The assassination of the Japanese army destroyed the excellent situation of China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression at once, and now all parties are concerned about the question of whether Lao Chiang is dead or alive, and the major warlords and foreign governments have called the Nationalist Government one after another, demanding that they immediately disclose the news of Lao Chiang.

However, there was no definite answer from the Nationalist government, but since December 3, the defenders have stepped up their defenses, and some of the territory previously contested by the two sides has voluntarily retreated. It can be seen from this that even if Lao Jiang is not dead, the situation is likely to be extremely bad.

At the same time as the attack was launched by Tegaoke, the Japanese 11th Army once again crossed the Xinqiang River and launched a full-scale attack on the ground theater, and this time the Japanese army obviously did not intend to fight and leave, but was ready to completely occupy Changsha and seize the opportunity to march to Chongqing.

At the same time, the Japanese army in Burma also gathered four divisions and launched an attack on northern Burma with aircraft and artillery, trying to crush the expeditionary force in one fell swoop.

On the contrary, the North China Front and the Kwantung Army were very calm, did not take any action, and instead of taking the initiative to attack, they once again shrank their forces.

Okamura Ninji and Umezu Mijiro fought against Chen Feng, and the Chinese general was very tough, and this time Tegaoke not only launched an attack on the Chinese leader, but also carried out indiscriminate attacks on his family, resulting in the death of Chen Feng's father-in-law, Yan Xishan, according to Okamura Ninji and Umezu Mijiro's understanding of Chen Feng, he would definitely not give up. Once Chen Feng wants to retaliate, it will definitely be a big action of landslides and earth cracks. Therefore, the North China Front and the Kwantung Army took the initiative to shrink their forces and prepare for the storm under Chen Feng's headquarters.

In fact, just as Okamura and others thought, after receiving the urgent telegram from Hua Rong, Chen Feng was furious and immediately returned to Guisui from the front line, and after confirming that Guisui's family was safe and sound, he immediately sent a report to Yan Changxi of Nanyang Ling, asking her to return to Guisui immediately.

Although the incident was only one day ago, due to the deliberate propaganda of the Japanese army, Yan Changxi, who was far away in Nanyang, already knew that Yan Laoxi had an accident. Therefore, after receiving Chen Feng's telegram, he immediately took a special plane back to Guisui.

Yan Laoxi died. And died unjustly. When the Japanese army attacked, he had already left his mansion, but unfortunately the Japanese army used a suicide attack this time, when the plane crashed into the Yan mansion, a palm-sized piece of shrapnel hit Yan Laoxi's left rib. It is then inserted directly into the body from the left rib. Despite the efforts of several well-known military doctors in the World War II zone. But it's still a lack of energy. The old man didn't even say goodbye to his family and left.

As soon as Yan Laoxi died, the entire Second World War Zone was completely chaotic, and some of the high-ranking officials of the Jin Sui Army advocated immediately sending troops to avenge the marshal. Some people advocate waiting for the orders of the Military Commission to ensure the safety of Shanxi, while others with ulterior motives want to seize power, and some people believe that the most urgent thing at the moment is to strictly prevent Yan'an from taking the opportunity to expand its territory and make the hearts of the people in the entire Second World War Zone fluctuate.

In addition, Chongqing is now too busy to take care of itself, so there is still time to manage the war zone, so the situation within the Jin Sui army became complicated overnight.

Taiyuan. World War II Commander's Command.

Yan Xishan's death was too sudden, and he didn't even arrange the future, and Yan Laoxi had a total of five sons and one daughter, five sons were born to his wife, and one daughter was born to his younger brother, but none of Lao Xi's five sons are now adults, the eldest son Zhigong died young, the second son Zhikuan died in Chengdu at the age of 24, the third son Zhixin died young, and now only the fourth son Zhimin and the fifth son Zhihui are alive, even the older fourth son is only 15 years old this year, and he can't support the Yan family and Jin Suijun's stall at all. Therefore, where the Jin Sui army will go has become a concern for the officers of the Jin Sui department.

In the large conference room of the commander's headquarters, the main position was vacant, Yang Aiyuan, Fu Zuoyi and others sat down in turn, at first glance there was no difference from the previous meeting, but all the senior officers were sad, most of the officers were red-eyed, as if they had just cried, everyone had this white flower on their chests, and a white filial piety cloth was wrapped around their arms, which filled the entire conference room with a gloomy and depressing atmosphere.

As before, the meeting was presided over by Yang Aiyuan, deputy commander of the Second World War Zone, commander-in-chief of the Sixth Army. ”

All the officers in the room quickly stood up.

"Salute!"

"Finish, seat!"

Yang Aiyuan eased his grief a little, and said loudly: "Everyone, the despicable Japanese used the next three indiscriminate means to assassinate the marshal, and the marshal didn't even wake up once when the old man left" Speaking of this, Yang Aiyuan's voice became whimpering, and his grief was overflowing.

These officers in the conference room are all the backbone of the Jin Sui Army, and they were all pulled up by Yan Xishan, and Yan Xishan has the grace of knowing everyone.

Moreover, although Yan Laoxi is a bit picky, and the same is true for Chen Feng's son-in-law, but this old man knows how to entrap his generals, so almost all the officers and soldiers of the Jin Sui Department are extremely sad about Yan Laoxi's death.

After a long while, Yang Aiyuan relieved himself and continued: "Although we don't want to believe that Dashuai is just leaving, but the matter has come to this, what if we don't want to believe it? Dashuai is in a hurry, and he hasn't even had time to arrange the aftermath, so those of us who are subordinates must let Dashuai go with peace of mind and take care of the aftermath for him! ”

"Although the marshal is gone, but the life of our people still has to live, the military flag of the Jin Sui army cannot fall, where do we people go still need everyone to take ideas, let's talk about it, where is the way out for our Jin Sui army?"

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Yang Aiyuan said again: "We are all comrades-in-arms and brothers who fight side by side, and we are all people who can hand over their backs to each other on the battlefield, which is related to the future of the entire Jin Sui Army, and everyone can speak freely if they have anything to say!" ”

Everyone, look at me, let me look at you, Sun Chu, who finally belonged to the Dingxiang faction, got up and said: "The big marshal is dead, what a wrongful death, we can't help but avenge this revenge, so I suggest that the county party committee marshal take revenge, and then talk about the way out after the big marshal gets revenge, I don't know what you think?" ”

"It's not proper, Dashuai was killed by the Japanese, and like Zhang Dashuai in the Northeast, there is no problem with this. But now that the Japanese are powerful, it is definitely not possible to kill them in three or two days, so it is not appropriate to take revenge first and then talk about a way out! Yang Chengyuan, commander of the 34th Army, retorted.

"Then you mean that we won't avenge Dashuai's revenge, Dashuai has the grace of knowing each of us, we are here to discuss who to go to as soon as he died, how to divide the family, are you worthy of his old man?" Sun Chu roared loudly.

"Sun Chu, don't fucking scold your mother here, whoever fucking says that the handsome man won't take revenge, who dares to say this, Lao Tzu is the first to chop him up! But you also have to see clearly, the Japanese have now occupied the whole of Southeast Asia, and we can wipe them all out with our Jin Sui army's family foundation, and we will talk about a way out after taking revenge, do we still have a way out? Yang Chengyuan said loudly.

"Cui Ya (Sun Chu's words), Longquan (Yang Chengyuan's words) makes sense, we must avenge the revenge of the marshal, there is no doubt about this, but now the Japanese are indeed what we can afford to provoke the Jin Sui Army, and you all know the situation in the past two years, if it weren't for the help of my uncle, the flag of the Jin Sui Army would have been cut down by the Japanese. In addition, the domestic situation is turbulent, and the life and death of the old man are uncertain, so we must plan early! Yang Aiyuan sighed and said.

Xu Yongchang, who was sitting at the head of Yang Aiyuan, suddenly stood up and said: "Everyone, the purpose of this meeting we are here today is to think of a way out for the entire Jin Sui Army and the brothers who fought devils with the marshal, there are three ways in front of us, the first is to find someone within ourselves to replace the marshal, let's carry the military flag of the Jin Sui Army, presumably Chongqing will not embarrass us." ”

"The second way is to open the door to Chongqing to take over Shanxi, and then the Nationalist Government will reorganize the Jin Sui Army, which is also justified, after all, we are still staring at the number of the National Revolutionary Army."

"The third way is to turn to the north, since the completion of the Northern Expedition, the reunification of the country, the Central Plains, and the political situation in China has been divided into four, I originally thought that no one in this world will form a group outside the four group armies of Chiang, Feng, Yan, and Li. However, which of our uncles did it, starting with a security regiment, rising strongly in the gap between the four major groups and the Japanese, and now occupies Suiyuan, Chahar, Hebei and most of Outer Mongolia, with more than 100,000 troops, and has a large industry and territory overseas, even the troops in the hands of the eldest lady are probably not much less than our Jin Sui army, such a person is indeed worthy of our defection, plus there is a relationship with the eldest lady, my uncle will not treat us badly! ”

"Of course, there are two ways to vote for the republic and Japan, I think no one will do this, the reason is very simple, I think you also know, I won't say more, how to choose depends on your own!"

Like other warlord troops, although the Jin Sui army was a force pulled up by Yan Xishan, it was not all monolithic inside. Most of the officers of the Jin Sui Army were from Shanxi, but they were divided into three small factions: Wutai, Dingxiang faction, Laoxian faction and Jinnan faction. Yan Xishan, Yang Aiyuan and others are the representatives of the Dingxiang faction, while the Laoxian faction is headed by the next one, and the Jinnan faction is an emerging faction, with Fu Zuoyi, a young and strong officer, as the leader.

Next time, although this person is an outsider, he himself has a good character, and he is a rare general and a clean official, so his prestige in the Jin Sui army is second only to Yan Laoxi, and now he says this, and everyone has no objection. (To be continued......)