Section 77 Counterinsurgency (1)

Guangzhou Shimin soil factory, the generalissimo line.

"Smack" "Deceive people too much. Hu Hanmin slapped heavily on the table, and four words popped out from between his teeth.

"Brother Haihai, did he really say that?" It was Hu Hanmin's cousin Hu Yisheng who spoke, and he still had a surprised look on his face.

"Well, his original words were to ask the acting commander to give an order, let the student army fight first for three days, and I won't fight back within three days." Zou Lu smiled bitterly, originally he was not in favor of using force to suppress the rebellion, so when Hu Hanmin expressed the hope that he would go to Hong Kong to persuade Yang Ximin, he agreed without the slightest hesitation, in his opinion, Hu Hanmin is very sincere, and the promised interests are not low, as long as Yang Ximin does not rebel, Hu Hanmin can reorganize the base camp according to his wishes, with such conditions, Yang Ximin not only did not accept but also spoke wildly, now his mission has completely failed, and the use of force to suppress the rebellion has been unavoidable.

"Zhantang, I said I don't need to send someone to go, this is self-inflicted." Liao Zhongkai said coldly. When Yang Ximin's rebellion first appeared, he strongly advocated the transfer of the Eastern Expeditionary Army back to quell the rebellion, but Hu Hanmin pushed his way around, hoping to persuade Yang Ximin not to solve the problem by force.

Liao Zhongkai made Hu Hanmin feel even more ashamed, he sat there with a complicated mood, anger, remorse, and all kinds of feelings were intertwined. Hu Yisheng saw that Hu Hanmin was a little embarrassed, so he diverged and said: "What's the use of talking about this now, let's talk about what to do in the future." ”

"I still say the same thing, transfer Shi and Ru to come back to quell the rebellion and completely solve the Yunnan Gui army." Liao Zhongkai was very angry, the armies of the Eastern Expedition have now finished recuperating and their morale is high, and they are completely able to solve the Yunnan Gui Army and completely eliminate this cancer.

"Dian Guijun? If it is solved at the same time, whether it can be solved separately, there is still a difference between Liu Zhenhuan and Yang Ximin. "Zou Lu and Liu Zhenhuan have a good relationship, especially when Zou Lu was in charge of Sun Yat-sen University two years ago, there was a lack of funds, and the provincial political axe was helpless. Now seeing that Liao Zhongkai is even about to level Liu Zhenhuan, Zou Lu wants to intercede for him.

"It's all a hill of raccoon dogs, and it's all flat." Mr. Liao insisted that he was not going to back down. Ever since the Yunnan Gui army was stationed in Guangzhou, they have been prostituting, gambling, selling opium, and disrupting finances, and the citizens of Guangzhou have long hated them, especially because they have intercepted taxes, and now the Guangdong Finance and Taxation Bureau is basically an empty shelf, and now they have further embezzled the taxes belonging to the Finance and Taxation Bureau under the pretext that the base camp has the aid of Soviet Russia, and it has reached the point where it is impossible to get rid of it.

Hu Hanmin felt that there was still some truth in what Zou Lu said, especially after the compromise plan he advocated failed, and he could not completely adopt Liao Zhongkai's proposal, otherwise it would be a great blow to his prestige.

"Zhong Kai, I think Haibin makes sense, you can put Liu Zhenhuan aside first and beat Yang Ximin first."

Liao Zhongkai looked at Hu Hanmin with some excitement, he didn't understand what was wrong with Hu Hanmin, Zou Lu was a scholar, he only saw Liu Zhenhuan being good to him, but he didn't see Liu Zhenhuan's bad treatment of Guangzhou, but Hu Hanmin shouldn't be like this.

"Zhantang, Liu Zhenhuan is as bad as Yang Ximin, if you level them together, isn't Guangzhou cleaner? What is there to hesitate about. ”

"Isn't dealing with them separately to reduce resistance and increase the certainty of victory? I'm thinking about the bigger picture, too. Hu Hanmin still insisted.

"Zhantang, I don't want to say anything more, now that the suppression of the rebellion is on the line, it can't be delayed any longer, I propose to convene a central meeting, which will be decided by the meeting." Liao Zhongkai felt that there would be no result if this kind of argument continued, so he simply held a meeting, and he was sure that he would win the support of the majority of the people at the meeting.

"Okay, I agree, I'll open it tomorrow." Hu Hanmin also felt that it was not interesting to fight any longer, and no one knew how much time Yang Ximin would give them, so let the meeting make a decision.

In order to curry favor with Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei even changed the premier's last words at the meeting of Chiang Kai-shek's office office, saying that the premier was still reading on his deathbed: "Whampoa, Whampoa." But I learned from the newspaper that what the prime minister said on his deathbed was "peace, struggle, and save China." Even so, Chiang Kai-shek was still very grateful to Wang Jingwei for his admiration, and he also took time to accompany Wang Jingwei to visit the places of interest in Chaozhou.

However, Chiang Kai-shek's purpose for Wang Jingwei was also relatively clear, and after Zhuang Jihua arrived, he reported his judgment on the purpose of Wang Jingwei's visit to Chaozhou, and after two days of observation, Chiang Kai-shek affirmed Zhuang Jihua's judgment, but he also determined that Wang Jingwei was more beneficial to himself than Hu Hanmin.

The biggest difference between Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin is that Wang Jingwei has a thinner foundation, Hu Hanmin has served as Sun Yat-sen's deputy for a long time, and he already has a group of people, and Wang Jingwei went to France after the success of the Xinhai Nationals, and traveled outside the inner circle of the Kuomintang for a period of time, and more importantly, Wang Jingwei has never dealt with the army, Hu Hanmin has the support of some people in the Guangdong army, but Wang Jingwei does not, if he wants to hold the army when he comes to power, almost no one can choose to give up himself.

In view of the current situation in Guangzhou, Zhuang Jihua asked the radio station in Huangpu to send a report every day so that Chiang Kai-shek could keep abreast of the changes in the situation in Guangzhou.

"What do you think?" After reading the briefing, Chiang Kai-shek asked Zhuang Jihua.

"The counterinsurgency order may be issued soon, and we can prepare." Deng Wenyi successfully developed an intelligence officer in the Shimin Clay Factory, and the level of this intelligence officer was not high, and it was only after Zou Lu came back that he learned the news of the failure of the peace talks.

Zhuang Jihua immediately took out a map and spread it out in front of Chiang Kai-shek, and today he did not go out with Chiang Kai-shek or stayed in the Governor's Office to fiddle with this map.

"Headmaster, this is the latest troop layout map of the Yunnan Gui Army."

Chiang Kai-shek nodded, looking at it and his face gradually became a little surprised: "Cultural Revolution, are you sure you're right?" This is supposed to be classified information, how did you get it? ”

"Yang Ximin is too arrogant, but he didn't think that not everyone is as confident as him, Fan Hanjie bribed the operational staff officers in his general headquarters, and easily got his operational deployment, after investigation, it is completely true." Zhuang Jihua thought about it and smiled: "Principal, Yang Ximin is not afraid of leaking secrets at all, what do you have to worry about him." ”

Chiang Kai-shek ignored Zhuang Jihua's joke, but shook his head and sighed: "Yang Ximin fought from Yunnan to Guangdong, and he was a hero for a while, and this time he finished it." The corners of Zhuang Jihua's mouth twitched, what kind of hero is this, a reckless martial artist. Chiang Kai-shek raised his head, and Zhuang Jihua hurriedly looked up.

"Tell me, if it were you, how would you fight?"

Chiang Kai-shek's words were somewhat unexpected by Zhuang Jihua, Chiang Kai-shek had consulted him before, but it was mainly political strategy, a few strategies, never asked him about specific tactics, and he had no intention of contributing to this line; Political strategy and strategy, these things, there are the results of the previous life, and if you think about it yourself, you will not be far from it, and you don't need to spend a lot of brains.

Now the specific tactics, Zhuang Jihua has not thought about it, so he said honestly: "The student has not thought about it." Chiang Kai-shek said lightly: "Then think now." ”

Zhuang Jihua was helpless, he already knew the deployment of the Yunnan Gui Army well, and he didn't need to look at the map at all, he quickly looked for the defensive loopholes of the Yunnan Gui Army in his mind.

Yang Ximin knew very well that whether he could succeed or not depended on whether he could defeat the Eastern Expeditionary Army of the Hui Division, so he arranged the main force Zhao Chengliang's division on the front line of Shilong Stone Beach and built the main position in Shougou Ridge; Tan Yankai of Beijiang and Li Jishen of Xijiang adopted the strategy of shrinking the defense, relying on Guanyin Mountain to implement the defense, which was mainly carried out by Liu Zhenhuan of the Gui army, which was relatively weak in combat.

Yang Ximin's Third Army Hu Sishun's division was still on the front line of Huizhou and did not shrink back to Guangzhou in time, so his troops were somewhat insufficient, and the entire deployment was heavy before and light after, and the troops in Guangzhou were weak.

"It's a heavy deployment. Lao Tzu will hit you where it is light. But where do the troops come from? Why does this Yang Ximin, like Chiang Kai-shek, like Shilong Stone Beach Skinny Dog Ridge as a battlefield? Another graduation exercise, TMD. Thinking about the graduation exercise, Zhuang Jihua's eyes lit up, and he had an idea in his heart:

"If I fight, I will use the main force to attract the enemy's main force in the Shilong Shitan area, and then land near the Liede Fort with surprise troops, attack the enemy's rear Shipai, so that its front will inevitably collapse, and then divide the troops into two ways, the main force will attack Slender Dog Ridge, and the other road will detour through the urban area to attack Guanyin Mountain."

After listening to Zhuang Jihua's words, Chiang Kai-shek was satisfied, but his tone was still stern: "Surprise soldiers? Where do the troops come from? ”

"There are about 1,300 students in the third phase of the military academy, and there are more than 400 students in the second phase who have been trained in the Eastern Crusade, with a total strength of about 1,800, and we can now transfer troops back to the military academy in the name of students returning to school, so that we can gather about 3,000 troops in the military academy, and then these 3,000 people can be like a knife into Yang Ximin's heart."

After listening to Zhuang Jihua's operational deployment, Chiang Kai-shek finally couldn't help laughing: "Very good, Cultural Revolution, I think you can take a regiment." ”

At the base camp meeting held in the Shimin Soil Factory, Liao Zhongkai and Hu Hanmin had a heated argument, and he clearly told Hu Hanmin not to place hope on Liu Zhenhuan, they were in the same boat, and without Liu Zhenhuan's support, Yang Ximin would not be so arrogant even if he would rebel; Liao Zhongkai's proposal was supported by the [***] members headed by Tan Pingshan, and the [***] Guangzhou District Committee was also worried about the situation in Guangzhou, and after several discussions, it decided to push the Kuomintang to carry out counterinsurgency, and at the same time carry out secret mobilization within the party, ready to fight against the counterinsurgency at any time.

It was Borodin who really made the decision, and after Sun Yat-sen's death, Borodin's status in the base camp did not decline but rose, and the resolution of the base camp was difficult to pass without his support. It was Gallon who made Borodin's decision, and after the Eastern Crusade, Gallen had great confidence in the former school army and the current party army, and he proved that the fighting power of the party army could completely defeat Yang Ximin's double spearmen.

Militarily, Borodin believed in Gallen's judgment, and since he could win the war, then why should he leave such a scourge? Therefore, the meeting decided that Liao Zhongkai and Gallen would go to Shantou in the name of the robbery of the Yongfu ship and the deployment of the attack on Fujian, and discuss with Chiang Kai-shek and Xu Chongzhi to return to Guangzhou and pacify Liu Yang.

(To be continued)