Looking at this impassioned battle message issued by the Party Central Committee from Guiyang, the traversers and the generals of the Red Tenth Army couldn't help but smile bitterly.

“…… Alas, the Party Central Committee is playing a mouth cannon in Guiyang, and by the way, we are scaring people with the tiger skin here in Shanghai! ”

Wang Qiu scratched his hair and muttered, "...... Next, the Central Red Army will probably set off from Guiyang and turn around and return to the Jiangxi Soviet District! Well, at the same time, it is necessary to hold high the banner of the War of Resistance, unite the morale of the people, establish a united front, and win the legitimacy that is universally recognized by the whole country? ”

“…… Probably, but it is also possible that the Party Central Committee wants to establish a revolutionary base in Guizhou, so as to make a name for its own righteousness. Xun Huaizhou also put forward his own views," ...... After all, this was the first time that our Party had won a complete revolutionary victory in a province - albeit only in a very poor and isolated small province in the remote southwest. But in terms of manpower and material resources in Guizhou, it is already comparable to the previous Central Soviet Region......"

All in all, for the Red Tenth Army Corps, which was thousands of miles away and directly facing the siege of many powerful enemies at home and abroad, the movements of the Central Red Army were of little practical significance for the time being. Moreover, everyone is not very optimistic about the anti-Japanese and anti-imperialist united front proposed by the Party Central Committee.

Indeed, the political factions of China today were all in the same league during the Great Revolution. The party has some origins and friendships. When the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party broke down, many people did not kill the party members under their rule, but chose to "send gifts out of the country" so that they could leave a line in their work and meet each other in the future. So at a glance, in the face of a foreign invasion. The Red Army and the new warlords of the various factions, Shili, did have a certain basis for cooperation.

But the problem is that the Party Central Committee has raised itself too high in this article and actually wants to ascend to the sky in one step. Directly become a central government ...... Not to mention that the central government during the Republic of China was a big fire pit, looking glamorous and dazzling, only to find out how guilty it was after jumping in. Moreover, as the saying goes, depending on the dishes and dishes, how big a bowl and how much food are eaten, just look at the current Central Red Army, the land is no more than Guizhou Province, and the soldiers are only 30,000. Which warlord can be convinced and bow down? Even if you add the strength of the Red Tenth Legion, just from the numbers, I'm afraid it's pitiful enough!

-- That's all I have in my hands. But he wants to be the central government of the whole country, and after saying this, he is afraid that he will be ridiculed by warlords everywhere as a toad who wants to eat swan meat...... Is this looking for allies or pulling hatred?

Moreover, the Red Tenth Army was about to be besieged by the imperialist powers in Shanghai. In the eyes of many warlords who are superstitious foreigners. It's already considered dead.

What is even worse is that the Party Central Committee seems to be still carrying out the left-leaning line, and has not put forward the argument that national contradictions are higher than class contradictions, nor does it have the intention of stopping the fight against local tyrants and dividing up the land -- in fact, in order to gain a firm foothold at the local level as quickly as possible, the current party has no way to stop land reform. We must not stop attacking the exploiting classes, otherwise we will be asking for our own death. But in this way, it is difficult to gain the approval and submission of other classes.

-- You know. In this cold and realistic shijie, there are very few people who will completely betray the class to which they belong for the sake of ideals. The reason why the Great Revolution that had broken out earlier would have failed. The key is that it is only dilapidated, not new.

At that time, the young officer corps, which was the backbone of the National Revolutionary Army, was a group in the midst of rapid growth and transformation. The vast majority of the members who initially formed this group were patriotic young people who had received a new military school education - but their patriotism was usually premised on the fact that they must not offend the interests of their families. Otherwise they will immediately transform from revolutionaries to counter-revolutionaries!

-- During the Republican era, China's traditional rural society went bankrupt under the impact of the capitalist global market, forcing some aspiring young people from rural landlord families to leave the land of their hometowns and join the army to earn a living. The elite officer group formed by them is an intermediate group from the upper and lower strata of society. Most of the intellectual youth who have the financial resources to enter the military academy for further study are certainly not the top plutocrats, but they are also not the proletariat, they leave the land in order to keep the land, and their roots are still rooted in the land. As representatives of the interests of the small rural private owners of land, they could not assume the duties imposed on them by the proletarian revolution, still less could they accept the inevitable consequences of "agrarian reform."

On the other hand, the trade unions in the cities and the peasant associations in the countryside, which were the basis of the Great Revolution, saw the upsurge of the revolutionary situation, and inevitably burst into anger that had been suppressed for many years, and desperately put forward their own political demands to redistribute property in the countryside by violence - and this greatly offended the interests of the young officer corps, which was the backbone of the National Revolutionary Army, and led to the inevitable rebellion.

Therefore, the fate of the defeat of the Great Revolution was almost doomed from the moment the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated to launch the revolution.

As for the reason why all strata of Chinese society completely abandoned the Kuomintang during the War of Liberation, except for a very small number of officials and inferior gentry, they all unanimously looked forward to liberation, it was because Chiang Kai-shek's policy of golden yuan coupons plundered the wealth of the people, which not only caused the credit of the Nationalist government to collapse, but also caused the bourgeoisie to go bankrupt and become the proletariat. The party paves the way - the reason why the rich man opposes the revolution is because he is afraid that the poor will divide his property, and if he has been tossed into a pauper by the reactionary government, then he is afraid that the revolution will be more active than anyone else!

However, in the years leading up to the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the approval rating of the Nationalist Government was not so low that it fell below the table, and the approval rating of the Red Army was not so high. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War in the thirties of the 20 th century, the reason why some local warlords were at odds with the Red Army was that they wanted to "support themselves" and let the Red Army help them share the military pressure of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing...... If the current Party Central Committee wants to re-cooperate with the officers who betrayed the revolution at the beginning, it will only be possible to achieve it after reaching even a short-term consensus on the issue of land reform -- however, the current Party Central Committee does not seem to have realized this, or even if it has realized this, it is simply unable to change it in order to win the support of the people at the bottom at all costs, and the long-standing policy inertia.

It seems that the Party Central Committee, which has just finished the Zunyi Conference, has not had time to correct the leftist problems of the past for a while.

Of course, as far as the interests of the traversers are concerned, they do not want the central authorities to change their current left-leaning line at all -- if the warlords, compradors, landlords, local tyrants, and capitalists are all brought over to the "united front," where can they still loot gold, silver, treasures, and antiques? Moreover, with the jishu advantage of the traversers, there is no need to unite these decadent reactionary classes at all, and it is completely possible for the invaders to come and go......

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To get back to the point, in addition to the impassioned but unrealistic essay above, the Party Central Committee finally sent some more practical commendations. Specifically, in order to reward meritorious deeds, the Red Tenth Army Corps was upgraded to the Red Fifth Front Army, with a total of four corps under the jurisdiction of the Red Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Army Corps, each of which had four divisions, a total of 16 divisions and a number of independent troops, and a super large establishment of more than 400,000 people could be crammed into it at most!

It is a pity that with the current situation of the Red Tenth Army, even with the establishment of a front army, I am afraid that it will not be able to get together so many experienced low-level commanders and fighters. In fact, in the past two months, although Fang Zhimin, Su Yu, Xun Huaizhou and others have done their best, they have only expanded the total number of troops to 80,000. Now most of them are stationed around Shanghai, but Xun Huaizhou has pulled 30,000 recruits out to Hangzhou for a walk, which can be regarded as training in battle.

-- It is not that there are no soldiers in Shanghai, Suzhou, and northern Zhejiang who are physically fit and willing to join the army, still less that there is a lack of food, clothing, ordnance, and military salaries, but that the Red Tenth Army Corps does not have so many veteran soldiers who can bring new soldiers, let alone so many squad leaders and platoon leaders who can meet the most basic conditions!

Therefore, the Party Central Committee very considerately helped them solve their urgent need this time, that is, to order Chen Yi to lead all the regular Red Army, local Red Army, Red Army guerrilla units, and even underground Party members in the entire southeast region to move together in the direction of Shanghai, so as to collect ordnance and ammunition from the "Comintern column" and at the same time participate in this "general decisive battle against all Shijie imperialism"!

On the other hand, after a week-long campaign in Hangzhou to "crack down on local tyrants" and "break the four olds" and make a fortune relentlessly, Wang Qiu and others also felt that it was time to go back to Shanghai -- due to the previous trend of paper money being invalidated, the stocks of silver dollars and gold bars in Hangzhou's banks had long been run out by the citizens, and even though the Red Army immediately engaged in class struggle and carried out a merciless campaign to crack down on local tyrants after occupying Hangzhou, it only scavenged less than 1 million silver dollars and more than 10,000 taels of gold bars from the city. However, as the prosperous and wealthy ancient capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, as well as a place where there has been little war since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there are a lot of cultural relics and antiques, jade and jade, celebrity calligraphy and paintings, and Ming and Qing dynasty furniture preserved in Hangzhou, and a considerable part of them can even be called rare treasures!

Coupled with the previous harvests in Jiaxing, Huzhou and Haiyan, Wang Qiu and others are almost satisfied. And Xun Huaizhou and his subordinates also learned a certain amount of experience from this low-intensity battle, and basically completed the goal of "training with battle".

However, just as the 30,000 Red Army marched north out of Hangzhou and returned to Shanghai in triumphant singing military songs, Chiang Kai-shek, who had rebelled against his relatives, had to pack his bags gloomily and prepare to leave the Nanchang camp, which had witnessed his glory, power and splendor over the years...... (To be continued......)