Liu Xiang and others sent telegrams, but they didn't all want to find Commander Liu.

Or maybe they want some iron coins and guns or something, but Li Jiayu and others are also on the expedition and will go north with General Deng Xihou, because once they go on the expedition, then Fucheng, Guangyuan and Longnan will become a vacuum.

Who will take over these places?

However, the generals of the Sichuan army did not reach a consensus.

Or another big man at the meeting, Liu Wenhui, the king of Xikang, proposed in a timely manner, thinking that Deng Xihou and others should take advantage of the fact that Deng Xihou and others have not officially left Sichuan to see if the Western Sichuan Prefecture can temporarily manage these territories.

Unexpectedly, the generals of the Sichuan army responded one after another, so they jointly sent a telegram and wanted to discuss the matter with Commander Liu.

Commander Liu had no choice but to hastily end the internal meeting, and asked Guo Qixun and others to pay more attention to artillery training, especially the 122mm heavy gun, as well as the heavy 152mm heavy gun, and then when he returned to the study, he took out the telegram again, squinted his eyes and thought carefully, who should take over.

After thinking about it for a while, I thought of a lot of methods, but none of them worked.

It just so happened that Yin Qinlan walked in gently with fragrant tea, and saw someone with a sad face, thinking about it there, and couldn't help but be a little funny, "Xianggong, don't be too greedy, isn't it enough to have Daliang Mountain?" ”

It's really a word to wake up the dreamer.

Yes, Daliang Mountain seems to be extremely desolate, but it is a typical land with sparse people, and there are countless underground mineral deposits, it is a real cornucopia, especially now that the railway has been built, and two top steel factories have been set up.

It's not good to wait for development now, but if you want to occupy Fucheng and Longnan and other places, it is really boring and self-defeating.

It is really prosperous to have a good wife in the family, Commander Liu couldn't help but kiss it, which made Yin Qinlan's face flushed, but fortunately, the two of them knew that the big thing was important, so it did not evolve into some plots that were inappropriate for children.

Commander Liu immediately ordered someone to call back to the city, claiming that he was "young and immoral, and it is difficult to take this post".

In the days that followed, Liu Yun began his retreat.

He focused on how to learn from the experience of 182mm heavy guns, improve the 122mm and 150mm heavy guns, and repeatedly experimented in the virtual fantasy of the brain, and soon these two new howitzers were successfully developed and handed over to the ant robot to manufacture immediately.

The new 122 mm howitzer has a barrel length of 28 times the diameter, a dead weight of 2.2 tons, a muzzle velocity of 720 m / s, a maximum range of 21.6 km, if a concave bullet is used, it can be increased to 26.8 km, and when using air compression shells, the firing range exceeds 30 km, and the rate of fire is 8-12 rounds / min.

The new 152 mm howitzer has a barrel length of 32 times the diameter, a dead weight of 4.2 tons, a muzzle velocity of 765 m / s, a maximum range of 24.7 km, which can be increased to 29.6 km if a concave shell is used, and a range of 35 km and a rate of fire of 6-8 rounds per minute when using air compressed shells.

Because western Sichuan has become the industrial center of the rear of the southwest, all kinds of scientific and technical personnel, as well as industrial materials and machinery and equipment are relatively complete, if the ant robot is fully firepower, the production of 500 heavy artillery, that is, ten days of effort.

But the situation is a bit peculiar.

Even if heavy artillery is produced, it is of little use.

The first is the transportation problem, a train can only carry twenty or thirty doors.

Second, Nanjing did not have so much artillery.

If we add planes, tanks, guns and ammunition, and other armaments, the western Sichuan railway will be busy, and even five or six trains a day will not be enough, and the arms transported from western Sichuan to Nanjing or Wuhan will also need to be transported by special military trains.

Anyone who has ever sat in a military train knows that in order to ensure safety, the speed of this thing is simply slow, and it often takes four or five days to make a unilateral trip.

However, the Nanjing government, headed by Lao Chiang, always had an inexplicable illusion about the Japanese.

I always hope that the Japanese devils will suddenly have a kind heart and suddenly suspend the all-out military operation of aggression against China.

This mentality of passive resistance seriously affected the preparations of the Chinese army and the people, and it was not until the devils expanded their army by one million, occupied Pingjin one by one, and were about to sweep the entire land of China, that Lao Jiang gave up the illusion of making peace with Japan, and had to hastily launch the Battle of Songhu, hoping to turn the passive into the active.

On July 16, the strength of the Japanese army in North China reached 5 divisions and regiments, with a total strength of 150,000.

On 17 July, Kiyoshi Kawatani, commander of the Japanese Third Fleet, reported to the naval headquarters at the Shanghai Navy that "in order to put China to the death, it is necessary to control Shanghai and Nanjing."

At the same time, the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Army sent a telegram to the Emperor stating that "the attack on Shanghai will deprive it of its function as an economic center" and that "a blockade of China's coastal areas should be resolutely imposed at the appropriate time in order to threaten the survival of the Chinese people and army and cut off foreign economic activities."

The spies of the Nanjing government are indeed powerful.

Lao Chiang received the above information on the same day, so he had no choice but to deliver a speech on the Anti-Japanese War in Lushan, and telegraphed the whole country on the Lugou Bridge incident, "Peace has not reached a period of fundamental despair, we will never give up peace, and we will never sacrifice lightly until the last moment."

"Only the determination to sacrifice to the end can win the final victory."

"If you are uncertain and delusional, you will fall into a land of no return."

"We want peace, not peace, and we are ready to fight, but we will never go to war."

"If the war starts, it means that there is no distinction between the north and the south, the old and the young, no matter who they are, they all have the responsibility to defend the land and resist the war, and they should all have the determination to sacrifice everything."

Lao Chiang's intentions are also obvious, the point is to warn the Japanese devils, "Don't deceive people too much, we in China dare to fight and can fight, we will all be soldiers, are you afraid of it."

It's a pity that Chiang's hard work was in vain, and the Japanese army read it up and down to understand that the Nanjing government was weak and incompetent.

On July 26, the headquarters of the Japanese army in North China issued an ultimatum to the 29th Army stationed in Pingjin, ordering Song Zheyuan's troops to immediately withdraw from Beiping and Tianjin.

This shameless demand was categorically rejected by the top and bottom of the 29th Army.

Subsequently, tens of thousands of Japanese troops, under the cover of aircraft, tanks, and artillery, launched an all-out attack on Beiping and Tianjin, as well as various adjacent strategic points.

On July 28, the Japanese army launched a general attack on Nanyuan, Beiyuan and other places in the suburbs of Beiping, and the Chinese soldiers and civilians swore to hold their positions to the death, desperately resisting the invaders, and suffered heavy losses under the enemy's artillery fire and indiscriminate bombardment by aircraft, and Tong Linge, deputy commander of the 29th Army, and Zhao Dengyu, commander of the 132nd Division, were martyred successively.

On July 29, Song Zheyuan led his troops to retreat to Baoding, Hebei, and the Japanese army occupied Beiping.

On July 30, the Japanese army increased its troops in Tianjin from Dagukou, forming a strategic encirclement of our Tianjin defenders (Zhang Zizhong's 38th Division), resulting in the defenders having to withdraw from the battle, and Tianjin fell on the same day. After that, the Japanese army in North China concentrated heavy troops and moved south, causing the entire North China to be eroded.

On July 31, Chiang Kai-shek once again issued an anti-Japanese telegram, calling on the military and people of the whole country to resist the war to the end.

At the beginning of August, relying on Beiping, Tianjin, and the three northeastern provinces, the Japanese army marched south in three routes to launch an offensive against the whole of North China.

The Japanese army on the middle route started from Beiping, and the Shunping-Han railway line (from Beiping to Hankou) went south, directly aiming at Baoding, Zhengding (Zhending) and Shijiazhuang, and the strategic purpose was to capture Henan, encircle Shanxi, occupy the Longhai railway line (from Shaanxi to Lianyungang), and then threaten the three towns of Wuhan.

As for the Japanese army on the East Road, it started from Tianjin and moved south along the Tianjin-Pudong railway line (from Tianjin to Nanjing Pukou), with the strategic purpose of capturing Jinan, Shandong, and Xuzhou, and finally occupying Nanjing Pukou.

The south entrance is the dangerous pass on the south side of Juyong Pass, the intersection of the Taihang Mountain Range and the Yanshan Mountain Range, and the throat of Jicha and Shanxi, which is a battleground for soldiers since ancient times.

The strategic intentions of the Japanese army on the Western Route made the Nanjing Nationalist Government and the Jin Sui Army highly vigilant.

On August 5, Tang Enbo, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the Second Theater, led his troops into Nankou and rushed to build field fortifications, intending to resist the Japanese army's independent mixed 11th Brigade and 5th Division by virtue of the danger of Nankou.

At the same time, Yan Xishan in Shanxi Province sent additional troops to Jining and Fengzhen to form a horn with Nankou and resist the Japanese attack together with Tang Enbo's troops.

From August 8th to 14th, the defenders of Nankou in China fought fiercely with the Japanese army, under the bombardment of aircraft and artillery, the fortifications on the position were almost razed to the ground.

In order to reverse the situation of Nankou being passively beaten, the Nanjing Military Commission ordered the Jinsui cavalry to secretly assemble north of Chahar, intending to disperse the Japanese offensive against Fengnankou from the flank.

On August 21, Zhangjiakou fell. Nankou was in the predicament of being attacked by the enemy, and the reinforcements were delayed, resulting in more and more loopholes in the defensive line, and finally Nankou fell, the Chahar barrier was lost, and the whole province of Chahar was quickly controlled by the Japanese army, and the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders pointed directly at Taiyuan, Shanxi.

When the battle in Nankou was together, Yan Xishan and other Shanxi generals were anxious.

Previously, Yan Xishan and others were still a little unimpressed with the reinforcement plans of the Central Army and the Sichuan Army, and did everything they could to procrastinate.

Now the Japanese army's troops are like a bamboo, and they were suddenly frightened and screamed, not only hoping that the Central Army and the Sichuan Army would enter Jin as soon as possible and assist the Jin Sui Army in defending Shanxi and Suiyuan, but even the Eighth Route Army and the Shaanxi Army, which they looked down on on weekdays, were also invited three times a day.

In view of the ferocious offensive of the Japanese army in North China and the critical situation in North China, the Sichuan Army must leave Sichuan to participate in the war as soon as possible, and the Nanjing Military Commission ordered the official launch of the 22nd Group Army, with a total strength of nearly 100,000 troops.

The group army was composed of the veteran general of the Sichuan Army, Deng Xihou as the commander-in-chief, and had three armies, including the 41st Army, the commander of which was General Sun Zhen, and had three divisions, namely the 122nd Division (division commander Wang Mingzhang), the 123rd Division (division commander Zeng Xiandong) and the 124th Division (the division commander was concurrently served by Sun Zhen).

The 45th Army, commander Deng Xihou (concurrently), has three divisions, namely the 125th Division (division commander Chen Dingxun), the 126th Division (division commander Huang Yin) and the 127th Division (division commander Chen Li).

and the 47th Army, with two divisions under its command, namely the 104th Division (Division Commander Li Qingting) and the 178th Division (Division Commander Li Zongfang).

Commander Liu Yicheng, who received the report of the Sichuan army leaving Sichuan, remembered some unpleasant things.

In another time and space, this Sichuan army, which went north to resist Japan, became a notorious "bandit army", and the group army thought of the problem of staying behind before it left Sichuan.

For example, the 41st Army left the 123rd Division to guard Fucheng, and later in order to ensure the supply of the army to the north to resist Japan, the division sent the 369th Brigade to stay in Xixiang, Shaanxi, which became the Xixiang military station and transportation transit station.

The 45th Army also followed the same example, leaving the 126th Division to guard Guangyuan, and sending two independent brigades, the 17th and 18th Brigades, as well as militia regiments in some places, to set up military stations and logistics supply points along the way.

In another time and space, Li Jiayu's 47th Army was supposed to be stationed in the Xichang area of Daliang Mountain, but due to the butterfly benefit of a certain little ant, the army stayed in Fucheng, and the 41st Army, which was supposed to be stationed in Fucheng, went to Longnan County with General Deng Xihou.

According to the evolution of another time and space, the destruction of the 22nd Group Army is not over.

When a contingent of 780,000 Sichuan troops had just trekked from Sichuan to Xi'an and were about to leave for Shanxi, Li Jiayu's 47th Army was pulled out of the group army by the Nanjing Military Commission for other important purposes and stayed in the Changzhi area, causing the Sichuan army to be seriously reduced, and there were only more than 50,000 horses and horses when it arrived in Taiyuan.

What really made Commander Liu unbearable was that the more than 50,000 soldiers of the Sichuan Army could be regarded as a disgrace to his grandmother's house.

When they first left Sichuan, they were deceived by rumors, and they actually believed that they would "go to Xi'an to replenish equipment", so they buried their guns one after another, as the capital for "starting again" in the future, so as to take away the dilapidated guns and fill them.

However, after the Sichuan army arrived in Xi'an, it was not replenished in time, so that when it arrived in Shanxi, the soldiers did not look like soldiers, and the officials did not look like officials, which made people suspect that they were bandits going down the mountain, and Yan Xishan only took out 20 submachine guns to prevaricate, resulting in the Sichuan army fighting an encounter with the Japanese army with extremely poor weapons.

What is even more outrageous is that after the group army entered the second war zone, the Nanjing Military Commission issued a sum of money for the military station, but Deng Xihou used the personnel improperly, and appointed Liu Jingyi, a senior staff member, as the sub-supervisor of the military station.

The army could only "levy and distribute on the spot", like bandits and robbery, which made the reputation of the Sichuan army insignificant.