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"Don't worry, Xiao Sun, this matter is not as simple as finding the Japanese desperately. Specifically, it also involves the transformation of your current subordinates so that they have basic military literacy. Isn’t it? I’ve done a little research on the situation of your team. It’s far from the regular army, not to mention, even compared with Japan’s third-line supply troops, the gap is not 01:30 points. So the first item It is to transform your team, what do you think?"

Sun Meiyao frowned unconsciously and said: "Chief Bai, this is indeed a problem. My team is different from the Youth Army. Strictly speaking, it is a team pulled together by poles. Apart from myself, there are dozens of other people, big and small. Boss, it is really difficult to make them full of fighting power like the army. But I will do my best to do this job well, please rest assured, Chief of Staff Bai!"

Bai Chongxi shook his head and said, "I'm not worried about your loyalty to the national government, but you can't make good use of the army in your hands. Hard work will only make the situation more complicated." , and the attack on the logistics transportation line requires a somewhat gangster team to do it, and the regular army may not be effective in doing this job."

Sun Meiyao couldn't understand, so he asked softly, "What do you mean, Chief of Staff Bai?"

Bai Chongxi said with a smile: "I will send a group of officers who are good at guerrilla warfare and mountain warfare to your army, and at the same time replace the equipment for your army. You still have time, so you hurry up and cooperate with these officers to complete the task of your troops. Transformation is enough, there is no need to rush, haste makes waste, understand?"

Sun Meiyao nodded to express her understanding, and then suddenly thought of something: "Chief Bai, when I came, I discussed with all the big and small leaders in the village, and everyone is willing to be recruited by the Nationalist Youth Army, it's just a matter of the number. "

Bai Chongxi proudly said: "I have heard the report on this matter. The official number of the youth army is not so easy to get, but it's not that you can't get the official number because you are a bandit, but you need real guns to get the official number." Show off your combat achievements, understand?"

Sun Meiyao nodded and said, "I understand, it's just that what should our team be called to the outside world right now? It's always inconvenient to recruit without a name."

Bai Chongxi nodded and said: "As soon as the war starts, you should set up the banner of resisting Japan and saving the country. As for the name, you should call it Shandong Anti-Japanese and Saving the Communist Party. You can decide for yourself about recruiting troops. Don't affect your completion of the task. The team is too complicated. It is beneficial for you to carry out operations to break diplomatic relations behind enemy lines..."

Sun Meiyao was startled, nodded immediately and said: "I understand, I must pay attention."

Bai Chongxi shook his head and said: "There is one thing you must understand. When this battle is over, the country will be unified. Since the unification is completed, the existence of local warlords and separatist forces will not be allowed. This must be kept in mind , don’t have any bad thoughts.”

Chapter 438 The Arrival of War

War always comes when people are not prepared, but this is for ordinary people.For high-level people with decision-making power, war is always transparent.

Throughout July, there were voices of peace everywhere, and Wang Zhenyu's direct party, the National Socialist Party, was also active at the National Congress in Nanjing. The members of the National Socialist Party made great efforts to impeach the military committee.Compared with members of several other political parties, members of the National Socialist Party are very organized and disciplined, so members of other political parties in the National Assembly call them radicals or members of Qiu Ba.However, this kind of congressman showed amazing fighting power at the critical moment, and reached a consensus among the representatives of the National Assembly very efficiently. More than two-thirds of the congressmen who voted on the day of *** would vote against it without hesitation. .It is basically certain that this impeachment case is stillborn.

To sum up, the Japanese spies lurking in Nanjing even came to an important conclusion that Southern China will not enter Shandong in the near future.

Now it is the turn of the main battle in Japan, represented by Lu Xiangyiyi, Tanaka. The mobilization order for ten divisions has been issued, and the three divisions that plan to go into battle have also arrived in Qingdao. It will be a lot of fun to stay the same and adapt to the changes.I can't explain why, but Tanaka's personal political future must be explained. The Japanese are worthy of the essence of Chinese culture and never show mercy to losers. No wonder later generations of officials always try to turn bad things into good things. Can't afford to lose.It is not without exaggeration to say that if Tanaka's action this time does not have any results in the end, it will even implicate the entire Hara Kei cabinet.

After thinking over and over again, Tian Zhongyi finally decided that even if it was a seduction, he would let Nanzhina send troops to Shandong. . .

As for the bait to seduce Southern China, of course it was Zhang Zongchang, the dog-meat general. Yoshihiro Tanaka had an insight into Zhang Zuolin's conspiracy early on.The reason why he didn't point it out is because to a certain extent Zhang Zuolin's conspiracy was in line with Tanaka's strategic assumptions.

Now this idea that is in the interests of everyone has a big problem. Wang Zhenyu doesn't follow everyone's routine at all, even if he gets Shandong for nothing.Yoshiichi Tanaka even had to wonder if Touyamaman's peaceful journey was too effective, and Wang Zhenyu had obviously sharpened his sword and mobilized the army to solve the unification problem by force, but suddenly there was no news.Can the national government really restrain such a big warlord as Wang Zhenyu?

Tanaka Yoshiichi thought over and over again, in order to get rid of the current predicament, he still chose to fly to Beijing in person to have a very crucial secret meeting with his good brother Zhang Zuolin. . .

Although Beijing's central government's finances have long been stretched to the point where it can't make ends meet, the treasury is also empty enough to run mice.But in line with the principle that no one can lose to the leader, and no one can suffer from the chief.Zhang Zuolin's office and residence in Beijing, Zhongnanhai Jurentang's maintenance work is still top-notch.You can't see the decadent atmosphere in Beijing here, and the royal style is still everywhere here.The guards, who are tall, serious, and in beautiful uniforms, maintain a high degree of vigilance and strictly check every person who enters and exits.The waiters in white western-style servant clothes were shuttled to the main hall to serve food, and there was no end to the flow. I don't know how many people Dashuai Zhang will invite for dinner today?

When Tanaka Yoshiichi walked into Jurentang accompanied by Yang Yuting, he was also stunned by the luxurious life here.He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that he had actually made history. He rescued Zhang Zuolin, a bandit, just to win the Russo-Japanese War for the empire.But now it seems that this humble little bandit has grown into the actual controller of the Central Government of China.All this seems like a world away. It seems that China is indeed an inferior nation, and such things will not happen in Japan.At this moment, Tanaka Yoshiro only remembered the so-called excellent national theory, but ignored a historical fact. What is the situation of Tokichiro Kinoshita?

The meeting between Tanaka and Zhang Zuolin was extremely confidential, and even a third person was not allowed to be present.The results of the talks were not announced to the public. The only known result was that after Tanaka left, Zhang Zuolin urgently summoned his confidant and beloved general Zhang Zongchang.Zhang Zongchang left Jurentang three hours later, but instead of returning to his residence, he took Zhang Zuolin's float (special train) to Shandong overnight. . .

It was already late at night when we got off the train, and the senior generals of the Zhi-Shandong Allied Forces, who had already received the telegram from Beijing, had already left the women under the covers and their opium pipes and rushed to Jinan Railway Station to wait for Zhang Zongchang's arrival.

Zhang Zongchang, however, was thinking about what Zhang Zuolin had said to him, and looked at the generals standing neatly on the platform, he did not get off the car for a long time. . .

Neither Zhang Zuolin nor Zhang Zongchang expected that even with such secrecy, their conspiracy with the Japanese would appear on Wang Zhenyu's desk in less than 72 hours.

"Zhou Lan, is this information reliable?" Wang Zhenyu is not afraid that he will not be able to get the information now. I am afraid that no one in the entire Republic of China attaches so much importance to espionage work except himself.What he is afraid of now is false information. This kind of information often kills people. Sometimes it is better to have no information.

Zhou Lan said in a deep voice: "Commander, please rest assured that the source of this information is absolutely reliable. The people lurking around Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Zongchang are very reliable. They basically don't contact each other. This time they activated it automatically. This is also our agreement, unless the news is true, it will never be activated. As for how they obtained this information, please allow me to keep it secret, I can only say that it is not easy for them to obtain this information."

Naturally, Wang Zhenyu knew that such a confidential meeting would not allow a third person to be present, but Wang Zhenyu knew about the introduction of a secret technology by the Military Intelligence Bureau, that is, bugs.Strictly speaking, Wang Zhenyu personally approved the introduction of this technology, but this is a secret only known to He Jian in the Military Intelligence Bureau.Zhou Lan naturally inherited this technology after the merger, but he didn't know the story inside, so he sold it in front of Wang Zhenyu.And Wang Zhenyu didn't know what the reason was, and he didn't point it out. He pretended to cooperate and praised a few words, which made Zhou Lan feel comfortable all over.

Zhou Lan immediately reported: "The news from the line in Beijing is that Zhang Zuolin promised the Japanese to start a war with us, so that it would be convenient for the Japanese to intervene in the war on the grounds of protecting the overseas Chinese. The more important news came from the line in Shandong. According to the news from our comrades in Jinan, Zhang Zongchang, seeing that we have been slow to take action, has already planned to fight us directly instead of uniting us to attack Zhang Zuolin, and then pretend to fail to lead us into the Shandong area."

"Then let the Japanese clean us up, and then they will come back and take advantage of the trend to go south to aspire to the top of the world, right?" Wang Zhenyu interrupted Zhou Lan's report with a smile at this time.

Zhou Lan nodded hastily and said, "The commander-in-chief is wise, that's what they bastards planned!"

Wang Zhenyu looked up to the sky and sighed, "That's all they have. For their own self-interest, they don't hesitate to collude with outsiders. Once the Japanese enter Shandong, how many ordinary people will suffer?"

Zhou Lan was about to say something to comfort the commander in chief, but Wang Zhenyu laughed himself: "These bastards always think of things so beautifully and well, this time I must give them an unforgettable memory..."

The next day, the Ministry of Armaments and Ma Xicheng held a meeting of senior officers above the major generals of the Ministry of Armaments: "According to the latest order of the Military Commission, all military units that produce bullets and shells are shut down non-stop, and all implement three shifts. For the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway Guangzhou to The Zhengzhou section, the Zhengzhou-Xuzhou section of the Longhai Railway, and the Pukou-Xuzhou section of the Beijing-Puzhou Railway are all subject to military control, and all freight wagons in the above-mentioned sections are given priority to ensure the transportation of materials from the Ministry of Armaments."

In the General Staff Headquarters, Wan Yaohuang is nervously giving orders to the members of the staff group and the communication group: "Deploy five divisions from the direction of Zhengzhou, and immediately advance by rail and land, and give me people and equipment within a week." Appearing in Xuzhou, this is a death order, and all combat units must strictly implement it. In addition, I will arrange a plane, and I will go to Shanxi to meet Yan Xishan, a local rich man..."

The real Republic of China in history is not useless, at least Shanxi Province is a very good model province.At a time when wars are raging across the country, relying on the management of a local rich man like Yan Xishan, Shanxi is basically peaceful and peaceful, and various constructions are progressing steadily.This also fully demonstrates that Yan Xishan is indeed good at housekeeping and financial management.But another point is that since the Yuan Dynasty, the provincial governors in the Central Plains have not changed from beginning to end, that is, Shanxi Province.In Yan Xishan's own words in history, this brother is very good at dancing on two eggs.Yan Xishan, who was born in the Tongmenghui, survived the era of Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui safely, but with the entry of Northeast King Zhang Zuolin, his good days came to an end.

Zhang Zuolin is really in trouble. Compared with Yuan Shikai, he who also controls the central government does not have the possibility of taxation from the wealthy southeastern provinces to support finances.Compared with Duan Qirui, there is no support from the foreign debts of the great powers.So the central government in Beijing led by Zhang Zuolin is not in financial difficulty at 01:30, it already has the meaning of the last dynasty, but the founding of the Republic of China is still less than ten years old.

Zhang Zuolin was naturally not reconciled to this, he had to increase income and reduce expenditure, and in the direction of increasing income, he first looked away from Shanxi controlled by Yan Xishan, so when he entered the customs for the first time, he had tested the possibility of winning Shanxi.This is really a piece of fat meat, and more importantly, this piece of meat has no bones, so it's delicious, but it's a pity that Wang Zhenyu interrupted it that time. . .

Chapter 439 War Comes ([-])

Just when the whole world thought that Shandong would become the fuse of a new round of the Civil War and even the Sino-Japanese War, the silent Shanxi became the final fuse. This was beyond everyone's expectations, except Wang Zhenyu .

After the secret meeting with Zhang Zongchang, Zhang Zuolin ordered the Fengjun Sun Liechen and Zhang Jinghui to gather in Shijiazhuang and Suiyuan.Although Zhang Zuolin began to emphasize secrecy under the reminder of the Japanese, but such an obvious military deployment and Fengjun's own secrecy literacy, before the mobilization of these troops is completed, ants in Beijing are running around telling each other: Zhang The old general is going to beat Yan Laoxi.

The Jin army under Yan Xishan's command is obviously a soft persimmon. It is almost an open secret that Wang Zhenyu's face was able to escape the crisis of being annexed by the Feng army two years ago, not the Jin army under his command.However, afterwards, Yan Xishan did not fulfill all the promises he had made when he invited Wang Zhenyu to intervene, that is, the reform of the Jin army by the youth army and Shanxi's entry into the national government.Wang Zhenyu was also very upset about this, and if he didn't honor it, he wouldn't honor it, so Yan Xishan successfully reneged on his debt.

However, there is a price to be paid for doing anything, and now troubles are coming, Zhang Zuolin once again suppressed the situation, Sun Liechen's eight divisions and Zhang Jinghui's five divisions are not fuel-efficient lamps from any point of view.This is a full 33 Fengjun. There are eight divisions under the name of the Jin Army, but they are all the kind of miscellaneous divisions with less than [-] people. Use such troops to fight the Fengjun who won the Zhifeng War Male and female, Yan Xishan really has no temper at all.

"Everyone tell me, what should we do in Shanxi this time?" When you have no ideas, it is obviously a good idea to hold a meeting to think about ideas, so Yan Xishan recruited all the officers above the Jin Army's system battalion to Taiyuan for the meeting .

As soon as Yan Xishan revealed the theme, he looked at these people under his command with full expectation, hoping that they could come up with a good solution for him.The officers of the Jin Army who attended the meeting, including Shang Zhen, Xu Yongchang, Li Fuying, Zhang Yinwu, Zhou Dai, Chu Xichun, Yang Chengyuan, Yang Aiyuan, Wang Jingguo, Fu Zuoyi, Sun Chu, Li Shengda, Chen Changjie, Guo Zongfen, etc., immediately fell into thinking. middle.

Yan Xishan has always treated his subordinates generously, which is not uncommon in the Republic of China, but when it comes to treating people with sincerity, Yan Xishan is probably the only one in the entire democratic party.So now that he is in trouble, the people below can only think desperately with their heads depressed.

However, it is not easy to think of a solution under such a crisis. The first person to speak was Fu Zuoyi, who had the most junior qualifications: "My lord, the humble officer is willing to defend the generals according to the danger and block the Feng army, but I am afraid that relying on our Jin army alone will be difficult." Not enough, you still have to find some foreign aid..."

Fu Zuoyi, who is known as the most capable fighter in the Jin army, said so, and other lower-level generals such as Shang Zhen and Xu Yongchang naturally followed suit, suggesting that the warlord ask the Nationalist government for help.

Yan Xishan was angry and funny, but in the end he could only be helpless, who made his gang of soldiers so bearable.Well, Yan Xishan must have forgotten a saying, a raging soldier, a raging nest.The key to the weak combat effectiveness of the Jin army in history is actually Yan Xishan himself. Otherwise, the Jin army is also a soft persimmon in his hands, but how could it become "seven and a half" in Fu Zuoyi's hands?

Yan Xishan nodded and agreed with this statement: "That's it, Brother Shang and Brother Xu, you each lead an army to the north and east of Jin to meet the enemy, remember one thing, as long as the Feng army doesn't do anything, you don't open fire, If you don’t want to beat us, you don’t want to beat us, and it’s our common people in Shanxi who suffer.”

Speaking of this, he looked at Fu Zuoyi again: "Brother Yisheng, you can just guard Taiyuan for me. After thinking about it, I'm afraid the final decisive battle will be fought in Taiyuan City..."

In fact, Yan Xishan and the senior generals of the Jin army thought the problem was a bit serious. Zhang Zuolin actually had no plan to start a fight, and he was also good at calculating.According to Zhang Zuolin's calculation, as long as he defeated Wang Zhenyu in the south with the help of the Japanese in Shandong, then the world would not belong to his old Zhang family, and he would naturally use the unification of the world to force Yan Xishan to surrender.Of course, it would be even better if Yan Xishan surrendered now, but Yan Xishan, who is usually weak, seemed to have taken too much medicine this time, and actually divided the eight divisions of the Jin Army under his command into three. Yongchang each commanded 2 divisions and Sun Liechen, Zhang Jinghui's troops entered a confrontation, while the other four divisions retreated into Taiyuan City.With a posture of fighting to the end and never giving in, it was Zhang Zuolin's turn to be uncertain.To fight or not to fight, that is the question?

For a while, Shandong and Shanxi became the fuse of the Chinese Civil War at the same time.All walks of life, especially intellectuals in Beijing and the South, have expressed concern about this and issued peaceful petitions, urging all forces to put the overall situation of the country and the interests of the nation first.But Zhu Erdian, the British Minister to China, is the opposite example. This old British colonialist who is used to being the emperor in China and dictating the Chinese central government is now extremely excited.Since I wrongly judged the form to support Yuan Shikai's proclaiming the emperor and triggered the war to protect the country, the whole of China has fallen into an unstoppable state of rise.Although Whitehall did not blame Zhu Erdian, Zhu Erdian, who has always regarded himself as a first-class diplomatic talent, felt very guilty.Therefore, he was full of hostility towards the Southern Nationalist Government and Wang Zhenyu himself, which reached its peak after the squadron defeated the Germans.In Zhu Erdian’s annual report submitted to Whitehall on New Year’s Day in 1919, Zhu Erdian repeatedly emphasized to London that if he continued to sit back and watch China’s strength, then the empire’s interests in China would not only be damaged, but its interests in Southeast Asia would also be lost.Therefore, Zhu Erdian hopes that the imperial government will support Japan to increase its attack on China, and then use the quagmire of Russia to consume Japan's power.The abacus was very loud, but it was a pity that the London side did not reply with a single word, which made Zhu Erdian very frustrated and even dissatisfied. He said to other staff in the legation: "What those people in London are doing now is to bury the British Empire. things, and we are helpless.”

In fact, Zhu Erdian really wronged the decision makers of the British Empire. They not only saw Zhu Erdian's report, but also attached great importance to it. However, the British treasury is too weak.After the European War, the treasury, which once claimed to be the richest in the world, was empty enough to run away with rats, and any measures taken in the Far East would be beyond the financial support of the British Empire, and one carelessness would even lead to the collapse of the entire empire. . .Therefore, they can only choose to turn a blind eye to Zhu Erdian's report full of patriotism and responsibility. After World War I, the British Empire mostly had this mentality when faced with one after another. This also laid the groundwork for the subsequent appeasement policy. Foreshadowing.

Well now, the Chinese are finally going to fight a civil war, and according to news from Japan, their emperor's army, which is as poor as a beggar, is about to start gambling on the country's luck again.They will fight in Shandong and the Nationalist government in the south, and seek to provide support for the central government in Beijing to unify all of China.

In order to gain the support of the British, the Japanese also stated that they would never expand Japan's sphere of influence in China and respect the special rights and interests of Britain in southeast China.And this right is what Zhu Erdian dreamed of. In order to let China send troops in 1916, Britain not only gave up the tariffs of nine provinces, but also gave up many powers in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. These areas have entered high-speed construction after the ebb of the British and French powers. During this period, wealth came rolling in, making him, the minister to China, jealous.And now all of this is possible without the support of the imperial government. How can you make Zhu Erdian unhappy?

But little Japan is not a living Lei Feng. They do things for the benefit, and the condition is that the British Empire subscribes to the war bonds issued by the Japanese government. Wars cost money. . .

In fact, the world economy also showed a downturn in 1919. With the end of the European War, market demand changed dramatically.The demand for weapons and military raw materials fell to the lowest point almost overnight, and the living consumption of residents was clearly in short supply.At this time, the Japanese, whose industrial structure had an excessively high proportion of heavy industry, suffered a great loss. Many products were backlogged in warehouses, many orders were cancelled, and a large number of industrial workers lost their jobs. . .On the other side, South China controlled by the Nationalist government was not affected much.After the reduction of heavy industry orders, they stopped falling and rebounded after only a slight drop. The expansion of the youth army immediately digested their excess production capacity. Amazing changes have also taken place in the consumption and purchasing power of the market.More importantly, the national government proposed the second five-year development plan, Chengdu, Kunming, Guiyang, Changsha, Nanchang, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Xi'an, Zhengzhou, Xuzhou and other 150 cities were included in the development plan of the national government .The national government plans to spend [-] billion Chinese yuan in five years to develop a large-scale railway and highway transportation network and new urban construction centered on these fifteen cities.

What worries Japanese decision makers even more is that once South China achieves their second five-year plan, their national power will surpass Japan even without going to war.And this basically means that Japan will only become a maritime country, and once the Chinese build a sufficiently powerful navy, then Japan's fate will only perish.