By September, the ranks of generals, lieutenant generals, and major generals of all armies across the country had basically been conferred. Liu Lang, who was rejected twice by the Ministry of Military Affairs, has no hope of being promoted to major general.

Liu Xiang, a veteran warlord, naturally knew very well in his heart that it was not that the Ministry of Military Affairs did not give himself face as chairman of Sichuan Province, but that the bald tycoon did not want him to firmly control the power in Sichuan, and at the same time put Liu Lang, the Liu family, in a high position.

However, Liu Xiang, who did not fall after ten years of war in Sichuan Province, was naturally not an honest boy who was kneaded by others, and his plan to promote Liu Lang to consolidate his rights failed, so he changed his way, and a telegram to form a security regiment in northern Sichuan was sent directly to the Ministry of Military Affairs by the Seventh Route Army Headquarters.

The bigwigs of the Ministry of Military Affairs who have already rejected General Liu's face several times naturally have no choice but to give face this time, not to mention the fact that General Liu has a lot of reasons, because they are doing it for the great plan of "suppressing bandits," for helping the chairman of the committee to share his worries and solve problems, and for the long-term peace and stability of the country. Anyway, there is absolutely no selfishness.

This is not the nonsense of General Liu, who presided over the great cause of "suppressing bandits" in Sichuan, but the current situation in Sichuan is indeed the case.

What threatened the safety of Sichuan was not the central main force of the Red Army, which was marching to western Sichuan, led by Taizu and his old man, but the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army, which was several points stronger than the central main force of the Red Army.

The main force of this red army, which numbered as high as 60,000, and Liu Xiang had countless dealings in Sichuan in the past few years, and Liu Xiang was almost flattened every time without a single victory, which can be regarded as a full loss.

Since June 1932, from the Shaanxi border to the northern Sichuan border, the Red Army's Fourth Front Army has been like a bamboo, and there are several county towns in Lianke, that is, it has stopped moving at the Guangyuan border because of the existence of the independent regiment.

In October 1933, the territory occupied by the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army stretched from the suburbs of Chengkou in the east, to the banks of the Jialing River in the west, from Yingshan and Daxian in the south, to Zhenba and Ningqiang in southern Shaanxi in the north, with a total area of more than 42,000 square kilometers, and controlled eight county towns in Sichuan and Shaanxi, including Tongjiang, Nanjiang, Xuanhan, Daxian, and Wanyuan.

Liu Cunhou, who was originally deeply rooted in northern Sichuan, was beaten by the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army, and lost his armor and almost lost his territory, that is, Guangyuan, an important passage at the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi, because of the existence of the strong independent regiment, is still firmly in the hands of the Sichuan army.

In fact, if it weren't for Liu Lang's little butterfly, Guangyuan's land would also belong to the Red Army.

In August 1934, the Sixth Route Army organized by Liu Xiang was defeated in the siege, and Liu Lang's Independent Regiment was unable to fight because it needed to be stationed at the Guangyuan Base Fortress to ensure the safety of the oil fields 200 miles away, and the Red Army's troops were flourishing. In March 1935, the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army, which was growing stronger and stronger, launched the Battle of Forcibly Crossing the Jialing River, which lasted nearly a month, defeated 12 regiments of Liu Xiang and Liu Cunhou, and controlled the Jialing River in the east, Beichuan in the west, Zitong in the south, and Qingchuan in the north, with an area of 300 miles in length and width, and 9 counties in northern Sichuan, including Jiange, Beichuan, Qingchuan, and Pingwu, fell into the hands of the Red Army.

In other words, in the first half of 1935, most of the entire northern Sichuan, except for Guangyuan, where the independent regiment was located, had become red, and the veteran warlord Liu Cunhou in northern Sichuan was driven out of his old nest. As the lord of Sichuan, Liu Xiang is certainly anxious to transfer troops to defend the Mianyang area to avoid the loss of oil fields, and the bald boss is also brainstorming.

If it weren't for Liu Xiang's promise that he would never let the red troops advance any further, he would have sent the Central Army into Sichuan a long time ago. Fortunately, to Liu Xiang's slight relief, the red troops stayed in northern Sichuan for less than two months before marching to the barren land in western Sichuan.

Of course, Liu Lang knew that the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army was going to rush to western Sichuan to join the main red army of the central government led by Taizu, and at the end of June 1935, they successfully joined forces in Xiaojin County.

The entry of the red troops into the western Sichuan Plateau was not only a relief for the large and small warlords in Sichuan, but also a happy bald boss. The barren land of the western Sichuan Plateau simply does not have the ability to support tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 troops. As long as he locked the gates of western Sichuan, it seemed to him that the remnants of the Red Army would be swallowed up by the cruel natural environment there.

The bald boss may not be qualified as a military strategist, but as the leader of a country, he still has some strategic vision. The red troops, who were planning to use the western Sichuan Plateau as a red base area, slowly tried to strengthen their own strength, but also found that the western Sichuan Plateau was poor in materials, and there were no people in a radius of dozens of miles, and the source of soldiers was not sufficient, so it was not suitable for development that they were still confused at this time, and it was not until late September that they accidentally discovered the "Ta Kung Pao" report on the red troops in northern Shaanxi in Hadapu Town, and only then did they know where there was a red base area about the same size as Jiangxi, so they decided to go north to northern Shaanxi.

Of course, in order to prevent deviations in the ruts of history, Liu Lang had already made sufficient connections to let the "declaration" and the "Beiping People's Daily" devote sufficient money to report the news of the red troops in northern Shaanxi, and the Gansu branch of the Chinese Business Group was responsible for pasting the newspapers all over the towns where the red troops might pass by in July and August, and the famous Hadapu town was pasted on almost every wall.

Naturally, the government strongly supports this kind of propaganda against "redization," and it also highly appreciates the behavior of the China Commercial Group Company in following in the footsteps of the government.

No one would know that Liu Tuanzuo was using this method to ventilate the Red Army. Although Liu Lang also believed that even if there were no old newspapers, the red troops would still find their most correct direction, but Liu Lang still hoped that the casualties of the army would be less, they were not only the founders of the future republic, but also one of the main forces against the Japanese invaders, and the more they were, the more casualties the Japanese invaders would have.

Just before he sent a telegram to the Ministry of Military Affairs, the information from the front line had clearly pointed out that the "old friends" who had occupied northern Sichuan with tens of thousands of people had turned south north of Aba and entered the Songpan prairie again, and Bingfeng only referred to the area of Matang and Songgang.

The slogan they shouted "Go back to Chengdu to eat rice" made Liu Xiang and the dignitaries of the Military and Political Department even more frightened. Liu Xiang, who sent a telegram saying that it was necessary to set up a security regiment in northern Sichuan, had telegraphed two brigades of the 24th Army on the western Sichuan front to deploy along the Dajinchuan line, and four brigades of the 20th Army to deploy in the Xiaojinchuan area. At the same time, troops were gathered in famous mountains and other places to ensure the safety of the Central Sichuan Plain.

You must know that if this red army, which has more than 60,000 people, defeats central Sichuan and then goes down to Chengdu, and the fertile central Sichuan Plain adds a large number of people, then this place will really become the second in Shu.

Whether it is the government or Liu Xiang, this time they are all riveting to defend Sichuan.

Liu Xiang's slightly abrupt but reasonable request for a new defense regiment in northern Sichuan is naturally nothing, and northern Sichuan, which has just been recovered and has not had time to stabilize people's hearts, also needs a combatable army to defend and pacify. Although Liu Xiang was in a hurry to establish the New Army in Northern Sichuan, Chi Guoguo showed his face of grabbing territory.

are all old fritters who have been in the army for a long time, who can't see through General Liu's thoughts? But what if you know? Admiral Liu has already been dismissed twice, and this time it must be approved.

As for Liu Cunhou, a veteran warlord who has been entrenched in northern Sichuan, the Ministry of Military Affairs naturally ignores him, and who cares about people who can't even defend their own nests?

A security regiment with an establishment of up to 3,000 people under the command of the Seventh Route Army was born, however, the regiment was established but not any ordnance and military personnel, and all materials and personnel were borne by Liu Xiang's Sichuan Provincial Government.

To put it bluntly, the government admits the existence of this army, but you don't want to use this to get money from the treasury, if you want to increase your strength, you have to pay for the boss yourself. Besides, the rats in the treasury are starving to death.

The central government and local warlords of this era were more businessmen than soldiers, and they had to bargain for everything in their own interests. You guard against me, and I guard against you, anyway, the big guys are guarding against each other.

This is also an important reason why China has been fighting with the Japanese for more than ten years.

However, if it is a monolithic China, it may not be known whether the Japanese invaders have the courage to start a full-scale war with China.

In the early morning of the first weekend of September, Liu Lang received a telegram ordering him to go to Chengdu to discuss military affairs.

Liu Lang, who hurried to Chengdu in the car of the little foreign girl, did not know that the defense regiment was Liu Xiang's compensation for his lack of promotion this time.