May 7, 1931.

In the garrison of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission in Changchun, Jilin Province, there was already a scene of extreme tension. Each staff officer was grim-faced, guarding the phone, and doing his work around the map. A large number of troops had to move back and forth in the narrow territory controlled by the Central G, and on the one hand, they had to cope with the increasing military pressure from the Kuomintang side, and on the other hand, they had to deploy the encirclement and suppression of the Trotskyist armed forces.

The offensive against Qiqihar in Heilongjiang has already begun, and there is also a méng ancient front army on the front line of Rehe and Jilin that is urgently becoming. Always ready to go into battle. There was also constant contact with the Soviet Union. They need to provide an astronomical supply of weapons and ammunition, and they are also needed to help train more troops to join the war. Since the start of this "Suto War", the Soviet side has also become unusually generous, and almost any request for assistance from China and G can be satisfied, including heavy artillery, tanks, aircraft parts, and other parts, and the Soviet Union is now willing to provide it free of charge, as long as China and G can work hard to eliminate those Trotskyists who are entrenched in Méng and the western part of Heilongjiang. For a time, the officers and staff officers at all levels in the Central Revolutionary Military Commission were about to fall in love with Trotsky, the enemy, and everyone was thinking in their hearts that they would fight this war for a longer time, but the sudden outbreak of a decisive battle shattered everyone's beautiful vision. With unprecedented ferocity, the Trotskyist forces fought a decisive battle against the main force of the Heilongjiang Front advancing westward in the great wasteland east of Qiqihar. Originally, the Heilongjiang Front only wanted to force the Trotskyist armed forces to abandon the western part of Heilongjiang with the main force, but who knew that it attracted a large force suspected of being the main force of the Trotskyists!

Once the Heilongjiang Front suffered a heavy defeat, the bandits would turn from defense to attack. Even if Harbin and even the entire Heilongjiang are seized, then the strategic situation of the Central Government will deteriorate rapidly, and if the Kuomintang in the south, which is temporarily entangled in land reform and the building of local political power, will "plug in" again, this "revolution" will only be in danger of failure. At this time, the only choice may be to reinforce the main forces of the Red Army, which are being organized into the Méng Ancient Front! But so. It would be tantamount to giving up the threat to the Trotskyist nest, and it would also leave Chahar, Rehe and other places in a defensive void.

At this time, everyone was waiting for Zhou E, the deputy chief of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and the general political commissar of the Red Army to make the final decision.

And this Red Army leader was in his office, thinking hard about a map marked with colorful symbols. The commander-in-chief of the Red Army, Zhu D, quietly walked in. Zhou Elai heard the sound of the door and turned his head, his face was already full of tiredness, and his eyes looked blue because of the overuse of brain power. The outbreak of this decisive battle with the Trotskyists obviously put him under great pressure.

"The general government is heavy, haven't you made a decision yet? The Heilongjiang Front is asking for reinforcements, and GC

The international community also came with instructions, demanding that the main force be used in the direction of Heilongjiang as soon as possible. It was Comrade Stalin himself who gave instructions...... It's already a very bright mouth. The subtext is probably that we are too slow to react, and we are suspected of conniving at the Trotskyists......"

Zhou Elai smiled coldly: "This Trotsky doesn't know how to provoke Stalin?" Wang Zhongyi just hung up a sign, and he was not really a Trotskyist, and he refused to let it go! And he doesn't know anything about the military power of the Trotskyists at the moment. He grabbed Zhu D's arm and dragged him to the front of the map.

"Now traces of the Trotto army have been found in the western part of Heilongjiang and in the southeastern part of Méng Gu. Heilongjiang's bandit army fought fiercely, forcing Zhang Xueliang's Heilongjiang Front to go on the defensive. The Red Eighth Army was also transferred, and they also warned us again and again! But I still believe that there is only one legion of trotters there! The Trotskyists are now strategically surrounded by us and the Soviet Union, and without a source of logistical supplies, they will not be able to support a long-term war, and this is also our greatest chance of victory. We just need to fight with them to secure our odds! And if they want to really reverse the decline, the only way to do this is to lay down Chahar and open up the lines of communication with the Kuomintang, and we have deployed heavy troops in Chahar and Rehe. If we transfer most of the troops there to Heilongjiang, the main force of the Trotskyist army lurking near Zhongyi Fort in the ancient east of Méng will definitely move south, and then Chahar will definitely not be able to hold it, and the Trotskys will have the logistics, and our territory will be divided into two. What do you think is going to be? ”

Zhou E was very moving, and his god was full of the deepest worries.

Zhu D was a little silent: "If our main force does not move, will Zhang Xueliang's Heilongjiang Front be able to maintain the residents?" What if he is defeated by the bandit army, what will Heilongjiang do? ”

Zhou Elai still nodded slowly: "Yes, we can't take this risk either, Heilongjiang Province is very important to us, and we must not afford to lose."

Perhaps the only way out now was to order the main forces of the Red Army to attack in the direction of Ménggu......

If the trotters were attacked at the same time in Méng Gu and Heilongjiang, they might have chosen their doctrine again. While fighting against the Trotskyists, we must never forget the threat from the south, and only by pulling them back to the right path can our "revolution" be successful......"

"What about the Heilongjiang Front? What if they really encountered the main force of the trotters? Their combat effectiveness is very weak...... Moreover, after our main force enters Ménggu, it is very likely that the Trotskyt bandit army will avoid the battle, and the attack on Ménggu will not be decided quickly. ”

Zhou E looked at Zhu D and sneered: "Mr. Zhu, do you think that relying on Zhang Xueliang's Heilongjiang Front Army can block the attack of the main force of the Bandit Army until our main force arrives?" If the Trotto bandit army had deployed 150,000 troops in the western part of Heilongjiang, Zhang Xueliang would have been defeated long ago! The fact that he can still support himself now shows that he has only encountered a 60,000-strong army of terrorists. There is no danger in using Zhang Xueliang's 200,000-strong army against 60,000 bandits. And our main force still has to be used on the Méng Gu side, send five legions to attack Méng Gu, as long as we can find the main force of the bandits for a decisive battle, we will definitely be able to win this battle! ”

Zhou Elai's hand slapped heavily in the direction of the ancient east of Méng, where he had already marked a thick arrow with his own hand. It points directly to Zhongyi Fort in the east of Yugu, which is also an important stronghold of Wang Zhongyi's painstaking management.

The main force of the Trotskyist army is lurking there, and attacking there will definitely force the main force of the Trotskyist army to start a decisive battle with the Red Army, as long as they are willing to fight a decisive battle, then the winner must be the Red Army!

In fact, Zhou Elai still has a plan that he didn't tell Zhu Dming...... The attack on Zhongyi Fort in the ancient east of Méng also has a bit of the meaning of encircling Wei to save Zhao. If Wang Zhongyi had stopped attacking Zhang Xueliang's main forces of the Heilongjiang Front and let them return to Harbin, the main forces of the Red Army would have been able to retreat from Ménggu.1

Let this war drag on. Because no matter from the perspective of obtaining Soviet aid or consuming the bandits, it is definitely the most beneficial for China G to delay it!

From the map. At the easternmost end of the Outer Méng Ancient Area, there is a protrusion that is "inserted" into the Inner Méng Ancient like a wedge. In terms of the administrative division of this time and space, the north of this salient is the Ulanqab League belonging to Heilongjiang Province, the east is the Xing'an League belonging to Jilin Province, and the south is close to the north of Rehe Province and Chahar Province.

On the ancient map of the outer Méng of this time and space, this salient area that must be fought for now has a new name, Zhongyi Fort! The name comes from a military fortress located on the shores of Lake Bell in the northern part of the salient. This fortress named after Wang Zhongyi, the ancient ruler of Méng, is a large military fortress that was requisitioned by tens of thousands of people after Wang Zhongyi ruled Ménggu, which took three years and cost tens of millions of dollars to build.

Once this large stronghold, located at the intersection of the northeastern part of China, North China and the ancient region of Méng, was uprooted by the Red Army, the Trotskyists would lose their foothold in the whole of East Ménggu!

Zhou Elai's guess is right, this corner of the ancient plateau of Méng is now a sea of troops, and the main force of the GC alliance army of China is gathered here. The core of this army is the First Cavalry Legion! This cavalry corps, which is probably unique in the world, includes two powerful cavalry corps, the First Cavalry Corps and the Second Cavalry Corps. The establishment of these two cavalry corps was exactly the same as that of the infantry corps of the Allied Army, with two divisions, four brigades, and eight regiments, each with nearly 30,000 men, and three artillery regiments equipped with 75-mm mountain guns. Such a powerful cavalry may not be a big deal if it is placed in the mainland, after all, the cavalry is already an outdated class of troops in the sunset.

However, in the ancient grassland of Méng, which has been a natural battlefield for cavalry for thousands of years, this regiment with a high degree of mobility is a force that can decide the outcome of the war! And the one who controls this key force is another confidant Tang Yao......

Another corps gathered near Zhongyi Fort was the Third Army of the Alliance Army, which also had two corps, the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army, with a total of nearly 60,000 men and nearly 300 artillery pieces. The leader of this corps was Tian Chengye, the general of the Eighth Division of the former National Revolutionary Army, who graduated from the second phase of the Huangpu Army.

At the same time that the Central G side was planning to use the main Red Army in their hands to attack Zhongyi Fort and force the Alliance Army to carry out the main decisive battle. Wang Zhongyi, Tang Yao, and An Sihua, a representative of the Kuomintang who had just arrived, as well as dozens of division commanders, brigade commanders, and regiment commanders, gathered in the wide main hall of the headquarters compound in Zhongyi Fort, munching on roast mutton, drinking broth, and enthusiastically discussing whether to take out the trump card in their hands and solve the Red Army's Heilongjiang Front in one fell swoop.

An Sihua was dressed in casual clothes and did not wear a hat, leaning back on the back of the chair a little tiredly.

smiled and said to Wang Zhongyi beside him: "The morale of the alliance army seems to be very high, and the training is also very tight, it is really not easy to train such an elite in just a few months...... By the way, when are you going to throw this main force into it? Is it to fight Chahar or Heilongjiang? ”

Wang Zhongyi looked full of energy, and it seemed that he was quite confident in the development of the battle situation, he smiled and said: "This Lin Yurong will definitely grasp it, after all, this battle is in his command, and it has been fought well so far." ”

An Sihua smiled: "Lin Yurong is really lucky to meet your boss!" He is only in his twenties and has already commanded an army of 200,000, and his talent is certainly high, but it is inseparable from your trust. His seniors are only able to be division commanders in our national revolutionary army. ”

Wang Zhongyi's eyes rolled, and he also laughed: "Brother Sihua, how can our alliance army of the grass platform team compare with your national [revolutionary] army?" Weapons training and operational command are not as good as those in Heilongjiang, where there are two divisions of the National Revolutionary Army, Zhang Xueliang would have collapsed long ago, and perhaps Harbin would have been defeated. How can it be like now, after two days of fighting and still fighting hard, I don't know when I will be able to defeat Zhang Xueliang's army of more than 100,000? Only by defeating them can the main force of the Red Army be transferred to Heilongjiang, and we can also go south to assault Chahar, otherwise we will have no logistical supplies, and if this war drags on for a year and a half, our coalition army should run out of ammunition and food......

An Sihua nodded slightly, he was sent by Luo Yaoguo to discuss with Chen Duxiu and Wang Zhongyi about inviting Trotsky to Ménggu, and at the same time to help Wang Zhongyi with the task of serving the military aircraft. Although Wang Zhongyi already had a strategist-level military strategist like Lin Yurong by his side, Luo Yaoguo was still a little uneasy, so he sent An Sihua, who was recognized as the No. 1 military strategist in China, to Méng Gu.

"Brother Zhongyi, the key to this battle now is whether Lin Yurong can defeat Zhang Xueliang's more than 100,000 people with 60,000 people." Ann Sihua smacked. Ma "milk" wine, said with a smile: "Zhang Xueliang can no longer fight,

After all, there are more than 100,000 troops, and now they are hugging together and slowly fighting with your alliance army...... I'm afraid this battle will have to be fought. You're not considering transferring the 1st Cavalry Corps to Heilongjiang? ”

Wang Zhongyi shook his head slightly: "There is no doubt about employing people, no suspicion of people, since the overall situation has been entrusted to Lin Yurong, I have to believe his judgment, and now he did not propose to use the First Cavalry Legion, there must be his considerations." I will not interfere with his command at this time. ”

An Sihua smiled: "Since Brother Zhongyi said so, it is inconvenient for me, an outsider, to say more."

In fact, the Méng Gu is not to give advice to your alliance army, but for a key person, and the auxiliary text wants this character to enter the Méng Gu ...... at the right time."

At this time, the fighting in the great wilderness west of Heilongjiang has become more and more fierce. In the southeast of Lindian County, the 60,000 troops of the Second Army were gradually falling into a bitter battle. On May 5, they defeated the Red 29th Division in a surprise attack, and then routed the Red 30th Division, which had rushed to reinforce it, shaking the northern flank of the Red Army's Heilongjiang Front in one fell swoop. At the same time, it also attracted the main force of the entire Heilongjiang Front, and made the high-level leaders of Changchun hesitate. But then Zhang Xueliang gritted his teeth and stabilized the battle situation, and strictly ordered Jiang Dengxuan, the commander-in-chief of the northern wing, to hold on to it at all costs, and not to give up his position for any reason! At the same time, the four divisions on the southern flank and the Red Eighth Army Corps rushed from Harbin were successively put into the battlefield.

After receiving reinforcements, the Red Army soon built a relatively stable defensive line about 10 kilometers southeast of Lindian County, and the total strength reached 10 divisions and about 160,000 people. To defeat such a large defender was indeed a rather difficult task for the Second Army of the Union Army, which had only two armies and four divisions. This legion was only 60,000 men, 100,000 fewer than the opponent, and the number of artillery was only about the same as that of the opponent. Moreover, the supply lines behind them had not yet been opened, and the Red Army could receive a steady stream of Soviet aid from Vladivostok through the Eastern Railway. If the campaign continues, the offensive of the Alliance forces will surely fail due to lack of supplies!

In the war room of the headquarters of the Second Army of the Alliance Army in Lindian County, Lin Yurong and Shen Xingye were standing in front of the map, discussing whether to change the battle plan and mobilize reinforcements from Zhongyi Fort to completely defeat Zhang Xueliang's Heilongjiang Front.

"How is the situation of the railway from Hailar to Qiqihar?" Lin Yurong pondered in front of the map for a moment and suddenly asked.

"The railway is still operating, and when we retreat from Harbin, we will drive all the trains that can move to Hailar." A staff officer in charge of logistics and transportation replied loudly.

Lin Yurong nodded: "The First Legion of Yizhi marched on horseback, and it took two days to walk more than one hundred and seventy kilometers, and it took one day to get on the train, one day to Qiqihar, and at most two days to enter the battle." In other words, we can mobilize 60,000 reinforcements in six days, so that 120,000 people can fight Zhang Xueliang's 160,000. ”

"Chief of Staff, I have a question." Shen Xingye looked at the map and said: "According to the original plan, we should make a feint in Heilongjiang to attract the main force of the Red Army, so as to create conditions for the First Army Corps and the Third Army to raid and seize Chahar, but if we also transfer the First Army to Heilongjiang, even if we defeat Zhang Xueliang, I am afraid that there will not be enough troops to raid Chahar, right?" ”

"There is no problem with the strength of the troops, the key is to attract the main forces of the Red Army." Lin Yurong replied without the slightest hesitation: "We are fighting on the inside line in this battle, and after the battle, our troops can be transported to Hailar by the Middle East Road Railway, and then ride to Zhongyi Fort, and then rest for a few days before going south to Chahar... There are always 1,000 kilometers of horseback maneuvering on this road, and if we don't have the First Cavalry Corps, I'm afraid it will be an impossible task. But we have such a fast cavalry... Let them be happy, at most tens of thousands of horses will be killed, and they should be able to complete the task. ”！。