"When I was in Mukden, I said that as long as the Japanese army is still on the land of China for a day, we will fight the Japanese army to the end. The previous retreat was to preserve the limited anti-Japanese forces, but also to better counterattack in the future. Now the Japanese army is once again spreading its minions and waging war in Shanghai. Wanted to occupy Shanghai and threaten Nanjing. The situation in the country is in jeopardy, and it is time for us to deliver on our promises, and you are the best troops I can put together right now. You are my blood, and now I am sending you to a battlefield of death and destruction. If you are all killed, your former comrades-in-arms will also die generously. If one day the 15th Route Army is exhausted, I will also take my own guard regiment to attack in person, and one day, either I will take you back to Mukden, or the descendants will bring our spiritual position back to Mukden. If you don't destroy the Japanese invaders, you will not give up! ”

"If you don't destroy the Japanese invaders, you will not give up!"

"If you don't destroy the Japanese invaders, you will not give up!"

As Jiang Li, Feng Zhanhai, Zhang Zhibang and other senior officers raised their hands to salute the army that was heading for Shanghai, all the soldiers raised their hands and watched the 4th Brigade slowly advance eastward. Thirty-six new cannons were all towed by horses.

"Long live the 15th Route Army, long live the commander!" Looking at the nearly 10,000 troops with strict military appearance and full of military vigor to the east, those students who had wandered to Lanzhou, as well as young students from all over the country who came to admire it, were surging up with enthusiasm, and they couldn't help but raise their arms and shout. Throughout the country, warlords cowered at the Japanese invasion in most places. At a time when those high-level people were holding illusions about peace. Only the 15th Route Army faced the Japanese with the firmest sense of battle. Even if Jiang Li withdrew from Mukden to the northwest at the beginning. He has never given up the dream of beating the Japanese out of the Republic of China, which is also the dream of 40,000 million people. The Republic of China has produced such an army, how not to excite these young students, how to make them not enthusiastic?

The original provisional 1st Brigade was an establishment of 2 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry battalion, 1 artillery battalion, and 1 baggage battalion. At this time, the expansion did not make major changes to the grassroots officers. Instead, an infantry regiment was filled, and the artillery battalion was expanded to two artillery regiments with 18 guns. The number of troops also reached more than 9,000. Whether it is the elite degree of the soldiers or the equipment that Jiang Li put together, it can be called the most elite in the 15th Route Army at this time.

"The military will can be used, and the people's will can be used. The scene of the people in the middle of the road and farewell has not been seen in Lanzhou for many years, and the commander is really popular with the people. Shao Lizi was also beside Jiang Li, who had stepped down at this time, and said with emotion. What he said was the truth, the former Gansu warlords were insiders in the civil war, laymen in foreign wars, and they were more powerful than anyone else in oppressing the fish and meat people, and once they encountered foreign enemies, they all became soft-footed shrimps.

Since Jiang Li entered Gansu. cut off Ma Jiajun by thunderous means, and there are also local powerful factions. Gansu has entered a rare period of calm. And at the same time. Along with Jiang Li's entry, there are hundreds of thousands of refugees and laborers. In order to accommodate more refugees into the northwest in the future, Jiang Li spared no effort in water conservancy improvement in Ningxia, Qinghai, Gansu and other places. Even if the harsh taxes in the northwest are still heavy, but there is no military disaster, and these water conservancy can provide ordinary people with subsidized household work, at least now in Gansu, the people of Ningqing are still looking forward to next year's life.

"These people are the most simple, what I do is only the most basic, you can imagine how bad the Ma family and Lu Hongtao were in the past." Jiang Li smiled indifferently.

"The people's ability to accept the 15th Route Army is relatively strong, but I don't know whether to say it or not." Shao Lizi hesitated for a moment and said.

"Chairman Shao is the number one in Gansu, what do you have to say?" Jiang Li said in surprise.

"The army is stationed in the city of Lanzhou, which is somewhat inconvenient, not only occupies a position, but also prone to accidents. It also affected the industrial and commercial development in the city of Lanzhou, and it was suggested that the defenders of Lanzhou should be withdrawn from the city, leaving only some policemen responsible for law and order in peacetime. Shao Lizi stroked his beard and said.

"In this way, it is indeed worth noting, the army comes and goes to the streets and alleys, it is indeed a disturbance to the people, Commander Sun, since Chairman Shao considers the cleanliness of the Lanzhou market, I think we should also be good, after all, in this regard, Chairman Shao has the final say. How about you and I each bring a platoon of guards in the city in the future? ”

Jiang Li seemed to be thinking seriously for a moment, and then said to Sun Weiru next to him. Although he reached a preliminary cooperation intention with Yang Hucheng, just as Yang Hucheng wanted to fight for his interests, Jiang Li also had to eliminate all hidden dangers invisibly, and squeezing Sun Weiru's army out of Lanzhou City was the first step.

"Since Commander Jiang and Chairman Shao both think that it is good to withdraw the army from Lanzhou City, Sun will naturally not fall in love with it."

Watching Jiang Li and Shao Lizi sing a double reed, you say a word, I say a word, Sun Weiru squeezed out an unnatural smile on his face, guard platoon, police your sister, who doesn't know that the newly established police station in Lanzhou is run by Jiang Li, but Jiang Li and Shao Lizi join forces, and the other party occupies the absolute initiative both in the military and in the political power, and he can't afford to blindly insist on his own opinions in this matter. It's not the size of a fist, it's more reasonable than that, it's a fart, and it's a fart, and he can't afford to lose this face if he doesn't leave in Lanzhou City.

"Commander Sun really understands things." Shao Lizi secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, Jiang Li was relatively easy to speak, but this Sun Weiru and his hands were indeed a little heavier, especially that Wang Jinzai, who heard him execute his subordinates every once in a while. Chen Guizhang's guy and several of his subordinates were buried alive, so Sun Weiru's garrison in Lanzhou City couldn't help but make him feel like a thorn in his back all the time, and it was a great joy to be able to eradicate it in time.

"By the way, Chairman Shao, about the construction of the railway from Xi'an to Lanzhou, Yinchuan, Liangzhou, and Yumenguan, I have already released the news, and there will be several different companies from several countries to come to bid, and then Chairman Shao will preside over the reception, and in addition, we will strengthen the introduction of refugees, and now we do not have enough manpower."

Jiang Li added to Shao Lizi that although he had brought no less than 300,000 laborers from Mukden, these laborers were still insufficient, and the coal mines on the Helan Mountain side would have to absorb 70,000 or 80,000 yuan, and because of the sufficiency of machinery, they could guarantee the output of 5 or 6 million tons of coal a year. The construction of some wharves and highways along the coasts of Yinchuan, Shizuishan, and Lanzhou will cost another 10,000 or 20,000 people. With the information provided by Jiang Li, Zhang Zifu also surveyed the approximate range of Longnan iron ore, and tens of thousands of iron ore mining will be used up at that time. (To be continued.) )