Chapter 324: China with Undercurrents
When Li Tie was discussing the future development direction with the Flying Mouse and the Variety Mouse in Singapore, he was thousands of miles away in the Northwest Suppression Headquarters of Xi'an.
Zhang Xueliang tore up the telegram in front of him again, and scolded loudly: "What is this Jiang someone trying to do? I had just lost a division on the front foot, and not only did he not give me any reinforcements, but he also revoked the number of this division immediately after me.
What do you say about streamlining the army across the country and taking the road of elite soldiers. Is there such a way to be an elite soldier? I only saw that my Northeast Army was withdrawing the number, why did his Central Army increase its troops?
Three years ago, he only had 400,000 Central Army, and now he has 500,000, but what about our Northeast Army, three years ago we had 250,000 people, and now we only have 100,000.
If I continue to streamline like this, in another three or two years, I will soon become a bare-bones commander. Now that he Yan Xishan's strength has surpassed mine, will my position as deputy commander-in-chief of the National Army be given to Yan Xishan in a few years? β
"Young marshal, don't make it for a while, Chairman Wang has just taken a sick break, and now Chairman Hu Hanmin's health is not good, and Commander Jiang has been put in the air.
Now Commander Chiang has the power of the party, government and the army. We can't even more so than clash with Commander Chiang now. And since we withdrew from the Guanwai, although the Pingjin area is under our control, the Pingjin area is not peaceful now.
In addition to a part of our annual tax revenue, we also have to distribute a part to other garrisons, which is now just enough for the expenses of our Northeast Army.
If we had fallen out with Commander Chiang now, he would probably have increased the tax revenue from the Pingjin area by some more, and at that time, it would have been difficult for the brothers to have enough to eat.
So we can only endure it now, but since Commander Chiang has pulled the hind legs of our Northeast Army like this, we can also work without contribution.
Anyway, you and the Red Army people are also old acquaintances, so why don't you send an envoy and talk with them, so that everyone can deal with each other in the future.
It's all Chinese fighting Chinese, why should both sides fight to the death? Besides, didn't the Red Army always say that it would go north to resist Japan? If it is true that the Red Army went north to resist Japan, we might as well unite the Red Army and go back to the northeast.
At present, there are still tens of thousands of anti-Japanese troops in the northeast, and I heard that Ma Zhanshan has developed well in the Soviet Union, and there are tens of thousands of people and horses, and they are still conducting military training.
Moreover, I heard that there is a powerful bandit force on the border between Mongolia and the Soviet Union, and I heard that the bandit leader is called Xiang Zuo, and they have also developed a contingent of 20,000 or 30,000 people, and the Red Army also has nearly 100,000 people, and you know the combat effectiveness of the Red Army.
And now the Kwantung Army in the northeast also has 100,000 people. However, they also have 300,000 armed expatriates, so we do not have an advantage in terms of troops.
However, the Northeast Kwantung Army is scattered, just like the Kwantung Army fought our Northeast Army back then, they concentrated their superior forces to break through each other, and now we can do the same.
Moreover, there are many troops around us who want to fight the Japanese army, such as Song Zheyuan's 29th Army and Yang Hucheng's Northwest 17th Route Army, all of which are anti-Japanese activists.
As long as we pull out the banner of resistance against Japan, there will be a response from these friendly forces. We can pull out at least half a million troops. A scrawny teacher suggested to Zhang Xueliang.
"The number of people is enough, but with so many troops, where will the supplies come from? Where does the food sound come from? The most important thing is who is the commander-in-chief, these are all China's proud soldiers, and no one can easily obey the command of others. Zhang Xueliang said worriedly.
"The young marshal is really smart, he was confused for a while, we can each lead a large army, and everyone will divide the troops into several ways, anyway, the goal is to recover the northeast.
In this case, as long as the leaders of these families sit together and discuss the big plan, as long as the strategic goals are set, everyone is the one who leads the troops, how to attack, how to cooperate, can't it? As long as they ensure that they can complete their respective tasks, defeating the Japanese army will naturally be a matter of course.
As for the grain, grass and military salary, the young marshal seems to have forgotten your good brother Li Tie, and I don't need to tell you how much money he has now.
Ma Zhanshan's tens of thousands of bandits, Li Tie is tens of millions of yuan, and now if our army really becomes, Li Tie will give us tens of millions, which will be a piece of cake. The emaciated division commander spoke eloquently.
"That's right, if you don't say that I forgot about him, in this case, I will immediately send someone to contact these companies to see if they are interested in discussing the anti-Japanese plan.
Grandma's, Commander Jiang knew that in the civil war, Lao Tzu's house was occupied, and he fooled me all day long, saying that if the Red Army was destroyed, he would help me counterattack the Northeast.
Now the Red Army is suppressing more and more, and the encirclement and suppression of millions of people have even made people break through the blockade and run to the northwest.
I can't count on Commander Jiang anymore, my father is right, I am not Commander Jiang's opponent at all, and if I continue to play with him like this, he will have to play me to death sooner or later. The young marshal said.
"I'm really glad that the young marshal can recognize the true face of Commander Jiang, I, Bai Fengxiang, can only sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman. Whenever the young marshal takes action, please telegraph to me, and I will definitely go to the soup and go to the fire. The thin Bai Fengxiang assured.
Zhang Xueliang looked at the old brother left by his father in front of him, and his heart was full of guilt: "Brother Fengxiang, my father who took refuge in Rehe when you were a bandit, since my father died, you were the commander of the cavalry division of my Northeast Army, and now you have been with me for eight years, you are still the commander of the cavalry division, I am sorry for you." β
"The young marshal is saying kind words, I, Bai Fengxiang, were also a person who received the favor of the marshal back then, and without his repeated support, I would not be where I am today.
I think that when we were training in Lushan, Commander Jiang personally gave us the certificates of completion issued by hundreds of people in this period, and even gave us a large sum of money to buy us afterwards, but I rejected him at that time.
So I already discovered his bad intentions at that time. So I have been guarding against him in the past few years, and I can guarantee that my first cavalry division is all Zhang Dashuai's people, and it is also your Zhang Shaoshuai's personal soldiers, as long as it is your order. We don't dare to disobey the first division. Bai Fengxiang said.
"Good job, Brother Fengxiang, if I have the opportunity to return to the Northeast, I will definitely live up to your loyalty today." Zhang Xueliang was moved to promise Bai Fengxiang, and after speaking, he snorted a few times. Although he has been forcibly detoxified for several years, he still commits some drug addiction from time to time.
And seeing Zhang Shaoshuai snorting, Division Commander Bai Fengxiang actually snorted as well, and the two looked at each other and smiled. It turned out that the two were still drug friends who smoked opium together.
It was also after losing the Northeast that the two also quit drugs together. Now both of them have quit drug addiction, but at this time, only the two of them can understand the difficulties involved.
"Young marshal, we have quit drug addiction, if we can't beat Little Japan, it's better to find a stone and kill us together." Bai Fengxiang quipped.
"Okay, since even you, the opium ghost, have risked your life this time. I, Zhang, am also a seven-foot man, you are waiting for my good news. Zhang Xueliang patted Bai Fengxiang's shoulder again.
So on April 9, 36 years, Zhang Xueliang personally flew to Yan'an to negotiate with the Chinese Red Army. Zhou Weiren, as a representative of the Red Army, had an in-depth discussion with Zhang Xueliang, and finally the two sides reached a secret agreement that the two sides would stop confrontation and the Northeast Army secretly supported the Northwest Red Army.
Zhang Xueliang then returned to Xi'an again to secretly meet with Yang Hucheng, the leader of the Northwest Army and the commander-in-chief of the 17th Route Army. The two ended the civil war and hit it off with the idea of unanimously resisting Japan.
Just when Zhang Xueliang was secretly conspiring with these anti-Japanese people to prepare for a grand event, on June 1, 36 years, the warlord Chen Jitang of Guangdong Province and Li Zongren, the warlord of Guangxi Province, issued a telegram in Guangzhou.
Denouncing Japan's invasion of Northeast China and trampling on Chinese land, nearly 300,000 troops from the two provinces prepared to go north to resist Japan, and asked Commander Chiang to allow them to go north to resist Japan.
It was a pity that Commander Chiang resolutely refused to allow it, and reacted quickly, urgently dispatching the elite Central Army, which was suppressing bandits in the south and had not yet evacuated, to attack Liangguang directly, and at the same time once again threw money to buy the soldiers of Liangguang.
The Liangguang soldiers immediately announced the launch of the Liangguang Incident, marched north to overthrow the rule of Commander Chiang, and actively resisted Japan, which was called the Liangguang Incident in China.
As a result, God once again played a joke with the Chinese anti-war fighters, and in less than half a month, 200,000 of the 300,000 soldiers in Liangguang surrendered to Commander Chiang.
Commander Chiang extinguished the rebellion of Liangguang almost without blood. As a result, Chen Jitang, the king of the Southern Heavens, quickly collapsed and avoided Hong Kong, and the Gui warlord Li Zongren also hurriedly bowed to Commander Chiang, immediately drew a line with Chen Jitang, and said that he obeyed Commander Chiang's command, so that he could be regarded as sparing.
The 300,000-strong army in the Liangguang Incident was wiped out in half a month, and at the same time, Hu Hanmin, the new chairman of the Central Committee of the Republic of China, had just died of illness.
Therefore, when he heard in August that Zhang Xueliang was unfavorable in suppressing bandits in the northwest and had repeatedly sabotaged his work, the Northeast Army, which was already much inferior in strength, was not in the eyes of Commander Jiang at all.
He rejected Zhang Xueliang's request for an armistice several times and again in person, and threatened Zhang Xueliang more than once that he must do his best to suppress bandits, otherwise he would transfer the Northeast Army to the Fujian area, and instead transfer 300,000 Central Army headed by Wei Lihuang to Xi'an to take over the task of suppressing bandits from the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army.
In Commander Jiang's opinion, the 300,000 strong soldiers of Liangguang were wiped out by him with a wave of his hand, and the Northeast Army, which only had 100,000 people, was even more powerless to resist.
Therefore, Commander Jiang has become less and less interested in Zhang Xueliang, the deputy commander-in-chief of the National Army, in Commander Jiang's opinion, in another two years, if he consumes part of the Northeast Army, he can directly swallow the Northeast Army.
No one knows that in the past three or six years, there has been an undercurrent in China, and several major forces are secretly arranging everything to prepare for an earth-shattering coup d'Γ©tat in this year.
At this time, Li Tie had just finished a three-month inspection in Southeast Asia. Just after the Liangguang Incident, he flew to the United States again. This trip to the U.S. is not an investment. He's going to get married.
Yes, Li Tie is getting married again, and the bride this time is none other than Tang Mengxue, who has had a baby kiss with Li Tie.