From to 1935 2020

Regarding Zhang and Yang, the attitude of the Red Army is to form an ally, and the two sides hold together to keep warm and advance and retreat together.

As for Yan Laoxi, the Red Army who knew his old background, his attitude was to try hard to win him over - because he knew his old background of "dancing on three eggs" and he still refused to take a stand. Chairman Li Runshi knew that he was cunning and was Consider Huang Ke's policy of "beat him up and win him over".If he still doesn't know the acquaintance, the history of the Red Army going to Yan Laoxi's house to fight the autumn wind will happen at any time in history.

As for Fu Zuoyi, knowing that he can farm and fight, he is a rare military and political talent among the warlords, and at the same time he has a strong "progressiveness", Chairman Li Runshi still wants to win over him and try his best to win him over.After all, in the Kuomintang army, there are very few troops like him who are serious about fighting against Japan from the beginning to the end, and have excellent military discipline for eight years.

It's just that it is really difficult for Fu Zuoyi to agree to the request made by the Red Army.

Standing by the Yellow River, Fu Zuoyi racked his brains, but he couldn't think of a way to solve the current desperate situation. Although he can be called a hero for a while, he can be a hero of a warlord, but in the end he is still missing a little bit. Looking at the overall situation of the world view.During the three major battles in history, Fu Zuoyi hesitated at both ends of the snake and mouse during the Huaihai Campaign before the Battle of Pingjin. , doing nothing.

Then during the Battle of Pingjin, when the defeat of the Chang family dynasty was a foregone conclusion, he neither fled nor fought nor surrendered. He was forced to accept the "reorganization of the uprising" at the last moment after being forced to ninety-nine percent.

Sticking to one corner instead of focusing on the overall situation is his biggest weakness.

A gust of cold river wind blew by, and Fu Zuoyi couldn't help shivering even though he was wearing a thick coat.He suddenly thought of Ma Buqing who he met in Baotou not long ago.

For Sanma, Fu Zuoyi has no favorable impression at all.But when I saw him the day before yesterday, I found that this Northwest hummer, which used to be high-spirited in the past, was much haggard after not seeing him for a few days.He was supposed to leave last month, but the batch of ammunition ordered to be shipped from Tianjin was robbed halfway.

Northwest Sanma, who was being severely beaten by the Red Army, said that the batch of arms could not be obtained on time. It was like a drowning person being robbed of a lifebuoy. Ma Buqing almost fainted when he heard the news.He hasn't left Baotou yet, but he is waiting for the second batch of arms to arrive.

"Even if you receive this batch of arms and ship them back to Liangzhou, so what..."

Fu Zuoyi gave a rare sigh for Ma Buqing, whom he hated so much. When he lowered his head, he noticed some foreign objects under the ice of the river in front of him. Looking closely, it turned out that there was originally a shallow puddle. It was frozen and formed a large body of solid ice.

The foreign objects in the solid ice are actually several fishes frozen together...

"One fish is Ma Bufang, and the other fish is me......."

On the bank of the river, Fu Zuoyi frowned, suddenly took out his pistol, and fired several shots at the ice surface. After the continuous gunshots, the ice surface was cracked everywhere...

He said in his heart: "I will not become this fish!"

Fu Zuoyi decided, no matter what, when the second batch of ammunition Ma Bufang wanted arrives, he will first withhold the ammunition!During this period, there is no reason to speak!

-------------------- Chapter 120 The real target, the real prey -------------------

"The Red Army must not be allowed to take Suiyuan and open up the international communication line with Mongolia (Soviet Union)!"

After the Red Army captured the entire territory of Ningxia, Chang Kaishen fell into a great panic.Having witnessed the entire process of the rise of the Kuomintang from a dependent force without guns, he knows exactly what this means.

Back then, the Kuomintang rose up with the Soviet Union's "Water Lianzhu" and "Golden Ruble". After it established land contact with the Soviet Union and gained the support of the Soviet Union, that terrible opponent was no exception.

"Suiyuan must not be lost!"

Chang Kaishen, who always likes to chase miscellaneous troops to death and hides behind to preserve his strength, has done a few strategically "correct" things at this critical moment of fate.

First of all, he transferred Tang Enbo, the director of the aftermath office of the "bandit suppression" in northern Shaanxi, the commander of the No.13 Army, and his company to the intersection of Hebei, Shanxi, and Chahar provinces, and made the decision to send troops to support Suiyuan at any time. In terms of political and military posture, and financially, people sent Fu Zuoyi an emergency payment of 100 million silver dollars. Song Zheyuan, who originally guarded the Pingjin area, also received his order to ask the 29th Army to assemble and prepare to "take the train" to Suizhou at any time. Prepare far.

Secondly, in politics, facing the call of the Red Army and all parties to "stop the civil war and unite with the outside world", he has always pretended not to hear it, and finally responded during this period.

When Soong Ching Ling took people to Tianshui to visit the captured prisoners of the First Division, in the process, the two sides had actually established a channel of communication with mutual understanding.It's just that Chang Kaishen, who wanted to save face, was always unwilling to use it. This time, seeing that the situation was deteriorating day by day, he came up with bad intentions to tie the Red Army's hands and feet through negotiations.

In fact, in December, when the Red Army was still besieging Yinchuan and Lanzhou, the special envoy sent by the middleman Song Ziwen (historically he was originally) took a plane and landed at the newly built Yan'an Airport, bringing Chang Kaishen's " terms of the peace talks".Compared with just bringing a message in history, this time Chang Kaishen was "full of sincerity" and the special envoy came with the radio.

In private contact, Chang Kaishen’s request is: the Red Army withdraws troops from Yinchuan and Lanzhou, and abandons northern Shaanxi, while he is willing to hand over Gannan to the Red Army. prepared by.

Compared with last time, Chang Baldzi's "conditions" seem to be much looser.

But Chairman Li Runshi knew too well what Chang Tuzi was, and he knew that this guy would not be honest until he lost his last bet.On the other hand, the lion opened his mouth and promised that he could consider giving up Lanzhou and Yinchuan, but asked Chang Kaishen to give up Suiyuan as the advance base for the Red Army to go north to fight against Japan.

According to Chairman Li Runshi: I exchanged the land of Lanzhou, Hexi and the entire upper Ningxia area for Suiyuan, which is three times or even five times your area. Is it very sincere?

At that time, Yinchuan had just fallen, and Lanzhou was in danger.Although Li Runshi and Chang Kaishen were thousands of miles apart, the exchange of telegrams between the two sides never stopped, and it accompanied the whole process of the Northwest Sanma Campaign.

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Chang Kaishen: "Mother Xipi, Ningxia is mine, and Lanzhou is mine too! How dare you, Li Runshi, exchange my land for my Suiyuan?"

Li Runshi: Ningxia is yours?Well, yesterday was still yours...

Chang Kaishen: "Li Runshi, you robber!"

More than ten days later, Li Runshi said, "Lanzhou is mine now..."

Chang Kaishen: "Mother Xipi!"

Li Runshi: "Chairman, can we talk about the Hexi land to the west of Lanzhou, plus Ningxia, and exchange the topic of Suiyuan? We are going north to resist the Japanese. You can't let us stay away from the base area and fight the Japanese in the enclave, right? Hexi Including the entire Ningxia Province, the area is three times the size of Suiyuan, you are not at a loss, chairman!"

"Damn Xipi, Li Runshi, you little servant, do you think I don't know what you're thinking?"

This kind of negotiation with no sincerity on both sides has been directly negotiated to death from the very beginning.Of course Chang Kaishen knew that according to what Li Runshi said, if he exchanged Suiyuan for Hexi and Ningxia, he would be the number one fool in Tianzi.Although this land is huge, to Chang Kaishen it is a worthless enclave plus death.After the change, Li Runshi can grab it back anytime he wants.

Then, the battle situation in the Northwest continued to collapse.

Chang Kaishen: "Hu Zongnan, trash! Ma Bufang, trash! Northwest Sanma, you are all trash!"

Chang Kaishen looked at the telegram, patted the table and yelled: "Li Runshi, I know you want Suiyuan, you want to get aid from the Soviet Union, even if I give it to the Japanese, I won't give it to you Li Runshi! "

On the Yan'an side, Chairman Li Runshi told everyone at the internal military meeting:

"Chang Kaishen knows the value of Suiyuan. With his latest military move, he thinks that our strategic intention for the next stage is Suiyuan..."

The next round of military operations of the Red Army will begin in February 1936!There are two reasons for choosing this time point. First, the Red Army and the Second Front Army will successfully break through northern Sichuan, and then directly enter Lanzhou to rest.

At present, the Second Front Army is about to enter the Songpan area. It sent a telegram to the Central Committee to report that the "march" in central Sichuan went smoothly. The Sichuan Army cooperated very well along the way and there was almost no fighting.According to the instructions of the Central Committee, the Second Red Front Army is now marching all the way and recruiting troops along the way to expand the Red Army. It is estimated that when it arrives in Songpan, the total strength can reach more than 3000 people.

There are more than 3 main forces of the Red Second Front Army stationed in Lanzhou, deterring the northwest rear, and the remaining green horses among the three horses will be honest and dare not move, while the Central Red Army can concentrate all its attention and use troops on the eastern front.

Chairman Li Runshi looked at the location of Shanxi on the map on the wall.

In the coming year, every month is extremely precious, even in winter, we can't wait.After the Chinese New Year, after the one and a half month rest period, it is time to take the initiative again.

Although Suiyuan is good, it is now the center of attention of all forces. It seems easy to win, but in fact there are too many variables and too many traps.Not only Chang Kaishen would intervene, but the Japanese in the east would also take action at any time.When Chairman Li Runshi learned that the newspapers issued by the Japanese Concession also reported the news of the "Suiyuan Crisis" at length, he was keenly aware that he really rushed to launch the Suiyuan Campaign to attract all of Fu Zuoyi's troops to Suiyuan. The Japanese troops stationed in Chahar will take action immediately.

Although he knew from Huang Ke that the full-scale war of resistance would not break out until July 1937, Chairman Li Runshi also knew very well that history had been changed long ago.

The July [-]th Incident was originally the "walking alone" of lower-level Japanese military officers.In the eyes of the front-line Japanese, the Suiyuan war was a huge "good opportunity". No one knew if any hot-headed Japanese would make trouble at that time, detonating a full-scale war of resistance and happening ahead of schedule.

"February of this year is a good opportunity, because the Mutiny on February [-]..."

At this time, Li Runshi had been elected as the chairman of the Military Commission and the general political commissar, with the highest military decision-making power.The [-] mutiny would cause chaos in the Japanese political arena in a short period of time, and this period was the best window for the Red Army to launch a new round of offensive, which was one of the reasons why he decided to use troops in February.

"Right now, the whole of China thinks that our Red Army will go all out to capture Suiyuan. Chang Kaishen thinks so, and the Japanese think so! All of Chang Kaishen's current strategic layouts and troop deployments are all aimed at Suiyuan, but, His strategic judgment is completely wrong!"

"We didn't go north to Suiyuan, so we won't fight on the battlefield that Chang Kaishen preset and fully prepared. Our focus of attack in February is to go east to Shanxi!"

At that time, Li Runshi patted the location of Shanxi on the map on the table vigorously.

"As for the target of the battle, on the surface we want to beat Yan Laoxi hard, go to his house to fight the autumn wind, and grab the territory! But all of this is just a gesture - our real strategic goal is to open up a battlefield here in Shanxi, encircle and wipe out Chang Kaishen entered Jin's Central Army!"

Chairman Li Runshi knows Chang Kaishen's opponent very well.He has long coveted Shanxi, and with the war in Shanxi, he is bound to take the opportunity to enter Jin.

In the original history, when the Red Army marched eastward, its total strength was no more than [-].

And this time his Eastern Expedition will dispatch more than [-] troops!The battlefield involved is not just one in Shanxi.Suiyuan in the north, and Hanzhong and Qinling Mountains in the south, will have troops to cooperate with the attack and carry out strategic feints to contain and cover.

"Chang Kaishen, he thought their troops were hunters. They came to Shanxi just like Sichuan back then. They came to drive away tigers and wolves to take advantage of Yan Laoxi's territory. But this time he made a mistake!"

"Actually, we are the hunters, and he is the prey!"

"In Shanxi, we are guest troops, but Chang Kaishen is not a guest army?"

"After we invaded Shanxi, we broke through Lvliang, entered Jinzhong, and made a gesture of besieging Taiyuan! Yan Laoxi is the head of the house dog, so he must retreat the main force into Taiyuan and defend it. In this way, the entire southern Shanxi area is almost a semi-vacuum state."

"Compared to Chang Kaishen's troops, we have a first-mover advantage. We arrived at the Jinnan battlefield first, so we can rest here and wait for work. Chang Kaishen's troops, surrounded by Shanxi, rushed to Jinzhong at different speeds."

"With Yan Laoxi's warlord habit of defending his hometown, when the Battle of Jinzhong broke out, he would only shrink all his main forces to strategic locations with natural defenses. When Chang Kaishen's reinforcements came, he would only shut down. The door does not allow them to enter! They are forced to fight with us!"

During the military discussion, Chairman Li Runshi pointed at various places in Jinzhong with a pointer, and first knocked on Taiyuan.

"We took Taiyuan as the center, set up a trap, turned it into a millstone, and sent Chang Kaishen to Shanxi as support. In fact, we wiped out wave after wave of troops grabbing territory. In this battle, we will annihilate Chang Kai Shen's strategic mobile force in North China!"

Historically, due to the lack of troops of the Red Army, the eastern expedition to Shanxi could only leave in an autumn wind.But in this plane, Li Runshi, who has more than 15 strategic mobile troops in his hands, is targeting the entire territory of Shanxi.He wants to set up a battlefield here, using Shanxi as the anvil, and the Red Army as the hammer, to smash the "reinforcements" that Chang Kaishen threw into Shanxi one by one.

"Chang Kaishen's biggest problem is that he has too much ambition, too much appetite, and his goals are not clear! He wants to destroy the Red Army and seize the Shanxi territory! These two strategic goals seem to be connected, but in fact they are very different. vastly different, even contradictory.

"If you want to destroy the Red Army, you should concentrate your forces and chase after the Red Army. If you want to seize Yan Laoxi's territory, you should divide your troops to occupy the city and control the surrounding area. These two strategic goals are actually in great conflict in the short term. They want both. That's extremely dangerous. And fighting in winter is not a good job, and Chang Kaishen's Central Army is spoiled and spoiled, and can't distinguish the contradictions and traps between the two..."

At the military meeting, Li Runshi threw the pointer in his hand on the table.

"Those who were occupied by our Red Army and then successfully recovered by the Central Army, originally belonged to Yan Laoxi's territory, will be the cause of their defeat!"

-------------------- Chapter 121 Chang Kaishen's strength --------------------

Before the Anti-Japanese War, how many troops did Chang Kaishen have under his command?

This is a very difficult question to clarify.

During the Central Plains War, Chang Kaishen had a total force of more than 80 troops, while his opponents, Feng Yan, Li Bai, and his family had a total force of more than [-].Then Chang Kaishen defeated the opponent with the help of Zhang Xueliang through silver coin bombs, and by the way, "buy" Han Fuqu, Shi Yousan and others into his subordinates, and took over the central government. The number of troops available at one time exceeded one million.

But until he was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, the number of troops that Chang Kaishen could actually command was difficult to determine. The main reason was that the composition of his troops was too complicated. They were usually divided into three types: the direct descendants of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Whampoa faction, and local miscellaneous brands. Department, the "Twenty-five Boys Department" bought by silver coins.

Needless to say, the Whampoa faction in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are directly related to their own sons. Needless to say, they are relatively the best commanders, especially the ones with "micro-management", but the ones that "the friendly army is in trouble and does not move like a mountain" and "does not hesitate to stab the friendly army twice when fleeing for life". The fault has never been corrected - and when the former happened, Chang Kaishen's "remote micro-manipulation" often had poor results.

As for the miscellaneous brand, it is easier to explain, that is, the cannon fodder troops of "honest people" who were originally local warlords, succumbed to the Nanjing National Government, and were willing to listen to their commands. Go to the forefront of the war and consume it first.For example, the Hunan Army, the Sichuan Army, and the Yunnan Army after the Anti-Japanese War.As for the 29th Route Army, although it basically obeyed Chang Kaishen's mobilization command, due to its origin in the Northwest Army and the special external environment in North China (pressure from the Japanese), Song Zheyuan grasped military and financial power, and Chang Kaishen had relatively little influence on him. Limited, about the same as Han Fuqu.It's just that the former is not very ambitious, and most of the time Chang Kaishen can still command it.The Nineteenth Route Army actually also belonged to this type, but because the bald head was too compelling.

As for the second and fifth troops, such as Han Fuqu, Shi Yousan, Yu Hanmou and so on.They are warlords themselves, they have their own independent financial sources, they are not completely dependent on Chang bald, and their attitude towards Chang Kaishen is indifferent, and they feel that their wings have grown hard and they will even raise their flags against Chiang for a second time.Chang Kaishen was more wary of them than he was of the miscellaneous names, and even went off the field to kill them—such as Shi Yousan and Han Fuqu.And this kind of people also understand Chang Kaishen's virtue, and are very wary of him. The two parties belong to the "alliance relationship" of mutual use.Later, Zhang and Yang, who were involved in the Xi'an Incident, were actually very close to this type.

In addition, there is a fourth element, that is, the local security regiments composed of gentry forces in various places. There are thousands of people.It belongs to the historical remnants of "tuanlian" in the late Qing Dynasty, and is usually called "local militia" or "landlord's armed forces".Usually "bring your own dry food", the local finances are self-supporting, and they are asked to send troops together to fight against the Communist Party.And these local militias themselves are attached to the warlord forces in the provinces they belong to, and have a "semi-official identity."

For example: Before the Red Second Front Army broke out of Xiangxi to start the Long March, more than 130 regiments of the Hunan Army besieged him.But in fact, among the 130 regiments, the regular army accounted for at most half or even less, and the rest were those that had no "provincial local regiment training troops" in the official establishment of the Nanjing Nationalist Government.

During the five rounds of encirclement and suppression, Chang Kaishen claimed to have dispatched an army of one million to besiege the Soviet area.In fact, more than half of the millions of troops are also local militia armed forces of this kind.Ma Bufang, as mentioned before, could even mobilize more than 100 "regiments" in a short period of time to form a strategic reserve team of 10,000+ people when dealing with the West Route Army.

During the Battle of Songpan in Baozuo, the 6000-strong army led by Mr. Peng's incomplete Red Army Corps + temporary replacements of non-combatants from the Fourth Front Army easily swept across the 1 troops north of Baozuo with sufficient ammunition. Many people's "local offal" are also local armed forces of this "group training" nature.

However, although these "local regiment training" type "scratch" troops barely have an establishment, and some places receive legal currency notes as salaries, their own training and equipment are extremely poor, and they are generally able to execute "house dogs" or maneuver distance. In the near future, the combat mission of "assisting in the suppression of the Qing Dynasty" and Dangdang's "returning regiment" will play a role similar to that of the puppet army around the "imperial army".

The miscellaneous troops in these places also have self-knowledge. When the main force of the Red Army is strong, they also avoid battles and fight soy sauce, "tactfully" acting as eyeliners and underhands.But once the Red Army suffered huge losses and was severely injured, it would be like an African hyena, swarming up and biting people in danger-for example, the remnants of the Red 34th Division after the Xiangjiang Battle were repeatedly attacked and wiped out by them.

How many troops Chang Kaishen has at his disposal, and the exact number, is actually not even clear to him. In 1936, the total number of troops of the Nanjing Nationalist Government was probably between 170 million and 200 million.This figure includes all local militias, large and small.As for Chang Kaishen, he can basically command it, which is probably between 100 and [-] million.

Although this number seems to be very large, let's not deduct the "empty pay and vacancies" in the middle, half of the "local militias" and so on will be deducted from the so-called million-dollar army. In fact, his "regular" main force The army, direct line plus miscellaneous cards, is not considered "scrap", and those dangerous "two or five" subordinates are deducted. The real core force is about 60 million people, about 100 divisions.These 100 divisions refer to field troops that can be mobilized at will in the country and have relatively smooth command.

During the third anti-encirclement campaign, Chang Kaishen mobilized 30 troops, and Li Runshi's Red Army killed 17 of Chang Kaishen's regiments in one go, but only wiped out more than 3 people. In fact, these 3 people are actually the "core combat power" of the 30 army.Although there are 30 troops, half of them are "regiment training troops" or "half regiment training and half miscellaneous" garbage troops. There are only more than [-] people who can really fight. The local chicken and tile dog are self-defeating.

During the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, Chang Tuzi mobilized 50 people, and the Red Army knocked out three main divisions.

Xue Yue is currently guarding Hanzhong. The entire army claims to be 10, but the actual number of soldiers who can fight is only about 8000 in two divisions. The rest are all a bunch of Hanzhong local militias attached to him.If the Red Army really invaded Guanzhong, as long as its main force was defeated, the remaining tens of thousands of militia groups would be useless, and they would automatically collapse without fighting.Of course, if the Central Army wants to expand its army and the military expenditures are paid, Xue Yue will use his core main force as the basis to incorporate these local militia troops, and one army will become several divisions, and the latter will reach the sky in one step.

The reason why Chang Tushen was out of breath for a long time in the battle of Songpan-Baozuo was because Hu Zongnan's first division was called a division, but it was actually an army. One division and four brigades were prepared with equipment and placed in other warlord troops. Equivalent to other people's four divisions, plus a direct descendant of the 49th division, Chang Tuzi lost five divisions' elite mobile troops in an instant, nearly one-tenth of the mobile field troops.

Chairman Li Runshi set Shanxi as the battlefield to annihilate Chang Kaishen's main force. One of the important reasons is that the main attacking Red Army can enter the field in advance, and "clear the field" before Chang Kaishen's main force enters: "Shanxi local regiments and landlords' armed security regiments and other "local miscellaneous troops" were swept away, so that Chang Kaishen could not find these cannon fodder for them, and then looked for an opportunity to annihilate their main force.

And throughout the 30s, with the help of German military advisers, Chang Kaishen planned to form 60 national defense divisions according to the proposal of German military general adviser Seckert Origin)——This plan was actually not officially implemented until the second half of 1936, but in fact, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, only 60 of the originally planned 20 adjustment divisions had completed the "adjustment", and 10 "adjustments" were halfway through. 10 died at the beginning.

In 1936, although Chang Kaishen was nominally the capital of the Nanjing National Government, its political and military center of gravity was actually in the south.His main forces north of the Yangtze River, counting from the most difficult to command:

The first is Han Fuqu's troops in Shandong, with about 29 troops.The second is the Song Zhe Department of the 10th Army in Hebei, with about 57 people.In addition, there is the 35th Army affiliated to the Northeast Army-because Huang Ke changed history, this department is currently staying in the Hebei garrison to "eat".Located in Suiyuan, Fu Zuoyi's 3th Army has about 67 people (the Jinsui Army system).Another branch of the Northeast Army, the [-]th Army, is currently stationed in Hebei near Shanxi.