[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 958: The Situation is Critical (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Jinbei. Datong

After seeing off Zhukov and others, Ma Zheng did not immediately return to the Shandong front, but stayed in Datong to arrange cooperation between the military region and the Soviet side, after all, a large number of Soviet supplies will arrive in the Suicha Military Region in the near future, and proper arrangements must be made. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, Ma Zheng's good mood did not last long, and when he returned to Sui, he discussed the expansion of the Baotou heavy industry base with Minister Feng and others who stayed behind, and the situation in southern Anhui suddenly became tense.

After realizing the seriousness of the matter, Ma Zheng sent a telegram to Yan'an, hoping that the Party Central Committee would ask the New Fourth Army to prepare for battle, just in case. At the same time, Ma Zheng ordered the principal leaders of the various military subdivisions of the Suicha Military Region to immediately return to Datong and convene an emergency meeting.

On February 22, after two days of rapid marching, Ma Zheng finally rushed back to Datong before dark, and after returning to the headquarters, Ma Zheng did not care about the fatigue of the rapid march along the way, and quickly rushed to the conference room of the headquarters.

Although it was almost time for dinner, the conference room of the military region was still full of people, and the vast majority of the cadres and fighters were extremely excited, and they could hear the shouting and scolding of the division and brigade commanders from a distance.

"Smack"

Ma Zheng didn't care much at this time, and pushed the door into the conference room with a few soldiers.

"It's the commander who has returned, Commander, tell me what we should do?" With sharp eyes, he recognized that it was Ma Zheng back.

"Noisy, noisy, all fucking fart, shut up Lao Tzu." Seeing that the whole conference room was like a vegetable market, Ma Zheng was angry and didn't come to one place.

"Commander, don't be angry yet, I think you know the current mood of the comrades, Chiang Kai-shek is really too disagreeable, we must come up with an opinion." Seeing that Ma Zheng was angry, Political Commissar Luo hurriedly changed the topic.

"Lao Luo, what is the situation now, is the loss of the New Fourth Army big, can it still hold on?" Ma Zheng didn't have time to talk nonsense with others.

According to Ma Zheng's idea, the strength of the Eighth Route Army is far beyond history, and as far as northern China is concerned, Lao Jiang's strength is far inferior to the Eighth Route Army, so Ma Zheng thinks that Lao Jiang will not target the New Fourth Army as in history, after all, the Eighth Route Army is not a vegetarian, and Lao Jiang will shoot himself in the foot.

However, what Ma Zheng did not expect was that the inertia of history would be so great, and the Southern Anhui Incident that shocked China and foreign countries finally happened, and the scale was much larger than in history, and the time was very urgent.

On 12 February, Lao Chiang ordered He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi, in the name of the chief and deputy chiefs of staff of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, to send a "Hao telegram" to Zhu De and Peng Dehuai, commanders of the Eighth Route Army, and to Ye Ting, commander of the New Fourth Army, and Xiang Ying, deputy commander of the New Fourth Army, ordering the New Fourth Army to withdraw to the north of the old Yellow River within one month on the grounds that the units under the New Fourth Army did not defend the theater of operations, did not follow the free expansion of the number of establishments, disobeyed the orders of the central authorities, destroyed the administrative system, and did not fight the enemy and concentrate on annexing friendly forces. Political Commissar Luo replied.

"Then how did the Central Committee answer, and what is the current situation of the New Fourth Army?" Ma Zheng hurriedly asked.

Political Commissar Luo said angrily: "The Party Central Committee, proceeding from the overall situation of safeguarding the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, promised to transfer the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui out of the region, and replied to the Nationalist Government in the name of Zhu Pengye Xiang and the four people, agreeing to transfer the troops of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui to the north of the Yangtze River. However, the Nationalist Government seems to have follow-up actions, and according to the information received by our intelligence department, Lao Chiang seems to want to completely annihilate the New Fourth Army. ”

"Tell me what's going on?" Ma Zheng said.

"The Nationalist Government's forces of about two group armies, the 12th Division, began to assemble in southern Anhui, and at the same time, the Nationalist Government's telegrams to and from the Third Theater were extremely frequent. Our intelligence personnel listened to the telephone conversation between the Military Affairs Department of the Nationalist Government and the Third War Zone, and heard the telegrams handed by the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government to the Third War Zone repeatedly mention the words "communist bandits", "extermination", and "southern Anhui". Political Commissar Luo analyzed.

"Does the Party Central Committee know the news?"

Ma Zheng is very clear about the beginning and end of the incident in southern Anhui, and he also knows very well what kind of wishful thinking Lao Jiang is playing now, the main force of the CCP is now in North China, and the troops in southern Anhui are only 10,000 or 20,000 people, and more importantly, the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army is now also in southern Anhui.

If the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army and the main force of the army can be annihilated, it will be no less than cutting off one of the arms of the Chinese Communists, so the Southern Anhui Incident is simply a trap of the Kuomintang, and no matter whether the New Fourth Army can really go north according to the requirements of the Nationalist Government, the Third Theater of the Nationalist Government will also wage war against the New Fourth Army under various pretexts.

But to make it clear, even if you know that Ma Zheng still can't make claims privately, you must know that the people involved now are the absolute high-level of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, although he Ma Zheng still has a small right to speak in the army, but as far as the entire Chinese nation is concerned, his right to speak is almost zero, so Ma Zheng must take into account the feelings of the Party Central Committee every time he makes a decision.

"I know, we forwarded the telegram to Yan'an early in the morning, but until now Yan'an has not replied, it may be that there is something wrong with Yan'an's radio station and we have not received our telegram." Political Commissar Luo smiled bitterly.

"If you can't get in touch, keep contacting me until you can get in touch. At the same time, I ordered the troops to prepare for battle, and asked the correspondent to send a report to the troops in Shimen, Yangquan and other places, ordering them to move the troops 20 kilometers to the south, and the forward of the troops directly advanced me to the defense area of the second theater of operations. Ma Zheng said angrily.

"Yes!"

"In addition, order the reorganization of the fourth and fifth divisions to continue southward, drive the army to the vicinity of Zhongtiao Mountain, set up a posture, and wait for orders at any time!" Ma Zheng said.

"Yes"

The situation in southern Anhui continued to deteriorate, and on 23 February, intelligence officers in southern Anhui sent back the latest information, and the Nationalist Government ordered the New Fourth Army to move north immediately, but its subordinate units continued to advance into the defense area of the New Fourth Army.

Datong. Headquarters of the Suicha Military Region

"Lao Luo, what are the instructions from the central government?" Ma Zheng asked urgently.

"Out of consideration for the anti-Japanese national united front, the central government has ordered the New Fourth Army to go north, but the New Fourth Army does not seem to have a unified opinion, and so far the Fourth Army has not moved its defense immediately as the Nationalist Government and the Central Committee said, and although the troops have been assembled, they have not been moved for a long time." Luo political commissar said.

"Lao Luo, things may happen, Lao Jiang is not a person who can forbear. Although the Nationalist Government is now on a slippery slope, the United States, Britain, and other countries have just promised to provide military assistance to the Nationalist Government, and I heard that the equipment of the first batch of five infantry divisions has arrived in Chongqing. If the New Fourth Army does not follow the orders of the Nationalist Government, it is likely to trigger bloodshed. Ma Zheng said worriedly

Political Commissar Luo thought for a while and said: "No, although the situation in southern Anhui is very tense now, it has not yet reached the time when it is necessary to fight." Besides, this dozen is not cheap little Japan, I think it is impossible for Lao Jiang not to even see this! ”

"Hmph, how can you not see it, but the anti-Japanese national united front is a scum for veterans, and people are not willing to resist Japan. You must know that we took advantage of the favorable situation of the Xi'an Incident to force Lao Chiang to resist Japan, and now the little devils are concentrating on dealing with our Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and have temporarily relaxed their military action against the Nationalist Government, so Lao Chiang once again sees our threat, and the national contradictions have temporarily eased and the class contradictions have risen? Ma Zheng analyzed.

Political Commissar Luo said: "Then what should I do?" Now we can't quench our thirst far from water, and southern Anhui is thousands of miles away from us, even if we really have the heart to help them, we can't catch it. ”

"Lao Jiang has no bottom in his heart now, so he doesn't dare to completely tear his face with our party and our army, as long as the New Fourth Army doesn't make any more moths, our side takes some positive actions, plus the central side and the national government high-level maneuvering, the matter is still possible to be resolved."

"So what do we do?"

"Well, are the troops of Jinnan and Jinnan ready?" Ma Zheng said.

"It's almost, during this time, the troops of all our military divisions are stepping up training, so it is convenient to assemble, when the order of the headquarters reached the front line yesterday, Xu Hu and Liu Fengchi guaranteed that as long as we gave an order, their two elite divisions would go south as soon as possible, whether it was Sun Dianying's department, Wei Lihuang's department in the first theater, and Yan Xishan's department in the second theater would be swept away by the devastating momentum."

"Very good, the order immediately goes south to northern Henan, and at the same time the vanguard troops will enter and occupy the Zhongtiao Mountains, if the Nationalist Government dares to act rashly, then our two divisions will completely go south, I want to see if the two group armies of the Wei Commander are powerful or my two infantry divisions are powerful." Ma Zheng decisively ordered.