Chapter 16: Determined to Go South
"Niang Xipi, I'm going to shoot them, send a telegram to the World War Zone immediately, I want to know the name of the commander who commanded the siege of Taiyuan, I must shoot them" Chiang Kai-shek in the South Bank Mansion waved his arms hysterically like Luo Ying, his favorite tea set had become fragments scattered under his feet, and the young attendant looked at Song Meiling who was sitting on the sofa with a coffee cup at a loss.
Song Meiling, who was holding a coffee cup, was also angry, there was still time to pay attention to the expression of the attendant, Chiang Kai-shek had not scolded anyone for a long time, and the military commander suddenly became like this It was not because of the Taiyuan war. Zhao Zhi's Taiyuan operation had been going smoothly, to the point of overjoying Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling, but with the arrival of a telegram, all this changed, and Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling's good mood disappeared, and in their place was extremely inflated and endlessly angry.
"I'm going to kill a few" Song Meiling slowly put down the coffee cup in her hand, "A few days ago, when my attendant went out, I heard several staff officers of the Ministry of Military Affairs privately say bad things about Boyuan, saying that the weapons that the Americans supported Boyuan should have belonged to the national army, and the Ministry of Military Affairs should order Boyuan to return those weapons." Moreover, their discussion also mentioned Boyuan's airport and training base in Zhangwu County, and listening to their intentions, Boyuan should immediately and unconditionally hand over these places to the Ministry of Military Affairs for management."
"Niang Xipi, it is not good to fight one by one, and when you are fighting for power and profit, you run fast one by one" Chiang Kai-shek waved his hand, and another teacup fell to pieces, "Boyuan has made great efforts for that airport, the Ministry of Military Affairs has a great appetite, when the troops in Zhongtiao Mountain were surrounded by the Japanese army, how could they not dare to say such things, this will see that Shanxi is expected to recover, and those of them are energetic, they are all a group of short-sighted guys"
"They don't want to think about it, even if Boyuan withdraws from Shanxi with his troops and gives them the territory, once the Japanese puppet army on the front line of Hebei, Shandong and Suiyuan counterattacks, can they stop it?" Chiang Kai-shek tapped his cane on the floor, his face hating iron but not steel. For this Taiyuan operation, Zhao Zhi made the foreshadowing for almost two years, first the Spark plan for the Japanese army in Hebei, then the bounty order, and then used the newspaper to make Yao Laoyu of Luohu Mountain popular, and used Yao Laoyu's prestige to gather bandits from the four provinces to gather at the junction of Shanxi and Shandong to snipe the Japanese army.
All of this was planned by Zhao Zhi alone, assisted by Thunder's mercenary troops, and the Nationalist Government only transferred 5,000 veterans to Thunder for training, and in the entire Taiyuan operation, the Nationalist Government's expenditure was nothing more, and most of the pressure and risks were actually pressed on Zhao Zhi and Thunder. And the gang of people in the Ministry of Military Affairs only think about fighting for power one day, but they don't know how to think about it carefully, the current combat effectiveness of the national army is simply not enough to carry out the entire Taiyuan operation, and without the participation of Thunder, the Nationalist Government wants to recapture Taiyuan from the Japanese army, which is simply a fool's dream.
"What then? Do you really want to let Boyuan and his troops leave Shanxi? Song Meiling frowned, from Chiang Kai-shek's words just now, Song Meiling heard a hint of intention. She knew that Chiang Kai-shek had always been committed to controlling the whole country, and that the man who had inherited the premier's legacy had always wanted to establish a centralized government, but the cruelty of reality had delayed this wish. On the surface, the army and local governments are sincerely subordinate to the Nationalist Government, but in fact they are full of factions and no one obeys anyone, and many of those military bigwigs, including those in the Ministry of Military Affairs, do not accept him as chairman at all, and this man sometimes has to make some compromises in order to realize this lifelong wish.
"Now it seems that it can only be like this, Boyuan's tone in the telegram is very tough, when they attacked Taiyuan City last night, the Jin Sui Army, the Eighth Route Army and our troops all appeared to avoid the battle, and the Japanese puppet army defending in the city concentrated almost all their forces on Boyuan's troops. In the end, Boyuan personally led the armored troops to break through the city gate and enter the city, Thunder suffered more than 4,000 casualties last night, and the number of people killed in the battle accounted for as much as 7 percent, do you say Boyuan can swallow this breath? Chiang Kai-shek's tone was full of regret, and the performance of several other units in this joint operation really hurt Zhao Zhi's heart.
"It's hard for Boyuan, the troops involved in the Taiyuan operation of Thunder are only 20,000 people in total, and the troops who attacked the city at night are only more than 10,000 people, and the casualties are close to half at this time, and even Boyuan himself seems to have been injured" Chiang Kai-shek handed the telegram on the table and the report sent by the military commander to Song Meiling, "Boyuan has a mercenary force of 200 people sneaking into Taiyuan in advance to respond, and after Boyuan broke the city, only a few dozen of the 200 mercenaries survived, and those mercenaries were Boyuan's treasures, and there were so many casualties at one time, It's no wonder he drove all the other troops out of the city and turned them away."
"Let's go to Burma, the Japanese have already garrisoned Burma, if they completely cut off the Yunnan-Burma road, the materials that the United States supported us will not be able to enter, and Boyuan also needs iron ore and oil from Burma" Chiang Kai-shek, who was helpless, discussed with Soong Meiling for a long time, and finally made the decision to agree to Lei Ting to go south to Burma. Of course, this is just a scene, Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that the Burmese Japanese army would follow the Burma Highway all the way into the Chinese mainland, and once the Japanese army followed Yungui into Sichuan, the National Government would really have no way out.
Zhao Zhi's move to seal the city undoubtedly offended a lot of people, not counting the Ministry of Military Affairs, even the Jin Sui Army and the Eighth Route Army also had an antipathy to Zhao Zhi and Lei Ting. However, after the lurkers of all parties in the city tried to pass the actual casualty figures of Thunder out of the city, the Eighth Route Army first stopped the verbal crusade against Thunder, and then the national army, because they had received the decision of Thunder to go south to Burma, and the troops of the national army just wanted to honestly wait to pick peaches.
After receiving the battle report, Yan Xishan, a veteran soldier, shot and killed five officers of the Jin Sui Army who participated in last night's operation in a fit of rage, on the grounds that they avoided the war and were afraid of the war. Yan Xishan originally wanted to have a good relationship with Thunder, at least when sharing the fruits of victory, the Jin Suijun would not be divided too much by the National Army and the Eighth Route Army, but now it was a mess because of the preservation strength of his officers, according to his understanding of Thunder, Jin Suijun and Liang Zi before Thunder could be regarded as staying.
"Don't pay attention to them, Sir said that two days is two days, and within these two days, the whole city will be under martial law, and all the soldiers in your hands will be released to guard the city defense, and no one can enter or leave the city without my warrant. Someone dares to break into the battle, shoot and shoot directly, I am responsible for the problem, don't bother Mr. "Zhao Zhi was injured, Ye Kong took over his command, the Jewish troops have their own commanders, Ye Kong only needs to take care of those mercenaries, but some problems that may lead to conflicts, Jewish officers are still used to asking Ye Kong what he means first.
"Okay, let's go, go to the airport" The mercenaries vigorously slapped the truck compartment, and the truck that Ye Kong took the mercenaries forcibly recruited was full of things obtained from the house, these things were the trophies of the thunder, Zhao Zhi and the mercenaries would not leave them to the national army and the Jin Sui army, especially the gold obtained from the Japanese. With the help of the military commander's sleepers and the information they provided, Ye Kong led his mercenaries to clear out more than half of the so-called traitors in the city in one day, and the family property of these guys was naturally confiscated by the mercenaries and loaded into cars.
The Taiyuan airport outside the city had already fallen into the hands of Thunder, where Zhao Zhi had deployed more than 3,000 Jewish soldiers to garrison it, and the only people who could enter the airport were Thunder men and trucks with Thunder logos. The troops of the Jin Sui army and the national army wanted to attack the idea of the airport, but the heavy machine guns and mortars set up by the airport defenders were enough to stop them, and the airport defenders still had a few Japanese tanks captured from the Japanese army, although the Japanese tanks were petite and not as small as the European tanks, but the infantry of the other party's Jin Sui army and the national army was more than enough.
"Fuck, these big noses are trying to empty the entire Taiyuan City?" Watching dozens of trucks hauling things back and forth to the airport, the eyes of the people of the Jin Suijun and the National Army who were turned away turned green light, and even the people of the Eighth Route Army couldn't stand it. Thunder's transport plane has begun to take off and land in Taiyuan, according to this speed to move down, Thunder's people are really likely to empty the things in Taiyuan City, when the time comes, after Thunder leaves, everyone enters the city, it is estimated that there are no useful and valuable objects left in the city.
Zhao Zhi in Taiyuan City did not care about the reactions of all parties, the first batch of weapons and ammunition that were sent away by the transport plane were captured from the Japanese army, since Zhao Zhi had already planned to go south to Burma, all the rifle grenades were simply loaded onto the transport plane. The Jewish troops and mercenaries don't look down on such bolt-action rifles, but there are still millions of Burmese natives in Burma, compared with the Japanese army who only knows how to plunder resources, Zhao Zhi feels that those Burmese will believe in themselves more, as long as Zhao Zhi has 100,000 Burmese people equipped with hot weapons in his hands, it is by no means an empty word to drive the Japanese army from Burma to the sea.
"Gold and silver jewelry loaded, military tickets, fiat currency, and the ocean were taken away, and the logistics people took them to the street to buy cloth, food and medicine" After the war, Taiyuan City was not as depressed as most people imagined, under Ye Kong's strict order, the merchants and shops in Taiyuan City had to open their doors to do business, and the logistics officers with all kinds of money tickets began to purchase on a large scale, and the large purchases that almost did not bargain made many shops also make a fortune for this.