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Chapter 1030: Sunrise in the West and Rain in the East

On 2 August, the day when the second phase of this year's Lushan Officer Training Corps began, Xiao Ke's Red Sixth Army Corps, which had persisted in resisting under an extremely difficult environment, launched a fierce battle with the Western Route Army of the Central Army that was encircled and suppressed on three sides. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At this point, the Red Army base areas on the front line in western Jiangxi and eastern Hunan were almost completely lost.

At the same time, under the command of Jiang Dingwen, more than 10 divisions of the Eastern Route Army launched a general offensive on the whole front, and the main force of the Red Army that advanced eastward into Fujian was outnumbered on the front line of Minqing and suffered heavy losses, and Peng Dehuai's corps had to abandon Minqing and retreat sharply to the west.

Minqing was lost, and the two wings of the Red Army fronts in Changqing in the south and Shuikou in the north suddenly collapsed, and the governments at all levels were ecstatic and solemnly announced to the whole country that the Red Army on both sides of the Minjiang River had been completely wiped out.

From 4 to 7 August, under the command of Gu Zhutong and Chen Cheng, Sun Yuanliang of the 88th Division of the Tang Enbo Column, Zhong Fang, the 67th Master of the Fan Songfu Column, and Huang Wei of the 11th Division, broke through the 3rd and 5th Army Corps, the main force of the Red Army, and occupied the three strategic points of Guanqiao, Zhongsi, and Yiqian, and the Red Army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, most of whom were veterans who had fought for thousands of miles over the years.

The six divisions of the Southern Route Army commanded by Xue Yue fought steadily and steadily, completely blocking the Red Army offensive on the first line of the Jiangxi-Guangdong border, and then turned from defense to attack, pressing north step by step.

At this point, the strategic space of the Red Army was sharply reduced, and it was in danger of being attacked on all sides under a heavy encirclement.

Since spring and summer, Shandong, Henan, Suzhou, Anhui, and the two lakes have not rained for several months, thousands of miles of red land, and a major drought that has not been encountered in decades has once again ravaged the land of China, and Hunan, the land of fish and rice, is also as hot as a furnace, thousands of miles of rice fields have dried up and cracked, countless rivers and streams have dried up and cut off, and the crops planted in spring have become endless wilted hay, and even in the new resettlement area of Xiangxi, which has continuously invested huge sums of money in the construction of small reservoirs and irrigation ditches for several years, one-third of the population has been seriously affected.

Since mid-July, all the vehicles of the Xiangxi Pacification Office and the Xiangxi army have been dispatched to and fro between Xiangxi and southern Sichuan.

Because the Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan Railway is still under intense construction, and more than 80 percent of the railway bridges and tunnels have not yet been completed, the more than 200,000 tons of rice purchased in large quantities from the Annan and Shangliao areas can only be transported to southern Yunnan and Kunming through the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway and two major rivers connecting the two countries.

Hunan Provincial Chairman He Jian was at a loss to climb Nanyue Hengshan, bow to the sky, burn books and pray for rain, but unfortunately no matter how grand the ceremony was and how pious the kneeling was, the hot thief God did not give half a drop of nectar in the next two months.

What is surprising is that the entire southwest and Guangxi regions have had good weather conditions and have achieved a bumper harvest of grain crops rarely seen in history; among them, more than 20 cities and counties under the jurisdiction of the Syrian government have seen a gratifying situation in which the output of grain harvested in the summer harvest has increased by 25 percent compared with the previous year, and this has been able to alleviate the disaster situation in the two lakes region to some extent and stabilize the political situation and the people's will.

An Yi, who is an alternate member of the Central Executive Committee, a member of the supervisory committee, and a member of the Central Military Commission, was again summoned to Lushan on 7 August by three urgent telegrams from the central government and Chiang Kai-shek to attend an emergency meeting on disaster relief presided over by Wang Jingwei and Kong Xiangxi.

On the day that An Yi left Syria, he successfully implemented the strategy of "encircling Wei and saving Zhao" and received the Red Army units in Sichuan, Hunan and Hubei that responded to the heavy siege of Helong's troops, and under the unified command of Huang Han, quietly gathered 18,000 troops, marched more than 280 kilometers of rugged mountain roads in three days and nights, and launched a resolute and fierce surprise attack on Zhongxian, the military material distribution center of the Sichuan Army and the Central Army's troops entering Sichuan.

In only four hours, more than 3,000 people of the remaining troops of the Sichuan Army and the logistics units of the Central Army were annihilated, and before the troops in the surrounding areas were reinforced, they snatched a large amount of food, medicine, clothing, horses, guns, and ammunition, and quickly escaped into the lofty mountains and mountains in the hinterland of Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan.

When the news came out, the whole country was shaken, and Chiang Kai-shek was furious, and for the first time he sent a merciless telegram to reprimand Liu Xiang, and the General Headquarters quickly issued an order to punish all the more than 10 lieutenants and officers of the Central Army who had escaped with their lives who had escaped by luck in guarding the Zhongxian military station and material warehouse.

In a fit of rage, Liu Xiang personally issued an order to shoot the county magistrate and the head of the security regiment of Zhongxian County, but huge losses had already occurred, and due to the impact of the nationwide drought, the military rations and ammunition stored by the Sichuan army could no longer meet the needs of a month's operations. Huang Han's fire was undoubtedly a great help to the Sichuan-Shaanxi Red Army, which was fighting hard with the Sichuan army's advancing troops for days and days, seriously hindered the Sichuan army's offensive pace, and enabled the Sichuan-Shaanxi Red Army, which was struggling to support, to gain valuable respite and adjustment time.

When An Yi rushed to the outer hall of the chairman's office on Lushan, he encountered Chiang Kai-shek losing his temper, and Chiang Kai-shek scolded Liu Xiang and He Chengjun for being complacent with a little merit.

Ge Jingen and the others were relieved when they saw An Yi coming, and hurriedly pulled An Yi and invited him to come in to comfort the committee.

An Yi glanced around and casually refused, saying that I didn't know anything when I first arrived, you are much closer to the principal than me every day, you can't let the principal discourage me, what can I do?

As he was talking, Kong Xiangxi, who was hiding in the attendant room next door, hurriedly arrived, separated the generals, grabbed An Yi and walked inside, entered the attendant room and immediately ordered the secretary to close the door, and saw An Yi walking to the wall to make tea as if he was fine, so angry that he stepped forward and grabbed the teacup and threw it to the secretary, pulled An Yi to the sofa, sat down and asked angrily: "Are you really stupid or pretending to be stupid?" ”

An Yi smiled helplessly: "Godfather, your old man has to give me a cup of tea first, right?" Flying from Syria to Lushan Airport, I immediately took a car up the mountain, why do you have to let me take a breath first......"

"Hey!"

Kong Xiangxi motioned to the secretary to hurry up and bring the tea, took it and stuffed it into An Yi's hand: "Drink!" I think you're hell-bent on me off, aren't you? Tell me, you didn't find any signs before the Huanghan Red Army attacked Zhongxian in the Sichuan-Hunan-Hubei region? ”

An Yi drank half a cup of tea and smacked his lips: "Godfather, what's wrong with you?" It's understandable for others to say this, and you have wronged me if you say the same. If you think about it, after He Long's troops got out of trouble, they only went around in circles with He Chengjun's two raiding divisions in the mountains of western Hubei, and the Huang Han Department had already been beaten by us and the 44th Army in Xiangxi and fled rampantly to the north, and they were no longer in our defense zone, how could we grasp their whereabouts?

"Secondly, at the beginning of the year, after General He Jian, chairman of Hunan Province, and General He Chengjun, the owner of the Wuhan camp, discussed with him, he drew out three main divisions in northern Xiangbei, which was originally in the name of suppressing bandits, waiting for an opportunity to annex the territory of General Zhang Hongluan in Xiangxi. Proceeding from the overall situation, General Zhang Hongluan was received and comforted twice by the principal, and in March he took the initiative to evacuate several counties in northern Hunan and surrendered the territory he had worked so hard to fight to He Jian's anti-bandit troops. From now on, we can no longer go beyond the defense zone, and General He Jian and General He Chengjun never forward the military intelligence report to me and General Zhang Hongluan, how can we know the movements of the Huang Han Department and the He Long Department? ”

"I'll just say it! I'll just say it! If it weren't for He Jianli's lack of greed, he repeatedly went through the back door of a few people in the Department of Political Science, as long as he seized the opportunity to slander the committee, and blindly suppressed the Xiangxi army and your Anjia army, how could he have come to this situation? If your An Jiajun and the elite of the 44th Army in Xiangxi have been closely guarded and monitored, how can you let *** have a chance to take advantage of it? These mediocre talents who mislead the party and the country...... The commission is also yes, because of the small loss, I regret not being at the beginning! ”

Kong Xiangxi stomped his feet frequently, indignant.

An Yi sneered in his heart, and simply added a handful of strength: "Godfather, you have also seen that since spring and summer, half of the country has been dry and rainless, and all of them are large agricultural provinces that produce food.

"Since May, I have repeatedly traveled back and forth between southern Sichuan and southern Yunnan for relief food, and signed an emergency grain purchase agreement with the French colonial authorities.

"Before, the two generals, He Chengjun and He Jian, never took the initiative to contact me, but they both flew to Syria at the beginning of last month, complaining and saying all kinds of grievances and good things, the purpose of which was to get food. I agreed without saying a word, and so far I have sent a total of 80,000 tons of grain to the disaster relief committees of the Hunan and Hubei governments. The 44th Army and all the security forces in Xiangxi were all thrown into the fight against drought among the whole people, and the governments and hundreds of merchants from all over the country were at the gate of the Syrian Electric Machinery Factory, and all kinds of pumps and pumps produced were snatched away as soon as they got off the line. I just want to manage people and don't let me take care of it! ”

Kong Xiangxi nodded frequently: "Sure enough, if it weren't for you this time, the two lakes would be chaotic, and the lady said several times in front of the commission that without your An Yi's selfless contributions, there would be no stable development of the southwest, and there would be no orderly two lakes area after the disaster, and your An Yi's achievements are greater than anyone else."

"Dean Wang has called for you to be recalled to Nanjing several times at emergency meetings to preside over the overall disaster relief situation, Ziwen also said that at this time, only you An Yi can stabilize the people's hearts, not to mention anything else, as long as you An Yi stands up and shouts, there will be hope in the hearts of tens of millions of disaster victims, and the chaotic order will gradually settle down. However, over the past week, the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission have called you several times in a row, saying that you are either in the rural areas of western Hunan or in the southern Yunnan Prefecture, which has made the chairman of the committee so anxious that he may have caused a lot of misunderstandings. His tantrum with Liu Xiang and He Chengjun is not only a big defeat and huge loss in Zhongxian, but also an important reason for the heavy drought pressure! At this time, only you can comfort and comfort him.

"Let's go quickly, let the committee sit down and start the meeting immediately, Dean Wang and the other four deans are still sulking in the lounge downstairs."

An Yi slowly stood up, took a long breath and nodded slightly, walked to the mirror by the door to tidy up the meter, nodded to the secretary who opened the door, and walked straight to Chiang Kai-shek's office.