The Red Army's artillery shells did not bomb ordinary people's houses, nor did they bomb other civilian houses and civilian buildings. Many houses were destroyed by the shells exploding nearby. Of course, some shells deviated from their original targets and landed on buildings. , after all, the Red Army artillery is not a fairy, and there will always be a few mistakes.
But the surrendering officers and soldiers believed that if the artillery shells were specifically bombarded with these buildings, their officers and soldiers hiding in these places would probably be wiped out like those buildings.
The officers and soldiers who surrendered all knew that this was not because the Red Army could not bomb these houses and buildings. On the contrary, bombing houses and buildings indiscriminately was far simpler than just bombing streets, fortifications, and positions. Most of these buildings were built of bricks, tiles, and wood. It simply cannot withstand the bombardment of a single artillery shell, coupled with fires and other things, the entire Hefei City will definitely be reduced to ruins under such an intensity of artillery bombardment, and the number of casualties among the defenders is far more than the current number.
Looking at the scattered officers and soldiers in front of him, Feng Yuxiang was about to cry. When he decided to "uprising", he still had a sense of pride in his heart and felt that he had the ability to negotiate with the Red Army. He also felt that no matter what happened, In this way, my strength is at least stronger than Fu Zuoyi's. The Red Army has to arrange itself for a relatively high position. Considering its huge political influence, the position they arrange will definitely not be lower than that of Fu Zuoyi. Righteous.
However, the actual situation now made his heart sink to the bottom, and he could no longer think of comparing himself with Fu Zuoyi: when they revolted, they had all the troops from head to tail, and they had many troops and weapons. As for myself, at best I could still see a little bit of what the troops looked like, but in reality, they were just a bunch of frightened beggars, not to mention fighting against other troops. Even if you encounter a group of bandits, you will be so frightened that you will immediately kneel down and beg for mercy.
"Hey, let's leave it to fate." Feng Yuxiang sighed, and had no intention of organizing the team or registering. He just asked the communications staff to send a telegram to Guo Zhuocheng: "Please come and take care of him."
These four words can clearly explain how deep Feng Yuxiang's heart has sunk.
Guo Zhuocheng did not add insult to injury. Moreover, he also knew that Feng Yuxiang was considered a hero in history and had always insisted on resisting Japan, so he could not be insulted. Besides, according to the treatment of uprising officers and soldiers within the Red Army, the top uprising leader only gave him a deputy division level position or deputy division level treatment. Why should he be so aggressive?
Therefore, not only did he not send officers and soldiers to take him in. They also arranged for thousands of surrendered officers and soldiers who had recovered to bring a large amount of supplies to Feng Yuxiang and the others, including not only food and clothing, but also weapons, ammunition, tents and other items.
According to Guo Zhuocheng¡¯s order, these officers and soldiers were also placed under the command of Feng Yuxiang.
Guo Zhuocheng's order also included asking Feng Yuxiang to eliminate some of his old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers and those who were no longer suitable to serve in the army and hand them over to the Red Army for resettlement, while he led the streamlined army to recover after rest. Departed to Chengdu, where it was completely refitted and reorganized into a division. Then conduct training and wait for the opportunity to attack the Guanzhong area.
Although Guo Zhuocheng did not explicitly appoint Feng Yuxiang as the division commander, the meaning is self-evident.
This made Feng Yuxiang's depressed heart revive, and he was full of gratitude to Guo Zhuocheng, especially since Guo Zhuocheng did not go to inspect his troops as usual and did not summon him to the military headquarters to express condolences. In the eyes of others, this It was Guo Zhuocheng who didn't pay attention to him. He was dismissive, but Feng Yuxiang didn't think so in his heart. He knew that this was because Guo Zhuocheng didn't come to see him, and he didn't want to embarrass Feng Yuxiang. He wanted Feng Yuxiang to take care of himself. The troops will be restored to their full strength, and what others will see will be a troops with high morale and murderous intent, which is consistent with his identity.
What made Feng Yuxiang even more happy was that not long after, Mao Rundong, Zhou Xunlai, and Commander-in-Chief Zhu, who were far away in Chongqing, jointly signed an invitation telegram, asking Feng Yuxiang to come to Chongqing to report on his work and be a guest at an appropriate time. They will receive him with great ceremony.
Although there was an element of politeness in the telegram jointly signed by these three people. But it really gave Feng Yuxiang enough face. He quickly sent a telegram of thanks and claimed that he would visit the troops as soon as they regained some strength.
Looking at the telegram in his hand, Feng Yuxiang laughed at himself and said to his close men: "Oh, I can't believe that I, Feng, have never seen anything in my life, but I was moved by this young man Guo Zhuocheng. After receiving it from the three of them I feel flattered by the bandits' telegrams. Do you look down on me a little and think I'm worthless?"
Feng Yuxiang's subordinates said seriously: "No! Time has changed, and their Red Army is the real one. Although Yan is the president, and although you are also the third-in-command in the Nanjing government, you still need to Let me tell the truth, we are just a bunch of clowns who control less than one-fifth of the country. What kind of president are we? Seeing that the Red Army is about to unify the country, we ministersYou should change your mind. "
Feng Yuxiang sighed: "Yes. We took advantage of Jiang when he was weak, but we in the north cannot control the Northeast and Mongolia; the southwest cannot control Sichuan and Tibet; the south can control It cannot control Yunnan and Guangdong and Guangxi; the east cannot control Shanghai and half of Shandong; the middle cannot control Hunan and Jiangxi. We have always been wandering around in this small area in the middle, so what kind of president is that? What a bunch of self-righteous clowns. Let me tell you, the Red Army will control a much larger area than us in less than a month. Maybe Yan Laoxi and Zhang Hanqing will also follow our path and surrender to the Red Army soon. . Unless they abandon Nanjing now and retreat to Xuzhou, and then flee to Peiping via Jinan and Tianjin."
Feng Yuxiang's men asked in surprise: "Could it be that Zhengzhou would fall into the hands of the Red Army so quickly? Is there Zhumadian blocking it in front? Then there are the heavy troops we have deployed and the solid buildings we have built over the years." fortifications.¡±
Feng Yuxiang sneered: "Are these heavy troops useful in front of the Red Army? Those fortifications were built by the Beiyang warlords to deal with the Northern Expeditionary Army. Regardless of their quality, they have not been renovated for so many years. Even if Emergency repairs have begun now, but they can't stop the Red Army's heavy artillery I really don't know where the Red Army got so many heavy artillery. How many tons of artillery shells did they fire? They just dropped them as if they were free. .Don¡¯t they want people transported here?¡±
Feng Yuxiang¡¯s men asked in a low voice: ¡°Could it really be given to them by the Soviet Union?¡±
Feng Yuxiang shook his head and said: "Impossible! Not to mention that the Soviet Union would not be so generous, even if they are really willing to send it, how can it be transported thousands of miles away? Is it by flight? Even if it is by plane, how many planes will be needed and how many airports will be built? "
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Guo Zhuocheng has no mind to think about those things. He is currently discussing a surprise attack on Xuzhou with Sun Xingguo, who has just arrived. The purpose was what Feng Yuxiang had guessed - to cut off Yan Xishan and Zhang Xueliang's escape to their lair, and force the Nanjing government's troops to surrender as soon as possible.
Originally, Guo Zhuocheng wanted the Song Army to lead his special forces to Xuzhou secretly at night after the Battle of Hefei. But if you do this, you will easily be blocked by the defenders, and the small special forces can carry out sneak attacks and damage, but it is a bit difficult for them to seize a city and hold it firmly. After all, the number of special forces is too small. Facing the enemy's desperate attack, they could not hold back for long.
¡°To do this is completely to overuse the talents, or to use the talents indiscriminately.
Sun Xingguo told Guo Zhuocheng that they had trained a reinforced paratrooper regiment using C-47 twin-engine medium transport aircraft in the Sichuan Dazhou area. There were more than 2,000 people, enough to complete a fairly intense battle. He suggested using this Paratroopers come to complete this mission.
The C-47 twin-engine medium-sized transport aircraft was naturally transported by Guo Zhuocheng from that time and space in 1993. It was purchased from the United States by Princess Madeleine using a company under IIC Company. This transport aircraft is a twin-engine piston military transport aircraft developed by Douglas Company of the United States. Because of its good flight performance, it was historically equipped with the US Army Air Force and became its main military transport aircraft in World War II. It is mainly used to transport supplies and soldiers by air, and can also be used to airdrop paratroopers.
The prototype of this aircraft flew for the first time in December 1935 and began to be equipped with troops in 1940. Due to its advantages such as good performance, stability and reliability, more than 12,000 of this aircraft and multiple improved models were produced, which is the largest number. Transport aircraft.
There are many such aircraft not only in the United States, but also in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union, Chile, Argentina and other countries. On the one hand, during World War II, the United States used them to support its allies, including the Soviet Union, in fighting the German fascist army. On the other hand, after the end of World War II, the United States, which had too many inventories, sold them to some countries with good relations with the United States.
¡° In addition to these aircraft and aircraft parts in stock, the United Kingdom and France also have production lines donated by the United States during World War II. So when IIC went to buy them, those countries and companies rushed to sell them to IIC, and then they were shipped to China or to Guo Zhuocheng's own leader Ye Mingzhu Island.
China also urgently installed several production lines and began to mass-produce such aircraft with very mature technology. At the same time, it imitated the United States during World War II and improved them into electronic signal reconnaissance aircraft, bombers, civil aviation transport aircraft, sea and air search and rescue aircraft, Anti-submarine aircraft, and these improved models all have samples for reference. It only needs the Chinese aviation industry to follow these ideas and make more improvements to these aircraft, adding more advanced aviation technology and material technology over the past few decades, so as to further increase the performance of the aircraft.