Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was December 1936. Murong Youheng has made significant progress in the development of penicillin, first successfully extracting the crystals of penicillin by freeze-drying, and also obtained accurate parameters. Secondly, the first experiment was carried out with penicillin on mice injected with lethal streptococcus, and it was successful, and penicillin can effectively kill streptococcus. The success of these experiments was strictly kept secret by Qin Feng, and everything must not be leaked until penicillin is officially developed and a patent is registered around the world. However, the kind of melon that Qin Feng told Murong Youheng that could be used to extract penicillin mold in large quantities and corn flour used to make culture liquid were never found. This also makes penicillin, even if it can be developed, it cannot be produced on a large scale.

Although penicillin failed to generate benefits for Pfizer in a short period of time, fortunately, Murong Youheng managed well, and with the continuous recovery of the U.S. economy, with the original old product of Pfizer "citric acid", it was not a loss and barely maintained.

At the same time, while the Nationalist Government was making every effort to suppress the Communists, it also gradually saw clearly the ambitions of the Japanese toward China. Under the guidance of German advisers, the construction of defense fortifications such as the Wufu Line and the Xicheng Line began, and the construction and expansion of arsenals were carried out, and at the same time, it was announced that Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Shaanxi would be used as rear bases for the War of Resistance if necessary.

At this time, the Kuomintang troops were all about how to attack the Shaanxi-Gansu base area and the Central Red Army, and how to deploy troops.

On the wall is a huge military map of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo region, and from time to time high-ranking generals walk by, explaining their plans for how to deploy troops.

It turns out that history is not all true, and the Kuomintang's military conference was full of an atmosphere of military democracy, and everyone could speak freely, express their own opinions, come up with battle plans, and evaluate other people's plans, which was somewhat similar to today's bidding.

And Chairman Chiang just listened attentively and did not express any opinions, these high-ranking generals who dared to come up with their own plans were all veterans of the battlefield with great military talents, not all of them were straw bales as the legend said, and the strange thing is that they repeatedly suffered defeats against the Central Red Army, what is the reason for this? It is estimated that Chairman Jiang has also been pondering.

On the issue of encircling and suppressing the Red Army of the Chinese Communists, Yang Hucheng did not say a word, and no one expected him anyway, and last night, he was still worried about Chairman Chiang and asked him about his strategy for fighting the Red Army.

That will make him very embarrassed, if he really follows the encirclement and suppression plan he formulated, the CCP Red Army will only end up being annihilated, he knows too well about the characteristics of the CCP Red Army and the mode of operation, every step of the plan is aimed at their weaknesses, if he makes an encirclement and suppression plan that does not conform to reality, then he has to arrange the troops to deliberately walk into the trap of the CCP Red Army, and it will definitely be the national army that suffers defeat, and it will also suffer heavy losses, how does Chairman Jiang view him, this is a dilemma.

How can Yang Hucheng be embarrassed, and how can he bear it? The two sides of the fight are China's national defense forces, and the cheaper ones are only the Japanese, fortunately, Chairman Jiang did not mention a word, and Yang Hucheng was also greatly relieved, only hoping that this battle would not be fought.

The military meeting lasted another whole day, and the Kuomintang's operational style and inherent thinking were thoroughly understood, and after heated debates, General Wei Lihuang's operational plan was affirmed by everyone, especially Chairman Chiang.

Wei Lihuang's operational plan, drawing on the experience of previous failures in suppressing the Communists, can be summed up as follows: Three attack corps were formed, all the way with Yan Xishan's Jin Army as the mainstay, with five divisions of the Central Army under the Central Army, crossing the Yellow River from Liulin in Shanxi to the west, and pressing the Central Red Army from the northeast.

All the way, Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army and Yang Hucheng's 17th Route Army were the mainstay, accompanied by the Central Army of eight divisions, which advanced north from the direction of Xi'an and approached the area of Yan'an, the seat of the central government.

All the way, the Central Army of the remaining 17 divisions, as the main attack corps, marched north from the direction of Baoji, with the main purpose of seizing Yan'an, the nest of the communist bandits.

The three-way attack corps, with the Central Army's assault corps as the mainstay, took the lead in launching the attack, and the remaining two-way attack corps followed up, and after the Central Army's attack corps launched an attack, it was put into battle.

The three-way army is in a fan-shaped offensive, and all units must not disperse their forces, and take pressing and oppression step by step as the main mode of operation, so as not to be seized by the Zhumao Red Army as in previous encirclement and suppression, and each one will be defeated.

Wei Lihuang particularly emphasized that the main purpose of this attack on the bandit army was to destroy its foothold in northern Shaanxi, with the elimination of its vital forces as the secondary operational goal, in a word, to drive the bandit army to the desert and the Gobi barbaric land deep in the northwest.

At the beginning of last year, the troops of the Northwest Five Horses eliminated the sweetness of the communist army's western expeditionary forces, which made the memories of these senior officers of the central system still fresh in their minds.

This is the modern version of the siege of three missing one, not in a hurry to fight you, just to squeeze you out of the foothold, and it is an iron bucket-like formation, so that the Red Army can drill without gaps, so that the return army of the five horses in the northwest will fight hard with you.

The five horses in the northwest are all extremely protective wolves, and the Red Army ran to their doorstep, and they still didn't risk their lives to fight the Red Army? When they were almost finished, the Third Route Army then swept away the remnants of the communist army, and the battle was decided.

Wei Lihuang's battle plan can not be described as indiscrete, and it is extremely vicious, and he is not in a hurry to fight, that is, he is to use superior forces to press you step by step to a dead end, and Wei Lihuang's plan, once implemented, with the tens of thousands of troops of the Central Red Army's labor division on an expedition, will only have to retreat gradually, and in the end, he will have to fight to the death with the local troops of the five horses in the northwest.

After the meeting, it was getting late, and Yang Hucheng decided to leave Luoyang tomorrow, and before the meeting ended, Chairman Jiang had asked him to go to Xi'an with him, and Yang Hucheng went back first to give an account of military affairs.

In the evening, Yan Xishan, who had always been low-key and calculating, suddenly sent his close adjutant to send an invitation card to invite him to a small private banquet.

Yang Hucheng didn't know what kind of medicine was being sold in the gourd of this Yan chief, who was known for his good calculations? However, the invitations were all delivered to him, and it would be rude if he didn't go, and he would offend him, so he and Mei Ting dressed up and sat in the car to pick them up.

When I arrived at the place, I entered the room and saw that it was indeed a small private banquet that Yan Xishan said, and he was only five people.

Yan Xishan, who is the east, has another one he is also very familiar with, Zhang Xueliang.

There is a kind of person within the Kuomintang who tries not to offend if he can, otherwise, it will be a constant trouble, which will give you a headache, He Yingqin, minister of military affairs, Dai Li, director of the Military Command Bureau, and the chief Yan Xishan in front of him, who seems to be harmless to people and animals, has a simple smile, and is like a rich man in the countryside of Shanxi.

Yan Xishan first raised his glass, pointing out the purpose of this private gathering, nothing else, everyone is begging for a life on the ground in North China, Pingjin is separated by Taihang Mountain, and Shaanxi is separated by a Yellow River, speaking of which, everyone is a close neighbor, inseparable from the north and south of the Yellow River, the east and west of Taihang Mountain.

Today, I, Yan Xishan, have to be a host, celebrate, there are no outsiders today, just a few of our old neighbors, we can let go of the chat.

Yang Hucheng understood, Yan Xishan wanted to touch the bottom of himself and Zhang Yang, after all, in a few days of military operations, everyone will be participants, people from the central department, Chief Yan can't play, the rest are here.