With the collapse of the financial and monetary system again, the speed of the collapse of Chiang Kai-shek's Wuhan regime began to accelerate dramatically.

-- On August 19, Zhong Xiang was peacefully liberated, and in front of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, a division of Kuomintang troops surrendered without a fight. Then the division commander received a million dollars in severance pay, and immediately happily left the troops, ready to go abroad to Nanyang to serve as a public servant.

On August 20, the Kuomintang troops in the Xiangfan area mutinied, and the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level surrendered after killing their superiors, and the remaining high-ranking Kuomintang officials were all in danger.

On 23 August, when the water battle broke out at Poyang Lake, the fast gunboats of the Chinese Red Navy sailed up from the downstream waters, and with the assistance of their flying teams, they smashed the Kuomintang "navy," which was dominated by old ships and old ships, in the waters of Hukou and Madang, and the control of the waters of the Yangtze River changed hands.

On August 29, with the cooperation of the fleet's artillery bombardment, the 20,000 workers' and peasants' Red Army led by Xiang Ying conquered Jiujiang along the river, and the whole province of Jiangxi was basically liberated.

On September 5, relying on the conspiracy and instigation of the underground party, more than half of the ships of the Kuomintang Navy rebelled and sailed to Jiujiang to surrender. The remaining sailors were also so unstable that Chiang Kai-shek had to order them to be expelled from the ship and confined to barracks on the shore.

On September 6, Chiang Kai-shek openly plundered the market in Wuhan, tortured wealthy merchants, and scraped together more than 100,000 yuan to pay salaries, temporarily stabilizing some troops.

On 7 September, the workers of Wuhan organized an armed uprising, and most of the Kuomintang troops ordered to suppress it were extremely passive in their fighting. In the end, it was only by relying on the Japanese garrison in the Hankou Concession that it was barely suppressed. But it also allowed thousands of rebellious workers to wander to the outskirts and constantly attack the Kuomintang troops.

On September 11, the battle of Tianjiazhen. The British and Japanese gunboats stranded on the Yangtze River fought side by side, relying on the absolute superiority in tonnage, firepower and experience, as well as bad weather, the Red Army flying team was unable to dispatch, and finally repelled the Red Army gunboat formation, which was still of the rookie class.

However, the Kuomintang defenders on land had already been infiltrated like a sieve by the underground party, and as soon as the battle began, they pulled their flags and surrendered one after another - Tianjiazhen fell.

On 15 September, the vast majority of the Kuomintang troops north of Wuhan announced their defection to the reorganization of the Red Army – the situation was now clear. The red brains of the Bolsheviks had powerful "nuclear weapons", and even the little Japan of the East was overturned, and it was not a problem to sweep away the two devils of Lao Chiang...... On one side is the trade of taking waste paper to death. On one side is a lot of British and American flowers, and even fools know how to choose.

Next, even the heavily defended southern front of Chiang Kai-shek's descendants went wrong - even the loyalty of the descendants was not unlimited.

Therefore. It was the same morning as the tragic nuclear bombing in Nagoya, Japan. Chiang Kai-shek of the Wuhan Nationalist Government also received bad news from the southern front:

“…… Red Bandit South Road Military Forest. Biaobu has broken through the He Sheng Bridge! The forward is less than fifty miles away from Wuchang! There are no more soldiers to fight on the southern front! ”

“…… Niang Xipi! Lao Tzu has demolished the east wall and repaired the west wall these days, turned out the last bit of his family's foundation, and finally piled up six divisions of soldiers and horses in the defensive positions on the first line of Hesheng Bridge and Tingsi Bridge, why was it defeated in just one day? What do Hu Zongnan and Tang Enbo eat? ”

Chiang Kai-shek, who had not slept all night for several days, stared at a pair of blood-red rabbit eyes and almost shouted hysterically.

At this moment, the grim expression on his face was no longer the same as before. Instead, his face was completely distorted, matched with the big shiny bald head. It's really as terrifying as the demon King Kong," ...... It's all fucking rice buckets! It's all rubbish! Get those two bastards back to me! ”

In the face of the monstrous anger of the chairman of the committee, a group of slippery old fritters looked at their noses and mouths, and finally forced Dai Li, who was not only a close friend of Hu Zongnan but also responsible for the intelligence work of the party-state, with their eyes. And Dai Li had to take a distressed look on his face, and replied stubbornly: "...... After the collapse of the defense line of Hesheng Bridge, the two army commanders were scattered by the chaotic army, and their whereabouts are now unknown, and I am afraid that I will not be able to come back to ask you for their guilt......"

“…… These two pieces of waste! Lucky for them! Chairman Jiang touched his bald head and replied angrily.

However, no matter how bad the situation on the front line was, the war to "wipe out the Red Bandits" still had to be fought – although it was no longer known who had exterminated whom – and in order to avoid the wrath of Chairman Chiang and divert the old man's attention, the party-state leaders expressed their opinions on the impending battle for the defense of Wuhan. For example, General Tang Shengzhi said that he would learn from the spirit of "100 million jade fragments" of the Japanese Empire, build barricades in the urban area, and resist to the death street by street and house by house; Distributed firearms and ammunition to the citizens of Wuhan, and organized the whole people to fight against the Red Bandits...... The question is, in the three towns of Wuhan that were badly harmed by Chiang Kai-shek during this time, how many guys are willing to give the "Chiang Ji" Nationalist Government a funeral? I'm afraid that as soon as I got the gun, I was going straight to Jiang Gong's mansion to rebel!

- After an increasingly unreliable discussion, a furious Chiang Kai-shek brandished a broom and kicked everyone out of the room.

“…… Look at what good students I have taught in Whampoa! A few years ago, I single-handedly cleaned up hundreds of thousands of Red Party members and led you junks to defeat the Beiyang warlords! Unified China! But what about you? I only know how to eat, drink, prostitute, gamble and smoke opium! Get out of here! ”

Then he stood alone on an operational map that was almost covered in red, rubbing his scalp in despair and panic - he had also heard the news broadcast of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's "encirclement and suppression of Chiang bandits," "...... Comrade Chairman Mao made it clear in "Strategic Issues of the Chinese Revolutionary War" that the struggle between encirclement and suppression and anti-encirclement and suppression will be repeated for a long time until the strength of the Red Army surpasses that of the reactionaries, and then it will become the Red Army's encirclement and suppression reactionaries, but the reactionaries cannot organize the anti-encirclement and suppression with the same tenacity as the Red Army......

-- Chiang Kai-shek had to admit that his Wuhan Nationalist Government was indeed destined to not even be able to survive the first encirclement and suppression of the Red Army.

Hey, I can't imagine that just a year ago, I could still manage to mobilize a million troops to launch a huge encirclement and suppression of the Red Bandit base in the mountains and mountains in the south of Jiangxi; Unexpectedly, now the two sides are offensively and defensively. It has become that people are clamoring for "encirclement and suppression of bandits"...... Over the years, the ups and downs of various life experiences have really made Chairman Jiang's ambitions unrewarded. I deeply felt the impermanence of the world and the strangeness of fate......

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Although Chairman Chiang had swept his broom out of the conference room in the morning with a completely indecent broom, he had been forced to convene another emergency military meeting by the afternoon when gunfire rang out in the streets of Wuhan.

Regrettably, this time the scene of the meeting. It seems that the situation is even more bleak than in the morning, and many of the party-state members who are shining brightly are almost missing at this time - not only Tang Shengzhi, who once vowed to fight a battle to defend Wuhan, has already fled in disguise. Even Finance Minister Kong Xiangxi ran away, and Chen Lifu, Chen Guofu, and Wu Zhihui disappeared at the same time...... and the naval commander Chen Shaokuan, who was released from the Japanese, was a scene of falling trees and scattering trees...... Only the unlucky Dai Li, who was left with an angry bag, reported the latest battle situation to Chairman Chiang in a trembling voice.

- After the defensive positions on the first line of the Hesheng Bridge and the Tingsi Bridge were broken through. The Kuomintang troops huddled in the suburbs of Wuhan were already in a panic. Deserted in rows and rows. It was only by relying on a few generals to organize a supervising team and kill thousands of deserters in one go, which barely stabilized the battle line.

Who knew that at this time, the political workers of the Red Army actually once again sacrificed the tactic of silver bullets, openly sending planes to scatter leaflets, on which the prices were clearly marked with various rewards: As long as the Kuomintang officers were willing to accept money and leave their posts, then for every division they pulled, they would be given $3 million. Pull over a regiment and give two hundred thousand dollars. Even pulled over a company, all for $50,000! The only requirement is that there is a 12-hour time limit......

As soon as this ultra-luxurious price list was thrown out, the tens of thousands of Kuomintang troops assembled in Wuhan for the final decisive battle were in an uproar. Even if the generals of the Huangpu lineage at the upper level still wanted to "repay the king's kindness by dying," the regimental commanders and company commanders below who had received waste paper for several months did not care about the "kindness" of the chairman of the committee, and all of them threw away their temperance and exchanged banknotes, raised red or white flags, and turned against them on the spot, causing the front of the Red Army position to be crowded for a while......

Next, when a small advance force of the Red Army infiltrated the city of Wuhan, a considerable part of the city defense troops, instead of resisting, took the initiative to tie up the die-hard commanders to come out as voters, and at the same time enthusiastically led the way...... In addition, the underground party workers are also urging the city's police chief, saying: "This time you have to make up your mind, don't go back!" The police chief said repeatedly: "It's decided, it's decided!" ”

- Seeing that this year's red bandits actually turned over, even Little Japan can and blow up, and the British can easily knock down, even the most opposed guys can't help but be worried. However, these red bandits are very knowledgeable and scatter money on a large scale, causing many impoverished reactionary class dogs to rush to tie up their bosses to join the Communist Party, lest they will not be able to exchange US dollars for money if they are tied up too late, or even their bosses will "defect to the light."

In an instant, most of Wuchang, south of the Yangtze River, had fallen, and the workers and citizens of Hanyang had once again staged an armed uprising, occupying several blocks and engaged in fierce fighting with a handful of the most loyal "party-state volunteers" and the Japanese and French garrisons who had rushed to suppress them......

When Dai Li stammered and reported the current situation in Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek's face was as blue and black as the bottom of a pot, and then he roared even more:

“…… How can you let the red bandits swagger into the three towns of Wuhan! Has the intelligence apparatus of the party-state been corrupted to such an extent?! All the officials tried to deceive me, even the Renaissance Society! Every bureaucrat and general is a disloyal and unrighteous coward! I did not hesitate to lose my power and humiliate the country, and borrowed so much foreign debt from the imperialist powers to feed you cowards, traitors, rice buckets...... The result? A few boxes of banknotes to buy so many people? Where is the spirit of Whampoa?! These people are the scum of the party-state! I don't have the slightest sense of honor as a soldier! ”

Chairman Jiang swept over the two or three big cats and kittens present with a fierce gaze, and they were so frightened that they lowered their heads one by one...... But the problem is that roaring and roaring cannot replace bullets, and the spirit of the party-state is not worth the military salary, no matter how hysterical the chairman of the committee is in the conference room, smashing all the vases, fish tanks, and teacups that he can catch at hand, he still cannot prevent the Wuhan Nationalist Government from falling step by step into the abyss of destruction.

- until a pair of Qianqianyu hands rested on his shoulders, temporarily dispelling the anger that had accumulated in his heart.

“…… Darling. Calm down! No matter how angry you are, it won't help right now,"

Song Meiling, who was wearing a Shanghai-style cheongsam, quietly stood behind Chiang Kai-shek at some point. While gently helping him beat his shoulder, he said softly with a pleasant face, "...... Darling, it seems that Wuhan can't hold it, let's think about the next way out! ”

“…… Withdraw? Where else can we retreat? What more land do we have to return? Chiang Kai-shek muttered angrily.

“…… Take a boat on the Yangtze River waterway and head west to Sichuan! Right now, Chen Cheng is still desperately guarding Yueyang. The waterway from Wuhan to Sichuan was fairly smooth, and the Japanese, French, and British gunboats in the Hankow Concession were willing to escort us, and they were also moving expatriates to Chongqing......

“…… Into the river? What if you enter Sichuan? At the moment we no longer represent the central government. Instead, we have become lost dogs, and Liu Xiang and other Sichuan warlords may not welcome us, but they are likely to slaughter us as fat sheep. Moreover, today's red bandits are already unstoppable. Britain, France, the United States, and Japan could not suppress them when they jointly sent troops. Just with those Sichuan rats in Shudi, it is impossible to have any hope......"

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head in frustration, "...... With the current tragic situation of the party-state, it is no longer possible to take root in Sichuan and continue to confront the Red Bandits head-on - don't forget, northern Sichuan and Guizhou are now the territory of the Red Bandits, and under the attack from both sides, how many days can the Sichuan army hold out? ”

“…… Darling. I didn't mean to settle down in Sichuan, and I didn't have much hope for those Sichuan rats. Instead, you go to Sichuan, and then go abroad through Yunnan to Burma, India, or Malaya to organize a government-in-exile......"

Song Meiling smiled slightly, squinted her eyes and said, "...... Although the red bandits relied on their nuclear weapons and were unstoppable for a while, they had already made a grudge against their friends in the world for their reckless behavior. So, as long as we can escape the country, Britain, the United States, and France will support us and provide us with adequate funds and arms aid. In the future, as long as we patiently recuperate, gather strength, and actively look for opportunities, then with the help of civilized countries all over the world, sooner or later the party-state will make a comeback......"

After listening to Song Meiling's words, Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, which were originally as desperate and withered as rotten wood, finally gradually gained some brilliance......

On September 21, after capturing Hanyang and Wuchang relatively lightly, after a messy and fierce street battle and the cost of thousands of casualties, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army finally annihilated the Japanese and French garrisons in the Hankou Concession and completely occupied the three towns of Wuhan.

The problem, however, was that Chiang Kai-shek and many important members of the Wuhan Nationalist Government had already boarded a steamer a day earlier, and fled upstream by water under the escort of two Japanese gunboats, and arrived in Chongqing on September 30, where they issued a "Declaration of National Salvation from the Rebellion" at the British Consulate in Chongqing, vowing to fight the Red Army to the death, thus winning praise from the imperialist powers as "a dragon slayer warrior against the Bolshevik dragon"!

Next, Chiang Kai-shek and others continued to turn westward, and finally boarded a British plane at Kunming Airport, successfully flew to New Delhi, India, and announced the establishment of the "Republic of China Government in Exile", directing the civil war by "remote control" across the Himalayas - but unfortunately there seems to be no powerful faction willing to treat him as a green onion. Only a cadre of Red Army generals on the Lianghu battlefield sighed because they didn't catch this old enemy.

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On the other hand, thousands of miles away in Shanghai, the leaders of the Red Fifth Front Army did not pay much attention to Chairman Chiang's "successful transfer" -- anyway, this "peanut rice" had already been beaten into a dead dog, and his territory and army had been completely lost...... It is estimated that it is just a level of trouble similar to that of the great monk in Tibet in the future.

On the contrary, some of the "left-leaning and blind activism mistakes" of the Guangzhou Party Central Committee made them feel quite embarrassed and even embarrassed......

- Although in the eyes of the comrades of the Red Army in this time and space, these construction and plans are extremely reasonable and extremely urgent.

“…… What's what? Do you want us to provide technical support to salvage and repair the more than 200,000 tons of British Navy ships sunk in Hong Kong, especially those battleships and battle cruisers?! Let the nascent Red China immediately have a world-class navy?! What kind of joke is this?!! ”

In the conference room of the headquarters of the Red Fifth Front Army in Shanghai, Wang Qiu slapped a telegram on the table almost with a smile in his eyes, "...... What does the Party Central Committee think the ocean-going navy is doing? Even if a few giant ships are fished out, does China have supporting port auxiliary facilities at the moment? Are there large docks and shipyards capable of maintaining battleships? Are there qualified shipbuilding specialists and nautical talents? Especially battleships...... A battleship of tens of thousands of tons usually needs 1,000 to 2,000 seamen to maintain its operation, and even the best sailors of the imperialist powers need about a year to be on board to become proficient in operation - and the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army does not even have a slightly decent naval school at the moment! (To be continued......)