Forced by the offensive of the first division, Liu Yuan had to send Ji Hongchang to lead his troops into the battlefield, and Ji Hongchang also led the troops to fight to the death in the Xuelingkou under the condition of extremely inferior equipment, to stabilize the battlefield form, Liu Yuan applied for the appointment of Ji Hongchang as the commander of the 135th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and officially added Ji Hongchang and his troops to the National Revolutionary Army, and the application has been sent to Nanjing, which has been recognized by Chiang Kai-shek.

The next day, Qiu Qingquan's troops joined the battlefield, and the situation on the battlefield began to reverse, which opened the eyes of both the Japanese and the Nationalist government.

However, the Japanese are already in an extremely difficult situation, Liu Yuan has begun to transfer the troops of the Mongolian cavalry brigade to join the frontal battlefield and participate in the encirclement and suppression war against Japan, but the cavalry who dismounted is no different from the firehead soldiers, and the combat effectiveness is much worse, but Song Zheyuan has repeatedly made meritorious contributions in this battle, and the Tiger Regiment will be upgraded to a division after this battle.

By the end of April, the Japanese 1st Division had completely lost contact with Itagaki Seishiro, and at the same time, the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division were divided into two sections on the battlefield by Hu Zongnan, who was defended by the 1st Whampoa Army.

In this case, at the junction of the battlefield between the Japanese army and the Chinese national army, there was an extremely tragic white-knuckle battle, no one had heavy weapons, even the machine guns were dumb, and soldiers everywhere were fighting with white bayonets.

In this battle, Hu Zongnan became famous in the first battle, and personally led a division of troops and two Japanese brigades to fight frantically on the Gubeikou position, forcing back the surprise attack of two Japanese wings. The Japanese army had to withdraw from the Gubeikou position, and the main force of the national army advanced rapidly based on the Whampoa Army.

The Japanese 1st Division had a cavalry wing, but it was unwittingly wiped out by the Mongols in a white-knuckle battle, causing Shinzaburo Masaki not to let the remaining cavalry brigade fight, and only used it for simple reconnaissance missions. The 2nd Brigade of the Japanese Army fought hard to assault, hoping to break the blockade of the 1st Army of Whampoa and open up the life channel of the 1st Division, but was personally blocked by Hu Zongnan, although the positions of the 1st Division were continuously captured, but they were all led by Hu Zongnan himself.

Hu Zongnan was reported by various national media in this battle, saying that the Whampoa Army Shaozhuang faction had added another tiger general, but some media thought that Hu Zongnan was rigid in fighting and had no rules.

However, as the Japanese army was compressed, the Japanese cavalry could not shrink, which led to the remaining Mongolian cavalry and the militia groups that came from all over the country to support them became extremely active, and they attacked the Japanese strongholds everywhere, destroying the Japanese convoys that transported supplies, and making the life of the Japanese army more difficult.

Although the Chahar siege and annihilation battle showed Liu Yuan's strategic superiority and the ability of a large army to coordinate operations and command, it also revealed the fact that the Chinese army had poor combat effectiveness and backward weapons.

The sequence of the National Revolutionary Army includes Hu Zongnan's First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Fan Hanjie's Division, Qiu Qingquan's Division, Dai Anlan's Division, the Tiger Regiment transferred back from the Northeast, the Shang Zhen Army, the Fu Zuoyi Army, Sun Dianying's Division, Ji Hongchang's Division, and the Mongolian Cavalry Brigade, with a total of more than 150,000 participating national armies, five times that of the Japanese army, but the battle lasted for more than a month, and the Japanese army was still not completely annihilated.

The Japanese army in the Chahar area has also increased from more than 30,000 people to more than 10,000 people, and the losses are extremely heavy, and they can only rely on the materials airdropped from the Shandong airport every day, but because the battlefield is constantly shrinking, many supplies of the Japanese army floated to the Chinese position.

"From the perspective of the form of the battlefield, our army surrounded the Japanese army with more than 100,000 troops, and the advantage was huge, and after more than a month of fierce fighting, the Japanese army suffered huge losses, and at the same time, after a long period of familiarity, the various departments had a certain understanding of each other, and it was time to annihilate the first division." Lin Wei bowed to Chiang Kai-shek's side and said, "I don't know what the deputy chief of staff of Lu Dao is based on, he has been annihilating the Japanese army, it is necessary to support the troops and respect themselves, if it were not for the strong resistance of Rehe's student army, Rehe would have lost all of them." ”

Lin Wei lost no time in telling Liu Yuan two black sentences, but it seemed that Chiang Kai-shek didn't listen to it at all.

The encirclement and suppression of the Red Army has reached the time when it is about to be victorious, the Red Party's troops have been sharply reduced from 100,000 to 30,000, and a large number of troops in the early stage of encirclement and suppression of the Dabie Mountain, because they have enough experience in mountain warfare, make the Red Party's life extremely difficult, and at the same time, Chiang Kai-shek personally found Soong Qingling and invited a work team from Jiangxi, and all the land recovered from the Red Party was governed by the work team, instead of reverting to the previous state in a cold and violent manner, which made the Red Party's mass advantage smaller and smaller, and in this situation, Yang Yongtai was no longer needed at the front.

So Yang Yongtai continued to return to Chiang Kai-shek's side, Yang Yongtai at the moment has turned red and purple, starting from the suppression of bandits, this scholar is simply a last resort, although the front-line generals and commanders are not very smooth, but the Red Party has been constantly compressed, and although Chiang Kai-shek did not continue to reward Yang Yongtai, but the exchange of letters, more and more respect, Yang Yongtai also knew that Chiang Kai-shek was protecting him, so this time back, he also began to become a lot more low-key, no longer as high-profile as in the past, Dealing with those around Chiang Kai-shek is no longer a posture of challenge. Yang Yongtai changed the pro-Japanese atmosphere of the previous Department of Political Science, and repeatedly made speeches on the fight against Japan to the end, and Huang Yin, a core member of the Department of Political Science, went to the northern battlefield in person, although inside the war room, this old guy's attitude was still inclined to compromise with Japan, but this at least showed an attitude, that is, the Department of Political Science supported the anti-Japanese resistance.

Internally, Yang Yongtai and Zhang Qun have repeatedly alleviated the contradictions with the CC department and the Whampoa department, and Yang Yongtai has taken advantage of Chiang Kai-shek's side to provide a lot of convenience to the two factions and let many capable people take the position, which is also the reason why Yang Yongtai has made great contributions, but the Department of Political Science is still quietly developing.

After Lin Wei spoke, Lin Wei stepped aside, seeing Yang Yongtai looking like he wanted to speak and stopped, Chiang Kai-shek knew that in the past, this gentleman would definitely not express his opinion, because they were afraid of Japan in the past, pro-Japan, and today I don't know why Lu Dao always wants to speak and stop.

"Mr. Changqing, why don't you say something, am I, Jiang Zhong, the kind of person who can't listen to gossip?" Chiang Kai-shek didn't care about Lin Wei, but he had to respect Yang Yongtai, straighten his waist, and said to Yang Yongtai with a smile.

"Director Lin Wei is very right, in fact, we have reached the time when we can annihilate the Japanese, but Director Lin Wei has not communicated with Liu Yuan, and I don't know him very well. Yang Yongtai said sincerely.

It is known that Yang Yongtai was not good at talking before, as long as there was a mistake in the attendant room and said the wrong thing, he would definitely be sneered at, but recently, I don't know what Yang Dao is for, Yang Yongtai is getting better and better at talking, and he is also a lot more enthusiastic, which makes many people feel flattered, but they also quietly change their views on Yang Yongtai, after all, people must have dignity.

Lin Wei is a soldier after all, although he doesn't like Liu Yuan, he still listens to other people's words, especially Yang Yongtai said with respect, so he said, "Sir, you don't have to be so polite, you can say your opinion." ”

Chiang Kai-shek also nodded and looked at Yang Yongtai and motioned for him to continue.

Yang Yongtai said, "From the overall point of view, although we have an advantage, Yan Xishan has given Fu Zuoyi a name, asking him to preserve his strength, not to seek credit, and at the same time the war has reached the most arduous time, Sun Dianfang and other troops began to preserve their strength, and the main thing that is currently fighting on the front line is our Huangpu Army, but the Huangpu Army is far away to fight in the north, and the transportation of materials is extremely difficult, and the suppression of bandits is the most tense moment, so we have no way to give too much material support to the front line, You must know that the artillery shells thrown out by the deputy chief of staff of Lu Dao in one battle are more than the total number of artillery shells used by us to encircle and suppress the Red Party, and even if we are given them, we will not be able to afford them. There was no sufficient material support, which is why the Whampoa Army did not immediately annihilate the Japanese......"

Everyone nodded after listening to Yang Yongtai's words, looking at this scholar who pointed out the country, they couldn't help but have a little respect in their hearts, Xiucai doesn't go out to know all the world's affairs, which is also an ability.

"Although I don't know the losses of the Huangpu Army in Ludao, I expect that there must be a lot, I just came back from the front line, and I don't know if the Ludao Attendant Office has made statistics." Yang Yongtai looked at Lin Wei.

A young staff officer stood up and said, "In this operation, although our army has a lot of formations, it has indeed suffered great losses in the early stage, and the first division of the first army has suffered the most serious attrition, more than 7,000 people, most of whom were killed by Japanese bombers, two colonels and regimental commanders were killed in the battle, and one was seriously wounded. The other units of the First Army have lost at least 30 percent of their troops. Among them, Dai Anlan's division was reduced by more than 40 percent, Wei Lihuang's division was reduced by more than 50 percent, two regiment commanders and 11 battalion commanders were killed in battle, and the rest were extremely poorly prepared. Fan Hanjie's department lost more than 20%. Taking Ji Hongchang as an example, although the losses were small, they did not have heavy weapons, and their combat effectiveness was very low, which was not enough to become the main force to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army. ”

After listening to the words of the staff officer, Chiang Kai-shek finally understood that Liu Yuanwei on the front line did not annihilate the first division, if it wasn't for Yang Yongtai to mention it, he really didn't think about the losses on the front line, he only knew that the front line had surrounded the Japanese army, and he didn't think about it so much at all.

"It's better to put Tang Enbo and Huang Wei and Huang Wei on the front line, it's not a matter to always hold it like this, you must know that although the Japanese army doesn't know why Lu Dao has not let reinforcements go ashore, but once they go ashore, I'm afraid Liu Yuan won't be able to hold it." Chiang Kai-shek said to Yang Yongtai worriedly.

When everyone heard Chiang Kai-shek's words, they were taken aback, and everyone knew that Chiang Kai-shek talked about negotiating peace with the Japanese several times, and expressed dissatisfaction with Liu Yuan's insistence on fighting with the Japanese, but there were no actual sanctions, and he kept giving preferential treatment to all sides.

Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but feel a little more jealous of Liu Yuan, you must know that Liu Yuan has already commanded more than 100,000 Whampoa troops, if you add two more divisions, Liu Yuan's right general will have nearly 30,000 more troops, what a great power this is, you must know that although Liu Yuan has the positions of a member of the Central Executive Committee, a member of the Central Military Commission, and a deputy chief of staff, his actual identity is only a prince, and a prince can have such power, since the day the National Government was established, there has been no such thing.

Everyone thought about it, if he was Liu Yuan, he would definitely have an impulse to die as a confidant, and everyone would understand why Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly weakened Liu Yuan, and even killed Liu Yuan's best brother by mistake, and Liu Yuan did not turn against Chiang Kai-shek.

Different from everyone's surprise, Yang Yongtai seemed to have expected Chiang Kai-shek to have this kind of thought, shook his head and said, "Chairman, there is no need to be like this, Liu Yuan, deputy chief of staff, said before he went north that it was impossible to ensure that the three eastern provinces would not be lost, it can be seen that he had no idea of expanding the war at all, and the reason why the Japanese reinforcements were delayed was probably not to expand the scale of the war, so it was not a good choice to continue to dispatch the A division to the north, and Huang Weishi and Tang Enbo were in the process of suppressing bandits. Playing an important role that cannot be easily transferred. ”

"Are we just going to watch the war go on like this?" Lin Wei asked. His face was a little embarrassed because he had said bad things about Liu Yuan just now.

"Naturally, we won't stick to it all the time, these ninety-nine steps have been taken, if we don't continue the battle, Chief of Staff He will negotiate it. It's not a good lesson for little Japan, they really think that there is no one in our country, and at this moment the suppression of bandits has reached a tense moment, if the ministry solves the Japanese affairs, we are likely to be unable to control the situation, so this time we must eliminate the Japanese 1st Division no matter what, and at the same time, Chahar is seriously ill and marches eastward to force the 9th Division in Rehe. ”

Although China is backward, as long as it pays several times the casualties, it will definitely be able to defeat the Japanese, and the most important thing that China lacks is people, so Yang Yongtai also has a little more confidence in his heart.

You must know that just a few days ago, everyone still couldn't see the situation clearly, and they were worried that the first division would break through the defense line and attack the Pingjin area, but the battle situation was changing all the time, and the calm was just around the corner, but the Japanese just couldn't move forward, and just before everyone understood what this was for, the Chinese army had completely locked up the Japanese troops, and everyone couldn't see what was going on.

In fact, Yang Yongtai saw it very clearly, although the attack of the Japanese First Division was fierce, but there were too many troops under the command of Liu Yuan, especially the participation of miscellaneous troops, Liu Yuan could always form an unimaginable advantage in the local area, and Fu Zuoyi was a person who was very capable of defending the city, as long as Liu Yuan broke them by one point, he could form dominoes, so that the enemy could be passive in a row, forming a good situation.

"The truth is indeed that truth, but until now you haven't said what Liu Yuan has not annihilated the first division, although the front line is hard, but it is still possible to fight, you must know that during the Northern Expedition, there was no ammunition, which was a common thing." Chiang Kai-shek asked puzzled.

"The principal misunderstood, in fact, I think that the deputy chief of staff is definitely capable of annihilating the Japanese First Division, the reason why it has not been launched is because the time has not come, as for the reinforcements, the deputy chief of staff must have his own means of dealing with it, if the principal does not believe it, he can send a telegram to Chief of Staff He, he should have some information there." Yang Yongtai talked eloquently, and after a while, he analyzed the things on the front line, and he was much kinder than before, and everyone had to admire it in their hearts.

"Hurry up and send a power to Jingzhi, when you get to the north, it will become a display case, and this guy also knows that he is dissatisfied with me." Chiang Kai-shek said with a wry smile.

After a moment of effort, I called back.

Chief of Staff He said in a telegram that Liu Yuan's merchant ships converted from warships in the Tanggu area had dropped a lot of torpedoes along the coast, making it difficult for the Japanese fleet to move an inch, and at the same time there were more than a dozen submarines used to sneak attack Japanese reinforcements. However, the chief of staff believes that Liu Yuan has something to hide from him, and he must have some big plans, but no matter how he asks, Liu Yuan always says that the Central Committee and the chief of staff have Japanese intelligence officers around them, and it is not suitable for him to know too much. Lin Wei personally took the telegram and said to Chiang Kai-shek.

"This guy really made it in the eyes of the United States, and the commander of the Navy told me some time ago that Liu Yuan would dock a batch of submarines at our naval base, and I didn't take it seriously, it turned out that this guy had been prepared for a long time. But what's this guy's plan? Chiang Kai-shek said puzzled.

"Do you want to call the deputy chief of staff, you must know that the deputy chief of staff is young after all, if we lose our peace under the vigor of youth, then we are sinners." Chen Cheng, who has not spoken, suggested.

Chiang Kai-shek waved his hand and said, "No need, if the sky falls, I will make up for him, if he loses his peace, I will personally go to the front line to fill this hole for him, Wen Bai accidentally killed Wushan, I know that this little guy has a pimple in his heart, this time it is compensation." ”

"Headmaster, how can national affairs be child's play." Chen Cheng insisted, he felt that Chiang Kai-shek was too accustomed to Liu Yuan.

"Shut up, haven't you heard, do we have Japanese intelligence agents here? If I had asked for the answer, the Japanese would have known what to do, and the Red Party would have known what to do. Chiang Kai-shek glanced at Chen Cheng angrily, and in desperation, Chen Cheng could only shut up, but he was a little more jealous of Liu Yuan in his eyes.

"By the way, the auxiliary country hasn't sent me a telegram for a few days. I don't know how this guy is. Speaking of Liu Yuan, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly asked Deng Wenyi beside him.

Deng Wenyi was hiding behind Chiang Kai-shek, looking at the map in a daze, as if he had also arrived at the front line, how talented he was to command so many formed troops, interlocking, and fighting the Japanese in a close and orderly manner. However, thinking that Liu Yuan once said that it would be good to be a major general in his life, he couldn't sleep and felt a little lost, so that Chiang Kai-shek shouted himself several times and didn't hear it clearly.

"Tell the headmaster, he hasn't sent you a telegram for a week. However, Director Dai Li sent a message saying that the Red Party was in contact with the auxiliary country, and the contact person was Chen Geng, but the negotiation with the auxiliary country collapsed, which made it very unpleasant, and the auxiliary country did not let them get involved in Chahar and Rehe, and clearly told them that Chahar and Rehe were a pit, and they were not allowed to jump into it, but they did not listen, and the Northern Bureau of the Red Party also carried out an assassination of Liu Yuan because of this incident, and hit Fuguo in the arm, and Fuguo is currently recuperating from his injuries in Union Hospital. Deng Wenyi hurriedly came back to his senses and told Chiang Kai-shek about Liu Yuan.

"It's too much, in vain when Liu Yuan was in the Northern Expedition, he treated them well. It's not bad if it's not enough to let Liu Yuan eat some bitter fruits himself, and when we force them away, let Liu Yuan educate the Red Party well. Chiang Kai-shek smiled indifferently and said.

"How's the negotiation going?" Chiang Kai-shek asked with a different subject. He knew that most of the people here were still afraid of humanism, and even he himself would not support an all-out war with the Japanese. However, he will not give much to the Japanese, after all, he is now the head of state, and he cannot afford to lose this face. Now that the form has become so good, he wonders if the Japanese are still so arrogant.

"The Japanese are very arrogant, and they demand that we cede all Chahar and Rehe to them, and at the same time we will pay them part of the military expenses. Chief of Staff He Yingqin did not dare to agree, and discussed with Liu Yuan once, and Liu Yuan's opinion was that the negotiations could wait, and the form would soon be clear. However, Chairman Huang Ying (chairman of the Executive Yuan's Beiping Administrative Affairs Consolidation Committee, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government) had great opinions on this matter, and he repeatedly discussed with the chief of staff that if there were no more peace talks, he would resign from all posts."

"This Huang Yan didn't see his temper so stubborn when he held the Xiaolushan meeting, so I sent him a telegram in my name, appeased him, let him endure more, I really don't know what he thinks, people are unwilling to negotiate with the Japanese, and when the time comes, he is afraid that the people will be scolded to death, he is good, he has to talk with the Japanese, this is what Liu Yuan said, the kind of person who likes to be scolded, but this kind of scolding also requires courage, appease him well, you must know that after the Tao of the road, he does not carry the black pot, that is, he carries the black pot, It can't make him feel cold. Chiang Kai-shek nodded helplessly and said-

Originally, according to Mao's estimate, the war against Chiang Kai-shek could be held out for at least three or four or three or five years, so that he could at least delay Chiang Kai-shek's development, but Chiang Kai-shek's changes were getting bigger and bigger, and he had lost too many things in the base area, so he had to consider the issue of the Long March in March and April of the third year, so Mao's heart felt very cold, this is not the most fatal, according to Li Kenong's intelligence, Li De and Xiang Ying were actually discussing whether to leave themselves in the Soviet area, if you stay in the Soviet area and let them take away the essence of the Red Party, then the probability of surviving yourself will be very low, that is, the legendary outcast, and the more terrifying thing is that without yourself, the Red Party is likely to be wiped out and become history.

Just as Mao was thinking, his younger brother ** (president of the Central Bank of the Soviet Union) came to Liu Yuan's small study, "Brother, the horse team is about to start moving, but there is still a large amount of gold in the treasury in the Shicheng area, how can we hide this gold." ”

Mao sighed and said, "Brother, what's the use of hiding this money, you listen to me, you give these things to the bosses of each unit, and let them distribute them to the soldiers of each unit, and the Long March will start immediately, and there is no spare money in your hand, so you can't grab food and drink." ”

Mao ** happily went to send money to the various units of the Red Party, in fact, he didn't realize the meaning of this move, Mao told the military commanders of the Red Party, what is the use of obeying Li De, what you eat is what I created for you, and I got it for you, and now you have run away, even the travel expenses are given to you by me, if you still listen to Li De and them, you are wolf-hearted.