The situation in northern Yunnan is getting more and more intense, Long Yun himself is very angry at Liu Wenhui's interference, and his telegram makes Long Yun even more excited, you can fight if you want to, and after you send a telegram, you want to take Lu Quan's money into your pocket, and see me Long Yun as something.

"Wait," Long Yun was about to give an order in a fit of rage, when a voice stopped him, and Long Yun looked up and saw that it was Hu Ying, the elder of the Dian army. Long Yun is a Yi person, the surname of the Yi people is straightforward, coupled with a long military career, his surname is even more upright, if someone else blocked him, I am afraid he would have slapped him and flew over, but Hu Ying is different.

Hu Ying is a veteran of the Yunnan Army, when he Long Yun was still a guard around Tang Jiyao, Hu Ying was the brigade commander of the protection [***] in the war against Yuan Huguo, after the Yuan Huguo, Hu Ying became one of the five brigade commanders of the Guizhou Army, and he was also the brigade commander of the later Huangpu Chief Instructor, the current Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin, and later Hu Ying was slandered by Gu Zhenglun in the dispute between Sun Yat-sen and Tang Jiyao, Sun Yat-sen wanted to remove the brigade commander, Hu Ying simply resigned after hearing about it, and returned to Yunnan with his family to live.

Echo who returned to Yunnan was invited by Tang Jiyao to serve as the deputy of the general team of Yunnan Jiangwutang, but the captain was concurrently served by Tang Jiyao, so he actually presided over this general team, and now a large number of middle-level and bottom-level generals of the Yunnan army are from this general school team, so Hu Ying's prestige in the Yunnan army is very high.

In addition to his high prestige in the Yunnan army, Hu Ying also had kindness to Long Yun, he helped Long Yun get out of the predicament twice, once when Long Yun and Hu Ruoyu were in dispute, he succeeded Long Yun as the commander of the 38th Army when Long Yun was detained, and commanded Lu Han and other Long Yun's subordinates to counterattack Kunming, defeat Hu Ruoyu, and force Hu Ruoyu to return to Long Yun; The second time was that Long Yun proposed to change the division into a brigade in order to strengthen his control over the army, but he was opposed by Lu Han and other four division commanders, Long Yun resigned and returned home for a time, and it was Hu Ying who intervened to make Long Yun overcome the crisis.

So Hu Ying opened his mouth and Long Yun had to listen, Hu Ying stopped Long Yun and slowly said, "Zhizhou, where are you going to fight?" ”

Long Yunleng was stunned, he understood what Hu Ying meant, whether to recover Lu Quan, or to attack Sichuan and occupy the Daliang Mountain area, now he calmed down, and it goes without saying that he could recover Lu Quan, but attacking Huili would mean a complete rupture with Liu Wenhui, would that cause the Sichuan forces to be concentric? At that time, Xiong Kewu called on the Sichuan people to govern Sichuan, united all the Sichuan army, and drove the Dian army and the Guizhou army, which were better than them in strength and equipment, out of Sichuan, which was something he had personally experienced. But if he didn't invade Sichuan to teach Liu Wenhui a lesson, he couldn't swallow this breath, and a cat with hair loss dared to spread wild on the tiger's head.

"Naturally, it is to attack Xikang, first hit Dechang, and then see if the situation is to attack Xichang." Salt transport made Zhang Chong blurt out, he is also a Yi person, Long Yun's most core henchmen are Yi people, he defeated Hu Ruoyu and others with the support of these Yi brothers, and became the king of Yunnan, but after Long Yun ascended the throne of Yunnan, he released his military power with a glass of wine, and made the Yi brothers high-ranking officials, and changed to use Han people to lead Yi soldiers, except for his cousin Lu Han, of course.

"My opinion is that it is enough to recover Lu Quan," Hu Ying shook her head and said: "Whether you can attack Huili or not depends on the situation, why does Liu Wenhui dare to provoke us?" I think there are three reasons: first, the Huili area is now the focus of the development of the southwest, and once a war breaks out here, it is likely to involve Zhuang Jihua of the central department; Zhuang Jihua has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the development of the Huili area, he will never sit idly by and watch these things be destroyed by the war, and he will interfere with himself and others, so Liu Wenhui has nothing to fear; Second, the Sichuan army was reorganized, and the Sichuan army was reduced from 400,000 to 300,000, which must have many twists and turns. the third is the intention to expand southward; Liu Wenhui was defeated in the Battle of Erliu, confined to the Xikang region, and wanted to develop outward, but the conditions in Sichuan did not allow it, so he turned to Yunnan. Combining these three points, if we attack Huili, we must consider the reaction of the Southwest Development Team, and then contradict the central government, which is not worth it. ”

Long Yun didn't speak, but in his heart he admitted that Hu Ying was right, what was the truth about the development of the southwest, in addition to the newspaper report, he didn't know, but the text sent back by his representative in Chengdu was highly respected, and Xu was the hope of the Republic of China, which once aroused his interest.

"General Yunshan is right, counterattack Lu advises us to be polite and courteous, but if we go out of the province to fight, we will be at a loss." Talking is an old man with white hair, seeing this old man, Long Yun couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, this is the old man of Yunnan, called Zhou Zhongyue, this old man in the Guangxu years of Xie Yuan, but he gave up the imperial examination in the second year to go east to study, after Xinhai returned to China, successively served as the director of Yunnan Education, the governor, the director of the Department of Civil Affairs, the director of the Department of Internal Affairs, is an evergreen tree in Yunnan politics, and is currently an important figure in Longyun's staff.

Long Yun knew that he was very immature politically, so he attached great importance to Hu Ying and Zhou Zhongyue, and the two main aides were opposed, which made Long Yun give up the idea of teaching Liu Wenhui a hard lesson. He ordered An Enpu's brigade to reinforce Sun Du, and at the same time telegraphed Liu Wenhui to ask him to withdraw to the Yunnan army and severely punish him for self-study.

Liu Wenhui dragged on for two days before calling back, saying that it was okay to withdraw the army, but the Jin family had repeatedly robbed Sichuan merchants and should be severely punished.

Long Yun was so angry when he got this telegram, didn't he point at his nose and scold him for being good at looting, did he support these artists to rob merchants. Long Yun tore up the telegram and gave Sun Du an order to recapture Luquan within three days.

Sun Du received the telegram and ordered to attack, Liu Yuantang unceremoniously led the army to meet the battle, the two sides launched a fierce battle in the sedan chair mountain outside the city, Sun Du relied on the strong soldiers, came up to launch a fierce attack, but he soon left a large number of corpses and retreated.

"Fuck, they've got so many cannons!" Liu Yuantang fired unscrupulously, as if the shells were running out, and everywhere Sun Du's telescope went, there was smoke rising, and explosions came from afar.

As soon as the cannon stopped, the blue-green imitation French military uniform appeared on the hillside again, and the soldiers cautiously climbed up, and when they reached the halfway point of the mountain, the machine guns on the mountain roared, and the blue-green retreated like a low tide.

"You can't fight like this," Sun Du put down his glasses and said, this is the third time he has been beaten down, and the first two times he rushed up, but Liu Yuantang cut off the passage of the follow-up troops with artillery fire, causing the troops who rushed up to be weak, most of them were killed, and a few retreated.

"If this continues, even if we capture the mountains on the opposite side, I am afraid that the troops will lose more than half." Chief of Staff Liang Yiqiu said with some discouragement: "This Liu Yuantang is still worthy of his reputation, no wonder he can hold on to Huili under the attack of tens of thousands of bandits." ”

"I don't care what he does, his army only has one brigade, I have 30,000 people, take 20,000 people to spend with him," Sun Duyin said predictably: "Order Lu Daoyuan to lead the headquarters and the 16th Security Regiment to retreat, cross the river from Feather, make a detour to Biandan Mountain, and sneak attack Luquan; The telegram ordered An Enpu, who was heading south from Zhaotong, to cross the Pudu River at the end of the decade, and directly attack the camp and cut off Liu Yuantang's back road, and I want to see how he fights. ”

"Okay, Liu Yuantang has at least one and a half brigades here, and there are two regiments in the county seat, even if you add your own forces, there are 3,000 people in the sky, even if you prevent Lu Daoyuan, you will definitely not be able to prevent An Laosan." The chief of staff nodded in approval.

Sun Du then withdrew the first-line troops to rest and recuperate, mobilized the second-line troops to come up, and launched a new round of offensive at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Liu Yuantang is not in the county seat but in a small temple behind the sedan chair mountain, since he was promoted to lieutenant general by Chiang Kai-shek's line of fire, Liu Yuantang's confidence is bursting, he actually led the army to pursue the Red Army to the northwest of Sichuan, so that Liu Wenhui is really worried, even the telegram back, he only returned in a huff.

After coming back, he was scolded by Liu Wenhui, Liu Wenhui thought that he had hard wings, and he didn't even listen to his words, and what made Liu Yuantang feel even more aggrieved was that when the army was reorganized, he, a dignified lieutenant general, only served as a small brigade commander, and Liu Yuanzhang, a fool who was so frightened by the Red Army that he almost burned Xichang, was able to become a division commander, or his top boss, which made him difficult to accept, but it was difficult to accept and accept, and he reluctantly led the army to Huili.

Maybe Liu Wenhui was aware of his grievances, and he didn't wronged him anymore in terms of weaponry, and most of the officers who came back from Yucheng were incorporated into his troops, and these young officers were baptized in Yucheng, and after they came back, they were completely different, full of sharpness, and they opened and closed their mouths to be what kind of infantry and artillery coordination, fire assault, three groups and one team, and the training of the troops was also in full swing, and the combat effectiveness of the troops went up to a new level in a short period of time, which made Liu Yuantang very surprised.

In the spring, when Liu Wenhui went to Huili to inspect, Liu Yuantang learned that Liu Wenhui was planning to develop northern Yunnan by strengthening his troops' equipment, which made him secretly frightened and a little surprised, Xikang was indeed too remote and barren, and the army would be hungry if there were a little more. So when Liu Wenhui gave him the task of taking the lead, he gladly accepted, but he also put forward a condition that to increase the number of troops, one of his brigades would definitely not be enough. Liu Wenhui was very happy to transfer him to a brigade and put it under his full command.

"The Dian army has always been known for its strong combat effectiveness," Liu Yuantang glanced at the map triumphantly: "I don't think that's it." ”

Chief of Staff He Chao said lightly: "This is because our equipment is strong, you look at a regiment has 24 mortars, of which 82 mortars account for half, we had such firepower back then, even if it is half, I am afraid we can drive Liu Xiang to Guizhou Mountain." ”

"It seems that we will have to hug Yucheng's thighs in the future." Liu Yuantang paused slightly and said.

"Who doesn't want to hug now, let alone our boss, Liu Fucheng, Yang Zihui, Deng Monkey, that is not trying to find a way to tie up Yucheng," He Chao said with some emotion: "Let's just say that when we were about to graduate, Teacher Zhuang was assassinated, I thought that Yang Sen and Liu Xiang were afraid that they would have to pull down their faces and do a job, but within two days, they publicly declared their support for Teacher Zhuang one by one, every one of them, why?" Don't you want to get close to Chongqing? ”

Liu Yuantang nodded thoughtfully: "This Zhuang Wenge came to Huili last year, and we talked about it when we passed through Xichang, and I didn't think he had anything special at the time, but my godfather still attached great importance to him, hey, you say, who is better than my godfather?" ”

(To be continued)