As the financial and monetary system collapsed again, the disintegration speed of Chiang Kai-shek's Wuhan regime began to accelerate significantly.
¡ª¡ªOn August 19, Zhongxiang was liberated peacefully. In front of a mere two battalions of the Workers¡¯ and Peasants¡¯ Red Army, one division of the Kuomintang army surrendered without a fight. Then the division commander received a severance package of one million US dollars, and immediately and happily abandoned the army, preparing to go abroad to Nanyang to work as an apartment worker.
On August 20, the Kuomintang troops in the Xiangfan area mutinied. Grassroots officers and soldiers surrendered after killing their superiors. The remaining senior Kuomintang officials were all in danger.
On August 23, the Poyang Lake water war broke out. The fast gunboats of the Chinese Red Navy sailed upstream from the downstream waters. With the assistance of the flying team, they defeated the Kuomintang "navy", which was mainly old ships, in the waters of Hukou and Madang. , control of the Yangtze River waters changed hands.
On August 29, with the cooperation of fleet bombardment, the 20,000 workers and peasants Red Army led by Xiang Ying successfully captured Jiujiang, and the entire province of Jiangxi was basically liberated.
On September 5, relying on the collusion and incitement of the underground party, more than half of the Kuomintang navy's ships revolted and sailed to Jiujiang to surrender. The remaining sailors were also extremely unstable, and Chiang Kai-shek had to order them to be expelled from the ship and escorted to barracks on the shore to be imprisoned.
On September 6, Chiang Kai-shek openly plundered the market in Wuhan, tortured wealthy businessmen, and collected hundreds of thousands in cash as wages, temporarily stabilizing some troops.
On September 7, workers in Wuhan organized an armed uprising. Most of the Kuomintang troops who were ordered to suppress it had polarizing attitudes and were extremely passive in fighting. In the end, they relied on the Japanese garrison in the Hankou Concession to barely suppress it, but this also allowed thousands of rebellious workers to flee to the suburbs and constantly attack the Kuomintang troops.
September 11th, the Battle of Tianjia Town. The British and Japanese gunboats stranded on the Yangtze River fought side by side. Relying on their absolute advantages in tonnage, firepower and experience, as well as bad weather, the Red Army flying team was unable to dispatch, and finally repelled the still rookie-level Red Army gunboat formation.
But the Kuomintang defenders on land had already been infiltrated by the underground party like a sieve. As soon as the battle started, they all surrendered - Tianjia Town fell.
September 15th. The vast majority of the Kuomintang troops north of Wuhan announced their defection and accepted the Red Army's reorganization - the current situation has become very clear. The red-headed Bolsheviks have powerful "nuclear weapons" and have overthrown even the small Japanese in Japan. Jiang, a Japanese devil, is not to mention On one side, he is carrying waste paper to death, and on the other side, there are a lot of British and American fancy paper heads. Even a fool knows how to choose.
Next, even the heavily defended southern front of Chiang Kai-shek's direct troops had problems - even the loyalty of the direct troops was not unlimited.
Therefore, on the same morning that Nagoya, Japan suffered a nuclear explosion, Chiang Kai-shek of the Wuhan National Government also received bad news from the southern front:
"The Red Bandit South Route Army Lin Biao's troops have broken through Hesheng Bridge! The forward is less than fifty miles away from Wuchang! There are no more troops to fight on the southern front!"
"Niang Xipi! These days, I have demolished the east wall to make up for the west wall. I have dug out the last bit of my family fortune, and finally piled up six divisions of soldiers and horses in the defensive positions along the Hesheng Bridge and Tingsi Bridge. How come it only took one day? So they were defeated? What do Hu Zongnan and Tang Enbo do for a living?"
Chiang Kai-shek, who had stayed up all night for several days, stared with a pair of blood-red rabbit eyes and shouted almost hysterically.
At this moment, his face no longer had the cold expression of the past, but was completely distorted. Coupled with that shiny big bald head, it is really as terrifying as King Kong, "they are all fucking losers! They are all trash! Let those two bastards come back to see me!"
Facing the Chairman's raging anger, a group of slick old fritters looked at each other's nose and mouth, and finally used their eyes to force Dai Li, who was Hu Zongnan's close friend and responsible for the party-state intelligence work. Dai Li had no choice but to go up and answer with a distressed look on his face: " reported to the committee that after the He Shengqiao defense line collapsed, both commanders were dispersed by the rebel army. Their whereabouts are currently unknown, I'm afraid. I can¡¯t come back to apologize to you"
"These two losers! Consider them lucky!" Chairman Jiang touched his bald head and replied angrily.
However, no matter how bad the situation on the front line is, the war to "clear out the Red Bandits" must continue - although it is no longer clear who is killing whom - in order to avoid the wrath of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek. To divert the old man's attention, various party and state officials expressed their opinions on the upcoming defense war in Wuhan. For example, General Tang Shengzhi expressed his intention to learn from the Japanese Empire¡¯s spirit of ¡°one hundred million pieces of jade¡±. He built barricades in the city and resisted to the death, street by street and house by house. He distributed firearms and ammunition to the citizens of Wuhan and organized the whole people to fight against the red bandits The problem is, in How many people in the three towns of Wuhan, which have been severely harmed by Chiang Kai-shek these days, are willing to be buried with "Chiang Ji" and the National Government? I'm afraid that as soon as I get the gun, I will go straight to Jiang?There is a rebellion in the mansion!
¡ª¡ªAfter experiencing increasingly unreliable discussions, the furious Chiang Kai-shek waved a broom and drove everyone out of the conference room.
"Look what good students I taught in Huangpu! A few years ago, I wiped out hundreds of thousands of Red Party members by myself, and led you guys to defeat the Beiyang warlords! Unified China! But what about you? ? All he knows is eating, drinking, whoring, gambling and smoking opium! Get out of here!"
Then, he stood alone on a battle map that was almost covered in red, rubbing his scalp in despair and fear - he had also heard the news broadcast about the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's "encirclement and suppression of the Chiang Kai-shek bandits", " Comrade Chairman Mao clearly stated in "Strategic Issues in China's Revolutionary War" that the struggle between encirclement and suppression and counter-encirclement and suppression will be repeated for a long time until the Red Army's strength exceeds that of the reactionaries. At that time, the Red Army will encircle and suppress the reactionaries, but the reactionaries cannot be as powerful as the Red Army Organize a counter-encirclement and suppression campaign with such resilience, as long as you organize an encirclement and suppression campaign, the building will collapse"
¡ª¡ªChiang Kai-shek had to admit that his Wuhan National Government was indeed destined to be unable to survive even the Red Army's first encirclement and suppression campaign.
Hey, I didn¡¯t expect that just a year ago, I could still manage to mobilize a million troops to launch a massive siege against the Red Bandit base in the mountains and mountains in southern Jiangxi; I didn¡¯t expect that now the two sides are switching positions between offense and defense, and they have become a family. While clamoring to "encircle and suppress the generals and bandits" In these years, the ups and downs of various life encounters really left Chairman Chiang's ambition unfulfilled. I deeply feel the impermanence of worldly affairs and the strangeness of fate
Although Chairman Chiang dishonestly wielded a broom in the morning and drove out the party and state officials who made him furious from the conference room, by the afternoon of that day, gunshots rang out intensively on the streets of Wuhan. This forced Chiang Kai-shek to convene an emergency military meeting again.
Regrettably, the scene of this meeting seemed to be even more bleak than the scene in the morning. Many of the brightest party and state officials were almost missing at this time - not only Tang Shengzhi, who had vowed to fight a battle to defend Wuhan They had already disguised themselves and fled, even Kong Xiangxi, the Minister of Finance, ran away. Also disappearing at the same time were Chen Lifu, Chen Guofu, Wu Zhihui and the naval commander Chen Shaokuan who was returned from the Japanese. The whole scene looked like a tree fell and a hozen dispersed Only the unlucky Dai Li, the doormat, was left. With a trembling voice, he reported the latest battle situation to Chairman Chiang.
¡ª¡ªAfter the defensive positions along the Hesheng Bridge and Tingsi Bridge were breached, the various Kuomintang troops huddled in the suburbs of Wuhan were already in a state of panic, with entire platoons and entire companies deserting. It all relied on several generals to organize and supervise the battle team, killing thousands of deserters in one go. Only then did the battle line barely stabilize.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, the Red Army political workers once again resorted to silver bullet tactics, openly sending planes to drop leaflets with various rewards clearly marked on them: as long as the Kuomintang officers are willing to take money and leave their jobs and leave, then for each division they bring over, they will be given three hundred Ten thousand dollars, pull a group over. Give us two hundred thousand dollars, or even bring over a company, and give us fifty thousand dollars! The only requirement is that the time limit is twelve hours, no waiting after the expiration date
As soon as this ultra-luxurious price list was announced, the tens of thousands of Kuomintang troops gathered in Wuhan to prepare for the final battle immediately went into an uproar. Even if the generals directly from Huangpu at the top still want to "die to repay their kindness", the regiment commanders and company commanders below who have been receiving waste paper for several months do not care about the "kindness" of the chairman, and they all swarmly throw away their integrity and exchange for money. Raising the red or white flag and defecting on the spot, the Red Army position was crowded with people for a while
Next, when a small advance team of the Red Army sneaked into the urban area of ??Wuhan. Instead of resisting, quite a number of city defense troops took the initiative to kidnap the die-hard officers and bring them out as witnesses, and at the same time enthusiastically led them the way In addition, underground party workers were also urging the city's police chief, saying: "You have to make up your mind this time. Don't go back on it!" The police chief said repeatedly: "It's decided, it's decided!"
¡ª¡ªSeeing that the Red Bandits this year have made a huge comeback, even the little Japanese can be beaten to pieces, and the British can be easily knocked down, even the most opposed guys can't help but feel uneasy. However, these red bandits were very clever in spreading money, which made many poor and reactionary class losers. They even rushed to kidnap their bosses to join the Communist Party, fearing that they would not be able to change the dollar bills if they were tied up too late, or that their bosses would also "defect." "Bright".
In an instant, most of Wuchang, located south of the Yangtze River, had fallen. The workers and citizens of Hanyang also launched an armed uprising again, occupying several blocks. They were fighting against a handful of the most loyal "party-state righteous men" and the Japanese and French garrisons who came to suppress the uprising. In the midst of a fierce firefight
"When Dai Li finished stammering his report on the current war situation in Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and then he roared??£º
"How could you let the red bandits enter the three towns of Wuhan with such arrogance! Has the intelligence agency of the party-state been so corrupted?! All the officials are trying to deceive me, even the Fuxing Society! Every bureaucrat and general is These disloyal and unjust cowards! I did not hesitate to lose my power and humiliate the country, and borrowed so much foreign debt from the imperialist powers to support you cowards, traitors, and losers What was the result? I bought so many people with just a few boxes of banknotes? Huangpu Where has the spirit gone?! These people are all scum of the party and state! They have no sense of honor as a soldier!"
Chairman Chiang glanced at the two or three big cats and kittens present with fierce eyes, making them all lower their heads in fright But the problem is that roaring and roaring cannot replace bullets, and the spirit of the party and the country is not worth military pay. Regardless of the committee members, No matter how adults went into hysterical fits in the conference room and smashed all the vases, fish tanks, and tea cups they could find, they still couldn't stop the Wuhan National Government from falling step by step into the abyss of destruction.
¡ª¡ªUntil a pair of delicate jade hands placed on his shoulders, temporarily dispelling the accumulated anger in his heart.
"Darling, calm down! No matter how angry you are now, it will not help,"
Wearing a Shanghai-style cheongsam, Soong Meiling quietly stood behind Chiang Kai-shek at some point. While gently beating his shoulders, he said softly and kindly, "Darling, it seems that Wuhan can't be defended no matter what, so let's think about the next way out!"
"Retreat? Where else can we retreat? What territory can we retreat to?" Chiang Kai-shek muttered angrily.
"Take a boat and take the Yangtze River waterway. Go west to Sichuan! At the moment, Chen Cheng is still fighting to defend Yueyang. The waterway from Wuhan to Sichuan is still smooth. The Japanese, French and British gunboats in the Hankou Concession have also expressed their willingness to escort us. ¡ª¡ªThey are also transferring expats to Chongqing
"Into Sichuan? What will happen if we enter Sichuan? Now we no longer represent the central government, but have become homeless dogs. Liu Xiang and other Sichuan warlords may not welcome us, but they may regard us as fat Sheep are here to be slaughtered. Moreover, the Red Bandits are now so overwhelming that Britain, France, the United States and Japan cannot suppress them even if they send troops together. With those Sichuan rats in Shu, there is no hope"
Chiang Kai-shek shook his head in frustration. "Based on the current tragic situation of the party-state, it is no longer possible to take root in Sichuan and continue to confront the Red Bandits head-on - don't forget, northern Sichuan and Guizhou are now the territories of the Red Bandits. Under attack from both sides, the Sichuan Army still has How many days can you last?¡±
"Darling, my original intention is not to settle down in Sichuan. I don't have much hope for those Sichuan rats. Instead, I suggest that you go to Sichuan first, and then go abroad via Yunnan to organize a government in exile in Burma, India or Malaya. ¡¡±
Song Meiling smiled slightly, squinted her eyes and said, "Although the Red Bandits relied on their nuclear weapons to be unstoppable for a while, their misbehavior has already made them angry with all the friends in the world. So, as long as we can escape from the country. The United Kingdom, the United States, and France will all support us and provide us with sufficient financial and arms assistance. Next, as long as we patiently recuperate, gather strength, and actively look for opportunities, with the help of civilized countries around the world. The party-state Sooner or later there will always be a comeback"
After listening to Song Meiling's words, Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, which were originally as desperate and withered as dead wood, finally began to gain some brilliance
¡ª¡ªOn September 21, after capturing Hanyang and Wuchang relatively easily, after a chaotic and fierce street battle and paying the price of thousands of casualties, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army finally annihilated the Japanese and French garrisons in the Hankou Concession Area, completely Occupied three towns in Wuhan.
But the problem is that Chiang Kai-shek and many important officials of the National Government in Wuhan had already boarded the ship a day ago. Under the escort of two Japanese gunboats, they fled upriver by water and arrived in Chongqing on September 30. In Chongqing The British Consulate issued a "Declaration to Combat Rebellion and Save the Nation" and vowed to fight to the death with the Red Army, thus winning praises from the imperialist powers and calling them "dragon-slaying warriors who fought against the Bolshevik dragon"!
Next, Chiang Kai-shek and others continued to turn west, and finally boarded a British plane at Kunming Airport and successfully flew to New Delhi, India. They announced the establishment of the "Republic of China Government in Exile" and sent telegraphs across the Himalayas to "remotely control" the domestic war. ¡ª¡ªUnfortunately, it seems that no powerful faction is still willing to treat him as a green onion. Only a handful of Red Army generals on the battlefield of Lianghu were sighing because they failed to capture this old enemy.
On the other hand, thousands of miles away in Shanghai, the leaders of the Fifth Red Front Army did not have much regard for Chairman Chiang's "successful transfer".? Doesn't matter - anyway, this "peanut" has been beaten to a dead dog, and his territory and army have been completely lost. Even if he escapes, at most he will only add some disgust to the Party Central Committee in terms of publicity and public opinion It's probably just a level of trouble similar to that of the great monk in Tibet in the future.
On the contrary, some "Left-leaning putschist errors" made by the Guangzhou Party Central Committee are making them feel quite embarrassed, and even their heads are as big as a bucket
¡ª¡ªAlthough in the eyes of the Red Army comrades in this time and space, these suggestions and plans are extremely reasonable and extremely urgent.
"What? You want us to provide technical support to salvage and repair the more than 200,000 tons of British naval ships sunk in Hong Kong, especially those battleships and battlecruisers?! Let the new red China immediately have a world force Super Marine?! Are you kidding me?!"
In the conference room of the Fifth Red Front Army Headquarters in Shanghai, Wang Qiu slapped a telegram on the table, almost dumbfounded, "What on earth did the Party Central Committee think the ocean-going navy did? Even if it fished out a few giant ships, Ship, does China currently have supporting port auxiliary facilities? Does China have large shipyards and shipyards that can maintain battleships? Does China have qualified shipbuilding experts and navigation talents? Especially battleships A battleship of tens of thousands of tons, It usually requires one thousand to two thousand sailors to maintain operations. Even the best sailors from the imperialist powers will take about a year on board a ship to become proficient in operation - and the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army currently does not even have a decent naval school. None!"