"" Chapter 434: Power struggle

(...I always thought that the biggest vilification of a person's morality was to call him a politician. Yes, when I started to get involved in politics, I became despicable and shameless. The pain that brought me that time made me realize that I could not enter politics. Maybe my essence was not despicable enough... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

"The 41st and 48th Divisions are on the top, the 145th Division is prepared, the 133rd Division is retreating and replenishing, the 134th Division is stationed on the spot... The 172nd and 173rd Division retreat west..." Cao Xiaomin looked at the interlaced red and blue arrows on the map, nodded, and then walked out of the combat staff room and walked towards the gate.

There are many things to report today, such as the just-concluded China-UK military product procurement negotiations and the views on the German plan conveyed by Farkenhausen. However, what Cao Xiaomin values ​​most is the battle situation and the intriguing battle situation.

Chiang Kai-shek had been waiting for him in the study for a while, and specifically waited for Cao Xiaomin and put other things aside. He knew that Cao Xiaomin wanted to report to him about some cooperation between China and Britain and China and Germany; but his mind was not there, but on the battlefield, a very intriguing battle situation.

Cao Xiaomin patiently explained the various arms purchased from the UK one by one, and explained the quantity and time of purchases in detail based on the reasons, and added many of them to his own analysis basis. It can be seen that he is very focused on this Sino-English procurement negotiation, basically without any distractions and has never cared about anything else.

"The Germans agreed to trade with us in principle, but the number of bombers and aviation bombs provided disappointed me, and the construction of an aircraft repair shop was quite vague. But they were still generous in terms of loans. If we counted based on the pound, they gave us more funds than the British, so I think we could still agree to them. After all, once there is a change in Europe, there will be nothing, and what the Germans get is what they get." Cao Xiaomin explained the intention he reached with the Germans. Chiang Kai-shek listened calmly. In fact, both of them were anxious, for another matter.

"The Germans are very cunning and are unwilling to bring their most advanced aircraft, so I changed the requirement; they asked them to use large transport aircraft instead of bombers to transport goods, and the things transported here were mainly grain and productive factory and mining equipment. The weapons were mainly light weapons, such as the kind of mg13 machine guns they stocked in large quantities." Cao Xiaomin's explanation finally made Chiang Kai-shek feel a little impatient - Cao Xiaomin even reported the combat parameters of the purchase target in detail!

However, we must not be in a hurry. Chiang Kai-shek tried his best to control his emotions: it was his intention to support Li Tianhao as a force that restricted Cao Xiaomin, but it was his intention to deliberately reveal this matter to Cao Xiaomin; his original intention was to immediately defeat Li Tianhao, causing a little bit of estrangement between them, which was not enough to turn against each other, but he was guarding against each other in his heart; and Li Tianhao could only rely on himself to withstand Cao Xiaomin, who was invincible in the northern Jiangsu army.

But Cao Xiaomin ignored the army of northern Jiangsu and continued to let Li Tianhao take power alone! This was beyond Chiang Kai-shek's surprise. When the initial list of personnel for the establishment of the Forty-fourth Army in northern Jiangsu came up, Chiang Kai-shek even had the blue veins on his head: almost 80% of the initial candidates for the important positions in the army of this army were from Guangxi!

At present, Bai Chongxi almost wiped out all the two armies of the 26th Army, which had been firmly controlled by the central government in the southeastern Anhui war zone, and the Sichuan Army also suffered heavy losses in this battle. If the overall situation in southeastern Anhui must be the guerrilla area controlled by the Guangxi clique would be connected with northern Jiangsu. Northern Jiangsu would become another area of ​​the Guangxi clique that was in power and would be dug out from the central government!

There is only one way to avoid this situation: transfer Li Tianhao away and Cao Xiaomin came forward to stabilize the overall situation in northern Jiangsu!

But now Cao Xiaomin's obedience really made Chiang Kai-shek at a loss: Cao Xiaomin didn't care that his base was taken away by others, and he didn't care about losing his own troops! Although Chiang Kai-shek always thought that Cao Xiaomin was a person with no fame and fortune and no desire for power, he really didn't expect Cao Xiaomin to be so indifferent! Now... if he had known this, why would he have been the first to be like this!

"...The Germans showed unprecedented enthusiasm for sending us pilots. They even made a complete plan, and sent personnel were air force staff and engineers, experienced pilots, flight instructors and rookies. They planned to rotate pilots, and of course I understand why they were..." Cao Xiaomin still didn't mention the current situation of the domestic war and the formation of the Forty-fourth Army: "Because they were unwilling to expose their most advanced aircraft, considering the reasons such as war damage, I proposed to ask them to pay us for British fighter jets, and through their additional loans to us, they agreed. Obviously, the Germans took this matter very seriously, and they wanted to thoroughly understand the British aircraft; I think the European war is not far away..."

"Cough!" Chiang Kai-shek finally couldn't bear it anymore. After listening to the content about the pilot with all his patience, he had to pretend to cough and interrupt Cao Xiaomin's report.

"In recent days, the various Guangxi armies have fought well... One general has achieved success and thousands of bones have been destroyed. The twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh group has made Bai Jiansheng..." Chiang Kai-shek looked at Cao Xiaomin and said, "There is another army, and the performance of one and a half of the Guangxi army is even more unbelievable. They attacked twenty-four airports at the same time behind enemy lines, and wiped out nearly two hundred Japanese planes on the ground overnight..."

Chiang Kai-shek stared at Cao Xiaomin's eyes and saw how he reacted to calling the Northern Su Army of the Northern Su family.

Cao Xiaomin gave Chiang Kai-shek a shocked expression he wanted to see, and then asked seriously: "Semi-Guizhou Clan? What does the commission mean that the troops in northern Jiangsu resist the joint efforts of the Central Committee and Guangxi Clan?... Commission, has the Guizhou Clan handed over all the arsenals and major finances to the Central Committee? The Guizhou Clan should be just a historical term? I think some old people have always been attached to each other in their relationship, so people feel that the Guangxi Clan is away from the Central Committee. Just like my troops in northern Jiangsu, there are both the guerrilla corps that are mainly locals and the troops that are mainly trusted by me, and the troops that are mainly Guizhou Clan, the Northeast Army that came from the 57th Army, the Yunnan Army and the scattered soldiers from all over the country. They seem to have the characteristics of local troops, and they have actually integrated..."

Chiang Kai-shek waved his hand and said, "If every soldier is so devoted to a central government like you, am I still so worried? Now Li Delin and Bai Jiansheng's troops are winning victory in Anhui, and the subsequent troops are sending them to Anhui continuously; although they still have to rely on the central government's finance and equipment supply, and they do not resist the Central Army entering their sphere of influence as before; but what in the future? Once the Far East Railway transports European aid changes, once we have to use the southwest as the main import channel for materials again... The situation of the War of Resistance Against Japan is good, some people will start to get crazy..." Chiang Kai-shek kept staring at Cao Xiaomin while speaking, his eyes full of expectations, and Cao Xiaomin suspected that he had learned the modern mental hint.

"I understand..." Cao Xiaomin seemed to have been thinking for a long time before answering: "I will not let the northern Jiangsu ** be reduced to the private armed forces of a small faction or warlord in some place. Their name is **, which is the national army!"

Win! I won! Cao Xiaomin was shouting loudly in his heart, but he didn't feel any pleasure.

The telegram he asked He Yan to send back that night worked. All the people who were loyal to him repeatedly discussed the composition of the Forty-fourth Group Army and pushed a group of old brothers from the Central Plains Gui clan into the most important position according to his intentions. Before the commanders of the various attacking airports returned, this was enough to decide everything!

Without any refutation or obstruction, he concealed the inside story of the inventory bombs, let Bai Chongxi fight the 10th Army and the 87th Army casually, let Anhui become the world of the Gui army again, and let the Gui clique watch as if even the northern Jiangsu should be controlled... Since everything is set by Chiang Kai-shek, let him solve it himself! In the situation where the northern Jiangsu mobilized the military commander, the Guangxi clique troops that occupied a huge force in the northern Jiangsu military can be comforted, and the officers who have received the news to be promoted to an important enough position to suppress the disappointment in their hearts. It is only one person who can not split up and continue to be loyal to the central government, he, Cao Xiaomin!

Li Tianhao, you are a powerful general, a wise general, you are a cold handsome man! If you just want to control a strong army and make achievements, I can let you; but you have to sacrifice so many brothers to pave the way to control one side, I'm sorry, I won't agree! Cao Xiaomin's plan to make a secret layout for many days has been successful. He can regain and firmly grasp the military power of northern Jiangsu again and more firmly, the price is to lose Li Tianhao, a tiger general, and this brother who came out of the Sixing Cang blood!

There are no two tigers in a mountain! When Cao Xiaomin came out of Chiang Kai-shek's study, he felt very heavy. Did he really have no trace of his right to fight for the War of Resistance? At this moment, he didn't dare to draw a conclusion for himself.

Outside the car window were soldiers who had just changed their clothes, and the queue was very long. They all saw the military vehicle, with some blank faces, and they began to stop and look blankly with their mouths open.

They probably haven't seen such a military vehicle, a British command vehicle... How many people who have never seen better cars have been seen before, and those simple farmers who have only received military training for less than fifty live-fire training on average will die on the frontline, die in the agitation and struggle of politicians?

This is the first time I came up with such a bad idea? Cao Xiaomin suddenly showed a sad smile on his face: When did he become a politician? When would he make a decision to sell off his friendly forces for power? But there is no way. In such a political environment, in such a fierce struggle within and outside the party, to protect the military power and military strength in his hands, sometimes he could only sacrifice those who had just put down his hoe... His face was a little itchy, and Cao Xiaomin accidentally touched it with his hands, which was clearly a tear shed!

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