The lake was the weakest link of the defenders, and it was only natural that the Red Army chose this place to fight, even the defenders themselves knew that they could not stop the Red Army from going ashore from the lake by boat under the cover of artillery fire.

In fact, the Red Army did not rely on the artillery and heavy machine guns equipped with gunboats and patrol boats to fire, anyway, the defenders had no planes and no heavy artillery, so they bullied each other in a brazen manner, modified the troop carriers, and turned several troop carriers into artillery positions.

A few troop carriers were several artillery positions, and artillery and mortars of various calibers on the "positions" together sent powerful shells into the ranks of the defenders.

The battle was as expected by the commanders of both sides, and after only fifteen minutes of shelling, the defenders collapsed, and the hapless defenders on the lakeside positions either died or fled.

Just as the artillery fire from the warships in the lake extended to Yueyangcheng, the artillery on land also began to bombard, and its shells were connected with the shells on the warships on the lake, forming a fire network that formed a full coverage of Yueyangcheng.

The poor defenders were powerless at all, and a few minutes later, the commander of the Hunan division of the defending army sent a telegram shouting surrender and begging the Red Army to stop the shelling.

At this point, in less than thirty minutes, the huge Yue-Yang City easily fell into the hands of the Red Army.

With the change of hands of Yue-Yang, the gate of the north gate of the Hunan army was completely opened, and the head of the Hunan army, He Jian, was terrified and at the same time repeatedly issued to the defenders of Changde, an important town in the northwest of Hu-Nan, to strengthen the construction of city fortifications and strengthen the defense of the banks of Yuanshui......

However, it is not only Yue-Yang and Chang-De that are on fire in Hunan-Nan. Soon, He Jian received reports from Heng-Yang, Shao-Yang and other southern cities: tens of thousands of Red Army troops were killed from Jiangxi, and they were unstoppable!

It wasn't until this that He Jian understood that the Red Army was going to make dumplings for the Hunan Army, and it was to take down the politics and law from him, the most ferocious warlord leader of the ** Party, and avenge the innocent dead and wounded masses!

Thinking that he had personally ordered the killing of Mao Rundong's wife and excavated the ancestral grave of the Mao family, He Jian, who had been complacent before, was drenched in cold sweat at this time, and he knew that there were only two roads in front of him, one was to run immediately, run to an unknown place to hide, or take refuge in the forces that the Red Army could not attack for the time being. The second is to wait for the Red Army to come and be shot or killed by them after being captured.

Of course, he could not just sit idly by, but he did not have the courage to fight to the end; on the one hand, he hyped up to the outside world that he did not share the sky with the Communist Party and wanted to fight a bloody battle with the Communist Army to the end, and on the other hand, he secretly rescued Yan Xishan and others in Nanjing and Jiang Jiashi, who was far away in Hong Kong, for help.

As everyone knows, the current Yan Xishan and Jiang Jiashi are in a state of anxiety, although they will soon call back, but the content of their call is almost identical, just like the two are plagiarized from each other, the tone of the message is the same, that is, the shape of the whole China depends on you General He Jian, if you can't block the Red Army, China will be fully **, and China will enter the abyss of suffering.

You, He Jian, must put the party and the state first, must swear to block the Red Army, and must wipe out all the Red Army that has entered the territory of Hunan. The party-state believes in you, we trust you very much, as long as you block the Red Army this time, we will immediately let you occupy more territory and will give you greater support. Now we will do everything to help you, and we will immediately organize troops to give you food and ammunition.

Brother, you must resist it!

He Jian read the telegram they replied, and knew that the general trend had gone, and they were all guys who paid lip service but did not come to the truth, shouting fiercely in their mouths, but in fact there was no help from any real surname.

Needless to say, Jiang Jiaoshi himself has become a prince, and I am afraid he doesn't know how many soldiers and horses his subordinates can control. This time, the Red Army unknowingly came out of Yichang, and the Central Army stationed in Yichang was either completely annihilated or all defected to the Red Army.

This not only shows that Jiang Jiaoshi's control of the troops has been greatly reduced, but also shows that Jiang Jieshi's control of his subordinate troops is far less powerful than what he himself advertises and others think. At this stage, it is better to count on Jiang Jiashi to help, than to expect to be a neighbor with him after escaping to Hong Kong, and to have a cup of tea with him when he is bored.

He Jian didn't know about the situation in Yan Xishan, and this Yan Laoxi was just happy for a few days. I thought that sitting on the presidential throne would be able to call the wind and rain, and I thought that I could overlook all living beings in the world, but who knew that what was waiting for him was not all people's admiration and stammering, but more asking him for money, money, guns and cannons...... and asking him to fulfill the promises he made to other warlords before he came to power.

If these are not enough to make him regret and entangle, after all, as long as he sits in this position, others will just scold and scold, and they will not dare to scold in front of him, and his promise can be slowly fulfilled, or the east wall can be torn down to make up the west wall, or the greedy people can draw a bigger picture, and they will be coaxed for a while.

However, the attack of the Red Army was not subject to his will, and could not be solved by burying the ostrich in the sand and ignoring it.

He Jian's estimate was right, Yan Xishan is really difficult to protect itself now, because when Lin Zong's First Army and Chen Yi's and Su Yu's garrisons surrounded He Jian's Hunan army in Hu-Nan, the Second Army led by Peng De-Huai also set out from Yi-Chang to kill He-Nan and went straight to the heart of Yan-Xishan.

Henan-Nan is the core of the Central Plains in people's minds, and people often say that "those who win the Central Plains win the world" and "chase the Central Plains", once Peng De-Huai's troops gain a foothold in Henan-Nan, Yan-Xishan's Nan-Jing political axe will greatly lose points in the political zhì, and his righteous surname in the world will be greatly discounted.

Even if these political things are put aside, in terms of military significance alone, Peng Dehuai's troops are enough to make Yan Xishan and Zhang Xueliang tremble with fright: because He-Nan and the surrounding provinces of He-Nan are their old nests and the foundation of their army, as long as He-Nan is lost, the places where Shan-Xi, Shaanxi-Xi, He-Bei, and so on they have been operating for many years will be completely cut off from Nan-Beijing, and they will become a source without water and a tree without roots.

Now they are only thinking about how to hold He-Nan, and they must not let He-Nan fall into the hands of the Red Army. What's more, in this change of dynasty, He Jian's expression disappointed President Yan Xishan too much, this guy relied on his own army, and actually played the trick of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, waiting for Jiang Jiaoshi and him Yan Xishan to decide to take refuge in the end.

Thinking of He Jian's words before that he was neither yin nor yang, Yan Xishan was angry: "Hmph! Don't you He Jian like to ride the wall and wait for the final result? Then you just wait! ”

When Chen Yi and Su Yu's troops took Heng-Yang after a fierce battle, He Jian finally determined that the power he had had reached the end of the day, looking at the panicked subordinates, looking at the citizens on the street who were secretly happy to wait for the arrival of the Red Army, he soon revealed the true colors of a strong man with a broken wrist that only a hero can have, and ordered the whole country to say that he was abandoned by Yan Xishan's political axe, and Yan Xishan and others were simply local warlords, who did things for the purpose of their own small circle, excluded dissidents and won over cronies, and ignored the Hunan army's pleas for help. In order to prevent his hometown from suffering from the flames of war, in order to prevent the death of innocent people, and in order to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Hunan troops, he decided to let all Hunan troops surrender to the Red Army and hand over the entire Hunan Army to the Red Army.

The only requirement was for him to take part of his family property and be willing to follow his subordinates to Hong Kong as an apartment.

I have to say that this guy still has courage and dares to take risks, he is not afraid that the Red Army will let the bereaved families of those martyrs trample him to death after being caught?

Mao Rundong, who was eloquent and strategic, did not care about personal grievances, and he immediately replied to He Jian's request, and at the same time personally issued an order to release him and announced it to the world, saying that no matter which warlord he surrendered, as long as he promised not to be an enemy of the people in the future, the Red Army would pardon his past crimes and be willing to send him abroad.

With He Jian's separation, the Red Army soldiers occupied the southern town of Chang-Sha without blood!

In fact, He Jian also had to go, because after the Red Army took Yueyang, Changsha-Sha, which was located on the edge of the Xiangjiang River, was actually almost undefended against the Red Army, and it only took a few hours for the warships to go from Yueyang to Changsha on the Xiangjiang River, and the defenders of Changsha were similar to the defenders of Yueyang, they were all more important than land defense and neglected waterway defense, although after the loss of Yueyang, the Changsha-Sha defenders strengthened both sides of the Xiangjiang River for a certain extent, repaired some fortifications and scuttled a lot of looted civilian ships to block the river. But in the face of the fierce firepower of the Red - warships, they still felt that their strength was insufficient.

Moreover, the defense of the river will inevitably greatly weaken the defensive force on land, and the division of troops on the two lines will make the defense of Changsha even more clumsy, and the defenders will not be at ease except for a certain grasp of the position on the Yuelu Mountain.

Both He Jian, the head of the Hunan army, and the officers under him knew that it was only a matter of time before Changsha changed hands, and it was really better to hand it over before it changed hands in exchange for a little benefit for themselves. This time, there were many high-ranking generals who accompanied He Jian, the ** of the local political axe, and those who knew that their hands were stained with the blood of revolutionary martyrs, as well as some big landlords and wealthy businessmen.

With the change of hands of Changsha, Hunan was completely defeated, and the military strength and political strength of the Red Army suddenly increased, and its weight increased even more in the comparison of various forces in the country.

Yan Xishan's Nanjing-Zheng axe was even more panicked, and some people began to openly ask Yan Xishan and others why they allowed the Hunan army to be surrounded by the Red Army, why they didn't send troops to rescue them, and whether they only trusted their own lineage like Jiang Jieshi, and carried out merciless blows on the miscellaneous troops......

The thorn that He Jian planted before he left began to work.

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