"Since last year, young Japanese officers have staged a military coup d'état, killing Minister Minoru Saito, Minister of Education Inspector Tatanabe Shotaro, and Minister of Finance Takahashi Isaki, wounding the chief of staff of the Japanese emperor. The Hirota Hiroki Cabinet, which was controlled by the military, was formed. In order to accelerate the pace of its invasion of China, the new Minister of War, Marshal Terauchi Shouichi, announced that the post of commander of the Chinese garrison in Tuntun would be upgraded from the rank of pirate appointed by the original military department to the rank of lieutenant general directly appointed by the Queen of Heaven. ”

In addition, it was decided to increase the number of troops in North China, and now the Japanese garrison in North China has increased from less than 2,000 to more than 5,000 in one fell swoop. Since the failure of the plan to invade Suiyuan, Japan has actively created various incidents, including the Chengdu Incident and the Beihai Incident that followed. The instructor of the Japanese Infantry School, Chida Daisa, in the name of popularizing infantry to catch thieves, organized the Japanese army to learn the truth in the north of the character flat castle. Most of the bureaucrats of the Japanese troops stationed in Wanping participated in the study. Even the Japanese army asked to go to the Changxindian area to study through Wanping City, and held on to our army stationed in Wanping City for more than ten hours. ”

"Commander Tian, Commander Sun, you are busy with military affairs, and I have listened to you for so long, but I am very upset." Jiang Li said to Deng Xihou and Sun Zhen pretendedly.

The year before last, Tian Songyao was broken by the Red Army because he obstructed the Red Army from going north, Tian Songyao was dismissed from his post in Nanjing, and was succeeded by his subordinate Sun Zhen, Tian Songyao retreated to the second line, and Deng Xihou because of the defeat of Qingchuan in the early years, when the Red Army went north, he received a secret reminder from the northwest, and after fighting with the Red Army and not getting a bargain, he gave way and is still one of the powerful factions in Sichuan.

"How dare you. How dare you. How dare Commander Jiang be called a commander in front of him. Adjutant Sun's report is related to the country and the nation, and when the lowly rank heard it, he was indignant, and he hated not being able to go into battle to kill the enemy and serve the country. ”

Deng Xihou said with an excited face when he heard this. Not to mention that it is the duty of the Sichuan army to resist the Japanese invaders, it is said that this time the Northwest Army quickly subdued Zhang Guotao's Hong army that entered Chuankang. Dozens of planes were stationed at Guangyuan Airport, and tens of thousands of people advanced to the Deyang area in the name of suppressing bandits. Deng Xihou was the first to bear the brunt, and in Tongguan, the Central Army did not dare to take the Northwest Army lightly. Not to mention his small arms and legs.

"What Brother Jin Kang said is very true, the Japanese are aggressive, our Sichuan army has long had the heart of war, but unfortunately there is no way to serve the country, he will fight with the Japanese army in the future, and the Sichuan army will never be left behind." Sun Zhen also said with the same expression as Deng Xihou.

"Oh? Although the Japanese army committed a lot of heinous crimes in China, the combat strength of the Japanese army was undoubted, and the Republic of China was weak, so the local armies worked together. Fang had a chance to defeat the Japanese army. At present, the northwest is like a whole, and if there is a Sichuan army to join in. The certainty of facing the Japanese army is bound to be a little more. ”

Seeing that the faces of the two of them were quite indignant and not much pretentious, Jiang Li was also a little surprised in his heart, but as the top leaders of the Sichuan army, it was not bad that the two of them could have this kind of integrity when facing the Japanese.

"In the past, I spent years in Sichuan, but the Republic of China was bullied by the Japanese invaders to this point, if the Japanese army is reborn, the Sichuan army will fight to the death, not to expel the Japanese invaders, and never return to Sichuan!" Deng Xihou said impassionedly.

"Okay, that's the matter to be decided." Jiang Li said with a smile, at least half of the purpose of entering Sichuan this time was achieved, first forcing Zhang Guotao to submit and accept the reorganization of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, although Liu Xiang still refused to bow to the northwest, but at least it also suppressed the development of Nanjing's power in Sichuan. At this time, the Northwest Army still had an advantage in Sichuan. In addition, on the construction of the railway from Guangyuan to Chengdu to southern Sichuan, Liu Xiang's attitude was not as resolute as before. What's more, because the position of the Anti-Japanese War is firmer, Deng Xihou and Sun Zhen have now also fallen to the Northwest Army, and in the future, Liu Xiang will repeat, and the Northwest Army can also change its name to intervene in the affairs of central Sichuan. There are many good things, and the speed of building railways from the northwest to the south of Sichuan will never stop.

This time, it is limited to the Kang-Yunnan border area in the south of Ningxia...... It took 87 days and traveled 1,885 miles. ”

"In terms of minerals, it was discovered that the sand gold mine in Nongping, as well as coal, copper, iron and other mines in other places,...... The most valuable one is the magnetite of Panzhihua in Yanbian County. "Panzhihua is 1,485 meters above sea level, located in the south and east of Yanbian County, 97 kilometers away from Yanbian County, and 14.7 kilometers east of Nongping, there are more than 10 farmers."

"In total, the magnetite reserves of Jianbaobao and Yingpanshan are 11,264,000 tons. The reserves of magnetite are about 15.3 million tons. Liu Zhixiang, who was tanned and thin by the sun, personally reported the good news to Jiang Li.

"Okay, thank you Professor Liu, this is probably the best news I heard on this trip to Sichuan." Jiang Li and Jiang Wenhao next to him looked at each other and smiled, just now they received that the Shaozhuang faction of the Northeast Army actually assassinated Wang Yizhe, He Zhuguo and others asked for revenge for Wang Yizhe. The division of the Northeast Army is imminent, and Xi'an is now a mess. However, relatively speaking, at this time, I heard that the iron ore exploration in Sichuan finally had phased results, which was enough for Jiang Li to sweep away his previous depression.

"It is indeed good news, with these two iron ore mines as the foundation, the steel output in the northwest can be increased." A trace of excitement flashed in Jiang Wenhao's eyes, in recent years, the northwest has invested a lot in the military industry, but in fact, the production line is not at full capacity, with the current limited steel production in the northwest, while meeting a large amount of infrastructure, it is not enough to raise the production of arms to the highest state. Otherwise, the Avenger's tank production can be increased a little more, and the cars produced are also more used for civilian use because of the production problem, although the army is more than one level higher than other local armies, but the cars in the northwest are more civilian and commercial. Haunt the factories to haul goods.

"However, the Northeast Army must deal with it in time, and we can't run away with those murderers, otherwise if it is not handled well, the Northeast Army will probably go to Nanjing." At the end, Jiang Wenhao pouted and said, although he couldn't look down on the combat strength of the Northeast Army, it was an army with more than 200,000 troops, homesick, and now there was no leader. If the generals of the Northwest Army are used to bring them, Jiang Wenhao does not believe that these people will not be able to rise up in half of the battle.

"I'll talk about this later, now the matter of Sichuan is the most important, immediately send a telegram to Tibetan Yi, and ask him to organize people to develop Sichuan iron ore." Jiang Li smiled at Liu Xiangyi, "I'm going to trouble Professor Liu again." ”

"No trouble, no trouble." Liu Xiangzhi shook his head again and again, as a native of Sichuan, he originally had some slight reluctance about Jiang Li's use of troops in Sichuan, but later the northwest rescued the victims and repaired railways, highways, and airports in northern Sichuan. Let Liu Xiangzhi and other Sichuan scholars also change their minds, at least at this time, only the northwest has the strength to develop Sichuan iron ore. Only the northwest now has the most complete steel industry in the Republic of China. (To be continued.) )