Because the enemy was too vegetable, and even though his side was lightly armed and fast, he still had an absolute advantage in weapons and equipment, so the combat casualties of Fang Yongle's troops in the Xikang Campaign were very limited, and the total number of non-combat attrition was only more than 1,000 people, but even if there were full preparations in advance, the total number of non-combat attrition such as frostbite and falling to death was still as high as more than 3,000 people. However, because Fang Yongle has always shared weal and woe with his subordinates, and because he has been invincible along the way, and his morale has continued to rise, the vast number of officers and men of the troops stationed in Tibet have not only not complained about him, but have become more and more in awe. At the same time, it was precisely under such almost cruel tests and tempering that this originally uneven army quickly coalesced into a powerful brigade of the world's first-class, especially in mountain warfare.

Due to the order to be stationed in Tibet, Fang Yongle, a young general during the Red Army, missed many opportunities to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, but more than a year of peaceful days did not rust this treasure knife, and when it was unsheathed again, Fang Yongle's prestige soon spread throughout the country. Moreover, at this time, not many people realized that the Battle of Xikang was just an insignificant warm-up in the second period of Fang Yongle's later glorious military career.

However, although the scale of the Xikang campaign was small, its strategic significance should not be underestimated, and after the capture of Xikang, the Red Party had completely controlled the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, directly posing a fatal threat to the two provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan, which were in the rear of the national control area. Due to the natural suppression on the topography of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, no matter how many troops the national army deployed in these two provinces, it would be difficult for the other party to launch a strong counterattack on the Yongle Division, and if the troops were not left enough, Fang Yongle would easily lead the army down to take a stroll

As a result, Lao Chiang was not only forced to abandon his plan to transfer troops from Sichuan and Yunnan provinces to reinforce the Jiangnan battlefield, but also had to send reinforcements to the two provinces again. However, the feeling of holding a sharp knife against the chrysanthemum is certainly uncomfortable, but the national army has already suffered losses in the civil war, and now it has to draw away at least 100,000 mobile troops, isn't life even more difficult? And under the guidance of the propaganda apparatus of the Red Party. The voices of the people of the whole country against the civil war came and went, which made Lao Jiang even more anxious.

In fact, speaking from the heart, taking the initiative to sneak attack has become an embarrassing situation now. Lao Chiang actually regretted it very much, and he naturally wanted to stop the war because he could not bear greater losses, but now although the Red Party did not achieve any decisive victory, it had a clear upper hand on all fronts. Do they really want a truce, as they claim? Even if they agree to an armistice, will they put forward any more excessive conditions? The more Lao Jiang thought about it, the more bottomless he became

But no matter how sure you are, you have to try, and besides, if the Red Party really refuses to agree to an armistice. Lao Chiang is not completely without a way to deal with it, but if he negotiates peace with Japan on the condition of returning to the state before the "77 Incident", whether it can be accepted by domestic public opinion, Lao Chiang is really not sure in his heart, and joining forces to deal with the Red Party can only be kept secret.

Fortunately, Lao Chiang did not come to this point after all, and the negotiations between the two sides went much smoother than he expected. Although the Red Party has taken advantage of a lot since the start of the war, after all, the Nationalist Army has 4 million people, and the Red Party is distracted by the devils, so it can only use less than half of its troops to enter the civil war, and it is not very likely that it will completely overthrow the Chongqing regime in a short period of time. On the other hand. Although the "Gannan Incident" was provoked by Lao Chiang, after the Red Party intensified its counterattack, it also began to feel more and more pressure from public opinion, after all, in the face of the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the crime of expanding the civil war was still very heavy.

Moreover, neither the United States, nor Germany, nor the Soviet Union wanted the current China to fall into a full-scale civil war. The three countries were mainly concerned that a civil war in China would harm their interests, such as trade between the United States and China, and comprehensive cooperation between Germany and the Red Party in secret negotiations, which required a relatively peaceful environment, at least for the industrial base to be built in Jihua and the coastal parts of the country as exports; And the Soviet Union supported China so that China could help it contain Japan, not for the Chinese to fight a civil war.

As for ideology, Stalin did not take it very seriously, and even to a certain extent he had a deep fear of the Red Party (Note 1), because the Red Party was certainly a great encouragement to the international communist movement after the reunification of China, but the national interests of the Soviet Union determined that he would prefer to see a China that did not pose any threat, especially since there were still many historical problems between the two countries that could not be resolved, which made him even more scheming. In addition, if China, as the most populous country in Shijie, really becomes the second socialist country in Shijie, there will undoubtedly be a double heart among the international communists who were originally only the Soviet Union, which is undoubtedly what neither the Soviet Union nor the CPSU wanted, and if Red China succeeds in developing, it may even compete with the Soviet Union for the leadership of the international communist movement, then the problem will be even more serious

In this way, the Chinese themselves are killing each other, but foreigners are intermediating, which has been repeatedly used by later generations of public intellectuals as an example of the inferiority of the Chinese nation, but the truly insightful people understand that those who advocate peace are not necessarily good people, and starting a civil war is not necessarily guilty

In any case, the domestic public sentiment did not allow it, the foreign shili were also opposed, and the victory and defeat could not be quickly determined on the battlefield, and the Japanese were watching from the sidelines, so the two parties could not continue to fight in any case. And even if they did not achieve a decisive victory, they had a clear advantage on all fronts, which was enough to give the Red Party the upper hand in the negotiations.

First of all, there is the issue of determining the responsibility for the "Gannan Incident", although Lao Jiang used the strategy of throwing away his pawns to protect the car and shirking the responsibility to Gu Zhutong, but the fact that the national army launched the "Gannan Incident" is still clearly placed in front of the people of the whole country, and Lao Chiang's image as a "national leader" has become more and more precarious, and his practice of losing his pawns and protecting the car has also made the generals under his command somewhat chilled.

Note 1: Personally, I think that Stalin in history did not begin to be wary of the Red Party until after the Korean War, and he had been very contemptuous before, but in this book, the Red Party already had more than 2 million regular troops, and it showed increasingly strong combat effectiveness in the War of Resistance. )