From to 1935 2020

Lao Xi's conditions are: he can join the Northwest Anti-Japanese Alliance formed by the Red Army, but he must retain his own armed forces.It can guarantee that all the military products produced will be sold to the Red Army, but it is required that Taiyuan must be in his own hands, and the military factory is under his control. The Red Army can only set up an "agency" here-as a member of the alliance, he is willing to bear the responsibility when the Anti-Japanese War occurs. Obligation to send Jinsui Army to join the war.

Of course, it was impossible for Li Runshi to agree to such a condition.Moreover, he could see very clearly that Yan Xishan was a selfish local warlord at heart. During the Anti-Japanese War, except for not being a traitor, he basically did all the bad things he was supposed to do.If it hadn't been for the consideration that the storming of Taiyuan would cause too many casualties, and it would probably cause irreparable damage to Taiyuan City and even the military factory, he would have ordered the three armies to storm Taiyuan long ago.

But Taiyuan City in this period is really difficult to fight.

The hard part was not the fortresses outside, but the intelligence collected by Chairman Li Runshi through Huang Ke and the underground party who had previously mixed into the Jinsui Army and had done a good business with them.I learned that the various artillery in the hands of the Jinsui Army are so large that they can "form an artillery division".

From the most common 75mm mortar, to the large-caliber 150mm mortar, as well as all kinds of mountain guns and field guns, the number of artillery guns accumulated by Yan Laoxi is no more than that of Chang Kaishen. The Red Army who has greatly supplemented it is much less.

——In history, when Yan Laoxi guarded Yanmen Pass and fought against the Japanese, the Japanese suffered enough from his artillery before the shells in his hands ran out.

If there is a choice, Chairman Li Yunshi really does not want the two sides to waste precious shells on the battlefield where they are fighting each other. These expensive shells should all be dropped on the Japanese.

Of course, it was impossible to agree to the conditions proposed by Yan Laoxi.In the plan of the Red Army, the entire Shanxi Province will be the mainstay of the future Anti-Japanese War, and Taiyuan is the most important core area.Let such a mercenary who "plays with the wind" "holds a magic weapon", it is not allowed to say anything.

For Yan Laoxi and the gentry in the city, the conditions of the Red Army are: Wutai, Dai County, and Shuo County are the dividing line, the Red Army will not enter northern Shanxi, and the Shanxi Sui Army will give up Taiyuan City-as a supplementary Red Army will exchange it with Zhangjiakou.

In addition, the factory equipment in the city was bought by the Red Army at a one-time price of 5000 million silver dollars, or purchased in installments of 600 million silver dollars every year, paid off in ten years.During the land reform in other places, the Red Army was willing to "redeem" the land confiscated by the generals of the Jinsui Army with silver dollars or gold bars.

However, Yan Xishan just disagrees here.

Afterwards, Huang Ke said angrily:

"This old bastard, he thinks that our Red Army is reasonable and deceitful! When he was defeated in the Central Plains War, Chang Kaishen cut him so hard! Now that we have soldiers on the border, we can destroy him at any time, but he has raised his status. Yes. You can bully him when you’re playing a gentleman, see that we are willing to have a good talk with him for the sake of national justice!"

If it weren't for the chairman's permission, when Pan Hannian visited Yan Laoxi's house in the past, when the two sides were "talking and laughing", Huang Ke would have countless ways to kill this old guy.

Now it is May [-]th, the war between the Red Army and Chang Kaishen's Central Army has temporarily stopped, but ten days have passed since the negotiations with Yan Xishan.Originally, the Red Army said that they would attack the city after seven days, but it was extended for another three days.

Today is the last day.....

Zhao Chengshou returned to the Taiyuan City Defense Command and met Yan Xishan at the temporary headquarters outside the air-raid shelter.As the old warlord got older, he became more and more afraid of death. Since the Red Army surrounded Taiyuan City and frequently flew planes over Taiyuan City to distribute leaflets every day, he moved his residence to the side of the air-raid shelter and worked in the air-raid shelter for a long time.

Even if you stay away from the air-raid shelter, it is all "on a whim" and strictly kept secret in advance.In short, his whereabouts are concealed, because he is afraid of being killed by the air strike of the Red Army who has mastered the air supremacy.

Yan Xishan set up the headquarters in the air-raid shelter of Naoma Mountain in Niutuo Village, with a very inconspicuous residential house as a cover outside.

The old man is getting older. In fact, it is impossible for Lao Xi to stay in the cold air-raid shelter all day. He lives near the air-raid shelter most of the time, but he has no fixed place and changes at any time.Only when the Red Army aircraft appeared in the sky over Taiyuan, they would go in temporarily.

In the past month, Yan Xishan hated the planes in the sky.

Those four-winged planes circled over Taiyuan every day, dropping leaflets.At first, the leaflets were all about promoting their ideas and news related to the land reform. After the negotiations started recently, the leaflets that were dropped were the content of the negotiations between the two sides and the conditions of the Red Army.

As the Red Army proposed "high" compensation conditions, in fact, the group of guys in the city who had "same hatred" not long ago have gradually become "unstable".

In their view, the red bandits really attacked the city, and the gentry in the city who had fled from all over the city would really "die without a place to die".Now the Red Army has given this way of life, exchanging Zhangjiakou for Taiyuan, and each household can still get compensation for the losses caused by the land reform.Conditions don't seem to be that bad...

Yan Xishan felt that the most vicious aspect of the Red Army was that he named all the officers and generals under him, and proposed quite generous "compensation" conditions.

"You can take your troops, guns, and your belongings. The Red Army is willing to buy out the fields at home at twice the price."

When such a condition was put forward, although many people under Yan Xishan didn't say anything, they must have been moved.

"Hui Bole (a curse word in Wutai area), this Li Runshi is too vicious!"

Yan Laoxi had calculated thousands of times, but he didn't think that Li Runshi, the "communist bandit leader", would imitate Chang Kaishen and hit people with "silver bullets" without paying attention to martial arts.

Yan Laoxi was not afraid of the Red Army storming Taiyuan, he could see it: Li Runshi was very fond of the factories in Taiyuan, if he really dared to fight, he would dare to take the factories and machines in the whole city of Taiyuan as hostages and threaten him!The day the city is broken is the day the factory is bombed!See if you, Li Runshi, are not willing to fight!

Zhao Chengshou said worriedly: "When I left, Zijing (Xu Shuai's name) told me that the Red Army would not delay any longer...they will attack Linfen first...a telegram came from Linfen , Zhang Xueliang's two artillery brigades, and the captured cannons of Chang Kaishen are all transferred to Linfen by them now..."

What Zhao Chengshou said happened this morning, when the Red Army besieged Linfen, they called the representatives of the gentry and non-commissioned officers outside the city, and let them see the densely packed countless artillery...

Afterwards, when those gentry returned to the city, they asked Yan Laoxi for help in shock. The meaning of their words was probably to beg the other party to agree to the conditions of the Red Army.

"What are you afraid of? Li Runshi is just threatening us! What he wants most is a complete Taiyuan! Besides, most of his artillery are in Linfen..."

Yan Laoxi said it easily, but his heart was a little beating. He knew that if the Red Army was desperate, they would not be able to defend the two places, and they would be reduced to rubble in the end.

"However, I, Lao Xi, don't cry when I see the coffin. Taiyuan is my root! No one wants me to let go!"

Don't look at Yan Laoxi who is timid and afraid of death, but in some places he is very stubborn.Also under siege, Fu Zuoyi surrendered honestly in the end, but Yan Laoxi lasted until the airport was almost occupied by the Red Army before he ran away—before he left, he left poison for his sister and others to commit suicide.And now, the airport in Taiyuan is still in the hands of Yan Laoxi. Although the Red Army has the air power, they should still have a chance to escape quietly by plane at night...

Zhao Chengshou persuaded him for a while, and seeing that Yan Xishan had made up his mind, he sighed inwardly, walked out of the temporary headquarters, and left by car.

The car was driving on the road for less than 5 minutes. Zhao Chengshou suddenly heard a buzzing sound coming from the air, and within a short time, the buzzing sound turned into the sound of sharp propellers rubbing against the air.

And almost at the moment when the scream sounded, Zhao Chengshou heard someone shouting nearby, plane, plane!

"What are the air defense guards doing for food? Why did they call the police until now!"

Zhao Chengshou cursed and looked up through the car window, only to see two small black dots swooping down from the sky at an extremely fast speed, and the target seemed to be Yan Laoxi's temporary headquarters.

In an instant, Zhao Chengshou understood something: he came to report to Chief Yan, and seemed to be being followed.

What Zhao Chengshou didn't know was that just a few hundred meters away from him, at a high air defense guard post, there was a corpse with its head lifted, and there were three similar corpses near the temporary headquarters.

At this time, a total of six 7.62mm Mosin Nagant sniper rifles hidden in the dark and mounted on high places with silencers were aimed at the short road leading to the air-raid shelter from the temporary headquarters.

When Yan Laoxi rushed out of the headquarters with more than a dozen guards and senior officials and staff officers in the Jinsui Army, six sniper rifles opened fire at the same time.

Because there were many guards, the scene was chaotic, and it was unclear who was hit in the first round of shooting. Several people fell to the ground immediately, and the scene was even more bloody.

Almost at the time of the gunshot, two Huo II planes that descended from the sky swooped over the headquarters, and two small black spots roared down from the sky one after another.

Before it hit the ground, the gunmen in the dark fired two more rounds, and many people fell down, but the rest still rushed to the air-raid shelter a dozen steps away, and one of them was the mottled Yan Laoxi.

Gathered by the guards, he relied on his "meat shield" to help him, and when he escaped three rounds of sniping, he was about to rush into the air-raid shelter.

The black dots hit his body one after the other, the nearest one was only fifteen steps away from him!

"Boom" "Boom"

After the two explosions, the huge fire and intense heat ignited into the sky, engulfing all living beings within a radius of [-] meters into the scorching flames.

The two Hawker IIs dropped the "thermite incendiary bomb" that Huang Ke obtained the formula from his mother, and then got the help of Stalin. (Note: Historically, this thing was not used until 1944 when bombing the V1 rocket launch site in Western Europe.)

After Stalin got the formula, people from the military industry department of the Soviet Union tried to produce several pieces, and the effect was very satisfactory.Overjoyed, Stalin immediately ordered the military industry department to officially produce, and shipped a batch to Tianjin Port for "actual combat" use according to Huang Ke's request.

But at this time, the original thermite incendiary bomb is very dangerous to one's own people.For the sake of safety, they are temporarily assembled and assembled before use.

Using the "beheading" tactic to deal with Yan Xishan this time, Huang Ke and Elena first practiced dive bombing for several days in a plane.Elena, who had the best technique, practiced the ability to get close to Rudel in seven days, and Huang Ke followed her, and the bombing accuracy was not bad.

Before the sneak attack, in order to prevent being "heard" by the air defense post of the Jinsui Army, the two drove the plane to a high altitude, then turned off the engine and glide over Taiyuan City, and then turned on the engine when they began to dive.

Before the attack, the snipers of the underground party who sneaked into Taiyuan City had already used sniper rifles with silencers to kill the personnel of the nearby air defense posts in advance.

Just as Zhao Chengshou guessed, they confirmed the specific location of Yan Xishan by tracking Zhao Chengshou's car - another method, but Huang Ke knew through the historical materials of later generations that there was an air-raid shelter here, which was once used by Yan Laoxi as the commander The Ministry also arranged manpower to monitor here early.

On May [-]th, Chang Kaishen, who had been keeping an eye on Shanxi, did not wait for the information that the Red Army was attacking Linfen. Instead, he heard that the Taiyuan defenders agreed to the conditions proposed by the Red Army: Withdraw from Taiyuan and retreat to northern Shanxi .

As for Yan Xishan, the Red Army claimed that he was killed by an air strike within minutes of the Red Army starting the battle.Those who died with him were Xu Yongchang, Sun Chu and other favorite generals...

On the night of Yan Xishan's death, there were gunshots in Taiyuan City, but they were not dense.

The reason was that the regular defenders in charge of the city defense quietly let the Red Army enter the city when Yan Laoxi was killed and the high-level officials in the city were in chaos.

Frustrated, the security regiments of the remaining gentry could not withstand the attack of the Red Army, and they surrendered after a little resistance.

The next day, the Red Army announced the "liberation" of Taiyuan.

After the 21st, Yan Xishan’s surviving confidantes, Yang Chengyuan, Wang Jingguo, and Li Fuying and other three Taiyuan city defense generals, led their own troops, relatives, and dependent gentry families, a total of more than [-] people. Pulling dozens of carts of personal property, he led his troops northward and entered northern Shanxi.Then the two sides took Wutai Mountain, Dai County, and Shuo County as the dividing line, and the war ceased.

As for the defenders of Linfen, after seeing Taiyuan surrender with little resistance, the troops in the city also made a similar choice.On the 26th, Chu Xichun led his direct troops and the local security team and family members who were willing to go north with him to Datong, and Linfen was liberated peacefully.

$820 million!This is the price paid for "buying" Taiyuan and Linfen.

"No bribery, no assassination..."

Someone sighed deeply.

"This is not an assassination, it's just a plane bombing, and we said in advance that if the negotiation fails, there will be war. He can't blame us for being too accurate in bombing."

Huang Ke expressed his opinion:

"As for buying... life is priceless, 820 million US dollars, buy the lives of countless Red Army soldiers, as well as the lives of residents in the two places, and keep the integrity of Taiyuan City! The butcher, when the general situation is over, declares an uprising, and then he can give up pursuing blood debts afterwards, and then become a high-ranking official in the CPPCC. An Heng will be more acceptable in his later years! It's not just buying with money, it's called buying... ..”

On some matters, Huang Ke actually had a very good opinion.

"Are you trying to say that this is also a kind of bribe?"

"Is not it?"

Li Runshi came over, looked down at the young man in front of him, and then raised his right hand.

This action of his made Huang Ke close his eyes instinctively, wanting to do a little head protection.

But the expected beating didn't happen, he just put his hand on the top of Huang Ke's head and rubbed his hair vigorously.

"It's good that you grow up and know how to think instead of blindly following me."

"I'm just talking about what I thought when I saw similar history. Many bastards, even animals, are not worthy of a united front."

Wu Hao came over and interjected: "The united front is to minimize the number of deaths when the overall situation is determined. Of course, no policy is perfect. If you want to gain something, you have to lose something accordingly...... The important thing is, the trade-offs..."

"Obtaining a complete Taiyuan, the war of resistance is too important! This matter can be released in the future, and we are not afraid of being judged by history!"

Li Runshi nodded and agreed: "I approved this matter. If there are any accusations in the future, it will be fine on me."

Wu Hao said with a smile: "Don't think about being greedy for this great achievement alone!"

Then he looked at Huang Ke and said, "There's no need for Xiao Huang, he should continue to hide behind the scenes...Some things should be borne by us in this era."

And on the other side........

"Damn Xipi, when will Li Runshi learn how to buy it with oceans! Where did he get so much money? Damn Xipi, I remembered, he robbed the whole of Hunan!"

Not long after the Jinsui army retreated to northern Shanxi, Chang Kaishen figured out the truth that they surrendered Taiyuan and Linfen without a fight.

The reason was that someone used money to buy off all the powerful military leaders in the defending army. To be precise, they bought off most of the people except Yan Xishan.

"I don't want you soldiers, I don't want your guns, as long as you collect the money and leave Taiyuan with your wealth!"

Most of the arsenals in Taiyuan were owned by Yan Xishan and the local gentry, but very few belonged to the military leaders.

The military chiefs are just his senior workers.

The interests of the military leaders and the gentry are actually not the same, and the two sides are dependent on each other.The military leader needs the help of the gentry to collect taxes to support the army, and the gentry is protected by the military leader.

In fact, most of the military leaders accepted the "favorable terms" offered by the Red Army when they negotiated, except Yan Xishan who disagreed.

In fact, everyone knows that Taiyuan cannot be defended.

The Red Army has air supremacy, and they play artillery battles with the Red Army. They fly in the sky and can throw those terrible petrol bombs - firing at each other. As long as the artillery positions on the ground are exposed, they will be severely damaged soon. Silly.

When Yan Laoxi was around, he took orders from the old officer and would fight to the death with the Red Army.But once Yan Laoxi died, the people below immediately had their own ideas.In fact, during the negotiations, the military leaders below had already communicated with the secret envoys sent by the Red Army, and Yan Laoxi was the only obstacle in the way.

Historically, after Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned for the Xi'an Incident, the Northeast Army quickly fell apart, and was finally played to death by Chang Kaishen.