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Chapter 521 divides the layout of Dingli

It took only three days for Shi Zhen's division to take Panxian and defend it, but also captured Huairen and Jinsha counties in one go, and successfully incorporated the Luo Qingtian Brigade and Zhang Xinfang's regiment of Zhou Xicheng's old department, totaling 4,000 men and horses, and the first division under his command quickly grew to 13,000 officers and soldiers in three brigades. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Mo Xiaolin, commander of the First Division, moved the division headquarters to Bijie, and recommended Luo Qingtian, a junior brother of Yunnan Jiangwutang, as the deputy division commander of the major general and the commander of the Second Brigade, and the brigade headquarters was stationed in Zhijin County, closely monitoring the direction of Guiyang, which is more than 90 kilometers to the east, and Anshun, which is 55 kilometers to the south; Zhang Xinfang, who led the surrender of the department, was appointed as the colonel and brigade commander of the Third Brigade and stationed in Pan County; Shi Ronghua, his old subordinate and the cousin of the commander Shi Zhen, led the First Brigade to station in Nayong County, halfway between Pan County and Zhijin, and responded left and right, forming horns with each other, forming a thick defensive line.

The Panjin Yue Division of the Second Division was greatly strengthened after being joined by 6,000 soldiers of the 44th Army in Xiangxi, and the Fourth Brigade under its command was stationed in Jinsha, the Fifth Brigade was stationed in Puyi, an important town at the junction of Sichuan and Guizhou, and the Sixth Brigade adapted from the green forest of Qianxi was stationed in Gulin, the old base area. Zhong Zhiyuan, who led 6,000 brothers to join the Guizhou Army, was promoted to the head of the teaching regiment, and as soon as he arrived in Huairen, he immediately began to form a teaching regiment and conduct short-term rotation training for the commanders of various departments, battalions, and companies in the army.

Commander Shi Zhen announced to the people of all counties in western Guizhou the important decision to exempt taxes for one year, and posted notices at the entrance of the county and county offices and on the main streets, and propaganda teams composed of local officers and soldiers went to various villages and towns to vigorously publicize the new policy, encourage the people to develop production, and told the villagers in various localities that within a month, they would get 1,000 ploughing cattle, 50,000 catties of corn, sweet potatoes, and upland rice seeds from Xiangxi, and give them to those from poor families free of charge to help themselves. This move won the strong support of the people of Qianxi, who had been exploited by the warlords for more than ten years, and the originally cold and distant military-civilian relations quickly warmed up.

At the same time, Shi Zhen's cousin, Quartermaster Shi Yanlin, quietly transported 800 quintals of opium collected from various counties to Xiangxi, and then transported a large number of blue-gray revolutionary army uniforms, 30,000 pairs of new rubber-soled military shoes, two battalions of mortars, a regiment of heavy machine guns and other weapons and ammunition back to Qianxi, and took the lead in equipping Mo Xiaolin's first division. In addition to the propaganda and teaching of more than 100 company and platoon commanders who had received education in the "spirit of the model battalion," the ideological concepts of the brothers of the whole division began to undergo gratifying changes, and the strict military law and generous treatment successfully restrained the warlord style of the past.

On 2 July, Li Shen, who was just about to mobilize troops to recapture Zhijin, a key point in Guiyang's communication with western Qianxi, suddenly received an urgent report from the Third Division under his command that the three brigades of the First Division of the 44th Army in Xiangxi, under the banner of responding to the central government's call to exterminate Zhou Xicheng's rebels, suddenly occupied Songtao, Yanhe, and Xiushan counties in southeastern Sichuan, which were adjacent to western Hunan, and incorporated all the remnants of more than 4,000 remnants of Zhou Xicheng who had retreated in the above three counties.

Li Shen was taken aback when he heard the news, and immediately convened an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures, and in connection with the drastic action of the sudden expansion of the blockbuster Shi Zhen Department in Qianxi, Li Shen finally understood that the rumors of Zhang Hongluan's close relationship with Shi Zhen were not just groundless, but a living reality.

After the battle, Li Shen and his generals were already wounded and weakened, and faced the east-west attack of Shi Zhenbu and Zhang Hongluan's army, so they had to stop all military operations, and urgently sent a telegram to the central government to request appointment and military support.

On the morning of the next day, a central telegram signed by Commander-in-Chief Chiang flew to Guiyang, where the Central Military Commission formally appointed Li Shen as chairman of Guizhou Province and commander of the 43rd Army, and allowed Li Shen to recommend vice chairman and officials of the appeasement offices at all levels in Guizhou. At the same time, the Central Military Commission appointed Shi Zhen, who had suddenly risen to prominence, as director of the Qianxi Pacification Office and commander of the Qianxi Garrison Command, and gave the names of the new 11th and 12th divisions of the Qianxi Army, which had made meritorious contributions to the rebellion.

In the face of Chiang Kai-shek's order, Li Shen and the generals had mixed joys and sorrows, happy that they had finally been recognized by the central government, and that they could rule Guizhou justifiably from now on, and worried that the Shizhen Division, which had a force of less than 20,000 troops, occupied 11 counties in western Qianxi, and had self-respecting troops, which was like a separation, and had also been recognized and supported by the central government, which was undoubtedly a ruthless trick by the central government to control Guizhou to prevent one side from dominating the country.

Li Shen and all the generals under his command knew Shi Zhen, the commander of the 10th Army of Yuan Zuming, the original chairman of Guizhou, and in the war for hegemony in Guizhou last year, he also eliminated Shi Zhen's sworn brother Mo Ronggao in Bijie with a strong force, and killed Mo Ronggao, who tried to get involved in Bijie, and thousands of troops under his command who did not know the height of the sky, but no one expected that Shi Zhen, who had fled to the Gulin Mountains in southeast Sichuan, to survive for a long time, actually developed and grew again in less than a year and suddenly attacked, using Li Shen's army to fight fiercely in Qiandong, When Qiannan and the allied Longyun Department suddenly withdrew from Qianxi due to internal strife, they quickly occupied the territory of eleven counties in Qianxi and northwest Guizhou, and quickly formed a strong separatism, and the thing came so suddenly, it really shocked and pondered Li Shen and others, and related to the hostile military action of Xiangxi Hegemon's assertion of Hongluan, and the high position of Commander-in-Chief Jiang suddenly entrusted the unknown Lieutenant General Shi Zhen, Li Shen and all the generals under his command realized that the situation was irreparable, and the strength of Shi Zhen's department had greatly exceeded their expectations.

After a night of urgent discussions, Li Shen sent a telegram to the whole country, solemnly assumed the post of chairman of Guizhou Province, and sent a telegram to the central government with a list of meritorious officials under his command, asking for rewards, and quickly dispatched officials to all areas except the eleven counties in western Qianxi, and secretly telegraphed the situation of the Shizhen Department to Long Yun who returned to Kunming, asking Long Yun to come up with ideas for himself.

Long Yun had just quelled the internal rebellion, and was dispatching troops to make major adjustments, and when he received Li Shen's secret telegram, he was also surprised, and immediately convened his generals to discuss and try to protect the vested interests of the headquarters in Guizhou, when he learned that the suddenly appeared Shi Zhen Department had been appointed by the central government and the military commission, and did not send troops to occupy Anshun City, where he left only one battalion to garrison, he was shocked and relieved, and understood that this suddenly appeared Shi Zhen did not mean to be an enemy of the Dian army, On the contrary, there was a hint of showing favor to himself, so he did not immediately call Li Shen in Guiyang, but started a more detailed discussion.

On the second day after Li Shen telegraphed the whole country to take up the post of chairman of Guizhou Province, Shi Zhen also sent a high-profile telegram to the whole country to take up the post of director of the Qianxi Pacification Office and commander of the Qianxi Garrison Command, and the two division commanders announced at the same time that they would take up the posts of commanders of the new 11th and 12th divisions, and solemnly promised:

All the officers and men are loyal to the Central Committee, the Three People's Principles, resolutely obey the orders of the Central Committee, obey the dispatch and guidance of the Central Military Commission, and request the Central Party Department to quickly send commissioners to Qianxi, establish party organizations at all levels, make every effort to end the war and chaos in Qianxi and northwest Guizhou for more than ten years, care for the people and develop people's livelihood, strive to live in harmony with all parties, exchange what they have, carry out all-round cooperation in political, cultural, economic and trade aspects, and strive to build a stable and peaceful living and development environment for the people of Qianxi and Northwest Guizhou!

Long Yun took Shi Zhen's telegram and asked his subordinates, who is this Shi Zhen, who is so shrewd and sleek, and knows everything? Guiyang's Li Shen also took Shi Zhen's telegram, and asked his generals and the government think tank that had just been formed with a surprised face, how could Shi Zhen, who didn't know a basket of big characters, have such a smart brain? After analyzing it, everyone under his command finally came to a unanimous opinion:

Shi Zhen must have a master behind him, otherwise he would never be so shrewd, not only pleasing Commander-in-Chief Jiang and the central government, but also taking the initiative to flatter the central party department, asking to send party officials who are unwilling to accept any local government, this hand is insidious and beautiful, I am afraid that from now on it will be the darling of the central government, once the central party department sends a special commissioner, no one can do anything to Qianxi again, otherwise in the eyes of the central government, it will be to provoke civil strife and confrontation!

Nanjing, Office of Commander-in-Chief Chiang.

Chen Guofu, the acting head of the organization, pointed to the telegram and said with great satisfaction: "Third uncle, this stone treasure is not simple!" Knowing that he had just started out and was weak in strength, he took the initiative to ask the central party department to send officials to establish organizations at all levels, so that he and the Qianxi region could be vigorously publicized as excellent examples and set an example for the separatist forces throughout the country to see. ”

"Shi Zhen is not so smart, it must have been An Yi who taught him to do this, Shi Zhen's battle in Qianxi was commanded by An Yi behind the scenes, this Shi Zhen was originally Wang Tianpei's subordinate, when Han Zhuang in the north of Xuzhou led the troops to mutiny, was ordered by Wang Tianpei to behead him, just An Yi was ordered to rush to the aid of Liuquan, and saved Shi Zhen from the knife, and Shi Zhen, who returned to Qianxi several times, has been grateful to An Yi since then. This time, under the command of An Yi, he did a very good job, capturing 11 counties in western and northwestern Guizhou in just one week, and quickly calming down the situation; two students who graduated from the sixth phase of Huangpu were respectively party representatives and chief of operations of the Shizhen Division, and more than a dozen graduates of the special class of officers of the Nanchang noncommissioned officer base also took up the posts of commander of the teaching regiment, chief of the operations department, and even chief of staff of the division.

The party department can vigorously publicize and select as soon as possible a few young cadres who have performed well and endured hardships and stand hard work, and go to western Qianxi for training and tempering, and it is best to set up a liaison station and infiltrate Yunnan and southern Sichuan step by step after gaining a firm foothold. Chiang Kai-shek calmly commanded.

Chen Guofu nodded and agreed: "Understood...... The subordinates thought that An Yi had been inspecting the resettlement sites of the victims in Hunan, but he did not expect that he would do it so beautifully in silence, judging from the public opinion and actual results of more than a month, An Yi has become more and more mature, and has also greatly improved in politics. ”

Chiang Kai-shek smiled with satisfaction: "An Yi has great talents, and he has made rapid progress in all aspects, and this time he went to western Hubei and Xiangxi for disaster relief, and he has accumulated enough political prestige, but his military talent is higher, I am ready to let him enter the ranks of the members of the Military Commission, and the party department can consider promoting him to an alternate member of the Central Committee, so that he can begin to gradually take the lead."

There are two things you should pay attention to, and it is best to do it immediately: first, go to the Central Ethnic Affairs Commission, and give a high degree of ethnic autonomy to the minority areas of Qianxi as soon as possible, except for the special supervision commissioner, do not send government officials and tax officials, it is already great that Qianxi does not reach out to the central government to ask for money and grain, and there is no need for us to go to that poor and remote place to collect taxes; Second, discuss with the president of the Fifth Academy as soon as possible, send An Yi a deputy director who is specifically responsible for disaster relief in western Hubei, and it is best to send a respected veteran, An Yi still has a lot of things to do, I want to take advantage of the favorable opportunity when the civil war in Sichuan is in full swing and the princes from all walks of life are powerless to take care of it, and use An Yi to command the 16th Division to take Badong in the name of suppressing bandits, and command the 44th Army to encroach on southeast Sichuan step by step. ”

Chen Guofu immediately thought of Shi Zhen, who was suddenly reused, and realized that this was an extremely secret and extremely large military plan, so he nodded, stood up and replied solemnly: "Understood!" Do it now! ”