Tang Jirao has been very chic recently, since Cai Yi took the initiative to go north, as the second person in the Yunnan army, he took over the position of governor of Yunnan, and controlled the power of the Yunnan army in one fell swoop, and as soon as he became the governor of Yunnan, he was ready to expand the Yunnan army.

At the beginning of the year, Tang Jirao led the army into Guizhou and served as the governor of Guizhou, and expanded his nearly 10,000 troops to more than 20,000 troops. However, unlike other provinces, these local militias are not militias in the traditional sense, but are built according to the standards of regular field forces. This can be seen from the large quantities of weapons and equipment purchased in Yunnan before, and so much ammunition is definitely not something that a mere two divisions and 20,000 troops can consume.

Because of Cai Yi's personal factors, Cai Yi wanted to promote peaceful reunification, and even did not hesitate to risk his life to go north to take up his post, so he concealed his military establishment, although he could not hide from many people with real power, but the ordinary people did not know much. However, the first thing Tang Jirao did after he came to power was to reorganize the number of the troops, and the previous chaotic local militia groups were all abolished and reorganized into regular field troops. However, in this regard, Tang Jirao did not adopt a large-scale division-level establishment like the Beiyang Army and the Nationalist Army, but retained the original two regular divisions, adopted the establishment of mixed brigades, and established the first mixed brigade, the second mixed brigade, the third mixed brigade, the fourth mixed brigade, the fifth mixed brigade, and the sixth mixed brigade. In addition to the reorganization of the original troops, is also preparing to build a new Yunnan Third Division, and the main body of this third division is mainly Huize Ji soldiers and officers, Huize is Tang Jirao's hometown, after Xinhai, Tang Jirao's reputation in his hometown Huize is like Zhongtian, when he sent people back to his hometown to recruit troops, the soldiers were enthusiastic, and it didn't take long to recruit a large number of soldiers, and a large number of officers of the Yunnan Third Division were also the same as other units of the Yunnan Army, mainly graduates of Yunnan Jiangwutang.

When we talk about the Beiyang Army, we can't talk about the Baoding Military Academy, we can't talk about the Nationalist Army without mentioning the Fuzhou Military Academy, and when we talk about the Yunnan Army, we can't talk about the Yunnan Military Academy. In the previous or present armies, almost every army of the larger forces has its own military academy, the Beiyang Army has the Baoding Military Academy and the Army University, the National Army has the Fuzhou Military Academy, and the Yunnan Army, which is the third largest military group in China, also has the Yunnan Lecture School.

Whether it is the 19th town of Yunnan in the pre-Qing Dynasty or the Yunnan Army after the Republic of China, the main officers among them are basically filled by students of Yunnan Jiangwutang, which is especially reflected after the Republic of China. After the Republic of China, Cai Ye expanded the Yunnan Army, and at the same time, like Chen Jingyun, he expanded the Yunnan Lecture Hall for training various grassroots officers, and with these grassroots officers, the expansion of the Yunnan Army had a foundation, and at the same time, the Dian Army, like the National Army, had the vast majority of officers trained by themselves.

The Yunnan army is expanding its army on a large scale, naturally not for fun, and it will not be angry about spending more money to expand the army and burn money for fun. Everything has a purpose, and the same is true of the expansion of the Dian army.

And if you look at the map of China at this moment and mark the various forces in each province, then you can clearly find out what the next strategy of the Dian army is, that is, Sichuan!

Looking at the situation in China today, Chen Jingyun's Nationalist Army controls the eastern part of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, as well as a small part of southern Jiangsu. It has eight regular field divisions with a strength of up to 100,000 troops, and it has also collected the vast majority of the navy's combat ships. There is also a Fuzhou Arsenal, the largest in China, and the Fuzhou Military Academy, which is already the second largest military school in China.

On the other hand, the Beiyang Army is even larger, although he has many problems, and is troubled by the financial and self-respect of the generals of all parties, but with the hundreds of thousands of troops in Beiyang and the righteous name of the central political axe, it is no problem to be proud of the domestic heroes.

Then it is the Yunnan army itself, the Yunnan army that controls the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou is also a military group with a complete system, although the subordinate military industry, military schools are not as good as the two major forces in front, but the biggest advantage of the Yunnan army is the geographical advantage, there is no strong enemy around, whether it is Beiyang or the national army is a long distance from the chainsaw. This advantage allows him to calmly develop and expand the army.

Next, it is Lu Rongting of Guangxi, although this person recently seized the opportunity to send troops to Guangdong, and successfully occupied the western part of Guangdong, but in this way, his Gui army was directly in contact with the national army, it is said that Lu Rongting in order to prevent the national army from continuing to advance westward has deployed more than 30,000 troops in Wuzhou and Zhaoqing, almost containing most of the main force of the Gui army. And Long Jiguang, who was driven to the western part of Guangdong, was not willing to be lonely, and the Leizhou Peninsula and the area north occupied the territory, and there were many large-scale battles with the Gui army.

Then Hunan's Tan Yanmin doesn't need to say too much, Hunan's internal chaos is too chaotic, and now Tan Yanmin is still busy rectifying the interior, with his means and Hunan's internal chaos, he can't control Hunan for ten years, let alone expand.

Hubei is also in chaos now, and Li Yuanhong and a group of revolutionaries from the former Communist Party of China killed in Hubei.

Next, we have to talk about Sichuan, Sichuan has been in chaos since Xinhai, a large number of so-called military and political axes have sprung up in various places, and everyone says that they are the orthodox governors of Sichuan, if they are not satisfied, they will fight again, at the beginning of the year, the two military and political axes of Yucheng and Chengdu have reached a preliminary agreement to form a unified Sichuan military and political axe. Then the reorganized Sichuan military and political axe is only in vain, and the subordinate forces of all parties are simply not convinced by anyone, so Sichuan has been fighting almost every day for more than a year, and wars of thousands or even tens of thousands of people have also occurred many times, and it is a mess of a good Sichuan.

Speaking of the root cause of the Sichuan melee, the most important thing is that there are many factions within Sichuan, such as the revolutionaries headed by Xiong Kewu of the Fifth Division of Sichuan, but in addition to Xiong Kewu, the commanders of the other four divisions in Sichuan are either students or instructors of the Sichuan Martial Arts Hall, which is the so-called armed forces department. If it's just a struggle between these two factions, forget it, but there is a Dian army next to it to fan the flames. In the end, in order to quell the strife between the various factions under his subordinates, and at the same time to ease the financial pressure on the military and political axes, Yin Changheng, the ostensible governor of Sichuan, formulated a defense zone system, that is, to demarcate a defense zone for the troops stationed in various places, and each unit was not allowed to cross the defense zone, and each unit in the defense zone collected a certain amount of military expenses to raise the army.

And this so-called defense zone system can be said to have greatly exacerbated the melee in Sichuan, the large-scale melee in Sichuan that began in the second half of the year was also produced in this context, the generals of the following five divisions, including Xiong Kewu, are still in charge of other domestic situations, one by one, they are all making enough efforts to loot the place and then expand the troops, if you do not count the weapons and the quality of the troops, the warlord troops in Sichuan add up to more than any province in the country, and there are thirteen infantry regiments under Liu Cunhou of the Fourth Division alone, There were more than 30,000 troops.

Looking at the domestic situation, it is already clear that the next development direction of the Dian army will be, or where it will be able to develop. The northeast of Guizhou is Hubei, where Li Yuanhong and the revolutionary party are in chaos, but that place in Hubei is a powder keg, next to Henan's Beiyang Army, Anhui's Huang Xing, Jiangxi's Li Junlie are all staring at it, one is not good, that is, if the meat is not eaten, you have to get scratched, so Tang Jirao didn't think about going to the troubled waters of Hubei. And if you go to the southeast, that is, Guangxi, although the main force of Lu Rongting's Gui army is contained in the western part of Guangdong, but the surface strength of the Gui army is also a lot, and the combat effectiveness is not weak, if it fights, the Yunnan army is not completely sure, if it cooperates with the national army, it may be successful, but these will be in direct contact with the national army, and it is difficult to say whether it will be good or bad in the future. So Tang Jirao preferred to continue to wait. Hunan is almost the same situation as Hubei, if he Tang Jirao dares to send troops to Hunan, the eyes of a large number of people in the country will have to stare at him, and although Tan Yanmin is not very capable of internal affairs, if Hunan is facing external pressure, it can also put together tens of thousands of troops, and if he rushes over, he doesn't know if it is a blessing or a curse.

As for the territory of the French to the south, don't even think about it, the northwest is the Kang-Tibet region, and the ghost place is too barren to send him, even if he wants to march, he can just send a few hundred people to the meaning, and it is unnecessary and impossible to send a large army.

After such calculations, if the Dian army wants to develop, there is only one choice left, and that is Sichuan!

First of all, Sichuan is located in the southwest, and it is far less important and eye-catching than the Central Plains provinces in terms of geographical location and transportation. This Sichuan is too remote for the Beiyang Army and the National Army, but for the Yunnan Army, it is close to the doorstep, and it is very fast to send troops over.

Second, Sichuan has not yet had a unified force, and the following four or five warlords are fighting with each other, and there has been a choice to support Liu Cunhou in the Cai era before, and now if the Dian army sends troops to Sichuan, it is not a problem to take the whole of Sichuan with Liu Cunhou.

Third, that is, now other major forces in the country are busy and have no time to care about his Yunnan army marching into Sichuan, the Beiyang Army is fighting to the death with the Nationalist Army in southern Jiangsu, the war between the two forces has seriously affected the choice of other warlord forces, to a certain extent, the war between the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang is the same as the later war of the Anhui direct Feng line, a war for the dominance of the central government. Now whether it is Tang Jirao, Lu Rongting, or Yan Xishan, or even Huang Xing and others, they are all watching the war in southern Jiangsu with their eyes, seeing who will win in the end.

If the Beiyang Army won and the Nationalist Army was defeated in southern Jiangsu and lost Zhejiang, Lu Rongting would have to send troops to eastern Guangdong, and the strength of the revolutionaries in Anhui and Jiangxi would have to reconsider their relationship with Chen Jingyun and Yuan Shikai.

If the Nationalist Army wins, it will be difficult to say, at least the warlords in the south will honestly dare not do anything.

In this case, it is extremely beneficial to the Yunnan army, and now not only Chen Jingyun sent rifles and military expenses to win him over Tang Jirao, but even Yuan Shikai also won him over openly or covertly. Faced with such a situation, if Tang Jirao didn't take the opportunity to make a profit, he would be sorry for his ancestors.

So the first thing he did when he came to power was to expand the army, and the second thing was to send troops to Sichuan! ——

There is another chapter later......