This was the first time that a high-ranking Kuomintang general had openly written an article on the condolence of a Communist Party member, and he did not hesitate to praise his character and talent. Reading the whole book, the image of a communist with firm faith, strong will, brave and good at fighting, and resourcefulness jumps on the page, and his final tragedy makes people cry.

The news from Nanjing was even more puzzling, and the grapevine said that Chiang Kai-shek heard that after Chiang Xianyun's death, he set up a sacrifice in Lushan Meilu, and regretted that he failed to save him.

At this time, the reporters were excited, and they started all kinds of connections to dig out what happened on Huangpu Island at the beginning, and the teachers and students of the Huangpu Military Academy became celebrities both in the DPRK and in the opposition, and they were surrounded by reporters, and one report after another was noisy on paper, and then more in-depth reports appeared.

"In 1927, the signs of the Communist Party hollowing out the Kuomintang became more and more obvious, the National Revolutionary Army was fighting at the front, and the Communist Party launched a workers' and peasants' movement to take over power in the rear, which became a situation in which the Kuomintang fought the world and the Communist Party sat in the world....... "Between the Two Dilemmas, the Chairman Chooses to Clear the Party," the Kuomintang organ newspaper "Central Daily" reported.

"The Kuomintang members and Communist Party members who joined Whampoa in those years all had a heart to save the country and the people, they were a group of enthusiastic and idealistic young people, in the subsequent war, they fought bravely, more than 600 students graduated from the first phase, and more than 100 people were left before the start of the Northern Expedition, most of them died in the two Eastern Crusades and ...... rebellion. It is undeniable that without the Whampoa Military Academy and their sacrifices, there would be no national political axe today, and China would still be under the dark rule of the Beiyang political axe....... The relatively neutral "For the sake of doctrine, Whampoa is divided" reported by Ta Kung Pao.

"...., today we do not want to investigate the reasons for the breakdown of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, today we are facing the danger of the survival of the country; Since the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was able to overthrow the Beiyang warlords in the past, why can't they work together to resist foreign humiliation again? "The Perility of the Nation Demands the Reunion of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party", published by the Shanghai "Observer" magazine.

In the Huangpu classmates we interviewed, they all recognized the title of Huangpu Shuangxiong, but for who of them is higher, this point is different, Jiang Xianyun has a great merit in attacking Tamsui, but before Zhuang Wenge also had the victory of Zhangmutou, the bloody battle of Kumho, Zhuang Wenge followed the second regiment, and finally arrived in time, only to finally defeat Lin Hu; The reorganization of Xiong Kewuchuan Army was mainly based on the Zhuang Cultural Revolution, supplemented by Jiang Xianyun's party representatives; At the time of the Northern Expedition, ......, the pursuing Jiang Xianyun was captured by Zhuang Jihua on the edge of the Yangtze River, or this can explain the high and low between them.... "Huangpu Twin Heroes, Who is Stronger", known as the first gossip of the Republic of China, "Social News" reported.

Of course, there are also Deng Yanda, Tan Pingshan and others who wrote "Chiang Kai-shek's Reading Is the Only Reason for the Split of Whampoa" and "The Origin of the Whampoa Tragedy".

More reporters wanted to interview Zhuang Jihua and the person who lit the fire, but Zhuang Jihua left a mess at this time and went to the meeting on the border of Kang-Yunnan.

"What the hell are these journalists trying to do?" Under the shade of the shady trees in Lushan, Lin Wei looked at the newspaper and shook his head, he didn't understand why the reporter wanted to turn these things out: "This Zhuang Cultural Revolution is really true, just pay tribute in private, and have to write an article to the newspaper to publish." Incomprehensible, incomprehensible. ”

"To be honest, his eulogy was not well written, and although the feelings were very deep, the writing was still a little lacking." Chen Bui recalled that after Yang Yongtai left, he became Chiang Kai-shek's chief master, responsible for drafting all the manuscripts for Chiang Kai-shek, transforming Chiang Kai-shek's meaning into wonderful words, and then sending them to various places, and at the same time providing him with advice when Chiang Kai-shek needed it, but Chen Bui was a relatively simple literati, not as much power as Yang Yongtai, nor so much political experience, and made relatively little contribution in this regard, but Chiang Kai-shek was more satisfied with him.

"To be honest, I'm not surprised at all," Xiao Zanyu said in a very regretful tone: "With the friendship between the Cultural Revolution and Wushan, he has no soldiers in his hands, otherwise he may really have to go to Zhang Guotao." ”

"This Whampoa duo has been making trouble in the newspaper, I heard that it was praised by the former prime minister himself? Is that so? "The questioner was a middle-aged man with the rank of lieutenant general.

"This is true," Xiao Zanyu said: "When the prime minister went on the Northern Expedition, Wushan of the Cultural Revolution accompanied the cultural instructors to protect the prime minister in Shaoguan, and the prime minister especially appreciated them and praised them in public. Strange to say, at that time, both of them opposed the Northern Expedition, thinking that if they wanted to go to the Northern Expedition, they must first get rid of Chen Jiongming. The Cultural Revolution also made a tactical deduction and annihilated the Northern Expeditionary Army in central Jiangxi. After the rebellion of the merchant group was quelled, the instructor Wen came back to tell it. Despite this, the prime minister was not surprised and promoted them to temporary adjutants. ”

"It was the prime minister who cultivated them," Lin Wei said with a smile: "The prime minister and the chairman of the committee are both discerning people, and they have long seen that they are talents, so why is the Communist Party willing to kill them?" ”

"There must be political reasons for this," Chiang Kai-shek's voice came from behind them, several people immediately stood up, and looked back to see Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling walking slowly, Chiang Kai-shek walked to the shade of the tree, first let Soong Meiling sit down, and then beckoned everyone to sit down, he was in a good mood, and made significant progress in the encirclement and suppression of the Jiangxi communist bandits for nine months, in the Battle of Guangchang in April, the Red Army suffered heavy casualties, the second detachment of the Northern Route Army commanded by Chen Cheng occupied Guangchang, and the gate of Ruijin, the capital of the Red Soviet District, was opened.

Chiang Kai-shek did not order Chen Cheng to take the opportunity to attack Ruijin, but instead strengthened the offensive on the east and west roads, and after the pacification of the Min Mutiny, Chiang Dingwen on the east road waved his army to attack Jianning, and in May he conquered the eastern fortress of the Soviet area, Yunmenling, and at the end of June, he defeated the Red Army's counteroffensive in Gulonggang, so that [***] completely grasped the initiative in the war.

"Zhang Guotao is a person with a strong desire for power, the northern Sichuan bandits were brought out by Wushan and the forward, especially Wushan, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui bandits were integrated by him, and there are a large number of Huangpu classmates in each army, so Wushan can challenge Zhang Guotao's power, and only by pulling out the nail of Wushan, Zhang Guotao can easily turn this army into his private army." Chiang Kai-shek calmly analyzed: "I haven't seen Zhang Guotao during the Cultural Revolution, so he doesn't know this person, the communists he came into contact with are all gentlemen like Wushan, Zhou Enlai, Cao Yuan, and Chen Yannian, so he can't judge the way people like Zhang Guotao do things, they are much more ruthless than us, I found out when I visited Russia." ”

If Zhuang Jihua wanted to hear Chiang Kai-shek's judgment, he could only write a word of obedience, and he deliberately did not lead to this aspect.

Without waiting for Lin Wei and others to praise their wisdom, Chiang Kai-shek picked up the newspaper that Lin Wei put on the table, shook his head and said: "These nerds, write something that they don't know." ”

"Does the chairman mean there is a problem with this article?" Chen Bui was a little strange, he read the article of the Central Newspaper, and felt that it was very well written and convincing, and it clearly explained Chiang Kai-shek's difficulties when the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party broke down, and served the purpose of justifying Chiang Kai-shek's name.

"Cheng Cangbo's writing is very good, but he doesn't understand political propaganda," Chiang Kai-shek said slowly: "The key to the eulogy of the Cultural Revolution is not the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the key is the word paranoia. If this point is made clear, who will dare to join the Communist Party in the future. It is said that many people have been killed, and many people have been killed in Jiangxi and Xiangxi, so some reporters should be sent to interview and report on it. In addition, we can adopt more flexible measures in dealing with the defectors and fugitives of the Communist Party, as long as they sign a statement of withdrawal from the Communist Party, and the Communist Party does not want to kill them, then we will let them go and give them a way out. ”

"Attack the city for the bottom, attack the heart for the top." Liu Jianxu sincerely praised: "The chairman of the committee has a clever strategy. ”

Chiang Kai-shek smiled slightly and continued: "The suppression of bandits is divided into three parts military, and seven points political; The most powerful weapon of the Communist Party is not how many people they have and how many guns they have, but their political theory. Compared with them, the political axe far surpasses them in terms of the number of troops and financial capacity, and the repeated suppression can only show that we are stupid and deserve to lose the world. Therefore, in order to eradicate the Jiangxi communists and bandits in this encirclement and suppression, we must strengthen our political offensive. ”

"The principal is right, lay down a piece, clean up a piece, and settle down a piece, and it won't be long before the bandits have no way to escape." Xiao Zanyu patted Chiang Kai-shek's ass just right.

"I'll send a telegram to Cheng Cangbo," Chen Bui stood up to leave, but Chiang Kai-shek stopped him: "What to do to send a telegram to Cheng Cangbo, send a telegram to Ye Gui and Chen Lifu." ”

Ye Gui and Chen Lifu both organized cultural associations in Shanghai, and they had a large number of scholars and literati, many of whom were well-known newspapermen, and through them they would naturally set off a huge movement, and the protagonists of this movement were still seemingly neutral newspapers, rather than political axe newspapers with a clear position, and the persuasive power was naturally stronger.

Chen Bui left after agreeing, Liu Jianxu didn't understand the mystery of Chiang Kai-shek's arrangement, but he was a soldier, and he was a general of the Hunan army, and he didn't expect to say anything more if he asked Chiang Kai-shek again, so he changed the subject: "Chairman, what other instructions do you have for the actions of the Hunan army?" ”

Liu Jianxu was the main force sent by He Jian to be responsible for the encirclement and suppression of the West Road, and this time he went to Lushan to face the difficulties of the Hunan army, because the Hunan army also had to undertake the extermination of He Long in Xiangxi, He Jian had to fight on both sides, and he was a little unbearable, so he specially asked him to go to Lushan to report to Chiang Kai-shek, cancel the combat mission of the Hunan army on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi, and concentrate on dealing with He Long in Xiangxi.

"Go back and tell Chairman He, don't worry about He Long, his purpose in making trouble in Xiangxi is to let us divide our troops, so we can't be fooled by him. It is still necessary to concentrate forces to exterminate the Jiangxi Communist Bandit Central Committee first, as long as they are eliminated, He Long will not be able to grow long in Xiangxi. Chiang Kai-shek knew very well that at present, the Red Army in Jiangxi was almost at the end of its rope, and it was no longer possible to break his encirclement and suppression with their own strength, so they began to mobilize all the forces they could mobilize to counterattack.

"Yes, when I go back, I will definitely tell Chairman He of the chairman's order." Liu Jianxu stood up and replied.

"Sit, sit down," Chiang Kai-shek gently beckoned him to sit down: "How are your troops?" ”

"It's fine." Liu Jianxu did not understand what Chiang Kai-shek meant, so he had to be vague.

"It's not difficult to provide for the poor, do the soldiers who go to Jiangxi to fight have any complaints?"

"No, it is the duty of a soldier to serve the party and the state." Liu Jianxu replied loudly again.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded with satisfaction, but Liu Jianxu said: "It's just that it is really difficult to provide for it, there is Helong in the west of Hunan to advocate rebellion, and there are also communist bandits in the west, and the financial income is limited, even in wartime, the soldiers' salaries can only be paid eighty percent." ”

"Oh, that's not good," Chiang Kai-shek said solemnly: "The military salary must be sufficient, the suppression of bandits is a long-term battle, and the salary cannot be owed, otherwise it will affect the fighting spirit of the soldiers, so I will give you 800,000 oceans to make up for the arrears." ”

Liu Jianxu didn't expect such a big piece of pie to fall into the sky, and he couldn't help but cry grateful.

"The country's finances are very difficult, Minister Kong successfully issued public bonds in Shanghai, so that we have this military expenditure, although it is insufficient, but the soldiers who fought bravely cannot be treated badly," Chiang Kai-shek said with some emotion here: "When we built the army in Whampoa, we couldn't even eat enough, but we still survived, and at that time hundreds of us were drinking porridge in the sunflower shed. ”

Chiang Kai-shek was silent for a while, as if recalling the original scene, and said for a long time: "There are not many classmates in the first phase, Xiao Zanyu, send a telegram to Dai Li, and ask him to send Li Anding to Yucheng and hand it over to Zhuang Wenge for control." ”

Xiao Zanyu was taken aback, he knew about Li Anding, He Zhenhan and Deng Wenyi spent a lot of thought in order to defeat the Guangdong representative of the Whampoa Military Academy, let Li Shuwang and Wang Jinxiu come forward to start, and let him Xiao Zanyu secretly cooperate in the center, and now he is about to succeed, but Chiang Kai-shek suddenly changed his mind, which made Xiao Zanyu lose his mind for a while.

Xiao Zanyu calmed down and said, "Yes, but why do you want to give the Cultural Revolution? Students are stupid. ”

"Didn't Zhuang Wenge say that Li Anding was not his subordinate before, then let him take care of it." Chiang Kai-shek replied with a smile: "Let him take Li Anding to open a mine." ”

Mining? Xiao Zanyu was a little confused, did he want to send Li Anding to the newly discovered iron mine in Huili? He saw that Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to ask again, and hurriedly went to send a telegram to Dai Li.

(To be continued)