Heroes of the Resistance Reborn

Comrade Xue Yue was thinking about the relationship between his Central Army and the Gui Army. He quickly came to the conclusion that he should stay still for the time being and adapt to the ever-changing situation. Then he thought of the warlords of the other two factions. One was He Jian's Hunan Army, and the other was Wang Jialie's Guizhou Army.

He Jian and Xue Yue knew each other well. This brother Yunqiao was from Liling, Hunan. He made his fortune in 1918. In that year, he returned to Liling from the position of company commander of the first brigade of the temporary first division of the Hunan Army to collect scattered rifles from broken troops and organize The guerrillas participated in the battle against Zhang Jingyao's Northern Army. He was appointed as the commander of the guerrillas by Cheng Qian, the commander-in-chief of the Hunan Army. In the following summer, there was internal strife in the Hunan Army. Tan Yankai succeeded the commander-in-chief of the Hunan Army. Tang Sheng, the commander of the third regiment of the first brigade of the first division, Zhi reorganized the troops he led into a cavalry battalion, and He Jian served as the battalion commander. He was later promoted to the commander of the cavalry regiment and the commander of the ninth brigade. In July 1926, he joined the National Revolutionary Army with Tang Shengzhi and served as the commander of the first division of the Eighth Army. , and joined the Chinese Kuomintang. After conquering Wuhan, he was promoted to commander of the 35th Army. In April 1927, he led his troops to continue the Northern Expedition and marched into Henan.

This man hated the peasant movement. After Chiang Kai-shek launched the counter-revolutionary coup in Shanghai, he held a meeting in Hankou to plot a military coup against the Hunan and Hunan Communities, and ordered his subordinate Yu Xiangsan to collude with Xu Kexiang, the leader of the 33rd Independent Regiment, to launch the "Mar-Japanese Incident" in Changsha. ", madly massacred communists and revolutionary masses, issued a revolutionary declaration on June 29, and served as a vanguard for the revolutionary actions of Wang Jingwei Group. During the Ning-Han War in 1927, Tang Shengzhi, commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army and commander-in-chief of the Second Front Army, was appointed He was the commander-in-chief of the Jiangzuo Army and acting chairman of Anhui Province. In November, after Tang Shengzhi was called out of office due to the defeat of the war, He Jian analyzed the situation and took contingency measures. In order to preserve his strength, he led his troops to withdraw from Hunan. In January of the following year, the Nanjing government The conquest army occupied Changsha. On March 4, he called for peace. After the organization of the headquarters was reorganized, he was able to retain it. He also served as the director of the Hunan Qingxiang Supervisory Office. He proposed the reactionary policy of "it would be better to kill three thousand by mistake than to let one person go." Massacre of communists and workers and peasants. In November, he was appointed acting commander-in-chief of the Hunan-Jiangxi "Bandit Suppression" General Headquarters and led 20 regiments to participate in the "encirclement and suppression" of the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area. In February 1929, the Chiang Kai-shek War broke out, and he supported Chiang and rebelled against Gui. He led his troops to coerce Li Zongren, and Bai Chongxi resigned. The Nanjing National Government appointed him chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government and the commander-in-chief of the rebel Fourth Route Army. In this way, he once again succeeded in speculation, achieved his wish, and initially became the "King of Hunan". ”.

Next, he has been in the melee between local factions and warlords. Starting from the winter of 1930, he participated in the first and second "encirclement and suppression" of the Jiangxi Central Revolutionary Base Area, and repeatedly "mopped up" the Hunan-Jiangxi base area. In May 1933, he took office Commander-in-Chief of the Western Route Army of the "bandit-suppression" coalition forces in the five provinces of Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan and Hubei. He participated in the fifth "encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Area. In October 1934, the Central Red Army withdrew from Ruijin and broke through to Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangdong. At the border, he led his troops to deploy defenses and blockades along the east bank of the Xiangjiang River. In early November, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the pursuit and suppression campaign, and led his troops to pursue the Red Army to Guizhou.

It can be said that Xue Yue believed that these actions of He Jian were not inappropriate, including killing the red bandits, etc. He also supported it, but there was one thing that he disdained about He Jian, and that was that Brother Yunqiao was actually there. On November 14, 1930, Yang Kaihui, the wife of the red bandit Mao Zedong, was killed. Later, soldiers were sent to dig up Mao's ancestral grave. He would do it with a real gun, but to kill someone's wife without catching someone and dig up someone's ancestral grave is firstly against the law of heaven, and secondly, it's shameless. At least that's what he, Xue Yue, thinks. Of course, for He Jian and Xue Yue They also believed that he was just a speculator who was accustomed to adapting to the changing circumstances. This started when he first acted as a vanguard for Wang Jingwei's group, and then took contingency measures when Tang Shengzhi was powerless due to the defeat of the war, and led his troops to preserve his strength. This can be seen from the three incidents of withdrawing from Hunan and later supporting Chiang Kai-shek and rebelling against Gui. Even though he is now the commander of his bandit suppression headquarters and seems to be in a prosperous life, Xue Yue is sure that this He Jian It will never be easy in the future. I think a person as talented and wise as the Chairman is just being deceived by his actions at the moment, or there may be other reasons that I have to temporarily compromise with him. Later, I will recognize his true nature or not. When you need to entrust others to others, you will have ways to deal with them.

It has to be said that although Xue Yue, the "No. 1 Tiger General of the Republic of China", looked at things from a military perspective and was somewhat extreme, the overall direction was not wrong, because He Jian's subsequent situation was exactly as he had guessed: not at all. It's not good, because after the Red Army moved north, He Jian was forced to resign as the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Route Army, and all his troops were transferred to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. As a result, He Jian's military strength was completely deprived, and he became a "high-ranking military commander" from then on. At the end of November 1937, He Jian became the Minister of the Interior of the National Government with no real power. In the spring of 1939, he was appointed as a member of the Pensions Committee of the Military Commission. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he resigned and went to Nanyue to recuperate. In the spring of 1949, he moved to Hong Kong. In the summer of the following year He went to Taiwan and was hired as a national policy adviser to the "Presidential Office" of the Taiwan authorities. He died of illness in Taipei in April 1956 at the age of 69. Of course, this is all a story for later and I won't say more for now.

Xue Yue didn't know that he was thinking about He Jian at the moment. He Jian was also thinking about Xue Yue. He was loyal to the Chairman of the Committee and was a good hand in running the army and Anmin. This was what He Jian had for Xue Yue, his potential opponent. Cognition, in this way, he felt a little difficult to deal with: if this kind of person occupied his Hunan, he would never have a chance to make a comeback. He Jiantai, who was good at maneuvering, knew the chairman's dual thoughts about him: first , it is best to squeeze yourself out of the way, or at least to isolate yourself, so that the direct descendants of the chairman of the committee can occupy Hunan; secondly, your own strength is there, and if the chairman of the committee wants to squeeze out or isolate himself, it will be a bit difficult. Difficulty, so I will definitely find ways to find opportunities to cross Chencang secretly and occupy the dove's nest. And if I want to do this, I must show that I have to compromise with myself, but secretly be ruthless. Therefore, when Chairman Chiang appoints me When he was the commander-in-chief of the suppression of the Communist Party, He Jian believed that Jiang was secretly causing trouble, but he did not know the specific methods. Therefore, every time he suppressed the bandits, he had to be cautious and go all out, for fear that Jiang would People grabbed their pigtails and took the opportunity to squeeze themselves out of Hunan. This time, Xue Yue, the Chairman's confidant, led the Central Army to Hunan. He Jian kept an eye on it. What he was most afraid of was that Comrade Xue Yue would take advantage of the opportunity. They invaded Hunan with the intention of suppressing the Communists, and then stayed in Hunan and refused to leave.

Fortunately, in the early days of the bandit suppression, the red bandits were chased and beaten by my own Hunan army, because I was strong enough to compete with Xue Yue's troops, and I would not accept Xue Yue as easily as Liu Chongwei, who was trapped and killed by Tang Shengzhi. Xue Yue did not dare to do anything to him, but what happened a few days ago made him passive, because the troops he relied on for survival were so brutally killed by the red bandits. An entire army of three divisions was defeated by the Red Bandits at once, and the other division only had a few thousand people left. Think about it, a 30,000-strong army was beaten down to only 3,000 people. This is What do you think? Two of the divisions were completely wiped out. Alas, Chairman Chiang and Xue Yue and others must not know about this. If Jiang knows about it, the numbers of these two divisions will most likely be revealed. Canceled, that is the last thing I want to see. As for that boy Xue Yue, I am afraid that if he knows that there is only an empty frame at the moment, there are three divisions with only one regiment of troops left, I am afraid that he will be so happy that he opens his mouth from ear to ear, and then act like a tiger. Pounce on yourself and quickly race around our Hunan province. Well, you have to find a way to deal with this matter. You must know that whether it is Jiang or Xue Yue, they are both spiritual sparrows, and they can understand information very quickly. , that is to say, we can hide the matter of our three divisions for a few days, but definitely not for long.

The problem is that the current situation is that we have to keep it a secret for a long time. An army is nothing more than generals, troop sources, equipment and training. With the supplement of local security groups, this troop source problem is not difficult to solve; These security groups already have certain training. If after entering the regular army, the training troops will be stationed, they will basically have the strength to fight in three months, which is not a big problem. For weapons and equipment, you can ask someone from Jiang, and the excuse is already The Red Bandits were severely damaged. I guess he would agree. In addition, with some of his original inventory of equipment, this is not a problem at all. Therefore, there is only one problem in front of him: the generals of these divisions and the grassroots The bones are dry.

It's difficult, a thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find.

Yesterday, Liu Jianxu called and said that after the Red Bandits left, they went to the battlefield to bury the Hunan Army soldiers who died in the battle, but learned that they had been buried by the Red Bandits and nearby fellow villagers. After exact inquiries, they knew , the number of soldiers who died on each battlefield did not reach the original number of the troops. As for those extra people, it is reasonable to guess that they should have been prisoners of the Red Bandits. In terms of He Jian's many years of military experience, he also He did not believe that all of an army would die in a battle. As for most of the troops dying, it would make sense for some to be captured. In this way, he could almost conclude rather than guess that a large number of his soldiers became red. He specifically asked Liu Jianxu about the prisoners of the bandits, and found out that among those buried, only one had a gold star on his shoulder, and he was found on the battlefield of Xianxi. In other words, although he had lost so many troops, Only one major general died. Based on geographical conditions, it is speculated that it should be Major General Tao Guang, the commander of the 62nd Division. Venus was not found in Dupo. It is theoretically speculated that Major General Zhang Liangji and other division commanders should still be alive. 80% of them are captured the red bandits,