“…… Zuihou, and the most crucial point, even if we capture Nanjing, we will not be able to smash the military and political command system of the Kuomintang reactionaries. ”

Wang Qiu solemnly pointed out the biggest flaw in the strategy of attacking Nanjing," ...... Everyone should know, where is Chiang Kai-shek now? ”

“…… Nanchang Xingying ...... Oh! I see! Are you saying that even if we successfully take Nanjing, we will not be able to hurt a single hair of Chiang Kai-shek, and he can start a new business in Nanchang!! Political Commissar Le Shaohua suddenly realized, "...... Maybe he'd like us to help him get rid of dissent! ”

“…… That's right! Wang Qiu nodded, "...... Since the 'Ninghan Confluence', the internal structure of the Kuomintang government has long been Chiang Kai-shek in charge of troops in other places, and Wang Jingwei in Nanjing! However, in this cooperative group, Wang Jingwei is in an obvious weakness -- in today's China, a soldier is the king of grass! Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek inserted many henchmen in the Nanjing Nationalist Government, but Wang Jingwei was completely unable to interfere with the Nanchang camp.

In addition, Chiang Kai-shek's Nanchang camp was not just a headquarters, but was run by him into a small government, with all departments available. In many key matters, he often bypassed Wang Jingwei and gave orders directly from the Nanchang camp. The Nanjing Nationalist Government was regarded as a 'nursing home' for the old party elders...... Of course, the Nanjing Nationalist Government is not an empty shelf that has no power at all, but it is just that Lao Jiang has to nod his head in major matters.

Hehe, because Chiang Kai-shek ruled the country by warrant, although it helped to centralize power, it also brought some side effects - because there were too many things sent to him every day for instructions, Chiang Kai-shek once bitterly criticized the staff of the guard department: "You don't treat me as a wastebasket." I have to deal with all the trivial notes, what are so many officials of the national government doing? This is not the way to set up a division of duties" -- in fact, it is not because he himself is unwilling to delegate power?

So, in this case. Even if we had made tremendous sacrifices to capture Nanjing, we would have only defeated Wang Chingwei's group of men, and we would not have been able to completely paralyze the Kuomintang's central military and political command system -- Chiang Kai-shek could have established the Nanchang Nationalist Government at once, and the entire leading body would have been ready-made...... Without the group of party elders in Nanjing, who always disagree with him, maybe the administrative efficiency could be even higher! ”

Speaking of which, Wang Qiu mentioned another interesting fact, "...... Reputedly. When the Nanjing government officials were meeting to discuss the country's political system, Wu Zhihui said: "We are under the responsibility system of Kai-shek, and Kai-shek is the president of the Executive Yuan. Our country is the responsibility system of the president of the Executive Yuan, and when he is the chairman of the state government, it is the responsibility system of the chairman of the state government, and when he is the chairman of the committee. We are the chairman of the committee. If he becomes emperor in the future, it will be the emperor's responsibility system' -- although this is just a joke, it also tells the truth of the Kuomintang authorities: where Chiang Kai-shek is, where is the real central government! ”

“…… In this way, the current Nanjing is nominally the capital, but in fact it can only be said to be the accompanying capital. The real core of the highest power of the Kuomintang was the Nanchang camp where Chiang Kai-shek was located...... Well, for our Red Army. Nanjing is really a hard bone that is both hard to gnaw and meatless. ”

Fang Zhimin tapped his fingers on the table one by one, groaning and pondering. “…… 150,000 Kuomintang garrison troops...... Although the quality is uneven, it is 150,000 pigs, and it is difficult to catch them. In addition, on the way from here to Nanjing, there are dangerous passes guarded by the Kuomintang army everywhere, and we don't know how many bloody battles we have to fight to see the walls of Nanjing!

Moreover, even though we finally took Nanking after paying great sacrifices, Chiang Kai-shek was still unharmed. The city of Nanjing was also full of family members and vested interests of high-ranking Kuomintang officials and nobles, as well as representatives of warlords and capitalists from all over the country, and the mass base was simply reactionary. If we Red Army want to take root in Nanjing, we are afraid that we will have to wash the whole city in blood...... No matter how you look at it, it's more than worth the loss......"

“…… Not only that, but like Hangzhou, Nanjing is now a traditional political city, rather than a new type of industrial powerhouse. ”

Wang Qiu went on to add, "...... I remember that Sun Yat-sen entered Nanjing to become the president, but when the welcoming ceremony was held, he found that there was not a single car in the whole city of Nanjing! Sun Yat-sen, however, resolutely refused to ride in an outdated sedan chair, and Zuihou finally found a Western-style carriage and carried him from the dock to the Presidential Palace -- it can be seen that because there was no concession, Nanjing's degree of modernization was really not half as good as Shanghai's!

Even after Chiang Kai-shek established the capital in Nanjing, he only built a few major roads, built some exquisite garden houses and magnificent government buildings, but there were not many factories and enterprises. If we raise the banner of our party in Nanjing, I am afraid that we will not be able to gather many poor workers, peasants and proletarian brothers......"

-- In fact, there is another very important reason why Wang Qiu and other traversers are reluctant to attack Nanjing: there is nothing to fish for attacking Nanjing!

At first glance, this seems to be a no-brainer, because common sense suggests that a country's capital is often also a place where a country's wealth gathers.

However, it should be noted that in 1934, it was only seven years before Nanjing became the capital of the Republic of China, and the previous capital of China was always Beijing! Prior to this, Nanjing was only the "half of the provincial capital" of Jiangsu Province -- the governor of Liangjiang and the political envoy of Jiangning were stationed in Jiangning (Nanjing), and the governor of Jiangsu and the political envoy of Jiangsu were stationed in Suzhou...... Because Nanjing had no foreign concessions, commercial trade was not as developed as Wuhan in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and coupled with the serious damage in the Taiping War, Nanjing in the late Qing Dynasty became a relatively backward and poor place in the Jiangnan region......

To add insult to injury, as early as the early years of the Republic of China, when the 'Second Revolution' was committed, Zhang Xun's pigtailed soldiers ransacked Nanjing and looted it cleaner than sifting through a sieve! For many years after that, Nanjing changed hands frequently at the hands of various Beiyang warlords, and it never recovered. Those wealthy families were either ruined by the war and exorbitant taxes, or they moved to the relatively stable Shanghai and other places.

Realistically speaking, in the years of the Republic of China before 1927. Although Nanjing has an unparalleled political status in the south, it is not to mention the magic capital of Shanghai in terms of economic prosperity, people's prosperity and modernization. Even the Nantong of Jiangbei can't compare! It is likely that it is not as good as Hangzhou......

After Chiang Kai-shek established Nanjing as the capital, he modernized the city to a certain extent, but the goal was to make Nanjing an administrative center, rather than an economic and industrial center. The high-ranking officials of the central government usually only work in Nanjing, and take the train to Shanghai on weekends for recreation, which shows that Nanjing's prosperity is really too poor. Even the central treasury of Chiang Kai-shek's regime was located in Shanghai at this time. And not Nanjing!

Therefore, at the time of the Nanjing Massacre, although the Japanese army killed 300,000 people. A lot of houses were burned, but the amount of money that was actually looted into the pocket was very limited -- there was no news of the Japanese soldiers getting rich overnight, as was the case with the looting of the Old Summer Palace by the British and French forces and the invasion of Beijing by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Not to mention. The Red Tenth Army had very limited troops. It was already very difficult to eliminate the Kuomintang army defending the city, and it was impossible to stop those corrupt officials and tycoons from fleeing out of the city with gold and silver...... Countless expensive munitions and ammunition were consumed, and how could the Red Army soldiers raise money while sitting on top of a pile of charred rubble? How should the traverser get back to his roots? Is it impossible to dig up Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Tomb?

Therefore, the most ideal strategic goal in the minds of Wang Qiu and these traversers was very clear from the beginning, that is, to fight Shanghai!

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“…… On the contrary, Shanghai, although not the capital of the Nationalist government. But it was Chiang Kai-shek's money bag and lifeline. ”

The small wooden stick in Wang Qiu's hand pressed heavily towards the location of the port at the edge of the map, "...... Shanghai is currently the largest financial center and trading port in the whole of the East. It is not only the core of the interests of the four major families, but also the area where imperialism is most concentrated in China. For the typical reactionary comprador regime of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, this is their dead end! If it is said that the source of our party's liliang comes from the suffering people, then the source of the Kuomintang's liliang is currently in the finance and trade of Shanghai Tang's Shili Yangchang!

From the day it was founded, the Nanjing Nationalist Government relied on Shanghai, a large international port, to sell all kinds of natural resources to the outside world, and then to buy all kinds of foreign goods to squeeze out its own industries, and at the same time to import foreign arms to suppress the rebels at home -- although it could neither gnaw at the Gui system nor defeat the Northwest Army in a war, it was able to bribe the enemy officers with a large amount of bribes, and relied on the silver bullet offensive to be invincible and dominate the warlord in the melee of the warlords.

But in this way, the Kuomintang regime had to defend the lines of communication with foreign masters when it started a war, and the enemy would be dumbfounded when it hit this fateful door. As long as we knock out Shanghai, cut off the channels of communication between Chiang Kai-shek and the imperialists - mind you, knock out the whole of Shanghai! It is meaningless to just take the Chinese border, and it is necessary to destroy all the financial institutions of Chinese and foreign countries in the concession -- the financial and financial affairs of the Chiang Kai-shek regime will collapse immediately, all the banknotes issued by the Central Bank and the Bank of Communications will be turned into waste paper, and the war machine of the Kuomintang Central Army will stop in an instant!

Moreover, unlike the provincial warlord armies that relied on local friendships, wealthy families, and feudal superstitious associations, Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army was more 'Westernized', a typical mercenary army organized on the principles of a market economy of pay and empty pay. This kind of army is a trade when it comes to fighting, and no part of it will be sacrificed, and it will attack slower than anyone and retreat faster than whom, unless there is a large bounty to make them fight for their lives...... If Chiang Kai-shek's banks and vaults in Shanghai were taken away by us and we couldn't get the money, would the Central Army still listen to his command?

(During the Anti-Japanese War, the Nationalist Government was able to maintain after the fall of Shanghai because first, the financial institutions in the Shanghai Concession were still able to operate before the Pacific War, and continued to transfuse blood for the national government; Second, from 1936 onwards, Chiang Kai-shek had made some preparations for the fall of Shanghai, and at the same time had stolen some money from the provincial warlords. But in 1934, he didn't make any preparations, and he didn't even move the vault. ）

In addition, Shanghai Tang is also a retreat for many warlords and politicians after they left the wilderness, gathering the largest number of bigwigs and tycoons and money treasures in China. And the largest number of engineers, industrial workers, and unemployed young men in all of China -- after the occupation of Shanghai, you will not only be able to raise an astronomical amount of money at once, but you will also be able to build a military industrial system on a large scale. There are also 600,000 unemployed proletarians who can be recruited into the Red Army!

Even better, in Shanghai and its surroundings. The military liliang arranged by the Chiang Kai-shek regime is very thin! Because the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" signed with the Japanese in 1932 stipulated that Shanghai was designated as a demilitarized zone, and the Chinese army could only be stationed in Kunshan and Suzhou. In downtown Shanghai, the Kuomintang only had one Shanghai Security Corps, one Shanghai Police Corps, and a garrison company at Hongqiao Airport. There is nothing to be afraid of at all! ”

Speaking of this, he drew an arc on the land west of Shanghai, "...... Even the Central Army stationed in various places outside Shanghai. In order to launch the fifth encirclement and suppression, he was transferred to the Jiangxi front line thousands of miles away. The 'defense lines' that were supposed to be established in 1936 were the so-called 'Maginot Line of the East'. There is no sign of it yet...... If we don't take the opportunity to do a good job, I'm sorry God! ”

“…… Ahem, Comrade Wang Qiu, you seem to have only considered the Kuomintang armed Liliang in Shanghai. But the garrisons of the imperialist powers were not taken into account. ”

Legion political commissar Le Shaohua stood up with a frown - in the early years of the Agrarian Revolutionary War. The Party Central Committee had always been active in Shanghai and received funding from the Comintern. Therefore, the members of the Party Central Committee who were quite "foreign" during this period were very familiar with the Shiliyangchang Huahuashijie in Shanghai, but they also felt heartfelt worries and fears about the powerful imperialist Liliang in Shanghai......

“…… Not to mention the colonial armies and fleets of the United States and Britain, the Japanese marines stationed in Hongkou alone made the 19th Route Army suffer enough in the spring of the previous year...... We preceded the overthrow of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary rule. It seems a little inappropriate to fight directly with the Japanese......"

He wasn't done yet. I saw that Wang Qiu was looking at himself with a very strange look, as if he was looking at some rare animal.

“…… Comrade Le Shaohua, have you forgotten what banner your team left Ruijin under what banner! ”

Wang Qiu touched his chin and said in a slow tone rather playfully, "...... You are the advance team of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to resist Japan in the north! It was your duty to destroy the Japanese militarist invaders! And the nearest Japanese invader to you is in Shanghai! If you don't fight them, who else should you fight? Could it be that your anti-Japanese resistance is all lip service, but in fact, you don't have the courage to fight with the Japanese? ”

“…… Of course, I didn't say no anti-Japanese! Le Shaohua's neck flushed," ...... But there must always be a priority in everything......"

“…… Then you have to learn from Chiang Kai-shek, and you must first settle down inside the outside? What a shame! Professor Yang stood up suddenly, almost roaring angrily, "...... You now have rocket artillery, submachine guns, air force cover, and endless ammunition and banknotes, but you are scared like this by just two or three thousand Japanese marines? Comrade Le Shaohua, I really want to ask, are you still a Red Army soldier after all?! ”

“…… Ahem, Professor Yang, Comrade Le Shaohua is also for the sake of prudence. Seeing that the two were about to quarrel and blushed and had thick necks, Fang Zhimin hurriedly stood up to play a round and diverted the topic at the same time, "...... In addition to the Japanese invaders, how many troops were stationed in Shanghai by other imperialist powers? ”

“…… The British, French, and American troops stationed in Shanghai are all one or two battalions, and the size of more than 1,000 people will not exceed 4,000 combined. There were also several gunboats and destroyers...... But for us, it's all worth mentioning! Wang Qiu shrugged his shoulders and said disapprehantly, "...... You may be afraid of imperialist planes and warships, but in our eyes, they are like papier-mâché toys. ”

“…… With the current foreign garrison in Shanghai, of course, there is no need to be afraid. However, if we are afraid, we are afraid that we will fight the small ones and attract the old ones, and Zuihou will be like the Empress Dowager Cixi during the Boxer Rebellion, and once again make the scene of the 'Eight-Nation Alliance Army entering Shanghai', what should we do? ”

Liu Ying, director of the political department of the legion, said with some hesitation, "...... Could it be that just with our liliang, we have to be the enemy of all shijie? ”

“…… Then let them all come! Fifteen years ago, the revolutionary predecessors of the Soviet Union were not afraid of the white bandit intervention army from the entire capitalist Shijie, and they simply starved and drove them out of the country! Fifteen years later, in the ice and snow of the Korean Peninsula, your juniors have never feared the 'United Nations Army' from more than a dozen countries in Shijie, still wearing single clothes and holding broken guns, beating them to the ground!

Now, don't you, the revolutionary martyrs, who have been admired by countless Chinese in later generations, stand on our Chinese own land, with your back to the largest city in China, and with weapons far more advanced than the imperialist powers, do you not have the confidence to fight to the death against the imperialist powers? ”

Wang Qiu spread his hands and said loudly, "...... Comrades, all imperialism is actually a paper tiger, it depends on whether you dare to fight it or not! ”

“…… Yes, comrades, when you carry out the red revolution in a semi-feudal and semi-colonial backward country, you are going to be the enemy of the imperialist exploiters of all Shijie! If you don't have the courage to go to war with the reactionaries of the whole shijie, then you shouldn't have raised the red flag from the beginning at all! ”

Professor Yang also added very seriously, "...... The birth and rise of New China has never relied on the mercy and gifts of any class enemy, but has to stand on the corpse of the reactionary class and imperialism in order to move towards a bright future! Comrades, we are still living in a shijie of the jungle! If you are backward, you will be beaten, and if you are weak, you will be a sin! And the only way to prove that you are not weak and not backward is through bloody wars and killings! All the status and dignity of our Chinese can only be fought by artillery and bombs! ”

“…… Ahem, that's right! If we do revolution, we should not be afraid of heaven and earth! ”

Comrade Fang Zhimin coughed a few times and slapped the case, "...... I haven't been to Shanghai in years, and I'd love to see if the 'Chinese and dogs are not allowed' sign at the entrance of the Concession Park is still there...... Of course, this time you have to step in as a liberator! ”

He looked around the room and announced, "...... Now the vote will begin, and those who agree to fight Shanghai with the international column, please raise your hand! ”

- As expected, after a very brief hesitation, everyone raised their right hands in the air.

“…… Very good, the resolution passed! Fang Zhimin nodded with satisfaction, "...... However, before attacking Shanghai and waging a decisive battle against the reactionary Shili of the imperialist powers, it is necessary for us to take another place and rescue the arrested comrades who are being imprisoned there......"

He picked up a red pencil and drew a circle on the map, "...... Tomorrow morning, we will cross Tianmu Mountain and advance into Jiangsu Province! (To be continued......)