"Ge Laozi, Gansu is so big, these bastards don't stay in their own territory, they come to our Sichuan to fight for food, and if they don't give those bastards a little bit of power, these fake Northwest Yankees don't know how powerful our Sichuan army is!" A Sichuan army battalion commander encouraged his soldiers to move quickly on the overgrown path in front of them. From time to time, soldiers led their horses and carried bags full of things to their feet.

"It's still some time before we agreed with the 41st Army, and it's still a little too early to meet the 15th Route Army, if the strength of the 15th Route Army is pressed on our Sichuan Army, I'm afraid the battle will not be easy to fight." Deng Xihou rode on horseback and frowned as he looked at the team in front of him with high morale.

"The chairman naturally has the chairman's considerations, although he made an appointment with the 41st Army, but the 41st Army waited until the Yellow River froze because they did not have enough boats to fight across the river, and the weather was cold, and it was too cold to stay at home, let alone march and fight. Now that Sichuan is unified, the morale of the soldiers is at its peak, and sooner or later it will slacken, and the army sent by Jiang Li to northern Sichuan is not much at present, and it is the time to defeat it in one go. Liu Shouchun explained beside him.

"Well, since the chairman thinks so, let's fight. But I'll leave it to you. Deng Xihou sneered, since Liu Xiang wanted to fight so much, then arrange his troops on the front line to try the depth of the other party. Although Liu Xiang is now the chairman of Sichuan Province, it is even if he starts a war in advance, and it is obviously impossible to make him obey his words. During the warlord melee in Sichuan, his status was not much lower than that of Liu Xiang.

"Don't worry, rest for a while when you arrive in Qingchuan County. On the second day, he will fight the enemy again. I have to let others see that although the combat power of the 15th Route Army is high. But our Sichuan army is not a soft persimmon to be manipulated. ”

Liu Shoushan looked at the soldiers marching rapidly in front of him and felt complacent, since defeating Liu Wenhui's army, his troops have picked some cheap and captured a lot, and now the weapons used by six or seven thousand people in a division are eighty percent new, one rifle per person, an artillery company, and a small number of machine guns. This is rare in the Sichuan army. However, in this kind of morning has begun to see frost weather, there are still some soldiers wearing straw sandals, which is why Liu Xiang decided to let the troops test the 15th Route Army in advance, if you wait until the Yellow River freezes, the weather in northern Sichuan will not be much better, the troops are far from enough cotton shoes, not to mention the cold cotton clothes. There is no need to fight, and some soldiers have a serious decline in combat effectiveness due to the lack of clothing to withstand the cold winter weather, not to mention maintaining the morale in front of them. So strike while the iron is hot.

"Brigadier Hong, you were originally from our Sichuan, and you were a member of the Sichuan army, and now you have a brigade. Why don't you think about serving Chairman Liu, but instead help Jiang Li, an outsider, to help him commit abuse? Chairman Liu said. As long as Brigade Commander Hong knows that he will return and help Sichuan expel foreign forces, not only will he not be able to do anything in the past, but he can also promote you to be a division commander and put several other counties in northern Sichuan under your rule. ”

The person who came was Hong Chengbo's former private school teacher, who was a fellow villager and had taken care of Hong Chengbo's family before. Lu Yiseng's thin hand took out a letter from his arms, because his hands were still a little trembling with excitement, he was a teacher in the countryside, although he had a thin family property and still had some prestige in the township, how could he think of having the opportunity to personally send a letter to such a person as the provincial chairman.

"Sir, you'd better go back." Out of respect, Hong Chengbo did not directly interrupt the other party's words, but only waved his hand after he finished speaking.

"Brigadier Hong, why is your attitude so resolute, is it because the conditions given by Chairman Liu are not generous enough?" Lu Yiseng said in surprise, he didn't expect Hong Chengbo to reply so without thinking.

"Don't hide it from the old man, the dog offended Brigade Commander Luo before, in order to avoid Brigade Commander Luo's harm, he had to strike first, in order to avoid the defeat of the family being implicated, the student sent the family to Lanzhou, and now there is no turning back. The old gentleman will reply to the person sent by the provincial chairman when he goes back. ”

Hong Chengbo didn't want Lu Yisheng to be embarrassed, but he just said this most direct reason, in fact, even if his family is still in northern Sichuan, two of the three regiment commanders under him have come from the 15th Route Army, and as for the lower-level battalion and company platoon commander Hong Chengbo, he can't even remember how many people there are. At present, although he is the brigade commander of the Northern Sichuan Frontier Brigade, the command of the Frontier Brigade has actually fallen into the hands of the 15th Route Army. In addition, his family went to Gansu, and his son also successfully got the beauty of the director of the county anti-smoking bureau, and the family also settled, and the 15th Route Army still counted, and he now jumped to the 15th Route Army First Brigade of nearly 8,000 people, compared to the Sichuan Army, a division commander with real power, it is not bad, as long as he is obedient enough in the 15th Route Army and does not make any mistakes, he will not be demoted. Besides, the officers from the 15th Route Army still respect him as a brigade commander although they are on guard, and he also needs his head for big and small things in the brigade, and he is not really treated as a marionette. Even if it is not worse than the descendants of the Sichuan army, it is not a bad thing, and it is impossible to be reluctant to seek the near and far.

"Well, I'll just go back and reply to the person sent by the chairman." Speaking of this, Lu Yiseng could only smile bitterly.

Moo.......

In Qingchuan County, a huge stone mill with a length of more than two meters was pulled by dozens of people in front and behind, plus a few cows, to press the ground that had been bulldozed. In this backward era, the degree of mechanization is quite low, due to the relationship of mountain roads, even if there are some machinery in Lanzhou, it cannot be transported to northern Sichuan for a while, so some construction must rely on the strength of people and animals.

"Looking at it like this, I'm afraid it will take a lot of time for the airport to be completed." Ma Zhuang watched the crowd pull the stone grinder with difficulty, pressing the ground inch by inch, shaking his head and saying.

"It's going to take at least two months, and even longer." Yan Zhigang, who wears an engineering cap, is the organizer of the construction of the airport, and even if the construction of a small and medium-sized forward airport is built, it needs to pull a lot of things from Gansu, which cannot be done in a short time.

"So I can't count on the battle with the Sichuan army this time." Zhang Guandao said with a disappointed face.

"The Sichuan army going north also has no planes, so can't they fight without planes?" Ma Zhuang's face sank, if an army can't fight because it lacks one or two weapons, it's okay.

Although the Sichuan army is up and down, at this time, a considerable number of recruits of the northern Sichuan Frontier Brigade are coming out of the recruit training camp in the northwest, how can they be instigated by Liu Xiang again. At the same time, the Sichuan Army Liu Shouchun's 1st Division and 1st Brigade plus Deng Xihou's nearly 30,000 troops had already opened their bows left and right, rushing all the way to Qingchuan, all the way to Pingwu. Like two big pincers like crabs, they pressed towards the Ma Zhuangbu Sichuan cluster stationed in the two counties. And Ma Zhuang also quickly adjusted the troops under his command, so far the battle between the 15th Route Army and the Sichuan Army has been touched. (To be continued.) )