From to 1935 2020

What kind of fundraising for the country is this? It's a different way to publicize that his first division was wiped out and not even a human hair came back.Slapping his face! (Note: Due to poor communication in the Xikang area, it is not yet known that the only seedling who killed his wife Zhang ran away with more than a hundred riders.)

Chang Kaishen said bitterly:

"That bastard Chen Jitang can't think of such a sinister trick, it must have been done by that Guangxi guy Bai Chongxi!"

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Between the plot:

Li Zongren: "Jiansheng, I really admire you! Soliciting donations for the First Division, such a bad idea must be your idea?"

Bai Chongxi: "De Lin, you are wrong this time, this idea was thought up by Bonan himself"

Chen Jitang: "Hey..." (I won't tell you, this is Li Runshi, who used to do tungsten sand business with me for many years when I was in Jiangxi, sent a telegram to give me the idea.)

Li Runshi: "Actually, a comrade named Xiao Huang came up with it on my side..."

Xiao Huang: "Actually, this is an idea provided by netizens in the 21st century..."

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"Committee, you can't delay any longer, if you continue to delay, the morale of the army will really be unstable!"

And in this era, Chang Kaishen's base of power, the "Thirteen Taibao" of Fuxingshe, also lined up to lobby Chang Kaishen.

Note: The 13th Taibao of the Scraping Democratic Party refers to the thirteen key members of the Chinese National Rejuvenation Society founded by Chang Kaishen.The 13 people are: Liu Jianqun, He Zhonghan, Deng Wenyi, Kang Ze, Gui Yongqing, Feng Ti, Zheng Jiemin, Zeng Kuoqing, Liang Ganqiao, Xiao Zanyu, Teng Jie, Dai Li, and Hu Zongnan.Among the 13 people, Hu Zongnan is the boss with the highest status.Among these [-] people, except for one, the rest are all from the Whampoa family.

"The Communists are forcing me, and you bastards are forcing me too!"

Seeing the subordinates queuing up begging Chang Kaishen to agree to the CCP's "substitution" request, Chang Kaishen felt disheartened for a moment.

He would rather the Communists kill all the more than 2 prisoners of war and more than 100 Huangpu wastes, rather than exchange the thousands of detained Communists and a bunch of bandits in the bandits for the officers and soldiers of the two divisions.

There are as many useless soldiers as there are, and what about the more than 100 Whampoa students who were arrested? ——This group of trash who can only drink soldiers' blood can't compare to half of Lin Husan and Jiang Xianyun, and he won't feel heartbroken if they all die.On the contrary, although the communist bandits in custody are smelly and tough, they are all "elites". Once they are released back, the big "communist bandits" will lead the small "communist bandits". Thousands of "communist bandits" came out.

"Commissioned seat, we can't delay any longer. If we continue to delay, the morale of the Whampoa army will be shaken."

Be careful when Yang Yongtai, a think tank, came to plead for mercy, Chang Kaishen, who had been "strengthening" for a month, let out a long sigh and closed his eyes.

A picture appeared in his mind.

Standing on the top of the Forbidden City, wearing a nine-claw golden dragon robe, holding a "cut" sign, not far from his feet, there is a group of Communist Party members with cards on their heads waiting to be beheaded. The "cut" sign was thrown out, and all the members of the Communist Party would be killed.

But at this time, Li Runshi appeared on the opposite side, driving a large group of pig-headed and pig-bodied "Huangpu students" to stand opposite, sneering at him.

Chang Kaishen said angrily, "I won't exchange a bunch of vicious tigers for a bunch of useless pigs!"

After finishing speaking, countless pig-headed and pig-faced people appeared around, knelt beside Chang Kaishen, rolled up their clothes and sleeves and cried loudly: "Committee, you can't do this, you can't do this! These are the parts of your thighs. Minister!"

Without any choice.....

"Forget it, change it, change it, if you don't change it, if you keep these pigs in the hands of the Communists, I will be disgusted to death!"

On October [-], nearly two months after the end of the Songpan-Baozuo Battle, the Nanjing Nationalist Government headed by Chang Kaishen and the Soviet regime headed by Li Runshi began an eight-year "civil war" on the Xi'an-Baoji line The first large-scale exchange of captives in many years.

This day also happens to be the 25th anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising.

Here in Xi'an, Chang Kaishen released more than [-] Communists, including Fang Zhimin and more than [-] prisoners of the Red Tenth Army in Nanchang, as well as a large number of underground party cadres in Shanghai Longhua Prison.In addition, there are thousands of women from the Soviet area who are about to be trafficked to various places.

On the Red Army’s side, they released Hu Zongnan and Wu Chengren in Baoji. Most of the officers and soldiers of the 1st Division and the 49th Division were less than 2 people—the missing six thousand people have been successively released in the past month. Most of the early releases were locals, but more than 2000 of them voluntarily requested to join the Workers, Peasants and Workers' Army during this month.

On the prisoner exchange day, whether it was Baoji or Xi'an, journalists from various countries gathered in both places and took countless photos.Chang Kaishen, who was broken and broken, simply stopped hiding from others at this time, and openly admitted that the "suppression of bandits" had suffered a major setback.

On the night after Hu Zongnan and Wu Chengren were "exchanged", they were put in shackles and taken to the Gendarmerie Department for relevant "defeat review" to hold them accountable.

Fortunately, the truth about the defeat of the Central Army in the Songpan-Baozuo battle has been "clearly" re-examined after several months of reports from various parties and the confessions of the prisoners who were released early.

The conclusion is: Wang Tianyuan, the leader of the regiment guarding the reserved seats, is a super incompetent.As soon as the war started, the Communist bandit used the method of "smuggling to Yinping" to raid the old nest. Without firing a single shot, the entire army was wiped out. Countless ammunition and the radio station were used by the enemy, and the radio operator and code operator are shameless ghosts who fear death. ....

That's right, it's this little "head" who is responsible... As for Chang Kaishen's micromanagement, he turned "being sacked" into a "roasted whole lamb" No one dared to investigate this matter because he was responsible for the entire sheep nest.

An angry Chang Bald offered a head reward of up to [-] oceans to Wang Tianyuan and the radio operator and cipher operator who colluded with Li Runshi in "telegram fraud"—but unless he can destroy the Red Army, he should not be able to get it. It's their heads, because they are already "glorious soldiers of the Red Army" at this time.

Hu Zongnan and Wu Chengren, the former was released after being imprisoned by Chang Kaishen for three months, and then sent to the Army University for further studies-his double insurance of "Zhejiang Huangpu Department" played an important role in this process.

As for Wu Chengren, after half a year in prison, he was released under the plea of ​​his classmate in Huangpu, and then sent to Fujian as the head of a local security regiment.

As for the two defeated brigade commanders, "Iron Army is not iron, Huang Jie is not outstanding", the final result of the punishment was only downgraded by two ranks, and they rushed to the reserve and newly formed troops to serve as "supplementary regiments" and "new formation regiments" long.

During this process, the only person who was promoted was after October, with nearly a hundred riders, hid in Xikang for a month, and then walked through the Songpan grassland in embarrassment, bypassed the guerrilla zone of the Red Army, and returned to Baizhangguan to be controlled by the Sichuan Army. District's "Killing Wife Zhang".

Originally, his Baiqi almost starved to death in Xikang with no food, no pay, no backup, and the local chieftain didn't care about the face of the chairman of the Standing Committee, let alone a family-struck dog and a defeated general like him, but this guy, relying on his little face, actually He hooked up with the chieftain's daughter, and even sold himself to marry her.

After eating and drinking at the chieftain's house for a month, the defeated Baiqi soldiers felt that the limelight outside had passed, so with the help of the chieftain's Tibetan cavalry, they returned to northern Sichuan and passed through Baizhangguan to return to Jian.

Chang Kaishen was overjoyed when he heard about it!

After the big defeat, it is even more necessary to hold out heroes to cover up the shame!

Therefore, under the magical operation of the propaganda department of the Cannon Party, the "wife-killing Zhang" who was clearly the "Songpan deserter" was promoted as a hero who "surrounded by tens of thousands of communist bandits" in a bloody battle to break through...

Then, he was promoted!Become brigade commander of the [-]st Brigade of the rebuilt [-]st Division.

At this time, after retrieving most of the prisoners of war, the First Division began to rebuild with its skeleton.It's just that all the original "Whampoa officers" were required to study again before returning to work!After being defeated and destroyed, although he "resurrected in situ", the energy of the entire army has long been exhausted in the reserved seats.As for the equipment, it is even more incomparable with the previous ones.

A few months later, before the Battle of Northern Shaanxi, Zhang killed his wife and shot to death his "Yellow-faced Chieftain". The reason is to avoid death and temporarily enter the army prison for vacation.

A month later, the rebuilt First Division was wiped out again....

But the former brigade commander in prison, who later changed his name to Zhang Lingfu, brigade commander Zhang, was once again lucky "only escaped with his own life".

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Mr. Edgar Snow and Ms. Agnes Smedley, the two American "red reporters", the former in Baoji and the latter in Xi'an, each held a camera and took pictures of the exchange of prisoners between the two sides .

Here in Xi'an, almost all the Communists who were released had ragged clothes and were emaciated, and their bodies were even more dirty and smelly, exuding a peculiar smell. Almost everyone could see traces of torture on their bodies.

"Although their clothes are ragged like beggars, everyone holds their heads high, and their fiery eyes tell me clearly that they are all proud warriors!" - Smedley

"As for the women who were released, I heard that they were all "family members of the Communist bandits" who were kidnapped and sold in large numbers from the so-called bandit areas that were captured, but in fact many of them were just ordinary people. I interviewed them quietly afterwards They: After the Red Army withdrew, those so-called "bandit areas" that were captured suffered terrible massacres. Stones must go too far, grass must go too far, and people must be changed! This group of so-called "Central Army" shouted slogan."

"Men, the elderly, and children were slaughtered mercilessly, and many were even buried alive. After being raped, women were trafficked to slave factories everywhere. If it weren't for the Red Army capturing them A large number of Central Army soldiers asked for an exchange, and God knows what the future fate of these women will be."

"I have met the Chairman of the Standing Committee and his wife. Both of them are very handsome and extraordinary people. I have also heard all kinds of hype speeches he made to the people. There is nothing wrong with them. Yes, but I have not seen a bit of compassion and kindness for common people in their couple..." ("Memoirs of Smedley")

Edgar Snow, who was located at the prisoner release place in Baoji to the south, saw a different scene.

Snow recorded such a scene in his later published personal biography "A Journey to the West".

"Outside Baoji City, a line of about 2 people lined up in a long queue of several kilometers, waiting to be released in a relatively neat posture. Except for those officers, the complexions of ordinary soldiers are much more complex than what I saw in the prisoner camp half a month ago. Much better when it comes to them."

"These soldiers were all captured by the Red Army units called "Bandits" by the Chinese government during the five days from August 3th to 5000th. The total number of soldiers captured at the beginning reached 5000 at the highest point—according to the Red Army According to some sources, [-] of them were captured food transport personnel on the transportation line from Songpan to Xishui, the so-called "transportation migrant workers". After taking them away from the bitterly cold place in northern Sichuan, After paying their salaries, the Red Army released the [-] people home in batches along the way. The reason for the payment of wages was that in this battle, the Red Army hoarded the supplies that the entire Northwest Front Army (referring to the south of Hu Zong) had prepared for the battle for several months. It was swept away, and because there were too many materials to be transported, migrant workers who were serving the enemy not long ago were temporarily hired. They will not be regarded as prisoners, but hired civilians."

"When we arrived in Tianshui, there were still 6000 prisoners of the Central Army captured, of whom [-] were "locals from Gansu and Shanxi". These people were released on the spot within two days. When they were released, there were many foreign journalists or missionaries on the scene Helped with head counting and took related photos. (One of the reporters is Hu Zongnan’s British reporter with the army: Mr. John)”

"Of the remaining 1000 prisoners of war, more than [-] were wounded. They were all captured during the five-day battle. It is surprising that the Red Army hired a large number of civilian men to transport them. out of northern Sichuan, and then gradually gathered in the Tianshui area for intensive treatment. This very humane approach has won the favor of all the prisoners. I have personally been to the Red Army’s prisoner-of-war camp, which was a large construction site at that time, and a large number of prisoners of war They are building their own temporary settlement there. There are only a few Red Army guards on site, and most of the time, the prisoners manage themselves, and if someone wants to escape, it is actually very easy."

"But as far as I know, no one escaped at all. As for the reason, I was surprised. A prisoner of war named Xiao Bailang replied to me: Why did we escape? Here is a comparison to Chang's bald head (Note: The Red Army is against the Standing Committee Chairman When he was working his life, he ate much better. This soldier named Xiao Bailang told me that when he was a soldier of Chang Kaishen, he could only eat well before the battle, but after being captured, he ate every day. I can eat enough. When I saw him again later, he had torn off the blue sky and white sun logo on the collar badge of his uniform and became a Red Army soldier."

"Afterwards, I got data from the senior officials of the Red Army. There were about [-] soldiers of the Central Army who later volunteered to join the Red Army. I interviewed these people and asked them why they joined the Red Army. The answers were similar: they could eat food when they were prisoners. No beatings or scolding, respect for personality, and treatment of illnesses, so I voted for the Red Army.”

"My British friend told me in a sarcastic tone that after a month of being captured, these soldiers were actually a little fatter than before being captured, because they could eat enough every day. In the "White Army" and " He has served in the two armies of the Red Army, and he commented on the food of the two armies: the prisoners of the Red Army eat better than the soldiers of the first division. As for the 49th division, if it is our British Empire, who would dare to feed the soldiers that much food? Kind of thing, the mutiny has already happened below."

"On the eve of the prisoner exchange, I went among the soldiers who were about to be released and asked them what they would do when they met the Red Army again on the battlefield. At first most of them didn't answer me on the spot, but a young soldier whispered privately. Said to me: When the commander asked him to shoot, he would shoot into the sky, as long as the battle situation was unfavorable, he would voluntarily surrender at the first time..."

"The Red Army did not raise these prisoners for nothing. During the time in the prison camp, the able-bodied prisoners would be taken out to work, mainly to build barracks and dig water canals, saying that they were preparing for the next year's floods. However, they participated in the labor The prisoners can get better food, and at the same time, the wages are calculated according to the amount of labor. The soldier I interviewed worked for the Red Army for a month and earned a total of ten silver dollars."

"The soldier later returned to the rebuilt First Division, which was wiped out again a few months later. When I saw him again, he was already a Red Army soldier and a squad leader. When I interviewed him again , He told me that when he returned to the Central Army from Baoji, he encountered a loyalty review by the Central Army. The person who reviewed him actually did nothing, but took away all the ten oceans he earned from working for the Red Army. Later When the Red Army and the White Army (the original words) went to war again, he encouraged the people around him, about a dozen people, to “revolt on the battlefield” together with guns, and defected to the Red Army—a Chinese friend I met later, here Added a note to me: The ruler treats his ministers like brothers and feet; the ministers regard the ruler as his heart; the ruler treats his ministers like soil mustard, and the ministers regard the ruler as a bandit."

"In the process of interviewing these "White Army" soldiers in the Red Army's mouth, I also found one thing: most of the White Army soldiers are illiterate, and many of them can't even write their own names. Interestingly, the After being captured, they learned to write their own names instead—the reason is that the political workers of the Red Army gave them political classes every day and taught them the basic culture: learn to write their own names. Contrary to the "White Army", the Red Army soldiers The literacy rate in the army is astonishingly high. In order to increase the speed of literacy, they also invented a method: stick notes on the marching backpacks and write on them, so that soldiers can learn to read along the way during the march. This is really an ingenious invention .

I interviewed Li Runshi, the leader of the Red Army, the man who was repeatedly shot and killed countless times in the newspapers of the Nanjing government in the Republic of China, and he told me his views on improving the culture of soldiers.

"An army without culture is a stupid army. A stupid army cannot win a battle! Soldiers who don't know what they are fighting for are even less likely to have high morale."

I have asked many Red Army soldiers, why are you fighting?They answered me: It's that simple to fight for the poor.

In the prison camp, I experienced two impressive things.

One is the complaint meeting.Let the captured "White Army soldiers" come to the stage and tell about the suffering they have suffered... Often after a complaint meeting is finished, there will be a lot of crying on the scene.Many White Army soldiers took off the blue sky and white sun logo on their clothes after the complaint meeting, and became the Red Army...

The other thing is that the Red Army formed a theater troupe to perform regularly in the prison camps. I have seen one of the plays, and the name of the play is "The White-haired Girl".This scene also has amazing effects. Often after a scene is performed, many soldiers who watch the play turn from white to red.

The Nanjing government accused the Red Army of brainwashing their captured soldiers, but there was nothing they could do.

The number of captured "white soldiers" in the Tianshui area had dropped to [-] when they were released.During that month, more than one-tenth of the White Army became the "Red Army."Although the conversion rate is only one-tenth.But the remaining people who have not been transformed have no fighting spirit—in my opinion, even if they return to the Central Army, they will no longer be able to pose a threat to the Red Army.The soldier I mentioned above who returned to the Central Army first, and after a few months, pulled a squad of "White Army" soldiers who revolted on the battlefield and took the initiative to join the Red Army is a perfect example. "

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"During the interview in the so-called "bandit-controlled area", I accidentally met my old friend, Mr. John, a British colleague. He was captured by the Red Army on August [-]th when the First Division was wiped out. .Before I came to Tianshui, he had been with the Red Army for nearly a month and took many precious photos. We reporters were rushing to Tianshui to get more news, but he was the opposite. He was in a hurry to leave Tianshui and go outside, and spread the first-hand information in his hands—it really made me jealous."

"According to Mr. John, there is a photoshop in Tianshui. When he left there, he had already developed a lot of photos in advance with the machine there. Because of the friendly relationship between the two parties in the past, I was fortunate to see in advance a few days later in various countries. The photographs in the newspapers, one of them, made a great impression on me."

"The content in the photo is a scene of troops lying in the street sleeping and camping in groups. The background is a residential building without a door panel."

"The photo was taken in a place called Zaojiao Town in the south of Tianshui. I went to that place specially later. It was already evening when Mr. John arrived there with the main force of the Red Army. The town is not big, with only a hundred families. It was evening when we arrived at the town. There were thousands of Red Army troops stationed in the town at that time, but these Red Army troops did not disturb the people. Apart from renting some houses from local residents for the wounded to live in, the rest were at best borrowed. Door panels and straw, and then just sleep on the floor outside in the street."

"Mr. John told me that he didn't notice it that night, and he had been sleeping in the house allocated to him by the Red Army. At that time, there were still residents who moved in temporarily from other house neighbors in the house-they took money from the Red Army to temporarily move themselves It is an iron law of the Red Army that no one can disobey the prohibition of occupying civilian houses, so there was the scene he saw when he got up the next day."

"Mr John told me that when he woke up the next morning, he was also shocked to see thousands of people lying peacefully sleeping in the street, without any disturbance, so he took this photo. This photo later won him the British Press Award. When he said goodbye to me, he said to me with a slightly frightened expression: The future of China belongs to the group of people who stay in Tianshui. Sooner or later, the British Empire will be destroyed by them. Drive off this land.

I also agree with him.

I stayed from September until February of the following year, and only then did I finish my nearly half-year-long inspection of the Red Army-controlled areas in the Gansu-Shaanxi area. At that time, I went south from Yan’an in the north to Xi’an, where I was going to return to Peiping by train.

At that time, I was wearing local clothes and mixed in a pack cart of a group of Chinese farmers going to the market town in the south. The cart was driven by a white-haired old farmer from northern Shaanxi, and several other people were sitting in the cart.When approaching the market town, there was a Red Army team of about a hundred people running and practicing at the intersection in front of them. Because the road was narrow and blocked the road, the carriage could not pass.So the old farmer, the coachman, waved his whip and yelled: "Give it up, let it go".

Then this group of Red Army soldiers with guns on their backs formed a group of three on the road and lined up to let our carriage pass on the road that gave way.

The old farmer naturally yelled for the soldiers to make way, and the soldiers also naturally gave way for the old farmer.

At that moment, I suddenly understood why this army was able to walk [-] miles in the battle without getting separated, and why it was able to win such a great victory.After returning to Shanghai, I told my new friend about this experience, that is, China Huang, who wrote and marked for me earlier, and he only said one thing to me: Women and children compete for the way with the master of the king.

Although I can speak Chinese, many special Chinese words are difficult to understand.

My Chinese friend Huang explained to me:

"Cherish your own soldiers, love your own people, and even treat the enemy's soldiers, as long as you lay down your arms, treat them well, educate them well, and let the former enemies become your own voluntarily... This is the king's way teacher's way.

In other places in China, I have seen the so-called central army, or miscellaneous army, or local armed forces. They run rampant everywhere, and it is common for them not to pay for food and shopping. After half a year of investigation in the "bandit-controlled area" of the city, I have never encountered such a thing.

This is probably what the Chinese call the teacher of the king.

Volume two, to be completed

-------------------- Chapter 80 The Attacking Zhang Xiaoliu ------------------

Huang Ke left Tianshui on September 9, then took a train from Xi'an to Beiping, and finally took a train from there to Shanghai.The content of the Tianshui review meeting was only known to Elena after she returned to Shanghai with the secretly filmed video.