The situation is deteriorating further.

Because the Kuomintang troops attacked at the same time in northern Sichuan, Hanzhong, Longnan, Shangluo, and Tongguan, the garrison division commanded by Dong Zhentang was attacked on three sides in northern Sichuan, Hanzhong, and Longnan, and the security division commanded by Luo Binghui met the enemy in Tongguan and Shangluo, and they all fought very hard.

At this time, **, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and others remembered the importance of Liu Yimin's resolute decision to solve Yang Hucheng's ministry and occupy Ankang during the Battle of Fujia. Because Ankang is in the hands of the first hand, it is equivalent to a wooden wedge on the defense line of the main anti-Japanese zone in Shaanxi, and you can peek into the hinterland of Shaanxi anytime and anywhere, Chiang Kai-shek led his troops to Zhongtiao Mountain to participate in the Anti-Japanese War after Yang Hucheng established the Tenth War Zone, and let his henchman Jiang Dingwen lead a large army to be stationed in the Ankang area, raise jīng and accumulate sharp, and be ready to raid the anti-Japanese base in Shaanxi at any time.

Although they are all the main forces of the Red Army, and they are all local armed units of the Eighth Route Army under the government of the Shaanxi Anti-Japanese Special Administrative Region, the garrison division reorganized by the Red Fifth Army Corps and the security division reorganized by the Red Ninth Army Corps cannot be compared with the instructors adapted from the Red Seventh Army Corps and the independent division reorganized by the Red Third Army Corps in terms of strength and equipment. Moreover, in order to train and temper the newly formed local armed forces in various parts of Shaanxi, the Central Committee of the CPC Central Committee transferred many backbone personnel from the garrison division and the security division of Chōu, and supplemented many new recruits.

The level of training of these recruits is quite high, but none of them have experienced actual combat. In this way, the combat effectiveness of the garrison division and the security division has not been greatly improved, and at best it is the same as during the Long March. Of course, what is a little better than the period of the Long March is that the rear base areas of the main anti-Japanese special zone in Shaanxi can be continuously replenished.

This time, Chiang Kai-shek was planning and then acting, and he was determined to drive the central government out of Xi'an. Of course, it is best to completely eliminate the ** army, but he knows that he can't do this, and the main forces of the ** army are all on the battlefields of Shanxi and Shandong!

Chiang Kai-shek's timing was also really good, just when the Japanese army launched a heavy encirclement and suppression of Liu Yimin's department in Shandong, and the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi was actively attacking the Japanese army in order to cooperate with the Shandong Eighth Route Army**, Nie Rongzhen even led his troops north to Liaoning to copy the Japanese army's nest, and he couldn't come back for a while. ** The most capable unit in his hand, Liu Yimin's department, was surrounded by heavy Japanese troops, and he lacked skills, and Chiang Kai-shek believed that he would not be able to stop his army with only the troops left in Shaanxi.

When Liu Yimin sent a telegram to the "Chief," he proposed to transfer three to four brigades of our army in Shandong to form a reinforcement corps, and Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao would lead the breakthrough of the Pinghan Road to fight in Shaanxi. The central government did not approve this request, because it was a long way to go, and by the time our army in Shandong rushed back, I am afraid that the war would have ended. Second, Shandong is in the midst of the heavy sweep of the Japanese army, and our army's every move is under the surveillance of the Japanese army, and if it is not deployed in advance, it is likely that the Japanese army will detect it and fall into the encirclement of the Japanese army. Thirdly, with his commanding art and eloquence, he did not see Chiang Kai-shek's attack. Is it difficult to be sad now that Chiang Kai-shek encircled and suppressed the Soviet area? Fourth, if you want to transfer troops, there is no reason to be willing to go near and far from Shanxi.

However, things turned out more than one might expect. The offensive was very ferocious, and there was a desperate situation, and in just a few days, ** broke through the three lines of defense of the garrison division and the security division.

Originally, ** did not want to fight with Chiang Kai-shek. Because it is now the period of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party can only benefit from the war itself. Therefore, the policy of the Central Committee was to focus on political solutions, and as long as it could block Chiang Kai-shek's offensive, it would mobilize all political forces that could be mobilized to exert pressure on Chiang Kai-shek to stop the offensive and return to the track of unity and resistance to war.

This policy is exactly the same as our party's policy on handling Hu Zongnan's attack on the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region in history, and it is in line with the actual needs of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

**The offensive was so fierce that he was furious all of a sudden**, and he wanted to teach Chiang Kai-shek a hard lesson. So, ** came up with the only way to move the war, and ordered the garrison division and the security division to shrink the defense line, resist layer by layer, and the enemy went deeper. At the same time, he ordered Peng Dehuai, deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, to lead the main forces transferred from the 1st Zhan Division, the Independent Division, the 1st Dao Division, and the Prisoner Division to quickly return to Shaanxi to aid Shaanxi, preparing to completely destroy the Kuomintang Army and repel the Kuomintang's frantic attack.

Our army is shrinking the defensive line, and ** is tightening step by step. Northern Sichuan, Longnan, and Tongguan were lost one after another, and even Hanzhong and Shangluo were occupied by ** Most of the counties.

The order of the central government to transfer troops was issued several times a day, constantly urging Mr. Peng to hurry up, hurry up and hurry up.

The nose of the Japanese army was smarter than a dog, and the commander of the dispatch army of the "China" country, Nishio Shouzo, immediately ordered the North China Front Army to transfer troops to strengthen the First Army, and ordered the First Army to launch a counteroffensive against the Eighth Route Army in front of it, compress the base area of the Eighth Route Army, and expand the occupied area. The purpose was to contain the troops of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi and not be able to return to reinforcements with all their might, so that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party could fight more fiercely.

At the same time, the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, which had already received the order to go south, and the Taiwan Hún Brigade Regiment boarded the ship in Qingdao and quickly moved south, preparing to launch the Battle of Guinan and cut off the supply line on the way to the national government.

As soon as the Eighth Route Army had crossed the Yellow River by transferring troops from Shanxi to Chōu, Yan Xishan was in trouble.

Yan Xishan, from today's point of view, is purely an old and slippery gambler.

The last time Liu Yimin saw him in Gu Xian, he had already begun to prepare to take action against the Sacrifice Alliance and the New Army. The reason is very simple: The Sacrifice League has elected county magistrates in more than a dozen counties in Shaanxi, and members of the Sacrifice League serve as members.

After Liu Yimin had a long talk with Yan Xishan Guxian, he was very shaken by Yan Xishan, and the Jin Suijun did fight well some time ago. However, Yan Xishan was the standard soil emperor, and the Eighth Route Army created a base area in Shanxi, and this base area was getting bigger and bigger, and the big one made Yan Xishan sleep with nightmares.

At this time, the number of members of the Sacrifice League in Shanxi had reached 600,000, and the New Army, that is, the Decisive Death Column, had grown to 50 regiments and 40,000 to 50,000 people, accounting for one-third of Yan Xishan's 150 regiments. This number makes Yan Xishan's food not fragrant and his sleep not sweet.

**'s anti-Japanese war policy was to reduce rents and interest rates, and reasonable burdens, which touched the interests of some landlords. These people often complained to the Jin Suijun, saying that "the Eighth Route Army does not pay cash for food" and that the county magistrate and district magistrate of the Niang County of the League "treat the Eighth Route Army favorably and treat the Central Army outside", and so on, to obstruct and destroy the reasonable burden. Of course, the Jin Suijun supported the landlords and gentry, and these people began to take the lead in making trouble and refused to pay the grain due. In some counties, the Sacrifice League had no choice but to arrest the landlords and gentry who had taken the lead in resisting the payment of grain dues. Now, the hornet's nest was stabbed, but Yan Xishan caught the evidence.

In addition, the Kuomintang accelerated the pace of implementing the policies of preventing the Communist Party, restricting the Communist Party, dissolving the Communist Party, and constantly urging Yan Xishan to restrict the development of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi.

Slogans were posted on the walls of the market town, proclaiming "One leader, one doctrine, one government, one army,

Support Chairman Chiang".

Yan Xishan wanted to seize the county and district power established by the Sacrifice League, and the Sacrifice League wanted to defend the power with the support of the Eighth Route Army, and conflict was inevitable. Liu Yimin did not know this from afar in Shandong, but both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in Shanxi saw it very clearly. Mr. Peng said, "It's going to rain, hurry up and prepare an umbrella." ”

Before Chiang Kai-shek launched an attack on Shaanxi, he had an order for Yan Xishan to move in Shanxi and contain the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi. However, Yan Xishan was timid, he was afraid that he was not the opponent of the Eighth Route Army.

Until the news that he had to fight with Liu Yimin's chief of staff, Zeng Zhongsheng, and Nie Rongzhen led his troops to fight against the devils in the western Liaoning region, Yan Xishan could no longer suppress the idea of seizing the leadership of the new army, and was determined to muddy the waters.

Yan Xishan thought that Liu Yimin's troops could fight, but no matter how they could, they could not be the opponent of the Japanese army's hordes of planes, warships, tanks, and artillery. Don't look at Liu Yimin's attack on the rocks and Qingdao, that is, he couldn't stop the Japanese army's offensive and had to go sideways. The little devil has occupied the ground in Shandong, and he went to attack the stone mén and Qingdao stone mén to use? Didn't you just evacuate in the end? There is a kind of him staying and fighting to the death with the devil. In that case, it is estimated that he will have the same fate as Zeng Zhong.

Yan Xishan had already decided to make a move, but others were old enough to see what the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi was doing. It was not until the Eighth Route Army returned to Shaanxi and crossed the Yellow River that Yan Xishan could not wait to give the order to act.

The Jinxi Incident finally broke out after more than a full middle month later than in history.

Yan Xishan's goal is very clear, that is, to solve the Shanxi New Army and the Sacrifice Alliance, completely bring the new army under the control of the Jin Sui Army, and strengthen his own strength.

As in history, Yan Xishan ordered Han Jun, the commander of the second column, to attack the Japanese army. When is this time, I can't think about it anymore. Han Jun could see at a glance that Yan Xishan was not well-intentioned, he wanted to put the second column of decisive death in the middle of the Japanese army and the Jin Sui army, and categorically refused to carry out Yan Xishan's order. Yan Xishan immediately declared the second column of decisive death as a "rebel army" and ordered a "crusade" to attack the new army in the area of next county and Xiaoyi with the strength of the G army, and ordered Sun Chubu to attack the first and third columns in the southeast and middle of Jin, and ordered Zhao Chengshou to attack the decisive death squad and the troops of the 115th Division in the northwest of Shanxi.

In just two days, Yan Xishan's Jin Sui Army set off a monstrous giant army from western Jin to southeastern and northwestern Shanxi, not only almost wiped out the second column of decisive death, but also attacked the rear hospital of the Eighth Route Army in western Jinxi, and brutally killed more than 1,000 political and league cadres and the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army in six counties, including the next county. The Yan army also killed more than 600 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and death squads in the southeast of Jin, kidnapped more than 1,000 local cadres, and destroyed the anti-Japanese regimes in Qinshui, Yangcheng, Jincheng, Fushan, and Changzhi.