In just a few days, the situation of the Songhu battlefield has basically returned to the appearance of the previous life, but the balance of forces between the two sides is very different.

In the previous life, the high-level officials did not want to start a full-scale war at the beginning, they just wanted to fight a local war and continue to implement the strategy of encroachment, but just like the Yue army that invaded North China, the battle was too smooth, and the generals who led the troops continued to expand the war, which eventually led to the full-scale outbreak of the war between China and China.

Therefore, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai on August 13, at the beginning, the troops that the army put into the battlefield were only marines, and then, with the expansion of the war, two more divisions were invested, and later when the war was not smooth, three more divisions were invested, and finally a total of eight divisions and six brigades were invested, 300,000 people, but in this life, Han Lihong did not need to think about it to know that the army must have invested heavy troops at the beginning, and its scale must be at least three or four divisions.

If his estimate is correct, the army will invest three or four divisions, or even four or five divisions, as soon as it comes up, and the defenders, because of Chiang Kai-shek's negligence and hatefulness, transferred the army that was originally prepared to enter the Songhu battlefield to Xi'an to deal with [***].

This change on both sides of the enemy and us has led to another result, which has made the war evolve more rapidly, so that it is very likely that the Nanjing political axe will not have time to transfer heavy troops into the Songhu battlefield as in the previous life, so it is very likely that the result of the Songhu War of Resistance will not be as miserable as the previous one, but it will end faster.

Sighing softly, Han Lihong said, "One side succeeds in a sneak attack, and the other side is caught off guard, the result is not difficult to predict." ”

Song Zheyuan asked again: "That...... What are we going to do? ”

Han Lihong closed his eyes.

He thought that he could not change the direction of history at all, but he didn't expect that history would still stubbornly move forward according to the original direction.

It's just that the tragedy of the Nanjing Massacre will still happen? Wang Jingwei will still surrender to the enemy, will there still be so many Kuomintang troops to surrender to the enemy?

The reason why his methods are extremely cruel is that he wants to use such cruel methods to warn all parties and avoid the tragedy.

But, is it possible? The little devils are all brutes, will they get worse?

After a while, Han Lihong opened his eyes and said, "Military seat, please invite Yan Xishan and Han Fuyu to come to Beijing." ”

-- Yan Xishan and Han Fuyu were extremely sluggish, and they came as soon as they received the telegram. These two are all numb now.

Yan Xishan arrived first, because the telegram sent to him earlier.

Song Zheyuan personally greeted him at the airport, and then accompanied Yan Xishan to the Shuangqing Villa in Xiangshan.

There was only Han Lihong alone in the living room, Yan Xishan didn't know Han Lihong, and when he saw that there was only a young man in his twenties in the living room, he was a little puzzled.

Song Zheyuan introduced Yan Xishan: "Brother Baichuan, this is Han Lihong, he is not only the intelligence chief of the 29th Army, but also the leader of the Black God Army. ”

When Yan Xishan heard this, his eyes almost didn't bulge, but immediately, he knew that it was true, because Song Zheyuan didn't need to deceive him about this kind of thing.

Yan Xishan is a businessman, he pays attention to being kind and wealthy, and he is good at dancing with long sleeves, so he immediately expressed his 120,000 respect for Han Lihong.

After the three of them sat down, they talked about the situation in Shanghai, and then, Yan Xishan said: "Big boss, what do you say is good?" ”

After pondering for a moment, Han Lihong said: "The Great Wall cannot be defended, and Pingjin will also fall, I would like to make a suggestion to Chairman Yan." ”

When Yan Xishan heard this, his heart trembled, he knew that what Han Lihong said was the truth, not to scare him, so he hurriedly said, "Big boss, you say." ”

Han Lihong said: "I would like to ask Chairman Yan to hand over the five counties of Mengxian, Pingding, Xiyang, Heshun, Liaoxian, and Shexian to the 29th Army for garrison. ”

These five counties are all border counties between Shanxi and Hebei, and Han Lihong meant to let Song Zheyuan's 29th Army guard the border for him. If it was okay, it wouldn't work, but now, he couldn't ask for it.

"Yes, yes!" Yan Xishan hurriedly responded, and then said to Song Zheyuan: "Then there is Lao Mingxuan." ”

Song Zheyuan smiled and didn't speak.

Han Lihong said: "Chairman Yan, once the army occupies Hebei, Shanxi's situation will be extremely difficult, so in order to tap the maximum potential, these five counties have to distribute land to the people. ”

Taiyuan is the lifeblood of Yan Xishan, as long as it is more important than anything else to keep Taiyuan, Yan Xishan gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!" ”

Han Lihong said: "Changzhi, Jincheng, and Yuncheng will be handed over to [***]. ”

Changzhi, Jincheng, and Yuncheng are the junctions of Shanxi and Henan, but handing over the three places to [***] is a completely different thing from handing them over to the 29th Army.

Yan Xishan stopped talking.

Han Lihong said: "Chairman Yan, Chairman Han will arrive later, and I will suggest that Chairman Han hand over Lingbao, Shaanxian, Mengjin, Jiyuan and other places to [***]." ”

Lingbao, Shaanxi, Mengjin, Jiyuan and other places are the areas bordering Yuncheng, Jincheng and Changzhi across the Taihang Mountains.

Han Lihong said again: "Chairman Yan, in these remote and bitter cold places, only [***] has the ability to organize the common people in a short period of time, making this area an iron wall. ”

After a pause, Han Lihong continued: "Chairman Yan, in this way, as long as the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army hold the same line in the northern part of Jin, they can ensure that Shanxi is worry-free. ”

After hesitating for a moment, Yan Xishan said, "I'm afraid this will not be easy to explain to Mr. Jiang." ”

After being silent for a long time, Han Lihong said: "Chairman Yan, as long as the Black God Army is in North China for one day, even if Taiyuan falls to the enemy, when it is recovered in the future, Taiyuan will still be Chairman Yan's." ”

Suddenly moved, Yan Xishan said: "Big boss, I agreed, but I have one condition." ”

Han Lihong said: "Chairman Yan, please speak." ”

Yan Xishan said: "I want the big boss and Mr. Zhou Enlai to be present, and then Brother Mingxuan will be a witness." ”

Nodding, Han Lihong said, "That's how it should be." ”

-- At two o'clock in the afternoon, Shandong Provincial Chairman Han Fuyu arrived.

The meeting with Han Fuyu was much happier than Yan Xishan's, and after Han Lihong promised that he would give him shelter once Shandong fell, Han Fuyu hurriedly agreed.

Shandong has no danger to defend, and he can't run away from the army, whether it is from the south or from the north.

The sworn enmity between Han Fuyu and Chairman Jiang is called mortal enmity, once the territory is gone, if it falls into the hands of Chairman Jiang, it will be 100% in the hands of the stepmother.

Of course, in addition to this, the agreement reached also includes Shandong's industrial and mining enterprises, once Shanghai is lost, this side will immediately take action.

-- Li Ruitong can now go straight to the Secretariat, and he can meet whoever he wants, and he can meet whenever he wants.

Li Ruitong has the most dealings with the premier, and the distance between the courtyard where he works and the courtyard where the premier works is less than 100 meters.

After receiving the telegram from the General Headquarters, Li Ruitong put the telegram in his folder and went to see the premier in person.

The prime minister is a person with tremendous personality and charisma, and no one who is not impressed by the prime minister, whether he is an enemy or a friend, is not to mention Li Ruitong.

When Li Ruitong came in, the prime minister was writing something, and when he saw Li Ruitong coming in, he said: "Ruitong is here, wait a while, it will be over soon." ”

Li Ruitong hurriedly said: "Mr. Zhou, you are busy. ”

Waiting for Zhou Enlai to put down the pen, Li Ruitong said: "Mr. Zhou, this is a message from the big boss to you." ”

As soon as he took the message, the Prime Minister's eyes lit up.

-- As soon as the attack on Shanghai began, the Great Wall immediately stopped, and the army completely stopped attacking.

Attention is focused on Shanghai.

The battle in Shanghai was very unexpected by Han Lihong, and the army invested four divisions as soon as it came up, but the battle situation was much better than that of the previous battle.

After careful study, Han Lihong understood the reason.

The Kuomintang army has always been first-class soldiers, second-rate grass-roots officers, third-rate senior commanders, and damned commanders who are not in the ranks.

This model was extremely obvious in the Songhu War of Resistance.

The Kuomintang started with Chiang Kai-shek and went to those senior commanders, and most of their brains were a string, that is, to learn from the Germans, positional warfare, and fight for every inch of territory.

If the firepower is superior, or equal, it is nothing, but if the firepower is significantly weaker than the enemy, then it is almost the same as looking for death, and the Kuomintang army has always followed this pattern of seeking death.

It can be said that although most of the results of the several major battles were disastrous defeats, they also caused great casualties to Yue himself, but this was not the credit of Chiang Kai-shek and those rice bucket generals, but the result of the vast number of ordinary officers and soldiers who sacrificed their lives and fought hard with their flesh and blood.

If the commander is a little wiser, he should not be limited to the gains and losses of one city or one place, but should expand the battlefield and introduce the army into the vertical and horizontal areas of the river network.

In the previous life, Chiang Kai-shek did not do this, he transferred a large number of troops to fight the Japanese army near Shanghai, and hundreds of thousands of people were crowded in a narrow water network area, so that the soldiers could only lie in the trenches one meter deep at most and let the enemy planes and artillery bombard.

In this regard, Li Zongren described it most accurately in his memoirs: the Songhu battlefield is still more than 100 miles away from the first defense line of Sujia Road. There are many people on the battlefield, and there is no danger to defend. The enemy's naval, land, and air forces can give full play to their firepower, and our army is tantamount to falling into a big melting iron furnace and allowing it to be scorched. The enemy's artillery fire was so fierce that our artillerymen could not fire their guns in the daytime, and they could not find targets at night, so they only bombarded blindly. Therefore, the battle of Songhu is simply to fill the enemy's sea of fire with our flesh and blood. Thousands of casualties were killed and wounded every hour, and the heroic sacrifice was rarely unprecedented in the history of the Chinese nation's resistance to foreign wars.

If you don't use the fortifications that have been built, and you have to fight with the lives of countless soldiers, if you make such a low-level mistake, the commander will already be dead, but compared to what happened afterward, this is nothing.

After the landing of the troops from Hangzhou Bay, the Battle of Songhu was already doomed, and just as the troops were about to withdraw, our great Chairman Chiang ordered the troops to hold out for another week, waiting for the League of Nations to meet to discuss the outcome of the resolution to sanction the political axe.

This order turned what could have been an orderly retreat into an unprecedented rout.

It was a terrible scene!

The officers and men were afraid that the army would take the back road and retreat one after another, and several narrow roads were crowded with hundreds of thousands of troops and groups of ordinary people who had fled in groups. The organization of the troops was completely disrupted, the officers could not find the soldiers, the soldiers did not want to find the officers, all the men ran to the west desperately, the supplies and things were abandoned, the wounded soldiers were groaning and lying on the side of the road, the bombers of the army were bombing indiscriminately, the underground troops were pressing behind, and all the retreat roads were extremely chaotic.

Littered with rubble, broken poles, and messy wires...... Covered in scars. Countless swollen corpses floating in the stream pond on the side of the road that had been soaked in water for many days, and even more miserable were the wounded soldiers lying on the side of the road screaming: "Do a good deed, make up for me!" ”

On the way to retreat, it passed through two defense fortifications that were built with countless financial and material resources, the Wufu Line (Suzhou-Fushan) and the Xicheng Line (Wuxi-Chengjiang).

According to the pre-war battle plan, after a certain amount of resistance in the Shanghai area, it was necessary to retreat to these two fortifications one by one for a protracted defensive battle.

However, Chiang Kai-shek ignored the pre-war battle plan and commanded indiscriminately, resulting in a great rout of the whole army, so when the rout army fled to these two national defense fortifications, because the formation of the various units had been disrupted, the troops could not assemble and mobilize, and there were troops closely chasing after them. Crossing these two fortifications, which had cost countless financial resources, they fled straight to the west.

In all this, in the Songhu War of Resistance, more than 400,000 officers and men of our army were killed and wounded, and the army was less than 50,000.

In this battle alone, Chiang Kai-shek was innocent.

In this life, because of the surprise attack of the large corps of the Yue Army, and Chiang Kai-shek's negligence in taking precautions, he made a mistake and avoided the tragedy of the previous life.

The passive expansion of the battlefield has greatly reduced the casualties of our officers and men.

On the one hand, this is because there are no hundreds of thousands of people crammed into a narrow area, and more importantly, because the river network is vertical and horizontal, it is not easy for the army's mechanized equipment to exert its due power.

Moreover, this time, the two defense fortifications were fully utilized.

In the last life, the Songhu War of Resistance was fought for three months, how long will it be fought this time?

Under the lamp, Yan Xishan carefully flipped through a volume of documents.

The document was sent by the Black God Army, and the content was an outline for the construction of Shanxi.

Yan Xishan had already watched it three times in a row, and the more he looked at it, the more he couldn't let it go. The compendium was so appealing to him, more attractive than the money he had always valued the most.

Shanxi is good, he Yan someone is good.

This is a very simple truth, and there is also a simple feeling in this simple truth, and there is a feeling for his hometown Yan Xishan.

If Shanxi is really built in accordance with this outline, then the prosperity of Shanxi is just around the corner, and Shanxi will surely become a paradise in troubled times.

Yan Xishan had to be convinced, Han Lihong was not only outstanding in politics and military ability, but also a leader in the group, and he was even a master in the economy.

Closing the compendium and placing it on the table, Yan Xishan closed his eyes, leaned his head on the back of the chair in contemplation, his right hand rested on the compendium, and his fingers tapped lightly.

Han Lihong thought of everything, the only question now was that the Black God Army was too powerful, if the fruit was ripe, would the Black God Army kick him away.

If it were another person, in his one-third of an acre, he didn't believe that anyone could do this, but he didn't have any confidence in the Black God Army.

It stands to reason that the reputation of the Black God Army and [***], especially Zhou Enlai, is very good, and it should be trustworthy, but this kind of military event, no matter how good the reputation is, there is still no bottom in my heart.

After meditating for more than half an hour, Yan Xishan suddenly opened his eyes and ordered, "Someone." ”

The attendant adjutant immediately pushed the door in and said, "Chairman." ”

Yan Xishan said: "Call people, hold a meeting." ”

It's been the middle of the night, which door will suddenly open? When the four beams and eight pillars arrived one after another, a big question mark was drawn on everyone's mind.

Throwing the outline over, Yan Xishan said, "Look at this. ”

After roughly looking through them one by one, the drowsiness on everyone's faces was swept away, and their eyes were all bright.

The only negative thing in this outline is land policy.

The ownership of the land is still owned by the landlord, but the control is lost, and the future land income will no longer be paid by the peasants who cultivate the land, but will be distributed by the political axe.

The basis for the issuance is the average income of the last five years, and then the grades are divided from this.

There are two levels of overall grading, one is to pay 50 per cent of the base income, and the other is to pay more than the base income.

Of course, this cannot be disclosed, and there is only one public level standard, which is to pay 50% of the base income.

As a matter of fact, those landlords who do not enjoy privileges do not lose money, and although they have lost some income from land rent, it is very easy to make up for this loss as soon as large-scale construction is carried out and industry and commerce and trade are prosperous.

Naturally, everyone here can enjoy privileges, so everyone agrees.

After Yan Xishan said his worries, Gao Youtang, the senator of the provincial government, said: "Chairman, even if they don't do this, if they can't believe it, shouldn't they still have to make trouble?" ”

Gao Youtang got to the point in one sentence, Yan Xishan knew that he was concerned about it, otherwise how could he not think of this.

"Moreover, our Shanxi is not muddy, not to mention that there are so many central armies, no matter how powerful the Black God Army is, if you dare to make trouble, Shanxi will have to be in chaos." Gao Youtang said again.

In fact, Yan Xishan had already decided, not to mention anything else, for the safety of Shanxi, not to let Yue himself attack in, and he couldn't ask for anything that could increase the weight of Shanxi.

The heavier Shanxi's position, the more unlikely it is for the Black God Army, the 29th Army, [***], and even the Central Army to abandon Shanxi.

Once Shanxi is built in accordance with this outline, then what is not said is that it is a matter of throwing your life and defending Shanxi.

This is the most fundamental benefit, and nothing else is a trivial matter compared to this.

Everyone discussed for most of the night, and finally, Yan Xishan warned: "Everyone knows what kind of temper the Black God Army has, so don't be clever, and fix those who don't." Although the Black God Army didn't mention this, with the meticulousness with which they acted, this kind of thing would never be ignored. The benefits have been given, and no matter how greedy you are, it will be shameless to give face. When the time comes, the Black God Army will really turn its face, and I will have no room to speak. ”

The so-called "some haves and don'ts" are naturally more in their own names. It's full of smart people here, don't think about it, everyone has this kind of mind.

After a pause, Yan Xishan said: "The Black God Army doesn't rub sand in their eyes, even if they don't turn their faces now, they may remember this account." ”

Yan Xishan's words are powerful, and none of these people want to be remembered by the Black God Army like this. If you are worried about the Black God Army, I am afraid that you will have nightmares every night.

(To be continued)