Whoa

If it is said that Liu Zhendong's 7th Division is already a veteran powerhouse of the Northwest Army, the division has more than 13,000 people, equipped with nearly 100 cars and trucks of various types, and thousands of mules and horses. The wide asphalt road built along the northwest is a spectacular sight to behold. The asphalt road is flanked by a green belt of planted poplar trees, like a long green dragon winding its way through the land in the northwest. There are more than 10,000 people, and there is no shore. Tens of thousands of people of the 7th Division, plus mules and horses, came out of the barracks and headed for the railway station, attracting countless people to stop and watch, and the people in the farmland on both sides were even more fascinated. Since the 20th anniversary of the Republic of China, it was this army that pacified the northwest, guarded the paradise of the northwest in the war-torn times, and made the northwest unprecedentedly calm in the war.

"Hey, Brother Xuan, come out and see, Northwest Army!" Passing through a small village, Chen Zhenglun, a civil engineering student at Lanzhou University, was returning home to his home with a cousin from his former hometown in Hubei. Two years ago, he came to the northwest to study, and several uncles in the clan came to the northwest to make a living because of the flood of the Yangtze River, and they have settled in the northwest since then. Influenced by the education in the northwest, Chen Zhenglun at this time has been completely northwesternized, and whenever he sees the Northwest Army of the brigade, he is always extremely excited. These mighty armies defended the tranquility of the northwest, and this time they had to leave Gansu to defend their homeland and face the barbaric Japanese army. The Northwest Army is about to return the most severe counterattack against the greedy invaders.

The army moved like a long dragon, slowly moving on the avenue. Compared to the northwest, the appearance of troops at the railway station in Xi'an caused even more sensation.

Woo -

In a long, majestic long whine. As the train stops at the platform. The steel plates at the junction clattered against the ground. Avengers covered in burlap. The Avenger 2 tank descended to the floor of the platform in its massive form.

The appearance of the 7th Army, composed of the 7th Division and the 2nd Mechanized Brigade, appeared at the Xi'an Railway Station, which suddenly made the originally tense atmosphere in Xi'an like a boulder falling on the surface of the water. Suddenly it tumbled. A torrent of steel formed by forty tanks and twenty truck-loaded trucks drove out of the railway station and rolled all the way forward.

"This is the mechanized brigade of the Northwest Army, which is modeled after the mechanized troops of the European powers, except for a small number of mules and horses, the transportation is also mainly by cars, and there are more than 200 electric donkeys. There are more than 300 trucks of all kinds. Thirty-six car-towed guns were included. 1 anti-aircraft battalion. Together with the ground combat forces, the brigade has a strength of more than eight thousand people. The cost of building this mechanized brigade could be put elsewhere, and at least three infantry divisions could be created. ”

Yang Hucheng stood on the city wall of Xi'an, watching the torrent of steel rolling under his nose converge with the 7th Division, and talked eloquently to Yu Xuezhong, Wang Yizhe, as well as Chen Cheng, Dai Li and other senior officials in Nanjing. Very satisfied with the surprise on the other party's face, the first time he saw this steel army was in Lanzhou, at that time Yang Hucheng knew how shallow he thought he knew about the 15th Route Army in the past. Jiang Li hid it too deeply. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would have been hard to imagine that such a steel hero could be built in a barren place like the Northwest. Looking at the condition of these tanks, some of them are eight or nine percent new, and some are five or six percent. Obviously, it has not been a day or two since this army was built, and it was not until this dispatch that the wind was released, and the water of the 15th Route Army was inevitably too deep. It is no wonder that Jiang Li did not take the central army outside Tongguan in his eyes, the two armies opened a posture, and there was such a force in their hands, taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, Yang Hucheng was also confident that he could break through the defense of the central army in one fell swoop.

When he returned, Yang Hucheng received bad news, his henchman and cadre Feng Qinya, who was relied on as his right-hand man, refused to lead his troops into Tongguan to prevent the Central Army from entering Shaanxi, and instead made a promise to Nanjing that he would not be a communist, not crowd Xiao Zhang (Zhang Xueliang), and third, not fight with the central government. At the same time, together with Liu Zhi of Henan, he jointly telegraphed against Zhang Yang and let Kaitong Pass defend. The Central Army can drive straight into Shaanxi at any time. In history, it was precisely in this kind of internal rebellion and the external pressure of the Central Army that Yang Hucheng had to accept Nanjing's order to force him into the wilderness. The situation is stronger than people, and his 17th Route Army is isolated and helpless, and the Northeast Army cannot be mobilized. In this case, he has no better way out than Shimono. Later, Yang Hucheng was arrested until the Kuomintang lost the civil war, and Yang Hucheng and his secretary's family were wiped out by the military commanders. This northwestern general, who has the ambition to serve the country, finally ended in such a tragedy, which is inevitably painful. In fact, Jiang Li also had a heart to protect Yang Hucheng, otherwise after letting Nanjing force Yang Hucheng to go into the wilderness, he would drive the army into Shaanxi, and in the face of the 17th Route Army and Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army, which were already scattered, it would undoubtedly be easier to annex and control. However, Jiang Li couldn't do this kind of thing, and he was sympathetic to Yang Hucheng's experience in history.

Looking at the large number of troops surging in front of them, Chen Cheng, Dai Li, and others were all discolored, and several of them, as the Nanjing high-level officials of Chairman Jiang's lineage, were very clear about the Central Army, and even more aware of the cost of building such an army. The huge cost of procurement alone is only one of them, and it is really fearful to ensure the huge logistical strength that this army can pull out at any time. Otherwise, just repairs, replacement of parts, and a shortage of fuel will be enough to paralyze such a unit. Obviously, the Northwest already has such strength. Hundreds of cars and electric donkeys line up the streets, with little end in sight. plus Liu Zhendong's 7th Division, more than 20,000 people, but the visual impact is far more shocking than the previous 30,000 or 40,000 troops. Since the 15th Route Army made a big splash in the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, after a few years, the shocking scene on the streets of Pingjin at that time has now appeared in a more jaw-dropping posture. It seems that the Northwest Army led by Jiang Li is constantly growing, and when you think you know him well enough, the Northwest Army often appears in an even more amazing state.

Previously, Feng Qinzai rebelled against the Seventeenth Route Army, which could have suppressed Yang Hucheng and bowed down, but as the 3rd Army of the Northwest Army continued to drive eastward through Xi'an, the threat from the Central Army suddenly disappeared. No wonder Yang Hucheng was angry when he received Feng Qinya's telegram, but he didn't show a panicked look, it turned out that he had already had a back hand.

Yu Xuezhong, Wang Yizhe and others looked at the army that was constantly passing under their noses with complicated expressions, and the Northeast Army was the most powerful force in the entire Republic of China. Now the orthodoxy of the Northeast Army has sunset, and even the young marshal has been detained by Chairman Chiang. And the side branches that were not very popular in the Northeast Army in the past have actually created a situation far worse than the Northeast Army in the Northwest, even if they did not lose the old base in the Northeast, the Northeast Army at this time may not be able to have such a grand occasion! (To be continued.) )