The political struggle is like a huge whirlpool, Huang Ke is now in the whirlpool, and he can't leave if he wants to, only stirring up with this whirlpool.

In less than a month, the regime in Guangzhou underwent a drastic change. The state funeral of the former premier was held in Guangzhou, and the successor of the premier was quickly decided, and Wang Jingwei succeeded in becoming the new core of the government on the recommendation of many veterans and emerging forces.

To everyone's surprise, the situation that Huang Ke led his troops to the south as imagined by others at the beginning did not appear, and after Wang Jingwei was elected as the temporary deputy of the prime minister, Huang Ke immediately issued a notice telegram, announcing all the decisions of the Guangzhou government and resolutely obeying the command of the new leader and the government; The new government also commended Huang Ke for the first time.

This made a decision that many people did not expect caused a lot of speculation, and all kinds of rumors flew all over the sky for a while; Some people assert that this is because the new government has detained Huang Ke's family in Guangzhou; Others say that this is an agreement between Huang Ke and the new government......

In fact, the most real situation is only Huang Ke knows best in his heart, he knows that now he has a heavy army, although he can lead the troops south to regain power, but in that case, the entire Northern Expedition plan will collapse, and the Northern Expedition situation that he has worked hard to build will be burned.

In order to achieve reunification in the true sense of the word as soon as possible, Huang Ke decided to express his stance to the new government.

Because of Huang Ke's statement, coupled with the support of Liao Zhongkai and other veterans, the Northern Expedition was able to continue. The Central Committee of the Southern Government passed a resolution to continue the Northern Expedition, and Premier Wang had no reason to disagree.

The worries have been solved, and the troubles ahead are still continuing. In the headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army in Changsha, Huang Ke slowly paced the military map in front of him, and on both sides of the large-scale all-terrain map stood more than a dozen staff officers and generals with the rank of general colonel, some of them were generals who had just arrived from the front line, and some were senior staff officers of the General Staff.

"The 100,000 vanguard troops formed by the warlord alliance have arrived at the front line in Wuhan, and Wu Peifu has also personally come to supervise the battle, and the troops behind will soon leave for Wuhan."

"This time, the warlords' army also has Zhang Zuolin's ironclad army, I heard that it is an imported tank car, which is very suitable for positional warfare."

"The army of the warlord alliance also has the air force, we have no anti-air artillery fire, and the position will be completely covered under their noses"

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"The Middle Route Army has less than 100,000 troops, and the warlord coalition is menacing, do we have to transfer some troops from the East and West Route Armies before the decisive battle comes?"

"The Western Route Army will soon enter Hangzhou, and Sun Chuanfang will also have a fierce battle there, and it is not appropriate to draw troops from them."

"Then draw from the Western Route Army, the Western Route Army has now entered Chengdu, and then they will attack Shaanxi, Shaanxi's defense is weak, and it can be transferred."

Staff officers, you and I discussed it word by word, Huang Ke sat there and paced slowly alone, and the pressure in his heart was unprecedented at this time.

However, he knew in his heart that he must not mess up at this time, if he messed up, the Northern Expedition would be messed up.

"Commander!" When Huang Ke was thinking, Bai Chongxi from the General Staff came over, Huang Ke turned his head, and Bai Chongxi said in a low voice: "It's time to preside over the meeting." ”

Huang Ke nodded and returned to the middle of the conference table, and after Bai Chongxi, who was presiding over the meeting, saw it, he motioned for everyone to return to their positions and start the meeting.

"What to say? Wu Peifu brought 100,000 troops to Wuhan this time, and it seems that he was going to fight a decisive battle with us in Wuhan. What do you all recommend? Huang Ke said in a relaxed tone.

More than a dozen staff officers sat on both sides, but their eyes were all looking in the direction where Huang Ke was.

"Commander, the decisive battle is imminent, we propose ......" Li Zongren was just about to speak, Huang Ke interrupted his speech, he said with a smile: "Now the three armies are very nervous, and it is impossible to draw troops from which line to which side. Don't mention the suggestion of drawing troops. ”

The staff officers watched Huang Ke pour a basin of cold water down, and they couldn't help but start to be silent.

"Tell us what you think, where do you think we will fight the warlords?" Huang Ke lit a cigarette and asked the generals present.

No one answered, and no one knew what Huang Ke meant by asking. Li Zongren, as the chief of the general staff of the General Staff, should naturally take the lead in speaking at this time, he looked around and said: "Commander, I think the decisive battle should be fought in Wuhan and Nanjing, and now the warlords have sent a large army here, in fact, it is also a good opportunity for us to eliminate them." ”

"Not bad; What else do others think? Huang Ke neither agreed nor opposed to Chief of Staff Li's views, and he himself did not have any certainty about the decisive battle with the warlords, but there was always a striking similarity in the development of history, and he believed that the decisive battle with the warlords would be carried out in Northeast China, Pingjin and other places.

After Li Zongren finished speaking, almost no one spoke, and they all agreed with Li Zongren's analysis. Huang Ke didn't know why he was a little disappointed.

"Who else has a different opinion?" Huang Ke raised his voice and asked the people around him, and the staff generals sitting on both sides looked at each other without saying a word.

"It doesn't matter, we're just a discussion now, and if you have anything, you can say anything boldly, although there is a difference between the upper and lower in our army, but there is no hierarchy on military issues, and anyone can express their opinions." Seeing that no one spoke, Huang Ke raised his voice again and asked the people around him, but no one answered.

"Commander, my subordinates have different opinions, and I don't know whether to talk about it or not." After a moment of silence, a young voice suddenly came from the conference room, and everyone followed the voice, and it was actually a young recorder sitting in the corner recording the young recorder.

An officer in charge of records frowned: "You are just a record, you have no right to speak." ”

Huang Ke waved his hand and smiled: "It's not in the way, you can rest assured and say it boldly." ”

The young man put down the pen and paper in his hand and stood up and said, "Report to Commander Huang and the commanders, I think that the decisive battle with the warlords should be in the three directions and regions of the northeast, north and southeast. ”

After hearing this, Huang Ke became interested: "Your scope is a little too broad, be specific, come here!" On the map we are all pointed out to take a look. ”

"Yes!" The young officer walked to the front and back, picked up the command pole and said to the large-scale military map behind Huang Ke: "Commander Huang and all the commanders, please see, the southeast is in the Jianghan Plain, the north China is in the Beijing-Tianjin region, and the northeast is in the Fengtian area. ”

"Is there any basis for that?" Huang Ke asked, pointing to the map.

"Yes!" The young officer turned to the large-scale map and said: "Now the warlord coalition army has formed a large army to go to Wuhan and Hangzhou, but there are relatively few troops in Hangzhou, and Wuhan is the main force of the warlord coalition army, so there must be a big war in Wuhan." At the same time, Wuhan is a transportation hub, and the Jianghan Plain is flat, which is also more conducive to the deployment and decisive battle of large-scale troops; The second is the Beijing-Tianjin area, which is the political center of the Beiyang government, and the warlord armies of multiple factions are concentrated, so there must be a big war in the calm area; Finally, the Northeast is the nest of the warlord Zhang Zuolin, his main forces and territory are concentrated there, I speculate that after we pacify Sun Wu and other warlords, Zhang Zuolin will definitely withdraw from the Beijing-Tianjin area and defend with Shanhaiguan as the boundary, so there will be a big war after entering the Northeast. ”

Hearing this, Huang Ke nodded: "Then tell me, what difficulties do we have in such three decisive battles?" How should it be fought? ”

"How to fight subordinates, I don't dare to get an axe in front of many commanders, but I think it's difficult, and I think that in the process of the Northern Expedition, we have to face a very tricky thing next."

"What's the matter?" The reasonableness and basis of the young officer's analysis made all the staff officers present have to admire. More importantly, Supreme Commander Huang Ke also seemed interested in the young man's views.

The young man did not seem to be flustered by Huang Ke's importance, but said in an orderly manner: "The first difficulty we face is the issue of the concessions of various countries after we are stationed in Shanghai and Tianjin, and the second is the various agreements signed by various countries with the Manchu Qing government and the Beiyang government. If the Guangzhou government needs to come forward to solve these problems, then we will still face an important problem after entering the Northeast, the Japanese garrison in the Northeast. ”

Bai Chongxi, who was sitting on the left, frowned: "You mean the Japanese Kwantung Army?" ”

"Yes, sir, Japan has established the Kwantung Army Command in the Northeast since the 8th year of the Republic of China, as far as I know, the command has jurisdiction over 1 army division, 6 independent garrison battalions, Lushun heavy artillery battalion and part of the gendarmerie, the strength of which should not be underestimated, and Japan is still expanding the strength of the Kwantung Army, if the Northern Expeditionary Army enters the Northeast, it will inevitably have conflicts and disputes with the interests of the Kwantung Army, and how we should deal with the Kwantung Army is another issue we need to consider; In fact, when it comes to several issues, they are all about how to deal with the contradictions with imperialism during the Northern Expedition. ”

After the young officer finished speaking, he withdrew his command post and stood there like a sentry. These words caused a commotion among the surrounding staff officers, but Huang Ke was silent at this time, and he still had special scenes such as "Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter" and "918 Incident" in his mind, if the Northern Expedition is not anti-imperialist, then he is just repeating the mistakes of the Northern Expedition in history, and he is just advancing the time of the Northern Expedition.

What else has changed? If we were resolutely anti-imperialist at this time, would we allow this nascent regime to be dismantled? Is he ready for a confrontation with Japan?

Huang Ke's mind couldn't think too much, and after a moment of silence, his face showed some joy, he turned his head to the young officer standing straight and asked, "Which unit are you from?" When was it transferred? ”

"Report to the commander, his subordinates used to be the old Yue Army, and then went to the Xiguan Military Academy for training, and now he is a clerk in the headquarters guard unit."

"Oh!" Huang Ke thought for a while and asked, "What's your name?" ”

Report to the commander, my name is Xue Boling. ”