Chapter 645: Merger

Although the leader of the Shina did not have absolute control over the whole country like the great emperor in the eyes of the Japanese, it was undeniable that it was precisely because of the resolute resistance of the leader of the Shina that the Great Japanese Empire could not extricate itself from this war, and eventually led to the whole of Japan in a predicament. Now that the leader is dead, the Great Japanese Empire should soon be able to end the war, thought ordinary Japanese.

But the Japanese top brass does not think so, it is undeniable that Chiang's death is indeed beneficial to the Great Japanese Empire, and the fighting in the southern part of China has explained everything, but as far as the situation in China as a whole is concerned, the Great Japanese Empire is not optimistic, especially the situation in China has now undergone major changes, the large-scale surrender expected by the Empire has not appeared, whether it is He Jian in Hunan or several mountain kings in Sichuan, they have not chosen to surrender to the Great Japanese Empire, and Yan Xishan in Shanxi Although he graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, However, he sent reinforcements to Henan at the first time to help Tang Enbo defend Henan.

The warlords of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces were even more decisive, although the Gui army lost Guiyang, but it was still resisting, and the Dian army was in the help of the 300th Army of the Chinese Empire to completely defeat the attacking Japanese Imperial warriors and hold Yunnan. The Shandong region is now full of wolf smoke, General Okamura Ningji commanded 12 infantry divisions and 3 ** mixed brigades with the assistance of 50,000 imperial troops with the Chinese Han Yunhua Department to fight in Shandong, but the situation is extremely not optimistic, perhaps without the containment of the Chinese government, this time the devil general mobilized a million troops to the Shandong front line at once, yesterday the Chinese have captured Binzhou and Jinan, and the new Fourth Army of the other branch counterattacked Heze. Now that the defenders' defensive line has been broken, Heze City is in danger.

The battle on the Henan side was also extremely difficult. Because the Jin Sui army suddenly joined. In addition, Tang Enbo hated the Empire for assassinating his beloved headmaster, so he commanded the 20th Corps under his command to launch 26 consecutive attacks on the Imperial forces, and once beat the battle line to Zhoukou.

More importantly, the intelligence agencies have just received an urgent telegram. With the intervention of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and other countries, the remnants of the Nationalist Government of China have agreed to negotiate with China. Moreover, the success of this negotiation is very large, because the wife of the former prime minister of the Republic of China in China has also come forward to make a concerted effort. Expelling external humiliation.

Another point is after the Battle of the Continental Line of Communication. For Japan, it seemed that all the operational objectives had been achieved, but in fact: the Japanese forces were more dispersed than before the campaign, creating more space for activities behind enemy lines; The U.S. military occupied the Mariana Islands at this time, and the U.S. Army Air Corps had better bases for bombing the Japanese mainland, making the operation to occupy Chinese airfields completely meaningless. What's more. Although the Great Japanese Empire took time and effort to open up the mainland transportation line, until now the mainland transportation line has not been opened to traffic. Therefore. Although the campaign ended with the victory of the Empire of Japan, the operation of the continental line of communication did not achieve the expected goal strategically, but instead accelerated the consumption of resources in the Empire.

Originally, this surprise, the empire used the security of the homeland as a bait to lure the China Air Force to bomb Tokyo, and then assassinated the important leaders of China, although the strategic bombing of the ** side did not achieve the expected results, but the top leader of the China government was blown up, and the empire believed that the most likely situation in China after Chiang's death was that China would become a battlefield between the United States and the Soviet Union. And the warlords controlled by the United States and the ** supported by the Soviet Union will break out into a long civil war, and the empire will also withdraw from this war after taking part of the benefits, at least from the battlefield in China. …,

But now the situation is not like this at all, not only did the branch not collapse, but there is a faint trend of the branch to replace the Kuomintang, you must know that compared to the Kuomintang, ** is a complete diehard, more terrifying than ** a hundred thousand times. As a complete militarist, Koiso Kuniaki preferred to go to war with the Nationalist Government, because although the Nationalist Government seemed to be monolithic, at least Chiang Kai-shek himself nominally unified the whole of China and made the princes of all walks of life submit. But in fact, the Nationalist Government is a plate of scattered sand, if it were not for the strong enemy of Japan, then Chiang Kai-shek and the princes are stabbing each other, you stab me and I will kill you, between each other it is a bloody one, although such an enemy is strong, but it is not terrible, and the ** of China is different, it seems that the army composed of farmers is weak and abnormal, but in fact, the vitality of that force is extremely tenacious, and the millions of troops of the Chiang government have not been able to eliminate tens of thousands of that Red Army, And a considerable number of Imperial Japanese Army did not destroy the Eighth Route Army, but made that hateful army stronger and stronger.

By this time of the war, the threat of the Nationalist government had been weakened to the extreme, and as long as China sent more troops, it would definitely be able to completely eliminate the central military lineage of the Chiang government, and the remaining princes would not be the food on the imperial plate by then.

It's a pity that these have been stirred up by the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries, with the support of the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries, it is a sure thing for China to take over the political situation in China, plus the hateful General China, the next days of the Great Japanese Empire will definitely not be easy.

The negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were quite difficult, and many of the Kuomintang veterans were unwilling to accept the leadership of the first party, and some had not even recovered from this failed war, so when Vice Chairman Zhou and others rushed to Lanzhou, many Kuomintang veterans looked at each other coldly.

The attitude of the United States and the Soviet Union is very clear, China's political situation must be handed over to the leadership of the state, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party will coordinate where the Kuomintang will go, and the Nationalist Government absolutely cannot refuse, and if it refuses at all, then the United States will stop all aid to the Nationalist Government.

The Nationalist Government has now lost more than 80 percent of its tax base, and if it loses American aid, the Nationalist Government will fall into a financial crisis, when the officials will not be able to pay their salaries, the soldiers will not be paid, and the only outcome of the Nationalist Government will be to collapse without a fight.

Although the United States and the Soviet Union accepted the proposals, the Nationalist Government agreed to negotiate with the Kuomintang, but the Kuomintang has become an extremely important matter, and the conditions put forward by He Yingqin are extremely harsh, and the first condition for him to become the ruling party is that the Kuomintang will become an opposition party, and the whole of China will follow the example of the US political system. A two-party system is introduced. But this proposal was opposed by everyone, including Vice Chairman Zhou.

There are too many toads in China at this time, and China does not need too many voices. Only one will do. On the first issue, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party reached an impasse. In the end, it will need to be coordinated by the United States and the Soviet Union. However, what is even more anxious is this. At a time when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were in full swing of negotiations, the Japanese army in the south launched a large-scale attack on other parts of Sichuan, and Yokoyama Yong's unit was approaching Xuanwei in Yunnan from Guizhou, and the situation was not optimistic.

In view of this situation. The United States and the Soviet Union continued to put pressure on the Nationalist Government to accept the conditions in their entirety. To be honest, He Yingqin didn't pay attention to the conditions proposed by ** before, and now he has no choice but to listen to it.

** The conditions put forward are simple: China must have only one political party. There are only two ways out for the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang can exist, but it must surrender its military power and become a democratic party in China. It is okay not to surrender military power, then all the current Kuomintang members will be transferred to **, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party will merge. …,

This condition made He Yingqin very difficult, as a person who came from troubled times. None of them are human spirits, but military power is a really good thing. It is better to have money than to have power, and to have power will be rich. Although having money does not necessarily mean that you have the right, it is not a simple thing to have the right to exchange it for money. Therefore, the warlords and generals of the Nationalist government refused to surrender their troops, but as the party established by the former prime minister, the Kuomintang played a pivotal role in Chinese history, so many people did not want the Kuomintang to disappear, so the negotiations between the two sides reached a stalemate again after not long ago.

In the battle to capture Tai'an, the 100,000-strong army of the Inner Mongolia Military Region surrounded the three divisions of the Japanese army in the Taishan area, and the two sides fought fiercely for more than a week, and finally the Inner Mongolia Military Region completely annihilated the three infantry divisions of the Japanese army, which shocked the Japanese government and the public. Immediately after that, Han Yunhua commanded the 1.5 million troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to continue southward and occupy Jining on October 24. On the 29th, Linyi was occupied.

Although Okamura Ninji did command a lot of troops, the Japanese army was not as flexible as the Inner Mongolia Military Region in terms of troop allocation. In addition, the elite units of the Japanese army were transferred to participate in the battle against the Nationalist Government, especially the mechanized troops. Therefore, in front of the mechanized troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, the city fortifications built by the Japanese army are not much different from those made of paper. Therefore, although there were many Japanese troops in Shandong, they were defeated and retreated by Han Yunhua's troops.

On November 12, under the pressure of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and other countries, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party finally reached an agreement to replace the Kuomintang as the only ruling party in China, and the former Kuomintang members voluntarily joined China.

After consultations, it was decided that the chairman of the Chinese Revolutionary Military Commission should be Mao, and there would be 6 vice chairmen, including Comrade Enlai, Comrade Zhu De, and Comrade Han Yunhua, as well as He Yingqin, former minister of military and political affairs of the Kuomintang, Chen Cheng, minister of national defense, and Yan Xishan, commander of the Second War Zone, and 32 members under the vice chairman, of which 19 were occupied, and 13 seats were occupied by the Kuomintang.

At the same time, the Republic of China changed its name to the People's Republic of China, but for the time being, the founding ceremony was not carried out, but the first unanimous external to complete the motherland.

On November 19, the Central Committee issued Order No. 1 of the Central Committee to carry out unified reorganization of all armed forces in the country, and all armed forces in the country are collectively referred to as the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the PLA is divided into six front armies, namely the Northeast Front Army, the Northwest Front Army, the Central Front Army, the Southwest Front Army, the Central Plains Front Army, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

Han Yunhua served as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Front Army, and Luo Ronghuan served as the political commissar, and it had jurisdiction over all the armed forces of the former Inner Mongolia Military Region, and at the same time incorporated the Kuomintang troops in the Shandong region into the North China Front Army. The whole army has 3.45 million troops, divided into 9 group armies.

The commander-in-chief of the Northwest Front Army was Chen Cheng, Nie Rongzhen served as the political commissar, and the 800,000 remnants of the Northwest Front Army under the jurisdiction of the Nationalist Government, and the more than 100,000 troops left in Yan'an and other places on the ** side were all under the command of the Northwest Front Army. The whole army has 1.2 million troops, divided into 4 group armies.

The Central Front Army was reorganized from the former Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, Tang Enbo's 20th Corps, and hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops in Henan, and the Central Front Army had a total of 2.28 million troops after the reorganization, divided into eight group armies.

Peng Dehuai served as the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Front Army, and the Southwest Front Army was under the jurisdiction of the Yunnan Army, the Guizhou Guizhou Army, the Guangxi Guizhou Army, and the ** guerrilla forces in the south. The total strength is 1.28 million, divided into 4 group armies.

The Central Plains Front Army was completely composed of the Jinsui Army of the Second Theater, the Central Army and some guerrilla units led by **. The total number of troops is 1.02 million. The commander-in-chief is Yan Xishan, who has four group armies under his command. …,

The commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force was Du Yanming, who was responsible for the 220,000 Kuomintang troops fighting in Burma.

After the reorganization, the total strength of the Chinese People's Liberation Army reached 9.24 million, of which 5.4 million originally belonged to the **. The Kuomintang had more than 3.8 million troops, far exceeding the total strength of the Japanese army invading China.

In fact, whether it was He Yingqin or Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, who were appointed by the central government as the chief and deputy chief of general staff of the People's Liberation Army, they were all stunned when they learned that there were 5.4 million troops in the first place. We all know that ** has developed rapidly in recent years, and there is a faint trend of surpassing the national government, but I didn't expect that the strength of ** has surpassed the national government so much.

Actually, it's not hard to understand. The reason why there are so many troops. It is completely attributed to the emergence of a Han Yunhua, among the five million troops under the leadership of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, there are 3.4 million belonging to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, not counting the more than 300,000 troops that have been assigned to other theaters, in fact, the veteran troops under the leadership of the ** are only about 1.8 million, which is only 500,000 more than in history.

This is despite the fact that the People's Liberation Army has more than nine million troops. But no one knows how much actual combat strength there is, after all, the close cooperation between the two parts of the PLA has only just begun. It will take some time to get to work, and it will take some time for the integration and movement of troops. However, after the reorganization was completed, the antagonism and vigilance between the two sides, whether it was the original Kuomintang troops or the ** troops, suddenly became much less, and the central government urgently transferred the Eighth Route Army south to reinforce the troops in Henan. At the same time, the central authorities also formulated a counterattack plan, preparing to dispatch the three major fronts of the Northeast, the Central Committee, and the Central Plains to completely drive the forces of the Japanese puppet army south of the Yangtze River in one fell swoop.

Han Yunhua was very much in favor of this plan, although the Japanese army in northern China also had a lot of troops, the North China Front army alone had reached 950,000, plus the 150,000 Japanese troops in Henan, the Japanese army in northern China had reached a terrifying 1.1 million, which was not counting a large number of puppet troops.

But Han Yunhua knows that these Japanese troops are really fine, the rapid development of the squadron, especially the strong rise of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, greatly stimulated the Japanese, so the Japanese government launched three national war mobilization orders within a year, and a large area of soldiers was collected, and now the strength of the Japanese Army has surged, and the total number of troops invested in Southeast Asia has exceeded 2.5 million, and the troops on the Chinese battlefield have reached 1.75 million people in 98 divisions, in addition, the Japanese army has also stationed 700,000 troops in Korea, 200,000 in Taiwan, There are 50,000 troops in Hong Kong, and 1.2 million troops from two Chinese armies stationed in Japan, plus the navy and air force, the total strength of the Japanese army has reached a terrifying 7.5 million.

As a result, the quality of the soldiers sent by the Japanese army to the battlefield is getting worse and worse, if the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region could resist the Japanese army one-on-one, then now Han Yunhua is confident that he can win more with less.

The development of the domestic situation made Han Yunhua very excited, and the death of Lao Jiang cast a shadow on Han Yunhua's heart, and Han Yunhua was very worried that China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression would be extended indefinitely due to his appearance, or that there would be a long civil war in China. But now it seems that it was predestined that a crisis related to the fortunes of the country was finally successfully resolved, and his appearance finally fundamentally changed the fate of China.

If the death of Lao Jiang may have triggered a protracted civil war, now Han Yunhua can say loudly that the Chinese dragon has taken off and that a civil war will never happen again. After the merger of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, China is the real China, not only will the civil war not happen a few years later, but all the problems caused by this war will also disappear invisibly, China has achieved an important international status after the war, and it is conceivable that China has surpassed the vast majority of countries after all and become a giant standing in the east of the world.

The Northeast Front Army is the largest military group in China at this time, Han Yunhua knows his role, and Han Yunhua also knows that the enemy he is facing is also one of the most powerful army generals in Japan, as long as he successfully takes Okamura Ningji and the Japanese North China Front, then the overall situation of the entire China will basically be stable.

Okamura Ningji saw that the battle with Han Yunhua's troops in Shandong was indeed not conducive to the Japanese army, so he decisively ordered the troops to withdraw from Shandong, and the large army retreated all the way south, and even withdrew directly to the area of Xu Beng.