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Section 2 Shaky (4)

Although the Shaki incident triggered a new anti-British crisis in Guangdong, the British politics is worrying. If the British government really decides to send troops to attack Guangzhou, the military strength of the Guangdong government is not enough to fight this aggression, and Guangzhou will soon be lost. And it will lead to the division of Guangdong's military power and the failure of the Guangdong government. If you sit idly by and watch the failure of the Guangdong government, it will have a serious impact on our cause in China and will make the Chinese no longer believe us. Therefore, we must avoid this situation. To avoid this situation, we must strengthen Guangzhou's military strength, and more precisely, strengthen the strength of the military leaders who support our cause.

At present, only the party army led by General Chiang Kai-shek, and other troops are likely to be rebellious. Therefore, I suggest that the strength of General Chiang Kai-shek is immediately strengthened, the number of troops he led is expanded, so that the army he commands reaches 50,000 to 100,000. To reach this number, five to 100,000 rifles, two hundred to 300 machine guns, one hundred to two hundred cannons, and corresponding ammunition must be transported to Guangzhou as soon as possible. In addition, about five million rubles of funds are required. Considering that once the UK makes a decision to start a war against the Guangdong government, it will inevitably block the ports in Guangdong, so this batch of materials must be shipped from the sea cucumber as soon as possible…”

Borotin quickly made a judgment on the development of the incident after the Shaki incident and immediately issued an alarm to Moscow that the Guangzhou government might be overthrown by the UK.

After receiving the report that Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun fought back against the British in Shaji, Chiang Kai-shek was stunned. After reacting, he immediately ordered the various forts to enter the wartime state and ordered a regiment of the party and army to reinforce Shaji. However, it was too late for him to get off the order. The Chewai Fort had already fired the cannon and counterattacked, but after receiving the orders of Humen, Liede, Changzhou and other forts to immediately enter the wartime state.

However, when Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun returned to the headquarters, Chiang Kai-shek's thunderous anger broke out immediately. Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun were both suspended, and their positions were replaced by He Zhonghan and Hui Dongsheng. Jiang Xianyun did not tell the difference, but Zhuang Jihua held up for Jiang Xianyun, thinking that the order was given by him, and Jiang Xianyun just executed his order. Therefore, the matter had nothing to do with Jiang Xianyun. If he wanted to be removed, he would be removed. When Chiang Kai-shek heard that Zhuang Jihua was still holding back, he became even more angry and rushed them out of the office in anger.

A few days later, there were some news from all sides, and there were joys and sorrows. The domestic support was supported, and the prestige of the Guangdong government was unprecedentedly high; foreign wars were flooded, and the British sharpened their swords. The leaders of various factions in the base camp were also confused and uneasy, and the struggle for the position of the upcoming National Government was also calmed down. Everyone turned their attention to whether the British sent troops.

The Guangzhou market was full of surprises. Various rumors were circulating. The base camp urgently ordered the army to prepare for war. The main force of Li Jishen's troops in Guangxi was transferred back to Xijiang, the Sichuan troops were transferred to Qingyuan, Qingxin, and Tan Yankai's main force of Xiang army was transferred to Yingde; the main force of Guangdong troops was transferred to Dongguan; Guangxi Li Zongren and Huang Shaohong's troops quickly captured Nanning, and Lu Rongting sent a telegram to step down. Then the two troops of Li and Huang immediately divided their troops to sweep away Han Caifeng, Meng Renqian, Lu Fuxiang and other remaining troops, forming a situation where Li and Huang confronted each other in Guangxi.

The base camp was very angry at the party and army's unauthorized provocation of war. Hu Hanmin, Wu Chaoshu, Deng Zeru and others demanded punishment for the provocation of Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun. Liao Zhongkai firmly opposed it.

"If Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun are punished, then we will admit that they are wrong. The British will catch the braid, which is not conducive to diplomatic negotiations." Liao Zhongkai shouted loudly at the meeting.

Liao Zhongkai's opinion was supported by Chen Youren, Tan Pingshan and others, and Xu Chongzhi also had a good impression of Zhuang Jihua. Therefore, he also opposed punishing Zhuang Jihua. Wang Jingwei took the opportunity to mediate and made a decision to deal with the incident again depending on the development of the incident.

However, although Liao Zhongkai opposed the punishment of Zhuang Jihua, he was also very angry at his ignorant behavior. After the meeting, he went to the garrison headquarters to "trial" Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun with Chiang Kai-shek. He wanted to ask why Zhuang Jihua was so impulsive.

"Tell me, why do you insist on shooting despite Jiang Xianyun's opposition?" Chiang Kai-shek found out the whole process of the matter in the past two days, and knew that Jiang Xianyun firmly dissuaded Zhuang Jihua in advance.

"It doesn't matter, you are not an impulsive person? Why do you do such impulsive things?" In order to avoid suspicion, Liao Zhongkai also invited Director Zhou of the Political Department to participate in the inquiry.

"Principal, political commissar, you can't blame the Cultural Revolution all the time. I have a responsibility for this matter." Jiang Xianyun was unwilling to let Zhuang Jihua take responsibility alone, so he rushed to speak in front of Zhuang Jihua.

These days, the headquarters was full of discussions, and most of the young officers were excited, and they regarded Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun as role models; the older officers were slapping them, and some people who were dissatisfied with Zhuang Jihua were excited and thought that he would definitely be in trouble, especially Wang Bailing. He spread the word everywhere, saying that he had seen that Zhuang Jihua would cause a big disaster sooner or later, and now it was his words.

However, facing the "censorship" of the three giants, Zhuang Jihua was not worried at all. He surprised the three of them as soon as he spoke:

"I have no impulse, I did it on purpose."

Intentionally, the three giants looked at each other, and Chiang Kai-shek's face suddenly came to an end.

Zhongkai also lost his calm mind and stood up with some anger and asked, "So why did you deliberately cause this incident?"

Zhuang Jihua looked straight ahead with his eyes and said loudly: "Because we can at least tie. If the orders issued by the base camp were not too early, I might have scored into the Shamian Concession."

Chiang Kai-shek laughed in anger: "Haha, it's amazing, it's amazing. It seems that the base camp has also hindered you from establishing great achievements."

Director Zhou frowned and thought, feeling that things were not so simple. Zhuang Jihua was definitely not an impulsive person. So the reason for this must be to discover something. Maybe the intelligence department has mastered some information: "Do you have any information?"

As soon as Director Zhou said something, Chiang Kai-shek immediately became alert. If Zhuang Jihua had any information and acted without reporting, it would definitely be intolerable. Therefore, he stared at Zhuang Jihua and saw how he answered.

"No, the Intelligence Department was established too short, the intelligence work has just begun, and there is no time to collect intelligence from the UK." Zhuang Jihua said honestly.

Director Zhou didn't know what he was selling in Zhuang Jihua's gourd.

"I said I did it on purpose because I had a basic judgment on the situation at that time, that is, even if we fight back, the British would not be able to cause any big waves." Zhuang Jihua said.

"Why? How did you make such a judgment?" Liao Zhongkai was a little surprised. Even he did not dare to make such a judgment.

"Since the European War, Britain's national strength has dropped sharply and is no longer the world's largest power. The United States has replaced it. Britain's national strength has declined, and its control over the colonies has weakened, and the resistance of the colonies has increased. For example, India. Since the establishment of the Indian Congress, the Indian people's desire to demand the highest level has become stronger and stronger. Britain is forced to station heavy troops in India. Egypt, Iraq and other countries in the Middle East have also been very strong. The difference between them and India is that India adopts a peaceful and non-cooperating approach, but these countries adopt an armed struggle method. Britain must station heavy troops in these countries. The funding for maintaining these forces will slowly suck the blood of the British government like a sponge."

"After the European War, emerging imperialist countries such as the United States and Japan emerged. They were very dissatisfied with the resources and markets that Britain dominated the colonies. Britain was challenged by them worldwide. Therefore, the world strategic pattern changed from Britain to the United States and the Soviet Union, followed by Britain, France, Japan and other countries."

"During the European War, Britain's economy suffered a severe blow. It was only seven years after the end of the European War, and its economy was far from recovering. I guess he didn't even have the military expenditure to send troops. Don't look at him killing people everywhere in China, he was actually very scared, and he belonged to that kind of... a paper tiger, which could be broken when it poked, but those warlords were afraid of foreigners and dared not poked." Zhuang Jihua talked freely, and when talking about the paper tiger, he looked untrue.

"Are you so sure?" Liao Zhongkai asked after a moment of surprise.

The biggest difference between Zhuang Jihua and the people of this era is his confidence. He came from his previous life. The Chinese people's self-confidence in his previous life is much stronger than that of the Chinese today. Britain did not take it seriously at all. If you don't believe it, readers can do a survey on the streets. The topic is the result of a separate battle with China and the UK. I believe that 80% of them, including the British, choose China to win. Without this strength and without this confidence, would Mrs. Thatcher agree to let Hong Kong return so easily?

"Is there a 100% sure, and Is there an 80% sure." Zhuang Jihua said.

"Eighty percent? You're so angry. What if the British sent troops to attack Guangzhou?" Chiang Kai-shek asked, but his tone had already eased.

"Then give Guangzhou to them." Zhuang Jihuaman said indifferently.

"Give it to them? You're so light." Chiang Kai-shek was no longer angry.

"Give them to them not the same as they won the war." Zhuang Jihua explained: "Give Guangzhou to them because if Guangzhou City is chosen as the battlefield, they can get the support of Haili. If we don't have a navy and cannot suppress the enemy's sea power, our losses will be very large. So we retreat northward, lure the enemy deeper, and wait until they leave the scope of Haili's support before fighting with them. In fact, I really hope that they will send troops to see the map. The British transport line is tens of thousands of kilometers, and it will take several months to go back and forth. It only takes one year to delay the British finances and the British finance will go bankrupt. At that time, even if he wants to withdraw, he has to agree."

Zhuang Jihua's words made the three giants silent again. After a while, Liao Zhongkai asked: "If the British government insists on sending troops, how many troops do you think they can send?"

"It won't exceed 100,000." Zhuang Jihua calculated in his mind. He actually didn't know how many troops the UK could send, but in order to strengthen his words, he deliberately said such a number. "100,000." Chiang Kai-shek sat in a daze on the chair.
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