Chapter 972: Chairman Chiang's calculations
The news that Xu Rui personally led the Wolf Tooth Brigade to raid the headquarters of the 89th Army and capture Han Deqin immediately spread throughout Funing, and then spread to the three divisions of the 89th Army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Strictly speaking, the 89th Army actually only had the 33rd Division and the 117th Division under its jurisdiction, and the other 112th Division was only temporarily under the 89th Army, so the 112th Division did not have much reaction after hearing the news, but the 33rd Division and the 117th Division reacted quickly after learning the news that Han Deqin was captured by the wolf's teeth.
Almost as soon as they learned the news, Jia Yunshan, commander of the 33rd Division, and Li Shouwei, commander of the 117th Division, immediately gathered their troops and marched in the direction of Funing.
Whether it is Jia Yunshan or Li Shouwei, they have been eyeing the position of the commander of the 89th Army for a long time.
Since the day when Han Deqin became the deputy commander-in-chief of the Sulu Theater, Jia Yunshan and Li Shouwei have hoped that Han Deqin would step down as commander of the 89th Army and that they would take over, but to their disappointment, Han Deqin refused to step down and insisted on firmly grasping the military power of the 89th Army, which was actually a very common phenomenon in the Nationalist Army.
In the national army sequence, it is a common phenomenon that the deputy post of the upper level is also the principal post of the lower level.
To say that Jia Yunshan and Li Shouwei have no complaints about this, it is absolutely impossible.
Now the opportunity has come, Xu Rui actually led the wolf tooth brigade to raid the headquarters of the 89th Army, and also captured Han Deqin alive, at this time, if they rushed to Funing with their troops, they could take advantage of the chaos to kill Han Deqin, so that the position of the commander of the 89th Army would be vacant, and they would have the opportunity to fill the vacancy and take over.
In fact, this is not the most tempting, the most tempting thing is that if the wolf tooth brigade can be wiped out this time, and even Xu Rui is killed, then the credit will be too great, and when Chairman Jiang hears the news, it is entirely possible to appoint them as the commander-in-chief of a group army, or even as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Sulu theater like Han Deqin.
Therefore, neither Jia Yunshan nor Li Shouwei could refuse this temptation.
So, Jia Yunshan and Li Shouwei gathered their troops as soon as possible and marched towards Funing.
Almost at the same time, the military commander also got the news through the spies lurking inside the 89th Army, and reported it to Boss Dai as soon as possible.
After receiving the secret telegram, Dai Li immediately drove to the residence of Chairman Chiang.
Chairman Chiang has the habit of getting up early, and even though today is the third day of the Lunar New Year, he still gets up early and walks in the back garden of the Chongqing official residence with a civilized stick.
In the past few days, Chairman Chiang has not been in a very good mood.
The reason why Chairman Chiang was not in a good mood was because of the Communist Party.
Even during the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and even during the period of the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Chairman Chiang never gave up this policy, but few people know why Chairman Chiang has always insisted on doing this for decades.
At that time, China was in fact in a state of division, whether it was the Jin Sui Army, the Northwest Army, the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army or the Yunnan Army, they were all in fact in a state of independence, but why did Chairman Chiang regard the Red Army led by Chairman Mao as a problem in his heart, and in addition, he did not even pay attention to the Gui system?
Because from the beginning to the end, Chairman Chiang's policy of settling the outside world must first be aimed at the Red Army, not at the Gui Army!
This has to start from a phrase that Chairman Jiang saw in the newspaper that year, that year, it was the 14th year of the Republic of China, and when Chairman Chiang inadvertently read the newspaper, he read a phrase from above, "Qinyuan Spring? There is a sentence in "Changsha" that left a very deep impression on Chairman Jiang, that is, the last sentence of the first half of the que: Ask the vast earth, who is the master of ups and downs?
At that time, Chairman Jiang said to Chen Cheng and He Yingqin beside him that Mao Zedong had great ambitions!
From that day on, Chairman Chiang officially began to regard the Red Army as a danger to his heart, and set the national policy of settling the outside world and reassuring the interior first, because of this, Chairman Chiang did not hesitate to order Zhang Xueliang to abandon the four northeastern provinces, and even the claws of the Japanese had already extended to North China, Chairman Chiang still insisted on suppressing the Communists in the northwest.
Then there was the Xi'an Incident, and then there was the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
However, although the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began the second cooperation, Chairman Chiang never relaxed his vigilance against the Communist Party, or Chairman Mao, so once the time was ripe, Chairman Chiang would not hesitate to take action against the Communist Party.
As a result, Chairman Chiang resolutely ordered the four directions to attack the Communist Party at the same time.
However, the reality was very cruel, the operations in the Shanxi and Taihang battlefields were quickly thwarted, Zhu Huaibing's two main divisions were even completely annihilated, and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo battlefield, which Chairman Chiang had placed high hopes on, did not take advantage, and the communists quickly transferred back two brigades of troops from the front line and repelled Hu Zongnan's first army.
Such a result made Chairman Chiang angry, but also secretly frightened.
In less than two years, the Nationalist Army was already at a disadvantage in the face of the Communist Army!
You must know that Hu Zongnan's First Army is the elite of the National Army, equipped with all Soviet-style ordnance, and even has an artillery regiment, but it is such an elite unit, an army, but it was defeated by two brigades of the Eighth Route Army, such a result is simply chilling.
This is only the Eighth Route Army, there is a New Fourth Army in Central China!
Chairman Chiang could not imagine what the situation would be like in two years.
Thinking of the New Fourth Army, Chairman Jiang immediately remembered that Han Deqin's 89th Army also participated in this operation, and then Chairman Jiang called Wang Shihe, the chief of the guard, to the front and asked, "Shihe, is there any news from northern Jiangsu?" ā
Wang Shihe just wanted to say no, but there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps behind him, and when Chairman Jiang and Wang Shihe looked back, they saw Dai Li, director of the Military Command Bureau, hurriedly walking over.
"Take a seat!" Dai Li hurriedly walked up to Chairman Jiang, then took off his wide-brimmed top hat and bowed slightly, saying, "I just received a secret telegram from Subei Station, just last night, Xu Rui personally led the Wolf Tooth Brigade to raid the headquarters of the 89th Army, and Han Deqin has already let the Wolf Tooth Brigade take control. ā
"What?" Chairman Jiang's face suddenly changed when he heard this, and he said in a lost voice, "Xu Rui personally led the Wolf Tooth Brigade to raid the headquarters of the 89th Army and captured Han Deqin? It's true? ā
"Yes." Dai Li nodded heavily and said, "The news is conclusive!" ā
Chairman Jiang's body shook slightly, and Wang Shihe hurriedly stepped forward to hold him.
Chairman Jiang only felt a burst of blackness in front of him, this earth-shattering news couldn't help but remind him of the Feixi Incident not long ago, could it be that the tragic scene of the Feixi Incident was going to be repeated in northern Jiangsu? Could it be that this time he is going to be slaughtered by Xu Rui again? Oh my God, you can't do that!
Dai Li said softly: "Commission, northern Jiangsu is not Feixi." ā
"Subei is not Feixi?" Chairman Jiang's dull eyes rolled twice, and he asked, "What do you mean?" ā
Dai Li continued: "Feixi is near Dameishan, it can be said that it is at the door of the Dameishan Independent Regiment, but northern Jiangsu and Dameishan are separated by six or seven hundred miles!" ā
Chairman Jiang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he already understood the meaning of Dai Li's words.
Dai Li said that Feixi was at the door of Dameishan, so the Dameishan Independent Regiment was able to respond quickly, so after the wolf's teeth captured Wan Xiangyun, the four divisions of the 32nd Group Army were defeated in a blink of an eye, but northern Jiangsu was separated from Dameishan by six or seven hundred miles, and it was impossible for the Dameishan Independent Regiment to react in time!
In other words, the raid of the Wolf Tooth Brigade was only an isolated operation, and there was no cooperation of the main force of the Dameishan Independent Regiment behind it! In this way, it gave the National Army a chance.
Chairman Jiang couldn't help but think, maybe this time he could serve Wolf Tooth and Xu Rui in one pot!
No matter how powerful Xu Rui is, he is only one person after all, no matter how good the wolf teeth are, they are only a few dozen people after all, and they can still beat the two divisions of the 89th Army with tens of thousands of people? What's more, there is also the 112th Division of the 57th Army near Funing, and the three divisions add up to nearly 20,000 people, and they can't beat dozens of people?
The more Chairman Chiang thought about it, the more he felt that this was a rare and good opportunity.
At that moment, Chairman Jiang turned his head to Wang Shihe and said: "Shihe, immediately call the 33rd Division, the 112th Division and the 117th Division in my own name, ordering them to surround Funing, and must not take Xu Rui and the Wolf Tooth Brigade led by him, and must annihilate Xu Rui and the Wolf Tooth Brigade in Funing City!" ā
Wang Shihe hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Commission, Xu Rui is a hero of the Anti-Japanese War?" ā
Chairman Jiang couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this, because Wang Shihe was right, Xu Rui can be said to be a big hero in the eyes of the people of the whole country at the moment, and if he really killed Xu Rui, it would not only arouse the anger of the military and people across the country, but also seriously damage his prestige and image of Chairman Jiang.
Dai Li wasted no time in saying: "Commission, then give the order, try to capture Xu Rui alive!" ā
"Yes, yes, catch it alive." Chairman Jiang said happily, "Tell Jia Yunshan and Li Shouwei that whoever catches Xu Rui will be the commander of the 89th Army, as for Han Deqin, he should concentrate on his post as deputy commander-in-chief of the theater, and the post of commander of the 89th Army should have been stepped down a long time ago, Niang Xipi." ā
"Wise." Although Wang Shihe sympathized with Xu Rui in his heart, he could only talk about this point, because no matter what, he was always the chief of guard of Chairman Jiang, and at any time, he had to consider the problem from Chairman Jiang's standpoint.
However, Chairman Chiang's expectation was doomed to fail.
Because, Xu Rui and the Wolf Tooth Brigade have already escaped. (To be continued.) )