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Chapter 136: Fool

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    After everyone left, only Li Guoyao and Ma Desheng were left in the small conference room of the underground headquarters. Both of them were silent!

    After a long time, Li Guoyao was the first to speak: "Old Ma, if you have anything to say, just tell me!"

    "Brigadier Commander, have you ever thought about it, if this battle is over, our independent brigade may have nothing left, not even a serial number!"

    Li Guoyao stared at Ma Desheng and said, "Why do you say that?"

    "Brigade, you should also be aware of Shangfeng's attitude toward us miscellaneous troops. No matter how powerful you are, Mr. Jiang, in his eyes, all miscellaneous soldiers are the same as the red bandits in northern Shaanxi. They are threats.  , will take the opportunity to take away the serial number whenever there is an opportunity, I saw this kind of thing many times during the Battle of Songhu."

    At this point, Ma Desheng looked at Li Guoyao and hesitated to speak, but finally said: "Sir, there is something I don't know whether I should tell you or not!"

    "Tell me, what's going on? We brothers have been through life and death together, what else can't we say?" Li Guoyao said.

    "The day before yesterday, I took some time to meet with my old commander, Wang Han, director of the 28th Army Logistics Department"

    "Wait a minute, hasn't the 28th Army already evacuated Nanjing? Moreover, the combat order of the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters does not have the designation of the 28th Army. How can they still be in Nanjing?" Li Guoyao said with a frown.

    "It's like this. Two days ago, I heard from my brothers in the team that they saw the 28th Army's garrison on the street. I was also wondering how they still had troops left in Nanjing. Besides, they are an old army after all.  I still had feelings, so I took the time to go and have a look. After I went there, I discovered that the director of the detention office was actually Wang Han. He was previously a commander of our 16th Division and was my direct superior."

    Then Ma Desheng continued: "I learned through understanding that during the Battle of Huzhou, although the 28th Army held on for a few more days with our help, it was eventually defeated by the Japanese 18th Division and Huzhou City was lost. Then the 28th Army  They were evacuated to Nanjing City, and more than 2,000 wounded people were transferred back at the same time."

    "Before the Battle of Nanjing started, the 28th Army was ordered to withdraw to the north of the Yangtze River. However, because there were many seriously wounded people in the army, it was not suitable to move at all. In the end, they set up a stay in Nanjing. Their main task was to take care of these seriously wounded people.  , and at the same time gather the other scattered troops of the Hunan Army."

    "So that's what happened. How are Director Wang and the wounded doing now? Have they all been sent out of the city?" Li Guoyao said.

    "I organized all the broken troops who had recovered from their injuries and regrouped into our independent brigade, and more than 300 wounded soldiers were sent to Xiaguan Wharf. They all crossed the Yangtze River yesterday morning!"

    "That's good. It seems that what you are talking about is related to Director Wang!"

    "Well, Lao Wang has a good relationship with our division commander and military commander. He was originally our guard. He saved the military commander's life on the battlefield, and he was promoted step by step. Now he is a major general.  Rank. When Lao Wang learned that I was in the 67th Army, the first thing he said was to tell me to withdraw when I saw the opportunity!"

    "Why?"

    "According to Lao Wang, the attitude of the Military Commission towards the 67th Army is very unfriendly. Just a while ago, they were thinking of revoking the designation of the 67th Army. More importantly, some people publicly accused Wu Keren at the Military Commission.  The general defected to the enemy and betrayed his country, eventually leading to the fall of Songjiang, etc., trying to put the blame on the 67th Army. If our victory report had not been received in time, I am afraid that the 67th Army would have become history!" Ma Desheng said.

    Li Guoyao knows this matter better than anyone else. If it were not for his sudden appearance, the designation of the 67th Army would indeed be revoked, and General Wu Keren and others would also be branded with shame, and will not be dismissed until decades later.  ordinary.

    "What Li Guoyao didn't expect was that Ma Desheng also knew about this matter.

    Li Guoyao was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "What do you mean?"

    "Commissioner, I know you are a true hero who cares about the country, but those above us regard us as enemies. If we use up all our troops in Nanjing, do you believe it or not?"  The designation of the Independent Brigade has been revoked! When we don¡¯t even have the designation, how can we fight against the Japanese?"

    Li Guoyao was silent. In fact, since the war began, the strength ratio between the National Army and the Japanese Army on the frontal battlefield has generally been 5:1 or 10:1. However, they are often defeated. Is it because the Japanese army is too powerful or the National Army?  Is it that rubbish?

    In fact, this is not the case. The Japanese military¡¯s combat effectiveness is the strongest in Asia. This is a generally recognized fact.??, there is no doubt about this.  But there is another deep-seated reason that really led to this result, which is the distrust within the national army, and even conspiracy against each other.

    For Chairman Chiang, the miscellaneous troops, like the Communist Party¡¯s troops, must be eliminated.

    The reason is also very simple. After the Kuomintang army defeated the Beiyang warlords in 1927, the commanders of each army became new warlords. They regarded the army as private property, divided their territories, and fought with each other. They were no different from the Beiyang warlords.  The scale of the civil war among the new warlords of the Kuomintang was far more intense than the five wars to suppress communism, which showed that the anti-Chiang forces within the Kuomintang were huge enough to threaten Chiang's status.

    Therefore, a long time ago, Chiang Kai-shek divided the Kuomintang army into the direct line Central Army and the non-lineal miscellaneous army. The direct line troops received special care from Chiang, and weapons, ammunition, uniforms, food and pay were all promptly replenished. The miscellaneous army  Military supplies are often withheld.

    For example, Marshal Zhang¡¯s Northeastern Army changed its flag after the Huanggutun Incident in 1928. Then Marshal Zhang led the Northeastern Army to attack the Red Army, and became the deputy commander-in-chief of the ¡°Northwestern Bandit Suppression¡± and acted as the acting commander-in-chief.  At that time, the Northeast Army had more than 200,000 people. At first, the young commander was very active in suppressing the Communists. However, he fought against the Red Army many times, and the loss of personnel and ammunition of the army could not be replaced.

    So the Marshal wrote in his diary: "Since the Northeastern Army came from Henan and Hubei in the south and moved to Shaanxi and Gansu in the west to suppress the bandits, it has suffered heavy losses and has not been supplemented by the central government. Every time Yu (Han Qing) visited the Jin Dynasty, he would  He was generously allowed to provide aid and supplements, but after returning to the defense, there was no evidence of supplementation except telegrams to reprimand him. Therefore, the generals and soldiers all felt that the hard battle was in vain, and they would gradually disappear due to losses in the future"

    Zhang Xueliang¡¯s confusion is also the confusion of all miscellaneous troops. Since they have surrendered to the Central Committee and are dispatched to fight for the Central Committee, the battle losses of personnel and ammunition should be replenished by the Central Committee. Why not or less replenishment?

    This confusion lasted until the Anti-Japanese War and the War of Liberation, and greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang army.  In order to preserve their strength and survive, the miscellaneous army certainly cannot fight hard.

    At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek sent the assembled miscellaneous troops to suppress the Communists and resist the Japanese. After all their casualties were exhausted, he took the opportunity to abolish their ranks, or to disband, reorganize and merge the remaining troops into other units. The vacated ranks were replenished by direct descendants.

    Chen Cheng is definitely a model when it comes to recruiting and transforming motley crews.  Before the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Cheng took Huangpu officers as the core and adopted various means to boldly recruit miscellaneous troops to expand his strength.

    For example, in 1930, Xu Shengyu's independent 13th Brigade was incorporated into Hubei Province. His 18th Army grew as a result and later became one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang Army.  This is just a trivial case, and there have been countless incidents like this in recent years.

    Although the Japanese invasion of China directly caused the Kuomintang warlords to suspend their internal fighting, promote Chiang as their leader, and begin to unite in the war of resistance.  However, Chiang did not change his hostile attitude towards the miscellaneous troops and constantly looked for opportunities to eliminate the miscellaneous troops, while the latter were cautious and tried to protect themselves.

    Precisely because of this consideration, when Chiang Kai-shek dispatched troops to fight, he gave priority to letting miscellaneous soldiers fight dangerous and tough battles, while the direct line of the Central Army fought smooth battles.

    So that local armies such as the Guangdong Army, the Hunan Army, the Gui Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army were all in their own systems. They obeyed and resisted Jiang Yang.  Chiang also distrusted the miscellaneous troops and took advantage of them. He treated them as cannon fodder when they were in use and hid them when they were not in use. This severely lacked the centripetal force and cohesion of the army.

    In fact, this is the core of what Ma Desheng said to him today. Although they are not afraid of death, they feel that fighting like this is very frustrating and not worth it. After all, there is no merit in winning, and the designation may be revoked after the troops are exhausted. This is definitely a fool.  It is a business that only talented people can do, so Ma Desheng did not want Li Guoyao to be such a "fool".

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