Chapter 813: The Beginning of the Path That Must Be Taken

Being able to know what will happen in the future is definitely the most radiant protagonist aura.

What's more, Liu Lang also sent a certain amount of firearms to the red troops.

Liu Lang left Rongcheng the next day and returned to the base of the Independent Regiment. Liu Xiang, who was holding his breath, ordered his subordinates to attack with all their might.

On the 22nd, the Sichuan army attacked Wanyuan, and the defenders were General Xu Da, who was known for his bravery in the 25th Division of the Ninth Army of the Red Army.

The Sichuan army attacked repeatedly, and after bloody battles, they were all repulsed. On August 10, the main force of the red army took the initiative to attack, breaking the sixth road Wang Zhulong in Sichuan Wanyuan Qinglong Pass, on August 11, the red army Xu Zong led the fourth army and the ninth army to launch a counterattack on the fifth road of the bandit army Tang style Zunbu, on the 16th of the same month, the Red Army broke the fifth road of Yang Guozhen and Liu Xianyu brigade in Wanyuan Xuanhan, the fifth road lost one-third.

On the 17th, Pan Wenhua, commander-in-chief of the General Reserve Army, telegraphed Liu Xiangling to temporarily take the defensive, and on the 21st, the left flank of the Fifth Road was defeated and retreated to Sanhui in Quxian County, retreating about 400 li.

On 23 August, Liu Xiang, who was depressed, resigned from his post as "commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Bandit Suppression and Aftermath Supervisor" by telegram due to the military defeat, and left Chengdu to return to Chongqing, while Liu Congyun, chairman of the former Military Commission, also resigned. On the 28th of the same month, the Red Army attacked from Tongjiang and defeated Li Jiayu on the third route and Yang Sen on the fourth route.

At this point, four of the six armies to which the Sichuan army belonged were all defeated. The failure of the Sichuan army's so-called "suppression of bandits" has become a foregone conclusion.

Although Liu Xiang and Liu Lang never said a word about the bet, Liu Lang knew that he had completely escaped, at least in this matter, Liu Xiang would not only not entangle, but also help him block the pressure from above.

Of course, don't look at Liu Xiang who took the initiative to resign after the comprehensive defeat, but Liu Lang knows that his cousin's old plan is very calculating, and this move is beautiful to retreat into the committee.

If he still stands in front of the stage, it gives the bald guy an excuse to clean him up.

Sure enough, after the defeat of most of the Sichuan army. On September 1, the Sichuan gentry asked the central government to send troops into Sichuan to "assist in the suppression" and comforted Liu Xiang, and the bald man also called to comfort him. On September 7, Liu Xiang resigned after being retained by all parties, and on the 8th, he telegraphed to the bald bigwigs who had just been considering the candidate for the chairman of the new Sichuan, saying that he was "willing to use his position as an opposition party to support the crisis."

The moment Liu Lang held Liu Xiang's telegram, he almost didn't laugh, he could fully imagine the bald guy's extremely depressed face. His so-called call to comfort him is just a politician's hypocrisy, and he knows that Liu Xiang, an old rascal, is cheeky and takes it seriously.

The bravery of the Red Troops was another eye-opener for Liu Lang, and they were not satisfied with the great results achieved throughout August. Under the leadership of Xu Shuai of the future republic, the main force of the red army attacked the defense line of Li Jiayu and Yang Sen at the mouth of the Bazhong River on September 7, and Luo Zezhou, the deputy commander of the third route, abandoned Bazhong, and on the 9th, the red army transferred to attack the second road Tian Songyao Division, and Li Weiru was routed. On the 12th, Tian Songyao's troops on the second road retreated to Cangxi, Langzhong, and the brigade commander Zeng Qirong and the regiment commander were killed.

On the 23rd, Chiang Kai-shek urged Liu Xiang to be reinstated as soon as possible, and at the same time ordered Liu Xiang to send Liu Lang's independent regiment to send troops. Procedurally speaking, there is nothing wrong with this, Liu Lang's Independent Regiment is now subordinate to Liu Xiang's Seventh Route Army, which also belongs to the Sichuan Army sequence. Under the circumstance that all the warlords in Sichuan sent troops to contribute, it was the general trend for Liu Xiang to send Liu Lang's Independent Regiment, the most elite unit under his command that could defeat the Japanese Eighth Division, to attack.

If he doesn't want to experience defeat again.

But to everyone's surprise, Liu Xiang refused. The reason for the refusal was very simple: there were at least nearly 10,000 "red bandits" in the west of Guangyuan, and if they were transferred out of the independent regiment, the "red bandits" would endanger Mianyang, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

As soon as this statement came out, no one, including the bald man, mentioned it again. Yes, compared to sending Liu Lang a regiment to participate in the battle with the red troops, it is obvious that the safety of the oil fields in Sichuan Province, which was discovered with great difficulty, is more important.

Don't look at the oil field, there is still a Sichuan army division of Fan Shaozeng and a brigade of the Central Army stationed in the oil field, but no one dares to underestimate the combat effectiveness of the red troops. The total strength of the Sichuan army, which besieged only 80,000 red troops in August, exceeded 200,000, and then what happened?

You must know that the Sichuan army at this time is not the Sichuan army in the past, the bald man is bleeding in order to encourage the Sichuan army to eliminate his henchmen, and a large number of weapons and equipment are transported into Sichuan to equip the Sichuan army.

Moreover, when it comes to the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army, it is not as scumbag as the legend says.

In fact, the scum of the Sichuan army is only on the surface. On the face of it, the word "Qiu Ba" could not be more accurate to describe them. Most of the Sichuan soldiers looked like poor and evil ruffians, skinny, wearing crooked hats, open collars, wearing rotten straw sandals all year round, not tall or even short, and a mouth was not a curse from the son of a melon baby turtle. The ruffian platoon commander named Yang Songlin that Liu Lang met was the most typical representative.

However, only the troops who have fought with them know what they should not be underestimated. Sichuan is mountainous and poor, and they have developed a hard-working character, carrying heavy loads, running long distances, enduring hunger and thirst, and daring to work hard even when they are in a hurry. What is even more terrifying is that since the Xinhai Revolution, the warlords in Sichuan Province have been fighting for many years, and the gunfire has hardly stopped, and the Sichuan army that grew up in this environment has accurate marksmanship and rich combat experience, and if given good management, they are by no means inferior to any army in China at that time.

Otherwise, in the Battle of Songhu in time and space, the 26th Division under the Sichuan Army would not have become one of the five best performing divisions of China's 800,000-strong army in that battle that could be called a flesh mill. Although there were more than 4,000 officers and men in the division, only 600 survived in the end, and the casualty rate reached an eye-popping 85 percent.

In the face of the red troops who can defeat such an army, who dares to say that more than 10,000 people can defend it? Even a bald guy wouldn't dare to take this risk. The Liu Lang Independent Regiment, which had strong combat effectiveness, stayed in Guangyuan to deter henchmen, and it was obviously better to come.

As a result, the Independent Regiment remained in place.

This news, not only Liu Lang secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but also quietly relieved the red troops who were paying close attention to the military movements in Sichuan Province.

The shadow of the name of the human tree, the combat effectiveness of the Liu Lang Independent Regiment, which can defeat the Eighth Division of the Japanese Army, is naturally strong, especially when Liu Lang specially did an acting exercise in front of them last time. No one wants to fight against such an elite army.

Even the warlords of the Sichuan army under Liu Xiang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and they were slightly different from what the red troops thought. If Liu Lang's independent group is dispatched, it will naturally be unlucky for everyone to be defeated, but if it wins, then everyone's face will be lost.

In fact, many important officials on the side of the Ministry of Military Affairs also quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Liu Lang has accumulated two medals of the Blue Sky and White Sun, but his promotion was held down by the bald boss. But the meaning of the bald boss is very clear, the Liu family already has a provincial chairman general, and then a major general with real power, the Liu family is going to heaven!

This is absolutely not allowed for the bald bigwigs who have been working to reduce the power of the warlords. The left can't either, and the dignitaries of the Ministry of Military Affairs simply hope that Liu Lang will stay honestly!

Anyway, no matter what you say, Liu Lang's independent regiment does not send troops, which is an extremely beneficial thing for itself, the national government, Sichuan Province, and the red troops.

The strange thing made Liu Lang feel like laughing, but he couldn't laugh for the first time.

This is a portrayal of China's current complex political formation, is it strange? No, it should be a sadness to be exact.

If it were a unified China and a monolithic China, if you gave the little devils ten guts, they would only dare to squat on the shore of the East China Sea and drool over China's rich land, but would not dare to raise troops to attack.

It's like a republic that had just been established in time and space, a piece of rubble, in ruins, but still in the ice and snow of the northern country, the American GIs armed to the teeth fought in the dark, and finally a draw.

When the entire Chinese nation is twisted into a rope, no one will dare to bully them like the current Japanese invaders.

Moreover, what made Liu Lang laugh even more was that the strategic transfer that once shone in the sky of history finally began, just like in the time and space.

The road to Phoenix Nirvana of a strong army has also paved the road of thousands of miles of blood.

What made Liu Lang laugh was not this inevitable path, but 。。。。。。

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