Chapter 14 Chapter One

I don’t know if you have noticed a historical detail: After the failure of the Red Army’s fifth “anti-encirclement and suppression campaign”, if Chiang Kai-shek had assembled a large force and gone all out, and the Red Army’s logistical supplies were not as good as before, it seems that it would be impossible to “exterminate” the Red Army. Not impossible.But what is strange is that the strategy adopted by Chiang Kai-shek turned out to be a seemingly "stupid" snail-style tail pursuit strategy-slowly follow up behind the Red Army and "send off" the Red Army into Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces.

Some people may have seen through Chiang Kai-shek's trick: kill two birds with one stone and kill with a knife.That is to say, on the one hand, preserve the strength of the Central Army, and on the other hand, use the Red Army to eliminate dissidents. But in fact, Chiang Kai-shek's move has a more ruthless side.Due to the high damage caused by the Red Army, those "kings of the mountain" who had firmly refused the central government's involvement unexpectedly went against their normal behavior and scrambled to ask the central army to "mainly suppress". Later, although the "King of Yunnan" Long Yun was lucky enough to keep his seat, he was happily infiltrated by Chiang Kai-shek, and he took root here, and he couldn't drive him away.The two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou fell into the hands of Chiang Kai-shek.

At this point in the writing, there is still one important figure that has not been explained. It is said that Zhang Guotao, a graduate of Peking University, did well in the base areas of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, but unfortunately lost to Chiang Kai-shek in the fourth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression", lost the base area, and was forced to retreat to Sichuan.But fortunately, the strength of the army is still there.Under Zhang Guotao, the Red Fourth Front Army commanded by Xu Xiang, a first-year student of Huangpu, has achieved brilliant results, and its strength is almost no less than that of the Central Red Army.After the fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression", Zhang Guotao went on and on and fought, recovering and strengthening himself as soon as possible, with more than 80,000 men under his command.

Chiang Kai-shek decided to send the Central Army into Sichuan to deal with Zhang Guotao.Chiang Kai-shek let the Central Army enter Sichuan not only to destroy the Red Army, but also to use the method of dealing with Yunnan and Guizhou to take the opportunity to take Sichuan and create a strategic rear for the War of Resistance.In the words of Chiang Kai-shek, "Sichuan is the best base for rejuvenating the nation." Sichuan has a good geographical environment.It is surrounded by mountains on all sides and water on two sides.There is Daba Mountain in the north, Wushan Mountain and the danger of the Yangtze River in the east, Daliang Mountain and Wujiang River in the south, and the snow-capped plateau in the west.The road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky. The mechanized troops of the Japanese army could not be deployed at all.

Sichuan's economic environment is good, and it has been known as "Tianfu" since ancient times, which is enough to support the war situation. Sichuan has easy access to international support.The north can be connected to the Soviet Union; the west and southwest can be connected to India and Myanmar. These areas were British and French colonies at that time, which facilitated communication with the outside world. It is a pity that, unlike the "King of Guizhou" and "King of Yunnan", Liu Xiang, who had just defeated his cousin Liu Wenhui and became the "King of Sichuan", refused to allow the Central Army to enter Sichuan.

Sichuan is different from Yunnan and Guizhou in that its situation is much more complicated, and the local "mountain kings" are much more powerful.In Sichuan Province, there are nearly a dozen warlords, including Liu Xiang, Liu Wenhui, Yang Sen, Deng Xihou, and Li Jiayu, with nearly 500,000 troops, and their strength should not be underestimated.There are so many unfamiliar warlord names popping up in this section at once, so you don't have to feel dizzy.You only need to know that most of the somewhat famous warlords in the period of the Republic of China came from two routines: the new army and wars—especially the Revolution of 1911, the War to Protect the Country, and the War to Protect the Law.These few warlords in Sichuan are mostly educated people—most of them graduated from the Sichuan Army Crash School and Baoding Military Academy, but what they really believe in is the law of the jungle. Ideals, morals, and emotions must give way to raising troops Engage in separatism.In order to support the army, they frantically overdraw the people's power, and some people have paid taxes on the common people in advance for a hundred years.These few warlords who regard Sichuan as their private territory, these few old men who often say "Sichuan people rule Sichuan", the reason why they are so cruel to their hometown people is simply because they want to dominate Sichuan.That being the case, how could they allow Chiang Kai-shek to send troops into Sichuan to become their own "overlord"?

Back then, when the Fourth Red Army left the Hubei, Henan and Anhui revolutionary bases, Hu Zongnan followed them all the way to southern Shaanxi.Afterwards, when the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army entered Sichuan, Hu Zongnan wanted to follow in, but he did not expect that the warlords from Sichuan would join the Red Army, but they would not let the Central Army go. Let go.Hu Zongnan was thus blocked in southern Shaanxi, staring at the red army with shining eyes, but he couldn't get in, so he couldn't do anything.Hu Zongnan stayed here for nearly three years, until he was appointed as the commander of the First Army and was ordered to attack the Red Army that had arrived in northern Shaanxi after the Long March.Since then, Hu Zongnan, a native of Zhejiang, has been entrenched in the northwest almost all the time, and has gradually become the so-called "Northwest King" step by step from an outsider.

Now, in the face of Chiang Kai-shek's request to send troops into Sichuan, Liu Xiang and others made a similar choice to that of the past: without the help of the Central Army, we "suppress" the Red Army in Sichuan by ourselves, and we send troops to help "suppress" the Red Army in Yunnan and Guizhou. It's funny to say that Liu Xiang's troops are stretched to deal with the Fourth Red Army, not to mention the Red Front Army who survived in danger, and He Long who often "stops" in Sichuan (with Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou as the revolutionary base) With the Red Second Front Army he founded, he used his own strength to deal with all the main forces of the Red Army (that is, the Red First, Second, and Fourth Three Fronts). Liu Xiang and his younger brothers really thought that they did not die fast enough.In the battle with the Red Army, Liu Xiang lost more than he won, lost troops and lost generals. In the end, he had to go to Nanjing to ask Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei for money and arms, but he didn't want the Central Army.

In the face of Liu Xiang, who is not good at oil and salt, Chiang Kai-shek still has a way.His method is to be courteous first and then fight, and after he has taken up his righteousness and reputation, he will do it when he has the opportunity.So Liu Xiang asked for money and Chiang Kai-shek for money, for guns for Chiang Kai-shek, and for the seat of Sichuan Provincial Government Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, which was very interesting. Chiang Kai-shek has done so much, but he only put forward one condition: to send a non-military team "staff group"-composed of his top adviser Yang Yongtai, senior staff officer He Guoguang, and the "Range Squad" leader Kang Ze of the Blue Shirts Society, to station in the Chongqing, guiding the Sichuan Army to resist the Red Army. "Cannibalism is soft, and manpower is short." Besides, it is not sending troops to Sichuan. How can Liu Xiang have any reason to refuse?

After the staff group arrived in Chongqing, it was mainly to help Liu Xiang restructure the Sichuan provincial government and run various training courses to "guid the Sichuan army to resist the Red Army", and by the way, make some small moves.Overall, the two sides live in peace. At the end of January 1935, a part of the Central Red Army entered the southern part of Sichuan, and the time had come for the plagiarist Chiang Kai-shek had been waiting for. In March, Chiang Kai-shek went to Chongqing in person. The ostensible reason was to enter Sichuan to "suppress bandits". To deal with the Red Army that was pouring into Sichuan from Guizhou and Yunnan, in fact, it was both entering Sichuan and "suppressing bandits".

From then on, Chiang Kai-shek began his half-year-long trip to the southwest, and the central forces infiltrated into Sichuan strongly. The group of Sichuan warlords headed by Liu Xiang is naturally not a fuel-efficient lamp.But they can't help it. After all, big fists are the last word-the Central Army who followed the Central Red Army to Sichuan did not come to the Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan for sightseeing! With the Red Army at the front and the Central Army under pressure, these people had no choice but to keep their dissatisfaction in their hearts and save their energy and resources to slowly sabotage.Under the eyes of the leaders, everyone is dedicated to carrying forward the spirit of meticulousness, conscientiousness, hard work and hard work, and actively working on their careers.In particular, Yang Yongtai, He Guoguang and Kang Ze worked diligently to reduce the feudal clan and manage the southwestern rear of the War of Resistance. Yang Yongtai was busy establishing the Office of Administrative Inspectors, identifying and appointing inspectors who were pro-National Government, taking advantage of his power for personal gain, and stuffing his own people—people from the Department of Political Science into the office. He Guoguang used his classmate relationship with Liu Xiang, Yang Sen and others to do his best to develop interpersonal relationships, resolve conflicts, socialize, patiently observe the psychological activities of the warlords, analyze and find each other's flaws, and poach the wall when he seizes the opportunity. Kang Ze was busy doing political work everywhere, brainwashing people with the ideas of the Blue Shirts Society.The military government is everywhere.Especially in the "Mt. Emei Officer Training Corps" run by Chiang Kai-shek, he seized the opportunity to divide, soften, and win over the Sichuan Army officers who came to participate in the rotation training and learn how to resist the Red Army. When the three brothers were having a great time, He Yingqin also came over to join in the fun.He Yingqin went to Chongqing to hold the "Chuankang Army Consolidation Conference", forcing the Sichuan Army to reduce its territory, abolish its troops, and realize the nationalization of the Sichuan Army. Within a year, Chiang Kai-shek brought Sichuan under his control.As a result, the Great Southwest, centered on Chongqing, the "remote western frontier", became the rear of the Anti-Japanese War. While Yang Yongtai and others made efforts to infiltrate Sichuan, Xue Yue of the Central Army was not far behind, and with the cooperation of Liu Xiang and other warlords, launched an "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Red Army. Xue Yue has not played for a long time. With his military exploits, after Xue Yue was promoted to the commander of the First Division of the First Army at the end of the Northern Expedition, he could have continued to rise, but he stood in the "wrong" team in the "April 12" Qing Party.He disobeyed Chiang Kai-shek's order not to enter the concession to offend the imperialists, and led his troops into the Shanghai French Concession to declare his sovereignty. He also held a party with the local workers to celebrate the victory, and established a harmonious relationship with the Communist Party in Shanghai.How could Chiang Kai-shek tolerate Xue Yue's pro-communist behavior? In a fit of anger, he fired Xue Yue's squid, and promoted Hu Zongnan, who was slightly inferior to Xue Yue in military ability, to take charge of the First Division.After that, Xue Yue followed his good buddy Zhang Fakui to unite with the Communist Party to fight against the Communist Party, and voted for Wang to fight against Chiang Kai-shek. Xue Yue, who started again, performed very vigorously.It was this man who entered Ruijin and forced the Central Red Army to make a strategic shift. They were defeated by the Xiangjiang River and fought for 25,000 miles with difficulty.Having said that, Xue Yue's journey is not much less than that of the Red Army.He led his troops to follow the Central Red Army, from Jiangxi all the way to the southwest, and fought in several provinces, with a journey of more than 20,000 miles.After the Red Army entered Sichuan, Xue Yue also followed to Sichuan, chasing and fighting all the way. If the Red Army hadn't forcibly crossed the Dadu River, seized the Luding Bridge, climbed snow-capped mountains, and crossed grasslands, it would have been difficult to get rid of this follower.So after Mao Zedong managed to get rid of this tail, he once proudly said: Brother Lao Boling sent him away! The Red Front Army left Sichuan, but the Red Fourth Front Army did not leave together. In fact, before and after the capture of the Luding Bridge, the Fourth Red Army and the First Red Army joined forces in Aba Prefecture in western Sichuan.It's just that there were only more than 10,000 people left in the Central Red Army at that time, while the Fourth Red Army still had about 80,000 people.On the surface, it seems that the strength of the Central Red Army and Zhang Guotao is very different, so Zhang Guotao, who doesn't like to be under others, naturally cannot be satisfied with the position given by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China-the General Political Commissar of the Red Army.Therefore, Zhang Guotao refused to go north, set up a "central government" in Sichuan, and started a new one. Chiang Kai-shek has nothing to do with Mao Zedong who has already arrived in northern Shaanxi, but he can still deal with Zhang Guotao. At the end of November 1935, Baizhang Town. The Central Army under Xue Yue cooperated closely with the Sichuan Army led by Liu Xiang. After 18 days and nights of bitter fighting, Zhang Guotao's Red Fourth Front Army was defeated. Next, Xue Yue led the army to launch a continuous onslaught against the Fourth Red Army, which was forced to retreat deep in the mountains and lacked food and clothing, pushing the opponent into a desperate situation.The Red Fourth Front Army has drastically reduced its personnel, from more than 80,000 to 40,000 in just three months. For the Fourth Red Army, the only good news is that successive failures have greatly reduced Zhang Guotao's prestige.Afterwards, with the efforts of Lin Yuying (a cousin of Lin Biao) and Xu Xiangqian, the representative of the Communist International, the Fourth Red Army turned around and went northward. At about the same time, He Long, who had lost contact with the central government, got the news that a large army had arrived in northern Shaanxi, so he led the Red Second Front Army to vote. In October 1936, the three main forces of the Red Army met in Huining, and everyone met happily.So far, the Red Army's Long March has come to an end. Just when the Second and Fourth Front Army of the Red Army moved thousands of miles away, the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, which was no longer attacked by the enemy, was not doing well.Because they are facing a very cruel reality - suffering from hunger and cold. All because the base area in northern Shaanxi was too poor, even poorer than the Red Army had expected. The area was small, the population was small, the land was barren and there was no industrial foundation. It doesn't work here at all, even if you want to do it yourself to get enough food and clothing, you can't do anything. Originally, Xu Haidong and Liu Zhidan led a small number of Red Army troops here, and life was extremely difficult. Now that the central army has arrived, the supply pressure has increased sharply.When winter came, not only did they have nothing to eat and wear, they didn't even have firewood for heating. Life was hard, as can be seen from the resolution of the Wayaobao meeting at the end of December 1935. At least the central government believed that there was no way to find a way to stay in northern Shaanxi. At that time, there were three plans: one was to go east and cross the Yellow River to Shanxi; the other was to go northwest to Ningxia and Gansu; the other was to go to southern Shaanxi.Lin Biao preferred to go to southern Shaanxi, while Mao Zedong insisted on going east to Shanxi.Mao Zedong’s reasons are very good: firstly, Shanxi Province is relatively rich and mountainous, which is suitable for the survival of the Central Committee and the Red Army; secondly, the combat capability of the Jinsui Army is weak; . It really makes sense, so go to Shanxi to hunt down local tyrants, divide the land, and find some supplies.So after a trip to Shanxi, the Red Army finally got rid of their urgent needs. Later, when the three main forces of the Red Army joined forces, food and pay became a problem again, and the problem of food became even more serious. What should we do?Going to Shanxi is definitely not an option. This time, Yan Xishan has made amends and stepped up his guard.In the end, the people discussed the solution: open up a channel between the Soviet Union and the base area, and win aid from the Soviet Union.Therefore, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China drew some people from the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army and the First Front Army of the Red Army to form the "West Route Army" of more than 20,000 people. Led by Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao, they crossed the Yellow River westward, and their destinations were Ningxia and Gansu. Straight to the border.This lonely army fought hard for five months. Due to lack of clothing, food, and ammunition, it was almost completely wiped out in the battle with the Muslim armed Majia army. Commander Xu Xiangqian and political commissar Chen Changhao returned to Hedong easily. As for the Red Army remaining in northern Shaanxi, only Peng Dehuai was relatively busy. In the area of ​​Shaanxi and Gansu, he fought hard with Hu Zongnan, who was determined to get along with the Red Army, while Xu Haidong, Liu Zhidan, Lin Biao and others were relatively "leisure" because their opponents—— Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army and Yang Hucheng's Seventeenth Route Army did not make trouble when the Red Army's survival was very difficult. They just surrounded and did not attack, allowing the Red Army in northern Shaanxi to live a peaceful life without gunpowder. It's strange, why did Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng do this, and what state are they in now? In October 1935, Zhang Xueliang went to work in the Northwest. In the following month or so, he suffered three disastrous defeats, losing two divisions and one regiment.The commanders of the two divisions died in battle, but Gao Fuyuan, the commander of the regiment, chose to surrender and joined the Communist Party immediately.It was this Gao Fuyuan who later became the bridge for Zhang Xueliang to "link with the Communist Party". Not to mention the defeat of the Northeast Army, the internal situation is also unstable, and they are having a bad mood. The Northeast Army, which lost the Northeast, is a battle without a rear, and most of the family members of the soldiers flow with the Northeast Army.Therefore, for almost every death of a soldier, a family loses its support and becomes displaced.You must know that the old base of the Northeast Army is a warlord army. The reason why everyone can be brought together is not political beliefs, but the friendship between the older generation and the younger generation, that is, the legendary "brothers".However, in order to "suppress the Communist Party", Zhang Xueliang lost troops year after year and lost generals. It is conceivable that he faced great internal pressure and his bad mood. What makes the Northeast Army even more unacceptable is that there is no wages and subsidies to get after fighting the Red Army.This had a lot to do with the policy at the time—the pensions of the dead and wounded soldiers were issued by their places of origin. That is to say, the casualties caused by the Northeast Army’s fight against the Communist Party in northern Shaanxi had to go back to the Northeast to find the Japanese to pay the pensions. This was simply impossible. .What's even more desolate is that Zhang Xueliang asked Chiang Kai-shek to sell him face and provide pensions and subsidies to the fallen soldiers, but Chiang Kai-shek was extremely disappointed with the performance of the Northeast Army, how could he allocate the same amount? However, the Northeast Army has been away from home for nearly five years at this time, and it hurts to think of their hometown.There are people who can’t go home, and Japanese who can’t fight, but they go to this remote village to fight the Communist Party “for free”.The dissatisfaction with Zhang Xueliang that the Northeast Army had accumulated for a long time finally broke out: You Zhang Xueliang is such a bad boss, we are going to lose our lives, but you haven’t earned money, and you can’t go home, sir, I quit! When the middle and lower ranks of the Northeast Army were passively avoiding the battle, Comrade Gao Fuyuan came back with a mission.After some activities, Gao Fuyuan met the former leader Zhang Xueliang, a middle-aged man who was physically and mentally exhausted, and conveyed the goodwill of the Communist Party to him. The gradually lost military spirit, the pressure of conscience, the infamy of treason, the dignity of life, the ideal of self-salvation, the ruthlessness of complex reality, all kinds of things are intertwined and entangled.After painful thinking, Zhang Xueliang decided to give up what he once firmly believed that "to fight against the outside world must be safe inside" and to join the Communist Party to cease the war. In April 1936, without informing Brother Jiang, Zhang Xueliang came to Yan'an privately with great sincerity to meet with Zhou Enlai and Li Kenong. The two sides chatted happily and initially confirmed the cooperation method - "stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan" .The two parties also agreed to set up a special radio station to communicate with each other by telegram. Zhang Xueliang's telegram code name was Li Yi. Since then, Zhang Xueliang lived frugally and donated a large amount of urgently needed supplies to the Red Army, such as cotton coats, medicines and silver dollars, to solve the urgent needs of the Red Army.Especially when Deng Xiaoping was seriously ill and his life was dying but there was no cure. Fortunately, Zhang Xueliang's medical assistance saved Deng Xiaoping's life.One step away, and history will be rewritten! Not only did Zhang Xueliang cease fighting with the Red Army, but Yang Hucheng was also unwilling to exchange fire with the Red Army. As mentioned earlier, Yang Hucheng was not a direct descendant of Chiang Kai-shek, but came from Feng Yuxiang's subordinates. He grabbed the territory of Xi'an during the Central Plains War, so he settled down here. Compared with Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng's strength is much weaker, and his situation is much worse-he is always beaten by the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek wants to use the hands of the Red Army to eliminate him, and Zhang Xueliang is not with him.In order to keep his own territory and army, Yang Hucheng mainly relied on the means of grinding foreign labor to protect himself in the cracks between Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Xueliang and the Red Army.In view of Yang Hucheng's mentality, the CCP placed many people around him in an attempt to win him over.For example, Song Qiyun, the mouthpiece of Yang Hucheng, the editor-in-chief and part-time secretary of "Northwest Culture Daily" (Whampoa No. 6, Song Zhenzhong's father), and his third wife, Xie Baozhen, are both members of the Communist Party. It should be said that the Communist Party did a very good job of intelligence work in the Northwest. It not only arranged people around Yang Hucheng, but even sent Communist Party member Xiong Xianghui to Hu Zongnan's side as a confidential secretary. Under the alliance of the Communist Party, the Northeast Army, the Seventeenth Route Army, and the Red Army formed a united front, known as the "Trinity" in history. Speaking of this, some people must be wondering, did Chiang Kai-shek's secret service agencies not notice this? Of course not. As early as when the Central Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Dai Li started to set up the Northwest Region of Military Control, which was dedicated to dealing with the Communist Party and monitoring the Northwest Army and Northeast Army.But the problem is that doing intelligence work is a slow process. It takes time to get familiar with the environment, arrange personnel, and clear channels.However, the Northwest District is a new unit without any foundation at all, so there are mistakes in the work of the military command in the Northwest. For example, Ma Zhichao, the station chief of the Shaanxi Station of the Military Command, and Xu Zhongwu, the detective captain under him, made serious mistakes.They knew that Song Qiyun next to Yang Hucheng was the Communist Party, but the military special agent Bai Guanwu, who was sent to monitor Song Qiyun in an attempt to catch big fish with a long line, was actually the Communist Party.Sending a Communist Party to spy on another Communist Party, if the fishing fails but is "fished", how can it not be a waste of time? ! The mulberry elm is lost, and the eastern corner is harvested.Juntong did not perform well in the northwest battlefield, but performed well in the Guangdong battlefield. This place in Guangdong is very interesting.Back then, the KMT and the Communist Party joined hands to overthrow the warlords and the great powers from here.But ironically, Guangdong, the birthplace of the revolution, has always been controlled by warlords.But now, Chiang Kai-shek's chance has come. In the summer of 1936, Hu Hanmin, who went south to Guangdong after the "September 18th Incident", died of cerebral hemorrhage in Guangzhou due to excessive use of his brain while playing chess. The death of Hu Hanmin caused the Kuomintang to lose a veteran, made Generalissimo Jiang lose an enemy, and also made Chen Jitang lose his support.As soon as Hu Hanmin, who was politically capable of competing against Chiang Kai-shek, died, Chen Jitang's independent kingdom of Guangdong lost the political capital to fight against Chiang Kai-shek, and there was no reason to continue to engage in separatism.Chen Jitang, who was worried about this, became a little sentimental.One month of dark and windy nights when he couldn't sleep, he suddenly remembered a request Chiang Kai-shek had made to him at the end of 1935: to cooperate with the central government in solving the new Guangxi faction. A few days later, Chen Jitang, who was under great pressure, tested Bai Chongxi, who came to Guangzhou to mourn Hu Hanmin: What should I do?Bai Chongxi gave him an idea, an idea to drag Chen Jitang into the water in partnership with Li Zongren: hold high the anti-Japanese banner, send troops to attack Chiang Kai-shek, preemptively strike, and aspire to the Central Plains!That's right, I have a strong army and horses now, and even the Xingui faction bows down, why can't I kill Chiang Kai-shek? It is normal to say that Chen Jitang has confidence. After all, he is indeed a good hand in economics. He belongs to the rich and is a big local tyrant among the warlords.What is amazing is that Chen Jitang actually knew how to learn from the Soviet Union and engage in a planned economy. For example, the "Three-Year Policy Plan of Guangdong Province" is his proud work.In just eight years (1929-1936), he vigorously developed the economy, industry and education, and turned Guangdong into the "first good place" in southern China.Not to mention feeding nearly 200,000 troops with the power of one province, it also improved the lives of ordinary people to a certain extent. No wonder these eight years are called the "golden age" of old Guangzhou. On June 1, 1936, Chen Jitang, who was full of self-confidence, was the leader, and the Xingui faction was the assistant. The two sides joined forces and rebelled with 300,000 troops. The "Guangdong Incident" broke out. What is strange is that such a huge rebellion by Chen Jitang didn't even make a splash.This is because Chen Jitang lost too quickly.His failure was largely due to his defeat by Dai Li's military commander.Due to Chen Jitang's strength and his rebellion when Ningyue split, Dai Li had launched a large-scale instigation against Chen Jitang's subordinates long before he rebelled.The person in charge of this matter is Zheng Jiemin, the second in command of the military command, which shows how much Dai Li attaches importance to Chen Jitang.Judging from the results, the effect of the military command's instigation of rebellion is astonishingly good and shocking.Generals of the navy, air, land and army, including Yu Hanmou, the No. 2 powerful man in Guangdong, defected to the Nanjing government one after another, either before the war started or when they were just warming up. Of course, such a large-scale job-hopping should have something to do with Chen Jitang not sincerely resisting the Japanese. After all, it is normal for his subordinates not to buy his account if he is fighting a civil war for his own self-interest. Chen Jitang betrayed his relatives and fled to Hong Kong. So far, almost without firing a single shot, the "Guangdong Incident" was peacefully resolved.For the whole nation, this is really a good result.After all, it was already 1936. If the limited national power was used for civil war, and the Japanese army, which was gearing up in North China, took advantage of it, the consequences could be imagined. Chen Jitang ran away, the Guangdong-Guangzhou alliance collapsed, and Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi had no choice but to give in.However, Chiang Kai-shek was planning to concentrate resources to "suppress the communists" and did not want to waste energy and financial resources on the Xingui faction, so he let Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi have a way out. After cleaning up Guangdong and Guangxi, the time came to October 1936. Nearly fifty years old, Chiang Kai-shek has finally reached a new peak in his personal political career.Looking back at the road he had traveled, he had mixed feelings for a moment: in an environment surrounded by great powers and civil strife, he unified Guangdong, conquered the northern oceans, fought against the Central Plains, forced the Red Army away, subdued the Fujian Incident (Fujian Incident), managed the Southwest, To settle the Guangdong and Guangxi (Guangdong Incident), after untold hardships, the South and the Central Plains were finally pacified. How difficult it was for me to walk this way!Fortunately, the hard work was not in vain, and now I can concentrate on dealing with the north. Chiang Kai-shek, who had a strong sense of crisis, decided to seize the current good momentum and do one thing: completely extinguish the communist armed forces that had become a "spark".In addition to the consideration of "restraining the outside world, the inside must be settled", he also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of "suppressing the Communist Party" to take the Northwest as a "base for rejuvenation against aggression." Jiang Weiguo said in "Jiang Weiguo's Oral Autobiography" that his father had considered the future Sino-Japanese war comprehensively, that is, once a full-scale war broke out, the southeast coast would be difficult to hold, so he could only move to the inland, and this inland must include both the north and the south. go in.Specifically, in the south, Sichuan and Guizhou are the core, and Yunnan is the rear.In the north, Shaanxi is the core and Gansu is the rear. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek went to Luoyang and Xi'an many times, held symposiums and buffets with Yan Xishan, Zhang Xueliang, and Yang Hucheng who were not active in "suppressing bandits", and urged them to attack the Red Army. But the attitude of these three brothers was surprisingly consistent: they refused to fight the Red Army.In fact, their mentality is also understandable. After all, the Red Army is indeed an extremely strong opponent, and the losses against the Red Army are far less than the losses.The officers and soldiers of the Red Army who arrived in northern Shaanxi after the Long March were the essence of the great waves and sandstorms. They withstood the harsh tests of psychology and physiology. They possessed tenacious will, loyal beliefs and excellent military skills. So they replied to Chiang Kai-shek in this way: I hope the "committee" can stop the civil war and unify the outside world. After careful consideration, Chiang Kai-shek responded: Well, Yan Xishan, I promise you. Therefore, under the persecution of Chiang Kai-shek, Fu Zuoyi, Yan Xishan's top general, led his troops to fight against the puppet army under the command of Puyi's good buddy King De (Prince of Mongolia), a separatist in Inner Mongolia strongly supported by the Japanese army, and defeated the opponent. , known in history as "Suiyuan Anti-Japanese War" or "Bailing Temple Victory". Suiyuan could barely be regarded as Yan Xishan's territory, so Yan Xishan had a chance to resist the Japanese, but Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng could not, because the Red Army was operating on their territory. Zhang Xueliang, who has no Japanese to fight, can only repeat Yan Zhijian's remonstrance: I hope the Kuomintang and the Communist Party will reconcile and go to the national calamity together. Chiang Kai-shek could not accept Zhang Xueliang's rhetoric. He refuted Zhang Xueliang: To fight against the outside world, we must first secure the inside!Now that the Red Army has finally been trapped in northern Shaanxi, we only need to work harder to completely solve the problem of the Red Army. At that time, if we concentrate resources to compete with Japan, wouldn't we have a better chance of winning? While Zhang Xueliang refused to cooperate with the "bandit suppression", Chiang Kai-shek received a huge piece of bad news that made him fall into an ice cave: at the end of October 1936, Yang Yongtai was assassinated in Wuhan. The "Halley's Comet" Yang Yongtai fell. When he appeared, he was dazzling, but fleeting, and dragged a long tail until today, decades later, no one knows about the assassination His mastermind.The mainstream view is that the CC department, which is fighting to the death with Yang Yongtai's political science department for power and profit, is the most suspected. The death of Yang Yongtai caused Chiang Kai-shek to forever lose a superb adviser who could change the situation at a critical moment.After losing Yang Yongtai, the right-hand man who "resists the outside world, the inside must be settled", Chiang Kai-shek can only go on the road alone.