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Chapter 1034 The Bashu Crisis

An Yi's speech at the Lushan Regiment Training Corps made Chiang Kai-shek very displeased, and under the current excellent situation of gathering the strength of the whole country to suppress the Communists and winning successive victories, An Yi did not mention the suppression of the Communists and shouted anti-Japanese resistance, which ran counter to the strategy that Chiang Kai-shek was currently pursuing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Fortunately, An Yi did not criticize the British colonists who were negotiating with the central government in his speech, nor did he turn the finger at the Americans who ostensibly uphold justice, but for several years have shamelessly plundered China in the economic, trade, and cultural fields, especially through the Silver Act at the end of May, which has aroused widespread resentment among the people, but it still makes Chiang Kai-shek and the various advisers he invited to feel uneasy.

Although none of the European and American military advisers criticized An Yi's scathing speeches, in his private meetings and discussions, they all believed that the nationalist army was difficult to control and command. The attitude of the military advisers to gain and lose, as well as the helplessness of the new generation of Chinese generals and the army represented by An Yi and An Jiajun, have an increasingly tough attitude towards Europe and the United States, and they are gradually grasping real power in the army, which reflects the complex mentality of each team from one side. Germany's nationalism after Hitler came to power caused widespread concern and fear in the rest of the world, and now China is also showing this tendency, and the existence of the Funaissa Society, a fabled fascist organization, has increased the suspicion of other countries, but the Chinese generals generally welcomed it.

Afterwards, Chiang Kai-shek asked An Yi, why didn't he talk about the current overall situation of suppressing the Communist Party, and why didn't he consider the feelings and faces of the advisers on the rostrum? An Yi's answer surprised Chiang Kai-shek very much, and he had nothing to say.

An Yi's answer was: Now that the battlefields of all walks of life are victorious, that proves that the strategy of encirclement and suppression formulated by the commission is correct. Besides, the training regiment has been studying the great theory of "three points of military affairs, seven points of ***", and I dare not be ugly. As for the fear that my remarks will arouse the dissatisfaction of the advisers on various matters, there is no need for me, because what I have listed is the facts that have happened and are happening, and no one can deny them, and besides, knocking on these arrogant military advisers will only do our middle and senior commanders good and not harm. To put it bluntly, the military advisers who serve in the Central Military Academy and Training Corps are all paid to work, and they are subordinate to our workers, and they are not qualified to make irresponsible remarks about our internal affairs, and the work they have to do is to teach them their military skills and turn the principal's ideas into realistic and feasible plans, which is worthy of their share of the rich remuneration.

Chiang Kai-shek was helpless about An Yi's answer, and waved him away. This time, from the enthusiastic response of more than 2,000 trainees of the officer training corps, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly discovered that An Yi's influence among the officers and men of the army was slowly growing, especially most of the middle and low-ranking officers, who simply regarded An Yi as their role model and goal.

What made Chiang Kai-shek even more uneasy was that the officers below the battalion level in the divisions of the Central Army were basically from the seventh, eighth, and ninth phases of the Central Military Academy, and some came from the non-commissioned officer schools in old Nanchang and later in Syria, and these graduated officers who went to the grassroots level to lead troops respected An Yi as their teacher and commander, and through books, broadcasts and movies such as "Model Battalion" and "Iron and Blood Hero", through the study and study of the Shanghai War of Resistance and the Great Wall War of Resistance, An Yi's character and military talent were greatly admired. Many have even reached the point of near-blindness. In addition, the military industrial enterprises led by An Yi are very competitive, and the weapons and ammunition they produce are not inferior to the original goods purchased from European and American countries, and the weapons that every officer and soldier sees and touches every day are far superior to those purchased from Germany and the United States in terms of design, manufacturing quality, and craftsmanship, and the price is still about 20 percent cheaper.

Another point is the most important, in the past few years, every major disaster in the land of China, An Yi will come forward, run again and again to call on all walks of life across the country to lend a helping hand, and he has also paid a huge amount of money to purchase batches of urgently needed disaster relief food and send it to the victims. By the end of last year, An Yi had resettled nearly 10 million homeless victims across the country, and hundreds of millions of victims across the country had benefited. The vast majority of the officers and soldiers in the various divisions of the Central Army are poor children, and they are also like the fathers and villagers in their hometowns, brothers and sisters, thank An Yi for his kindness, praise the deeds of An Jiajun, and then regard this as a kind of faith.

Taking the current severe drought in Lianghu, Huanghuai, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Henan as an example, An Yi announced that he had only been the deputy director of the Disaster Relief Committee for only 10 days, and he only made two speeches to all walks of life and people in the disaster areas across the country. Tens of millions of people in the Jiangbei region have stopped their southward journeys and are returning to their homes in steady succession after seeing hope of survival.

An Yi is extremely cheerful and efficient in the distribution of disaster relief funds and material allocation, the only requirement is that the garrison generals and all officers and soldiers should take care of the disaster victims as their relatives and parents, and said that they will give the troops and generals who have made outstanding achievements in the disaster relief spiritual and material double rewards, and give priority to solving the problem of equipment for these troops.

For this reason, even Han Fuqu, chairman of Shandong Province, who has always been unruly and disobedient to the central government, gave An Yi a thumbs up and said something like "No wonder Liangchen (Sun Liangcheng) and other old brothers respect General An."

All this gave An Yi a high prestige and reputation among all walks of life in the country, especially in the army, and Chiang Kai-shek felt deeply worried and uneasy about it whenever he thought of it.

On the afternoon of the day the resolution was announced, Zhou Chongan, who had taken up the post of deputy general manager of China's Southwest Bank after quitting the National Industrial and Commercial Bank, took the initiative to call Chairman Jiang and President Wang, who were in charge of the Central Committee's meeting, and took the initiative to purchase 10 million of the public bonds in the name of the trust and support of the financial and industrial circles in southwest China for the central government. Chiang Kai-shek, in particular, was a little more suspicious.

Almost at the same time, the news of the defeat of the Communists came from Sichuan, and the main force of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Red Army suddenly launched a large-scale counterattack under the command of Xu Xiangqian, and broke the Sichuan Army's Li Jiayu's Third Route Army and Yang Sen's Fourth Route Army within half a day.

Chiang Kai-shek, who served as the commander-in-chief of the national suppression of the Communist Party, was anxious after receiving the telegram, and on the one hand ordered the troops of the Fujian and Jiangxi battlefields to brace their spirits and fight steadily, and on the other hand, he urgently summoned He Guoguang, director of the Chongqing camp, and Zeng Guangqing, secretary general, to come back to report on their work, and at the same time called Liu Xiang to appease him, suggesting that he take the initiative to negotiate with Liu Wenhui, chairman of Sichuan Province, and work together to exterminate the armed forces.

In the past month and a half, the Sichuan army has suffered setbacks in suppressing the communist units, lost troops and lost generals, and the internal contradictions of the Sichuan army have been full of complaints, and Liu Xiang has sent several telegrams to Chiang Kai-shek to send more troops into Sichuan to help in the battle, but Chiang Kai-shek has been unable to make a decision for one reason or another. During the period, under the advice of the General Staff and the European and American Military Advisory Group, Chiang Kai-shek twice wanted to transfer An Yi to the front line in northern Sichuan and serve as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, the first time was because Yang Yongtai and other henchmen were worried that An Yi would take the opportunity to unify Bashu and put it on hold, and the second time was that the worsening disaster situation needed An Yi, only An Yi, who was rich and wealthy and had high prestige in the eyes of the whole people, could be competent for disaster relief work and appease the people, so Chiang Kai-shek could only step up the allocation of military supplies to Liu Xiang and allocate special military salaries to encourage him. The three main divisions of the Central Army stationed in Chongqing and eastern Sichuan were instructed to go all out to join the ranks of the Sichuan Army, and generously handed over the command of the three divisions to Liu Xiang.

However, the sudden attack of the Red Army of the Huang Han Division on the Sichuan-Hubei border, as well as the successful breakthrough of the Red Army of the Helong Division into the western Hubei region, effectively contained the three main divisions of the Central Army, together with Liu Xiang's two security divisions, were also dragged on the front line in eastern Sichuan and could not move, and the only remaining division of the Central Army always held on to Chongqing, refusing to obey Liu Xiang's dispatch on the grounds of protecting Chongqing's defense.

Although Liu Xiang knew that a division of Lao Chiang stationed in Chongqing could not be mobilized, in order to vent the resentment in his chest, he still kept ordering the division to go north to suppress the communist battlefield, and the two sides immediately became deadlocked, and the relationship was extremely tense.

He Guoguang and Zeng Guangqing strictly abided by Chiang Kai-shek's orders, did everything possible to maneuver, and appeased them, which made Liu Xiang stop fighting angrily, but now that the Sichuan army was defeated and retreated on all fronts, Liu Xiang's anger was ignited again, and he finally stopped doing it when he had nothing to do.

Two days after An Yi arrived in Nanjing, he and Zhang Cheng, who had returned from studying in Germany, and more than 20 other old subordinates gathered together to solicit everyone's opinions and discuss how to give full play to everyone's knowledge and talents.

Several overseas Chinese leaders said bitterly to An Yi that the environment in Shanghai has become more and more unsuitable for the survival of the Belarusian expatriate, affected by the appreciation of silver, there have been signs of currency shortage in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, factories have been shut down, and economic development has almost come to a standstill, but the influx of people from all over the world and the wealthy class in China is still crowded with Shanghai, the oriental metropolis, and the Belarusian refugees who do not have any status in the first place cannot be at all in the living index. The safety of life and property was not guaranteed in Shanghai and other parts of China, and most of the last batch of Belarusian expatriates who had evacuated the three northeastern provinces belonged to the poor class, and most of the occupations engaged in in the northeast were manual labor, and the best were only teachers and factory technicians.

Although the Russian government also made a promise among the Belarusian diaspora that they would not be guilty of the past after returning to their homeland, almost all of the previous batch of Belarusians who happily returned to their homeland were arrested, imprisoned, interrogated, and purged, and only one of those who survived by luck did not dare to risk going back this time.

In the minds of these suffering White Russians, there is only one savior for them, and that is An Yi.

Since the first time they received An Yi's help, more than 100,000 Belarusian refugees abandoned by their motherland and the world have settled down in the old Nanchang, Xiangxi and the emerging industrial and commercial city of Syria, and gradually lived a peaceful and prosperous life. Hundreds of people were fortunate enough to become officers of the military education and research department of the Anjia Army, and all the Belarusian expatriates were protected by the law and accepted, helped and cared for by the kind and enthusiastic Chinese people.

Countless Belarusian men and women gave birth to their own offspring in a stable and prosperous life, and hundreds of Belarusian young men and women began to intermarry with Chinese youth, forming a strange but very peaceful and happy family. Therefore, the overseas Chinese leaders of Belarus pinned the hope of the last group of compatriots who fled from the Northeast to continue to survive on the great benefactor of their own nation, An Yi.

An Yi very warmly received four overseas Chinese leaders who were familiar with Belarus, and after several years of communication, everyone became old friends, and Belarus's support for the cause and ideals of An Yi Group also made An Yi have deep respect for Belarus.

While they were discussing, an urgent order from Chairman Chiang flew in, and An Yi was no longer polite, and took out a map to point to the Simao area in southern Yunnan, clearly pointing out that this would be the next settlement of White Russia.

The four White Russian overseas Chinese leaders immediately cheered, stepped forward one by one, hugged An Yi, and thanked excitedly - they all knew that Simao, which An Yi was constantly investing heavily in the construction of, and the southern Yunnan region, which was full of opportunities to make a fortune in the eyes of the French and the ubiquitous businessmen of Europe and the United States, would soon become a huge new city, which would be safer, more beautiful, and more suitable for jobs than the prosperous Syrian province today.

An Yi quickly rushed from Nanjing to Lushan, and before he entered the official residence of the chairman of the committee, Wang Shihe quietly told him that Mr. Guofu, Mr. Yongzhi, Mr. Changqing, and the heads of the three headquarters of the Central Military Commission are here, and they are waiting for you to come to the meeting.

An Yi immediately realized that the fate of Sichuan had reached a decisive moment.