Hu Weidong believes that although the current Red Army is not weak, it is still far from enough to accomplish such an arduous goal, and if it fights alone, it needs at least 2 million regular Red Army (referring to the maintenance number must reach more than 2 million, and the battle damage is supplemented. Therefore, after the Japanese invasion, the Red Army was inevitably forced to develop its ranks while resisting. Although Hu Weidong believed that the Red Army could continue to grow its ranks even if it withstood the repeated sweeps of devils, if someone lured away the main force of the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield and bought 2-3 years for the Red Army to devote the main Liliang to the development of the ranks, the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression would inevitably be greatly advanced, and the personnel and economic losses would undoubtedly be greatly reduced.

Zhang Hao himself also believed that the Red Party was not yet ready to seize power, and first of all, the number of cadres was seriously insufficient, and if it spread the spread too early, a large number of speculative elements would inevitably infiltrate it, causing unpredictable dangers. If Chiang could be forced to resist the Japanese, then the tens of thousands of revolutionaries imprisoned by the Kuomintang could be released, which would undoubtedly be of great help in strengthening the ranks of the party's cadres.

In addition, Zhang Hao's telegram also relayed a suggestion from Hu Weidong, "In fact, we can only negotiate with the Nanjing government for the time being, and at the same time step up the attack on Gan Ningqing, scoop up the Ma Jiajun completely, and if the conditions are right, we can also send troops to Xinjiang and even Tibet, so as to further expand our depth, and at the same time open up international channels, and use this to exert pressure on the Nanjing government." ”

The warlord Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang was actually able to gain a firm foothold in the Soviet Union under the auspices of the Soviet Union. Xinjiang even has a Soviet army unit that falsely claims to be White Russia. However, Zhang Hao believed that the Soviet side had always claimed that their external expansion was only to ensure the security of the Soviets, so in principle, it was more beneficial for the Soviet Union to control Xinjiang than Sheng Shicai, a warlord like Sheng Shicai, and that unless the Soviets were not afraid of betrayal in the international communist movement (Note 1), they would not dare to directly send troops to prevent the Chinese Red Army from entering Xinjiang.

Moreover, now the Soviet Union still has to ask for the Red Party, because the Soviet Union wants the Red Party to negotiate an armistice and peace with the Nanjing government, but the Red Party itself has no need for this, so it can be said that the Red Party has suffered a loss in peace talks with Lao Chiang, and it can be scooped up as a quid pro quo. The Soviet Union was asked to provide assistance to the Red Party, and if the international channel was not opened, even if the Soviets were willing to help, they would not be able to transport it to the base areas

Meantime. With regard to Lao Chiang, Zhang Hao also believed that the Red Army, which was currently in a superior position, could put forward various conditions, among which Zhang Hao attached the most importance to opening up the passage and changing the current situation in the Central Plains base areas that could only be difficult to introduce some small equipment that was not very conspicuous and easy to pass through the underground party through the underground party, and that it could safely and quickly introduce large equipment urgently needed by various base areas

After reading the telegram sent by Zhang Hao, Taizu finally made up his mind to suppress the internal opposition (but did not forget to use this incident to increase the dissatisfaction of the Red Army with the Soviet Union), sent a delegation headed by Zhou Gong to Xi'an to start negotiations, and at the same time ordered the Western Route Army, which had won the first battle, to continue to expand the results and strive to completely defeat the Ma Jiajun.

However. Due to the lack of intelligence, almost everyone, including Taizu and Chen Changhao, the political commissar of the Western Route Army, and Xu Shuai, the commander-in-chief, underestimated the strength of the Ma Jiajun, especially their terrible mobilization. In the Ganningqing area controlled by the Ma Jiajun, if you count the militia groups, the conscription ratio has reached an incredible five or even three or one soldier, that is, one out of every three to five men has to receive military training, so the vast and sparsely populated Ganningqing area has sprung up with a large number of armed militias of no less than 200,000 people after the general mobilization of Sanma, and these people are not afraid of death under the brainwashing of religious extremism and the cruel military orders of the Ma brothers. It is constantly consuming the ammunition and strength of the Western Route Army. What particularly frustrated the commanders and fighters of the Western Route Army was that the enemy was basically only equipped with old-fashioned rifles and even cold weapons that had to be reloaded with one shot, so they could not get ammunition replenishment from the enemy at all, even if the Western Route Army had already received 200,000 bullets from the Red Third Army Corps before the expedition, it could not withstand such continuous consumption. It doesn't matter if the Ma family army doesn't have good weapons, because their main force is cavalry with sabers as their main weapon. And if the Western Route Army runs out of bullets, will it be rare to fight with the cavalry of the Ma Jiajun with bayonets? …,

Originally, if the Western Route Army had asked the central government for help earlier, the problem would not have been too big, but because of Zhang Guotao's mistake of setting up a separate central government, Chen Changhao was worried that the central government would find a reason to settle old accounts, so he has been reluctant to ask for help in northern Shaanxi, and because of the existence of a knot, there were many misunderstandings in the telegraph contact between the Western Route Army and the central government, and even Xu Xiangqian, a first-class commander in the Red Army, was tied up and made mistakes, and as a result, he lost several battles in a row, and the remaining 15,000 people were also surrounded by more than 100,000 people of the Ma Family Army, including the militia groupThe situation is extremely critical. Fortunately, the overall strength of the Red Army at this time was much stronger than in history, and Hu Weidong had expected this before going abroad, and specially left a message for Zhang Hao to transfer Hu Lian's armored brigade to the Henan-Shaanxi border, and then find an opportunity to send them to deal with Ma Jiajun

Although the number of armored brigades is not large, but the armored troops are born to be the nemesis of cavalry, and the Ma family army has no anti-tank weapons, even if there are more troops, it is useless, because the Weinan Plain is very flat all the way to the Hexi Corridor, the armored brigade can drive straight into Lanzhou, but unfortunately Zhang Xueliang was wary of the Red Army at that time, and refused to agree to the transit of the armored brigade of the Red Third Front Army, until he was anxious to ask the Red Army for help after the outbreak of the Xi'an Incident, so he agreed to let the Red Army send troops into Weinan, and Zhang Hao just took advantage of this opportunity, The Red 45th Army and the Armored Brigade were immediately sent over, and then the Red 45th Army stayed to help the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army resist the Central Army, while the Armored Brigade did not stay and directly entered the territory of Gansu

Note 1: Before the outbreak of the European War, there were also many countries in the Communist International (mainly Western Europe) that the parties did not buy the Soviet Union's account, but because China was the main force of the revolution was the peasant class, it was looked down upon by these workers' parties, and the Soviet Union was able to intervene in Chinese affairs with one hand, but after the outbreak of the European War, in order to unite against the fascists, the Western European parties that had previously disobeyed the Soviet Union were finally forced to gather under the banner of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union after that was truly and completely controlled the international communist movement (to be continued). If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )