1936 is a leap year, the lunar calendar is the year of Bingzi, the third month of Run, and it is also the 25th year of the Republic of China. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This year, there have been too many major events at home and abroad that have affected the course of history.

Feng Chen, who was in the courtyard of reflection, had become in a particularly good mood since he learned that the Central Red Army had successfully reached northern Shaanxi and completely threw off the encirclement and interception of the Kuomintang army.

Feng Chen had been thinking about how to get out as soon as possible.

Through the newspaper, Feng Chen always pays attention to the international and domestic political situation.

On January 23, the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment of the Central Red Army and the Northern Shaanxi Red Army formed the Anti-Japanese Vanguard Army of the Chinese People's Red Army and crossed the Yellow River to the east to begin the eastward crusade.

After the Central Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Yan Xishan in Shanxi Province built three lines of defense and implemented measures to prevent the Red Army of "political defense against the Communist Party and popular defense against the Communist Party."

At the same time, Yan Xishan also set up local armed "anti-communist defense regiments" in various counties along the banks of the Yellow River, and divided them into six defense zones based on the terrain, severely suppressing the local people and revolutionaries sympathetic to the anti-Japanese resistance, resulting in the brutal murder of many innocent people and small traders and peddlers who went to Shanxi to visit relatives and friends.

In just a few dozen days, more than 100 people were killed in the counties along the river in western Shanxi.

Yan Xishan's perverse actions not only did not frighten the people of Shanxi, who had always had a revolutionary tradition, but on the contrary aroused the strong desire of the people of Shanxi to hope for the Red Army to cross the Yellow River eastward.

Under the leadership of the local party organizations in Shanxi, many people risked their lives to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, transmit intelligence, transport guns and ammunition, and put up slogans and leaflets.

In Shanxi, some hot-blooded youths even secretly crossed the Yellow River and joined the Red Army.

On February 17, 1936, Mao Weiren personally signed the Declaration of the Eastern Crusade, and the Red Army entered a state of imminent war.

On February 20, the headquarters officially issued an order to cross the river, ordering all river-crossing commandos to:

"The vanguard is absolutely hidden, smuggling at night. With resolute and agile speed, we will take the enemy's fort, cut the wires, and control the forward position and the flank cover position, so as to ensure that the follow-up troops will be in a favorable position to cross the river and fight to aid the enemy. When the smuggling was discovered, it was immediately changed to forced crossing. ”

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the battle officially began, and the Red Army launched an attack from the ditch mouth in Suide in the north to the ferry port more than 100 miles at the mouth of the river in Qingjian County in the south.

The Red 15th Army Corps commanded by Xu Haidong served as the right route army, and more than 40 warriors from the 223rd Regiment of the 75th Division formed a river-crossing assault team.

After an hour of fierce fighting, all the pillboxes from the river to the foot of the mountain were resolved, and the defenders of Hejiawa Company were completely annihilated.

Then the follow-up troops of the Red 15th Army Corps crossed the river in a steady stream and attacked the enemy's river defense headquarters, the defenders fled in despair, and the Red Army chased them to the stone tower.

At the same time, the river crossing assault team composed of 24 warriors of the Red 2nd Division of the Red 1st Army Corps boarded the boat from the ditch mouth of Suide County, assaulted and forced the crossing, and landed first in Pingshang Village, Sanjiao Town, Zhongyang County, tearing a gap in the river defense of the Jin army.

When Yan Xishan heard the news, he was greatly frightened and urgently dispatched Zhou Yuanjian's independent second brigade stationed in Fenyang and Xiaoyi to aid Zhongyang; The telegram ordered the 203rd Brigade stationed in Xi County to reinforce Shilou.

On February 25, when the 2nd Brigade of the Independent Army entered Guanshang Village and Liujiaping in Zhongyang County, it fell into the encirclement of the 1st Red Army.

After a night of fierce fighting, more than 3,000 people of Yan Xishan's 2nd Brigade, known as "flying all over the sky", were annihilated.

The first battalion of the 203rd Brigade of the Jin army, which reinforced Shilou, was also attacked by the Red 15th Army in Pengmen, northwest of Xi County, and more than 200 officers and soldiers below the enemy battalion commander were captured on the spot.

In the great victory of Guanshang and Pengmen, the Red Army defeated the middle obstacle zone set up by the Jin army in the Luliang Mountains, and obtained a strategic position that could be attacked, retreated, and defended, and the two main forces of the Red Army met in the suburbs of Damai.

Subsequently, the leaders of the Red Army also arrived with the combat troops, commanded the main force of the Red Army, prepared to march east to Jiuyu, crossed the Tongpu Road, and headed for the anti-Japanese front in Hebei.

In order to curb the momentum of the Red Army's large-scale eastward advance, Yan Xishan urgently transferred the strength of two columns with a total of eight brigades to assemble in the areas of Fenyang, Xiaoyi, and Xixian to prepare for a decisive battle with the main force of the Red Army in the Dujiuyu area west of Xiaoyi.

At the same time, Yan Xishan strictly ordered the Jin army along the Tongpu Road to strengthen its defense, patrol day and night, and encircle the Red Army of the Eastern Expedition in the Luliang Mountains west of the Tongpu Road.

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Just when the Red Army was marching east and preparing to go to the front line to resist Japan, a major event with far-reaching impact occurred in Japan.

On February 25, 1936, it snowed heavily in Tokyo, Japan, which had not been seen in decades.

The white snow will be stained red with blood!

Someone braved the snow to tell the police: "Some young officers of the First Division of the Army, which is stationed in Tokyo and are about to be transferred to Northeast China, are about to launch a rebellion and assassinate important cabinet members. ”

The Japanese authorities were very nervous, and they were all soldiers.

The doors and windows of the Prime Minister's official residence were reinforced with steel bars, and sirens leading to the Metropolitan Police Department were installed.

The news is not groundless, it is the inevitable result of the intensification of contradictions between the imperial faction and the unification faction in Japan.

The Japanese Army's Young Zhuang faction of officers, who were desperate for the establishment of a military dictatorship, advocated a coup d'état and assassinated cabinet ministers to achieve this goal, and these people were called the "Imperial Road faction".

The "unification faction" centered on the assassinated Nagata Tetsuyama advocated a steady and slow state reform under the rule of the military department, not using force, but through legal channels from the top down.

The pro-establishment faction proposed that the cabinet should strengthen its rule over the military.

So how did Japan's "unification faction" and "imperial faction" come about?

It turned out that the secret group of soldiers in the Japanese Army, "Ichiyukai", initiated by Nagata Tetsuyama, with Okamura Ninji as the leader and Kenkawa Miji as the advisor, brought out Sadao Araki, Shizaburo Masaki and Juro Hayashi to replace the Ugaki faction as the head of the army after the 918 Incident.

The three generals who will be brought out by the Yixi will not be puppets controlled by the Yiyi Society, but a new faction headed by Araki has been vaguely formed in the army, which is not the original purpose of the Yixi Society.

Sadao Araki had long been engaged in the work of Soviet Russia, participated in the Siberian expedition, and served as a military attaché in Soviet Russia, so he attached great importance to Soviet Russia, and in his opinion, the first war between Japan and Russia was inevitable, and the time should be around 1936.

Araki's reasoning was that after the completion of the Second Five-Year Plan for the National Economy implemented by the Soviet Union from 1933 to 1937, its national strength would increase dramatically, which would pose a great threat to Manchuria.

Araki believed that Japan should prepare for war against the Soviet Union before the threat of the Soviet Union was formed, and this time should be around 1936.

Nagata Tetsuyama, who had served as a military attache in Germany and witnessed Germany's defeat in World War I, did not think so, in his eyes, the war tested the country's national strength and depth, and Japan's national strength and depth were not enough to support a major war.

Nagata Tiezan believed that if Japan really wanted to win a major war in the future, in addition to stabilizing Manchuria, which it had already acquired, it would need to further expand into China's Kannai in order to gain resources and strategic depth.

In this way, the two leading figures who controlled the Showa Warlord Ichikaikai split their ways, and they were divided into two factions that came to be known as the "Unification faction" and the "Imperial Road faction."

The difference between the two factions was whether to start a war with Soviet Russia or to invade and occupy vast areas of North China.

As a matter of fact, the two factions are in the same direction in the general direction, and the two factions have a slight difference in their policies toward China.

Sadao Araki and Toshiro Obata advocated that a policy of goodwill and peace toward China should be adopted as a supplement to the defense of the Soviet Union.

"Adjusting the economic relationship between Japan and China will prompt the Chinese government to shift its policy toward Japan, set up a wider range of pro-Japanese areas, and cultivate pro-Japanese elements with separatist tendencies."

Nagata Tetsuyama, on the other hand, advocated "an attitude of breaking the solid and plaviating the attack on the anti-Japanese resistance and the boycott of Japanese goods."

Although there is essentially no difference between the two factions, the toughness of Nagata Tetsuyama's words is stronger.

With regard to the policy toward Britain and the United States, Nagata Tetsuyama held that the US economic aggression against the Far East, like that of Soviet Russia, must be thoroughly suppressed, but the war against the United States must be carried out after the war against the Soviet Union, and before that, it is necessary to do its best to promote the United States to maintain neutrality.

Sadao Araki and Toshishiro Obata held that they should maintain friendly relations with Britain and the United States, except that they really need to fight back when Japan's mainland policy is interfered with by the United States.

The dispute between the two factions eventually turned into a bloody incident.

On August 12, 1935, Nagata Tetsuyama, director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Army Ministry, was hacked to death in his office with a saber by Saburo Aizawa of the Army.

Nagata's death is the result of factional struggle, but this is far from over!