It can be said that after the improvement of China's aviation industry, many C-47 transport planes only have the shape of the original aircraft, and their interior has been changed beyond recognition, and their performance is much better than the original.

This is not only the case with the C-47 twin-engine medium-sized transport aircraft, but also with other aircraft, warships, weapons and equipment, that is, the paratroopers' parachute bags, food, clothing, weapons, etc., are different from the paratroopers of World War II and are closer to modern paratroopers.

Now Guo Zhuocheng has been equipped with C-47 twin-engine medium-sized transport planes four years ahead of the United States itself, and its technology is more mature and its performance is more stable.

Although the Chinese paratroopers were not very skilled in parachuting and were still relatively unfamiliar with each other, Sun Xingguo believed that they were sufficient to cope with the task of capturing Xuzhou. Because many of these paratroopers are Red Army soldiers, they have strong personal combat effectiveness before joining the paratroopers, and they have very rich combat experience, maybe they can't do anything when gliding and landing in the air, once they cut the landing rope on the ground, once they become free land warriors, they will immediately become a tiger, and will automatically lead other soldiers who have not gone through the battle to become iron warriors.

Of course, the reason why Sun Xingguo sought war was not to make war exploits. It doesn't matter to him about his military exploits, he has made too many military exploits, and it can be said that except for Guo Zhuocheng, he has the most military exploits. His purpose was to equip the paratroopers with actual combat experience, and to face the more severe battles in the future, they had to face the armies of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Germany in addition to Japan, and they had to be tempered by actual combat.

Now the training of these paratroopers is carried out according to book materials, and the improvement in performance begins very quickly. But the more you get there, the slower the progress becomes. Only let them go to the battlefield to try. Let them go to Xuzhou to fight the enemy. In this way, we can not only temper the troops and improve their actual combat capability, but also sum up experience and draw lessons, which will be conducive to the formation of paratroopers in the future.

Peng Huading was not very willing for the paratroopers to go into battle now, just as he didn't want the air force and tank units to go into battle, he hoped that both the air force and the armored forces would be used on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and now their task was to train and train. As soon as the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out, these mighty troops would be able to give the Japanese devils a dismount as soon as possible.

But when I think of an ugly daughter-in-law, I always have to see my in-laws. I thought that if the troops did not engage in actual combat, they might not be able to exert their combat effectiveness on the battlefield of resistance against Japan in the future. In particular, paratroopers, this special new type of troops, even in the time and space of 1993, China did not have its actual combat experience, and China has never used paratroopers, and the combat experience of the two time and space is zero, so it is better to let them try it now and accumulate actual combat experience for the two time and space.

So, Guo Zhuocheng agreed. At the same time, Sun Xingguo was also ordered to send a part of the special combat team to participate in the paratrooper surrender operation. Fight with the paratroopers.

After Chongqing's request for the use of paratroopers was approved, Sun Xingguo returned to Sichuanda Prefecture in a small fighter. began to be responsible for directing the paratrooper attack on Xuzhou.

Just when Guo Zhuocheng was about to send troops to cut off the road for Yan-Xishan and Zhang-Xueliang to flee north, the First Army and the garrison of the Central Soviet Region led by Lin Zong and Su Yu had already approached Nanjing-Beijing and encircled Nan-Beijing on three sides, leaving only the road to flee north.

Although the large army of the Red Army had not yet come, and it was only the vanguard that came, its posture was already terrifying enough, and the defenders of Nanjing did not dare to make any big moves at all, and they all slipped into Nanjing faster than loaches.

They also knew that it would be difficult to stop the Red Army's attack by relying on the city defense of Nanjing alone, otherwise Ganzhou-Zhou would not have been lost so quickly, Chong-Qing would not have changed hands so quickly, and Xinyang and Hehe-Fei would have been wiped out so quickly, but it is better to have a city defense than no city defense, and the safety factor must be much greater.

However, they are also terrified when they hide in the city, but they are the cronies of Yan Xishan and Zhang Xueliang, and they are determined to defend their two masters, not to mention that now Yan Xishan and Zhang Xueliang are the most powerful officials in China, and they can now be said to be important ministers of the country.

The Red Army did not immediately attack, they only kept a guard against the defenders in the southern capital, but overhauled the fortifications outside the city, built artillery positions, and fired several shells into the city at the same time, but the bullets were not loaded with shrapnel and explosives for killing, but loaded with propaganda leaflets, the title of which was "The Military and Civilian Book of the Southern and Beijing Cities."

Its content is to truthfully describe the situation on the periphery, recount the achievements of the Red Army during this period of time, praise the good deeds of General Fu Zuoyi and General Feng Yuxiang, and ask the soldiers and people in the city to recognize the situation and not to engage in useless disputes, and the result of desperate resistance will not only be in vain, but will also cause them to lose their precious lives and leave a bad reputation.

The leaflet also urged Yan Xishan and Zhang Xueliang to make a decision, persuading them to conform to the will of the people and maintain a little vitality for the Chinese nation as much as possible, hoping that they would follow the example of Fu Zuoyi and Feng Yuxiang, put aside their past prejudices, and contribute their strength to the construction of a powerful new China.

In addition to the propaganda leaflets on the surface, Mao Rundong, who was far away in Chongqing, personally sent a telegram to Yan Xishan and Zhang Xueliang, in which Mao Rundong did not regard himself as a victor or emphasize the strength of the Red Army at present, but recounted in a very positive tone the contributions made by Yan Xishan to the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty government, affirmed the practical things that Yan Xishan had done for the ordinary people in Shanxi, affirmed the achievements in the construction of Shanxi, and hoped that General Yan Xishan would make more and greater contributions in the construction of New China in the future.

As for Zhang Xueliang, although Mao Rundong pointed out that he abandoned the Northeast without firing a shot, although there are such and such reasons, this is a stain on his life that he cannot erase or remove. However, Mao Rundong praised Zhang Xueliang for resolutely giving up independence on December 29, 1928, despite the obstruction of the Japanese devils and the danger of himself and his family, and resolutely announced that Northeast China would implement a change of banner, abide by the Three People's Principles, obey the Nationalist Government, and realize the reunification of the motherland.

In the telegram, Mao Rundong hoped that General Zhang Xueliang would once again make the right choice this time, stand together with the broad masses of the people and the people of the whole country, and lead the troops back to the Northeast in the future to defeat the Japanese devils, not only to avenge his father's death by the Japanese devils, but also to wash away the shame of abandoning the Northeast, and to become a national hero because of the defeat of the Japanese devils.

Obviously, in this telegram, Mao Rundong made arrangements for the future of Yan Xishan and Zhang Xueliang: first of all, they will not become prisoners because of this, they will also hold official positions in the new government, but Yan Xishan will retire from the military and will be in charge of the country's economic construction, while General Zhang Xueliang will continue to command the army.

The two sat in their offices with the telegram in their hands, relatively speechless. Zhang Xue's conscience is better than Yan Xishan, after all, he is young, and his ambition for power is not very big, he has been tempered in the past when he was able to give up the King of the Northeast and commit himself to Jiang Yaoshi's command, so it is nothing for him to lower his status again.

Although he is now the vice president and the nominal commander-in-chief of the country, in fact the territory they control is too small, only a few provinces, not much different from the previous four northeastern provinces. And he, the general marshal, is even more vain, and it is still the Northeast Army that can really command, and Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army does not obey his command at all, and his orders to the Northwest Army must be approved by Feng Yuxiang before they can be executed.

And Yan Xishan's Jin army can't command it, they regard themselves as the Imperial Forest Army, they think they are the cronies of President Yan Xishan, and they can't even disobey Zhang Xueliang's orders, and Yan Xishan not only acquiesced in this matter, but also extended his hand to the Northeast Army, and the Northeast Army can't oppose it clearly, who calls someone the president.

So now he has no psychological obstacles to giving up the vice president, the commander-in-chief of the country.

But Yan Xishan is different, he has been choosing to wait and see all his life, this time he finally seized the opportunity to sit on the presidential throne, finally enjoyed the supreme glory, and finally became the first person in China, just like the emperors of the past, where is he willing to give up? If you really want to surrender to the Red Army and give up the throne of the president, it is better not to go out of the mountain at that time, it is better to continue to be your own soil emperor in the mountain-west, and to eat and drink spicy food among the major forces, how safe and worry-free is it? If he hadn't united with Zhang Xueliang and Feng Yuxiang to attack Jiang Jiaoshi, maybe Jiang Jiashi and the Red Army would still be fighting, and he would still be at ease in Shanxi.

However, there is no regret medicine to take in this world, and Yan Xishan has no way to turn back time even if he regrets his intestines: "What should I do?" ”

The two of them sat in the office hardly talking much, just sitting in silence. It wasn't until an hour later, when a steady stream of people came to report on their work, that they had to interrupt this ineffective sit-in, and they had to deal with the troublesome and doomed military and political affairs.

It was late at night.

Zhang Xueliang stretched out in pain, rubbed his tired eyes, and prepared to go back to his official residence to rest and sleep under the persuasion of the staff officers.

As soon as he got into the car, before the car started, a senior staff officer who stayed in the war room hurriedly chased after him.

Zhang Xue's conscience moved, and he hurriedly ordered the driver to stop. He didn't let the senior staff officer report, nor did he pick up the telegram in his hand, but said directly: "Get in the car!" ”

When the senior staff officer got into the car, Zhang Xueliang said: "Anyway, the sky is falling, what else is there to panic about?" ......, is there something going on in the north? ”

Although he forced his composure, his words remained dry.

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