The Fourth Outstanding Person of Huangpu Military Academy

Imagine if there is a set of wireless radio equipment in places A and B, and each announcer has a radio, then these two people can have voice conversations across the air.

The principle is this.

By the late 20s and early 30s, people had shrunk the wireless broadcasting equipment that could fill a room to a weight of one or two hundred kilograms, enough to fit inside a tank, and blitzkrieg began.

To be honest, the first thing in the technical foundation of blitzkrieg is not the invention of the tank or the continuous improvement of tank performance/reliability, nor is it the large-scale deployment of off-road vehicles, but the ability to "feed" remotely.

By the early 40s, wireless broadcasting equipment had been further reduced to less than 20 kilograms (including batteries) and made into a backpack that one person could carry. This device was commonly known as a "walkie-talkie."

Walkie-talkies allowed the US military, with its poor tactics and poor training, to maintain a 1:1 or 1:0.8 casualty ratio against the Germans in purely infantry battles on the Western Front. This was simply amazing. The Germans, facing off against them, were constantly seeing veterans withdrawn from the Eastern Front, while the quality of the US troops, from officers to soldiers, was simply deplorable.

In short, wireless communication technology is crucial to land warfare, especially the military tactical system that Chen Tianheng is currently building. It is even more important than guns and artillery themselves.

Another reason is that wireless broadcasting and communication equipment are not like guns or munitions; they can be manufactured anywhere. Even if it is not convenient to manufacture them, laboratories can be set up to conduct research.

After all the scattered guns, bullets and supplies in Xu Village were cleaned up, a new Northern Expedition army finally arrived from the south.

"Instructor Liu! Hahaha!"

Chen Tianheng and Liu Zhi shook hands and exchanged greetings.

The Second Division of the First Army rushed and finally arrived at Xu Village, south of Fuyang City, in the evening of January 6.

"Chen Tianheng, you guys are moving too fast." Liu Zhi was of course trying to figure out the battle situation ahead while he was on his way. When they passed the 26th Army's defense line, they already knew the latest situation on the front line.

In two days, one division wiped out two divisions. It was just so magical.

"We moved quickly, but now we're all exhausted. We've fought so many battles, and I need to replenish the casualties," Chen Tianheng said. "The First Division will need to rest and recuperate in Fuyang for a few days."

In fact, after these two battles, the First Division's casualties hadn't yet exhausted the three replacement battalions. These replacement battalions were recruited during the Jiujiang training camp and accompanied the main combat force through basic training and limited technical and tactical training. By adding soldiers from these replacement battalions to the main combat force, and with a relatively small number of replacements, the main combat force's combat capability would hardly decline.

But in front of Liu Zhi, he naturally had to emphasize the difficulties the First Division was currently facing and give himself some time. In addition to really needing to rest, the soldiers had to familiarize themselves with the many firearms and weapons they had replaced.

Liu Zhi: "That's enough, Chen Tianheng, leave some for us.

Chen Tianheng: "Isn't this leaving Hangzhou for you?

Liu Zhi: "This area in Hangzhou is too big..."

Chen Tianheng: "Hangzhou City currently has Lu Xiangting's Second Division, the Zhejiang Army Guard Brigade, and two other divisions. They're quite numerous, but their combat effectiveness is quite low. Lu Xiangting's Second Division is now a frightened bird, from Lu Xiangting himself down to the soldiers below. I think the most capable unit in Hangzhou is probably the Zhejiang Army Guard Brigade."

Liu Zhi: "Commander-in-Chief Bai has sent an order earlier, asking us to first encircle Hangzhou from western Zhejiang and then capture it. I will be responsible for encircling Hangzhou. Once the 26th Army recovers, at least two divisions will be restored. When that happens, we can transfer them over and attack together.

Chen Tianheng: "This arrangement makes perfect sense. Commander Bai, when did you say we'll launch the general attack on Hangzhou?"

“November 1th.

Chapter 43: The old man suddenly became hard to fool

Shanghai French Concession.

Chen Duxiu opened the letter.

The last time I corresponded with Chen Tianheng was over two months ago. That time, Chen Qiaonian was acting as a messenger. He was passing through Jiujiang on his way to Wuhan for work and met Chen Tianheng who was stationed in Jiujiang for training.

This time, the courier was Guo Liang. He set out from Hunan, posing as a merchant going to Zhejiang to purchase goods. He brought letters from Chen Duxiu and Mao Runzhi to Chen Tianheng in Zhejiang, then transported the goods from Zhejiang to Shanghai, brought Chen Tianheng's reply to Chen Duxiu, and attended a meeting of the Central Committee.

"Regarding the special courier, I agree. I fully agree that Comrade Qian Zhuangfei should serve as the special courier of the Military Commission.

okay.

Although it is not known why Chen Tianheng directly expressed "full agreement" in his reply to a comrade he had never met, in short, there will be a dedicated person to be responsible for the contact between the Central Military Commission and Chen Tianheng from now on, and there is no need to wait for a party comrade who knew Chen Tianheng before 1924 to contact him.

The only army under the Central Military Commission's control was Chen Tianheng's. Although Chen Tianheng's previous letter indicated that Ye Ting's Fourth Army Independent Regiment/25th Division could also be trusted, the Central Military Commission was now looking for Ye Ting. If the Military Commission also looked for Ye Ting, it would be a mess.

The second part of Chen Tianheng's letter is a report on the construction of the party organization of the First Division.

The First Division's Party organization consisted of an "outer circle" and an "inner circle," both of which were members of the Party. "Outer circle" members knew they were members of a secret Party organization within the First Army, while the "inner circle" understood the overall plan, which had been predetermined. In this letter, Chen Tianheng primarily mentioned that Wei Lihuang had been accepted into the outer circle and was continuing to exchange ideas with him in the hope of joining the inner circle. Wei Lihuang was now the regimental commander of the First Division and was reluctant to switch to another unit.

The third part is about the current and future situation in Zhejiang. The 26th Army's defeat outside Fuyang was largely due to Chiang Kai-shek's deliberate actions. Chiang Kai-shek also took advantage of this setback to replace several division and regiment commanders of the First Army, thus strengthening his control over the 26th Army.

Without disrupting Chiang Kai-shek's grand plan to purge the defecting troops, the 1st Division annihilated the Allied 10th and 11th Divisions outside Fuyang, bringing the campaign objectives in western Zhejiang close to completion. However, in eastern Zhejiang, Chiang Kai-shek also sought to purge the 19th Army, which had already advanced to the outskirts of Shaoxing and Xiaoshan. Therefore, the recovery of Zhejiang province was slow.

In order to achieve the goal of "quickly resolving the issues in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and enabling Chiang Kai-shek to contact Zhang Zuolin as soon as possible", the First Division needed to launch a Shanghai-Hangzhou raid at the right time.

The fourth part is the longest, more than ten pages long. Like a serial, Chen Tianheng continues his letter, writing about the current stage of development of military science and military systems in the world, the characteristics of this stage, and the problems that still exist. It is basically a special edition of military general knowledge for Chen Duxiu.

On another street in the French Concession, there was a large warehouse with not much goods. Several people dressed as porters entered the warehouse from various directions.

This was a meeting of the Shanghai Special Committee of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China.

The Military Department's headquarters was not located in Shanghai. It was previously in Guangzhou, but now, with the relocation of the Nationalist government's capital to Wuhan, the Military Department established a special committee in Shanghai, not because the government intended to establish Shanghai as the headquarters of its leadership, but rather because it had a specific mission.

“Has the old man not arrived yet?

Zheng Chaolin counted the heads and found that everyone was almost there.

Gu Shunzhang: "There are still a few minutes, wait a little longer.

The old man is Chen Duxiu. Most of the members of the Shanghai Special Committee of the Ministry of Military Affairs were born in the 1990s or even the 2000s. Chen Duxiu, who was born in 1879, is definitely an old man.

However, although these people gave Chen Duxiu nicknames behind his back, the meeting could not be held without Chen Duxiu's participation. After all, this "old man" was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

“I’m sorry I’m late.

Chen Duxiu appeared in the dusty warehouse, found a wooden box and sat down: "Then let's have a meeting.

Zheng Chaolin: "Wait a moment, Director Zhou doesn't seem to have arrived yet.

Gu Shunzhang: "Zhou Enlai has gone to Xiaoshadu to mobilize the workers. We killed the Xiaoshadu gangster Liu Jinrong yesterday, and the workers are very enthusiastic. Let's strike while the iron is hot and win over the Xiaoshadu workers."

Yan Changyi: "Yes, the workers at Xiaoshadu are very strong and good at fighting, and they can be of great use.

Gu Shunzhang opened his notebook and said, "Then let me tell you about the main agenda of today's meeting.

"First, the International has instructed that there must be a general uprising of Shanghai workers. The current situation is just right. We must quickly discuss and come up with a resolution that will include details such as weapons, organization, and a united front for the uprising. The Presidium of the Special Committee will implement it.

"Secondly, the reorganization of the Shanghai General Labor Union must be coordinated with the general uprising plan. The General Labor Union should hold a city-wide general strike on January 19. Before this, union representatives should be summoned, a declaration should be issued, and workers should hold cross-district demonstrations. Propaganda organs should focus on promoting the policies of the workers and the Party."

Third, regarding the anti-British issue, international letters have asked us to launch an anti-British movement as soon as possible.

"Fourth, to support Wang and oppose Chiang Kai-shek, we must firmly oppose Chiang Kai-shek and stand with Chairman Wang Jingwei and the left. Among the left-wing Kuomintang, Deng Yanda, Sheng Zhi, Xu Qian, and Song Ziwen are all anti-Chiang, and we must hold them back.

Gu Shunzhang spoke from the first page to the third page, finishing the main agenda of the meeting, and in fact, he also stated many of the pre-determined conclusions of the agenda.

Chen Duxiu: "Comrade Gu, I have only seen the international resolution calling on the Shanghai workers to organize a general uprising, but I have not seen the international resolution calling on us to launch an anti-British movement.

“I have the letter.

Gu Shunzhang took out the letter and was about to hand it to Chen Duxiu, but Chen Duxiu waved his hand and said, "Okay, the letter is here, I won't read it.

After this little setback, Gu Shunzhang continued.

The Communist International believed that the current situation of the Chinese revolution was very good, the Northern Expedition Army had won on the battlefield, and Sun Chuanfang's ruling position had been shaken. Shanghai workers should gather together and cooperate with the Northern Expedition Army to eliminate Sun Chuanfang's garrison forces in Shanghai and seize Shanghai.

After seizing Shanghai, they eliminated all counter-revolutionary forces in the city, convened the Shanghai Citizens' Congress, established a formal Shanghai Citizens' Government, demanded that all countries withdraw their naval and land forces stationed in Shanghai, reclaimed the concessions, unified the municipal government, levied progressive taxes and income taxes on the property (including land) of all residents in Shanghai, promulgated labor protection laws, established an unemployment relief system, established a workers' housing committee, established a food administration bureau, and so on.

In short, this overall plan was called to cooperate with the Northern Expedition Army to seize Shanghai, but in reality it was a backdoor listing to establish an Eastern Paris Commune in Shanghai.

What a coincidence! It seems that Shanghai’s nickname is the Paris of the East!…

Chen Duxiu: "I only have one question: how are you going to eliminate Sun Chuanfang's garrison in Shanghai? I'm talking about Li Baozhang's 9th Allied Forces Division.

Zheng Chaolin: "Now we can mobilize a general uprising of 100,000 Shanghai workers. 100,000 people would drown Li Baozhang.

Chen Duxiu shook his head and said, "Chao Lin, Commissioner Gu, use your brains to think about it."

Yan Changyi: "Old... General Secretary Chen, from October of last year until now, the Special Committee has had the various trade unions under its command collect weapons. They have already obtained over 70 guns and over 2,000 rounds of ammunition. The workers have also hurriedly made a batch of bombs, about 100 in total.

Chen Duxiu: "Well, I thought we could just flood the city with 100,000 men, without guns. It turns out we still have over 70 guns. Special Committee Gu, Special Committee Yan, how many guns does the enemy we are facing have?

Yan Changyi: "Li Baozhang's Ninth Division of the Five Provinces Allied Forces has 5,000 men and guns in Shanghai."

Chen Duxiu: "Hasn't this finally brought us to the crux of the matter?

Gu Shunzhang: "Old... General Secretary Chen, that's not the case. Our armed workers' team is not here to annihilate Li Baozhang. We launched a citywide strike of 100,000 people. The armed workers' team occupied the city government, the railway station, the docks, and even the newspapers and magazines loyal to Sun Chuanfang, announcing to all the citizens of Shanghai the establishment of the Shanghai Municipal Government.

Chen Duxiu: "How do you occupy the Shanghai Municipal Government Building? Have you drawn up a plan to seize the building? There are dozens of armed police officers in front of and behind the building. Do you know where their shelters are? They are places that can withstand bullets. How do you capture these shelters? Have you studied the internal structure of the building? If the police retreat into the building and engage in a battle with you, are you prepared?"

Gu Shunzhang, Yan Changyi, and Zheng Chaolin: . . .

Chen Duxiu: "Urban warfare, this is urban warfare. Your Military Department must submit a detailed report to me. In your military department's terminology, you must formulate a staff combat plan. How many people are needed to capture the city hall building? How many guns? How many combat teams should be divided into? How to enter and how to eliminate the enemy? How can we complete the capture of the city hall building?

"In addition to government buildings, I want to see your battle plans. I also want to see your plans for train stations, docks, newspapers, and magazines. Don't assume that newspapers and magazines generally don't have armed police and soldiers; they also require personnel to occupy and control them.

"Also, what you just said omitted an extremely important key institution: the telegraph and telephone offices. How can you successfully launch a workers' uprising without occupying these two places?"

"Add the telegraph and telephone offices to this. Also include the Shanghai garrison, Li Baozhang's Ninth Division. You believe that after the workers occupy the city government and those key institutions, Li Baozhang's Ninth Division will be swept away by the vast sea of ​​the masses and automatically withdraw from Shanghai. But you must consider another scenario: Li Baozhang not only does not automatically withdraw from Shanghai, but instead launches an attack on you. How will you defeat the Ninth Division then? I want you to write a plan for how to defeat the Ninth Division.

"In short, before seeing your report and confirming that the operational plan listed in the report is objectively feasible, I can only say that the Military Department has not yet made preparations for the second Shanghai workers' uprising.

Gu Shunzhang, Yan Changyi, and Zheng Chaolin: "."

What happened to this old man today?

Gu Shunzhang and several comrades in the Military Department found it incredible that the old man had suddenly transformed from a military layman into an expert. However, the sharp questions raised by the old man hit the nail on the head.

After a long silence, Gu Shunzhang finally began to explain: "This workers' riot, this armed uprising, we have to wait for the right time. When Sun Chuanfang continues to suffer a heavy defeat on the front line and his Li Baozhang's Ninth Division is about to reinforce the front line or withdraw from Shanghai, we will launch the workers' armed uprising.

Chen Duxiu: "When did Li Baozhang leave? Do you have information about this time? Is the information accurate? There can be no mistakes. If Li Baozhang didn't want to leave when you started the uprising, the Ninth Division would have suppressed you with thousands of guns. If Li Baozhang had withdrawn before you started the uprising, then you wouldn't have had to start the uprising.

"I am coming.

Zhou Enlai rushed to the meeting place after finishing other things.

"-First of all, the situation on the Zhejiang front is not that simple."

"Sun Chuanfang's Zhejiang Army, in eastern Zhejiang, has cooperated with the Fujian Army to tie up the 19th Army of the Northern Expedition. The current situation is still unclear. In the Hangzhou direction, Sun Chuanfang suffered heavy losses and lost his ability to fight in the field, but the Northern Expedition also suffered heavy losses in the Hangzhou direction. Sun Chuanfang is still determined to hold on to the city of Hangzhou. Sun Chuanfang has also withdrawn two divisions from Nanjing and Jiangbei as reserve reinforcements for Hangzhou. Unless there is another crisis in the Hangzhou direction, Li Baozhang's 9th Division will continue to garrison Shanghai and will not move.

Gu Shunzhang: "So what should we do?

Zhou Enlai: "Continue to mobilize the working masses, collect more weapons and ammunition, and at the same time closely monitor the war situation in Zhejiang Province.

Chapter 44: Zhejiang Fraud Group

Fuyang County.

After annihilating the 10th and 11th Divisions of the Five Provinces Allied Forces, the 1st Division began to rest and recuperate here, like a giant python that had just swallowed a cow, lazily lying in the grass to bask in the sun.

Liu Zhi's second division had reached Hangzhou City, but it was not yet time to attack the city. It was only blocking a few key points outside the city.

被五省联军重创的第26军在桐庐休整，这个军的26-1师近乎被歼灭了，26-3师两个团被重创，只有斯烈的26-2师的状况稍好。1月9日，26-2师被白崇禧调往前线，和第二师共同封锁杭州城。

"Da Chi Da" "Da Chi" "Da Chi Da Da"...

At the shooting range outside Fuyang City, soldiers from the First Regiment continued to test and familiarize themselves with the new guns in their hands.

"It's done! Indeed, using this kind of 'G bullet' is not easy to clog the gas tube. If you use ordinary bullets, you may have to remove the barrel and clean it after firing more than 200 rounds.

Wang Yaowu stood up and brushed the mud off his hands and body. This time, he personally operated one of the Taisho 11-year-old light machine guns, comparing two light machine guns side by side. One fired ordinary 6.5mm Type 38 rounds, and the other fired captured 6.5mm rounds with a "G" on the ammunition box.

Experiments have shown that the failure rate of the Taisho 11 type is slightly higher when firing ordinary bullets, but there is no such problem when firing G bullets.

Xu Xiangqian: "Hmm... Rifles and light machine guns have the same caliber and bullet size, but they use different specifications of bullets?"

Wang Yaowu: "If conditions permit, that's the way to go. But as an emergency measure, we can also use ordinary rifle ammunition.

"Hey, still not what I had in mind as the ideal squad weapon.

Xu Xiangqian had asked Chen Tianheng the other day if they could produce their own weapons. Chen Tianheng replied that they would definitely have a base and an arsenal in the future, but not now.

"Enough, enough! Just for a failure rate comparison test, you fired nearly 600 rounds of ammunition. Do you think the ammunition is free?!"

Huang Wei, the logistics director of the division staff, roared.

Xu Xiangqian: "This won't happen again. This won't happen again. ...But Huang Shen, isn't this bullet free?"

4a

One, two, three... ten, eleven, twelve. Okay, twelve light machine guns.

"I've brought all of these here, 20 submachine guns, please inspect them.

Si Lie's 26-2nd Division passed through Fuyang City, and Chen Tianheng intervened to exchange weapons with Si Lie. Si Lie's troops had some submachine guns, but were desperately short of light machine guns. Chen Tianheng now had enough light machine guns for his three infantry regiments, but not enough submachine guns, falling far short of his ideal squad-level submachine gun count.

The two sides bargained and finally agreed to exchange 12 light machine guns for 20 submachine guns from Si Lie's division. Si Lie's division was equipped with a total of 24 submachine guns. Now Si Lie would keep 4 submachine gunners as guards and give up the remaining 20 submachine guns.

Chen Tianheng: "Commander Si, has your Third Regiment been rebuilt?

Si Lie: "With so many captured soldiers, it's easy to recruit more than a thousand. The regimental commander was sent by Commander-in-Chief Chiang. I also want to thank Division Commander Chen. The mountain artillery captured after the annihilation of the 11th Division allowed me to establish a mountain artillery battalion.

Chen Tianheng: "The First Division already has an artillery battalion, and it consists of four companies, three mountain divisions and one field division. I also want to expand the artillery battalion into an artillery regiment, but the Northern Expedition Army headquarters said that more than half of the Northern Expedition Army's divisions are still without artillery. You can't go too far."

The Allied 11th Division was equipped almost entirely with Japanese weapons, including artillery. But don't assume the 11th Division's artillery battalion was equipped with the Type 41 mountain gun. It wasn't. Instead, it used the Type 31, a pre-Russian War, recoil-guided gun. Therefore, Chen Tianheng generously registered and turned in this captured artillery, and the 26-2nd Division, in turn, acquired a 75mm recoil-guided gun battalion.