Chairman Liu was able to help him straighten out the relationship in this way, and Liu Yicheng was really grateful.

I think that between him and Liu Xiang at the beginning, there was almost a war between each other for the incident of the West Sichuan Arsenal, and the later "Maoxian Turmoil" was even more well-known, and even shocked the entire Nanjing government.

Now it's finally all over.

Liu Xiang is also dying, hundreds of thousands of Sichuan army tigers, and they are about to go out of Sichuan to resist Japan, and all kinds of grievances in the past are all paid in laughter, because the all-round anti-Japanese thing is the common goal of everyone, and what ability everyone has is in the fight against Japan.

On October 4, 1937, the invading Japanese army launched another all-out offensive.

More than 300,000 Japanese troops in North China were divided into three routes, and under the command of General Shoichi Terauchi, the commander of the North China Dispatch Army, frantically attacked Suiyuan, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and other places, and telegrams asking for help from various places had already piled up.

The Japanese army in the Songhu area, under the full supply of naval warships, once again recovered to about 200,000 troops, doubling the pressure on the Songhu battlefield.

The information obtained in Nanjing is indeed very accurate, and the focus of the Japanese attack in North China is really the northern section of the Pinghan Line and the Jinpu Line.

As for the Xinkou battlefield in Shanxi, it was still based on the Fifth Division of Itagaki Seishiro, and the 109th Division of Yamaoka Chonghou was added, as well as the Chahar Corps and the Mengjiang Corps of the Kwantung Army, with a total strength of 120,000, and launched a fierce attack on the defenders of the Xinkou defense line.

Yan Xishan in Shanxi was also shocked overnight.

On October 5, the 1st and 2nd armies of the Japanese army in North China, under the command of Terauchi Shouichi, launched an all-out attack on Baoding, the capital of Hebei.

The Japanese army mobilized more than 230,000 soldiers in this battle, while the Huaxia army responded to the battle with the Shangzhen group, Song Zheyuan group, Liu Zhi group and other elites in North China, with a total strength of nearly 300,000.

On October 10, the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, under the cover of the 2nd Brigade of Heavy Artillery, took the lead in attacking Baoding City with the chariot unit as the leading force.

On October 11, the Chinese army withdrew from the battlefield of Baoding, and Baoding, the capital of Hebei Province, fell.

In this battle, our army suffered more than 50,000 casualties, the Shang Zhen group and the Liu Zhi group were hit hard, and the Song Zheyuan group was making a fuss about splitting up, one retreated to Zhengding with Shang Zhen and others, and the other retreated to Cangzhou and Shandong with Feng Yuxiang, but the military and people across the country were in an uproar, and demonstrations and demonstrations occurred from time to time.

In the battle to defend Baoding, it lasted less than a week.

The Japanese army in North China used a total of 4 divisions, more than 200 tanks or armored vehicles, more than 300 artillery pieces, and more than 100 fighters, while the Japanese army announced that the number of troops participating in the battle was more than 90,000, and the total number of casualties was more than 10,000.

Two or three hundred thousand Chinese elites were beaten into dogs by 90,000 devils, which shocked Nanjing, and even the whole of China, and made the world have to re-examine the Sino-Japanese war, and some people even seriously doubted the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army and the "brilliant results" on the Songhu battlefield.

Only Ta Kung Pao said some fair words, "(The Battle of Baoding) was the fierceness of the War of Resistance and the tragedy of sacrifice, and it was the worst on the Pinghan Line."

With the fall of Baoding, Lao Jiang and others were also anxious.

Because the Shangzhen Group and the Liu Zhi Group were hit hard, Dingzhou, Zhengding, Shijiazhuang, etc., strategic points on the Pinghan Line, there were no heavy troops available, and they were directly exposed to the devil's troops.

However, what is worse is that once Shijiazhuang is lost, the whole of North China will be unsafe, and the Japanese army will pass through Jingcheng Tianwei (one of the eight Taihang Mountains) and go straight to the flank and rear of the Xinkou defense line, and at that time, not to mention Shanxi and Taiyuan, even Handan and Changzhi will be difficult to preserve.

On October 12, the Japanese army cluster in Baoding split in two.

The First Army of the Japanese Army, with the 6th and 14th Divisions as the core, continued to move south along the northern section of the Pinghan Line, and the target of the attack was directly aimed at Zhengding and Shijiazhuang, while the 2nd Army of the Japanese Army, with the 10th and 15th Divisions as the main force, advanced eastward along the northern section of the Jinpu Line, and pointed its troops directly at Cangzhou and Dezhou.

On October 13, one of the important towns on the Pinghan line, Wangdu County, fell.

Dingzhou County and Xinle County are in danger, and at the same time, this place is only more than 90 kilometers away from Zhengding County, and Zhengding County and Shijiazhuang are just a river apart, if the Japanese army advances with all its might, within three days, it will inevitably arrive at Zhengding and Shijiazhuang, even if Nanjing wants to adjust the army, it is too late.

Lao Jiang, who received such bad news, was so anxious that he was restless in the small camp in Nanjing.

At this time, an attendant suddenly pushed open the door and sent in an urgent message, with only a few words on it, "Lu, West Sichuan 101 Factory has been captured."

The committee suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

In the early 20th century, Shijiazhuang was still a small village in the county, and at that time, Lulu County was the cargo distribution center of "Tongyan Zhao and Liansanjin", and it was a well-known dry dock in Hebei.

With the construction and opening of the Zhengtai Railway, the dry wharf of Rijin Doujin began to move eastward, and Shijiazhuang gradually replaced the position of Zhulu and became the transportation hub of central Hebei.

In 1906, in order to avoid repeated bridge construction on the Hutuo River, the Zhengtai Railway was simply connected to the Jinghan (Pinghan) Railway in Shijiazhuang, and the starting point of the Zhengtai Railway was changed from Zhengding to Shijiazhuang, and Shijiazhuang became the intersection of the two railways and officially became a railway hub and commodity distribution center.

At the beginning of 1907, the Pinghan Railway and the Zhengtai Railway were opened to traffic one after another, but it caused great inconvenience to the local pedestrians, and casualties occurred from time to time.

At the end of 1907, the landmark building of Shijiazhuang, the Dashi Bridge, was completed. The bridge is a railway-highway overpass, spanning the Pinghan Railway and the Zhengtai Railway, the bridge is 150 meters long, 7 meters high, 10 meters wide, with 23 holes, stone arches, adjacent to the railway station and Zhengtai Hotel.

At the beginning of the 20s, Shijiazhuang developed more rapidly.

At this time, the European and American powers had just finished World War I, and a large number of scrap weapons were sold for sale, and the Chinese government was restricted by the "Far Eastern armament quota," which led to the clamor of "inter-provincial autonomy," and it also gave birth to a "local autonomous city" in due course.

Unfortunately, Shijiazhuang was short-lived.

First, Sun Yat-sen's close comrade-in-arms, Chen Jiongming, an early revolutionary aspirant, degenerated into a vicious reactionary warlord, and in order to monopolize the military and political power in Guangdong, he not only tried to advocate "inter-provincial autonomy" and promote "local municipalities" everywhere, but also bombarded Mr. Sun's official residence, which was really rampant for a while.

Many people know a little about the rest of the matter, and the Whampoa Military Academy came into being.

Chen Jiongming and his subordinate troops became the sworn enemies of the old Chiang and the Whampoa Military Academy, and in order to eliminate him, Chiang launched the Second Eastern Crusade.

Secondly, in 1925 and 1926, Shijiazhuang obtained the "municipal autonomy qualification" twice, but it was approved by the reactionary Beiyang warlords, so in 1928, after the victory of the Northern Expedition, the Nanjing government successively promulgated the "Special City Organization Law" and the "Ordinary City Organization Law", and Shimen (Shijiazhuang) Autonomous City happened to be the target of the ban.

At the end of 1928, the municipality handed over the self-government certificate to the government of Houlu County.

In the following decade, Shijiazhuang became a forgotten city.

As for the Hebei Provincial Government, it was too busy, first the warlords were fighting, and the entire Central Plains was in ruins, and then the Japanese army launched a war of aggression against China, and Hebei and other places were also rumored and frightened overnight.

Therefore, the development of Shijiazhuang has a tendency to slow down, and by 1937, the population of Shijiazhuang was about 7,000.

By October 1937, due to the impact of the fall of Pingjin and other places, many people moved out one after another, and the actual population living here was less than 5,000, and it was even decreasing.

The one who sent an urgent secret message to Lao Jiang, needless to say, was the little overlord of western Sichuan himself.

Since Major General Liu Yicheng said goodbye to Liu Xiang, he immediately returned to western Sichuan County.

After returning to western Sichuan, the first thing they did was to inspect the air force units of western Sichuan County and Maozhou City, especially the newly formed Fourth Flying Wing of western Sichuan.

The co-captain is none other than Song Jack, a relation.

Of course, it seems a bit inappropriate to say that he is a relation, others rely on real skills to get to the top, when he was still teaching at the Air Force Academy, he summed up the differences between the West Sichuan Air Force and the US Air Force, and has been committed to forming an American-style Air Force wing.

Song Jack is so talented that he once suggested to Kong Yuling and Yin Qinlan that the name of West Sichuan University be changed to "West Point-Whampoa Military Academy".

This matter was even supported by Li Weili, Jiang Chongguang and others.

In this guy's view, the best military school in the United States is the West Point Military Academy, and the best military school in China is the Whampoa Military Academy, and China is now in the midst of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, so all the teaching forces in western Sichuan should be converted to the army and war, and the "Xipu Military Academy" in western Sichuan is well deserved.

Songjack's flying skills are not low either.

When he used to serve in the Hawaiian Air Force in the United States, he was a real Air Force captain, if it weren't for the white man's sense of superiority, he might have become a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force a long time ago, and of course he would not have returned to China to develop, so he ran back to China to be the captain of a flight wing, and he was still fully competent.

What's more, whether it is the Kong family, the Song family, or the old Liu family in western Sichuan, they are not the masters who lack money, and they can still afford a little tuition.

Seeing that Song Jack admired the US Air Force so much, he decided to come up with the best combat aircraft, the best technical force, and the best flight cadets, and let this guy form a team to try, if the effect is really good, the air force units in western Sichuan will not be completely reorganized into the American Air Force.

The Fourth Flying Wing of Western Sichuan has three bomber groups and a Flying Leopard fighter group, with a total of 150 fighters of various types.

Among them, there are 110 Flying Bear medium bombers and 40 Flying Leopard fighters (Jianjiao II), on the surface, the total number of fighters is about the same as that of other wings, but the requirements for field airfields and logistics supplies on the front line are really a bit harsh.

Compared to other wings, this wing belongs to the "small squadron" formation.

There are only 12 fighters per squadron, which is similar to the American or German flying squadrons, that is, every three fighters are a squadron, because the British flying squadron consists of two formations, that is, four fighters.

As for the actual effect, we will only know after the test in practice.

This kind of American-style flying wing has very high logistical requirements, and the number of ground support, maintenance, medical, and security personnel on the staff has reached a considerable number, with a total of about 2,400 people, which can be regarded as the largest flight wing in the western Sichuan region.

However, the flight wing, the demand for ace pilots, is the lowest wing.

Because, they only have one fighter brigade, can the demand for ace pilots be not low?

Commander Liu is also happy to see this happen, and if the US Air Force can find a successful search, the current size of the Western Sichuan Air Force will quadruple.

Well, in the future, the scene of "bombing by a thousand planes" will no longer be a dream.

The Flying Bear medium bomber has outstanding performance, slightly ahead of the Type 96 land attack, and its range is also relatively long, with a combat radius of 1,300 kilometers, which can completely cover most of China, and can even use Luoyang and Zhengzhou as transit bases.

These places were already located in the center of China, and there were also special airfields available for the United Army Group, and if necessary, they could fly directly from Luoyang to western Sichuan and the city capital, so that the safety of the bomber group itself could be guaranteed.

Regarding going to Shijiazhuang to participate in the war, Song Jack also has his own opinions.

He believes that these places are just at the intersection of the Taihang Mountain Range and the North China Plain, not to mention the variety of terrain and landforms, and the ups and downs are also relatively large, so it is not easy to set up a large airfield here, so it is recommended that a field airfield be arranged in Huolu County, and the fighters stationed there should be mainly fighter planes.

The Flying Leopard fighter is small in size and has a relatively large thrust weight, so it can take off and land over short distances, and the requirements for the airport are not high.

If there is an early warning radar commanding from it, it is completely possible to kill any enemy planes that are attacked by three or five times the enemy, and if the size of the aircraft group is small, as long as more attention is paid to air defense issues in peacetime, it can be concealed for a long time, and the security of the airport will be completely fine.

This point of view is very much agreed with Liu Yicheng.

In the case of being on the front line, the logistics will be very difficult, and it is a joke to transport it by rail, and it is not safe to transport it by air.

What's more, at this time, the Daguocun airport was almost still a piece of farmland, and the time in front of him was relatively rushed, he didn't dare to build the airport anywhere, the Japanese bombers were not vegetarians, once they found that the signs were wrong, they guaranteed to come in droves.