In mid-June 1942, troops from both sides fought continuously around the Guanzhong, Longdong, and Trilateral areas of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia, with a total of more than 100,000 troops deployed.
The Guanzhong area has a huge momentum, but the two sides have no intention of fighting each other. Instead, they have reached a tacit understanding of holding back and fighting.
The main force of the national army in the trilateral area is the Ma Jiajun. The enemy and we have deep grievances. The two sides had a feud as early as the Western Route Army's Western Expedition. However, after the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance, the Eighth Route Army abandoned their old grudges and took the initiative to find talks with the Ma Jiajun.
The tense relationship has been eased.
Although Ma Jiajun expressed his support for the leadership of the National Government, the local warlords had their own internal system and did not want the old man to take the opportunity to weaken their strength.
The Central Army's proposal to station in the trilateral areas to suppress the Eighth Route Army's base areas was also considered by the Ma Jiajun as an attempt by the Central Army to occupy territory.
In view of the complex situation around the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area, No. 1 decisively proposed the strategy of joining forces with the Ma Jiajun to resist the generals, and the effect was extremely obvious. Up to this point, the relationship between the Ma Jiajun and the Eighth Route Army was quite ambiguous.
Secretly, the two sides have many trade exchanges with each other. At the same time, there is another secret channel from the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area to the border area and then to Big Brother.
Therefore, this time the Ma Jiajun was ordered to attack the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area, but the thunder was loud and the rain was light.
Only the battle between the Sixteenth Army stationed in the Longdong area and the Longdong Army Division of the Eighth Route Army was the fiercest. In this attack on the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area, Hu Zongnan issued a death order to the Sixteenth Army, ordering it to break through the middle road in the Longdong area.
The national troops on the east and west routes acted as flanks to relieve the pressure.
A landowner's compound in Lions Bay served as a temporary headquarters.
In just one day, under the guidance of local cadres headed by Geng Zilin, the Luochuan Independent Regiment took the initiative and eliminated the stubborn forces in six towns under the base.
Although some bully squires took advantage of the high-walled compound, the few small cannons brought by the anti-college students were not for nothing.
Then it took six days for most personnel from the military and political systems to go to various villages to quickly complete the distribution of fields.
There was a map of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area placed on the table, and Zhou Weihan and others gathered around it.
"Teacher Zhou, the troops deployed by our army on the front line include the fifth guard regiment, two independent battalions, and half the regiment brought up by Commander Dong. The strength of the First Army in Luochuan is three times that of our army and the equipment is
Excellent, why is the offensive performance so weak and seems to have no intention of fighting?" Geng Zilin said with a slight doubt.
Zhou Weihan chuckled when he heard this: "He Hu Zhongnan seems to have hundreds of thousands of troops and holds great power, but the internal affairs are not clean and there are many factions. The First Army is the army he started from, and it is his capital to subdue other factions. How dare he really do that?"
Fight with our army?"
Xu Licheng nodded after hearing this. He was from the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area and knew the situation better than Zhou Weihan.
"Hu Zongnan is an old rival of our army. He took the initiative to provoke friction several times before and failed to attack our Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area. What's more, our army has the upper hand this time. He knows that he can't take advantage this time. He can't do anything wrong.
It will also lead to loss of troops and generals!”
"In my opinion, they intend to take the opportunity to suppress dissidents and seize military power. If the Sixteenth Army cannot break through our defense line, after the war, Hu Zhongnan will definitely take advantage of the Sixteenth Army's injuries to carry out a major blood exchange!"
The Sixteenth Army is a direct descendant of Jiang Mingsan, the former military chief of the 34th Group Army. Jiang Mingsan is one of the Five Tiger Generals of the National Army. His qualifications and status are far beyond those of Hu Zhongnan, but he was recruited from the west by Hu Zhongnan, a rising star among Huangpu students.
According to the exclusion, the old man's handiwork is naturally behind this.
Then Jiang Mingsan kept an eye on Tianshui and tried to continue to manipulate his direct troops to fight against Hu Zhongnan, which in turn caused Hu Zongnan to continue to suppress the Sixteenth Army and other units.
"From the perspective of the entire northwest region, our army is facing enemies on all four sides. To the east, we can still resist the Japanese army based on the natural danger of the Yellow River. To the north, we are bordered by Fu Yisheng's troops in Suiyuan, to the west, the Ma Jiajun, and to the south, Hu Zongnan's Central Army. It can be said that
Survive in the cracks!”
It was only after Zhou Weihan returned to Yanzhou that he understood the severe situation faced by the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area. However, our senior officials were masters of chess, and they actually managed to find a way out of a dead situation.
If the Eighth Route Army did not cross the Yellow River eastward and instead concentrated on developing in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area, it would be tantamount to being trapped in a corner and would be trapped to death by the national army sooner or later. Instead, it would spread out its troops and continue to grow and develop in the struggle against the Japanese army behind enemy lines.
Let the national army be afraid and dare not take action easily.
"From the overall perspective of the country, this battle is just a microcosm of the friction between the enemy and ourselves. In the past, our army has always failed to provoke it. This time, it took the initiative to make the conflict public. The Japanese army outside the chess game is watching eagerly. It has always had a strategy of crossing the Yellow River west to the south.
Americans will never allow a fight at this time!"
After a few days of this, a large-scale demonstration suddenly broke out in the mountain city. At this time, the people at the bottom of the rear knew that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had been fighting for more than half a month in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia area.
As the situation worsened, our representatives in the mountain city publicly published a newspaper stating that the Eighth Route Army firmly supported the Anti-Japanese National United Front and was willing to stop military conflicts with the national army and jointly defend against foreign enemies.
There was endless debate in Shancheng for a while, and the National Government did not make a specific statement.
"Mother Xipi, Shoushan is incompetent. I entrusted him with the military and political power in the northwest in vain. In the past half month, he has lost ground and troops one after another, putting us in a passive position!" The old man stood up and looked around at the many National Government officials attending the meeting.
No one present dared to look directly at him. Everyone knew the old man's trust in Hu Zhongnan. At this time, whatever he said would be scolded in the limelight.
However, when it comes to conflicts of interest, there are always people who find opportunities to find opportunities. Chen Cheng stood up and said: "Principal, the situation in the northwest is not the responsibility of Shoushan alone. Shoushan is still young and cannot coordinate the military operations of the Ma Department and the Fu Department. According to me,
It seems better to ask Chief Ming San to come forward and take charge of the northwest war!"
As soon as Chen Cheng finished speaking, someone immediately objected.
"No!" Qian Dajun said solemnly: "It is unwise to change generals on the spot. Besides, Ming San has not been in battle for a long time, and he may not be able to cope with the current situation!"
"Principal, the Eighth Route Army poured dirty water on us. What they did in the mountain city was tantamount to setting the country on fire. This war can no longer continue. The battle on the front line is already unfavorable. If the people do not support it, I am afraid that the Americans will
I won’t sit back and watch the relationship between the two parties deteriorate!”
The old man sighed. From the bottom of his heart, he was more willing to take advantage of the Japanese army to show its decline in China and take the opportunity to eliminate the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area, which was a serious problem.
It's just that Hu Zhongnan's performance was really unsatisfactory, which made the old man have to stop fighting.