Long Yun and Bai Chongxi will go to western Sichuan to observe this year's summer military exercise in western Sichuan, and Commander Liu happened to have an interview with them.

In the face of these new routes, Liu Yun is even ready to personally participate in solving the design problem of the Chengdu-Kunming railway by the way.

Ben Erix's road repair team has been participating in the construction of the Chengdu railway hub since the construction of the Fucheng-Chengdu railway, and after two or three months of hard work, it has begun to bear fruit, and Liu Xiang and other generals of the Sichuan army attach great importance to the Chengdu-Chongqing railway, so they are naturally not ready to let western Sichuan participate.

Therefore, Liu Xiang's plan is to let Yin Changheng take command and call on railway experts across the country to build a "tall" double-track railway.

Since it was Chairman Liu Xiang who did it himself, the responders from all sides naturally looked forward to the wind and shadows, and even the Japanese concession in Chongqing was greatly moved, and not only wanted to provide railway experts, but also wanted to provide construction technology and construction funds.

It's really better than people to die, it really makes the third master want to cry, it's too difficult for him to do something, the money donated by the people hasn't arrived yet, he was calculated, and he wants to go to Nanjing to repair the road fee, as soon as he opened his mouth, he was pulled to class by Kong Caishen, looking at Liu Xiang's grand occasion now, it was simply tearful.

Of course, in this way, the trainee knight Erix will face the problem of unemployment, but fortunately, Commander Liu is a more responsible commander and provides him with a new job, that is, the construction of the railway line from the city capital to Kunming, the whole journey is 850 kilometers, and it is expected to be repaired for two or three years, which is suitable for the long-term needs of the road repair team.

In the second half of 1936, the western Sichuan railway engineering team was still rolled out in three lines, the northern line, from Guangyuan to Lanzhou or Xi'an, the southern line, from Chengdu to Kunming, and the eastern line, from Chengdu to Chongqing.

Fortunately, Fucheng Iron and Steel Plant was put on top in time, and Guangyuan, Longnan and other places still have sufficient mineral resources.

If the director of the factory did not brag, the daily output of Fugang would be close to 300 tons, equivalent to an annual output of 100,000 tons of steel, which has already exceeded the output of western Sichuan itself.

The railway network in Sichuan has basically taken shape, and the total output of steel under the name of western Sichuan, even if it does not count ant mining, has exceeded 150,000 tons, which is slightly stronger than the famous Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, and when the all-out war of resistance breaks out, the production capacity should be doubled, even if the output is still not as much as the Japanese devils, it can also ensure the normal consumption of millions of troops.

It's a pity that Ningyuan Fudukou Town (Panzhihua) is too far away, 640 kilometers away from the city, otherwise western Sichuan will no longer worry about the use of steel.

If you want to develop Dukou Town, even if you dispatch the Ant Robot Corps, it will not be something that can be achieved overnight, not to mention that Liu Yun is busy producing aircraft, Lao Jiang's Central Army has ordered 300 planes in one go, and Yan'an also has the intention of ordering another 100 planes, as for the 200 planes ordered by Liu Xiang, only half of them have been delivered so far, and the poor ants have to be busy.

Time flies quickly, the summer military exercise in western Sichuan is about to open, General Yang Gengguang, the chief of education of Nanjing Lu University, will personally serve as the chief referee of the director's department, and the guests attending the meeting are shining stars, including Wang Longyun of Yunnan, Bai Chongxi, the third master of Guangxi, Yang Hucheng of the Northwest Army, Zhang Shaomarshal of the Northeast Army, Ma Hongbin, chairman of Gansu, and Ma Buqing, commander of the First Cavalry Division, and so on.

Considering the safety and comfort of the guests, the director department will be set up in Dujiangyan and Maozhou City, respectively, seven or eight guests, and more than a dozen Sichuan army generals will be divided into two groups to act as judges, however, since two director's departments have been set up, then two responsible persons are needed, so General Bai was added as the vice president.

Because Maozhou is relatively hard, many people are reluctant to go to Maozhou to be judges, so they have to be assigned according to the principle of voluntariness, and finally go to the panel of judges in Maozhou City, including Bai Chongxi, Ma Hongbin, Ma Buqing, as well as Li Jiayu and Deng Xihou, etc., just a few people.

For the sake of convenience, Liu Sanye simply changed the Maozhou directing department into a battlefield jury, and it was not difficult to set up a field jury, that is, he took out several armored vehicles, installed several communication radars, and went to the battlefield of the exercise together with the participating troops.

However, Bai Chongxi and others are all well-known big names, in case of an accident in the exercise, no one can afford this risk, Liu Yun had to personally supervise the battle with the army, of course, he also paid attention to proportion, even if these judges strongly asked to go to the "front line", they did not dare to let them go too far ahead.

Fortunately, there are no missiles and helicopters in these years, and no one can do long-range accurate attacks, and once the range of the cannon exceeds 10 kilometers, it can only be blinded by probability, of course, the plane is also very hanging, but the premise is that it can break through the radar network and fighter network, so the battlefield jury formed is still safe.

On August 15, 1936, at 6:45 a.m., the heavy artillery cluster in western Sichuan was the first to fire.

After about 15 minutes of shelling, Wenchuan County's defense system basically collapsed, and just when everyone thought that the shelling was over, there would be a new round of shelling, but this shelling was only a short five minutes.

Don't talk about the defenders of Wenchuan County, even the directors of the two sides can't figure out why the attacking troops did this, but soon there will be results, the rumbling artillery has not completely stopped, there is a dull crushing sound, a black pressure of a tank armored vehicle, no one can figure out the specific number, it feels like more than a hundred.

Even Bai Chongxi, who was observing at the scene, couldn't figure out the number of tanks, so he had to quietly consult Liu Yun, and Commander Liu told him that there were only 60 real tanks, but there were nearly 100 armored vehicles, and on the surface, it really looked like hundreds of tanks had been dispatched.

Admiral Bai was also dumbfounded, dispatching so many tanks and cars, which means that the attacker has invested nearly 3,000 combat troops at one time.

It is important to know that the attackers participating in the exercise have only more than 4,000 people in total, and in addition to the number of flying wings, the ground troops that can really participate in the battle are only in their early 3,000s.

However, the artillery of western Sichuan cooperated very well, and when the tank rushed into the enemy's trench, it was able to shoot a barrage in time, isolating the possibility of the defenders immediately climbing out of the anti-artillery hole and reinforcing the trench fortifications, although it was only a short ten minutes, but it led to the attacker quickly occupying Wenchuan County at the minimum cost and in the shortest time.

From the launch of the artillery bombardment to the full end of the Wenchuan offensive and defensive battle, it was less than an hour, and the speed with which the attackers approached and the resoluteness of the battle amazed the judges in both places, so far more than 2,000 defenders of Wenchuan County were almost wiped out.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the sky was already bright, and the fighters of western Sichuan began to patrol in the air, but the fighters of the defending side did not move, and they were still gathering in the rear hedgehogs to be ready to attack.

To the surprise of the directors of both sides, the armored troops of the attacking side did not enter the city to rest, but quickly advanced towards the mountain pass of Yingxiu Town surrounded by their own aircraft group, but to everyone's surprise, after two hours of combat marching, no tanks or cars broke down on their own, and even the German officers who were watching were a little surprised.

Liu Yun was also taken aback, knowing that the performance had been overdone, and hurriedly let seven or eight tanks and more than a dozen cars take the initiative to break down, saying that although the science and technology in western Sichuan is very developed, it has not opened a gap with the European and American Volkswagen, so that the German allies can rest assured that China is still very backward in technology and will not pose any threat to them.

The defender is not a fool, when the attacker's tank group drove to the middle of Wenchuan County and Yingxiu Town, it happened to be the valley of the Wenjiang River, and it was at a time when it was difficult to take care of the end, so it resolutely launched an air strike, with the attack of a small group of local troops, and wanted the attacker to take off the skin if he did not die.

Yin Shunping, commander of the Maozhou Air Force, although he is also a rookie on the battlefield, pays special attention to air vigilance, and even as early as the beginning of the war, he secretly dispatched a Guantong team with a radio to go deep into the vicinity of the military airport in Dujiangyan.

In order to avoid the radio station being locked by the enemy's electronic reconnaissance equipment, only one set of codes is issued at a time, which only indicates the direction, quantity, and type of enemy planes, and the radio station only takes 7 seconds from starting, transmitting, and ending, and does not even need any debugging, so theoretically speaking, it is not afraid of the enemy's anti-electronic capture.

Therefore, as soon as the defender's plane took to the air, the information was immediately grasped by the Maozhou Air Force Wing, and Yin Shunping, who was on duty at the air command center, immediately let the first wave of attack echelons set off and joined up with the flying squadron above the armored units to carry out the vigilance mission, and together they repelled the invading enemy planes and made the ground troops prepare for air defense.

I don't know how, the enemy attacked the enemy planes, a total of more than 50 planes, there was no formation at all, sparsely dragged dozens of kilometers, when its forward flight unit, had already exchanged fire with the alert squadron, and the last fighter had just taken off from Dujiangyan Airport.

When Liu Yun received such embarrassing information, his whole face darkened, and there were about 100 new fighters equipped by the Sichuan army, of which more than 50 were deployed at Dujiangyan Airport.

More than 50 fighters attacked for more than ten minutes, but they did not break through the defense line of the alert squadron, although everyone used to be classmates of each other, it was really surprising that they fought like this, and even the directors of both sides were dumbfounded, but fortunately, the Sichuan army still has miscellaneous air force units available.

These miscellaneous aircraft, including the Hawker II fighters eliminated by the Central Army, the biplanes eliminated by Europe and the United States, and even the early wooden planes, after they were lifted off one by one, they were also a piece of black pressure, not to mention more than 40 planes, but far from quenching their thirst, and the first wave of attack aircraft in western Sichuan was already in place.

After merging with the alert squadron, the western Sichuan aircraft group was as high as more than 60 aircraft, which had formed a local numerical advantage, while the defending group's aircraft group had already shown fatigue, and of course it also received news that the miscellaneous aircraft group had come to help, so it had to be entangled with the western Sichuan aircraft group, and the two sides soon suffered battle damage, and some of the fighters were damaged.

Due to the strict queue of the western Sichuan aircraft group, and the number is slightly more, it soon gained the upper hand, the battle damage ratio is 5:11, the damaged fighters on both sides had to return one after another, leaving only nearly 100 fighters to continue the competition, and now the number of fighters on the defending side has been in absolute weakness, and it is still fighting fiercely.

Dujiangyan Airport is more than 70 kilometers away from the airspace of the war, and Maozhou City Airport is 110 kilometers away, so in terms of reinforcements, it is naturally not as fast as the defenders.

The miscellaneous aircraft group quickly arrived in the sky above the combat zone, but these aircraft groups did not participate in the air battle, but took advantage of the opportunity of the Sichuan West aircraft group to be dragged and plunged directly into the armored group on the ground.

It's a pity that the armored cluster is not a soft persimmon, almost every tank or armored car, there are M2 heavy machine guns, forming more than one hundred and forty tongues of fire, blocking the entire canopy, more than forty old-fashioned aircraft, before they could react, seven or eight fighters were hit, and the remaining planes hurriedly pulled up, no longer daring to reduce the altitude, and the bombs they carried had to be thrown indiscriminately.

It may be because the density of tanks and cars is too dense, and dozens of small bombs thrown indiscriminately can actually hit one tank and three cars, but compared to the battle damage of seven or eight aircraft, I don't know who lost and who won.

Although there are more than 30 miscellaneous fighters, but in the face of more than 10 new fighters, there is no power to fight back, in just ten minutes, more than a dozen were shot down, and the western Sichuan fighter is actually zero battle damage, now even fools know what to do, or run quickly, they are all living Lei Feng, with their own battle damage to create the myth of enemy pilots, for a while birds and beasts scattered.