Chapter 472: The charm of the vanguard army

The purpose of the "Export Control Act" is very simple, that is, as soon as the export materials are stuck, whether it is the object or the price of the variety, it must be handed over.

With such a powerful baton, those plutocrats naturally refused to let Roosevelt get his hands on it easily. However, Britain and France were in danger, and neither Europe nor Asia, nor the two oceans were very peaceful. A baton is needed to control the direction of inclination of the exit. After a series of compromises and balances, the bill was finally introduced more than a month ahead of schedule.

This bill was aimed at both Britain and France, as well as the Japanese.

Among them, Britain and France are to increase their support, so that the European mill will rotate for a longer time, so that American products can continue to be sold to Europe. Correspondingly, there were more supplies sent to Europe, and fewer supplies were sent to the Japanese. Moreover, as the war intensified, strategic materials such as steel, rubber, and oil needed to be stockpiled and raised in price, and the supply to Japan was even less.

At this time, Britain and France were caught in the millstone of Europe, and the Netherlands surrendered to the Germans early. At this time, Southeast Asia had disarmed all its weapons, and the Japanese were also preparing to move.

Southeast Asia's grain, rubber, tin, oil, and all kinds of timber are all big fat in the eyes of everyone, and even Americans have always been very hot. But those places belong to his allies, and the Americans have no excuse to reach out and can only hold the Philippines and drool outward. Like Meng Xiang's idea, the impatient Japanese have become a sharp blade that the Americans want to build. The difference is that the Americans' plan was for the Japanese to cut down the Anglo-Dutch and French, while Meng Xiang's plan added an American.

The Americans also considered the trick of self-harm through the hands of the Japanese, but they did not think of Pearl Harbor at first. Their plan is that when there is an event like Spain's, they can openly take over from the Philippines. Of course, it turned out that in history, after they learned about the plan for Pearl Harbor, they also played a bitter ploy along the water.

However, in this time and space, the Japanese were beaten by the vanguard army a lot. Meng Xiang has always been worried that this knife will not be able to be lifted, although a lot of arrangements have been specially arranged, but the world is unpredictable.

Meng Xiang didn't expect that the Americans would also hit the Japanese with their ideas. In fact, it is not surprising that the national strategy of any country is not counted in ten years, looking at a hundred years, only caring about the immediate interests, once it enters a dead end, it is not just a matter of getting narrower and narrower the more it develops.

He was not very worried about the problems of the Japanese at this time, and at this time the Japanese could no longer help the vanguard army. On the contrary, the vanguard army is showing a posture of overwhelming the Japanese.

However, the vanguard army has not taken action, and in the past few months, in addition to consolidating the interior of the theater and developing the economy, it is to exterminate the Japanese who have hid in the mountains.

More than 10,000 devils led by Lieutenant General Liannumafan, the former commander of the Mongolian Corps, who had hid in the Qinling Mountains, were trapped by the vanguard army in a valley with bare rocks for two months after enduring the bitter cold of half a winter under the strong walls and clear fields. When no more Japanese dead soldiers rushed out, the scouts of the vanguard army went in and saw only bones all over the ground, and the remaining 100 or so Japanese soldiers gnawing on skinny thighs and arms with dull eyes.

Lieutenant General Hasunuma, who committed suicide, was left with only one relatively intact human head. The rest of the parts are no longer to be found.

The other way, led by Seishiro Itagaki led all the way resolutely to the southeast. At that time, the area of Shangluo and Funiu Mountain was controlled by Tang Enbo. The implementation of the solid wall Kiyono was not complete, and it was escaped by the team led by Seishiro Itagaki. After being left with 5,000 devils by Tang Enbo, he broke through the layers of defense and rushed into Henan. Unfortunately, Henan was basically controlled by the vanguard army, and under the repeated ambushes of the vanguard army, only more than 6,000 people were left around Itagaki Seishiro and fled into Tongbai Mountain. But at Tongbai Mountain, they encountered the remnants of the 14th Division and the 106th Division that had been withdrawn from Xinyang.

At that time, the 14th Division and the 106th Division's road to Anhui was blocked by the 56th Army, and even Dabie Mountain could not pass, so they could only retreat to Tongbai Mountain.

Meng Xiang didn't expect that Itagaki Seishiro was like an immortal cockroach, and he had been struggling tenaciously, and the Japanese occupied Tianwang Village, and the power of shrinking in Tongbai Mountain reached more than 20,000 people at once. However, the vanguard army also used this as an excuse, and the 57th Army directly entered Hubei, took over Xiangfan, and quickly commanded Zaoyang, Suizhou, and Guangshui, connected with Xinyang, and directly blocked this Japanese army in Tongbai Mountain.

Because the vanguard army entered Hubei, it caused the central government to severely reprimand, but at this time, Meng Xiang didn't care about this, and repeatedly let the devil escape, although there was also a reason why the vanguard army did not focus, but it also made him a little annoyed.

"Do you want to create a devil's Long March hero?" Meng Xiang said angrily. The Japanese have taken advantage of this incident to hype up in the country, low-key treatment of those annihilated devils, and then deified this heroic team from Shanxi, northern Shaanxi, Henan, and jumped out of the Central Army and the vanguard army to encircle, and often used it to prove that the vanguard army is not terrible.

Itagaki Seishiro's fame rose again, and it also inspired more Japanese to join the army. As for the death of the former commander of the Mongolian Corps, Liannuma Fan, it was directly ignored.

In this regard, Meng Xiang was determined to destroy the Japanese team that advocated heroes, but the strength of the Central Army was really unreassuring. These more than 20,000 devils rushed out from Ruo to the south, and maybe they could break through the blockade of the Central Army and directly threaten Wuhan. In the original history, the battle of Suizao was in the area of Suizhou and Zaoyang. It would be a shame to do that.

Therefore, Meng Xiang ordered the 57th Army to enter Hubei and quickly took over the counties and cities around Tongbai Mountain, which also attracted the strong dissatisfaction of Lao Jiang. At this time, the guns of the central army in the south were aimed at the vanguard army, and if there was any further abnormal movement, they could shoot directly. Lao Chiang also asked the vanguard army for these areas, but the vanguard never spit it out when he swallowed it, and played the trick of public referendum.

The so-called one-trick fresh, eating all over the world is like this. The policy of giving away the benefits of the people for free has been tried and tested, and the subsequent referendum was also eaten to death by the vanguard.

Of course, behind this, it is inseparable from the credit of the vanguard army organizational system.

From ancient times to the present, there has never been a shortage of smart people and sages, and good policies abound, but there are not many of them, either because the implementation time is short, or there are many geographical limitations, and some are simply a piece of paper. The most critical of these is the issue of implementation.

The Central Party has long shouted the slogan of rent reduction and interest reduction, but the implementation has been very far behind, and it is only a formality.

Since ancient times, the struggle between the central and local governments, between officials and petty officials, has never stopped, even in later generations. This involves the issue of implementation.

The most fundamental reason for the change of the new dynasty in later generations is that the strength of the organization can penetrate all aspects of the lower classes and maintain stability. This is where the advantages of a tight party system lie, but the disadvantages are also obvious. While strengthening the organization and the collective, it is also weakening the human factor of the individual. At the same time, maintaining a huge network of organizations will inevitably lead to a huge increase in administrative costs, and such a huge system will inevitably form a system of its own, forming a special new class.

Of course, there are more shortcomings, which make Meng Xiang dare not use this as a standard again. Giving full play to the subjective initiative of the people, the people managing themselves, and the government's macroeconomic regulation and control may eliminate a lot of troubles and hidden dangers.

But at this time, although the people have the cunning of small people, they only care about their surroundings and eyes because of their narrow vision, so their thoughts are easy to be swayed by others. This requires too much guidance from the government, and this is also the time to give full play to grassroots organizations. And Meng Xiang controls the most strict grassroots army in his hands. Under the supervision of forty or fifty thousand clones who strictly follow orders, the policy of the vanguard army has ensured that it is no problem to implement it in the semi-autonomous towns and villages of the people. The self-governing village of the lower side can also be supervised.

It was with the guidance and supervision of this huge organization that the newly occupied areas of the vanguard army, although the local administration was short, were able to control the situation very quickly. Although it is not very stable, it is much better than the central party of Furen and county and city, and other forces are also unable to match it because of the lack of capital to win over.

In this way, the vanguard army quickly took control of the above-mentioned areas, and under the banner of democracy, won the support of the society, but Lao Jiang was helpless.

The referendum of the vanguard army, although because many people are ignorant, it is impossible to really know about the election. But we should not refuse to do it because the people are ignorant, just as we should not let a child stand on his own because he is ignorant. Being represented and doing the final step yourself are two different concepts. Even if you choose the wrong one, you have your own responsibility, and you can't complain about others fooling and publicizing, and even buying and bribing.

Of course, the vanguard army made all kinds of preliminary preparations and strived for justice. However, with the influence of the Pioneer Army's subsistence allowance policy, this most tangible benefit has made the people choose the agents launched by the Pioneer Army. Clones, on the other hand, are not suitable for interpersonal interaction because of their personalities, so most of them perform regulatory functions.

Since 38 years ago, the Pioneer Army began to train and train grassroots cadres. After being trained and tempered, these cadres of the vanguard army, who were mainly enthusiastic youths and old bureaucrats who had defected, had already begun to take up the lead in the grassroots units.

With the supervision of the people and the selfless supervision and balance of the clones, there are many fewer phenomena in the township of corruption, bullying of men and women, and fish and meat. After all, these grassroots cadres need to be supported by elections from below, and one of the forces that determine the fate of their careers is below. Compared with the above-dispatched personnel, the officials who only need to hold the top are much stronger.

The right to self-government popular elections is limited to the townships, mainly for the purpose of saving costs and concentrating more power to survive the primitive accumulation phase. Meng enjoys the double golden finger of history and base, so he naturally has to make full use of it, and will not be overly democratic and tie his hands and feet. But those clones were the biggest reliance on his ability to be a model of democracy, and so many people listened to his voice alone, even if the form of democracy could concentrate most of the power in his own hands.

The policies such as the subsistence allowance implemented by Meng Xiang at this time may not be the most perfect, but with the golden finger of 200,000 incomparably loyal clones, he can make up for the regret of perfection.

Such power can quickly burst out, and the most obvious ones are Wei Lihuang and Tang Enbo. One of them is in Luoyang, Zhongtiao Mountain, and the other is in Funiu Mountain. This was originally a pawn planted by Lao Jiang, but because the people around them were interested in the vanguard army, it became more and more difficult for them, and even the soldiers under him often disappeared automatically and ran to join the nearby vanguard army.

The time was short, and they could still use strict military discipline and killing chickens and monkeys to deter, but after a long time, even those low-level officers began to slip away, and the two of them became anxious.

However, the countermeasures of the two were different, Tang Enbo took the reputation of defeating the fleeing Itagaki Seishiro, and after consulting Lao Jiang, he led the army directly out of Funiu Mountain, Shangluo, Luonan and other areas, and entered Hubei one step ahead of schedule. originally planned to take root in Xiangfan, but was taken by the vanguard army. Unable to defeat the vanguard army, he could only follow Lao Jiang's orders and garrisoned in the area of Zhongxiang and Jingmen. Stubbornly blocked the vanguard army's footsteps to continue southward.

Meng Xiang didn't bother to pay attention to him, occupying a place and digesting and absorbing a place. He didn't want to make too much trouble with Lao Jiang, after all, World War II was a rare opportunity, and he couldn't care about internal fighting at home. At this time, the territory of the joint theater of operations, whether in terms of population or resources, was temporarily enough to make a profit in World War II. The rest of the land was slowly annexed, and Meng Xiang was not in a hurry to need any names. To have strength is the best power. Invisibly, Meng Xiang at this time has slowly become the most powerful person in China, and he is more effective in handling things than Lao Jiang.

This is also one of the reasons why Wei Lihuang chose to lean towards the vanguard army. Under the general trend, many people understand that the future will inevitably belong to the vanguard army, and the strength of the Central Army is too different from it.

If everyone only thought that the vanguard army was stronger than the Central Army's equipment, but in the following major wars, everyone realized that the vanguard army had surpassed the Central Army in terms of overall size in terms of numbers, personal skills, tactics, discipline, etc. The most important thing is that the vanguard army is also very rich and has the support of the people. Even the economy in the theater is much better than that in the national control zone. Every day, new factories and roaring machines can be seen everywhere on the streets, printed with goods made in China. All herald the birth of a new miracle.

Not to mention anything else, the steel output of 110,000 tons for the whole of last year alone made many people realize the strength of the vanguard army. At this time, whether it is industry to save the country, knowledge to save the country, education to save the country, the vanguard army can find new hope on the territory. Whether it is industry, the construction of new rural areas, or even compulsory education and various universities and vocational schools, the joint theater can hand over a satisfactory answer.

Those who held the idea of strengthening the country with an army were even more moved by the fact that the vanguard army had repeatedly defeated the Japanese. They knew the strength of the Japanese, and at that time they could defeat the Central Army, but they were repeatedly deflated in front of the vanguard army, and they could not turn up the storm at all. Moreover, the strength of the vanguard army is not only manifested in all kinds of artillery and tanks that far surpass the Japanese, but also in the air force, which is also overpowering the Japanese.

Even in the Navy, the new Zhenyuan was still one of the largest battleships in the world at this time. There are also four aircraft carriers, various types of cruiser destroyers, which already have the ability to defend the coastal defense of China. Although these were bought, and their overall strength was slightly inferior to that of the Japanese Navy, such strength had already entered the ranks of naval powers, and it was one of the few in the world.

Compared with the Central Army, this kind of strength is naturally not a grade, how can this not let others choose a good tree to rest?

Tang Enbo knew that his foundation was in Lao Jiang, after all, there was the righteousness of the central government, and the promotion speed was also fast, and after reaching a high position, it would be a kind of capital to invest on that side at that time.

And Wei Lihuang's promotion position has reached the apex for the time being. Together with Meng Xiang, he received the rank of second-class general. If it is not a hegemon like Li Zongren, Yan Xishan and others, it is difficult to become a first-class general. And he is not Lao Jiang's descendant, because he was dissatisfied with some of Lao Jiang's measures before, so it is not unusual for him to choose to favor the vanguard army.

Zhang Zizhong, Fu Zuoyi, and even Yan Xishan all took refuge in the past, and they all lived a very nourishing life, which made Wei Lihuang feel a lot more relieved.

He is not the only one who is tempted, there are many warlords from all walks of life. Because after two or three years, Lao Jiang's money pocket is not rich, and the comparison of the vanguard army next to him shows that the future of defecting to the vanguard army is bright.

The old foundations of the Northwest Army and the Northeast Army were almost annexed by the vanguard army, and the southwest princes still kept their own territory without much pressure, but many of their subordinates chose to defect on their own. After all, there are few rich princes in the southwest, and they can't resist the temptation of high salaries in the vanguard army. Even the Sichuan army defected to the vanguard army in large numbers.

At the beginning, the Sichuan army shouted the slogan of not driving away the Japanese invaders and not returning home, and walked to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War. Although there are many economic and political reasons behind this, it is undeniable that the blood of hundreds of thousands of Sichuan people has been sprinkled all over the land of China. In this time and space, because of the rise of the vanguard army, it has attracted a lot of Sichuan army foundations, so the vanguard army has become the object of defection of many Sichuan troops who have a home and cannot return.

In addition to the generous pension of the soldiers who were fed and drunk, compared with the other soldiers who died and could not find the corpses, the general treatment of the vanguard army was another reason that attracted those hot-blooded men to come.

Honor and interests, the vanguard army can be satisfied, this is the attraction of the vanguard army. Gradually, the unstable noise in the joint theater slowly disappeared.