From to 1935 2020

As for the attack on the Chencang ancient road, because of the help of a large amount of explosives provided by the Soviet Union, what is now filled is part of TNT mixed with iron sand and feces-but this time, the one used to attack the military depot was just made. A batch of iron shell blasting grenades filled with explosives are extremely powerful.

With the upgrading of offensive weapons, cold guns have become cold guns. This kind of guerrilla attack and harassing warfare that runs away after a long time has begun to "accumulate small pains into big pains", gradually surpassing the spirit of the KMT army on Chen Cang Road Endurance.

Xue Yue's headache recently was that for ten days in a row, the defenders at several military depots sent back news that they had been attacked by artillery from the Red Army.

Not only will they be approached and fired at night, but it will also be difficult during the day. There are many mountains in Chencang, and troops marching and patrolling the mountain roads during the day are often attacked by a row of "poorly accurate" artillery fired from high up on the mountain.

According to the front-line soldiers, the cannons fired by the gang during the day were different from those fired at night.

During the sneak attack at night, the cannonballs used by the other party were astonishingly powerful and made a loud noise, while the cannonballs fired during the day were packed in bamboo tubes, which were not powerful but extremely smelly. It is easy to purulent infection...

Although the golden dung cannon has a short range, when fighting in the mountains, the short range is not a problem at all for those who pass by from the mountain to the downhill.It’s okay without a tripod and a wooden frame. Use a shovel to pile up a launch pad to fight, and turn around and run after the fight.The top of the mountain with a height difference of several hundred meters hits the bottom of the mountain. If you fight for nothing, you are not afraid of you chasing...

"I can't use my strength!"

"A disgustingly bad battle!"

This is how Xue Yue, who is now stationed in Hanzhong, feels.

He obviously has an army of [-], but he just can't do anything about the sneaky tactics of these mountain guerrillas with only a thousand people.

"According to reports from various places, in the past ten days, the gang of communist guerrillas have fired hundreds of shells indiscriminately. Where did they get so many shells? Moreover, it is hundreds of kilometers away from Dasan Pass. Even if they have How did the shells come here, and how could they be beaten so extravagantly?"

Of course Xue Yue, who was sitting in the back of Hanzhong, couldn't understand.

But the gunners and militiamen who were bombed at the front saw their tricks when they cleaned up the battlefield afterwards.

Most of the shells that came over were actually shells in bamboo tubes temporarily cut from bamboo.

Bamboo cannonballs, this is the "biggest advantage" of this guerrilla weapon made by Huang Ke.The guerrillas on the front line in Hanzhong were far away from Dasan Pass, and there were not many "explosive grenades" that could be transported to the front line.Except for a few raids, most of the shells fired were bamboo shells made from local materials in the Qinling Mountains.

Qinling produces bamboo, find some old bamboo, cut off a section with a suitable caliber, stuff it with gravel, feces, and then insert a prepared bunch of explosives, put it into the "barrel" and shoot it out.Logistically, there is no need to transport cumbersome shells across hundreds of miles.A Red Army soldier, with bundled packs of explosives and soil detonators carried by one person, is enough for the Red Army in the Qinling Mountains to make hundreds of golden dung shells.The tools needed to make a shell are just a machete, a hammer, and a chisel.

The attacking guerrillas had a very clear objective: it was a harassment war, killing people was good luck, and injuring people was waiting for you to be infected afterward.Anyway, Uncle Red Army has so much explosives here that you can make a bunch of cannonballs by hand in one night.

In the guerrilla warfare in the Ruijin Soviet area, there is also the need to worry about the trouble of the white army sweeping up and killing the people in the red area.This piece of land in the Qinling Mountains is often uninhabited for dozens of miles. It really is a back garden where you can come and go as you like, fish, fly kites, and all kinds of harassment and mushroom battles. Play to death!

When the golden dung cannon appeared on Chencang Road and started the relentless bludgeoning attack, the complaints from the frontline sergeants Xue Yue received increased several times in a few days.

"Army, what kind of a bad battle is this! The brothers on the front line are about to be played crazy by the group of communist bandits sneaking around in the jungle..."

When Chang Tuozi sent a telegram, the regiment leaders that Xue Yue had arranged in Chencang Road were all gathered together, crying to him with snot and tears.This kind of long-term mental torture with cold guns and cold guns, and there is nowhere to vent their depression, they are almost mentally broken.

Even Xue Yue, who stayed in Hanzhong, couldn't bear this kind of bad battle, and when he was about to withdraw his troops back to the Hanzhong Plain, an order from Nanjing made Xue Yue escape from the sea of ​​suffering.

Chang Kaishen instructed him to lead an army of 6 main forces into Sichuan again from Hanzhong, and cooperate with Gu Zhutong to pursue and suppress the Red Second Front Army... From Chang Tuzi's point of view, you, Xue Yue, have been stationed in Hanzhong for several months, and you have recruited troops there to expand your army To [-], take away [-] main forces, and leave [-] people, which should be able to block the possible southward movement of the Red Army...

Xue Yue, who was already being played crazy on Chencang Road, immediately called the troops without saying a word.The various ministries that were "procrastinating" in the past also exploded with unprecedented momentum at this time. The soldiers in the thousands of military depots on Chencang Road immediately gave up the military depot that had been in operation for many days, and escaped together from the nightmare Qinling Mountains. Hell, and then assembled in the Hanzhong Plain.

Xue Yue, who was quick in handling things, assembled the main force of Hanzhong in just two days, and then led the vanguard to Chuanzhong...

Unexpectedly, as soon as he left, a cold current from the north moved south, and the temperature in Hanzhong and Sichuan dropped drastically. In the process, it began to drizzle.

There is not much rain.

However, on the only way from Hanzhong to Sichuan, a certain section of the mountain road collapsed due to "heavenly heavy rain", and a section was directly abandoned... As for the collapse of this section of the mountain road, it was really because of the heavy rain that caused the mountain to collapse. Landslide, then only God knows...

Xue Yue hurriedly ordered the vanguard to build the road, and at the same time telegraphed Chang Bald, asking him to mobilize nearby residents to help.However, the warlords in central Sichuan pretended to be deaf collectively at this time, and cried together, "In the past year, there have been continuous wars in Sichuan, the suffering of the people, and the cold winter.

The general idea is, if you want to build roads, you can do it yourself, General Xue, anyway, we are not in a hurry...

In fact, that short section of the critical mountain road collapsed. It is not a problem to repair it or make a detour, but it will take more than ten days...

Xue Yue's troops couldn't move, and Gu Zhutong, who was about to enter Sichuan, saw Xue Yue not moving, and saw the secret flirting between the Sichuan Army and the Red Army. In addition, at the end of December, several major forces simultaneously shouted "stop the civil war." Gu Zhutong simply used the excuse that "Guizhou enters Sichuan, and the mountain roads are difficult to travel", and began to dawdle...

Although everyone is a confidant with long bald legs, Gu Zhutong is also very aware of being a "central army" when it comes to preserving his strength and not rushing too fast like a fool.

"Damn Xipi, on the way to Sichuan, the Red Army can go, why can't you, Gu Zhutong!"

Chang Kaishen in Nanjing was so angry that his beard was about to pop out, but Gu Zhutong was not stupid either.

Having learned the painful lesson of the annihilation of Hu Zongnan's entire army in northern Sichuan, Gu Zhutong knew very well that he never wanted to play endless "running around the mountain and hide-and-seek" games with the Red Second Army in the mountains.Anyway, the Second Red Army had already entered Sichuan and was not in his jurisdiction, and the Sichuan army was obviously releasing water, and Xue Yue was trapped in Hanzhong, so he didn't want to eat this hedgehog alone.

He has also experienced the iron feet of the Red Army. The Sichuan Army in front is releasing water, and they will definitely not be able to catch up anyway...

The naughty Gu Zhutong, when he finally reported to the Nanjing side, the reason for holding back was that there was a sudden heavy rain during the march, and the mountain road was difficult to walk...

At that time, there was indeed a rain in the defense area he was stationed in, but it was just a light rain that barely soaked people's clothes... It made Chang Bald so angry that his hair almost grew out...

When Chairman Li Runshi of Yan'an was holding a military meeting, the Second Red Army was advancing rapidly from southern Sichuan to central Sichuan, and was expected to reach the Songpan area in northern Sichuan at the end of the month.

During this period, the Red Army in Tianshui also sent a force of thousands of people to escort a large amount of food into Songpan, northern Sichuan, and join the independent division there, ready to go south at any time.

At present, the situation in central Sichuan is becoming clearer day by day, and the Red Second Front Army has successfully completed the Long March without difficulty.

And at that time, they will bring more than 18 main Red Army troops!With them joining, plus winter supplements during this period, and the recruitment of Jing Yuexiu's surrendered troops, the total strength of the Red Army's main regular army in the northwest region will break through to [-]!

And according to Chairman Li Runshi's vision, at that time, the Red Second Front Army out of Chuan will be arranged to be repaired in the Lanzhou area!The other main forces of the Red Army can also be freed at this time and transferred eastward to the front line in northern Shaanxi.

And what Huang Ke has been looking forward to, the capable man "Wang Huzi" who is good at solving the three-horse problem, is also in the Red Second Front Army. ——————

-------------------- Chapter 119 Depressed Fu Zuoyi --------------------

"Is the Yellow River frozen?"

After the time entered 1936, asking about the freezing of the Yellow River became what the chairman of the Suiyuan Provincial Government talked about all day long.

Since the Northern Shaanxi Red Army took Yulin and Yinchuan successively in December, Fu Zuoyi, chairman of the Suiyuan Provincial Government and commander of the 35th Army, rushed from Suiyuan to Baotou by train, and has been staying here for a long time.

There is no other reason. From Yulin to Baotou, there is an Ordos Plateau and a Yellow River in the middle.Although there was a distance of [-] kilometers, Fu Zuoyi knew that the Red Army in the south was already far away from northern Shaanxi.

As the saying goes, "the Yellow River is full of harm, but only rich."Among them, "one set" refers to the Hetao area, which refers to the "Ji" bend in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the surrounding areas, including the Houtao, Qiantao, and Xitao plains formed by relying on Langshan, Daqingshan, and Helanshan mountains, as well as the north of Guanzhong. the Ordos Plateau.

Among them, although the Ordos Plateau to the south of the Yellow River has a vast area, the soil is severely desertified, water is scarce, and the natural conditions are very harsh; the Xitao Plain in Yinchuan also has problems: the Yellow River Lingxun is the section of the "ji"-shaped river that flows through Yinchuan , because it flows from south to north, during the winter lingering and spring lingering, there may be overflow and collapse of the dam. After hundreds of years, the land here has also been tossed and reduced in fertility. During the modern Republic of China, the land here in the Xitao Plain Inferiority has been very serious.

The real fortification of the south of the Yangtze River is the Houtao and Qiantao plains north of the Yellow River. Because the nearby tall mountains block the wind and sand blowing from the Mongolian Plateau, the Yellow River has frequently migrated its channels for thousands of years, constantly scouring and silting, making the land here Fertile, lush vegetation, suitable for farming and animal husbandry.And this piece of land basically belongs to Suiyuan, and it is nominally under the control of Fu Zuoyi.

In the last four months of 1935, the strength of the Red Army in the south expanded rapidly, occupying the entire territory of Ningxia, most of Gansu, and the entire northern Shaanxi.

At the beginning of November 1935, not long after the Battle of Yulin ended, the Red Army in Yulin, which was marching north, immediately sent a partial division to march on the Ordos Plateau.This Red Army, which numbered no more than a thousand people, carried a large amount of medicine when it went north, and under the banner of "medical assistance", it handed over the Mongolian tribes in the Ordos area everywhere.

Penicillin, streptomycin, hydatid medicine, the three magic medicines were sprinkled together, and it only took more than a month to cure the disease and save lives. The nomads in the entire Ordos Plateau only had the Red Army in their eyes and no Nanjing citizens. the government.

Fu Zuoyi took control of Suiyuan after the Great Wall War of Resistance in 1934. Ordo was originally his "distant" rear area. When the new official took office, Fu Zuoyi's attention has always been on Guisui (now Hohhot), the provincial capital in the east. Because of the remoteness and sparse population, the influence of the former Suiyuan government here was very weak, and there were only a few official contacts here.

When the Red Army went north, the local national government, which was already weak and pitiful, either surrendered in hope of red, or fled in fright.By January 1936, the forces of the Red Army had completely infiltrated the entire Ordos.

Facing this opponent who has traveled more than 2 miles and has not collapsed, but has become stronger as he fought, even in Baotou, which is [-] kilometers away, Fu Zuoyi felt the huge pressure from the south.

He was a "new official" in Suiyuan. Before him, Yan Laoxi's control over Ordos was close to herding sheep.After Fu Zuoyi took over, all energy, troops, and material resources were placed in Chahar in the east to cope with the increasing pressure from the Japanese and Mongolian kings.In his heart, Ordos was originally just an insignificant, "barren rear".The operating costs are extremely high and even the losses outweigh the gains. All forces once regarded this place as a buffer zone.

How could he have imagined that less than four months later, the Red Army, who was chased by Chang Baldzi before, had nowhere to go, but after leaving Sichuan, he instantly transformed into a river-crossing dragon, and it only took four months. He grew up to be a monster that swept across the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia. The soldiers forced Ordos and directly hit his weakest waist.

Fu Zuoyi knew very well that although Ordos is barren (in fact, the underground is full of treasures), losing this buffer zone is tantamount to sending Baotou to the lips of the Red Army.What made Fu Zuoyi even more frightening was that his "near neighbor" in the north, Mongolia, to be precise, the Soviet Red Army stationed in Mongolia, after August, his attitude towards Fu Zuoyi also changed from "closeness" to indifference.

Of course Fu Zuoyi understood why there was such a change.

Fu Zuoyi became famous during the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War. After serving as the chairman of Suiyuan, he got the attention of the Soviet Union because of his relatively progressive policy of governing the people and his political characteristics of "being able to fight wars, anti-Japanese, and clearly pursuing progress." You can even get some secret aid from the Soviet Union.Fu Zuoyi, who was born in the Jin-Sui Army, has more or less been contaminated with Yan Laoxi's political ability of dancing on three eggs. He has served as the chairman of Suiyuan for just over a year. The 35th Army of the family base has also expanded its strength again and again. By the end of 1935, the total strength had reached 3.This is not easy in Suiyuan Province with a population of less than 200 million. (In fact, Suiyuan's effective population at this time was only about 100 million).

After the Red Army ended the Northwest Campaign at the end of December, a large number of troops were gradually transferred eastward, especially the number of Red Army troops in the direction of Yulin was increasing sharply. Fu Zuoyi instantly felt the strong pressure from the south.

For the Red Army in the south, Fu Zuoyi is now suffering from a headache: based on intelligence from various sources and the rapid defeat of the three horses, he estimates that the Red Army in the south can mobilize more than 10 troops. It is impossible to block the 3 horses in hand.

What's more terrible is that Fu Zuoyi has the Soviet Union behind him, the Japanese army in the east, and the Central Army in the southeast...

Fu Zuoyi had learned about the ambitions of the Japanese and Chang Bald's. As for Soviet Russia in the north, Fu Zuoyi was even more afraid.

Two years ago, in Xinjiang, Sheng Shicai and Ma Zhongying clashed.Ma Zhongying had the upper hand for a time and almost pushed Sheng Shicai into a desperate situation. Then Sheng Shicai hugged the Soviet Union's thigh in despair. The Soviet Union sent troops to help and easily defeated Ma Zhongying.The relationship between the Red Army in the south and the Soviet Union, as well as the rumors that "the Red Army is going to march northward, break into Suiyuan, and open up a communication line with the Soviet Union" that are currently raging in the country, made Fu Zuoyi blind and worried. ——The ones who issued the above rumors were Japanese and Chang Bald.

Needless to say, the Japanese are full of lifelines, and their ambitions for Suiyuan have long been known to passers-by.When the Red Army launched the Battle of Yulin, Japan sent a special envoy to secretly lobby Fu Zuoyi and put forward a proposal to "unite with Japan to resist Russia and destroy the Red Army", but Fu Zuoyi drove him away on the spot.

Recently, Chang Tuozi's special envoy also came to visit from time to time, and when they met, they presented a gift of 100 million silver dollars, and then proposed to Fu Zuoyi that the Central Army could send troops to "help and suppress bandits".

Chang Tuzi also saw the danger of the Red Army's continued northward development once it had a land connection with Mongolia.Although the Red Army now occupies Ningxia Province, it is theoretically connected to Mongolia, but the connection location is blocked by a large section of desert and no-man's land. Even if the Soviets wanted to transport supplies, they were powerless.

The place with real strategic value is Suiyuan.Once Suiyuan falls into the hands of the Red Army, Chang Kaishen can almost imagine the scene where countless red bandits, armed by Soviet Russia, sweep across China with enough guns...

In the recent period, Chang Kaishen's domestic propaganda has been crazily attacking the Red Army as Wu Sangui of the new era, and after occupying the north, he wants to lure the Soviets to invade or something...

Even Chang Kaishen saw the crisis in Suiyuan, so why couldn't Fu Zuoyi see it?

Suiyuan was originally Yan Laoxi's territory. After Yan Xishan was defeated in the Central Plains War, Fu Zuoyi, who was a member of the Jin army at that time, was also demoted.But Chang Kaishen, who is good at playing political divisions, loves the division technique of "deceiving the master and supporting the servants" - this is how He Jian in Hunan was defeated by him: suppress He Jian, support his hardcore Liu Jianxu, and achieve The purpose of using Hunan to control Hunan.The same is true for "Fuyu Han conspired against Chen" against Chen Jitang in Guangdong later.In the Jinsui Army, the object of support is to support Fu Zuoyi to divide the Jinsui Army.

Because of Chang Kaishen's intentional support, Fu Zuoyi quickly turned around in Suiyuan, his authority and military power greatly increased, and he was really capable. In just over a year, his strength was already comparable to that of Yan Laoxi.This person farms with extremely strong military and political means, "takes the chairman's salary, and conducts 'seven and a half' military and political affairs." At the peak after the Anti-Japanese War, he had more than 50 soldiers at one time, becoming a power on par with the Guangxi Clique. A senior member of the seat, the biggest enemy of the North China People's Liberation Army.

"Is the Yellow River frozen?"

This is Fu Zuoyi's complicated and contradictory mood now.

Through the frozen Yellow River, he can move his troops south from Baotou into Ordos and strengthen his control here.However, the frozen Yellow River is also a shortcut for opponents to cross the Yellow River to attack Baotou.

The situation that Fu Zuoyi wanted to see most in his heart was that the Red Army in the south would send troops from Yulin to the north in this frigid twelfth lunar month, rushing across the Yellow River to attack Baotou.Then he has the confidence to take advantage of the right time and place to defeat the Red Army with ease.

It's a pity that this situation that is most beneficial to him, but Fu Zuoyi knows that it is impossible to happen.The Songpan-Baozuo battle was such a bad strategic situation before the war, but in the end, under the command of Li Runshi, a group of Red Army who lacked food and ammunition won a miraculous victory.Fu Zuoyi also paid close attention to the before and after of this battle. When replaying, he asked himself to direct, and it was absolutely impossible for him to direct better than Li Runshi.

"This man is so terrifying!" This is his evaluation of the enemy in the south, delusional thinking that he will make such a big military mistake, and it is impossible to storm Baotou at the worst time...

Information from Yulin and Ordos shows that although the Red Army stationed there has increased in strength, they are all using the winter slack period for training and training, and have no desire to attack at all.On this point, Chairman Li Runshi is also very clear: the Ordos Plateau in the twelfth lunar month is extremely cold, and most of the Red Army troops are southern soldiers.This is also an important reason why he immediately asked the whole army to repair after finishing the Lanzhou Campaign.

The Red Army in the south, now on the Ordos Plateau in the south, only sent a few small groups of troops to contact and form alliances with the Mongolian forces, exchange what they had, and make friends desperately.

"What Fu Zuoyi can give, the Red Army can give. What Fu Zuoyi can't give, the Red Army can too!"

Then, these herdsmen on the Ordos Plateau made their choice very easily. The best evidence is that there are more and more horses in Yulin and Yan'an.

Walking on the bank of the Yellow River, Fu Zuoyi looked at the white and snow-covered land in the south, and felt in his heart that when the spring is warm and the flowers bloom next year, there will be an extremely tragic fight around Baotou.

At this time, the water of the Yellow River was completely frozen.Some business travelers are taking advantage of this opportunity to cross the river cautiously on the ice.

Fu Zuoyi turned his body to the right and looked east...

"Here in Baotou, I have the land and the railway. It is not difficult to defend it. What will be lost is Bayannaoer in the west. It is said to be on the south of the Yangtze River. Li Runshi has been coveting this place for a long time!"

From Bayannaoer to Baotou, the land distance is more than five hundred miles!If there is a war there, Fu Zuoyi has no advantage in fighting inside.What makes him even more troublesome is that it is close to the Yellow River. Once the river thaws, the Red Army can take advantage of the water conservancy of the Yellow River, go down the river, and use the river to deploy troops... That's why Fu Zuoyi cared so much about the "Yellow River" before the Yellow River froze. Is it freezing?"

Bayannaoer is located in the Xitao Plain, where there is no danger to defend. When Yulin was fighting, Fu Zuoyi hurriedly dispatched two regiments to station there. After Yinchuan was captured by the Red Army, he added two regiments there—— Then, he can no longer increase troops.

Guisui in the east needs to guard against the Japanese, and Baotou in the middle of the abdomen needs to defend against the Red Army's cross-ice raids, and they need to use soldiers everywhere... Even if they seem to be extremely enthusiastic, they have been winking at him frequently recently, and even sent someone to send them off. Fu Zuoyi, who came to the ocean with 100 million yuan, is also very clear that this person has no good intentions, and knows the tricks behind his so-called "sending troops to support the suppression"-it is nothing more than driving him and the Red Army to fight first and then pick peaches.

"Overnight", I realized that I had become the center of several major powers wrestling with each other. With Fu Zuoyi's ability, I didn't know how to deal with it at this time.

"If the Red Army comes to take it with all its strength and rely on me alone, I will die if I stick to it!"

At this time, Fu Zuoyi only felt that he had become a piece of fat, and there were forces in the south, east, and north that wanted to bite him...

Fu Zuoyi once asked for help from the old officer Yan Laoxi, but Yan Laoxi watched the Red Army beat three horses to only one horse, and now he is trembling. him.

Recently, the Red Army has actually sent secret envoys to secretly negotiate with Fu Zuoyi.