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Chapter 980 Drift with the flow

The names of Xia Jian, the fierce general of the An Jiajun, Xia Yuling, the head of the 39th Division's special service regiment, and Xiao Zonghua, the chief of the intelligence section of the 40th Division, have been familiar to the whole people. It has become the most sensational series of legendary stories in the history of the Republic of China. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Kuomintang Central Party Headquarters and Propaganda Department praised the An Jiajun's perseverance and perseverance in fighting spirit, and out of the need for political propaganda to encircle and suppress the Red Army, the Central Party Department spared no effort to promote the propaganda of the Sichuan-Hunan crackdown on bandits, and Chiang Kai-shek, commander-in-chief of the national crackdown, gave commendations to the 24 th Army and Xia Jian, Xia Yuling, and Xiao Zonghua, and called on the whole army to learn from the 24 th Army, which had achieved outstanding results in the suppression of bandits in Sichuan and Hunan in various periods.

Ye Qing, a well-known journalist who had access to many top-secret materials, wrote a non-fiction literary work with ups and downs in the plot "The Story of the Suppression of Bandits in Sichuan and Hunan Province" within a week, which was distributed in major cities across the country on January 1 with the support of the efficient printing house of the Political Department of the Anjia Army. The Literature and Art Channel of Southwest Radio, which has become the largest radio station in the country, was authorized by Ye Qing to start the continuous broadcast of "The Story of the Bandits in Sichuan and Hunan Provinces" in the form of radio dramas on January 1.

A few days later, the Shanghai-based Oriental Film Company solemnly announced that it would make "The Story of Sichuan and Hunan Bandits" into a movie, and took this opportunity to recruit special actors and expand the number of artists from all over the country.

A thousand-mile arrest not only maintained and carried forward the prestige of An Jiajun, but also formed a huge political influence, and became an opportunity to make money, which somewhat surprised An Yi and his brothers, but the many major events that occurred in the days before the arrival of the New Year did not give the generals and colonels of An Jiajun much opportunity to reminisce, and their eyes were once again fixed on the three major focus areas of Fujian, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Hubei and North China.

At the end of the 22nd year of the Republic of China, the Central Red Army really followed the political road of the Soviet Union, and the Central Committee issued a manifesto saying that "the Mass Party of Production and the People's Revolutionary Government in Fujian are further shaken and collapsed by the Kuomintang, but there is no real anti-imperialist and anti-militarist bureaucratic gentry and landlord actual action, and this government is still not a people's government and is still not revolutionary." ** It is hoped that the workers, peasants, and toiling masses of Fujian will immediately and automatically organize themselves, take arm, and unite with the Soviet Government and the Red Army to attack the common enemy, and that only the victory of the workers, peasants, soldiers, and the toiling people's revolution can guarantee the victory of China's national liberation. Anyone who tries to find a third way between revolution and counter-revolution will inevitably fail."

Immediately, several important internationalist leaders of the Central Committee issued notices one after another, denouncing the Fujian People's Government as a centrist and an enemy of the revolution! At this point, the new Fujian government and the 100,000 officers and men of the 19th Route Army, who were alone and helpless, fell into an extremely unfavorable and difficult situation.

The Fujian Government still insisted on speeding up preparations for political and military struggles despite the pressure of large numbers of troops and the departure of its allies, and the Fujian Republic divided Fujian Province into four provinces, with He Gongkang as the governor of Minhai, Sa Zhenbing as the governor of northern Fujian (Yanping), Dai Ji as the governor of Quanhai (Xingquan), and Xu Youchao as the governor of Longzhang (Longting). This unwise move to split the country has finally attracted strong condemnation and calls for encirclement and suppression from all forces throughout the country.

Chiang Kai-shek was waiting for this opportunity, seeing that the 19th Route Army of Fujian began to panic and waver, and finally raised the banner of justice to maintain national unity, and ordered Jiang Dingwen to lead the East Road Army to attack, the fourth column Li Yannian, the ninth column Liu Heding, and the tenth column Tang Enbo, a total of 14 divisions launched a three-way attack at the same time, of which Wang Jingjiu's 87th Division and Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division conquered Fujian Gutian in one day, and the 30,000 troops of the 19th Route Army were immediately crushed at the touch of a button, and the division commander Zhao Yishou immediately led the three regiments under his command to disarm and surrender, originally thought to be able to hold the northern defense line of Fuzhou for at least a month, has fallen apart and the door has been wide open.

At the same time, the fifth column led by Chen Cheng Huang Wei's 11th Division, Huo Yuzhang's 14th Division, Fu Zhongfang's 67th Division, Li Shusen's 94th Division, and Zhou Hunyuan's 8th Column successively defeated the Red Army's Peng Dehuai's 3rd Army Corps and Dong Zhentang's 5th Army, Lian Kelichuan's Dongshan and other important towns, Ou Zhen's 90th Division, Zou Hong's 43rd Division also defeated the ** First Army that stormed Yihuang Wudu. However, at this critical time, the Provisional Supreme Military Tribunal of the Central Red Army composed of He Shuheng, Dong Biwu, and He Changgong formed a special military tribunal and sentenced Xiao Jinguang, commander of the Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Military Region of the Red Army and political commissar of the Seventh Army Corps, to five years in prison, and blamed the defeat of the Red Army on Xiao Jinguang's implementation of the wrong line. So far, the Red Army and the 19th Route Army in the Fujian and Jiangxi regions have suffered heavy losses.

Under Chiang Kai-shek's order to "first wipe out the Fujian rebels, and then encircle the Red Army from east to west", Jiang Dingwen accelerated the pace of operations, and with the assistance of 36 fighters from two brigades of the Central Army Air Force, the whole line attacked fiercely, Leng Xin's 4th Division, Song Xilian's 36th Division, and Liu Heding's 56th Division attacked from three directions, conquered Fujian Yanping, and the defending Situ Fei's Division laid down his arms and surrendered; The 9th Division Li Yannian and the 3rd Division Li Yutang Kefujian Shuikou broke the main force of an army led by Tan Qixiu, and the fleet led by Navy Commander Chen Shaokuan barely encountered any resistance, and the two marine brigades easily landed in Xiamen and took full control.

When they thought of taking off to resist the enemy, more than a dozen fighters and bombers of the Central Army suddenly came and destroyed all the 30-odd planes of the Fujian Air Force on the airfield in less than 10 minutes.

An Yi was no longer interested in how long the new Fujian government could be saved, and turned his attention to North China, because on 2 January, Hu Jialin, who was stationed in Baoding, sent a secret telegram stating that the rebel Liu Guitang was caught between an army commanded by Wan Fulin and a division commanded by Guan Linzheng, and fled south to Tongzhou and Beiping through the Goryeo camp. Hu Jialin asked whether he followed He Yingqin's instructions and annihilated all the more than 7,000 remnants of Liu Guitang on the line from Cangzhou to Hengshui?

Thirty-nine-year-old Liu Guitang, nicknamed "Liu Heiqi", a native of Fei County (now Pingyi County) in Shandong, was a giant bandit who wandered through the seven provinces of North China, worked as a carpenter and porter in his early years, and began to block the road at the age of 15 and robbed his house, and gradually became the largest gang in southern Lunan. Because his face was like the bottom of a pot, he ranked seventh among the eight bandit leaders who started the incident, so he got the nickname "Liu Heiqi". Liu bandits went everywhere to rob houses, burn, kill and loot, scourge the seven provinces of North China for nearly 20 years, Zhang Zongchang and now Han Fuqu have nothing to do with him, this guy first took refuge in Yan Xishan, and then took refuge in Han Fuqu, and then went out and took refuge in Feng Yuxiang again, Feng Yuxiang stepped down, and no one wanted to take in Liu Heiqi, who was not familiar with him, and coincidentally decided to join forces to fight against this great scourge that had been harmful for many years.

An Yi naturally understood what Hu Jialin was worried about, although the Northeast Army, the Jin Sui Army and Song Zheyuan's troops all launched a blow to Liu Heiqi's troops, but Liu Heiqi was still able to lead seven or eight thousand remnants to flee to Cangzhou, it was obvious that all armies were unwilling to be the "culprit" to destroy Liu Heiqi, just drive this troublesome bandit leader out of his own territory, because Liu Heiqi is too famous in the green forests of North China, and has been operating for more than 20 years, and has maintained inextricable ties with gangs and local clans in North China. Therefore, the armies deliberately drove Liu Heiqi from the foot of the Great Wall all the way to the central and southern Hebei regions guarded by Hu Jialin, and let Hu Jialin, a general of the Central Army who was also born in the martial arts of North China, be this villain, otherwise, with the strength of Wan Fulin, Shang Zhen, and Song Zheyuan, Liu Heiqi would have destroyed him even if he had several times more people.

After repeated discussions, the brothers came to a unanimous opinion, suggesting that Hu Jialin launch a heavy siege of Liu Heiqi's troops, which should be regarded as a rare military exercise, and after collecting most of the weapons and ammunition, each of the captured bandits would be given a few oceans to let them go home, and they could be recruited if they met good seedlings, but not to catch Liu Heiqi, it was best to let him lead one hundred and ten people to break out of the encirclement and escape into Han Fuqu's territory, so that Han Fuqu would have a headache.

Hu Jialin received An Yi's reply, understood in his heart, and immediately summoned the four division commanders under his command to secretly arrange, and a flanking channel of nearly 100 kilometers was quickly determined.

From the bottom of his heart, Hu Jialin, who also started walking the rivers and lakes at the age of fifteen or sixteen, did not want to kill Liu Heiqi, who was also a fellow martial artist, and with the infamy of slaughtering martial arts colleagues, at least Liu Heiqi had a good conscience, unlike many generals and colonels of the Northeast Army, who went to be a lackey of the Japanese when they were cornered.

Compared with the suppression of bandits in North China, the unscrupulous ambition of the Japanese army is what An Yi attaches the most importance to.

On the first day of the 23rd year of the Republic of China, the warplanes of the Japanese army flew over the Great Wall and blew up the Longwang Temple west of Miyun.

An Yi was annoyed by this, and Lao Shoudao sent a secret telegram from Nanchang, and there was only one extremely indignant question in the message: An Yi, do you know what it means for the Dragon King Temple to be bombed on the first day of the new year?

An Yi immediately called Shen Fengdao, Shen Fengdao, who had memorized the Tao Te Ching and the Book of Changes since he was literate, didn't need to calculate at all, and a single explanation made the generals in the hall furious:

"The commander knows what we Chinese believe in and what to pray for when the New Year comes, this year is the 1934 year of the Western calendar, but the lunar calendar is the year of Jia, the heavenly stem is the wood of the yang, the earth branch is the soil of the yang, and the little Japan blew up the Dragon King Temple, which means that they hope that our China will lack water and drought this year, and their intentions are very vicious."

An Yi was furious, and immediately issued an order: "Little Japan on the dog day, Lao Tzu can't go with the flow if he wants to be idle for a few days, since this is the case, no one wants to live in peace...... Giving a death order to the North China Bureau, no matter what means they use, whether it is an explosion or arson, we must give a satisfactory explanation to the people of the whole country! ”

"Yes!"

Liu Qing led the order to the telecommunications room.