From to 1935 2020

The 74th Army, one army and two divisions, the 100th Division with commander Zhang Zhizhong as the division commander, and the 51st Division with Wang Yaowu as the division commander.Both of these divisions are "masters", not so much divisions as armies.

In the composition of the 100th Division, the 137th Brigade of the communist spy Guo Rugui needless to say, as Huang Ke's secret son who has been buried for a long time, from the brigade commander to the head of the regiment, they are all underground communist spies.It's called a traveler, but it's actually a teacher.The troop establishment is full and sufficient, not only did not drink the blood of soldiers, but was "overstaffed" in terms of numbers.Because of Chang Kaishen's love, the equipment is also adequate.As a shadow, the brigade can also obtain additional ordnance supplies from the Communist Party, which can be regarded as a model of both the Communist Party and the National Army getting their salaries and equipment at the same time.

According to the style of the national army, before the war, it will temporarily increase the number of so-called "supplementary soldiers" half of its main force to accompany the army.The so-called supplementary soldiers are actually auxiliary soldiers with a little training, the reserve team.In normal times, they fight hard, but in wartime, when the front line fights hard, these people are pulled up to replace them as cannon fodder.

According to the characteristics of the national army, these supplementary soldiers are often temporarily recruited as cannon fodder.However, as an undercover spy who knew what he was going to do, Guo Rugui made great efforts to train these supplementary soldiers very early on.

The superiors are strong, the troops are well armed, the military pay is not greedy, and the commander treats the soldiers as human beings. Naturally, the spirit of the troops is completely different from top to bottom.Chang Kaishen visited the 137th Brigade several times, and all the officers and soldiers were in a state of mind. Chang Kaishen was delighted to see it, and the German military advisers around him also noticed it. The evaluations from all parties were five-star praise.

And his immediate superior, Zhang Zhizhong, used to be the director of the training department of the Kuomintang Central Army Military Academy, and he used to teach the second division.

The 138th brigade, another friendly army of the same division, has its main core expanded from the teachers.If it wasn't for Chang Kaishen's disastrous defeat in the early stage, and the expansion of the army everywhere, the soldiers of the original teacher were continuously transferred to other troops as the backbone, and the number was reduced by more than half, otherwise the combat power would be stronger.

Zhang Zhizhong can be regarded as one of the few generals in the National Army who has a lot of integrity. The officers who make up the 138th Brigade are also excellent officers from the Army Academy. The quality of the officers is the highest in the National Army.I dare not say that there is no such thing as drinking blood and eating empty pay, but the proportion is much less than that of other troops. The establishment of 100 divisions itself represents Chang Kaishen's special preference, the confidant brachialis.

And the 51st Division of another friendly army, the division commander Wang Yaowu, is the true founder of the 74th Division, the five main forces of the national army, which is famous in official history.This person is not only good at raising and training soldiers, but also has excellent combat skills.In the national army, there is even a high evaluation of "three lees are not as good as one king".Whether it is later generations of netizens or Su Yu, his biggest opponent in this life, he has a very high evaluation of this person, and he is fully qualified to sit in the third place among the generals of the national army.

The most rare thing is that this person is just like fellow spy Guo Rugui. Not only does he not drink the blood of soldiers, he also runs his own factory and subsidizes money to support soldiers. His behavior and integrity are exactly the same as Guo Rugui's.Even in this plane, he was "seduced" by Pan Hannian and made some "side jobs" to earn some money, but the money he earned was used to raise soldiers instead of stuffing his own pocket.His 51st Division consists of a core of officers and soldiers, some of which are elites drawn from Zhang Zhizhong's instructors, and some of which are soldiers brought out by himself. The whole division is also full of troops and well-trained.

If the Communist spy Guo Rugui hadn't been among them, the 74th Army would definitely be Chang Kaishen's most capable ace unit.That's why Chang Kaishen handed over Hefei, the vital center of Anhui's defense line, to him with such confidence.

"But Guo Xiaogui, this mouse shit, brought the entire 74th ace army to harm!" - "Memoirs of Zhang Zhizhong"

Before the start of the war, Chang Kaishen's four main forces in Anhui were fully aware of the combat effectiveness of each of the Red Army through Guo Rugui, a communist spy. 74’s military headquarters, divisional headquarters, and logistics centers are also well known—Pan Hannian: In fact, no one knows better than me where the logistics warehouses of Chang Kaishen’s four armies are.

The reason why Zhang Zhizhong called Guo Rugui a rat shit in his memoirs was because on the fateful night, Guo Rugui let go of the defense line and led the Communist army in. A few hours later, the elite of the Red Army Luo Binghui Assault troops, wearing national army uniforms, carrying the flag of the 137th Brigade, drove the M137 light tanks provided by the 2th Brigade, led by the underground party officers of the 137th Brigade, and directly found the military headquarters of the 74th Army...

At that time, the guard battalion on the outskirts of the 74th Army did not expect that Guo Luzuo, who was quite trusted by the military, was actually a spy.Zhang Zhizhong never dreamed that he would be defeated by the backstab of a student he admired and trusted...

Then, with the help of Guo Rugui, the Communist spy, the Red Army, which controlled the military radio station and codebook of the 74th Army, in the name of "Zhang Zhizhong" commander, began to frequently "blindly" command externally and frantically transmit false information.

When the 138th Brigade's military headquarters was located, the nearby 51st Division first called to inquire about the safety of the military headquarters, but the telephone line was cut off in advance.During the radio contact, the first call back was from Zhang Zhizhong, saying that the military headquarters had been violently attacked by the communist army, and then Guo Rugui stepped in, saying that he had sent troops to support, and the situation should be "a small group of communist troops." Infiltrate troops".

After the communist army captured the military headquarters and captured the "Old Chief and the National Army Brothers", Guo Rugui, in the identity of Zhang Zhizhong, telegraphed Wang Yaowu that the military guards had repelled the communist army and everything was safe.Then he was asked to stick to his position, not to fall into the communist army's strategy of "siege the city and fight for aid", and not to easily mobilize troops at night to avoid being ambushed.

At this time, the infiltrated Red Army was trying its best to encircle and wipe out the leaderless 138th brigade. Guo Rugui pretended to be Zhang Zhizhong, controlled the military's radio station and continued to send out false information wantonly.

When the Red Army encircled and wiped out the 138th Brigade, Wang Yaowu heard the continuous sound of guns and artillery in the position here, and he was worried, but Guo Rugui pretended to be Zhang Zhizhong and himself. , "Just take care of yourself, the support of the friendly army Guo Rugui is very effective."

Poor Wang Yaowu, the first hero, was played around by Guo Rugui for the next 24 hours. His 51st Division firmly "hold the position" and remained motionless.It wasn't until after noon the next day that the logistics warehouse he arranged in the rear encountered a violent attack and a wave was taken down, did he realize that something was wrong.

But at this time, "Damn Guo Xiaogui" kept telling him to "stand firm and don't panic".

According to the instructions of his superiors, Guo Rugui not only sent false information to Wang Yaowu, but also sent false information to Chang Kaishen, which lured the 71st Army from the south to go north and jumped into the big pocket that the Red Army had prepared for.

Guo Rugui played "Zhang Zhizhong" until March 74th, when even Chen Cheng's [-]th Army realized that there was a large group of Red Army behind him, and the logistics center, ammunition warehouse, and airport were all attacked and lost. There was a fatal problem with the army's defense line, and something was wrong with "Zhang Zhizhong", and at this time the whole army had already lost its power.

For a full 48 hours, Chang Kaishen, who was in micro-management in Nanjing, had been receiving all kinds of false information from Guo Rugui, and used it as a reference to carry out various "micro-management" until he was in Germany. The consultants all saw that there was a big problem with the telegram sent by this "Zhang Junzuo", and it was only after he reminded him that he suddenly realized it.

Similar to Baozuo-Songfan Battle, same recipe, same taste...

By the evening of March [-], three of the four main forces deployed by Chang Kaishen in Anhui had been divided and surrounded by the Red Army.

The first to die was not Wang Yaowu's 51st Division, which had the least number of troops, but the 71st Army in the south. Although Wang Yaowu's troops were small, they were surrounded by people stealing the rear in the repaired fortifications. In fact, they were the most difficult to fight. of.And because of the relationship between Huang Ke and Guo Rugui, the Red Army knew that the 51st Division's astonishing combat power was the most difficult to attack, so they just surrounded and did not fight, forcing them to fail to break through.

The 71st Army, which had the weakest combat power and was besieged during the march, immediately became the primary target of attack.

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After receiving the historical materials of the Soviet-German war given by Huang Ke, what Stalin was eager to solve was the backward command concept of armored commanders in the Soviet Red Army and the low quality of officers.

Even if you have the WWII armored tactics textbook provided by Huang Ke and summed up by Guderian and the Soviet Red Army, you still need to go through the battlefield to turn the theory into practical application.

The Spanish battlefield and the Chinese battlefield have become the best armored combat theory testing grounds in Stalin's eyes.

Although he knew in his heart that the Spanish battlefield was doomed because of the bad internal problems of the Republicans, but in order to train troops to gain experience, Stalin sent more pilots and officers there.

And here in the Chinese battlefield, he sent a future big shot.

Andrei Grigorinavich Kravchenko, a well-known Soviet academic tank expert, graduated from the famous Frunze Military Academy. He served as the colonel’s chief of staff in the mechanized army at the beginning of the Soviet-German War. Promoted, promoted to general of tank soldiers at the end of the war, I have been dealing with tanks all my life.

The advantage of having the help of the time traveler is that Stalin can know in advance who his generals are, who are bad guys, who are capable generals, and who are worth starting to train in advance.

Kravchenko was the "big man" sent by Stalin to China to command the armored forces to fight - at this time he was only a lieutenant colonel.

"Tanks are most powerful when used together!"

Before Guderian succeeded in blitzing Poland, except for Santoko, the world's understanding of armored tactics was that tanks were subordinate to infantry.The Spanish Civil War has been going on for more than eight months, subject to the mutual pecking of chickens on both sides (especially the Republican side), and the immature use of armored soldiers' own technology and tactics. Historically, the Soviets concluded from this war The lessons learned are all wrong - ie tanks are meant to serve infantry.

This plane is no exception. After getting the "correct answer" from Huang Ke, Stalin looked at the military summary report sent back from Spain, and his first thought was: Is this group of people all in need? Eliminate the "traitors" who come to solve the problem. ——In history, Stalin killed a large number of Soviet Red Army officers who had participated in the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Red Army who participated in the Spanish Civil War for three years learned nothing in the end.

It is normal for Stalin to have such an idea: He also participated in the Spanish Civil War. Through participating in the war, the Germans strengthened their confidence in the concentrated use of tanks and confirmed that the air force team should be a two-unit team instead of a three-unit team. Tactics should be a one-hit escape rather than a dogfight, and the benefits are all positive.

But the summary of the Soviets in history is: dogfighting is still very promising, I16 fighter jets are great, tanks should serve the scattered use of infantry...

"Quality, quality, no matter how good a weapon is, it still needs people to operate it. In addition, the lack of radio stations has a great impact. When the train first appeared, it ran not as fast as a horse-drawn carriage..."

Fortunately, with Elena and Huang Ke's persuasion, Stalin temporarily refrained from killing.He couldn't tell his subordinates the answer clearly. The final solution to the problem was to work hard to promote those officers who supported the idea of ​​centralized use of tanks, and to deliberately "pull the sidelines" when arguing about this issue in the army.

Historically, before World War II, the point of view of concentrated use of tanks was a minority in the armies of all countries, even Germany was no exception.Even Guderian was put on small shoes by his superiors for insisting on this combat concept. His superiors even told him publicly: As long as I am in power, you don't even think about exercising your set.

At that time, Guderian was one of the very few among the German Panzer Academy who didn't even have tanks.But he himself is lucky and the world is unfortunately at the same time. When he used a canvas car to simulate a tank for a tactical road show to promote his ideas, he only conquered one person in the audience—Adolf Hitler.

At that time, Mustache looked at the tank played by the canvas car, stood up excitedly and shouted in a gaffe: This is what I am looking for, this is what I want.

Stalin, who got the correct answer in advance, is actually doing something similar to Hitler in what the Soviet Union is doing now.

The battlefield to encircle and annihilate the 71st Army took place in the Tangchi-Wanshan Township area of ​​Lujiang area.

In order to annihilate the 71st Army as quickly as possible, the Red Army invested all its armored forces on this battlefield at one time.

As of March 1937, the armored forces of the National Red Army were as follows: 3 T26 tanks aided by the Soviet Union, 95 T37 amphibious tanks, 20 captured Vik tanks, 6 Italian CV33 tanks, and 8 tanks. A T15 ultralight tank was used as a training vehicle.When Huang Ke returned from the Soviet Union last time, he also brought back 27 T27 ultra-light tanks presented by Stalin - 1931 Carden Lloyd armored vehicles imported by the Soviet Union from the United Kingdom in 25, and later bought their production authorization for imitation , and finally the T2.7 ultra-light tank was created.Its total weight is only [-] tons, and its cost is low. The Soviet Union produced thousands of them in one go.

Throughout the 30s, the British tank design style led the trend of the world.This two-person, ultra-light tank of less than three tons has been imitated in large numbers all over the world.His derivatives are the Soviet T13, the Italian CV[-], the Japanese Type [-] bean tank, and the Belgian T[-] tank destroyer.In history, the Vickers company also developed the Vickers [-] model with a turret based on its chassis, and sold four of them to China.

These twenty T27 ultra-light tanks have been carefully refurbished to thicken the armor on the front of the vehicle. They have been modified according to the shape of their Italian cousin CV33, and armored covers to protect the crew have been installed. After replacing the brand new engine, Stalin The purpose of offering it to China is to use it as an auxiliary to the T[-] tank, and to test the tactical use of the mechanized armored division through actual combat.

On August 40th, in the Lujiang area, the Red Army assembled 26 T20 tanks, all 27 T8 ultralight tanks, plus 2 American M4 tanks and 33 CV[-] tanks obtained through the "uprising" and captured Tanks were assembled to form an armored assault brigade.

At the cost of reducing ammunition, I personally rode on a specially modified T[-] tank command vehicle with the artillery removed, the turret transformed into an observation tower, and a member (translator) added. Lieutenant Colonel Kravchenko was nervous again. , Excited again.Before he came to China, he belonged to the "minority" who advocated the concentrated use of tanks in the Armored Forces School, which was not the mainstream.Due to the spoiler of the traveler, he himself was favored by Stalin in advance and sent to China to practice and gain practical experience.In addition to himself, more than a dozen instructors from the Soviet Armored Forces School were ordered to come to China to participate in actual combat observation.

As the commander of the armored brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Kravchenko just read a bunch of later training and tactical materials handed over by his superiors, studied it for three or four months, and experienced two internal exercises. In this regard, he is actually only a master of theory, half a bucket of water.

There are more than 50 tanks and 20 T27 ultra-light tanks under his seat, and the crews on them are also very knowledgeable about the use of armored tactics.Fortunately, the opponent is very weak, and the anti-armor power is not strong. The entire 71st Army has only six 47mm anti-armor guns imported from Italy, and their anti-armor capabilities are very poor.

Kravchenko held a telescope and scanned the armed force in his hand: the [-]st Armored Special Mixed Brigade.

More than [-] tanks are now two kilometers in front of the [-]st Army's position, forming a cone-shaped attack formation, with tanks in front and armored vehicles behind.

Before launching the attack, all the tank commanders temporarily leaned out of the turret, waiting for his order to attack.On each commander's head, under the tank cap, you can still see the transistor headset communicator that was just manufactured not long ago.

After the T26 tank aided by the Soviet Union entered China, the front armor was thickened by [-] mm, and around all the turrets, four rounds were added in a circle, for a total of eight anti-infantry mine-jumping systems. This system was originally created by China. Anti-Infantry Outboard.This technology has been passed back to the Soviet Union, and similar improvements are being made to existing tanks within the Soviet Red Army.

Including the M[-] tank just obtained and even the two-person CV[-] tank, all of them are now equipped with a Soviet-made transistor radio communication system.

The entire armored brigade is full of transistor communicators!When Kravchenko left the Soviet Union, only the armor instructors of the Armored Forces School had just equipped it, and even the Guards didn't have this thing. "

As for the more than a dozen tank trailers parked there in the rear, it was something that made Kravchenko jealous from the first day he saw it.

"Tank trailers! The Chinese are really extravagant. Such advanced French products are not available in the Soviet Union until now. They are even equipped with this."

"I came to China for the right reason! I am now commanding the most complete, perfect, and most powerful mechanized armored brigade in the world!"

With the pride of "I participated in history, I created history", Kravchenko excitedly waved forward vigorously.

"Ugh!"

Following his roar, this tank and armored brigade, most of which were trained by Soviet instructors, simultaneously heard a "Red Russian-flavored" "Uh-lah" sound on the communication channel.

A few seconds later, the plains in the Luchuan area were filled with the roar of the shocking engines and crawlers.

On the position of the [-]st Army, Commander Wang Jingjiu looked at the group of tanks rumbling towards his entire army, and he was stunned. However, at this moment, there was the buzzing of planes in the sky, facing the group of steel tanks charging. Cluster, all overwhelmed.

After World War I, the world's first large-scale, air-ground integrated, mechanized armored brigade combined operations showed its sharp fangs on the Luchuan Plain in China.

On March 5th, the entire 24st Army was annihilated, with nearly 4 people in two divisions of the entire army. Under the full impact of a tank and armored brigade combined with infantry and aircraft, all its defensive positions were easily wiped out by the opponent like paper. Break through, cut, tear apart, and it collapsed after only [-] hours.Including the army commander Wang Jingjiu, more than [-] troops put down their weapons and entered the prisoner camp collectively.

It's completely like a knife cutting butter and crushing. Those who deserve to win win quickly, and those who deserve to lose lose quickly.Therefore, in this one-sided battle, whether it was the Red Army or the White Army, there were not many casualties in this battle.

A day later, this temporarily formed armored brigade moved north and participated in the battle to encircle and wipe out the [-]st Division.Seeing the planes circling in the sky and the horrific armor clusters in front of the position, and knowing that Wang Jingjiu and Zhang Zhizhong had been captured, Wang Yaowu, under the Red Army's repeated calls and negotiations, announced that the entire army would lay down their weapons and act as a "battlefield uprising" Accept "Peace Reorganization".

After annihilating the two main forces, the 18st Armored Special Mixed Brigade continued to march northeastward, and participated in the battle to encircle and wipe out Chen Cheng's No.[-] Army on March [-].

On March 11th, except for the 14th Division of Chen Chengfa's 67th Army, which was beaten by Su Yu in Zhejiang Province to only one guard battalion, almost all of the 94th, 98th, [-]th, and [-]th Divisions, the main force of his lineage, were thrown into the Anhui battlefield. The army was wiped out.From army commander Huang Wei down, the four division commanders were neatly up and down, none of them escaped, and all of them were taken prisoners.

(Note: Historically, the commander of the 18th Army at this time should be Luo Zhuoying, but because Luo Zhuoying was severely defeated by Su Yu in the Battle of Southwest Zhejiang in 1936 and was punished, Huang Wei was promoted.)

The Anhui Campaign was launched by the Red Army on March [-]th and ended on the [-]th. The rest of the time was the end of the sweeping and occupation of the territory.

On the evening of March [-]th, Chang Kaishen, who was just across the river from Anhui, received a telegram from the Red Army on the other side to Nanjing using the codebook of the captured Eighteenth Army. Everyone here was dumbfounded.

Under the dim light, Chang Kaishen's eyes were red and his scalp was oily. Wherever his eyes fell, he could almost ignite his sight.

Chen Cheng slammed the table angrily. The [-]th Army he made a fortune was wiped out, and now he looks completely mournful.

He Yingqin grinned his teeth, his lips trembled, he hesitated to speak.

A roomful of German military advisers were holding a telegram from the Red Army and covering their faces with their palms, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.

Chen Bulei, the "little man", huddled in a corner, trembling.

It took five months to build the Anhui defense line, and the 30 troops only lasted for eight days before the entire line collapsed.Only the thirteenth army of Tang Enbo's army, which was close to the Yangtze River, ran fast by taking advantage of the water power of the Yangtze River, and withdrew more than 1 people.The remaining [-] people who fled back to the south of the Yangtze River were defeated by other troops.

Chang Kaishen sold his liver and lungs, and mortgaged all the chickens that lay golden eggs. It cost more than 4000 million US dollars, and it took eight months to rebuild a 25 army, more than 400 tanks, and more than [-] artillery pieces. The main force of the Central Army disappeared within eight days...

An iron army is not iron, and Huang Jie is not outstanding.During the battle of Baozuo the year before last, the record set by the two defeated brigade commanders of the first division for the Red Army to capture [-] "people" within two hours each should be broken in the past few days... ..

After the news of the defeat came out, not only Nanjing, but the whole world was in an uproar.

China's night is America's day.As soon as Chang Kaishen received news of the annihilation of the entire army, the New York Stock Exchange in the United States responded.As soon as the market opened that day, the stock of Gold Pharmaceutical dropped rapidly from a market value of 28 yuan, and lost 31% of its market value in one day!There were only panic selling orders in the audience, but not a few buying orders.In the next dozen or so trading days, the stock of Gold Pharmaceuticals still plummeted at a frightening speed. There were only selling but no buying. By the end of March, the stock price had dropped from the peak of 1.5 US dollars to [-] Dollars, and no one wants them yet.

The mythical soap bubble that Gold Pharmaceuticals rose [-] times in half a year has burst!

Far away in Nanjing, Kong Xiangxi, the Premier of the Executive Council who had just jointly paid 800 million US dollars with the Song family to obtain the "[-]%" debt mortgage of the gold pharmaceutical stock from the Nanjing National Government, stared blankly when he heard the news. Black, passed out directly.

The people around gave first aid and pressed the person violently to wake him up. As soon as he woke up, Kong Xiangxi yelled angrily:

"Liar, liar! A big liar! Huang Yuanxing, you fellow spy are a big liar!"

As for the other giant maggot, Song Ziwen, who was accompanying Madam Cutthroat at that time, after hearing the two pieces of bad news about the collapse of Zhanbai's stock price, he was stunned for a few minutes, and finally came to his senses.

"Party spy, fellow spy! Sister, that Huang Yuanxing, he is a fellow spy! This fellow spy has made us miserable! Get someone to arrest him, don't let him run away!"

A day later, the theory that Huang Ke was a spy finally spread openly throughout the entire Nanjing Government Executive Yuan and other bureaucratic institutions.

With hindsight, the Chairman of the Standing Committee, who had been fooled to no avail, still couldn't believe that Huang Ke was a spy.But at this time, he has ordered people to find out the truth urgently...

Soon, the Central Command and the Military Command found important evidence for him that Huang Ke was a Communist spy, but this evidence was also very bad news.