Chapter 36: Booming
Before leaving, Cherepanov suddenly turned back to Huang Haoran and asked Huang Haoran: If these Soviet advisers refused to cooperate, insisted on making the whole matter public, or asked Moscow to cancel the loan plan, how would Huang Haoran respond?
Huang Haoran still expressed his appreciation for Lao Maozi's spirit of not admitting defeat. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 It is precisely with the support of this spirit that there will be heroic battles like Stalingrad and Leningrad. Thinking about Nanjing's performance, the Soviets are indeed worth learning from the Chinese people in this regard.
There are too many smart people in China. As a result, when it was necessary to fight to the death, these smart people ran away first, leaving honest people to be buried.
After being fooled a few times, honest people have also become smarter, and they run faster and more thoroughly than smart people. As a result, there was a farce in which several Japanese soldiers occupied a county seat.
"I admire your courage~"
This sentence was completely sincere, Huang Haoran smiled at Cherepanov after speaking, and then his voice began to turn cold:
"But it is necessary to remind you that if this matter is publicized today, it will be Stalin who will be most humiliated...... A $30 million loan was used to bribe the generals of a neighboring country to deal with the enemies of the Soviet Union, and in the end it failed...... That doesn't sound glamorous......! As far as I know, Comrade Stalin was not in a very good temper, as well as Beria, who had just come to power, and he was now in desperate need of a group of targets for him to attack. China, although it is a battlefield, is definitely warmer than Siberia, isn't it? ”
Naked threats, which were based solely on knowledge of the domestic situation in the USSR. To be able to stay away from the brutal purge, stay in China and enjoy the high adviser allowance and the preferential treatment of the Wuhan government, is definitely living in heaven, and today it is definitely the consensus of the Soviet officers who aid China. Cherepanov, naturally, will not be an exception.
"Now that our lives are tied together, you'd better do everything beautifully, if something happens to me, you won't see your family in your life......"
Finally, I will ring a wake-up call to the two old hairymen with a blue face. Carrots and sticks were just as effective against the Soviets, and after a blow to the head, it was time to give a sweet date.
"I will lobby the Military Committee to set up a pocket in Tianjia Town and use the fortifications to kill and injure a large number of Japanese troops, so as to achieve the goal of delaying the Japanese army from launching another large-scale offensive. The fall of the Three Towns of Wuhan will be postponed until after the Spring Festival of 1939...... It is expected that the Japanese will suffer 2 to 30,000 more casualties, and I think you should be able to account for this number......"
Bogomolov: "The Spring Festival of 39, that is, more than 40 days to hold on, the situation in the Fifth and Ninth Theaters is very bad now, but relying on the Jiang Defense Army, I'm afraid it will be very difficult, right?" Is it possible to transfer the 25th Army, which has retreated to the vicinity of Changsha? It's a little more sure ......."
"No! The 25th Army could not move...... During this time, my troops were just able to receive supplies and replenish their strength. After the fall of Wuhan, Changsha will enter the field of vision of the Japanese, if there is no strong force stationed, Changsha will follow in the footsteps of Nanjing, and be taken advantage of by the Japanese army, then the overall situation will collapse, I don't think Moscow will want such an ending, right? It's good for me to take a regiment with me, and the investment of troops should not be too much, after all, Chen Cixiu's civil engineering department is the protagonist of this drama......"
Huang Haoran clearly rejected Bogomolov's proposal and transferred the troops that had been withdrawn with great difficulty.
What the Chinese commanders on the battlefield in Wuhan never lacked was not strength, but courage and determination.
If you are willing to fight into a sea of corpses and blood, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the devil are afraid that they will be exhausted before they enter the three towns of Wuhan.
Although Chen Cixiu's Jiang Defense Army had been defeating the battle, after receiving reinforcements from Wuhan, it still had the strength to hold the fortress.
All Huang Haoran needed to do now was to enter the fortress headquarters with a small force and instill confidence in the defenders, thus prolonging this defensive battle.
With General Chang Sheng in charge, with a lot of courage and blood, coupled with strong fortifications and sufficient ammunition reserves, it is absolutely possible to hold on for an extra month or two, and let the Japanese army pay the price of tens of thousands of lives.
Bogomolov and Cherepanov quickly exchanged their opinions with each other's eyes, and finally came to a consensus:
"We're going to ask the Supplies Reception Office to pull trucks and prioritize replenishing the ammunition consumption of the defenders of the fort... The best quality pilots will also be prepared and, if necessary, air evacuation will be arranged...... As for Yibin and Changsha, they will definitely do their best to ......"
As Huang Haoran said, Bogomolov and Cherepanov also had no choice. Before the end of the anti-rebellion campaign, the Soviet Union will certainly not be able to return. That requires a good performance on the Chinese battlefield. Huang Haoran's original words cannot be told to Moscow. Only by being duplicitous, saying one thing to Moscow and another in China, is their way to live.
Sending off the Soviet ambassador to China and the general military adviser, Huang Haoran's attention returned to the construction of the troops. To improve the tactical level of new recruits, the best way is to use the old to lead the new.
Recently, 3,000 veterans and grassroots officers have arrived in Yibin in batches, and they will become the backbone of Yibin's new army. With the support of these veterans, Wang Huanzhi's confidence was suddenly sufficient, and he took advantage of the tripartite forces of Yunnan, Guichuan and Sichuan.
The French light weapons Huang Haoran didn't look down on, and he asked the Longjia Lane in Yunnan to basically have artillery, as well as all kinds of technical and communication equipment.
These high-value things were also sold by the officers of the French Vietnamese colonies. They do this for two main reasons: the first is that the price is high, the quantity is small, the smuggling is unobtrusive, and the benefits are very eye-catching. The second is because there are many jungles in Vietnam, and the transportation of heavy equipment is quite laborious and difficult to maintain, so a batch can be scrapped every year, and then applied for allocation from the country, so the existing actual inventory is relatively large.
The tobacco trade with Guizhou is progressing very smoothly. With the cooperation of the Yibin garrison, the tobacco and soil of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan can enter and go freely within the five counties of Yibin. In the past, the checkpoints were just weighed and charged, and the price was reasonable. Without the nuisance of bandits and the robbery of warlords along the way, the profits of the tobacco business that Huang Haoran had eaten a lot of money did not decrease but increased. This has stimulated a significant increase in opium poppy cultivation in the three provinces. Therefore, it is not difficult to predict that when this batch of opium poppies matures, the Yibin Garrison Command will make a windfall.
In Sichuan, due to Tang Yongwei's mediation everywhere, coupled with the continuous promotion of the highest authorities and Yang Sen behind the scenes. The powerful factions in Sichuan Province chose to temporarily avoid Huang Haoran's edge, and adopted the tactics of not cooperating and not stopping. The personnel of the Yibin Garrison Command were allowed to enter Sichuan to recruit soldiers and purchase grain and grass. In just a few days, Wang Huanzhi raised the number of seven new battalions and recruited nearly 5,000 people. (To be continued.) )