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"That's good! That's good!" Luo Yaoguo laughed loudly and said:

"I'm also worried about the agreement you signed with Feng Huanzhang to divide half of Henan Province. Brother Zesheng may not know that the land in the middle of Henan Province has the most oil and water. Not only does the Beijing-Hankou Railway pass here, but also There are also abundant coal resources here. Now the construction of heavy industry in the South requires a lot of coal. If this land is in your hands, you can earn 3000 to [-] million yuan a year even by collecting coal taxes. Raise a hundred thousand strong You have enough soldiers! Don't let Feng Huanzhang take it away."

Deng Yanda grabbed the reins, turned his head to look at Luo Yaoguo, with disbelief still on his face: "I can receive so much money! It seems that this land in central Henan Province really can't be given up, it's just that... Feng Yuxiang can agree?"

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Shan County.

This small city has blocked Feng Yuxiang's [-] national army for five days!And even if Feng Yuxiang was given another five days, he would definitely not be able to beat him.This is not because the national army's combat effectiveness is poor, nor is it because of Feng Yuxiang's fighting skills.It's just that this place is originally a dangerous terrain that can't be opened by one man.From the edge of Xiaoshan Mountain to the Yellow River, there is only a short two or three kilometers of flat land. If the army wants to pass through, it has to step on the solidly fortified position of the Zhijun Army.And the one defending there is Peng Shouxin, who is famous for his defensive skills!

In the night, the tall and tall Feng Yuxiang stood quietly, and behind him stood a trusted officer of the National Army.

After several days of hard fighting during the day and being frustrated, he decided to try night fighting, and the time was tonight.Under the cover of night, tens of thousands of elites from the national army will launch a night battle to the county seat of Shanxian County and the Lijiaao Highland in the south of the city!Strive to break through the defense of the Zhijun in one fell swoop tonight.

At this time, Feng Yuxiang locked his thick eyebrows tightly, stared at the bloodshot tiger eyes, and stared at the Zhijun position in the distance.He also knew that the current national army's blindly onslaught, regardless of life and death, was simply a wrong tactic.There is no other way to fight this kind of strong fortified stronghold, but to fight steadily, advance step by step, and slowly wear away the enemy's outer positions until the core part is exposed, and then they can break through in one fell swoop.But this way of fighting is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. If...his friendly army, the 21st Division of the KMT Left, did not win the big victory in the night battle in Qi County, he can naturally spend it slowly, although his military rations are already somewhat insufficient , but it can always be paid for by "borrowing" food from the people for ten days and a half a month.

And now, he doesn't have that much time anymore.Because his enemy is not only Wu Peifu, but also the group of Kuomintang leftists who fight with him!If he spends half a month here...the most fertile land in Henan, I'm afraid he will miss it, right?Where will the expenses of the 10,000+ army come from?

At this time, more than a dozen 75mm mountain cannons of the National Army have begun to fire sporadically. The National Army has never destroyed [-] rounds of artillery shells at a time.Now the bombardment of the National Army is meant to tell the opponent that they actually have cannons.

After firing a few so-so shots, the artillerymen of the National Army will complete their mission and can wash up and go to sleep.The rest belonged to the infantry.

In the first wave of charge, about two regiments of national army officers and soldiers in gray uniforms launched a charge formation under the cover of night. More than 3000 people formed several gray human lines, walking slowly forward.After walking a few steps, they stopped and fired a few shots. The machine gun companies assigned to the two regiments also approached the enemy's positions from the flanks, covering the infantry's advance with firepower.

"Ji Shiwu (Ji Hongchang) played very well!" Feng Yuxiang praised softly.In such an urgent situation, he was able to play such a steady attack. This Ji Hongchang's is indeed extraordinary. Compared with those depressed veterans of the national army, he does not know how many times stronger.

A ball of fire suddenly rose in the wavy formation of the National Army, which was the beginning of the artillery of the Zhijun Army.Soon, dozens of regiments of fireballs soaring into the sky opened gaps in the National Army's charge formation. However, under the vigorous control of the middle and lower-level officers, they still maintained the formation of skirmishers and walked at a brisk pace. pressed up...

A row of large and small flames flickered on the distant city wall again. This was the rifle of the Zhijun firing.Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen tongues of flame spewed out from various firepower points.The continuous rattling of gunshots sounded like some sort of death-threatening sound, which frightened the officers and soldiers of the national army who were charging to lie down quickly, each looking for a favorable terrain to crawl forward.Slowly crawling forward, also returning fire from the rifle, trying to overwhelm the opponent's resistance with firepower, and charge again.But the firepower of the Zhijun is now far above that of the National Army, how can it be so easy to be overwhelmed?This situation is nothing but ammunition for both sides to continue to consume blood.

Seeing that his army had already lost the courage to go forward and charge to the death, Feng Yuxiang couldn't help spitting, and scolded his mother: "Damn! This way of fighting can't win Shan County for another ten days! How can this Ji Shiwu be so unflattering?"

"Marshal, we can't..." Lu Zhonglin's voice suddenly rang in Feng Yuxiang's ear, but he hesitated, as if hesitating to speak.

"What can't be said? If you have something to say, say it, and if you have to fart, let it go!" Feng Yuxiang turned his head and glanced at Lu Zhonglin who was standing behind him, and cursed: "Damn, why are you Lu Ruibo acting like a bear?"

"Marshal, Henan is now a situation where two tigers are fighting, we can't waste our strength here!" Lu Zhonglin stomped his feet, as if uttering the words from the bottom of his heart that had been suppressed for a long time.

"I know it's two tigers fighting! If I don't defeat the tiger Wu Peifu, why should I give us the mountains and rivers of Henan? Where can my 10,000+ army go to raise military salaries? Even if it is with the Communist Party, I will What right do you have to speak?"

Feng Yuxiang couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and gave Lu Zhonglin a hard look with his blood-red angry eyes. If it wasn't for the fact that Lu Zhonglin was a rare think tank under his hands, he would have slapped him right now.

"Commander! You didn't understand what I meant. Now it's not you and Wu Peifu who are fighting against two tigers, but you and Hu Jingyi and Deng Yanda are fighting in Henan! Wu Peifu is already the defeated general, and he will either fall or go north to Shanxi. There is no such thing in Henan. He’s on the right place. It’s the 21st Division of the KMT’s left that is really competing with us for this piece of fat in Henan!” Lu Zhonglin knelt down at Feng Yuxiang’s feet, crying and continuing to speak out.

Feng Yuxiang's expression improved slightly, but he still reprimanded with a serious face: "Zuibo, you are confused! Now we can only advance and not retreat. If we don't defeat Wu Peifu quickly, the territory in Henan may be snatched away by others." It's gone! Where is our share?"

"No! I'm not confused! It's the commander who is confused!" Lu Zhonglin climbed a few steps, hugged Feng Yuxiang's thigh, and cried, "Master, think about it, how can we come to Henan? Scraping the ground? Don’t rely on the 10,000+ soldiers in your hand! As long as you have soldiers in your hand, they will always draw some oil and water for you. If... our strength is exhausted, even if Wu Peifu is captured, what can we do? Like? At most, I ask you to go to Wuhan to be a committee member and support it.”

These words seemed to be enlightenment, which immediately made Feng Yuxiang sober up a lot.The current situation is not that whoever kills Wu Peifu will belong to Henan.If so, Wu Peifu's entire army might be wiped out in the Qi County night battle.Aren't those leftists of the Kuomintang letting the tiger go back to the mountain just to consume their own strength?If they consume themselves completely, they will monopolize Henan, right?

Lu Zhonglin had already stood up at this time, leaned close to Feng Yuxiang's ear, and said in a low voice: "Commander, the battle in Henan is about to end...what we can't get on the battlefield can only be fought at the negotiating table .And this is the only soldier we can rely on at the negotiating table!"

"If you can't get it on the battlefield, you can get it on the negotiating table? Is Liao Zhongkai really that easy to talk to?" Feng Yuxiang frowned and shook his head.

Lu Zhongli smiled deeply: "In Henan, we are fighting with the two tigers of the left wing of the Kuomintang, while the right wing and the left wing of the Kuomintang are fighting! I am afraid that Liao Zhongkai and Deng Yanda are not only focusing on Henan Province, but the entire Kuomintang? It is the strength of the first division. With these strengths, why should we fight in the Kuomintang? Only by drawing our 10,000+ army can we fight against the rightists. Therefore, as long as our strength is still there, Liao Zhongkai and Deng Yanda will definitely come in the end win us over..."

"...Even if Liao Zhongkai doesn't want us, don't there still be Kuomintang rightists? Hu Hanmin, Xu Chongzhi, Chiang Kai-shek, and even Luo's uncles and nephews probably don't want the Kuomintang leftists to return to the center to compete with them for power and profit? With the Kuomintang's signboard, Liao Zhongkai can't use force against us casually. So we are not afraid of his military strength, and at worst, we will bring the lawsuit to Sun Dapao. Even if Sun Dapao wants to protect the calf, there are so many rightist bigwigs to help us Tell me, what do we have to be afraid of?"

"Yes! You're right." Feng Yuxiang patted his thigh and said with a smile: "Brother Ruibo! You really deserve to be my brainsack. I was the one who spoke too aggressively just now. I'm sorry for you. I will kneel down and apologize to you..."

Chapter 0306 Two Tigers Fighting ([-])

Shanxi, Datong City.

The sound of the cannons rumbled, blowing up the Jin army's position on the opposite side into a cloud of smoke.On the artillery position of the Red Army, 36 Soviet-made 76.2mm field guns were lined up on the spot. The shell casings had been piled up as high as a hill. The gunners were all naked, and they loaded the shells into the barrels and fired them like thunder. go out.

The commanders and fighters of the Red Army, taking the battalion as a unit, formed dense skirmish lines to attack the positions of the Jin army around Datong.

The Communist Party members and youth league members charged forward, and the Red Army soldiers followed closely behind.With an earth-shattering cry, they rushed to the hills and high grounds one after another.The soldiers of the Jin army, under the supervision of the officers, stood firm and resisted with all their strength. However, as long as those brave red soldiers rushed into the position and handed over their swords, the Jin army would often retreat and lose their position.The bright red flag of the Red Army flew high above the position immediately.

Every time the red flag is planted on a high ground that has just been captured, the Red Army commanders and fighters in the entire battlefield and the members of the peasant association who came to help out will give out huge cheers!

The camp of the Red Army in the north of Datong City was full of people coming and going.The poor and lower-middle peasants in Shanxi, mobilized by the Communist Party, pushed wheelbarrows and drove mule-drawn carts to continuously transport supplies and ammunition up, and evacuate the wounded.On the periphery of the battlefield, teams of Red Army cavalry galloped around to guard the battlefield and scout the enemy's situation.The siege of Datong by the Second Front of the Red Army is in full swing!

With an order on October 25, the first and second front armies of the Red Army entered Shanxi from the west and north.Under the command of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, the Red Army on the western front crossed the Yellow River in Wubao County, even conquering Wubao, Liulin, Luliang, Zhongyang and other counties.The Red Second Front Army commanded by Zhou Enlai and He Long on the northern front made relatively slow progress, and had been under the city of Datong for more than ten days.

Datong is an important town in northern Shanxi, and it is also close to the Suiyuan Soviet Area of ​​the Communist Party, so Yan Xishan attaches great importance to its defense.Kong Fanxuan, a famous general of the Jin Army, was appointed to command the Second Division of the Jin Army, plus the No.11 Brigade, Hand Grenadier Brigade and an artillery regiment to guard against death.He also spent huge sums of money to buy steel bars and cement to build permanent reinforced concrete fortifications inside and outside Datong City, in an attempt to turn Datong into an unbreakable anti-communist fortress.

However, the weapons and equipment of the Red Army in this time and space are not millets plus rifles. Since Suiyuan and the Northern Shaanxi Soviet Area are close to Outer Mongolia in the north and connected to the Soviet Union, they also received "selfless" assistance from the Soviet Union's big brother.Now the first, second, and fourth front armies of the Red Army have an artillery regiment equipped with 24 Russian-made 1902 field guns.These cannons showed their prowess during the Red Army's Eastern Expedition, especially in the battle of Datong. Army defense line.After more than ten days of fierce fighting, all the outer positions of Datong fell.The more than 2 defenders commanded by Kong Fanxuan can only gather at the core positions inside and outside the Datong City Wall, and while resisting stubbornly, they have to ask Yan Xishan in Taiyuan City for help.

But at this time, Yan Xishan could no longer send reinforcements to Datong.Yan Xishan's Jin army now has four divisions and eight brigades with a total strength of about [-]. Among them, two divisions and twelve brigades were established by Yan Xishan, and two divisions and four brigades followed Xu Yongchang to Shanxi. Former National Army troops.Now these troops are either struggling to resist the Red Army on the western front, or they are surrounded in Datong City, or have been wiped out by the Red Army.Even Taiyuan City, the old nest, has only a small number of garrison troops left.

In the Warlord's Office in Taiyuan City.Yan Xishan, Zhao Daiwen and Jia Jingde sat silently in the study.Today Yan Xishan didn't even bother to go to the command room, and when he went, he was full of news of defeated soldiers asking for help, and he had no soldiers to send.At this time, Yan Xishan was holding a freshly drafted Xiaye Tongdian in his hand, and looked at it over and over for an unknown amount of time.General Counselor Zhao Daiwen and Secretary-General Jia Jingde sat aside, their faces livid.

The room was quiet, only the sound of paper shaking could be heard.

At the end, Yan Xishan shook his hands, put the paper on the table, covered his face with his hands, and sighed deeply: "It's been a dream for 15 years! It's time to wake up...but I, Yan Xishan, am I right? What about those subordinates who have followed me for many years! I, Yan Xishan, are all incompetent, and everyone is in vain in the end!"

Hearing Yan Laoxi's lament.Jia Jingde felt sour in his heart, and almost burst into tears.He joined Yan Xishan's shogunate in the first year of the Republic of China and became the secretary-general, and he has been doing it for 15 years now!He couldn't figure it out, how could this warlord who was regarded as a first-class "diligent government and love the people" in the Republic of China be about to fail!And it's like a traitor that everyone shouts and beats.If you want to say that Yan Xishan knows all the bad things, and he has a conscience, he is relatively rare among Chinese warlords.

And this Shanxi can be regarded as a rare paradise in the north. After 15 years of troubled times, under the management of Yan Xishan, Shanxi has been indistinguishable from the peaceful and prosperous times.Leng has not suffered a military disaster, but also repaired a lot of railways, roads and water conservancy facilities.It can be regarded as benefiting the people, but when the Communist Party came, why did the people still respond in groups to support the Red Army?

"Brother Baichuan." General Counselor Zhao Daiwen, who had been silent at the side, sighed, and said, "We haven't reached the last moment yet, so it's better not to send out this telegram for the time being."

"Yes! Baigong, we can still ask the central government for help." Jia Jingde was also busy giving advice to Yan Xishan.I am afraid that the only one who can save Shanxi now is the Central Committee of the Feng Faction?

Yan Xishan glanced at the two confidants, shook his head and sighed: "If the soldiers of the Feng family enter our Shanxi, I will go to the wild in the end. And...the Feng family is in financial difficulties now. Seeing the prosperity of our Shanxi, isn't it... ...I can't do something like this to lure wolves into the house. At that time, I will not only have to go out, but also bear the reputation of harming the people. It's too uneconomical, I'd better go out as soon as possible..."

Zhao Daiwen took a deep breath, crumpled the Xiaye Tongdian drafted by Yan Xishan himself, and threw it into a corner.He glanced at the depressed Yan Xishan, and said with a sneer, "Brother Baichuan. We really haven't reached that time yet. Even if we don't want to be entrusted with the family, we still have a soldier to use. Let's ask Wu Ziyu to lead the troops into Jin Dynasty." !"

"Wu Ziyu?" Yan Xishan's eyes widened, only looking at Zhao Daiwen.

Zhao Daiwen's face was serious, frowning, as if he was thinking hard: "Wu Ziyu still has [-] soldiers, and he is also known as an elite. It should be better than our Jin army with little actual combat experience, but we invite them to come and It's not for dealing with the Red Army. It's for defending against the Feng Army!"

Yan Xishan's eyes widened, just looking at Zhao Daiwen.Zhao Daiwen's face was sombre, and he talked eloquently: "The current situation in the Northland is actually that the Communist Party is fighting against the Feng Faction for the world! It's their two tigers fighting, and we, irrelevant passers-by, have become food for them to fill their stomachs and strengthen their strength. We are this passerby, and Wu Ziyu is also a passerby who is about to be eaten now. Now we two passers-by can fight for a way to survive. I suggest that we invite Wu Ziyu and Fengjun to enter Jin at the same time, and we form a group with Wu Ziyu's alliance Hold tight to the city, and invite the Feng army to fight the Red Army in the field... let them go to the two tigers to fight, and we will be passers-by watching."

"This... can it work?" Yan Xishan hesitated for a moment.

Zhao Daiwen smiled deeply: "If it works, we still have a way to survive. If it doesn't work... how about we go to the wild with Brother Baichuan and go to Shanghai to be an apartment?"

Yan Xishan stroked his forehead and said with a wry smile: "Brother Cilong is right. This time we are treating a dead horse as a living horse. If we can do it, we can escape disaster. If it's not a big deal, we'll just go to the wild!"

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After the night battle in Qi County, the power distribution map in Henan is changing almost every day.Light blue, which represents the left wing of the Kuomintang, is expanding rapidly, almost including the entire Henan Province.First, Kaifeng, the capital of Henan Province, was occupied by the Cavalry Brigade of the 15st Division on November 21th, 21th year of the Republic of China. The Qingtian Bairi flag and the five-color flag were slowly raised in front of the gate of the Henan Governor's Office at the same time.Three days later, on November 42th, the 40nd Brigade of the [-]st Division led by Li Yunlong (real person), a famous general of the Shaanxi Army with the same name as the protagonist in a later TV series, captured the important city at the intersection of the Beijing-Hanzhou Line and the Longhai Line without bloodshed. Zhengzhou.On November [-]th and [-]th, the First Division of the Henan Army, which had defected to the leftists of the Kuomintang, successively captured Xinxiang, Puyang on the north bank of the Yellow River, and Anyang, which had been abandoned before.On the same day, the No.[-] Brigade commanded by Jiang Guangnai also captured Xuchang, an important city in central Henan Province, and the cavalry brigade commanded by Li Jicai also captured Shangqiu, an important city in eastern Henan.After another day, the Kuomintang rightists in the south finally couldn't hold back anymore, and sent troops northward into Xinyang, which had been abandoned by the Zhijun Army. Control is in hand.

November 15, [-]th year of the Republic of China.Kaifeng City, Henan Governor's Office.