Chapter 180: The opening of the railway

Seeing that there are still more than 10 kilometers, the railway from West Sichuan Town to Maoxian County is about to be completed, but the agreed time with the Red Army has arrived, and the Red Army officers and soldiers who received the equipment have already laid the floor in Liu Yun's home.

Liu Daguan doesn't like to procrastinate, since he agreed, he will complete it on time, in fact, this guy is not honest, these arms have already been prepared, but he doesn't want to arouse other people's suspicion of the specific production capacity, so he waited until the agreed time and issued it on time, more than 10,000 guns and cannons, saying that it is not much, it can also equip 15,000 people, as the advance team to the north, it is still more than enough.

However, all the munitions taken together can be piled up into a small mountain, weighing more than 90 tons, and if you add the military materials spontaneously carried out by the officials and gentry of western Sichuan County, such as quilts, military uniforms, and food, there are still 150 tons, which makes the recipients stunned.

There are only one or two hundred people who accept it, and if you want to accept so many arms, you are really powerless, even the most optimistic Zheng Yuanxing did not expect it to be like this, while smiling bitterly, he secretly appreciated Liu Yun's reality, the arsenal of these years is like this, and it is said that 10,000 rifles can be given to you when the time comes, and you are lucky, by the way, in this point of guns, it is said that there is still a small half of the goods.

Of course, this situation of low prices and poor attitude is not entirely the problem of the arsenal itself, but mainly the people who control the arsenal do not want the arms to be sold to the enemy.

Zheng Yuanxing immediately made a decision, and immediately contacted the Red Army Headquarters through the radio, and the response came back quickly, only asking one sentence, whether the quality and quantity of the firearms were true, and after receiving the affirmation, the headquarters was slightly silent for a few minutes, and the instructions were to stick to the spot, and the headquarters would soon send someone to receive it.

Liu Yun, of course, had no doubts, and soon handed over the arms to a clear examination, and was about to return to the railway construction site, when a Red Army division of more than 5,000 people drove into western Sichuan County.

Under an order, the Red Army soldiers collectively changed their clothes, for a while the steel guns were in hand, the queue was orderly, and a fighting blood went straight to the sky, when someone was secretly assessing the combat effectiveness of the Red Army, the Red Army had begun to march towards Maoxian, Liu Yun was suddenly shocked, could it be that the Red Army would fight with Liu Xiang again, these mountains of ammunition, wouldn't it be good intentions to do bad things, and couldn't help but secretly complain.

When Liu Daguan was panicking, Zheng Yuanxing on the side walked over slowly, pulled his sleeve, and whispered in his ear, "Brother Yicheng, don't panic, the Red Army headquarters has sent news that Li Shengde and other Red Army leaders have held a pledge meeting in Luhua Town, if nothing else, these troops should go to Maoxian to receive food, and then they will go north to Sichuan."

Liu Yun suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, if this is the case, many things can be easily explained, the heavily armed Red Army went to Mao County, in addition to receiving grain, by the way through Songpan County, and then through the Ruoergai grassland, north to Shaanxi and Gansu and other places, but also had the meaning of demonstrating to Liu Xiang and other Sichuan troops.

After all, the Red Army is about to leave Sichuan in an all-round way, and if they only leave the front foot and the Sichuan Army makes trouble in the rear, it will be troublesome to liquidate the families and the wounded, so before leaving Sichuan, Liu Xiang and Lao Jiang must know a little that if they dare to break the peace agreement, they can kill them at any time.

Because the railway had not yet been built, the heavily armed Red Army could only rely on foot to reach Maoxian, and the journey of more than 70 kilometers actually arrived in half a day and one night, and the Red Army was at its peak, so that the soldiers and civilians of Maoxian were dumbfounded, but the Sichuan army, which had an absolute advantage, was walking on thin ice, for fear of causing trouble.

If the Red Army really plans to tear up its promises and plan to start the Sichuan Civil War again, these arms will be the last transaction, and everyone will never get along with each other from now on.

Liu Yun returned to the construction site, continued to supervise his western Sichuan Railway, and it was about to be repaired, but at this time it was a critical moment, and the workers may also know that the boss was anxious, and they started to do things, one by one, and it didn't take a few days to repair the railway, and the joy was like thunder for a while.

The railway from Maoxian County to West Sichuan County, with a total length of 76.2 kilometers, has two hub stations and seven marshalling stations, of course, the main station of West Sichuan Town has been repaired, the main station of Mao County is still under construction, the total duration is more than 80 days, if it is calculated according to the day, the construction progress of each day is less than one kilometer.

However, if there is no ant robot to help, God knows how long this short dozens of kilometers will be repaired, and fortunately, the Sichuan Army and the Red Army did not fight again, otherwise even if the Anti-Japanese War is over, most of them have not been repaired.

Of course, the construction of the railway on the western Sichuan Plateau, even if it is only a few tens of kilometers, is a breakthrough of zero, and it is good news for the upper echelons of China, even if Liu Yun wants to keep a low profile, he has to use wireless telegraphy to transmit the good news to Chengdu, Chongqing and Nanjing, as well as to the headquarters of the Red Army.

While congratulating him on his gratifying achievements, he was flattered by the fact that even Long Yun in Yunnan, Yan Xishan in Shanxi, and Li Zongren in Guangxi all sent congratulatory telegrams.

Liu Yun was called back and dizzy for several days, until Liu Xiang and Lao Jiang sent a message that they would send representatives to inspect the opening of the railway line, so as to end this senseless "telegraph war", but Liu Daguan has really entered the officialdom of the Republic of China since then, and he is famous among the princes.

Before the representatives of Nanjing and Chengdu arrived, the Red Army had already come to cheer on the scene, and the troops going north had already gone in two groups, and the last group would also set out, the largest number, about six or seven thousand people, and some personnel from Jiangyou, Guangyuan, and Songpan would also be sent to receive weapons, so the road from Maoxian to Western Sichuan County would be particularly heavy in a short time.

After the Red Army headquarters learned that the railway was being built, it immediately asked Zheng Yuanxing to contact Liu Yun to discuss the problem of railway transportation; although during the test period, various problems were chaotic and complicated, and even needed to be discussed and improved, but the speed of the train was as high as 60 kilometers per hour, and it took about three hours to run back and forth.

Then again, more than 150 Huali ordinary people have to walk for two days, if you can take the train, who wants to walk, I didn't say, railway transportation is the best choice, and people in this era are not so particular, a train with more than 20 carriages can transport more than 3,000 people.

Although it was during the test period, it was still no problem to start two or three trains, even if there was a problem that was processed by the ants on the spot, it could be solved in minutes, and the most annoying thing was the problem of the crew and the train driver, but the Red Army had a large talent reserve, and these things were just a trivial matter.

In late July, with the completion of the Maoxian hub station and the operation of a passenger car and two freight cars, the arrival of a new era in western Sichuan was officially announced.

The opening of the Maoxian Railway is of far-reaching significance to Liu Yun, and it is simply a matter of three joys, because the German military and agricultural aid group has also arrived, and West Sichuan University can finally open.

As for the armored corps belonging to the mechanical category, the special forces subordinate to the flying ground crew, and the engineering corps belonging to the agricultural category, Liu Yun vigorously promoted the so-called "western Sichuan concept", and there will be no difference between soldiers and workers in western Sichuan, workers are soldiers, and soldiers are workers, but the emphasis is different.

Due to the difference of the times, the concept of governing the army in the United States has not really been known to the world, and many people still think that this is the personal hobby of the rich son, but compared to smoking big cigarettes and the like, it is much more elegant, and there are many losers, and they can't recognize the insidiousness of this guy, which has led to Nanjing, the city and the Red Army, etc., all parties are relieved and support Liu Dagongzi's new concept.

Liu Yun originally wanted to only face the enrollment in Sichuan, but unexpectedly, not only Lao Jiang and Liu Xiang had opinions, but even Liu Wenhui had opinions, they meant that the enrollment would be in Sichuan first, and the Central Army would send some exempted students to run one or two phases of West Sichuan University, and if the effect was good, it would be recruited nationwide.

In addition, Liu Wenhui, the king of Xikang, also sent his brother Liu Wencai to western Sichuan, saying that it was to support Liu Hubei's cause, and sent a number of Yinyang and a number of Xikang specialties.

The Red Army's affairs were due to clear instructions in advance, and Liu Yun did not dare to mess around, so while letting Liu Ebei drag Liu Wencai and talk about life and feelings, he was busy contacting the city capital and Nanjing, and asking Chairman Liu and Jiang for instructions.

The arms trade has always been no trivial matter, and Nanjing and the city immediately called back, instructing them to be cautious in the future, and to wait for the supervision group of the Military Industry Administration to talk about the sale of the arsenal, but Liu Wenhui's case is a special case, and the number of firearms is not allowed to exceed 10,000.

Liu Yun immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly thanked Lao Jiang and Liu Xiang for their understanding, you must know that Western Sichuan County belongs to the Sichuan-Kang border area, even if Xikang Province is poor and thin, it will not be of great help to the future war preparations, if you send people to make trouble from time to time, it will become very troublesome.

Liu Wenhui also had a 24th Army under his name, but at the most glorious time, there were seven route armies (divisions), 10 mixed brigades, and a number of local militia groups, according to the number of troops, at least more than 100,000 horses, of course, Xikang and other places are relatively poor, and it is very good to be able to raise 50,000 or 60,000.

10,000 rifles, thousands of machine guns and mortars, as well as a number of bullets and shells, is the price of human affection, and it costs millions of silver, and Xikang Province is notoriously barren, where can you afford this money, Liu Yun was hesitating, but Liu Wencai told him that Xikang has gold.

"Gold", not to mention and forget, Xikang is located on the plateau, theoretically there are indeed more gold mines, Liu Yun suddenly turned his worries into joy, wrote off the previous armament plan, and prudently recommended the German original 98K rifle, G34 general-purpose machine gun, Makqin heavy machine gun and 72 infantry gun, etc.