Liu Yuantang's question is too tricky, his godfather is Liu Wenhui, let his subordinates compare, who dares in ordinary people, Liu Yuantang looked at this high-achieving student who came back from Yucheng with great interest, and the instructor of the Yucheng Officer Training Corps gave him a very high evaluation.

"The boss is definitely not as good as him, let alone the boss, these people in Sichuan, whether it is Liu Xiang or Deng Xihou Yang Sen, are not as good as him." To Liu Yuantang's surprise, He Chao only paused a little before answering, as if he didn't expect that Liu Yuantang was his boss or Liu Wenhui's godson.

"Oh, how dare you say it." Liu Yuantang smiled, but He Chao turned around to look at him, and then said solemnly: "I didn't dare to say this before the change, but Mr. Zhuang has a good saying, we are soldiers, soldiers are to tell the truth, and to tell lies must be filled with human life; Even if you have to face your enemy, you must face up to his merits, and only by facing them can you face them. ”

Liu Yuantang smiled indifferently, he didn't say anything, the two of them were very relaxed at this time, the attack intensity of the Dian army was weaker than they imagined, and they still had a whole regiment of reserves in their hands useless.

"Brigade commander, our strength is still thin, and we have entered Yunnan too deeply," He Chao reflexively returned to the table, pointed to the map and said: "You see, if I were Long Yun, use Sun Du to contain us, and then transfer a force to insert it into our rear road, such as crossing Gongwang Mountain from our east side, and then crossing the Pudu River, we only have one regiment and those rabble of our own family in the back, such a small number of people are distributed in such a large area, if Long Yun inserts a strong force here, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

"Well," Liu Yuantang snorted low from his nostrils: "Wait, when will Chen Guangzao come, I've urged it several times." ”

"We can't wait," He Chao said resolutely, "we must send troops back." ”

"Where are the troops," Liu Yuantang said a little irritably: "We have these four regiments, who will we draw?" Sun Du still has tens of thousands of people, and they have been siphoned off, what should I do here? ”

"Draw a group back, and at the same time telegraph the boss that Chen Guangzao will not arrive again, and we will have to give up Lu persuasion." He Chao didn't plan to back down: "Our two brigades alone can't defeat Yunnan." ”

The last sentence shook Liu Yuantang, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, Liu Wenhui was full of confidence at the beginning, but as soon as the action was launched, the action was hesitant, giving up the opportunity in vain, and letting them be in a dilemma here. The attack on Yunnan by the two brigades is a joke, it can only be regarded as a border dispute, take advantage of it and leave quickly.

"Draw a battalion from the third regiment as a reserve, let the third regiment shrink its position, and let the first regiment extend two mountain beams in the direction of Wudaoliang," He Chao said: "In this way, the front is still intact, this battalion plus the brigade special service company and the guard battalion, the reserve is enough, support for two days, Chen Guangzao does not come, we will leave." ”

Liu Yuantang looked at the map, thought about it, and said, "Okay, let's do it." ”

The front body on the position was thinned out, Sun Du's attack was repulsed again, Liu Yuantang looked at the sky, the sunset was reflected in the sky, it seems that today's battle is here, Sun Du will not attack again. So he ordered Liu Xingli, who acted as a reserve, to retreat overnight and rush to Tuanjie tomorrow to take charge of the defense of Tuanjie to Sayingpan.

After crossing the river at Feather Crossing, Lu Daoyuan's troops crossed the Biandan Mountain overnight, and in the second half of the night, they touched the vicinity of the west gate of Luquan, and the Fourth Brigade (two regiments owed) guarding the Yuluquan Brigade did not realize that the attack was coming so quickly, from the brigade commander Yang Shengwu to the soldiers.

At dawn, Lu Daoyuan's attack began, the spy company quietly climbed the city wall, and quickly cleaned up the soldiers on the city wall, but they were found by a soldier who got up early to relieve themselves when they touched the city wall, and then started a short fierce battle near the city gate, and the surprise attack of the spy company annihilated most of the defenders of the West Gate, and then they opened the city gate, and the Dian army swarmed in and rushed into the city. Lu Daoyuan divided the troops into three roads, two roads along the city wall, and all the way along the street to the county office, he judged that the headquarters of the Sichuan army was in the county office.

Maybe this is Yang Shengwu's good intentions and good rewards, his headquarters is not in the county government but in the Niangniang Temple near the north gate, the reason why he is not in the county government is because Liu Wenhui is very stingy with the county government, in Xikang he has a famous order, where the county government is better than the school, the county magistrate is shot on the spot, as a result, all the county magistrates do not dare to repair the county government, rather go to repair the school, so all the county offices in Xikang are in tatters. This is because if the school is worse than the county government, the county magistrates will move the county government to the school and give the good county government to the school. In this way, it is strange that the county government can get better.

Yang Shengwu regarded Luquan as his own territory, and the county government of Luquan was more beautiful, so he didn't want to destroy such a county government and was ready to change it to a school in the future, so he put the headquarters in Niangniang Temple.

As soon as the battle of the West Gate started, Yang Shengwu got up, he grabbed the gun and rushed out of the bedroom to begin to organize the troops to resist, Lu Daoyuan found that he was rushing to the wrong place, and he couldn't help but feel a little frustrated, but this was already unbearable for him, the Sichuan army went through the initial chaos, after losing the south gate, began to gradually stabilize its position, the firepower advantage began to play a role, the attack of the Dian army became difficult, and finally stopped near the Niangniang Temple.

During the stalemate between the two sides, Liu Xingli's regiment returned from the front line arrived, they entered the city from the east gate, and launched a counterattack against Lu Daoyuan, which was unexpected by Lu Daoyuan, and the tired and hungry Lu Daoyuan troops could not support the battle in the middle of the night, and retreated to the south gate, focusing on withdrawing from Lu Quan, and retreating into the southern mountains.

After Liu Yuantang got the news, he immediately ordered a retreat, and the whole brigade quickly retreated to Luquan, he didn't even plan to stick to Luquan, and before Sun Du arrived, he gave up Luquan and retreated to Tuanjie.

After Sun Du recovered Lu Quan, he telegraphed An Enpu to stop inserting into the camp pan, turned to Zhongping, and threatened Liu Yuantang on Tuan Street from the side.

The An Enpu Model Brigade, which rushed from Zhaotong, was one of the most elite troops in Longyun, and was stationed in Zhaotong for a long time to guard the north and west gates of Yunnan. An Enpu is also a Yi person, but he is not Long Yun's collaborator, but Long Yun's old subordinate, who was picked up by Long Yun, he has experienced a hundred battles and is loyal to Long Yun; Long Yun also treated him well, in addition to letting him command the most elite model brigade, he also handed over the county administration of the eleven counties in the Zhaotong region to him.

Just when Sun Du was preparing to encircle Liu Yuantang's main force in Tuanjie, Liu Yuantang in Tuanjie and Chen Guangzao in Huili ordered Liu Wenhui to stop the battle in northern Yunnan, Chen Guangzao's troops stopped crossing the river, and Liu Yuantang's troops immediately withdrew to the north bank of the Jinsha River.

Liu Yuantang was deeply surprised when he received the telegram and immediately called to inquire, but Liu Wenhui called back to tell him that Chiang Kai-shek had intervened in the war in northern Yunnan and strictly ordered him to withdraw his troops immediately without the slightest delay. Liu Yuantang suddenly panicked in his heart, he knew that if Chen Guangzao didn't come, his army would fight alone, and the Dian army would soon swarm in, so he immediately made a decision and immediately led his troops to retreat to Kyaukpingdu. But he was thinking and complaining all the way, he was thinking about how Chiang Kai-shek intervened in the war in northern Yunnan, complaining that Liu Wenhui had not planned well in advance, and he had known that Chiang Kai-shek was going to intervene, so why did he provoke this dispute.

At the same time that Liu Yuantang received the telegram, Sun Du also received a telegram with completely opposite contents, and Long Yun ordered him to pursue immediately, and to take advantage of the victory to cross the Jinsha River, conquer Huili, and teach Liu Wenhui a lesson.

What kept the two field commanders scrambling was the order from higher-ups, and neither of them fully understood why the order had made a 180-degree turn in just a few days.

In the telegram, Chiang Kai-shek strictly reprimanded Liu Wenhui for failing to stop the vendetta between the Yi people in time, and ordered him to persuade the Yi people who had entered Yunnan to return to Liangshan and negotiate with Chairman Longyun of Yunnan to deal with the vendetta of the Yi people. At the same time, he warned him that if he could not persuade the Yi people to return to Liangshan, the Central Army would intervene to escort the Yi people from Liangshan back. It was this murderous telegram that made Liu Wenhui helpless to stop the battle of northern Yunnan.

Chiang Kai-shek comforted Long Yun in the telegram, telling him that he had always cared about the problems of the Yi people, and that he would never forgive him for provoking the vendetta of the Yi people, and he asked Long Yun to bother to appease the Yi people and persuade the Yi people, and so on.

This telegram puzzled Long Yun, and it was not until the next day that the telegram secretly sent back by his representative in Nanjing made him cheerful, and the content of the telegram was only one, that Chen Jitang in Guangdong was about to rebel.

It is an open secret that Chen Jitang, the king of the Southern Heavens, did not sell Chiang Kai-shek's account, and the two Guangzhous headed by Chen Jitang were in a state of de facto half-reading, which had long aroused Chiang Kai-shek's dissatisfaction, and the legal tender issued in November last year was openly criticized by Chen Jitang, and Guangdong and Guangxi refused to withdraw the currency, which made Chiang Kai-shek deeply hate.

Originally, Chiang Kai-shek could not find an excuse to clean up Chen Jitang, but at the beginning of this year, Hu Hanmin, the political leader of Liangguang, died, and Chiang Kai-shek took this opportunity to put forward five requirements (not much here, there is Baidu to find out the root cause), all of which directly pointed to the core of Guangdong's military and political economy, and Chen Jitang certainly did not do it.

On the surface, he sent people to Nanjing to negotiate and dredge up the peace, and secretly contacted Li Zongren in Guangxi, He Jian in Hunan, Han Fuqu in Shandong, and other local powerful factions on the one hand, and on the other hand, he contacted anti-Chiang forces such as Deng Yanda of the Third Party and Li Jishen of the National Revolutionary League, and at the same time began to make ideological preparations against Chiang in the army.

Chiang Kai-shek had a clear view of Chen Jitang's covert activities, and he also adopted two-handed activities, openly asking Kong Xiangxi to negotiate with Chen Jitang on behalf of the central political axe, and secretly he began to make preparations for a military solution to the two Guangzhou, in terms of military deployment, Xue Yue and Yang Sen in Sichuan were transferred to southern Guizhou, Wei Lihuang's headquarters were transferred to Hunan, Jiang Dingwen, Song Xilian and other central armies entered Jiangxi, and at the same time of military deployment, Chiang Kai-shek also made great efforts to win over the local powerful factions and the generals of the Guangdong army, and Yunnan Longyun, which belonged to the local powerful faction, was an important part of him.

After thinking about the reason for the matter, Long Yun couldn't help but be overjoyed, this was really a godsend, he gave an order to Sun Du without consulting anyone, launched an attack on Xikang, and punished Liu Wenhui.

As a result, there was a dramatic change in the war in northern Yunnan, and the army that had the advantage in the battle of Luquan ran backwards wholeheartedly, while the army that was inferior rose up and pursued it bravely.

(To be continued)