In general, during the period of the Agrarian Revolutionary War before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek's strategic and tactical level was really not flattering.

From the Second Northern Expedition, the Chiang-Gui War to the Central Plains War, Chiang Kai-shek has never had any outstanding performance in commanding the battle. The central lineage troops that he spent a lot of money to equip were repeatedly defeated by the poor Northwest Army's broadsword team. Zuihou almost completely relied on silver bullet tactics, bribery, and sowing discord to propel himself to the position of national leader.

However, when dealing with the Red Army, the intrigues and tricks that Chiang Kai-shek was good at, buying and provoking, were completely useless.

- Actually, the generals of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army were not absolutely infallible, after all, not every party member was made of special materials. But the problem is that it is not only the Communist Party that is "politically correct," but also the Kuomintang. In order to show its "class nature," the Kuomintang at that time was able to ruthlessly lay down the butcher's knife even among its own left-wing members, and did not let go of mistakes when they made mistakes, and it was always cruel and ruthless to the genuine communists, and refused to forgive.

Even a top name like General Secretary Xiang Zhongfa took the initiative to surrender and defect after being arrested, and confessed all the information in his head without restraint. After the confession was completed, the general secretary was immediately executed by cutting his throat without even giving him a suspended sentence...... Not to mention whether the information in Xiang Zhongfa's mind is valuable or not, just for his name, he should also be offered good food and drink, and then let him appear on the radio or in the assembly square from time to time to make a statement, so as to shake the fighting spirit of the Communist Party. It is also the so-called "horse bones of Qianjin City"!

However, Chiang Kai-shek decisively executed him in such a situation, which immediately had a serious counterproductive effect. The officers and men of the underground party and the Red Army, who might have been wavering, were all silenced - even the surrender of the general secretary could not avoid death. Where is the little minions below? Unless it is a last resort, what other Red Army bigwigs who are not afraid of death dare to "abandon the darkness and turn to the light" and bet on whether their character is hard enough?

Since Chiang Kai-shek, for the sake of the "politically correct" position, blocked the road that he was best at throwing money to buy and divide, then he could only rely entirely on frontal combat - and this has never been Chiang Kai-shek's strong point - from the first encirclement and suppression to the fifth encirclement and suppression, Chiang Kai-shek invested more troops each time, but the result was that the Red Army was not wiped out much. The Central Soviet District is getting bigger and bigger.

Moreover, this guy's temper has always been that of a donkey, and he will not leave. Fighting backwards, he can hit his head on the south wall seven or eight times and refuse to change it...... In the past few years, he has used almost the same combat strategy to encircle and suppress the central Soviet region, and he has suffered an unknown amount of hardship. I was stunned and didn't change my mind. Time and again, unfamiliar with mountain warfare and disregarding supplies in the rear, he blindly commanded his own descendants to run around with the Red Army. So that the fat dragged thin, the thin dragged to death, and Zuihou lost more and more miserably every time......

In the fifth encirclement and suppression operation this time, Chiang Kai-shek adopted the military adviser Hans? Feng? Admiral Seckert and Alexander? Feng? At the suggestion of Admiral Falkenhausen, it was decided to adopt a "new strategy" of protracted warfare and fortress doctrine -- to put it bluntly, it was a copy of the tactics of "hardening the village and fighting a dumb war" in the past when Zeng Guofan formed the Hunan army to exterminate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Helplessly, Chiang Kai-shek's investment this time was really thick. 500,000 descendant troops were mobilized, and 500,000 disobedient warlord troops were mobilized - the so-called "one force to ten meetings". With so many soldiers and horses smashing down, the Red Army, which is weak and weak, will find it difficult to withstand it, no matter how tricky it is.

On the other hand, the war potential of the Ruijin Central Soviet Region in Jiangxi Province has been almost exhausted by endless encirclement and suppression.

-- After the victory of the Fourth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression War, the Central Soviet Region in 1933 developed to its heyday, with four provincial-level Soviet powers under its jurisdiction: Jiangxi, Fujian, Fujian, and Guangdong, and a total of 60 administrative counties, including 22 counties in Jiangxi Province, 15 counties in Fujian Province, 16 counties in Fujian Province, and 7 counties in Guangdong Province. The total population of the Central Soviet District reached 4.35 million, with a total area of about 84,000 square kilometers.

Judging from the figures, the situation in the central Soviet region seems to be very good, but in fact, most of the above-mentioned areas belong to the "see-saw" zone, and the enemy will occupy it as soon as the enemy retreats, and the enemy will lose it when he advances, and many of the so-called 60 counties will be newly established, and the real rear area is still only in southwestern Jiangxi and western Fujian.

At this stage, the total strength of the Red Army also increased from 30,000 to 100,000, but this was basically the limit of what the place could support, and even somewhat overdrawn the civilian force - at this time, the Red Army's military resources were mainly supplemented by prisoners and newly recruited peasant children, and the quantity and quality were very problematic. According to party history data, Ruijin County alone had 18,000 casualties and 50,000 people had been killed before 1934, "but the masses still enthusiastically signed up to join the army." But the total population of Ruijin County at that time was only two or three hundred thousand people, so exhausted to catch fish, no matter how enthusiastic the masses were, how long could they support it?

The old squad leaders and red imps of the Red Army, who were enthusiastically propagated in textbooks and literary and artistic works in the future, were actually a sad embodiment of the exhaustion of the military resources in the Soviet area at that time. At this time, the Central Soviet Region was already similar to Germany at the end of World War I, and it seemed that it had expanded its territory and had a powerful army, but in fact it had only one breath left.

For this reason, the Central Bureau had to issue the slogan: "Every working woman heroically steps on the production front, as bravely as a Red Army soldier on the line of fire!" "The Central Government of the Provisional Soviet also decided to set up women's labor education committees under the Soviet governments of all communes, to organize experienced old peasants, to help women learn to plow and rake and to plant rice, and even to produce straw sandals specifically for women with small feet, so as to facilitate their mobilization to start production......

These slogans, while impassioned, could not hide the bleak state of affairs behind them - the entire Soviet district was almost drained of human resources.

To make matters worse, the Ruijin Central Soviet District of Jiangxi Province is located in the mountains, which was originally a relatively backward area with almost no industry. It was only after the third victory of the Red Army against encirclement and suppression that the first arsenal was set up in Ruijin. At its peak, there were only more than 1,300 employees. According to the recollections of the Red Army soldiers: "...... It is said to be a factory, but in fact, it was a workshop with only a few axes and hammers at the beginning, and later added files, pliers, and bellows...... Wait a minute. After several years of hard work, by the time the Red Army Arsenal was established in October 1931, there was a relatively complete set of hand tools for repairing machinery and rebuilding bullets. Later, a total of more than a dozen hand-cranked drilling machines, hand-cranked stamping machines, four-foot, six-foot, and eight-foot belt lathes, and belt drilling machines were added. However, due to the lack of diesel, the source of diesel was cut off at all, and when it was relocated to the gang, it used a hydraulic impulse turbine to drive the belt lathe to move. ”

“…… The source of raw materials at that time. The main thing was to confiscate the metal casters from the landlords and temples, and to collect all the scrap copper and rotten iron, earth and sulfur that could be used in the Soviet area. In addition, some of the victories captured from the war were also replenished. Due to the fact that the blockade of the Soviet zone by the Kuomintang was particularly tight. At that time, it was difficult to buy tools and raw materials from outside the Soviet zone even if there was money. ”

In the 14 months from 1932 to 1933, the arsenal repaired more than 40,000 rifles. There are more than 100 mortars and 2 mountain guns. More than 2,000 machine guns, more than 400,000 rounds of ammunition were manufactured, more than 60,000 grenades were rebuilt, and more than 5,000 mines were made. Even if it is not mixed with any false water, this number is only enough for the consumption of two or three battles - "...... Fighters also often retrieved bullet casings from old battlefields and reloaded them with gunpowder and lead heads, sometimes with wooden ones, to compensate for the lack of weapons." Its actual combat function can be imagined.

At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek imposed an extremely strict blockade policy on the Central Soviet District. Cloth, medicine, cotton, daily necessities, and medical equipment are not allowed to enter the red zone. The Soviet districts were forced to be self-reliant under extremely difficult conditions - "it was very difficult to import cloth, so they advocated the cultivation of cotton and hemp, and the production of homespun cloth by themselves; If there is no table salt, nitrate salt is boiled by the soil method; If there is no medicine, they go up the mountain to dig up medicinal herbs to make Chinese herbal pills or prepare a small amount of Western medicine; If there are no medical equipment, use a bamboo tube to fill the potion, use copper to hit the camera, and use a saw blade and bamboo to make a surgical saw; If there are no bandages, they will recycle the used ones many times, and use them again after disinfection", etc.", in addition, they used the contradictions of the warlords to instigate neutrality and bribe merchants to smuggle, but this was all a temporary expedient measure, and the Red Army was also very financially and economically embarrassed, and could not come up with too much money to support the huge consumption of a wartime regime.

Generally speaking, the room for maneuver in the central Soviet region of Jiangxi was too small, the supply capacity was too weak, and in the protracted attrition of the war, as the side forced to face a strategic decisive battle, the CCP was far from being able to compete with the Kuomintang in terms of war resources, and could not guarantee the supply of soldiers, food and ammunition. If the overall situation of being besieged remains unchanged, it will inevitably be trapped to death - even if it wins the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression, there will be a sixth time, and even if it wins the sixth time, there may be a seventh time, which is the so-called "victory in a hundred battles and the death of the country". If the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army wants to break this passive situation, there is only one way, and that is to seize every opportunity to develop outward, tear up the enemy's encirclement, and burn the flames of war into the enemy's hinterland!

The Red Army once had such an opportunity, that is, on November 20, 1933, Cai Tingkai and Li Jishen led the 19th Route Army to telegraph against Chiang in Fuzhou against Chiang's "Fujian Incident". If the Red Army had been able to work closely with Fujian at that time and send the main force of the Red Army to the northeast to attack Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, perhaps it would have been able to tear apart Chiang Kai-shek's encirclement and smash Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hangzhou...... But this precious opportunity was gently missed, and under the erroneous leadership of Wang Ming and Li De's overly conservative mistakes, the Red Army almost watched as the Nineteenth Route Army was disintegrated and destroyed, and then the cage that surrounded it was a little stronger.

However, the Ruijin Central Soviet District of Jiangxi Province was certainly running out of oil and dying at this time, but from another point of view, Chiang Kai-shek, who was in the camp in Nanchang, was not a red-eyed gambler who was staked into a coffin?

You must know that even if the Kuomintang reactionaries do not waver in their anti-communist stance, they will not necessarily have to make Chiang Kai-shek the supreme leader.

Chiang Kai-shek was able to come to power because the reactionary Shili wanted to use his force to suppress the growing workers' and peasants' movement. But then, Chiang Kai-shek was defeated again and again in the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, and each defeat was digging up the foundation of his rule, and the worse the defeat, the more shaky the Chiang dynasty became—not only leftists would take the opportunity to launch an anti-Chiang movement; Even rightists and even pro-Japanese traitors will not continue to rally around Chiang Kai-shek, but will feel that this Chiang Kai-shek bald head is really anti-communist and incompetent, and should be replaced by a more anti-communist guy to come to power.

Therefore. Chiang Kai-shek's mobilization of a million-strong army to launch the fifth encirclement and suppression, which had already staked almost all of his military and political resources.

After all, at that time, Lao Chiang only had a reliable territory of five provinces. The dominance is far from being as stable as a rock, and the reliable forces of the Whampoa system under his command are actually not too many. In order to make up these 500,000 combat troops, he is already about to drain his elite lineage. The other half of the miscellaneous warlord forces have always been unable to contribute to the encirclement and suppression, and will only sit back and watch the success or failure, and if they fail to do so, they will turn against each other -- if the fifth encirclement and suppression fails, Chairman Chiang's prestige will inevitably fall to a higher level. The big capitalists and big landowners who originally supported him will also hope that this mediocre monarch will step down and be replaced as soon as possible...... There may be a sixth encirclement and suppression in the future, but it is difficult to say whether Chiang Kai-shek will continue to be the commander-in-chief.

Fortunately. Although he won the danger after the danger, there was such a big fork in the "Fujian Incident" in the middle, and Chiang Kai-shek, who bet on all his belongings, still won the gamble after all. succeeded in cornering the Red Army...... At least in the summer of this year.

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No matter how fierce the fighting in the Jiangxi Soviet District was. What kind of pivotal position it will have in the history books of the future, for all the traversers who are now in Shanghai, they are just a few place names on the map, and they cannot constitute any actual impact.

But what really caused them trouble this summer was a "Tibetan book incident" that was not recorded in history textbooks at all.

-- Long before the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression officially broke out, the Japanese side created incidents on many occasions in order to find a pretext for invading China. The "Tibetan Incident" that occurred in June 1934 was one of them: the evening of June 8, 1934. Hideaki Kuramoto, Vice Consul of the Consulate General of Japan in Nanjing, left the Consulate General because he was ridiculed by his colleagues. He went into hiding and wanted to kill himself, but this guy didn't leave a single word beforehand, and was thought to be missing by his colleagues.

As a result, the Japanese Consul General Suma Yayoshiro arbitrarily believed that the disappearance of Kuramoto had been killed by anti-Japanese elements, and made tough representations to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nanjing Government, threatening: "The Chinese Government should bear full responsibility." If there is no hope of survival, the Japanese side will send back the expatriates to defend themselves. ”

Hiroki Hirota, then Japanese Foreign Minister, also threatened China at a cabinet meeting on 12 June, and successively dispatched the destroyer "Reed" and the cruiser "Tsushima" of the Third Fleet to the Xiaguan River in Nanjing to carry out armed intimidation. The Japanese news media also made a big deal of it, clamoring for the use of force against China, and a new round of war seemed to be about to break out -- facing the Japanese ships that had gathered on the Shimonoseki River and had already unloaded their gun jackets. The whole city of Nanjing can be said to be a roar, and the grass and trees are all soldiers. The people living in Xiaguan are even more supporting the old and the young, and fleeing from home.

It is very clear to everyone that the Japanese are actually trying to provoke a conflict and expand their aggression against China under the pretext of the "disappearance" of the Tibetan book.

In a state of frustration, the Nationalist Government had no choice but to strictly order the Capital Police Department and the Military Police Headquarters to intensify their search and carry out a general household registration inspection in Nanjing. Zuihou, on June 12, Hideaki Zangmoto was found by the Chinese police in the Zixia Cave of the Ming Tomb. On the 13th, various newspapers in Nanjing made public the truth about the wise survival of the Tibetan book -- this "Tibetan incident" that almost caused China and Japan to start an early war.

Although the "Tibetan Incident" in Nanjing ended in a hurry, its impact in Shanghai was not over - one day shortly thereafter, the eldest sister Jinjina was shocked to find that her house in the public concession had actually been classified into the Japanese concession!

-- Shanghai's public concession was formed from the merger of the British Concession and the American Concession, spanning the north and south banks of Suzhou Creek and divided into four districts. Among them, the western and eastern districts are new districts with larger areas, while the southern and northern districts are old districts with smaller areas. Jin Qina's house is located in the north district on the north bank of Suzhou Creek.

As a rising power, Japan originally did not have a legal concession in Shanghai, but in Hongkou, the eastern area of the public concession, a large number of Japanese expatriates lived in a large number of early days, which was self-contained, just like the Chinatowns of Europe and the United States in the future. The Japanese Consulate in Shanghai is also located in the Hongkou area.

On May 30, 1925, the May Day Massacre broke out, and Japan took the opportunity to send marines to Shanghai on June 9, forcibly stationed in the Hongkou area to protect the overseas Chinese, and set up the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters on the North Sichuan Road.

After the outbreak of the 128 Incident in 1932, the Japanese officially took over the entire Eastern District by force, thus forming the Hongkou Japanese Concession.

Then, the greedy Japanese continued to eyed the northern part of the public concession adjacent to the eastern district, and used various means ranging from ronin nuisance to force intimidation in an attempt to drive the United States and Britain south of Suzhou Creek...... At the beginning, the Ministry of Industry Bureau of the Concession still held on to hard resistance, but after the outbreak of the "Tibetan Incident", seeing that the Japanese army had entered and exited the Jiangnan region as if no one was in a land, the Ministry of Industry Bureau finally could not bear it, and had to announce that it would hand over the management of the North District and divide all the territory north of Suzhou Creek into the Hongkou Japanese Concession.

In this way, the eldest sister Jin Qina, who was exiled all the way from Shenyang to Shanghai, found out with infinite grief and indignation that after the fall of the three northeastern provinces, her family's house in Shanghai would also fall...... If you don't want to be a good citizen of the Great Japanese Empire, then the next round is another round of uprooting...... (To be continued......)