From to 1935 2020

On March 31, several main forces of the Red Army crossing the Yellow River east broke through the Luliang Mountains and besieged Taiyuan.

This day is also the same day that Emperor Hirohito of the Showa era of Japan died.

On April 20st, when the Japanese government issued the notice, the front pages of the news here in China and around the world were filled with frightening headlines such as "[-] Communists besiege Taiyuan, Taiyuan is in danger!"

On the same day, Wei Lihuang's troops in the south of Henan also crossed the Yellow River and entered the Yuncheng area.

Three days later, newspapers across the country reported that "the siege of Linfen has been resolved"—in fact, Linfen was not surrounded at all, but it was only under the pressure of a small amount of feint attack from the Red Army in the north.On the contrary, after Wei Lihuang's troops came, the Jinsui army stationed there guarded the city gate as if they were facing a formidable enemy, and refused to let Wei Lihuang's troops enter the city.

However, the gentry in the city chipped in and donated 30 oceans to Wei Lihuang's soldiers, and even offered countless Fenjiu and delicacies, with an extremely respectful attitude.

Wei Lihuang was puzzled, and asked Lao Jun, a gentry, "Our army has traveled thousands of miles to help Shanxi, why do you close the door and refuse to enter?"

The elder replied: "Mr. Wei's feats in Changsha in the past are well known to the world. Linfen Temple is small and cannot accommodate such a great god as Mr. Wei..."

Wei Lihuang: "..."

When Chang Kaishen surrounded Shanxi's "reinforcement army" at a slow speed like a turtle crawling steadily, and did not give the Red Army "siege and reinforcements" and only took the opportunity along the way, with Taiyuan as the center, the Red Army fought inside the center The ministries are not really wasting time by sitting around.

During the period from the Red Army's eastward march to Wei Lihuang's northward march to "break" the siege of Linfen, all the Red Army troops that entered Shanxi attacked in all directions, sweeping across the entire Jinzhong Basin.

For Taiyuan, which was heavily guarded by Yan Laoxi, the Red Army only sent a small number of troops to surround and oppress it.While the Jinsui army huddled into a group, they were still desperately building fortresses on the inside, while the Red Army surrounded on the outside was also desperately digging tunnels, trenches, and piercing cat's ears on the outside.The enemy and the enemy actually started a fortification operation competition around Taiyuan.

During the day, the two sides were digging fortifications, and they didn't even fight each other coldly. Everything seemed to be in peace.But at night, the defense line outside Taiyuan began to become lively.

"Pound, thump, thump!"

Firecrackers were set off in the iron barrels, and the Red Army on the periphery acted as if they were violently attacking the defense line of Taiyuan City, most of the time they were pretending to fight.

A strange fake war was staged just outside the city of Taiyuan.The stink bomb attacks at night were nothing but training for the Red Army.After getting used to being stinky, Yan Laoxi's frontline troops were quickly beaten out of experience: they gave up the first line of defense at night and let the Red Army fight the stinky bombs. Anyway, the Red Army didn't want to capture there, and then came back during the day to "take back" "The line of defense...

After the Red Army found out that the Jinsui Army had done this, they stopped even the harassment. After all, the golden dung bombs themselves stink uncomfortably.

Yan Laoxi knew that Li Runshi didn't want to really fight Taiyuan, and Li Runshi also knew that Yan Laoxi knew that Li Runshi didn't want to really fight Taiyuan...

Therefore, Yan Laoxi also worked hard to dig a hole, hoping to introduce Chang Tuzi into this big hole in Taiyuan sooner.

"Li Runshi knows that Taiyuan is not easy to eat, he doesn't want to fight, he just pretends! He is still the same as when he was in Jiangxi, he wants to besiege the city and fight for aid!"

Yan Laoxi saw something tricky, but he didn't want to attack. He just ordered the troops to hold out, and then continued to send electricity to Zhangjiakou, asking for help.

Lao Xi saw it very clearly: Chang Baldzi had to be dragged into the water and let him and Li Runshi fight more fiercely outside the city of Taiyuan, so that he could have a chance to survive.

Don't look at Yan Laoxi who seems to be sitting on the wall and watching it now, but he is actually beating drums in his heart.

Why?

That Li Runshi outside, this young man, he is too wicked and difficult to deal with!

Don't look at him besieging the city, besieging the city without fighting, but do you know what he is doing at night?

Every night, the Red Army would dispatch grenadiers at night to sneak up to the Jinsui Army's position, and use the "rhubarb crossbow" invented by Huang Ke to fire some homemade candies and cigarettes at the Jinsui Army's position.

In addition, tweeters will also be used to publicize the Red Army's policies to the Jinsui Army positions regardless of day and night. They will say more, that is: "Are there any brothers from the Jinsui Army who live in XXX area? I will sue you." Good news, your hometown was liberated by the Red Army, and land reform is going on there now...."

Tell me, is this something humans do?

Yan Laoxi went to the front line to inspect a circle, and was terrified after hearing the propaganda released by the Red Army with tweeters.

Of course he knew what the Red Army said was true!

Although Yan Laoxi's move can be called "a stroke of genius for surviving from death", it still has a price to pay.

Giving up so much territory and throwing it directly to the Red Army, not all the gentry are willing to hide in Taiyuan City together obediently.Those who failed to make it were all beaten up by the Red Army afterwards, losing money and life.

The good thing is: this approach of the Red Army has strengthened the hearts of the gentry who followed Yan Laoxi.

The downside is that the entire Lvliang area in western Shanxi, as well as the rural areas around Taiyuan, and even other areas that are being swept away by the Red Army, all the "mud legs" are now mobilized by the Communist bandits.

Every day that passes, the pernicious poison of the "bandit and communist ideology" they have received will intensify.The gentry who escaped from the Luliang Mountains and some officers released by the Red Army reported to Yan Laoxi: During the days when the Red Army crossed the river, they wiped out more than 3 Jinsui troops in seven days.

In fact, no more than a thousand people were actually killed on the battlefield, and most of them were captured after the Jinsui military.

Regarding these prisoners of war of the Jinsui Army, except for a few who committed the most heinous crimes and suffered extreme "soldier and public anger", the Red Army did not kill any of them.The wounded should be treated well, and the relevant ideological education work for ordinary soldiers is naturally indispensable, but when the prisoners are released, the principle of where the Red Army hits and where the prisoners are placed is implemented.

The specific method is: divide the captives according to their location, and then take them to the captured hometown. While releasing them, they will fight local tyrants and land reform, and then recruit soldiers on the spot...

The consequence of this is that a large number of former Jinsui Army soldiers in the Luliang area were released during the day and went home. After a day or two, they took the initiative to go to the Red Army to ask to join the army again...

And those captives whose hometowns are far away and have not had time to "liberate" for the time being, such as those in northern or southern Shanxi, the Red Army took these captives to the land reform site and the scene of local tyrants to watch for a day or two, and then released them directly after paying the travel expenses. .....

Many people have experienced ideological education, complaining movement, land reform policy, and the three major artifacts have taken turns to influence them, and they immediately changed their positions, from white to red...

Yan Laoxi's rule of Shanxi seems to have won the hearts of the gentry, but he only won the hearts of the gentry.His arsenal in Taiyuan, the establishment of the military industry was based on the severe exploitation of the countryside.

Historically, Li Runshi's Red Army, in the form of "rogue bandits", easily recruited [-] young Shanxi youths into the Red Army after spending [-] days in Shanxi.But now, the Red Army, which is ten times stronger than in history, entered Shanxi as a king's army. When it appeared on the stage, it showed a strong "I'm here, I don't intend to leave! I will use this as a way to promote the king's career, How can Yan Laoxi not be frightened when he sees the momentum of attacking the world's base?"

The gentry who had fled back to Taiyuan told Yan Laoxi that this group of red bandits killed from northern Shaanxi, in addition to the land reform in the Lvliang area, also gave medicine and medicine everywhere to buy people's hearts.For those soldiers of the Jinsui Army who were captured locally, as long as someone in their family was seriously ill, the Red Army would take the initiative to send military doctors to deliver medicine and treat the illness.

"Mr. Yan, Li Runshi's bandit army, he is just like Wu Qi sucking pus, with vicious intentions! Many of the brothers below directly voted in like this!"

The gentry and the released officers cried to Yan Laoxi in various ways. Although Yan Laoxi understood, he couldn't help it.

He can't offend Li Runshi, and Chang Kaishen also wants to steal his family property. He wants to maximize his own interests, and the only way to have a chance is to hope that the two families will fight together first...

Now the Red Army outside the city of Taiyuan is constantly shooting candies, cigarettes and other things to the Jinsui Army's positions, all Yan Laoxi can do is play dumb.

Why?

After all, the battle is fought by the big soldiers below. If you snatch these candies and cigarettes, aren't you afraid that the big soldiers below will shoot you in the back?Especially when the bandits and communists on the opposite side are really carrying out land reforms, and the defenders in the city have already begun to lose their hearts.

What he can do now is to force the gentry in the city to unite and feed the soldiers below with heavy rewards to make them loyal, so as to prevent someone from defecting...

Yan Xishan is very good at controlling people's hearts and preventing his subordinates from defecting. Historically, Taiyuan City was besieged during the Liberation War for more than a year, and there was no large-scale desertion.

When Yan Laoxi was having a headache about Li Runshi's "Land Reform Offensive" and "Candy Offensive", Chang Kaishen in Zhangjiakou also stepped up his offensive against the 57th Army and 67th Army of the Northeast Army.

Chang Kaishen, who was rich, once again rewarded the commanders of the two armies generously, not only the commanders, but even their division commanders and brigade commanders also received generous rewards.There are 100 million army commanders, 50 division commanders, 20 brigade commanders, and [-] ordinary regiment commanders.

Chang Kaishen has learned his lesson now, [-]% of these big rewards are in French currency, and [-]% are in cash.

But that's enough.

Wang Yizhe, the commander of the 67th Army, once again expressed his willingness to be loyal to the principal after being bought with a lot of money, and took the initiative to report the secret telegram Zhang Xueliang sent him to "stand still" to the chairman to show his loyalty and resolutely implement the order of the chairman.

He quickly followed Chang Kaishen's instructions, led the army to leave the station, entered Jinzhong, and crossed the third army and the new first army, and the three armies formed a character to advance to Taiyuan together.

Since Wang Yizhe was sensible and obedient, Chang Baldzi naturally didn't make things difficult for him,

As for Miao Chengliu, the other commander of the 57th Army who was bought off, he was slick and evasive in all kinds of ways. It's just that Chang Baldzi's red envelopes are so easy to get?

Miao Chengliu, who performed very poorly, was led by Dong Yingbin, the chief of staff of the 100th Army who received 57 million yuan from Chang Tushen, and the division commanders under him turned their backs on the spot, resigned from his military post, and collectively swore allegiance Chang Kaishen.

Afterwards, Miao Chengliu cried and told Chang Tuzi that he was hesitant at the time just to preserve his strength, and he didn't really collude with the red bandits like Zhang Yang, but Chang Tuzi couldn't believe it, so he threw him to the Military Law Department for disposal.

Then the 57th Army, which had been in command all the time, also moved.

The Northeast Army, which acted as cannon fodder on the 57th and 67th, took the lead, followed by the Third Army and the new First Army to suppress the suppression. They changed their previous "turtle speed" advancing posture in the Yangquan area, and together they pressed aggressively towards Taiyuan.At the same time, Tang Enbo's troops, who had been lingering along the Beiping-Taiyuan railway, also boarded the train at this time, preparing to march westward to Taiyuan with friendly troops.

As for Wei Lihuang, who was blocked by the Linfen defenders from entering the city, he did not go north from Linfen during this time—Chang Bald, who had been sieged and rescued countless times in the past, finally made some progress and did not let Wei Lihuang The lone army "alone all the way" went north to rescue, but ordered him to go east, along the line of Qinyuan County, Qin County, and Wuxiang. He was not in a hurry to occupy the Changzhi area. The Northeast Army and the two central armies joined together first to protect their left flank, and then cooperated with Tang Enbo's troops, the "six armies and six arrows" gathered together and "rolled westward".

Another reason why Chang Kaishen can rest assured that the 57th Army and the 67th Army will not turn against each other before the battle is that after 20 days of procrastination, the 57th Army he transferred from Jiangsu was also transferred to Hebei by railway. . On 67 and [-], as soon as the two armies pulled out their camps, Chen Cheng's main force easily occupied the old nests of the two armies, Baoding and Shijiazhuang.With the Eighteenth Army in the rear, Chang Kaishen didn't have to worry that his Central Army would be taken from the rear by the Red Army.

In this battle, Chang Kaishen, who had "lost some confidence", was very "conservative" in his strategic thinking.

The six armies in front gathered together and pushed westward in parallel.At this point in time, the troops of Shang Zhen and Gao Guizi, who were transferred to Baotou and Guisui due to a wrong strategic prediction, also went south along Datong, and cooperated with Tang Enbo's troops to oppress the Red Army from the north.

It is of course the best to force Li Runshi's Red Army to fight a "big battle".

It was not successful, Li Runshi ran away and was driven to the Yellow River Valley on the west side of the Luliang Mountains. Annihilating Na also gained most of Shanxi, and finally won.

As for Zhang Yang, the two young men, you two have not sent troops to Shanxi until now, and you are hesitant. The time has passed, and there is no chance!

On April 57, after learning that the 67th Army had "obediently" moved forward with the [-]th Army, Chang Kaishen had a good night's sleep.

"Sure, there should be no flaws."

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-------------------- Chapter 148 Target, Wei Lihuang! --------------------

Shanxi topographic map

Huang Ke and Elena arrived in Yan'an on March [-], the day when the Red Army launched a general offensive.

Since at this time, the cross space is still in the "charging cooling period", the [-] tons of gold bars and silver dollars contained in it cannot all be taken out.

On March 23, at Yan'an Airport, more Air 5 bombers landed at Yan'an Airport. It turned out to be "reinforcements" from Sheng Shicai.Together with them, there is also a group of Soviet ground technicians, who are more precious than aircraft.

In the "Sheng Ma War" in 1933, Xinjiang warlord Sheng Shicai was almost beaten to death by Ma Zhongying. Then, at a critical moment, this speculator rushed to the Soviet Union for help, and even asked to "join the party."

For the Soviet Union, a stable and pro-Soviet local government in Xinjiang has direct interests in it, and it can keep the Sino-Soviet border with Xinjiang, which is more than 3000 kilometers long, safe and sound.The Soviet government proposed that Sheng Shicai "pro-Soviet must be anti-imperialist".In order to gain support, Sheng Shicai had no choice but to agree.Later, the Soviet Union continued to provide military and economic aid to Sheng Shicai, which made Sheng Shicai gain a firm foothold soon after he came to power.While providing military support to Sheng Shicai, the Soviet Union also supported Sheng Shicai from various aspects such as manpower, material resources, and financial resources. They sent a group of experts, technicians, cadres, and Communist Party members to Xinjiang to specifically help Sheng Shicai formulate the "six major policies", namely "Anti-imperialist, pro-Soviet, ethnic equality, peace, incorruptibility, and construction", flaunting "building a new Xinjiang" to restore and develop Xinjiang's economy and culture.With the help of the Soviet Union, Xinjiang's economy has been somewhat restored and developed. ,

The Soviet Union supported Sheng Shicai, which aroused fierce opposition from the world's revolutionaries.The Communist International sent a letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks), listing various reasons why it could not support Sheng Shicai.As far as ideological principles were concerned, the Comintern was not without reason.But the Soviet decision-makers did not consider ideological principles at this time, but the actual national interests of the Soviet Union.

After the outbreak of the Soviet-German War in 1941, this speculator turned to Chang Kaishen and killed many Communist Party members as "signs of death", including Comrade Zemin, the chairman's younger brother.

Sheng Shicai did not expect that turning to the Kuomintang would be "leading wolves into the house".In view of this, Sheng Shicai began to take countermeasures, preparing to drive the Kuomintang forces out of Xinjiang. On August 1944, 8, Sheng Shicai created the "August 11 Huanglin Case" in which Huang Jinjin, secretary of the Xinjiang Provincial Party Committee of the Kuomintang, and Lin Jiyong, director of the Construction Department, were arrested.For a moment, the entire Dihua was in terror.It's just playing this kind of tricks, how can he play Chang Kaishen too much, Chang Baldzi fights back, and after a while of bribery, he soon betrayed everyone.

In order to find a way out, Sheng Shicai attempted to seek refuge with the Soviet Union again.He called Stalin, demanding to rejoin the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and to designate Xinjiang as a republic of the Soviet Union.But Stalin had seen through his true colors at this time and ignored him. In the end, he left Xinjiang in embarrassment after being betrayed by all his relatives.

Regarding the virtue of this person, Huang Ke had already told the upper echelons of the Red Army.And during this period, the Red Army marched eastward to Shanxi. From the very beginning, the upper echelons regarded this battle as a "decisive battle" to change the strategic situation of the entire North China region.

And Huang Ke knew that during this period, Sheng Shicai, with the help of the Soviet Union, had a pilot training school in Xinjiang-the first batch of pilot students of the Red Army in history was actually trained here.Last year, the first batch of pilots sent by the Red Army to the Soviet Union for training flew from the territory of the Soviet Union and flew to Yan'an through Xinjiang, during which they stopped briefly on Sheng Shicai's site to refuel.

Then the Eastern Expedition started, and after understanding what was going on with the plane in front of him, Sheng Shicai, a speculator, showed his full face at this time: he pretended to be extremely revolutionary, and he took the initiative to make demands on Stalin and the CCP, expressing that he would do his best. He strongly supported the Red Army's Eastern Expedition, and sent pilots and planes to assist in the battle, and dispatched all twelve El-5 bombers in his hands at one time.

During this period, on the international market, the price of a brand new Hawker II fighter was only about 5 US dollars.Second-hand old-fashioned Air-[-]s are even cheaper. Sheng Shicai actually has a lot of planes in his hands.

The upper echelons of the Red Army accepted his "revolutionary support", but the upper echelons knew his true face very well at this time.Zeng Zhongsheng, who stayed behind in Yan'an, said to Huang Ke in private: "At about the same time, we must eliminate this feudal warlord who speculates on the revolution, and we must not let them mix into the revolutionary ranks."

"After killing Ma Jiajun, he will be dealt with slowly. For his own benefit, he has carried out a purge among the Northeast Volunteer Army who took refuge in him. The former Volunteer Army hates him to death."

Huang Ke stayed in Yan'an until the 23rd, and took out all the gold and silver purchased at zero yuan from the space equipment.Comrade Runmin, the chairman's younger brother, and a bunch of high-level CCP officials came forward to accept the gold and silver.According to subsequent statistics, the number of gold bars was as high as 360 tons, and the number of silver dollars was [-] tons.

Seeing this scene, everyone was very excited.

"As soon as the cannon fires, ten thousand taels of gold! In a full-scale war, this amount of gold and silver can't buy many shells."

In this matter, Huang Ke is very calm.

一辆T34-85坦克，二战造价是5.5万美元，P51野马战斗机，5.4万美元,这些都还是出厂成本价。一门德造150重炮4万美元/门,炮弹50美元/发。一杆毛瑟98K步枪，30~50美元，子弹则是50美元/千发。

At the end of the war, after the two sides can no longer take too much advantage in tactics, they will fight for hard indicators such as steel production, explosives production, and oil supply.

Huang Ke came to Yan'an this time, in addition to being responsible for "sending gold and silver", another task was to inspect the military construction situation in the base area, and at the same time confirm the types of machinery and equipment to be purchased in the next wave.

In the past few months, a five small industrial system has been established around Yan'an.Not long ago, in the Anding (now called Zichang County) area, using local coal resources, imported equipment and the help of Soviet experts, a small ironmaking plant was established, equipped with a foundry workshop. The molten iron was used to produce coiled sheet metal and cast mortar shells.