Chapter 252 Candle Dragon - The Second Stage (Part 2)
Looking at the retreating figure of the Eighth Route Army, an officer asked, "Commander, are you going to let them go like this?"
Zhang Guangbei threw the riding whip to the guard next to him and said, "What else do you want to do if you don't let them go? The Japs are hundreds of miles away. Do we need to fight to give the Japs an advantage? But have you noticed that their equipment
And the military appearance is not bad! Although there is still some gap with us, it is not reckless. Chief Yan is indeed right. If this continues, the power of the Red Party will indeed be too strong."
The adjutant smiled and said, "Why should you worry, regiment? I think the Red Party is nothing more than that. They are just taking advantage of the night attack. Look, aren't they being chased by the Japanese army and running all over the mountains and plains?"
Zhang Guangbei shook his head and said, "You only saw one side. We also retreated from Songhu, but how did we retreat? Even Commander Xue was forced to fall into the water. The people in front blew up the bridge behind and planted landmines on the road."
There are countless things going on, but what about the Red Party? They retreated in an orderly manner. Listen, the people behind are still firing, and I heard it. This is a shot every ten minutes, which means there is nothing going on behind.
"
The adjutant asked curiously, "Wait a minute, isn't this telling the Japanese troops their direction?"
Zhang Guangbei snorted and said, "That's why I said don't underestimate them. They are not fleeing, they are luring the enemy! They are also afraid that the Japanese will not know where they are! The Japanese are also helpless. If they don't chase them, how can they fight with the top?"
Explain? Chasing, who knows what lies ahead, this is a conspiracy. In a war, the most fearful thing is such a conspiracy! Let’s go back and watch the show. It won’t be long before the Japanese army will definitely suffer again.”
--Xinjiang
The real ruler of Xinjiang at this time was Sheng Shicai, who was born in Liaoning. He was born in 1895 and was only 44 years old, but he had already mastered Xinjiang for five years. In 1930, he entered Xinjiang and served as the chief tactical instructor of the military academy. He served for two years.
Years later, he served as the commander-in-chief of the East Road Bandit Suppression and won many battles. He succeeded in the "April 12" Incident in Xinjiang in 1933 and became the Superintendent of Xinjiang and the King of Xinjiang.
But Xinjiang was isolated outside the fortress, with the Soviet Union watching and the British watching, and the central government was beyond its reach. At that time, in addition to Sheng Shicai's troops, there were two forces in Xinjiang, Ma Zhongying, Ma Bufang's cousin, who occupied northern Xinjiang, and Zhang Peiyuan, who occupied Ili.
Sheng Shicai also wanted to be the king of Xinjiang and did not want to be controlled by the Nationalist Government, so he turned to the Soviet Union, which was just around the corner. For the Soviet Union, a pro-Soviet Xinjiang government guaranteed a 3,000-kilometer border.
An important prerequisite for tranquility, the two hit it off. The Soviet Union not only provided Sheng Shicai with a large amount of military equipment, personnel and supplies, but also during the battle between Sheng Shicai and Zhang, Zhang entered Xinjiang to fight. General Ma Shenggui of the Ma Jiajun was even captured by the Soviet Union.
People kill.
With the help of the Soviet Union, Xinjiang's economy has achieved some development and recovery, but there were also forces from other Western countries in Xinjiang at that time, such as the United Kingdom, which instigated Mullah Shabiti and Yimin to establish a "republic" in Kashgar in November 1933.
, declared the republic a "Permanent Democratic Republic". In order to ensure the political power in Xinjiang, Sheng Shicai ordered all foreign banks and Catholic churches to be closed, and all foreigners to be deported. Except for the Soviets, almost all foreigners who came to Xinjiang were imprisoned.
Arrested. Seeing Sheng Shicai's behavior, the Soviet Union mistakenly thought that he was really devoted to the Red Party and Marxism-Leninism, and gave greater support to Sheng Shicai.
After the war between China and Japan, Sheng Shicai first asked to join the Chinese Red Party when Wang Ming returned to China at the end of 1937, and then secretly visited the Soviet Union in 1938 and joined the Soviet Red Party. Since a large amount of Soviet military supplies were shipped from Xinjiang, Sheng Shicai
Only then did they allow Soviet troops to station in Hami, firstly to protect supplies, and secondly to prevent any armed force, including the National Army, from entering Xinjiang.
At this time, a new language appeared in Xinjiang. This was a language that the people of Xinjiang had never heard before. It spoke very fast. Many of the people who spoke this language wore small hats, which made some people believe in green.
The teacher felt a little close to him, but when he looked carefully, he found that the hat was not the same as theirs. It was much smaller and could only cover a small part of the middle of the head.
Under the command of several yellow men who also spoke their language, these people took their luggage, got on the carriage, and walked out of the city. Today was the day for them to go to their final destination.
Sheng Shicai looked at the team passing by downstairs and said to Wang Ming next to him, "Your Red Party is really generous. I heard that a total of one or two hundred planes were used. There were twenty or thirty planes in Urumqi alone."
DC-3 keeps transporting people, what do you need so many foreigners for? Do they believe in Marxism-Leninism like us?"
How did Wang Ming know what was going on? He was still confused. After arriving in Xinjiang, everything was normal. But suddenly one day, Sheng Shicai came to him and said he had received a joint telegram from Berlin, London and Paris.
, I hope he will accept the workers who want to go to the United States through China.
Damn it. When did you go from Czechoslovakia to the United States by plane all the way through the war zone that was being fought to Hong Kong and then take a boat to the west coast of the United States? This is a naked conspiracy, but this is the alliance of the three major European powers.
Telegraph, it seems that the only ones who dare to directly reject the three major powers are the Soviet Union behind them and the United States, the destination of these workers.
But when Sheng Shicai saw the route of these workers, he immediately understood what was going on. He saw that all these workers were going to Yan'an to transfer. Yan'an? A small city with nothing good except the Red Party? Where to transfer? Sheng Shicai would not
If you understand that this is a conspiracy of the Chinese Red Party, you really don’t need to be the king of Xinjiang.
Sheng Shicai immediately found Wang Ming and Deng Fa, the people in charge of Xinjiang.
Deng Fa, like Xiang Ying, was one of the few leaders of the Red Party who truly came from the proletariat. When he was in charge of work in western Fujian, he vigorously carried out anti-revolutionary work and made many wrong decisions. Because of this, he has been criticized ever since.
, he turned to support Chairman Mao at the Zunyi Conference, and was later sent to study in the Soviet Union. After studying, he has been working in the Eighth Route Army Office in Xinjiang. It is worth mentioning that Deng Fa also served as the Security Bureau in Jinggangshan in the early days.
He is one of the founders of the Security Bureau.
Deng Fa knew the origin of this group of people, so he smiled and said to Sheng Shicai, "Chairman Sheng, these people are indeed the people we want in Yan'an. You should also know, right? Germany annexed the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
It's very chaotic. Many people have no jobs. As for us in Yan'an, we got a lot of mechanical equipment from Taiyuan in the previous battle. Now there are a lot of mechanical equipment that no one knows how to use. Isn't this a coincidence? Let's take care of it.
Some overseas Chinese were looking to see if they could find some people there, but they didn't expect that the German and Czechoslovak governments were very supportive of this matter. They were not only willing to help us transport these people, but also provided us with a lot of international help.
Really, even I couldn't think of it. Maybe they also want to perfectly solve the problems after the annexation. After all, the German government will not feel at ease if these people who oppose them are retained."
Sheng Shicai and Wang Ming both stared at Deng Fa who was telling lies. Wang Ming swallowed his saliva and asked, "Why don't I know? How many people are there?"
Deng Fa laughed and said, "Because we have family members, not many, only five or six thousand. No, in order to facilitate transportation, there will be fifty planes stationed in Urumqi and Yan'an, half from each place and one plane."
It can only transport 32 people, and twenty-five planes can carry 800 people. It will take about eight or nine days to transport. By then, these planes will fly back to Europe. We have to rely more on Chairman Sheng for airport support. But there will be more in the future.
If not, I wouldn’t know.”
Sheng Shicai's first reaction was that these people must not be workers or family members, but probably military personnel. But if it was military assistance from the Soviet Union, he should have known about it. Sheng Shicai, who didn't understand, was unwilling to discuss this issue.
After further investigation, since he knew that this was the person Yan'an wanted, he didn't care. At this time, in order to please the Soviet Union, he adhered to the principle of asking the Soviet Union for foreign affairs and Yan'an for internal affairs. As long as Yan'an said it did not interfere with his interests, he was
Everything was fine. Then I discussed some details about the airport with Deng Fa.
When the first plane from Afghanistan landed, Sheng Shicai saw women and children getting off the plane, and finally believed that they were really a group of workers and their families fleeing Germany.
Wang Ming only felt that his brain was not full. Why did Yan'an recruit so many foreign workers? These people are from capitalist countries. Do they have other motives? Does the Soviet Union know about their arrival?
Is it really possible for such international events not to go through the Soviet Union? No! This must be the person who wants to dilute the structure of our party through these people. Maybe these people will have a large number of Trotskyists! Yes, Trotskyists!
! Just after the Fourth International was established, so many foreigners entered Yan'an. It is impossible to say that there is no connection."
Just when Wang Ming was thinking about it, he didn't notice that a car suddenly appeared on his left side. The car rammed into Wang Ming's vehicle without hesitation. Wang Ming only felt a huge force coming from him.
, and immediately fainted. When Wang Ming woke up again, he found that four of his ribs were broken and he could only recuperate for a period of time. Wang Ming reluctantly put this matter aside for the time being and looked at the ceiling.
He lay in the hospital with peace of mind. This time, he no longer had to pretend to be sick.
——Luliang Mountain
Mr. Zhu watched several blue lines continuously encircling the red line representing the Eighth Route Army. He nodded and asked, "I'm afraid Taiyuan City is already preparing for a celebration drink."
Zuo Quan smiled and said, "Under our leadership, the Japanese army has reached Xinzhou in the north and Huozhou in the south. Looking at this speed, it will take about a week to reach Xiaoyi's generation in Fenyang. This is also the last place we selected.
battlefield."
Boss Zhu gestured and said, "Where are the main forces?"
Zuo Quan said, "Lin Sanhu's 115th Division is now on the line of Laiyuan, Lingqiu and Pingxingguan, where he is familiar with the terrain. The 120th Division is deployed in Ningwu County. The 129th Division is on the line of Niangziguan and Jingxing. The Shanxi New Army is now on the line of Dongyangguan and Hongtiguan.
, since the front line of Zhongtiao Mountain in Jiyuan in the south is still in the hands of the National Army, we have not deployed troops there."
Boss Zhu looked at Jiang Cheng and asked, "Are you ready over there?"
Jiang Cheng had just received a telegram handed to him by Li Qian. He only saw the corners of his mouth slightly curved. Hearing Mr. Zhu's words, he quickly put the telegram into his arms. He waved to Li Qian, who immediately took out a telegram from behind.
Jiang Cheng opened the map and said, "I have stored a large number of mines and other defensive weapons and double-speed cement near several pass points. My people are guarding the storage points. There is nothing abnormal yet. As long as the pass is defeated,
, it only takes one day, these places can be turned into a simple fortress! In addition, in our preset battlefield, in order to ensure that we can survive the siege of the main force of 70,000 to 80,000 Japanese troops, I have also reserves here and here
A large amount of materials are needed to build simple fortifications. I have transported a large amount of cement and cloth bags in the past few days, which should be enough."
Mr. Zhu raised his head and asked, "Has Mr. Peng come down the mountain?"
Zuo Quan replied, "We have arrived at Yangjiazhuang. That will be our frontline command post."
Mr. Zhu put down his pen and said, "Mr. Peng is not easy. We only estimate that we have 150,000 troops here, and there are no main forces. Mr. Peng has to rely on these troops to hold on for half a month or even longer."
Li Kenong said, "In order to win, you always have to pay some price. The second stage is a bloody stage. Intelligence has reported that the devils have begun to massacre the people in our base area. Although under our militia organization, most of the
Some people fled up the mountain, but the people walked slowly after all. Most of the horses, donkeys and mules gave us support in the battle, and there were a lot of murders. As long as we get through it for half a month, it will be fine.
If we get through this, we Shanxi people will no longer have to bear the pain of humiliation by the Japanese invaders."
Mr. Zhu sighed, "We have to thank the people of Shanxi. An important prerequisite for us to be able to fight like this is that the main forces from outside can quickly come back for reinforcements. This is because the people used carts and horses to build a car for us that is better than the Japanese."
It’s a faster passage!!”
——Yangjiazhuang
Boss Peng sat down with a water glass and glanced around. The people here for the meeting were the commanders who were preparing to fight this difficult defensive battle - Xiao Jinguang, Huang Kecheng, Yang Zhicheng, Cao Lihuai and others.
Boss Peng said, "Where are the various troops? Have Xiaoyi and Fenyang been defeated? Have the local people moved away? When the war breaks out, it is better not to affect the people."
Xiao Jinguang replied, "They have been defeated, but rather than fighting, it is better to say that the Japanese and puppets have abandoned these two counties. All the Japanese and puppet personnel broke out in a group. It seems that the Japanese are also preparing to use this place as a battlefield."
The terrain here is a plain semi-surrounded by mountains. The Tongpu Railway is only forty or fifty miles away from us. However, we have only covered a little bit of the railway from Pingyao to Jiexiu in the city, and the railway from Qixian to Pingyao.
It has also been damaged by 50%. It will be good if the Japanese army can repair it to Qixian County within half a month. It is impossible to transport supplies to Jiexiu by railway. As for the roads, although we have tried our best to dig them out, the Japanese army wants to restore them.
It’s not difficult.”
Mr. Peng hummed, "Then let him recover. There really is no logistics at all, and the Japs don't dare to send the main force. Now there are still four or five days before the Japs come to reserve the battlefield. Our mission is to do our best during this period."
The area from Fenyang and Xiaoyi in the east to Nanyang Township and Yangjiazhuang in the west has been turned into a systematic military fortress. The supplies are at the points described on this paper. You will immediately distribute them to each team. Now
It's 9:50 in the morning. I require that within 48 hours, the fortifications will be initially formed and within 72 hours, the fortifications will be integrated into one. When the Japanese vanguard arrives, our fortifications must reach the predetermined target. Do you understand?"
Everyone stood up and shouted "Guaranteed to complete the task!"