Five days of fierce fighting turned half of Guiyang into ruins, and the gunfire and explosions were more lively than during the Spring Festival.

In the Governor's Mansion of the Qianjun Army, Tang Jiyao looked at the city map on the desktop with a haggard face, Liu Xianshi and several others were also worried, and at this moment, a Yunnan army officer covered in gunpowder hurriedly walked in.

"General!"

Tang Jiyao, who had not rested for two days, rubbed his eyes and said to the officer who walked in. "Is it Linsheng? What's wrong? ”

"General, Changling Street has been lost."

Hearing Linsheng's words, Tang Jiyao and several other people's faces changed. "Long Ridge lost? Didn't the Sichuan army attack the blue sea and the stone garden? ”

"Just now, when the Sichuan army exchanged fire with us on the two streets of Bihai and Shiyuan, at least one regiment of the Sichuan army raided Changling, and the 7th Battalion in charge of guarding there was caught off guard and retreated." The officer who said that he called Linsheng said anxiously. "General, if Changling is lost, the Sichuan army will be able to bypass the two streets of Guanshan and Lindong, and there is only less than 10 miles left from us, what should we do now?"

Hearing Lin Sheng say this, Tang Jiyao's face changed several times, and finally said to Liu Xianshi on the side. "Ru Zhou, how many troops can your Qian army draw out?" For so many days, in addition to the reserve force of one company, there was only one battalion of reserves left in Tang Jiyao's hands, and such a small number of troops would definitely not be able to recapture Changling, so Tang Jiyao also started the idea of the Qianjun army in Liu Xianshi's hands.

However, after listening to Tang Jiyao's words, Liu Xianshi just smiled bitterly. "General, almost all the Qian troops that can be dispatched have been dispatched, and now I only have one battalion of troops in my hands..."

"Only one battalion?"

"There is only one battalion." Liu Xianshi's face was bitter. "This is just this battalion, which was just withdrawn and rested a few hours ago, and there are still many wounded in it who have not been treated..."

"Is it really a little more?"

"It's really not a little more, and even the fierce battle, the people in the city have almost run out, and those who haven't run have been evacuated by the Sichuan army, so far even if you want to temporarily catch some people, you can't catch them..."

After five days of fierce fighting, the Sichuan army and the Dian army not only succeeded in turning half of Guiyang City into ruins, but also paid a heavy price on both sides. For example, the more than 10,000 people of the Sichuan army have suffered at least more than 3,000 casualties so far, Tang Jiyao's Dian army has also lost more than 2,000 people, and Liu Xianshi's Guizhou army...

At the same time, these casualties also made Tang Jiyao understand a truth, that is, although the Dian army is more capable of individual soldiers and is more organized in battle, the Sichuan army has its own advantages in equipment. Therefore, when the Yunnan army and the Sichuan army of a squad or platoon meet, it is difficult to say who wins and who loses.

In contrast, although Liu Xianshi's Guizhou army is not afraid of death, it is more than one step inferior to the two in terms of individual soldier quality and equipment, so a battalion of the Dian army and a battalion of the Guizhou army want to recapture Changling in the hands of the Sichuan army of one regiment? It is possible that the surname is infinitely close to 0...

Looking at the heavy atmosphere in the Governor's Mansion, coupled with the sound of gunfire getting closer and closer outside, Ren Kecheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Tang Jiyao. "General, isn't there anything Cai Dudu can do there?"

Tang Jiyao shook his head. "There was originally only one town in Yunnan, and the new army was only two towns when it was counted. After I brought half of the new army to Guizhou, there was only one and a half towns left in Yunnan. The troops of that one and a half towns are not enough to confront the Sichuan army on the Sichuan-Yunnan border, how can they still send troops to support us..."There is another sentence that Tang Jiyao did not say, that is, it is too late in time.

Although the communication in this era was not convenient, and the terrain of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan was one of the most complex in China, Guiyang was also the capital of a province, and the telephone poles along the way were not deliberately cut down by the Sichuan army and the Yunnan army, so on the day of the exchange of fire between the two armies, Yan Guang in Chengdu, Cai Ye in Kunming, and even Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing and Yuan Shikai in Beiping already knew about it.

It's just that Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai were still busy with the abdication of the Qing family at that time, so Sun Yat-sen never cared about it after sending a few strongly worded telegrams to both sides, and Yuan Shikai was watching the excitement because of the distance, on the contrary, the two warring sides were fighting a war of words with telegraphs.

Cai Ye himself was not interested in intervening in the civil strife in Guizhou, even more so after learning that what happened in Guiyang was completely different from what Dai Jian said, and at the same time, Tang Jiyao's disobedience to orders and good advocacy also made Cai Ye very annoyed. It's just that annoyance is annoyance, the Dian army is fighting with the Sichuan army in Guiyang, and Cai Ye also knows that he must not be held back as a governor. So after sending a strongly worded telegram to Yan Guang, Cai said that the Sichuan army should withdraw from Guizhou, and of course, the Dian army would also withdraw at the same time.

It's just that what Cai Ye didn't expect was that Yan Guang not only rejected his conditions, but also said that they entered Guizhou at the invitation of Zhang Bailin to "pacify the chaos in Guizhou", so it was the Yunnan army that should withdraw from Guizhou instead of their Sichuan army. And everything that happens in Guizhou now should be borne by the Dian army.

Yan Guang even questioned Cai Yi. "The slaughter of revolutionaries by the former Qing bureaucrats is the root cause of civil strife in Qianzhou. Anyway, now many people know about the affairs in Guiyang, and Yan Guang is not afraid that Cai Yi will switch the identities of Zhang Bailin and Liu Xianshi.

Although Cai Ye also regretted that he was gullible at the beginning, he had to strongly say that the responsibility belonged to both sides, and not which party should bear it, after all, the prestige of the Yunnan military and political axe also needs to be maintained.

As a result, the war in Guiyang was in full swing, and the war of words between Sichuan and Yunnan provinces was not inferior. In the end, Yan Guang simply led the 3rd Division and the 4th Division to the Sichuan-Yunnan border, and Cai Ye did not show weakness and only left one association in Kunming, and the remaining town troops were all transferred to the border of the two provinces to confront the Sichuan army.

Looking at the more than 10,000 Yunnan troops on the border line, Yan Guang did not think of taking advantage of the situation to push Yunnan away, but considering that the combat effectiveness of the Yunnan army was one line higher than that of the Sichuan army, and in addition to the 2nd division in Guiyang, only the 3rd and 4th divisions could be pulled out, and in the end, Yan Guang had to give up this very tempting idea.

It's just that although Yan Guang can't overthrow Cai Yi, in this situation, Cai Ye is obviously unlikely to send troops to support Tang Jiyao, so the current situation in Guiyang is.

"It's precarious..."

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