Tianjin, in June of the 19th year of the Republic of China, seemed to have once again completely turned into the world of the Yellow Northeast Army. Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were transported here by columns of military columns from outside the Guan, and together with the officers and soldiers, there were also a large number of artillery pieces and baggage, and even dozens of F-1 destroyers, which were donated by the Kuomintang to the Northeast Army. In addition, some of the supplies sent to Mongolia to supply Wang Zhongyi are now also being detained by the Northeast Military Authorities...... Of course, compared with the current tension between the north and the south, these are trivial matters.

These troops, which were successively transferred from outside the Guan, were numbered as the First, Fifth, and Sixth Route Armies of the Central Army; 1st Armored Cavalry Brigade; the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Separate Artillery Regiments; The First Army is directly subordinate to the Air Force. In addition, on the Dagukou wharf in Tianjin, there is also the Northeast Fleet of the Navy. It has more than 300 cannons, 50 aircraft, more than 60 tanks, and more than 10 warships. The total strength is close to 200,000

Moreover, in the past nearly a year, under the supervision of General Staff Chief Guo Songling, these elites of the Northeast Army have been conducting strict special training, and they have almost been reborn compared to the previous Feng Army. If this were not the case, where would Zhang Xueliang come from to wave his army into the customs to engage in "armed mediation"?

Even Zhou Elai, who went to the Tianjin Zhili Governor's Office to discuss "mediation matters", couldn't help but give a thumbs up when he saw Zhang Xueliang, and praised Brother Han Qing's Northeast Army is really well-armed, and it can be called the Great Wall of the country. ”

A hint of pride flashed on Zhang Xueliang's face, waved his hand, and said with a smile, Brother E has won the award, and in the current China, the number one soldier is still your party's Fourth Group Army. In terms of weapons and equipment, the first must be the Kuomintang National ** Army. Where can it be our share of the Northeast Army? Moreover, the junior brother led the troops into the customs this time, just to mediate the contradictions between your party and the Kuomintang. His tone was slightly lowered to the ...... of peaceful reunification and democratic statehood Our Northeast Army is not ah."

Zhou Elai nodded indifferently, and said with a smile That is the ideal of our party and the ideal of the people of the whole country, but it is not the immediate priority. His eyes only looked at Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling, who accompanied him, with a smile, and said with a smile Our party's idea is that we must first ensure that this conflict does not expand and does not develop in the direction of a full-scale civil war, and then we can talk about mediation. At present, the contradiction between us and the Kuomintang is mainly in the Jinzhong region, and the Zhili and northern Lubei sides have remained calm for the time being. In order to prevent the conflict in Shanxi from spreading to Zhili, our party hoped that the Northeast Army would be stationed in the Zhili and Lubei areas to isolate our party from the Kuomintang army. What if Brother Hanqing doesn't want it? ”

This proposal was a bit unexpected by Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling, and the two quickly exchanged glances. Guo Songling opened his mouth to ask Dao Zhou, where is the bottom line of your party's belonging to Jinzhong? ”

The meaning of the words seems to be that the Northeast Army did not want to fight with the Kuomintang, but only wanted to maintain the situation of confrontation between the north and the south. Zhou Elai picked up the tea cup and took a few sips, but the corners of his eyes kept staring at Zhang Xueliang's face with a somewhat solemn expression. The room was extremely quiet, and it was a long time before I heard Zhou Elai put down the tea cup in his hand, nodded at Guo Songling, and said with a smile: The powerful strength of the Kuomintang is there, and our party is naturally unwilling to be an enemy of it. As for Jinzhong, of course, our party wants to go all out, but if it really fails, we are willing to make concessions. But this is my party's hole card, and it won't be played until the last minute......"

What he said was reasonable, and he also showed his hole cards, showing enough sincerity in front of the Northeast Army. After speaking, he smiled reservedly and looked at each other. Zhang Xueliang just smiled at Brother E, it seems that the Tianjin wharf has been very busy in the past two days, and it is the 'timber' of the Soviet Union and the wheat of Canada. Is your party going to buy and sell timber and grain? Can you bring me one? ”

A trace of iron blue flashed on Zhou Elai's face, but in a blink of an eye, he had already changed into a smiling face like a spring breeze and did not hide it from Brother Han Qing, those Soviet 'wood' were actually weapons and equipment that the Soviet Union had provided to our party, there were 200,000 rifles, thousands of machine guns, but there were no cannons. These weapons and equipment are only used just in case, not to fight with the Kuomintang. Besides, even if all the recruits are recruited now, they will not be able to become an army in less than a year and a half, and the war will be over long ago. As for the Canadian wheat ......," Zhou Elai sighed softly, our Suiyuan, northern Shaanxi, and northwest Shanxi have suffered from a severe drought in the past two years, and we can only use precious foreign exchange to buy grain for disaster relief. In the current situation, where do we still have the ability to fight a war with the Kuomintang, and your Northeast Army can come to mediate, which really solves the urgent needs of our party, and our party is grateful. ”

Zhang Xueliang smiled and nodded, and then looked at the teacher Guo Songling, and saw that he was also a smiling face, and nodded lightly there. At the moment, he rushed to Zhou E and said with a smile Since this is the case, then we will take over the defense area of the southern part of Zhili and northern Lubei. In addition, I will write a personal letter to Chiang Kai-shek, persuading him to turn the war with your party into a friendship. ”

Zhou E came to clap his hands and laughed with Brother Han Qing's words, the conflict between us and the Kuomintang should be resolved quickly. Brother Han Qing has done a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people this time."

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"Teacher...... We won't have a problem putting the main force in front, right? There are not many words" As soon as Zhou E came to the front foot, Zhang Xueliang frowned and looked at Guo Songling.

Guo Songling seemed to be in a bad mood, waved his hand and said with a smile Han Qing, you don't have to worry about this, I estimate that the Kuomintang will not attack in the direction of Zhili. ”

Zhang Xueliang looked at Guo Songling, who was confident, and was slightly curious, he was so sure? What trouble will the Kuomintang not come to look for?

Guo Songling met the young marshal's gaze and smiled slightly because you can repair a book, and ask He Xuezhu to bring it back to Wuhan and show his heart to Chiang Kai-shek. ”

"What does the teacher mean......" Zhang Xueliang stood up suddenly, with a surprised expression on his face.

Guo Songling smiled deeply at Han Qing, and the one who knows the times is Junjie. The general trend of today's China is either GCD or the Kuomintang, and there is no part of our Northeast Army, and this time the Central G pushed us to the front, just to draw out the 18th and 19th Route Army, and transfer them to Shanxi to fight a decisive battle with the Kuomintang, this battle may determine the future of China's belonging. If the Kuomintang wins, we will turn our back and send troops to take Beijing and Chahar. With this credit, we must be able to do it as a high-ranking official when we go to the Kuomintang...... If GCD wins, then there is still chaos in the world, let's withdraw to the outside of the border and continue to dominate the party freely. ”

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Shanxi, Yangqu.

Comrade Zhu D, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and first secretary of the General Front Committee of the Shanxi Campaign, wore a simple soldier's uniform without a military rank and walked quickly into the conference room.

this meeting room. It turned out to be the lobby of the Yangqu County Government. At this time, it has been temporarily transformed into a very simple venue. There were only two large conference tables made of firewood and a few benches. Seeing Zhu D walk in, the other members of the General Front Committee, who had already arrived, all stood up to greet him.

The original plan of the Shanxi Campaign was to be a quick victory, but I didn't expect it to fall into a protracted war. In a blink of an eye, four months have been like this, and the siege of Taiyuan has been more than two months, but the war is still going on endlessly, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger, and there is no hope of ending at all...... Even the Kuomintang army, which had previously remained neutral, had already begun to get involved in the war, and according to the report of the underground party organization in the Jinnan area, this period of troops continued to march into Shanxi from the direction of Henan, and it is estimated that the Kuomintang has assembled four infantry divisions in Jinnan, and there is also a large military airfield outside Pingyao County to step up construction. There are all kinds of signs that the offensive of the Kuomintang army is imminent

At this time, for the first time, the G Army outside Taiyuan City had a dilemma. If Taiyuan cannot be captured before the arrival of Kuomintang reinforcements, I am afraid that I will fall into the predicament of being attacked by the enemy on my back at that time, and if I don't do well, the whole army will be annihilated. There are no words and no more than a few words at today's meeting, will the instructions in this regard be conveyed?

"Comrades, I have good news for everyone" Just when everyone was wondering whether they would retreat, Zhu D's loud voice had already sounded, he smiled and glanced at the venue, and said that the 200,000 troops of the Northeast Army have entered the customs one after another to join our side. Therefore, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission decided to transfer the 18th and 19th Route Armies to the Taiyuan front, so that the number of our troops outside Taiyuan would be as high as 300,000, which was much more than the Kuomintang reinforcements and the Yan Xishan group that was stubbornly defending Taiyuan."

Hearing this good news, the morale of the participants was immediately high, and the gloom in the conference room was also swept away.

"Mr. Zhu, are we going to fight the Kuomintang reactionaries in a decisive battle under the city of Taiyuan? Feng Yuxiang was the first to stand up, and shouted with excitement on his face, "The task of this main attack is to give us the Third Army, and your Fourth Army should not rob me."

Zhu D smiled and nodded, "The Third Army is worthy of being the elite main force of our party, and it is really the first to be the first in every battle, but this battle is not trivial, we have to deal with the Kuomintang and the Jin Army at the same time. ”

"Deal with two strong enemies at the same time" Feng Yuxiang frowned slightly, and his face became gloomy again. Zhu D just smiled, beckoned the staff officer, brought a military map, spread it out on the table, and poked the map with a black and thick finger Now most of the territory in northern and central Jin has been controlled by us, as long as a few bandits are armed and there is still this Taiyuan City besieged by our regiments. If the Kuomintang does not come, it is only a matter of taking Taiyuan and eliminating the Yan Xishan clique. However, these reactionaries were unwilling to be lonely, and mobilized 100,000 troops in a vain attempt to relieve the siege of Yan Xishan in Taiyuan City. ”

"Of course, Mr. Zhu, please give an order, our Third Army resolutely guarantees to complete the task," Feng Yuxiang snapped and straightened upright, and gave a standard and beautiful military salute to Zhu D.

Zhu D's swarthy face had sunk at this time, and his eyes looked at the generals in the conference room with blazing eyes, and everyone below was silent for a while. Zhu D slowly stood up Comrades, the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution have issued orders to us, asking us to make every effort to annihilate or severely damage the Kuomintang Army's northward corps, and create favorable conditions for the capture of Taiyuan and the entire Shanxi Comrades, this Battle of Taiyuan will be an important turning point in China, and will determine the initiative in future wars, on which the Kuomintang reactionaries rely to maintain their rule, and the pillar of force that dominates the south is these 21 infantry divisions. However, in order to defend against Japan and protect their money bags and rice jars, they had to deploy fifteen of these divisions in the coastal areas. Therefore, only six divisions could be used to fight in the north, and now four divisions have entered Shanxi. If we can annihilate or severely damage it in the Battle of Taiyuan, then in the coming period, we will be able to turn defense into offense, and burn the flames of war to the national control area, and it is even possible to achieve the final victory in the near future."

“…… The tactic of the Battle of Taiyuan was to encircle the point and send reinforcements. We will use 100,000 troops to besiege Taiyuan, attract the main force of the Kuomintang army to the north to relieve the siege, and then use the main force of 200,000 troops to go south to meet the attack, for this reason, the fourth and eighth route armies will form the Taiyuan siege corps, under the unified command of Comrade Ye Ting, responsible for storming Taiyuan City, we must beat Yan Xishan pain, only in this way can the Kuomintang army be attracted. The 3rd, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Route Armies, with a total of 200,000 troops, were attached to the artillery division to form a reinforcement corps. With General Feng Yuxiang as the commander-in-chief and General Li Jishen as the deputy commander-in-chief, the task of the reinforcement corps was to go south and inflict heavy losses on the main force of the Kuomintang army."

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At this moment, in the ancient city of Pingyao, which is more than a kilometer away from Yangqu County, in an antique old Chinese house. General He Yingqin, commander-in-chief of the Shanxi Front of the newly formed National Army, and General Qian Dajun, chief of staff of the Front Army, and Alexander Zheng, adviser to the German Army. Feng. Falkenhausen, surrounded by a military map spread out on the table.

On the map, around Pingyao County, densely marked with the number of the troops, there are the first division, the eighth division, the tenth division, the eleventh division, the twelfth division, the thirteenth division, a total of six divisions, in addition to the first brigade of independent heavy artillery, the first brigade of independent mountain troops, the first brigade of independent cavalry, the first aviation division and other four auxiliary arms number.

"Junza, there should be no problem, right? There are not many words" Qian Dajun sighed lightly, and opened his mouth to be fluent in Japanese, the Sixth Division, the Third Brigade and an aviation division, with a total strength of nearly 1780,000, plus the Jin Army in Taiyuan City, it should be on par with the G Army, and this battle is finally a little certain. ”

He Yingqin nodded slightly, and also spoke Japanese, fortunately, there are two newly expanded light divisions that have taken over the 10th and 13th divisions to guard the Yellow River, otherwise we won't be able to take out so many troops."

Falkenhausen snorted, also in Japanese. It turned out that he had been a military attache in Japan for a long time and could speak fluent Japanese, and He Yingqin and Qian Dajun were Japanese non-commissioned officer graduates, so the three of them simply conversed in Japanese.

"General He, General Qian, we now have more than 170,000 troops, and the level of weaponry and training is far superior to that of our opponents, as well as overwhelming air superiority. Is your General Staff overly cautious? ”

He Yingqin smiled bitterly and shook his head, the General Staff of the Kuomintang has always not interfered in the operations of the front-line generals. But this time it was not the same thing, and a detailed battle plan was directly issued to the Shanxi Front. From Taigu County to Taiyuan, it is only a distance of more than 50 kilometers, and the General Staff ordered that it must be walked for three days, and it is only a few hours to advance more than ten kilometers a day, and the rest must be used to dig fortifications...... Really don't take medicine anymore? The Shanxi Front Army is also helpless in this regard, and the order of the General Staff must also have a certain amount of truth, right? No small number of words

"Advisor." Qian Dajun was clever, and when he saw He Yingqin's face embarrassed, he hurriedly came out to play a round. He smiled and said that we and GCD are both Chinese after all, and this battle is a battle. So it's not good to be too active, if you can force the G Army to retreat and rescue the hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the siege of Taiyuan, you will achieve your goal. ”

Falkenhausen nodded as well. Otherwise, the General Staff of your country would not have drawn up such a plan, and with the strength of the Shanxi Front, it would definitely be able to crush the GCD army under the city of Taiyuan."

He Yingqin also smiled and nodded, but he was still helpless in his heart. Before coming to Shanxi, Lao Jiang had asked him to teach him face-to-face, and asked him to take the annihilation of the main force of the G Army as his top priority...... However, the General Staff gave him such a battle plan, which looked like forcing the G Army to retreat and pull him down, which really made him feel embarrassed.

"General Qian, when can you start acting? According to the intelligence, two more route armies of the G Army have arrived in this section, and the total strength has reached 300,000, and it seems that it will be a little difficult to force back...... If we had done it earlier, we might have been able to achieve our goal. ”

Falkenhausen asked softly, furrowing his eyebrows. For such a merciless style of play, to be honest, he never imagined it.

"When Army G begins to storm Taiyuan, let's dispatch, otherwise it will be difficult to explain Yan Xishan's position clearly." Qian Dajun's fingers tapped lightly on the map, it should have been these two days, right? No less words"

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