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Of course, the 15 th Group Army was backed by the Central Plains border region, which was industrially developed and had taken the lead in carrying out large-scale farmland and water conservancy infrastructure construction, and Hu Weidong had always pressed the size of the troops and not excessively expanded their strength, so the officers and men were able to eat meat dishes almost every day, and their material conditions were absolutely among the best in the country. ,!

After calculation, only the officers really suffered, but Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army was quite an alternative unit in the national army, they not only fought devils without ambiguity, but also had strict military discipline, and the economy was not as rich as the central army, and the weapons and equipment were poor, so they were very similar to the Eighth Route Army in terms of tactics and style of life, and even had the nickname of "seven and a half routes" in the national army, and the devils regarded it as the unit of the Eighth Route Army for a long time.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that in history, Fu Zuoyi was quite "pro-communist" in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, and once accepted a large number of red party members into his army to work, drawing on their political work and combat methods, and the directors of the political departments of the two divisions were actually red party members, and later forced by the pressure of Lao Jiang to clear those red party members from the army, but did not embarrass them much, and this good fate also became the foreshadowing of the peaceful liberation of Beiping in the future. First of all, the strength of the Red Party is much stronger than in history, and secondly, Suiyuan was directly encapsulated by the Jinsui Border Area of the Eighth Route Army after the recovery of Shanxi, so the influence of the Red Party on the 35th Army was much greater than at the end of 1938 in history, if it were not for Fu Zuoyi's prestige in the 35th Army. The Red Party could even take away leadership, as it did in the Shanxi New Army.

It is precisely because of this that the officers and men of the 35th Army hardly felt any discomfort after the reorganization. On the contrary, it takes a period of time for the advanced weapons and equipment of the 15 th Group Army to adapt, after all, weapons change and tactics must also change with them; although Hu Weidong knew that Fu Zuoyi was good at training, he still had to teach the 35 officers and men a lesson, and in addition, some middle and high-ranking officers with heavy warlord mentality also needed to strengthen ideological education......

As for Fu Zuoyi himself, even when he was a warlord before, his personal integrity was impeccable. In terms of honesty and simplicity and frugality, even many cadres of the Red Party could not compare, so he integrated into the Red Party even faster than his subordinates.

In order to speed up the efficiency of the reorganization of the 35th Army, Hu Weidong adopted the strategy of "substituting combat for training"; Shandong was one of the three regions with the most serious banditry in the Republic of China, second only to the northeast and Henan, although the situation improved when Han Fuhui was in power. However, after Xue Yue seized Shandong, the situation deteriorated rapidly, one was the continuous war and panic; The second is that although Xue Yue fought hard, he was also good at making money, and as a result, the officials forced the people to rebel. Although Xue Yue was later transferred out of Shandong by Lao Jiang, once the bandits arose, it would be difficult to suppress it. Although Shen Honglie was effective in governing Qingdao, he was also at a loss for the countryside, so when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the banditry in Shandong had developed to an unprecedented scale.

It was not until after the establishment of the anti-Japanese base in Shandong that the base area was established. Shandong's bandits have only been brought under control (In terms of the ability to suppress bandits, the Red Party is definitely the first in the world. ）。 However, even now, there are still tens of thousands of bandit forces and reactionary Huidaomen organizations in Shandong, posing a great threat to the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in the Shandong base area. Therefore, Hu Weidong appointed Fu Zuoyi, the new chairman of Shandong Province, to lead troops to suppress bandits, first, to sweep away the bandits, and second, to run in the team, and achieved good results. Considering that Fu Zuoyi not only had outstanding military talents, but also had first-class domestic political talents, Hu Weidong did not hesitate to hand over the power of Shandong to him after he came to Shandong, and let him earnestly become the chairman of the province. As a result, under Fu Zuoyi's governance, the economy and people's livelihood in the Shandong base area were rapidly restored, and Fu Zuoyi, who was moved by Hu Weidong's trust, became more and more desperate, and secretly joined the Red Party in February of the following year......

In the past two months, there have been no major battles on land in North China, but there are two things that have to be mentioned. First, the Red Party convened the enlarged Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee in Lanzhou, at which Taizu proposed that the Red Party should, as always, attach importance to the construction of anti-Japanese base areas, and vigorously strengthen the basic construction of farmland and water conservancy under the premise of popularizing agricultural cooperation in the base areas that have already been consolidated, so as to "increase production and economize" and "prepare for war and prepare for famine." In some areas where the conditions are relatively high, especially in the industrial zone in western Henan, we should seize all favorable conditions and push forward the process of industrialization as soon as possible, with heavy industry, especially the military industry as the center.

More importantly, the base areas behind enemy lines must be further expanded, and in areas where the Japanese army is still strong, the focus of work is to extensively mobilize the masses to compete with the Japanese puppet army in the countryside and to kill and injure the Japanese puppet army by means of guerrilla warfare, so as to accumulate small victories into big victories, and at the same time boldly advance into the depth of the occupied areas; the Central Plains border region should establish a Jianghuai base area as soon as possible, while the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation should strive to expand the anti-Japanese base area in South Manchuria. As for Hebei and Shandong, where the Japanese army was relatively weak, the Eighth Route Army and the 15th Group Army should increase the proportion of mobile warfare, seize all the fighters to annihilate as much of the Japanese army's living liliang as possible, and promote the arrival of the all-out counteroffensive stage of the War of Resistance as soon as possible. In addition, Zhang Hao, secretary of the Central Plains Bureau, was added as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee at the meeting, but this matter was expected by everyone, including Hu Weidong, and the delegates were very calm about it......

Another incident surprised Hu Weidong a little, the list of Nobel laureates in 1938 was announced, and there were actually Chinese scientists, and there was more than one. In Hu Weidong's view, Chinese scientists, who had previously missed the Nobel Prize, were suddenly so favored, not only because of their great contributions, but also because the Chinese military has generally exceeded the expectations of the great powers since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which has made the West begin to look at China's liliang squarely.

Among the two Chinese laureates, Huang Minglong won the Nobel Prize Chemist of the year for his "discovery" and synthesis of a variety of chemical antibacterial drugs such as isoniazid, which can treat tuberculosis, and the broad-spectrum antibiotic haloperic acid; Wu Xian, one of the few biochemists in the Central Plains border region who mainly focuses on theoretical research, won the physiology or medicine prize that year for proposing and confirming the "DNA double helix structure". In addition, this year's Nobel Prize for Literature winner Pearl Sai's award-winning work "The Earth" is also based on China, so later generations called the 1938 Nobel Prize "the Nobel of Chinese", and many Chinese believe that if it were not for the secrecy for military purposes, the two nuclear physicists, Qian Sanqiang and Wu Chien-shiung, would have published the papers they wrote after discovering chain fission, and the physics prize would definitely not have been Fermi's turn......

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