Comrade Xue Yue was thinking about the relationship between his Central Army and the Gui Army, and soon came to this conclusion that he would not move for the time being and should respond to all changes with no change, and then he thought of the warlords of the other two major factions. One is He Jian's Hunan army, and the other is Wang Jialie's Guizhou army.

He Jian, Xue Yue still understands. This Yunqiao brother is a native of Liling, Hunan Province, and his career was born in 1918. In that year, he returned to Liling from the post of company commander of the first brigade of the first division of the Hunan army to collect the rout and scatter guns, organize guerrillas, participate in the operation against Zhang Jingyao's northern army, and was appointed as the commander of the guerrilla force by Cheng Qian, commander-in-chief of the Hunan army. In the summer of the following year, the Hunan army was infighting, Tan Yanmin succeeded him as the commander-in-chief of the Hunan army, and Tang Shengzhi, the commander of the third regiment of the first brigade of the first division, reorganized the troops he led into a cavalry battalion, with He Jian as the battalion commander, and later promoted to the commander of the cavalry regiment and the commander of the ninth brigade. In July 1926, he joined the National Revolutionary Army with Tang Shengzhi, served as the commander of the First Division of the Eighth Army, and joined the Chinese Kuomintang. After conquering Wuhan, he was promoted to commander of the 35th Army. In April 1927, he led his troops to continue the Northern Expedition and marched into Henan.

After Chiang Kai-shek launched a coup d'état in Shanghai, he held a meeting in Hankou to plot a military coup d'état in Lianghu, and instructed his subordinate Yu Xiangsan to collude with Xu Kexiang, the head of the 33rd Independent Regiment, to launch the "Ma-Ri Incident" in Changsha, frantically slaughtering *** people and the revolutionary masses, and issued a ** declaration on June 29 to act as a vanguard for the ** action of the Wang Jingwei group. In the 1927 Ninghan War, Tang Shengzhi, commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army and commander-in-chief of the Second Front Army, appointed him commander-in-chief of the Jiangzuo Army and acting chairman of Anhui Province. In November, after Tang Shengzhi was electrified due to the defeat in the war, He Jian analyzed the situation, took contingency measures, and led his troops to retreat to Hunan in order to preserve his strength. In January of the following year, the Nanjing government's western expeditionary army occupied Changsha, and on March 4, he sent a telegram to sue for peace, and the reorganization of the department was retained, and concurrently served as the office of the Hunan Qingxiang Supervision Office, putting forward the reactionary policy of "it is better to kill 3,000 by mistake than to let one go", and wantonly slaughtered the people and the masses of workers and peasants. In November, he served as the acting commander-in-chief of the Hunan and Jiangxi "Bandits" General Headquarters, and led 20 regiments to participate in the "encirclement and suppression" of the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area. In February 1929, when the Jiang-Gui War broke out, he supported Jiang and Gui, led his troops to coerce Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi into the wilderness, and the Nanjing Nationalist Government appointed him as the chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government and the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Route Army of the rebel army. In this way, he once again succeeded in speculation, achieved his will, and initially became the "king of Hunan".

For the rest of his life, he has been in the midst of a melee of local factional warlords. Beginning in the winter of 1930, he participated in the first and second "encirclement and suppression" of the central revolutionary base areas in Jiangxi, and repeatedly "swept" the Hunan and Jiangxi base areas. In May 1933, he served as the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army of the "Suppression of Bandits" coalition in Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan and Hubei provinces, and participated in the fifth "encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Region. In October 1934, the Central Red Army withdrew from Ruijin and broke through to the borders of Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangdong. In early November, he served as the commander-in-chief of the pursuit and suppression, and led the army to chase the Red Army to Guizhou.

It can be said that Xue Yue thinks that He Jian's practices are unavoidable, including killing red bandits, and so on, and he also supports them. It's just that there is one thing he disdains He Jian. That is the Yunqiao brother who actually killed Yang Kaihui, the wife of the red bandit Mao Zedong, on November 14, 1930, and later sent troops to dig up Mao's ancestral grave. Xue Yue, who was born in a soldier, believes that this soldier has his own reason for handling affairs, that is, he does it with real knives and guns on the battlefield, but this kind of arresting people's wives and digging people's ancestral graves without arresting others is against the way of heaven and shameless. At least that's what he Xue Yue thinks. Of course, for He Jian, Xue Yue also thinks that he is just a speculative driller who is used to seeing the wind and steering the rudder. This can be seen from the fact that he first acted as the vanguard of Wang Jingwei's group, and then took contingency measures when Tang Shengzhi was electrified due to the defeat in the war, led his troops to retreat to Hunan in order to preserve his strength, and later supported Jiang and opposed Gui. Don't look at him as the commander of his own bandit suppression headquarters right now, he seems to be in a good mood, he Xue Yue is sure that this He Jian will never have a good time in the future. If you want to be such an eloquent person as the chairman of the committee, but now you are deceived by his actions, or for other reasons, you have to temporarily compromise him, and when you recognize the essence of him as a person or no longer need to entrust others, you will have a way to deal with him.

I have to say that Xue Yue, the "No. 1 Tiger General of the Republic of China", looks at things from the perspective of a soldier and is somewhat extreme, but the overall direction is not wrong. Because He Jian's later situation was really as he guessed: not bad. Because after the Red Army went north, He Jian was forced to resign from the post of commander-in-chief of the Fourth Route Army, and all his subordinates were transferred to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so He Jian's military strength was completely deprived, and since then he has become a "high-ranking and power-not-heavy" figure. At the end of November 1937, He Jian became the Minister of the Interior of the Nationalist Government, which had no real power. In the spring of 1939, he was appointed a member of the Military Council for the Pension. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he resigned and went to Nanyue to recuperate. He moved to Hong Kong in the spring of 1949. In the summer of the following year, he came to Taiwan and was hired as a national policy adviser to the "Presidential Office" of the Taiwan authorities. He died in Taipei in April 1956 at the age of 69. Of course, this is all for later, so I won't say much about it for the time being.

Xue Yue didn't know that at this moment he was thinking about He Jian, and He Jian was also thinking about his Xue Yue right now. The loyalty to the chairman, the management of the army and the peace of the people are both good hands, this is He Jian's perception of Xue Yue, a potential opponent. In this way, he feels a little difficult to deal with: if this kind of character occupies his own Hunan, how can he have a chance to turn the tables? He Jian, who is good at drilling, knows too well that the chairman of the committee has two thoughts about himself: first, it is best to squeeze himself out, or at least to stand up, so that his chairman's descendants can occupy Hunan; Second, his own strength is there, and it is somewhat difficult for the chairman to squeeze or empty himself, so he will definitely find a way to find an opportunity to secretly cross Chen Cang and occupy the dove's nest. And in order to do this, you must behave with yourself in vain, and secretly be ruthless. Therefore, when Chairman Chiang appointed himself as the commander-in-chief of the Communist Party, He Jian believed that this Chiang was secretly making a stumbling block, but he did not know what his specific methods were. Therefore, every time he suppressed bandits, he had to be cautious and go all out, for fear that Jiang would grab his braids and take the opportunity to squeeze himself out of Hunan. This time, Xue Yue, the chairman of the committee's confidant, led the Central Army to Hunan, but He Jian kept an eye on it. What he is most afraid of is that Comrade Xue Yue will enter Hunan by suppressing the Communist Party, and then stay in Hunan and will not leave!

Fortunately, in the early days of the bandits, those red bandits were chased and beaten by their own Hunan army, because they had enough strength to compete with Xue Yue's troops, and they would not accept his Xue Yue's invitation as easily as Liu Chongwei, who was booby-trapped by Tang Shengzhi back then, so forgive him Xue Yue didn't dare to do anything to himself. But what happened a few days ago made me passive! Because the few troops that he relied on for survival were killed so badly by the red bandits! Three divisions of an entire army were defeated by the red bandits at one time, and there were only a few thousand people left in the other division! Think about it, there are 30,000 people in the hall, and only 3,000 people are left, what does this make people think? Two of the divisions were wiped out! Oh, this matter must not be known to Chairman Jiang and Xue Yue and others. Let Jiang know that eighty percent of the numbers of our two divisions will be canceled, which is the last thing I want to see. As for Xue Yue's kid, I'm afraid that he knows that there is only an empty shelf at the moment, and there are three divisions that actually only have one regiment left, I'm afraid that he will be so happy that he can't close his mouth, and then pounce on himself like a tiger, and quickly stake his land in Hunan! Well, we've got to figure out a way to deal with this. You must know that whether it is him Jiang or Xue Yue, they are all sparrows, and the information is understood very quickly, that is to say, the affairs of our three divisions can be concealed for a few days, but it will definitely not be hidden for long!

The problem is that in the current situation, we have to hide it a lot. A unit is nothing more than four aspects: generals, troop resources, equipment, and training. With the addition of local security regiments, this problem of troop sources is not difficult to solve; These security regiments originally had a certain amount of training, and if they entered the regular army, they would be stationed in the teaching troops, and after three months, they would basically have the strength of World War I, which would not be a big problem; Weapons and equipment, you can find someone Jiang, under the pretext that he has been hit hard by the red bandits, it is estimated that he will agree, plus some of his original inventory equipment, it is not a problem at all. Therefore, there is only one problem in front of us at the moment: the generals of these divisions and the backbone of the grassroots units!

It's hard! Thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but one general is hard to find!

Yesterday, Liu Jianxu called to say that after the Red Bandits left, they went to the battlefield to bury the Hunan soldiers who died in the battle, but learned that they had been buried by the Red Bandits and nearby villagers. After accurate questioning, they knew that the number of soldiers who died on each battlefield did not reach the original number of troops. What about those superfluous people, it stands to reason that they should be prisoners of the Red Bandits! Based on his He Jian's military experience for so many years, he also did not believe that all of a unit would die in a battle, and it was reasonable to say that most of them died and some were captured. In this way, he can almost conclude and not guess that a large part of his soldiers have become prisoners of the Red Bandits! He specially asked Liu Jianxu, and knew that only one of the buried people was the one with a gold star on his shoulder, and it was found on the battlefield of Xianxi. That is, although he lost so many troops, only one major general died. According to geographical conditions, it should be Major General Tao Guang, the commander of the 62nd Division! In Dupo, no Venus was found, and it is theoretically speculated that Major General Zhang Liangji and other division commanders should still be alive, and eighty percent of them were captured by the red bandits!