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Chapter 927: The Awe-inspiring Expansion of Righteousness (9)

The Nanking government, as well as Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek, telegraphed in a timely manner, and the parties to the civil war in Sichuan were exhausted by this time, but at the same time in a high degree of tension. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The 80,000 Red Army led by Xu Xiangqian and Zhang Guotao made rapid progress and was invincible, and on the front line of northern Sichuan of more than 200 kilometers, the Liu Xiang coalition army lost its armor and retreated for hundreds of miles, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Bazhong was lost, and Yang Sen's army lost 4,000 people; At 5:40 p.m., the bad news spread again in Dazhou, Fan Shaozeng and Liu Cunhou were unable to resist under the heavy attack of the Red Army, and they abandoned Dazhou in a panic and retreated south to Dazhu, and more than 20,000 people were killed and fled from various units of the Sichuan Army, and a large number of weapons, ammunition, grain, and grass were lost, and in the blink of an eye, most of the northern part of Sichuan was occupied by the Red Army.

Annoyed and angry, Liu Xiang had already arrived in Neijiang at this time, trying to command the remnants of the army, and Liu Wenhui fought to the death on the front line of Neijiang, before the deployment of troops was completed, he successively received the news of the loss of Bazhong and Dazhou, Liu Xiang was shocked and angry, almost vomited blood on the spot, under the persuasion of the strategists, instructed his general Pan Wenhua to issue a telegram, obeying the "telegram" of the Central Committee and Chairman Chiang, and the telegram to the whole country saying that "the thousands of Li people in Bashu should be the most important, and take the initiative to cease fire and obey the orders of the central authorities." Liu Xiang himself chose to remain silent in order to maintain his usual dignity and attempt to occupy the political initiative again.

Liu Wenhui rushed to the artesian well in the evening, and received a secret report from southern Sichuan that "Bazhong and Daxian have been lost, all units of the Red Army are advancing with great triumph and continue to move south, and the two divisions of Liu Xiang's garrison in Chongqing are forced to go north to meet the enemy." He immediately boosted his confidence and was full of complacency, and he unhurriedly commanded the 35,000 soldiers who had conquered the artesian well and forced them to Neijiang, built a position, waited for the battle, and put on a posture of not giving up and launching another attack at any time.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, He Yingqin, the special envoy of the central government who had arrived in Wuhan in a hurry, sent a telegram to the whole country in the name of the minister of military affairs, urging the warring parties in Sichuan to exercise restraint and stop the civil war, and that he himself would fly to Wuhan the next morning to convene a "peace negotiation meeting of the parties to the conflict," and called on all circles in Sichuan to make joint efforts and urge the belligerents to reach a consensus on an armistice. At the end of the telegram, He Yingqin demanded that "General An Yi, director of the Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou Pacification Office, and people from all walks of life in southern Sichuan should exert their influence and make joint efforts to assist the central authorities in making every effort to stop the recurrence of the civil war in Sichuan."

He Yingqin's clever last telegram was intended not to let An Yi, who was dominant in southern Sichuan, be left alone, which meant that all walks of life in the country would know that the fact that An Yi's ministry was in southern Sichuan, and it was also an important factor in the division of Sichuan, implying that An Yi bore some responsibility for the successive civil wars in Sichuan, at least bearing the responsibility of watching from the sidelines and doing nothing.

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At 10 o'clock that night, a transport convoy composed of 35 military vehicles drove from south to north to Wenchang Palace, 17 kilometers south of Ziliujing, and Liu Wenhui, who had been waiting for a long time, urgently ordered the officers and men of the guard brigade to quickly unload a large amount of ammunition and medicine from the vehicles, and under strict vigilance, they enthusiastically welcomed An Yi, commander of the Anjia Army, Shen Fengdao, adjutant general, Fang Pengxiang, chief of operations, and other generals into Wenchang Pavilion.

Three and a half hours later, the convoy quietly drove out of the town, returning with An Yi and his people returning to Syria, 70 kilometers to the south.

At 9:30 a.m. the next day, He Yingqin, the special envoy of the Central Committee, He Guoguang, director of the Chongqing camp, Zeng Kuoqing, secretary general of the camp, and others, greeted by Liu Xiang and the generals of the coalition forces, entered the compound of the Neijiang Public Office.

In the telegram, Liu Wenhui recounted Liu Xiang's crimes of provoking civil war, and indignantly expressed his acceptance of the mediation of the central authorities, his obedience to the leadership of Chairman Chiang and President Wang, and the cessation of war on all fronts from the time the telegram was issued. At the end of the telegram, Liu Wenhui demanded that Liu Xiang bear full responsibility for initiating the civil war, and instructed Liu Xiang to publicly apologize and compensate for the losses suffered by the headquarters and millions of Bashu fathers and villagers.

As soon as the announcement came out, Liu Xiang was furious, but he had no confidence and strength to let go of the war, so he could only angrily put all the responsibility on Liu Wenhui, who was "insatiable and cruel to the people", in front of He Yingqin, He Guoguang, Zeng Kuoqing and others.

He Yingqin and others tried their best to comfort and explain themselves, and the anger of Liu Xiang and his generals calmed down a little, and the meeting was able to continue.

Less than 10 minutes after the meeting restarted, it was again interrupted by sudden bad news: The Ninth Brigade of Liu Xiang's Fourth Division, which was responsible for echoing with the north and south of the combined forces of southern Sichuan and western Hunan and jointly suppressing bandits, was suddenly attacked by the Red Army's Huang Han Division and He Long Division in Jiangchi Town, 15 kilometers from Shizhu County, eastern Sichuan, half an hour earlier.

At this time, Liu Xiang finally went crazy and urgently ordered the Eighth Brigade of the Fourth Division to retreat to Fengdu.

He Yingqin and others were also anxious, and Xu Qian's army on the northern front took advantage of the favorable opportunity when Liu Xiang's troops were empty and unable to provide quick reinforcements, and continued to wave their divisions southward to launch a fierce attack on the front line of Dazhu, Quxian, Xichong, and Yanting, and the Huang Han and He Long troops on the eastern front suddenly combined attack, and in the blink of an eye, they ate a brigade of Liu Xiang's main force, and if they could not mobilize reinforcements in time to block the Red Army's attack, the prospects of Sichuan would be unimaginable.

The preliminary meeting of the armistice talks suddenly turned into a military meeting on the suppression of bandits, and He Yingqin urgently telegraphed Liu Wenhui to exercise restraint and go to Neijiang for a meeting as soon as possible, and on the other hand, he urgently reported the dangerous situation in Sichuan to Chiang Kai-shek.

Liu Wenhui, who was satisfied, rushed to Chengdu at this time, patting his ass in a chic manner, and He Yingqin could only go to Chengdu, which Liu Wenhui had reoccupied, to talk to him, the nominal chairman of Sichuan Province.

Liu Xiang, who was anxious, urgently discussed countermeasures with his generals, and strictly ordered Fan Shaozeng and Liu Cunhou not to take half a step back, and at the same time, when the troops were overstretched, four garrison regiments were urgently transferred from the suburbs of Chongqing to the north to reinforce Liu Cunhou and Fan Shaozeng's Dazhu to the Shunqing line.

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At 10:40 a.m., the headquarters of the Anjia Army in Syria.

According to the content of the telegrams of Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui's ministries and various intelligence feedbacks cracked by the Intelligence Department, Chief of Staff Ye Cheng pointed to a large map and reported the battle situation to more than 30 participating generals and colonies, and finally summarized it:

“…… According to the secret agreement we reached with Liu Wenhui's troops, General Xie Chi, chief of staff of the 24 th Army, personally led the 16 th Division to be stationed in Ziliujing, and the 46 th Brigade was stationed in Yong'an Town between Neijiang and Ziliujing, and undertook the task of guarding the northern and eastern fronts. At the same time, the newly formed Seventh Garrison Brigade, led by General Zhao Dongquan, chief of staff of the garrison force, took over the control of Ziliujing County and the surrounding towns and towns, and pacified the people and restored public order as quickly as possible. The departure time of the above two divisions is 8 a.m. tomorrow, and the defense handover work must be completed by 3 p.m. tomorrow. ”

Xie Chi and Zhao Dongquan stood up to take the order, and the generals were excited about the smooth inclusion of the artesian wells rich in salt mines.

Ye Cheng motioned for Xie Chi and Zhao Dongquan to sit down: "According to the urgent order suddenly sent by Chairman Jiang, the 39th and 44th divisions of our army, which are currently stationed on the front line from Wulong to Wanshengchang, and are responsible for suppressing bandits, must go north together with the 3rd Division of the 44th Army of General Zhang Cunzhuang to encircle and suppress the Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan regions where Huang Han and He Long's troops are entrenched.

"For this thankless task, I suggest that the commander and the brethren should not openly contradict it, but should readily agree to it, and let the 39th Division immediately go north and be stationed here first...... This is it! ”

"Nanchuan?"

The generals were greatly excited, and after seeing the Nanchuan County on the map, all eyes turned to An Yi's face.

Gu Changfeng laughed: "Commander, you can't hesitate any longer, this opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" Liu Xiang is now surrounded by enemies on all sides, stirring him up, his 100,000 main force is half lost in a few days, Xu in the north is pressing the front troops, the momentum is like a bamboo, Liu Xiang has not only drawn troops from Chongqing to the north, but also has to be on guard against the elusive Huang Han Department and He Long Department to launch an attack on his eastern Sichuan troops, at this time we don't take the opportunity to take Nanchuan, but when? ”

An Yi, whose eyes were red and tired, nodded: "Nanchuan must be occupied, but how to occupy it, you need to think about it, and you can't do it too much, because there is still a new garrison regiment of Liu Xiang stationed there, if we do too much, Liu Xiang will definitely hold a grudge, and it will also cause panic and even dissatisfaction among the local people, therefore, the Political Department of the 24th Army must come up with a set of practical plans, otherwise it will be stationed in today and will have to withdraw tomorrow." ”

"Commander, if his subordinates find a way to rebel against the new garrison regiment in Nanchuan and let the officers and soldiers of the entire regiment defect to us, can Liu Xiang say anything?" Deng Chuanxiang, director of the Political Department of the 24th Army, asked.

"If that's the case, I'll give you and your brothers in the Political Department credit!"

An Yi was overjoyed and replied without hesitation, he knew that this problem had been successfully solved, and with the current predicament of Liu Xiangbu and the means of Deng Chuanxiang and others, the surrender of the Nanchuan garrison would be captured.

Ye Cheng's task has been completed, and he returned to his position amid the heated discussions among the brothers, signaling that the following matters would be handed over to An Yi.

The sleepy An Yi no longer wasted time, stood up and immediately ordered: "Zhan Dao, Du Yi, after the meeting is over, you will go together to meet Mr. Jiang and President Zhong of the South Sichuan Chamber of Commerce, and you must let the Ziliujing business and intellectual circles launch a huge demonstration and petition activity tomorrow morning."

"A large number of gentry and celebrities in the artesian well business community have maintained friendly trade cooperation with us for a long time, and they have been discussing the purchase of refined salt processing and packaging machines from us, as well as the joint establishment of a large-scale alkali factory with us.

"As for the intellectual circles, not to mention, our schools at all levels have always been the envy of the artesian well area, many children of wealthy families are studying in our full boarding school of the Boy Scout School and the high school attached to the Polytechnic University, Mr. Jiang and others have also done a lot of work for our day, what you have to do is to make the artesian well parade and petition activities more rigorous, more powerful, more orderly and safer, and do not have any accidents.

"Chinese and foreign journalists who have always wanted to cover the Ziliujing and Neijiang frontlines will be allowed to enter the Ziliujing area this afternoon, and they are the best witnesses of public opinion."

"Yes!"

Zhan Zhi and Du Yi stood up to receive the order.

After the meeting dispersed, An Yi immediately drove to the airport and had a secret conversation for more than 20 minutes alone before Yang Bin's passenger plane "went to Nanjing to attend the meeting".