The battle was very fierce, and the scene of the puppet army that Ma Zhanshan had expected before did not happen, because the main combat force in Hailar City was not the puppet army, but the garrison of the Kwantung Army with three squadrons.

Although the so-called squadrons of the Japanese army are actually the size of a company, three squadrons are almost equivalent to the combat effectiveness of a battalion. However, the combat effectiveness of the regular army, especially the Kwantung Army and the ragtag army of the halfway monks, cannot be judged by the number of people.

For example, the troops used by Ma Zhanshan to attack Hailar were 8,000 people, which was almost two regiments according to the establishment. But how many of these 8,000 people have received formal military training from EO (more than two months, in fact)? Less than three thousand.

In other words, more than half of Ma Zhanshan's troops were actually rabble who defected to him after occupying Manchuria. It's okay for this group of people to fight with the wind and help wave the flag and shout, but it's really not good to work hard, or even help.

For example, when the group of troops trained by the EO company that played the vanguard had just captured the support point on the battlefield and urgently needed follow-up troops to step forward to support, this group of rabble hesitated, waiting for the puppet army and the Japanese army in the city to counterattack and take the support point back, and this group of people was still grinding in place.

Even the arrogant Kwantung Army counterattacked against Ma Zhanshan's attack, and once beat the rabble stranded in the starting position to the point of crying and shouting to the head of the mouse, if it wasn't for Ren Fuchen personally leading the team to go up to stabilize the dìng-shaped shì, maybe the capture of Hailar would have become a joke.

"General Ma, you can't fight like this, we should change our tactics!"

Zhang Furong, who is the deputy head of EO's military advisers, really can't stand it. Ma Zhanshan commanded the attack, and there was no tactic at all. It's just a fight to the death. Probably because Ma Zhanshan felt that he had a large number of soldiers. And Hailar's Japanese army plus the puppet army together was less than 2,000 people, and with a four-to-one advantage, he ate the other party.

It is true that the puppet army was quite bad, not much different from the rabble newly recruited by Ma Zhanshan, but the Kwantung army's su zhì was still better than the Chinese soldiers who had only received a short period of formal training. To put it mildly, the other side alone can hold two or even three on this side, and the Japanese army is conducting defensive operations. This further closes the gap between the two sides.

Ma Zhanshan's face was not very good-looking at this time, and when he recovered Manchuria before, he was quite smooth, the puppet army almost fled, and the scattered Japanese Kwantung Army was quickly overwhelmed by the sea of people. At that time, he really thought that the Japanese were nothing more than that, and thought that it would be easy to recover Hailar and even Anxing North Province. He even thought that he would fail before and fled to the Soviet Union, and he was completely outnumbered, thinking that the Kwantung Army was bullying him with too many people.

Who would have thought that when he bumped into the regular troops of the Japanese army, the situation would be completely different, and the devil's combat effectiveness and will to fight were completely beyond his expectations! At this time, he also knew that he had to change his tactics, and it would not work to continue to fight so hard. But what made him unhappy was that this should not have been brought up by Zhang Furong!

Let's put it this way. Ma Zhanshan felt offended. In his opinion, he is a famous general of the Northeast Army, and Zhang Furong is just a little-known person. Why should the other party point fingers at him? In the final analysis, Zhang Furong is just a military adviser, so why should he interfere with his battlefield command?

Of course, more importantly, Ma Zhanshan always felt that the Soviet military advisers of EO Company were very awkward, and he always disliked these fake foreign devils, and hated these fake foreign devils for pointing fingers at him through the name of Maozi.

In fact, in the previous military training, Ma Zhanshan had a conflict with Ren Fuchen and Zhang Furong, which was really a disagreement. As an old officer who joined the army in the Qing army era and climbed through the ranks of the old army step by step, Ma Zhanshan or the Northeast Army had quite a lot of bad habits, and even maliciously said that the Northeast Army was a bandit-like army. This kind of military discipline is just like that, and the spirit of the rivers and lakes and the recklessness are quite strong.

How can a reckless hero like Ma Zhanshan look pleasing to the eye of "academics" like Ren Fuchen and Zhang Furong, and there are constant disagreements between the two sides about how to train soldiers and what kind of soldiers should be trained. Ren Fuchen, who was once in his report to Li Xiaofeng, said bluntly: "Ma Zhanshan is an old warlord!" ”

Anyway, the cooperation between the two sides was not particularly pleasant, and this time, Ma Zhanshan's suspicion and unhappiness were suddenly detonated. Therefore, he categorically rejected Zhang Furong's request, and replied coldly: "The art of war has ten clouds and encircled it, and five attacks it, and now our department has 8,000 people, which is not worth 1,000 Er, so we should attack it resolutely." The front line has only suffered a small setback, and if the offensive is strengthened, it will inevitably be achieved overnight. ”

Zhang Furong still wanted to argue with reason, but Ma Zhanshan didn't want to listen to his nagging, waved his hand impatiently, and said: "Mr. Petrovich and I have a word first, the military command is mine, and you are just an advisor!" ”

Zhang Furong sighed, looked at the rows of fallen soldiers in the charge, and felt like he had overturned the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and after glancing at Ma Zhanshan, who was stubborn and self-serving, he shook his head and withdrew from the command post.

And Ma Zhanshan didn't think so: "These dog traitors think that they can do whatever they want if they hold Maozi's thick legs, so Lao Tzu doesn't grow their dog temper...... How can there be immortals in war, when the war was directly served, it was called a river of blood! ”

In fact, Ma Zhanshan's words were very unconfident, because he didn't know that the situation on the battlefield was not ideal, not that he didn't know that hard fighting was not a good way, but in order to protect his own face, the other one really couldn't think of better tactics, so he could only continue to fight.

The battle lasted from morning to dusk, and the fierce battle of more than ten hours made rivers of blood flow outside Hailar City, and a large number of young people who had just picked up steel guns for the first time and had just embarked on the road of resisting Japan and saving the country fell when they had just taken their first steps.

However, Ren Fuchen and Zhang Furong did not know that during the entire Anti-Japanese War, such "tragedies" were countless, and a large number of good sons and daughters of China lost their lives because of man-made disasters so inexplicably. The casualties should not have been so severe, they should not have been so tragic, and they could have been avoided.

It's a pity. In those days. The root cause of the country's many difficulties can be attributed to the word man-made disaster. Some people surrender and betray the country for the sake of glory and wealth, and they don't even want their ancestors, and some people make a fortune under the banner of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and some officers drink the blood of soldiers and eat the flesh of soldiers to treat soldiers and ordinary people as adults, and all kinds of crimes are too numerous to mention.

What's even more infuriating is that decades later, there are still people who sing praises to these criminals, thinking that the soldiers who died in the war of resistance are mostly an honor, and that this is worthy of recognition! even thinks that dying more means making a lot of effort. It's just a lot of credit!

I really want to say, fuck it!!

From 1931 to 1945, this is the era of careless human life, this is a sad time, this is not glorious!

However, when Ma Zhanshan stepped into Hailar, he did not feel so sad, on the contrary, he was still relatively happy, the recovery of Hailar and the recovery of Manchuria have completely different meanings. The reconquest of Hailar seemed to him more like a sign.

It marks that he Ma Zhanshan is back, and it marks that he will be ashamed of himself. As for the casualties paid. Although he also felt sorry, as a soldier of that year, he didn't particularly care.

"Bring the wounded brothers back to the Soviet Union, take good care of them, and let those who are not injured do the devil fight!"

made a good start, Ma Zhanshan couldn't wait for the next action, and even gave birth to some different ideas.

"I think it is possible to erect the banner of resistance against Japan in Hailar, recruit troops here, and then recover North Manchuria and even the entire Northeast in one fell swoop!"

Ma Zhanshan's statement surprised Ren Fuchen and Zhang Furong, because according to the previous plan, Ma Zhanshan's troops should not stay near Hailar for a long time, but should quickly move south to join Feng Yuxiang's troops, and then open up an anti-Japanese base at the intersection of the three provinces. And now Ma Zhanshan has almost completely overturned this resolution, isn't this fatal!

However, Ma Zhanshan was still reasonable: "At this time and that time, we did not expect the Japanese army to be so vulnerable, and we did not expect to be able to occupy a large area of Hailar and Manchuria. In that kind of form, naturally he could only go south to meet Lao Feng. ”

Speaking of this, Ma Zhanshan looked radiant: "And now, the situation is completely different. With Hailar and Manchuria, the conditions here are better and the population is larger, and with the Soviet Union at its back, it is more suitable to establish an anti-Japanese base here! ”

Does Ma Zhanshan's words make sense? Yes, objectively speaking, yes. Compared with the confluence of Chahar, Rehe and Hung Yen provinces, the conditions in Manchuria and Hailar, which are located on the Middle East Road, are naturally better, and it is true that the population is larger and it is convenient to receive support.

So why didn't Li Xiaofeng have the idea of establishing an anti-Japanese base here in the first place? The reason is very simple, Manchuria and Hailar are the middle road of Chengdu and the middle of the road. For the Japanese, it was absolutely impossible to allow important cities on the main railway line to be occupied by anti-Japanese forces, and if Ma Zhanshan wanted to occupy the cities, he would definitely be taken care of by the Kwantung Army.

To tell the truth, relying only on the meager assistance of the Soviet Union, the rabble in Ma Zhanshan could not stop the iron hooves of the Kwantung Army at all, and although the intersection of the three provinces with more difficult conditions did not look ideal, like barren land, but barren land also had the benefits of barren land, at least it didn't attract thieves, right?

Moreover, this intersection of the three provinces is easy to move, and it is better to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the Kwantung Army, but it is really impossible to fight, and there are more ways to escape, isn't it? Moreover, there can threaten Hailar in the north, the Songnen Plain in the east, and the Shanhaiguan in the south, and the truth is like a nail wedged there.

And now, Ma Zhanshan is unwilling to go south, and the whole strategy is impossible to talk about, how can Ren Fuchen and Zhang Furong not be in a hurry?

"General Ma, the southward strategy is the unanimous proposal reached by you, General Feng Yuxiang and Comrade Petrovich after discussions. And now, without informing Comrade Petrovich or General Feng Yuxiang, you are acting so rashly, right? ”

In the face of Ren Fuchen's questioning, Ma Zhanshan was still a little unhappy, and it was true that he had reached an agreement before, but he Ma Zhanshan was not a dog raised by the Soviets, and his dignified chairman of Heilongjiang Province and military commander-in-chief had no autonomy at all?

As for Feng Yuxiang, it is not certain whether the unreliable guy surnamed Feng can go north according to the plan, he stupidly gave up the good Manchuria and Hailar and took his brothers to drill the ravine, that is really brainless.

I have to say that the warlords of this year, even if they are "patriotic warlords", are really unreliable. And it's likely that there are many contradictions inside. There is nothing in the time of shared suffering. Once the shape is eased, it is really a mutual distrust of each other.

Take Feng Yuxiang as an example, he is indeed a patriotic general, but in addition to the title of patriotic general, Feng Yuxiang is also known as a defective general. For example, in the Second Zhifeng War, Feng defected to the Feng warlord and beat Wu Peifu's black gun. In 1925, Guo Songling and Feng Yuxiang opposed Zhang Zuolin together, but they were sold by Feng Yuxiang halfway, and finally Guo and his wife died tragically and were violently corpsed by Zhang Dashuai.

The most recent one was in 1933. As mentioned before, Feng was elected as the commander of the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and achieved good results in July, and at the top of the most glorious moment, Feng left Ji Hongchang and Fang Zhenwu under great pressure and ran away by himself. In fact, Feng's escape was a sign of the collapse of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and it was precisely because of him that he started this way, and the old subordinates of the Northwest Army behind him naturally followed suit, and in the end they could only disperse and die.

It's too normal for Ma Zhanshan not to trust Feng Yuxiang, after all, Guo Songling's lessons are there, and Ma Zhanshan can't help but be a little guarded. Otherwise. I don't know when it was sold.

Therefore, Ma Zhanshan's reluctance to go south can be understood, but he can't accept it. Even if Ren Fuchen and Zhang Furong argue with reason. The final result was only that Ma Zhanshan agreed to send an advance team south to explore the road and meet Feng Yuxiang.

"You're not going to do something? Just let Ma Zhanshan be so foolish? ”

After reading Ren Fuchen's telegram, Wufeng Yevich couldn't help it, in his opinion, if everyone followed Ma Zhanshan's example of cooperating with the Soviet Union to resist Japan, then in the end, good things would have to be tossed. And Soviet support can't be so wasted, isn't it.

"Warlord, how much can you expect from them?" Li Xiaofeng smiled and replied disappreciatively.

"But that's outrageous!" Misty Wind Jevic said unrelentingly.

Li Xiaofeng sneered in his heart, and said secretly: "There are even more outrageous ones, what is this?" Work with the warlords, don't expect too much from them. ”

"Actually, this is also a good thing," Li Xiaofeng said suddenly, "People like Ma Zhanshan don't touch nails and don't look back, and they don't know who is right." Let the Japanese teach him a lesson! At that time, he will be a little sober and obedient! ”

Yes, Li Xiaofeng knew from the beginning what the sincerity of cooperation between Ma Zhanshan and his ilk was, these people could hold the helm in the general direction of resistance against Japan, but they were constantly calculating on the details. Don't let them suffer a loss, I really don't know who is really good to them.

Li Xiaofeng also knew very well that whether it was Ma Zhanshan or Feng Yuxiang, he did not have a deep understanding of the difficult Cheng Dù of the war. In their view, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression could be won quickly, thinking that as long as there was foreign aid, they could solve the problem with money and soldiers in hand. They underestimated the brutality of World War II and the greed and ambition of the Japanese. I didn't expect it to be a contest of wills, and only those with the strongest will could persevere to the end and win.

In order to give them an intuitive understanding of the hardships in the future, let them endure a little hardship and realize that it is a good thing, otherwise they will have to suffer in the future.

"That is to say, you knew very well from the beginning that the Chinese warlords were unreliable, so you went to meet with the Chinese comrades in South Manchuria?" ”

Li Xiaofeng did not shy away from this, he did meet with the anti-Japanese armed forces led by the Chinese Communist Party operating in South Manchuria, because this was the demand of the Comintern, and he also wanted to see what the situation was like there.

It should be said that the situation in the entire northeast is not optimistic, and the northern Zhao and southern Yang are facing many difficulties under the frenzied encirclement and suppression of the Japanese invaders, especially under the guidance of left-leaning erroneous ideas, and some unnecessary losses are painful. However, even if the losses are relatively large, whether it is the team led by Beizhao or Nanyang, it is still more reliable than Ma Zhanshan and Feng Yuxiang, at least the will and quality of the troops are much stronger.

After some on-the-spot investigation and exchanges, Li Xiaofeng felt that these two teams were still very promising, but first of all, they had to eliminate the interference of leftist ideas, and the Comintern really did not take the lead in this regard, and it was not willing to let him, an outsider, take the lead.

Let's put it this way, both Kamenev and Zinoviev are worried that Li Xiaofeng went to China to pick their peaches and compete with them for the leadership of the Chinese revolution. They strongly demanded that the anti-Japanese contingent of Northern Zhao and Southern Yang must work under the leadership of the Comintern, which meant that Li Xiaofeng only needed to provide weapons and material support.

To be honest, this made Li Xiaofeng very unhappy, could it be that the Comintern was Kamenev and Zinoviev's own family, and the others did not even have the qualifications and power to propose the establishment of the Communist International. To tell the truth, he really didn't want to bird those two goods at that time, since you Comintern are so awesome, then you can solve all the problems yourself, why do you still ask him to help?

That is, in line with the premise of resisting Japan first, Li Xiaofeng endured his anger and did not bother with those two goods, and gave some weapons and ammunition to Beizhao and Nanyang, but this is by no means like what Wufeng Yevich said, meeting with these two is to prepare to pin all the hopes of the War of Resistance on them, let alone digging into the corner of the Comintern.

"Keep calm on this issue and let the Comintern take care of it." Li Xiaofeng sighed helplessly and diverted the topic: "How long does it take for the ship to set sail?" ”

That's right, Li Xiaofeng is sitting on a passenger ship bound for the United States in Vladivostok at the moment, and Li Xiaofeng feels that he must go to the United States at this time...... (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you for the second kill Comrade Potato and Comrade Juventus!