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After Luo Yaoguo and Zhao Zheng finished talking on the phone, they immediately sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek who had already arrived in Xi'an. On the one hand, he informed him that the "Bohai Bay Sea Battle" had won a decisive victory, and at the same time sent a Japanese battleship and two Japanese battleships to Xi'an. The news of the cruiser's "voting to the Communist Party" was notified to him, and Chiang Kai-shek was asked to request at least one battleship or battlecruiser during the negotiations with Zhang Xueliang.

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The night of February 20th in the [-]th year of the Republic of China.Xi'an, Huaqing Pool, Chiang Kai-shek's residence is brightly lit, and in the living room, only the fragrance of top-quality oolong tea is slowly lingering.Chiang Kai-shek frowned and looked at Zhang Xueliang, who was as thin as a bean sprout, but Zhang Xueliang just lowered his eyelids, yawning one after another, as if he had no energy at all.

The attendants on both sides stared with wide eyes.The Kuomintang side is anxious, and the Japanese attack on the western side of Liaoning has already started.The Japanese army invested hundreds of thousands of troops, more than 100 cannons, and more than 1000 tanks and armored vehicles on a front more than 100 kilometers wide from the mountainous area of ​​western Liaoning to Liaodong Bay, launching a day and night fierce attack!What is even more worrying is that the two supply ports of Huludao and Qinhuangdao were successively destroyed by the crazy Japanese fleet. Although the navy almost wiped out the Japanese fleet afterwards, the supply line of the western Liaoning front line has been temporarily cut off by the Japanese army!The 30 Kuomintang troops in Liaoxi are all heavily armed and mechanized. They fight powerfully, but consume even more supplies. If the ammunition supplies are exhausted, the entire army may be wiped out!

Zhang Xueliang's entourage also watched nervously at this Kuomintang rightist Chiang Kai-shek who had no hair on his head. Today was the first day of the "Bohai Bay War". Logically speaking, the battle should not be decided so quickly.This is a "gamble" in which the two sides invested a total of more than 100 million troops, dozens of warships, and thousands of aircraft. How could the overwhelming victory of Chinese imperialism at sea determine the general situation on the first day?But now the news is that the Japanese fleet was almost completely wiped out in less than 24 hours...and it was the Kuomintang reactionaries who attacked, uh, it is now the Chinese imperialists!I heard that the Communist International has just released the latest list of imperialist countries, which has upgraded the rating of the Republic of China from "semi-imperial and semi-colonial" to "emerging imperialist countries" and the rating outlook is positive.

"Brother Hanqing, our national government's affairs can be put on the table, which is absolutely reasonable. This 'Bohai Bay Victory' was fought bloody by our navy and air force soldiers. These three Japanese battleships were also fought by us. You surrendered to your party when you had nowhere to go. Therefore, it is absolutely reasonable for us to ask you to hand over one of them to us as a spoil! How can we say that this battle was won by us, and all the spoils cannot be yours. , and we got nothing, right? Besides, our requirements are not high, just one ship will do.”

Seeing Zhang Xueliang's sluggish look, as if he couldn't listen to anything, Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to suppress his anger and continue to persuade him earnestly.

To be honest, when he got the telegram from Luo Yaoguo in the afternoon, he immediately jumped up. There are three battleships!How about hundreds of millions of legal currency?How did you "vote for the Communist Party"?Aren't these Japanese not going to surrender?This is no good. These battleships should belong to the Kuomintang and cannot be given to the CCP. How can they only need one?In the end, under the persuasion of Song Meiling who accompanied him, Lao Jiang suppressed the anger that was about to erupt, and came to bargain with Zhang Xueliang.But this Zhang Xueliang insisted that these battleships are not from the CCP, but from the Soviet Union!The Soviet Union bought them from the Japanese for millions of dollars, so the CCP has no right to hand them over to the KMT.Hearing Zhang Xueliang's explanation, even Song Meiling, who was the most tempered among Chiang Kai-shek's entourage, turned up her beauty and looked unhappy.Millions of dollars to buy three battleships!Can this be said on the stage?

The room was quiet, and after a moment of silence, Zhang Xueliang finally raised his head. Before he could speak, he sighed deeply: "...Brother Jie, these three battleships were indeed sold by Japan to the Soviet Union. Our party has nothing to do with it, and this matter is only good and not bad for China. The Japanese sold three battleships...don't they lose three sharp weapons to massacre the Chinese people? Your party wants to defeat them and recover Isn't it much easier in the Northeast?"

Chiang Kai-shek had the urge to throw a teacup, this opium ghost is simply a mess!If the three battleships hadn't "voted to the Communist Party", they would have sunk by now!The thousands of Japanese devils above have also been massacred by the Chinese imperialists, so what about being "disarmed" and detained in the Tianjin Concession like now?

His face turned blue and white, and he calmed down with great difficulty, looked at Zhang Xueliang who was bowing his head and said with a forced smile: "Why is this so? We don't want to monopolize these three battleships, you can just give one. You can sell the other two ships to the Soviet Union, and you can ask for a price of 2000 million U.S. dollars." He lowered his voice and said, "Now that we have defeated the Japanese navy, Bohai Bay is now dominated by the National Revolutionary Army Navy. , without our consent, can the Soviet battleship go out?"

Before he finished speaking, the expressions of several CCP entourages behind Zhang Xueliang suddenly darkened, and one of them sneered: "Just because you dare to threaten the Soviet Union? Now a little Japan has made you I'm so devastated! If I dare to provoke the Soviet Union, I'm afraid I'm looking for a dead end, right?"

A murderous look flashed across Chiang Kai-shek's face, he gave the ignorant Communist a hard look, and said coldly: "Then please tell Stalin to let him have a try and see if he can drive these three battleships out of the Bohai Sea." Bay!"

Chapter 0569 Chiang Kai-shek's Xi'an Incident ([-]) Tanggu Incident

Bang!A teacup was smashed to pieces. It turned out that the communist behind Zhang Xueliang slammed the teacup in his hand onto the bluestone floor.

The man stood up with an angry expression on his face. His face, which was originally pretty and clean, was severely distorted by anger at the moment: "Chiang Kai-shek! Do you know what you are talking about? Your Kuomintang wants to attack three suspended ships. A battleship with the Soviet flag! This is an act of war!" As he spoke, a trace of sarcasm emerged from the corner of his mouth: "Will the British and American masters of your Kuomintang agree with you to attack the Soviet Union? Capitalism is now on the verge of extinction. If there is another world war If so...hehe, I'm afraid it will be the day when red flags will be planted all over the world!"

"You!" The anger on Chiang Kai-shek's face flashed, and he calmed down immediately. Although the Kuomintang won the Bohai Bay Sea Battle, they paid a huge price for it!The two supply ports of Qinhuangdao and Huludao were destroyed by the Japanese naval guns, and there was no hope of putting them into use again without maintenance for more than a month, while the ammunition reserves of the Liaoxi Kuomintang army lasted for half a month at most!So now the only way is to borrow from the CCP.Attacking the three "Soviet" battleships and so on was nothing more than a verbal threat. If they really did that, it would give the Soviet Union an excuse to intervene in the war, and it would be a disaster at that time.

Seeing that Chiang Kai-shek had nothing to say, the young Bolshevik showed a proud expression and waved his arms vigorously. Just as he was about to continue condemning Chiang Kai-shek’s reactionary traitorous country, Zhang Xueliang spoke first: “Comrade Bogu, don’t you Excited, now is still a critical moment for the joint resistance against Japan, and the Prime Minister also explained it when he came."

Having said that, he paused for a moment and then said: "Mr. Jiang, the battleship does not belong to us now, so we have no right to deal with it, but I can pass your party's intentions to the central committee of our party, and then they will pass it on to the Soviet Union. Believe it There will be a solution acceptable to all parties. Now let’s discuss the issues of Qinhuangdao and Shanhaiguan.”

"Qinhuangdao's port airport has been destroyed by the Japanese, can you still occupy it in the name of anti-Japanese?" Bogu adjusted his glasses and took over the topic: "We don't ask for the person responsible now, as long as you leave Shanhaiguan Let the past go. Only when this is resolved can we start discussing the passage of your supplies."

Chiang Kai-shek looked at Zhang Xueliang, his face turned blue and white, and asked calmly, "Is this what you mean? Do you really have the heart to hand over 3000 million elders in the Northeast to the Japanese for slavery?"

Faced with Chiang Kai-shek's groundless accusations, Zhang Xueliang sighed in his heart, and slowly shook his head: "Mr. Jiang, now...although it is a two-party cooperation, your two parties are not a family after all, and some things must be explained first. Otherwise, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, I am afraid there will be another civil war!"

"Hmph, now I'm afraid it's not an issue between the two parties, but an issue between the two countries?" Chiang Kai-shek sneered a few times, and brought the topic to the Soviet Republic that is currently under construction: "Now the foreign enemy is invading, while the There are still people who want to split the country..."

"This is not to split the country, but to change the state system and the constitution! This was discussed and approved by the Political Consultative Conference, representing the will of the people of the whole country! I hope you can also understand the situation and stop insisting on the name of the pseudo-Republic of China Yes." Bogu said in a relaxed tone: "The establishment of a Soviet state is an inevitable choice of history and the choice of the people of the whole country. We just follow the trend of history and public opinion, just like the establishment of the Republic of China by Mr. Sun."

"Yes! It's the same as Mr. Sun..." Zhang Xueliang hesitated and said.

Chiang Kai-shek glanced at Zhang Xueliang with pity, and shook his head slightly: "Han Qing, what you do will cause the country to split!" As he spoke, he glanced at Bogu again: "A divided China does not have enough strength to resist the Soviet Union. Invasion, this is their conspiracy!"

"Nonsense!" Bogu slapped the table, and Zhang Xueliang frowned subconsciously when he was about to explode again. He hurriedly said, "Let's not talk about this issue, let's not talk about it... let's talk about Qinhuangdao and Shanhaiguan first." He thought for a while and said, "If you are willing to withdraw from the customs, we can allow you to send a batch of supplies to the northeast, so that your army in the northeast can be maintained until Huludao Port is repaired. What do you think?"

Chiang Kai-shek nodded. The "dangerousness" of Shanhaiguan is not enough for the current Kuomintang army and navy. It doesn't matter if it is handed over to the CCP now.

"Well then, I'll give brother Han Qing a face, and Qinhuangdao and Shanhaiguan can be returned." Chiang Kai-shek said slowly: "But I can't make the decision on this matter alone. I will discuss it with the other comrades of the presidium. I'll give you an answer."

"Okay." Zhang Xueliang ignored the constant winks from Bogu next to him, and nodded in agreement.

"In addition, please go and persuade the CCP gentlemen, now there are two governments in one country, we can still talk about it." Chiang Kai-shek smiled slightly and said: "We are now in the period of political training, and when the period of political training is over, we will be a constitutional government. For a period of time, the government should be returned to the people. Why don’t you train the government for 16 years on your territory and gradually realize the nationalization of the military... How about letting the voters decide which party will come to power?”

Although Chiang Kai-shek was a dictatorship in history, he is not the leader of the Kuomintang in this time and space. If it were a dictatorship, it would be Hu Hanmin!So under the thinking that the ass determines the head, Lao Jiang is now preparing for the arrival of the constitutional period!In his view, after the constitutional period, the probability of him being elected president is quite high.Because the current Kuomintang is actually dominated by the Cantonese faction. Among the five big bosses, there are four Cantonese. These people have some roots in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian, but their connections and layout in the southeastern provinces are not as good as his Zhejiang boss.With the southeast constituency as the backing, winning the party's primary election should be a sure thing, and with the support of the KMT, winning the presidential election should have no problem.Taking this path to become the leader of the country is much safer than staging a coup...

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boom!boom!boom……

In the Huaqing Pool in Xi'an, when the representatives of the two parties were fighting with each other.On the front line of Tashan in the west of Liaoning, the Japanese artillery group began to show off again!Looking out from the artillery observation post on the top of Baitai Mountain, above the Kuomintang army positions on the Tashan defense line, suddenly there were clusters of smoke columns rising into the sky in different postures.At first the columns of smoke rose almost simultaneously in rows, but later they became indistinguishable.Clusters of clusters are flying around.

The fragments of the Luzhai Juma, the cover of the earthworks, and the remains of the human body can still be vaguely seen lifted into the sky.After the fight, the entire defense line was shrouded in blue-black smoke.The smell of gunpowder filled the battlefield, flowing slowly, even An Sihua who was far away on the top of Baitai Mountain could smell it!

An Sihua looked at the empty gray sky with a gloomy expression. There was not a single plane in the sky.The Kuomintang naval aviation responsible for providing air cover has not yet arrived!Since the two major airports of Qinhuangdao and Huludao were all destroyed, they have not been repaired yet.Therefore, the Kuomintang army can only use the A2A dive bombers of the Naval Air Force to take off from the airport on the Shandong Peninsula and cross the entire Bohai Bay to the sky above Huludao to drop bombs.It's just that the flight range of more than 300 kilometers greatly restricts the aircraft's time in the air and the amount of ammunition it can carry... Therefore, it has little effect on suppressing the Japanese artillery group.

What made An Sihua and Li Zongren even more troublesome was the interruption of the logistics line. Since the two supply ports were temporarily unavailable, the artillery groups that were originally comparable to the Japanese army were unable to exert their firepower.An Sihua has ordered the artillery commander Gui Yongqing that the ammunition consumed by each cannon should not exceed 70 rounds per day!Even so, the entire artillery group has to destroy [-] shells a day. If you count the three divisions in the mountainous area of ​​western Liaoning on the northern line, the entire battlefield in western Liaoning will consume [-] shells of more than [-] mm per day. About a thousand hairs!The artillery shell reserves in the Northeast Theater can only last for a month of defensive operations at most.

The Japanese army is taking advantage of this rare opportunity to launch round after round of fierce attacks on the entire front regardless of everything.From the early morning of February 23th to the present, in just over two days, the Tashan defense line has withstood 11 Japanese onslaughts, the first three of which were tank charges!At one point, it also broke through the No.[-] Division's defensive position. In the end, An Sihua had to order a tank regiment to cover the infantry and fight back to restore the position.

This round of shelling by the Japanese army lasted for a full 10 minutes, and the roar of landslides and tsunamis gradually faded away.Before the gunpowder smoke pervaded the entire front had cleared, there were long and short waves of people whizzing indistinctly.The Japanese infantry offensive has already begun... Now the Japanese have the numerical advantage on the battlefield, and they are quite generous when using this advantage. Almost a brigade of infantry will be invested in each round of offensive. A full-line attack was launched on a wide battlefield, and in the key areas of the attack, the line of assault infantry was so dense that it seemed to be fighting a sea of ​​people.Seeing the style of play in front of him, An Sihua couldn't help but think of the world war more than 20 years ago!

Trenches, heavy artillery, barbed wire, machine guns, seas of people... This style of play is purely a replica of the world war.The comparison is purely the number of human lives and shells.After two days and two nights of fighting, the number of dead people on the battlefield is beyond calculation, but there are still countless young lives being thrown into this war meat grinder!

An Sihua put down the binoculars and said in a low voice, "Are you going to let the Eleventh Division last for a few more days?"

Li Zongren also put down his binoculars and shook his head slightly: "The Eleventh Division is going to be disabled this time. It has repelled more than 20 Japanese attacks in two days and two nights, and more than half of its own casualties. I plan to let them survive this round." Just come down and let the Eighteenth Division go up." He sighed again: "The Japanese firepower is too fierce! Where did they get so many shells? Isn't Lushun's mouth blocked?"

An Sihua shook his head: "Probably came from North Korea by land?" He sneered again: "It is also possible that the Japanese are putting all their eggs in one basket! They know that the piers of Huludao and Qinhuangdao will be repaired by us sooner or later. It's time for us to show our power!"

A look of worry flashed across Li Zongren's face. If the Japanese army could maintain this kind of attack, the Kuomintang army in western Liaoning would not be able to maintain the pier repair anyway.

"Brother Sihua, do you want to order the Second Army to withdraw to the south? Let the No. 20 Division also approach, so that the 30 troops are close together, and they should be able to persist until the dock is repaired." Li Zongren hesitated and proposed his own suggestion.The northern battlefield commanded by Xia Wei is also facing a great crisis. Not only is the frontal Japanese army attacking fiercely, but also the situation behind him is not very peaceful...

"Give up the northern line..." An Sihua took a deep breath. The mountainous area in western Liaoning on the northern line is the main channel for the CCP to develop to the northeast. Once it is abandoned, it will open the door for the CCP to advance eastward.He shook his head slowly: "Wait a minute, there are still talks in Xi'an these two days, if Qinhuangdao and Shanhaiguan can be exchanged for a batch of supplies, we will be able to hold on."

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Outside the Dagu Dockyard of the Red Navy of Tianjin Wei.

At this time, it was a bleak seascape in winter, and there were few people walking around inside and outside the docks.Only some master workers in old padded jackets, with the help of the red marines, transported the tools and materials for repairing the ship to the three bullet-riddled giant ships docked at the dock.

In the distance, the Dagu Dockyard and Iron Works also rarely emitted gray smoke, which rose feebly to the gray sky.As soon as the sea breeze pulled, the wisps scattered.

Even the sea water in the Bohai Bay is a gray color.

There were three warships docked at the pier, all flying bright red sickle and hammer flags at the stern.The three boats are about the same size.There is a golden chrysanthemum emblem on the bow, which is the family crest of the Japanese emperor.These three huge warships are the battleship "Hyuga", the battlecruiser "King Kong", and the battlecruiser "Kirishima"; but now they have a new name, and the "Hyuga" has been renamed "Soviet Union" "King Kong" was renamed "Ukrainian Soviet", and "Kirishima" was renamed "Belarusian Soviet".

Although the three warships belonged to the Soviet Union at this moment, it was the Red Navy of the CCP who took over them.There are about [-] sailors and workers in white sailor uniforms on the three ships. Some are busy carrying various tools and supplies, some are painting the bullet marks all over the hull, and some are cleaning the purple-black deck. of blood.

Two generals wearing straight white naval uniforms were on the bridge of the "Soviet Union".One of them is in his 40s, short and fat, and wearing a pair of black-framed round glasses. He is Shen Honglie, the former deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army Navy.This person is a graduate of the Japanese Navy. He used to serve in the Beijing Government Naval Staff Bureau and the Army University. Later, he joined the Feng Clan and was reused by the Zhang family and his son. Zhang Xueliang!), and actually presided over the work of the Red Navy.The other person, Li Zhilong, is the unique "naval talent" of the CCP. He graduated from the Yantai Naval Academy.

"What a battleship! The displacement is nearly 305 tons, the main armor belt is 305 mm, the front shield of the turret is also 356 mm thick, and there are six turrets and twelve [-] mm naval guns... What a good thing! If It would be great if it could belong to our Chinese navy...it would be a pity to give it to the Soviet Union, what a pity..."

Since the three battleships arrived at the Dagu Wharf, Shen Honglie boarded the "Soviet Union" immediately, and brought his own headquarters along with him. The flag is also flying high on the mast of this battleship.This is a bit of an addiction... Anyway, the Kuomintang has now refused entry to all foreigners with Soviet passports, and the Soviet sailors who came to take over the warships can't come either. Shen Honglie hopes that those old men will never be able to come to Tianjin!

Li Zhilong frowned and sighed softly. Although he is a political commissar, he is also a naval officer standing at attention to revive the Chinese Navy!It's not the kind of activist who is particularly advanced in thinking and confused in mind.

Li Zhilong shook his head: "Mr. Zhang (Shen Honglie), if this ship is given to us, we probably won't be able to drive it, much less afford it? This is a battleship, can we afford it with our little money? Let's forget it Well, I will be satisfied if the Soviets can assist two of the most advanced light cruisers."

Shen Honglie sneered: "Can the most advanced light cruiser be built by the Soviet Union? Only the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Chinese imperialists can build it. The 'Konigsberg' class built by the Germans in the Guangzhou shipyard is good. If it can be used The 'King Kong' class is going to be replaced..."