historical Materials" of Harvesting Folk Wealth with Paper. ——This matter was secretly done by Huang Yuanxing, the "big nobleman" of the Standing Committee Chairman.The Japanese also cooperated in this matter according to their own interests and needs. The newspapers published in the concession also talked about these histories, desperately instilling the concept of "the legal currency is not reliable" and "the legal currency is paper" to the Shanghai people.

In history, Chang Kaishen was able to harvest a wave of precious metals across the country by printing paper, make a fortune, and forcibly continue his life until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.

In this plane, he was stabbed twice by Huang Ke, which triggered a domino effect. His strength was greatly damaged, and he issued "legal currency", a "life-saving milk" for the Chang family dynasty, but was secretly manipulated by various forces. It has become poisonous and harmful "Sanlu milk", warning the public not to trust it.

As soon as the legal currency was issued, it was infamous as "Sanlu milk", so it was naturally not easy to use.

In the Northwest Red Army-controlled area, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shanxi, and Hunan, more than seven provinces joined forces to boycott legal currency. In the last month of 1935, Chang Kaishen once again experienced the pain of having no money in his hands, as well as the Central Plains War. At that time, he was besieged by warlords from all walks of life, and the helplessness and sadness of everyone was the enemy.

Among his opponents, the new face Chen Jitang is not weak!

In the past few years, Chen Jitang hid in Guangdong and developed wretchedly.Chang Tuozi encircled and suppressed the Red Bandits in Jiangxi for nine years, and Chen Jitang and the leader of the Red Bandits, Li Runshi, colluded in the tungsten sand re-export business. They did it for at least seven or eight years and made a lot of profits.

After years of accumulation, at this time he has 10,000+ troops, over a hundred aircraft, over a hundred warships, and the strength of the navy and air force even exceeds that of Chang Kaishen.In politics, he colluded with the veterans of the Kuomintang led by Hu Hanmin, and relying on Guangdong's detached status as an "old revolutionary base" (of the Kuomintang), it was actually quite difficult and difficult for Chang Kaishen to deal with him clearly.

In history, he was able to kill Chen Jitang because of the right time, place and people: a thorn in his side, Hu Hanmin, an old guy with seniority, died in June 1936, and Wang Jingwei, who always sang against Chang Kaishen, died in October 1935. In January, he was seriously wounded by two gunshots, and almost died in bed for half a year. Chen Jitang lost important political foreign aid within the KMT.

Then Chen Jitang, Li and Bai jumped out in a hurry to oppose Chiang in the name of resisting Japan, but at that time there was not much momentum, only these two families.

At that time, Chang Kaishen was rich. He had just pacified Sichuan, Guizhou, and Hunan, plus a small half of Yunnan, and harvested the whole country with legal currency. The Air Force and the three armed forces were all packaged and bought, and the Guangxi family was forced to kneel down and beg for mercy, so that the "Guangdong and Guangxi crisis" was easily quelled.

But in this plane, Chang Baldzi is too pitiful...

Hu Hanmin is still alive, and Wang Jingwei was not shot twice that would have killed him because of the butterfly effect caused by Huang Ke's interference in history. The two are now alive and kicking in various performances and events in Wuhan, the abnormal Kaishen stronghold. Chang Kaishen sang the opposite, desperately disgusting him.

As for the land income under Chang Kaishen's rule, Sichuan has spit it out, and Hunan has become a negative income. As for the newly acquired Guizhou Province, it is now a mess.

With the help of Huang Ke, the Red Second Front Army easily entered Guizhou Province with almost complete ammunition.Because the Second Red Army moved too fast, the Central Army of Guizhou Province was very weak in the early stage—Guizhou was annexed by Chang Kaishen last year. It was originally suppressed by Xue Yue. After Xue Yue chased the First Red Army into Sichuan, he changed to Gu I wish the same department to enter.

As far as military talent is concerned, Gu Zhutong's level is far behind Xue Yue's.In history, he was easily escaped by the Red Second Front Army in the Wumeng Mountains like a monkey stalking around when he had the most advantage.

In this era, the Red Second Front Army, which had a clear strategic goal from the very beginning, did not want to establish a local base as in history, and marched and fought more freely and proactively.And its rapid intrusion into Guizhou disrupted Chang Tuzi's original strategic layout.The command ability of Gu Zhutong's main force, which was already inferior to Xue Yue's by a large margin, could not catch the Red Second Front Army that was like loaches wandering around in Guizhou.

Gu Zhutong's main force, who is not good at fighting in the mountains, moves slowly and cannot catch up with the Red Second Front Army when its forces are gathered.Anyway, throughout December, the situation in Guizhou was also in chaos, and it was also a "loser" who Chang Kaishen wanted to transfer troops from other places and spend money to fill this hole...

This year, the income from Sichuan and Hunan provinces has been reduced, Guizhou has become a bottomless pit of burning military expenses, and the Yulin Army has been wiped out. It has also exposed Chang Kaishen's weak underpants who can only fight silver coin wars, and the French currency harvesting of the country is also very ineffective... ...As for the opponent, several warlords spoke with one voice at the same time, forming a "majority" atmosphere...

For a moment, Chang Kaishen seemed to have returned to the period after April [-], when Ning and Han merged, he was accused by thousands of people for betraying the revolution, and the time when he first went to the wild...

"Changqing, the current political situation is difficult!" (Changqing is Yang Yongtai's nickname)

On Christmas day, Chang Baldzi, who was depressed, didn't have the heart to spend Christmas with his wife at all, so he called his confidant Yang Yongtai and kept complaining to him.

Don't look at him sending [-] soldiers to Tongguan, as if he wanted to force the two thieves Zhang and Yang to death, but in fact, under the current situation, Chang Baldzi really didn't dare to use radical means, in fact, he was just bluffing.If he really forcibly drove the troops into Tongguan, he would only expose his last face and force Zhang and Yang to the Red Army.

But if you don’t do it, you can’t do it. In just four months, the Zhumao Red Army that entered the Northwest has developed to such a terrifying state today. million square kilometers. (Of course, although the area is huge, the actual effective population is between 120 and 600 million—the statistics of the Republic of China are not very accurate).

Can't go forward, can't retreat, can't lose, this is the most embarrassing place for Chang Baldy.

"Chairman, the crux of the problem now is not in the north, but in the south!"

Yang Yongtai pointed to the map of the Republic of China in the room, tapped on Guangdong, Guangxi, and finally Hunan.

"North and south, there must be a choice. If you forcefully enter the pass to suppress bandits at this time, if you fail, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"You mean..."

"Everything started in Hunan. The chaos in Hunan stemmed from the incessant agitation of Guangdong and Guangxi. The Chen Jitang tribe in Guangdong and Guangxi, especially Chen Jitang's subordinates, sent Yu Hanmou..."

Yang Yongtai didn't say the following words, but Chang Kaishen understood.It is nothing more than asking him to use silver coins to buy off the three armed forces of Guangdong, land, sea and air, and bring down Chen Jitang, so as to take the opportunity to take Guangdong under his command.

"Damn Xipi! Where can I get 2000 million silver dollars at this time!"

Huang Ke repeatedly tossed and tossed about him, lost the taxes of Sichuan and Hunan provinces, and hindered the implementation of legal currency. Now Chang Kaishen's strength has shrunk by at least 200% compared to the same period in history. It is a headache to ask him to pay. (About the price of buying Chen Jitang’s air force, one said it was 2000 million Hong Kong dollars, and the other said it was 2000 million silver dollars. I checked the early Republic of China data, and it was all determined to be [-] million silver dollars, so I still focus on this.)

It's not that he didn't think about playing with silver coins again. The "2000 million silver dollars" he yelled was the price offered by Chen Jitang's air force that he wanted to buy during this period, and the navy also yelled a murderous price.

Chang Kaishen cursed, but in fact he gritted his teeth and found a way to get money—it was nothing more than selling some national interests again and borrowing money from the Anglo-American consortium.What's more, Huang Ke sent him a chicken that laid golden eggs not long ago. Chang Kaishen felt that the difficulties were only temporary. His finances will be much better.

Although Chang Kaishen was cursing, his complexion became much better at this moment. Yang Yongtai saw that he had accepted the suggestion, and tapped on the location of Suiyuan on the map of the Republic of China.

"The above-mentioned companies, they secretly communicated with each other, and on the surface, they uttered their voices together. In fact, they are all people who take advantage of each other with evil intentions. We openly turned our faces and made a big fight, but let them stay together for warmth. Moisten things silently, and draw fire from the bottom of the pot. Best policy!"

As a master of Shaoxing, Yang Yongtai peeled off the cocoons for Chang Baldzi, pointing out the key points of the problems one by one.

"Fu Zuoyi's department in Suiyuan appears to belong to Yan Xishan. In fact, his conflict with Yan Laoxi is getting deeper and deeper. At this time, if we burn him again, we can also divide the Jin army."

"As for the Northeast Army, it is the key to breaking the situation in the Northwest."

"In addition, the 57th and 61st armies of the Northeast Army have been commissioned to operate for a long time, so it's time to do it!"

In the end, Yang Yongtai pointed out the most critical point:

"As for Young Marshal Zhang, he has the softest ears, and he is even more of a snake than a mouse in his work. This person is the biggest weakness of the Northwest Alliance!"

Chang Baldzi's eyes lit up: "What do you mean?"

With a gloomy face, Yang Yongtai said in a deep voice:

"It is feasible for King Huai of Chu to enter the Qin Dynasty! Once this person is gone, the Northeast Army will be leaderless and torn apart. At that time, they will be divided and bought..."

This volume is almost over.

-------------------- Chapter 114 Huang Ke, Happy Birthday (end of this volume) ----------------- ---

Readers of Xiran, click on the crimson "well" symbol in front to see the link of Elena's appearance

shining elena

On the morning of December 1935, 12, Huang Ke and Elena returned to Shanghai by train.

Knowing that Elena was "recovering from illness", the Yan'an side gave her instructions to let her rest well.Huang Ke originally wanted to spare some time to go back to Yan'an and hand over the intercepted batch of arms to Yan'an, but the instructions from the Red Army asked Huang Ke to keep the batch of arms and find an opportunity to enter the guerrilla zone in southwestern Zhejiang and send them to Yan'an. Part of the arms was handed over to Li Yu's guerrillas, while the other part was reserved for the Gaojinting guerrillas in the Dabie Mountain base and the Red Second Front Army that was advancing to Sichuan.

Among the ammunition sold by the Japanese to the Ma family army, there were 13 Liao 2000 rifles with exactly 200 million rounds of bullets.If it was a year ago, this would be a lot of arms for the Red Army.However, the current Central Red Army already has a strong ability to reload bullets after obtaining the precious gun cotton, primer and other bullet propellants provided by the Soviet Union.Moreover, bullets reloaded with "regular" gunpowder are much more powerful than bullets reloaded with low-quality fire cotton made in the base area.

After returning to Shanghai, Huang Ke first went to the "hardware manufacturing" factory he opened in Shanghai.This factory was rebuilt after Huang Ke purchased a bankrupt small machinery factory in Shanghai through Pastor Dong's relationship in September, and its location was in the concession.If it hadn't been for Huang Ke, the factory would have closed down, and even the belt machines would have been auctioned off to the Japanese.

At present, his business on the bright side is to undertake various mechanical parts processing orders, such as processing the urgently needed mechanical parts for the factory owners in the concession.

But in fact, there are not many foreign orders at all-the original boss was forced to sell the factory because he could not receive orders.

This small hardware factory employing more than 20 workers is an important cover for Huang Ke to import various machine tools in the future.When Huang Ke returned to Shanghai, the imported machine tools and lathes had already arrived half a month ago, and they had been waiting for Huang Ke to come back to receive them, but it was delayed until now because of Elena's physical condition.

Fortunately, the comrades of the underground party were already in place at this time, and they received the equipment for him first.During this process, Jiaotong University, which has a good relationship with Huang Ke, also sent several teachers to help receive the equipment.According to the agreement between the two parties, the students of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Jiaotong University will go to Huang Ke's factory for internship before graduation.

In the factory, Huang Ke took out the drawings he had prepared long ago and ordered them to process the metal accessories they needed according to the drawings.Of the [-] workers on site, half were local "unemployed workers" in Shanghai, and a few were interns graduated from Jiaotong University who were favored by Huang Ke. The management and leaders were all underground party members sent by Yan'an.

This is a very important stronghold. With this factory, it is convenient for him to place advertisements in newspapers and attract outstanding workers from all sides in the name of recruiting.

In the future, they will not only smuggle machines through here, but also collect all the excellent skilled workers from the entire Shanghai area through this place, and then pack them up and send them to Yan'an at an appropriate time.

Now Huang Ke threw the drawings to these newly recruited workers, and the parts they were asked to process were the breech cover of the "golden dung cannon" and the newly improved "barrel outer collar".

The former is just a round metal cover that looks "ordinary", but it takes a lot of time to weld the buckle and other accessories on it.

The latter is simpler: cut a thin steel pipe with a length of about 12 cm and a diameter of 90 mm in half with the center diameter as the cutting line to form two halves, and then use a machine to bend two A width of about 15mm is placed on the side of the flange interface, and a few screw holes are punched, so a pair of barrel outer collars for the anti-explosion chamber is ready.

It is also very simple to use. Set the two half valves on the filling installation position of the 75mm gold dung cannon near the base firing cartridge, and then tighten the bolts to connect and buckle it tightly so that it is tightly attached to the gun body to strengthen the strength of this area. .After putting on this layer of outer hoop protection, the problem of the bombing of the golden dung cannon was completely solved.

——The above are the improvement methods that Huang Ke came up with after receiving the feedback from Yan'an about the problems with the "Golden Dung Cannon" after the actual combat.This kind of projectile made of conventional seamless steel pipe, due to the insufficient strength of the material, the part filled with propellant is easy to decrease in strength and cause a blast reaction after firing dozens of shells. The improvement method is to add a layer of gun hoop on the outside. .