Chapter 15 - Yan Xishan surrendered

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On the target plane, in mid-September 1943, the Yanhuang Red Party annihilated nearly 200,000 Northwest Majia troops who invaded Shaanxi, and captured Qinghai, Gansu, and Ningxia provinces in one go.

chóngqìng, Chairman Jiang Zeng Jiayan's official residence (also known as "Yaolu").

"Niang Xipi, Niang Xipi!!" The leader of the bald party, Chairman Chiang, restlessly crossed the house.

"Darling, what's wrong with you?" Song Meiling next to her asked with concern.

"The red bandits are hateful, the red bandits are shameful, the red bandits are misleading the country!!" Hearing his wife's inquiry, Chairman Jiang uttered a series of analogies.

"Didn't Ma Jiajun attack Shaanxi first? Becoming a king and losing, since he lost, he has nothing to say about losing his life. After all, not any party has the bearing and tolerance of you. Song Meiling saw that her husband was anxious, and held it without a trace.

"It is not a pity that Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing died, but the foundation of the three northwestern provinces fell into the hands of the red bandits. Now that the bandits are powerful, Mr. Zhongshan's last wish of the Republic of China may be difficult to realize one more day. After hearing Song Meiling's comforting words, Chairman Jiang shook his head and replied.

"What? Darling, are you worried that they will ignore the public opinion at home and invade Sichuan (Qinghai and Sichuan border), and then overthrow the Republic of China and replace it? Song Meiling speculated.

"It may not be possible to attack Sichuan immediately, but now that the Red Bandits have 7 provinces at once, and then conquer Northeast China and North China, and there is the support of the Soviet Union behind them, who can control them in the future?" Chairman Jiang said half answering, half asking himself.

"This ......, otherwise, let them come over and discuss together, after all, they know more about military strategy!"

"That's it!"

At 7 o'clock in the evening, Chen Cheng, Gu Zhutong, Zhang Zhizhong, Chairman Jiang and other confidants gathered in "Yaolu".

"Okay, everyone has arrived, they are all their own people here, and there is no need to be polite, now the red bandits have invaded Qinghai, Gansu, and Ningxia provinces, and the future of the party and the state is worrying, you all express your opinions and discuss countermeasures." Chairman Jiang, who was sitting on a Western-style seat, opened his speech.

"Commission, according to the propaganda of the red bandits themselves, they sent a total of 300,000 troops into the three northwestern provinces, which is clearly to carry out secession, and it is necessary to guard against it!" Gu Zhutong spoke first.

"Defense? What to defend against?! Zhang Zhizhong suddenly answered.

"En~~~ Gong Wen, what are you?" Gu Zhutong didn't expect Zhang Zhizhong, who had always been gentle and elegant, to suddenly speak rudely, and he was stunned for a moment and asked.

"Wenbai, what's wrong?" Chairman Jiang also sensed that Zhang Zhizhong's state was not quite right today, and asked.

"Commission, now the party-state can be described as internal and external, outside, the Japanese invaded our country and have not recovered, the red bandits alone control the 7 provinces, the general trend of secession has been achieved, and the Republic of China will have the worry of splitting; Inside, the undercurrent is surging, the various forces are connected endlessly, and there are a large number of speculators in the people, trying in vain to make a windfall, and now the fiat currency in the market is depreciating, prices are soaring, and we have reached the most dangerous time! The sad and gray-haired Zhang Zhizhong said.

"This ......" Hearing that his arms and pillars in the zhèngfǔ were so pessimistic, Chairman Chiang knew that the situation must have evolved to the point where there was no way to deal with it.

"Now zhèngfǔ is unstable, is there woe to the people?" Thinking of this, Chairman Jiang asked.

"Since the beginning of this year, the price of rice has doubled month after month, and now the price of a bucket of rice is 8 times that of the beginning of the year, and a large number of people have died of starvation in many places, including chóngqìng, and thousands of incidents of looting grain stores and granaries have occurred in many remote areas of Sichuan. Zhang Zhizhong explained.

"I understand, Wenbai, these rì have worked hard for you!" After listening to this, Chairman Jiang nodded, calmed the general, and then turned his head and asked, "Cixiu, how is the state of the army now?" ”

"Commission, the army can still be maintained now, but the military aid of the Star-Spangled Banner is intermittent, how to deal with it in the future is still to be arranged by the commission!" After Chen Cheng's concise reply, he analyzed: "Now that the Red Bandits have invaded the seven provinces, according to the minimum estimate, there are 700,000 available Jīng soldiers, and with the Red Bandits' usual trick of concealing information, it is estimated that the actual army is likely to exceed 1.2 million, or even 1.5 million. In the past six months or so, they have sent troops to the Yanhuang Army, the Outer Mongolian Guandong Army, and the Majia Army in the Northwest; according to the information we have and the records of past battles, these three units are all field armies with considerable combat effectiveness, and we often need a superiority of 3 to 1 or even 5 to 1 in order to achieve a balance on the battlefield. According to this calculation, in the past six months or so, the Red Party has annihilated about 500,000 enemy troops, which is equivalent to 1.5 million ** combat power, which is the worry of losing the country!! ”

"Yunong, have you found out the source of the red bandits' armaments?" After hearing this, Chairman Jiang did not express his position, but asked Dai Li.

"Commission, now it is certain that the Soviet Union gave a large amount of military aid to the Red Bandits for reasons that we do not know, but the specific route is unknown, and they are extremely closely protected, and my spies rooted in the Red Party cannot hear about it for the time being." Dai replied.

"Commission, in fact, it doesn't matter which route they pass through now, now the red bandits occupy Outer Mongolia, directly bordering the Soviet Union, and have formed a stable military aid channel, but we, although we have the assistance of the Stars and Stripes, but compared to the total number of troops, the scale is a drop in the bucket, and it is difficult to achieve a comprehensive change!" Gu Zhutong interjected.

"Well, I plan to go to the Stars and Stripes Republic with my wife in some time to see if there is a chance to get greater armament aid and material support, alas~~ Don't wait for me! But now...... Rhetoric! Chairman Jiang looked up and thought for a while and said.

"In!"

"I order you to immediately transfer 200,000 troops from all over the country to support the defenders on the border between Sichuan and Qinghai, and be sure to ensure the safety of Sichuan, and there will be no mistakes, understand!"

"Yes!"

"Wenbai!"

"In!"

"You rìzi have screened out some of the merchants who are hoarding grain, this time I will close a batch and kill a batch! Reassure the people and set an example!! ”

"Yes!"

Just as Chairman Jiang was arranging affairs inside and outside the party in an orderly manner, Yan Laoxi, who had been forgotten in the corner by everyone in the room, finally couldn't sit still and began the nth apostasy in history.

Since the Yanhuanghong Party swept through the three provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, and Ningxia in the northwest, Yan Laoxi, who was in a corner of Suiyuan, looked around and found that he had become a real "lonely man".

"Sooner or later he will surrender" has become a definitive conclusion in Yan Xishan's heart, but when to surrender and change his banner, Lao Yan has not yet thought about it, and it is his henchman and right-hand man who finally helps him make up his mind - Sun Chu.

Who is Sun Chu? Many people don't know, but when Comrade Wang Fan mentions one thing, everyone knows that he is Lao Yan's designated Shanxi agent and acting commander-in-chief of the Jin Sui Army after seeing that the general trend has gone in the Liberation War, and after taking a plane to Baodao, everyone understands Sun Chu's status in Lao Yan's heart.

In fact, in history, Lao Yan's subordinates were still very loyal to Yan Laoxi, and in the War of Liberation, many generals of the Zhan Ngyāng Army sent a telegram to Chairman Chiang after being besieged by the Red Party, saying "swear to live and die with the city", what was the result? Most of them either "Glorious Uprising" or were captured.

After Yan Laoxi ran away, he ordered the Jin Sui army that was surrounded in Taiyuan to hold on, and the leaders of the Jin Sui army in Shanxi at that time called back with "determination to live and die with the city". Then, whether it was a plan or a trap, the leaders of the Jin Suijun were concentrated in a few bullet shelters, eating the best (found the best cook in the city), playing the best (captured the most beautiful women and singers in the city), drunk and dreamed of death, and then at the moment when the city broke, dozens of people together (including Yan Xishan's fifth sister Yan Huiqing) committed suicide by taking poison.

But in history, Sun Chuke did not die, the real reason is ridiculous, because he believed in the "feudal" set, asked the hexagram himself, and learned that he did not have to worry about his life, so he tried his best not to go to the appointment and waited for the city to break (the above is the factual historical data found in heaven, from the memoirs of one of the leaders of the Bald Party spies, Shen Drunk, which he heard with his own ears during the transformation).

Therefore, when Sun Chu came to Yan Laoxi this time, he also asked the hexagram in advance, and the hexagram told him that "it's time to defect to Cheng Cheng".

"Commander-in-Chief, haven't you made up your mind yet?" Entering Yan Laoxi's house, Sun Chu saluted respectfully, and then asked.

"Difficult, difficult, difficult!" Yan Laoxi shook his head and replied.

"Commander-in-chief, do you remember the Central Plains War?" Sun Chu vaguely felt that direct persuasion would not work, so he took a roundabout route instead.

"What are you doing at this time, it's all about the imperial calendar!" Yan Laoxi asked unhappily when he heard that Sun Chu didn't open which pot to mention.

"Commander-in-chief, it is very similar to then, we hesitated at the beginning, after the coalition army with Feng Yuxiang defeated the Jiang army Xiong Shihui Division, the Jiang army shook on all fronts, and Jiang Bald was ready to implement a general retreat. Unexpectedly, because we were too suspicious of Shi Yousan, the telegram that asked him to connect Zhang Xueliang against us was obtained by Jiang Bald, so he seized the opportunity to buy Shi Yousan, and finally turned defeat into victory. To put it mildly, commander-in-chief, we are calculating everywhere to ensure that we are exhaustive, but the result is that we are not able to face each other, this time the general trend of the Red Party's unification of the north has been decided, and you are still pondering and waiting, to see if they are in trouble to recover the northeast and north China. But if they do fight down, we may be greeted not by a welcome banner but by a dark prison. Moreover, even if it is still a banner, how can the conditions be the same at that time and at this time? Maybe when the time comes, the Jin Sui Army will become history, and unlike now, the establishment of 2 divisions can still be retained! Sun Chu said step by step.

"This~~~~" After Yan Xishan heard Sun Chu say the result he was most worried about, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat and a chill down his spine, and said: "But the Red Party's policy, I'm afraid that he will liquidate it afterwards!" ”

"So we not only have to surrender as soon as possible to get the highest possible position, but also to persuade other high-level bald party leaders to defect, the more people who surrender, the higher our reputation, the greater the influence, the greater the self-protection power, the less likely it is to be liquidated by the autumn queen!" Sun Chu gave full play to his mouth skills, half fooling and half persuading.

"Let me think about it for another day, just for another day, let me think again!!"

Three days later, because of intermittent contact in the early stage, Yan Laoxi finally reached an agreement with the Red Party, telegraphed the whole country, announced the change of banner, quit the Bald Party, and joined the Red Party border area as a person without party affiliation, which set off a stormy wave in the Yanhuang Continent for a time.