diskusbooks Chapter 114 Returning Home in Glory 1
Chapter 114 Returning Home in Glory 1
With the rapid expansion of the 78th Army, the central government of the Nationalist Party became extremely anxious. They hoped to rely on the powerful combat capability of the 78th Army to quickly recover large areas of homeland.
And all of these were free, because the Nationalist government refused to provide any more funds for military expansion, citing the economic collapse and the fact that it could no longer afford any more money.
Taking advantage of the situation, large tracts of desolate and barren land in Shaanxi Province were given to the 78th Group Army, and even large tracts of areas controlled by the Eighth Route Army were allocated to them.
Wang Chun also knew the character of the Kuomintang government. They wanted the horse to run but did not want to give it grass to eat. They also had to be vigilant at all times to prevent the horse from running away. From time to time, they would feed it some croton seeds and stuff a few people from the Military Control Commission and the Central Control Commission in.
Anyway, the 78th Army Group has basically never relied on the National Government for its livelihood, but the National Government has always needed their help.
The 78th Army Group also knew that their current situation was similar to that of the Eighth Route Army, the Guangxi Clique, and the Ma family in the Northwest.
The central government basically cannot control you because we are all united under the united front and are united against foreign enemies. Once the Japanese are driven away, it will be hard to say what will happen.
After the 22nd Division was destroyed, Taiy was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of troops from the Second War Zone. If the Japanese army did not receive reinforcements, its destruction was only a matter of time. Now they are surrounding it without attacking because they are afraid of destroying this ancient city.
After the 78th Army's 22nd Division was completely wiped out, nearly 7 people from the st Army and the st Armored Division rushed directly towards Datong (same), and the Japanese defenders retreated without a fight.
This important military town was handed over to the 78th Army Group. As the Japanese army voluntarily gave up Datong (same), only TaiY, an isolated city, was left in the entire Shanxi Province!
After Datong (Tong) was liberated, the road to North China and the grassland was opened, and the 100st Armored Division took the opportunity to continue advancing nearly kilometers in the direction of Zhangjia K.
The Japanese North China Front Army was so frightened that it almost immediately mobilized all three divisions stationed in the Peiping-Tianjin area, as well as one division and one brigade of the Mengjiang Corps, to deploy defenses in Zhangjia K.
At the same time, they began to desperately urge reinforcements from the country. Two divisions of the Kwantung Army and one heavy artillery division had already boarded trains and planned to enter the country in the next few days.
The 78th Group Army has just swallowed up a large number of areas that need to be digested, especially several important resource cities in northern Shaanxi Province. Now the 78th Group Army has begun to poach people again.
Yan Xishan looked at the map and saw that the entire northern part of Shanxi had fallen into the hands of the 78th Army, and could only sigh helplessly.
Although he now claims that the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army has 20 troops, in fact there are only less than 10 left, and only about to of them are truly combat-capable.
But what happened in recent days has made the former King of Shanxi Province somewhat helpless. Just this morning, four regiment commanders of the Shanxi Suiyuan Army came to submit their resignations.
Those who left were all people who truly wanted to fight the Japanese invaders. Many of them were graduates of the Baoding Military Academy. The 78th Group Army raised the banner of recruiting talents.
The combat effectiveness and weapons and equipment they demonstrated made all the Chinese soldiers yearn for them.
In less than half a month, nearly 1.5 of his Jinsui Army had left. However, he did not go all the way. He gave his old predecessor an artillery brigade, 32 105mm howitzers and 12 150mm howitzers.
This was considered compensation for this poaching! Yan Xishan knew that even if the other party didn't give him the job, he couldn't do anything about it.
Looking at the hundreds of tanks of the First Armored Division, Yan Xishan knew that his era was over. There would be three such armored divisions in the 78th Army in the future. What could he use to compete with others!
As for the departure of his subordinates, he chose to let them go. In fact, more soldiers and middle and lower-level officers were poached from the Central Army.
However, not many senior generals at the brigade and division levels went to the 78th Army. Instead, most of the overseas Chinese who have returned to China are going here.
The headquarters of the 78th Army was moved here after Datong was captured. Large numbers of armored troops began to train here every day, scaring the Japanese three times a day!
"Fellow villagers, it's time to eat!" The loudspeaker announced that it was time to eat.
All the workers on the entire construction site put down their work and ran towards the canteen.
This is a road construction site connecting Yulin, Shenmu, Ordos to Guancenshan Industrial Base.
Tens of thousands of local people were hired to build this road. These poor people, who originally could not even afford two meals a day, now have three meals a day after arriving at the construction site, and receive 20 RMB in wages a month.
Yes, RMB is the currency issued in the area controlled by the 78th Army. One dollar can be exchanged for 1 RMB.
As the power of the 78th Group Army expanded, such soft sister RMB increasingly occupied the position of the main currency in circulation.
Now when people from outside come here to buy, they either use foreign currency or precious metals such as gold and silver, and the rest use RMB.
It's a seller's market now. Wang Chun, the biggest seller, can decide everything. If you don't want to, you can't buy what he has.
"Chef Li! What do we have for dinner today?" A dark-faced man, holding the enamel rice bowl distributed at the construction site, stood at the front of the line and asked the chef at the construction site.
"Sort yours carefully. If others are left behind, yours won't be left behind!"
"That's right! That's right! Zhao Tieniu, you're never so enthusiastic when working, but you're always the first one to eat!"
Chef Li opened the lids of the tin barrels one by one, while laughing and scolding the seemingly honest man in front of him.
A group of workers nearby were also laughing at the black-faced man at the front of the line, but Zhao Tieniu was not angry.
"What can I do? Ever since my mother gave birth to me, I haven't had a full meal. I'm so hungry that I can't help but run over here when I heard that it's time to eat!"
Tie Niu explained with a laugh, and at the same time, he held the rice bowl and bowed to the people around him to express his apology!
At this moment, the smell of braised pork came out from the iron bucket opened by Chef Li.
"Oh! We have braised pork today! Pork stewed with radish! Oh my god! It smells so good!" Tie Niu stood in the first place, and the delicious and tempting braised pork naturally entered his nose first.
"There's also celery and shredded pork! And egg drop soup!" Tie Niu saw two opened iron buckets, one containing stir-fried vegetables and the other containing soup.
The soup is free for everyone to drink, the stir-fried vegetables and the stewed meat dishes are limited, and then there are piles of white flour buns and some rice that the workers from the south like to eat.
Chef Li scooped a large spoonful of stewed radish and meat for Tie Niu, who was the first in line. The meat was 70% fat and 30% lean, followed by another large spoonful of shredded celery and pork.
Tie Niu took four large white flour buns, sat aside happily and started to wolf them down.
The steamed buns and rice here are in unlimited supply just like the soup, but the premise is that they cannot be wasted and you cannot eat too much and affect your afternoon work.
Chewing a big piece of fat meat in his mouth, Zhao Tieniu felt indescribable joy in his heart. In fact, he was only 27 years old, but he had not had enough to eat for many years, especially after his mother died, so this lazy man could only beg on the streets.
After the war broke out, ordinary people could not get enough food, and life was even more difficult for beggars like them. Over the years, a young man turned into a middle-aged man.
A few months ago, the 78th Army arrived and gathered all these beggars together. After a simple physical examination, they were stuffed into the refugee camp.
These people were also brought here at the first opportunity for the construction of this road traffic. They were asked to work with the workers and not to always think about asking for things.
In the first few days, Zhao Tieniu was not used to it yet and often tried to evade work by cheating. He thought he was doing it secretly, but in fact the foreman saw everything.
After a few days, all the benefits of those who were cunning and treacherous like them were cut in half, and they had to watch others eat white flour buns and big fatty meat every day.
These people can only eat steamed buns made of mixed grains. Of course, it is probably much better than when they were begging before, but there is no harm without comparison.
A month later, the other workers were happily receiving a salary of 20 yuan, but they got nothing. Now these lazy guys couldn't be lazy anymore and started to work hard with the workers.