From to 1935 2020

From the end of April to the beginning of May, Su Yuxin's newly reorganized 31st Division took the initiative to attack, fought six battles within twelve days, and ate Huang Wei's two main regiments and four local security regiments in one go, and successfully captured Longquan. Shocked the whole Zhejiang.

-------------------- Chapter 153 The Besieged Chang Kaishen --------------------

"Is this the right step for me?"

Standing on the land of Shijiazhuang, looking at the officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army standing guard around, Zhang Xueliang couldn't help asking himself.

It is now May [-]th, and Chang Kaishen's armed forces of the Central Army in the entire Hebei region and North China have almost disappeared.After abandoning Zhangjiakou without a fight not long ago, Chang Kaishen desperately transported the remnants of the main force of the Central Army in North China back to the South through the railway network.

No matter how stubborn he is, if he doesn't withdraw his troops, he will really be dug up his ancestral grave and withdrawn.

In the south of the Yangtze River, the Yunnan army is advancing northward, reaching out to Guizhou.

The local warlords in Hunan, on the other hand, colluded with the Guangxi faction, opened the door, and at the same time frantically expelled Chang Kaishen's remaining forces in Hunan.

Chen Jitang in Guangdong has already occupied Longyan, Xiamen and other places through land and water. The local central army is insufficient, so they dare not fight with them, and retreat desperately.

And in southwestern Zhejiang, after Longquan was captured by Li Yu, the whole of Zhejiang was shaken: the frightened clamor about the resurgence of the red bandits in the south of the Yangtze River was the big news after Chang Kaishen's disastrous defeat in Shanxi.

Compared with Chang Kaishen, who was in a state of distress in Nanjing at this time and didn't know how to solve the dilemma of being backstabbed by the four forces, Zhang Xueliang's current situation was much better than him.

This "backstab" Chang Kaishen and Zhang Xueliang, who is a mother-in-law, took a lot of determination to make the decision-but even if he didn't make a decision, Yang Hucheng, Zhang Xuesi, and the "Young and Strong" Northeast Army below The officers will also "walk alone" and drag him to make a decision.

Standing not far from Zhang Xueliang, Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, and Sun Mingjiu, several young officers of the Northeast Army, looked excited at this moment.

There is no other reason, Shijiazhuang is now the territory that truly belongs to the Northeast Army!

After September [-], because of non-resistance, the local administrative and financial power in Hebei was skillfully stripped from the Northeast Army by Chang Kaishen using public opinion, and then transferred to Song Zheyuan.The Northeast Army that entered the customs has become a "guest army" attached to the central government and living in Hebei, and its food and salary depend on the face of the local government and the central government.

But this time, after joining forces with the Red Army, according to the previous agreement, after the Red Army took Zhangjiakou, they later took Baoding, Shijiazhuang, and Xingtai. Let" be given to the Northeast Army.

Not only that, in Shanxi, the large cities on both sides of the railway line from Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan were also handed over to Zhang Xueliang. This area is currently controlled by Wang Yizhe's 67th Army, which has the best cooperation with the Red Army.According to the agreement, in this area, the Red Army only needs to distribute the mountainous areas and some rural areas, and all the cities will be handed over to the Northeast Army.

After years of homelessness, I have my own "base" again. The sense of steadiness and security is very strong in comparison with that of a homeless dog without roots.

Another very happy person is Yang Hucheng, who is poor in Shaanxi. Yang Hucheng's [-] "Little Northwest Army" is trapped in this poor corner of Xi'an, and life is actually very hard.Especially after the Red Army entered the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, Yang Hucheng and the Red Army used to flirt and do business happily.But can you imagine how the "wolf" feels when a wolf and a tiger work together?The reason why he and Zhang Xueliang have been "intimate" in the past few months is also to see who is sitting next to him.

On the left is Li Runshi's fast-growing tiger, and at Tongguan's feet lies Chang Kaishen, a vicious lion. He can't handle any of them.If he didn't learn from Yan Laoxi to dance on three eggs, he, Lao Yang, would have been torn to pieces long ago.

But now, Yang Hucheng is in a much better mood.

When Chang Kaishen was defeated in Shanxi, the Northwest Army took advantage of the opportunity to send troops out of Tongguan. Taking advantage of the annihilation of Wei Lihuang's troops in Wuxiang and the emptiness of Henan, they moved the northwestern corner of Henan to Luoyang in the east and Nanyang in the south. The land from Tongguan in the west to the Yellow River in the north was completely occupied, swallowing a quarter of Henan in one go.

The reason why he didn't reach out to the east again was that Lao Yang knew his own limit - further east was Zhengzhou, Xuchang, and Kaifeng. Although the 25th Division was rushed back to Henan by the Red Army in embarrassment, and lost a lot of money as it ran away, it was difficult for "Old Yang" to stand alone in cooperation with other Central Army in Henan. ,

Even so, Yang Hucheng is very satisfied now.Shan County (Sanmenxia), Nanyang, and Luoyang, any one of these three places is worth his income in that miserable place in Shaanxi.

On May [-], Chang Kaishen was forced to start "peace talks" with Li Runshi, and the military conflict between the two sides has basically ceased.

The reason why Chang Kaishen is so honest is that his old lair in the south is on fire everywhere. If the Red Army in Shanxi cannot be stabilized, let them go south and cross the Yellow River... In fact, at this time, the main force of the Red Army has already crossed the Yellow River south , is infiltrating into Henan.

After May, when Yang Hucheng's Northwest Army poured into Henan, a Red Army partial division entered Henan almost at the same time as him, and then occupied Gongyi first, and took control of the Songshan area, and then began to establish here. Rapidly spread to the surrounding areas—although the number of Red Army troops entering the border of Henan Province was small, at this time, because it was united with the Northwest Army and the Red Army in the southern Shanxi area on the north bank of the Yellow River echoed each other, the Central Army, which had just suffered a disastrous defeat, was only at this time. He shrank tremblingly in Kaifeng and Zhengzhou to protect himself, not daring to move easily to cause trouble.

Yang Hucheng knew that he had "not enough family resources". Although he got such a rich sugarcane land in Henan, he was both happy and worried. He also needed to introduce an ally from the Red Army to use his "tiger skin" to strengthen his voice in Henan.At present, the main energy of the Red Army is used to digest Shanxi and solve the major problem in the northwest of Majiajun. The troops that can be invested in the Henan map are limited, and Yang Hucheng's help is also needed here.

Yang Hucheng wanted big cities and their surrounding areas, while the Red Army wanted mountainous areas and remote villages.The territory of Henan is very large, and the two sides are staking their land here according to their own abilities. There is no conflict of interest for the time being, and the current cooperation is very pleasant.

After the Red Army occupied Gongyi and Songshan, and took control of this area, it became a separation zone separating the Northwest Army and the 25th Division, which is the main force of the Kuomintang.In fact, the Red Army's infiltration of Henan was far more than Gongyi. Henan is a province that runs through the whole territory of the Yellow River. In the northeast corner, the Hebi and Puyang areas are located to the north of the Yellow River and east of the Taihang Mountains.

Now the Red Army has completely controlled the Shangdang area, and Taihang Mountain, the "spine of the world", has all under its control!As long as he wants to, he can fight out from the Taihang Mountains at any time and take all the "north corner land" in Henan.

Under such a bad strategic situation, Chang Kaishen's remnant garrison on the border of Henan could only honestly huddle into a shivering group at this time, allowing the two families to scramble for land on their own border, but they were powerless to resist.

Chang Kaishen finally bowed his head on May [-]th, because the Red Army's military infiltration into Henan was getting worse, but his own buttocks in the south were also on fire, and with the resurgence of Li Yu's troops, it was already time to talk about it. to the point.If this hard work continues, Henan will also be finished.

Now he can only rely on peace talks to delay time, restore blood to himself, and at the same time avoid wars on both sides of the north and south.

"Chairman, we need time to regroup! No matter how harsh Li Runshi's conditions are, we must first respond. At present, most of his power is in the north of the Yangtze River. Once Henan is lost, the situation will deteriorate even more!"

Whether it's his confidants or foreign advisers, they are all advising him to "be patient and serve the country".

In the past five months, Chang Kaishen's disastrous defeat in Shanxi, almost all local warlord forces in China have gained "happiness".

But there are also sad people.

Wang Jialie was the unlucky guy who died prematurely because of the butterfly effect caused by Huang Ke's "big change" in history.

At the beginning of May, when he was eager to take a boat back to Guizhou from Shanghai so that he could call up his old department to wait for an opportunity to make a comeback, he was shot by a mysterious gunman at the pier when he was boarding the boat. He was shot in the back five times and died on the spot.

There is no need to speculate about the murderer, it was naturally done by Dai Li of the military commander and ordered by Chang Kaishen.

But Wang Jialie's death was nothing more than the few "good news" that Chang Kaishen received in this "tragic" May.

Here in Hunan, the troops of the Guangxi faction are advancing triumphantly all the way, colluding with the old forces of the local Hunan Army, each taking what he needs.Li Bai and Li Bai are both cruel and merciless people.As soon as he entered Hunan, he immediately uprooted the local Kuomintang party headquarters, to be precise, the forces affiliated with Chang Kaishen of the Central Army under the name of "cleaning bandits". Then they shot and killed hundreds of people.However, the old forces of the Hunan Army here in Changsha took a slightly more relaxed approach, but they also expelled a bunch of spy forces and Chang Kaishen's local political forces that they had long regarded as extremely disliked, such as the Zhongtong and Juntong, and all of them were expelled within a time limit.

Tang Shengzhi and Cheng Qian, two old fellows, jumped up and down here. They hooked up with Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Yunnan to play with the five-province joint guarantee. Under the banner of "establishing a coalition government", they openly Resist Chang Kaishen's decree.The most rebellious person was Chen Jitang, who at this time arrogantly sent the Cantonese army into Fujian and directly seized Xiamen, Zhangzhou, and Longyan.

And another thing that made Chang Kaishen want to vomit blood is that his political opponents in the Kuomintang, Hu Hanmin and Wang Jingwei, also jumped up and down when he was in the most difficult time, accusing him of many wrong... and An "unusual" big wave is setting off.

When he fled back to Nanjing to lick his wounds with a group of remnants and defeated generals, apart from ordering people to count the losses, Chang Kaishen also summoned Minister of Finance Kong Xiangxi to inquire about the Ministry of Finance's "family background".

In fact, he didn't need to look for it, Kong Xiangxi would come over and cry himself.

"Chairman, the Ministry of Finance is out of money!"

"It's only May! How come you ran out of money so soon?"

Shocked, Chang Tuzi took a look at the financial statement submitted by Kong Xiangxi, and was shocked on the spot: "Why is there so much less this year..."

As soon as these words came out, whether it was Kong Xiangxi on the opposite side or Dai Li standing beside Chang Bald, the faces of both of them trembled quietly.

Huang Ke took the lead and led the military command, the Central Command, and Kong and Song Ermaggots to skip the customs at the two external ports of Shanghai and Tianjin. The evil consequences of smuggling were finally revealed on this day.

Since Chang Kaishen took charge of China, although other aspects have been terrible, customs duties have continued to rise year by year. Especially after Roosevelt came up with the Silver Act, the purchasing power of silver dollars has soared, imports have increased greatly, and tariffs have risen abnormally Quite a lot.However, the relevant data in the report for the last quarter of last year remained unchanged, while the figures for the first four months of this year dropped by five percentage points compared to the same period last year.

"Continuing years of civil war, lack of people's strength..."

Kong Xiangxi murmured why the tariff revenue in the first quarter of this year would drop sharply. In fact, both he and Dai Yunong knew it well.

Why was the Customs in the Republic of China called the cleanest department in China, because it was controlled by foreigners.

Chang Baldzi's regime is a standard foreign comprador regime. In the matter of smuggling, apart from the bold Japanese, Baldy's minions, including Kong Song Ermaggot, the two major spy agencies, look at this piece of fat, although there are Stretch out your hand to gather some wool, but you are also afraid that the foreign master will find out that you will be angry. If you want to gnaw the tree, you can only gnaw it to a limited extent-at least it was like this before the Anti-Japanese War. Of course, after the Anti-Japanese War, these maggots completely let themselves go.

However, the appearance of Huang Ke, the intervention of Pan Hannian, and the intervention of the Communist Party accelerated the process.

Huang Ke once laughed at Chang Kaishen's subordinates in front of Pan Hannian: "They are a bunch of trash, their work efficiency is low, and they don't even know how to smuggle!"

For example, the smuggling of foreign oil. Chinese foreign oil is controlled by the United Kingdom and the United States. Kong Song and Song Ermaggot looked at the drooling but dared not stretch out their hands, for fear that the master would know this and escape their tariffs and get angry.But Pan Hannian is a Communist Party, so he doesn't care about the life and death of your Chang family dynasty and the British will be angry about the lack of tariff revenue. So he rebuilt a professional oil smuggling ship at the Shanghai Shipyard, and cooperated with Rockefeller Company to use it directly at sea. Pipeline oil is pumped into domestic small ports, and then resold after docking.

The Communist Party works diligently, with one boat running back and forth ten times a day without feeling tired, and it is okay to work overtime overnight when necessary.

As a result, the customs of the entire Republic of China, the import volume of oil products dropped sharply, and the related tax revenue dropped sharply.

"Liquid smuggling" is the easiest, but the relatively troublesome solid smuggling can't stop the traversers.

Under Huang Ke's guidance, Pan Hannian also asked a few "technical personnel" from the Soviet Union to help him, and learned a set of high-level cargo transfer techniques for hoisting and transferring cargo at sea.This technology of sea replenishment is the patent of a naval power, but the Soviets are not bad—after all, the Second Pacific Fleet relied on this trick during the Russo-Japanese War.

After tasting the benefits of this trick, Kong and Song Ermaggot came forward and specially transformed the few cargo ships in China that can go to the ocean to be suitable for marine replenishment, and installed related equipment, so that they can directly lift and transfer offshore cargo. .Due to the time lag, this trick began to appear in Tianjin and Shanghai Waihai in February this year.

Without Huang Ke's guidance, how could this group of grandsons who are only "stupidly greedy for money and bribery" learn this "high-tech, high-efficiency and low-cost" smuggling technique.To learn this trick, although there is a lot of investment in the early stage, after learning it, the cost of bribing customs officers can be greatly saved, and the cost and risk of smuggling can be greatly reduced.

The Central Army Commander Kong and Song Ermaggot made a lot of money. The underground party relied on providing labor and trained a lot of sailors in the process. The customs smuggled sensitive items, and everyone gained happiness and a bright future.

The "extremely high efficiency" of the "Communist Party" and the broad sales channels of Kong and Song Ermaggots, "escorted" by the spy organization, the combination of the three is simply a match made in heaven.

The three families joined forces, and after only half a year of gnawing on the tree, the main branch of the Chang family dynasty began to shake...

"Yunong, the state is difficult, the state is difficult!"

After Kong Xiangxi left, Chang Kaishen leaned back on the chair wearily, rubbing his temples vigorously.

In the Battle of Shanxi, the losses of the big defeat have been counted.

The New First Army has lost nearly [-]% of its troops!After the war, there were less than a thousand guns left, and all the artillery and machine guns were lost.

The 14th Army of Wei Lihuang's Department was wiped out!

Zhu Peide's third army, Zhu Peide was not captured in name and received courtesy, but the remnants of his troops were "under house arrest" by the Red Army in Yushe City. There were only 2000 soldiers around him, and almost the entire army was wiped out.Moreover, Chang Kaishen knew that the Communist bandits were best at deceiving people's hearts. Zhu Peide and Zhu De had only one letter difference in their names, and they were classmates and friends in their early years.This time the Red Army's men are merciful, they must be doing a lot of ideological work...

Gao Guizi's 84th Division and He Shangzhen's 32nd Army were also wiped out!In the past, Chang Kaishen wished that these cannon fodder troops would die sooner, but now facing the so-called "five provinces mutual protection" in the southwest circle, Chang Kaishen, who suffered from insufficient troops, missed these cannon fodder for the first time. .

Tang Enbo's two divisions of the 13th Army lost one-third, all heavy weapons (including heavy machine guns), and firearms losses reached a terrifying one-half.The [-]th Army where Chen Cheng made a fortune was even worse. Even if the personnel who returned after the war were counted, the three divisions that participated in the war could only gather half of their troops in the end. They also lost all their heavy weapons, and the proportion of firearms lost was close to two-thirds!

The 25th Division of Qianliju suffered the least loss, but the long-distance run away from the Shangdang area, plus two days of bombing, also "ran" lost a quarter of its troops, and at the same time lost all its artillery and heavy machine guns.

According to post-war statistics, Chang Baldzi lost a terrifying [-] long, short, and heavy firearms after the war!

The lost field guns, mountain guns, and mortars alone totaled more than [-] pieces.

You know, the 14th Army, 18th Army, 25th Army, and the "[-]th Division that is being mechanized in Germany" are all the elite of the Kuomintang Army, and each of them is like the former First Division, a son-in-law unit!All are the best equipped troops.If you count the former first division of the army, Chang Tuzi lost nearly five heavy equipment of the first-class elite central army within a year.

(Note: The first-class central army of the Kuomintang, under normal circumstances, its first division weapons and equipment: mountain artillery field artillery, German weapon divisions usually have about 24 pieces, in addition, mortars generally have 120 pieces, 360 heavy machine guns, and 3500 pieces Light machine guns. The number of rifles is 4000~12000. As for the total force on paper, it is 50, and there will be an additional 5500% during the war, so-called supplementary soldiers of about [-]. This is also the fact that during the Shanxi campaign, the strength of each division was obviously too large reason.

Note: Regarding the number of machine guns: Wei Lihuang and Song Xilian’s 36th Division had 76 heavy machine guns, 351 light machine guns, and a total of 427 light and heavy machine guns (this is the historical figure in 1937), and the number in 36 years Probably not so much.

Let me give another data: What was the machine gun configuration of the Eighth Route Army at that time? Taking the 120th Division as an example, the entire division was equipped with 35 heavy machine guns and 143 light machine guns; the 129th Division was equipped with 29 heavy machine guns and 93 light machine guns.

Considering that these are the data after the national army began to be mechanized in 1937, the number of firearms and artillery above should be discounted.However, due to the chaos of the national army during this period, it will vary according to specific circumstances)

As for tanks, Chang Tuzi initially sent three Vik tanks and four CV[-] tanks to Shanxi, and then added three more Vik tanks to make up ten vehicles, but they all broke down and were picked up by the Red Army on the road.

In terms of aircraft, of the 24 aircraft parked at Shimen Airport, except for the stolen ones, the rest were all given to the Red Army after the war.After the airport was attacked, the remaining planes were unable to take off due to damaged tires.At that time, we could only urgently request Shanghai to deliver maintenance materials.But where did the Aviation Administration find so many tires to replace the sixteen damaged planes, so they had to throw them there temporarily.

After the defeat in Shanxi, the Red Army and the Northeast Army joined forces to hunt down the Central Army and get out of Shanxi. They captured Shijiazhuang (Shimen was near Shijiazhuang at the time, and it was assigned after liberation) and Baoding, and the plane naturally fell into the hands of the Red Army.

At that time, Chang Baldzi still had nearly [-] soldiers, but the [-]th Army and [-]th Army who fled back had only rifles and not many bullets left. There are quite a few cars full of silver dollars and gold bars.

At this time, neither the 29th Army on the side, Fu Zuoyi in the north, nor the Datong garrison in the west could assist Chang Kaishen at this time.

Facing the Red Army and the Northeast Army allied forces coming along the railway from Shijiazhuang to Zhangjiakou, Chang Tuzi could only take the lead and lead the two remnants all the way to Pingjin.

What happened later was that the twenty-five boys from the five southwestern provinces joined forces to make trouble and stab Chang Bald in the back.

During this period, Li Runshi was probably "suffering", he stopped the attack on his own initiative, and began to shrink his troops.Then the situation in Hebei also stabilized at this time.In private, the Red Army sent some captured local officials of the Cannon Party as special envoys, bringing letters from Li Runshi, and requesting peaceful negotiations between the two sides.

As the victor's side, Li Runshi naturally took the initiative.

He knew what Chang Kaishen wanted, and he also knew what he wanted.At the beginning, the first request made by the Red Army was to exchange prisoners.

Chang Kaishen was asked to exchange the nearly [-] Central Army prisoners of war and officers in his hands with the Communist Party members imprisoned across the country.

In the Battle of Shanxi, Chang Kaishen's losses could no longer be described as broken bones.It can be said that the overall combat power was cut in half by the Red Army in World War I!Maybe even more than that!Cannon fodder soldiers can be quickly recruited again, but where can officers and non-commissioned officers be found, and where can the loss of more than [-] firearms and artillery be recovered?

The so-called icing on the cake that everyone loves to do—Chang Kaishen was reported by people in the Central Committee, such as the current Li Runshi. After the victory in the Shanxi battle, he and the Northeast Army forcibly seized territory in Hebei, and Song Zheyuan's 29th Army watched from the sidelines , could only tremble and dare not speak out, and even took the initiative to send his subordinate Dong Shengtang to contact his younger brother Dong Zhentang in private to "seek peace" secretly.

On Fu Zuoyi's side, he has been in secret contact with Lin Husan who was stationed in Bayannur recently. Release them all.

As for the Sichuan army, it has frequently expressed its favor to the Gannan Red Army. Recently, the two sides even openly established "agency offices" with each other to enhance "connection."