Chapter 14: The smoke everywhere (2)

In this report, Sugiyama Yuan and others believed that whether it was fighting the corps stationed in Mongolia last year or fighting the front army this time, the People's Army stopped in Yanggao in northern Shanxi and at the Dongyang River line on the border of Chasui in Suidong, and were all under the prevailing force. Based on this, Sugiyama Yuan and others had reason to determine that the People's Army was unlikely to continue to advance eastward for some reason in the future. The reasons should be roughly three aspects:

First, Pingjin, Hebei and the Chahar area east of Zhangjiakou is the central area for the front army to deploy heavy troops, and there are railways and sea routes connected to the Kwantung Army in the northeast. If the People's Army goes on an expedition, it will be attacked by two fronts, and even its advantageous air force will be greatly reduced due to combat distance.

Second, Xinjiang, western Mongolia, Suiyuan, Ningxia and other places either bordered the Soviet Union or Outer Mongolia. The People's Party was extremely hostile to the Soviet Union due to historical reasons. Outer Mongolia was extremely hostile. The People's Army had to divide its troops to take into account the possible attacks of the Soviet and Mongolian army on the northwest. In addition, there were British people in Shannan in a state of hostility with the People's Army. All this determined that the People's Army could not fight the North China Front Army with all its strength. The People's Army deployed in northern Shanxi should not exceed one-third of its total force.

Third, the People's Party needs time to further stabilize the northwest. Although the People's Party has vigorously absorbed people from other places in the past two or three years, causing the population in its controlled areas to increase significantly, it still cannot change the situation of vast and sparsely populated areas in the northwest. The situation of ethnic groups such as Han, Mongolia, Hui, and Tibetan in the northwest is extremely complicated. West Mengxi, Shannan, Suiyuan, and northern Shanxi are all newly occupied areas. It will take at least a few years for the People's Party to completely stabilize such a large area.

As for the escort army, although its occupation of northern Shandong posed a threat to Hebei, Pingjin, it expanded from a few counties in Yimeng to the entire province of Shandong in about a year, including Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Hebei and other regions, which had reached or even exceeded its limit.

Previously, the rescue and resettlement of victims in the Yellow River Flood and the people in eastern Henan made the guards in a hurry. It was only by air transport from the northwest that they could survive. If they took advantage of the season to add millions of people in urgent need of assistance, they would definitely be able to restrain their hands and feet again, and at least they could ensure that they were unable to continue to expand to the four outside within one or two years.

Regarding the fundamental reason for the successive failures in northern Shanxi, Suidong, northern Shandong and others, Suishan Yuan and others all attributed it to "the People's Party's armed air strength has obvious advantages, the Front's existing air strength is not enough to compete with the enemy air force, and with the Front's existing troops, facing attacks from the People's Army and the Guards in both directions..."

Although some conclusions in this report are in line with reality, that is, the People's Party armed forces will not continue to expand in a certain period of time in the future and pose a fundamental threat to Hebei, Cha, Pingjin and other places, the main purpose of this report is to show that "the situation in North China is still controllable", thus achieving the goal of Sugiyama Moto and others shirking the responsibility for failure in combat. After all, the Guards Cabinet has resigned because the war against China has not achieved its expected goals in the past year and a half. Sugiyama Moto has to come up with an explanation that can be explained to all parties.

Previously, although the Japanese army won the victory in the Wuhan and Guangzhou battles, Chiang Kai-shek did not surrender, and the main force of the Japanese army still had to continue to consume on the Chinese battlefield. None of the two major goals originally expected by the Japanese top leaders had achieved!

The bankruptcy of the policy of decisive battle for one and a half years had already caused a severe blow to the Guards' cabinet. The "three principles" proposed by the Guards in December 2018 were flatly rejected by Chiang Kai-shek. In addition, the strong rise of the People's Party's armed forces, "it is difficult to fight against China, peace cannot be reached, and the international situation is bad." Facing the aggressive and powerful face of the military, the Guards also ignored the fact that the North China Front Army was still fighting, and on January 4, a cabinet general resigned and quit!

As a civil servant, Konowa could resign, but Sugiyama Yuan, who had once advocated the expansion of invasion of China and tried hard to promote the "three-month solution to the China problem", could not give up. He was even worried that the defeat in northern Shanxi, Suidong, northern Shandong and other places would attract the anger of the base camp, so it was reasonable to win over the defeated generals and create a report aimed at shirking responsibility.

However, the Japanese base has just confirmed the plan for expansion in 39 years. The eleven security divisions and fourteen mixed brigades that are preparing to form are still on paper and cannot launch a large increase in troops to North China. The Central China Expeditionary Army and the 21st Army in South China have new combat tasks to be carried out, and it is difficult to mobilize troops to head north.

In desperation, although Zai Ren and others from the Japanese base camp knew that Sugiyama Sora and others had an unshirkable responsibility for the failure of the battle, they had to temporarily pinch their noses and approve the report submitted by the North China Front Army.

After all, in the statistics released by the Japanese base camp on January 20, nearly two-thirds of the 1,010 aircraft lost by the Japanese army since the full invasion of China last year have been destroyed by the People's Party Air Force! Sugiyama Moto attributed the reason for the failure to insufficient air force, which is consistent with this statistical situation.

Because there were no more troops to North China, the Japanese base camp ordered the remaining troops of the 108th, 109th and 114th divisions, which were originally scheduled to return to China and be demobilized, and the remaining troops of the third division, were suspended from returning to China and were demobilized after a few months.

The people in China did not understand the actions of the Japanese army. What everyone was more concerned about was the unprecedented victory achieved by the People's Party's armed forces on several battlefields in North China!

The People's Army took one and a half months to annihilate the People's Army in northern Shanxi and Suidong, annihilated more than 68,000 Japanese troops, including the Sakai Takashi Brigade, and the Guards in northern Shandong and southern Hebei took about four days to annihilate more than 27,000 Japanese troops in the 21st, 114th, and 108th Divisions. Together, these places, the People's Party armed forces annihilate more than 96,000 Japanese soldiers, which is an unprecedented victory since the War of Resistance!

People from all walks of life are happy and encouraged by the results of the People's Party's announcement, and the two sides of the Communist Party are also very concerned about the relevant situation.

After confirming that the news of the Japanese defeat was true, Lao Mao, who was in northern Shaanxi, called the front and asked the Eighth Route Army to take advantage of the dispersed Japanese troops and reduce control over the Hebei Plain to rely on the Taihang Mountains to go deep into central Hebei, southern Hebei and other places to develop and strengthen its own strength.

As the head of the National Government, Lao Chiang, not only lamented that the People's Party was growing and worried about the future of the Party and the country, but did not immediately come up with any clever strategies for fighting against Japan, but temporarily put the relevant issues down.

It’s not that Chiang Kai-shek would not seize the opportunity. He was really busy "extinguishing the fire" and preparing for the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Kuomintang, and he had no time for a while. Especially in North China, the National Government had no other power except Yan Xishan, who was unclear from the northwest, insisted in southern Shanxi. Chiang Kai-shek even wanted to make a difference, but he was unable to do so.

As for the "fire" that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to destroy, it was caused by Wang Zhaoming.

Just when the People's Army was fighting fiercely with the Japanese army in northern Shanxi and Suidong, the dignified Kuomintang vice president Wang Zhaoming took the opportunity to leave Chongqing on December 18, 2018, and flew from Kunming to Hanoi, Vietnam on the 20th. Then, Wang Zhaoming, through his subordinate Lin Bosheng, issued the infamous "Yan Diary" in Hong Kong on the 29th and openly surrendered to the enemy!

After the truth that the people in the three provinces were exposed by the People's Party and Chinese and foreign journalists, the prestige of the Nationalist Government among the people had dropped to a very low position. Now the second-person of this government has turned against the enemy. What do you think about people from all walks of life?

What's more, everything is afraid of comparison. Since the War of Resistance Against Japan, the troops under Chiang Kai-shek have been defeated in succession, while the People's Party armed forces have won victory after victory and continued to recover lost territory. The scale in the hearts of the people is self-evident.

In order to save the influence, Chiang Kai-shek has focused on criticizing Wang Zhaoming from New Year's Day to win public opinion, clearing up Wang's troops to clear the internal situation, and preparing for the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee to face the future situation.

Under the auspices of Chiang Kai-shek, the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang held an extraordinary meeting on New Year's Day and formed a resolution. In the name of Wang Zhaoming's violation of laws and discipline, he was expelled from the party and removed all his posts. Later, important officials such as Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Li Zongren also made conversations, criticizing Wang Zhaoming and turning him into "Wang Ni".

The People's Party naturally had to criticize Wang Zhaoming for his surrender. However, after listing Wang Zhaoming as a traitor and declaring that he would be severely punished, the People's Party did not use this to hold on to the National Government, which was quite a bit of a pale taste. This made people from all walks of life a little puzzled. However, some discerning people interpreted a trace of the charm, which shows that the People's Party no longer treats the National Government as an opponent at the same level.

Zhao Zhenzhong had no idea about the speculations of people from all walks of life. When the war in northern Shanxi, Suidong, northern Shandong and other places had not yet completely quelled, he and Tian Yunyi, Zhou Mingyuan, Li Yunshan, Zou Degui and others were studying the situation after this battle and the next stage of the People's Party's tasks.

After the resignation of the General Office of the Kobaya Cabinet, the newly-entered Hiranuma Cabinet was completely controlled by the Japanese military headquarters and the chaebols who advocated external expansion. Judging from the relevant outline promulgated by Hiranuma at the beginning of his coming to power, Japan will mobilize manpower, material resources, and financial resources, including colonies, to maintain and expand the war against China. The amendment of the Japanese Military Service Law has abolished the short-term military service system and extended the time for the Japanese to serve in the military. Combining these two hatches, it can be said that Japan has entered the wartime system, and the intensity of its invasion of China will definitely be further increased in the future!

Even without the historical knowledge gained from the original world, just from the domestic measures of Japan and the current anti-Japanese war situation in China, it can be foreseen that with the increasing efforts of the Japanese invasion of China, nearly half of China will be under the Japanese army's military front, from the White Mountains and Black Waters to the coast of the South China Sea, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is full of smoke!

However, the results achieved by the People's Party's armed forces in northern Shanxi, Suidong, northern Shandong, southern Hebei and other places this time were enough to teach Sora Sugiyama and the Japanese base camp a profound lesson. Before there was no force that could deal with the two strategic directions, especially before its aviation forces could compete with our Air Force, the North China Front would not make a large-scale invasion in the areas controlled by the People's Party again.

In addition to being close to the newly occupied area of ​​the Guards in northern Jiangsu, the Central China Expeditionary Army was separated from the newly occupied area of ​​Anhui and Henan, which was newly occupied by the People's Party, and even if the Japanese wanted to fight, they could not reach it!

This gave the People's Party time to stabilize the newly occupied area. According to Zhao Zhenzhong and Zhou Mingyuan's memory, the People's Party should have about one year to develop stably.

Of course, the Japanese army would not invade a large amount, which does not mean that the People's Party can rest assured. After the Huayuankou broke the dike, the water level of the lower Yellow River dropped sharply, and the Japanese army could no longer use it to launch a water attack. However, there were also many rivers in Hebei and Henan provinces, including some of which flowed through the newly occupied northern Shandong, southern Hebei and other places in northern Shandong, southern Hebei.

In history, the Japanese army broke the dikes and flooded central Hebei, southern Hebei and other places in 39 years to clear the ** armed forces operating in the local area. Although the guards now occupy northern Shandong, southern Hebei and other places are far away from the flooded areas, no People's Party armed forces have appeared in history.

There was a precedent for Chiang Kai-shek to break the dike and attack. The Japanese army had tried the sweetness of driving away the people in eastern Henan and restraining the strength of the guards. It was difficult to ensure that the Japanese were not allowed to attack northern Shandong and southern Hebei.

Zhao Zhenzhong previously asked Gu Haichuan and others to build water conservancy in northern Shandong and other places to prevent problems before they occur.

After research, the People's Party formulated different development plans for different situations in the northwest, Shandong and other places.

The northwest originally had a five-year development plan, but this time it only made a slight correction to the development of some areas, tilted policies and investment to some weak links, and continued to increase investment in some important areas. The focus was on the Shandong Bureau and the Guards.

Of course, Zhao Zhenzhong and others were not commanding the situation thousands of miles away. They formulated a summary of large-scale projects that the Shandong Bureau would launch within three years. Among them, they mainly included water conservancy projects and road traffic construction.

In terms of water conservancy, northern Shandong should rectify and manage large and medium-sized rivers such as the Lao Yellow River, Zhangwei River, Majia River, Tuhai River, and Tuhai River. While preventing the Japanese army's water attack, lay the foundation for farmland irrigation; northern Jiangsu should control the old trough of the Yellow River and the areas with frequent flooding in the lower reaches of the Huai River, and clear the remains of the Yellow River; northern Anhui should control the rivers north of the Yellow River, such as the Bian River, the Wuhe River, and the Beifei River, and prevent the Yellow River from expanding northward due to the rise in the Yellow River.

One reason for launching so many large-scale water conservancy projects is that these rivers have been disrepaired and do need to be managed; the other reason is to resettle disaster victims and refugees in the new controlled area.

After the Battle of Northern Lu, the number of victims and refugees in the newly controlled area of ​​the Guards was as high as more than 6 million, and there was still a trend of increasing. When it was difficult to resettle this large population through land allocation, the construction of large-scale water conservancy projects through labor-for-relief is undoubtedly an effective way to rescue and stabilize the people.

When resettling people in other places, unless the resettlement area is as wide as the northwest, a small amount is OK. If the number is too large, due to different dialects and living customs, new people will definitely have conflicts with local people.

Furthermore, Shandong is a place where there are few lands and many people. Assigning Shandong's land to local people will receive their support, but if it is distributed to foreign people without land, it is likely to cause dissatisfaction and conflicts and add new unstable factors.

By using labor-for-relief and using semi-militarized methods to organize some young and strong people for large-scale engineering construction, the lives of construction workers themselves and their families can be settled without touching the interests of local people in the construction, and the unstable factors in the areas controlled by the guards are eliminated.

With this series of large-scale water conservancy projects as the foundation, it can solve the problem of resettlement of foreign victims and refugees in the areas controlled by the Guards in the next two or three years. If there are many foreign populations, there are still large-scale projects such as railways and highways that can be launched.

In fact, in some key areas, transportation construction must be a first step. The restoration of the Yellow River iron bridge on the Xiangjinpu Line and the erection of the Yellow River and Canal Highway Bridges must be carried out at least together with the water conservancy project in order to promptly transport relevant construction personnel and materials.

"Sir, I think of us again!" After seeing the three-year project construction plan sent by Zhao Zhenzhong, Du Yishan sighed.

Zhang Gongyuan also said happily: "With this planning plan and the government cadres and engineering personnel sent by the teacher, we will have a big problem in resettlement of foreign populations in the future!"

"Although Mr. Wang judged that the Japanese army would not be able to launch a large-scale attack on our troops in the next year, seeing that Mr. pays so much attention to water conservancy projects, the Japanese may have a great chance of water attack. Before the rainy season comes, we should dredge the northern section of the good canal and enhance the flood discharge capacity of the Old Yellow River, Zhangwei River and other rivers. However, the time is tight and the task is heavy, so we have to spend some time. As for other aspects, we can postpone it." Gu Haichuan was concerned about the order of the tasks and the severity of the tasks.

"By the end of last year, Gu Liangmin had more than 20,000 people who were undergoing training after streamlining, and 150,000 people who completed one-year recruit training. If the construction period is rushing, you might as well take these 170,000 as the backbone and invest in the engineering construction." Sun Guantao suggested, "Since there is no major war in the next year, the Second Army has returned to the Jiaoji Line and the Peninsula, and there is no problem in the region's stability. It should be no problem for these 170,000 troops to be misappropriated for half a year."

"It is okay to call troops for emergency response, but 170,000 is a bit too much." Liu Chengshan had other opinions, "Third, the fifth two army can ensure that there is no problem in northern Shandong, but only the first army is in southwestern Shandong and eastern Henan. The strength is relatively weak, so it is better to draw out some troops to strengthen it. In the north of the Jiangsu region, the Fourth Army must not only undertake certain coastal defense tasks, but also guard against the Japanese army on the front line of the Yellow River Laogu, and it should also strengthen it."

"Although the world is safe, forgetting the battle will inevitably lead to danger. Moreover, there are Japanese pirate soldiers everywhere around us!" Gu Haichuan nodded in agreement, "Draw 30,000 new recruits to strengthen them to southwest Shandong and be commanded by the First Army; and then draw 20,000 to northern Jiangsu and be commanded by the Fourth Army. Establish a Lubei Water Conservancy Construction Engineering Command, which will be responsible for me and Gong Yuan, assisted by Wu Deqing, Lu Xueyi, and Fang Yunzhong, and the remaining 120,000 new recruits will be dispatched by the Construction Engineering Command!"

The People's Party was busy with post-war local stability and related engineering construction, but Chiang Kai-shek ended the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee at the end of January. Compared with the historical "dissolving, preventing, limiting, and anti-" policies, Chiang Kai-shek emphasized the "defense, anti-" policy against the People's Party more.

It’s not that Chiang Kai-shek treated the People’s Party with special preferential treatment and that he used less two words to the real secret. It is really that the People’s Party is no longer restricted and can be dissolved by the National Government.

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