December 10 of the 19th year of the Republic of China. Liaoning West, Xingcheng County Railway Station.

A blue-steel locomotive made in South China dragged a long dozen cars slowly approaching the platform, and with a long hiss, steam tumbled on the platform. Before the steam dissipated, I saw Mao Zd wearing a gray tweed tunic, wearing a thick tweed coat, and walking down with a group of attachés in military uniforms. Seeing his appearance, Zhang Xueliang, Guo Songling and others who greeted him on the platform all widened their eyes with surprised expressions. Mao ZD is the president of the "only legitimate government of China" at present, the head of state, and the theoretical commander-in-chief of the armed forces!

At this moment, he actually followed a column full of officers and soldiers of the Fourth Route to the front line in western Liaoning! It seems that Zhong G is really desperate to save the Eighth Route Army.

Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling hurriedly took a few steps, respectfully stood up and saluted, and then the two groups of people shook hands warmly. Zhang Xueliang took Mao Zd's hand and sighed: "I didn't expect that the president would come to the front line to supervise the battle, if the brothers below knew, they would definitely be full of morale and fight bravely to kill the enemy!" It seems that this battle of Liaoxi is a big victory. The two men walked out side by side. Although I didn't know that President Mao Da would come in person, the inside and outside of the Xingcheng Railway Station were also heavily guarded, and the officers and soldiers of Zhang Xueliang's lineage, the armored cavalry brigade of the Northeast Army, and the entire line of the railway station and the county town were on guard, and all around were soldiers with loaded guns.

When Mao Zdbi heard Zhang Xueliang's words, he waved his hand and said with a smile: "General Hanqing, I'm not here to supervise the battle, there is General He Maochen on the front line, what else can we rest assured?" It's just that the troops on the front line are too mixed, including our GCD, our Northeast Army, and the Al-Shabaab and Shanxi armies. With so many armies together, I'm afraid it's hard to command! He sighed slightly: "So I, this mud bodhisattva, went to the front line to press the battle against General He Maochen!" Whoever dares to disobey their unified command, I will be the first to spare him! Zhang Xueliang was stunned, and blurted out: "The Kuomintang won't listen to ......" Seeing Mao Zd's face darken in a blink of an eye, Zhang Xueliang hurriedly changed his words: "The Kuomintang also sent a division, and it is equipped with more than 100 tanks, their tanks are bigger than mine, and the barrel is thick, which looks very powerful." I think they are also sincere, and it should be easy to rescue the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army. Mao Zd's face became even more gloomy: "General Hanqing, when did the Kuomintang transfer the armored division to Liaoxi?" When they went north along the Jinpu line, our men didn't notice any tanks coming. Zhang Xueliang was stunned and stunned, he didn't know where these tanks came from? In the end, Guo Songling, who was on the side, interjected: "Now that Huludao Port is under the control of the Kuomintang, they have transported two tank battalions by ship to the Kuomintang First Division and the Eleventh Division, and there is no armored division. He shook his head and sighed: "These Kuomintang tanks are good, but they are walking too slowly, and the road in western Liaoning is not good, and their tanks and heavy artillery are ...... Crawling slower than a turtle, a day is more than 20 kilometers, it is estimated that it will take five days to reach the rising sun, to break the siege is only afraid"

Mao ZD sighed lightly and pointed to the other side of the platform, which was now full of neat columns, wearing blue-gray military uniforms, these elite soldiers inside and out, holding rifles and backpacks, silently waiting for the military order to leave.

"This is part of our Fourth Route Army, the rest will be there soon, and the Third Route Army is also ready! We have to rely on our own strength to break the siege...... We can't expect the Kuomintang conscience to find out, right? Looking at the military hats and rifles surging everywhere on the platform, Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling glanced at each other, their eyes full of admiration and emotion. The officers and men of almost one division got off the train in just 10 minutes, and the whole process was quiet and neat, without a trace of chaos.

I'm afraid that such elite soldiers are far from even being able to compare with the Kuomintang army, right?

Seeing the elite soldiers of Zhongg, Zhang Xueliang laughed again in a blink of an eye: "President, I didn't expect that there are such elite soldiers in our country, it seems that this battle in Liaoxi can still be brought back." I will send people to Huludao to suspend the advance of the Kuomintang First Division to make way for them. Moreover, the Fifth Route Army of our Northeast Army is also ready, and there are four artillery regiments equipped with mountain artillery that can be used, one hundred and forty-four civilian thirteen millimeter mountain guns, each gun is equipped with two base ammunition, how about setting off with the Fourth Route Army? ”

The three of them took the lead in getting into the waiting car, and the guards jumped on the pedals of the car and immediately left. The arrival of Mao ZD is tantamount to sounding the clarion call for the battle to relieve the siege, and more than 100,000 troops are ready to act at any time.

"Jiegong, Jiegong, why don't you let the staff or An Sihua go to the front to supervise the battle, you are the chairman of our Military Commission, where can you run to the front in person? ...............On the afternoon of the day when Mao ZD personally arrived at the front line in western Liaoning, when Chiang Kai-shek convened the senior Kuomintang generals in Huludao to discuss the matter, he suddenly proposed to personally go to the army to supervise the battle, and urge the army to "work day and night" to rescue the GCD Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army besieged in Beipiao!

As soon as he heard that GCD had mobilized the Third Route Army and the Fourth Route Army to come to Liaoxi, and that Mao ZD would personally go to the front line to supervise the battle, Luo Yaoguo knew that Chiang Kai-shek would definitely make further moves. Who was Chiang Kai-shek? The most anti-G villain in China. , he didn't wait for Wuhan and ran all the way to the icy and snowy western part of Liaoning, isn't it just to oppose G and the people? Now this conspiracy seems to have been discovered by Mao ZD, and the people have also gone to Liaoxi in person.

And how could this Chiang Kai-shek be willing to fail?

However, when I thought of these two historical rivals, they were about to lie side by side in a trench, and "work together" for the early victory of the War of Resistance against Japan, Luo Yaoguo was a little ridiculous, and a little overwhelmed? These two shouldn't fight, right?

Probably because his jiān plan was about to fail, Chiang Kai-shek was slightly unhappy, and snorted coldly at Luo Yaoguo, who couldn't help dissuading him: "Didn't you follow a long time ago?" I'm solely responsible for the removal of the siege, GC...... I'll take care of it, don't worry about it! It's better to think about how to get the Japanese out as soon as possible, the people in the south don't want this war to go on for a few years! "But, but" Luo Yaoguo wanted something more. Chiang Kai-shek waved his hand impatiently: "Brother Fuwen, I will do it if it is difficult, just fight the devils and recover the Northeast." If you feel that it is inconvenient to stay in Huludao, you can also go back to Jinan or Wuhan, go to Harbin to inspect the anti-Japanese coalition forces, or go to Qingdao to discuss with the navy how to blockade and control Bohai Bay. When this battle is fought, we will increase our troops in Liaoxi, and we are bound to win this northeast! ”

Luo Yaoguo calmed down for a while, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

At present, there is no dictator in the south, Chiang Kai-shek is not, and neither is he Luo Yaoguo! Therefore, whether his wishful thinking can be fought or not depends sometimes on public opinion and the morale of the army. It seems that now the People's Opinion Army is looking forward to a quick victory in the Northeast War, and no one will agree to fight for ten or eight years...... If you really go against the will of the people, I'm afraid that this chess game will not be your own!

The most troublesome thing is that neither the military and political leaders of the Kuomintang nor the increasingly powerful monopoly of the South do not like GCISM. That's why Chiang Kai-shek is now jumping up and down, more and more active......

"Jiegong, you must pay attention to safety when you go to the front line to supervise the battle, we only have one division, 25,000 people...... The rest are unreliable troops.

Be sure to ......."

Chiang Kai-shek's face also relaxed, and he said with a smile: "Brother Fuwen, there is a town in Huludao, which of them dares to touch me?" Besides, I sincerely went to relieve the siege of the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army. These GCD people don't know what to do, right? Luo Yaoguo frowned slightly, looking at Lao Jiang's straight face, it didn't seem like he was faking, maybe Sister Song had already influenced him......

In the night, a fire dragon with no end in sight was still winding on the mountain road in western Liaoning, rolling forward.

The terrain of western Liaoning is not a large hilly plateau, but it is a large continuous area, separating the western Liaoning corridor from the Neimen G grassland. However, the two county towns of Chaoyang and Beipiao happen to be on the northern edge of the mountainous area of western Liaoning, and the key points in the western Liaoning corridor such as Huludao and Xingcheng are connected by only a few simple mountain roads, which are the choke points of the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army deployed in the western Liaoning corridor to rescue the Beipiao squadrons.

And the 50,000 tigers of the Fourth Route Army of the Central G, on the side of these simple mountain roads, advanced at the speed of a rapid march. In the low temperature of minus ten degrees, everyone walked sweaty, but the footsteps did not have the slightest intention of stopping.

Next to the elite Zhongg army that was advancing rapidly, there was a motionless Kuomintang army lying on its stomach! The winding roads were filled with tanks, heavy guns drawn by cars, mountain guns drawn by eight horses, trucks loaded with heavy supplies, and armored cars in which officers traveled. Next to these vehicles were crowded with Kuomintang officers and soldiers who were warming themselves by fires, all of whom looked at the army that passed by them with admiration and curiosity.

However, these Kuomintang officers and soldiers would never have imagined that their former division commander, Lieutenant General Li Jishen, was also carrying a crutch and wearing the same leggings as the soldiers, and they were also marching along the mountain road covered with ice and snow with difficulty. All around him were the senior commanders of the Fourth Route Army, who were measuring the road with their feet like soldiers, and on the other hand, they were looking at the steel dragon lying on their stomachs with complicated and strange eyes. The thought that these iron fellows would have to stop and rest at night, and that their own soldiers could march without sleep, the spirit of the slightest blow was a little longer, and the pace could not help but speed up a little.

"Onward! Former comrade Xu X! A slightly Sichuan-flavored voice suddenly came from the tank convoy of the Kuomintang army, and Xu X, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Route Army, looked back and saw that Liu Bcheng, chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, was hurrying towards him.

"Comrade B Cheng, how can you be with them?" Before Xu X could speak, a young soldier with thick eyebrows and big eyes, around twenty-seven or eighteen years old, preemptively asked questions.

Liu Bcheng looked at it and recognized that this person was Comrade Li Shuoxun, the new political commissar of the Fourth Route Army, and hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Report to Political Commissar Li, I was sent by the General Front Committee of the Shanzhen General Committee of Western Liaoning to Huludao to counter-negotiate with the Kuomintang. I didn't expect Chaoyang to be suddenly attacked by the Japanese invaders, so I ,...

He pointed to the long list of tanks behind him and smiled bitterly! "They are the vanguard sent by the Kuomintang to relieve the siege for us, but they climb slower than turtles, fortunately they came up, otherwise this battle would be really a bit troublesome."

"I see." Li Shuoxun smiled and nodded, and beckoned to Li Jishen, who had also stopped and was gasping for breath on the side: "Ren Gong, this is Comrade Liu Bcheng, chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, and he knows the situation of the former enemy very well. Then he whispered in Sichuan dialect in Liu Bcheng's ear: "This time it is a joint operation, and the central government considers that Li Jishen is a democrat and a veteran of the Kuomintang, so let him be the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, is there any situation to deal with him?" ”

"Commander-in-chief" Liu Bcheng twisted his eyebrows and hesitated: "Comrade Shuoxun, do you know, the Kuomintang also appointed a former enemy commander-in-chief, it was Fu Zuoyi of the Jin Army According to the order of the joint command, the Fifth Route Army, the Second Jin Division, and the First Kuomintang Division of the Northeast Army, a total of more than 90,000 people, are under his unified command. ”

Li Shuoxun waved his hand indifferently: "What else do you mention the joint command!" Our President Mao has already come to the front line to supervise the battle, didn't you see that the Kuomintang army and the Jin army were honestly hiding to the side to make way for us? ”

Liu Bcheng shook his head and lowered his voice: "These Japanese are very difficult, our Eighth Route Army is pressed and beaten by them, and if the Kuomintang does not participate, I am afraid that this battle to break the siege will not be easy to win." ”

"Who doesn't have the Kuomintang participating?" Li Shuoxun smiled: "Tell me, now Chairman Chiang of the Kuomintang is discussing with our President Mao Da how to fight together!" There are public opinion and democrats in the whole country staring at it, what crooked ideas do they dare to fight in the Kuomintang? Then he pulled Liu Bcheng and walked towards Li Jishen.

With a snap, someone dared to slap the table in front of Comrade Mao ZD in front of the public! It's so reactionary...... And not only slapped the table, but then scolded people: "Niang Xipi! How many battles have you fought? What kind of military school did you go to? How can this battle to break the siege be commanded indiscriminately? Our battle plan is foolproof, not only with the efforts of our Kuomintang military experts, but also with the wisdom of moral advisers! It is definitely possible to rescue our Eighth Route Army and Seventeenth Route Army. ”

It turned out that this slapping the table and scolding people was Chiang Kai-shek, he and Mao 2d were worthy of being mortal enemies, and as soon as they met, they began to quarrel, and the two sides had major differences on almost all issues.

Chiang Kai-shek insisted on a plan for the liberation of the siege drawn up by Luo Yaoguo and An Sihua, as well as an elite staff officer and moral adviser.... With the Kuomintang 1st Division attached to an armored cluster as the vanguard, it slowly climbed along the highway to Chaoyang County, and then the planes, heavy artillery and tanks rumbled over, crushing all the lightly armed and non-heavy Japanese with no heavy weapons into meat sauce, thus opening up the retreat of the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army.

"Oh, it turns out that Mr. Jiang is still concerned about the safety of our party's two route armies." Mao Zd still kept smiling, but his tone was slightly sarcastic: "But according to the speed of their march, I'm afraid that I just want to collect the corpses of our soldiers, right?" At this time, the atmosphere in the field was extremely depressing, Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling were speechless next to them, and they didn't know how to mediate these two. At present, there is a joint command in command of the three-part joint operation on the surface, but in fact it is still fighting separately, guarding against each other and calculating with each other, otherwise there would be no siege of Beipiao. Now it seems that the KMT and the CCP have not only failed to learn their lesson, but also completely lost the trust that they did not have much because of the siege of Beipiao. didn't fight by himself, it was already an eye-opener.

"Mr. Mao's words are wrong." Chiang Kai-shek seemed to have calmed down after venting: "Whether our Kuomintang tried to wear down the strength of our GCD in this battle of western Liaoning is obvious to all, and the joint command has repeatedly ordered them to retreat. If they hadn't ignored them and disobeyed orders, why would they be surrounded today? Even in this battle to break the siege, we put the First Division of the National Revolutionary Army at the forefront, if we deliberately consume you, we can let our Fourth Route Army take the lead! And in my opinion, our Fourth Route Army will not be able to relieve the siege of Beipiao at all, and most of them will put themselves into it. ”

Chiang Kai-shek's rebuttal did not surprise Mao Zd, he pointed to the map spread out on the table, and smiled angrily: "Mr. Chiang, we don't need to worry about the combat effectiveness of our GCD army. Although our weapons and equipment are inferior to those of the enemy, we have always fought valiantly against Japanese imperialism. Unlike some people, who have excellent equipment, but they are afraid of the enemy like a tiger, they cannot delay, and they do not want to think that the weapons in their hands are bought for them by the masses of the people only when they are thrifty. ”“… If Mr. Chiang really intends to unite against Japan, then please show some sincerity, let our first division take a little step, and stop crawling slowly. If you really don't want to go head-to-head with the Japanese, then let your planes go out and provide us with some air support, so that the Japanese don't let the Japanese drop their planes over the territory of the world's four largest air forces (Britain, France, Italy, and China) that were crossed! ”！