From to 1935 2020

"Commander Yang, the Chairman sent more than a dozen telegrams in a row, urging you and me to send troops, what should we do?"

Yang Hucheng said: "Hanqing, don't worry, the most urgent thing now is the Chairman. Soldiers can be dispatched, but the money must be paid first!"

When Yang Hucheng made his statement, Zhang Xueliang felt as if he had taken a reassurance, nodded, and then continued to stand still.

The time came to November [-], when the Red Army marching northward had already approached the city of Yulin.

At the same time, Qingyang was also attacked by the Red Army.It was Luo Binghui and Yu Tianyun's Ninth Army that attacked Qingyang.At this time in Qingyang, there were only more than 2000 defenders, which belonged to Ma Hongkui's department. The regular army was no more than one regiment, and the rest were various militia groups. The "chicken head" is deliberately not chopped, just hoping that the three horses can "spread more soldiers and horses" here, so that they can be fattened up and killed.

The characteristic of warlords is that they are reluctant to part with the pots and pans at home.Qingyang can be regarded as a good city in the northwest, Ma Hongkui really didn't want to abandon it, he insisted on setting up a regiment here, plus more than 2000 people from the local militia to "give away heads" here.After the Ninth Red Army came to Qingyang City, they directly launched an attack. They captured Qingyang that night and wiped out the defenders.By November [-]th, another city, Pingliang, was also captured by the First Army attacking north from Gansu.

In the past few days, Chang Baldzi couldn't sleep all night.The telegrams to Zhang and Yang were typed one after another.He is both reluctant to send troops and pay money, and always thinks about empty hands and white wolves.Little did he know that Young Marshal Zhang saw the Red Army attacking Qingyang and Pingliang, and the little bit of unruly "courage" that had just been born was gone after one day, and it was Chang Kaishen who knocked the buttons on the telegraph almost to the point of smoking , It was only on November 140 that three divisions were symbolically sent to form a group, and marched cautiously together. After walking [-] miles in three days, they began to wander around in place as a response.

At this time, the cannons of the Red Army had already sounded outside Yulin City, and Yulin City was frantically in a panic.

"The main force of the Communist bandits is in Yulin. You should go all out to take Yan'an, and the siege of Yulin will be solved!"

Chang Kaishen, the master of micromanagement, looked at the map, thinking about "encircling Yan and saving Yu". During this time, he also received information from other sources. In this large area from Yan'an to Tongchuan, the main force of the Red Army The troops were almost gone, and all of them were taken away. As long as the Northeast Army marched northward, it would have taken Yan'an within a few days.

But Zhang Xiaoliu refused to do it. Instead, he called back and said that "the whereabouts of the main force of the Communist bandits are unknown."Not only that, these days, under the repeated suggestions of Chief of Staff Xie Fang, Zhang Xueliang also sent Chang Kaishen one after another crying poor telegrams, to the effect that: the army owes a lot of money, and the soldiers have no fighting spirit. Early payment of commissioned seats......

"Mother Xipi, mother Xipi!"

After Chang Kaishen tore the telegram to shreds while shouting and cursing, he finally ordered the Ministry of Finance to pay the Northeast Army a full 700 million yuan in one go.

However, the money Chang Baldy called this time was not silver dollars, but French currency!

"Anyway, just turn on the money printing machine!"

At that moment, Chang Kaishen suddenly felt relaxed, and secretly scolded himself for being stupid and unable to think about it.If you understand this truth earlier, the problem will be solved!

"Commander, the chairman is bluffing people with printed paper! Silver dollars are the hard currency, and these French currencies are paper!"

Although Zhang Xueliang is a scumbag, his subordinates are not stupid. The chief of staff he relies on very much, Xie Fang, is even smarter.

"This legal currency is the new money recently issued by the chairman. Although it is barely usable, he can have as much of this thing as he wants, just turn on the money printing machine. From Tongchuan to Yan'an, the reconnaissance troops reported that there were only a small number of Red Army troops left behind. But this is obviously a pit!"

Xie Fang said while holding the map, knocked in the direction of Qingyang in the west of Tongchuan, and then warned:

"In this direction, the information is unknown. God knows how many troops the Red Army has concentrated here. If we really go northward with all our strength and take Yan'an, it will be like tearing our faces apart. As long as the Red Army in this direction advances eastward, it will cut off our southward return." The retreat route, the Red Army going north to Yulin and then going south, that is the situation of the north and the south attacking the door and beating the dog."

"Yulin Chengjing Yuexiu has been in operation for many years, and it claims to have [-] defenders. It will not be easy for the Red Army to take it down, right?"

Xie Fang said: "I have been to that ghostly place in Yulin. There is a large desert outside. He can raise [-] soldiers. I cut off his head and hung it on his city gate! As for the attacking power of the Red Army, they have just taken Hu Zongnan's entire Northwest Front Army. With all the equipment and more artillery shells, will it be difficult to fight Yulin?"

So far, in fact, all military operations of the Northeast Army have been "reported" to the Tianshui Red Army first. They traveled more than 100 miles in three days and dealt with Chang Bald with a "fake fight". The Red Army also expressed that it was understandable. , and even suggested that the other party can learn from Li Zongren and Xiao Zhuge at the beginning, and put firecrackers in iron cylinders to blow up firecrackers for a fake fight or something...

Zhang Xueliang frowned and said, "Of course I don't want to fight the Red Army, but now the chairman has put up all the money, so I won't do anything difficult to explain!"

Xie Fang put his mouth next to the young marshal's ear, and whispered twice: "Actually, it can be like this..."

Zhang Xueliang's eyes lit up, he nodded, then shook his head and asked, "Will they agree to this kind of thing?"

"You can send a telegram to ask..."

An hour later, Xie Fang said excitedly with a telegram from Tianshui.

"They agreed!"

On November [-]th, Chang Tuzi in Nanjing finally received great news.

The Northeast Army commanded by Zhang Xueliang, with its two cavalry regiments in front, advanced more than [-] miles in two consecutive days, and "blitzed" to regain Yan'an!

The chairman was overjoyed, and while sending out a congratulatory message and a commendation order, he also ordered the Ministry of Finance to give Zhang Shaoshuai 100 million French currency as a reward.

Chang Kaishen, who was overly excited, couldn't help holding a press conference on the same day, announcing that the Central Army had regained the lost ground in Yan'an, successfully encircled Wei and rescued Zhao, and now the Red Army attacking Yulin City was at a loss. .

What the excited Chang Tuozi didn't know was that Jie Fang, Zhang Xueliang's chief of staff, had long been an underground party lurking beside Zhang Xueliang.If he knew this, he would definitely not waste the 100 million French currency in vain, and he would not report victory in advance to the reporter......

And the person who encouraged Zhang Shaoshuai to advance boldly and take Yan'an in a blitz was actually Li Runshi who lived in Tianshui!It was he who personally instructed Xie Fang to persuade Shaoshuai Zhang to "advance boldly" and occupy Yan'an.

-------------------- Chapter 93 This is just a technical adjustment --------------------

The third, fourth, and fifth armies of the Red Army attacked Yulin first by occupying the strategic commanding heights around the city and controlling its surrounding satellite market towns.

"Don't worry, fight steadily and be fully prepared!"

"Don't worry about the future, just go to Yulin with the idea of ​​changing your home. As for Yan'an behind it, the central government has its own disposal."

In the past nine years of civil war, the Red Army fought many city battles, but most of them ended in failure and heavy losses.

The number of artillery is insufficient, and the ability to attack fortifications is insufficient. When attacking the strong fortress built by the enemy, the main reason is that there are too many casualties.

After the southern part of Hu Zong was completely wiped out, it was not difficult for the Red Army to take down Yulin City with all its equipment.The difficulty is to control the consumption of ammunition, especially the consumption of artillery shells. After all, there are still several tough battles to be fought in the northwest, and at the same time, preparations must be made for the possible encirclement and suppression of Chang Kaishen's main force in the future.

Although Huang Ke's underground work in the White Area is progressing rapidly, and even miraculously opened the "red lifeline" from Tianjin to Xi'an within a month, and the Soviet Union has promised to provide artillery and ammunition support, but all this is relatively difficult. In the long run, the continuous battles in the next few months forced the Red Army to calculate the use of shells in their hands while minimizing casualties.

Huang Ke brought to the upper echelons of the Red Army a summary of their tactical experience in urban warfare during the Liberation War, such as the four-fast and one-slow tactics of the four fields, the three-three system, and the four-four system of the three fields. In addition, Xu Shuai himself will fight Taiyuan in the future A summary of the experience of tackling difficulties at that time.

Whether it is the three-three system or the four-four system, the premise must be inherited by experienced veterans and supported by supporting weapons.

The Red Army troops who had just completed the Long March could not immediately "leapfrog" to learn these too complicated military tactics.What Huang Ke can do is to memorize military textbooks bluntly, and give everyone a general goal of specific learning. In reality, the current Red Army is still far from learning and even applying it in order to integrate it with reality.

During the two-month period from August to October, the middle and high-level Red Army generals have been studying how to solve the difficult problem of attacking the city. The battle of Yulin was carried out as an "experiment of attacking the fortifications".

Under the persecution of more than 3 main forces of the Red Army and pulling points one by one, by November [-], the defenders in various strategic locations around Yulin City were either wiped out or all retreated into the main city.In the first few days, the fighting between the two sides was not fierce.

In fact, Jing Yuexiu's troops were just as strong. In the past, they could only suppress Liu Zhidan's Red Army by uniting with Yang Hucheng. When they met the main Red Army with the upper hand in weapons and strength, they quickly collapsed and retreated to the main city.

Beginning on November [-]th, the main force of the Red Army approaching the city began complex geotechnical tunnel work outside the city wall of Yulin.The specific method is to surround the city wall of Yulin, start digging traffic trenches, and continue to extend to the city wall.

On November [-]th, when Chang Tuzi excitedly announced to reporters that Yan'an would be recovered and the siege of Yulin was about to be lifted, Jing Yuexiu was standing on the top of Yulin city, looking at the outside like a spider web in fear along the observation port. Generally densely covered, the traffic trench that spreads continuously towards the city wall like mold proliferates.

Looking down from the city wall, you can only see shovels of soil being lifted up by the shovels that stick out of the ditch from time to time, and fall to both sides of the ditch, but it is difficult to see people in the ditch.

The earth-digging tools shovels and hoes used by the Red Army were also purchased in large quantities by the underground party in the Tianjin area, and then transported to northern Shaanxi through the "red lifeline".

Jing Yuexiu's Shaanxi Army had discovered the Red Army's intentions a long time ago, and tried to use a few mortars that were very precious in their hands to bombard the Red Army's interference in the outer trenches.

But nothing works.The Red Army besieging Yulin was digging into the main city wall of Yulin from all directions in all directions.The Jingyuexiu artillery did not have so many shells, and the Red Army working in the traffic trenches had the traffic trenches as natural shelters. Unless the shells fell into the traffic trenches, they would just splash people with soil and have no effect.

What's more terrible is that when they used mortars to bombard the Red Army working in the tunnels outside the city for the first time, due to lack of experience, they did not expect the opponent's artillery counterattack at all (this was the wrong experience of bullying Liu Zhidan's Red Army without artillery in the past), Jing Yuexiu's men Those stupid artillerymen actually fired mortars at the top of the city,

In fact, when they were about to fire their cannons, they let the opponent's observation post outside the city notice.As a result, this stupid approach caused him to be covered by counter artillery fire from three different directions within a few seconds after firing the first shell.

A dozen or so people from the entire artillery position flew into the sky together, and what was worse was that the ammunition box placed nearby was also detonated. Under the chain reaction, a large group of people around also fell into bad luck. The artillery in Jing Yuexiu's hand In an instant, a quarter was reimbursed.

Heartbroken, Jing Yuexiu had to hide the mortar behind the city wall and use the principle of curved shooting to attack the traffic trench, but the problem was still not solved: the hit rate was too poor, the effect was too poor, and the ammunition wasted in vain, the gain outweighed the loss!Soon he felt sorry for the cannonball and gave up.

As for sending death squads out of the city at night to attack the bandits and communists to rob the camp... This is just a plot in the drama, if you really do this, you are giving away the head, and Mr. Xu Shuai and Peng outside the city will wake up with laughter in his dreams.

When Jing Yuexiu looked out from the lookout, he only dared to look for a second or two, and then immediately retracted his head.The reason is that during these three days, the Red Army outside the city organized a large number of snipers, constantly carrying out "cold gun" campaigns against the defenders at the head of the city.

On the first day, the unsuspecting Shaanxi army was killed and injured more than 20 people, and then the defenders on the city wall became shrinking turtles, hiding behind the protective wall and sandbags, and refused to stand out easily up.During this period, Jing Yuexiu also organized gunmen to shoot at each other, but the Red Army shooter on the opposite side was obviously better at marksmanship.As far as the quality of firearms is concerned, the guns in the hands of Jing Yuexiu's Shaanxi Army are basically old-fashioned, and most of them are of poor quality.The Red Army shooter on the opposite side, in addition to having a large number of Mauser 1924, even has several professional sniper rifles equipped with high-magnification scopes.

The Red Army, which is superior in both quality and quantity, naturally has the upper hand in this kind of confrontation.After a day of sniping, the Shaanxi Army, who had been killed and injured dozens of people at the top of the city, was no longer willing to play this dangerous game of sniping.

Even so, hiding behind a beanbag is not safe.

Jing Yuexiu knew that there was a very powerful sniper in the surrounded Red Army who used a "large caliber gun". The gun was so powerful that the bullets could even penetrate sandbags. It can also drill a hole the size of a basin in the human body.

During the short confrontation in the past three days, several unlucky people were hit by bullets passing through sandbags.

"The person who was shot was completely shattered."

In addition, during these three days, the city walls on all sides of Yulin were hit by more than a dozen shells, ranging from mountain artillery to mortars.Every time it hits, a large number of defenders gather at the location of the impact point, and every time it achieves amazing results.

Three days had passed, and the Red Army outside had not yet launched a full-scale attack, but the morale of the Shaanxi Army in the city had been extremely low under the relentless attack.

Jing Yuexiu, who was inspecting the front line, changed several lookout holes at the top of the city to peek outside.Already frightened by the snipers outside the city, he didn't dare to stay at each lookout hole for more than three seconds, and immediately looked away after looking at it twice.

After three days of continuous work day and night, the surrounding Red Army has dug the traffic trench to less than 50 meters from the city wall. According to reports from the city wall defenders in all directions, the current excavation work seems to have stopped.

"It's only been one night, and they've made so much progress!"

Jing Yuexiu watched in horror as the cobwebs spread to the traffic ditches near the city wall. He tried countless means in his mind, but he didn't know how to deal with this situation, but he knew that the Red Army outside the city launched a large-scale offensive.

When looking out through the lookout hole for the last time, Jing Yuexiu noticed that in the traffic trenches about [-] meters away from the city wall, there were many more half-buried things that looked like petrol canisters overnight.

Jing Yuexiu was amazed.

"What is this?"

In fact, these things are petrol cans. After being buried in the soil, he now has another name: Heartless Cannon!

This is also the product of the re-export business of the Northeast Army, Northwest Army and Red Army.After opening the Tianjin-Xi'an traffic route, the Red Army frantically imported urgently needed supplies, one of which was a gasoline canister that had run out of fuel.In fact, there are quite a few of these things here in Xi'an - the local airport is used to store oil.As for the gasoline canisters from Tianjin, except for a small number of gasoline and diesel oil, the rest were filled with imported "foreign dung" as required. In just half a month, the Red Army obtained more than half of the gasoline canisters through various means. two hundred.

The lack of explosives is also one of the reasons for the difficulty of the Red Army in attacking the city in history.Although the power of nitramine is not as good as TNT, it is much stronger than black powder.And a sufficient amount of foreign dung can also "do miracles vigorously".The Red Army, which received technical support from Huang Ke, also learned the method of making nitramine into soil explosives to increase its power (the specific operation is actually very simple, but because of the law, I will not teach you here)

The Red Army's shells can only be obtained by capture. In contrast, the heartless cannon, an invention of the People's Army during the War of Liberation, has simple ammunition to make and is a siege weapon that can be used repeatedly. Ordinary artillery is more powerful, as long as there is enough "foreign dung", it can be used on a large scale.

As early as the beginning of September, the Red Army bought more than a dozen empty gasoline canisters from Yang Hucheng through the "hamsters" in Xi'an Airport, and immediately remodeled them. Appeared for the first time in the Battle of Yulin.

Just last night, when the traffic trench was excavated to less than 100 meters from the wall, the Red Army dug a launch hole in the trench overnight, filled the gasoline barrels in, and arranged the launch position. (Note: The heartless cannon is actually a kind of explosive package ejection device with a range of 200 to [-] meters. It mainly relies on coverage to strike)

In urban battles, you must be fast and slow, and one slow means that preparations before the battle must be slow, not hasty, and not hasty. Before the general attack, soldiers must rest well, supplies must be prepared, and the enemy's situation must be carefully observed.During the Ruijin period, the Red Army from all over the country fought fortified cities. Another difficulty they encountered was that the enemy was strong and we were weak, and the time for attacking the city was insufficient. They arrived within a few days, so they could only attack hastily, instead of slowly digging traffic trenches under the enemy's nose in three or four days like now, and the edge of the limit of grenade throwing.

Compared with the Liberation Army during the Liaoshen Campaign in history, the quality of the current Red Army is still somewhat inferior, but because of Huang Ke's opening, many places have changed there ahead of schedule.

When Jing Yuexiu came to the front line to inspect, it was already before the all-out attack.Through the lookout hole, Jing Yuexiu saw a large number of Red Army troops pouring into the front line through the traffic trench.

"The red bandits are coming up! Bring up the machine gun!"

At the head of Yulin City, there was also a commotion at the various protection points at this time. Officers wearing military caps waved pistols and yelled at the people below to quickly lift the water-cooled Mark core machine guns to the shooting point-the machine guns were not arranged at fixed shooting points before. In fact, it is still the credit of the damn large-caliber sniper rifle outside the city-the sniper, after being unable to hit anyone, specifically looked for exposed and valuable things to shoot, and he just broke three Mark cores in three days The water-cooling device on the machine gun, two of them were seriously damaged, and the firearm repair shop in Yulin City was difficult to repair. During the Republic of China, there were almost no shields on domestic Mark core machine guns. Only Gong County produced them, but the output was extremely low. Jing Yuexiu's troops used other domestically produced inferior imitations, naked guns without shields.The Barrett sniper rifle made in the 21st century on the opposite side was too ruthless. Although it used ordinary 12.7 machine gun bullets, one shot could still penetrate the water-cooling jacket on the outer layer of the Mark core and destroy the water pipes inside.Although those mark cores can be used now, the water cooling device is damaged, which will naturally greatly affect continuous shooting.

"Brothers, if you kill a communist bandit, you will be rewarded five dollars!"

The Red Army's attack was imminent. On the Shaanxi Army's side, the supervisory team and officers carried out baskets of oceans under the city and sprinkled them in front of the defenders. It was the last "pre-war morale booster".Now in Yulin City, the major local tyrants and landlords have moved out all their belongings.Those who have money give money, those who have guns give guns, and those who have people give people.After all, the land in the northwest is no better than other places. When it comes to desperate times, its military mobilization power is much stronger than that of the gun party waste.

The city wall of Yulin, which was originally quiet, began to have sporadic gunshots.This is when the snipers on both sides began to shoot at each other suppressively.Jing Yuexiu, who knew that the city was not safe, had already left the city at this time—if he was a swordsman in Guanzhong 20 years ago, when he was fighting the world with a big knife and a shotgun, he would never have flinched like this. at the forefront.

But now, after many years in a high position, all he has left is the ambition of hiding in the safety of the frontline command center, throwing silver dollars into the sky, and shouting "Brothers!"

As soon as he was about to go down the city and enter the relatively safe command center, suddenly the ground shook, and there were two consecutive loud noises that seemed to be able to shatter human internal organs, directly shaking Jing Yuexiu to the ground.

Outside, Yulin City's seemingly solid city wall collapsed in a loud bang, one east and one south, revealing two huge breaches.

The Shaanxi army thought that the Red Army's communication trench had only been dug 50 meters in front of their city wall, but they didn't know that during these three and a half days, the other two hidden tunnels had been dug below the city wall.

And just as the city wall collapsed and the loud noise was still reverberating in the air, outside Yulin City, continuous rumbling sounds continued like firecrackers, forming a series.

This is the sound of the "unconscionable cannon" deployed 100 meters away from the city wall of Yulin. More than [-] prefabricated explosive packages were thrown into the air, raining down on the heads of the defenders near the gap.

After the 20-second continuous explosion sound, and tens of seconds of silence on the battlefield, there was another series of firecracker-like "puff" firing sounds. This is the second round of the reloaded "heartless cannon". emission.

When the explosive package was still flying in the air, the charge horn sounded, and countless Red Army soldiers poured out of the traffic trenches, rushing towards the breach of the collapsed city wall like a swarm of ants.

The defenders around the breach were severely damaged in the first round of huge explosions, and then the second round of raindrops rained more than 100 explosive packages. One explosive package directly covered the entire area, with almost no dead ends, and directly covered the reserve team at the back. After hundreds of consecutive explosions, the reserve team arranged at the rear was almost emptied.