When the sun rose on March 1 over Zhanjiang, a seaport in the southwest of Guangdong Province, the ** war in the northern province of Shanxi had been going on for four full days. Thousands of people have been killed, and all of them are Chinese and many more Chinese, firing at each other with all kinds of guns for GC ideals or Yan Laoxi's big money.

However, this great ** war does not seem to have much to do with the officers and men of the Nanyang Fleet in Guangdong. In the Fleet Officers' Club, the young naval elite gathered in twos and threes, ate a hearty breakfast, and discussed mainly the just-concluded fleet simulation confrontation exercise. This exercise was almost also a head-to-head contest between the "battleship faction" and the "aircraft carrier faction" in the navy of the Nationalist Army. The entire Nanyang Fleet was divided into two parts, one of which played the role of the Japanese Combined Fleet, mainly a few "Canton-class" cruisers, although in this exercise they represented the battleship forces of the Japanese Navy. The other part consisted of the aircraft carrier "Nakayama" and several "Königsberg"-class cruisers, whose mission was to "bomb" the imaginary Japanese battleship formation with carrier-based aircraft. However, the record was very unsatisfactory, and the aircraft carrier formation "collided" head-on with the "battleship formation" during the exercise, and was judged to sink by the exercise referee. Obviously. At present, the combat radius of carrier-based aircraft is too short, the bomb load is too small, and there is not much actual combat value at all......

Another hot topic was the submarine fleet, which slipped into the protective ring of a destroyer and sank a hypothetical Japanese battleship under the command of Colonel Zhang Yiming, the commander of the submarine fleet, who looked a little crazy. There is no doubt that this is the biggest gain of this exercise, and both the "battleship faction" and the "aircraft carrier faction" have lost to the "submarine faction" this time. Everyone speculated that Zhang Yiming would soon be promoted, perhaps as the commander of the Nanyang Fleet, which had been vacant, and the focus of the development of the Nationalist Navy in the next stage might also shift to submarines. And two days ago, some people saw with their own eyes that Luo Yaoguo, chief of the General Staff of the National ** Army, accompanied by Zhang Yiming, boarded the No. 018 submarine and walked around underwater for several hours. This should be a great omen, right? No small number of words

The same topic was going on in the conference room of the headquarters of the South Ocean Fleet. When Luo Yaoguo, who had just finished breakfast, walked into the conference room, which was a little overly luxuriously decorated, the officers in the shirts and black ties had already filled their chairs, and some were still standing on either side. In the center of the room, a screen hangs from the front, and a slide projector sits on a small table covered with a white tablecloth next to it. The "Five Tiger Generals of the Navy" and Minister of the Navy Chen Shaokuan were already sitting in the first row, and when they saw Luo Yaoguo coming in, everyone stood up to greet them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I think you all have thoughts on the special naval exercise that ended yesterday, right? There are not many words" Luo Yaoguo nodded at everyone, waved his hand, and motioned for everyone to sit down, and also sat down in the empty seat in the middle of the first row I came today to hear your views, especially about the future development direction of the navy, which is very important to our country. ”

The leader of the battleship faction, Rear Admiral Long Yuhui, whose hair was already a little gray, was the first to stand up and walked to the front of the screen, saying that this exercise proved that aircraft carriers cannot afford to shoulder the responsibility of the main force of the navy in a short period of time, and the main problem is that the carrier-based aircraft have a short range and low bomb load...... Unless we can have aircraft engines of more than a thousand horsepower, carrier-based aircraft will not be enough to pose a real threat to battleships. In addition, this exercise also exposed that our Nanyang Fleet does not attach enough importance to anti-submarine warfare, and that the escort ring of destroyers can be easily infiltrated by submarine forces, and if such a situation is encountered in actual combat, it will bring disastrous consequences."

"But...... Nor can we assume that the anti-submarine escort capability of the Japanese Combined Fleet is equally weak, after all, our Nanyang Fleet is a fledgling naval fleet, while Japan has a well-trained navy with a long history. And the only way to defeat them is to develop a powerful battleship force"

It is clear that the battleship faction was not convinced by the defeat...... The success of a submarine sneak attack was seen as a fluke and a lack of training. I don't think that a battleship that looks like a powerful battleship is actually an expensive and fragile weapon, and a torpedo worth 20,000 yuan can overturn a battleship worth tens of millions of yuan, which is really a bit low......

Speaking of this, Long Yuhui walked to the front of the screen and looked around the conference room, what is the purpose of developing our naval forces now? It's not meant to be a toy at home, or self-appreciation, right? No less words" The officers politely giggled at this joke of the chief of staff of the Navy. Long Yuhui hung a yellow and blue map of the Ministry of Waterways on the screen, picked up a whip and pointed at it, saying that this is a map of China's surrounding waters, and I think it will also be the main combat area of our navy for a long time in the future. We only have to look at this diagram to understand that we need battleships. He pointed the whip at the island of Taiwan, which is located in the lower belly of China, and said with a wry smile, this island used to be ours, and it was still ours when I was admitted to the Nanyang Naval Academy, but now it belongs to Japan. This island, controlled by the Japanese, is like a lock, firmly locking our navy in the offshore sea. If we want to go in and out of the Pacific Ocean and fight on the real ocean, we have to cross a blockade line through Japanese shore-based aircraft, submarines and battleships between Taiwan and Okinawa, which is obviously unrealistic."

"Therefore, the first mission of our navy after the rise of the navy is to seize Taiwan...... And Okinawa. Only by seizing these two places can we become an ocean-going navy in the true sense of the word, and can we go to the ocean. Our aircraft carriers also have a real combat sea area, otherwise...... In order to make it possible for those aircraft with a combat radius of several hundred nautical miles to cover all the sea areas that belong to us on land airfields. Do we still want aircraft carriers to do? And to wage war with the Japanese Combined Fleet around Taiwan, we don't need aircraft carriers, but we do not need battleships. So I suggested that we should design newer types of battleships and start building them as soon as the Treaty on the Limitation of Naval Armaments expired in 1936. ”

"I don't agree with this suggestion." Zhao Zheng, the captain of the Zhongshan, muttered solemnly in a sarcastic tone, and then said that the construction only started in 1936, when can it be completed? It's going to be 40 years, right? There are not many words, and by that time, the engines of the planes will have already exceeded 1,000 horsepower, and maybe 12,000 or 1,400 will be available, and then we will directly blockade the Taiwan Strait with airplanes. To be useful for battleships? ”

Listening to the discussion of these two people, Luo Yaoguo couldn't help nodding, obviously he had gained something. Taiwan must definitely be recaptured as soon as possible, otherwise the entire southern country will be completely exposed to Japan's bayonets. During this period, at the same time as the war was going on in Shanxi to the north, the Japanese army was also massing forces in Taiwan, and almost four divisions were transported from the mainland to Taiwan. For this reason, there was a lot of chickens and dogs jumping in the Military Commission of the National Government, and everyone was nervous. Luo Yaoguo personally went to Guangdong to inspect it, and there were more or less factors in this regard. In addition, with the further development of aviation technology, it will not be long before bombers taking off from Taiwan will be able to cover Guangdong and Shanghai, including all the major heavy industrial bases in South China. If you don't take this island...... Many of his plans will be out of the question.

If there was any inertia in the history of this time and space, Germany should have made initial preparations for war in 1939, and they might have united with Poland, or some other northeastern European countries. Gather millions of troops, use powerful armored divisions as blades, and rush to the Soviet Union with murderous spirit, and China will also participate in the carvement of this red imperialism. Therefore, the Taiwan issue must be resolved before 1939, preferably by 1937, and at the same time, the Japanese navy will be severely damaged.

To achieve this goal, the Navy should retain at least four battleships, supplemented by powerful naval aviation. Two of the four battleships currently under construction will be sold to Germany after they re-equip themselves...... It looks like it is necessary to secretly build two battleships.

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At this time, Shanxi, especially the Taihang Mountains on the border with Zhili, had gradually fallen into anarchy. The development of the situation was completely beyond the expectations of both China and Yan Xishan. From time to time, all kinds of landlord armies and bandit armies began to emerge in the Taihang Mountain area

The initiators of these indiscriminate armed forces are often the local tyrants and inferior gentry in the Taihang Mountains or the old bandits who occupy the mountains as kings, and there are also some "fugitive landlords" who run away from the opposite side of the country. These variegated armed forces of all kinds seem to have the support of the Kuomintang authorities in Wuhan, and many of them openly waved the blue sky and white sun flag, and also claimed to be the commander of the "anti-G salvation **", is it not that Chiang Kai-shek sealed it? After their forces retreated from the remote mountainous areas, they sprung up one by one, and some of them seemed to have received indiscriminate guns and financial support from unknown sources, and quickly gathered a large number of ruffians and vagrants, and soon occupied many towns and villages, and became the emperors of each side

And after these landlord bandit forces pulled up the poles, they began to fight indiscriminately with the GCD local armed forces on the Zhili side. On one side were the rabble of landlords and bandits, and on the other side were the unprofessional Red Guards and peasant self-defense forces. The two forces on both sides of the Taihang Mountain, you come and go, I am very happy, one can not help the other party, just the people in the area of Taihang Mountain, who are safe and guarded...... At the same time, it also seriously disrupted the pace of the pacification of Shanxi in China and G, as well as the social stability of Zhili Province.

Therefore, the big leaders of the Fourth Route Army of the Central Army in Zhengding County are also having a headache about this.

Chen Y, political commissar of the Fourth Route Army, strode in from the outside, spoke a thick Sichuan dialect, and could hear from the second gate that this group of reactionaries of Ge Laozi had really lost all their good dignity and the stockade was burned down as soon as it was set on fire, so that thousands of peasants had no way to live, and they all ran to the county town to complain."

He walked into the command room in a few steps, and there were many staff officers of the Fourth Route Army gathered in the room, and a huge military map hung on the wall. Ye Ting, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Route Army, was holding his chin and standing in front of the map, his eyebrows were tightly twisted, and when he saw Chen Y walking in, he just asked the political commissar softly, what happened again? Could it be that the bandits on Taihang Mountain have come down to do evil again? ”

Chen Y snorted, sighed again, and sat down next to Chen G, chief of staff of the Fourth Route Army, who was facing him with a straight face, and there must be people from Wuhan behind these people, otherwise they wouldn't be able to get so many weapons and ammunition, I have seen the Red Guards send captured guns, all of which are varied, some are made in Sichuan, some are made in Hanyang, and most of them are from the Gongxian Arsenal, and the caliber is mostly 7.92mm. In addition to the Kuomintang that they have collected over the years, who else can get this kind of firearm? These reactionaries ...... I don't dare to come out and fight us face to face, so I drumble up this kind of indiscriminate trick behind my back, it's really hateful. He gritted his teeth uncontrollably, looking like he hated it to the extreme. Finally, I looked at Captain Ye Tingye, do you think we sent an army to take these bandits' lair? It is necessary to rely on the Red Guards and the peasant self-defense army, and I am afraid that this indiscriminate battle will not be fought until the time comes."

In another time and space, there were all kinds of landlord armies among the opponents of the Red Army in China and G, and the battle between these landlord forces and the Red Army was not a one-sided defeat or loss, and even in the reasons for the failure of the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression War, there was also a sin of these landlord armies, but here, due to the strong military strength of China and G, the landlord armed forces, which are not in the stream, have not been able to exert their might. Until this battle of Shanxi, these landlords who did not know suddenly became a scourge. It looks like there's really a black hand behind it

Ye Ting only shook his head and smiled bitterly, but then cheered up his spiritual commissar, now that the Xinkou side is fighting, our Fourth Route Army will enter Shanxi and take Taiyuan along Zhengtai Road at any time. The central authorities instructed us to be ready to attack at any time, and if we were to deploy troops to suppress bandits at this time...... I'm afraid that I will miss the right thing when the time comes. Moreover, no matter who is behind these local tyrants and bandits, their weapons and ammunition must be in Shanxi. As long as we solve Yan Xishan, they will have no backup, and it will be easy to exterminate them when the time comes. ”

Ye Ting's words were reasonable, and even Chen G, who had been silent, nodded frequently. After Ye Ting finished speaking, Chen G picked it up again, and said lightly The key now is Xinkou, as long as Xinkou can give the Jin army a strong blow and contain them, we can quickly break through the third division of the Jin army in front of us and break into the city of Taiyuan According to the intelligence, there are only three newly recruited divisions there, and there is not much combat effectiveness, so that the intention of the central government to fight a quick battle will be realized. ”

Chen Y let out a long sigh and nodded reluctantly, but it was just bitter for those people in the Zhijin Border Area...... Didn't Feng Yuxiang be able to suppress the Jin army at that time? ”

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At this time, on the Xinkou front, the 100,000 people of the Third Army commanded by Feng Yuxiang gradually fell into a bitter battle, and from February 25, the Third, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Route Armies attacked the Central Corps of the Jin Army commanded by Fu Zuoyi for several days. It's just that after five days of bloody battles, the main positions of the Jin army are still impregnable, and Feng Yuxiang has nothing to gain except for thousands of casualties in vain.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

As soon as 7 a.m. a.m. on 2 March, the artillery shells of the Central Army exploded on time at the Caijiagang frontline position. This time, Feng Yuxiang seemed to have made a bloody investment, and the bombardment was very intensive, and the fight was accurate. Seeing that the field fortifications on the Caijiagang Heights were blown up and splashed with flames, smoke and dust were chaotic. From time to time, broken limbs were blown apart and flew around.

Fu Zuoyi, who was supervising the battle behind the Jin army front on the opposite side, felt that something was wrong, and this time Feng Yuxiang was going to fight hard. He hurriedly ordered the staff officers around him to immediately hang up to the general headquarters, requesting that the 11th Brigade be transferred, and today may be a decisive battle."

After five days of bloody fighting, the 2nd Division and the 8th Brigade of the Jin Army, which had been on the front line, had also suffered heavy losses. As a last resort, Yan Xishan had to transfer thousands of people from the three recruit divisions in Taiyuan City to supplement them. However, the combat effectiveness of these recruits is simply not comparable to that of the highly trained veterans. In addition, after several days of shelling, all positions have been bombarded, and most of the large and small firing points set up with wood and sandbags have been destroyed. The light and heavy machine guns of the various units have also lost a lot, the replenishment of weapons and equipment has not yet arrived, and the firepower on the frontline positions has obviously decreased.

Before the smoke of artillery fire had dissipated, the blue and colored infantry brigade of the Central Army poured up to the high ground. The troops that rushed up this time were noticeably different from the previous ones. Rushing to the front are all officers and soldiers wearing steel helmets and holding submachine guns, and they are also obviously tall, at first glance, they are the elite of the elite, these elites charge with their heads covered from the beginning, but they are not rushing in a swarm, but in the formation of a skirmisher line, rushing upwards in waves, and they do not fire and waste bullets. Behind them, there were rifle troops, but they also looked more elite than their previous opponents.

Moreover, in the past few days, while the Central Army has stormed the Caijiagang Heights, it has dug trenches less than a kilometer away from the front line of the Jin army. Now that the distance of the charge has been greatly shortened, the officers and men of the central government rushed to the front of the Jin army's position in just the blink of an eye. Machine rifle fire and submachine guns from both sides were fired together, and the sound of salvo fire was continuous, like a whirlwind blowing on the battlefield. The dense ammunition stirred up small pillars of smoke on the defensive positions of the Jin army, and the Jin officers and soldiers were suddenly beaten to the point that they could not raise their heads

However, at this moment, the long-suppressed Jin artillery finally began to roar. Balls of fireball continued to rise behind the Central Army's Assault Brigade, blocking the reinforcement route. Immediately afterwards, the tragic white-knuckle battle unfolded in the forward position of the Jin army......

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