Sichuan's winter this year is particularly cold, and all units of the Sichuan army have no intention of fighting in this cold winter. The Red Army did not stop, and after three months of repairs, they launched a new offensive in September, and the direction of the operation was still directed towards Liu Cunhou.

In less than a week, the Red Army conquered Xuanhan, and then launched an attack on Daxian, Yang Sen's troops guarding Daxian County struggled to meet the battle, the Red Army offensive was fierce, Yang Sen struggled to support for two weeks, and began to retreat in the direction of Kaijiang, at this moment the war has reached the edge of Wanxian, and is about to approach the area controlled by Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua is a little anxious, he can't let the Red Army enter his base area, and he can't let the ongoing social reform and economic construction be interrupted. At the same time, he ordered Guo Xunqi of Kaixian County to ignore the Red Army feints at the entrance of the city, and immediately went out to the line of Guanyin Mountain and Mingyue River to threaten the flank of the Red Army.

Guo Xunqi fought fiercely with the Red 30th Army in Guanyin Mountain for three days, and when the battle situation was at a stalemate, Luo Zezhou led his troops to reinforce him. The build-up of the Sichuan army alerted the commander-in-chief of the Red Army, Xu Xiangqian, who categorically ordered the offensive to be stopped, and then led the main force to evacuate Daxian, and Yang Sen and Li Jiayu switched to a counteroffensive and recovered Daxian at the end of September.

Li Jiayu and Luo Zezhou's reinforcement of Daxian led to the emptiness of the defense in central Sichuan, Xu Xiangqian seized the fighter and launched the Yinan Campaign, with the Ninth Army as the main attack, attacking from the Enyang River west of Bazhong to Yilong and the south; The first part of the 30th Army went west to attack Cangxi, and the 1st part of the 31st Army went out of the northwest to attack the Guangyuan area, confusing and pinning down the enemy, and cooperating with the actions of the Ninth Army; In addition, the Fourth Army used Jiangkou and Hongkouchang to clamp down on Yang Sen's troops in the south and Liu Cunhou's troops in the east.

The 29th Army suffered a crushing defeat in the first two encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, and the officers and men of the department were afraid of fighting the Red Army, so the Red Army's offensive was unusually smooth, and it took half a month to conquer the east bank of the Jialing River in six counties, namely Yilong, Nanfang, Cangxi, and Langzhong. The most important of these was to control a large number of salt wells in the southern counties, which became more difficult for the Sichuan treasury after losing the salt tax on these salt wells.

Xu Xiangqian was still murderous, and instead launched the Pengying Campaign, the front of the troops pointed to Peng'an and Yingshan, these two counties are Yangsen's defense areas, but the main force of Yang Sen's department was transferred to the county by Zhuang Jihua, and at this moment Peng'an and Yingshan troops were empty. Xu Xiangqian adopted the tactics of killing chickens with knives, concentrating three armies, with the 30th Army as the main force, and taking on the frontal assault mission; The main force of the Ninth Army moved east from the Yilong area, and the 11th Division of the Fourth Army moved from the southeast to the west of Bazhong, carrying out flank attacks. The 31st Army monitored the direction of Guangyuan and southern Shaanxi. The offensive was launched at the end of September, and the defense of the 2nd Mixed Brigade under Yang Sen's headquarters was quickly crushed, and Yushan Field and Dingshan Field were captured, and then the troops were divided into two routes, one to Yingshan and the other to Pengxi. After Yang Sen heard about it in Da County, he was in a hurry and immediately ordered the Fourth Mixed Brigade stationed in Nanchong to reinforce Yingshan, and he himself asked to lead the four mixed brigades in Daxian County back to reinforce Yingshan.

Zhuang Jihua thought that it was better to encircle Wei and save Zhao than to passively return to help, and he telegraphed Yang Sen, Li Jiayu, Luo Zezhou, Guo Xunqi, to counterattack Xuanhan with Luo Zezhou's troops, and the remaining three troops crossed the Ba River to attack Pyeongchang, and at the same time told them to keep a distance in groups during the attack, and the troops should not exceed three kilometers between each other.

After deliberation with Yang Sen, Li Jiayu, and Guo Xunqi, it was decided that Yang Sen would be the commander-in-chief and command all units to attack Pyeongchang. Pyeongchang is located in the northeast of Pengxi and Yingshan, south of Bazhong and Tongjiang, and east of Yilong and Nannan.

The Sichuan army's offensive was very fierce, and the 11th Division of the Red Fourth Army, which was responsible for monitoring the three divisions, failed to block the attack of the three divisions, and was forced to retreat to the county town of Pyeongchang, and at the same time urgently called forward for help. Xu Xiangqian received the telegram and immediately led his troops to withdraw from Yingshan and Pengxi, and launched an attack on the flanks of the three divisions from the direction of Shixichang.

Xu Xiangqian's movements did not hide from Yang Sen, who had been vigilant, he immediately led his troops to shrink back to the border of Daxian, Xu Xiangqian's counteroffensive failed, and at this moment, Fan Shaozeng's division and Pan Wenhua's division of Liu Xiang Police Station cooperated with Tian Songyao's department to counterattack Langzhong in the south of Yilong, and there was a fierce battle with the Red Ninth Army guarding it, Xu Xiangqian weighed the overall situation, ordered the Red Ninth Army to withdraw from Cangxi and Langzhong, and ordered the Red Thirty Army to rush to the south.

"Cultural Revolution, do you really want to attack them in Wushan?" Seeing Zhuang Jihua's successive moves, Li Zhilong couldn't help but ask quietly, with deep worry on his face.

"I'm just protecting myself," Zhuang Jihua shook his head and said: "Besides, they are not so easy to be eliminated, Wushan They are too risky this time, they fight continuously, and the troops are spread out so much, they have made the mistake of underestimating the enemy." As long as they don't come to me, I don't care about them. ”

The Red Army and the Pan Fan Division fought fiercely in the south one after another, and by the end of October, both sides were exhausted, and the war was in a stalemate, so that both the Sichuan Army and the Red Army understood that it was very difficult to destroy each other, especially the Red Army, who had a new understanding of the Sichuan Army, and the other side was not as weak as they thought.

As soon as the fighting on the front line stopped, Zhuang Jihua immediately ordered the trial implementation of the military service system, and every natural village in Yucheng and its surrounding 16 counties was transferred, and the staff of the military service center had already registered the school-age population of each village in the preparation that lasted for nearly a year, and soon 3,700 service personnel were selected from more than 2,400 natural villages in 16 counties.

Zhuang Jihua was a little surprised when he got this number, he didn't expect that there would be more, Hong Junqi told him very proudly, some young people in the countryside are still willing to be soldiers, especially the aftermath of the heroic report group has not dispersed, some members of the Three Youth League and young Kuomintang members voluntarily asked to join the army, and the township military service station stopped them, so they went to the county military service bureau and insisted on joining the army, and there was no choice but to send them here.

Zhuang Jihua was deeply happy after hearing this, and the propaganda war during this period was not in vain, and then told Du Yuming: "According to our plan, this group of people is mainly for basic military training and cultural education, and they will go back to serve as the captain of the village militia in the future." ”

Du Yuming came back with the last group of guards in early September, and when he came back, the barracks had not yet been fully built, so he took people to live in the sunflower shed of the base, and a few new guards scratched their hearts, saying that the place where they lived was a kennel, and the old guards immediately took them to Zhuang Jihua's house, pointed to Zhuang Jihua's house and told them that Captain Zhuang had lived in such a kennel for a year with the rank of major general; And he still has to live here, the rule here is that those who are soldiers live first, and those who are officials live later. Now everyone is not scratched, and they honestly live in the sunflower shed, and there is an extra layer of weirdness in their hearts, how can the officials here be different from other places. By the end of October, the barracks of the new barracks had been completed, and Du Yuming and his entire escort team moved into the new barracks.

"Our approach is slow, but it's the right way." Du Yuming said with a smile. Now he has more than 5,000 men under his command and can form a mixed brigade.

"I'll hand them over to you, you must train me well, and the time is only one year." Zhuang Jihua said that he also said the same thing Song Yunfei, but the time was three years. Most of the newly recruited guards are from the volunteers, and most of them are mixed with the green forest, and many of them have their own unique skills, so Zhuang Jihua and Song Yunfei selected these people into the special forces and conducted comprehensive training in the way of special forces.

Zhuang Jihua is interested in the special forces, and he personally designated the teaching materials, training subjects, and training methods, and he runs there as long as he is free, and he himself is still serving as a political instructor in it. These people include the little white dragon Fan Chunsheng, his second leader Peng Yaoshi, a company commander under Lao Baifeng, the worship brother of the sweeping tiger, and so on...

The happy events in November continued, Professor Ding successfully produced penicillin on the seventh day after the two months he scheduled, but the scale was still relatively small, only more than 7,000 injections per month, when he told Zhuang Jihua the good news, Zhuang Jihua immediately ordered the formation of a special escort team, this thing is a big golden egg, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will be red.

The pharmaceutical factory was strictly controlled on the same day, the walls around the pharmaceutical factory were increased by a zhang, and double posts were added at the entrance of the factory, and all employees must wear signs when entering and exiting, and there were photos of employees on the signs, indicating their type of work, work number, and workshop, and those who did not have this sign were prohibited from entering the pharmaceutical factory, and the sentries who violated the order could be shot on the spot. This outer defense is not enough, there are two posts outside the gate of the core workshop, and the guards guarding here must know all the people who work in this workshop.

Of course, the most top-secret formula, production process drawings and other information were locked into the base's secret room by Zhuang Jihua, and this secret room was manned 24 hours a day.

Neither Li Zhilong nor Du Yuming took it seriously with Zhuang Jihua's fanfare secrecy arrangement, but Professor Ding thought deeply and allowed the troops to enter the pharmaceutical factory for the first time. However, Professor Ding resolutely opposed Zhuang Jihua's decision to send all these medicines to Shanghai for sale, and the price was astonishing to 100 oceans.

"No, absolutely not," Professor Ding's head shook like a rattle, and his face turned red: "This medicine is for the front-line soldiers, not for selling for money." And you're not selling money either, it's robbery! Got it? Robbery! ”

"I admit that it's a bit expensive," Zhuang Jihua nodded: "But the problem now is that the development of the southwest requires a lot of funds, and we are only building a few factories now. Now the soldiers in the north may die because of the lack of medicine, but if the development of the southwest does not speed up, we will die more in the future. The death of one person now may be exchanged for the survival of a hundred people in the future. ”

Professor Ding was shocked by Zhuang Jihua's excited demeanor, and he said only after half a sound: "I am a doctor, my job is to treat diseases and save people, I can't watch patients die without medicine, I can't agree with your approach." ”

Zhuang Jihua couldn't cry or laugh, this intellectual was too cute, much cuter than those in his previous life, he had no choice but to give in, and agreed to send 3,000 to various hospitals in Beiping, and the other 3,000 to Shanghai for money, and the remaining 1,000 to be used on the spot.

However, this incident reminded Zhuang Jihua, and he decided that in the future, the products of each factory would be distributed by the Sichuan Development Company. Because in the future, he himself does not know how many things he will do that are not in line with the ethics of experts and professors.

After the affairs of the pharmaceutical factory were completed, Zhuang Jihua returned to the base, and Gong Xiuhua was waiting for him in the reception room with Gong Xiuhua. He went to schools, rural areas, mines, factories under construction and those that have been put into operation, inspected the treatment of workers, and walked around the Chengdu-Chongqing railway construction site, where more than 100,000 people are under construction.

"Cultural Revolution, I have to say that you did a very good job, better than I imagined." The first thing he said when he saw Zhuang Jihua was that he sighed with emotion after two months, he already felt that the society was slowly changing, some time ago, the countryside was recruiting reservists to enlist in the army, and he saw that there were people who did not want to go, and there were people who were making trouble if they couldn't report their names. As a soldier, of course, he knew the important surname of the reserve, and he was surprised that Zhuang Jihua only recruited such a few people, so Gong Xiuhua gave him a detailed introduction to Zhuang Jihua's idea of how to establish the reserve. After listening to the introduction of the palace embroidery painting, I had to sigh seriously.

"I can only say that I have tried my best," Zhuang Jihua smiled bitterly, he was dissatisfied with many things, he thought the progress of the project was slow for the factories that had not yet been put into production, and the output of the factories that had been put into operation was too low; The four main highways planned in the first phase have been completed, and the second phase of construction will be started again, but the highway construction in Sichuan has slowed down or even stopped, and all the armies have focused on the military, and the road construction funds have been diverted to military expenses.

"Teacher, each of us here is doing the work of three or more people, and everyone is spinning in a row. Teacher, you have to stay and help me. Zhuang Jihua spoke again, please stay seriously.

"There are a lot of talents in Sichuan, why don't you invite some talented social elites?" Seriously did not directly answer his request, but made a suggestion to him.

"There are many problems with social elites, Qinggao is one of them," Zhuang Jihua smiled bitterly: "Qingtan is another, they regard themselves as more capable than anyone else, but there are few who really have the ability, and they are the first to speak, but if you really want to do things,..., forget it." I hope that there will be a few talents like Lu Zuofu. ”

"It seems that you have to squeeze out the last drop of oil from my old bones," Serious showed a helpless look on his face, Zhuang Jihua was suddenly overjoyed, he could say this, which showed that he was willing to stay, but Serious then said: "Actually, you can try it, isn't Yu Peidi in Yucheng, he is a talent." ”

Zhuang Jihua sighed and said: "It's not that I haven't looked for him, people don't want to come, saying that they have left the political circles and don't want to get involved in right and wrong anymore." ”

Yu Peidi, of course Zhuang Jihua did not forget, when he first entered Sichuan, he did not look for him because he was worried that Liu Xiang would react, and he went to him after capturing Yucheng, but he was rejected. Zhuang Jihua is very sorry.

"Then I'll go talk to him." Smiling seriously, Zhuang Jihua was excited again.

After the serious departure, Gong Xiuhua said to Zhuang Jihua: "This teacher of yours is not just here to come and see. ”

"It's nothing, I just need to know two points," Zhuang Jihua said lightly: "First, he is Chinese; Second, he is talented; That's enough. ”

(To be continued)