Chapter Seventy-Eight: Advancing to Hebei
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The great man was very excited when he heard this, and his vision was far deeper than that of Hu Weidong, who saw that it was no longer limited to industrial production itself, but realized that Hu Weidong's methods could rapidly change the class composition of the Chinese peasantry, which constituted the vast majority of the population, and that this would undoubtedly have an incalculable impact on the future Chinese revolution. Although Taizu was one of the pioneers of the Chinese peasant movement, and the current Red Army soldiers and even party members and cadres mainly came from the peasants, he was well aware that the peasants, due to the limitations of their small producers, had weaknesses that could not be ignored, such as selfishness, short-sightedness, and looseness. The increase in the proportion of workers in the party will greatly enhance the ability of the Red Party to resist the negative influence of various non-proletarian ideologies, and when the proportion rises to a certain extent, it will create a good atmosphere, so that party members and cadres from other strata and the revolutionary masses will also be infected, and their political consciousness will be constantly raised. Moreover, an increase in the proportion of workers would inevitably greatly increase the position of the Red Party in the Third International, and thus gain a greater voice, which is at least not a bad thing
Since Hu Weidong has found a solution to the most difficult difficulty of overcoming the shortage of workers, Mao and the others no longer raised opposing opinions, but just asked Hu Weidong to be more careful and not to take too many risks because of impatience. As for "Why do you have to go in person, can't you send someone?" At present, not to mention the party, even in the whole of China, where can they find a person who understands industry better than Hu Weidong and understands the situation abroad?
Although he has obtained the consent of the central government, Hu Weidong will not go abroad immediately to do business, first, because the second wave of the Great Depression that began in 37 years has not started for more than half a year, so Hu Weidong is not in a hurry, and second, although there are more than 120 million yuan of funds in hand, even if they are all gold, they weigh dozens of tons, not to mention that a large part of them are larger silver dollars, and Hu Weidong cannot go abroad with a large group of people, so it is necessary to exchange them for easy-to-carry foreign exchange. The nearest place in China where a large amount of foreign exchange could be exchanged was Tianjin, which had a multinational concession, which coincided with the Red Army's next goal
Since the Red Army's high-profile propaganda was to open up the channel of resistance against Japan, it was naturally difficult to break its promise after it was really done now, and Hu Weidong himself lacked interest in the civil war, so when Taizu issued the order to "march east to resist Japan", he was the first to lead the army into North China, where the Japanese had been active in the past two years
Since the Soviet area of western Henan and the Soviet area of Dabie Mountain had not yet been connected at this time, Hu Weidong and Su Yu only led the main force of the 15th Red Army with more than 120,000 people to advance into Hebei, and compared with Xue Yue's 200,000 troops who rushed to Shanxi to "rescue" Yan Xishan after learning of the fall of Taiyuan, the strength seemed to be somewhat weak. But the Red Eighth Army had already made a name for itself, even Xue Yue did not dare to fight with it easily (mainly because he was afraid of the Red Army's terrifying transformation ability, the national army either did not fight, or if it wanted to fight, it had to win, otherwise it would be equivalent to supporting the Red Army), and there was an old Jiang secret order to plot Shanxi, so the two armies unconsciously formed a tacit understanding, the Red 15th Army swaggered into Hebei, and Xue Yue led 200,000 central troops into Shanxi safely.
However, to the disappointment of Xue Yue and Lao Jiang, because the Red Army took the initiative to abandon Taiyuan and other large and medium-sized cities captured, Yan Xishan, who was once in a desperate situation, soon made a comeback, relying on the collection of stragglers and the formation of militia groups, and re-raised an army of 100,000 in just ten days (Yan Xishan evacuated the troops around Taiyuan at that time to move north, although it led to the fall of Taiyuan, but it also coincidentally saved these tens of thousands of people, so Yan Xishan quickly gathered sixty or seventy thousand regular Jin Sui troops after arriving in western Jinxi, plus the local militia groups in western Jin, The number of troops easily exceeded 100,000. And restored fifty percent of the area of the former ruling area and eighty percent of the population, plus his innate advantage as a local snake, even with Xue Yue's strength, he did not dare to act rashly, and after the establishment of the Jinchaji base area, the strength of the Lin Zonghong Army increased to tens of thousands of people was still eyeing the Taihang Mountains, Yan Xishan, who was good at playing balance, suddenly found an opportunity, he quickly played the anti-Japanese banner and eased the relationship with the Red Army, so as to contain Xue Yue's Central Army, and started his "dancing on three eggs" performance in advance, As a result, the three shili actually formed a situation of containing each other...,
However, in this way, Hu Weidong could lead his army into Hebei to find the Japanese ballast with peace of mind, but at this time, the Japanese army in North China had not yet begun to increase its troops, and the 120,000 tigers of the Red 15th Army were used to deal with the Japanese army in North China, which only had a few thousand regular troops (including the garrison in the Japanese concession). However, considering that Song Zheyuan is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, the powerful Japanese Kwantung Army may also enter the customs at any time, there are at least tens of thousands of puppet troops on the periphery of Pingjin, and Japan may also send troops from the mainland to North China by sea at any time, it is safer for this soldier to bring a little more.
Because he had seen more than one analysis of the deployment of the Chinese and Japanese armies before and after the "77 Incident", Hu Weidong naturally knew that the small city of Fengtai was the most important supply and material storage point for the Japanese garrison in North China, so he had already sent hundreds of special combat personnel to Fengtai to lurk down before the invasion of Taiyuan. You must know that there are only 90 Japanese military police stationed in Fengtai, some of whom are stationed in the city, and the Japanese troops guarding the warehouses are only a small team of more than 50 people.
Although the corps commander had said before coming to Fengtai that Fengtai was the most important storage place for the Japanese army's weapons and ammunition, the special combat personnel saw that there were so few Japanese troops guarding them, so they naturally thought that there would not be too many materials in the warehouse. But when they opened the warehouse, they were immediately taken aback, and no one thought that a warehouse guarded by dozens of people would really have so many arms stored in it. No, I'm afraid that even the legion commander who assigned this task didn't expect it to be so much, right?