Chapter 110 The dust settles (III)

In Luoyang, Mr. Jiang was waiting restlessly for the news that the Third Division had more than 15,000 troops to conquer Tongguan. With planes bombing and cannons supported, the Third Division still could not open the gate of Tongguan guarded by the two main regiments of the Red Forty Army.

On the contrary, Liu Sanmin, who was commanding the battle in Tongguan, was indeed full of energy and implemented Zeng Yiyang's deployment of air defense. Not only did the troops not suffer much casualties in the enemy's air strikes, but the enemy lost several aircraft in the mountains and ridges.

Just after the enemy planes roared and dropped the bomb, Liu Sanmin shook his head, shook off the gravel falling from the top of the cave, and said to Chief of Staff Zhu Jingzhong: "Report to the command center that our two regiments, withstood the enemy's attack on the 9th, suffered more than 400 casualties in the army, but all the high ground and passes were in our hands. Please rest assured that our regiment will stick to its position until the battle is won."

"Captain, the troops are already very tired. Should I ask the commander to send us a new recruit regiment to be a reserve force?" Zhu Jingzhong, like Liu Sanmin, came out of the old troops led by Zeng Yiyang, so he has always called Zeng Yiyang the commander.

Liu Sanmin took out his pistol from the holster, slowly filled the gun with bullets, his eyes wandering away from the thick smoke outside the cave, and said worriedly: "The commander is also in trouble. Not only do he have to withstand the attack of the three divisions of the Central Army, but he also has to free up his hands to defeat the troops of the Jinsui Army first. The troops are not enough. Besides, there is also the 67th Army in Shangluo all the way to attack Lantian. This is a big guy. I guess, even if we ask the commander for troops, it will not be as good as us to think more, reduce casualties, and eliminate more enemy vitality."

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After the bullet was installed, Liu Sanmin quickly put his gun on his waist without looking back. He rushed out of the cave. Zhu Jingzhong heard it. "After the bombing, the enemy is going to attack again. I'll go to the position to see, you are guarding the radio..." He disappeared.

Zhu Jingzhong shook his head and said nothing.

This is just a small episode of the battle on the land of Shaanxi. Compared with Tongguan's stable defense, Hancheng is in danger. Shang Zhen of the Shanxi-Suizhou Army commanded four divisions, crossed the Mengjin Ferry and conquered Longchuan in one fell swoop.

The army directly advanced to Hancheng, and the Hancheng side was Zeng Yiyang's 40th Army headquarters, a regiment and division headquarters of the 101st Division of Wu Gaoqun, with a total force of less than 7,000 people. Although they built a stable outer position, they still could not resist the crazy attack of the enemy army. The old city wall could not withstand the long-term shelling and was once broken into the city wall and fought in the streets.

Fortunately, most of the residents of Hancheng were moved to Pucheng, and the city was filled with Red Army soldiers, so there were no casualties of civilians.

In an underground fortification near the south gate, Zeng Yiyang smiled bitterly at Wu Gaoqun. The latter's face was black and white, and he was obviously just getting off the battlefield.

"Captain, you must leave Hancheng." Wu Gaoqun asked Zeng Yiyang without thinking.

He glared at him and wanted to raise several of his guard battalions. Under Zeng Yiyang's pressure, the soldiers didn't know what to do. Instead, they looked at Wu Gaoqun, who gave them the order.

Zeng Yiyang gently picked up the map on the table, held up one corner high, shook it for a while, and shook all the dust and soil. He found that Wu Gaoqun was still standing stubbornly in front of him, rolled up the map, and asked Wu Gaoqun: "How are the casualties in the army?"

"There are great casualties? One of Wang Lifa's main regiments mainly killed two companies in the street fighting this morning. All troops have lost 1,000 people, but the ammunition is sufficient, they are all old troops, and the morale of the soldiers is still very high."

Zeng Yiyang nodded expressionlessly, spread the map in his hand again, and asked Wu Gaoqun: "Can you still keep it for another 3 days?"

"3 days?" Wu Gaoqun replied directly without thinking: "There is no problem at all. Although the enemy has four divisions, the ice surface in the river sections in other places was destroyed by our army. Only such a crossing of the river was left, and the enemy's replenishment was not easy. In addition, our guerrilla troops often ambush their baggage troops. Not to mention three days, there is no problem even half a month."

Zeng Yiyang immediately lowered his face and asked unhappily: "Then do you want me to escape?"

"Me?" Wu Gaoqun suddenly passed by. The political commissar was "scamd" by Zeng Yiyang. Together with Chen Guang, he led the main force of the Red Forty Army to encircle and annihilate the Jinsui Army company and more than 20 regiments that had entered the Luohe River.

Before leaving, he repeatedly told him to ensure Zeng Yiyang's safety, but now Hancheng is likely to be in a dilemma of close combat. He dared not keep Zeng Yiyang anymore, so he advised him to leave Hancheng.

Zeng Yiyang looked at Wu Gaoqun's nervous look and said to himself, if I leave, would I be right to fight the Red Army commanders and fighters in Hancheng? Is right to fight the old troops fighting bloody battles in Tongguan? A general who escaped at the last minute, his shame and glory cannot be washed away by his life.

Only then did he understand why General Peng insisted on the front line when the troops were in the most dangerous situation and never retreated lightly.

I really couldn't stand Wu Gaoqun's nervous look, Zeng Yiyang explained: "Do you think Hancheng can really be defeated? No. Not only that, but also the military affairs in Shaanxi will be understood, as long as 5 days or as fast as 3 days, it will be clear."

Zeng Yiyang's confidence was so strong that Wu Gaoqun could not tell whether this was true or false. There are many benefits of winter combat. The north is cold in winter. In Shanxi, although there are airports and many planes, it is very difficult to take off and land in winter. If there is a slight mistake, it will slide out of the runway and the plane will be damaged.

In just a few days, Zeng Yiyang clearly felt that the enemy's planes were much less. It was not as dense as the first day of the war. This means that their planes were definitely a big problem. Without the support of the planes in the sky, the enemy's attack would be much worse.

Zeng Yiyang thought so just to reduce casualties in the army. Secondly, he also wanted to end the war earlier and give the country a short period of stability. The Sino-Japanese War was inevitable. If we fought this way until 1937, the War of Resistance would really be dragged down until Japan surrendered, and the Japanese firmly occupied a large area of ​​China's territory. This was absolutely unacceptable for Zeng Yiyang. Knowing history and not changing this history, how could Zeng Yiyang bear this tone for the commander who already held a large army?

When he found that Wu Gaoqun was still eager to wink at the guards, Zeng Yiyang said, "What can you, the master, keep fighting with yourself?"

Two telegrams were taken out from his pocket, and shook them in front of Wu Gaoqun's eyes, explaining: "The New First Army of Gansu National Revolution, accepted our army's proposal, and sent a telegram with General He to completely stop the civil war and unanimously go to the outside world. He also accepted the reorganization of the Red Army. The commander Deng Baoshan has arrived in Xi'an and began to discuss the reorganization with Political Commissar Xiang."

"And the 67th Army of the Northeast Army that had just entered Shaanxi, the logistics and baggage units were ambushed by our army. The 25th Army decisively attacked and eliminated three enemy regiments. The main force was besieged near Mount Li. In the face of hunger and cold, the troops mutiny. General Wang Yizhe had no choice but to lead the troops to revolt."

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"You said, is it necessary for me to evacuate the front line at this time?" Zeng Yiyang asked back, and saw Wu Gaoqun staring at the telegram in his hand, with a shocked look on his face, with doubts.

"Go and go——, go and see it yourself." Zeng Yiyang threw the telegram to Wu Gaoqun, thinking to himself, he was still lacking in prestige! Even if he reported a happy event, his subordinates didn't believe it. It was a failure, too much failure.

He didn't think about it. His happy event was a little too exaggerated. Didn't he think that just now, there was another provincial uprising, and Xiang Ying in Xi'an was in vain and didn't know why.

It was only because of the explanation that made him relieved. It turned out that Deng Baoshan had always had contact with the party and often helped the pursued party members. Even when President He was in Xi'an, he received 500 oceans of help from him.

Under the lobbying of Zhang Hanhui and President He, Deng Baoshan decided to announce that he would never fight a civil war in Gansu and firmly demanded that the Nanjing government stop the civil war and resist Japan unanimously.

When the war reached this point, Mr. Chiang had no choice. He heard that Hu Zongnan immediately retreated to Sichuan from the Baoji front line, but he was not angry. Instead, he left Luoyang and returned to Nanjing with a group of staff.

That night, the two Jinsui Army troops besieged at the bottom of the Luo River valley failed to break through several times, but were violently attacked by artillery columns that had just been put into the battlefield. The defense line was further compressed. Yan Xishan, under Fu Zuoyi's suggestion of a ceasefire, stopped the attack of the troops besieging Hancheng.

Change from military operations to political negotiations, and send the commander-in-chief of the Jinsui Army, Shang Zhen and the Red Army to negotiate.

The withdrawal of the Jinsui Army has become a fact, which is the cost Zeng Yiyang wants to make the Shanxi Sui Army that invaded Shaanxi safely evacuate from Shaanxi.

The more the civil war was, the bigger the scale. Mr. Chiang did not expect that this would be the result. He also had ideals and was unwilling to let China go on to sink. With political ambitions, he used a wrong method to resolve conflicts between parties when there was a disagreement in China.

The Japanese army increased its troops in Liaoning, and the friction between the Northeast Army and the Japanese army became increasingly greater. If they sent troops to fight the northwest again, it would not be far from his resignation again. If they stepped down this time, the domestic war would become even more corrupt and his coming to power would become far away.

The lost Duke Jiang stayed in his study, staring at the map tightly, and the increasing red areas were dazzled. He couldn't help but ask, he was not wrong at all, a unified country can be powerful, but now the country is divided. Seeing that the Red Army was surrounded and suppressed, Zeng Yiyang emerged, which not only turned the situation in Jiangxi, but caused heavy losses to the Central Army. In just less than a year, the northwest was in chaos. Could it be that he was really his nemesis?

Yang Yongtai, who was in the Nanchang camp, rushed to Nanjing and saw this scene. Mr. Jiang, who was in charge of the entire army, was so lonely that he was extremely lonely. In his image, he was only comparable to the last time he stepped down.

Yang Yongtai walked to Chiang in a soft voice and whispered: "Commission..."

"I have been in charge of my own troops and have not suffered such great defeat. Am I really doing something wrong?" Mr. Jiang murmured in a low voice.

Yang Yongtai said in embarrassment: "This?"

Yang Yongtai understood that Mr. Jiang was not a person who would admit failure, just as he was afraid of his birth.

"Commissioner, maybe the government can negotiate with Jiangxi..." Yang Yongtai said tentatively.

"Even you..." Mr. Chiang didn't believe that Yang Yongtai would say such things to him. Even the 'shoulder must first settle the country' was Yang Yongtai's hand-written knife. Is it possible that it would be contradictory?

Yang Yongtai sighed deeply. He did not expect that the miscellaneous army was so disgusted with the civil war, and kept revolting and surrendering. "Now, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Ningxia were occupied by He Longzeng Yiyang's tribe. Their power and strength were so strong that they would never have the hope of victory. For the northwest, those barren lands, even if they were given to them, they might not cause much trouble. On the contrary, Jiangxi and Fujian are the foundation of the party and the country. Among the Nanjing government, the three most important provinces, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, are bordering these provinces. If we sign a ceasefire agreement with the Red Army, unanimously decide to fight against Japan, and let them give up the south, and only the three northwest provinces..."

"Damn it." Mr. Jiang interrupted angrily.

Yang Yongtai was as calm as a scholar as ever, and smiled and said, "Please listen to me."

"Nanjing can control only one million troops, but there are dozens of separatist areas of the entire ** valve. It not only seriously endangers national unity, but also has different orders from various places, and intercepting tax revenue without authorization, and the country becomes weaker and weaker. If ** accepts evacuation from the south, they can back to the Soviet Union and have a stable rear, but for us, it is an absolute good opportunity to solve all domestic small warlords. Li Zongren from Guangxi, Bai Chongxi's troops, Wang Jialie from Guizhou, Yunlong from Yunnan, etc. And we can draw a ** marching route and let them enter these places quietly. Warlords from all over the country who do not know the truth will inevitably go to war with **. With the Central Army following, it is not difficult to fully accept these provinces, and it can also weaken the Jiangxi Red Army." Yang Yongtai's plan cannot be said to be non-toxic, harming others and himself, but in a sense, once he can successfully accept several major provinces, the Nanjing government will inevitably be unprecedentedly powerful.

Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hunan, and Sichuan have already taken over the entire southwest, and the temptation is huge.

Duke Jiang walked to the map without comment. He needed to think about it. Yang Yongtai knew that Duke Jiang would not give up this opportunity to expand his strength.

He quietly withdrew from Jiang Gong's study.

The next day, Chiang Kai-shek's special envoy Yang Yongtai and Lieutenant General Zhang Zhi mysteriously came to the front line of Jiangxi, Yihuang County, and through the front line, they expressed the wishes of the Nanjing government. The three northwest provinces can be recognized by the government, but other places cannot have an army led by **.

For a moment, Ruijin and the main leaders of the Red Army, who had fought fierce battles for five years, were shocked. But then, the news of the liberation of the three northwestern provinces reached Ruijin, which made everyone understand why Chiang Kai-shek surrendered.
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