From to 1935 2020

The airstrike ended after 15 minutes, and the scene was a mess...

As for Yan Laoxi...

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-------------------- Chapter 146 Two peaches kill three warriors.

"Shanxi is just a feint attack, Suiyuan is the focus of Li Runshi's attack, because he wants Su Yuan!"

On March 21, the first day of the Shanxi Campaign, despite the loud telegrams from the Jinsui Army calling for help, Chang Kaishen still stood still, as if he was sitting on a Diaoyutai.

In his opinion, there is nothing more important than preventing Li Runshi from opening up the line of communication with Outer Mongolia.In the past two months, in addition to sending "not human" miscellaneous troops to Baotou and Guisui to help Fu Zuoyi defend the city as cannon fodder, Chang Kaishen even dispatched his small air force to Guisui to take advantage of the winter At that time, a temporary field airfield was built there, ready to give air support at any time.

Until March 22, a large number of Red Army forcibly crossed the Yellow River, from Xinzhou in the north to Linfen in the south. Bad news came from the hundreds of kilometers of the Yellow River defense line that the Red Army had successfully crossed the river. After a series of information about Yan Xishan's life and death continued to come in, the Chairman of the Standing Committee realized, as if awakened from a dream, that he seemed to have made a mistake in his strategic forecast.

But Chang Kaishen was still not in a hurry.

"Don't worry, don't worry, Taiyuan is backed by the railway, and the Central Army can use the railway to deploy troops. It only takes three days to send reinforcements to Taiyuan, Shanxi!"

In the first two days, Chang Kaishen only ordered the main force of the Central Army surrounding Shanxi to be ready to move out, but they still "stand still."

"This winter, Yan Laoxi is desperately preparing his armaments, and he can mobilize 30 troops! If I don't wait for his troops and the Red Army to be wiped out, I will rush there like this, that would be too stupid!"

The friendly army is in trouble like a mountain, let other people's children die first.Chang Kaishen didn't understand until his death that although he had a large army, because of this petty mentality, it became a mess and could never be twisted into the source of a powerful fist.

Currently in Shanxi, Yan Xishan's army has 30 troops in name, but the core number of soldiers that can fight is more than [-]. Strong, don't count on field battles or anything.

What's more terrible is that 30 people seem to be a lot of scary, but in fact they are like flour, scattered in dozens of large and small cities in Shanxi, Nuoda, and they are completely loose sand-this is also only 1 people in history. The reason why the Red Army with many people can easily run around in Yan Laoxi's house like a monkey grandson to beat the autumn wind.

And this time, the Central Red Army that attacked Shanxi mobilized a full main force of 15 people!Weapons, troops, and combat power are ten times that of the same period in history, and most of them are veterans of many battles.

At the beginning of the new year, while the Jinsui army was doing a lot of business with the Red Army in Hexi, it was also desperately blocking personnel exchanges between the two sides of the strait.Along the Yellow River stretching nearly a thousand miles from Hequ and Baode in the north to Yonghe and Daning in the south, more than [-] high forts and dark forts were built. The distance between them is based on the fact that the firepower can cross each other. The total strength of the front line of the river defense reaches as many as four independent brigades, under the unified command of Sun Chu, the commander of the Zhengtai Road Guard Army.Important towns on the east bank of the Yellow River, such as Sanjiao, Qikou, Mengmen, Jundu, Zhongyang, Shilou, etc., also have heavy troops stationed, forming the second line of defense against the Red Army's development in depth, and can call for assistance at any time. River crossings.

In order to make up for the deficiencies of the first and second lines of defense, relying on the main passes in the Luliang Mountains, Li Shengda, the commander of the 72th Army, was dispatched to personally sit in the townships in Guanshang Village, Zhongyang County, and Shuitou Town, Xi County, with 6 troops under his command. The division conducts strategic reserve defense and constitutes the third line of defense for blocking.In order to make up for the insufficient strength of the main force, deter the local people, and implement its preventive measures of "political anti-communist" and "popular anti-communist", several local armed forces-"anti-communist defense regiments" were established in counties along the river. For six defense zones, the local people and revolutionaries sympathetic to the Anti-Japanese War were severely suppressed, resulting in the brutal killing of many innocent people and small businessmen who went to Shanxi to visit relatives and friends.In just a few dozen days, more than a hundred people were killed in the counties along the river in western Shanxi.

Yan Laoxi actually did all the "communist prevention preparations" that should be done.The only problem is that he didn't expect that Lin Changhe, who was very happy to do business with him recently, "talked and laughed", and gave him a large box of "Jiangfeng Pills" so that he could regain his prestige in front of women, would be Lin Changhe. A spy.

The consequence of getting too close to "Lin Changhe" was that the whereabouts of his guard battalion convoy were clear to the Red Army.

When Yan Xishan was going to go to the Yellow River to inspect the river defense, he was unlucky at the same time as the Red Army on the other side was about to launch a full-scale offensive.

Although the Red Army "prohibits assassination", it is not so pedantic as to "prohibit thousands of troops from taking the head of an enemy general" and other normal military operations.After getting the information, he immediately decided to bomb Yan Xishan's convoy as the first shot to launch the Eastern Expedition.

Before the war, Chairman Li Runshi told General Peng, the frontline commander in charge of the battle of crossing the river:

"It's a good thing that Yan Xishan can be killed in this attack, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't die! The important thing is that this bombing can plunge the entire command system of the Jinsui Army into chaos for a short time."

The follow-up situation was even better than expected!After the bombing, when the first wave of [-] vanguard troops of the Red Army rushed into Shanxi from the Yellow River defense line of more than [-] kilometers, the entire upper-level command system of the Shanxi-Sui Army was in chaos at this time-the reason was that Yan Old West is missing!

Not only the Jin Sui Army couldn't get in touch with Yan Laoxi, even Chang Kaishen couldn't get in touch with him.

The place Yan Laoxi inspected was near Liulin County on the east side of the Yellow River in the Luliang area, which happened to be the center of the Red Army's attack.While his convoy was blown to pieces by the Red Army, he had just inspected that section of the Yellow River defense line.However, the elite Red Army who quietly crossed the river last night broke through within half a day, and then the Red Army on the other side flocked to the east in large numbers, and quickly expanded the breakthrough section.

The masonry bunkers arranged by the river and at the foot of the mountain hardly played any role, and were directly pierced by the attacking Red Army. In history, the Red Army on the Eastern Expedition had to use human lives to fill these bunkers because of insufficient firepower. , and even sneak attack in the dark, but the Red Army of this plane, after receiving the assistance of Huang Ke and Soviet experts, used too many means to attack this "civil structure" bunker.

The Red Army launched an attack directly in the daytime. The [-]-kilometer-long Yellow River defense line is too long, and there are gaps everywhere that can break through and infiltrate.In history, the Red Army relied on rowing small boats to cross the Yellow River, but now they are supported by Huang Ke, many small water transportation boats, and it is very convenient for the assault and infiltration troops to cross the river.

In history, the "flat-fire mortar" invented by the sharpshooter Zhao Zhangcheng is a sharp weapon for building bunkers.Under Huang Ke's suggestion and with the help of Soviet experts, this weapon was produced in large quantities by the Red Army within a few months.Using the flat-fire mortar method to hit those traditional civil blockhouses, it is accurate to hit one, and one cannonball is blown away.The high-quality TNT explosives from the Soviet Union and the United States are used as fillers to ensure the power of these shells.

As for these flat-firing mortars, the strike distance is not as far as that of the mobile phone gun, and it is also very easy to deal with the problem of suppressing the firepower of the enemy's bunker machine gun: a 12.7mm anti-tank gun aided by the Soviet Union with Springfield's 2.2 times the scope, or give the machine gun Directly installing a 2.2 scope can easily overwhelm the firing ports of bunkers and fortresses such as the Jinsui Army, and no one dares to shoot there.

In terms of intelligence, Yan Laoxi thought that the high-handed suppression of local civilians could cut off intelligence and make the Red Army unable to figure out the details of his Yellow River defense line. Where the command center is and where the material warehouse is, the opponent is very clear.

Before the assault, the tactics used by the Red Army were similar to those used by the Japanese army to break through the Zhongtiao Mountain defense line: they were all at the beginning of the war, trying to paralyze the connection between the enemy's central command system and the frontline departments as much as possible. .

The attack on Yan Xishan's convoy was one of them. On the front line to the west of the Luliang Mountains, the Red Army commandos who sneaked in beforehand cut the electric wires and telegraph lines everywhere at the first time, and even sent elite commandos directly to attack the front command center. to create chaos.

Unlike the Red Army in another time and space, the Red Army in this time and space, the front-line commandos, has an average of 40 troops each carrying a flat-firing mortar, plus a large number of grenades—although the latter is relatively complex and the output is not high , but the products accumulated by the rear factory in two months are enough for several battles.

In history, the Jinsui Army couldn’t even stop the Red Army from the Eastern Expedition with less than 5000 people. This Yan Laoxi was not much stronger than the same period in history. The main force of the Red Army in the first wave of assault was 5 people. Moreover, the offensive was launched simultaneously from the north to the south.

One point is broken, and everywhere is broken. The Yellow River in March is extremely shallow, so it is very convenient to drive and set up a pontoon bridge.

From Sanjiao, Qikou, to Mengmen, Jundu, Zhongyang, and Shilou, there was smoke everywhere, and there were cannons everywhere. ,

In just one day, the Yellow River defense line that Yan Xishan had painstakingly managed for more than three months was completely broken through.The Jinsui Army that is still holding on in various places, and the troops with "poor communication" can hold on longer when they "instinctively stick to it" in a panic.On the contrary, those troops who can still maintain "communication links", after receiving bad news such as that the surrounding ferry has been breached, the flanks are threatened, and "the enemy is outflanking", the basic situation is that the officer shouted to withdraw, and then Everyone left their positions and ran back in unison—this is how they were pierced by the Red Army in history, but in this plane, they ran faster and more aggressively.

In just one day, the Red Army easily smashed the defense line of the Yellow River. By the next day, many pontoon bridges were erected.

However, there is still no news from Chief Yan.

The Red Army who crossed the river took control of the site where Yan Xishan was attacked the next day, and found the body of the Jinsui army abandoned in the air raid there. After questioning the prisoners, they learned that it was Yan Xishan's personal guard.However, after checking the nearby corpses, there was still no sign of Yan Laoxi.

On March 23, as more main forces of the Red Army crossed the Yellow River and made great strides toward Lishi, the center of Luliang in western Shanxi, Chairman Li Runshi and Commander-in-Chief Zhu also led their headquarters to move to the east bank of the Yellow River.

The battle in Shanxi was no small matter. Chairman Li Runshi and the commander-in-chief did not dare to take it lightly, and went directly to the front line.At this time, he had already received information from all parties that "Yan Xishan's life and death are unknown".

"If the body is not found, Yan Laoxi probably hid it. This old warlord is very naughty, why is there no news about him now, because he is frightened."

The Commander-in-Chief was puzzled.

Li Runshi tapped the location of "Lishi" in the center of the Luliang theater on the combat map, where Li Shengda's troops were stationed.

"Xiao Huang handed in the information about Li Shengda, have you read it?"

Boss Zhu narrowed his eyes and suddenly realized.

"Is it the conflict between Yan Laoxi and Li Shengda?"

Li Runshi sneered and said:

"The biggest thing Yan Laoxi and Chang Kaishen have in common is that they can't escape the nature of warlords, employ cronyism, follow close relatives, and treat sidelines like cannon fodder."

"No wonder! Sun Chu and Li Shengda's troops are guarding the Yellow River line of defense. Although Li Shengda is from Shanxi and was born in the Jinsui Army, he joined Chang Kaishen after the Central Plains War. Like Shang Zhen, Chang Kaishen was there Sand mixed with Shanjin. Xiao Huang said that shortly after our Eastern Expedition in history, Chang Kaishen forced the Jinsui army to cross the Yellow River to attack us. Li Shengda, who was the sand, was assassinated by Yan Laoxi immediately. ! These two generals are at odds and are suspicious of each other!"

"Exactly! Yan Laoxi placed Li Shengda's troops on the front line facing the Red Army. He had no good intentions in the first place. He used a knife to kill people. As Xiao Huang said, he is still a rich man from Shanxi in essence. The main force of his direct lineage gathered in Taiyuan early on, and Taiyuan is his foundation!"

Li Runshi said while drawing a circle with his finger at the location of Taiyuan, and then pointed to Lishi, the core of the Luliang area.

"This time, he came to Luliang to inspect the front line, but suddenly encountered an air raid. According to the information provided by Pan Hannian, the Jinsui Army has no knowledge of the fact that the Red Army owns planes. Under such circumstances, he was suddenly encountered on the front line. Targeted bombing and attack by multiple planes, if Yan Laoxi escaped from death, what do you think he would think?"

"Hehehe, I will definitely think that Chang Kaishen did it, because he is the only one with a plane in the north."

The commander-in-chief laughed.

"After this bombing, he must have been so frightened that he didn't even dare to sit in a car. He must have ridden a horse, brought his personal guards, crossed Luliang Mountain on a small road, and fled frantically back to his old nest in Taiyuan. And what he is most afraid of now is People, it’s not the Red Army but Li Shengda!”

As Li Runshi said, he tapped on the location of Luliang on the table. It was the headquarters of the Li Shengda Department of the 72nd Division of the [-]th Army of the Jinsui Army, and the location of the enemy's front headquarters!

"Order Peng Shuai's Third Army, Seventh Army, Eighth Army, and Ninth Army to march eastward with all their strength, encircle and wipe out the 72nd Division! At the same time, order Luo Binghui's troops to detour to the east of Lishi, seize Wucheng, and cut off their return to Taiyuan. "

Historically, during the Red Army's Eastern Expedition, in the first month, more than 1 Red Army troops beat 10,000+ Jinsui Army into embarrassment and were helpless to fight back.In terms of preserving strength, the Jinsui Army is actually no better than Chang Kaishen's gang. 10,000+ people were crushed, beaten, chased and bitten by more than 1 people. Is this scene conceivable?

But during the first month of the Red Army's Eastern Expedition, it was as easy as entering the back garden of one's own home.

At that time, when Li Shengda fought against the Red Army, he obviously had no fewer troops than the opponent, but he jumped over Yan Xishan at the first moment and asked for help from the Central Army. Time sent a full 12 Central Army into Jin.

Li Shengda's approach also caused his own death later.

After entering the Jin Dynasty, the Central Army was not in a hurry to fight the Red Army, but was taking Yan Laoxi's territory in Shanxi without haste.After more than 70 days of the Eastern Expedition, Chairman Li Runshi saw that the situation was not good. He completed the strategic goal of fighting the autumn wind in Shanxi and recruiting nearly 10,000 troops. The [-]+ Central Army villains who Jin relied on not to leave complained endlessly.

At that time, after the central army came, they refused to leave without saying anything, and later forced Yan Laoxi to "enter Shaanxi to suppress bandits", but Yan Laoxi, an old warlord, was a ruthless person, and he directly shot KO'd Li Shengda, the second and fifth son, and killed the biggest "Jin traitor", and then took advantage of the situation to incorporate his remaining troops, and then refused to send troops on the pretext that the army's morale was unstable, and he dragged it to the Xi'an Incident.

And this plane......

When Chairman Li Runshi saw through the contradictions within the Jinsui Army at a glance and set the target of the second battle on the [-]th Army, Yan Xishan was just as he guessed, leading more than [-] confidants who had narrowly escaped death, and were in the Luliang Mountains marching.

At this time, Yan Laoxi's head was wrapped in gauze, his eyebrows and hair had scorched marks, and his face and hands were covered with burn blisters. He looked extremely miserable.During the bombing at that time, he was only splashed by the splashing gasoline flames, a little bit of hair and eyebrows were burned off, and some blisters were burned on his hands and face. The injuries were not serious, but he looked extremely embarrassed.

Frightened by the bombing, he mistakenly thought that Li Shengda, a young man, was stabbing him in collusion with Chang Kaishen.He didn't dare to enter the county seat, and he didn't dare to send a telegram, so he led his personal guards to the sparsely populated places in the mountains.Along the way, I also tried my best to avoid the county town and other points that would reveal my whereabouts.

So he was in such a mess. On the one hand, Yan Laoxi was scaring himself;At this time, Yan Laoxi's mind was full of "Chang Kaishen wants to kill me", "Li Shengda colluded with Chang Kaishen and wanted to kill me!"

Fortunately, Yan Xishan belonged to his own land. Although the mountain roads in the Luliang area were difficult to navigate, most of the remaining soldiers around him were locals.He himself has a wide range of contacts in the countryside of Shanxi and has a strong appeal.County towns dare not enter, but gentry and landlords in the countryside can be trusted.Relying on the support of the gentry and landlords along the way, Yan Laoxi did not suffer from hunger, but marched like crazy day and night, wanting to take the trail and cross the Luliang Mountains to the Taiyuan garrison.

These rural landowners and gentry are very concerned about Yan Laoxi's face. They not only provide food support, some are eager to hug the thigh from the dragon, but also enthusiastically send their own private soldiers to escort them. When they entered the Luliang Mountains, Yan Laoxi had only two hundred Yu Hao, when he was about to leave Luliang Mountain, the number of escorts increased to more than [-] people.

For the control of the countryside and the support of the gentry, Yan Laoxi is far better than other warlords, which is the biggest capital he can dance on a few eggs.After he failed in the Central Plains War, he was able to make a comeback so quickly. Chang Kaishen knew that he had bad intentions, but he still had to let him take charge of Shanxi. The reason was also his strong control over the grassroots in Shanxi.

When Yan Laoxi was hiding from Li Shengda like a plague god, Li Shengda didn't know that he was considered by the old chief as a young man who wanted to kill him.

The army number Li Shengda is in charge of is the 19th Army, (the 19th Army of the Jinsui Army) under the jurisdiction of the 72nd Division and an independent brigade.The reason why there is only one division and one brigade in an army is the reason for the conflict between Li Shengda and Yan Xishan.After the Red Army took Ganshan and Shanxi, in order to counter the threat from the west of the Yellow River, Li Shengda expanded his army privately, incorporated the local militia, and added another brigade to four brigades.

Because this person was bought by Chang Kaishen, just like Shang Zhen, he has long been regarded as a thorn in Yan Xishan's side.Although he expanded his army, Yan Xishan would rather do business with the Red Army and sell arms, but he was extremely wary of Li Shengda's army expansion, and deliberately made things difficult.

Fortunately, Shanxi is a large military-industrial province. After the Central Plains War, Yan Laoxi, in order to fight against Chang Baldzi’s slashing of the vassal, played "Tibetan soldiers with the gentry", and the civilian armed forces can make up enough firearms with their own dry food. After the expansion of the army, the actual number of weapons The shortfall is not large, and as long as they can "pay normally", the militias are actually very happy to upgrade from the "off-the-shelf army" to the "official army" that eats the imperial rations.

When Chang Kaishen is valuable to you, he is also very generous when he should. He makes up for the lack of ammunition, and in terms of military pay, he mixes it with "French currency" and the ocean.

The tragedy of Li Shengda is that he sold his old club, but he didn't sell hard enough. After the Central Plains War, he threw his head bald, and he didn't grit his teeth like Shang Zhen. leave.He still wants to rely on Shanxi as sand, but he doesn't know that his subordinates have been infiltrated by Yan Laoxi long ago like a sieve. When Yan Laoxi wanted him to die, he really just said a word, and then his guards opened fire on his back. shot.

When the Red Army marched eastward in this time and space, Li Shengda's troops were maliciously transferred to the front line of the Yellow River by Yan Xishan, and the independent brigade in his hand was assigned to Sun Chu's command by Yan Xishan, while the core 72nd Division and the newly formed brigade were used as the reserve team Put it around the stone.Although Li Shengda has the title of "the enemy's front commander", he was actually taken away by Yan Xishan, and even his own independent brigade was sent to the front line to be cannon fodder in different ways.

In terms of tactics, Yan Laoxi is not much worse than Chang Baldzi. In terms of military command skills, well, the two are about the same, and Yan Laoxi may even be worse.

In fact, the entire Jinsui Army, who really knows how to fight, is Fu Zuoyi, an outlier.The rest are all the remnants of Beiyang: forming a solid formation, fighting in a daze, treating headaches and feet, and having fewer troops than the opponent. Makes people speechless.

The main forces of the four brigades were spread out along the Yellow River waterway from north to south.If you don't know what elastic defense is, you will only build bunkers and form a solid formation to fight dull battles.The so-called heavy defense everywhere is actually dividing the troops everywhere, heavy troops are not heavy!It claims to be fortified everywhere and airtight, but in fact it is sprinkled with peppercorns and water, and there is no defense everywhere.

The Red Army, which had the upper hand on the opposite side, didn't play tricks with him either. During the assault, they used the dignified and upright combat method, each time concentrating several times the strength of the defending troops, breaking through with all their strength in key areas, and smashing the Yellow River with one blow. The line of defense pierced several big holes directly, and then poured in from the breakthrough, all kinds of interspersed, outflanked...

Four brigades, plus a bunch of various local militias that cooperated in the battle, the main force plus militias, a force of nearly 2 people, was defeated in two days - and there was no big battle, just running Then, in the constant rout and besieged, gone...

Ironically, since his troops were so spread out. Four brigades were scattered along the river of more than 200 kilometers, and they were defeated in one blow, and then wiped out in the rout.Because the troops were too scattered, when they were wiped out, they were basically crushed and eaten on the scale of battalion and regiment. The fighting process was not intense. Nearly 6 of the main force fought were torn up and eaten, and everyone had a share.

Because these brigades didn't have much fighting spirit before the war, they collapsed when they were hit, broke up when they collapsed, and shattered when they were scattered. Everyone felt like they hadn't eaten anything. …

The reason why his fighting spirit is so bad is firstly because of Yan Laoxi’s sudden disappearance and leaderless group, and secondly because of Yan Laoxi’s failure to put his “non-confidant” troops on the front line as cannon fodder. The scale of the elephant is not small, and in fact it is still regarded as cannon fodder for delaying time. As for throwing Li Shengda to the front line of Luliang, it is even more intentional to want him to die first.In Yan Laoxi's eyes, neither Sun Chu nor Li Shengda was his own—in this respect, he was actually no different from Chang Baldzi.

Because the Red Army was advancing too fast on the front line, the infiltration troops that had entered Shanxi in advance, under the cover of Pan Hannian's transport team, destroyed communication facilities everywhere, cutting off the communication link between the front and the rear.

The Jinsui army fell into chaos as soon as the battle started. In the first two days, Li Shengda, who couldn't find the commander, was even more confused.He only knew that the Yellow River defense line had fallen, but he didn't know where the Red Army had attacked.The contact with the front-line troops was only to contact Sun Chu who was fleeing. However, Sun Chu was also in a state of shock and headless at this time. He was so focused on running away that he didn't even know where his subordinates were.

There is no way, who told everyone that they were attacked at the same time, collapsed at the same time, and ran at the same time. When they ran, they moved so fast that they didn't even have a radio.Wired communication telegraph lines and telephone lines in various places were cut off again at this critical node...

When the main force of the Red Army crossed the Yellow River on the fourth day, that is, on March 25th, Li Shengda, the commander of the [-]th Army of the Shanxi-Sui Army, finally understood the situation before him. His own [-]th Army with "only one division" A part of the Red Ninth Army, which has also been interspersed, cut off the way back to Taiyuan City through Luliang Mountain.

The Red Army of the whole four armies, just like an open palm, grabbed his nineteenth army.

Soon, Li Shengda's 6th Army became a turtle in an urn. One division plus a bunch of local militias that had withdrawn from various places, with less than [-] troops, was surrounded by more than [-] Red Army regiments in Lishi, Luliang Zhongyang area.

And at this point in time, Chief Yan, who had been missing for a long time, finally crossed the Luliang Mountains and returned to his own control area in Taiyuan City.

Yan Laoxi, who was still in shock, received a telegram from Li Shengda asking for help at this time, and finally figured it out. It was really not Chang Kaishen who wanted to kill him, but the Red Army was bombing him—the reason why he believed that the Red Army was bombing him was because Because Li Shengda, who was trapped in the Luliang area, had just been bombed by a Red Army plane on his head.

"The red bandits first had tanks, and now they have planes, and there are many more!"

After hearing the news, Yan Laoxi suddenly turned pale with shock.Then it ordered all the local security forces around Taiyuan to move closer to Taiyuan and gather together.Within two days, 6 troops (most of them were local militias) were assembled in Taiyuan City, and the garrison troops in Taiyuan were still increasing at this time.