Chapter 108 The dust settles (I)

The next day, at the military airport of Nanjing University Colonel Field, a twin-engine plane roared into the sky in the first ray of morning light, and slowly flew towards the dark clouds in the distance until it turned into a black dot in the sky and disappeared into the air.

In the rumbling cabin, Chiang was angry at the telegram notice in his hand. Obviously, the telegram was not just a simple sign of the uprising in Xi'an. The most important thing was that during the telegram, he pointed the spearhead of the civil war directly at Chiang's Nanjing government. What's even more annoying is that the telegram also used the Spring and Autumn style to imply that Chiang was just a lackey of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols and could not make a decision. In this way, Chiang, who had been a wicked man for more than ten years, was too angry.

No one wants to be a "dog", let alone a high-ranking leader.

"Zeng Yiyang." Mr. Jiang suddenly roared and stood up from his seat, which made the people around him worry. In the already overloaded plane, the nervousness was rising, and many people's hearts were raised to their throats.

It was not until the plane stopped steadily at the Zhengzhou military airport that everyone felt relieved. Mr. Jiang finally did not kick open the cabin window. Such an irrational thing happened. Instead, after the thunderous anger, he sat down silently. Those who didn't understand thought that Mr. Jiang was so angry that he was so angry. After all, yelling was the most tiring and easiest to relieve his anger. It was not until later that the combat meeting that everyone realized that Mr. Jiang was hoarse in his voice. He was not Chaplin, so of course he was not used to acting pantomime.

There was no way, so I searched twice before I found Zeng Yiyang's name among hundreds of people in the telegram signature.

As for why Zeng Yiyang, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Third Front Army, hid in the middle of the signature and played hide-and-seek games with Mr. Jiang.

This is not because Zeng Yiyang deliberately spent Gong Jiang, but because he knew that he was not qualified enough. Even a member of the country like Yang Hucheng didn’t know who Zeng Yiyang was. It was not until he realized that it was Zeng Rang’s son that he suddenly realized. The reason for his sudden realization was that the tiger father had no dog son, which hit Zeng Yiyang quite a lot.

Zeng Yiyang decided not to do something earth-shaking to let himself go to the forefront. Before that, he decided to stay behind the scenes. But history would not allow him to be buried. Anyway, in the Henan government compound, Mr. Chiang said over and over again that his enemy was Zeng Yiyang, but he ignored Xiang Ying and President He.

Dai Li's spy organization finally showed its edge, and kept coming from Shaanxi, which made Chiang Kai-shek see more intuitively how powerful the Red Army he was facing was.

The Fourth Front Army was surrounded and suppressed by a total of 200,000 troops in northern Sichuan, but the results were not achieved, and the Sichuan Army suffered a lot of losses.

Worried that once the Central Army reduces the pressure on Sichuan, the Sichuan Army will be even more slack. Mr. Chiang failed to make a decision for a long time, whether to evacuate the First Division from Gannan to attack Shaanxi, or to continue to increase pressure on Sichuan, so that the Sichuan Army can completely solve the Fourth Front Army.

He sat in the chair with a gloomy face without saying a word, completely different from the half-body portrait behind him. The German advisory group's refusal to formulate a combat plan for him caught him off guard. He thought that the rigor of the Germans would help him develop a reliable combat plan without hesitation, but this time the Germans were obviously furious.

General George Weizer, former director of the Operations Department of the General Staff of the German Wehrmacht, finally couldn't stand it. Chiang Kai-shek always had to change the combat plan they took a long time to formulate, and deeply realized that the biggest culprit of the destruction of their plan was not the senior commanders of the Red Army, but Chiang Kai-shek, their employer, which hit him a lot. Just like this time, when the Red Army attacked Shaanxi, the German plan was to siege the Red Army in Xiangyang and even allow the Red Army to flow into the Hanzhong Plain.

But Old Jiang insisted on changing his plan to a total of earth.

The 67th Army, the 9th Army, and the 20th Army of Henan Province deployed troops to the Han River, forming a dense blockade line, trapping the Red Army to death on the west bank of the Han River. The 17th Army was also deployed near Yun County, and the Red Army in Hubei would fly south.

Jiang almost changed the plan to eliminate the Red Army in this plan, but all other troops were deployed, in order to make him proud of his "killing two birds with one stone".

Scenes appeared before his eyes, and Mr. Jiang felt a little tired. He still looked as if he was still calm before Mount Tai collapsed, but he was mentally like a declining old man. He was only in his forties. He couldn't say that he was still a flower and was also very young and strong.

Mr. Jiang raised his hand tiredly and signaled everyone to sit down.

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The neat and uniform sitting posture is only at meetings of this level that these generals will be so regular.

Seeing these generals, Chiang Kai-shek felt a lot of emotion. The battle of the Central Plains and the fighting of millions of troops made him survive. Will he be forced to the dead end by the tens of thousands of Red Army in Shaanxi? Thinking of this, he cheered up and sat down and said: "This time, the Red Army fled into Shaanxi. The 17th Route Army not only did not effectively suppress the bandits, but also issued a telegram at the critical moment of suppressing bandits. It is really unforgivable to live up to the trust of the party and the country and destroy the political situation in the north. This is really unforgivable. In this battle, the Red Bandits are going to suppress the rebellion of the 17th Route Army. Ci Xiu, tell me about the situation of the Red Bandits in Shaanxi."

Mr. Jiang's hoarse voice stunned Chen Cheng, but he came to his senses in an instant. He stood up and said to Mr. Jiang: "Yes, the council. Since the end of November, the Red Army entered from Hubei from Shaanxi, including the He Long army, the Third Army, the He Long army, the 5,000 troops; the Red Forty Army, the Zeng Yiyang army, the 15,000 troops; the Red 25th Army, the Wu Huanxian army, the 7,000 troops."

Chen Cheng just said this, when he was rudely interrupted by Duke Chiang and said unforgivably: "Especially Zeng Yiyang's 15,000 Red Bandits, this is the main evil..."

After whining and complaining, Mr. Jiang once again signaled that Chen Cheng would continue.

Chen Cheng secretly glanced at Mr. Jiang and said to himself that he almost forgot to talk about where he had said. After thinking about it, he remembered that he was talking about the general forces of Shaanxi. "The leader of the bandit in Shaanxi, Yang Hucheng, after rebelling against the enemy, his troops were generously separated from their camp and responding to Nanjing's call. Now they have passed Shanxi and rested in Hebei. The remaining troops, more than 30,000 bandits, have raised the anti-flagship. At this point, the total strength of the Red Army may exceed 60,000."

Silk--

The party and state official Yu Zuo didn't know that the combat effectiveness of the Red Army was terrifying. If the 60,000 Red Army soldiers were sent to attack, there would definitely be no way to achieve results. Besides, Henan was not peaceful, and it would also have to send troops to garrison.

"Why? You are all pillars of the Party and the country. There are many generals who have been in the army for 20 years. Are there times on the battlefield that you are afraid?" Mr. Chiang frowned, stood up angrily, and waved his arms. The army was in a bad mood, how could he fight this battle?

"It's only 60,000 people?" Mr. Chiang despised the Red Army for a rare contempt.

Perhaps it was because his throat was so painful that he found that the white porcelain tea cup on the table in front of him did not drink tea, but paused the tea cup on the table. The tea splashed everywhere, and he just ignored it.

He said passionately, with a hoarse voice: "The Red Bandits in Jiangxi will be wiped out. Our army will not only free up our hands to destroy the Red Army in Shaanxi with all its might, but also completely erase the Red Bandits from China."

Seeing that everyone nodded in agreement, Jiang Gong immediately found a breakthrough.

"In Shanxi, Yan Baichuan agreed to send 100,000 troops to attack Yulin, Mengjin, and Hancheng across the board to press into Shaanxi. The 30,000 elite generals of the First Division had already deployed defenses in Tianshui and would attack Baoji soon. On the Henan side, from Fenglingdu and Tongguan, the Red Bandits were attacked fiercely. The main force passed Shanxi, crossed the Yellow River to the west, and raided the important town of Shaanxi Pucheng, and detoured behind Tongguan to open the passage into Shaanxi. The Northeast Army ranked 67th Army, from Shangnan all the way north and out of the Qinling Mountains in the south, giving the Red Bandits a final attack." Although Jiang Gong was seriously lacking in confidence at the beginning, the more he said, the more he was more confident. What was strange was that in the end, he felt a sense of domineering in his heart, who was in the world to compete with him.

When the four armies entered Shaanxi, even if the Red Army had 60,000 troops, they would be busy disrupting them. Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek used almost all the troops he could use in the northwest, and he also promised Yan Xishan that if the Shanxi-Sui Army could send 200,000 troops, it would be the time when Yan Xishan entered Xi'an when he conquered Shaanxi.

Of course, Yan Xishan, the rich man from Shanxi, looked down on the tax revenue in Shaanxi, but he was indeed coveted by the strength of the people in the northwest. With Shanxi's money, he believed that soon he would have the ability to compete with Mr. Jiang alone.

Immediately decided to increase the investment and add two troops to the northern Shaanxi, led by Fu Zuoyi, a famous general of the Shanxi-Sui Army.

Although Shaanxi has changed its flags in the province, various forces are ready to move, and the political situation is quite unstable. General He, Xiang Ying, Yang Hucheng and Zeng Yiyang all understand that once Yan Xishan joins the Central Army to encircle and suppress Shaanxi, the balance of the war situation will be broken.

This is just a military issue. Moreover, the views of the Red Army in various parts of Shaanxi are quite different. Guanzhong is rich and there are many rich people, and they are most afraid of the Red Army. Many landlords and wealthy families not only recruit soldiers, but also secretly collude with the Central Army to convey information, wanting to fight against the Red Army to the end, and even collude with bandits, just to protect their family business.

Zeng Yiyang suggested to Xiang Ying about the current difficult situation that in the crisis, establishing a wartime mechanism should also make corresponding changes to the agrarian revolution.

After estimating the gains and losses, several temporary policies were finalized and released in the form of an announcement on the same day:

Announcement of Shaanxi Soviet Government:

(I) Confiscate guns and ammunition from various places and manage them in a unified manner; (II) The local bandits in Shaanxi are seriously affected by the situation, and the Shaanxi Garrison Command will be established to encircle and suppress the bandits; (III) The 17th Army officers and soldiers who surrendered will not be held accountable except for the most evil ones; (IV) On the land issue, landlords have been used for more than 20 years, landlords will be reduced by government subsidies. If the land is less than 20 years old, the land will be confiscated and distributed uniformly by the government to landless farmers; for the unowned land in the war, the government will measure it and make unified distribution; (V) The political movement must continue, but without any evidence, the behavior of one's comrades is considered a rebellion and will never be tolerated; (V) Establish a security force to maintain market stability...

Soon, Xiang Ying, President He, Zeng Yiyang and others who represented the new Shaanxi government signed their names. The announcement was released on the same day, and on the same day, a large number of landless farmers asked to join the army. Obviously, these policies have gained the support of most people.

Yang Hucheng, who has been swaying between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, also decided to learn some knowledge first and then work.

Of course, these more than the stormy Shaanxi Provisional Government are far from enough. They will face greater tests. More than 200,000 enemy troops gather around Shaanxi. Only after the victory of this great war can the entire Shaanxi be turned into danger.

On January 10, 1933, the Shaanxi Garrison Command was established, and Wu Huanxian served as the commander, and organized local garrison troops to cooperate with land reform...

On January 11, the Red Forty Army expanded a division with a total of more than 20,000 people. They deployed defenses on the front line of Tongguan and Hancheng, and 100,000 Central Army across the Yellow River...

On the same day, President He led the expanded Red Third Army into Baoji to set up defense...

Northwest Army generals Zhao Shoushan and Zhang Hanmin led three brigades of the Northwest Army and two regiments of the garrison, a total of 11 regiments to deploy defenses to Yulin, northern Shaanxi...
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