Chapter Seventy-Five: Suiyuan and Fu Zuoyi's Decision

ps: This chapter is here in ^_^ the evening

In mid-June 1943, shortly after the victory of the Battle of Bougainville Island in the South Pacific, the Japanese Army, stimulated by the great victory of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy, ordered the Yanhuang Dispatch Army to intensify the build-up of troops and materials, and then scheduled to launch a full-scale attack on Yanhuang Shaanxi Province on June 20. However, before attacking Shaanxi Province, the Mongol troops stationed in Chahar decided to attack the Yanhuang Bald-controlled area stationed in Suiyuan, Yan Xishan and Fu Zuoyi's troops, so as to eliminate the potential reinforcements around the Yanhuang Red Party and further isolate the surrounding war environment.

Speaking of Yan Xishan, it actually refers to the Jin Suijun mentioned in "Bright Sword", which is also known as Yan Xishan, which is known as the "evergreen tree of the Republic of China", and can survive decades of wind and rain during the Yanhuang Republic of China.

The most glorious time of Jin Suijun and Yan Xishan, I am afraid to be traced back to 13 years ago, that is, before the Central Plains War in 1930, on March 20, 1930, when Yan Xishan publicly announced a telegram against Jiang, it can be described as full of ambition, Yan Xishan was inaugurated as the commander-in-chief of the Yanhuang Army, Navy and Air Force in Taiyuan on April 1, sitting on the territory of the six provinces and cities of Jin, Hebei, Chacha, Sui, Ping, and Tianjin, and his sphere of influence directly caught up with Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the Feng system of that year (it is estimated that he felt that the time was ripe for a while, and he could win the world); At the same time, in addition to the territory, Commander-in-Chief Yan also has the huge Jingliang weapons manufacturing factory in Shanxi as a support, and has more than 200,000 Jingrui Jin Sui Army, and most of the generals who command the army are his cronies, especially Fu Zuoyi, Zhang Yinwu, Li Shengda and other young generals, who are almost single-handedly sent from students to Baoding Military Academy, and then promoted step by step from platoon commanders, loyal to themselves. Moreover, these henchmen, after more than ten years of training, have become generals in battle. Therefore, in March 1930, the prestige of Yan Xishan and Jin Suijun reached its peak.

But well, Yanhuang has an old saying: Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi! The peak will be followed by decline, and the outcome after the defeat of the Central Plains War is tragic, and Yan Xishan, who was the loser, had to retreat to Shanxi, electrify the whole country, and announce the results of the wilderness.

On October 9, 1930 (alas, just a few months have passed, the situation was completely different), Zhang Xueliang took up the post of deputy commander-in-chief of the army, navy and air force appointed by the Nationalist Zhèngfu in Shenyang, and was entrusted by Chairman Chiang to organize the Jin Sui army. After many times of bargaining in front of and behind the scenes, openly and secretly, the Jin Sui Army was "reduced" into four infantry corps, one Zhengtai Road Protection Army, three Duli brigades, three cavalry brigades, and eleven artillery regiments. The four infantry corps are: Shang Zhen, commander of the 32nd Army, Xu Yongchang, commander of the 33rd Army, Yang Aiyuan, commander of the 34th Army, and Fu Zuoyi, commander of the 35th Army (most of them are still famous generals).

But history is not a number game of 0 and 1, everyone who fails can use load/save cheats to start again, or make a beauty like Gou Jian in history, and then have a lie salary to taste the guts, just a few years later, I Hu Hansan is back! After the defeat of the Central Plains War, there was a major change that many people did not expect, that is, Yan Xishan changed! gradually lost the open-mindedness of the early days of the Jin Sui Army, and the suspicion began to become heavier (it is estimated that it is a defeat blow plus the age, and the common disease of the ancient high-ranking officials and magnates of Yan and Huang after they get old: suspicious!). The principle of "employing people as virtuous" that has been adhered to in the past has been abandoned, and its idea of employing people has begun to change to cronyism. As a result, two years later, Shang Zhen, the veteran of the Jin Sui Army and the commander of the 32nd Army, left Shanxi with his troops, and the Jin Sui Army began to split internally.

After the "77 Incident" in 1937, after defeating the 29th Army of Song Zheyuan of the Northwest Army in the Beiping and Zhangjiakou areas, the Japanese Army formed the "Chahar Dispatch Corps" on August 14, and the troops were directed at the Jinsui area. The final result is well known to many people, Shanxi fell, Chahar fell. By 1943, due to equipment and soldiers, Yan Xishan and the Jin Sui army had to retreat to a corner of Suiyuan, with a strength of about 120,000 troops, although the number claimed to have eight armies, but each army only had more than 10,000 people.

As for Fu Zuoyi's department, he was originally a famous general of the Jin Sui Army, from 1926 in the defense of northern Jin led a regiment to defend Tianzhen, that is, in the Jin army temporarily emerged, and then became famous in the defense of Zhuozhou, and repeatedly made meritorious contributions, and won the weight of Chairman Jiang, but the high merit shocked the master, this kind of weight caused Yan Xishan to worry. After the fall of Taiyuan, Yan Xishan wanted to remove Fu Zuoyi under the pretext of an excuse, but finally gave up because Chairman Jiang did not agree.

Of course, Fu Zuoyi is not a soft persimmon, let alone a fool and a foolish person, there is no master here, there is a place to keep the master, there is no master everywhere, Lao Tzu is on the railway! Knowing that Yan Xishan had long been dissatisfied and suspicious of him, Fu Zuoyi simply began to plan to leave Yan Xishan and set up another banner to work alone. In the winter of 1938, Chairman Chiang suddenly appointed Fu Zuoyi as deputy commander of the Eighth Theater and chairman of Suiyuan Province without consulting Yan Xishan (I estimate that Chairman Chiang and Fu Zuoyi should have contacted, negotiated, and promised in private), and expanded Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army into three divisions, including the 101st Division and division commander Dong Qiwu, the new 31st Division and division commander Sun Lanfeng, and the new 32nd Division and division commander Yuan Qingrong. The strength of the 35th Army was greatly strengthened at once (about twice as much as before the expansion). After receiving this appointment, Fu Zuoyi immediately led the 35th Army to Suiyuan Wuyuan County to garrison, and since then it has been out of Yan Xishan's control.

From this point of view, the entire Suiyuan defense is generally defended by Yan Xishan's Jin Sui Army in the southwest of Suiyuan, and Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army is stationed near Wuyuan County in the north (because after looking for a long time, I did not find a clear war form map in the Suiyuan area in 1943, so I took this as the target plane, the deployment force map of the Suiyuan area).

Suiyuan Wuyuan County, Yanhuang Republic of China established a county in 1912. It was named after Wuyuan County in the Han Dynasty. Wuyuan County is named after the original five places, namely Longyou Plain, Qidi Qianyuan, Qingling Plain, Kelan Zhenyuan, and Henggou Plain. In 1943, Fu Zuoyi set up the military headquarters of the 35th Army here.

Rewind the time to 8 days ago, that is, on June 12, 1943, at this time in the military headquarters, Fu Zuoyi was having a meeting with several senior military officials.

"The boss (in Fu Zuoyi's army, he is called 'boss' and 'Mr. Fu'), is there a big move to summon us this time?" Sun Lanfeng, commander of the new 31st Division, asked.

"The little devil in Shanxi has been very restless recently, and has been increasing his troops, I invite everyone to come over and want to discuss together!" Fu Zuoyi, commander of the 35th Army, replied.

"Mr. Fu, recently, the news from our spies is not very good, the Japanese have increased their troops in Shanxi, and they are not afraid of being discovered at all, and they are clearly taking revenge on King Hengxian of Heyang Palace." One of Fu Zuoyi's dependents, Dong Qiwu, the commander of the 1st 01st Division, who is known for his good guards, said while smoking a cigarette.

"Yes, boss. But the little devils are mainly going to the pimple in Shaanxi, and I think we should be relatively safe here. Yuan Qingrong, commander of the 32nd Division, said.

"Dead lips and cold teeth!" Fu Zuoyi did not answer directly, but replied by allusion.

Historically, in the bald army, Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army was jokingly called the "Seven and a Half Routes" Army. Why is it called that? Literally, that is, even if Commander Fu is not the Eighth Road, he is just a little bit worse. It sounds quite good, but readers, this title really has a source and basis: Fu Zuoyi had a very close relationship with the Yanhuang Red Party during the period of fighting against the Japanese invaders, and in 1938, when he only had two divisions, he accepted a large number of Red Party figures into his army to work, and the directors of the political departments of the two divisions, Yan Youwen and Kang Baoan, were both members of the Yanhuang Red Party. In addition, Fu Jiajun's style is simple from top to bottom, and Commander Fu himself is coarse (think about "Bright Sword", Chu Yunfei, the head of the 358th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army, has his own cook), so it does look like the army of Tubalu from any aspect.

"Mr. Fu, what do you mean?" After hearing Fu Zuoyi's emotion, "One word side by side" Chen Changjie asked.

"Everyone knows the situation around us, and the 35th Army has only 40,000 or 50,000 people, and about 30,000 people can really fight. There are about 10~120,000 people in the northwest of Commander Yan, but there are many new soldiers, and our real combat effectiveness is best known to us, and it is equivalent to the 35th Army at most. Judging from the map, our northeast direction is Li Shouxin's puppet Mongolian army, due east is the Mongolian army of the Japanese invaders, in the southeast there is a small part of the first army of the Japanese invaders to defend Shanxi, and to the south is the territory of the Yanhuang Red Party, as for the actual combat strength of the Red Party, I originally estimated that it was stronger than us, but last month they wiped out more than 20,000 little devils, and now I am a little uncertain! Commander Fu talked about the military situation around the 35th Army, and then continued: "If the little devil really captures the entire territory of Shaanxi, we will be surrounded by enemies in the north, east, and south, plus the historical grievances and grievances between me and the western Governor Yan, no matter how you look at it!" ”

"What does the boss mean that if we help the Red Party army, we will also help ourselves?" Dong Qiwu, the commander of the 1st 01st Division, who couldn't guess Fu Zuoyi's actual intentions, said tentatively.

"But the total strength of the Japanese has exceeded 12 or 30,000, and we have a total of 4 or 50,000 people, even if we fill them in, it will not be enough!" Yuan Qingrong, commander of the new 32nd Division, said.

"Everyone knows that 3 years ago (1940), we fought Wuyuan County, that was to fight, if we can't fight it is a dead word, at that time, the Japanese offensive in Suixi has forced our 35th Army to a dead end, and we who have lost our grain production base area, if we can't recapture Wuyuan County, there is no way to survive." Fu Zuoyi suddenly talked about the war a few years ago, "What a miserable battle at that time, Qiwu, I remember that when you were defending the Wujia River, Leng didn't take the initiative to ask me for a reinforcement, which really made me break out in a cold sweat." ”

"Boss, I knew very well at that time that you didn't have any reserves at all, and later sent to support my cavalry troops, throwing grenades together at night, and killing devils with bayonets was not obvious, and at dawn, it turned out that they were all Mongolian bigfoot girls (there was a Mongolian cavalry brigade around Mr. Fu, which was brought by three Mongolian queens anyway, and there were many female soldiers in it), you sent them all, it can be seen that there was really no one at that time!" Hearing Mr. Fu talk about the past, Dong Qiwu said.

"At that time, we didn't have the bottom in our hearts, but we still had to fight in order to survive, and now I feel very similar to that time, we have to fight in order to survive, and dry consumption is waiting for death, so we must take the initiative to attack, and our troops are limited, we can't fight hard, we have to fight skillfully, we have to attack the enemy's soft underbelly, and lead the enemy's nose!" Fu Zuoyi continued.

"Boss, let's talk about it, what do you want to do, my Sun Lanfeng listens to you!" The lame general Sun Lanfeng has a short temper, fierce in battle, and is good at commanding cavalry, and is another tiger general under Fu Zuoyi, and Dong Qiwu is called Fu Zuoyi's "left and right tigers".

"Yes, Mr. Fu, just say it!" Chen Changjie, who is known as the "king of one word side by side", also said.

"Okay, I'll talk about my thoughts in the past two days, I want to start first, cooperate with the Red Party army, and disrupt the arrangement of the little devils, now the main force of the little devils stationed in Mongolia is gathering in Baotou, relatively, the defense of the rest of the Mongolian army is much weaker, let's bypass Baotou and launch a surprise attack, the goal, this is it!!" After speaking, Fu Zuoyi pressed his hand to a point on the military map hanging on the wall.

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