Chapter 587: There was an uproar

Tang Qiuli quickly solved the Eighth Army with an iron fist, and all the 120,000 soldiers were disarmed and imprisoned.

Tang Qiuli issued an order to the commanders at all levels of the troops, and the specific requirements were that every soldier and officer should go through a sieve, check their bad deeds and the crimes they had committed, and implement them in a down-to-earth manner, and register them according to the severity of the crimes they had committed, and each unit should handle the specific methods of investigation and screening, and this task must be completed within five days.

The commanders of the various units who received the order complained bitterly for days, almost going crazy, and in five days, everyone had to go through the head, and they were not allowed to create unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, but it was 120,000 people, even if it was 120,000 yuan, it would take a few days to work, not to mention so many living people.

The officers at all levels, who had been forced by Tang Qiuli to the point of going violent, used their brains one after another to adopt the method of counterpart interrogation, assigned these soldiers to the troops according to the company structure, and transferred squad and platoon cadres to form interrogation teams, thus greatly improving their efficiency.

This is a large-scale inventory and screening work, and the troops have also created a variety of effective interrogation methods, for example, the method of exposing layer by layer, the soldier exposing the squad leader, the squad leader exposing the platoon leader, and so on, until the division commander and the brigade commander level, the soldiers expose each other, the interrogation team rotates day and night, and on the fifth day, the seemingly impossible task is cleanly completed with the efforts of all the commanders.

It is said that Tong Guò found a lot of interrogation masters in this big interrogation, which made Yu Deshui and Shen Jun very happy, and the two departments of the Intelligence Department and the Investigation Department were short of manpower, and as soon as the interrogation was over, they ran around in various units, poaching people everywhere to enrich their own departments, and finally, made a list and sent it to the division commander Tang Qiuli.

At this time, Tang Qiuli looked at the interrogation records and roster that almost overwhelmed him, and in a daze, he knew what it meant to be self-inflicted, so many lists, he had to review them one by one, and he would not be tired to death and vomit blood, at the same time, he also felt sad, judging from so many interrogation records, Tang Enbo's Eighth Legion was rotten from top to bottom.

In a sense, the Henan Campaign was a reverse elimination carried out by the Eighth Army Corps, and the 53rd Division and the 130th Division, which had the most combat effectiveness and the best troops, were eliminated by Tang Enbo by borrowing the hands of the Japanese, and the rest were troops that met Tang Enbo's standards, which was the sorrow of the Chinese army and the sorrow of the nation.

The Eighth Army Corps of the Central Army has become his personal armed forces, and the troops that do not enter his eyes will eventually be eliminated, and the remaining troops and commanders are undoubtedly accomplices, Tang Qiu's anger in the centrifugal could not help but flare up, and at the same time, the murderous intent rose in his heart.

Two days later, outside the city of Xiangfan, in a long ravine near Wudang Mountain, became an execution ground, and the incessant sound of gunfire rang out for five whole days, and in five days, a total of 8,382 officers of the former Eighth Army Corps were shot here, including 28 officers at or above the rank of major general, including the seven division commanders who fled from Anyang, Xinxiang, and Zhengzhou without a fight, and 583 officers at the school level, including those battalion commanders who plundered the innkeepers of the small town in the mountains, and 1,455 officers at the rank of lieutenant. The rest were soldiers.

These people who were shot were all criminals who committed heinous crimes against the people, not killing them was not enough to be angry with the people, leaving the dangerous hài world, Tang Qiuli went on a killing spree, the cold light in his eyes, the vermilion brush, on the roster, a large piece of hook, it can be seen that Li Honggang and their hearts are furious, among the people who were shot, there are more than 20 major generals, who can be mixed to the level of generals in the Central Army, that is not some background, I can't help but worry about the division commander, how to explain to the national government.

The citizens of Xiangfan also feel the atmosphere of terror, every day they see trucks of people, being pulled out, none of them come back, and they also know what is going on, the Eighth Army in Xiangfan during this time, Xiangfan has cut off business travel, the market is depressed, the people are not happy, the citizens of Xiangfan have no good impression of this army, and they generally have a favorable attitude towards Tang Qiuli's bloody behavior, but when they heard that more than 8,000 people were shot in five days, they can't help but tremble, my mother, this young vice chairman, isn't it possessed by a killing god, right?

Tang Qiuli almost wiped out the officers at all levels of the Eighth Army Corps, and the remaining soldiers, more than 40,000 were expelled from the army, more than 30,000 voluntarily left the troops, and the entire Eighth Army Corps, only about 40,000 people remained, and these soldiers were all of good nature, with no or very few bad deeds, Tang Qiuli broke them up and diluted them into various units, of which more than 10,000 were supplemented to Li Honggang's 29th Corps, more than 10,000 were supplemented to Sun Zhenbang's troops, and the rest were evenly distributed among the units.

Tang Qiuli did this, which was tantamount to canceling the number of the Eighth Legion, and from then on, the Eighth Legion, this unit full of sin and shame, with the death of the corps commander Tang Enbo, the troops were harshly purged, and disappeared into the long river of history.

After dealing with the Eighth Army Corps, Tang Qiuli sorted out all the materials, including the detailed process of shooting Tang Enbo and the twenty-eight major generals, loaded half a truck, and sent a special person to Nanjing, a corps, more than 200,000 troops, was killed by himself, this is not a trivial matter, he knows very well in his heart that when this matter arrives in Nanjing, it will definitely cause an uproar*, what is waiting for him?

At the beginning, when the Eighth Army Corps was assigned to the command of the Yellow River Valley Theater, Chairman Jiang did not really hand over the command to himself, thinking deeply, this may not be a move by Chairman Jiang, and putting a nail in his own monolithic Northern Theater implied his intention to guard against his own big.

If Tang Enbo really fought with all his might, even if he did not make an inch, as long as he did his duty as a soldier, he would not be a killer, and he would have to take care of it in many ways, but what Tang Enbo did was no longer as simple as monitoring himself, and the troops of the independent division, as for the dangerous situation, this was a scourge, and if he kept this villain, he might not be able to bite himself secretly that day, and besides, the Northern Theater had such troops who had two hearts with him, which had already endangered the safety of the entire front.

No matter from which point of view, Tang Qiuli must get rid of Tang Enbo and his 200,000 men and horses, and eliminate this internal hidden danger, even if the time is to confront the Nanjing government and break with Chairman Jiang because of this, he will not hesitate to do anything, all the qiē, Tang Qiuli has already considered before the killing, the matter is done, and the rest depends on how the Nanjing government and Chairman Jiang deal with this matter.

On 8 February, in Nanjing, at the official residence of the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, Chairman Chiang sat in a thick-backed chair with straight eyes, and on the wide desk, there were many pieces of letter paper scattered around, and the senior cadres of the Military Commission were also sitting on both sides like clay carvings and wooden sculptures, and the atmosphere in the room was depressing and dull, and no one spoke a word, all thinking about their own thoughts.

As soon as Tang Qiuli sorted out the materials of Tang Enbo and the Eighth Army Corps, as soon as they were sent to Nanjing, they were no less than a bombshell, and they blew up the Military Committee at that time, stirring up a thousand waves, and the matter was too big, a general corps commander and 28 major generals were shot when they said they were shot, and the troops of more than 200,000 people were dismissed when they said they were dismissed, and they did not say hello to the central government in advance.

After reading Tang Qiuli's personal letter to him, Chairman Jiang saw the golden star in front of him, he absolutely believed that what Tang Qiuli said in the letter was the true situation, just based on a series of battles on the battlefield in Henan, he knew what Tang Enbo had done, he knew Tang Enbo too well, he was mediocre, but he was obedient and absolutely loyal to himself, so he put him by Tang Qiuli's side, and he was not worried about him changing his court.

Chairman Jiang thought more deeply about this incident, he figured out Tang Qiuli's true intention in doing this, according to Tang Enbo's crimes, it is not an exaggeration to shoot him, but he never believes that with Tang Qiuli's talent and scheming, things will be as simple as they seem? Tang Qiuli used Tang Enbo's death to convey some kind of message to himself, whether he saw through his intention to put this chess piece, or warned himself not to stretch out his hand to the north.

Chairman Jiang was not too sad about Tang Enbo's death, this Tang Enbo was really not like words, he couldn't even do a superficial article, the handle fell into Tang Qiuli's hands, and he gave away his life, not counting, and fulfilled the prestige of Li Zongren of the Gui family, and with the great victory in Xuzhou, let the Gui family, who lived in a remote corner, raise his eyebrows in front of the people, such a person, it is not a pity to die, Chairman Jiang thought angrily.

What shocked him was, why was Tang Qiuli so bold, ruthless, and killing, did he really maintain military discipline, or did his strength swell, and he had the capital to argue with himself? Chairman Jiang really didn't know how to deal with this matter, and since Tang Qiuli had reported the matter to the Military Commissioner, and the evidence was conclusive, he had to give an answer, or an explanation.

He summoned the members of the military committee to discuss how to deal with this matter, the officers had their own thoughts, the matter was clear, Tang Enbo should be killed, but it was not this kind of killing, the illegal operation, it had to be submitted to the military court for trial, and then it would be executed, no one wanted to say this, Tang Enbo had already lost his life, and it was unnecessary to offend Tang Qiuli again.

If you want to say that Tang Enbo should be killed, the old man must not be happy in his heart, and he can't afford to offend, so they all keep silent, and the scene is deadlocked here, Chairman Jiang sees the inner thoughts of these big men very thoroughly, and knows that they don't want to offend, Tang Qiuli occupies the present place, and insists that killing Tang Enbo is not right, these veterans of officialdom, so as not to make such low-level mistakes.

However, Chairman Chiang needed everyone to express his stance before he could decide how to deal with this matter, and after asking him several times in a row, no one spoke, making the old man so angry that he almost slapped the table.

At this time, a person stood up, including Chairman Jiang, everyone was stunned, he came out first, it was not his character, what happened today?

(To be continued)