Moreover, it is far better to fight in Hefei, which is not yet a developed city, than to fight in Nanjing, so that even if Hefei is destroyed, it is better than abolishing Nanjing. In any case, Nanjing is the capital of the country after all, whether it is the buildings or the schools in the city, everything is much more important than Hefei, and there are many big people in Nanjing, and a few of them can affect a large area.

Therefore, Guo Zhuocheng was happy to see Yan Xishan send a large number of troops to Hefei, and hoped that the more they came, the better.

Obviously, the central leaders of Chongqing also saw this situation, and immediately sent a telegram to Guo Zhuocheng, asking him to be patient for the time being, not to rush into battle, and it was best to wait for Lin Zong's first army to occupy Wuhan and Han before attacking, so that Lin Zong's first army could directly kill Nanjing, which was relatively empty of troops, so that the war would end one day earlier.

According to this plan, General Lin will definitely be the first commander to enter Nanjing, and Guo Zhuocheng and President Peng will probably not even be able to enter Nanjing-Kyoto, but will directly recover other places and accept the surrender of the armed forces in other places. If they had fought with the Japanese devils in Shandong-Dong, they would have not almost made it to Nan-Beijing to show up for the founding ceremony, and they would have directly thrown themselves into the battlefield of resistance against Japan.

Of course, Guo Zhuocheng is eager to be like this, he did not have much expectation for whether he was the first to enter Nanjing, and he did not want to fight for this glory, his biggest hope after crossing was to resist Japan, that is, to beat the Japanese devils down. Take a good look at the resentment in your heart.

In his heart. In fact, I hope to be the first to attack Nan-Beijing. Because Mr. Peng is a very pure person, he only likes to fight, not politics, and Mr. Peng's status is actually higher than that of Mr. Lin, just because he commands an army after the reorganization, and it is the second army, so when I think about it, his status is a little inferior to Mr. Lin. This is somewhat unfair to Mr. Peng, but he has no opinion at all. Instead, he happily took office and became the commander of the army.

Guo Zhuocheng really wants to make up for this shortcoming, and also wants Mr. Peng to be more smooth sailing in the future. However, now he has led his troops to attack Zhengzhou, Taiyuan, Suiyuan, and even Beiping, Tianjin, which are all very important strategic points, and it is necessary not only to occupy them as much as possible, but also to guard against Japanese devils from killing them from the north.

Although the high-level leaders of Chongqing planned to give the Japanese devils a hard time in Jinan, so that the anti-Japanese battlefield would be mainly concentrated on the Shandong Peninsula. But the Japanese devils are Japanese devils, and they may not listen to the command of the Red Army. If they really want to kill them in the direction of Beiping and Tianjin, the Red Army cannot let them wreak havoc. They must be blocked in the direction of Beiping and Tianjin.

It can be said that the burden on Mr. Peng's shoulders is heavier than anyone else's, and he is definitely indispensable there.

On the contrary, General Lin and the First Army led by him may become the strategic reserve of the entire Red Army, and where there is a tight situation, he and his troops will appear.

In this way, the significance of Lin Zong's capture of Nanjing is greatly reduced, after all, the merits of the civil war in China are far less great than the defense against foreign invasion.

On the afternoon of October 29, 1936, the First Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the Central Soviet Garrison Corps, under the command of Lin Zong and Chen Yi, occupied the important town of Wu-Han in the south of the Yangtze River!

As soon as the battle ended, under the command of General Lin, the First Army began to advance rapidly towards Nan-Beijing by boat or truck, while Chen Yi led a part of the troops to continue to clean up the battlefield in Wu-Han and clean up the remnants of the enemy, while another part of the troops under the leadership of Su Yu followed behind the First Army and also killed Nan-Beijing.

Lin Zong's and Su-Yu's troops scared the Nanjing government to the core, they didn't expect that Lin Zong's army was also so sharp, and they couldn't stop it, and the annihilation of the Hunan army was not that He Jian was not strong, nor that the Hunan army's combat effectiveness was not strong, it was simply that Lin Zong's troops were too powerful.

It was only at this time that someone reminded Yan Xishan and Zhang Xueliang: General Lin led the First Army, while Guo Zhuocheng led only the Third Army, and the First Army was at the front, so how could its combat effectiveness be weaker than the Third Army, which ranked third?

Although this news was known before, but no one paid attention to it before, and even felt ridiculous and naïve for some people to use the serial number of the unit to compare combat effectiveness, very naïve, the reason why Guo Zhuocheng led the Third Army is because he is young and has little qualifications, no matter which unit or force has to talk about seniority, although Guo Zhuocheng has great military achievements, but Mr. Lin and Mr. Peng should still be ahead of him. However, now that someone has reminded them like this, Yan Xishan and others feel that the First Army is definitely stronger than the Third Army, and the Red Army is too cunning to publicize Guo Zhuocheng so badly, in fact, Lin Zong's troops are the best.

Thinking of this, Yan Xishan and the others immediately panicked, and their radio station almost non-stop issued a telegram to the troops around Nanjing, ordering them to go to Nanjing as quickly as possible to set up defenses, and at the same time ordering the troops west of Nanjing to do their best to block and kill the Red Army going to Nanjing along the way.

Even Feng Yuxiang's subordinates, who were building a position in Hefei and preparing to fight to the death with Guo Zhuocheng's Third Army, received a telegram from Yan Xishan himself: The strength of the First Army of the Communists was too strong, and Nanjing was in danger, and the brothers were expected to come to protect them immediately.

Feng Yuxiang raised the telegram in his hand and scolded angrily: "Protection? Protect you Yan Laoxi? You old thing is frightened, how can Guo Zhuocheng's troops be better than the first army of the communists and bandits, people are simply elusive, if it weren't for Guo Zhuocheng's troops whose combat effectiveness is too strong, Fu Zuoyi would have taken the initiative to revolt? Will he surrender to Guo Zhuocheng? It's because he knows he can't beat it at all.

Besides, since ancient times, how can two armies retreat before the battle? Do you think it's just a battalion and a regiment, how can hundreds of thousands of people run? As soon as I ran like this, Guo Zhuocheng and his troops still didn't spread their feet and chase after him? If my troops don't run, they may be able to resist for a while, and if they run, they will herd sheep, and then they won't need Guo Shucheng's troops to fight, and they will kill each other just to get the way. ”

However, it was useless for Feng Yuxiang to complain, because Nanjing was too critical.

Lin Zong's First Army not only killed Nanjing from the land, but also had warships, gunboats, and large transport ships in his hands, and what made Yan Xishan, Zhang Xueliang and others speechless the most was that those warships, gunboats, and transport ships were equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns, and some even installed anti-aircraft guns, so they were not afraid of planes in the sky at all.

You must know that the performance of Chinese aircraft in this era is not very good, although they can fly above the fire height of anti-aircraft machine guns, but no matter how high they are, they are not as high as the anti-aircraft guns from that time and space in 1993. What's more, once the flight altitude of the aircraft exceeds the firing height of the anti-aircraft machine gun, its bombing and ground firing will be nonsense. The planes of this era did not have any sophisticated sights, there were no advanced bomb throwing and aiming equipment, almost all of them relied on the pilot's eyesight to visually inspect, and relied on the pilot's experience to carry out, and they could still play a lot of roles when they flew low, once they flew too high, the houses below became ants when the sun was shining, and the soldiers on the ground could not see them at all, and those rivers were just thin bands of twists and turns, and the warships in the rivers might be able to find them by luck, but to aim at them, they could only invite the gods to come.

Therefore, these warships are not threatened from the air at all, and the Red Army on the warships even provides air cover for the troops on land, after all, if the army wants to carry anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, the speed is much slower, unless it is dragged by large trucks.

However, the troops of the Nanjing government may not be able to fight a war, and their ability to dig roads is still good, not only digging themselves, but also forcing the common people to dig with guns, and all the roads leading to Nanjing in the west of Nanjing are full of holes, and the trucks can be said to be unable to move an inch, so they can only wait for the sappers to repair a section, clear a section of mines, and then advance a section, so that the trucks are much slower than the infantry. In particular, in the area where the bridge was bombed, although the engineering unit brought a lot of bridge-building equipment, it still took a lot of time.

In fact, the warships heading to Nanjing were not all smooth sailing, although they did not pose an air threat, and there were few ground threats, and when they encountered ordinary coastal fortifications, the defenders in those fortifications spread their feet and fled violently, because the firepower of the Red Army was too fierce for them to stop.

The biggest obstacle to the warships was the shipwreck in the Yangtze River and the mines that came from Nanjing. Although the number of mines was not large, and the power was quite large, it still caused the officers and men on the warship to break out in a few cold sweats, and they could only clear the underwater wreckage while clearing the mines before moving forward.

Even so, General Lin's First Army still advanced with unstoppable momentum, approaching Nanjing step by step by land and water. Although the defenders strictly ordered the people in the city not to flee, there were still many wealthy families and gentry families who began to run out of the city.

Seeing that Lin Zong's troops were about to approach Nanjing, and Feng Yuxiang's determination to hold on to Hefei began to waver, and he was ready to withdraw to Nanjing at any time, Guo Zhuocheng immediately ordered an attack.

Almost identically, Guo Zhuocheng's troops' attack also began with dense artillery, shells of various calibers fell into the defenders' positions like hail, those makeshift fortifications collapsed under the bombardment of artillery shells, and many officers and men were buried in them before they had time to escape, some were torn to pieces by shrapnel, some were swept into the air by the air wave of the explosion, and some were buried alive under the soil and their lives and deaths are unknown.

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