Xue Yue wants to kill people, Lao Jiang also wants to kill people, and this time he is not going to kill the Communists, nor is it Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren or Yan Xishan and other local warlords, this time Lao Jiang wants to kill the Central Army himself, this time he wants to kill the Whampoa student he has always regarded as the meat of his heart, Long Muhan

Few people know that Lao Jiang actually had unimaginable hopes for the battle of Lanfeng

At the beginning of the war, Lao Jiang appointed Li Zongren as the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone, but in fact, he did not have any good intentions, even in the most difficult time of the Anti-Japanese War, Lao Jiang never relaxed the string of rejecting dissidents and suppressing political enemies in his mind, he placed Li Zongren in the Fifth War Zone, for two purposes, one is naturally to delay the Japanese army as much as possible and win preparation time for the Battle of Wuhan, and the other is to use the Gui Army as cannon fodder, Destroy this formidable opponent with the help of the Japanese.

Lao Jiang was obsessed with power and scheming all his life, with superb and skillful political skills, he successively overthrew Hu Hanmin and Wang Jingwei, and then turned over Feng Yuxiang and surrendered Zhang Xiaoliu, which is really invincible, but only Li Zongren of the Gui Department is like a tumbler, so he turned over and got up, and then he got up again, until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Guangxi was actually still a de facto independent kingdom, and the central government decree was difficult to implement in Guangxi.

But now, the War of Resistance gave Lao Chiang a chance.

Lao Jiang originally thought that after the Battle of Xuzhou, Li Zongren's Gui line should be wiped out, however, Li Zongren created a miracle with less than 100,000 Gui troops, the dilapidated Shandong Army and the Sichuan Army similar to the Huazi

When the news came back, the old Jiang people were stupid, is this okay?

Li Zongren was in a good mood for a while, although Lao Jiang was happy on the surface, in fact, the sour taste in his heart was stronger than vinegar, so much so that he said in a telegram sent to Li Zongren, Delin, I didn't expect you to be able to command local troops like Lu and Sichuan.

Stimulated by Li Zongren, Lao Jiang hurriedly transferred his descendants who were still recuperating to the Xuzhou battlefield, and Lao Jiang also wanted to follow Li Zongren's example and annihilate one or two divisions of the Japanese army in the Xuzhou battlefield again, and fight a bigger victory, however, the cruel reality gave Lao Jiang a blow to the head and almost stunned Lao Jiang.

Seeing that the national army was gathering in Xuzhou, the Japanese army base camp quickly transferred troops to generals, and the two major front armies of Central China and North China successively formed a heavy army group and crushed Xuzhou from the north and south along the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, intending to encircle and annihilate the main force of the national army in the area near Xuzhou in one fell swoop.

Just when Lao Chiang no longer had the luxury of winning the battle, the opportunity inadvertently came, and the small Japanese 14th Division actually crashed into the arms of Xue Yue's L Corps.

Lao Jiang immediately became excited, if the Xue Yue Corps can annihilate the 14th Division near Lanfeng, its impact will undoubtedly be greater and more inspiring than the Taierzhuang victory, the reason is very simple, although the Taierzhuang victory hit the 10th major mechanized heavy army groups in small Japan, but failed to achieve total annihilation, Zuihou still let a considerable part of the Japanese army break through, and this time the Xue Yue Corps has every chance to completely annihilate the Tufeiyuan Division.

However, before the Battle of Lanfeng began, Gui Yongqing poured a basin of cold water on Lao Jiang's head - Lanfeng was lost

But at this time, Xue Yue's corps still had a chance, Lao Jiang cleaned up his mood and hurriedly sent warrants to the military commanders on the front line, strictly ordering them to act in accordance with Xue Yue's orders, in order to win, Lao Jiang even changed his usual style, no longer remotely commanding the front-line war, but letting go and handing over the command to Xue Yue.

In Lao Jiang's opinion, he has done everything that the newspaper can do, and the rest depends on Xue Yue.

But in the end, the battle of Lanfeng was still a failure, in Lao Jiang's opinion, of course, this was Xue Yue's incompetence, so in the telegram sent to Cheng Qian and Xue Yue, he directly reprimanded Lan Feng would become a laughing stock for the ages, Lao Jiang resented Cheng Qian and Xue Yue, and hated Gui Yongqing and Long Muhan who escaped from the battle, so as soon as the battle of Lanfeng ended, Gui Yongqing was directly removed, and for Long Muhan, Lao Jiang had a murderous intention in his heart, this was the first time he had a murderous intention against his Whampoa students.

Lao Jiang's love for his Whampoa students is well known, even if it is a student like Lin Biao and Chen Geng who joined the Communist Party, Lao Jiang still cherishes it, but this time, Lao Jiang is really heartbroken, he hates Long Muhan for being greedy for life and afraid of death, and has no military integrity, and even hates Long Muhan for destroying his plan to annihilate the Tufeiyuan Division.

However, Lao Jiang also killed Long Muhan, for Gui Yongqing and Huang Jie, who also had the plot of escaping, Lao Jiang was raised high and gently put down, Gui and Huang were removed from their posts one after another, but only less than half a month later, Gui Yongqing became the chief of education of the Zhan Yu regiment again, and Huang Jie also served as the director of the Education Department of the Central Military Academy the following year.

Lao Jiang only killed Long Muhan, but Xue Yue wanted to shoot all the dozens of officers and soldiers of the army who were robbing the grain.

These dozens of officers and soldiers of the 27th Army really deserve to be killed, and in the face of Xue Yue's questioning, there is a battalion commander who still has a strong voice, the brothers haven't eaten for several days, shouldn't they stutter? One company commander was even more excessive, shouting loudly, in order to protect these people, the blood of the brothers was shed, what happened to eat some food from them?

Xue Yue didn't say a word, pulled out the Browning pistol and shot it at the company commander's eyebrows, and also protected the people, have you fulfilled your duty to protect the people? In fact, instead of fulfilling their duty to protect the people, the Nationalist Army also dug up the Yellow River embankment with their own hands and destroyed the homes of these people

Xue Yue showed no mercy, several officers who took the lead, and dozens of soldiers who shot at their compatriots, were all arrested, and in front of thousands of refugees around, they were openly shot, and after the gunshots rang out, several officers and dozens of soldiers fell in a pool of blood, but the people around them still looked indifferent, and they did not forgive the national army at all.

Looking at the indifferent faces and hateful eyes around him, Xue Yue's heart was dripping blood.

In other places, the Nationalist government may be able to rely on the propaganda machine to transfer the charge of digging the Yellow River embankment to the Japanese army, but in the disaster area of Henan, the truth cannot be concealed, and in just a few days, the truth of the Nationalist army Xinpei's burst of the embankment at Huayuankou has spread all over Henan, and all the refugees know the truth.

At this moment, when the national army first set foot on the battlefield in Henan, the kind of fish and water between the army and the people has disappeared, and the common people no longer regard the national army as a child soldier to protect their family and defend the country, but instead regard the national army as a revenge, and a young child walked in front of Xue Yue with a package bigger than his body, and actually spit on Xue Yue's military uniform.

The adjutant bent down and wanted to wipe off the stains for Xue Yue, but Xue Yue stopped him, the military uniform was already very dirty, and it didn't matter if he wiped it or not, not to mention, the stains on the military uniform could be wiped off, but what about the stains in his heart? The defeat in the Battle of Lanfeng and the digging of the embankment at the mouth of the garden have become stains that Xue Yue can never erase in his heart.

What cannot be erased is Gao Shenxing and Shu Tongwen's disappointment with the Nationalist Government.

When passing through another flooded village, when he saw the corpses of the people floating on the water that had been soaked and rotted again, Shu Tongwen wept bitterly, he took off his military uniform and tore it hard, and then pulled off the blue sky and white sun logo on his hat and threw it into the mud, while cursing Chairman Jiang loudly.

"Captain, I've had enough." After venting for a long time, Shu Tongwen finally calmed down, and then said to Xu Shijiu the words that had been brewing in his heart for a long time, "Captain, you saved my life, if you hadn't saved me, maybe I wouldn't have been able to wake up from the nightmare in this life, I am grateful to you, and I am grateful to you from the bottom of my heart." ”

More than 100 remnants of soldiers surrounded one after another, looking at Shu Tongwen with strange eyes.

Xu Nineteen also had a complicated expression, since Shu Tongwen and Li Zihan started a heated debate, he had a premonition that there would be this day after all, as the captain, Xu Nineteen certainly didn't want his troops to fall apart, but reason told him that he should not imprison the thoughts of the brothers, he should give the brothers the opportunity to choose their life path freely.

"Captain, I don't want to be in the national army anymore, I'm going to Yan'an." Shu Tongwen said what was in his heart.

Shu Tongwen felt more and more that the Western powers' system would not work in China, and it had been 27 years since the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but until now China still has not put a situation of warlord secession, which is ironclad proof.

Shu Tongwen felt more and more that the theory of the Communist Party was correct, that it was possible to save China only by integrating Marxism with China's national conditions, that it was possible to win the final victory of the revolution only by mobilizing the broad masses of poor people, and that a government like the Nationalist Government, which regarded the lives of the people as if it were a mustard, was doomed to be overthrown.

"Arwen, you're going to be a deserter?" Li Zihan was angry.

"I don't want to be a deserter, but I really don't want to be in the national army." Shu Tongwen looked at the floating corpses floating on the water, and then looked at his dirty hands, there was an unconcealable disgust in his eyes, as if it was his hands that dug through the river embankment and drowned millions of people in Huanghuai, and then said to Xu Shijiu, "Captain, there will be one and two, I am afraid that there will be a time when the butcher's knife will be aimed at the people in the future, I don't want my hands to be covered with the blood of the common people, I really don't want to be an executioner." ”

Li Zihan was speechless, he wanted to refute that in order to win the War of Resistance, local sacrifices were necessary, although the Huayuankou embankment burst caused great harm to the people in the Huanghuai River Valley, but the flooding blocked the way for the Japanese army to attack Zhengzhou to the west is also an indisputable fact, but when he opened his mouth, Li Zihan could not say a word.

"Arwen, I see." Xu Shijiu nodded lightly and said, "You can go." ”

"Take care of the captain" Shu Tongwen stood upright, saluted Xu Shijiu with a standard military salute, and then turned around and walked towards the northwest, and after walking out for more than a dozen steps, Shu Tongwen suddenly turned around and said loudly, "Captain, no matter where I go, whether I am the national army or the communist army, we are all brothers, brothers in life and death."

Xu Jiu's expression was shocked, and he yelled: "Never abandon"

Shu Tongwen smiled brightly and replied: "Never give up"