Bai Chongxi said, "I have seen that Boling's plan is still feasible to a certain extent, but it is a bit risky. But now the Japanese army has concentrated hundreds of thousands of people in Changsha. It is difficult to win without taking risks. Although we are in Changsha,
A diversionary attack was launched in the Huaihe River Basin, but the effect was not obvious. I suggest supporting Boling’s combat plan."
Jiang Jie took a breath and said, "Since you think so, then go ahead and tell Xue Yue that this battle is related to the overall anti-Japanese strategy. If he wins, he will be the contemporary Yu Yunwen, a great hero. If he loses, it will not only be him."
, even I will be nailed in history and reviled by others!"
Bai Chongxi and others nodded in agreement and could not help but express their condolences to Xue Yue in Changsha.
After the news that the Eighth Route Army captured Lianyungang reached the Soviet Union, it caused a bloody storm within the Soviet Union.
--Moscow
The floor in Stalin's office was littered with books and antiques that Stalin used to vent his anger. A Russian matryoshka doll was smashed into powder, as if silently accusing something.
Beria knocked on the door and said, "Comrade Stalin, it's me, Beria."
Stalin smoked his pipe and said, "Come in."
Beria walked in, looked at the mess on the ground, and carefully avoided things on the ground. He walked up to Stalin and said, "Comrade Stalin, what happened?"
Stalin blew out a long puff of smoke, handed him a piece of intelligence and said, "Have you read this intelligence?"
Beria walked over and took a few glances, nodded and said, "This is information that our spies in Germany got by chance, but I don't think the credibility of this information is very high. Although the Chinese Red Party is developing rapidly, their troops are indeed
I don’t know where we received a large amount of weapons assistance, but this does not mean that there is a group in our party supporting the rise of the Chinese Red Party. Moreover, this information says that there are a large number of scientists in our party scientifically assisting the Chinese Red Party, and even
There is also a list. I think this is even more incredible. If nothing else, how can the Chinese Red Party have the ability to absorb our science and technology? And why does this list appear in Germany? I suspect this may be a conspiracy of Hitler.
.”
Stalin smiled and said, "Indeed, I didn't think it was credible when I saw it at first. Although the power of the Chinese Red Party has developed much faster than we expected, what do some people in our party want to do by supporting Yan'an? Let
Will it be easy for the Chinese Red Party to seize power after defeating the Soviet Union? Haha, a ridiculous idea, but I got another news today, which makes me think this information is probably true."
With that said, Stalin handed another piece of information that he had suppressed to Beria and said, "Look, the 115th Armed Division of the Chinese Red Party has just captured China's coastal port - Lianyungang. This port is guarded by Japanese warships.
, but before the war started, these battleships were wiped out by a mysterious fleet of battleships. You think...Whose fleet will this fleet belong to? Chongqing? Or Yan'an?"
Beria said in shock, "Is this impossible? Could it be that the Chinese Red Party used other means? This fleet... let's not talk about where the warships came from, let's talk about the personnel, let alone a day or two.
It can be trained."
Stalin squinted his eyes and said, "There are two possibilities. Apart from Japan, the only ones with fleet power in the Far East are France, Britain and us. It is impossible for Britain and France to help the Chinese Red Party, so it can only be our fleet, which means we
There is indeed a force within the party that is trying to support Yan'an and wants the Chinese Red Party to grow... Of course, this is actually consistent with our expectations, but judging from the performance of Yan'an in the past two years, they have
The understanding of redism has begun to go astray, and this deviation may be the result of that force - this force may have something to do with Trotskyism."
Trotskyist, those two simple words made Beria feel a chill down his back. In order to eliminate the Trotskyists in the past few years, countless people have died. Stalin looked like he was ready to raise the butcher knife again.
Stalin continued, "The second possibility is that the Chinese Red Party bought its own warships and trained its own crews. Which of these two possibilities do you think is greater?"
Beria's forehead was sweating. He knew clearly what the consequences would be if his answer was not what Stalin wanted.
Beria said excitedly, "I think the first possibility is more likely. Comrade Stalin, I think the Chinese Red Party is now hiding a large number of Trotskyists. In addition, the Trotskyists in our party are probably lurking, and
We are uniting with the Red Party abroad to conquer our indestructible Soviet Union from the outside. I propose that all suspicious persons be investigated, and at the same time send people to Yan'an to investigate and find out the true situation in Yan'an."
Stalin nodded with satisfaction and said, "The list we got last time must be verified first, and those who have betrayed the people must be dealt with the harshest blows. Yan'an is going. Germany and Britain and France have declared war. Although in the past few months,
We haven’t even opened fire, but it is a state of war after all, and Hitler will not tear up the peace agreement with us. We must make good use of this time to build our insides as hard as steel."
Beria retreated with the intelligence list, closed the door of Stalin's office, and let out a long breath. He returned to the office, checked the list first, and frowned. He found that some of them had actually already
After entering the concentration camp and performing heavy physical labor, he immediately returned to Stalin's office to report the news.
Stalin squinted his eyes and said, "This is even more terrifying. These people were gathered into concentration camps, but they kept spreading news to the outside world, and even reached out to China. What is this? This shows that there is not only a problem within our party,
There are problems even in our Ministry of Internal Affairs."
Beria was so frightened by Stalin's words that his glasses slipped and he did not dare to hold them up. He hurriedly said, "I will go back immediately to investigate and we will definitely eliminate these scum within the party."
Beria returned to his room in fear and hurriedly called his men. His face became ferocious and he said, "Now check all the people on these lists. They have been there since 1937.
What you have done, who you have come into contact with, what research you have done, and what you have said, you must check everything for me. In addition, thoroughly check the quantity of all supplies in the army to see if there are any abnormalities. I would rather kill the wrong one than let him go.
Pass!"
The great purge movement in the Soviet Union, which had already died down, started again due to the joint stimulation of a list given by Jiang Cheng to Chen Nan and the 115th Division's capture of Lianyungang. At the same time, Stalin sent his most trusted Malenkov to Xinjiang to prepare for the passage of
Xinjiang goes to Yan'an.
In fact, at this time, the road to Inner and Outer Mongolia had been opened, and the Soviet Union could have gone directly to Yan'an through Mongolia, but now it made a special detour to Xinjiang, naturally to understand something better.
——Huaian
"Commander, the losses are too great. If we continue fighting like this, our troops will be wiped out." Ye Fei ran into the headquarters with his helmet and said.
With that said, Ye Fei found a pot of water, drank it gurglingly, and after drinking it said, "There are rivers everywhere in Huai'an. The Japanese are guarding the bridges of every river. We have to fight for every river ditch repeatedly, so there is no way."
We have been fighting such a difficult battle for a week, and the morale of the soldiers has been exhausted due to the inability to attack for a long time."
Chen Yi frowned and cursed, "Is this unbearable? I don't think the morale of the soldiers has been depleted. It's you, the commander, who is really demoralized. If you can't do it, go down. You go and defend the retreat. I'll let the second
Master."
Ye Fei said anxiously, "It's not a matter of who is sent, Commander, the weather has cleared up now, the Japanese plane will be coming soon, and our disadvantage will be even more obvious by then. I suggest that we win Siyang and
Lianshui two counties are enough, and then concentrate our forces to attack Yancheng. Huai'an is the main channel of the canal. The Japanese army has been operating here for many days. It is really strong... We have lost three to four thousand people. I
Half of the first division has been destroyed!"
Chen Yi saw that Ye Fei, who had always been unafraid of death, had become like this. He knew that the battle on the front line was indeed extremely difficult. The canal was not cut off by the New Fourth Army. The Japanese army could use the canal to support Huai'an from Dezhou, Taierzhuang, Xuzhou and other places. Originally, according to the
The strategic plan is to cut off the Grand Canal by capturing Huai'an, but now it seems that even with less than 20,000 troops, there is no way to hold on to Huai'an.
After thinking about it, Chen Yi said, "The weather is indeed going to clear up. Let's postpone the attack and switch to defense...I'll send a message to Yan'an to ask."
Within twenty minutes, Chen Yi received a call back from Yan'an, which simply said: "The general is away, and military orders are not respected."
Chen Yi immediately understood that Chairman Mao was letting him make a judgment based on the actual situation. He said to Ye Fei who was waiting, "Give up the attack on Huai'an. You lead a division to repair here, and go to Hongze Lake and Gaoyou Lake to develop guerrillas."
At the base area, I will bring the Second Division to capture Jianhu and join the Fourth Division to keep in touch at all times."
Ye Fei nodded and said "Yes!"
On July 21, the 29th year of the Republic of China, the New Fourth Army captured Yancheng. Since then, the Red Party's anti-Japanese armed forces have controlled the vast area of northern Jiangsu that stretches from Lianyungang in the north, to Dongtai City in the south, to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the west, and to the sea in the east.
Two cities and sixteen counties, with an area of more than 20,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 5 million. The guerrilla zone expanded to Suqian, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Taizhou, Nantong and other places. The New Fourth Army established its first stable base behind enemy lines. This was
This laid the foundation for the subsequent great development of the New Fourth Army and the construction of enemy rear areas.
--Nanjing
"The New Fourth Army stopped attacking... We lost a quarter of Jiangsu." Nishio looked at the battle report and sighed and said, "The Red Party's armed forces are getting stronger and stronger. After the Changsha Battle, we must seize the time to defeat the Red Party."
The party’s base area has been raided once.”
Itagaki Seishiro nodded and said, "Yes, otherwise... I'm afraid that this northern Jiangsu will become the second Shanxi. Order Okamura Neji to increase the offensive, we must defeat Xue Yue as soon as possible, so that we can free up our hands to deal with the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army
!”
——Lianyungang
"Slow down, slow down! If this thing blows up, we will all be doomed." Wang Ling watched nervously as the sailors put one mine after another into the sea. Wang Ling turned around and asked, "What number is this?"
?How many more indicators do we have?"
The soldier was already a little bored and said, "This is the seventy-second one, sir. We still have four hundred and eighteen more. Do we really need to deploy these in three days?"
Wang Ling said angrily, "Nonsense, this is a dead order, bastard, I shouldn't have said more at that time that our ship was running fast, we could make more arrangements, God knew there would be so many, and we could only do it at night to keep it secret! What are you talking about?
, work!”
Jiang Cheng at the port looked at the piles of mines in the warehouse. He looked at the sea anxiously and said, "This is too slow. The weather has cleared up. The Japanese warships are coming soon. If we don't hurry up, I will
I’m really worried that we won’t be able to protect our port.”
Luo Ronghuan walked in and said with a smile, "203, are you worried about Bray? Look what I brought you?"
As he said this, a dozen fishermen with dark skin and somewhat ragged clothes appeared behind Luo Ronghuan, but it could be seen that they had taken good care of themselves.
Luo Ronghuan said, "These are our Lianyungang fishermen representatives. They know that we urgently need ships to mine mines, so they come to help us independently. I asked, there are hundreds of fishing boats of different sizes! These boats help together,
There should be enough time."
Jiang Cheng immediately felt that Luo Ronghuan's back was filled with Buddha's light. He smiled and said, "Okay, okay, this is really great. In fact, laying the mine is very simple. Just find a place and throw it in. I will immediately let each of my people
Follow a ship and lay all the mines as quickly as possible."
With that said, Jiang Cheng asked Li Qian to call the guards to help transport the thunder.
After Li Qian left, Luo Ronghuan waved to Jiang Cheng to come to the side to talk. Jiang Cheng walked over and asked, "What's wrong? What's the matter?"
Luo Ronghuan took a telegram and said, "This is Chairman Mao's telegram. It is meant for you to read alone. I haven't read it either. Just take it and read it slowly."
Jiang Cheng listened, and took the telegram to the side in a strange way to read it. The telegram said two things. The first one was that Chairman Mao believed that the northern Jiangsu base area should enter the production stage as soon as possible, and hoped that Jiang Cheng could transport some equipment and materials.
Give it to the New Fourth Army so that it can be self-sufficient and develop rapidly. The second thing is that someone from the Soviet Union is coming. Malenkov, one of Stalin's most trusted people, is expected to arrive in Yan'an at the end of July.
Jiang Cheng put away the telegram. It was not a big deal to provide supplies to the New Fourth Army, but someone from the Soviet Union was coming, and this person was Malenkov. This was interesting.
Malenkov was a Russian, less than forty years old at this time. He joined the war at the age of 16, but had never been on the battlefield. He was just a clerk. He joined the Red Party organization when he was 18 years old, and later studied at a senior technical school in Moscow.
Most of the students and teachers at that time supported Trotsky's views, but he insisted on Stalin's line, condemned the position of "Trotskyists", and reported to the central government that these people should be purged. During the Great Purge
, he took to the water like a duck to water. Not only did he become one of the main executioners of the Great Purge, but he also became the Minister of the Organization Department. It can be said that he is a villain through and through.
Jiang Cheng calculated the time and decided that he was not in a hurry to provide supplies to the New Fourth Army. He should go to Yan'an first to see the genius who invented the cadre file system.
After thinking about it, Jiang Cheng said to Luo Ronghuan, "Our base area in northern Jiangsu is under construction and there is nothing yet. I have to contribute to the construction of the base area. I will entrust the affairs here to the general. If you need anything, please contact me directly."
Just tell her to contact me."
Luo Ronghuan knew that Jiang Cheng was busy with work and did not dare to keep him, so he let Jiang Cheng leave after Li Qian came back. Naturally, Li Qian was reluctant to leave Jiang Cheng, but she was used to it, so she patted her ****,
After making a promise to Jiang Cheng, Jiang Cheng found a hidden place and activated the space-time ball.