The tattered military flags stained with gunpowder, the delicate blue-baked barrels were covered in dirty mud and blood, the muzzles of the guns spewed out long strings of flames, and groups of soldiers with octagonal caps fell on the red-stained battlefield, and the gray crowd swarming behind them immediately covered their bodies and approached the defensive position.

At the sound of the military trumpet, a group of soldiers jumped out of the trench with bright bayonets and rushed down the hillside, and the two streams of people collided fiercely together, and the sound of collision, screams, and explosions resounded through the valley. Bloody battles, ............ battles to the death.

In late September 1932, at the mouth of the Hekou in Hubei, two brave and combative armies fought to the death here, and the attackers were Jiang Xianyun, Xu Xiangqian, and Cai Shenxi, graduates of the first phase of Huangpu; It was their classmates Hu Zongnan and Yu Jishi who did not retreat, and farther away, a large number of Kuomintang troops were rushing in, including Liu Zhi, Jiang Dingwen, Guan Linzheng, and Huang Jie, who were instructors and classmates of Whampoa.

In the bloody battle for several days, the Red Whampoa suffered heavy casualties, the important commander Cai Shenxi was killed, Chen Geng was wounded (he was later sent to Shanghai for treatment, and was arrested in Shanghai, and after his release, he went to the Central Soviet District), and the middle and lower commanders suffered casualties; On the opposite side, Hu Zongnan's 1st Division and Yu Jishi's 88th Division also suffered heavy casualties, and even the division commander Hu Zongnan personally rushed to the front-line position with his gun at the most critical time.

In the end, the Red Army left more than 10,000 corpses and rushed westward into Shaanxi in early November.

The counties of Guangyuan and Nanjiang on the Sichuan-Shaanxi border were Tian Songyao's defense areas, and Wanyuan and Tongjiang were Liu Cunhou's defense areas.

"Fu Gong, the situation is not right," the sudden change in the situation made Zhang Sike smell a hint of ominousness, and he looked very anxious: "I can't fight anymore, I should make peace with Liu Wenhui immediately." ”

"Peace?" Qiao Yifu paused, thought for a while, and asked, "Fu Gong, doesn't Tian Songyao have an explanation?" ”

Liu Xiang looked at the white sky outside the window in a daze, his mood was extremely irritable, after the beginning of the smooth, things began to be a little weird, whether it was the dispute between Yang Li and Luo, or Tian Songyao's sudden withdrawal from Chengdu, it seems that there is a reasonable explanation, but when you think about it, it is strange everywhere, especially Tian Songyao's withdrawal from Chengdu, there is no one to interfere in it, how can the poor countryside in northern Sichuan compare to the richness of Chengdu.

Can you make peace, is Liu Wenhui willing? With Liu Wenhui's "eloquence and strategy," he will not let go of this opportunity, and he will transfer all the surveillance troops in Chengdu to the Jiangjin front.

"Fu Gong, Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao's joint telegram." Secretary-General Chen Xuechi hurriedly came in.

Liu Xiang walked quickly in front of him, grabbed the telegram, took a quick look at it, let out a sigh, and then handed the telegram to Zhang Sike and Qiao Yifu.

"What do you think?" Liu Xiang asked.

Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao told Liu Xiang in a telegram that in order not to arouse Liu Wenhui's suspicion, he would assemble troops in northern Sichuan in the name of defending against the Red Army, and after Liu Wenhui transferred the Chengdu troops to Jiangjin, he would kill them again, take Chengdu in one fell swoop, and end up Liu Wenhui's lair, but Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao proposed that the three of them would be jointly responsible for Chengdu in the future.

The room was quiet, no one knew whether he was true or not, although Yucheng in early November was not cold, but it was also a little chilly, the steamers on the river came and went, and there were bursts of trumpets on the other side, which was the migrant workers leveling the land.

Liu Xiang's gaze seemed to penetrate the sail shadow on the river to see what they were doing, and he intuitively felt that this series of abnormalities was related to them, but what did they rely on? Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao were the same as they were against the central government.

"Why don't you go over and find out what he means." Zhang Sike could see the doubts in Liu Xiang's mind.

"I think the purpose of Deng Monkey and Tian Donggua is very clear, they still sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and they don't want our family to be dominant in the future." Qiao Yifu said: "What do you say? Brother Scoke. ”

"If Tian Songyao alone can make such a judgment, but how to explain Yang Sen's actions? Yang Zihui is not a fool, if we are defeated, will Liu Wenhui spare him? Zhang Sike asked rhetorically.

"Impossible, with Liu Wenhui's temper, he will never let them go." Fu Chang replied for him.

"yes, so why are they doing that? Even if Fu Gong promised to hand over two counties to him, he would not move. Zhang Sike asked, "How do you explain it?" ”

"It's not unheard of before." Qiao Yifu hesitated and said, "Even our own troops have had it. ”

"Yes, but these things together can't help but make people suspicious." Zhang Sike was very depressed, and it was precisely because he couldn't figure him out that he was so depressed.

"It's all possible," Liu Xiang, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke: "It may be an accident, or it may be planned by someone." ”

"Planned? Who? What is he going to do? Fu Chang felt numb when he thought that this might be a trap, what kind of trap is this, all the factions in Sichuan were involved, and more importantly, all the factions actually listened to his arrangement, and when did these old men in Sichuan become so obedient?

"I don't know," Liu Xiang sighed and said, "It's because I don't know that I'm worried." ”

Visible danger is not danger, knowing the depth of the pit will not fall without death; If this is a trap, the only one who can set such a trap is the center. But what is the intention of the central government? Give Sichuan to Liu Wenhui? But Liu Wenhui and Chiang Kai-shek were politically hostile; The central government will occupy it by itself? Just the thousand people on the other side? Isn't that a dream.

"Cultural Revolution, do you think Liu Xiang will believe it?" Just as they were discussing, Li Zhilong in the base war room on the other side of the river was also asking worriedly.

"I don't know yet." Zhuang Jihua said in a low voice that it was a dangerous move to let Tian Songyao withdraw from Chengdu, in order to persuade Tian Songyao, not only had he taken great pains to expand his feelings, but Chiang Kai-shek also promised him that he would return to Chengdu after the war, and the Chengdu Arsenal would be handed over to him for management, and at the same time he would be supplemented with 1 million oceans and 2,000 guns to suppress bandits, of course, all of this was paid by Zhuang Jihua in the end.

"Will he make peace with Liu Wenhui?" Hong Junqi also rushed into the war room after he returned, and he even behaved more fanatical than the others.

"If you change me, I'll make peace." Du Yuming added angrily that the temperature in autumn varies greatly, and he trains the recruits and students brought back by each team every day, and does not pay attention to dressing, and has a slight cold: "Now that Er Liu is fighting, I will make peace if I change me." ”

"I'm not worried about that." Zhuang Jihua shook his head and said: "Peace is two-sided, even if Liu Xiang wants to make peace, Liu Wenhui must agree." ”

"I don't want to miss them, let's start the next step," Zhuang Jihua propped his hands on the edge of the sand table: "Naijian, according to what we discussed, reveal Liu Xiang's deployment to Liu Wenhui, and the breakthrough point is in Tongnan." ”

This is another dangerous move, the Tongnan battlefield was originally evenly matched, but after Chen Guangzao, who retired from Nanchong, joined, he immediately formed an absolute advantage over Wang Zanxu.

Ma'anshan in the southwest of Tongnan County is a mountain range composed of a series of hills, Wang Zanxu has established a defensive line here, but he is not here, his headquarters is located in Yingpan Town, about twenty kilometers away from here, the front line is too dangerous, and the headquarters should naturally be located in a safe place.

After dinner, Division Commander Wang pulled the chief of staff and played the Sichuan card in the headquarters of several people, there has been no war on the front line recently, the enemy on the opposite side has attacked twice, and after being beaten back, it has never launched an offensive again, and the Sichuan army has no habit of fighting at night. A light rain was falling in the dark sky, and now everyone was more at ease, no one would attack in this kind of weather.

But on the woods path between the crooked corners of the mouth and the Qingzhuyan on the far left of the defense line, a troop quietly touched over, this force was about a hundred people, and the rainy night made the mountain road more difficult to walk, and from time to time someone in the army fell, and quickly got up, quietly following the team. About half a mile behind these 100 people, there was also about a regiment of troops, silently following up. The pre-dawn troops lay in ambush in the dense forest behind the Ma'anshan defensive line, quietly waiting for the gunfire on the hill ahead.

The morning mist drifted through the valleys, and the war of a few days earlier had caused the woodfinches active in the mountains to flee their homes, and everything was quiet. At nine o'clock, a cannon rang out, and Liu's attack began.

This was an unnoticeable gap in the front, which Du Yuming found from Wang Zanxu's plan and then revealed to Liu Wenhui through the inner line arranged in the 24th Army.

In order to launch this attack, Liu Wenhui quietly transferred Xia Shouxun to the Tongnan battlefield as a commander, transferred Leng Yindong from Chengdu to the Yongchuan battlefield, and he himself left Chengdu to supervise the battle in Longchang.

The defense line of the left flank of Ma'anshan collapsed first under the front and rear attacks, and Chen Guangzao's division inserted from the left flank and rushed directly to the headquarters of Wang Zanxu's division in Yingpan Town, Wang Zanxu fled in a hurry, and Liu Xiang's entire front opened a big hole in Tongnan.

Xia Shouxun did not make a detour to Liu Xiang's main force in Jiangjin Yongchuan, but through Tongliang and Jiuxian, he went straight to Qingmu Pass, the gateway to Chongqing, Liu Xiang was shocked, and immediately transferred the garrison brigade that stayed in Yucheng to Qingmu Pass for defense, and at the same time explicitly ordered Pan Wenhua to withdraw from the Yongchuan front, and Tang Shi followed the Jiangjin front line to withdraw the army, but he himself found his uncle Liu Wenyuan to make peace.

(To be continued)