Heroes of the Resistance Reborn

Li Jiansheng was very familiar with Sichuan, for no other reason than that he had participated in the earth-shattering Wenchuan earthquake rescue activities in later generations. At this time, Li Jiansheng, who was familiar with history books, also knew the current situation in Sichuan. The situation of warlord rule.

For now, there are several provinces in the country that are ruled by warlords. Generally speaking, these warlords can be roughly divided into three categories. The first category is that a certain province is relatively unified, such as Shanxi, which is owned by Yan Xishan. Another example is Guangdong, which belongs to Chen Jitang's world; another example is Guangxi, which belongs to Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi's world; another example is Hunan, where He Jian has the final say. The second category is that a certain province is unified externally and internally. In fact, it was torn apart. The most representative example of this category is Guizhou. On the surface, Wang Jialie unified Guizhou. In fact, he could not command the deputy armies who were separatist in Chishui, Renhuai, Xishui, Suiyang and other counties in northern Guizhou. The Changhou Zhidan Department can't control the Juguocai who are entrenched in Panjiang in southwest Guizhou; it can't control the separatist forces in Qijiang and Dongxi under Deputy Commander Jiang Zaizhen. In fact, Guizhou looks pretty good on the outside. The places that are relatively glamorous but not really that good. As for the third category, they are provinces where warlords are at war. The first example is Sichuan.

To be honest, warlord rule is a major feature of modern China, and Sichuan, known as the "Land of Abundance", is the hardest hit area by warlord rule. Some statistics have shown that in the more than 20 years after the Revolution of 1911, warlords in Sichuan experienced wars. There were hundreds of wars, large and small, and the Battle of Erliu was the climax of the Sichuan warlords' melee.

Sichuan warlords are very distinctive. First, there are many warlords. Because these warlords come in all shapes and sizes, the local people summarize them in songs: The water has Peng Shuixuan, the gods have Liu Shenxian, and the spiritual officials come to guard the temple; Ha'er goes to guard the border and build roads. Tang Zijin, Wei Feng and Guo Daman; Zhang Sike and Yu Anmin are all ministers of Anbang; there are also Commander Lan Tianyu, who is bent over to play ball, the bearded man Pan Wenhua, the bald boy Wang Zanxu, all the aircraft and warships, Li Luo Yangsen , like Liu Xiangqian’s son-in-law, there are more than ten warlord names written here. Secondly, there are many warlord factions, including the Armed Forces Faction, Baoding Faction, Officer Faction, Quick Course Faction, Kuomintang Industrial League Faction, etc. These factions, Most of them are determined by the birth of these officers. For example, the Armed Forces Department mainly refers to the number of these officers who have studied in the Armed Forces School. Others, such as the Baoding Department, mostly refers to the group of officers who studied in Baoding Military Academy; The group of officers who studied at the Army Crash Course. As for the industrial regiment system, it refers to the group of officers trained by the Central Military System of the Kuomintang who focused on industrial development. Third, there were many jokes. For example, during the era of warlord separatism, the Sichuan Army They are everywhere, and their numbers are all kinds of, but these numbers and units are completely wrong: for example, Commander Lai's "Border Guards", according to the name, are supposed to be stationed on the border of Sichuan, but they have been stationed in counties in central Sichuan for a long time, and never Another example is Commander Huang's "Jiang Defense Army", which is supposed to be stationed along the river, but it has been stationed in the Chengdu Basin for a long time; another example is Commander Peng's "Qingxiang Army", which by designation refers to "Qingxiang Army in the area under Chengdu Prefecture" "Army", but this army is not only not in Chengdu, but is stationed far away in the Zizhong area of ​​southern Sichuan, and has never cleared the countryside; as for Commander Mu's "Leimaping Colonial Army", it is even more laughable, because its army only has The first company was not stationed in Pingshan near Leibo and Ma, but it was stationed in Xufu (today's Yibin) to sit and eat food and pay until liberation; another example is the name "Hongcheng Brigade", which sounds like infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineering. A group of troops composed of various arms are actually all infantry, and there is no confusion at all; another example is that a certain regiment of the Third Division of a certain commander Chen, known as a "cavalry regiment", not only has no horses, not even an ox; Some "artillery regiments" didn't even have a single cannon; the most exaggerated one was an "engineer battalion" that didn't even have a shovel or a pickaxe. To dig trenches, they had to borrow hoes from the common people. Fourth, there were many stories. For example, Liu Shiliang, who was the leader of the Bathing Gang in Chengdu at the time, felt deeply about the exorbitant taxation imposed by the warlords at that time, so he made a couplet in which he said "Ten thousand taxes in the Republic of China". Another example is Yang Sen, who was indeed a big warlord and a murderer. He is a pervert who specializes in killing young girls, but he is very good at seducing women. You see, his pervert brother Yang Sen came to power, and the newspaper he ran vigorously boasted that Old Yang was a great hero and that everything he did was for the country and the people. He was indeed a great hero. As a result, with such a package, Comrade Lao Yang became the idol of girls in Sichuan at that time. He defeated many talented girls. Many people wrote to him to woo him. One of them wrote: "I would like to be a hero." "Concubines, don't be mediocre." As a result, this "great chivalrous man" had countless wives and concubines, and they were all talented and beautiful girls.

In fact, Yang Sen can be considered a hero, and he accepts new ideas quickly. For example, when he was managing Sichuan, he liked to use new-style characters. Students who came back from more foreign-style places like Beijing and Shanghai would become their secretaries as soon as they met him. However, His idea was good, but because of his lack of means, problems arose. For example, when there were more secretaries, over time, they became a "group of secretaries." When there were more people, Lao Yang stopped paying salaries. These secretaries also had Because each of them has an orderly, a horse lantern is set up, and an idea comes to his mind: so he goes to the superintendent's office every three to five to collect foreign oil. As a result, a strange situation arises: there are hundreds of secretaries who go to the superintendent's office to collect foreign oil every day. , As a result, after a while, these secretaries were called "foreign oil secretaries". Another story refers to Luo Yanhui, a division commander of a certain army in Sichuan. After announcing the revolution, this guy talked to the officers and soldiers: "Everyone knows that I am a fake revolutionist." , now I have spent more than 20,000 yuan to change the signboard of the National Revolutionary Army, make new flags, collar badges, armbands and other things for the entire division. It is so difficult that it is not money, and you dare to say that I am not revolutionary, why should I spend more foolishly? "Money is what counts as revolution." You see, this is considered a revolution, and he also says it plausibly. Another story refers to Liu Xiang. At that time, Liu Xiang built a navy, but he actually bought an ordinary small ship. A ship is made into an army by welding some iron plates for armor and installing two small steel cannons used by the army. Because the ship is small in tonnage and has low horsepower, as long as it fires a cannon, the ship's hull will move backwards. Big cut, if you want to fire a shot, you have to anchor, adjust the position, stop and then fire the next shot. It is purely a decoration and has no actual combat effectiveness. Moreover, because the ship has a mechanical failure and cannot move, there are bad things in the end. Notices were posted along the river, saying that many civilian ships on the Sichuan River should be careful when sailing. "If they don't push back on the beach, they will almost overwhelm the cypress boats; notices are posted on the boatmen along the river that they will pay for sinking warships." Of course, this became a joke among the people for a while, but in Sichuan Human humor is also evident.

Regarding these, Li Jiansheng saw it from many posts on the Internet for later generations. At present, he knows the situation among the warlords in Sichuan based on his understanding of later generations, profound historical knowledge and current intelligence from all aspects. .

At present, the warlords in Sichuan are dominated by "Er Liu". "Er Liu" refers to Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui. Liu Wenhui is the younger brother of Liu Wencai, the big landowner in Sichuan. A warlord melee broke out between the two, which is known in history as "The Second Liu". "War". In fact, Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui are both from Dayi County, Sichuan, and they are cousins. Liu Wenhui is Liu Xiang's uncle, but Liu Xiang is six years older than Liu Wenhui. Liu Xiang graduated from the Sichuan Army Crash Course. The school belongs to the "quick-time system" among the Sichuan warlords. Liu Wenhui graduated from the Baoding Military Academy and belongs to the "Baoding school" among the Sichuan warlords. When Liu Wenhui joined the army, Liu Xiang was already a major general and brigade commander. Although Liu Wenhui was not in Liu Xiang's system However, his development and growth are inseparable from Liu Xiang's support. Liu Wenhui also provided a lot of help to Liu Xiang, such as military support, economic assistance, political cover, etc. For a long time, Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui had always relied on each other in the warlord melee in Sichuan. People at the time called them the "two Lius of the Sichuan Army." Liu Cunhou, Yang Sen and others either failed and resigned or were seriously weakened, and they all lost their ability to compete for hegemony in Sichuan. The two Lius became the two most powerful forces, and Liu Wenhui came from behind. He is also the chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Government and the Chuankang Border Guard. General commander, commander of the 24th Army, etc. His defense area includes 81 counties in the Chuankang area, accounting for almost half of the total area of ​​Sichuan. The territory is large and rich, with a strength of 120,000, ranking first among the various factions in Sichuan. Liu At this time, Xiang served as the Sichuan aftermath supervisor and commander of the 21st Army. His defense area included a total of forty-six counties in southeastern Sichuan and western Hubei. In particular, he controlled the hub of Sichuan's water and land transportation. The import and export hub of Chongqing was extremely important. , with a strength of about 110,000, although slightly behind Liu Wenhui in terms of territory, they were comparable in strength. When Liu and Liu became the two overwhelming forces in Sichuan, conflicts between the two gradually arose. Liu Xiang had already He has the ambition to unify Sichuan. He often publicly declares: "What will I do after I unify Sichuan?" Liu Wenhui is also ambitious. He often asks others for advice: "How do you think Sichuan is going to be unified?" He seems to take unifying Sichuan as his own mission. , At the same time, Liu Wenhui also supported the Yunnan Army Hu Ruoyu to fight back to Yunnan, and supported Wang Jialie to monopolize Guizhou. This shows that Liu Wenhui not only aims to dominate Sichuan, but also strives to control the southwest. Both uncle and nephew want to dominate Sichuan, so they must regard each other as their enemy. It was inevitable for Liu to weaken and engage in overt and covert fights against each other. In 1931, Liu Wenhui purchased a batch of arms from foreign countries with a huge sum of 2 million yuan and transported them from Shanghai to Chengdu. When passing through Wanxian Port, he was detained by Wang Lingji, commander of Liu Xiang's division, and Liu Wenhui personally He went to Chongqing to negotiate with Liu Xiang but to no avail. Liu Wenhui retaliated by secretly paying huge sums of money to bribe Liu Xiang's division commander Fan Shaozeng and brigade commander Lan Wenbin, and ordered his troops stationed in Jiangjin to cut off the Chongqing grain road. Liu Wenhui's brother Liu Wencai also returned the favor. Bribing assassins and attempting to assassinate Liu Xiang, these conflicts show that the conflict between the two has reached an irreconcilable level.

At that time, the two Liu dynasties each had more than 100,000 troops, and their military strength was about the same. Other warlords in Sichuan, such as Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao, Yang Sen, Li Jiayu, Luo Zezhou, Liu Cunhou and others, each had 40,000 to 50,000 troops, or 10,000 to 20,000 troops. Individually, they are unable to compete with either of the two Lius, but together they have nearly 150,000 people, and they undoubtedly become the weight that plays a role in the balance of power between the two Lius. Among these people, the most important ones are Deng and Tian. Two troops, Deng Xihou, nicknamed "Crystal Monkey", was known for his scheming and scheming, and had more than 40,000 troops stationed in Chengdu. Tian Songyao, nicknamed "Winter Melon", had more than 50,000 troops, and his headquarters was located in Santai. , Tian and Liu Wenhui both belonged to the "Baoding clique". After 1925, the three of them were stationed in Chengdu together and sang "Baoding clique unity" to the outside world to show their self-respect. Later, as Liu Wenhui's strength grew, he gradually surpassed Deng, Tian, ​​and Liu In order to further expand their own power, they poached their allies and tried to annex Deng and Tian. This made Deng and Tian deeply feel that they were in danger and hated Liu Wenhui. The two relied on each other to protect themselves, and joined forces with Liu Wenhui. Xiang, of course Liu Xiang couldn't ask for it, and finally formed an anti-Liu Wenhui alliance.

When Liu Xiang was preparing to attack Liu Wenhui, he also received support from Chiang Kai-shek. In several melees between the new Kuomintang warlords, Liu Xiang always stood on Chiang's side and sent troops to help, but Liu Wenhui did not. Allying with the anti-Chiang faction to fight against Chiang Kai-shek, one can imagine Chiang Kai-shek's love and hatred for Liu Xiang. In the summer of 1932, Liu Xiang forwarded the plan to deal with Liu Wenhui to Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek, who was suppressing the Communists in Jiangxi, wrote a personal reply to express his condolences to Liu Xiangbei. He was allowed to act expediently. Liu Xiang had allies inside and backers outside, so he finally made up his mind to attack Liu Wenhui. On October 1, 1932, Liu Xiang ordered Luo Zezhou, who was stationed in Wusheng, to attack first and fired the first shot at Liu Wenhui's troops stationed in Nanchong. , thus opening the prelude to the Second-Liu War. As soon as the war broke out, Liu Xiang immediately sent Tang Shizun as the commander-in-chief of the East Route Army, Pan Wenhua as the commander-in-chief of the South Route Army, and Wang Zanxu as the commander-in-chief of the North Route Army. They attacked Liu Wenhui in three routes, and Liu Wenhui also split up to defend. A five-layer defense line was deployed in the defense area. In the early days of the war, because Liu Wenhui's defense line was too long, stretching hundreds of miles from north to south, the troops were dispersed and difficult to support. Therefore, Liu Wenhui took the initiative to retreat within a few days of the battle and retreated to the Tuojiang defense line. On November 18 On that day, Liu Xiang's army crossed the Tuojiang River and besieged Luzhou in several ways. Luzhou is located at the intersection of the Tuojiang River and the Yangtze River. It is an important military town in southern Sichuan and is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Liu Xiang's army failed to succeed in several attacks, so they used force and money to defend the city. Liu Wenhui's two brigade commanders saw that the reinforcements did not arrive and it was difficult for the defenders to hold on alone. They expressed their willingness to accept the reorganization. At the end of November, Liu Xiang entered Luzhou. In the end, the "Battle between Liu Xiang" ended with Liu Xiang's victory and Liu Wenhui's retreat to Xikang. As a result, the two of them won, and the losers lost. The good life never stopped, but it brought unspeakable hardship to the ordinary people.

However, although he was extremely shameless towards these warlords, Li Jiansheng, who was familiar with history, was full of respect for the Sichuan people.

Coming from a later generation, he has watched the "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang" more than once, in which General Wang of the 122nd Division died the most tragically for his country, and it impressed him the most. The 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army, under the leadership of Commander Wang Mingzhang, defeated the entire army in Teng County. Although the sacrifice of 3,000 people only resulted in 66 casualties of the Japanese army, which should be a complete defeat in a strict military sense, in the eyes of various public opinions, the Sichuan Army has won respect. Considering the Sichuan Army's inferior equipment and No one thinks that low-level training is a shame. On the contrary, it is famous throughout the ages, and since then there has been a beautiful saying of "without rivers, no troops", and "without rivers, no troops, without Hunan, no army", these two This sentence has become a famous proverb for leading troops, and Wang Mingzhang's name has gone down in history. Among the ten generals recognized posthumously by the Republic of China government, Wang Mingzhang ranked second after Zhang Zizhong.

In fact, another information Li Jiansheng read showed that during the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japan, Sichuan sent nearly 3 million troops, and one-tenth of them were killed or missing. During the entire Anti-Japanese War, Sichuan people sold iron and steel to one province. , responsible for 30% of the country's supply and one-tenth of the military supply. What is even more touching is that during the Anti-Japanese War, Sichuan donated money again and again, and many beggars emptied their homes. Invest money, as for the first ace armies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, namely the Kuomintang’s first ace 74th Army and the communist army’s first ace 27th Army, they seem to be mainly formed by Sichuan people. Both armies have experienced countless bloody battles. There were also wins and losses, but there was never a time when he was embarrassed. He was praised everywhere he went. Therefore, the Sichuan people gave Li Jiansheng the feeling that he could definitely stand up when the country was in trouble. He was not as angry as a small family in the past. All of them are good men, nothing more, because Sichuan people are the first to endure hardships and stand hard work. That kind of spirit can be said to be unique in China.

Before Li Jiansheng led his five combat divisions and a total of about two and a half divisions of various troops into Sichuan, he had already made up his mind to recruit troops in Sichuan. In Guizhou, he was He didn't want any soldiers, because he really looked down upon the Guizhou double-gun soldiers, but the Sichuan soldiers gave him a different impression. He wanted to recruit a group of soldiers. At present, Li Jiansheng's soldiers were roughly divided into four parts. One-third of the Hunan soldiers. Looking at the whole country, the Hunan soldiers are the first-class soldiers. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "no army can be formed without Hunan". The Hunan soldiers are domineering and willing to work. Li Jiansheng is also a Hunanese. He is This army also originated in Hunan, so it is certain that the majority of the troops in the army are Hunan soldiers, and one-third are Guangdong soldiers. Guangdong is the base area of ​​the Great Revolution, and the basic quality of the soldiers is high. One of the starting troops of the Red Army came from Ye Ting's independent army. Regiment, and this army is mainly composed of Guangdong soldiers, and it is called the "Iron Army". The combat effectiveness of Guangdong soldiers is also among the best in the country. One sixth of them are Jiangxi soldiers. Jiangxi is the base of the revolutionary cause and the source of soldiers. The quality is also very high. Part of Li Jiansheng's base area at that time was in Jiangxi. Recruiting soldiers from this place was a matter of course. One sixth of them were Guangxi soldiers. The combat effectiveness of Guangxi soldiers was ranked first at that time. Li Jiansheng's base area At that time, the Guangxi Division was included, so it was normal for him to have such troops. But now, Li Jiansheng was determined to recruit troops in Sichuan as soon as his troops occupied Chongqing. He meant that his troops would It is absolutely possible to expand another division, and the source of troops for this division will be mainly Sichuan troops.