The 21st year of the Republic of China was a new starting point for the northwest, and with the passage of time, the 30,000 tons of steel for guns and artillery purchased by Gansu from Germany arrived one after another, and most of the rebuilt arsenals produced guns one after another. Steel rails ordered from the United States also began to be laid simultaneously from Xi'an to the Yanchang oil mine and from Tianshui in Gansu.

The steel rails produced by Tianshui Iron and Steel Plant have also been rolled out from Tianshui to Xi'an and Lanzhou. Jiang Li's use of the rails of the Tianshui Iron and Steel Plant once aroused protests and opposition from the American construction company. However, Jiang Li personally met with the representative of the construction company, promised not to reduce the previous rail order, and explained the future railway construction plan in the northwest, the representative of the construction company learned that Jiang Li had a larger-scale railway construction intention, even if the steel of Tianshui Iron and Steel Plant was not able to meet all the needs for a while, he immediately came angry, and left with excitement on his face. Inform the company's senior staff of the good news and win Jiang Li's orders with a better foundation for cooperation.

There are still a few months to go before the 33rd year, and the northwest has completed more than 500 kilometers of highways from Lanzhou to Yinchuan through important cities such as Baiyin, and a total of 1,300 kilometers of highways from Lanzhou to Xining and Lanzhou to Tianshui. These roads were built at a rapid pace, starting from each city and extending to each end.

"Yang Hucheng will Shaanxi garrison division back to suppress bandits, in fact, I don't really want to fight, I know that now the Red Fourth Front Army is in a dilemma, but it is not appropriate to send troops to support on the surface, otherwise now Gansu imported machinery, the channel for introducing talents will be cut off by Nanjing. This is not conducive to our plans for a long-term war of resistance in the future. Jiang Li frowned and said.

"But now Nanjing is encircling and suppressing Jiangxi and the Red Fourth Front Army. The situation is already critical. If you don't get foreign aid. I'm worried about the annihilation of the army. Liu Lanbo said worriedly.

"Nanjing is really not doing authentically, and sooner or later I will have a turn of face with Nanjing, so I will arrange other channels to support the Red Fourth Front Army with some bullets, shells, and necessary medical supplies. But Jiangxi is too far away, so there is no way to do it for the time being. Jiang Li thought about it for a while, and finally decided to take a risk.

"Thank you, Commander." Liu Lanbo nodded gratefully and said, the 15th Route Army has purchased hundreds of millions of dollars. Although a batch of supplies had already arrived, there were still a large number of supplies on the way, and once the news of Jiang Li's funding of the red forces reached Nanjing's ears, this fragile supply line would be devastated. Compared with this batch of materials, Liu Lanbo and the top level of the red side pay the most attention to Jiang Li's attitude, although he entered the northwest and became a huge armed group, Jiang Li is still the same Jiang Li as before, and he has not forgotten his original words because of his growing wings.

"That's what I'm supposed to do." Jiang Li waved his hand, a little weak. Located in the northwest, I am always afraid to do something. But there's no way around it. Later, in order to expel the Japanese army as soon as possible, it was inevitable to choose the red forces. The capitalist market economic system certainly has certain advantages, but under the threat of the Japanese invaders, the planned economy on the red side is more suitable, as long as everyone in the planned system gets on the chariot of the anti-Japanese war, Jiang Li can use the fastest speed to pull up the industry in the northwest, otherwise relying on the previous means to introduce talents, it will take too long to increase capital investment, Jiang Li can not wait so long, and he cannot follow the process of history step by step.

"Commander!" Feng Zhanhai, Jiang Wenhao, Gao Zhihang and others all appeared at the entrance of Jiang Li's headquarters with sad and indignant faces.

"What happened?" Jiang Li asked with squinted eyes.

Feng Zhanhai handed a telegram to Jiang Li, and it was the information of the Pingdingshan Massacre.

"On September 16, the Japanese army massacred more than 3,000 of our unarmed people in Pingdingshan, burned more than 800 houses, and slaughtered men, women, and children. There are no people in a radius of more than ten miles! Feng Zhanhai said in a cold voice.

Bang! Jiang Li's fist slammed on the table, and the blue and white porcelain teacup on the edge of the table fell to the ground and shattered.

"In the name of the headquarters of the 15th Route Army, the Pingdingshan tragedy, 3,000 old and weak women and children in China died tragically at the hands of the Japanese army, and asked Nanjing if they dared to fight. Call the young marshal, the old Zhang family started in the northeast, and the love of 30 million people in the northeast has today's wealth, Sangzi suffered this catastrophe, the young marshal dared to go north side by side with the 15th Route Army, to fight against the Japanese invaders, and avenge the blood revenge for the dead compatriots! Jiang Li said in a gloomy tone, "In addition, the Japanese prisoners in the prisoner of war camp will be secretly executed!" ”

"Commander, I'm afraid this move is a little too radical?" Liu Lanbo was a little worried.

"Just do it, if you don't dare, you can fucking roll a mat with Lao Tzu and get out!" Jiang Li looked at the generals in front of him with red eyes, as a traverser, Jiang Li couldn't accept the fact that thousands of people were slaughtered by the Japanese army like livestock.

"Swear to advance and retreat with the commander!" Feng Zhanhai, Jiang Wenhao, Wang Sanpao and other generals all roared.

"Okay, fuck, the arsenal has been rebuilt one after another, and it will be completely completed by the end of the year, and when the machinery purchased one after another is in place, we don't have to ask for help, we produce guns and cannons by ourselves, if Nanjing doesn't dare to fight with the Japanese army, let's pull the flag and fight the Japanese army to the end, those bastards don't feel sorry for the people in the occupied area, let's go to the rescue, one day, we have to hit the Japanese mainland, so that those Japanese will pay for their blood debts!"

"Outside, outside, the Japanese invaders were brutal and inhumane, and they were killed in Pingding, Liaoning on September 16, slaughtering more than 3,000 unarmed people!"

"In addition, Lanzhou introduced a 7,000-ton free hydraulic forging machine, and the industrial capacity of the Republic of China soared by several levels."

"Outside the number, the Pingdingshan tragedy, Jiang Li, the commander of the 15th Route Army, and dozens of generals under his command jointly questioned Zhang Xueliang, the commander of Nanjing and the Northeast Army, and strongly fought the main battle!"

Although the Japanese army did a lot of work afterwards, destroying the corpses and making false evidence, the place of 3,000 people was slaughtered, and there were survivors afterwards, and the eyes of the people in the nearby towns were bright. Even if Seiichi Kawakami personally borrowed 50,000 yuan to bribe the League of Nations investigation team that was still in Mukden, so that they avoided mentioning this matter, Nanjing was at the critical moment of suppressing Chi at this time, and he was unwilling to make a branch at this time, and remained silent for a while, but Jiang Li's 15th Route Army suddenly lifted the table. This incident was known to everyone, and for a time the national anti-war sentiment was once again pushed to its peak.

At this time, the resumption of production in the arsenal greatly increased Jiang Li's confidence, and the remaining two divisions were also expanded in one go, and at this time, the 15th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army headed by Jiang Li also reached an astonishing 3 infantry divisions, 4 mixed brigades, 3 temporary brigades, and 3 cavalry brigades. As for the technical arms, Jiang Li used a total of 40 tanks and armored vehicles purchased to form a teaching brigade with two armored battalions. In addition, 12 were composed of 8 12.7mm machine guns and 6 20mm Erlikon machine guns. ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERY OF 2 88MM FORBOS ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS. The equipment of the two heavy artillery regiments has been completed one after another, plus the Italian-made Fiat fighters that have arrived one after another, as well as the soldiers of the special combat team, the total strength has exceeded 120,000 people, which is also the reason why Jiang Li's confidence is getting stronger and stronger, although the strength of the 15th Route Army is far inferior to Nanjing, but the elite strength of the technical arms is not inferior even compared with Nanjing. The only drawback was that the pace of expansion was too fast, and in one year, the size of the 15th Route Army almost doubled. The elite combat power is still the part brought from the original Fengtian, and the others have also been trained for a long time, and most of the low-level officers have also been trained from the Lanzhou Military Academy. (To be continued.) )