In the early morning of December 23, in the frightened eyes of Suzhou fishermen, a huge fleet of boats flying red flags appeared on the west bank of Taihu Lake. And countless "red bandits" wearing camouflage uniforms and carrying sickles, hammers, and red flags have even assembled on the shore and are ready to go out after breakfast.

As expected, the Red Tenth Army encountered no organized resistance during the landing, and no fortifications were found on the beachhead......

Originally, Wang Qiu once regarded the landing operation as if he was facing a great enemy, because according to the experience and records of the Pacific War in later generations, the amphibious landing operation was really a very troublesome thing: if it relied on strong coastal fortifications, it was often possible to make the huge landing force on the beachhead scramble and be overwhelmed with only a small number of defenders. And how to choose an ideal landing ground is the most important thing of life and death......

But when he voiced his concerns at the meeting, he was severely despised by the Red Army generals with idiotic eyes -- please, the Kuomintang reactionaries are full of food and support, so they will build some anti-landing fortifications on the shore of Taihu Lake in their hinterland!

In the same way, since the Kuomintang was obviously unprepared, it was naturally impossible for a blocking war to take place on the west bank of Taihu Lake.

Zuihou, a densely populated and fishing village along the shores of Lake Taihu, was full of harbors and wharves, and the Red Army fleet definitely did not have to worry about finding a place to dock.

Sure enough, when the transport fleet of the Red Tenth Army docked at night, Wangting Town in the northern suburbs of Suzhou was still quiet. Even some fishermen and farmers noticed the lights and movements on the lake, but they just pretended to turn a blind eye -- in the chaotic times of war. Most of the armies of all walks of life are as unreasonable as the bandits, and there are many indiscriminate killings of innocent people. If ordinary people see too much and know too much, they will easily be shot by the military masters. All the ordinary people who can survive. Generally speaking, they know the truth of self-preservation and know how to restrain their curiosity.

Therefore, after sending a group of sharp soldiers to go ashore in assault boats to explore the way, the Red Tenth Army quickly killed a few country tax collectors who did not even have guns on them, took control of the wharf and trestle bridge on the shore, and at the same time used walkie-talkies and lights to guide the fleet to the shore and began a large-scale landing operation.

Due to the fear of the enemy's beachhead blocking. Thanks to the vigorous mobilization of the political commissars, the entire landing operation proceeded with great speed. Some of the water-based Haode Red Army soldiers even swam ashore despite the cold water of the lake in winter...... Fortunately, the children of peasant families in this year have been trained by hardship and hard work. Generally speaking, the muscles and bones are good, soak in cold water for a while and don't get in the way at all, as long as you hurry up and raise the bonfire to warm up, it will be no problem at all.

Wait until the sky is just getting bright. More than half of the combat units have already been safely transferred to land. and began to assemble and recuperate, to reorganize the formation, while the rest of the men were coming ashore at a faster pace - after setting foot on land, the Red Army soldiers were remarkably recovering so well that after only an hour or two the soldiers, who had been somewhat languished by the long voyage and seasickness, were rejuvenated.

And the town office in Wangting Town was easily taken by a small reconnaissance team in the second half of the night. dragged the distraught mayor out of the bed.

Immediately after, when the cook began to make breakfast. With a loud "boom", a section of track more than 100 meters long on the Beijing-Shanghai Railway was blown into the sky by the Red Army sappers. And on the highway next to the railway line, the Red Army also set up roadblocks and laid mines.

“…… Well, the enemy's reaction speed seems to be even more sluggish than we expected......"

After a cursory listening and roughly judging that the current radio communications of the Kuomintang authorities are no different, Wang Qiu couldn't help but pout, "...... After all, we are far from entering the information age, and I am afraid that it will not be until this afternoon that Nanjing can confirm the movement we have made......

“…… Ahem, even so, we have to race against time, after all, this is the ruling heart of the Kuomintang, roads and railways extend in all directions, and the transportation of troops is quite fast......" Fang Zhimin coughed a few times and said in a low voice, "...... So, we have to take Suzhou today......"

“…… I believe that Comrade Su Yu's commando team will definitely be able to complete the task, after all, according to the results of our interrogation of the mayor of Wangting Town, Suzhou is now almost completely undefended. Wang Qiu replied, "...... Ah, breakfast seems to be ready! Let's let the comrades eat first. ”

The Red Tenth Army's battlefield breakfast on this day was usually compressed biscuits and hot soup, which the soldiers called "grain bricks", or a bowl of hot paste - the soup was made with the "instant soup stock" that the cooks had never heard of before, and a small bag of soup stock was directly put into the hot water to make a large pot of delicious clear soup, and then the compressed biscuits that were originally as hard as bricks were thrown into the soup and boiled, it was a pot of hot paste that smelled fragrant......

Such a simple food is simply a level of dog food in the eyes of the traversers. But for the Red Army soldiers of this era, it was already a very good ration - although the compressed biscuits were knocked out, they were made of fine grains after all, and they were better than brown rice mixed with rice bran and chaff. Since they were going to march and fight long distances today, each soldier was given an extra ham sausage and a small packet of mustard to boost their morale.

While the Red Army soldiers were eating and gnawing on the "grain bricks", the traverser mercenaries who had come to this shijie through the wormhole again were drinking beer, hot tea or hot coffee, and eating grilled chicken legs, meat buns and sandwiches...... This kind of huge difference in treatment has made some Red Army commanders and fighters with particularly high consciousness slightly slandered, but at the moment they are still eating what others provide, and they really have no face to talk about it at all......

At the same time, General Su Yu led his assault boat assault team along the waterway of the Grand Canal and began to rush towards the city of Suzhou in the south.

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As the saying goes, there is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below.

Suzhou, a garden city with "small bridges and flowing water", is famous all over the world because of its nickname of "Venice of the East". There are famous gardens such as the Humble Administrator's Garden, famous mountains such as Tiger Hill, famous temples such as Hanshan Temple, and famous towns such as Zhouzhuang...... The name of Suzhou is well deserved.

Speaking of the most famous places in the city of Suzhou. Changmen is a key landmark that cannot be ignored, the famous writer Lu Ji of the Western Jin Dynasty wrote in "Wu Trending": "Wu Trend has its own history, please start from Changmen." He E'e. Flying Pavilion across the waves".

The history of Changmen can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period of the Wu Kingdom, and it is said that it was designed and built by Wu Zixu, a famous minister of the Wu State. "阊" means "Qi Tong Chang", which is to communicate with the breath of the sky.

On the opposite side of the gate, there is a Shantang River, which was dug by Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty in Suzhou Thorn Shiren, which belongs to a part of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and has been a water transport wharf since ancient times. This area has become extremely prosperous and rich, and Tang Bohu of the Ming Dynasty said, "The paradise of the world is Wuzhong." There are men and good men"; The literati of the Qing Dynasty described it as "a mountain of goods, pedestrians flowing water, a row of signboards, and a splendid cloud brocade". The road was built on the north side of the Shantang River opposite the Changmen Gate. It is called "Shantang Street". Until the 21st century, Shantang Street was still the most prosperous and lively business district in Suzhou.

For the citizens of Suzhou in the Republic of China era, they could come to the teahouse on Shantang Street to make a pot of fragrant tea, order a few plates of pastries, listen to the rich storytelling and drama in the teahouse, and overlook the bustling market around them...... It's one of life's great joys.

On the morning of that day, Liu Yun, the president of the Suzhou Provincial Institute (the Kuomintang's political prison for political prisoners), was rarely absent from work. ran to a teahouse on Shantang Street in Changmen and asked for a pot of expensive Lu'an melon slices. A plate of fried peanuts tastes the taste of tea.

In the past two days, Dean Liu Yun's workload has suddenly increased so much that he doesn't even have time to visit the teahouse.

-- Because the Red Tenth Army miraculously won many battles in northern Zhejiang, and completely wiped out the "elite of the party-state" from all walks of life one after another, it seemed that the front of the army was approaching the capital Nanjing, and for a time the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions were panicked. The Nanjing Nationalist Government slapped a swollen face and became fat, insisting that the red bandits were at the end of the road and there was no need to worry; On the other hand, he slapped himself in the mouth and wanted to fight the "battle to defend the capital" with great fanfare......

If it's just that the Nanjing Nationalist Government wants to fight a war to defend the capital, then it's fine, anyway, no matter how disgraced the Red Bandits are, it will be those senior officials of the central government who will lose face and not do anything about Liu Yun, a local official who is not a military official.

However, the problem is that in view of the chaotic social order during the war, the relevant departments of the central authorities, in order to take precautions and do not know which of the wrong brains, actually transferred all the political prisoners of the Nanjing Provincial Examination Institute to Suzhou, and President Liu Yun spent two days and two nights just receiving the files and arranging the prison cells...... Not to mention that there were a few prisoners who disappeared inexplicably on the way, and I don't know what happened to Zuihou. In order to shirk their responsibilities, all parties fought a lawsuit for a while, and even his dean of Suzhou Reflection was also taken aback, and he is still full of resentment until now.

But thankfully, the transfer of these political prisoners has been completed, so that Dean Liu Yun can finally come out today to drink a pot of tea and be idle...... Well...... Next...... Do you want to go to your villa on the east hill to have a look? Not long ago, the little girl in Yangzhou who bought it without telling her yellow-faced mother-in-law at home has not had time to bud until today! However, in order to prevent making a fool of himself, it seems that he has to buy some tiger and wolf medicine......

Although it is not a temple fair or festival today, there is still an endless stream of pedestrians, cars and horses coming and going on Shantang Street in Changmen, Suzhou. And the teahouse is also booming, crowded with guests drinking tea and relaxing. As usual, the guests chatted over tea and snacks. Although the wall of the teahouse was pasted with a note "Don't talk about state affairs" early, everyone still couldn't help but always bring the topic to the current situation.

-- No way, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the world in China has become more and more chaotic. The revolutionary party fought the Beiyang Army, the Beiyang Army fought the Beiyang Army, and the revolutionary party fought the revolutionary party, and the imperialist powers caused tragedies again and again...... and played the trick of "changing the banner of the king at the head of the city" for more than 10 years. Who knew that the red bandits could not be exterminated, and then the Japanese devils invaded on a large scale, cutting off the three northeastern provinces with one sword, and continued to grab territory in North China and Shanghai......

Nowadays, the situation of the Nanjing Nationalist Government is that there are red bandits inside and Japanese bandits outside, and the government decrees do not go out of the south of the Yangtze River, and it is a veritable small court that is partial to peace.

Although not long ago, Chairman Chiang had just used the "fortress tactic" to eliminate the central Soviet area of the Jiangxi Red Bandits. People's confidence in this government rose slightly, but the ensuing series of unprecedented defeats in the northern Zhejiang battlefield quickly caused the prestige of the Nanjing Nationalist Government to fall to the bottom.

“…… Did you hear that? The Japanese have recently stirred up trouble again in North China. Seems to want to invade Chahar! Hey, this Japanese devil is really good, and all the other foreign devils together are not as big as their appetite! I remember that a while ago, the Japanese also wanted to match Duan Zhishuai (Duan Qirui) and Emperor Xuantong (Puyi) to work together to lead the North China Autonomy Movement, but this matter was aborted because of a dispute over the etiquette of the two of them......"

A guest who looks like a civil servant proudly shows off his knowledge to his fellow tablemates. “…… Hehe, one side wants to use the Qing Emperor's gift to meet the Governor of Liangjiang, and the other side wants to use the ruling Republic of China to meet the former Qing Emperor's gift. It's just that both sides have forgotten that they are already unofficial civilians."

“…… Ha? This is really a crime to die and save face! The other couldn't help but laugh out loud, "...... It's a pity that they all have to save face and suffer the crime, otherwise, with Duan Zhishuai's connections and prestige in the north, I am afraid that it will be difficult to protect Beiping and Tianjin at the moment...... I remember that Zhang Binglin once sarcastically said: 'Now the red bandits are three hundred miles away from Nanjing. The Japanese are three hundred miles away from Beijing'. If the national situation does not improve, we must learn from Confucius to sharpen the spring and autumn period and wait for the queen......"

“…… Red bandits are three hundred miles away from Nanjing? Three hundred miles from Beijing? Hahahaha, man, that's already the old calendar! Now that the Japanese have stationed their troops in Tongzhou, they have been wandering around Beiping City for three days, and Song Zheyuan has nothing to do with them. As for the Red Bandits...... Hehe, yesterday the red bandits had already broken through Yixing, and there were only two hundred miles left from Nanjing...... Alas. If the red bandits planted the red flag in Nanjing...... Hehe, the changes in the land of China. But it's a sight! The civil servant spoke and sighed in a low voice.

-- At the same time when the main force of the Red Tenth Army Corps was crossing the Taihu Lake, the 2,000 feints left behind by the Red Tenth Army on the border of Jiangsu and Zhejiang were still mobilizing the masses while crossing the provincial border, heading north to Jiangsu, and continuing to advance in the direction of Nanjing.

The two Kuomintang miscellaneous divisions on the opposite side had just been beaten up in Changxing County, and they had broken up four or five times out of ten. Now that he was breathless, he saw the evil star approaching again, and immediately came up with a thirty-six plan to go to the upper plan, left Yixing, turned around and "turned in" to Liyang.

However, in the direction of Nanjing, the strength of the Red Army was relatively weak after all, and basically it could only be said to be bluffing.

However, on the battlefield in Zhejiang, thanks to the extremely abundant supply of munitions and the extreme weakness of the enemy's armed Liliang, the Red Army guerrillas simply "swept through thousands of armies" -- in the bloody years of "digging deep holes, accumulating grain, and preparing for a nuclear war," in order to cope with the third Shijie war, Chinese let countless small third-line factories in various localities launch projects together, frantically manufacture militia weapons, and include the throwing of wooden handle grenades in mass sports...... As a result, hundreds of millions of old-fashioned grenades have piled up in the arsenal of the People's Liberation Army in the 21 st century, claiming that "if you don't fight three wars, you will definitely not be able to use them up, and you may not be able to use them up if you fight three wars......

With the passage of time, these mountains of old grenades have become one of the biggest heart problems of the PLA: first, these grenades are seriously outdated, which is neither suitable for the PLA to continue to use, nor can it be sold; Secondly, the grenade is small in size and complex in structure, and the bomb disposal is dangerous and troublesome, and the cost is too high to bear; Then, with so many wooden-handled grenades, with the current training consumption, I am afraid that they will not be exhausted even if they are put for another thirty years; zuihou, even if you want to destroy them at once, but with the structure of that thing, if you want to destroy them all at once, I'm afraid you have to use the underground nuclear shiyan, otherwise it will only cause more unexploded bombs, creating an unusually huge danger zone......

Now that the PLA finally had an opportunity to dispose of its stockpiles, Wang Qiu stepped in and distributed large quantities of "advanced munitions" to the Red Army guerrillas in Changhua and Anji districts in order to increase their offensive power -- in addition to conventional firearms and ammunition, in particular, they generously provided 30 million grenades and 10 truckloads of mine explosives, enough for the Red Army guerrillas in northern Zhejiang to fight for several years.

In addition to regular field battles, the guerrillas also widely adopted the tactic of relying on large slingshots to launch grenades and long-range bombardment of the manors of local tyrants, so that countless seemingly sturdy earthen enclosures were all taken by earthen planes......

“…… Hey, to tell the truth, how could this Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which was originally so poor and scumbag, suddenly become so powerful? ”

“…… Supposedly, it was supposed to be sent by the Soviet Union, but I really don't understand how the Soviets bypassed customs and tax cards and sent so many big guys to the Red Army. I've heard that there are airplanes, armored cars, and a big iron man called Gundam......."

At this point, the little civil servant took a sip of his teacup, sighed and shook his head, and said, "...... No one knows whether this information is true or false. Every time the central authorities sent planes to reconnoitre, they all went and never returned. Now, the pilots in Hangzhou have gone on strike and refuse to go to the sky! ”

“…… Strike? The government weishenme does not suppress? This should have been the Nanjing government's forte! The other scolded with some resentment.

“…… Workers can be suppressed, how can pilots suppress it? Do you want to kill him and let you fly the plane? Will you drive? The little civil servant rolled his eyes, "...... As soon as the front line is defeated, the rear is ready to move, and I heard that a small half of Zhejiang is rioting at the moment......" (To be continued......