"Brother Jiang, you are really busy, I didn't even meet you last time I went to Lanzhou." As the train stopped on the platform, when Jiang Li walked out of the door, there was a neat guard standing outside the station. Jiang Li's guard regiment also quickly entered the platform one after another.

"Don't say it, if it weren't for my fate, I would have almost been reimbursed in Xinjiang last time. My 15th Route Army also has a leaky air duct, I don't know how much sand has been mixed into it, if I hadn't come to Brother Yang, I wouldn't dare to go anywhere else. Jiang Li got off the train with a smile on his face and shook hands with Yang Hucheng.

"Is it, really that dangerous?" The incident of Jiang Li's attack has already spread in the 15th Route Army, but Yang Hucheng, as an outsider, has limited knowledge after all, and the clouds and mountains are not too clear.

"The Ma family army was driven to the west of Dihua by me, and Sheng Shicai's army was also defeated by me in the first battle of Dihua. If it weren't for a reinforced company of mine, which also brought two small cannons, and a dozen light and heavy machine guns combined, it is estimated that I would not have been able to rush out, and even so, the guard company of more than 200 people would have only been left with more than 100 people, and I would have been a little wounded. Jiang Li pursed his lips and said, "If it weren't for this, I wouldn't have brought the entire guard regiment with me to Xi'an this time, I hope Brother Yang doesn't mind." ”

"Brother Jiang is the mainstay of the anti-Japanese resistance, who dares to do anything to Brother Jiang, it is really a bear's heart and leopard gall. If you let my brother know. It doesn't matter who it is. Also ask about it. Yang Hucheng looked angry, since the founding of the Republic of China, there has been a practice of exempting officials from death, although there are occasional exceptions, but at the level of Jiang Li and Yang Hucheng, even if there is a war with Nanjing, most of the deaths will not fall on them afterwards, and most of Nanjing will at least give them a nominal official position or something. It depends on whether you are willing to do it, and you can do it directly to Jiang Li, which is tantamount to breaking this unspoken rule, and now the entire Republic of China has this motive and ability, and I am afraid that only Nanjing, or the Japanese. Nanjing's small actions to his Yang Hucheng 17th Route Army, no matter how bad Yang Hucheng's memory is, he will not forget it now.

"Anyway, you are also a little careless, you will bring a guard company when you return from Xinjiang, fortunately you are fine, if you have an accident, the next time you start a war with the Japanese, who can still afford to pick up this big beam. It would be wise to bring the guard regiment out this time. No wonder you can fight with the Japanese on the battlefield in the dark, Brother Jiang, your training methods are not simple. With these thousands of people. The world is as big as it gets. ”

Seeing the soldiers lining up from the train, Yang Hucheng's eyelids jumped, a new set of rifles, neat military uniforms, although he didn't see any special weapons, but presumably the hidden firepower points on the train were not simple. Just by virtue of the fierce momentum of these guards soldiers, they are first-class elite soldiers.

"It's not a problem to save some snacks, and you have to take care of Brother Yang on the ground in Shaanxi." Jiang Li said modestly and got into the car with Yang Hucheng.

"This is not necessarily, the 15th Route Army has developed quite rapidly in the past two years, and in a blink of an eye, it has taken Xinjiang again, sitting in the northwest, I heard that the northern Sichuan side is also under the control of Brother Jiang, and I will have to rely on Brother Jiang to take care of one or two in the future." Yang Hucheng said with a sad look on his face, which was not very old.

"Brother Yang has been famous for a long time, Shaanxi and Gansu are already in the same breath, and it is appropriate to support each other, and it is a bit out of sight to say anything else." Jiang Li shook his head and said, "I can't help it, we are all miscellaneous cards in the eyes of Chairman Jiang, and we are all objects to be suppressed, but at this time, we also encountered a large-scale invasion by the Japanese army, you said that at this time, we don't want to expand our strength, are we waiting to be captured by Nanjing, Songhu and the Great Wall, the 15th Route Army seems to be majestic, but in fact, the troops sent out are almost all beaten into empty shelves." The troops sent out are all my descendants, if I don't find a way to replenish them, what can I do next time I encounter a war? ”

"Brother Jiang is right, the Chahar Allied Army is forcing Nanjing to collapse, and Chairman Jiang is indeed a little aggressive sometimes." Yang Hucheng nodded thoughtfully, Ma Qingyuan, and the incident of the southern Shaanxi troops fleeing south into Sichuan a few months ago, he still remembers it vividly.

"To be honest, if there were more people in the northwest, I wouldn't make this decision, but Gansu, Qinghai, and Ningxia are all vast and sparsely populated, and the sum of several places is not much better than Shaanxi, and there are too few people who farm the land, and even the territory of the 15th Route Army is difficult to maintain, and the funds I brought from the northeast are almost consumed. I don't know how to live my life in the future. Jiang Li sighed and asked with a smile, "Does Brother Yang have any thoughts about northern Sichuan?" ”

"Don't hide it from Brother Jiang, Nanjing has been staring at me closely during this time, I don't have the confidence of Brother Jiang, and it is good to be able to maintain the current plate in Shaanxi." Yang Hucheng smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "If there is anything I can help with Brother Jiang's side, I will do my best." ”

"There's something I really want to ask Brother Yang to make it convenient." Jiang Li said, "I plan to build a road into northern Sichuan, the Shu road is difficult, and it is even more difficult to build a road directly from Longnan." It is relatively easy to start from Shaanxi. ”

"Commander, you must not agree to Jiang Li's similar request, the previous promise to Jiang Li to build a railway has been on Jiang Li's big time, and now the 15th Route Army has transported troops from Lanzhou to Xi'an in less than a day, with the strength of the 15th Route Army at this time, we are sandwiched between Henan and Gansu, it is not good to be a man." Yang Hucheng did not give a clear reply to Jiang Li, and immediately after he returned, he summoned Wang Yishan, the chief of staff, to discuss with his right-hand man Sun Weiru.

"The opening of the railway between Lanzhou and Xi'an is also good for our 17th Route Army, and the 17th and 42nd Divisions have changed their uniforms, isn't it because of the improvement of taxes in the past two years?" Wang Yishan coughed and said.

"Having said that, the railway in general has benefited from Shaanxi, but the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway has paved the way for Jiang Li, and he borrowed the road from Shaanxi to try to Sichuan. Jiang Licai occupied Xinjiang, and now he has begun to attack the idea of Sichuan. If you want to say how much he lost in the Great Wall War of Resistance, but the output of his arsenal can still support our 17th Route Army, if you want to say that you haven't recovered, who will believe it? The current relationship with the 15th Route Army must be maintained, but the 15th Route Army cannot be expanded all the time, otherwise wouldn't our Shaanxi become a vassal of Gansu? ”

Sun Weiru shook her head and said. After two years of emergency repairs, Xi'an and Lanzhou, the two most important cities in Shaanxi and Gansu, have been the first to open to traffic. Coupled with some other gains, although Jiang Li took the bulk of the head, but the economy along the railway, the extension of oil mills, and the ancillary effects brought by some mines made Shaanxi also profit a lot, relatively speaking, the situation in Shaanxi under the rule of Yang Hucheng was relatively stable.

"What does the chairman think about this?" Sun Weiru and Wang Yishan looked at Yang Hucheng respectively, after all, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway can be big or small, in view of the good relationship with the 15th Route Army in the past, the final decision is still on Yang Hucheng.

"Li Du, Ma Zhanshan's 10,000 or 20,000 people who withdrew from the northeast to Xinjiang through the Soviet Union also joined the 15th Route Army, the pace of expansion of the 15th Route Army in the past two years is still too fast, and now it is called the Northwest Army outside." A hint of complexity flashed on Yang Hucheng's face, Shaanxi also belongs to the northwest, but now some people call the 15th Route Army the Northwest Army, which shows that Jiang Li does have the momentum to attack the northwest. "You say, in order to suppress the attention of the 15th Route Army, is it better to agree or not to agree?"

Sun Weiru and Wang Yishan glanced at each other, and finally Wang Yishan said, "It's not good to agree, and disagreeing will also ruin the past feelings." According to the humble opinion, it is better to adopt a tacit attitude, neither to declare agreement to the outside world, but also not to oppose Jiang Li's approach. Soon after Liu Xiang first unified Sichuan, he was determined to flourish, and he was not a master to be provoked, Jiang Li intended to get involved in northern Sichuan, and he was bound to clash with Liu Xiang, Deng Xihou and other powerful factions in Sichuan. Jiang Li's good relationship with the chairman is one thing, but Jiang Li also has a lot of enemies, and if he offends Sichuan, he needs Shaanxi as his ally. ”

"The chief of staff has a point, when the 15th Route Army is strong, disperse the strength of the other party, but for Nanjing, the chairman and Jiang Li are the same position, and they are both weakened objects, Shaanxi is sandwiched between Gansu and Henan Liu Zhi, and the relationship with Jiang Li cannot be stiffened." Sun Weiru nodded and said.

"In that case, let's do it." Yang Hucheng finally made a decision, no matter what, the construction of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway is still some good for Shaanxi. (To be continued.) )