In late November 1932, the war between the Southwest United Autonomous Government and the Nanjing Nationalist Axe officially broke out.

Unlike previous civil wars, almost all newspapers remained silent in the face of this war, and even some literati who usually commented on current affairs and criticized the country stopped their pens.

Hardly anyone sees this war as a new round of civil war, but many see this war as a turning point in China.

After many years of separating the forces between the north and the south, whether it is the political axe of Nanjing, which was full of political malpractices and was divided by warlords, or the political axe of the Southwest United Governance, which has long dominated the southwest and takes the responsibility of strengthening the country, it is not comparable to the previous warlords.

It can be said that this war, no matter who wins or loses, will take the Chinese nation to another path, a road of vigorous development.

Many enlightened people have already seen that only a unified China can conform to the interests of the entire nation, and that it is best for the southwest to be able to unify the whole country, and that drastic reform and absolute national innovation will be pushed to a new height in the shortest possible time by carrying out drastic reforms and promoting absolute national innovation with absolute scientific and technological strength. If the Kuomintang in Nanjing is victorious, then the Kuomintang, which has gained half of the rich southwest, will also go further on the road of building China in one fell swoop.

Coincidentally, the Kuomintang and the Southwest Political Axe both announced in unison that they would do their best to avoid mass destruction of civilians in this war, and at the same time, the army was also given an ironclad order not to violate discipline and disturb the people. These have little impact on the Southwest People's Army, but they have a great impact on the middle and lower ranks of the Kuomintang army, which was once like a bandit, and at least, it will not involve hundreds of millions of innocent people because of the war.

The Southwest People's Army was the first to launch a military offensive.

The Southeast Group Army, with Tao Qian and Zhuge Sheng jointly serving as the commanders of the group army, formed an offensive cluster with the 1st, 5th, 15th, 22nd, 46th, and 75th Divisions to launch a fierce attack on the Kuomintang Gu Zhutong from the direction of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangzhou, and the front line was directed at the front line of Fuzhou and Nanchang.

Gu Zhutong led an army totaling more than 300,000 troops from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian to engage in a fierce battle with Tao Qian's Southeast Group Army. This graduated from the sixth phase of the Baoding Military Academy, served as an instructor of the Whampoa Military Academy, the commander of the teaching regiment, the commander of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and a famous general known as the "talent of the general", but the opponents this time were the little-known Tao Qian and Zhuge Sheng. Compared with him, Tao Qian and the others are low-key and illustrious, but they are rare and stable generals in the southwest.

The commander of the Central China Group Army was a bit special, he was not a general of the Qingzhuang faction in the southwest, but Cai Yi, the principal of the Huaxia Military Academy, personally served as the commander-in-chief of the Central China Group Army. Cai Ye, who has been dormant for many years, has long stated that he will no longer participate in the warlord melee, but after Zhang Shusheng personally came to ask for a general, he finally put down all considerations and was willing to contribute to this national turning war. This famous 'elderly' general who shocked China finally crossed the horse again and boarded the Zhengrong army.

Even though Cai Ye has been in the high position of the principal of the Huaxia Military Academy for many years, his kung fu of cultivating students and raising his surname has already been done to the extreme, but when he returned to the battlefield, he was also as excited as those veterans who had just been reinstated to active duty. This protector of the Pharaoh is in the prime of life, and at this time he is ambitious, and he is bound to get back the years he missed with the war in the future.

The Central China Group Army was commanded by Cai Yi, and the Central China Military Group was composed of the 2nd Division, 13th Division, 26th Division, 39th Division, 49th Division, and 78th Division (the new number distribution of the Southwest Army: 1 Guards Division and 6 Main Divisions exclusively enjoyed the establishment of the 1st to 7th Divisions. The rest of the divisions took 11 as the starting point and numbered between 11 and 80. Among them, in addition to the seven most elite divisions, the even numbers are the old garrison divisions that were originally standing and the more elite divisions in the newly formed units. ), and launched a military offensive against [***] Chen Tiaoyuan's troops. Chen Tiaoyuan's military cluster mainly brings together the [***] military forces of Xiangganhu and other places, and the entire military cluster is about 250,000 people.

Almost at the same time as the attack with the Southeast Group Army, the Central China Group Army also launched an attack in the direction of the two lakes from Guiguang and marched to Changsha and Wuhan.

The Southwest Group Army, with Wu Tiejun as the commander of the group army, formed a military cluster with the 7th, 18th, 35th, 43rd, 65th, and 71st divisions. As in the other two directions, the Southwest Army would encounter the Kuomintang Northwest Army Corps in Shaanxi, consisting of Yang Hucheng and Ma in the northwest.

The front-line garrisons of Tianjin-Langfang-Daxing Airport in the Tianjin-Beijing battlefield formed the Tianjin-Beijing cluster, and after supplying them by sea, they formed a military confrontation with the Kuomintang Chen Cheng's group army.

According to the Northern Expedition plan formulated by the Supreme Staff of the Southwest People's Army for many years, while launching the Northern Expedition military offensive, there will also be military actions in the southwest to defend the southwest itself.

Among them, the First Guards Division defended Kunming with the assistance of other new divisions, which were mainly composed of veterans and reserve elite units, because these new divisions were basically the most loyal veterans, and the officers were directly transferred from the original main force to serve as the chief officer of the new division without any problems with their loyalty, so that under the huge intelligence monitoring in the southwest, there would be no worries.

For example, the former deputy commander of a garrison division may be transferred to the commander of a newly organized division, and the former chief and deputy commander of the main division may be directly transferred to the chief and deputy commander of the new division. After a large-scale reshuffle, the more than 20 divisions newly organized in the southwest have not had the problem of having no available officers and their loyalty has declined, but have placed a large number of outstanding officers who have served as deputy officers in the main force for a long time and have profound military command ability. After all, a large number of outstanding officers graduate from the major military academies in the southwest every year, and according to the previous establishment of the Southwest Army, a large number of outstanding officers who graduated from the Huaxia Military Academy can only hold one deputy post.

At the same time as the Northern Expedition military operations, Zhang Shusheng did not relax his guard against the surrounding military forces in the slightest, such as Hainan, Hong Kong, and Guangdong, and the old man He Zhiguang in the southwest and Chen Shaokuan, the former warlord of Guangdong, served as the chief and deputy garrison commanders, responsible for the security of the southeast during the war. Chengdu and Chongqing are in charge of Zheng Zhinan (the first phase of the Huaxia Military Academy) and Ye Long (Jiang Baili's student, graduated from the Baoding Army Military Academy). The security of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces was led by Chu Shiwen.

As the focus of defense, Chu Shiwen commanded as many as several divisions of troops, stationed on the Sino-Vietnamese border and the Sino-Burmese border, alerting the British and French armies to guard against possible sneak attacks from behind during the Northern Expedition.

For the smooth running of the entire Northern Expedition, in addition to the military maneuvers, logistics was also a major concern. After mobilizing nearly 200,000 people to participate, the General Logistics Department of the Southwest People's Army was able to complete the task of supplying the three offensive clusters in three directions. It can be said that the smooth progress of this Northern Expedition is inseparable from the migrant workers who enthusiastically signed up for the logistics detachment. This is still because the transportation conditions in the southwest are relatively good, the coverage of railways and highways has reached a considerable scale, and the degree of motorization is also relatively high, so that the materials can be directly pulled to a place not far from the theater, and then the officers and men of the civilian and logistics units (composed of newly formed divisions) will send the materials to the front line.

At the beginning of the war, almost all the eyes of the Chinese people around the world were attracted to the Northern Expedition, and everyone was thinking about the same question, who won and who lost, and how long the war would last.

However, the progress of the war made everyone stunned, and even the group of people who had expected it for a long time dropped their jaws in shock.

At the very beginning of the war, the Southwestern Army showed full strength.

The clusters in all three directions are supported by strong air forces in the southwest, and in the southeast and central China directions, they are supported by armored forces unique to the southwest.

At the very beginning of the war, the Kuomintang air force in three directions was completely bombed on the dilapidated airfields, not to mention the front-line airfields, and even the defensive airfields in Nanjing were visited by carrier-based aircraft, and the dilapidated planes and the airfield facilities were easily plowed down. In the three directions, more than 500 first-, second-, and third-generation aircraft, including Jian-1-1 fighters and H-1-1 bombers, were concentrated in the southwest.

Although the southwest did not carry out indiscriminate bombing of any city or use incendiary bombs as a weapon of mass destruction in accordance with the established plan, it also did not pedantic abandon air raids. Large-scale air strikes in conjunction with the attacking forces are being carried out in three directions.

And with the help of the topography, the performance of the armored army in this Northern Expedition was simply astounding.

Because the Southeast Army is responsible for attacking the most important ruling area of the Kuomintang, it is also facing the most elite corps, the first division and the fifth division are equipped with light frog amphibious armored vehicles, Tiger Type 2 light tanks formed an armored brigade, and carried out lightning raid operations of armored troops. The Southeast Army easily tore through Gu Zhutong's defense line, which he claimed could defend the Southwest Army for three to five months. Gu Zhutong's two front-line divisions didn't even have time to withdraw from the trenches, and they were divided and surrounded by the Southeast Army with the cooperation of aircraft and armored brigades.

Chiang Kai-shek was shocked and sent a telegram to Gu Zhutong to organize a second, stronger line of defense in front of the two major city lines of Fuzhou and Nanchang.

However, this failure is only the beginning.

Then, the defeated telegram flew to Nanjing like snowflakes, and Chairman Chiang, from three times a day at the beginning, to seeing the telegram, he subconsciously thought, where was it broken through by the Southwest Army again this time?

On December 5, 1932, just two weeks after the Northern Expedition began, following the loss of Xiamen and Putian, Fuzhou became the first major city to be taken by the Southwest Army. In the face of the besieging army and the southwestern army landing from the sea behind the defense line, nearly 100,000 [***] [***] in the Fuzhou battlefield, including the three central divisions, chose to surrender, and it was this surrender that set an example for the Kuomintang troops in other directions, and the incidents of surrender for a time came one after another.

On December 10, 1932, after the loss of Hengyang in Yongzhou, Changsha finally did not survive to the end, and after half a month of fighting, it was lost at the end of December. Chen Tiaoyuan was unfavorable in the first battle, after retreating to the city of Wuhan, he was still unable to resist the strong attack of the southwest army, and the defensive troops of nearly 10 divisions, due to the lack of fighting determination, the combat effectiveness of the defensive line garrison troops emerged one after another, and in the face of the multi-point attack of the six divisions in the southwest, there was almost no resistance, and often one point was broken through, and then it was a roundabout outflanking and disintegrating another section of the defensive line. In the end, he retreated to the north side of the Yangtze River, but he still could not stop the Central China Army from crossing the river sooner or later.

On December 15, 1932, the Southwest Group Army launched a fierce battle in the 'Xibao Defense Line', which was 50 kilometers away from Xi'an, and in the face of this defense line designed to defend Xi'an and Baoji, the Southwest Army launched an attack on the combined forces formed by Yang Hucheng and Majia in the northwest with the support of the superior air force. Before the battle began, Ma Bufang of the Northwest ordered three cavalry divisions to storm the Southwest Army, and with the high rate of fire of hundreds of Ripper heavy machine guns, something shocking happened.

This cavalry is not an ordinary cavalry, they are mainly composed of the Wei people, although the nation as a whole is good, but under the deliberate conspiracy of the Ma family, who has ruled the northwest for decades, this cavalry force is mainly composed of some officers and soldiers of the non-mainstream line whose ideological will and political consciousness are not quite the same as those of the Chinese nation, and they have a natural hatred for the Han people, and have implemented long-term cruel rule and suppression of the people of all ethnic groups in the northwest land.

However, in this battle of the 'Xibao Line', this cavalry unit suffered heavy casualties, and the cavalry of the three divisions was completely annihilated, and not a single horse could rush to the advance position simply constructed by the Southwest Army. The mountain of corpses and the sea of blood are shocking.

Yang Hucheng led his troops into a defensive state, however, in less than a week, Chiang Kai-shek, who had just received a dangerous telegram from the northwest, actually received a telegram that made him unbelievable.

"Yang Hucheng led his troops to surrender, Ma Bufang was captured by his wisdom, and Ma Hongkui fled back to Gansu when he saw that the situation was not good!!"

This battle was the smoothest battle carried out by the Three Route Army, except for the Northwest Majia Army that had just been lost, the losses of Yang Hucheng's department were minimal, and through some political means, after controlling several other division commanders who intended to resist, the Southwest Army was put into the defensive line and launched a final war of annihilation against the other Northwest Army that did not surrender. By late December, there was no resistance in the whole of Shaanxi, and although the Southwest Army did not take advantage of the situation to attack the northwest, it turned its guns and launched a military operation against Yan Xishan in Shanxi.

Unlike half of China, where the sound of gunfire and artillery shook the sky, the Jinjing battlefield has always been in a state of confrontation.

Unlike other [***], on the Jinjing battlefield, Chen Cheng's military group received the order of the chairman to attack. However, it was these [***] troops who had just participated in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression that moved slowly at Chen Cheng's behest, and two of the radical division commanders were even 'house arrested' by Chen Cheng on the pretext of discussing the war.

On the one hand, he was vain and wronged by Nanjing's orders, and on the other hand, Chen Cheng was also thinking about how to deal with it. Contradictory, he was unwilling to surrender directly to the southwest like Yang Hucheng and Yu Xuezhong in the Fuzhou battlefield, but he was even more unwilling to take offensive actions against the southwest army in the Tianjin battlefield.

Chen Cheng's heart is very complicated, it can be said that as a deeply involved in the Jinjing battlefield, he is the [***] general in the whole of China, except for Zhang Xueliang, who has the deepest understanding of the Southwest Army and the most contact.

Sure enough, in mid-December, a telegram was sent to inform the [***] troops in Tianjin, Chen Cheng had been promoted to deputy military minister, and Tang Enbo would take over his post as commander of the Tianjin-Beijing Theater and lead the [***] troops in the Tianjin-Beijing battlefield to take military action against the Southwest Army. In order to appease Chen Cheng, Tang Enbo came with a [***] senior general, Fu Zuoyi.

"Cixiu, you have gone too far this time, as a high-ranking general, it is already a big crime to disobey orders. But you don't have to be too burdened. After all, the chairman of the committee will love you. ”

When looking at Chen Cheng, who was the same age as himself, but was already a famous anti-Japanese general, Fu Zuoyi was in a somewhat complicated mood, [***] successive defeats, as well as the continuous defection incidents, for a senior general at his level, there was a lot of pressure.

He wasn't even sure if Chen Cheng, who had had a lot of contact with the Southwest Army, was also planning to surrender.

Chen Cheng shook his head with a wry smile, stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of Tianjin casually, "Does General Fu also think that Chen Cheng is disloyal to the party-state and is ready to surrender at any time?" ”

"Where to start with this, I don't know how to be a person. He performed well on the battlefield in Tianjin, and he is really a famous general of our party and state, so he is naturally loyal to the party and the state. Fu Zuoyi smiled, but he denied it, although there was indeed such a speculation in his heart, imagine that the dignitaries in Nanjing were probably the same.

"General Fu, the situation is a bit chaotic now." Chen Cheng shook his head with a wry smile, what kind of party-state famous generals, what kind of henchmen, these are all fleeting. He knew it in his heart.

In order to prevent himself from mutiny, Tang Enbo did not come to Beiping alone to take up his post, but there were two main divisions and five first-class divisions behind him, and the chairman of the committee was determined to put the Southwest Army in the Tianjin-Beijing Theater to death.

"The situation is indeed a bit chaotic, rhetoric, and you are also a person who understands. The news of the defeat in various places continued, and the chairman of the committee just wanted to concentrate his forces to solve the southwest army in the area of Tianjin as soon as possible, after all, they were far away from the southwest and the logistics were not smooth, so they would have cut off one of their arms as soon as possible, and the 100,000-strong army would be able to move south. The level of combat effectiveness of my [***] is uneven, not to mention that compared with the main force in the southwest, even compared with their new divisions, it may not be able to win steadily. Moreover, the air force, armored forces, and artillery forces in the southwest with absolute superiority, the main offensive forces in the three directions, and even individual equipment are enough to suppress us. Fu Zuoyi took out a cigarette and lit it, handed it to Chen Cheng, and continued, "If the 100,000 iron-blooded troops who fought with Yue Kou can go south, the war will be smoother. ”

Chen Cheng nodded, as a senior general, of course he knew the combat effectiveness of [***], these anti-Japanese troops were okay, after the bloody battle, the combat effectiveness and fighting will were far stronger than other troops. The Southwest Army far surpasses [***] in terms of equipment, the quality of its soldiers, and even its will to fight.

"I don't know what kind of mission General Fu is shouldering this time?"

"Hehe, in addition to coming to condolence and resign to you, that is, to be responsible for the battles of several divisions, after the incident of Yang Hucheng, the chairman of the committee is even more worried about being alone, so let me assist Tang Enbo." Fu Zuoyi smiled, the chairman of the committee had to suspect that the Shaanxi mutiny and the Fuzhou surrender incident, and the surrender of more large and small troops, made him have to strengthen his control over the troops.

Chen Cheng suddenly stopped, looked at Fu Zuoyi, and said seriously, "Actually, I am against this war. These troops who have gone through the War of Resistance are very precious, I can't see them tearing each other apart, and General Fu has to think twice. ”

He didn't say much, with his understanding of the southwest, he believed that soon there would be political workers to persuade and plot rebellion, and the reason why he did not waver was that he did not accept those promises of money and property, nor was he moved by the great interests of the nation, but only to serve the party-state and the cultivation of the chairman.

But he firmly believes that among the key members of the party-state today, I am afraid that it is difficult to find a person who can see the situation as clearly as himself, of course, maybe the same is true of Zhang Shaomarshal in the northeast.

In today's China, compared with the political axe of the Southwest Union, the Nanjing National Political Axe has shown a huge backwardness in all aspects. Military, scientific, technological, political, economic, educational, and so on, they are almost all backward in all aspects. Judging from the officers and soldiers in the southwest he has come into contact with, whether it is a grassroots general like Chen Jun or a pawn, he can give people a complete feeling of being with [***] officers and soldiers.

Their mental outlook, their political consciousness, and their thinking are not comparable to those of the officers and men.

To give the simplest example, Chen Cheng once asked a wounded soldier of the Southwest Army why he was fighting, but this soldier, whose head was wrapped like a zongzi, actually struggled to take out a photo, pointed to a young woman holding a child and said, "In order to protect her, so that the little guy can live a good life in the future." ”

He still clearly remembered that he was just visiting the field hospital as an ordinary Kuomintang officer, and the other party did not know that he was Chen Cheng.

Seeing that he shook his head, the little soldier thought that he didn't believe him, and then added, "Sir, don't laugh at me, I don't have much culture, but I tell the truth." I can't speak, but the political commissar taught us that in addition to making our wives and children live a good life, we are also trying to make thousands of Chinese live a good life. ”

"Aren't you afraid of sacrifice?"

"It's false to say that you are not afraid, but the squad leader said that why did you come to the army if you are afraid of death? It's better to hold the child at home. Since you are here, you must go up. ”

"If this is a leader's idea, how amazing it would be, it was just instilled in the little soldiers." Chen Cheng still remembers his feelings at that time.

Fu Zuoyi stretched out his hand and shook hands with Chen Cheng, the military vehicle in the distance had been waiting for a long time, and there would be a special plane to send Chen Cheng to Nanjing.

However, from the bottom of his heart, Fu Zuoyi is very optimistic about Chen Cheng's future, especially when such a [***] total failure, perhaps, it is a good thing not to be sent to prison without finding an excuse.

In late December 1932, Tang Enbo and Fu Zuoyi officially took over the Jinjing Theater, and after a short period of training, after replacing several 'problematic' division commanders, Tang Enbo ordered an attack on the [***] team in the Jinjing area.

Relying on the three points and one line of Tianjin, Langfang and Daxing Airport, the Southwest Army launched a fierce battle with more than 100,000 troops.

At the same time, the aircraft carrier task force in the southwest escorted a large number of supplies to land in Tianjin, and at the same time, carrier-based planes attacked and cooperated with fighters at Daxing Airport to launch a fierce air attack on [***] attacking the Daxing defensive circle.

The two anti-Japanese armies finally and inevitably collided together, and at this time there was no right or wrong, and the southwest and Nanjing national political axes must decide the victory or defeat through an all-round battle, and the Tianjin-Beijing battlefield, as one of the key battlefields, will inevitably become an important target for contention. Fortunately, neither side carried out large-scale destruction of the city, but more of a large-scale field battle.

On January 1, 1933, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to Zhang Xueliang, ordering Zhang Xueliang to leave "a defensive line with sufficient strength" and return to Shijinjing to inject a support army into the stalemate battlefield.

However, Chiang Kai-shek's telegram was actually rejected by Zhang Xueliang himself, and on January 2, 1932, he issued a nationwide telegram, announcing that the Northeast Army had changed its flag for the second time, separated from the Kuomintang, and resolutely played the banner of the Golden Dragon Banner of the Southwest Army, and sent a telegram asking the Southwest to send personnel to reorganize the Northeast Army.

You must know that the Northeast Army did not succumb to the Kuomintang for a long time, and most of the generals at all levels were still loyal to Zhang Xueliang, and they had a lot of good feelings for the Southwest Army, which vigorously supported the Northeast Army's War of Resistance against Japan, but lacked loyalty to Nanjing, and although the change of flag was very sudden, it was supported by the vast number of officers and soldiers in the Northeast.

Zhang Xueliang said in the announcement of the change of flag: "...... The aim is to build a strong China that is equal, free, prosperous, clean, and just, rather than succumbing to the rule of a corrupt regime. I hope you ...... the public"

As soon as the telegram came out, the world was shocked, and before the Nanjing Nationalist Axe had time to react, Zhang Shusheng, the supreme leader of the southwest, personally followed the telegram and ordered Zhang Xueliang to be the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Resistance of the Southwest Army, and appointed Huo Weiguo as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Resistance, and expressed his willingness to treat the 200,000 Northeast Army with sincerity, and to undertake the pension and supply of the Northeast Army.

At the same time, the southwest announced that it would intensify the supply of the Northeast Army, and replied to Zhang Xueliang's request for reorganization that 'wartime is special and can be reorganized later.'

This can be regarded as an explanation to the Northeast Army, and he did not rush to point fingers at the Northeast Army, but gave Zhang Xueliang full command privileges, but only assisted by Huo Weiguo to coordinate the command of the Anti-Japanese War.

The Northeast Mutiny, the blow to the Nanjing Nationalist Axe was like toppling one mountain, and then collapsing several other mountains, and the chain reaction was so bad that Chiang Kai-shek had to personally issue a telegram of reprimand.

In the telegram, Chairman Chiang reprimanded Zhang Xueliang for not complying with the central authorities, plotting with the southwest for a long time, and being severely punished for his retrograde rebellion.

The second flag change incident in the Northeast has an extremely wide impact and seems to have set up a banner for other [***] troops.

In 1933, on January 15, after being surrounded by the Southwest Army for nearly half a month, the old and cunning Yan Xishan finally became the second subservient [***] predator after the Northeast changed banners. In Taiyuan, Yan Xishan announced the arrest of two division commanders loyal to Nanjing, and at the same time accepted the reorganization of the Southwest Army.

Correspondingly, the Southwest announced the appointment of Yan Xishan as the governor of Shanxi, and at the same time, after completing the screening of the Shanxi army and eliminating a number of black sheep like the people's enemies, the Southwest Army temporarily put the Shanxi army in the list and waited for the unified reorganization after the war.

After Shanxi, after Chen Tiaoyuan's troops were completely defeated in Hubei, the whole province of Hunan announced that it would join the Southwest Union to govern the political axe.

On February 1, 1933, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces announced their separation from the Nanjing National Government, and at the same time announced that they would join the Southwest Union on the grounds that "the will of the people cannot be violated and should conform to the will of the people".

At the same time, the southwest also issued a proclamation, welcoming these provinces that had surrendered to the city, and said that in the future reorganization of the political axe, the former Kuomintang officials at all levels would be given the opportunity to be given the same treatment, and as long as they passed the strict assessment, the southwest would not exclude the Kuomintang officials from joining the new political axe.

February 1933 was a very lively month, on the entire Northern Expedition battlefield, a total of 15 division commanders surrendered to the southwest with their troops, including Xu Yongchang, deputy commander of the Central China Theater, Xue Yue, commander of the 15th Army of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Southeast Theater, and Hubei announced that it would join the Southwest United Autonomous Government.

In March 1933, Han Fuqu and Song Zheyuan jointly led their troops against Chiang, and suddenly turned their guns on Tang Enbo, and the two of them had a total of 8 second-class divisions, and they became the Southwest Army in an instant. Zhang Zizhong, who was straightforward and upright, angrily reprimanded Tang Enbo, saying that the general trend of the Kuomintang had gone, so that he could see the situation clearly and end the civil war as soon as possible.

After Han Fuqu and the others opposed the Kuomintang, the situation of the Kuomintang began to deteriorate sharply on the Jinjing battlefield, and even Zhang Xueliang in the northeast sent four divisions of reinforcements south to support the Jinjing battlefield.

On March 15, 1933, Fu Zuoyi, who had been communicating with the southwest for a long time, was finally moved by the national righteousness, led his troops to surrender, and sent surprise troops to capture nearly 100 party-state officials who hated Tang Enbo and the following to the southwest.

After the completion of the Jinjing battlefield, Fu Zuoyi's troops stayed in Tianjin, Song Zheyuan led his troops to sit in Hebei, and Han Fuqu returned to Shandong and announced the change of banner in Shandong. After completing the preparations and relieving his worries, Chen Jun led four divisions of nearly 60,000 elite troops to leave Tianjin and began to attack south along the Jinpu line.

At the same time, the Southwest Army, under the command of Tao Qian, became the fastest advancing side, taking Hangzhou as early as early March and approaching Shanghai Beach.

In the face of the Southwest Army, which was already close at hand, the Kuomintang concentrated nearly 300,000 troops and built the Songhu defense line, which was known as an iron barrel.

On March 20, 1933, the first section of the Southwest Army landed in Shanghai by boat, went ashore from the mouth of the Yangtze River, and launched a fierce attack on the flank of the Songhu defense line of the Japanese army along the direction of Baoshan. At the same time, the main force of the Southwestern Army launched a fierce attack from the front, and with the coordination of aircraft and tanks, the battle line was broken through by the southeast cluster of 8 divisions, which lasted a week and completely resolved the battle. As a result of the battle, most of the [***] surrendered, and most of the rest fled back to their hometowns, and not many were actually killed or wounded.

At the same time, the southwest cluster in charge of Wu Tiejun set out from Shanxi and took Henan in half a month, and the Jinjing Army of Chen's army showed an almost parallel trend, passing through Anhui and approaching Nanjing.

Compared with the Southeast Army, the Southwest Army, and the Jinjing Army, although the Central China Army was not large in number, only six divisions, but with the elite and excellent equipment of the Southwest Army, in the face of the encirclement of 200,000 [***], it also broke through quickly, and in the case of heavy prisoners, it defeated many division-based [***]. When the other three-way armies marched into Nanjing, the Central China cluster also marched towards Nanjing in the direction of Hefei.

The Fourth Route Army, supplemented with a huge offensive force composed of more than 30 southwestern divisions, after adding some troops led by the [***] enlightened division commanders who surrendered, the entire offensive force reached forty divisions. Forty divisions of the Southwestern Armed Forces finally met the last and most stubborn resistance of the Kuomintang near Nanjing.

After consolidating the troops that had retreated to Nanjing, the Kuomintang concentrated more than fifty divisions, with Chiang Kai-shek himself as the commander of the theater, to defend against the offensive in the southwest. Although [***] is also outnumbered, the southwest is taking the route of elite troops, and its combat power is extraordinary, especially the air support provided by the aircraft carrier fleet, which is absolutely comparable to [***].

On March 30, 1933, five months after the Northern Expedition was launched, a decisive battle between the southwest and Nanjing finally began near Nanjing. The southwest telegraphed Nanjing Political Axe, advising the other side that the general trend had gone, and laying down arms and surrendering was the only way out. Nanjing, on the other hand, said it would fight to the end.

This will be a bloody battle, unlike the previous battles, most of them were settled after being surrounded by a strong breakthrough of the Southwestern Army, and this battle is likely to have heavy casualties. Just when Zhang Shusheng was about to give the order for a general attack, news of a mutiny suddenly came from Nanjing.

General Tong Linge, commander of the 29th Army, led his troops to surround the presidential palace and the official residences of dignitaries overnight, and in a way that surprised everyone, almost the entire Kuomintang military and political dignitaries were wiped out.

Under the 'correct persuasion' of General Tong Linge, Chiang Kai-shek issued a telegram to the people, saying that the civil war must end as soon as possible, and ordered [***] near Nanjing to lay down their arms and surrender to the southwest.

Chiang Kai-shek, who saw that the situation was not good, chose to accept the military advice at the last moment and announced his resignation, after all, as long as he is not crazy, he can see that the general trend of the 'party-state' has gone.

On April 1, 1933, the Southwest People's Army entered Nanjing and lowered the Kuomintang blue sky and white flag fluttering above the presidential palace, which officially announced the end of the rule of the Nanjing National Axe on the land of China.

At the same time, Zhang Shusheng published a "Letter to All the People" in southwest China, and conveyed an important message to the people at home and abroad through a radio speech.

“…… In the 5,000-year-long history of civilization, countless historical facts have proved that the Chinese nation is an extraordinary, unyielding, and praiseworthy nation that has created many miracles. However, over the past century, division and civil strife have all hindered the rise and rejuvenation of the nation...... From today onwards, the Chinese nation will embark on a rapid, sustained, and healthy path of development. I assure all the people, I guarantee to the 40,000,000 compatriots, and I guarantee to the hundreds of millions of compatriots at home and abroad that the southwest will uphold the consistent style of work, resolve the pain of war as soon as possible, and form a new national people's political axe, so as to lay a good foundation for rapid economic development and improvement of the people's livelihood.

The southwest will adhere to the policy of building the country with science and technology, strengthening the country with economy, building the country by legal system, rejuvenating the country through education, and passing on the country with etiquette, and ensure that everything is for the public, everything is for the people, and everything is for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation......

There are a lot of things that were originally planned to be written, but they have been refined and refined, and they have been hastily skipped over, which can be regarded as an explanation to the readers and brothers. However, in the following plots, Xiaoyu will write it 'step by step', and will not easily agree to speed up the progress of the plot, I hope you forgive me.

Thank you brothers for your support along the way, especially the support of the two brothers Zhan Feiyun and Bao Wine, the leader of the alliance. Without the support of the majority of brothers, Xiaoyu would definitely not have the confidence to write until now. It is your subscription, your rewards, your monthly passes, and referral tickets that give Xiaoyu great confidence. It's hypocritical to say that I love you guys, and I really thank you all.

Before the third volume of China Dragon Teng is about to begin, Xiaoyu once again calls for subscriptions. Two days ago, I went to the next Baidu post bar.,Pirated copies are everywhere.,I saw a brother who said that he only subscribed to the book of a certain god.,Xiaoyu will look at piracy this one.。 At that time, the wry smile was inexplicable, although the great god was a good book, Xiaoyu was also writing seriously. Not much to say, Xiaoyu tears begging everyone to subscribe to support, with my update speed, less than 3 yuan a month, it's really very little, Xiaoyu's income, and migrant workers are not much stronger, code words have not yet made money with bricks. Just 3 yuan, the price of a few cigarettes for the brothers, the price of buying one or two cucumbers, and the price of eating two ice creams, Xiaoyu has to stay up late to renew it for a month after work. If the results are very good, if Xiaoyu is a great god, he will not ask for these subscriptions, but the actual situation is that the subscription is bleak, and if he doesn't ask for it, he won't drink the soup.

Tears beg everyone to subscribe to support, especially the first chapter of the VIP chapter, brothers who have not subscribed remember to support, and then Xiaoyu is still counting on subscribing to get the seal push.

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(To be continued)