The Chinese people are the most simple and kind people, and even if their lives are hard, as long as they work together from top to bottom to tide over the difficulties, everyone can grit their teeth and persevere, but under the current situation of the total economic bankruptcy of the Kuomintang Autonomous Region, corruption within the Chongqing government is becoming more and more rampant; the taxes collected by the central government must be assessed at least three times more at the local level, and more than two-thirds of the central government's financial expenditures are filled by officials at all levels.

It is particularly worth mentioning that although Lao Jiang himself lived a frugal life (compared to his relatives), his wife Soong Meiling and a few of her relatives, such as Kong Xiangxi and Song Ziliang (Song Ziwen himself was quite honest, but his younger brother Song Ziliang became a billionaire by virtue of cunning and corruption). In the unprecedented crisis in the Kuomintang region, the assets of the two major families have not shrunk, but have further swelled to more than 1 billion US dollars, and Lao Jiang has always been cruel to outsiders, relatives (including fellow villagers, etc., anyway, the closer the relationship, the more relaxed and preferential treatment, there is no distinction between the family and the country, from this point it can be seen that Lao Jiang can not be called a politician at all, at most a politician. Benevolence and leniency, knowing that what they did would ruin their rule, but they never made up their minds to deal with it, and as a result, the upper beam was not right and the lower beam was crooked, and the officials at all levels below followed suit, and the rule of the Chongqing government was completely sent to a dead end

A handful of people have made a fortune in the country, while the rest of the population of more than 95 percent has fallen into abject poverty, and people with a little insight can see that the Kuomintang has no future, and they have come to the liberated areas to change their homes. And even the landlords and squires who were the most supportive of Lao Chiang in the past were in such a serious existential crisis. They have also changed their positions. Under such circumstances, if Lao Jiang did not take the risk of fighting, he would not even have a 1 percent chance of victory when he had his hands free up after the Red Party and the Japanese reached a peace agreement

However, a small probability event is a small probability event after all, the all-out offensive of the national army has just begun, and Lao Jiang has been severely hit on the head, and his most trusted student Hu Zongnan actually led hundreds of thousands of descendants of the Central Army to revolt in Xi'an

Hu Zongnan has always been loyal to Lao Chiang, when the Kuomintang first rose against the Red Army. He led his army to defend Xi'an. In the face of the three-sided encirclement of the Red Party forces, he still persisted, but now he actually surrendered without a fight, which is really unexpected, but to put it bluntly, it is actually very simple. It is nothing more than a "money" word. Due to the financial difficulties of the Chongqing government. Not only has the previous reward of the Xi'an National Army still not been issued. Even the most basic military salaries have been reduced by one-third on the basis of the already discounted "national disaster salary", and Xi'an has long been an isolated city surrounded by the liberated areas, even if the citizens have been driven out of the city by Hu Zongnan to reduce the burden. The Xi'an National Army didn't last long and ran out of food.

Under such circumstances, the People's Liberation Army outside the city still set up a large pot of steamed pork buns with great immorality, and the morale of the national army in the city was completely disintegrated at once; after hearing the propaganda outside the city that "if you surrender, you will have meat buns to eat," several thousand people deserted from the national army in Xi'an overnight, and there were even many battalion commanders and regiment commanders. Hu Zongnan, who knew that the general situation was gone, wanted to commit suicide to repay the principal's kindness, but he was moved by his adjutant, who was actually a secret member of the Red Party, and resolutely led his troops to revolt, "Commander, you are indeed the most trusted student of the chairman, but even you, compared to those relatives of his, are still not worth mentioning, otherwise why would he allow his relatives to be corrupt, and let you and your subordinates not even drink porridge?" ”

Hu Zongnan, whom Lao Chiang trusted and valued the most, all revolted, and the ragtag army that had lived a more embarrassing life and was used as cannon fodder by Lao Chiang had no reason to resist stubbornly, and as a result, within a month, the total number of national troops who rebelled and surrendered exceeded 3 million, and the Northwest Field Army and the Jiangnan Field Army, which were originally relatively small in the major field armies, took the opportunity of collecting prisoners of war from the national army to greatly expand their troops, and the total strength of both of them rapidly increased to more than one million, and the left-behind troops of the Central Plains Field Army commanded by Su Yu also achieved great results, the number of troops expanded to 800,000.

What's worse is that because most of the soldiers of the Nationalist Army were captured by the Zhuangding, and they were completely regarded as cannon fodder, and millions of people died in the process of arresting the Zhuangding alone(Note 1), and after enlisting in the army, the officers often did not treat them as human beings, and often beat and abused them at every turn, and their salaries were deducted to the fullest, so these soldiers generally hated the Chiang regime to the core. As a result, after complaining about hardships and educating and replacing the commanders at the grassroots level, most of the newly reorganized units of the national army will quickly be reborn and become an elite division with incomparably brave courage, and then turn around and make the national army cry and cry for their mothers

Note 1: The main causes of death were hunger, fatigue, disease and abuse, at that time, due to layers of deductions, the average daily food supply of the captured strong men before enlisting in the army could not even meet the minimum needs for survival, which directly led to many emaciated starvation or illness, and most of the people who escorted the strong men at that time were careless of human life, and for those who were more seriously ill, they not only refused to spend money on doctors, but often buried them alive, and many national army units at that time had poor military discipline, and some officers took pleasure in abuse. There were also many strong men and recruits who were killed by him

As for the total number of deaths during the Anti-Japanese War in history, there is still no accurate statistics, but in history, Song Meiling was interviewed (this woman is sometimes very shrewd, but many times she is very mentally retarded, and after fleeing to Taiwan, she even openly asked the Americans "Weishenme does not drop atomic bombs on the mainland", which caused an uproar in public opinion. It has been said that 14 million people died in the process of arresting strong men in the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, but in combination with other historical materials (most of them say that the arrival rate of strong men is less than 50%, and the total number of strong men caught in the end is 14 million, and the number of dead and fleeing people should be roughly this number. The 14 million should actually be the total number of deaths and escapes, but considering that the strong men were tied to the road with ropes at that time, and escorted by armed national officers and soldiers, it was not easy to escape, so there must have been millions of deaths, which is already more than the Japanese have killed, and the Chiang regime's grass and human lives are really chilling

In this book, although the time frame is shorter, because the economic crisis of the Chiang regime is more severe than in history, the millions of deaths may actually be undercounted (to be continued......