From the moment he came out of Chiang Kai-shek's official residence, An Yi no longer had time to take care of other matters. All the heavy affairs of the Disaster Relief Federation were handed over to Chen Yu, his fast-growing assistant. Liu Hao was officially promoted to the head of the Nanjing Information Station and took over all the tasks.

Chen Yu devotes herself to the work in her hands with all her heart and soul.

An Yi rushed into the fourth section office assigned to him by the staff headquarters, and led the Shi Pufang staff team to start sorting and analyzing the piles of various documents, intelligence, disaster reports and the Sichuan-Guizhou warlords' civil war battle reports transferred from the second hall.

, the sudden changes that occurred in just eight days made An Yi feel heavy and felt that time was urgent.

On May 7, the Guangshui Iron Bridge was blown up after the Northwest Army withdrew from Guangshui, Hubei Province. After joint investigation by the Investigation Bureau of the Central Party Headquarters, the Intelligence Division of the Second Department of the General Staff Headquarters and other departments, it was finally proven that the Northwest Army was responsible.

On May 9, the Gui army commanded by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi was invincible. The troops were divided into three groups and reached the Sanshui line outside Guangzhou. Chen Jitang, who fell into Bai Chongxi's alienation plan, had to use his division commander Yu Hanmou again.

To stop the decline, but he had just stood firm, Li Jishen's old subordinate Xu Jingtang led two divisions under his command to surround Deng Yanhua's department, which was under the orders of the central government. After shooting Deng Yanhua, he and the Gui army encircled Guangzhou.

Just when Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were singing their triumphant songs, Cai Tingkai, who was stationed in Fujian, led his fresh troops to attack Xu Jingtang. After several fierce battles, Xu Jingtang's troops, who had lost their morale, fled north in panic. At the same time, the General of the Fourth Route Army who went south from Hunan

The three divisions commanded by He Jian conquered Quanzhou in northern Guangxi and rushed towards Guilin. The Gui army, which was attacked from both sides, was shocked. At the same time, the two divisions of Li Mingrui and Yang Tenghui, which were jointly transported by the central government navy and major shipping companies, also arrived.

At this moment, they entered the Pearl River Estuary in a mighty manner. Li Mingrui, who was appointed as the commander of the 15th Division, held in his arms a letter of appointment supervised by the Guangxi Provincial Office. He led the division under his command to attack the Dongjiang area where the Guangxi Army was stationed.

Feng Yuxiang had just begun to see the Guangxi Army's successive victories, and seeing that the capture of Guangzhou was about to take place, the situation in the south was about to change dramatically. He immediately sent out a call to denounce Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship and autocracy, in order to achieve a state of mutual cooperation between the north and the south, and began to gather troops on the border of Hubei and Henan in preparation for the attack.

To Wuhan.

At this critical moment, Tang Shengzhi, who saw an opportunity, made a high-profile call to the whole country and took up the post of commander-in-chief of the Fifth Route Army appointed by the Central Military Commission. He led two armies and one division under his command to southern Shandong to peek at Zhengzhou and Kaifeng. Liao Lei

Because of his close relationship with Bai Chongxi, he was dismissed from his post. In desperation, he took a boat south to Hong Kong and transferred to Guangxi. He finally left the Hunan Army where he had struggled for more than ten years and officially returned to become a general of the Guangxi Army. However, another Guangxi military commander, Li Pinxian,

"Unfortunately" suddenly fell ill and was admitted to the Peking Union Medical College Hospital for recuperation. Tang Shengzhi immediately replaced Liao Lei with Liu Xing. He himself became the commander of the Eighth Army and sent his troops south, ready to attack Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, which was beleaguered internally and externally.

Feng Yuxiang, who had just assumed a combat posture, saw that the situation was not good and had to urgently withdraw the army on the front line in southern Henan, shrink the formation, and switch from offense to defense.

When Chiang Kai-shek saw that Feng Yuxiang had fallen into the trap, he immediately ordered Liu Zhi to lead his troops to repair the Guangshui Iron Bridge without hesitation. He showed that he was about to launch a large-scale offensive northward to attack Henan. It took only a day and a half to transport five divisions to Guangshui.

When the water reached Wusheng Pass, the dark clouds of war instantly enveloped the land of southern Henan.

When the generals of the Northwest Army saw this, they all shouted bad. Feng Yuxiang was worried that his subordinates would be divided and annihilated, so he hurriedly ordered Han Fuqu to blow up the Wushengguan Railway Tunnel, and then led all his troops to withdraw westward. Although Han Fuqu bit the bullet and blew up the tunnel, the second one under his command failed.

The Sixth Army gathered in Luoyang and was no longer willing to move further west. The reason was that Commander-in-Chief Chiang had secretly promised that after Feng Yuxiang was defeated, the Chairman of Henan Province would be none other than Han Fuqu, who had resolutely devoted himself to the revolution and had worked hard and made outstanding achievements, and sent two million yuan in advance.

The first phase will fund military expenditures to ensure that the Korean soldiers will not have to worry about food and drink after surrendering to the Central Committee.

At present, there is a heavy temptation, and famine is currently breaking out in the northwest. If you go west to Shaanxi, you will be in danger of starving and losing your head at any time. After a slight hesitation, Han Fuqu, who had long wanted to be the governor of a province, made the right choice and betrayed him for a year.

The veteran commander Feng Yuxiang always wears a private uniform in all seasons, but at this time, Feng Yuxiang is still kept in the dark.

Under the double coercion of Chiang Kai-shek and Tang Shengzhi, and with Yan Xishan's imminent move to the north, the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Army, Feng Yuxiang, made frequent mistakes - ordering Han Fuqu to blow up the Wushengguan Railway Tunnel to prevent the Central Army from moving north - but because of blocking this

The lifeline of the north-south railway made it impossible for "a large amount of disaster relief materials from the central government to be transported northward", which finally attracted unanimous condemnation from all over the country, especially the people in the northwest who had always supported Feng Yuxiang, eagerly looking forward to food and medical aid from the south. As a result, the railway was

The bombing turned into a war, and the only hope of survival was cut off. Feng Yuxiang turned to the opposite side one after another. As a result, the Northwest Army, which was already unstable, quickly split.

At this point in the development of the situation, Chiang Kai-shek still showed his broad mind to the military and civilians across the country with a high profile. He called Feng Yuxiang every three days and tactfully persuaded him to come to Beijing to take up a post in order to eliminate the scourge of war and give the people a stable environment for survival and development. However, secretly he

Then Fang Zhenwu's four divisions were mobilized to the west of Xuzhou, and they pressed Henan step by step. Feng Yuxiang, who was suffering from internal and external troubles, finally joined forces with Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, who were being punished nationwide, and once again stepped into the big trap that Chiang Kai-shek had painstakingly prepared for him.

The centrists in the party who originally hoped to achieve consensus through peaceful negotiations to stop the conflict were extremely disappointed and gradually turned to Chiang Kai-shek, thus leaving Feng Yuxiang in an isolated situation with enemies on all sides.

Hu Hanmin, who has always had a good relationship with Feng Yuxiang, even denounced Feng Yuxiang at an enlarged meeting of the Central Party Committee, saying that Feng Yuxiang was a hypocrite who had done more evil than Chen Jiongming and the Guangxi warlords.

The main culprit of the mass famine.

On the 14th, Feng Yuxiang's general Liu Zhenhua also sent a message to the whole country at this juncture, asking Feng Yuxiang to go abroad for inspection. The actual meaning was to let Feng Yuxiang go to the field.

An Yi was very busy in the following days, analyzing and forecasting intelligence, establishing and improving the intelligence network, striving for more military expenditures and equipment from the central government for the 44th Army and the Shizhen Department, and purchasing disaster relief supplies.

and transportation, calling Ou Yaoting in the United States to request negotiations with the relevant parties in the United States to purchase wheat and corn, dispatching intelligence personnel and ordnance technicians, etc., all matters must be decided by An Yi respectfully, communications staff Shi Pufang, combat staff

When Liang Zhenyu and others saw An Yi sighing and shaking his head frequently, they couldn't help but feel curious and asked An Yi why he sighed so much. An Yi replied that it was hard to explain, and told everyone that as long as they read more and think more, they would soon sigh like themselves.

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"Report, Chief Chen, who has just been transferred from the position of director of the Ordnance Industry Department to the Ministry of Military Affairs as deputy director, wants to see him." Shen Fengdao walked in and came to An Yi's side and reported in a low voice.

"Please!"

An Yi hurriedly stood up and walked out of the door. He welcomed Chen Yi, who was currently the Deputy Minister of Military Affairs and Acting Minister of Military Affairs, into the office. They exchanged a few words with each other. An Yi drove the staff around him out of the office, closed the door, sat down next to Chen Yi, and asked respectfully. : "What do you have to teach me, Chief Chen?"

Chen Yi smiled slightly, looked at the polite An Yi and replied in a low voice: "On the order of the special meeting of the Military Commission, I would like to ask General An to take up the post of appeasement commander on the Hunan-Hunan-Hunan-Huchuan border and concurrently serve as the director of the Hunan-Hunan-Hunan-Huchuan disaster relief and resettlement committee. At the same time, he will be awarded The general has the right to control and mobilize the garrison troops in western Hubei and western Hunan on an ad hoc basis. Please do not refuse, General An."

An Yi stood up quickly in surprise: "Sir Chen, what you said is serious! How can I, the junior, be worthy of the word 'please' from my superior? If I were to lead troops into battle and fight fiercely on the battlefield, I would definitely feel lucky and rush to be the first, but this Hunan The post of appeasement officer on the E-Sichuan border is not something that ignorant young people like me, who have little qualifications, can do. Instead of making a fool of ourselves, it is better to retreat as soon as possible to avoid harming the party and the country and becoming a laughing stock!"

"An Yi, why do you want to do this to me? Is it because General Jingzhi dismissed you as the deputy commander and chief of staff of the Third Army in the past few days as the interim acting minister of military affairs? You hold a grudge against me because of this. Do I take precautions at all times?" Chen Yi couldn't help but darken her face.

An Yi sat down quickly and kept waving his hands: "Senior, please don't misunderstand! This junior knows that senior has been arguing with Chief He for a long time about this. It's too late for this junior to be grateful. How can he be on guard against senior? The juniors just tell the truth and don't dare to do things that make people look fat because of the trust of the principal and seniors.

If the junior is only allowed to serve as the director of the Disaster Relief and Resettlement Committee, the junior will bite the bullet and bring some more private money to Western Hubei to make up for it. If the junior is allowed to hold the title of appeasement officer on the border of the three provinces, he will control the borders of the three provinces of Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan. The military and political power in the region may kill the younger generation, and the good reputation gained from fighting in a hail of bullets will be lost!"

Chen Yi pointed at the frightened An Yi and laughed. After a while, he stopped laughing, nodded and said: "Actually, we all know your concerns, and we all understand that after General Zhang Xianghua (Zhang Fakui) was reassigned as the commander of the Fourth Division, with the help of Xi During the campaign to conquer the Guangxi Army, more than 10,000 surrendered soldiers were collected. Now as the number of troops in hand gradually increases, they are likely to make a comeback. It is difficult to command!

However, this cannot be blamed on General Xiang Hua, let alone the inaction of the central government. Who is it that all the armies and divisions are unwilling to accept the Guangxi officers and soldiers who do not understand the language? Rather than letting them out to become bandits and harming the two lakes, it is better to let General Xiang Hua's subordinates The fourth division, which has similar customs and basically the same language, accepts it.

But someone told me that the Sixteenth Division of Yin Jinan and the Second Division of the Forty-fourth Army of Western Hunan were unreasonable. They disarmed all the weapons and equipment of the prisoners and paid them 20 yuan for each long gun and 15 yuan for each short gun. The price of machine guns is one hundred yuan, and they are quietly purchased from all friendly forces. Can you tell me why?"

An Yi shook his head and smiled: "It seems that there is no airtight wall in the world! To be honest with the seniors, these are the things that the juniors requested from Junior Brother Jinan and Senior Zhang Hongluan of the 44th Army. The purpose is to separate these messy old and new things. The inferior weapons of the first line were collected and sent to the Jiangnan Factory for dismantling and repair, the barrels were replaced, and after maintenance, they were classified and stored in the warehouse to provide some high-quality and low-cost equipment to the security forces of the second-line provinces. Fortunately, both friendly forces gave them to the juniors. Face, except for the funds for the acquisition, the juniors did not earn a penny more. This gave the juniors the honor to get more than 20,000 old guns for Jiangnan Factory, giving the workers who had just entered the factory and completed training something to do, and the same was true for the army. A contribution, right?"

Chen Yi smiled again, pointed at An Yi and said: "I'm afraid you kid also made a lot of money from it, right? The Military Commission has no objection to this. Before the Western Expedition, it was promised that the seizures would be handled by each ministry on their own, so no one can be jealous of you, just

However, you have made it difficult for General Xiang Hua. More than 60% of the more than 10,000 Gui army prisoners he collected did not have weapons. According to the commander-in-chief's proposal and the agreement of the Military Commission, General Xiang Hua will lead his troops to clear out the entrenched prisoners in

He Long's headquarters in the mountains of Hunan and Hubei, but his soldiers were very short of weapons and ammunition. He called me three times and asked me to solve problems for the soldiers of the Fourth Division. But now the central government's main energy and most of the supplies are given priority to meet the needs of the Hubei-Henan border and the border areas.

It’s very difficult for me to handle the armies and divisions on the Longhai front line!”

An Yi was slightly stunned, wondering what purpose Chen Yi wanted to achieve by saying so much. An Yi knew that the reason why Zhang Fakui was asked to destroy He Long's Red Army was because He Long was promoted to commander of the 20th Army of the National Revolutionary Army at the end of the first stage of the Northern Expedition.

As a result of Zhang Fakui's recommendation, He Long continued to march north to attack the Zhili warlord forces in Henan. He Long's 20th Army also fought bravely under the command of Zhang Fakui, the commander of the front army. Therefore, in line with the custom that the person who untied the bell must tie the bell, he ordered Zhang Fakui to go.

Facing He Long was understandable, but An Yi didn't know whether Chen Yi wanted to solve the equipment problem for Zhang Fakui's tribe or for other reasons, so he could only ask truthfully:

"Senior, this junior is confused for a moment. Can you speak more directly? Otherwise, this junior really doesn't know what to do!"

Chen Yi raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "The Fourth Division is stationed in Jingxiang. You know many of their division commanders and have good friendships with each other. After you become the appeasement commander, their difficulties will naturally become yours."

Difficult, because their military operations and all supplies are temporarily your sole responsibility, do you understand?"

An Yi jumped up in fright and refused loudly: "Uncle Chen, please spare my nephew! I can't do it, I definitely can't do it! Think about it, old man, when General Xiang Hua became the deputy commander after the Northern Expedition, my nephew

Your nephew is an engineering battalion commander. How can you ask your nephew to command Senior Xiang Hua? Also, if your nephew likes this one hundred and fifty kilograms, Uncle Chen can just cut it up with a knife and sell it for whatever he wants.

Buy as many bullets as you want and give them to the Fourth Division Envoy!"

Chen Yi couldn't help laughing, and his beard trembled with laughter. It took him a while to hold back his laughter, wiped away his tears and asked, "You really don't want to take office?"

"I don't want to! I can't go even if I kill my nephew!"

"Okay, then I will report your words to the Commander-in-Chief truthfully. It is up to the Commander-in-Chief to decide, and I have no control over it!"

"Thank you, Uncle Chen! My nephew will give it to you!"

"Excuse me, it's only one floor away. What the heck are you doing?"
Chapter completed!