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Chapter 1072: Turning Enemies into Friends (1)

The Central Red Army finally left Qianxi and entered the territory of Yunnan, Shi Zhen, director of the Qianxi Pacification Office and commander of the garrison, was greatly relieved, but An Yi did not dare to take it lightly, the two areas on the Red Army's advance road, Zhaotong and Yanjin, are both areas under the jurisdiction of An Yi, but the current garrison responsible for the defense of Zhaotong is the Yunnan Army, and Yanjin is the defense area where An Yi's garrison troops are stationed. www.biquge.info At present, Lu Han, the general of the Yunnan Army, has led two divisions to urgently reinforce Qujing and Zhaotong, and Zhao Dongquan, chief of staff of the Anjia Army Garrison Force, and others are also in Zhaotong to discuss countermeasures with the generals of the Yunnan Army.

The Red Army's westward going, after all, made An Yi temporarily let go of a big matter, and was able to avoid being in the same room with the Red Army, which was not only An Yi's wish, but also the common wish of the soldiers of An Jiajun. An Jiajun's ideological education work has a lot in common with the Red Army's education, and most of the soldiers on both sides are from poor people, although An Jiajun has no offense against the people, the Red Army is also strict in military discipline, never bullying the people, and there is no hatred between each other, so it is better to avoid conflicts or avoid them.

However, An Yi should be most grateful to Hu Zongnan, who was mighty in the northern Sichuan battlefield, it was Hu Zongnan who led the three brigades of the First Division of the Central Army to defeat the main force of the two armies of his senior brother Xu Xiangqian, and the high-speed battlefield depth forced the Sichuan-Shaanxi Red Army with heavy casualties to retreat north to Shaanxi, completely cutting off the plan of the Central Red Army and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Red Army and the Helong Red Army to join forces in northern Sichuan and eastern Sichuan. Seeing that there was no hope of moving north, the Central Red Army, which was heavily blocked by troops in the north and had hundreds of thousands of pursuing troops behind, had to resolutely turn around and advance westward, cross the Chishui River, and go straight to the front line of prestige in eastern Yunnan, where the army was empty, to preserve its strength, so that the Anjia Army could avoid the pressure of fighting the Red Army on the entire front line in Sichuan and Guizhou.

After more than half a month of hard work, the Central Army and the special task force of the Central Party Department finally completely controlled the political power in most areas of Guizhou, pacified and divided the local forces in Guizhou, and then bled up their spirits and resumed the vigorous pursuit and suppression of the Central Red Army.

At the beginning of February, Chiang Kai-shek officially appointed He Jian, chairman of Hunan Province, as the commander-in-chief of the First Route Army of the General Headquarters of the Suppression Headquarters, commanding Liu Jianxu, Li Jue, Li Yunjie and other four columns with a total of eight divisions to completely encircle and suppress the Helong Red Army on the Hunan and Hubei borders; Zhu Peide, chairman of Yunnan Province, was appointed commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army, commanding a total of 12 divisions of the Xue Yue Corps of the Central Army and the Luhan Column of the Yunnan Army to pursue and encircle the Central Red Army.

On 18 February, the forward Zhou Hunyuan's column arrived at Bijie County, an important place in northwest Guizhou, and urgently discussed with the garrison troops in western Guizhou on strategies for confronting the enemy, and the rest of the columns successively recovered various counties and towns in northern Guizhou.

The Japanese invaders in North China saw that China's largest armed force, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, was about to be wiped out, and Chiang Kai-shek took most of Guizhou and Sichuan with lightning speed, and the troops were directed at Yunnan, and it was expected that China would soon be able to end the civil war, and the Nanjing Nationalist Government, which had been freed up, would be able to unite as one, unite with the outside world, and pose a huge threat to the long-term strategic plan of the Japanese army gradually encroaching on and annexing northern China and then occupying the whole of China, so he immediately tore off the mask of hypocrisy and intensified military provocations.

The Japanese invaders openly sent troops to wantonly occupy China's inherent territories such as Rehe and Chahar, and instructed the puppet Manchurian army to launch armed attacks against the Mongolian ministries under the leadership of the Nanjing Government, and at the same time co-opted and divided the local warlord forces in northern China, frequently made all kinds of unreasonable demands to the central government in Nanjing, and used spies and traitors to conspire and create all kinds of confrontations in North China and East China, wantonly rammed and sank Chinese merchant and fishing boats in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and coastal areas, and colluded with the scum in the local governments and armies of North China. Wantonly arresting anti-Japanese and anti-Japanese leaders from all walks of life in North China, and then using their armies to smuggle and plunder silver, and organizing traitors to illegally steal Chinese cultural relics, all kinds of despicable methods are too numerous to mention.

Huang Ying, the leader of the pro-Japanese faction in the central government, compromised and retreated step by step, and continued to give up his family's rights. He Yingqin, who was an insider in the civil war and an outsider in the foreign war, Song Zheyuan, who was a bolder and smaller official, and Shang Zhen, who strictly followed Yan Xishan's will and adopted a wait-and-see attitude, were at a loss for a while in the face of the fierce provocation of the Japanese invaders, and repeatedly forbearance made the arrogance of the Japanese invaders even more arrogant.

By the end of February, the matter finally caused a huge crisis that affected the whole situation: the Japanese army was still not satisfied with the central government in Nanjing after complying with the requirements of the central government in Nanjing, and after abolishing the party office in Beiping, Jiang Xiaoxian's military corps, the branch of the Military Commission, and other key institutions, they directly demanded that Yu Xuezhong's army and Song Zheyuan's 29th army, which were stranded in North China, withdraw from Pingjin and other places, and that they should work with the friendly people in North China to establish "North China autonomy" and initially realize "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity" in Northeast China and North China.

A series of unscrupulous and barbaric actions by the Japanese army forced the Nanjing government and Chiang Kai-shek to take care of one thing and lose the other, and at the same time, every sober-minded person clearly realized that the huge ambitions of imperialism could no longer be changed in the slightest, and a Sino-Japanese war was imminent.

With the compromise of the Nationalist Government step by step, the social order of the whole country has undergone drastic turmoil, and the streets and alleys of major cities across the country are full of angry students and people who do not want to be slaves of the country, industrial and agricultural production has been greatly affected, state tax revenues have plummeted, and criminal cases have emerged one after another......

What is even worse is that the Japanese invaders brazenly used military tickets, vouchers and other cheap currencies to raise silver from China, bypassed the high export tax and balance tax imposed by the Nanjing government on silver exports, and used their armed troops to escort them out of the country, making huge profits from them, seriously damaging the financial reform that the Chiang Kai-shek government was intensively carrying out. The currency reform that began in three or three years was originally an important basic measure to unite the country and support economic stability, but in the double destruction of the rising price of silver and the crazy plundering of the government, it is like a small boat in the stormy waves, facing the danger of sinking at any time.

Under the extremely grim situation, Chiang Kai-shek was deeply disappointed by the selfish and detached generals of the North China armies, but he was extremely glad that he adopted the advice of Yang Yongtai, Chen Lifu and others at the beginning, and left the 17th Army of the tiger general Hu Jialin in North China.

Hu Jialin, who came from An Jiajun and was also a student of Chiang Kai-shek (Hu Jialin studied in the general class of the Central Military Academy in 28 years, with Chiang Kai-shek as the principal) and an old subordinate (equestrian instructor) of the Whampoa Military Academy, lived up to expectations and led four super-strong main divisions to be nailed to the ground in central and southern Hebei.

But at least so far, the Japanese and traitors have not had the courage to maintain a relatively stable situation in major cities such as Baoding, Cangzhou, and Hengshui, which are heavily guarded and military law is like mountains, and only the area under the jurisdiction of Hu Jialin in the whole of North China still maintains a relatively stable situation.

Chiang Kai-shek could only hope that the League of Nations and its friends would preside over it, repeatedly complain to the League of Nations, and condemn all kinds of atrocities, and at the same time, secretly contacted the envoys of European and American countries in China through Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi, hoping to break the situation through diplomatic mediation, so as to completely wipe out the armed Red Army and achieve the strategic goal of "settling the interior before fighting abroad", and then he could free up his hands to deal with the crisis in North China.

Song Ziwen and others did not achieve any results in the secret negotiations with Britain and the United States, Song Ziwen also knew that weak countries have no diplomatic reason, and knew that only the interests of European and American countries in China suffered losses due to the barbaric encroachment of the United States was still not enough for European and American countries that were also aggressors to stand up and suppress the ambitions of the United States, but Song Ziwen did not give up, he knew that the US government expected China's financial reform to succeed, otherwise it would not send experts to assist China in formulating a currency reform plan, and as long as China's currency was pegged to the US dollar, It will make the United States' trade with China multiply, attack China's interests in China by subtle but most effective means, weaken the value of China's financial assets, and deal a heavy blow to China's industrial and commercial enterprises that have developed more and more through investment in China.

Therefore, Soong Ziwen appeared to be very patient, and after visiting the US ambassador to China Jensen three times in a week, Jensen quietly told him an important reason:

The United States and Britain are traditional allies, the United States cannot put aside its grievances, publicly stand up to support China, although Britain is facing more and more threats and exclusion, but also want to stand up and clearly condemn and protect Britain's huge interests in North China and other places, but before the sequelae of the Sino-Burmese border conflict is not completely resolved, British friends are unwilling to do so.

Song Ziwen suddenly realized, and together with Kong Xiangxi, he immediately flew to Hankou to meet Chiang Kai-shek.

On March 1, An Yi's E5029 special plane landed at Wuchang Airport, and Song Ziwen and Zhang Xueliang, the new director of Wuchang Xingying, greeted him at the airport.

After the young marshal quit opium for more than half a year, his body recovered well, his handsome face revealed a healthy color, his originally cloudy eyes began to brighten, and he was wearing a military uniform, a yellow tweed coat and long riding boots, which made him look radiant and extremely energetic.

"The young marshal is really a beautiful man in the Republic of China! Even I was dumbfounded, haha! ”

An Yile, who was dressed in a winter military uniform and did not put on an overcoat, walked towards Zhang Xueliang, grabbed Zhang Xueliang's outstretched hand after speaking, and turned to Song Ziwen:

"Young marshal, look, our eldest brother Ziwen's Western-style dress is a bit incongruous with our soldiers, just like two bodyguards with guns standing next to the rich man shopping."

Song Ziwen looked down at his short coat and full-body outfit, and then looked at An Yi's ordinary general's dress, and scolded in a low voice, ignoring An Yi's crazy words.

Zhang Xueliang laughed, he never thought that An Yi would make such a joke as soon as they met, and suddenly recalled the years when the two spent together during the Anti-Japanese War in North China:

"My brother is still so energetic...... In fact, now the four beauties of the Republic of China have changed again, and in the press reviews in Shanghai and Beiping, the elder brother is the leader! ”

"Those people in Shanghai and Beiping have nothing to do when they are full, and they are blind to these things, they are really a businesswoman who doesn't know the hatred of the country, and they still sing *** flowers across the river!"

An Yi's Northeast dialect was vivid and extremely authentic, coupled with a look of deep hatred, which immediately made Zhang Xueliang and Song Ziwen and more than a dozen other people who greeted him laugh.

An Yi looked at the tall colonel behind Zhang Xueliang, pulled Zhang Xueliang's hand, and asked with a smile: "Brother Zhang, I seem to remember that your adjutant is called Li Hansong, right?" During that time in Beiping, Adjutant Li's diligence and thoughtfulness left a deep impression on me and my brothers, and the Northeast Army still has talents! ”

The young marshal was stunned for a moment, then turned sideways and said with a smile: "Han Song, I came to see Vice Chief An." ”

Under the envious gaze of all his colleagues, Li Hansong stepped forward and saluted: "Hello Chief An!" ”

"We are acquaintances, don't be so polite, I'm very happy to see you!"

An Yi returned the salute, didn't pay any attention to Li Hansong, pulled Zhang Xueliang with one hand, and Song Ziwen with the other to a long list of cars parked on the side, and stopped by the car to sell the advertisement again:

"I said, Brother Ziwen, why do you always like to use Yankee cars? Could it be that the 'Antu' brand luxury car produced by the younger brother factory is not better than your round winter thing? ”

Song Ziwen was immediately happy: "This is the car of Wuchang Xingying, the car you gave me just drove to Shanghai late last month, and was taken by the mayor of Tiecheng, his reason is high-sounding, saying that he is the mayor of China's largest city, how can he not use a car produced in his own country?" As a result, the car was occupied by him! In fact, many colleagues around me like the atmospheric appearance and excellent performance of the 'Antu' sedan very much, and when they see the car, it is upright, giving people a sense of stability, especially after knowing that this kind of car is a limited edition car specially made by your factory under An Yi, they have asked me to help buy it. However, you have to give me another one, and it's better to have my brother and sister send you one of those royal blue ones for your sister-in-law Leyi, she likes it very much. ”

"This ...... You're the God of Wealth, aren't you? ”

An Yi made a distressed and anxious look, which made Zhang Xueliang cover his mouth and laugh.

"Come on in! The chairman is still waiting for us, you guy is chic, I can break my leg. Song Ziwen couldn't help but say, an An Yi *** American car.

The convoy started, and Zhang Xueliang, who was sitting next to An Yi, said with some hesitation: "There is something big brother, I have to ask you for help......

"Please say, what does your brother ask for?"

An Yi, who was sitting between Zhang Xueliang and Song Ziwen, was very refreshing.

Zhang Xueliang nodded happily: "That's right, I want to buy you sixteen wheeled armored vehicles that your assault brigade directly under the Anjia Army has just been equipped with, not the old-fashioned kind, but the kind with 37 machine guns and a new general-purpose machine gun, called 'Cheetah II', right?" Two more tanker trucks and a box-type maintenance vehicle, and I plan to equip an assault battalion to try. ”

An Yi looked at Zhang Xueliang with some surprise: "The junior brother secretly carried out the experiment for half a year, and it was finalized and equipped to the army at the end of January, how do you know so clearly?" ”

Zhang Xueliang smiled: "Haha! Do you think outsiders don't know about secrets? This is a long story, and when we finish meeting the committee and finish the big things, let's have a good chat, tonight I will be the east, and I will invite you and your entourage to ...... in the best restaurant in Hankou."