After the truth of Wang Yizhe's death was revealed, the anger of the patriarchs was finally alleviated, and the Northeast Army temporarily restored its apparent stability, but it was already detached from morality internally.

Now that "On the Songhua River" has been sung for nearly a year, the homesickness of the officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army is even stronger, and the military spirit that has long been restless, after this cannibalism, most people have seen through the veterans at the peak of the power of the Northeast Army.

In the past, a mutiny could have occurred at any time, but after a bloodshed that had just occurred, no one wanted to stain their hands with the blood of their comrades.

Since the patriarchs did not dare to resist Japan, the officers and soldiers at the bottom wanted to switch to the troops who really dared to resist Japan, as long as they could fight with the little devils and let them do anything.

Looking at the whole country, the only one who flaunted the anti-Japanese slogan was the Datong Party, and some time ago, the Northeast Army ran out of food, but it was all thanks to the assistance of the Datong Party that it was able to sustain itself, which virtually improved the sense of the officers and men at the bottom of the Northeast Army towards the Datong Party.

In the rush incident, the Datong Party not only did not take advantage of the fire to loot, but instead gave a helping hand, helped the Northeast Army to calm down the chaos, and further increased the goodwill of the officers and men at the bottom of the Northeast Army towards the Datong Party.

In addition to the efforts of the Datong Party cadres and the Young Zhuang faction in the past few months, the stance of many low-level officers and men has gradually shifted to the side of the Datong Party.

Not long after the chaos was over, deserters gradually appeared within the Northeast Army, which was not uncommon and was very common in all troops. The difference is that the deserters of the Northeast Army have all fled to the territory of the Datong Party and become the new Workers' and Peasants' Red Army soldiers.

As early as last year, after the Battle of Wuqi Town, it was very common for soldiers in the Northeast Army to flee to the Datong Party, and the generals of the Northeast Army were no longer surprised, knowing that it was the Datong Party that was making a ghost within their own troops, but they were helpless because they could not catch the other party.

But this time. The generals of the Northeast Army had to go crazy, because the soldiers under their command no longer fled in groups of three or five as before, but fell to the Datong Party in a systematic manner, and almost every night one or two platoons of troops disappeared, and this was the case for not just one or two armies, but most of the divisions and brigades.

At the beginning, although the generals of the Northeast Army were very angry, they didn't take it very seriously, and there was such a big infighting in the army, and it was impossible for the officers and soldiers at the bottom to be careful without a little thought.

Sooner or later, the time to go will have to go. I can't keep it, so I generally choose to turn a blind eye. But he didn't expect that there would be so many and so wide troops that escaped this time, and if they were not stopped, I was afraid that it would not be long before most of them could run away, and in such a situation, the generals of the Northeast Army would no longer be able to sit still.

At the first time, they all chose to collect ammunition and close the barracks, and assigned all the troops to be closely monitored by their henchmen in company and platoon units. Prevent any more troops from escaping.

Subsequently, the generals of the Northeast Army, represented by the veteran faction, collectively found Zhang Xueliang and cried to him about the extremely serious phenomenon of desertion in the army, and pointed out that all this was a conspiracy of the Datong Party. deliberately took advantage of the internal instability of the Northeast Army to dig their corners, and a group of people kept thinking about the fact that when Ying Detian returned, the Datong Party army pressed the border and forced them to compromise.

The strength of the Northeast Army was damaged, and Zhang Xueliang was also very sad. But he can't just accuse the Datong Party of digging his corner like the old faction, although everyone knows this kind of thing very well, it is not easy to put it on the surface. In particular, those troops who broke away left voluntarily, and it was impossible for Zhang Xueliang to directly block them.

Deep in his heart, Zhang Xueliang has a deep guilt for all the officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army, if he hadn't brought 300,000 Northeast Army men into the customs back then, how could they have fallen to this point today.

Now that he can't help himself, he wants to resist Japan but can't resist Japan, and others have chosen the second way, can he still blame his subordinates for their departure.

Although Zhang Xueliang was sad about the initiative of his soldiers to leave, he understood very well, and in the face of the menacing veteran generals, he just kept pacifying, asking them to control the remaining troops and avoid internal strife again.

Zhang Xueliang was so weak that the generals of the veteran faction were very angry, and finally had to reluctantly return to their respective stations and strengthen the control of the troops, but they still couldn't prevent their troops from leaving.

At first, they thought that everything would be fine if they collected their weapons, but they did not expect that the troops who wanted to leave would leave even empty-handed, and the next day the entire barracks were all gone, leaving only the bound watchmen.

Seeing that more and more troops were detached, the Northeast Army was about to be left with an empty shelf, and the veterans had to regroup to discuss countermeasures.

Some people think that now that the army's spirit has been dispersed, it is better to take the troops to join the Central Army like Shen Ke and others before, and with their strength, they should be able to get a main position.

This idea was just proposed, and it was quickly passed by others, and now the grassroots of the Northeast Army has almost completely dispersed, except for a few henchmen, almost all of them cannot be mobilized, and they still want to bring them to the Central Army, which is simply a fool's dream.

Even Shen Ke and the others took the order of the young marshal to rescue the Central Army under the pretext that they took a cadre of soldiers south, otherwise they would not be able to take away many troops.

If you don't have enough troops in your hands, you won't have much say in front of the chairman, and when the time comes, let alone eating and drinking spicy food, it's good if you don't use it as cannon fodder, I heard that the Central Army is still fighting with the Gui system, and if you're unlucky, you will be thrown into the battle against the Gui system.

This kind of thing, the patriarchs naturally won't do it.

But if they don't vote for the Central Army, where will they go, and in the end, Yu Xuezhong, the commander of the 51st Army, boldly said: "It's really not good, let's vote for the Datong Party." ”

"Vote for the Datong Party?"

His current situation is caused by the Datong Party, and he wants to let the veteran faction defect to the Datong Party, which one is willing and which one is willing.

However, Yu Xuezhong continued: "Brothers, I know that everyone is very unhappy with the Datong Party, but in this situation, if we don't vote for the Datong Party, do we have any other paths to take?" ”

Of course, there are other paths, and the best is of course to join the Central Army. However, now that the best opportunity to defect to the Central Army has been lost, the only way in front of the patriarchs is to defect to the Datong Party, but most people are not very happy to bow their heads in front of the Datong Party.

"If we don't take refuge in the Datong Party, in the current situation, it won't be long before our troops will run away, and they will also take refuge in the Datong Party, rather than become a lonely person at that time, it is better to take the initiative to join the Datong Party while we can still control the troops, so that the troops will at least remain in our hands. As long as the troops remain in our hands. Don't worry that he won't be able to make a comeback in the future. ”

Yu Xuezhong continued to express his thoughts, although the other veteran generals were unwilling, they also felt that this was not a way to do it for free, and finally after discussion, they reluctantly accepted Yu Xuezhong's proposal and decided to join the Datong Party.

After the agreement, the patriarchal faction directly found Zhang Xueliang, so it was difficult to say that the anti-Japanese trend was inviolable, since the brothers all wanted to fight devils so much. It would have been a little unsympathetic for them to continue to oppose it, and after deliberations among several army commanders, they finally agreed to cooperate with the Datong Party to resist Japan.

Hearing that the patriarchs finally compromised, Zhang Xueliang was very relieved. At the same time, I sighed in my heart, I knew why I was so in the first place, but I was still sincerely happy for the change of the patriarchate.

In the excitement, Zhang Xueliang quickly conveyed the good news to the Shaozhuang faction and the Datong Party. He also suggested that the Datong Party should complete the cooperation as soon as possible in order to calm down the morale of the military, which was still somewhat restless.

When Zhang Xueliang's telegram was received, the Datong Party was very surprised. But it was also their expectation that the Northeast Army was in this situation, and if they didn't make a choice quickly, the remaining troops would sooner or later be eaten by the Datong Party little by little.

After receiving Zhang Xueliang's telegram, a small number of people were very disdainful, believing that there was no need to pay attention to the Northeast Army's request for cooperation, and as long as there was a period of time, it would be able to absorb all the low-level officers and men of the Northeast Army.

Although this kind of thinking is normal and theoretically possible, the chairman and others do not see it that way. Now that the Datong Party has raised the slogan of the "anti-Japanese united front," a certain degree of Weiguangzheng must still be retained, and the complete annexation of the entire Northeast Army will inevitably make it a little ugly, and where will other troops dare to cooperate with the Datong Party in the future.

In the long run, cooperation with the Northeast Army plays an extremely important exemplary role, and the Datong Party has now demonstrated its strength, but it still has to make its own voice heard, so that the people of the whole country can hear the Datong Party's determination to resist Japan and understand the Datong Party's "anti-Japanese united front" policy.

Only by thoroughly implementing the "anti-Japanese united front" can we win the hearts and minds of the people in the general righteousness, and only by winning the hearts and minds of the people can the Datong Party lead the people of the whole country to carry out revolution, drive out the aggressors, defeat the reactionary ~ movement~ faction, and finally win the national victory.

After discussion at the meeting of the chairman and other central bigwigs, it was finally agreed to cooperate with the Northeast Army to resist Japan, but the Northeast Army also had to change course and be incorporated into the command system of the Datong Party, on the one hand, in order to control the military strength of the Northeast Army, on the other hand, the Datong Party did not have much confidence in the operational command of the Northeast Army.

In addition, a more important reason is to unify government decrees and prevent command confusion.

These demands of the Datong Party had been mentioned as early as in the previous cooperation negotiations, and although the Northeast Army was very unhappy after learning about it, it now had no better choice and had to accept it head-on, but at the agreement signing meeting, the generals of the Northeast Army represented by the veteran faction did not look very good.

Even so, Li Shengshi and Zhang Xueliang, who were responsible for signing on both sides, didn't care at all, the audience kept a smile, and they shook hands and took pictures together cordially after the signing, leaving a historic moment.

After the signing of the cooperation agreement, the remaining work was the reorganization of the armed forces, and the Northeast Army went through civil strife and the separation of its troops, and the establishment of each unit could no longer support the current five armies, and the downsizing was inevitable.

Under normal circumstances, no general would be happy when the troops were downsized, but after seeing the reorganization plan proposed by the Datong Party, the generals of the Northeast Army could not help but be happy, and the reason was that the Datong Party was so generous that it wanted to carry out a comprehensive redress of the Northeast Army, all according to the standards of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

After seeing the firepower configuration of the Datong Party, the Northeast Army was the envy of everyone, and they almost drooled out, thinking that after defecting to the Datong Party, they would not ask for all the redressing, but would give them a few more light and heavy machine guns and artillery pieces, which would make people so excited that they couldn't sleep, and where did they think that the Datong Party would give them a comprehensive change of clothing.

When it comes to a full makeover. At the beginning, there was a lot of opposition within the Datong Party, and if it was to directly incorporate the Northeast Army, it would be nothing, and now it is only a stage of cooperation, and it will inevitably not be a tiger if it is completely redressed.

The chairman and others understood this concern very well, but they still explained to the comrades why they did it.

The first reason, of course, is to show that the Datong Party is fair and just, and will not discriminate against the Northeast Army because it is a foreign army, Chang Kaishen's approach. The Datong Party does not learn and does not bother to study.

The second reason is to win the trust of all the officers and men of the Northeast Army, since you have come to join the Datong Party, the Datong Party will naturally treat you as its own comrades, and only by trusting each other can the two armies rely on each other on the battlefield, so that there will not be a situation where the People's Party army will send you to death to receive merit and betray your brother troops.

The third reason is to prepare for the resistance against Japan, the Japanese army has always been fierce, with the Japanese people's fear of Japan. Asking the Northeast Army to fight against Japan with improvised equipment is no different from sending it to death, and the Datong Party will not do anything to use the enemy to destroy the miscellaneous army.

The fourth reason is that in order to unify logistics, after the full replacement of semi-automatic firearms. The logistical pressure of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army is getting bigger and bigger, and if a new logistics system is re-established for the Northeast Army at this time, it will be tantamount to asking for trouble for oneself and having had enough of the pain of the nation. The logistics department of the Datong Party did not want to repeat the mistakes of the past.

The last and most important reason is that most of the low-level officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army have completely turned to the Datong Party. The remaining veteran generals couldn't make any more waves, and the Datong Party was not worried that they would have different intentions at all.

Even if there are really different intentions, the Datong Party will not be afraid, after the comprehensive reorganization of the Northeast Army, all political commissars and instructors will be installed, there will be political workers to control the officers and soldiers at the bottom, and the old warlords of the veteran faction will be just decorations.

After the explanation of the chairman and others, the Datong Party reluctantly accepted the proposal to change the outfit of the Northeast Army, but there were still some internal objections, but the problem was not big.

Before the comprehensive reorganization and redressing, the party newspaper department of the Datong Party also spread the good news of the joint resistance of the two armies throughout the country, and the whole country was shocked for a while, and they all made unbelieving voices, and Chang Kaishen, who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, was even more angry and scolded Zhang Xueliang for not being righteous.

As the news of the joint anti-Japanese war spread throughout the country, Li Shengshi and Zhang Xueliang also jointly issued a "Declaration to the Compatriots of the Whole Country to Resist Japan", calling on the domestic warlords to "stop the civil war and jointly resist Japan", and the people of the whole country should unite to defeat the invaders.

Although the statement of the two armies was impassioned, it was collectively ignored by the domestic warlords, and only Yang Hucheng, the director of the Northwest Battalion and the commander of the 17th Route Army, responded to the proposal of the two armies to jointly resist Japan and decided to form a three-army alliance with the two armies.

Another important event was that the underground members of the Datong Party organized a large-scale anti-Japanese march in Shanghai and Beijing, and in the middle of the procession, both groups of marchers were suppressed by the Shanghai garrison and the 29th Army, resulting in a large number of patriotic youths being killed and injured and arrested in the confrontation with the military and police.

Due to the large number of patriotic youths killed and injured and arrested, a larger anti-Japanese parade took place in the following days, because it took place on October 10, which was later known as the "Double Ten Anti-Japanese Parade".

While the comrades in the White Zone were waging the anti-Japanese struggle, the reorganization of the troops in the Soviet Zone was also urgently under way, and not only the Northeast Army needed to be comprehensively reorganized, but also the 17th Route Army needed to be reorganized, and even the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army also needed to be readjusted.

At present, the three main forces of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army have joined forces, and the troops of the Majia Army in the northwest have been reorganized, and a large number of officers and men of the central government have been captured in the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign in the northwest, and the Northeast Army has also absorbed many officers and men.

After the reorganization of the troops, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the Northeast Army, and the 17th Route Army were all collectively called the "Chinese Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army," and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th armies under the jurisdiction of the Central Military Commission column directly under the Central Committee, with a total strength of more than 400,000 troops in the 10 armies.

The column of the Central Military Commission directly under the Central Committee has the jurisdiction of the first column, the second column, and the third column, and the commander is Ye Jianying (Ye Shuai).

The First Army has the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Divisions, and the 1st Independent Cavalry Brigade, with the commander Mu Sanhu (Lin Shuai).

The Second Army has the 4th, 5th, and 6th Divisions, and the Independent Second Cavalry Brigade, and the army commander (He Shuai) He Wenchang.

The Third Army is under the jurisdiction of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Divisions, and the Independent Third Cavalry Brigade, with the commander Zhao Wu (General Peng).

The Fourth Army has the 10th, 11th, and 12th Divisions, and the Independent Fourth Cavalry Brigade, and the army commander Xu Xiangqian (Xu Shuai).

The Fifth Army has the 13th, 14th, and 15th Divisions, and the Independent Fifth Cavalry Brigade, with the commander Nie Rongzheng (Nie Shuai).

The Sixth Army has the 16th, 17th, and 18th Divisions, and the Independent Sixth Cavalry Brigade, with the commander Liu Mingzhao (Liu Shuai).

The Seventh Army has the 19th, 20th, and 21st Divisions, and the Independent Seventh Cavalry Brigade, with Yang Hucheng as its commander.

The Eighth Army has the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th Divisions, and the Independent Eighth Cavalry Brigade, with the commander Yu Xuezhong.

The Ninth Army has the 25th, 26th, and 27th Divisions, and the Independent Ninth Cavalry Brigade, and the army commander He Zhuguo.

Zhu Wei (General Zhu) served as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, and Zhao Wu (General Peng) and Zhang Xueliang served as deputy commanders-in-chief.

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P.S. - Tragedy...... (To be continued......)