After everything in the Northwest Military Region is normalized, it is also the time for Liao Fan to leave, and he has stayed in the Northwest Military Region much longer than other military regions, and many things have been delayed here.

As for the trip to the Southwest Military Region, Liao Fan also had a lot of work to arrange, and when he was on the train, Liao Fan had already asked the signal corps to send a telegram to Li Zongren.

Li Zongren had already heard about Liao Fan's inspection of various military regions, and after receiving the telegram, he did not have any accidents, and directly arranged for the troops to protect Liao Fan's special train along the way!

Due to the problems left over from history, the centralized power has weak control over the highest roof of the world in the southwest, and the same situation has occurred on the plateau and next door, when a place begins to get rid of the center, there will be local self-control, and no longer obey the orders of the center!

If the central government loses control over this place for a long time, it means that there are problems with territorial ownership, and it may become an independent country, or it may become part of other countries!

Due to Fu Yisheng's foresight, Fu Yisheng arranged for troops to send troops to the northwest in a timely manner to control the northwest in the hands of the state. But this is not the case with the plateau in the southwest, and the lack of oxygen is one of the biggest difficulties for ordinary troops to enter the southwest plateau due to unique reasons!

This is also the reason for the delay in arranging the troops, and there are also local ethnic characteristics, southwest China is a gathering place for ethnic minorities, where there are many ethnic minorities, which has also led to a lot of different ethnic cultures and customs.

The general headquarters of the Southwest Military Region was in Kunming, where Chairman Chiang used to have a camp, but because Chairman Chiang was no longer needed, Li Zongren simply transformed it into his own headquarters.

Since Li Zongren had more contact with Liao Fan when he was in Laohekou in the Fifth War Zone, Liao Fan did not have to worry about the training of the troops, Li Zongren did a more thorough job in this regard, and the troops here are all elite troops left by the local troops, and the troops that do not meet the requirements have been eliminated by Li Zongren or left as a local police force!

The country has already begun to build a police system, and in less than two years, the police system will be separated from the army!

Since there is no need to worry about the problems in the army, Liao Fan naturally wants to find something for Li Zongren to do, and the only thing that makes Liao Fan excited is the things on the plateau! The plateau has unique advantages, and it will also be an important place for training troops in the future, not only the army, the air force and armored troops have miraculous results in training here!

Moreover, the plateau also has a unique defensive function, and if the enemy wants to enter the country from the southwest plateau, he will face one of the most important natural problems, altitude sickness!

Whether it is from a historical reason, or from a military point of view, or from the consideration of a powerful unified country, Liao Fan has no reason to let the Southwest Plateau continue to be autonomous! So the only way is to use soldiers to wipe out all the disobedient and disobedient people in the local area!

Because of the weakness of the central government, it is the local lamas who control the southwest plateau, and they have a very important influence in the local area, after all, religion plays a specific role at a specific time, and also gives specific people the same rights as gods, which also causes some people to fear them!

Moreover, there are still many places on the southwest plateau where the slavery system is practiced, and on the closed plateau, this system has seriously affected the development of human nature, and these problems must be solved as soon as possible!

"The environment here in Kunming is really good!"

Liao Fan went to the Yunnan-Guizhou region for the first time, and after Li Zongren went to Kunming from Laohekou, people seemed to be in a lot of spirits, and they really raised people with water and soil!

"Why don't you move the headquarters here too? Kunming is a city that is like spring all year round! Li Zongren said.

"I didn't say where my headquarters is, let's get down to business, hundreds of thousands of troops in the southwest are in your hands, what's going on?" Liao Fan asked.

"With me here, who would dare to do anything? Even he, Long Yun, wants to give me face, and now Long Yun has returned to his hometown and doesn't ask about the world! Hey~ I really want to be like him! ”

Li Zongren still has influence in the country, and it's not just because of Gui Jun! With him in the southeast region, there are many things that Liao Fan doesn't have to worry about at all!

"I'm here to get you in trouble today!" Liao Fan circled around the headquarters, then walked to Li Zongren's desk and stopped!

"Trouble? What's the trouble? Li Zongren didn't understand what Liao Fan meant.

Liao Fan glanced at the map on Li Zongren's desk, then pointed at the map and drew a circle.

"This place...... Don't you have any ideas? Liao Fan asked.

"Thoughts? I have an idea, but I don't know where to end! ”

In fact, after completing the reorganization of the troops, Li Zongren had thought about marching into the plateau area, but there were two conditions that were not met, one was that there was no order from Liao Fan, and the other was where to fight!

You must know that there are many places where the borders have not been determined, and if you rush to fight them, it is likely to cause international disputes, and if you don't want to do it now, there will be problems in the future!

"Hmm...... Not to mention where it can hit, I wonder if it will be difficult for the troops to enter the plateau at an altitude of 5,000 meters! ”

Let's not talk about international issues, Liao Fan wants to know whether their troops have the ability to enter the plateau, if not, it is nonsense to say that they will fight anywhere!

"Not sure, after all, our troops have not gone up and have not done targeted training!"

Altitude sickness is the biggest test for soldiers, if you don't adapt, you will faint after going up, let alone fighting!

"From today onwards, all units of the Southwest Military Region must be trained for this, and every soldier, including the soldiers in logistics, must adapt to this environment, and there is also you, the commander of the military region!"

"You kid is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, this trip Lao Tzu is going to suffer!" Li Zongren knew that although he had very few opportunities to go up to the 5,000-meter plateau, training was essential.

"It is the general's duty to guard the security of the country's territory, and I'm just cheering you on the side!" Liao Fan said with a smile.

"I'm still the same question, where to hit?"

Since Liao Fan ordered the troops to train for the plateau environment, the troops must march into the plateau, but there must always be a border issue.

"These two places may not be the territory of our country, but they must be within our military sphere of influence!" Liao Fan circled the map twice with a pencil!

"Brother Fan, isn't this a bit far? This place was painted by the British back then, will it offend the British? And this place is all desert, even if it is not a desert, it is a barren rock, not even grass grows, what do we want them to do! ”

"The British, the British are a fart, it was an unequal thing when I painted this place, and now I really don't take the British seriously, if the British interfere and fight Lao Tzu directly, are you still worried about another Opium War?"

When the British drew a circle, it was when the Qing government's control over that place was the weakest, although the area was not large, but that buffer zone had very important military value!

"You have the final say, wherever you point, as long as I don't fall, I will let the troops fight!"

In Li Zongren's eyes, although it is to march into the plateau and regain a firm grasp of the country's territory, there are two obvious places that are territorial expansion! Although Liao Fan said that it would not be included in the national territory, it had become their military sphere of influence, and no one dared to meddle in these two places unless the other party was stronger than them!

"This is also for our national defense and security, don't think that after beating the little devils, we will have peace in the world, there will be many countries that will do things with me in the future, if we don't prepare now, we can only be beaten passively in the future, and then fight back, and we can't let the flames of war burn to our country again!"

Liao Fan's thinking is very simple, he would rather sacrifice the interests of some other countries to maintain the stability of his own country! Although there are some unkind actions, Liao Fan would rather be a beast himself in this regard.

"Is it that we are going to fight this country in the future?" Li Zongren pointed to the south side of the map and asked Liao Fan tentatively.

"Not only this country, but also this country, may become our henchmen in the future!" Liao Fan said.

"How do you know so clearly?"

"Ahem, ahem!" Liao Fan coughed embarrassedly, he knew that he had leaked his mouth, and hurriedly rounded things up, "In the future, territorial waters are the part that the country must protect, and these two countries are stuck in the throat of China's territorial waters in the south, and they can't dispute if they don't want to!" If you want them to restrain themselves, you have to threaten them from land! ”

Liao Fan hurriedly brought things back, anyway, no one can say for sure what is going on at sea, on the boundless ocean, whatever Liao Fan says, as long as Li Zongren believes it!

Li Zongren and the others have never considered the issue of territorial waters, because before that, it seems that no dynasty regarded territorial waters as more important than territory, but Liao Fan is different, he knows that the navy and air force are a very important part in the future!

Although the infantry is the ancestor of all arms, in future wars, the role of infantry is getting smaller and smaller!

"Since you said it is important, then it must be important, no matter what the price of these two places, I will turn them into our military sphere of influence!"

"I only have one request, these two places are best done before this world war ends, because this country has not yet been established, and after they are founded, all interpretations are in our hands, and we can say whatever we want when the time comes!"

The country Liao Fan is talking about is India, and now this country has no real sovereignty, and the power is in the hands of the British! The British have exhausted their national strength in this world war, and once the war is over, the British will not have much energy to take care of their overseas colonies, and India's independence will be a matter of time!

But what Liao Fan wants is to turn this place into a military sphere of influence when India is truly independent from the British, as long as he controls this place, he can overlook the whole of India!