If there is anything worthy of Liu Lang's idea in the first half of the 25th year of the Republic of China, it may be the Eastern Crusade launched by the Red Army as in time and space.

Before the New Year, the Red Army, which had arrived in northern Shaanxi and gained a firm foothold, held a meeting at Wayaobao and elected the supreme leader of its own military committee---- Taizu, who successfully led the Red Army to successfully complete the strategic shift. At the same time, the basic principles of the strategy of the Red Army were formulated: to combine the civil war with the national war, to prepare for war against Japan, and to expand the size of the troops.

Yes, the increasing frequency of the Japanese invasion of troops in the three northeastern provinces not only made the bald bosses in Nanjing feel tremendous pressure, but even the red troops in northern Shaanxi became more and more certain that a war between the whole of China and the Japanese invaders was inevitable.

If the skin does not have hair, will it be attached? At this time, it was obviously inappropriate to regard the Kuomintang led by the bald man as the biggest class enemy, and because of the difference of opinion, the two brothers had to drive away the robbers who broke in with knives and wanted to kill the whole family.

In order to develop and strengthen themselves, and to have enough strength to resist the Japanese army that was about to invade the north, the red troops, who had just gained a foothold, resolutely chose to cross the river and march eastward.

It is the Yellow River that crosses, and the nature of the expedition is Shanxi. Yan Laoxi, who was the king of grass in Shanxi, was naturally not a good thing in the eyes of the red army, and it was of course the best to overthrow his rule.

On February 17, after the New Year of 1936, Taizu personally signed the Declaration of the Eastern Crusade, and the Red Army of the Eastern Crusade entered a state of imminent war. On February 20, the order to cross the river was officially issued, and more than 10,000 troops from the 28th Army of the Red Army, the 1st Red Army Corps, and the 15th Red Army Corps were divided into three teams, left, center, and right, and crossed the Yellow River from the area of 100 miles along the Yellow River and advanced to Shanxi.

The bunkers arranged by Comrade Lao Yan along the Yellow River were broken by a blow, and the equipment of the red troops of this era was much stronger than that of themselves in the past time and space because of the equipment of a reorganized division given by Liu Lang, and the dense machine gun fire made the defending Jin army think for a moment that they had encountered a sneak attack by the Central Army.

Overnight, the Red Army of the Eastern Expedition went down several cities in succession, beating the confident Comrade Yan to the point that he almost didn't doubt his life.

In March, the red troops captured Xiaoyi County, and several top leaders of the Red gathered in Xiaoyi County except for Zhou Gong who stayed behind to raise supplies, preparing to take advantage of the victory to pursue, march east to Jiuyu, cross Tongpu Road, and go to the anti-Japanese front line in Hebei.

But Liu Lang knew that the idea of the Red Army was good, but the king of Shanxi would never be willing to lose a large piece of his territory like this, and he would not let go of Jiuyu, an important land in the valley, no matter what. Not only will he defend heavily, but Comrade Yan is already a little panicked, and he is still very undisciplined to ask for help. According to the war report, the seven divisions of the Central Army drawn from Luoyang, Xuzhou, Wuhan and other places by the bald bigwigs have already taken the train and are about to enter Jin.

Next, the red troops are facing not only tens of thousands of Jin troops, but also tens of thousands of central troops with stronger equipment than the Jin army, and the difficulties they will face can be imagined. Retreat at this time, and the losses will be much smaller.

After discussing with Zhang Ruhao in the regiment headquarters for half a day, Zhang Ruhao secretly telegraphed Zhou Gong at the back to convey his and Liu Lang's opinions euphemistically. However, the Red Army's front-line command still launched its own attack plan.

Perhaps because of the strengthened equipment, this battle was not as tragic as it was in time and space, although the red troops did not achieve their expected strategic goal of opening up the Tongpu line, and the Jin army did not take any advantage, after a day of fierce fighting, both sides withdrew from the battlefield and returned to the position before the battle.

In the face of the imminent surging enemy, the Red Army divided the main force into three teams, the Red Central Committee led the Red 28th Army to continue to fight in the west of Shanxi, and the Red 15th Army Corps swung north, directly smashing Taiyuan, in order to contain and mobilize the main force of the Jin Army, and the camera advanced to the Suiyuan and Chahar anti-Japanese fronts, while the Red 1st Army Corps went south to Hedong, mobilized the masses, expanded red fundraising, and divided the troops into the party and advanced to the anti-Japanese front line in Hebei.

From mid-March to the end of April, in just over a month, Liu Lang raised 400,000 yuan, expanded the popularity of more than 7,000 people, organized more than 20 local guerrilla units, and established more than 20 township and village red regimes.

The Red 15th Army, which was responsible for the war, also brought into full play the guerrilla tactics of Taizu's flexibility and maneuverability, and opened a circle with the Jin army in the Luliang Mountains of Linxian, Fangshan, Lishi, and Zhongyang Belt, and successively inflicted heavy losses on the enemy in Caojiapo, Baiwenzhen, Yukou, Qidong, Jinluo and other places, and captured Guo Dengying, the commander of the 392nd Regiment of the Jin Army, and more than 400 officers and soldiers below him in the battle of Dashi Village in Zhongyang County.

By the end of April, the Red 15th Army Corps marched through Damai Suburb and Shuangchi Town to Pengmen, Xi County, and joined forces with the Red Headquarters that had moved to Jinxi. The Red 15th Army Corps marched north on 18 March and returned to Pengmen in late April, which lasted more than a month and traveled more than 1,000 miles, and moved to more than 20 counties in the Jinzhong Plain and the Luliang Mountains in the northwest of Shanxi, which not only effectively contained the main force of the Jin Army, cooperated with the strategic actions of the Red Army on the southern front, and covered the river-crossing battle of the Red 28th Army, but also propagandized and mobilized the masses in the vast areas of central and northwest Shanxi, actively raised funds to expand the Red Army, and laid the foundation for the Red Army to cross east to resist Japan and establish the base area in northwest Shanxi.

And what amazed Liu Lang the most was not only the military victory of the red army. The Duke of Zhou, who was located in the rear, reached an agreement with Zhang Shaoshuai's secret envoy in Luochuan to "stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan" was not enough to make Liu Lang dumbfounded, because at the moment when the red troops passed through the western Sichuan Plateau and Gannan and arrived in northern Shaanxi, the two leaders of the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army already had that tendency, and now it is just a matter of course.

What made Liu Lang feel most unbelievable was that at the moment when the bald boss's Central Army was still plotting how to exterminate the red troops in the Luliang Mountains, Comrade Lao Yan had a secret conversation with the Red Party members who had contacted him through various channels。。。。。。

Comrade Lao Yan didn't want to fight. At the invitation of this famous warlord leader, he sent seven divisions into Jin, and the bald man who was ambitious and wanted to inflict a heavy blow on the red troops in one fell swoop probably wanted to vomit blood at that moment.

Liu Tuanzuo, who has personally experienced this, finally understands that he is still too immature in front of these bigwigs, and the establishment of the anti-Japanese united front is not only wishful thinking of patriotic enthusiasm, but also a fist. Liu Lang's wisdom of the founders of the republic can only be described as extremely admirable.

In May, the Red Army returned to northern Shaanxi, and Taizu personally signed the "Armistice Agreement and Unanimous Anti-Japanese Telegram", and the 117-day Red Army's Eastern Crusade ended successfully.

This battle not only played the prelude to the battle of the people's army under the leadership of the Red Party to rise up against the invading Japanese army, but also laid a historic foundation for the Red Party to take Shanxi as the strategic fulcrum for persisting in the War of Resistance behind enemy lines in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Definitely a strategic victory.

Liu Lang just acted as a bystander this time and didn't take any action, but this time, they did even better than before.

And the old blood of the bald boss who was put together by the red and the king of Shanxi had not had time to spew out, and on June 1, the "Liangguang Incident" that shocked the whole country broke out.

In the name of the "anti-Japanese movement," the two major warlords of Guangdong and Guangxi attacked the central army under the leadership of the bald tycoons, and this time the incident jointly launched by the two warlords was fundamentally different from the "Fujian incident" launched by General Cai Tingkai and others.

More of them, out of self-interest. What's more serious is that it disrupted the subordinates of the national government who were fully reorganizing the army to prepare for a full-scale war with the Japanese invaders. The huge manpower and material resources expended by the 400,000 Central Army in moving south made people of insight feel heartbroken.

This time, under the persuasion of Liu Lang, who entered Chengdu overnight, Liu Xiang firmly stood on the side of the bald boss and issued a statement to support the central government. China already has little time to prepare, let alone waste more time for personal gain.

In September, under the sincerity of the bald boss to go to Guangzhou, the sworn brothers Li and the bald boss got back together again, ending the state of confrontation.

Liu Lang also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he knew that history had not been changed, and one year before the all-out war with the Japanese invaders, China could finally prepare for war with all its might. Although Big Guy Li has a gap with the bald boss, in the face of the danger of the country and the nation, he still showed the courage he should have as the lord of a province.

In the future national war, the elite of the Gui family will be exhausted, and most of the battle will fall in that flesh and blood mill.

Still, in the turbulent summer when the situation in the country was worrying, Liu Lang still received good news.