Chapter 62
Xue Yue wants to kill people, and Chiang Kai-shek also wants to kill people. This time he wants to kill people not Communists, nor people from local warlords such as Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren or Yan Xishan. This time, Chiang Kai-shek wants to kill people from the Central Army, and this time he wants to kill Huangpu students who he has always regarded as his flesh. Long Muhan
Few people know that Lao Jiang actually placed hope beyond imagination for the Lanfeng Battle
The matter has to start with the Battle of Xuzhou, which kicked off at the beginning of this year. At the beginning of the war, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Li Zongren as the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone. In fact, he had no good intentions. Even when the War of Resistance Against Japan was the most difficult time, Chiang Kai-shek never relaxed his mind to reject dissidents and suppress political enemies. He inserted Li Zongren in the Fifth War Zone with two purposes. One was naturally to delay the Japanese army as much as possible and win preparation time for the Wuhan Battle. The other was to use the Gui army as cannon fodder and use the Japanese to eliminate this powerful opponent.
Chiang Kai-shek was obsessed with power and strategy throughout his life. With his superb and skillful political skills, he successively overthrew Hu Hanmin and Wang Jingwei, and then Yu Yu turned over Feng Yuxiang and surrendered Zhang Xiaoliu. It was really unfavorable. Only Li Zongren of the Guangxi clan was like a tumbler. Yu Feng got up again, and then Yu Feng got up again. Until the full outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Guangxi was actually a de facto independent kingdom, and the central government was unable to move forward in Guangxi.
But now, the War of Resistance has given Lao Chiang the opportunity.
Lao Jiang originally thought that after the battle in Xuzhou, Li Zongren's Gui clan should be destroyed. However, Li Zongren, with less than 100,000 Gui army, created a miracle with the devastated Shandong army and the Sichuan army, which was similar to the beggar's. In Taierzhuang, two major mechanized ace divisions in Little Japan were severely damaged, which shocked the world.
When the news came back, the old Jiang people were stunned. Is this okay?
Li Zongren was in glory for a moment. Although Lao Jiang was happy on the surface, his sourness in his heart was even stronger than vinegar. He said in a telegram to Li Zongren that he was disobedient, "Delin, I didn't expect you to be able to command local troops like Lu and Sichuan. The implication is that even I, Jiang, can't do it, but Li Delin did it.
Stimulated by Li Zongren, Lao Jiang quickly transferred his direct troops to the Xuzhou battlefield. Lao Jiang also wanted to follow Li Zongren and annihilate one or two Japanese divisions on the Xuzhou battlefield to fight another bigger victory. However, the cruel reality gave Lao Jiang a blow and almost stunned him.
Seeing the heavy troops of the National Army gathered in Xuzhou, the Japanese base quickly dispatched troops to condemn the generals. The two major fronts of central China and North China successively formed heavy troops and crushed Xuzhou from north and south along the Jinpu Railway, intending to encircle and annihilate the main force of the National Army in one fell swoop in the area near Xuzhou. This time, Chiang Kai-shek had learned the lessons of the Battle of Shanghai | When he saw that the situation was wrong, he quickly withdrew the troops.
Just when Chiang Kai-shek no longer had the luxury of winning the battle, the opportunity came inadvertently, and the 14th Division of the Japanese actually crashed into Xue Yue's 1st Corps' arms.
Chiang Kai-shek immediately became excited. If Xue Yue's corps could annihilate the 14th Division near Lanfeng, its impact would undoubtedly be greater and more inspiring than the Taierzhuang victory. The reason is very simple. Although the Taierzhuang victory severely damaged the 10th mechanized heavy army groups of Japan, it failed to achieve complete annihilation, and in the end it still allowed a considerable part of the Japanese army to break through. However, this time, Xue Yue's corps had a full chance to completely annihilate the Tuohiro Division.
However, before the Lanfeng Battle had begun, Gui Yongqing poured his head over and poured a basin of cold water on Jiang's head - Lanfeng lost his guard
But at this time, Xue Yue's army still had a chance. Chiang Kai-shek quickly sent a warrant to the military chiefs on the front line, strictly ordering them to follow Xue Yue's orders. In order to win, Chiang Kai-shek even changed his usual style and no longer remotely commanded the front line war, but let go and hand over the command power to Xue Yue.
In Lao Jiang's opinion, he had done everything he could do in the newspaper, and the rest was Xue Yue.
But in the end, the Lanfeng Battle was still a loss. In the eyes of Lao Jiang, this was of course Xue Yue's incompetence. Therefore, in the telegram sent to Cheng Qian and Xue Yue, he directly accused Lanfeng of becoming a joke for the eternal period. Lao Jiang resented Cheng Qian and Xue Yue, and hated Gui Yongqing and Long Muhan who escaped at the battle. Therefore, as soon as the Lanfeng Battle ended, Gui Yongqing was directly dismissed and became even more murderous in his heart to Long Muhan and Jiang. This was the first time he had a murderous intention to kill his Huangpu students.
Jiang Jiang's love for his Huangpu students is well known. Even for Lin Biao and Chen Geng who joined the Communist Party, Jiang Jiang still cherishes them very much. However, this time, Jiang Jiang was really heartbroken. He hated Long Mu Han for fear of death and had no military integrity. He even hated Long Mu Han for destroying his plan to wipe out Tu Feiyuan Division.
However, Chiang Kai-shek only killed Long Muhan. For Gui Yongqing and Huang Jie, who also had the plot of escape at the last minute, Chiang Kai-shek raised it high and gently put it down. Gui and Huang were dismissed one after another, but less than half a month later, Gui Yongqing became the chief of the Zhanyu regiment again, and Huang Jie also served as the director of the Education Department of the Central Military Academy the following year.
Chiang Kai-shek only killed Long Muhan, but Xue Yue wanted to shoot all dozens of officers and soldiers of the army that robbed grain.
The dozens of officers and soldiers of the 27th Army should be killed. Faced with Xue Yue's questioning, a battalion commander was very polite. The brothers hadn't eaten for several days. Shouldn't they stutter? A company commander was even more overdoing and shouting loudly. In order to protect these troublemakers, the brothers were bleeding. What's wrong with eating their food?
Without saying a word, Xue Yue pulled out the Blangning pistol and shot the company commander in the forehead, and also protected the people. Have you fulfilled your duty to protect the people? In fact, not only did the National Army not fulfilled its duty to protect the people, but also dug up the Yellow River embankment and destroyed the homes of these people. They are national sinners, and their shame will be left in the historical books of later generations.
Xue Yue showed no mercy. Several officers who took the lead and dozens of soldiers who shot at their compatriots were all arrested. They were shot publicly in front of thousands of refugees around them. The gunshots rang out, and several officers and dozens of soldiers fell in a pool of blood. However, the people around him still looked cold and had no intention of forgiving the national army.
Looking at the cold faces and hatred eyes around, Xue Yue's heart was bleeding.
In other places, the National Government may use propaganda machines to pass on the charges of digging the Yellow River embankment to the Japanese army, but in the disaster area in Henan, the truth cannot be concealed. In just a few days, the truth about the Kuomintang Xinpei bursting the dam at Huayuankou has spread throughout Henan, and all refugees have known the truth.
At this moment, the relationship between the military and the civilians when the Kuomintang army first stepped onto the Henan battlefield was gone. The people no longer regarded the Kuomintang army as their soldiers who defended the country, but instead regarded the Kuomintang army as a enemy. A young child walked past Xue Yue with a package larger than his body and spit a mouthful of phlegm on Xue Yue's uniform.
The adjutant bent down to wipe off the stains for Xue Yue, but Xue Yue stopped them. The military uniform was already very dirty, and it didn't matter whether they were wiped or not. What's more, the stains on the military uniform could be wiped off, but what about the stains in his heart? The defeat in the Battle of Lanfeng and the digging at the entrance of the garden have become stains that Xue Yue can never wipe off in his heart.
What could not be erased was Gao Shenxing and Shu Tongwen's disappointment with the National Government.
When passing another village that was flooded, and when he saw the corpses of the people floating on the water surface that had been soaked and rotten, Shu Tongwen rarely cried bitterly. He took off his military uniform and pulled it to pieces, and then snatched the blue sky and white sun logo on his hat and threw it into the mud, while cursing Chairman Jiang loudly.
"Captain, I've had enough." After venting for a long time, Shu Tongwen finally calmed down and said to Xu Shijiu that he had been brewing in his heart for a long time, "Captain, you are saving my life. If you didn't save me, maybe I wouldn't be able to wake up from the confused and confused in this life. I am grateful to you, and I am grateful to you from the bottom of my heart."
More than a hundred remaining soldiers surrounded one after another, looking at Shu Tongwen with strange eyes.
Xu Shijiu also had a complicated expression. Since Shu Tongwen and Li Zihan started a fierce debate, he had already had a premonition that this day would eventually come. As the captain, Xu Shijiu certainly did not want his troops to fall apart, but reason told him that he should not imprison the thoughts of his brothers, and that he should give the brothers the opportunity to freely choose the path of life.
"Captain, I don't want Yu Guojun anymore. I want to go to Yan'an." Shu Tongwen said his heart.
Since I got those booklets from a fellow villager in the division, Shu Tongwen began to yearn for Yan'an. Shu Tongwen felt increasingly that the Western powers' arrangement would not work in China at all. The Qing Dynasty had been destroyed for twenty-seven years, but until now, China still has not had a warlord separatist situation. This is the iron proof.
Shu Tongwen increasingly felt that the Communist Party’s theory was correct. Only by combining Marxism with China’s national conditions could China be saved. Only by mobilizing the vast majority of poor people could they achieve the ultimate victory of the revolution. A government like the National Government, which treats people’s lives as grass, is destined to be overthrown.
"Awen, do you want to be a deserter?" Li Zihan looked angry.
"I don't want to be a deserter, but I really don't want to be a national army anymore." Shu Tongwen looked at the floating corpse floating on the water, and then looked at his dirty hands. There was an unconcealable disgust in his eyes, as if his hands dug up the river embankment and drowned millions of people in the Huanghuai River. Then he said to Xu Shijiu, "Captain, there will be one, two. I am afraid that in the future, there will be another butcher knife at the people. I don't want my hands to be covered with blood from the common people. I really don't want to be an executioner."
Li Zihan was speechless. He wanted to refute that in order to win the War of Resistance, local sacrifice was necessary. Although the Gardenkou bursting caused great harm to the people in the Huanghuai River Basin, it was an indisputable fact that the flooding floods blocked the Japanese army's road to attack Zhengzhou westward, Li Zihan could not say a word.
"Awen, I understand." Xu Shijiu nodded gently and said, "You go."
"Captain, take care of the team leader." Shu Tongwen stood at attention and gave Xu Shijiu a standard military salute, then turned around and headed towards the northwest. After walking out for more than ten steps, Shu Tongwen suddenly turned around and turned around and shouted, "Captain, no matter where I go, no matter where I am a national army or a Communist army, we are brothers, brothers of life and death."
Xu Shijiu's expression was shocked and shouted: "Never abandon it"
Chapter completed!