On the third day after Liu Xiang's death, Liu Wenhui had already received Liu Xiang's letter, and personally rushed from Chuankang to Chongqing to mourn, with the help of Liu Wenhui, Li Tie only took a few days to hold the whole of Chongqing and half of Sichuan in his hands.

However, Li Tie has too many industries, and he can't manage Sichuan at all times, so in the end, Li Tie handed over all the important military and political affairs in Sichuan to Liu Wenhui.

Li Tie made it very clear to Liu Wenhui that Sichuan is an important base of Li Tie, and this base is also Liu Wenhui's base, as long as the Japanese withdraw from China, all Huaxing's industries in Sichuan will be owned by Liu Wenhui.

And what Liu Wenhui has to do is to fully support Li Tie before the Japanese are driven out of China. Liu Wenhui, who received Li Tie's huge guarantee, naturally agreed to Li Tie's request without hesitation.

Sichuan that lost Liu Xiang is not something that he Liu Wenhui can eat, and with Li Tie's help, his Liu Wenhui's strength can only get stronger and stronger. Just like the cooperation between Liu Xiang and Li Tie, it was a win-win scene.

So with Liu Wenhui's help, Li Tie held Liu Xiang's 100,000 pro-army to death. All the soldiers were of the same mind as Li Tie and absolutely obeyed Li Tie's orders.

On the morning of this day, which was also the tenth day after Liu Xiang's death, Liu Xiang's funeral ceremony officially began in Chongqing's People's Square. The small phalanx was the 20,000 Hainan guards who withdrew to Chongqing during the defense of Nanjing.

From today onwards, they will be fully responsible for the defense of Chongqing, and the other large phalanx is 100,000 soldiers of the Sichuan army who have just changed their clothes.

The two 120,000 soldiers of the phalanx were ready to go on the square, and a battle flag embroidered with huge dead characters on a black background and white characters flew in the square.

Since the news of Liu Xiang's death came out, within ten days, Huaxing Company transferred countless ordnance supplies from all over the country, and Chongqing Huaxing Industrial City worked overtime to produce 100,000 sets of new military uniforms for 100,000 Sichuan soldiers.

As the new commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Army, Li Tie distributed the military flags in his hands that were also embroidered with the word death to the hands of the generals of the Sichuan Army.

Every unit that received the flag had to read aloud in front of the dead-character military flag, the dead-character poem: "When the national disaster is at the head, the Japanese invaders are hideous・・・・・・ From now on, all the officers and men of the Sichuan Army must shout the dead poems before raising the flag every day, so as to boost morale and express their determination to fight to the end with the Japanese invaders.

With the escort of 120,000 soldiers, Liu Xiang's funeral ceremony ended. Liu Xiang's body will be transported back to his hometown of Anren Town, Dayi County, Sichuan Province, to be buried in the Liu Ancestral Hall.

And the 100,000 pro-soldiers who bid farewell to Liu Xiang walked in the direction of Wuhan tragically while singing dead character poems. This newly formed Sichuan New Army has a new name, and from now on they have only one name, the Sichuan Dead Word Army.

When the 100,000-strong Death Word Army had just marched towards Wuhan, the Battle of Wuhan had not yet officially begun, and neither side had achieved absolute air superiority, and the air forces of both sides were still fighting for the air initiative back and forth between bombing and counter-bombing every day.

When the news of Liu Xiang's death came, it was early June, and the news of Liu Xiang's death came, and the Nationalist Government was in an uproar, and everyone expressed their grief over Liu Xiang's untimely death.

Lin Sen, chairman of the Nationalist Government, issued a clear order of commemoration and posthumously presented Liu Xiang with the title of first-class general of the army. He was granted a state funeral in Chengdu by order of the National Government Committee.

The Japanese who knew that Liu Xiang had died were overjoyed, because they knew that there were 300,000 officers and men of the Sichuan Army on the battlefield in Wuhan at this time, and it was impossible for Liu Xiang's death not to have no impact on the 300,000 officers and men of the Sichuan Army.

Therefore, believing that the opportunity could not be lost, the Japanese army, which was lost, immediately launched a campaign to occupy Wuhan. The Battle of Wuhan was officially launched.

And the course of the war was once again a big surprise, and the Chinese army, which had thought that it had the upper hand, was once again caught off guard by the Japanese army.

First of all, on the night of June 11, Anqing, the only way from Nanjing to Wuhan, because General Xu Yuanquan, the defender of the Wulongshan Fort who escaped in the defense of Nanjing, fled again without a fight, causing Yang Senbu, the general of the Sichuan army, to lose his position in Anqing overnight.

Anqing was the advance base for attacking Wuhan, and the Japanese army commander Anqing could go up the river, directly to Jiujiang, Huangshi, and finally to Wuhan. However, due to the diversion of the Yellow River and the dense mine-loading of the river, the Japanese had to advance westward along both sides of the river, preparing to forcibly occupy the Madang Fort and then attack the Jiujiang River.

As a result, because the generals of the Nationalist Army did not listen to the orders of the commander of the theater, the defenders of Madang Fort neglected their duties and were easily attacked by the Japanese army.

After the Japanese army occupied Madang Fort, the strong fortifications of Madang Fort were used to block the counterattack of the Nationalist Army many times, and finally the Nationalist Army had to retreat to Jiujiang on the whole line.

Sitting in the Wuhan Palace, Commander Jiang did not expect that the Madang Fort, which he thought could be defended for more than a month, was occupied by the Japanese army without even holding it for a week.

He thought that Liu Xiang was dead, and the Sichuan Army could only obey his orders, so he first transferred the Sichuan Army from all over the country to the front line, hoping to use the backward Sichuan Army to attract Japanese firepower and create fighters for his Central Army.

Because although the Sichuan Army is backward in equipment, the Sichuan Army is hard-working and hard-working, and it is also famous for its good and hard fighting.

However, Liu Xiang's death had a great impact on the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan Army. Because at this time, in addition to Liu Xiang's own 100,000 pro-army, the rest of the 300,000 troops were in charge of several different generals. This included a part of the Sichuan army led by Yang Sen.

As soon as Liu Xiang died, it immediately caused a struggle for power among the generals of the Sichuan army. At the same time, Commander Chiang, who was eager to annex the Sichuan army, once again resorted to his strategy of fighting one faction and pulling one faction.

Among them, Yang Sen and Deng Xihou are the targets of Commander Jiang's key efforts, while Liu Xiang's uncles Liu Wenhui and Li Tie are the targets of Commander Jiang's suppression.

In order to better deal with Li Tie and Liu Wenhui, Commander Jiang began to give a lot of promotions to the generals of the two men. Fortunately, Liu Xiang's pro-army generals were unmoved, and everyone still unswervingly followed behind Li Tie.

And Liu Wenhui, who was dealing with the aftermath in Chongqing, was also very sad after learning of Liu Xiang's death, Liu Wenhui had rich political experience in his life, and he could see Commander Jiang's thoughts at a glance.

Therefore, Liu Wenhui got in touch with Li Tie when he arrived in Chongqing, and the two privately reached an alliance to jointly protect Sichuan and prevent Commander Chiang from splitting the Sichuan army.

In order to weaken Liu Wenhui's military strength, Commander Jiang actually ordered Liu Wenhui to quickly lead his troops into Jiujiang, and forced Liu Wenhui to guard Jiujiang and Ruichang.

At this time, Jiujiang was already within the range of Japanese warships and artillery. If Jiujiang is lost, Ruichang will definitely be obtained by the Japanese army.

As for Li Tie, Commander Jiang did not arrange Li Tie to any defense area, because in the previous battles, Li Tie's Hainan Escort Army shone brightly.

Commander Chiang was very afraid that if Li Tie led the 100,000 Sichuan Army with a makeover to achieve great results in the Battle of Wuhan, it would steal the limelight from their Nationalist Army.

Anyway, judging from the current situation, the Battle of Wuhan is a battle that must be won, so why not leave the opportunity to defeat the Japanese army to your own people.

So a paper order recruited back the Sichuan Death Word Army, which had just stepped out of Chongqing, and Commander Chiang made it very clear in the order.

Sichuan had already sent 300,000 troops, and Sichuan was a logistics base, so it was impossible to defend it, so he ordered Li Tie to take 100,000 dead word legions to defend Sichuan, and do a good job of defending the Japanese army from bombing Chongqing and Chengdu and other major cities in Sichuan.

Although Li Tie did not understand military affairs, he also understood that Commander Jiang wanted to disperse his 100,000 elite troops to several important cities in Sichuan, so that he would lose his direct jurisdiction over all troops.

As long as his troops disperse to Sichuan Province in accordance with his orders, it may not be so easy to mobilize them again in the future. Commander Chiang will definitely be able to break through each of the Dead Word Legions and buy them separately.

Li Tie was really helpless, in his previous life, he saw a lot of information saying that Commander Jiang was at most suitable to be a regiment commander, and he was not suitable to be the commander of the three armed forces at all.

He was a politician with a lot of scheming, but he was by no means a military strategist. Now that I look at it, it's too apt.

However, Commander Jiang thought that as long as Li Tie dispersed these 100,000 people to various cities in Sichuan, there would be no way to command, and he was very wrong.

Now there are branches of Huaxing Company in various cities in Sichuan, and there is a way to control these generals Li Tie. What's more, now these generals are still of the same mind as Li Tie.

However, he did his best to obey the fate of heaven, and saw that the battle of Wuhan made Commander Jiang kick out. Li Tie was still kind enough to remind Commander Jiang.

The Japanese army had strong combat effectiveness, while the Chinese army had varying strengths, and the armies of many places were fighting jointly, so the military orders could not be unified.

Therefore, the gap between the Chinese and Japanese armies could not be measured by simple forces and equipment, and Li Tie suggested the establishment of a joint command center, which would be coordinated and commanded by the top leaders of each army and Commander Chiang.

At the same time, Li Tie also pointed out that almost all the ports along China's coast have fallen into the hands of the Japanese army.

As the only import and export port, Guangzhou has become very important.

Therefore, we must beware of the Japanese surprise attack on Guangzhou. And Commander Jiang received Li Tie's telegram and only took a cursory look at it and threw it into the trash.

Commander Jiang said in front of many senior officials: "I am not as good as you in business, and I am not as good as you as a recruit in leading troops to fight?"

Now that there are nearly 1.5 million Chen soldiers on both sides of the Battle of Wuhan, how can the Japanese have the extra troops and energy to attack Guangdong? I'm still going to transfer all the troops from Guangdong to Wuhan? ”

That's how history makes amusement. Commander Chiang's careful thinking once again taught the Republic of China a tragic lesson.