Chapter 101 Old Jiang wants to gamble the first chapter
Chapter 101 Chiang Kai-shek wants to make a big gamble (the final chapter of Volume 1)
(This story is purely fictional, please do not imitate it!)
When he first learned about the materials about the Eastern Guangdong Campaign, Falkenhausen did not believe that the Chinese, or a gcd army, would master such an advanced combat concept, but he was inspired by the "foreign devils" in the materials.
It turns out that this special operations was not an invention of the Chinese. It was obviously "stealed" from Germany. However, this guy who stole the army actually handed over this advanced tactical thinking to the Red Bandits. For this reason, he
He also sent a telegram to the relevant departments of the German Army, requesting to find out who "leaked" the special operations theory.
However, Falkenhausen did not delve deeply into this. Reporting to the country was just to fulfill the responsibility of a German soldier. He did not think that the Chinese, especially the gcd, could train a real special forces. No, the gcd special forces were
Isn’t that small army in the material composed of “foreign adults”? It’s impossible to rely on Chinese people.
He certainly had his purpose in proposing this tactic.
In the previous year, when General Hans von Seeckt served as the general adviser of the German Military Advisory Group (Fackenhausen was the chief of staff), China and Germany signed the "Five-Year Military Industrial Development Plan", and Germany began
Help China establish its military industry and provide military equipment to China before its military industry is completed. In terms of assisting China in reorganizing and building its army, Sekter submitted the "Army Reform Proposal" and proposed that with limited material and financial resources, first establish
A small, well-equipped and well-trained core demonstration force will then complete the reorganization of 60 divisions across the country in batches. He believes that China’s elite standing army of 60 divisions is enough to cope with various situations. This was also the case in the 1930s for the National Army.
Source of 60 organizer plans.
However, the lovely Mr. Chiang was not very effective in the implementation of the above-mentioned plans and proposals. He always delayed the implementation of the project for various reasons, which was not in the interests of Germany. In addition, General Falkenhausen and the Serbian
The two had formed a deep friendship with Admiral Seckter in the Turkish trenches of World War I, and Falkenhausen's appointment as the fifth head of the German Military Advisory Group was due to Seckter's recommendation.
Well, for the sake of our country and our friends, we should give Mr. Jiang two whips on the back.
Of course, Falkenhausen was also a little selfish. He proposed the concept of "special operations" in order to hope that Mr. Chiang would agree to his plan below. The German advisory group would be responsible for training and forming a battalion-level or military force for the Chinese.
A regiment-sized special operations force.
Then, the plan analyzed the fundamental reason why the Cantonese army failed, that is, the army that had not been reorganized and reorganized had very low combat effectiveness. When encountering a slightly stronger enemy, it would first collapse and then be defeated, or even be defeated in one fell swoop.
Regarding the heavy firepower of both sides, Falkenhausen's analysis is that the Cantonese army has a clear advantage. The Cantonese army has one mountain artillery regiment and another mountain artillery battalion in Meizhou City, as well as a heavy machine gun battalion, while the Red Bandits have an obvious number of mountain artillery.
Less than the Cantonese army. As for the small steel cannon, its effect is actually equivalent to that of a heavy machine gun.
To this end, the plan puts forward three suggestions for solving the problem of red bandits in Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi:
1. Advance the army reorganization plan in the "Army Reform Proposal", and complete the reorganization of 20 divisions (i.e. reorganization divisions) within half a year, and 40 divisions within one year (only 20 divisions have been completed in total in historical reorganization),
Before there are 20 reorganized divisions, it is best to adopt a blockade approach against the Red Bandits in western Fujian. We must temporarily tolerate the Red Bandits' behavior of only capturing towns and counties, but we must not allow them to capture Ganzhou, Chaozhou, Shantou and other medium-sized cities.
Second, a new 1,500-man (regiment-level) special operations force was established and trained to confront Maimang to curb the offensive momentum of the Red Bandit special operations forces, while also assuming the important task of protecting senior frontline commanders.
Third, accelerate the organization and adjustment of the national army and strive to achieve unified command and unified dispatch of national defense forces nationwide within two years.
It should be said that Falkenhausen's suggestion was very targeted, which is why Chiang Kai-shek said the word "life-saving". From a military point of view, this opinion was very correct, and it was also what Chiang Kai-shek always wanted to do, but in the end he did not do it.
A good thing. However, after all, Falkenhausen is not a Chinese and does not understand the complexity of China. This is doomed to say that even if Falkenhausen's opinions are eventually adopted to a certain extent, their actual effect will be limited.
very.
For example, Chiang Kai-shek was very interested in the establishment and training of special forces and considered it particularly important. If the scandal of Lieutenant Generals and Generals being captured on the battlefield happened again, the Chairman would be very embarrassed. Besides, the establishment is only 1,500 people.
, However, after it was actually organized, Chiang Kai-shek realized that this small unit, which was only at the regiment level, was a money-eating machine, and its cost was no less than that of a reorganized division.
Chiang Kai-shek decided to fully adopt Falkenhausen's suggestions. In addition to requiring local governments to be responsible for defending their territory, he devoted himself to reorganizing the army, training special forces, and dividing the local powerful warlords through political means.
Before June 1935, the Army Reorganization Division (German Arms Division) of the Nationalist Government had only four units: the Teaching Corps, the 87th Division, the 88th Division and the 36th Division. As the "demonstration unit" of the Chinese Army, successive heads of the German Advisory Group
They all believe that these four troops should not be easily brought into the battlefield, but in the "December 8th Incident" in Shanghai, the Fujian Incident and the war to encircle and suppress the Red Army in Jiangxi, three of the troops have appeared on the battlefield and have achieved considerable results.
This was also the reason why Chiang Kai-shek made up his mind.
Chiang Kai-shek made the decision, and Falkenhausen immediately telegraphed Germany to speed up the shipment of the first batch of German equipment, increase the export of German equipment to China, and at the same time request that 2-3 special operations experts be quickly dispatched to China to help train a team of
Special operations forces. Of course, along with Falkenhausen's telegram arrived in Germany, there was also a series of orders.
According to Falkenhausen's plan to reorganize 20 divisions, the Nationalist Government's Military Commission immediately issued a reorganization order, requiring the army's 1st Division Hu Zongnan to the 20th Division Sun Tongxuan to immediately begin reorganization work under the guidance of German consultants.
The division preparation must complete the reorganization before September 30, 1935, and form combat effectiveness before December 31, 1935; anyone who cannot complete the reorganization task on time will be dismissed from his post on the spot!
These 20 divisions include famous generals of the national army in later generations, such as Zheng Dongguo of the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Division, Zhong Song of the Supplementary Brigade of the 2nd Division, Zeng Wanzhong of the 7th Division, Tao Zhi of the 8th Division, Li Yannian of the 9th Division, and
The 11th Division Huang Wei, the 12th Division Tang Huaiyuan, the 13th Division Wan Yaohuang, the 14th Division Huo Kuizhang, the 17th Division Sun Weiru, of course the famous generals also include Hu Zongnan and Sun Tongxuan.
In this reorganization plan, the most beneficial ones are the 11th Division Huang Wei and the 14th Division Huo Kuizhang. In the original history, the scale of these two reorganization divisions was only a three-regiment reorganization division. Now, due to the dramatic situation of the Red Bandits
The situation worsened and Chiang Kai-shek urgently needed soldiers to work hard to conquer the world. Therefore, the above 20 divisions were all reorganized into three brigades and six regiments, with a total strength of 21,000 people.
The history of the national army has changed beyond recognition since then, and Mr. Chiang Kai-shek has suffered a lot of bleeding!
Chiang Kai-shek came up with a more ruthless move! Hu Zongnan's 1st Division, which was originally encircling and suppressing the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army in the Sichuan-Shaanxi area, will attack northern Shaanxi according to the future historical trajectory. Under the encouragement of some aides such as Yang Yongtai and others, Chiang Kai-shek sent Hu Zongnan to
The leader of this "Huangpu Princeling Party" was directly transferred to Fujian for reorganization. Also transferred to Fujian were the 2nd Division Huang Jie, the 4th Division Leng Xin, the 7th Division Zeng Wanzhong, the 8th Division Tao Zhiyue, and the 8th Division.
Huo Kuizhang of the 14th Division. In this way, Fujian alone has concentrated 10 reorganized divisions including the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 14th of the national army, as well as
The original 52nd Division of the National Army and some local troops totaled 280,000 people.
On the Jiangxi side, He Jian continued to lead the reorganized Army's 15th, 16th, 18th, 19th (these four reorganized divisions were reorganized from the original Hunan Army and have been centralized), the 5th, 6th, and 12th
, the 13th, 17th, and 20th Divisions, a total of 10 reorganized divisions, as well as some units that have not yet been reorganized, such as the 24th Division, Jiangxi local troops, etc., totaling 300,000 troops.
In Guangdong, Chiang Kai-shek did not have high hopes for Chen Jitang's power supply, and as the situation gradually became clearer, Chiang Kai-shek had already felt that Chen Jitang, like Li and Bai in Guangxi, had different intentions. Therefore, this time
The basic strategy of the decisive battle of the National G was that the East Route Army would crush all the way west with 10 integrated divisions, and the 5 integrated divisions of the West Route Army would try their best to intercept it. Then, where would the Red Bandits in the Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi border areas flee to? What if?
If the red bandits do not want to be annihilated and do not want to jump into the sea, then there is only one way to go. They can flee to central Guangdong, western Guangdong, or even to Guangxi. The central government can solve the problem of Guangdong and Guangxi in one fell swoop.
Because of this, Chiang Kai-shek once again carried out military adjustments across the country. After extracting the military power from Sichuan, Shaanxi and Hubei, Chiang Kai-shek sent successive reports to the Northwest Army, Northeast Army and Ma Jiajun in Gansu, asking them to quickly encircle Zhu and Mao's Red Army. Previously,
Aren't you worried that the Central Military Army has taken over your territory? Now, I, President Chiang, have given those places away and given you the biggest and freest stage to see how you go about it.
In addition, Chiang Kai-shek also transferred the few air forces of the National Army to Fujian and Jiangxi. The only naval fleet of the Nationalist Government also moved into Xiamen Port, preparing for a big gamble!
Didn't Chiang Kai-shek know that this was very dangerous? Of course Old Chiang Kai-shek knew that. However, Old Chiang Kai-shek could not withstand the lobbying of his "politicians", and the lobbying sounded very good.
One of the important points is that the local powerful factions can completely solve the problem politically. Even the Red Army of Zhu and Mao can solve the problem politically because they have political ideas. However, the Red Army, which originated in western Fujian, is a powerful military group. This military group
Bandit Aihua, who has ever heard that he has political opinions? He usually keeps quiet, but once he takes action, it is a powerful military action! Such a person is terrible, just like the folk saying "a dog that bites does not bark", this
The armed bandit Aihua is a dog that secretly bites people!
To put it bluntly, the armed bandit Aihua can only be solved through military means!
However, Chiang Kai-shek's staff stumbled here. No force can solve the problem politically, but the one who alone is Wu Aihua can solve it politically. As the situation gradually becomes clearer and the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi border area is opened to the outside world, people will find that the military
The bandit Aihua was not a bandit, but a man who truly served the country and the people. However, by the time people understood this, the fateful collision between the national army and the independent column was over, and it was too late to say anything at that time!
With the arrival of 1936, Chiang Kai-shek's sword has almost been sharpened, and the curtain of the war is about to begin. The storms it will stir up are no longer limited to the borders of Fujian and Jiangxi! And the protagonist's vision and mind will also follow.
The situation continues to evolve!
(Volume 1 - The storm in Fujian and Jiangxi, the end. Please read "Volume 2 - Prelude to the National War". The protagonist uses economic warfare, intelligence warfare, annihilation warfare, cold sniping, urban street fighting and other means to work hard to dig "for the great powers" on a global scale.