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"Brother Jinfan, if we want to keep the Sichuan Army's defense zone system, we may not be enough to rely on our strength in Sichuan, right? Will the superiors agree?" But Nu Gang's eyes flickered, and he looked at Xiong Kewu as if expecting something.

Xiong Kewu smiled slightly, and said: "Zi Bing is active in Guangzhou and has already contacted Wang Zhaoming. He is now opposing Hu Zhantang and Xu Chongzhi. He wants to fight for the top spot, but he suffers from not having a gun in his hand." Feng Tian was recommended by Xiong Kewu to Sun Yat-sen Yes, it is natural to support Xiong Kewu, and Wang Jingwei also knows the reason why power comes from the barrel of a gun, so the two hit it off and it has been good for a while.

"Wang Zhaoming, it is enough to have him speak for us in Guangzhou." But Nugang let out a sigh of relief, and said, "Then what name do we propose to reserve the defense zone?"

"In name?" Xiong Kewu laughed, and said: "Hundreds of thousands of Sichuan army brothers are in name! It is said that the army in central Sichuan has a large number of troops. If they are suddenly deployed to fear that they will fall into bandits and disturb the place, the only way to keep the defense area is to ensure stability. , and then gradually try to resettle properly, this is the long-term security strategy.”

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Guangzhou has long been a peaceful scene of singing and dancing. The hottest topic now is not the ongoing civil war in Sichuan, but the upcoming wedding between Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling.According to gossip reports from various tabloids in Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen's sister-in-law, Ms. Song Meiling, finally broke through all the obstacles and was ready to marry Chiang Kai-shek.The biggest resistance is said to be Song Meiling's sister Soong Ching Ling.This lady is very disdainful to become a relative with an upstart like Chiang Kai-shek.Although Lao Jiang had already sat on the throne of the chairman of the military committee in this time and space in advance, his qualifications were still very low within the Kuomintang, and the general veterans did not think much of him.This is probably the reason why he pursued Song Meiling, right?

When Luo Yaoguo's telegram asking for advice was sent to Jiang's mansion in Dongshankou, Guangzhou, Lao Jiang and a few of his confidants were drinking tea and chatting in the living room.They just had dinner at Lao Jiang's house. Since Lao Jiang is not used to talking during meals, he usually discusses important issues with his cronies after dinner.

Yang Yongtai and Zhu Peide are sitting in Lao Jiang's spacious living room right now. Due to the hot weather in Guangzhou, the two of them have a very close relationship with Lao Jiang, so they just casually put on their silk jackets, and they both brought cattail fans in their hands. Fan the fan while drinking tea and chatting, the atmosphere is very relaxed and casual.

"What do you think?" Lao Jiang waved the copy of the telegram in his hand and asked the two with a smile.

This is a telegram from Luo Yaoguo, asking for advice on how to deal with the generals of the Sichuan Army who have turned into the Kuomintang.

Yang Yongtai sipped his tea, chuckled, and said, "What do Jie Gong think of Wang Zhaoming's proposal? Now Xiong Jinfan can be regarded as Wang Zhaoming's ally."

"This Wang Zhaoming is too confused." Zhu Peide waved his fan beside him, and chuckled, "It's crazy to want to shoot a gun. I want to cooperate with Xiong Kewu, and I want Xiong Kewu to lead Sichuan and lead the military committee members."

This is the cooperation condition proposed by Wang Jingwei's people when they met with Yang Yongtai this afternoon.Now the bigwigs in the city of Guangzhou are all fixating their eyes on the chair under Sun Yat-sen's buttocks, not knowing who will sit on it in the end.The favorites for this position are Hu Hanmin and Xu Chongzhi.Both of them are veterans and Sun Yat-sen's confidants, and Hu Hanmin is now the chairman of the bureau, and Xu Chongzhi is the vice chairman of the Military Commission.The two of them have always been in the same faction, and now it happens that one civil and one military are here to take over from Sun Yat-sen's class.

And Chiang Kai-shek naturally had his eyes on that throne, and marrying Song Meiling meant he was going towards that great position.After marrying Song Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen became relatives, and this relationship was closer than Hu Hanmin. If the second sister Song could blow wind to her brother-in-law Mr. Zhongshan, this big position would be more secure.However, this seems a bit wishful thinking.

Chiang Kai-shek glanced at Zhu Peide, smiled slightly, and said: "If we support it, Xiong Kewu will be able to sit on the throne of Sichuan King? Hu Zhantang, Xu Chongzhi, and Xie Chi will definitely oppose it. We might as well agree with Wang Zhaoming and give him Save face." Lao Jiang knew Zhu Peide's Xiao Jiujiu, and he was worried that Xiong Kewu would come against him as a member of the Military Commission.However, if Xiong Kewu squeezed Zhu Peide away, Lao Jiang would not agree. Zhu Peide was the most obedient in the Military Commission, so how could he squeeze him away?

Yang Yongtai gently turned the teacup in his hand and thought about it for a while. The current situation is very complicated. It is difficult for Lao Jiang and Wang Jingwei to have a close cooperative relationship like Hu Hanmin and Xu Chongzhi.Both Jiang and Wang wanted to be the boss, so there was no way to cooperate, they just took advantage of each other.Thinking of this, Yang Yongtai smiled slightly, and said, "Jiegong, the prime minister's body is pretty strong now, and he won't be in a hurry to fight for the top spot for a while, and cooperation with Wang Zhaoming won't help much, so it's better to use this opportunity to let Wang Zhaoming Go ahead and fight Hu Zhantang, and when Wang Zhaoming collapses, our people will naturally take his place. The prime minister will not let Hu Zhantang's people dominate."

"Will Wang Zhaoming collapse? The Prime Minister still trusts him." Zhu Peide shook his head, expressing his disbelief.

"Hehe, but the Prime Minister doesn't trust Xiong Jinfan!" Yang Yongtai smiled, and said: "Xiong Jinfan has Xie Huisheng (Xie Chi) and others as enemies in the central government, and he opposes Luo Fuwen in Sichuan. Opposing Luo Fuwen is equivalent to opposing his uncle Luo Yichen is against each other, and Luo Yichen and Xie Chi are the prime minister's confidantes! In addition, Wang Zhaoming and Xiong Jinfan will definitely fight for power with Hu Zhantang, so Hu Zhantang, Xu Ruwei, Xie Huisheng, Luo's uncle and nephew fight together, how can it be possible Can't you fight?"

Lao Jiang nodded, shook the cattail fan in his hand, and said with a smile, "I understand Brother Changqing's meaning, but how should I reply to Luo Fuwen's telegram?"

"Seize territory, control salt tax, and ban opium. Naturally, there will be a lot of fighting in Sichuan." Yang Yongtai thought for a while, and came up with three poisonous strategies to deal with Sichuan's powerful faction.

Chapter 0191 money grabbing, grabbing territory (a)

Early morning on April 1925, 6.

Zeng Kuoqing got up in the morning and received a telegram from Guangzhou. He saw that it was from Lao Jiang, so he didn't dare to neglect, and immediately got a code book to translate it.The content is: "Supplementary text, my younger brother Jun Jian: The winter (two) telegram has been delivered. The situation will change today. Xiong Jinfan has already received the support of Comrade Wang Zhaoming. The aftermath of Sichuan may be co-chaired by my younger brother and Xiong Jinfan. For Yaskawa's plan, I hope that my brother can expand as soon as possible. In the territory of Sichuan, our party must control the salt tax and strictly prohibit opium, so as to curtail the finances of the generals of the Sichuan army and cut off their development potential, and then slowly plan, great things will happen. Brother Zhongzheng."

It turned out that it was Chiang Kai-shek's call back to Luo Yaoguo, who also disclosed the news of the alliance between Xiong Kewu and Wang Jingwei, and gave Luo Yaoguo a clever plan on how to deal with the Sichuan warlords.Warlords cannot do without money if they want to maintain their army. In Sichuan, the most money comes from nothing but salt and tobacco. The salt tax is more than 500 million a year, and the income brought by opium is not under the salt tax. The addition of more than [-] million yuan has become the main source of military expenditures for the Sichuan Army, in addition to the pre-collection of land taxes and lijin tax cards.If Luo Yaoguo can seize the Zigong Salt Fields, cut off the opium trade, and at the same time expand the territory as much as possible, the Sichuan Army and warlords will decline due to financial exhaustion, and it will be much easier to disintegrate and disintegrate at that time.Lao Jiang's strategy was really insidious and took the lifeblood of the Sichuan army at once.

"Okay!" Luo Yaoguo answered the camp director's office after the morning exercise. It seemed that Lao Jiang was in a good mood when he called back.While wiping his sweat with a towel, he said with a smile: "In less than two years, Sichuan will be stable. Although it is a little slower, it is acceptable. Mu Yi, go and call everyone to the command room to discuss new operations. It's planned."

The Fifth Army and the Seventh Army are still resting after fighting the Wusheng Battle, and the Tenth Army is still near Chongqing and has not started to pursue.Only Wang Zixing and Sun Zhen's troops were advancing towards Daxian, preparing to drive Liu Cunhou out of Sichuan.After reading Chiang Kai-shek's suggestion, Luo Yaoguo already knew what to do next.

After a while, Jiang Baili, He Guoguang, Yan Wu, He Zhonghan and other staff all rushed to the command room and gathered in front of the military map to discuss which piece of land was relatively fat and must be taken.

"Now that Yang Sen has been defeated, the situation in Central Sichuan will change drastically." Luo Yaoguo took a red and blue pencil to write and draw on the military map, and said with a smile while drawing, "We have occupied most of Dongchuan. Chu Chuan's throat is stuck. Mr. Jin probably will join forces with Liu Wenhui and Lai Xinhui to plan for Xichuan, and Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao will occupy the northwest corner, hehe, it looks like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms!"

"According to the auxiliary text, Xiong Jinfan has already been included in the opponent's camp?" He Guoguang's tone was calm, and he didn't seem surprised at all.

Luo Yaoguo stood in front of the drawn military map, sighed softly, and replied, "Sichuan is one of three parts of the world! Who is willing to give up? I plan to visit Duke Jin again today, and have a good time with him." Let's talk and see if we can make peace."

"It's best like this." This is a family matter of the Kuomintang, and Jiang Baili, who considers himself an outsider, is inconvenient to say more, so he just echoed it lightly.

Luo Yaoguo said again: "Let the Seventh Army finish its rest and set off to occupy Rongchang, Longchang, Neijiang, and Zigong. It's a distance of two to three hundred kilometers! Li Delin will have to work hard again." However, it is worthwhile to win Zigong. Yes, although the National Revolutionary Army can't interfere in civil affairs now, most of the big salt merchants in Zigong will still have generous gifts.

Jiang Baili used a blue pencil to draw the marching route of the Seventh Army on the military map. When Zigong was drawn, Jiang Baili frowned slightly and said, "Yang Sen's main force seems to be going to Zigong. I don't know if it will be in Zigong." Is there going to be another big fight?"

"No, I guess Yang Zihui is also making plans for Chuan Chuan now." He Guoguang smiled and shook his hand, and asked again: "Fuwen, most of Yang Sen's subordinates and I are students in the fast-track department, do you want to recruit them? ?”

"No need." Luo Yaoguo said that there is no way to support them after recruiting them, let them go out to fight the world.Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo smiled, and said again: "Brother Yuanzhang, why don't you go see General Zihui and ask him to leave Sichuan as soon as possible, we will never embarrass him, and don't make the people of Sichuan miserable."

"Then let the Fifth Army go to Chengdu?" Jiang Baili asked the Fifth Army's whereabouts after finishing drawing the Seventh Army's marching route.

"Leave a division of the Fifth Army in Shunqing, and monitor Huang Yin's division to go north." Luo Yaoguo stared at the map, hesitated for a while, and then said: "The main force of the Fifth Army should advance to Suining first. I'd better discuss it with Xiong Jinfan in Chengdu." Let’s make a conclusion, after all, he is the chairman of Sichuan Province, and he always has to go to Chengdu to work.”

"And the Eighth Army will arrive one after another the day after tomorrow. How should we arrange them?" Jiang Baili remembered that one of Yang Jie's troops was on the way and missed the big battle. It seemed that they had to use it to grab territory.

"Let them approach Luzhou and Xufu after they arrive in Chongqing." Luo Yaoguo thought for a while and arranged for Yang Jie's Eighth Army to grab the territory in southern Sichuan.

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The atmosphere in the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China in Lianhuachi, Chongqing is good, and the situation of the Sichuan revolution seems to be going further.Because of the combination of Liu Wenhui and Xiong Kewu, both Xiong and Liu became good friends with the Communist Party. In addition, Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao, who had already raised the banner of "Aiding the Shaanxi National Army" in northern and northwestern Sichuan, are now in central Sichuan. The leftists are almost equal to the rightists.It's just that the power of the leftists is relatively scattered, and how to coordinate is a problem.

Today Xiong Kewu's secretary, Chen Guzhi, made a special trip to Lianhuachi to meet with Huang Muyan, the representative of Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao, and to discuss cooperation matters with the leaders of the Communist Party of China.

In the conference room, representatives from the three parties sat around a round table. On the table was also a military map of Sichuan, which was also filled with red and blue pencils.

"Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province. Jin Gong's provincial chairman will definitely go there to work. We want Lai Dexiang's troops to station there." Chen Guzhi picked up a red pencil and wrote Lai Xinhui's name on the Chengdu part of the map: "Around Chengdu We are going to win more than a dozen counties, and we plan to give them Luzhou and Fushun. They have been busy for a long time, and I am afraid that they will not let it go."

They are referring to the right wing of the Kuomintang. It is true that Xiong Kewu still wants to be the overlord, but he does not want to break with the right wing of the Kuomintang.If that was the case, Wang Jingwei would not be able to keep him.In fact, from his point of view, Sichuan was originally his territory, and now he gave up half of it to Sun Yat-sen's direct descendants in return for their kindness in helping him fight back, and he would keep the remaining half to play with slowly.

"General Liu Ziqian wants to take down Chuanbian. That's Liu Chengxun's territory. It has nothing to do with them. It shouldn't be a problem, right?" Wu Yuzhang still represents Liu Wenhui.

"No problem." Chen Guzhi agreed on Xiong Kewu's behalf without thinking too much.That place is high and dangerous, and there is not much oil and water, so it doesn't make much sense to win it.It is estimated that the Kuomintang will not be too interested, right?

Seeing that Chen Guzhi was so forthright, Yang Angong heaved a sigh of relief. The instructions given by the central government were to try to help the leftists of the Kuomintang develop in Sichuan, especially to control the borders of Sichuan and northwest Sichuan, and guard the passage for the rightists of the Kuomintang to expand to the northwest. Contain their strength.As for Xiong Kewu, huh, after in-depth research by Comrade Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, I feel that this person is a warlord, and he must be tragic.So just take advantage of it, don't invest too much, so as not to fold yourself into it.The Communist Party now hopes to contain the right wing of the Kuomintang and prevent them from aiding the reactionary warlords in the north, but it does not intend to break with them.So be very careful not to touch the other party's bottom line.Similarly, the rightists of the Kuomintang are more restrained in this era, and it is too late to enjoy the prosperity and wealth after winning half of China, and no one is interested in thinking about Suiyuan and northern Shaanxi.

Chapter 0192 grab money, grab territory ([-])

The orders for the Chongqing camp came down one by one.In the second half of the Battle of Pingchuan, the big drama of grabbing money and territory officially started.Everyone has worked so hard, shed blood and sweat to come to Sichuan to fight, isn't it just land and money?Therefore, as soon as the order was received, the Seventh Army and the Fifth Army, the two most efficient war machines of the Kuomintang, immediately put in 12 points of energy and devoted themselves to the great cause of land grabbing.The two armies divided into two groups, the Fifth Army headed west towards Chengdu, and the Seventh Army rushed southwest towards the cornucopia of Ziliujing Salt Field.Suddenly, the battlefield that had been silent for a day began to become noisy again.

In the command room of the Chongqing camp, staff officers passed various information and orders in and out, and the scene became busy.Now Luo Yaoguo, Jiang Baili, and He Guoguang are sitting here again, dealing with the influx of battle reports.The first to win was Suining. On the afternoon of June 6, just 3 hours after the combat order was issued, the Luo Qi Division of the 10th Regiment of the 12th Division marched more than 36 kilometers in a hurry, seized Suining, a strategically important place in the Sichuan Basin, and opened the channel. The main road to Chengdu.If Luo Yaoguo is willing, An Sihua's army can reach the city of Chengdu within 60 hours.At that time, Xiong Kewu's Sichuan King will be embarrassed.

"Where is Yang Sen now?" Luo Yaoguo asked Chief of Staff Jiang Baili while standing beside the military map.

"According to the information, Yang Sen wanted to go to the Zigong Salt Fields and leave Sichuan. He should be on the way to Zigong now. He acted a day earlier than us, but it will take time for his two armies to gather. I guess he may be in An'an." Near Yue County. It’s south of Suining, and now he’s not in the mood to go to Zigong to grab money.” Jiang Baili took a red pencil and drew a circle on the location of Anyue County on the map, and asked, “Should we talk to him now? A fight? The Fifth Army should have this strength."

"No." Luo Yaoguo shook his head: "Let him enter Chengdu. The current situation will benefit us by letting him enter Chengdu. When Yang Sen enters Chengdu, he will probably advance towards Beichuan Guangyuan. From there, we will let Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao's aid to Shaanxi nationals Army' to deal with it. Let An Sihua's Fifth Army follow Yang Sen, if he leaves Chengdu, take the opportunity to take it, I want to see where Xiong Kewu goes to dominate."

"The Seventh Army can go to Bishan County tonight, which is Liu Fucheng's lair, do we want it?" He Guoguang looked at the location of Bishan County on the map, his words flickering.

"If he opens the city to welcome the army, we will not move him. If he dares to resist, we will take him out for disobeying orders!" Luo Yaoguo's tone was very strong, as if he didn't take Liu Xiang seriously at all.

"Hehe, Fucheng is able to bend and stretch, and he won't touch an egg to a rock." He Guoguang smiled and said, "He was well-known for being obedient and obedient in the crash school." Up to this level, it all depends on his superb skills in dealing with people. For example, this time he didn't go to flatter Xiong Kewu.

"By the way, what happened to Taoist Duobao?" Luo Yaoguo pointed a pencil in the direction of the Xu Mansion and asked, "But Nugang called in the morning to say that Liu Wenhui was ready to change his banner, why hasn't he yet?" What about the audio?"

"No news is better." He Guoguang smiled slightly, and said again: "Now Zigong is his territory. If he changes the flag, we will have some troubles to move in. If he doesn't change the flag, we can just kill him."

"I'm afraid it's not that simple?" Luo Yaoguo had heard of Liu Wenhui's name in his previous life. He was a hero of his generation, and he was not easy to deal with. He must have some kind of plot.It's just that Luo Yaoguo is beyond his reach now, and he hasn't withdrawn.