"Haha" Wu Di kept smirking dryly.

Li Bufan was a little irritable, extremely unhappy to see his villain's appearance, and said angrily: "Laugh? Are you still laughing? You say, how can you agree with Liu Cunhou to be the commander of the army? Does he have that ability? ”

Seeing that Li Bufan was angry, Wu Di hurriedly said: "Boss, soldiers are not tired of cheating." ”

Li Bufan frowned and said, "Is it going back on your word?" ”

Wu Di laughed and said, "Of course not. What about giving him an army? The division commanders and regiment commanders below are all our people, and the troops are also mixed troops, will that army become a tool for Liu Cunhou to become a warlord? I think Liu Cunhou also has a bottom in his heart, otherwise he wouldn't have agreed so easily. This guy is estimated to have been forced by various warlords of the Sichuan army to retreat to Ningqiang at the beginning of the year, and he has a grudge against the Sichuan warlords, so he retaliates like this. ”

Li Bufan snorted coldly and said, "If something goes wrong, I'll ask you." ”

Wu Di hurriedly said: "Then if I make a meritorious service, is it beneficial?" ”

Li Bufan glared and said, "What other benefits do you want?" Or I'll give you the position of commander-in-chief. ”

"Of course that's good." Wu Di was overjoyed, and he could see Li Bufan's gloomy face, and hurriedly said, "No, no, no, I think it's good to be a military advisor." Don't be angry, boss. You see, aren't those Sichuan Yankees relying on some Shu Dao to make it difficult to get to the blue sky? We now have a response, from southern Shaanxi to Sichuan, as long as we have a foothold in Sichuan, what will we do to block the iron hooves of our army with the broken faces of the Sichuan army? Then you can't obediently look at the wind? ”

Li Bufan snorted coldly and said, "Then it depends on whether they know each other or not." ”

Wu Di was relieved to see that he had really diverted Li Bufan's attention, knowing that he was already with a tiger by his side now, but he didn't want to be watched by a battalion of people. Sometimes I think about it, I am an unprecedentedly unlucky person who has been placed under house arrest, and how many sins do I have to do to be so unlucky. However, in addition to the fact that his freedom is somewhat restricted, he still has a lot of power, and most importantly, he can fight for his ideals, make history, and build a grand hegemony under his guidance. Originally, he didn't think about fighting for freedom and Li Bufan's Cold War, but the wheel of history made him not have this time, because he could no longer find such a good opportunity than the Kanto earthquake on September 1, 1923.

Wu Di shook off the chaotic emotions and said with a smile: "Whether they know each other or not, I think we should let the troops in Sichuan quickly capture Wanxian and receive the army into Sichuan." Didn't these Sichuan warlords just rely on local methods to block the waterway to ensure Sichuan's geographical advantages? As long as they can transport supplies and troops by ship, then they are nothing. Look at it, there are so many warlords in Sichuan, how many of them can really join forces with their lifeless goods to oppose us? ”

Li Bufan nodded and said, "That's right. If Sichuan's troops were to form a rope, they would also have 70,000 or 80,000 troops, and it would really not be easy to deal with, but they would be vulnerable if they were like a plate of scattered sand. It is precisely because of their own policies that they will be controlled by the Dian army of 10,000 or 20,000 for so long. ”

The East China Army's entry into Sichuan brought no less shock to the Sichuan Army and even the entire southwest than last year's Haiyuan earthquake. Everyone knows that although Li Bufan did not shout the words "unification of China by force", he was actually doing this, and he did it much more thoroughly than Duan Qirui at the beginning, that is, to break up all the troops, such troops are available in any province, and it is impossible to be a local warlord and the emperor.

However, when I look back, I don't want to accept it, so I will either be wiped out, or I will go back to the field to be a princess. The East China Army dared to kill in the old lair, and they didn't care about cutting off a few more heads. Warlords who are accustomed to power really want to be in the palace, I am afraid that it will be more uncomfortable than killing them, and some of them have done evil or offended many people, and without the army in hand, whether or not their safety can be guaranteed is a very serious problem.

Beat? At that time, the army was less than 200,000, but now the army has expanded several times, and the strength has become boundless.

As a result, before some small warlords could express their attitude, they had already turned to the East China Army one after another, accepted the reorganization and obeyed the arrangement, or recommended their own sons and nephews to study at the Nanjing Military Academy.

The little brothers fell one after another, and those big guys couldn't sit still, knowing that the general trend had gone, especially the Sichuan army, those big warlords were composed of a combination of some small warlords, and their own core troops were actually not too much, for example, Liu Xiang's absolutely loyal troops did not even have a brigade during this period, so what could they do to resist the hundreds of thousands of troops of others?

Liu Cunhou is an example, people are many military commanders, the head soup has been drunk by others, and the leftovers must be fished a little, so as not to drink the northwest wind.

Xiong Kewu was so angry that he directly powered up and went to the field.

As soon as Sichuan fell, Yungui changed color. Yuan Zuming's position as the overseer of Guizhou was also unstable, and his heart was also lowered, leaving Tang Jiyao to fight tenaciously, and as a result, the East China Army was pressing, although Tang Jiyao could withstand it, but some people couldn't stand it, Gu Pinzhen, the commander of the First Army of the Yunnan Army, couldn't stand it, and directly launched a mutiny to expel Tang Jiyao, but fortunately, Gu Pinzhen still cared about a little friendship and didn't kill Tang Jiyao, but Tang Jiyao had to leave Yunnan with electricity, and then Gu Pinzhen was electrified to accept the reorganization.

Immediately afterwards, Shaanxi was also forced to submit to the reorganization under the pressure of the East China army. Whether it is the ruthlessness of the East China Army or its great momentum, it makes people lose the courage to resist.

For a time, Li Bufan was like Zhongtian, and the Chinese media and foreign media no longer called it the East China political axe, but became the Nanjing political axe, and regarded it as an existence alongside the Yanjing center. Li Bufan sits on 14 southern provinces, reorganizes an army of one million, and has monstrous power.

Yan Xishan, Shanxi Province, connected to the electricity neutrality, and secretly sent people to lose his sincerity, claiming to be Duan Qirui's student (in fact, Yan Xishan once worshiped under Duan Qirui's door and called Teacher Duan).

The direct lineage, Feng lineage, and Lu army panicked, and no longer cared about it, so they had to huddle together to keep warm, and the Feng army went directly south to defend the Yellow River defense line with the direct troops. For a time, the Central Plains, the banks of the Yellow River and Shandong gathered 670,000 troops from China's two major groups. Li Bufan was seated in Nanjing and was known as the Southern Group; The combined forces of the Direct, Feng and Lu armies were known as the "Northern Group".

China's civil war, the confrontation between the two major blocs of the north and the south, and the tension of the sabre-rattling, have attracted the attention of the world, and in modern warfare, such a large-scale military confrontation is extremely rare. Arms dealers and war correspondents from all over the world flocked to the site.

However, these arms dealers and war correspondents took the initiative to be disappointed.

The arms dealers still had some gains in the north, but in Nanjing, they received the answer: "For heavy artillery, the military department has only approved the purchase of heavy artillery of more than 100 millimeters, with priority given to 105 millimeters, 150 millimeter cannons, and 150 howitzers." Or giant cannons and fortress cannons of more than 300 mm. ”

In the Nanjing Overseer's Mansion, Li Bufan was listening to Wu's enemy's talk.

"The military is a continuation of politics. What we need to do at the moment is to consolidate our power and strengthen our strength. With the current strength of our armed forces, it has caused great uneasiness among the great powers, and for the sake of their own interests in China, the great powers will not easily allow the emergence of a unified and powerful China. If we cross the Yellow River now, the most we can do is take the opportunity to occupy Beijing, Tianjin, and North China, which will immediately trigger the intervention of the great powers, or even the intervention of force, especially in this country. It is said that the original had only the Sixth Division in Shandong, but now it has decided to transfer the Fifth Division to Shandong, which shows that they are ready for military intervention. If we don't fight, we must have the ability to defeat the book. ”

Li Bufan nodded slowly and said: "If we don't fight, it doesn't mean that the north won't fight." ”

Wu Di laughed and said, "The north wants to fight? How to fight? With such an obvious dividing line of natural hazards as the Yellow River, it is not easy to conflict. Shandong's Tanaka Yu is just a neutral faction in Beiyang, does he dare to provoke with Shandong's strength? I'm afraid that he is now dreaming about us fighting. In this situation, even if someone wants to provoke it, it is not easy to cause a big war. ”

Li Bufan smiled: "Yes." In such a short period of time, he won the fourteen southern provinces, and He Fenglin of Shanghai also returned with interest. Although there is a tiger in charge of the troops to control the place, but after all, the control is not complete, and it is time to digest and stabilize the territory. ”

Wu Di said with a smile: "It is not enough to stabilize the territory, the construction must keep up, and at the same time, the transportation system needs to be built, especially in the southwest." It is time to fully open the Southwest Railway, the Sichuan-Han Line and the Longhai Line. These transportation systems are very important. ”

"Southwest?" Li Bufan frowned.

"Yes, it's Southwest!" Wu Enemy Zhengse said, "After the defeat is over, we must immediately move our troops north, defeat the northern bloc, and complete the basic reunification of the country." Then, the problem arises, we have to face the interests and unequal treaties of the great powers in China when we set up the central political axe, instead of being able to push Yanjing to get through the tricks like we can now. We certainly cannot accept such a humiliation, and then war with the Great Powers becomes inevitable. We are definitely in a weak position on the sea, we can only rely on submarine deterrence and aircraft strikes, and it is basically impossible to win the enemy at sea. But we can't be beaten all the time, can we? Then we can only attack the enemy from the land, and the important surname of the southwest is revealed. The Western powers have suffered huge casualties in the world war, and their own small populations cannot afford to suffer casualties, so we have to force them to engage in large-scale battles with us on land. Moreover, the southwest is mountainous, and it is difficult to play heavy weapons, which is beneficial to us"

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