In the middle of summer, Guangzhou is shrouded in a sea of red flags and red banners.

As the cradle of the revolution in modern Chinese history, the birthplace of the May Day Movement, the Northern Expedition and the Great Revolution, Guangzhou has always been known for its changing people's minds, and its patriotic enthusiasm and anti-imperialist ideas are much more intense than those of northern cities, whether it is young students or ordinary citizens.

Moreover, as early as the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of the Great Revolution, our party operated in various parts of Guangdong for many years, and after that, the Guangzhou Commune and the Hailufeng base appeared one after another, and the potential shili can be said to be deep-rooted. Even after the devastation of the White Terror in the past few years, the Liliang of the underground party is still very strong. Especially when the Kuomintang reactionaries were scattered, and the sickle, hammer, and red flag swept through South China, there were even more shili who changed their courts.

Therefore, when the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army annihilated the main force of the Cantonese army led by Chen Jitang and repelled Bai Chongxi's Gui army from Wuzhou, Yu Hanmou, who was trapped in Guangzhou, found himself suffering a blow from the back: with the support of 100 million pounds of funds and two ships of munitions, the Guangzhou underground party successfully bought off one-third of the troops defending the city, cut off the telephone lines of Yu Hanmou's command of various troops, and at the same time brazenly launched a major workers' uprising in the city......

Thus, amid the cries of the city's tycoons and the cheers of the vast number of poor workers and peasants, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army liberated Guangzhou on July 16...... Then, of course, there was the vigorous "cracking down on local tyrants and dividing the land" and the thunderous "suppression of counter-revolutionary" movements.

“…… Today's Guangzhou ...... The revolutionary atmosphere is very strong! The streets were filled with revolutionary slogans painted with red paint, and red flags hung in front of the shops. ”

Sit in a tracked armored vehicle that is as strong as a castle. Wang Qiu muttered casually while admiring the street scene outside through the narrow car window, "...... Unfortunately, it was hot and muggy. It's really uncomfortable...... The city feels pretty shabby and doesn't smell very good......"

-- In modern Shijie, Wang Qiu has also been to Guangzhou several times, and the most impressive one was when he visited Guangzhou on the eve of the Lunar New Year, and saw slogans hanging everywhere near the Guangzhou Railway Station, such as "Vigorously Start the Spring Festival Battle," and a large number of people crowded from inside the station to outside the station......

Of course. Guangzhou in the era of the Republic of China cannot be compared with Guangzhou in the future. The whole city looks like a street scene from "The Siege of October"—crowded streets, straw sandal-skied porters, topless rickshaw pullers, students in tunics—and the air is less of the allergic black smoke that makes you cough wildly, but dirty water, feces, rotting garbage. Coupled with the lack of humidity and heat from the cold air of the air conditioner, it still makes it difficult to breathe.

“…… Alas, as far as the whole of China is concerned, Guangzhou is already a first-class prosperous market with bright lights and rich people! ”

A political commissar of the Red Army accompanied him. said in a rather weird-sounding Zhejiang dialect. “…… Henan is screaming miserably! I had gone to Henan to mobilize the masses before, when the Central Plains War had just been fought, and millions of people in Henan had been displaced by the war, and the fields were barren and miserable...... In the countryside of Henan, I saw with my own eyes that the local people were living in mud caves, without even a house, unkempt and unkempt, and without clothes. People are not like people, and ghosts are not like ghosts. I asked a rural teacher about the local situation, and the reply was: the place is small. The fields are barren, the population is too large, since the Republic of China, the taxes and miscellaneous taxes have been heavy, bandits and horse thieves are everywhere, the villages have been burned down, there is no way to do business, the general people have no food to eat, and people eat people every year. The little savings of the common people were robbed by the warlords and bandits, and it can really be said that they are so poor, and the people have no place to die. ”

Speaking of this, Comrade Political Commissar couldn't help but sigh, "...... Alas, even in the past, even the faint monarch of the feudal society had to care about the life and death of the common people, and now it has been so many years since Sun Dacang's gang overthrew the imperial system and founded the republic, and China has been made like this, forcing the common people to become primitive people who drill holes in the ground! There is really nothing to say, no matter from which point of view, only the proletarian revolution can save China! ”

Just as the political commissar was sighing at the suffering of the Chinese people at the moment, he suddenly felt a sudden shock in the carriage, and then an earth-shattering explosion came from the front -- I saw that a small building in front of it was blown down, and the rubble beams and pillars fell one after another, cutting off the convoy from the middle. Then a large crowd of thugs dressed in different costumes, armed with submachine guns, box guns, grenadiers and katanas, rushed from all directions.

However, the Red Army soldiers accompanying the escort were also battle-hardened and well-trained veterans. Although he was a little dizzy from the explosion just now, he still reacted quickly and fired back one after another, killing and wounding more than 20 people immediately. Immediately afterward, the heavy machine guns on the armored vehicles also opened fire, quickly strafing many of the attackers into a puddle of flesh...... Other Red Army soldiers began to climb over the wall to outflank the enemy's rear, allowing the gunfire to quickly fall silent.

“…… Don't worry, they won't be able to beat it! This is nothing more than the Japanese expatriates in Guangdong and the Kuomintang spies colluding with traitors and scum to use bombs and firearms provided by the British army in Hong Kong to constantly sneak into the urban area to carry out attacks and sabotage. Two days ago, there were mortars in the barracks! We have seen a lot of this kind of counter-revolutionary sabotage in our Red Army, and we have a lot of experience in the purging of the Special Branch, so we should not be able to cause any major chaos. ”

At the same time, the political commissar who was sitting in the car and accompanying him was still comforting Wang Qiu with a calm face, "...... Stir up panic among the population? It's okay, it's okay, everyone has long been used to it, don't you see that the teahouse over there is crowded with a bunch of idlers watching the excitement? The suppression of counter-revolution always requires bloodshed and sacrifice! It is estimated that a few thousand to 10,000 more people will die, and the market will probably be able to calm down...... After that, the Party Central Committee is ready to move over......"

- Well, how do you say that? The ability of people in troubled times to endure death seems to be far beyond the imagination of those in peaceful times.

It seems that even if there is a "911 incident" in Guangzhou every day, and a plane falls down and hits a building every day, the citizens of Guangzhou can be safe!

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All in all, after witnessing several terrorist attacks with their own eyes without danger. Ms. Jin Qina and the travelers finally came to the headquarters of the Red Second Army on Yuexiu Mountain, and met with General He Long, the commander and head of the Guangzhou Military Management Commission. After a brief exchange of pleasantries. He Long briefed Wang Qiu and them on the current situation of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in Guangdong Province.

-- After the Red Army killed Chen Jitang, the "King of the Southern Heavenly Heavens," repelled the Gui army's reinforcements, and invaded the provincial capital of Guangzhou, there was no large-scale resistance in the entire Pearl River Delta basin, except for the British garrison in Hong Kong. The Cantonese army, as a warlord group, basically collapsed. Even if there were still some remnants wandering through the countryside, they no longer posed a military threat to the Red Army, and at best they were only a hidden danger to public order.

But. Outside the Pearl River Delta, the Red Army's current control is still very weak -- there are still a number of remnants of the Cantonese Army and the Kuomintang Central Army in Haikou, Hainan Island, Shantou in eastern Guangdong, and Xiamen and Fuzhou in Fujian. Relying on the arms and ammunition provided by the imperialist powers by sea, they insisted on stubbornly resisting. In the countryside where land reform has not yet been completed, there are even more private armed forces of local tyrants and shoddy gentry and stubborn reactionaries.

Of course, these are all special phenomena in the early days of liberation. As long as the Red Army gained a firm foothold in Guangdong. Then the next steps of gradually mobilizing the masses to carry out land reform and eliminating bandits and landlords' private armed forces are all ripe and experienced -- the redness of Guangdong Province is now unstoppable.

However, although they still only controlled a few major cities and communication routes, the gains of the Red Second Army and the Red Third Army in Guangdong were already extremely rich. The loot handed over to the traverser for teleportation to modern shijie for money alone contained 800,000 taels of gold, 2 million taels of silver, and 30 million silver dollars. There are more than 200 boxes of pearls, diamonds, gemstones, and jade, and tens of thousands of antiques of all kinds. As for the Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture made of high-grade wood such as mahogany, huanghuali and golden silk nan. There are two large warehouses piled up. In addition, there are a large number of precious teak and nanmu imported from overseas.

In order to carry these trophies back to modern Shijie, Wang Qiu was busy back and forth for a whole day. Then he spent another week replenishing the Red Army with all kinds of supplies -- guns and artillery that urgently needed to be replaced, ammunition and medical supplies that were increasingly scarce, military uniforms and tents in the summer, medicines such as Rendan to cool off the heat, refined salt to guarantee the Red Army's "plastic tickets", and machinery and equipment for the construction of military industrial bases, and so on.

This was not only to enhance the self-hematopoietic ability of the Lingnan Red Army, but also to balance the industrial layout within the Red Base Area.

-- A series of "generous funding" of the Red Tenth Army in Shanghai by the traversers turned the original Red Tenth Army and the current Red Fifth Front Army from a discarded and bait used to attract firepower into a powerful military bloc with three armies, three armies, three armies, and about two or three hundred thousand modern troops.

You know, Shanghai was originally the largest industrial and commercial center in China, and the gathering place of talent and wealth of all Chinese. In the previous warlord scuffle, those who controlled the city of Shanghai were much stronger than the warlords who entrenched in a province in the interior.

At present, the Red Fifth Front Army not only has advanced ordnance and weapons beyond the times, but also controls the most elite places in China, such as Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, has the largest reserve of science and engineering talents in the country, and a large number of industrial facilities transferred from modern Shijie, and its comprehensive strength is completely unbalanced compared with the Red Army in other regions of China. If it can represent the Party Central Committee, it will be fine...... However, the problem is that at present the party Central Committee is still nesting in the ravines and ravines of Guizhou -- no matter from any angle, there is already a hidden danger that the tail will not be able to fall and that the localities will overtake the central authorities.

As for the industrial sector that was settled in Ruijin during the southern expedition, it was only the scale of a small county-level factory, and it could not shake Shanghai's dominant position at all.

Although Fang Zhimin, Su Yu, Xun Huaizhou, and others, who are currently in control of the Red Fifth Front Army, are not the kind of careerists who will do whatever it takes for the sake of power and can ignore all the party's principles and discipline -- and it is impossible for the traversers to support them in setting up a separate central committee -- even if the party Central Committee can firmly control Shanghai in the future and eliminate the hidden danger of internal splits, the excessive imbalance in the degree of development of various regions of the country will be very unfavorable to national construction.

Therefore, the traversers took special care of the older generation of revolutionary predecessors. We are going to open another "sub-base" for them in Guangzhou, so as not to lead to Shanghai's dominance, and at the same time, it is also to make full use of the Western-style education talents here in Guangzhou......

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While the traversers were busy moving the loot from Guangzhou. The history of this shijie continues to evolve and evolve.

First of all, Japan's Showa Emperor Hirohito Bixia finally died in the Kyoto Imperial Palace on July 21 due to worsening radiation sickness. Because Prince Akihito had died before, after a fight, Hirohito's eldest brother, Prince Yoshihito Chichibu Miyaji. He defeated two other younger brothers, Prince Nobuhito Takamatsunomiya and Prince Takahito Mikasa, and succeeded in seizing the throne of the emperor, and was scheduled to be officially proclaimed emperor on August 8.

But. Despite the change of emperor and the change of capital, the hard-line fanatical attitude of the Japanese empire towards the war of aggression against China remained unchanged in the slightest. Jihua recruited a million strong men in China, Taiwan, and North Korea. Invest in the "battlefield of the China Continent", and at the same time expand the army by 300,000 to resist the possible invasion of Soviet Russia in the north.

Obviously, the Japanese archipelago, which is already in ruins, simply cannot afford such a huge military expenditure. Therefore, Wall Street in the United States and the City of the United Kingdom, two big donors, expressed their willingness to provide war loan guarantees to the Japanese Empire, so that the Japanese could shed blood and sacrifice with confidence.

Secondly. The Red Army marched out of the Dabie Mountains and conquered Hefei on July 26. Immediately joined forces with the Red Army's Su Yu Department in Huainan.

At this point, with the exception of Liu Zhidan in Yan'an, Zhang Guotao in Sichuan, and the anti-Japanese coalition forces in the northeast, the rest of the Red Army base areas in the country had been connected and controlled seven provincial capitals in one go, and it seemed that it was not far from the goal of completely reddening South China.

Then, on August 1, the Army Day, the mobile Central Bureau finally moved out of Guiyang, which is deep in the mountains, and moved to the bustling metropolis of Guangzhou. Many leaders of the Party and the Red Army once again walked through the familiar streets of Guangzhou this summer and the former site of the Huangpu Military Academy on Huangpu Island (which has now been moved), recalling the eventful years of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and joining hands in the Northern Expedition ten years ago, and could not help but burst into tears and sigh.

And the brothers Mao Anying and Mao Anqing finally saw their father and stepmother - all kinds of chaos during the period, so they had to hide for His Holiness.

According to the plan, the Party Central Committee planned to stay in Guangzhou until the autumn to complete all preparations for the establishment of a national central government, and at the same time to supervise and coordinate the war in the vicinity of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and southern Fujian. After the southern front was completely finished and the Lingnan region was completely pacified, it moved north to Shanghai or Nanjing to officially hold the founding ceremony...... As for where the capital should be determined after the reunification of the whole country, we will have to wait until later to deliberate.

Then, on 2 August, the 2nd Red Army easily captured Macao in one day with only one regiment of troops, and the Portuguese colonial authorities put up only a few minutes of symbolic resistance at the Governor's Palace, the poor Governor of Macao, who now had less than 300 soldiers at full capacity, and most of them were blacks hired from Africa in order to save costs, and their morale and morale were very low.

So, looking at the Red Army soldiers who were killing with great momentum, these black soldiers only fired a few shots indiscriminately, and then decisively raised a white flag and surrendered.

As a result, many large and small casinos in Macau immediately fell into blood mold, and all of them were seized.

-- After the First Opium War, because Macao was limited by geographical conditions and its harbor was shallow and narrow, the British-occupied Hong Kong relied on the advantages of a deep-water port and soon replaced Macao's status as a transit trade port, resulting in a complete decline in Macao's commerce.

Since then, Macau has had to regard the gaming industry as the main pillar of the economy, and it is widely known as Shijie under the name of "Oriental Monte Carlo". By the thirties of the twentieth century, the tiny city of Macau was full of casinos, accumulating a large amount of gold, silver and curiosities - so the travelers succeeded in making a fortune again in Macau, seizing countless gold, silver, jewelry, and precious antique jewelry...... In order to create a pro-people image, the Red Army did not directly plunder all kinds of luxury goods in Macao, but adopted a moderate method of forced requisition, and boldly threw out large sums of US dollars and pounds......

However, the southward expansion of He Long's Red Second Army was over for the time being—Hong Kong was the target of Peng Dehuai's Red Third Army, and the farther French concession of Guangzhou Bay was located on the Leizhou Peninsula, about 400 kilometers from Guangzhou. According to the judgment of the General Staff of the Red Army, before the Guangxi Gui Army was completely defeated and the flank threat was removed, it was too risky to go on a lone expedition to the Leizhou Peninsula and really could not act so hastily.

In addition, bad news is not without it, for example, Zhang Guotao's Sichuan-Shaanxi Red Army has been in a bad situation recently -- because the Sichuan-Shaanxi Red Army is alone behind enemy lines, it has never been able to establish contact with the future traverser comrades, and it has not been able to obtain advanced arms supplies, and its equipment and combat effectiveness have always been the same.

In this way, although Zhang Guotao owned more than 30 counties in the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area, his own military command level was not good, and many of the elite old troops were taken by Xu Xiangqian to the east...... As a result, in the summer, when the Red Army of all walks of life in the country was marching forward, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Red Army was severely beaten by Liu Xiang and Tian Songyao, and lost two-thirds of its base area -- fortunately, now that the situation of the Red Army sweeping the world has been achieved, the Sichuan warlords do not dare to move against the current, but only want to show some liliang so that they can have some bargaining chips in the negotiations, so the Sichuan-Shaanxi Red Army is not worried about its demise for the time being.

On August 1, a Japanese naval fleet from Zuihou in the Truk Atoll in the Pacific Ocean launched a decisive counterattack on Shanghai! (To be continued......)