However, for Comrade Bogu, who is currently leading the 30,000 Central Red Army, although he lived in the most western-style house in the city, once again used the electric lamp that he had not seen for a long time, and slept in the carved bed that he had not seen for a long time, his mood still did not improve.

-- As a supreme leader with a bit of discipline and responsibility, Bogu is well aware of how failed his previous military policy was.

When he took over the "Chinese Soviet Republic," the Central Soviet Region had just won the first four great victories against "encirclement and suppression" and had entered its heyday, with the main force of the Red Army reaching more than 80,000 people, the area controlled by the Soviet Region reaching more than 80,000 square kilometers, and the population exceeding 4.5 million...... Today, almost the entire territory of the central Soviet region of Jiangxi with Ruijin as the center has fallen, and the remaining tens of thousands of Red Army troops are like rootless wanderers, at a loss as to where to go.

Recalling the battle of the Xiangjiang River that just ended last month, Bogu felt a burst of unforgettable pain.

-- The earth trembled under the impact of the bombs, the sound of explosions and the sound of nearby gunfire merged into a continuous roar, black waves of air filled the valley, and groups of mules, horses and warriors fell in blood. Waves of heat rushed out of the huge crater, washing away the people around them like straw. Through the smoke and dust, trees can be seen falling, pack horses galloping, corpses, guns, shoes and hats, and outfits rushing together......

All kinds of burnt, bloody and spicy smells are pungent to the nostrils. The sands on both sides of the Xiangjiang River are almost blackened with blood. The sand by each ferry crossing was littered with the remains of horses and human bodies, as well as bomb craters more than two meters deep. There was still black smoke coming out of the pit. It was the breath of death. Bloody strips of cloth were hanging from the fallen branches near the crater, and I remember that there were more than 30 corpses lying around one crater. The crowd crossing the river was all gray and blue. Many people are extremely tired. As soon as he landed on the riverbank, he lay down on the beach and gasped.

But even in such a desperate situation, the Red Army soldiers still showed incredible fighting spirit and courage, they touched their hungry bellies, and wore rags that could not even cover their flesh; With a lot of scars and pain, with bloodstained staggering steps, with unshakable will and faith, the face does not change towards the boundless thousands of rivers and mountains. With incredible tenacity, he continued to shuttle through the reckless mountains and mountains, trekking on the rugged and bumpy mountain roads with perseverance......

Even Li De, a German Comintern adviser who looked down on the Chinese in his heart. He also exclaimed from the bottom of his heart, "This is the flow of lava!" ”

However, although this "rushing lava" eventually crossed the Xiang River, the price paid was almost unbearable - more than half of the personnel were lost, and the troops were reduced from more than 80,000 to 30,000. Even among the remaining personnel. It was also nearly half of the wounded. At that time, Uncle Liu. Cheng looked at the corpses floating in the Xiangjiang River and the documents washed away. sighed: "How can it go on like this!" And many of the soldiers fell to the ground and wept bitterly.

The Battle of Xiangjiang was the biggest defeat in the history of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and unlike the heartless foreigner Li De, Bogu, who was a Chinese, was unable to regret it, feeling that he was so guilty that he almost wanted to die, and even wanted to commit suicide to seek relief...... Someone advised him: "The more difficult the time, the more calm and responsible you must be as a leader." That's how he was persuaded to come down.

But nevertheless. The contradictions within the Red Army had also developed to an extent that they could not be resolved -- the vast number of Red Army soldiers were extremely dissatisfied with the unprecedented defeat. They all questioned the blind command of the leaders and "foreign advisers". The authority of the "Supreme Three" of the Red Army was shaky for a time.

What's even worse is that after crossing the Xiangjiang River, because they insisted on joining up with the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps in Xiangxi, Bogu and Li De almost buried the remaining Central Red Army with them -- Chiang Kai-shek had already ordered Xue Yue, the "tiger boy," to mobilize 150,000 troops to set up pocket formations there, just waiting for the Red Army to drill into it...... Under such circumstances, Comrade Li De, who had a tendon in his brain, actually insisted that the troops continue to fight desperately into Xiangxi, and quickly rendezvous with the Second and Sixth Army Corps at all costs in order to seek new development, and shouted that "any retreat and hesitation is death!" ”

As a result, the Central Red Army was almost forced to mutiny, and many fighters even suspected that Li De was a spy sent by the capitalist powers to bring down the Chinese revolution...... In desperation, Bogu had no choice but to suppress Li De's stubbornness and agree that the Red Army would turn around and march towards Guizhou.

Then, Wang Jialie in Guizhou did not fight, allowing the Red Army to easily drive straight into the province and seize Zunyi, the second largest city in the province.

But the problem is that even if they are given a temporary respite, the 30,000 Red Army is still surrounded by heavy enemy troops, and the situation is as dangerous as an egg.

-- The Hunan Army, the Sichuan Army, the Yunnan Army, the Gui Army, the Guizhou Army, and other warlords, as well as the Kuomintang Central Army, cobbled together more than 150 regiments and nearly 400,000 troops, and slowly advanced towards the Central Red Army, attempting to attack separately and in a combined manner, encircling and annihilating the Central Red Army in the northern Guizhou region.

However, Zhang Guotao and Xu Qianqian of the Red Fourth Front Army in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area, as well as the Red Army He Longsuo in Xiangxi, were unable or unwilling to relieve the siege of the Central Red Army. In particular, in the past few days, the Central Red Army has been circling in the mountains, and the weather has been constantly windy, rainy, lightning and thunder, and the radio signal reception is not smooth, and it has completely cut off contact with these peripheral troops.

I don't know what is going on in the last few days, all the pursuers behind the buttocks of the Central Red Army have disappeared, and the Guizhou army and the Yunnan army on the opposite side have no fighting spirit and have fled in despair, otherwise the Red Army soldiers, who have long been extremely tired, are still difficult to say whether they can enter Zunyi City at the moment.

In addition, there is also the most fundamental problem that Bogu found that no one listened to what he said as the supreme leader of the central government.

-- Authority is a very wonderful thing, and it is difficult for a general who always loses battles to win the hearts of the army, no matter how high his position and noble status is. Not to mention that Bogu is not Chiang Kai-shek, who has a lot of money, but he can't use money to buy the hearts of the army.

Therefore, after several big defeats in a row, Bogu and Li De became famous as a pair of "failed duo". It was almost ruined inside and outside the Red Army. Today, he and Li De entered Zunyi, although the residence was very luxurious, but they were silent all the way. Not half a person came to welcome you.

And Zhu Mao and Zhu Mao are still in Wujiang outside the city, and they are not the top leaders, but now Zunyi City is already full of slogans "Welcome Zhu Mao", and the locals are all talking about it with great interest: I must get up early tomorrow and wait on the street, so that I can see with my own eyes what kind of three heads and six arms these Zhu Mao two are...... This is what the people want and the army wants!

Perhaps, I should really abdicate and make way for Xian? Bogu thought depressedly.

Due to the extreme unsatisfactory encounter in reality, although Bogu did not trek on the muddy mountain road at this time. Instead, he sat in a bungalow, burning charcoal, and leaning back in a rocking chair. Looking at the old newspaper from last month that had just been seized, I still didn't feel better at all.

In general, Zunyi is, after all, an inland mountain city with closed news, and it often takes a week or two for newspapers from Chongqing and Guiyang to arrive. The latest issue of the newspaper he saw right now. It's already late December last year, and there's no valuable new information on it.

Just when Bogu was feeling a little bored, an orderly opened the door and walked in, informed him that dinner was ready, and invited him down to the living room to eat. In addition, several comrades found a radio in the house, and it happened that there was a rare power supply here, so they asked Bogu if he wanted to listen to the radio.

“…… Since there is a radio. Just listen to it! Bogu said happily, "...... There is just no news. It is also haode to be able to listen to music opera. ”

As a result of entering the "big city", the dinner served by the orderlies was quite sumptuous -- the main dish was the famous dish of Zunyi, "Wujiang fish", the fish was cut into pieces, put into a boiling hot pot, and served with chili seasoning, which was spicy, hot and fresh. Then there is a bowl of Zunyi's famous mutton noodles, the rice noodles are cylindrical, chopstick-like thickness, the red and white mutton is cut into thin slices, accompanied by red chili oil and green vegetables, which is beautiful and delicious. In addition, there are some round Western-style cakes and refreshing hot coffee, which Bogu likes when he looks at it, and immediately grabs a small cake and stuffs it into his mouth.

However, at this very moment, the orderly also finished debugging the radio in the living room, and received an unexpected radio station.

“…… Hiss - good evening, listeners! This is the Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station, and now I would like to inform you of an important news: Fang Zhimin, chairman of the Shanghai Soviet Government, Jin Qina, vice chairman, and Hu Dexing, deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, will soon come to our station to deliver an important speech, the core content of which is to commend the soldiers of our invincible Red Tenth Army for sinking the British gunboat Haiyan at Wusongkou and breaking the Kuomintang White Bandit Army in the Taihu Theater and making new achievements...... Vice Chairman Jin Qina said that after our army occupied Shanghai and emptied Chiang Kai-shek's money bags, the Kuomintang reactionaries could no longer grow a rabbit's tail, and the comrades should not only look at the country, but should look at Shijie and regard the major imperialist powers as the main enemies in the next stage......"

So, Bogu, who suddenly learned about this, suddenly became dumbfounded, and he didn't even notice that the small cake in his hand had fallen to the ground.

“…… ?!! of the Shanghai Soviet Government When did the Red Tenth Legion become so capable?! And who is that Jinchina?!! ”

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Hundreds of miles away, Wang Jialie, a warlord in Guizhou who was in Guiyang, was looking at a "Central Daily" with the headline "Red Bandits Wantonly Slaughtered the Shanghai Concession, Shanghai Gentry Hung Street Lamps All Over the Street, and Overseas Friends Were Shocked and Furious."

-- In November last year, seeing that the Red Army of Xiangxi and the Central Army of Nanjing were coming one after another, and that the territory of Guizhou seemed to be in danger of being insecured, Wang Jialie simply searched the treasury and sent his wife Wan Shufen to carry more than 4,000 taels of gold bars, more than 200,000 taels of ocean, and more than 300 quintals of opium, and transport them to the Shanghai Concession for storage in advance, just in case...... Who knew that before the Central Army and the Red Army entered Guiyang, Shanghai's own small treasury had already been lost! For a while, he was so angry that he jumped to his feet and scolded: "...... Ge Laozi's Shanghai red bandits, they actually dared to copy Lao Tzu's family background! I'm your fairy board! ”

Of course, Wang Jialie actually knows very well that he is just talking angry. With these "double spearmen" in Guizhou who can only smoke big cigarettes and can't fight, he doesn't even have the courage to go to the red bandits entrenched in Zunyi at the moment, and where can he stretch his hand to Shanghai, thousands of miles away?

…… Alas, if only the money and the smoke were gone. Then it's gone, anyway, as long as you keep the territory in Guizhou, you can still find a way to loot it...... I just hope that my wife won't be hung up with a street lamp......

Meanwhile. Yan Xishan in Shanxi, Song Zheyuan in Beiping, Yang Hucheng in Shaanxi, Liu Xiang in Sichuan, and Long Yun in Yunnan...... The warlords and marshals who had settled their industries in Shanghai were all speaking in all sorts of dialects, cursing the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army who had copied their homes.

However, compared with the angry Chairman Jiang of the Nanchang camp, this little grievance of the warlords seems to be nothing.

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Nanchang East Lake, Baihuazhou. Jiangxi Provincial Public Library, Chiang Kai-shek's Nanchang camp.

In the conference room late at night, it was a time when the lights were shining brightly and the stars were gathered. Dozens of generals of the Central Army gathered together. Looking at the bald head that was as bright as a light bulb, they were all silent, and they didn't even dare to breathe, for fear of becoming the target of Chairman Chiang's anger.

Obviously. Chairman Chiang is at this time. There are indeed enough reasons to vent your monstrous anger wantonly:

-- Although the mutiny of the motley army in Nanchang was suppressed, it had already reduced half of the provincial capital to ruins, and even his camp was subjected to several shells; Because of the incompetence of the Guangxi Gui Army and the cowardice and incompetence of the Guizhou Guizhou Army, the 30,000 red bandits who crossed the Xiangjiang River to the west once again tore apart the encirclement and entered Zunyi, an important town in northern Guizhou; Nanjing's Wang Jingwei jumped up and down again, seemingly contacting and planning a new round of anti-Chiang movement......

Of course, none of these minor troubles are worth mentioning compared to the worst of bad news: a "high-tech" bandit that somehow has the full support of Soviet thieves. actually entered Shanghai and ruined his money bag and lifeline!

This is really a surprise to the friends and a shock to the world. Is it tolerable or unbearable!

Because of this earth-shattering defeat, his previous "great martial arts" of mobilizing troops to encircle and suppress the red bandits almost completely became a joke.

And because he lost his money bag in Shanghai, the throne of "China's first person" under his ass immediately became precarious.

If it were possible, Chairman Chiang really wanted to immediately march east and take Shanghai back from the Red Bandits...... But the problem was that this could not be done -- as soon as he learned that all the major banks in China had been destroyed and all the banknotes in their hands had been reduced to waste paper, his Central Army, which had been organized on the basis of the "principles of the market economy," and all the organs of the entire Nanjing Nationalist Government, quickly plunged into total turmoil and chaos.

Coupled with the deliberate troublemaking efforts of Wang Ching-wei and Hu Hanmin's gang of bastards, Chiang Kai-shek's situation soon became even worse -- riots broke out one after another in major cities, railway transportation and telegraph communications were almost paralyzed, warlords of all stripes either gloated or fell into the trap, the underground party of the Red Bandits took the opportunity to incite strikes and riots everywhere, and foreign friends were also unreliable, and they only knew how to aggressively ask him for his guilt and even demand compensation...... Zuihou, a British diplomat, was more sensible, knew the priorities of the matter, and knew better the terrible harm of conniving at the Red Bandits in China, so he urgently raised funds from Hong Kong and provided him with a loan, which made the anxious Chiang Kai-shek breathe a little breather.

However, during this period of complete paralysis of the military and political organs, the domestic situation of "suppressing bandits" has collapsed to the point where it is difficult to clean up.

“…… The combat strength of Wang Jialie's department of the Guizhou army was extremely poor, and he was defeated by the Zhu Mao Red Bandits, and he only knew how to sit in Guiyang and preserve his strength. Two columns of our unit in Xiangxi also fell into riots and temporarily lost their ability to move. The Yunnan Army, the Gui Army, and the Sichuan Army openly disobeyed the orders of the central government, withdrew from the battlefield of suppressing bandits in Guizhou without authorization, and returned to their respective defense areas. He Jian from Hunan also said that Changsha, Yueyang, and Hengyang City are all unstable, and they are temporarily unable to go out of the province to pursue and suppress the main force of the Red Bandits......"

-- This is a report sent by Xue Yue, a confidant who loves to pursue the front line from the southwest, and with the "internal self-explosion" of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, those warlords in the southwest naturally refuse to bow down to orders, let alone consume their own military capital, and work hard for the central government to saddle up their horses and kill the red bandits.

“…… Although the headquarters did its best, because the troops had penetrated deep into the bandit areas, rumors spread everywhere in the army, the morale of the troops was extremely unstable, and the logistical supply was cut off, our troops were forced to end the work of clearing and suppressing the bandit areas in Jiangxi ahead of schedule and shrink their forces to Ganzhou. It is reported that the Red Bandit Xiang Ying's department may have entered Ruijin ...... again"

-- This is the review report made by Chen Cheng and Kang Ze, who have just returned to Nanchang, at this operational meeting.

With the news of the change of hands in Shanghai and the mutiny in Nanchang, the Kuomintang troops on the Jiangxi front were in great confusion for a while, and the descendants were anxious to return to Nanchang to "save the car." The miscellaneous troops were even more unpredictable, and even broke out in fire with each other.

At this point, most of the actual results of the Kuomintang authorities, which had pledged all their capital and gathered millions of troops to launch the fifth "encirclement and suppression," had been in vain.

“…… Recently, there has been a strange atmosphere in the political arena in Jinling, and President Wang has secretly met with the Japanese ambassador on many occasions, fearing that there may be a conspiracy brewing, and he hopes that the chairman will return to Beijing as soon as possible. ”

-- This is the latest news that Yang Yongtai, a confidant of Chiang Kai-shek and head of the "Department of Political Science," has just been sent from Nanjing to the camp in Nanchang.

It seems that as a sequelae caused by the fall of Shanghai, all kinds of city fox society rats who are afraid of chaos in the world have jumped out again.

Alas, the times are really dying, and the country is in such difficulty! May God bless me, Jiang Zhongzheng, to get through this......

Listening to one bad news after another, Chiang Kai-shek closed his eyes, lowered his big peanut-like head, and silently recited the Bible. (To be continued......)