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Feng Yuxiang was silent for a long while, and finally waved his hand: "Come on, let's go back to eat... It's too late to rectify the troops now. But my brothers are all used to eating, comrades, political commissars, please be considerate of them. Wait. On the battlefield, you will know that they are all really good men! I assure you, the main force of the Jin army entrenched in Xinkou can be defeated in at most ten days! Maybe you can catch that traitor Yan Xishan."

Hearing that his partner had such confidence, Zhang Guotao smiled and glanced at the mighty army of the Third Army of the Central Army who were eating by the roadside.Three route armies, nine divisions, plus an artillery brigade with 48 cannons, looked like a blue-gray dragon.Moreover, it has also gone through the initial transformation of the CCP. Political commissars, instructors, instructors and other political cadres have been in place, and the party branch has also been set up in the company.The only thing that is lacking is that a group of old officers who finally got Feng Yuxiang are still in their positions... But as long as this army can smoothly take down Xinkou, destroy the main force of the Jin army, and win the first place in the Shanxi campaign.Zhang Guotao's alternate member of the Politburo is estimated to be able to become a full-time member, right?If this is the case, those old officers will not care about them.He shook his head and smiled, and followed Feng Yuxiang, his heart completely filled with the joy of the revolution's imminent victory.

Chapter 0486 Central Plains small battle (six)

February 19th, 25th year of the Republic of China.The first shot of the world-renowned Battle of Shanxi was finally fired on time at the front line of Xinkou, the north gate of Taiyuan!

However, this war seems to have nothing to do with Marshal Luo Yaoguo, Chief of Staff of the National Revolutionary Army. When the war started, he was in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province.There is a large natural harbor located on the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong, and it is also the home port of the Nanyang Fleet of the National Revolutionary Army Navy.But right now this port is still a huge construction site, with hill-like construction materials piled up everywhere, construction workers coming and going, and a small number of soldiers in Marine Corps uniforms, standing motionless with rifles on their shoulders on post.

A convoy of Buick cars drove into the huge military port under construction along the newly built wide and straight road, and finally stopped at a dock area that had already been built.Through the car window, Luo Yaoguo saw a few painted submarines floating near the shore, shaped like oversized canoes!These submarines looked a bit slender, with narrow and flat decks, equipped with deck artillery and anti-aircraft cannons, and the conning tower cabin was located in the middle and rear, with large Arabic numerals painted on the side with white paint. He vaguely saw one of them on board. The brush is "018".

Luo Yaoguo knew the meaning of this group of Arabic numerals, it represented that this submarine was the No.18 submarine of the National Revolutionary Army Navy Submarine Force!At present, the National Revolutionary Army Navy has a total of twenty such Type 2B submarines.

This is a product somewhere in between the German submarines of World War II and the submarines of World War I.The displacement is only 40 tons; the length is about 680 meters, the width is 400 meters, the height is 150 meters; the draft is 3 meters.The power is two MAN six-cylinder diesel engines with 533 horsepower, and two dual-power electric engines that can provide a total of 23 horsepower.The maximum speed is twelve knots on the surface and six knots underwater; the endurance is three thousand nautical miles on the surface and forty nautical miles underwater; the maximum diving depth is [-] meters.The weapon is [-]*[-]mm torpedo tube (bow); the standard crew on board is [-] people.

The car door opened, Luo Yaoguo got out of the car, stood on the pier and stared at the submarine in front of him.After a long while, he turned around slowly and smiled at a naval colonel who arrived with him: "Friends, if we go to war with the Japanese now, will your submarine force be able to attack?"

This admiral is Zhang Yiming, who graduated from the first class of Haida University. He is currently the commander-in-chief of the Navy's submarine force. He is in charge of twenty such Type 2B submarines. He is currently the only armed force in the Kuomintang Navy that is worthy of weight.Hearing Luo Yaoguo's question, Zhang Yiming stood at attention, and a flicker of madness flashed in his eyes: "Auxiliary Commander, our submarine force is ready to fight at any time! If we start the war today, I will personally command a submarine to attack Wujun Port!"

Luo Yaoguo frowned slightly, and glanced at Zhang Yiming: "What is the main mission of your submarine force? Sneak attack or disrupt trade?"

Zhang Yiming smiled: "Auxiliary Commander, according to the report of the Naval Staff Bureau, the Japanese's defense of Wugang is not tight, especially for submarines, there are many loopholes. If it is a sneak attack... it is still very sure to succeed. Of course , attacking Japanese merchant ships is our main business, and we will never forget this."

Luo Yaoguo nodded: "That's good." Then he looked at Natalie who was by his side: "How about we go up and have a look? By the way, go out to sea and dive with them."

"Okay." Natalie just smiled and nodded in agreement.

"Friends (Zhang Yiming), are you welcome?" Luo Yaoguo smiled and glanced at Zhang Yiming.

Zhang Yiming gave a respectful military salute, then made a respectful gesture, and said with a smile: "Of course we wish for the assistant commander to come, please come with me."

Approaching the No. 018 submarine, Luo Yaoguo took a closer look.The submarine was tidied up. There were two submarine officers wearing black waterproof jackets standing on the deck. One of them was instructing the sailors to operate the deck artillery and anti-aircraft cannons. The other was holding a large binoculars towards the Watching from the direction of the sea outside the port.

At this time Zhang Yiming had already jumped on the submarine, and he walked quickly to the officer who was looking around with a telescope, and said something to him.Then I saw those people on the deck of the submarine put down their work and hurriedly lined up, and two sailors prepared the boarding steps.Immediately afterwards, Zhang Yiming turned around and shouted to Luo Yaoguo and Natalie: "Navy Submarine Fleet No. 018 is ready, welcome to inspect the ship, Commander Luo!"

This was the first time in Luo Yaoguo's life that he boarded a submarine, and it was a combat submarine belonging to the Chinese Navy in [-]!When he climbed into the cabin along the hatch next to the bow gun, he took a closer look.The interior of the submarine is not as full of oil as imagined, but very neat and clean, but the roar of the diesel engine that has just started is very noisy.However, the narrowness of the space inside the boat is exactly as imagined. There is only room for one person to walk in the compartment. If someone walks towards you, both of them must lean sideways against the bulkhead to stagger. If you meet Natalie Such comrades with big boobs on their chests will be even more troublesome.

At this time, the engines and turbines on the boat began to roar louder and louder, and the degree of bumping and shaking also began to intensify.Obviously, the submarine has already started sailing, but Luo Yaoguo, who was in the inner compartment, couldn't feel whether the submarine was submerged or floating, and he didn't know whether the speed was fast or slow.However, he could feel from the skilled movements and tacit cooperation of all the crew members that the navy of the National Revolutionary Army still learned something real after being trained by the Germans for several years!With such an elite submarine force, even if the navy’s surface ships are not yet fully formed, the Chinese navy will have considerable combat effectiveness, especially for Japan, an island country that relies heavily on overseas resources and markets...

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Shanxi, Xinkou.

Feng Yuxiang, Minister of the Army Department of the Beijing Central Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Army's Third Group Army, sat on the horse with a big horse.There are a dozen strong and strong guards around... One can tell at a glance that they are guards who are eating small stoves, holding their hands on the shell guns at their waists, and looking around vigilantly.

Holding tightly in his hand a six-power military telescope produced by Zeiss China, Feng Yuxiang stared at a hill named Caijiagang about 4000 meters away.There is currently being bombarded by artillery shells, but the shelling is not very intensive, but there are sporadic black and blue smoke rising.If this scene of shelling was shown to the officers of the National Revolutionary Army who fought the Battle of Shandong, they would definitely laugh out loud!It's all about listening!However, there is no way around this. Although the Baotou Heavy Industry Base can already produce its own shells, fuzes, copper plates, explosives, primers, etc. must be "imported". The foreign exchange is very tight... Save as much as you can. Bar.

At the same time as the cannon was fired, the blue-gray figure had already formed a charge formation in front of his position.Today's main attack is the No.16 Route Army Deng Xihou's unit, Huang Yin's No.40 Sixth Division, the foundation of the Sichuan Army, who once fought against Chen Mingren in the Battle of Cangxi in Sichuan.But right now, he has been reborn and has become an elite central army with extremely strong combat effectiveness.This wave of Huang Yin threw himself into a whole brigade at once!Nearly [-] infantrymen formed several waves of blue-gray lines, slowly approaching the position of the third brigade of the second division of the Jin army on the Caijiagang plateau.

However, the defense of the Jin army is also very methodical, and the defender is Fu Zuoyi, who is famous for his defense of Zhuozhou in another time and space.His troops have been building positions and strengthening fortifications day and night for nearly a month.Chiang Kai-shek generously brought a lot of reinforced concrete barbed wire mines to the Jin army... Now the Jin army has used all their brains on their own defensive positions.Naturally, the sparse shelling just now did not destroy the Jin army's fortifications and obstacles in front of the position.

"Boom boom boom..."

The artillery of the defenders also began to fire.There is a battalion of twelve 75mm mountain guns assigned to the 150rd Brigade of the Jin Army defending the Caijiagang Highlands, and the shells seem to be quite sufficient!Uh, is it not enough to have Chiang Kai-shek, the captain of the transport brigade?There is almost a "small power" with an annual output of 20 million tons of steel behind it.The densely fired artillery shells exploded on the yellow ground, and smoke columns rose from the wavy formation of the Central Army's charge. The scattered metal fragments and violent shock waves swept past together, bringing up patches of blood mist.However, the charging central army did not stop, but let out a roar, quickened its pace and began to charge.At the same time, more than [-] machine guns and more than a dozen mortars moved to the foot of Caijiagang Mountain also began to project ammunition on the Jin army's position on the hill.A series of chains of fire swept across the forward position of the defenders, beating the Jin army almost unable to lift their heads, and mortar shells continued to explode around them, and the whole position became a purgatory of blood and fire for a while.

The machine guns of the defenders also started firing, and the firepower became more intense. Dozens of tongues of flame made a sound like the wind, knocking down the attacking Central Army one after another like cutting wheat.However, the central army's offensive formation was very scattered. As soon as the people in front were knocked down, the soldiers behind each found the terrain and crawled down.Using the terrain and features, they slowly crawled forward, and when they crawled within the effective range of the rifles, the rifles of the two sides began to shoot at each other again.

The military quality of the Jin army does not seem to be weaker than that of the Third Army commanded by Feng Yuxiang. The defense is particularly tenacious, and the firepower has an advantage.Therefore, this battle of Xinkou fell into a stalemate from the very beginning, but it only slowly consumed the lives and financial resources of both sides, until one of them couldn't stand it... All the ministries of the Third Army launched a full-line attack on the central defense line of the Jin Army. From six or seven o'clock in the morning to dusk, there was still no breakthrough, and only more than 1000 casualties were obtained.

Feng Yuxiang put down the binoculars and spit out: "Damn, these Shanxi vinegar jars are really good at defending. If we play like this, our third army can..." At this point, Feng Yuxiang suddenly became excited and hurried around. Looking down, seeing that Zhang Guotao was not by his side, he let out a sigh of relief.

Behind the Jin army's line, Wu Peifu, who was still wearing a long gown, also looked contemptuously at the battlefield in front of him.He has been standing on this hilltop all day today, watching the slowly bleeding battlefield from a distance.

"Yu Shuai, it looks like I've held on today." Yan Xishan's Mandarin with a slight Wutai accent rang in Wu Peifu's ears.Wu Peifu looked back and saw that Yan Xishan had stood behind him at some point, and was looking around and observing the battlefield with a telescope.

Wu Peifu smiled deeply: "According to their style of play, Brother Baichuan's Jin army will have no problem defending in the first half of the year. It seems that Feng Yuxiang has not made much progress in these years."

Yan Xishan frowned, and shook his head: "There is no problem here at Xinkou, but... what about the east side? There is a genuine Communist army there, and its combat power is by no means comparable to that of Feng Yuxiang's troops."

Wu Peifu pursed his lips, and walked on the hillside with his hands behind his back: "We are short of troops, so we can only let the east side go first... Fortunately, they haven't moved yet. Let Xu Cichen (Xu Yongchang) pay attention to the opponent's surprise attack, as long as If it is laid out to fight, the 2 people of the third division and the seventh brigade can always carry it for ten days and half a month. By then, the northern line should be able to beat Feng Yuxiang back."

"Will the CCP allow Feng Yuxiang to lure us with a feint attack on the northern front, and then storm the eastern front?" Yan Xishan frowned, seemingly worried.

Wu Peifu sneered coldly: "Let the direct descendants spend their lives desperately, and eat meat for miscellaneous brands? Hehe... Who in our troubled times would be so righteous? If the direct descendants are exhausted, Feng Yuxiang, a miscellaneous brand, will grow stronger...Maybe he will be the one again Defeat the general."

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The enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was also discussing the battle report that had just been received. The meeting room in the Xihua Hall was filled with smoke. Zhou Enlai did not speak, and his face was quite gloomy. He was smoking a cigarette, and it could be seen that he was also a little depressed.The battle on the front line of Xinkou was more difficult than imagined. The combat effectiveness of the Jin Army seemed to have improved compared to three years ago, and the transformation of the Third Army did not seem to have achieved the desired results.The secret telegram sent by Zhang Guotao reported the words and deeds of many former military officers who were dissatisfied with their treatment...even Feng Yuxiang's own complaints!

There was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and then the door was gently pushed open, and Gu Shunzhang, the head of the Central Special Section, entered.Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong cast slightly nervous eyes on him at the same time. They knew that what really decided the victory of Shanxi was not the battle report from the Xinkou front line, but the information about the Kuomintang sent by Gu Shunzhang.

"The news from Wuhan is that Luo Yaoguo, the chief of staff of the Kuomintang Army, has been inspecting the navy in Zhanjiang for the past two days. It is said that their navy is conducting a military exercise. He will stay there to observe the exercise and may not be able to return to Wuhan until mid-March. Chiang Kai-shek is preparing to visit Europe. He and Hu Hanmin have accepted invitations from Britain, France, Italy, Germany and other four countries, and will go there for a one-month state visit. They will leave on March [-] and return to China in April. In addition, Henan, There is also information from Shandong that the six divisions of the Kuomintang army stationed there have not shown signs of gathering, and everything seems to be normal."

Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong looked at each other and smiled, and the atmosphere in the conference room became a little more relaxed. Zhou Enlai nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "Okay! It seems...the Kuomintang reactionaries are not in a hurry to reinforce Yan Xishan in Shanxi, maybe they haven't reached an agreement yet. It’s possible that the Kuomintang wants Yan Xishan and us to consume each other’s strength, right?”

Mao Zedong snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand, took out another cigarette and lit it, and said with a deep smile: "I think the Kuomintang reactionary party doesn't like Yan Xishan himself, right? They have been merciless towards local powerful factions these years. Maybe... ...They don't mind sharing Shanxi equally with us! Enlai, do you think it is possible for us to reach a similar deal with them?"

Perhaps because the proposal to abandon the Zhili Plain was unanimously opposed by the Politburo and Soviet advisers, Mao Zedong seemed less interested in a showdown with the Kuomintang, and instead sought the possibility of a temporary compromise.For example, if Shanxi is divided equally, if the Kuomintang can agree, then the battle of Shanxi will almost be won without a fight.

"Equally... Shanxi?" Zhou Enlai slowly shook his head: "I'm afraid it will be difficult right now. We and Yan Xishan consume each other, and the Kuomintang naturally wants it. How can they be willing to share Shanxi equally with us? Unless we defeat Yan Xishan's main force , then their army may march into southern Shanxi."

"Then it is possible to reach an agreement?" Mao Zedong said slowly, his eyes wandering in the conference room: "Since the Kuomintang reactionaries want us to consume with Yan Xishan, they may also agree to share Shanxi with us...then we should think about it." The best way is to get in touch with them first and try to reach an agreement. It would be good to touch the hearts of the Kuomintang reactionaries first! Wait until we have eliminated Yan Xishan, and then decide whether to implement the agreement according to the situation. In short, we must avoid two-front warfare now , or even in the case of a three-front battle, we must concentrate our efforts to defeat Yan Xishan first, and then discuss other things."

Having said that, the members of the Politburo in the conference room have already understood Mao Zedong's strategy.Reaching an agreement with the Kuomintang to carve up Shanxi is just a delaying tactic. As long as the Kuomintang can be stabilized, it will only be a matter of time before Yan Xishan is taken down.As for whether to implement the agreement at that time, it depends on the situation at the time.

"A clever plan! A brilliant plan!" Zhou Enlai clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "Comrade Mao Zedong really deserves to be Zhuge Liang of our party! With this clever plan, we will be able to temporarily stabilize the right wing of the Kuomintang and win the victory for the final victory of the Shanxi Battle." precious time."

Chapter 0487 Central Plains small battle (seven)

By the time the sun rose on March [-] in Zhanjiang, a seaport in southwestern Guangdong province, the revolutionary war in the northern province of Shanxi had been raging for four full days.Thousands of people have been killed, and they are all Chinese!There are more Chinese people who are firing at each other with various guns for communist ideals or Yan Laoxi's foreign money.

However, this great revolutionary war does not seem to have much to do with the officers and soldiers of the Nanyang Fleet in Guangdong.In the Fleet Officers Club, young naval elites gathered in twos and threes, having a hearty breakfast, and the topic of discussion was mainly the fleet simulation confrontation exercise that had just ended.This exercise is almost also a head-to-head contest between the "warship faction" and the "aircraft carrier faction" in the National Revolutionary Army Navy.The entire Nanyang Fleet is divided into two parts, one of which plays the role of the Japanese combined fleet, mainly a few "Guangzhou-class" cruisers, but in this exercise they represent the battleship force of the Japanese Navy.The other part is the "aircraft carrier formation" composed of the "Zhongshan" aircraft carrier and several "Konigsberg" class cruisers. Their task is to "bomb" the imaginary Japanese battleship formation with carrier-based aircraft.But the record is very unsatisfactory!The aircraft carrier formation collided head-on with the "battleship formation" during the exercise, and was judged to have sunk by the exercise referee.obviously.The combat radius of the current carrier-based aircraft is too short, the ammunition load is too small, and there is no actual combat value at all...

In addition, another hot topic is the submarine squadron. Under the command of Colonel Zhang Yiming, the commander of the submarine fleet who looks a little bit crazy, they slipped into the protective circle of a destroyer and sank the imaginary Japanese battleship.There is no doubt that this is the biggest gain of this exercise! Both the "warship faction" and the "aircraft carrier faction" lost to the "submarine faction" this time.Everyone speculates that Zhang Yiming will be promoted soon, and maybe he will be the commander of the Nanyang Fleet that has been vacant!In the next stage, the development focus of the National Revolutionary Army Navy may also shift to submarines.Moreover, some people saw with their own eyes two days ago that Luo Yaoguo, chief of the general staff of the National Revolutionary Army, accompanied by Zhang Yiming, boarded the No. 018 submarine and wandered underwater for several hours.This should also be a sign of great use, right?

The same topic is also going on in the meeting room of the Nanyang Fleet Headquarters.When Luo Yaoguo, who had just finished breakfast, walked into this overly decorated meeting room, the officers in khaki shirts and black ties had already filled the chairs, and some were still standing on both sides.In the center of the conference room was a screen, and a slide projector was placed on a small table covered with a white tablecloth. The "Five Tigers of the Navy" and Navy Minister Chen Shaokuan were already seated in the first row. Seeing Luo Yaoguo coming in, everyone stood up to greet him.

"Everyone, I think you all have your own opinions on the special naval exercise that ended yesterday, right?" Luo Yaoguo nodded at everyone, waved his hand, and motioned for everyone to sit down, and he himself sat on the empty seat in the middle of the first row: "I'm here today just to hear your views, especially on the future direction of the navy, which is very important to our country."

The leader of the Battleship Faction, Major General Long Yuhui, whose gray hair was already gray, was the first to stand up, walked to the screen, and said: "This exercise proves that the aircraft carrier cannot afford the main force of the navy in a short period of time. The problem is that carrier-based aircraft have short range and low ammunition load... unless we can have aircraft engines with more than [-] horsepower, carrier-based aircraft will not be enough to pose a real threat to battleships. In addition, this exercise also exposed us The Nanyang Fleet does not pay enough attention to anti-submarine warfare, and the escort circle of the destroyer is actually easily infiltrated by the submarine force! If such a situation is encountered in actual combat, it will bring disastrous consequences!"

"However...we can't think that the anti-submarine escort capability of Japan's combined fleet is equally weak. After all, our Nanyang Fleet is a nascent naval fleet, and Japan has a well-trained navy with a long history. To defeat For them, the only way is to develop a powerful battleship force!"

Obviously, the battleship faction is not convinced by their failure...the success of the submarine attack is regarded as an accident and insufficient training.Don't think that the seemingly powerful battleship is actually an expensive and fragile weapon!A torpedo worth 2 yuan can overturn a battleship worth tens of millions of yuan!The price/performance ratio is really a bit low...

Speaking of this, Long Yuhui walked to the front of the screen and looked around the conference room: "What is the purpose of our naval power development now? It's not to be used as a toy at home, or to appreciate yourself?" The officers He smiled politely at the chief of naval staff's joke.Long Yuhui hung a yellow and blue map of the Ministry of Water Affairs on the screen, picked up a pointer and pointed, "This is a map of China's surrounding sea areas. I think that for a long time in the future, It is also the main combat area of ​​our navy. We only need to take a look at this picture to understand why we need battleships." He pointed the pointer at Taiwan Island, which is located in the lower abdomen of China, and said with a wry smile: "This island used to be ours. It was ours when I was admitted to the Nanyang Naval Academy! But now it belongs to Japan. The island controlled by the Japanese is like a lock, which firmly locks our navy in the offshore. If we want to go out to the Pacific Ocean , to fight on the real ocean, it must pass between Taiwan and Okinawa! It is obviously unrealistic to pass through the blockade of Japanese shore-based aircraft, submarines and battleships!"

"Therefore, the first mission of our navy after its rise is to seize Taiwan! If possible... and Okinawa. Only by capturing these two places can we become a true ocean-going navy and go to the ocean. Our aircraft carrier also Only then can we have a real combat sea area, otherwise... for those aircraft with a combat radius of several hundred nautical miles, they can cover all of our sea area on land airports. What do we need aircraft carriers for? We need to surround Taiwan with the same The combined Japanese fleet goes to war, we don’t need aircraft carriers! But we need battleships. So I suggest that we should design a newer type of battleship and start building it as soon as the Naval Armament Limitation Treaty expires in [-].”