1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

If the flight squadron was called in, what if a few traitors turned up among them and dropped bombs on the Nationalist army or even Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek? This would not only threaten Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's life, but would also, as it did today, severely damage his reputation and prestige!

What kind of leader is he who is beaten by the people he is being surrounded and suppressed?

It is conceivable that before the review is completed, the entire Nationalist Air Force will not easily participate in the war again. Enduring the dull atmosphere and suppressing the growing anger in his heart, Chiang Kai-shek asked:

"Has the Communist plane left?"

In fact, he had wanted to go out a long time ago, but the news brought back by the aide-de-camp who went out to explore the way ahead made him give up the idea and become extremely cautious, that is; the auditorium where he had just been was hit by a precision bombing, and more than a dozen officers and soldiers who did not have time to evacuate were killed or injured.

Anyone with a little military knowledge knows that today's aircraft dropping bombs and bombing targets cannot be said to be very accurate. It can only be said that it depends purely on luck.

While it wouldn't be as outrageous as bombing Shanghai instead of Nanjing (in fact, such mistakes can happen in bad weather), a deviation of a few kilometers, or even dozens of kilometers, is perfectly normal. However, the two Communist planes that attacked Wuhan were not like this. One provided cover, while the other dropped the bombs, and surprisingly, not a single bomb went astray; all landed accurately in the auditorium and on the playground!

If this had not been confirmed by intelligence from all sides, Chairman Chiang would have believed that his subordinates were trying to trick him into not understanding the Air Force!

Combined with intelligence such as "Nanchang pilots surrendered en masse" and "the Wuhan Air Force was completely suppressed," Chiang Kai-shek was furious and anxious, and felt like his hair was about to fall out! You damn pilots, why weren't you so hardworking and capable when you were in our army, but you act so brilliantly and bravely when you join the Communists? Damn it!

They are all bastards!!

Even though he started throwing things and cursing, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek didn't dare take the risk.

Then just keep hiding!

After a while, news came from outside that the two Communist planes had flown away, and Chairman Chiang cautiously emerged from his underground fortifications. However, before he had time to inquire about the situation, even worse news came from Nanchang:

The Communist bandits launched a large-scale offensive in northeastern Jiangxi, northern Fujian, Zhejiang, southern Anhui, and southern Jiangsu. Xiaochi, Longyan, Kaotang, Zhangzhou... were all lost;

Over 3000 Nationalist soldiers were annihilated, more than 1500 captured, and over 3000 routed. All their weapons and equipment were lost, and Zhangzhou's silver vault and weapons depot also fell into enemy hands. Furthermore, of the 12 "Coser" aircraft originally purchased from the Americans, 10 had surrendered to the enemy, and with the fall of Zhangzhou, the last two at the Zhangzhou airport were also lost.

“…He Yingqin!!”

It was obvious that the Communist army could not have launched such a large-scale offensive and achieved such great results overnight. In other words, just as they concealed the "surrender to the enemy incident," the Nanchang authorities also concealed the fact that the Communist bandits had launched a large-scale offensive. While Chiang Kai-shek was furious, he was also greatly confused and puzzled.

No...why did you hide it?

Isn't it the Communist bandits who launched the attack? In which month in the past did they not attack?

Even if I fail, it's no big deal! What is there to hide?

Chairman Chiang didn't know that He Yingqin, like that certain Baldy Wang, had also suffered life threats, which was why he didn't dare to do anything rashly against the Red Army. However, this didn't stop Chairman Chiang from wanting to vent his anger: "Ask He Yingqin! What exactly does he want to do? How much has he concealed?!"

Chiang Kai-shek's roar frightened an officer who was about to come in to report intelligence. He opened and closed his lips but dared not speak. But Chairman Chiang saw it and roared:

"Tell me! What's the matter again?"

"Committee... Chairman... Our plane..."

Before he finished speaking, a faint roar was heard in the air again.

Everyone looked up and saw seven planes flying overhead, wobbling and seemingly unskilled.

Why do these planes look familiar?

Wait a minute, that leading plane seems... seems to be the Chairman's plane, right? Oh, the Chairman is about to leave Wuhan...

Everyone's necks turned like robots to look at the Chairman, who was already frozen in place, and then turned to the officer who was reporting in a low voice: "...taking advantage of...taking advantage of the fact that the airport was unguarded, a group of Communist bandits stole the plane..."

"...all?"

"All...all..." "Really...all?" "Really...really..."

..."

Chiang Kai-shek looked up at the sky, watched his plane fly over his head, and watched leaflets fall from the sky like snowflakes. One of them even landed in his hand. On it were written a few powerful characters: "Thank you, Chairman Chiang, for the plane!"

"Chairman...Chairman?"

“Chairman!!”

"Oh no! The chairman has fainted!!"

187 Baldy Jiang is crazy!

"The tragic scene is too much for me to bear to watch..."

"The rumors are so unbearable..." "Tsk tsk... It's so tragic..."

First, she read the incoming message (she had actually intercepted the telegram long ago), then looked at a group of Red Army soldiers in the distance excitedly touching and caressing the new aircraft while the pilots frantically tried to stop others from touching their wives. UMP45 tutted her tongue:

"It's so tragic, Generalissimo Chiang, it's so tragic, I'm almost in tears..."

Li Desheng and others next to him were blushing.

It was you who sent the special forces team to infiltrate Wuhan for intelligence gathering and sabotage; it was you who flew a plane with Long Wenguang to bomb the Kuomintang meeting hall;

You are the one who killed all the airport guards with accurate shooting, leaving the airport empty;

It was you who trained a bunch of spare pilots and then had them hide near the airport and seize the Kuomintang planes... Although it was the order issued by the branch, wasn't it actually you who did it?

Putting aside the playful reference to a certain literary giant, everyone was stunned by Instructor Ma's incredible skills. The Kuomintang army's defeat was truly well deserved.

"Chairman, I have done my best to irritate Chiang Kai-shek as you requested. What should we do next?" UMP45 threw the telegram to Xu Xiangqian and emphasized:

"Let me make this clear first. Just like before, I will try my best to avoid direct involvement in the war." "You don't need to get involved in what's going on."

Li Desheng came back to his senses, smiled and shook his head:

"You've already come this far, and we still can't win. That means the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area is truly undefendable. It's time to retreat."

In fact, after calmly analyzing the strength and current situation of both sides, some people from both the Red Fourth Front Army and the base area proposed abandoning the base area and moving westward.

In the era of Zhang Guotao, this idea would have been severely criticized, and even simply proposing it would have been labeled "capitulationism"; but Li Desheng expressed tolerance and approval:

"A temporary retreat is not surrender, and avoiding a direct confrontation with a powerful enemy is not weakness. The two cannot be equated;"

"We should give full play to our own advantages, engage in mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare against the nationalist army, and destroy the enemy's effective forces in the process of continuous movement." This sentence determined the main war strategy of this counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, namely:

"The Red Army should not hold on to one place and fight for every inch of land, but should lure the enemy deep into our territory and try to attack the enemy's weak points in the movement under favorable conditions;" "After destroying one part of the enemy, we must not linger in the battle and quickly turn to the other side, defeating the enemy one by one with speed, courage, secrecy and mobility, in order to completely smash the encirclement and suppression." The formulation of this strategy removed the burden from the minds of many commanders and fighters, allowing them to fight relatively freely and confidently within the framework of the overall strategy.

Therefore, when Li Desheng said this "depressing words", everyone's expression was normal and they nodded in agreement.

Facts have proved that as long as he suppresses his bad temper, he is an undisputed leader.

Having said that, to achieve this, Chiang Kai-shek’s army must completely abandon its original strategy;

To make Chiang Kai-shek's army completely abandon its original strategy, its commanders must completely lose their minds; to make the commanders of the Nationalist army completely lose their minds...

Hehehe, isn't this a good start? UMP45 nodded, feeling pleased with herself.

"Okay, then I'll continue training the troops. Call me if you need anything."

UMP45 left, and Li Desheng looked at the other officers and soldiers, his expression becoming serious.

"Comrades, Comrade Ma Shiwu has helped us solve a considerable number of difficulties. Now, it is our turn to work hard on our own!" "Yes!"

On the second day after the "auditorium was bombed and the plane was stolen", Deng Hua, the new commander of the 12th Division of the Red Fourth Front Army, led his troops to Wuhan.

Well... that's a bit of an exaggeration. The 12th Red Army Division was still quite a distance away from Wuhan City, and was only seizing outposts, wreaking havoc, and creating momentum. They didn't actually inflict many casualties on the Nationalist Army. But it must be admitted that the roar of gunfire and shouting shook the citizens of Wuhan and dealt a heavy blow to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

As he himself said, Wuhan is "the thoroughfare of nine provinces" and "the birthplace of the Kuomintang", with high military and commercial value;

When the Communist bandits directly attacked such a place, the physical impact was not significant, but the political impact was significant.

Especially when Chairman Chiang was in Wuhan, every shout and every shot fired by the 12th Red Army Division was like a slap in the face to him. So why didn't Chairman Chiang go back to Luoyang, Henan, when he was supposed to command the Central Army's southward advance?

Because his plane was currently parked at a temporary airport in Xinji County, Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, being viewed, studied, and even held for sleeping. So why didn't he dare leave on another passenger plane from Wuhan?

Because, at this moment, seven planes of the "New Red Fourth Front Army Air Force", which had not even had time to paint over the Kuomintang's emblem, were showing off their power over Wuhan; it was obvious that what this group meant was that anyone who dared to take off would be shot down, even if it was a passenger plane.

Want to escape?

of course can.

The Fourth Red Army and other cooperating Red Army troops did not surround the entire Wuhan like an impenetrable iron barrel.

However, if you wanted to leave, you could first take a boat or bus south to Nanchang, then east to Nanjing or Shanghai, and from there fly to Luoyang under the escort of the Nationalist Air Force. This plan was good in every way, except for a few drawbacks.

1. It takes too long. If the Communists harass us even slightly (for example, by sending planes to bomb ships or trains), it wouldn't be unusual for us to be back and forth for half a month or even a month, and who knows how many more accidents might occur. 2. Mr. Chiang is currently reluctant to fly, for the reasons mentioned above—he doesn't want to be shot down by "betraying" Nationalist escort pilots during flight.

3. It's so fucking embarrassing...

Even before the battle officially began, Chiang Kai-shek, the commander-in-chief of the anti-bandit campaign, was forced into such a predicament by the very people he was trying to eliminate. He even had to "turn south" to escape. Chairman Chiang Kai-shek was a man who cared about face, didn't he?! Thus, before the Kuomintang's massive encirclement and suppression of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area even began, almost all of its senior commanders were trapped in Wuhan...

Wuhan was once a gathering place of great talents and full of vitality.

If there were nothing else to do, everyone would just treat it as a good party building exercise, a good opportunity to build relationships, so that if they were ever in danger, they could ask their brothers to help them out for the sake of the party and the country.

However, the Red Army's new air force, flying back and forth to intimidate any enemy who dared to show up or pursue them, also dropped more and more leaflets, slightly raising the price of paper in the base area. The damned Communist bandits not only frantically destroyed and clamored outside Wuhan, but also used loudspeakers to publicly shout the arrogant slogan "Strike into Wuchang and capture Chiang Kai-shek alive" day and night.

Considering that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was old and his hearing might not be very good, another unit attacked KMT officers twice, then slipped away and returned to attack again, spread rumors and gather intelligence;

So repeatedly...

Oh, by the way, maybe they smelled something, but Wuhan's major newspapers consciously changed the "Communist Bandits" that had been commonly used in their news headlines to "Communist Army." Chiang Kai-shek, already furious and irritated by all the previous troubles, was finally completely enraged by the repeated "provocations" of the Red Army, especially the Red Fourth Front: "Damn it! Damn it! The Communist bandits are so arrogant!"

"Pass my orders! Pass my orders!"

"The Central Army will march south immediately! The Right Army will march west immediately! The Left Army will march east immediately! All Wuhan troops will march north!" "Surround them on all sides! Form a pocket! We must annihilate this gang of Communist bandits!!!!"

After receiving the order, the generals looked at each other, wondering if the old man had gone mad.

Doesn't this break the initial strategy of "deploying in depth, advancing in parallel, taking each step carefully, and suppressing as we advance"?

This kind of advancement may seem grand and powerful, as if the Communists are being forced to death, but in reality, it is full of loopholes!

With so many armies moving together, each direction must have an extremely powerful commander to lead the charge, otherwise all sorts of problems will surely arise! So, where are the commanders?

All in Wuhan...

This...this is bullshit.

However, no one dares/disdains/is willing to express their opinions.

Anyone who had spent more than six months with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew of his foul temper. If you dared to express a different opinion when he was angry, you'd be punished! And now, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was clearly furious, furious to the extreme: "Orders are being issued! The area controlled by this gang of Communist bandits has become deeply banditized! It's beyond redemption!"

"With Xinji Huang'an as the center point! Destroy everything within a 200-li radius! Kill them all without mercy!" "Burn the mountains and nests! Build strongholds! Open up roads!"

"Stones must be cut! Grasses must be burned! People must be replaced!" "Order to all divisions! Be sure to follow this!"

(Adapted from the historical massacre orders issued by this bastard against revolutionary bases such as Jinggangshan, Ruijin, Donggu, Ningdu, Xingguo, Shicheng, and Guangchang) (Of course, Apple fans will say, oh, this is all the work of the subordinates, our great Chairman Chiang Kai-shek would never be so cruel!)

(Well, nowadays, there are a lot of people who equate "the revolutionary army killing landlords" with "the Kuomintang killing people" and use this to argue that "there is no difference between the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang.") Thus, the Kuomintang's fourth encirclement and suppression of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area officially began.

But unlike in history, this time, the Nationalist troops in all directions abandoned their strategy of "step by step, advancing in shifts," and instead advanced with an extremely anxious attitude. This played into the hands of a certain strategic master!

"Okay! Send a telegram to the Red Third Army!"

188 Chairman Li and He Huzi's Dog Walking Techniques

"...Call Chairman Li back. Our army has already gathered relevant intelligence and will immediately make adjustments in accordance with the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Branch's requirements!"

After reading the telegram, a man with a small mustache gave instructions to a telegraph operator who had just arrived at Zhoulaozui (Jianli County, Hubei), the "capital" of the Hunan-Hubei-West Hubei base area, on how to reply. He then ordered the messenger:

"Send a message to Zhou Xiaokang and Wang Bingnan, instructing them to continue implementing the strategy of using force to induce peace and resisting without attacking against the Sichuan Army. Send a small number of troops to monitor and harass them, but avoid engaging in a grueling fight. If necessary, abandon part of the base area."

(Zhou Xiaokang, secretary of the Hunan-Hunan Border Soviet Special Committee, and Wang Bingnan, commander of the Independent Division of the Red Third Army, were both murdered by Xia Xi in 1933 as "reorganizationists." The former was even thrown into a lake and drowned while injured.) "Instruct all local cadres to immediately begin evacuating civilians from the base areas to be abandoned according to the plan to prevent them from being massacred by Chiang Kai-shek's army;"

"Send a message to the Army Training Corps, have them return to their positions immediately. The rest of the troops, follow me to the Yi-Han Highway and prepare to pursue Chiang Kai-shek's Tenth Army! Support the Red Fourth Front Army!"

"Yes!"

Orders were passed down one after another, and messengers quickly set off. He Long, commander of the Red Third Army, tapped his pipe and sighed, "If only we had a few more radios! The troops would be able to react even faster."

"Old He, Old He, don't ask for too much. This is something the central government has been coordinating for us for a long time."

Guan Xiangying, the political commissar of the Red Third Army, said with a smile:

"However, after this battle is over, we should be able to produce a few more, and we should be able to equip radio stations up to the division level."

At the end of January 1931, at the request of the Second Red Army (reorganized into the Third Red Army in March 1931), the Party Central Committee dispatched Yu Jiesheng and other comrades from Shanghai to the Honghu Soviet Area with a 50-watt radio set to establish the first radio station in the Hunan-Hubei-West Hubei base area. However, Yu Jiesheng died of illness shortly afterwards, and the station was not successfully established. Shanghai then dispatched Liu Jin, Hu Baitian, and Li Wencai to the Honghu area.

Thanks to their efforts, between April and September of this year, the Honghu Soviet Area established radio contact with the Shanghai Party Central Committee, the Central Soviet Area, and the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area. He Long looked at Guan Xiangying, who was obviously much more relaxed, and said with a teasing look:

"Hahaha...are you so confident?"

"Commissioner Xia won't be back. The central government is undergoing major adjustments..." Guan Xiangying blinked.

"I'm really looking forward to Comrade Li Desheng." "Yes, at least he won't be too reckless."

He Long also answered in the same way, and then he and Guan Xiangying looked at each other and smiled.

Yes, considering the basic establishment of radio communications and the need for unified operations in the Hunan-Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, the newly established Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided:

Comrade Xia Xi stayed in Ruijin to reflect on his mistakes. No new branch secretary was appointed for the time being in the Hunan-Hubei-West base area. Comrade Li Desheng, secretary of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui branch, concurrently served and provided unified command.

In other words, since Li Desheng had the power to command the Red Army in four provinces and other bases, he naturally would not allow the Hubei-Henan-Anhui region to fight independently.

Therefore, after successfully angering Chiang Kai-shek, the Kuomintang Left Route Army that was besieging the Hunan-Hubei-West Hubei base area was successfully transferred away, giving He Long and others a chance to catch their breath.