Just when Shaozong was seizing the charter seat and marching forward, Chang Kaishen, who was far away in Chongqing, became more and more irritable. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the past ten years, Chang Kaishen has been as smooth as a game.

Since he served as the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, who was originally unwilling to give in, and married Miss Song San, he unexpectedly inherited the political and military legacy left by Sun Wen and became the chairman of the People's Party military and political power.

Later, whether it was the Eastern Expedition to Chen Jiongming or the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, Chang Kaishen relied on the sincere cooperation of the two parties of the Migrant and Labor Workers and his own Huangpu soldiers, and repeatedly defeated the strong with the weak, and even laid down half of the south.

The reason why Chang Kaishen dared to brazenly launch the "April 12 Coup" in the face of the world's condemnation was a drastic measure adopted by Chang Kaishen in order to implement a military dictatorship, completely control the KMT, and completely shake off the influence of the Workers' and Peasants' Party.

Although the "April 12 Coup" unexpectedly awakened the Workers' and Peasants' Party and contributed to the birth of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Chang Kaishen also got the fruits of victory that he wanted, and after that, he alone took charge of the party, government, and military powers of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang.

In the process of encircling and suppressing the Red Army later, although Chang Kaishen also had occasional setbacks, on the whole, he still moved towards the goal in his heart.

A few months ago, Chang Kaishen learned that his most feared mortal enemy, the Vermilion Red Army, had been besieged in a remote place in northwest Sichuan, and he immediately remembered the story of Shi Dakai, the general of the Taiping Army, who went away to the southwest and then perished, thinking that this was very symbolic, and he felt that the Vermilion Red Army would repeat the mistakes of Shi Dakai.

Northwest Sichuan is a plateau area inhabited by ethnic minorities, with poor land and poor people, and the climate is harsh. Therefore, Chang Kaishen was not in a hurry to destroy the red bandits in one fell swoop, but sat back and waited for the red bandits to fall into a desperate situation.

During this period, many generals on the front line who encircled and suppressed the red bandits also reported good news but not bad news, and constantly sent Chang Kaishen the good news that the red bandits had eclipse of the sun and Yelai, lacked salt for a long time, were hungry and cold, and were about to collapse.

This gave Chang Kaishen the illusion that the great cause of "suppressing bandits," which he had worked hard and diligently for nearly a decade, was about to succeed, and that the great cause of securing the country and reunifying the country was beckoning to him.

At the same time, at a time when the generals of various walks of life were constantly sending back good news that "the red bandits were about to be trapped and killed, and the destruction of the red bandits was imminent," Chang Kaishen's action of "killing two birds with one stone and unifying the Sichuan army" also made significant progress.

Under the brainwashing of Xue Yue and Chen Cheng's so-called "officer training corps", a large number of middle- and high-ranking officers who were originally loyal to the old warlord swore allegiance to Chang Kaishen one after another, and he was so happy that he smiled and was full of joy.

Subsequently, Chang Kaishen carried out a major reorganization of the Sichuan army, reducing it by one-third, from the original more than 300 regiments to more than 200 regiments.

Chang Kaishen believes that in this way, the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army will be greatly weakened, and the influence of the old warlords such as Liu Xiang will be further eliminated.

As long as the next step is to transfer all the Sichuan troops out of Chengdu, Chongqing, and other hinterland areas, and order them to leave the country to pursue and suppress the red bandits, they can kill two birds with one stone and reap the benefits, and the central army will be able to take over Sichuan Province by taking advantage of the situation, and then rule the southwest and complete the great cause of national reunification.

However, just as Chang Kaishen was waiting for the Red Bandits to be destroyed and dominate the southwest, a thunderbolt from a sunny day almost beat Chang Kaishen to vomit blood.

He relied on the national weapon Gancheng, regarded as the trump card of the whole army, Hu Zongnan's first division, and the bad news of the annihilation of the whole army came, which made Chang Kaishen almost painful, the first division was the army he started, and almost half of his country was beaten down by this army.

The destruction of the first division was not stopped, Chang Kaishen soon received the bad news that the 49th division was lost, and the Red Army opened up the main road to the north.

When Chang Kaishen saw that the Red Army was at the end of its rope, who knew that the willows and flowers were bright and he was born after death. Of course, he felt very angry, and scolded "Niang Xipi" dozens of times in succession before calming down his anger.

Chang Kaishen would never be willing to let the Red Army go, so he immediately telegraphed the newly formed 14th Division to hold Lazikou tightly, and the Third Army to go north to defend the Wei River, and ordered the 37th Army to ensure that the roads between Liangning and Dingxi were blocked, and the Red Army must be blocked in the northwest of Sichuan.

Chang Kaishen still felt uneasy about sending so many troops to intercept the Red Army, and finally ordered Chen Cheng to lead the elite troops of the Central Army to quickly go north to encircle and suppress the Red Army.

At the same time, the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party was preparing for the march of the whole army to the north.

Although they knew that it would be useless, the comrades of the Central Committee were not willing to let the Fourth Front Army leave, and sent a telegram to Zhang Guitao in an attempt to make a final effort.

However, Zhang Guitao had already been dominated by ambition, completely ignoring the orders of the central government, refusing to carry out the northbound route, and still single-mindedly leading the Fourth Front Army south to southwest Sichuan.

On 25 June, the CPC Central Committee promulgated to the whole party and the whole army the "Letter of the Central Committee to Comrades for Implementing the Policy of Going North," proposing to the whole army that it should continue to go north and establish a base area in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, and that there was no way out for Sichuan Province to go south.

However, it was a foregone conclusion that Zhang Guitao would lead the Fourth Front Army to the south, and the commander-in-chief remembered that Chen Changhao and Xu Shuai had supported his decision to go north at the Politburo meeting, so he wanted to go to Chen Changhao and Xu Shuai to do work again, hoping that they could lead the troops to implement the central government's policy of going north.

However, Chen Changhao somehow changed his previous position at the Politburo meeting, saying that he only carried out the order of Zhang Guitao, the general political commissar of the Red Army, to go south. Xu Shuai, out of the mentality of reluctance to divide the army of the Fourth Front Army into two halves, also decided to follow Zhang Guitao south, which made a big mistake.

When the commander saw that this was the case, he didn't bother to say any more, but said lightly, "It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, so let it be." Then he stepped on the war horse and bid farewell to the comrades of the Fourth Front Army.

These days, Zhang Cheng is leading the troops to actively prepare for going north to Shaanxi and Gansu. According to the latest order of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, the central government once again appointed the generals, and the young column of Zhang Cheng took up the important task of opening the way to the north.

In the following days, Zhang Cheng led his troops to march all the way from Baoza, along the way the Tusi soldiers, militia groups, and the garrisons of the minority People's Party were all beaten and fled, and the Red Army advanced inexorably towards Gannan.

On June 28, Zhang Cheng led his troops to the Russian border, and two days later, the Party Central Committee decided to hold an enlarged meeting of the Politburo here, which was later known as the "Russian Border Conference."

Present at the meeting were leaders of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution, as well as chief officers of various military-level units.

At the meeting, the commander-in-chief reviewed the problems arising from the dispute over the line with Zhang Guitao before and after the meeting of the Central Red Army and the Fourth Front Army.

He made severe accusations and criticisms against Zhang Guitao, and once again reiterated that the Central Red Army's determination to go north to Gannan and northern Shaanxi and to establish a base area in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningbo is firm and unshakable.

In the end, the meeting agreed to the report made by the commander-in-chief, unanimously adopted the "Decision on Comrade Zhang Guitao's Erroneous Decision," and distributed it to the whole party and the whole army.

A controversy over "going north" and "going south" that affected the whole party and the whole army has finally come to an end.