After getting the ambiguous statement of the old slippery head Liu Chengxun, Yang Sen turned his eyes to an empty chair again. On top of this large round table, there was a chair that was empty, and it looked so incongruous.

"It's a pity that Lai Cannon still didn't come." I don't know who sighed softly.

This chair belongs to Lai Xinhui, Lai Xinhui's gangster is "Lai Cannon", but it is not that he likes to talk big, but people really have cannons.

This cannon brother graduated from the artillery department of the Yunnan Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and Liu Cunhou, the "hall master" who followed them to lecture on the martial arts hall in Xinhai, led troops into Sichuan to support the Sichuan Revolution. In 1912, Liu Cunhou recruited the Fourth Town of the Sichuan Army in Sichuan, and Lai Xinhui became an artillery commander under his subordinates, that is, the head of the artillery regiment.

Lai's cannon is really famous in Sichuan and won the name of cannon in 1916 after the battle to protect the country of Yuan, in April 1917 began two Chengdu melee battles, known as the battle of Liu Luo and the battle of Liu Dai, one is Liu Cunhou against Luo Peijin, the other is Liu Cunhou against Dai Huan, in the battle of Liu Dai. Lai Cannon commanded more than 40 cannons to bombard the inner city of Chengdu, where Dai Huan was entrenched. The sound of the arms explosion shook for dozens of miles, and the Guizhou army defending the city was greatly panicked, and Dai Huan ran out of ammunition and evacuated Chengdu. Lai Xinhui has also been called "Lai Cannon" since then.

After that, Lai Xinhui began to gradually embark on the road of a warlord with independent reading ability, and later participated in the warlord melee wars such as the Yasukuni War, the Sichuan-Yunnan-Guizhou War, and the Jingchuan War. After these melees, the strength of Liu Cunhou, the master of Lai Cannon, gradually shrank, and Lai Cannon gradually grew stronger. Later, Xiong Kewu took the opportunity to launch the "War to Drive Liu Liu", in which Lai Xinhui defected to Xiong Kewu of the Kuomintang in front of the battle, and finally got rid of Liu Cunhou and completely stood on his own.

After establishing his own door, Lai Dacang chose to form an alliance with Xiong Kewu, and supported Xiong Kewu in the battles of the First and Second Armies, the battles of the First and Third Armies, and later the Battle of Sichuan against thieves, and finally hung up the Kuomintang signboard. After Xiong Kewu failed in the battle against thieves, most of his troops in Sichuan were absorbed by Lai Xinhui, so although Lai was a general of the defeated army, Yang Sen and Liu Xiang still retained his territory and did not dare to do anything with him. In last year's second Sichuan thief hunt of the Kuomintang, Luo Yaoguo led troops to help Xiong Kewu return to his lair, and Lai Xinhui and Lu Chao, another Kuomintang system, both returned to the side of the Kuomintang, among which Lai Xinhui and Xiong Kewu had a particularly close relationship. Therefore, this time, Lai Dacang, Yang Sen's "Hero Conference", did not come to participate at all, indicating that he was going to advance and retreat with Xiong Kewu.

Yang Sen glared at the seat that should belong to Lai Cannon, and sneered: "This Lai Dexiang is really confused, does he think that he can continue to be the king and hegemon with the Kuomintang?" Hmph, he didn't look at it, even Xiong Jinfan is now an empty provincial chairman with no soldiers and no guns. Can he Lai Dexiang's status in Sun Dacang be comparable to Xiong Jinfan? ”

"But Lai Xinhui's territory is now stuck between Chengdu and Chongqing." As soon as Yang Sen finished speaking, someone took his words and continued, and everyone looked at it, and it turned out to be Liu Wenhui, the treasure snatcher.

Liu Wenhui took a sip of wine, and said lightly: "If we don't take Fushun and Luzhou, we can only go from northern Sichuan and march into Yucheng from the direction of Suining and Shunqing in the north." Taking Chongqing in one fell swoop and cutting off the Kuomintang's access to Sichuan is the only way for us in Sichuan to survive. If there is a delay under the cities of Luzhou and Fushun, when the Kuomintang warrior Luo Yaoguo arrives with reinforcements, we brothers will be afraid that we will all have to-" Liu Wenhui stretched out his right hand and gently wiped it on his neck, making a killing posture.

After listening to Liu Wenhui's analysis, Yang Sen nodded with a smile, looked at Liu Bin, who was sitting on the side without saying a word, and said with a smile: "Brother Ji Zhao, it's no problem to borrow the New Year's defense area to walk, right?" ”

Liu Bin has thirteen counties in northwest Sichuan, but the army only has four brigades but ten thousand people, is really a soft persimmon in the Sichuan army, although it is known as one of the "Baoding three giants", but in fact the relationship with Deng Xihou and Liu Wenhui is not close, and it is also very isolated in the Sichuan army. After listening to Yang Sen's words, Liu Bin was silent without saying a word, and the scene suddenly cooled down.

"If we wait for the Kuomintang to call, we will all have a pot of stew, Brother Ji Zhao, if you are not at ease, then ask Hui Shuai (Yang Sen)'s army to go to my Jianyang." Before Liu Bin, who was hesitant, spoke, Sun Zhen of Tian Songyao's family at the other table next to him answered first, and he smiled: "Take my Jianyang to Suining, and then divide the troops into two roads all the way from Tongnan, Tongliang, and Bishan to Yucheng, and go all the way to Guang'an to outflank Linshui and Dianjiang, so that as long as the two armies win all the way, the gate of Sichuan will be closed." In this way, even if the Kuomintang has a million-strong army, there is no way to take us. ”

This method was used by Xiong Kewu to deal with the Beiyang Army in the battle to drive Liu. At that time, Beiyang reinforcements continued to come from Xiajiang to reinforce Liu Cunhou, and Xiong Kewu's side outflanked the back road of Yucheng and cut off the waterway of the Yangtze River, so that Liu Cunhou lost his support and was finally defeated. Now it's time to take it out and give it back to Xiong Kewu himself, which can be regarded as the way of the other, and give back to the other, right? This Sun Zhen really came out of Lu University, and his level is not ordinary.

After listening to Sun Zhen's suggestion, Yang Sen suddenly felt that his eyes suddenly brightened, now Xiong Kewu, Dan Nugang, Lu Chao and other troops are only 30,000 or 40,000 people, even if you add Lai Artillery's army, the total strength is only 60,000. Compared with the more than 300,000 troops of the generals of Kawanaka, they are in an absolute weakness, and if there is no backup, defeat is only a matter of time.

Yang Sen squinted his eyes and glanced at Sun Zhen, then laughed and said, "Okay! It's up to Brother De's plan! Our Sichuan army has a genius like Brother Deying, so why worry about not succeeding in the great cause? The younger brother is here to pay tribute to Brother De and have a cup. ”

Sun Zhen looked humble and replied: "Don't dare, how can the junior brother He De dare to be called a genius, my genius in Sichuan is only Hui Shuai, with Hui Shuai leading us, why worry about big things?" ”

At this time, Huang Yucheng interjected on the side: "Now the plan has been decided, but there are still some details for my colleagues to show their support." ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and they all looked at Yang Sen's chief of general staff and were silent.

Huang Yucheng smiled slightly, and said: "Now that our Sichuan army has returned to the Yanjing political axe, it is naturally not good to use the number and banner given by their Kuomintang, and the number of the Sichuan army is chaotic and complicated, and the command is not uniform, which is very inconvenient." Why don't we take advantage of this opportunity for the big guys to get together and come up with a draft to reorganize the army? ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, could it be that Yang Zihui also had to take the opportunity to reorganize the army and annex the strength of the big guys?

Yang Sen put down the wine glass in his hand, hugged his fists at everyone, and said with a smile: "I, Yang Sen, definitely don't want to smash the big guy's job, we will organize as many divisions and brigades as we have now, and we will never ask the big guy to cut a soldier, not only that, after the reorganization is completed, the Inspectorate will also distribute the salt tax according to the strength of the big guy, for the big guy's needs to raise troops, I don't know what everyone thinks?" ”

After listening to Yang Sen's words, Liu Wenhui and Liu Xiang, the two uncles and nephews, immediately knew that this was Yang Sen's attempt to weaken their strength. Now Liu Xiang only has an army of more than 10,000 people, and if he gives as many numbers as he has as many troops, Liu Xiang is almost a division commander. And Janssen had 140,000 troops, of course, he was the commander-in-chief. As for the distribution of salt tax, it is aimed at Liu Wenhui, and now Zigong is Liu Wenhui's territory, although the salt tax in Sichuan is now collected by the national political axe, but everyone's anti-flag is pulled, and the largest cornucopia in Sichuan is an ownerless thing. If Liu Wenhui is allowed to swallow it alone, I am afraid that it will not be long before Sichuan should be surnamed Liu.

Liu Wenhui took a sip of wine lightly, looked at Yang Sen with a smile, and asked: "The salt tax of the artesian well should be divided according to the number of troops, so should the weapons and ammunition of the Chengdu Arsenal also be distributed according to the number of troops?" ”

After listening to the words of "Dad", Liu Xiang's heart sank, and he secretly scolded Liu Wenhui, a guy who fell into the well, and didn't care if you had more land in your army, so you didn't care if I lived or died? If weapons, ammunition and military salaries are distributed according to the number of troops, how can I, Liu Xiang, get mixed up in Sichuan?

Yang Sen laughed and replied: "That's natural, the benefits of the Chengdu Arsenal can't be obtained by my family alone, all brothers can share the profits." ”

"Since Hui Shuai is so righteous, I Liu Wenhui can't be a villain." Liu Wenhui stood up and smiled at the people at the banquet: "As long as there is a change of banner, the salt tax of the artesian well is everyone's, and my Liu Wenhui's 50,000 people are enough to form the four divisions and twelve brigades." That despicable and shameless Lai cannon will also be handed over to me to clean up, what does Hui Shuai think? ”

It is indeed not very demanding for 50,000 people to form the 4th Division and 12th Brigade, and Liu Wenhui is willing to share the profits with the salt tax from the artesian well, just in exchange for the relatively "easy" task of dealing with Lai's artillery. It is estimated that Liu Wenhui wants to dig a piece of land from Lai Cannon's hands, right?

Knowing what Liu Wenhui meant, Yang Sen nodded and said with a smile: "Our Sichuan Army doesn't use other people's names now, just use the name of the Sichuan Army." Our Yang Sen's army had 140,000 troops, organized into 12 divisions and 36 brigades, and the numbers were the 1st to 12th divisions of the Sichuan Army. How about returning from the thirteenth division to the sixteenth division? This cannon will also be handed over to Brother Ziqian. ”

"Thank you Hui Shuai for making it complete." Liu Wenhui was satisfied, hugged his fists at Yang Sen, and stopped talking.

Deng Xihou also thought about it slightly in his heart, and felt that he would not lose anything, so then Liu Wenhui also got up to express his position, and he said with a smile: "My Deng Xihou's brothers are almost 50,000, so let's give a fourth division and twelve brigades according to my brother." ”

Yang Sen didn't think much about it, so he gave the 16th to 19th divisions of the Sichuan Army to Deng Xihou. Next, Tian Donggua and Tian Songyao had to go again, with a total of three divisions of the twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second, of which the twenty-first division was given to Sun Zhen, who was Tian Songyao's deputy, and now has the strength of a mixed brigade, about seven or eight thousand people.

Liu Cunhou took the 23rd and 24th divisions. He is now only more than 10,000 people, and it is not a loss to take two divisions. Liu Chengxun also had two divisions, the 25th and 26th divisions. He Guanglie, Liu Bin, Luo Zezhou, Chen Hongfan, and Chen Guodong are all one division, and their numbers are the 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st divisions.

Seeing that everyone was within the size, Liu Xiang didn't like it to open his mouth, sighed softly, and said: "I, Liu Xiang, want two divisions, but I have suffered my brothers, and I, Liu Xiang, am sorry for them!" So he had to take over the numbers of the 32nd and 33rd divisions.

In this regard, the Sichuan army of Yang Sen's faction was reorganized into 33 divisions, 99 brigades, and more than 300 regiments, with a total strength of nearly 400,000 on the books! Alas, this Sichuan people are really miserable, how many taxes do they have to pay to feed them?