From to 1935 2020

Not buying?It doesn't matter, don't blame us if your factory is burned down by "patriotic students" tomorrow!

Then, everyone honestly stopped buying Japanese goods.After all, as long as the prices are similar, Chinese capitalists know which one to choose.

According to Kenji Doihara’s report, in the first five months of this year, Japan smuggled materials to China, and encountered a large number of shrinking sales channels.

Finally, Kenji Doihara reported to Yongren: "The leader of this smuggling team is called Lin Changhe, and his other identity is that Huang Ke's cousin!"

"Huang Ke again?"

Yong Ren frowned.

He knew in his heart that now these people from the military department were surrounding him, lobbying desperately, just wanting him to approve the launch of a war against China.The slow sales of Japanese goods in China these days is just an excuse.

Like the "anti-war" Japanese of later generations, Yongren was essentially against "war defeat".Of course, I would be very happy if I could snatch things from China—just like the Kwantung Army marched alone in history. When the people in the military saw the success of the independent march, even Xiyuan Temple Gongwang, who was "the most rational and most opposed" before the war, finally acquiesced. And actively wiped ass off.

After Kenji Doihara finished speaking, Wanji Ishihara, who had just been promoted to the head of the first department (combat department), stood up and put forward his own proposal, which he placed in front of Yongren.

After reading it, Yongren put down the memorial and asked, "Suiyuan? Bailing Temple? And Baotou? Are you planning to start a war here?"

The assistant on the side immediately hung up the map of northern China at this time. Ishihara smiled and pointed to the location of Baotou on the map and said: "In the past three months, the focus of the Communist Party's entire campaign was on Shanxi, but it won After Shanxi, the goal of a series of subsequent military operations was to open up a land line of communication with the Soviet forces in Mongolia."

"After the land exchange with Fu Zuoyi, this line of communication has been opened up! Baotou is their vital node in Suiyuan..."

Ishihara smiled and pointed at Baotou, and began to lobby the emperor.

Bailing Temple is located about 160 kilometers north of Baotou.Although it belongs to Suiyuan, the actual controller is King De.

Suiyuan is close to Chahar Province. After the Battle of the Great Wall in 1933, the Japanese army crossed the Great Wall, penetrated into North China, and occupied part of Chahar in the spring of that year.Feng Yuxiang, Ji Hongchang, Fang Zhenwu and others established the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Allied Army in Zhangjiakou on May 1933, 5, and began to attack the Japanese troops in Chahar and Rehe in June, and wiped out all Japanese troops in mid-July. Expelled from Chahar, this is the first time since the September 26th Incident that the Chinese army regained lost ground.At the same time, under the pretext of realizing the unification of military orders, the Nanjing National Government sent troops to Zhangjiakou, and the Allied Army was forced to disband.

In the next few years, although the Japanese did not enter Chahar publicly, they continued to make small moves in private, and Chahar was the province that was most infiltrated.

Chahar itself is sparsely populated, and the cost of occupation even exceeds the income. (At this time, the province's population is less than 200 million, and there is nothing to plunder if it is occupied)

It was the Mongolian power at that time, that is, the King De's power, that controlled this place.The Bailing Temple, which is next to Chahar, is located in Suiyuan, but it also belongs to the forces of King De.

According to Shi Wan'er, the plan was to organize a group of Kwantung Army elites to enter the Bailing Temple with secret identities, and then cooperate with De Wang's troops to send troops from here to attack the entire Suidong, that is, Baotou, the Red Army's controlled area.

According to Ishihara's analysis of the forces in northern China, China north of the Yellow River is now mainly divided into eight major forces, among which the Qingma force is being besieged by many parties, and its destruction is imminent, let alone.The remaining forces, on the surface, chanted the slogan of anti-Japanese alliance and withdrawal from the Nanjing National Government, but in fact they were essentially pursuing the idea of ​​"separate regime for king".

"They are now, just like Chang Kaishen who won the Central Plains War back then. They were faked together because they were afraid of the Communist Party's military front."

"As long as the strongest force in this alliance is hit hard, they will immediately collapse like a person whose backbone has been removed!"

"My plan is that we only target the Communist Party's troops militarily, and don't attack other forces to divide them."

"In terms of politics and diplomacy, in the recent period, we have to show our goodwill to the Chang Kaishen government, which is facing enemies from all sides. We can even secretly negotiate with him and sign an agreement on joint defense and anti-communism in North China."

"Li Runshi's Communist Red Army is now at its peak. As long as our imperial army strikes with all its strength and wipes out their military forces in Suiyuan, not only can we take Chahar without a fight, but we can also get half of Suiyuan. , thus completing the encirclement of the entire northwest of North China."

In Ishihara Waner's plan, the Bailing Temple was the starting point of the Japanese army. It should be mentioned here that during this period, Chahar was still nominally part of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and the Japanese had no troops stationed here.But the environment here is characterized by vast land and few people, and no one can be seen for dozens of kilometers.Because the border is too long and the cost of stationing is too high, there is no concept of the so-called border and defenders at all.Throughout Chahar and the Bailing Temple in Suiyuan, except for King De's Mongolian forces, there are only a small number of central troops with a few troops in several relatively large population gathering areas.It is actually quite easy for the Japanese to sneak troops into the Bailing Temple.

The plan proposed by Wanji Ishihara will be implemented in the first half of 1937, and will not be launched immediately.The Showa staff officers of the ruling faction are much more reliable than the middle schoolers of the Imperial Road faction. When making war plans, they more or less know how to talk about "military rules" and will not be reckless.

As a staunch cannibalist, Wanji Ishihara understands the principle of eating one bite at a time. At the same time, he also understands that Japan is not yet ready for war. If it launches a full-scale war of aggression against China hastily now, it will only fall into the quagmire.

Especially going south directly to attack Pingjin, one of the most sensitive places in China, is likely to trigger a chain reaction of all parties, and even share the same hatred.

In contrast, the current "weird" relationship between the Red Army and its northern forces, the Japanese invaders only attacked Suiyuan, only the Red Army, and the reaction of other forces, wait and see is the most likely result - in Ishihara Kanji's view , Fu Zuoyi's "New Jin faction" and the Red Army are sworn enemies. The Kwantung Army only attacked the Red Army all the way, and only attacked Baotou. Fu Zuoyi would only see death.

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"The Japanese will not let us pass the second half of 1936 in peace!"

"In the information that Xiao Huang gave us, the Battle of Bailing Temple took place in the last month of this year! In fact, this was the prelude to the full-scale war of aggression against China. That battle was actually a temptation by the Japanese army. Fortunately, Fu Zuoyi responded quickly at that time. Defeat King De of Bailing Temple and a small number of Japanese soldiers at once, and just let them be honest for half a year."

"If the Battle of Bailing Temple was fought first by the Japanese and turned into a situation like September [-], it is very likely, no, yes! The entire Suiyuan will become the second Northeast within a very short period of time, triggering a chain of events. reaction, and even led to the full-scale outbreak of the Japanese invasion of China!"

After June, after the Red Army and Fu Zuoyi completed the "land exchange" handover, Chairman Li Runshi in Taiyuan immediately realized the external crisis that the Red Army would face after occupying Suiyuan and Baotou.

When he called Lin Husan back to Taiyuan for a meeting, he repeatedly explained this at the military meeting.

"The Japanese have not yet mobilized and are temporarily unable to launch a full-scale war. However, with their adventurous nature, Suiyuan, where our army is alone and in the worst strategic position, will definitely become a test for them before the war of aggression against China breaks out. point!"

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-------------------- Chapter 158 Speculators --------------------

After the Shanxi campaign ended, at the campaign summary meeting at the Red Army headquarters...

"Our Red Army took two-thirds of Shanxi and two-thirds of Suiyuan, and at the same time pushed Hebei, it seems aggressive and mighty! But in fact, all these flowers and flowers are all false. "

"In the eyes of the Japanese, our Red Army is already the most powerful in northern China, and it is also the first priority, a hostile military force that must be eliminated."

"Our weaknesses, there are three!"

"First, Shanxi is a land of new acquisitions! The Jinsui Army in the northern Shanxi area was only feared and subdued by us, but they were actually hostile to our army in their hearts! They cannot be regarded as friendly troops! The 29th Route Army in the east, Song Zheyuan The attitude is also mostly fear. Its move to withdraw from the Nanjing Nationalist Government is more due to the strategic persecution of our army after taking Zhangjiakou! Our so-called Northern Alliance is actually very fragile, and it is even just a superficiality. It will fall apart at any time! As for the Chang Kaishen reactionary forces in the south, everyone must not be fooled by the false image of him announcing his resignation! As long as he regains his strength, he will definitely attack our army as soon as possible!"

"Second, it is also the biggest and most dangerous place! The Japanese militaristic forces are already targeting us! In the next six months, Suiyuan will definitely be full of wars. Baotou in Suiyuan is our most important support in the north." point. From now on, this place will immediately enter a state of full preparation for war. At the same time, the construction of the two mountain bases at Yinshan and Daqingshan must be accelerated!"

With that said, Li Runshi patted the table, and solemnly said to Lin Husan: "Baotou is easy to attack and difficult to defend. Don't be too obsessed with big cities. You must be prepared to withdraw at any time when you cannot defend. Daqingshan and Yinshan base areas , is the basis for our long-term confrontation with the Japanese army in the north and the end of the protracted war! In addition, our Red Army still has another problem. In the past, our strategy and tactics were to encircle the cities from the countryside, and gradually evolved into mobile warfare through guerrilla warfare. Take the city again."

"Now the situation has also changed. We have captured a large number of extremely important cities in the north. The contradiction between the city and the countryside, how to deal with mobile warfare, urban defense warfare, mountain guerrilla warfare, and plain guerrilla warfare. A bunch of contradictions that we have never encountered are new issues that every commander and fighter of the Red Army must consider! How to protect important big cities, and how not to let the cities become a burden on our Red Army and become a constraint on our actions. Plenty of pots and pans! How should we choose when facing the superior enemy’s attack and it is difficult to defend the city? The population density of the city is much higher than that of the countryside. New issues for you to reconsider."

"Don't ask me the answer. Regarding this question, I am also thinking and groping. You are all commanders and fighters commanding the Red Army on the front line. You should also think about it with me. Talking about soldiers on paper is not worth it."

After a pause, after all the comrades in the audience listened to his words, Li Runshi continued to speak at the next stage:

"And our third weakness..."

Li Runshi tapped the location of the Nanjing Nationalist Government where Chang Kaishen was located on the map.

"Chang Kaishen voluntarily resigned yesterday, but this is just a political gimmick. The people jumping up and down on the stage appear to be Wang Jingwei, Sun Ke and other KMT right-wing clowns, but no matter who they will come to power in the future, they will soon You will find that you can’t do anything, and in the end you will honestly apply for Chang Kai back. And Chang Kaishen is an extremely stubborn reactionary, and in his eyes, eliminating the Communist Party is the most important thing! Kaishen's situation is that he doesn't have any territory or interests in North China!"

With a dark face, Li Runshi said coldly: "Just like when he sold Northeast China back then, when it comes to North China, he only sells his father's land, and he doesn't know the pain in his heart!"

Li Runshi slapped the table hard, and then said: "In the future war of resistance, once the Japanese army confines the war to this area of ​​China, as long as Chang Kaishen's territory is not moved, he will be happy to hide on the sidelines and watch. Be prepared to stab us in the back at any critical moment!"

Wu Hao on the side nodded at this moment—his strategic ability is not as good as that of the chairman, but he also knew from Huang Ke that there were three anti-communist upsurges during the Anti-Japanese War and the famous Southern Anhui Incident. Childish mistake.

Not long ago, Wei Lihuang, a cadre of the Central Army, was easily released to the officers. On the one hand, it was to save the people in the Soviet area who sacrificed a lot for the Red Army. The prisoners of education will all become "oily" when they become enemies with the Red Army again.

Sun Yuanliang's New First Army is the best example. One oil soldier can lead a large group of people.And from Wei Lihuang to Song Xilian and Leng Xin, those high-ranking generals who had been captured once "lost all ambition" after experiencing the life of captives for this month.

From the expressions on their faces when they left, Li Runshi could tell that if Chang Kaishen wanted to use this group of reorganized Central Army to fight the war of resistance, it would be purely sending food again.

But that alone is not enough.

"We can't wait for the crisis to break out before rushing to solve it! Although Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia are large, their population is too small and the environment is too bad. In addition, Shanxi, with these four provinces, it is still abnormal to deal with Chang Kaishen and the Japanese army at the same time. Difficult and dangerous."

Li Runshi clenched his fists and smashed vigorously towards the location of Henan on the map.

"Henan is the most dangerous place for our army on the southern front! The Gongxian arsenal is now planned by Chang Kaishen, who wants to take it back no matter what. We cannot entrust the fate of China to a few Japanese militarists , launched a full-scale war of aggression against China alone in Shanghai, and forced Chang Kaishen to our side, this so-called most ideal situation! What we have to guard against now is the collusion between Japanese imperialism and Chang Kaishen to sabotage our war of resistance , this worse situation emerges.”

Li Runshi looked at the many generals of the Red Army sitting under his seat, saw that each of them nodded in agreement, and then said:

"Preventing Chang Kaishen from sabotaging the War of Resistance! This is our next phase of policy targeting the Nanjing Nationalist Government in the southeast direction."

"The whole of Henan, the 25th division, this thousand-mile horse, don't let him get away this time!"

When Chairman Li Runshi hit Zhengzhou and Kaifeng on the map with his fist, the tone of the Henan campaign had already been set.

"The goal of this campaign is to wipe out the 25th division, capture the whole of Henan, advance into the Dabie Mountains, and regain the bases of Hubei, Henan and Anhui!"

As soon as these words came out, all the generals of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army who were from the Red Army stood up excitedly!It also includes Comrade Chen Changhao who has just finished "decentralization and transformation".

Everything you do has a price.

Chang Kaishen played "step down and change horses" to avoid the limelight, and wanted to let the opposition inside the Cannon Party know that it would be impossible without him.But he forgot one thing: a snake can't do without a head.

When he hides and plays remote control command, his subordinates who are "unmovable as a mountain in case of friendly forces" will be even more "immovable as a mountain" in this regard.In the Battle of Shanxi, one hand of Chang Kaishen was cut off, and now it is time to cut off his other hand.

History has been changed too much.

In private, Li Runshi explained this to Wu Hao and others when the high-level Red Army held an internal high-level meeting.

"My current view on the situation. In fact, according to what Xiao Huang said, the War of Resistance Against Japan entered a stalemate and Chang Kaishen launched the Southern Anhui Incident to conduct strategic deduction. In my judgment, Chang Kaishen's regime is the most What is possible to do is to secretly collude with the Japanese at the beginning of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and the possibility of becoming Shi Jintang is extremely high, because it is in his personal interest most!"

"Based on this, that's why I made a decision to hit Chang Kaishen again before the Japanese army went south and attacked North China."

At the end of June, a large number of Red Army troops crossed the Yellow River carrying a large number of artillery pieces and assembled in Bo'ai and Gong counties.

Just now on Mount Lu, Chang Kaishen, who heard the "good news" that his old political enemy Hu Hanmin had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, was not happy for more than half a day when he received the bad news!

On the 29th, a large group of Red Army suddenly forcibly crossed the Yellow River from Ewan Village at the junction of southeast Shanxi and Henan. Within a day, they captured Lanfeng and Kao County on the south bank of the Yellow River.At this time, the defenders in Henan were all focused on the direction of the Yellow River Iron Bridge in the north, thinking that the Red Army would snatch the Yellow River Iron Bridge to cross the river.But they didn't expect that they crossed the river directly from the lower reaches of the river.

At the same time, in the Gongxian area, which was confronting the defenders of the 25th Division of Zhengzhou, a large number of main forces of the Red Army also began to detour to the south of Zhengzhou at the same time.

For a while, Chang Kaishen stuck to the main force on the Zhengzhou-Kaifeng front line, one east and one west, and encountered two directions at the same time, the front and rear flanking attacks of two Red Army troops.

On July [-], the Kaifeng defenders fled without a fight.

On the same day, the 25th Division stationed at Guan Linzheng in Zhengzhou faced one east and one west, and more than [-] main forces of the Red Army pressed from both directions. It was obvious that the strategic gesture of swallowing his dumplings was to abandon the city again. Flee, retreat to the south of Xuchang.

He moved extremely fast, even though Yu Tianyun and Peng Shichuan, the two Red Army troops who surrounded and annihilated him, interspersed with the same speed, but people's names can be wrong, but their nicknames can't be wrong.Guan Linzheng's department responded very quickly.

In fact, since he led his troops to station in Zhengzhou and confronted the Red Army in Gongyi area, Guan Linzheng was very worried that his troops would be surrounded and wiped out by the Red Army.As his own land, he has always been very clear about the ever-increasing strength of the Red Army in Gong County and the growing threat. During this period of time, he has been unable to eat or sleep peacefully. I copied the rear and made a big dumpling around it.

When the Red Army in the direction of Lanfengkao County had just begun to cross the river, he saw the intelligence feedback of the Red Army's infiltrated troops from the direction of Yuzhou, southwest of Zhengzhou, and smelled the danger.At that time, the whole army was ordered to be ready to retreat at any time.

If it was in the past, if he wanted to give up such a strategically important place in Zhengzhou, he would definitely have to send a telegram to Chang Baldzi to apply. The time was delayed, and with Chang Kaishen's blind instructions, it might be "whether you can escape or not." Escape", and finally let people surround him firmly and kill him.

But during this period, Chang Baldzi went to Mount Lu to "retire"!

In the current Nanjing Nationalist Government, the upper echelons were in chaos. The young and vigorous Guan Linzheng ignored the group of party sticks on the stage. After sending an urgent telegram to He Yingqin, he made his own judgment on the battlefield situation without waiting for his reply.

Without the headmaster's micro-management, he heard the news that Lanfeng and Kao County were attacked by the Red Army crossing the river, and he immediately ordered the whole army to retreat towards Xuchang. At this time, on the western front, Yu Tianyun The siege network formed by the Ministry of Defense and Peng Shichuan coalition forces had just opened halfway, and encountered the 25th Division desperately abandoning the city and rushing south.At that time, the infiltration troops sent by the Red Army had already destroyed the railway that the defenders were going south, but Guan Linzheng's troops started a long-distance run in Henan again with the iron feet and the Red Army when the railway was blocked.

Peng Shichuan and Yu Tianyun tried their best to intercept, but in the end they only bit off half of the brigade of the 25th Division. The rest of the troops successfully jumped out of the encirclement net, retreated southeast, and retreated to Fugou County.

In the next month, more than [-] main forces of the Red Army went south to the Yellow River and began to sweep across Henan. According to the chairman's instructions: the Eastern Front Red Army entering from Lankao did not seek to occupy land first, but first to destroy the Kuomintang army places where they passed. Troops as the main target

As for the 25th Division, in the process of being outflanked and pursued by the Red Army, this unit actually made more counterattacks and wanted to wait for an opportunity to bite back.Fortunately, Yu Tianyun and Peng Shichuan, who were chasing the main force, had long been prepared and did not divide their troops. According to the chairman's instructions, they just kept chasing the 25th Division.

But Guan Linzheng, seeing that the general situation was over and the situation in Henan was irreversible, retreated to the territory of Hubei on July [-].And on July [-], the main force of the Red Army on the Eastern Front led by Xu Shuai entered the Dabie Mountain area and successfully joined Gao Jingting's troops who had persisted in guerrilla warfare for more than a year.

When Kaifeng in Zhengzhou fell one after another, Chang Kaishen, who was hiding on Lushan Mountain, couldn't bear it anymore. Without waiting for the "official to return to his original post", he directly used the radio "remote" to issue micro-management instructions to Guan Linzheng, asking him to transfer to the south. Xuchang stood firm, waiting for reinforcements from other places to arrive.

But Guan Linzheng is a stubborn person, and he knew that if he really listened to Chang Baldzi's words, the whole army would be wiped out. "Pretended" that they had not received the telegram from Chang Kaishen, a "commoner", and continued to retreat based on their own judgment on the battlefield.Then it was even more convenient to order the radio station to be turned off and not allowed to turn on.....

Afterwards, without the interference of micromanagement, he successfully led his army to escape from the encirclement net in Henan.

After the battle, Chairman Lee Yoon-seok sighed with regret when he learned that the goal of the campaign was only half completed.

"This Guan Linzheng, as Xiao Huang said, is indeed a strong fighter, and he does things cleanly. Without Chang Kaishen's blind command, it would be difficult to wipe him out..."

And Guan Linzheng, who escaped from Henan in embarrassment, was also shocked and frightened at this time.

He returned to Henan from Shanxi and brought 3 people with him when he entered Jin Dynasty. When he returned to Zhengzhou, there were only more than 7000 people left.The remaining [-] troops were all lost and scattered during the escape battle, which was regarded as a great humiliation in his life.