Li Chenglin, who was originally a student at Fudan University in the magic capital, joined the Workers' and Peasants' Party with enthusiasm after he came into contact with communist ideology in school. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Zhang Cheng saw Li Chenglin, he immediately knelt down in front of Zhang Cheng, wept bitterly, scolded himself for not being human, and asked Zhang Cheng to give him a good time. After some conversation, Zhang Cheng confirmed that his defection to the revolution was indeed because his family's lives were threatened by the military commanders, so he opened up to him and decided to let him go.

Before leaving, Zhang Cheng told Li Chenglin that his betrayal was not recorded in the files, and that if he wanted to return to the Workers' and Peasants' Party after properly handling his parents' affairs, he could pass on the news to our army, and after making meritorious contributions, he could consider letting him return in the future.

Li Chenglin immediately nodded in agreement, and swore that in the future, after arranging his parents and family properly, he would definitely return to the embrace of the Workers' and Peasants' Party with firm faith.

Zhang Cheng didn't have much trust in his gambling curse, and the reason why he let him go was just a random idle chess, and no one could say what the future would be.

After solving the undercover incident, Zhang Cheng began to prepare for the Eastern Expedition to Yan Laoxi.

Yan Laoxi is the emperor of Jin Province, this person has the character of a rich man, he has no ambition and strength to unify the whole country, only wants to keep his territory in North China, the best thing is the two ends of the first rat, playing the game of "dancing on three eggs".

However, although this person's character is not good, he is really a good farmer, if he can grow up in New China, not to mention being a government premier, it is indeed more than enough to be the head of a province.

In recent years, Yan Laoxi has put forward slogans such as "self-improvement to save the country" and "production to save the country", set up an economic construction committee, formulated a 10-year construction plan for the government of Shanxi Province, and set up a board of directors for people's public undertakings in Shanxi Province.

Yan Laoxi went all out to carry out economic construction, and devoted more than one-third of his army to road construction, as a sign that he would no longer be reckless; On the surface, Chang Kaishen's major decision is fully supported.

Yan Laoxi made full use of the peaceful environment he had won and relied on self-reliance to establish within a few years the Northwest Industrial Company, which included light and heavy industrial factories and mines in mining, metallurgy, coal mining, machinery, chemical industry, weapons, power generation, cement, leather, wool spinning, papermaking, cigarettes, and matches.

He also built the Tongpu Railway, which was more than 860 kilometers long, established the Jin Provincial Business Commune, rectified the Jin Provincial Bank, built new silver accounts such as railways, salt industry, and reclamation industry, and set up a physical reserve warehouse for the "Four Banks".

By the eve of the full-scale war of resistance against Japan, a huge bureaucratic capital system was formed in Jin Province, with assets of 200 million silver dollars. Its large scale, small investment, fast speed and high efficiency are among the best in China.

It is a pity that in history, Yan Laoxi's strategy of passively resisting Japan and actively opposing work finally led to disastrous consequences. After Taiyuan was occupied by the Japanese army, the fruits of his hard work for more than 20 years were lost, and he was almost stripped clean by the Japanese army.

Having said that, Yan Laoxi's fear of the Japanese army is understandable, but his active counterwork is unreasonable.

In the twenties, Yan Laoxi only listened to the words of the merchants of Jin Province who lived in Soviet Russia, and he developed an extreme hatred and fear of communism.

After that, Yan Laoxi actively devoted himself to the cause of "anti-work", and strongly supported Chang Kaishen's encirclement and suppression of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army", and once sent a division to the Soviet District of Jiangxi Province to participate in the war.

By this year, the Red Army had established a revolutionary base in northern Shaanxi, and Yan Laoxi was even more on pins and needles, vigorously engaging in "ideological defense, popular defense, political defense, and armed defense" in Jin Province, and then he wanted to use "nine points of politics and one point of military defense work, and seven points of politics and three points of military work to suppress work."

Yan Laoxi also prepared to implement "village public ownership" of land in Jin Province as a fundamental method for defense work; Set up a "defense and protection group" and a "justice advocate group" to train the people and "defend the township through defense".

And the collusion between Yan Laoxi and the Japanese army has been going on for a long time. In order to deal with the threat of the Northeast Army, as early as the eve of the "918 Incident" in 1931, Yan Laoxi colluded with the Japanese army and signed a secret cooperation agreement in Dalian.

Now that the Red Army has entered northern Shaanxi, Yan Laoxi, who is extremely anti-worker, is in a panic all day long, and is deeply afraid that the Red Army will invade his territory.

For this reason, in the midst of the people's growing unanimous anti-Japanese voice, he even risked the condemnation of the world in an attempt to collude with the Japanese invaders again, start a secret agreement, and realize the plan of "joint defense work."

This move is undoubtedly a move to make the mind faint, and the handle is handed to the hands of our army, so that our army's conquest of Yan Laoxi will become famous.

However, Zhang Cheng did not have the idea of beating Yan Laoxi to death with a stick in his heart. After the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in history, when the Japanese army invaded and occupied Jin Province, Yan Laoxi changed his attitude again, from "joint Japanese anti-work" to "joint anti-Japanese anti-Japanese".

For this reason, the new army of Jin Province he formed also specially invited workers and peasants to take up important posts, and as a result, the outstanding political workers of our party turned most of Yan Laoxi's new army in Jin Province into red, and Yan Laoxi was so angry that he reversed again, launched the Jinxi Incident, and used the old army to suppress the new army.

Zhang Cheng thought in his heart that he would completely beat Yan Laoxi during the period of "anti-Japanese anti-work" and make him accept the reality of the Workers' and Peasants' Party's entry into northern Shaanxi and seize part of the territory of Jin Province.

In addition to being used to strengthen our army, more importantly, this part of the territory can allow our army to have an advance base in the anti-Japanese battlefield in the future, so that our army can play a greater role in the anti-Japanese battlefield.

Of course, you can't beat Yan Laoxi to death all at once, you have to be very careful about proportion.

Zhang Cheng also thought that Yan Laoxi could form a new army in Jin Province as he had done in the original history, so that our army could implement the strategy of "borrowing chickens to lay eggs" and use Yan Laoxi's huge manpower, material resources, and financial resources to cultivate and develop our army.

Time flies, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has come to the first month of 1936.

All the officers and men of the Shaozong began to get busy as if they were clockwork, even Zhang Cheng, who had always been lazy. While urging the troops to seize the time to complete various tactical training, he began to make final preparations for the Eastern Expedition to Yan Laoxi.

The comrades of the reconnaissance unit have sent a large amount of intelligence materials to Jin Province, and through these materials, Zhang Cheng has basically ascertained the situation of Yan Laoxi's defense in Jin and Sui Provinces, and has also gained a preliminary understanding of the Jin army's personnel establishment, weaponry, and combat effectiveness.

On January 15, 1936, the commander-in-chief, deputy commander Zhou, and Mr. Peng jointly signed the "Order on the Red Army's Eastward Advance to Resist Japan and the Crusade against the traitor Yan Xishan", ordering "the main force of the Red Army to set off immediately and fight to Jin Province".

On 31 January, the commander-in-chief personally came to Yanchang County, presided over a military meeting, comprehensively inspected all preparations for the Eastern Crusade, studied and arranged the course of action for the Eastern Crusade, and formally established the "Anti-Japanese Vanguard Army of the Chinese People's Red Army." The commander-in-chief, Mr. Peng, and Ye Shuai respectively served as general political commissar, commander-in-chief, and chief of general staff.

The commander ordered the vanguard army to divide into two routes, with the small column alone forming the left army, and the 1st Red Army and the 15th Army forming the right army, each of which selected a breakthrough point to cross the river and stood by for the eastward expedition.

The 3rd Army Corps of the Red Army accompanied the main force to the expedition and served as the general reserve, responsible for maintaining the communication between the main Red Army and the rear, while the 5th Army Corps of the Red Army served as the rear guard.

At this time, everything was ready for the Eastern Expedition, and when the spring flowers bloomed, they could force the Yellow River to cross and crusade against Yan Laoxi.