"Although the Shaji incident set off a new anti-British ** in Guangdong, the reaction of the British political axe is worrying, if the British political axe really decides to send troops to attack Guangzhou, the military strength of the Guangdong political axe is not enough to resist this aggression, and Guangzhou will soon be lost. And in turn, it led to the division of Guangdong's military power and the defeat of Guangdong's political axe. If we sit idly by and watch the failure of the Guangdong political axe, it will have a serious impact on our cause in China, and it will make the Chinese no longer believe in us, so we must avoid this happening. To avoid this, it is necessary to strengthen the military strength of Canton, and more precisely the military leaders who support our cause. At present, the only military force that can be absolutely believed is the party army led by General Chiang Kai-shek, and all other armies are likely to defect, so I propose to immediately strengthen General Chiang Kai-shek's strength and expand the number of troops under his command so that the army under his command will reach 50,000 to 100,000 men, and to achieve this number, it is necessary to transport 500,000 to 100,000 rifles, 200 to 300 machine guns, 100 to 200 cannons, and the corresponding ammunition to Canton as soon as possible. In addition, about five million rubles are needed. Considering that once the British made the decision to start a war against the Canton political axe, they would inevitably blockade the ports of Canton, so the goods had to be shipped from Vladivostok as soon as possible ....... ”

Borodin quickly judged the course of events after the Shaki incident and immediately alerted Moscow to the possibility of overthrowing the Canton political axe by the British.

After Chiang Kai-shek received the report that Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun were counterattacking the British at Shaji, he was stunned, and he immediately ordered all batteries to enter a wartime state, and at the same time ordered a regiment of the party army to reinforce Shaji. However, his order was late, and the Che Crooked Batteries had already fired back on their own, but after receiving the order, the batteries in Humen, Liede, and Changzhou immediately switched to a wartime state.

However, when Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun returned to the headquarters, Chiang Kai-shek's thunderous anger immediately broke out, and both Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun were suspended, and their positions were replaced by He Jinhan and Hui Dongsheng. Jiang Xianyun didn't distinguish it, but Zhuang Jihua was upset for Jiang Xianyun, thinking that the order was given by himself, and Jiang Xianyun just carried out his own order, so the matter had nothing to do with Jiang Xianyun, and he would be removed if he wanted to be dismissed. When Chiang Kai-shek heard that Zhuang Jihua was still fighting, he became even more angry, and blasted them out of the office in a fit of rage.

A few days later, the news from all sides was mixed, with domestic support and unprecedented prestige of Guangdong's political axe; Abroad, war clouds are thick, and the British sharpen their knives. The leaders of the various factions in the base camp were also uneasy, but the struggle for the position of the soon-to-be-established national political axe had subsided, and everyone turned their attention to the question of whether the British should send troops.

The city of Guangzhou was shocked overnight, and various rumors were circulating. The base camp urgently ordered all armies to prepare for war, and the main force of Li Jishen, which entered Guangxi, was transferred back to Xijiang, the Sichuan army was transferred to Qingyuan and Qingqing, and the main force of Tan Yankai's Hunan army was transferred to Yingde; The main force of the Guangdong army was transferred to Dongguan; Guangxi's Li Zongren and Huang Shaohong's troops quickly captured Nanning, Lu Rongting sent a telegram to the field, and then Li Huang's second division immediately divided his troops to sweep away Han Caifeng, Meng Renqian, Lu Fuxiang and other remnants of the army, and Guangxi formed a situation of confrontation between Li, Huang and Shen Hongying.

The base camp was very angry at the party army for provoking the war without authorization, and Hu Hanmin, Wu Chaoshu, Deng Zeru and others demanded that Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun be punished for provoking unauthorized actions, but Liao Zhongkai resolutely opposed it.

"If Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun are punished, then we will admit that the fault lies with us, and the British will be caught by the pigtails, which is not conducive to diplomatic negotiations." Liao Zhongkai spoke out at the meeting.

Liao Zhongkai's opinion was supported by Chen Youren, Tan Pingshan and others, and Xu Chongzhi also had a good impression of Zhuang Jihua, so he also opposed the punishment of Zhuang Jihua. Wang Ching-wei seized the opportunity to mediate and made a decision to deal with the matter in the light of the development of the incident.

However, although Liao Zhongkai opposed the punishment of Zhuang Jihua, he was also very angry at his ignorance of the general situation, and after the meeting, he went to the garrison headquarters to "trio" Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun with Chiang Kai-shek, and he wanted to ask Zhuang Jihua why he was so impulsive.

"Tell me, why do you insist on shooting despite Jiang Xianyun's opposition?" Chiang Kai-shek found out the whole process of the matter in the past two days, and knew that Jiang Xianyun had resolutely dissuaded Zhuang Jihua in advance.

"Nothing to do, you're not an impulsive person? Why do you do such an impulsive thing? In order to avoid suspicion, Liao Zhongkai also invited Director Zhou of the Political Department to participate in the inquiry.

"The principal, the political commissar, can't blame the Cultural Revolution entirely, I am also responsible for this." Jiang Xianyun was unwilling to let Zhuang Jihua take responsibility alone. Therefore, he spoke in front of Zhuang Jihua.

These days, there is a lot of discussion in the headquarters, and most of the young officers are excited, looking at Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun as models; The older officers pinched the Han for them, and some people who were dissatisfied with Zhuang Jihua were elated, thinking that he must be unlucky, especially Wang Bailing, who preached everywhere, saying that he had already seen that Zhuang Jihua was going to cause a big disaster sooner or later, and this time he responded to his words.

However, in the face of the "scrutiny" of the three giants, Zhuang Jihua did not have the slightest worry, and as soon as he opened his mouth, the three of them were surprised:

"I didn't have an impulse, I did it on purpose."

Deliberately, the three giants looked at each other, Chiang Kai-shek's face turned red, and Liao Zhongkai also lost his calm mind, and stood up a little annoyed and asked: "Deliberately, then why did you deliberately cause this incident?" ”

Zhuang Jihua looked straight ahead with his eyes and said in a loud voice: "Because we can at least tie." If it hadn't been for the order from the base camp too early, I might have entered the Shamian Concession. ”

Chiang Kai-shek laughed angrily: "Hehe, amazing, amazing." It seems that the base camp is still holding you back from building great achievements. ”

Director Zhou frowned and thought about it, feeling that things are not so simple, this Zhuang Jihua is definitely not an impulsive person, so the reason why this is like this must be that he has made a discovery, maybe what information has been mastered by the Intelligence Bureau: "Do you have any information?" ”

As soon as Director Zhou's words came out, Chiang Kai-shek immediately became vigilant, if Zhuang Jihua had any information and acted without reporting, it would be absolutely intolerable, so he stared at Zhuang Jihua to see how he answered.

"No, the Intelligence Bureau has only been established for a short time, and the intelligence work has just begun, and there is no time to start intelligence collection on the UK." Zhuang Jihua said honestly.

Director Zhou didn't know what kind of medicine Zhuang Jihua was selling in the gourd.

"I said that I did it on purpose because I had a basic judgment about the situation at that time, that is, even if we returned fire, the British would not be able to make any big waves." Zhuang Jihua said.

"Why? How did you arrive at such a judgment? Liao Zhongkai was a little surprised, even he didn't dare to make such a judgment.

"Since the European War, Britain's national strength has declined significantly, and it is no longer the world's first power, and the United States has taken over it; Britain's national strength declined, the ability to control the colonies weakened, and the resistance of the colonial people increased, such as India, since the establishment of the Indian National Congress, the Indian people's desire to read is getting stronger and stronger, Britain was forced to station heavy troops in India, Egypt in the Middle East, Iraq and other countries The reading movement is also very strong, they are different from India in that India is a peaceful and non-cooperative way, but these countries adopt the method of armed struggle, and Britain must station heavy troops in these countries, The money to maintain these forces would slowly suck the blood of the British political axe like a sponge. ”

"After the European War, the United States, the United States and other emerging imperialist countries arose, they were very dissatisfied with the resources and markets of the British colonies, and Britain was challenged by them in the world, so the world strategic pattern changed from Britain to the United States and the Soviet Union, followed by Britain, France and other countries."

"In the European war, Britain's economy was hit hard, and it was only seven years after the end of the European war, and its economy was far from recovering, and I guess he didn't even have the military money to send troops. Don't look at him killing people everywhere in China, in fact, he is very scared, he belongs to that kind of... The paper tiger will be broken as soon as it is poked, but those warlords are afraid that foreigners dare not poke it. Zhuang Jihua talked eloquently, and when he talked about the paper tiger, he looked unscrupulous.

"Are you so sure?" Liao Zhongkai asked after a moment of surprise.

The biggest difference between Zhuang Jihua and the people of this era is his confidence. He came from a previous life, and the national self-confidence of the Chinese in the previous life was much stronger than that of the current Chinese, and Britain did not pay attention to it at all. If you don't believe the reader, you can do a survey on the street on your own, and the topic is the result of a separate war with China and Britain, and I believe that 80% of the votes, including the British, chose China to win. Without this kind of strength, without this kind of confidence, Margaret Thatcher would be so easy to agree to let Hong Kong return?

"100 percent sure, 80 percent sure." Zhuang Jihua said.

"Eighty percent? What if the British sent troops to attack Guangzhou? Chiang Kai-shek asked, but his tone had softened.

"Then give them Guangzhou." Zhuang Jihua said nonchalantly.

"Let it be given to them? You say it so lightly. Chiang Kai-shek couldn't get angry anymore.

"Just because they give it to them doesn't mean they win the war." Zhuang Jihua explained: "The reason for giving Guangzhou to them is that if they choose Guangzhou City as the battlefield, they can get the support of naval firepower, and we have no navy and cannot suppress the enemy's naval firepower, and our losses will be very large, so we retreat to the north, lure the enemy deeper, and wait for them to get out of the range of naval fire support, and then engage them." In fact, I really hope that they will send troops to come, look at the map, the British transport line is tens of thousands of kilometers, it will take several months to go back and forth, only a year later, the British finances will have to go bankrupt, at that time he wants to withdraw with our consent. ”

Zhuang Jihua's words made the Big Three fall silent again, and after a long while, Liao Zhongkai asked: "If the British political axe insists on sending troops, how many troops do you think they can send?" ”

"It won't be more than 100,000." Zhuang Jihua calculated in his heart and said. In fact, he didn't know how many troops Britain could send, but in order to strengthen his above words, he deliberately said such a number.

"One hundred thousand." Chiang Kai-shek sat in his chair blankly.

(To be continued)