Ge Guangting smiled bitterly and said: "Although Chairman Chiang of Nanjing said that he would send the Central Army out of the customs to support the Northeast Army in the war against the Soviet Union, the generals of the Northeast Army were unwilling to let the Central Army enter the Northeast. ”

"Unwilling to let the Central Army enter the Northeast? Why is that? Wang Xu asked puzzled.

Xiao Guodong worked in Sun Chuanfang's army, and Tao Rong and Li Wentian stayed in the Gui Department and the Northwest Army for a long time, and they could all understand the meaning of Ge Guangting's words.

Since Xinhai, although the various local forces have not really divided their territories, they are all formally equivalent to this, and they will never allow others to get their hands on the territory under their own control, especially for the Central Army.

Because, once the Central Army comes in, it will not be easy to let them leave, because the Central Army is the army of the Central Political Axe, and they can theoretically be stationed at will in any area within China's territory, and if anyone openly asks the Central Army to withdraw from his territory, then he will undoubtedly admit that he is a new warlord. Moreover, it depends on whether this person's strength is enough and whether Chiang Kai-shek buys him this face. If this person's strength is insufficient, Chiang Kai-shek can put a hat on him to confront the central government and uproot his power.

Powerful factions with qualifications can also be "invited" to serve in the central government; Those who are not qualified enough have to go to the wilderness to go to sea, and when they can come back requires Chiang Kai-shek's nod and consent, which is actually equivalent to exile.

Only Wang Xu, a person who had never been in the local forces, was a little puzzled by this, but he quickly figured out the reason when he saw everyone's expressions.

Li Wentian frowned and snorted heavily. "When is this, Zhang Hanqing still only thinks about his own interests in the Northeast. Even if the Central Army does not leave the Northeast in the future, it is better than letting Lao Maozi occupy the land in the Northeast, Han Qing doesn't understand this truth? The generals of the Northeast Army do not understand? Besides, isn't Zhang Hanqing still the deputy commander-in-chief of the army, navy and air force of the central political axe? The Central Army is at least nominally under his jurisdiction! ”

Because Ge Guangting had spent time in both the Beiyang political axe and Sun Yat-sen's temporary political axe in Guangzhou, he saw very clearly the trouble caused by various local forces to the political axe, and as far as Ge Guangting himself was concerned, he was also very dissatisfied with the reluctance of the generals of the Northeast Army, including Zhang Xueliang, to let the Central Army enter the Northeast. However, he also understands that this is the current situation in China, and that it will take time for this status quo to change, and it is simply impossible until the central government is strong enough to do so.

Ge Guangting could not only obviously feel Li Wentian's dissatisfaction, but he could also see the expressions of several other people very clearly, he didn't want to dwell on this issue anymore, so he hurriedly diverted the topic and said: "Although the Northeast Army counts more than 400,000 garrisons in various places, there are less than 300,000 elites who can really fight. These troops were mainly stationed in the areas of Rehe, Shanhaiguan, and Mukden, and most of them could not be mobilized in order to prevent them from taking the opportunity to provoke incidents. The maximum number of people who can draw to the border of Jilin and Heilongjiang is only about 100,000. Moreover, it is impossible for these people to be on the front line, and important cities near the border must send troops to guard them, so that the troops are not enough. The southern line of Suifenhe is better, not very far from Mukden, and once the war worsens, it can still be supported nearby. It is very difficult to do it in the area of Manchuria on the northern front, where there is only one brigade and some local garrisons, although Han Qing is still trying to find a way to change the garrison areas of various troops in order to squeeze out the troops, but at most it is the size of a brigade. ”

Tao Rong said in a mocking tone: "If the troops of the Northeast Army stayed in Fengtian to prevent the Southern Manchurian Yu himself from making trouble, this is reasonable, but who are Tang Yulin's troops including Rehe guarding against!" Hebei didn't say that he was himself, wouldn't he be guarding against the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army? ”

Tao Rong's words made Ge Guangting's face flush with embarrassment. Zhang Xueliang did not think about mobilizing troops stationed in western Liaoning, but not only Tang Yulin, Zhang Jinghui and other generals did not agree, but Zhang Zuolin, the chairman of Jilin Province and the deputy commander of the Northeast Frontier Defense, who Zhang Zuolin trusted the most in those years and now wholeheartedly assisted Zhang Xueliang, and was called his uncle and assistant commander by Zhang Xueliang, was also resolutely opposed, and they were all afraid that the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army would take advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of the northeast.

Zhang Xueliang is not good at these old men of the Northeast Army who have been licking blood with his father for decades, but Ge Guangting knows that Zhang Xueliang has dropped the cup several times in private.

"There's also the issue of GCD." Ge Guangting continued.

"And GCD?" Song Zhewu couldn't keep up with Ge Guangting's words for a while.

Ge Guangting said worriedly: "At present, in Beiping, Tianjin, Liaoning, Fengtian, Dalian, Yingkou, and many other cities that have just been renamed Shenyang, Changchun in Jilin, Harbin in Heilongjiang, and other areas have appeared in GCD leaflets calling for 'armed defense of the Soviet Union.' According to other intelligence, the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the GCD has received instructions from the central authorities to stage an insurrection and rebellion in the northeast. Therefore, now the troops in various places do not dare to move easily. ”

"GCD to defend the USSR with arms?" This surprised Song Zhewu!

Although Song Zhewu knew that at this time the Chinese GCD had little reading power and accepted the guidance of the Comintern politically, he was still greatly shocked by shouting such ultra-left slogans.

During this period, the Chinese GCD was influenced by the Soviet Union-controlled Comintern, and was politically extremely left-leaning and lacked reading power, and to a certain extent, it can even be said that the Chinese GCD was a subordinate organ of the Comintern. Not only did the Soviets convey their will to the Chinese GCD through the Comintern, but sometimes even the Soviet leadership directly issued instructions to "direct" the work of the Chinese GCD. All the work carried out by the Chinese GCD in China is not carried out in the interests of the Chinese GCD and in line with the characteristics of China's actual national conditions, but is diverted from the ideology of the Comintern, which is actually the Soviet Union.

So much so that the instructions of the Comintern are equivalent to a "holy decree", and those young students who have returned from the Comintern and have no rational understanding of the Chinese GCD itself, the Chinese revolution and reality, can arbitrarily criticize and criticize the [***] leaders in the country, and even replace the leaders they are not satisfied with, and control the leadership core of the [***] GCD. And the local leaders who know the actual situation of the [***]GCD best, but have not withstood the test of the "Comintern" and have not eaten "foreign bread", are inevitably ostracized and attacked.

The most typical of these is "Taizu". Just as "Taizu" and his comrades-in-arms worked hard to create a base area in the Jiangxi Soviet District, and the Red Army under their leadership was flourishing, the GCD Central Committee moved from Shanghai to the Jiangxi Soviet District, and under the rejection of the central leadership core controlled by Bogu and others in the famous "Twenty-eight and a Half Bolsheviks," the "Taizu" who best understood China's reality, was the most able to analyze China's national conditions, and knew the Red Army best was gradually squeezed out of the decision-making level of the Party and the Red Army. The chairmanship of the wandering Soviet political axe.

The Red Army, under the leadership of Bogu, a man who had recently returned from the Soviet Union and was only twenty-three years old, who had a "very deep understanding" of the theory of MKSISM and had a very shallow understanding of the GCD in China and the actual situation of the Red Army, and even to a certain extent, under the command of Li De, a representative of the Comintern, was dealt a near-devastating blow. This cannot but be said to be the greatest sorrow in the history of GCD in China.

However, no matter how you look at it, when China and the Soviet Union are about to go to war for the sake of national and national interests, it is extremely unwise and inappropriate for a political party in China to issue a call to support a hostile country, and the direct result of this will inevitably lead to misunderstanding among the people. Although only the well-informed citizens of the city are affected, the scope is not very large. However, it also aroused the dissatisfaction of people of insight in the GCD, and Chen Duxiu sent a special letter to the ZG Central Committee to criticize it, advocating that one-sided propaganda of "supporting the Soviet Union" and "not good for us" at this time should not simply be regarded as "the broad masses of the people agree that the Soviet Union is a friend of China's liberation."

At this time, Wang Ming, who was in China, controlled the ZG Central Committee, and in view of the fact that Chen Duxiu and others were in fact fundamentally opposed to the political line of the ZG Central Committee, the Central Committee quickly made a formal decision to expel Chen Duxiu and others from the party. The ZG Central Committee clearly believes that the views of Chen Duxiu and others on the Middle East Road issue "are the most blatant manifestation of the stance of some wavering opportunists within the party."

ZG's move had a huge impact on the student movement and the labor movement, for example, when the Shanghai workers' strike was prepared to support the Soviet Union, it was not organized at all.

However, there was something that surprised Song Zhewu even more, that is, Xiao Guodong, Tao Rong, Wang Xu, and Li Wentian were not surprised by the slogan of "armed defense of the Soviet Union", and even felt very puzzled by his fuss. Regarding the performance of several people, Song Zhewu understood the reason after a little thought. Because they all believed that the GCD was led by the Soviet Union, or at least guided by it, it is not surprising that such a slogan as "armed defense of the Soviet Union" was raised.

Song Zhewu now has a basic understanding of the causes and consequences of the "Middle East Road Incident", Chiang Kai-shek's purpose, the situation of Zhang Xueliang and the Northeast Army, and even the attitude of GCD.

Now that we understand the situation, the remaining question is not just whether to send troops, but how? What kind of purpose will be achieved after the dispatch of troops?

He could now be sure that his dispatch of troops to the northeast would not cause Chiang Kai-shek to be unhappy. Although Chiang Kai-shek would also think that the Northeast Army would not win the war between China and the Soviet Union, since the war started, Song Zhewu believed that Chiang Kai-shek would never want to see the Northeast Army defeated too badly......

(To be continued)