When Lao Ren arrived at the mansion, Pu Su and Alyosha were not there. Alyosha was looking after Andre and another seriously injured brother at the clinic, while Pu Su was driving around the city with men looking for him.

After entering the mansion and seeing a few wounded, Lao Ren knew how fierce the crossfire was the night before, and he was secretly glad that he had escaped. If he followed Alyosha ashore on the boat, his small body bones would not be known if he would be alive if he rubbed the bullet skin.

After waiting in the mansion for a while, knowing that they wouldn't be able to come back for a while, he simply called the clinic and Bai Mantong to report his safety, so he went home to change his clothes first, and he had to go to the patrol room to show up.

As a result, the daily newspaper of the same day published another piece of news. It is said that the third son of the Sichuan warlord Fang Sen and his subordinates were arrested by the Chinese police at the Dongchang pier in Pudong, which is suspected to be related to the shootout at the pier the day before.

It wasn't until Pu Su returned to the mansion in the evening after wandering around for a day and finding nothing that he knew the news of Lao Ren's safety. And Alyosha had already heard Bai Mantong tell him, and when Lao Ren came to the mansion from the patrol room, as soon as the three of them met, they first heard Lao Ren talk nonsense about the non-existent "things happened".

Originally, because of his timidity and disobedience to the actions of several drug dealers, after he reconstructed the organizational language, he became the son of an old man, and one of the divers was his old friend, so he decisively rescued them at that time, transported them to the shore of Pudong, hid their merits and fame, did not reveal their origin and identity, and went away.

There is nothing flawed in this statement, except for a bit of a coincidence, but I can't think of any other reason. So when Pu Su handed the newspaper to Lao Ren, Lao Ren glanced at it and immediately became a little confused.

But then he thought about it carefully, he really didn't expose it, he didn't show other flaws, and he didn't even take the jade pendant that he knew was very valuable when he pinched it in his hand, so he quickly calmed down.

"Do you still know Fang Sen?"

Pu Su asked Lao Ren suspiciously.

"Well, well, I've been to Shanghai before, and I'm in charge of cleaning the streets and guarding, so ......"

Old Ren hummed and wanted to deal with the past.

"Then his third son was arrested by Wang's puppet people, and he will definitely fall into the hands of the Japanese."

Pu Su said with a frown.

At that time, there were several major warlords in Sichuan. According to incomplete statistics, from the "Provincial Gate Rebellion" in 1912 to the entry of the Central Army into Sichuan in 1935, there were "more than 400 large and small wars" in Sichuan, of which "29 were large-scale wars", and large-scale melee occurred almost every year.

After a series of bloody annexation and melee battles, the warlords of various factions in Sichuan gradually formed several warlord giants, such as Fang Sen, Deng Hou, Tian Song, Li Xiang, Liu Wenju, Liu Chenggong, Lai Wanghui, and Liu Xuhou. They have formed a unique "defense zone system" in the environment where you are conquering and destroying.

That is, the entire land of Sichuan is divided into large and small territories by the eight warlord giants, and the number of counties occupied represents the number of defense areas.

The garrison chiefs of each defense zone directly appoint the local administrators, and these governors are often also garrison officers. They can do whatever they want in their zone, including taxing freely and expanding their armies at will.

And their defense zone is not fixed. "The result of every war is the result of a redistribution of defense zones. The changes in the defense area brought about by the war were the main purpose of the war between the warlords in Sichuan.

After the Xinhai Revolution, imperialism divided and ruled, the central power was unified, and the warlords in various places developed rapidly, especially in Sichuan, a province with a large population.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the New Army was founded, and many military schools were set up in Chengdu Beijiaochang. Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Sichuan, opened the Sichuan Wubei School in the 29th year of Guangxu (1903); Sichuan Governor Xiliang opened the Sichuan Army Primary School in the 32nd year of Guangxu; Sichuan Governor Zhao Erxun opened the Sichuan Army Crash School in the 33rd year of Guangxu.

After the Xinhai Revolution, Yin Changheng, the governor of Sichuan, opened an army officer academy here; In the 8th year of the Republic of China (1919) and the 13th year of the Republic of China (1924), Xiong Kewu, the governor of Sichuan, and Yang Sen, the military governor of Sichuan, both opened army lecture halls here. These successive military academies have produced a large number of military talents for Sichuan in various periods, and many of them have become leaders and senior military generals of various factions and warlords in Sichuan.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, in the opposition to the rule of the Qing government and the Beiyang warlords, the Kuomintang forces in Sichuan and the local popular forces continued to grow and develop, and the strength of the student army of the military academy was in a staggered situation, which gave rise to many warlord factions.

The main sources of the personnel of the various warlord factions in Sichuan are three of them: first, teachers and students of various military academies, second, the alliance and Kuomintang, and third, the local robes and brothers' army. According to the order of appearance, the major warlord factions in Sichuan are recorded as the armed forces department, the Kuomintang department (the industrial department and the nine-member regiment department), the quick formation department, the Baoding department, and the officer department.

Although the Sichuan warlords have been reorganized into the National Revolutionary Army, their warlord nature has not changed, and they are still fighting for defense areas and fighting endlessly.

And that Fang Sen is the head of the armament department. Several other Sichuan warlords were extreme. The warlord zone system continued until 1934. At that time, because the Red Fourth Front Army in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area had repeatedly smashed the encirclement and suppression of the Sichuan warlords headed by Li Xiang and dealt a heavy blow to the reactionary rule of the feudal warlords, Li Xiang flew to Nanjing in November to ask Chiang Kai-shek for help.

In the spring of 1935, Chang Kaishen sent the "Staff Corps" and Shangguan and other central troops into Sichuan to supervise the Sichuan army to encircle and suppress the Red Army. At one time, it led to heavy casualties in our army. However, Fang Sen of the Armament Department has always had an ambiguous attitude, and has never participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, and even set aside a passage to remove the defenses, so that the Red Army can transfer to the base area and open a convenient door.

And his old rival, Li Xiang, was appointed chairman of Sichuan Province and director of the Sichuan Kang Pacification Office, authorizing him to abolish the warlord defense area. Li Xiang then issued a series of circulars, restricting all armies to hand over the military, political, financial, and cultural powers in the defense zone to the provincial government, and to disarm and reorganize them, thus ending the defense zone system, unifying the military and government of Sichuan, and subordinating it to the Nanjing government.

However, Fang Sen always refused to be loyal to the Nanjing government and insisted on autonomy in his original jurisdiction, so he became the envy of the Nationalist government and other warlord leaders. Some of the small warlords who had been brought together also repented and wanted to get rid of the management of the Nanjing government, so Fang Sen's existence was an unstable factor and an important goal that both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party wanted to strive for.

Fang Sen's son is now in the hands of Wang's puppet government, which is undoubtedly a great opportunity to coerce him into swearing allegiance to its puppet government. What Chang Kaishen has not been able to do for many years of coercion and temptation before, it is very likely that there will be variables.

And the national government must also be afraid that Fang Sen, as a warlord army, was just a local overlord. In the future, once the defection is made, both the morale and morale of the anti-Japanese war and the natural barrier of Sichuan's topography will be broken.

As far as our party is concerned, it has never stopped doing Fang Sen's work. With the support of his armed forces, it would be greatly advantageous to enter and exit the southwest region and to organize the base areas.

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