The central leaders of Yan'an seem to have been obsessed with a trendy gadget lately -- watching movies.

It was a gift from the Kuomintang in the South to their allies in October, a movie projector and rolls of film. The film truly recorded a war, that is, the Battle of Cangxi that made Chen Mingren famous in World War I. What Zhongg Central got was not the edited version that was released in major theaters in the south, but the genuine unabridged original film! There are twelve hours, all of which are wars, and it looks more enjoyable than Hollywood blockbusters, but it looks a little tired, especially for comrades who don't know how to do it.

Mao ZD and Zhou Elai are now sitting side by side on a bench, holding a few nests in their hands, watching the war blockbuster with relish while gnawing. It's not the first time they've seen it, and as military strategists who haven't received formal military education, they're naturally very good at learning and won't let go of such a good opportunity.

"E." Mao ZD called the name of his old comrade-in-arms, and he was about to start commenting again, he had been leading his troops to fight for a long time, and he knew more about this business than Zhou E, so he could see a lot of problems. He smiled slightly: "The Kuomintang's defensive battle was fought well, better than the Zhensong army, the Ma Jiajun army, and the Jin army on the other side of the river." Look at how beautifully this ring fortification, machine gun bunker and anti-artillery hole are built! Our Red Army is too far behind them. But what was wrong with this army? Come, do you know where they are worse than the Red Army? ”

Zhou Elai gently bit the fragrant nest head and chewed slowly for a while, comparing the two armies in his heart. To say that the armament of the Kuomintang army was much stronger than that of the Red Army, it was the position of a battalion, and Zhou Elai saw six heavy machine guns, and the bullets were scattered as if they didn't want money. Moreover, there were bursts of smoke columns from time to time in the charging enemy line, which should have been artillery bombardment, according to the instructions sent by the Kuomintang, this was a regiment plus half a running battalion, with six mountain guns and six mortars from the regimental artillery company. This firepower is no worse than a division of the Red Army now.

Judging from their training level and organizational ability, it seems that they are much better than those of the Red Army, the artillery is very accurate, the positions are also well built, and the whole battle is pressed against the opponent, and there is no panic at all. If such an opponent encounters the Red Army, how will it be fought? Zhou Elai's brows were tightly screwed together unconsciously.

"Their spirits are still a little bit short." Mao ZD's voice was very calm, and he didn't seem to take the excellent performance of the Kuomintang army to heart at all. He smiled and said: "The Kuomintang army has good weapons and good training, but they don't have that aggressive offensive spirit, they just want to hide in the position and consume the opponent, even if they have the upper hand, they are not willing to attack easily to expand the results." Those Sichuan troops were really stupid, seeing such a solid defense and hitting their heads upwards, Chen Mingren achieved a great prestige in vain. ”

"Oh, then the Kuomintang is still not a concern." Zhou Elai stretched his eyebrows slightly, looked at Mao Zd beside him, and asked again: "If we start a war with them now, what are your chances of winning?" ”

Mao Zd smiled meaningfully: "If the Kuomintang comes to fight northern Shaanxi, I will tell them not to return to the country, but if I want to lead the troops to take the south, I am afraid that we will not return." Although they do not have any revolutionary passion, their strength is obvious, and I estimate that a regiment will not be able to eat them with the defensive capability of a regiment. Moreover, they have so many artillery pieces, and if we really want to change our positions, we still can't fight them, and the only way is to fight movement warfare plus guerrilla warfare, which can only be fought in our consolidated base areas, and I am afraid that it will not be easy to fight on their territory. ”

Zhou Elai nodded, Mao ZD's analysis was more optimistic than that of General Galen and General Pavlov. The two Soviet Russian advisers believed that with the current combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang army, it was almost the same as that of the Soviet Red Army, and although it lacked the spirit of active attack, it still had the strength to destroy the Chinese Red Army, so the Soviet advisers suggested that the Chinese army should not provoke them for the time being. It is better to find a way to seize Shanxi first, with Shanxi's industrial base, and then compete with the Kuomintang or Zhang Zuolin, you can be invincible.

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The same war blockbuster was also sent to Yanjing. Yanjing Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall also pulled up the movie screen, and the Zhang family father and son, Guo Songling and Yang Yuting, two senior staff members, also watched the "play" together. Veteran Zhang didn't sit and watch honestly, but paced in front of the movie screen, pacing and sighing: "Little Liuzi, you said that if our soldiers go to fight that position, can they be defeated?" ”

Zhang Zuolin never thought that the Kuomintang would always stay in the south to enjoy themselves, if that were the case, there would not be such an elite army! The veteran also came out of his career, and he can see at a glance what kind of goods the other party is. Although the performance of the Kuomintang army in the movie is not as good as that of the Kwantung Army, there is no problem for two to one, and his Feng army can reach one at most four or five! Now the Kuomintang has 500,000 such troops, which is almost equivalent to 25 armies, if there are 250,000 troops to fight the northeast, will he Zhang Zuolin have no way to survive except to hang himself and wipe his neck?

"Ah~uhh Zhang Xueliang yawned, and said in his heart, what's wrong with Dad? This Kuomintang and we have always been quite harmonious, how good they are in the south now! In such a fat territory, the family eats alone, and the annual income is said to be one billion yuan! Where is it like we don't even have 100 million, and there are so many mouths to eat, Wang Yongjiang is dying. What is this turf-breaking Kuomintang going to do?

"Yu Shuai, our current way out is to unify the north, and only with the north can we compete with the Kuomintang." Yang Yuting didn't wait for Zhang Xueliang to speak, so he hurriedly replied: "Our problem is not that the soldiers are not as good as them, nor that the weapons are not as good as theirs, but that the finances are not as rich as theirs. We can train if we are not proficient, and we also have the Fengtian Arsenal for weapons, but this financial situation is indeed our weakness. Those who serve as soldiers do not receive full salaries, and when they start a war, they naturally do not work hard, and they certainly have no energy to train. Therefore, in order to solve our difficulties, we must first sort out the finances, solve the finances, and then solve Wu Ziyu and Duan Zhilao (Duan Qirui). After collecting Shandong and Henan, and then attacking the GCD in Suiyuan and northern Shaanxi, we will completely uproot this group of troublemakers, so that they will always incite riots on our territory! In this way, we can unify the north, I don't believe that our Yan Zhao Nan'er will not be able to defeat them Wu Yue's people? ”

Finance! Or fiscal! Feng Zhang is in a hurry when he thinks of finances now, how can this money be so small! Originally, I thought that taking Zhili and Yanjing would always be able to scrape tens of millions of dollars a year, plus the central tariffs and salt taxes, there would always be 100 million oceans to collect a year, plus the original 70 or 80 million in the three eastern provinces, and the finances would always be passable.

I didn't expect that now the local government in Zhili will make GCD unpeaceful, either a riot here or an uprising there, and now there are several GCD "locks" on Taihang Mountain shouting every day to "kill all the local tyrants and inferior gentry". In this way, the Tianfu of Zhili is basically in vain, and the commercial tax is only acceptable in Tianjin. The customs duties and salt taxes that originally belonged to the central government were also intercepted by various powerful people under the leadership of the Kuomintang, and the central government could only receive the little money from its own one-third of an acre of land.

"We have too many soldiers now." Guo Songling also followed Yang Yuting's words, he said: "Yushuai, the military is not too much. The Kuomintang has only 500,000 soldiers but owns the entire southern country, and we have nearly 500,000 people in the north under the banner of our army alone! The two families of Zhi and Anhui each had 100,000 soldiers, Yan Xishan also had 100,000, and the total number of armies in Shaanxi was more than 100,000. In this way, not counting the Northwest and GCD, there are as many as 900,000 troops under our Central Political Axe! We really can't afford to raise it, so we must lay off the troops, and only after the reduction of the troops can we have the strength to sort out our finances. ”

"But we are going to cut off, but others are increasing, so that we will not have fewer soldiers than others? If you fight, you will suffer. When Zhang Zuolin heard about the reduction of soldiers, his head shook like a rattle, this soldier is too much to raise, and too little to use.

"Then cut it in one piece! Wouldn't it be possible to convene a conference on the reduction of troops, and let all the families in the north come and cut them together? This is Zhang Xueliang, who has been silent for a long time, suddenly put forward a seemingly clever idea - to hold a meeting of the army and cut it together.