The Travelers of the Heavens

March of the 40th year of the Great Zhou Empire's auspicious reign (AD 1948).

Since the Kuomintang has been designated as an illegal organization by Wang Yu, and the Republic of China has ceased to exist in name only, the year of the Republic of China will no longer be used in parentheses.

On March 3, Wang Yu transferred the 24th Corps and the 4th and 5th Corps under the Sichuan-Shu Corps, with a total of about 1.2 million troops to Xuzhou to assemble, known as the"Xuzhou Corps". The commander of the 4th Corps, General Zhou Xiaoshan, Commander-in-Chief of Xuzhou Corps.

On May 16, various units of the Xuzhou Corps were in place one after another, and 1.2 million Kyushu troops lined up in Xuzhou in a decisive battle posture.

Capital, Forbidden City Qianqing Palace

"General Zhou was summoned by the Regent." The female officer came to the main hall to deliver a message.

""Yes." Zhou Xiaoshan, who was waiting outside the door, responded and followed the female officer into the palace.

""I see Your Highness the Regent." After Zhou Xiaoshan came in, he took off his military cap and held it in his left hand, then stood at attention and bowed.

"General, please take a seat." Wang Yu, who was sitting on the dragon chair, signaled.

"Yes, thank you Prince Regent." Zhou Xiaoshan thanked him and sat down.

"I transferred you from the Southwest Front to Xuzhou. It’s a long journey and you’ve worked hard all the way," Wang Yu said.

"It is an honor for the general to serve the regent," said Zhou Xiaoshan

"Okay, okay, how is the situation in the southwest?"Wang Yu asked

"Reporting back to the regent, after several years of pursuit and suppression, our army has completely wiped out the enemies in Sichuan. The bandit leaders Liu Wenhui and Deng Xihou were shot to death in Xikang. The enemy chief Lingji fled to Tibetan areas and his whereabouts are unknown. Most of the remaining ones were shot dead, except for a few. A few are hidden deep in the mountains and have disappeared," said Zhou Xiaoshan

""Okay, you did a good job." Wang Yu nodded. Zhou Xiaoshan's words were similar to Li Hei's previous report.

"Thank you, His Royal Highness the Regent, for your compliment." Zhou Xiaoshan responded

"Okay, okay, just because Xuzhou is currently open, you will mobilize your troops to garrison Xuzhou together with other armies and completely close the door to Beijing and Shanghai," Wang Yu said

"Yes, just.. At the end of February, the regent ordered the prime minister to express his willingness to negotiate a truce with the other party. Now Xuzhou is hoarding heavy troops and preparing for a decisive battle. This seems to be"

"You have also seen the situation. I have a hot face but a cold butt, and no one has paid attention to me so far."

Zhou Xiaoshan said, and Wang Yu answered.

"Your Highness, they don’t know whether to live or die, and they will surely destroy themselves sooner or later," Zhou Xiaoshan said.

"Haha, they are afraid of being detained by me again," Wang Yu said with a smile.

"During war, anything can happen, and it has nothing to do with the regent, not to mention that they will do anything to win the war," Zhou Xiaoshan said

"Okay, let’s put the peace talks aside for now. You can go back first. I will hold a banquet here tonight and you will come too," Wang Yu said.

"Thank the regent for the banquet, and I will retire." Zhou Xiaoshan stood up, gave a military salute, and left.

Then Wang Yu called Chu Bufan and asked Chu Bufan to release the news that if no agreement was received from all parties before May 30, The exact news of the peace talks and truce was to shoot all the high-level officials of the Kuomintang in custody.

After the news was released, Taiwan responded positively and expressed its willingness to have some contact first. The meeting place of the two sides' talks was in Taiyuan City, Shanxi, which is already 8 In the sphere of influence of the Route Army, Yan Xishan's Jinsui Army was also with the Eighth Route Army.

The two sides finally set the time for talks on June 10, 1948. For the Great Zhou Empire, Qi Meng attended as the plenipotentiary negotiator, and the allied forces were the Kuomintang A joint delegation composed of the Communist Party of China, the Communist Party of China and the M people.

The representative of the Kuomintang is Zhang Qun, Secretary-General of the Kuomintang Government. The representative of the Communist Party of China is a Mr. Wu. This Mr. Wu is not named Zhou, and there is no such thing in reality. People, let alone his prototype.

The representative of Country M is Major General Almond, Chief of Staff of the 10th Army of Country M. At ten o'clock in the morning on June 9, a black special plane slowly landed at the airport on the outskirts of Taiyuan.

It had arrived in Taiyuan in advance. Out of politeness, the Allied negotiating delegation from the city also came to the airport to greet Yan Xishan.

As the plane stopped, the gangway was set up, and the cabin door opened, Qi Meng slowly stepped off the plane.

Reporters from all walks of life came on board one after another. Take pictures in front of

"This is Mr. Zhang Qun of the National Government, this is Mr. Wu of the Gong Communist Party, and this is General Almond, the representative of Country M." Someone introduced Qi Meng.

The person who introduced him spoke of the Republic of China. Qi Meng listened. Got it, then she shook hands with everyone and said hello

"Representatives, this is not the place to talk. I think it’s better to go back to Taiyuan City and take a short rest before we talk in detail," Yan Xishan said.

This Yan Laoxi also regards himself as the master of Shanxi, but he doesn’t know that he still has to rely on Shanxi. The territory is covered by hundreds of thousands of Eighth Route Army troops.

The situation in the entire Republic of China is now very delicate. Most of Chiang's direct troops are newly recruited, with the main force of 500,000 in Taiwan and Fujian. But Chiang's troops are still there In the slow expansion, 500,000 people is not the upper limit.

Yan Xishan is a local warlord in Shanxi. After the Japanese withdrew, he also expanded some troops when he led his men out of Linfen. At present, it has reached a scale of 100,000 people in five armies.

After several years of development, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army have become the most powerful regular armed forces in the Republic of China. Not counting local detachments, county brigades, and district squads, the combined strength of the regular Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army has reached 1.27 million people. If local troops are included, the total strength is close to 2 million.

As for other local warlords in the Republic of China, such as the Yunnan Army, Sichuan Army, Guizhou Army, Guangxi Clique, etc., they have been completely wiped out. The brains of these local warlords Some of them were killed in past battles, some are missing, and some have fled to Taiwan.

In terms of weapons and equipment, Chiang holds the thigh of the M country tightly. His direct troops are all equipped with beautiful weapons, and some of them have fled to Taiwan. Equipped with a large number of various Sherman tanks that were eliminated by the M country, a very small number of elite units such as the"Fast Column" were equipped with the"Pershing" tanks provided by the M country.

As the devils gradually reduced their troops, the aircraft activities of the M country The scope is also getting wider and wider, and a lot of weapons and equipment have also fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army and Yan Xishan's Jinsui Army through airdrops. Of course,"a lot" here is relative. The weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army are now pretty good. When the Japanese troops reduced their strength, many arsenals were not destroyed in time, and many cars, tanks and heavy artillery fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

Now, whether it is the Eighth Route Army in Taiyue or the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, they all have Respective"Special Forces Column". The current organization of the Eighth Route Army is no longer limited to the three division numbers. Taking the Eighth Route Army in the Taiyue area as an example, the army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army's"North China Field Army", with columns under its jurisdiction. , divisions, regiments and other combat units.

The Eighth Route Army in Shanxi has a similar organization. Li Yunlong is currently the commander of the 2nd Division of the 1st Column under the"Shanxi Field Army" of the Eighth Route Army.

This has completely deviated from the script. What will it develop into in the future? , let’s talk about it later.

Back to business

"The environment here is so bad, it is not as good as my residence on the front line of Goose Kingdom." Yan Lingji looked at the residence and couldn't help but feel disgusted.

In order to protect Qi Meng, Wang Yu specially transferred Yan Lingji who was on the front line of Goose Kingdom to serve as Qi Meng. Dream's personal bodyguard

"In this remote country, it would be nice to have a clean place to live," Qi Meng said

""Okay, hurry up and talk to them. We will leave immediately after we have negotiated," Yan Lingji said.

Qi Meng glanced at Yan Lingji and did not respond.

At nine o'clock in the morning on June 10, the negotiation officially began. The location is at the original Shanxi Provincial Government Building

"As early as the end of February, the Prince Regent released a signal for armistice and peace talks. Why did you delay your response until late May? This is an act that undermines peace." Qi Meng was the first to attack. He tried to blame the Allied representatives for breaking the armistice. group.

Qi Meng will use the language of the Republic of China throughout this negotiation, which is more convenient.

"The war you provoked has caused the death of tens of millions of people, and now you are slandering us for destroying peace. God is my witness. This is completely ridiculous." Almond first hit back at Qi Meng. His words were translated by the Allied Forces Translated in the language of the Republic of China

"Let me ask General Almond, what do you mean by tens of millions of deaths? Are you from Goose Country?"Qi Meng asked Almond

"But the affairs of Goose Country are not within the scope of our negotiations this time. General Almond had better not change the subject. This will not be good for us." Before Almond could respond, Qi Meng continued to add

"Director Qi, regarding your country’s one-year ceasefire, we want to know your sincerity." Zhang Qun was very direct.

"Regardless of whether the negotiations are successful or not, we will release the detainees, including Song Geng Ling," Qi Meng said.

As soon as this was said, the Allied representatives looked at each other, obviously they were surprised by this.