Part 3: Bloody War of Resistance  Chapter 11: Chaotian Que   Chapter 5: Dawn (10)

The current Military Control Commission is not the Military Control Commission seven years ago. When the Military Control Commission was just changed from the Secret Service to the Military Control Commission seven years ago, it was not strong. The main force was concentrated in the Jiangnan region, and other regions were weak. After seven years of development, its strength is now unprecedentedly strong. The entire Military Control Commission has as many as tens of thousands of members, and the total number is as many as one million.

Dai Li has absolute authority within the Military Control Commission. In the past seven years, he has used generous rewards and heavy punishments to firmly control the entire Military Control Commission. As the military control power increases, the military control's business scope has also expanded. Dai Li is intervening in the police and anti-smuggling customs military police, and even extends his hands into the army, preparing to establish an army with the backbone of the Military Control Commission.

This move was strongly warned and boycotted by the military. Chen Cheng and Bai Chongxi firmly opposed it. He Yingqin was sleek, but he always refused to give him a letter. The Central Commission for Discipline slandered him and continued to report to Chiang Kai-shek through Chen Guofu. Chen Guofu also reminded Chiang Kai-shek several times that there is a Zhuang Ji-shek who is too big to lose, and it will be even more difficult to deal with another Dai Li. If the two join forces, the party and the country will be in danger.

Of course, Chiang Kai-shek still remembers that Dai Li was introduced to him by Zhuang Jihua. After Zhuang Jihua returned to China, he had a good relationship with Dai Li. After returning to control the Five War Zones, he strongly supported the Military Control Commission in the area under his control and suppressed the Central Commission. If Chiang Kai-shek's attention had not yet been attracted at the beginning, it has now aroused Chiang Kai-shek's vigilance and began to consciously suppress Dai Li's power.

Facing Chiang Kai-shek's reprimand, Dai Li was speechless. For more than ten years, he believed that he was clear about Chiang Kai-shek's thoughts and also noticed the changes in the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Zhuang Jihua. He repeatedly hinted to Chiang Kai-shek that his relationship with Zhuang Jihua was just an ordinary relationship, but he was not sure whether Chiang Kai-shek accepted this explanation.

"I remember the Military Control Commission has set up a Northeast station, so don't they have any news?"

The scene was a bit awkward, Chen Cheng sat quietly on Diaoyutai unmoved, Bai Chongxi had to come forward to smooth things over, Dai Li hurriedly took over the conversation: "Northeast has just been liberated, and the Northeast Station has suffered great losses during the war, its strength is not strong, and there is no information about the Soviet army."

"I tend to be true intelligence," Chen Cheng said at this time: "Zhuang Wenge has begun to dispatch troops and generals. He has already dispatched the main forces of the Northeast War Zone, including the Fifth Army, the First Mechanized Army, the Forty-Ninth Army, the New First Army, and other major forces to head north. If you cannot determine the authenticity of this information, with his prudence, you will not do this. But I don't quite understand the source of his intelligence."

This is a very critical issue. Zhuang Jihua did not mention the source of information in the report. Chiang Kai-shek frowned and thought: "Is it the information Wang Xiaoshan got?"

Bai Chongxi consciously shut up. Li Zongren talked to him and told him that he had reached a tacit understanding of cooperation with Zhuang Jihua and that both sides supported each other; Dai Li also remained silent, and at this time he said nothing was appropriate.

Wang Xiaoshan was responsible for intelligence work in the attendant's office for a long time and knew a lot about the Military Control Commission. After leaving the battlefield Intelligence Department, Dai Li quickly discovered that Wang Xiaoshan had strict control over the personnel in the Intelligence Department. Anyone with a background in the Military Control Commission or the Central Commission was transferred from the Intelligence Department for various reasons.

Then he discovered that Wang Xiaoshan had already established an intelligence system. This intelligence system was not just two intelligence officers, Wolf Eye and Viper. The entire intelligence system had not many personnel but was very capable. He pursued a long-term strategy of lurking. Some of the personnel had sneaked into the middle level of the Eighth Route Army of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region, and their achievements were far greater than those of the Military Commission or the Central Commission.

Chen Cheng didn't know it either, and he shut his mouth consciously. Of course, this does not mean that he has no idea.

Chiang Kai-shek looked at the three of them and asked Dai Li directly: "You said?!"

Dai Li hesitated. He was also speculating on the source of Zhuang Jihua's intelligence. The intelligence officers placed in the Northeast War Zone had reported that Zhuang Jihua had a secret relationship with **. He once asked the intelligence officers to verify it, but no evidence was found.

Zhuang Jihua secretly exchanged information with ** on his back, which was a big taboo. Dai Li didn't know what the result would be if he told him.

"What? I don't know."

Chiang Kai-shek's eyes became gloomy and cold, and Dai Li couldn't help but chill. He quickly explained: "I guess if Senior Zhuang got the information from **."

Chiang Kai-shek's eyes frowned, he frowned slightly, paused for a while and asked, "Is there any evidence?"

Dai Li sighed in his heart. Now he didn't care about so much and just wanted to deal with the current situation: "There is no evidence, but there are some signs to judge. Senior Zhuang's secretary Gong Xiuhua often meets Xuan Xiafu, and later changed to Wang Xiaoshan. No one knows what they talked about."

"The news came from **" Bai Chongxi asked in wonder: "Why do they want this?"

Dai Li shook his head and said he didn't know, but Chen Cheng explained for him: "This is possible. The Cultural Revolution report said that the area where the Soviet army was preparing to invade was northwest of Heilongjiang, and this area was controlled by the New 11th Army. This made them very uncomfortable. Whether it resisted or not, it turned out to be very unfavorable to them. So we told us that we wanted us to send troops,"

Chen Cheng hesitated and added: "There may be another purpose to weaken our army with the Soviet army. Our army has a million troops in the northeast, which is ten times more than them. Moreover, in recent times, Yang Sen, Dai Anlan, Lu Ruishan, in Heilongjiang and Nanman, Liaobei, had several conflicts with them, and they suffered a great loss."

The Kuomintang and the Communist Party competed for territory in the Northeast, with so many conflicts and a large range, far exceeding that within the pass. There were conflicts from North Manchuria to South Manchuria. The main force of the ** was in South Manchuria. The most intense conflict was Liaobei and Heilongjiang. Yang Sen and Dai Anlan almost used force to disperse the local GCD regime. The two sides had several small-scale conflicts. These conflicts once greatly weakened Chiang Kai-shek's suspicion of Zhuang Jihua's collusion with **.

Everything has its own rules, and if there is a rule, there will be traces. There is nothing in the world that has no rules or traces, and there is no secret that can be completely preserved.

The stars change, winter goes and spring comes, the water melts from snow-capped mountains and turns into trickles, gathering into big rivers; geese fly through the sky, coming and going from south to north, winter goes and spring comes, and it keeps going.

The laws of nature are similar to those of political laws. As long as you are willing to wait patiently and search carefully, you will always discover the laws in it.

Zhuang Jihua made great battles in the Northeast, but Zhou Enlai rarely protested. Even if there were, his attitude was far less intense than before, and it was a bit like routine.

Chiang Kai-shek's face became even more gloomy, Bai Chongxi's eyes lit up, and he said thoughtfully: "Since it is in their controlled area, then we can let them fight against the Soviet army first, and our army will not move for the time being."

"Yes!" Chen Cheng also reacted. He slapped his high-high with some excitement: "Chairman, no matter whether the news is true or false, we can mobilize troops to the Harbin area, but we are not allowed to dispatch to the northwest of Heilongjiang and order the New 11th Army to strengthen its vigilance."

"If they ask us to send troops to reinforce, we can talk about the conditions." Bai Chongxi added.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded slightly, but his expression was still cloudy. After a while, he said to Bai Chongxi and Dai Li: "You go first, Ci Xiu stay, Dai Li, immediately verify where the news comes from, and also notify Wang Chonghui to come immediately."

After the two left, Chiang Kai-shek signaled to let Chen Cheng sit down, and then asked: "Have you ever thought of another possibility?"

Chen Cheng was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't know. Chiang Kai-shek said coldly: "Without the Japanese threat, the Northeast War Zone would not have gathered so many troops, but if the Soviet Union threat appeared again, the country would inevitably gather heavy troops in the Northeast."

Before Chiang Kai-shek could finish his speech, Chen Cheng's expression had changed drastically. Chiang Kai-shek's concerns were not unreasonable. Chen Cheng was the operator appointed by Chiang Kai-shek to solve Zhuang Jihua. Chiang Kai-shek revealed to him the steps to partially solve Zhuang Jihua.

Using the excuse of solving the Japanese army in Jiangnan and strengthening the North China power, Zhuang Jihua's elite troops were transferred, such as the Forty-Ninth Army, the Fifty-One Army, the Fifty-Two Army and other troops, these troops were transferred to Jiangnan, and then the troops were replaced by major blood exchange, and the main officers were transferred, and Chen Cheng was transferred from the Civil Engineering Department to replace him. Chen Cheng was already preparing for the candidates.

After transferring Zhuang Jihua's direct lineage, Zhuang Jihua was transferred from the Northeast War Zone by way of open and secret descending, and Chen Cheng took over. If Zhuang Jihua did not follow, the Huangpu generals such as Qiu Qingquan and Fan Hanjie will be responsible for solving it.

But now that the Soviet Union has appeared, the threats in the Northeast have increased greatly. Zhuang Jihua has every reason to refuse Chiang Kai-shek's order to mobilize troops. In this way, Chiang Kai-shek could not walk in the first step, and the second step was naturally still in the womb.

"But what if the information is true? Stalin has never given up on Northeast China and Mongolia." Chen Cheng asked after a while.

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head: "The problem may be even bigger. How did he get the Soviet army's intelligence? Moreover, even the direction of the Soviet army's invasion was clear? Dai Li guessed it well, and it was probably from **."

This conclusion shocked Chen Cheng even more. Although Zhuang Jihua has always been suspected of being pro-communist, it has been since Guangdong. After April 12, he left the army without authorization and stayed abroad for several years. The fundamental reason is that he still disagrees with the Communist Party.

After returning to China, Zhuang Jihua clearly stated that he would not participate in the suppression of the Communist Party. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, several disputes between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were resolved under his coordination. It can be said that the reason why the joint war of resistance between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party did not break down was that he was fully maintaining it.

Among the top leaders of the Kuomintang, including Chiang Kai-shek, did not think that Zhuang Jihua would fall into Yan'an's arms. Although he defended them everywhere, no one thought he would do this.

But if Chiang Kai-shek's inference was valid, this conclusion would be overturned.

Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng knew that Zhuang Jihua was extremely powerful. After more than ten years of development, Zhuang Jihua had formed a huge group, which spanned the military, politics, business and education, and was spread throughout the southwest China, North China and Shandong, which made Chiang Kai-shek deeply afraid.

"If this is the case, it will be really troublesome." Chen Cheng murmured to himself. Not to mention anything else, the army trained by Zhuang Jihua himself was as high as more than 300,000. These troops were well-equipped and brave, and were far from comparing those miscellaneous troops or the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army.

If Zhuang Jihua invested in Yan'an, it would inevitably lead to a huge change in the power of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party after the war, and the Kuomintang changed from overwhelming advantage to a even-match.

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Chapter completed!