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In late November of that year, the war between the Southwest United Autonomous Government and the Nanjing National Government officially broke out.

Different from previous civil wars, in the face of this war, almost all newspapers remained silent, and even some literati and poets who usually enjoyed commenting on current affairs and criticizing the country also stopped writing.

Almost no one sees this war as a new round of civil war, but many people see this war as a turning point for China.

After many years of separation of forces between the north and the south, whether it was the Nanjing National Government, which had many political malpractices and was ruled by warlords, or the Southwest United Government, which has long been dominant in the southwest and has made the country strong, it is not comparable to the warlords of the past.

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It can be said that no matter who wins or loses in this war, it will lead the Chinese nation to another path, a path of vigorous development.

Many enlightened people have seen that only a unified China is in the interest of the entire nation. It is best if the southwest can unify the whole country. Drastic reforms and absolute national innovation with absolute scientific and technological power will transform the Chinese nation in the shortest possible time.

to a new height. If the Kuomintang wins in Nanjing, then the Kuomintang, which gets half of the rich southwest, will go further on the road to building China.

Coincidentally, both the Kuomintang and the Southwest "government" announced that this war would try their best to avoid large-scale destruction of civilians. At the same time, the army also received strict orders not to violate discipline and disturb the people. These had little impact on the Southwest People's Army.

, but it has a great impact on the middle and lower-level troops of the Kuomintang, which were once like bandits. At least, they will no longer harm hundreds of millions of civilians because of the war.

The Southwest People's Army was the first to launch a military offensive.

The Southeast Group Army was jointly commanded by Tao Qian and Zhuge Sheng. It consisted of the 1st Division, 5th Division, 15th Division, 22nd Division, 46th Division, and 75th Division to attack the Kuomintang Gu Zhu from the direction of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong.

The same troops launched a fierce attack, with the front line directed at Fuzhou and Nanchang.

Gu Zhutong led a total of more than 300,000 troops from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian and launched a fierce battle with Tao Qian's Southeast Group Army. This graduate of the sixth batch of Baoding Military Academy was a former instructor of Huangpu Military Academy, battalion commander of the teaching regiment, and the first in the National Revolutionary Army.

Commander of the Army, a famous general with a reputation for "talent in controlling generals", this time his opponent is the little-known Tao Qian and Zhuge Sheng. Compared with him, Tao Qian is more low-key than prominent, but they are young men in the southwest.

There are some steady wise generals.

The commander of the Central China Group Army is somewhat special. He is not a young general from the southwest, but Cai E, the principal of the Huaxia Military Academy, personally serves as the commander-in-chief of the Central China Group Army. Although Cai E, who has been dormant for many years, has long stated that he will no longer participate in the warlord melee, under Zhang Shusheng

After personally visiting the general to invite him, he finally put aside all considerations and was willing to contribute to this national turning point battle. This famous "elderly" general in China finally stepped on his horse and whipped his whip once again, boarding the majestic military base.

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Even though Cai E has held the high position of principal of the Huaxia Military Academy for many years and has already achieved the ultimate in cultivating his character, when he returned to the battlefield, he was just as excited as those veterans who had just been reinstated to active duty.

This veteran protector of the law is in his prime, and he is very ambitious at this time. He is bound to take back the years he missed in the war in the future.

The Central China Group Army is commanded by Cai E and consists of the 2nd Division, the 13th Division, the 26th Division, the 39th Division, the 49th Division, and the 78th Division. (The new designation of the Southwest Army is assigned: 1 Guards Division and

The 6 main divisions have exclusive access to the establishment of the 1st to 7th divisions. The remaining divisions are composed of 11th and 80th divisions.

Among them, except for the seven most elite divisions, the even-numbered divisions are the original standing old garrison divisions and the more elite divisions in the newly formed troops.), launched a military attack on the Communist Party of China Chen Tiaoyuan Department. Chen

The Tiaoyuan Military Cluster mainly brings together the military forces from Hunan, Gansu and other places. The entire military cluster is about 250,000 people.

Almost at the same time as the Southeast Army Group launched its offensive, the Central China Army also set out from Guiguang to launch an attack in the direction of the two lakes and marched towards Changsha and Wuhan.

The Southwest Group Army is headed by Wu Tiejun as the group army commander. It consists of the 7th Division, the 18th Division, the 35th Division, the 43rd Division, the 65th Division, and the 71st Division. The army sets out from northern Sichuan and marches to Shaanxi via Hanzhong. The goal is directly

Refers to the two major provinces of Shaanxi and Shanxi. Like the other two directions, the Southwest Army will encounter the Kuomintang Northwest Army composed of Yang Hucheng and Northwest Ma in Shaanxi.

The Tianjin-Langfang-Daxing Airport front-line garrison on the Tianjin-Beijing battlefield formed the Tianjin-Beijing cluster. After supplying by sea, it formed a military confrontation with the Kuomintang Chen Cheng's group army. Although the battle has not started yet, this battle pitted four Southwest Divisions against more than ten

It seems that the long-lasting battle will begin sooner or later.

According to the Northern Expedition plan formulated by the Supreme Staff Headquarters of the Southwest People's Army for many years, while launching the Northern Expedition military offensive, there will also be military operations in the southwest to defend the southwest homeland.

Among them, the First Guards Division defended Kunming with the assistance of other new divisions mainly composed of veterans and elite reserve troops. Since these new divisions are basically the most loyal veterans, the loyal officers were transferred directly from the original main force.

The military adjutant who had no problems with the situation was appointed as the chief officer of the new division. In this way, under the huge intelligence monitoring in the southwest, there would be no worries.

For example, the original deputy commander of the garrison division will be transferred to the new division commander, and the original main division commander and deputy regiment commander may be directly transferred to the new deputy division commander. After a large-scale job transfer, more than 20 new division commanders were created in the southwest.

Instead of having the problem of unavailable officers and declining loyalty, this division has placed a large number of people who have served as deputy commanders in the main force for a long time.

position, outstanding officers with profound military command capabilities. After all, major military academies in the Southwest graduate a large number of outstanding officers every year. However, according to the previous establishment of the Southwest Army, a large number of outstanding officers graduated from the Huaxia Military Academy can only hold a deputy position. Military expansion

The arrival of the army solved the promotion problem of such a large group of officers, and instead won over the morale of the military.

At the same time as the Northern Expedition, Zhang Shusheng did not relax his defenses against surrounding military forces, such as Hainan, Hong Kong, and Guangdong. He Zhiguang, an old man from the southwest, and Chen Shaokuan, the former Guangdong warlord, served as the chief and deputy garrison commanders, responsible for the security of the southeast during the war.

In Chongqing, Zheng Zhinan (an old man from the militia)

The first phase of the Huaxia Military Academy) and Ye Long (a student of Jiang Baili and a graduate of the Baoding Army Military Academy) were in charge. The security of Yunnan and Guangxi provinces was led by Chu Shiwen.

As the focus of defense, Chu Shiwen commanded several divisions of troops stationed at the Sino-Vietnamese border and the Sino-Burmese border to alert the British and French armies and prepare for possible sneak attacks from behind by the two armies during the Northern Expedition.

In order for the entire Northern Expedition to proceed smoothly, in addition to military actions, logistics is also a major focus. After mobilizing nearly 200,000 civilians to participate, the General Logistics Department of the Southwest People's Army was able to complete the three tasks in three directions.

The supply task of the offensive cluster. It can be said that the smooth progress of this Northern Expedition is inseparable from these migrant workers who enthusiastically signed up to join the logistics detachment. This is still in the southwest.

The transportation conditions are better, the coverage of railways and highways has reached a considerable scale, and the degree of automobileization is also high. Materials can be directly pulled to places not far from the war zone, and then officers and soldiers of the civilian and logistics troops (drawn from the new divisions)

(composed) to deliver supplies to the front line. If it was all carried on shoulders or tricycles, the number of mobilizations would be estimated to reach hundreds of thousands to ensure daily combat supplies in three directions.

In the early days of the war, the attention of almost all Chinese people around the world was drawn to the Northern Expedition. Everyone was thinking about the same question: who would win and who would lose, and how long this war would last.[

However, the progress of the war left everyone dumbfounded. Even those who had expected it were shocked.

At the beginning of the war, the Southwest Army showed full strength.

The clusters in the three directions are supported by the strong air power of the southwest. In the southeast and central China directions, they are also supported by the unique armored force of the southwest.

At the beginning of the war, all the Kuomintang's air forces in three directions were bombed on dilapidated airports. Not to mention the frontline airports, even the defense airports as far away as Nanjing were visited by warships and aircraft. The dilapidated aircraft and airport facilities were destroyed.

Plowed it easily

.In three directions, a total of more than 500 first-, second- and third-generation aircraft, including J-1 fighter jets and H-1 bombers, were concentrated in the southwest. After carrying out a devastating blow to the Kuomintang Air Force, they began to focus on bombing.

and the removal of gunnery emplacements.

Although the Southwest has not carried out differential bombing of any city in accordance with the established plan, nor has it used incendiary weapons of mass destruction, it has not given up air strikes in a pedantic way. Large-scale air strikes in conjunction with the offensive forces are being carried out in three directions.

And with the help of the terrain, the armored army's performance in this Northern Expedition was simply shocking.

Because the Southeast Army is responsible for attacking the most important area ruled by the Kuomintang, it also faces the most elite regiments of the Kuomintang. The first and fifth divisions are equipped with light frog amphibious armored vehicles and Tiger 2 light tanks.

They formed an armored brigade and carried out lightning raid operations by armored forces. They faced not even many level artillery pieces, but only a small amount of old iron and steel.

With the explosion of armored tanks, the armored brigade broke through the two lines of defense of the Kuomintang that day. Cooperating with aircraft and armored units, the Southeast Army easily tore apart the defense line that Gu Zhutong claimed could defend the Southwest Army for three to five months. Gu Zhutong

The two frontline divisions did not even have time to withdraw from the trenches before they were divided and surrounded by the Southeast Army Group coordinated by aircraft and armored brigades.

Chiang Kai-shek was alarmed and called Gu Zhutong urgently to organize a second, stronger line of defense in front of the two major cities of Fuzhou and Nanchang.

However, this failure of ** is just the beginning.

Then, the telegram of defeat flew to Nanjing like snowflakes. From the moment he was angry three times a day to the moment he saw the telegram, Chairman Chiang subconsciously wondered where the Southwest Army had broken through again this time.

On December 5, 2016, just two weeks after the Northern Expedition began, Fuzhou became the first big city to be captured by the Southwest Army after the fall of Xiamen and Putian. It was captured by the Southwest Army in just two weeks, which shocked the entire party and state.

Important officials'. Facing the siege army and the defense

The Southwest Army landed on the sea behind the line and attacked. Nearly 100,000 soldiers, including three Central Divisions, chose to surrender on the Fuzhou battlefield. It was this surrender that set an example for the Kuomintang troops in other directions and surrendered for a while.

incidents come and go.

On December 10, 2011, after Hengyang in Yongzhou was lost one after another, Changsha finally did not survive to the end. After half a month of fighting, it fell at the end of December. Chen Tiaoyuan was unsuccessful in the first battle. After retreating to the walls of Wuhan, he still could not resist the southwest.

Due to the strong offensive of the army, the defensive forces of nearly 10 divisions were unable to fight due to the lack of decisive battles.

In the heart, the combat effectiveness of the defense line garrison troops is endless. When facing the multi-point attack by the six divisions in the southwest, there is almost no resistance. One point is often broken through, and then outflanked and disintegrated another section of the defense line. Finally, it retreats to the north of the Yangtze River.

However, it was still unable to stop the Central China Army from crossing the river sooner or later.

On December 15, 2016, the Southwest Group Army launched a fierce battle on the "Xibao Defense Line" 50 kilometers away from Xi'an. Facing this defense line designed to defend Xi'an and Baoji, the Southwest Army used superior air force support to

To Yang Hucheng

The coalition forces formed with the Ma family in the northwest launched an attack. Before the battle began, Ma Bufang in the northwest ordered three cavalry divisions to attack the southwest army. As a result, under the high rate of fire of hundreds of Ripper-type heavy machine guns, it was shocking

Something shocking happened.

This cavalry is not an ordinary cavalry. They are mainly composed of Fen people. Although this nation is good as a whole, under the deliberate conspiracy of the Ma family that has ruled the northwest for decades, this cavalry force is mainly composed of some ideological, will and political

They were composed of non-mainstream officers and soldiers whose consciousness was different from that of the Chinese nation. They had a natural hatred for the Han people and carried out a long-term brutal rule and suppression of people of all ethnic groups in the northwest.

However, in this battle of the "Xibao Defense Line", this cavalry unit suffered heavy casualties. The cavalry of three divisions were completely wiped out. Not a single cavalry could rush to the advance position simply constructed by the Southwest Army. A mountain of corpses and blood

The sea is breathtaking.

Yang Hucheng led his troops into a defensive state. However, in less than a week, Chiang Kai-shek, who had just received the critical power from the northwest, actually received a telegram that he could not believe.

"Yang Hucheng led his troops to surrender, Ma Bufang was captured by him, and Ma Hongkui fled back to Gansu when he saw that the situation was not going well."

This battle was the smoothest battle fought by the three-pronged army. Except for the loss of the Northwest Majia Army at the beginning, the losses of Yang Hucheng Department were minimal. Through some political means, after controlling several other division commanders who intended to resist, the Southwest Army

Put into the defensive line

, launched a final battle of annihilation against the other Northwest Army who refused to surrender. By late December, there was no resistance in the entire Shaanxi Province. Although the Southwest Army did not take advantage of the momentum to attack the northwest, it turned its guns and attacked Yan Xishan in Shanxi.

Military operations were launched.

Unlike half of China, where the sound of gunfire and artillery can be heard, the Tianjin-Beijing battlefield has always been in a state of confrontation.

Different from other forces, on the Tianjin-Beijing battlefield, Chen Cheng’s military group received the order from the chairman of the committee to attack. However, it was these anti-Japanese troops who had just participated in the Anti-Japanese War, but they moved slowly under Chen Cheng’s instructions. Two of them
To be continued...