"Congwen, it's not a good time to enter Sichuan at this time. With the strength of the 15th Route Army now, although the defeat of Deng Xihou in northern Sichuan, Tian Songyao's department has special spare strength, but the terrain in northern Sichuan is dangerous, not suitable for large forces to unfold, if it is in trouble with the Sichuan army, the civil war of the Sichuan army in Erliu Zhengchuan has just ended, and we are afraid that it will be protracted again in northern Sichuan. ”

It was originally a family banquet, but Jiang Li invited a few heads to eat, and after three sentences did not leave the bank, and after chatting a little about Jiang Li's arrangements for marriage, the topic returned to military and political affairs. In the entire 15th Route Army, it is naturally Huang Xiansheng who can call Jiang Li like this.

"Second Liu Zhengchuan, before we were busy cleaning up the remnants of the Ma Jiajun, governing the place, and then going to Shanghai, the Great Wall of Resistance, which consumed a lot of energy, and we couldn't spare extra energy to plot northern Sichuan. Now that the civil war in Sichuan has come to an end on the whole, and the warlord leaders in Sichuan are quite exclusive, the idea of going to northern Sichuan at this time is afraid that it will be attacked by Liu Xiang, Deng Xiyao and others. ”

Feng Zhanhai has always been on Jiang Li's side on big issues, and he also reminded Jiang Lidao at this time.

"This year's harvest in the northwest is not good, and the drought is severe. The situation in southern Shaanxi, Longnan and northern Sichuan is not much different. Gansu and Ningxia have our 15th Route Army, and Shaanxi has 17th Route Army, and there will be no big chaos for a while, and the harvest of crops is still guaranteed on the whole. But Sichuan has been fighting for more than 20 years, and there has not been a year of peace. Especially in the last five years. The scale of the war is getting bigger and bigger. The duration is also longer and longer each time. The battle of the provincial gate, the battle of the Bihe, the battle of Erliu, the forces of all parties participated in the war with no less than 300,000 troops, in order to fight the opponent, and it was Deng Xihou who dug up the horses on the Dujiangyan, and led the water of the outer river into the inner river, so that the inner river flooded continuously. Other channels are severely short of water. The water level of the Bi River has risen. Block Liu Jun. However, Liu Jun used mines to blow up the Feishaweir and drained the water of the Neijiang River to other irrelevant channels, so that there was no water where it should be needed, and water was full of water where it was not needed. ”

"The people in the war zone have been affected, and the taxes in some places have been received for 100 years, and this autumn harvest will be limited, let alone next year's autumn harvest. According to some of the information I have at hand, the number of people famine in Sichuan next year is probably far greater than everyone here can imagine. It is not so much that they want to occupy some counties and districts in northern Sichuan, but that they want to open a channel to bring in the victims. In addition, it is necessary to take advantage of the unbelievably cheap labor force to help the victims. Push the infrastructure construction in the northwest to a new peak. ”

Jiang Li put down his chopsticks and said.

"Yes, these kings and calves in Sichuan don't take human lives seriously, what we lack now in the northwest is people, and there is a shortage of people compared to the original in the northeast. With the yellow sand as far as the eye can see, and there are not a few households in sight, if it weren't for the limitations of manpower, the commander would not have to find a way to bring in the victims now. But although the commander's starting point is good, those heads and brains in Sichuan not only don't appreciate it, but they will also regard the commander as the number one enemy, and the commander has won the hearts of the people, what else is there to do with them in Sichuan? ”

Feng Zhanhai said with regret that Sichuan is a province with a large population, even if there are years of wars and famines, the population of a province is also in the forefront of all provinces in the country, if you can get Sichuan's human resources, the shortcomings in the northwest will almost be completely filled.

"The chief of staff is right, this matter is urgent." Tibetan Yi also nodded. In contrast, the situation in Xinjiang was not balanced at this time, and Li Guofei could not control important towns such as Tacheng and Dihua, so it was not a wise decision to start another incident in northern Sichuan at this time.

"It hasn't been put on the table yet, and before the conditions are ripe, I will try my best to avoid directly turning faces with Deng Xihou and Liu Xiang." Jiang Li nodded, it was precisely because he was worried that what Huang Xiansheng and Feng Zhanhai said would become true, so Jiang Li secretly established a certain amount of grain and ammunition reserves in Qingchuan, Pingwu and Longnan counties by subsidizing the Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base that had not been built long by the red forces. After the previous Gansu Leima Incident, Deng Xihou's forces once entered Longnan, and when he used the large and small warlords in Sichuan to conquer the red forces, it is understandable that he will develop his forces to northern Sichuan.

"We can still rest assured that you are doing things, if the disaster is really as serious as you said, it is indeed an opportunity, I have a method here, maybe it can be useful." Huang Xiansheng's hand holding the wine glass also put down at this time.

"What is Commander Huang's opinion?" Feng Zhanhai also became serious.

"After our 15th Route Army entered the northwest, it has repeatedly expanded its army, these soldiers are mainly from Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai, and there are many from Shaanxi, and even from Henan, but there are also some Sichuan people, and there are even some people from northern Sichuan. After the force has a little scale, officers can be selected to integrate into it one after another, and after some time with the help of Sichuan's manpower, it can become an army. These people are local troops in northern Sichuan, so they can also dispel the xenophobic sentiment in northern Sichuan, now Deng Xihou and Liu Xiang's attention are on the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area, let's move smaller, it won't be too noticeable, and when Deng Xihou reacts, this is going to the newly established troops, and then Ma Zhuang will enter northern Sichuan with the momentum of suppressing bandits, Deng Xihou, Liu Xiang Even if he understands it at that time, you can also firmly control the territory of several counties in northern Sichuan, or even more than ten counties, and radiate your power to Sichuan. ”

"Uncle is worthy of being a master of officialdom who has endured two terms of military and political affairs in the Northeast, and I was originally going to win over a puppet force in northern Sichuan, but the puppet is not as safe as my own people after all."

Jiang Lijie said, Hong Chengbo's miscellaneous cards under his hands are really not very attractive, but if you can fill some of the officers of the 15th Route Army and equip a batch of weapons, although it is still a miscellaneous card, it has some combat effectiveness, and it is no longer a dispensable miscellaneous card. Constantly filling in the soldiers of the Lanzhou Military Academy and the recruit training camp, it will not take a year or two to become another army that can go to the battlefield. It not only expanded its strength, but also infiltrated its power into northern Sichuan.

"The shortcomings are much greater than the commander's investment in wooing puppets, and it is not much easier than rebuilding a force, but in comparison, for the time being, there is no need to directly confront the forces of Liu Xiang and Deng Xihou, and it is safer, and it should be able to solve the problem by borrowing a little from the bank in terms of military expenses, but this year the commander can't come up with other moths." Tibetan Yi also nodded in agreement.

"Rest assured, there will be no other expenses this year." Jiang Li, Feng Zhanhai and the others smiled when they heard this. (To be continued.) )