September 8, 1923

This morning, Chen Shao personally spoke in major newspapers, periodicals, and radios: First, the Yunnan system oppressed the people and raised troops to fight against the righteous teachers, but was stopped by our people's army. I hope that the country will be peaceful and the people will be healthy, and I Chen Shao will not forget my ambition and devote myself to building industry and developing people's livelihood. At present, the Yunnan, Guizhou, and Hunan families covet our two Guangxi family businesses, and they are colluding to target our two Guangzhous. The good men of our People's Army never want war, but they are never afraid of war, and with the consent of the military and the people of the two provinces, we will declare war on the three provinces from today until death. At the same time, I also hope that those forces who want to take advantage of the fire will not be blinded by interests.

September 8, 1923. Governor of the Liangguang Autonomous Region and Supreme Leader of the People's Army: Chen Shao

Early in the morning, radio broadcasts and newspapers in various places reported the news at the same time, and they had heard that the Gui system was preparing to fight against the Yunnan system, but now the peak was turning, and even the Guizhou and Hunan systems were involved. In the face of the tripartite forces, the Gui family can declare war on the three parties with such confidence, which is really puzzling.

The direct line, the Anhui line, the Feng line, and Nanjing are all watching the excitement on the side, in fact, they all want to take the opportunity to get a piece of the pie. Ma Bufang, who is in Hubei, and the direct warlords of the Jiangxi and Fujian factions are also reorganizing their arms for war, and once the Gui faction shows its defeat, they will definitely not let go of this opportunity.

The Anhui and Feng departments and Nanjing also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity, but they couldn't reach it. Nanjing's bald head has a lot of resentment towards Chen Shao (the bald head who should have been inspected in the Soviet Union at this time appeared directly here. Harmony is strong, touch it and die, some things will disappear automatically, don't mind), Chen Jiongming of Guangdong is finished, and he also fled to Nanjing, but fortunately, now he is also strong and strong, and he also has a fixed territory.

The People's Army, which was supposed to set off yesterday, did not set off immediately, but reorganized it according to Chen Shao's intentions and only started to set off today. The First Army and the Fourth Army, the commander-in-chief of the First Front Army, Chen Fuqin (originally called Peng Defu, changed, everyone knows it) and the First Army and the Fourth Army under the deputy commander-in-chief marched to Yunnan to join Du Yuming's division. The 100,000-strong army of the two armies is not the kind of army that includes a large number of non-combatants in foreign countries, but the people's army is a real combat unit, that is, a baggage army, and it must also be trained together with the infantry, and there are no so-called non-combatants. And with the Red Police Battalion, after two years of training, he is a fool, and at worst he is a third-level elite soldier. As for the training of soldiers, the Red Police Barracks can be said to have made a lot of contributions, and none of the various branches of the People's Army, except for new recruits, are below the third level of soldiers. According to Chen Shao, he is a maintenance worker or medical soldier, and if he does not reach the third level, he will have no chance with the active army.

Jiang Baili of the Second Front Army was the commander-in-chief, and the Second Army and the Third Army under the deputy commander-in-chief of Kong Wenhong went out of the river pool (little wolf: The river pool is there, what about Nantong Baowang?). ), close to Guizhou.

Chen Shao, commander-in-chief of the Third Front Army, Huang Bai, deputy commander-in-chief, one division of the Guards Army cooperated with the reserve to defend Jiangxi and Fujian, and the guards and paratroopers of the two divisions cooperated and went straight to Yan Yanhong.

The armored division cooperated with the Guards, and the heavy artillery division cooperated with the Yunnan and Guizhou armies. The Yunnan-Guizhou region lacks strong roads, which are not suitable for the rapid assault of armored divisions, but Hunan is different, the road traffic is okay, and the armored division can be carried out smoothly.

Fortunately, Chen Shao has built a number of offshore oil wells in the South China Sea over the years, and there are still large quantities of oil stored in various places. Otherwise, all the troops were all mechanized, and the amount of fuel spent was not what Chen Shao could afford to support.

After most of the day's rush, the three front armies reached the provincial border, and after replenishing their own fuel, the three front armies began to take the first step out of the southwest war.

Although Chen Shao did not care about the coalition forces of the three provinces in his heart, he could despise the opponent strategically and attach importance to the opponent tactically. After the three fronts left their jurisdictions, the Air Force's patrol planes began to provide the three fronts with day and night battlefield reconnaissance. At this time, quite a number of reconnaissance planes of the People's Army Air Force began to be equipped with infrared night vision devices, and with the help of several radars of the Air Force Headquarters, they could undertake night reconnaissance work.

The first front army marched very fast, and there was no resistance of the Dian army along the way, and in the face of Yunnan, which abandoned the city along the way, the first front army did not stop, and went straight to Kunming.

When the first front army entered Yunnan, Tang Jiyao received the news that the mighty march of 100,000 people could not be concealed at all, and thousands of trucks lined up in a long line of more than ten kilometers. Tang Jiyao concentrated all the forces in Yunnan at this time and laid the first line of defense in Yuxi, and Kunming was the second.

The First Front Army came quickly, and the nearly 100,000 defensive troops of the Dian Army in Yuxi had not dug trenches in some sections. However, the KPA did not attack immediately, and the troops were marching for a day, although they were not on two feet, but they were a little tired from the bumps along the way. After arriving at Yuxi, he directly set up a camp on a clearing to rest his troops and eat some dry food for the next battle.

"Brother Shi Piercing (know who Chen Fuqin is!) What do you think of the defense forces on the opposite side? Cai Yi put down the binoculars and asked Chen Fuqin beside him. At this time, the two of them, accompanied by some guards, stood on a hill in the camp and watched the defensive positions of the Dian army.

"Brother Songpa, if our troops are like them, then we will not be able to avoid a large number of casualties if we take such a chain of positions. It seems that over the years, Tang Jiyao's military academy has still had some effect. Chen Fuqin said very plainly.

"Yes! The commander has already confirmed to us that in the face of the rapid advance of armored forces, such positions are outdated. Cai Ye said with emotion that with the continuous expansion of knowledge over the years, his insight and vision have also expanded a lot, and his military command ability has been greatly improved.

"I heard that Brother Songpo still wanted to go to Tang Jiyao to discuss Yuan together, but now that the two have met together, how do you feel?"

Cai Yi smiled: "If it weren't for the persuasion of the commander at that time, I would have been a pile of dry bones by now." Tang Jiyao was very jealous of me at the beginning, but now it doesn't matter, the commander once said to all the warlord leaders, save your life, and you can live. ”

"The commander is very benevolent, now Li Zongren and others are cultivating in Qinghe Village, in addition to not being able to leave the jurisdiction, they have an impeccable life, a good place to cultivate their temperament, I want to go there to retire when I get old."

"How old are you, you want to retire, I haven't thought of that much?" Cai Yi looked at Chen Fuqin's slightly young face and said.

"It's not small, it's almost thirty."

"I'm ten years younger, I'm embarrassed to say."

"Friendship is not a matter of age. The commander looks younger than me, and logically speaking, older than me, but no matter how you look at it, I am older. Chen Fuqin said helplessly.

"It's true, it may be that people age more slowly, and the commander has matured a lot, and when he first met the commander, he looked younger."

While the two were chatting, the Dian army was not calm, and the defense force of Yuxi was led by Liu Zuwu, a general of the Yunnan system. At this time, he was observing the Gui army opposite, and when he learned that the commander of the other party was Cai Yi, he sighed helplessly. Cai Ye is his old commander, and now the two are going to meet each other, which is really unpredictable.

Seeing that the Gui army did not attack immediately, he could only order the troops to prepare quickly. Originally, he also wanted to take advantage of the fact that the other party was a tired division and directly attacked. However, seeing that the camp was well guarded, and the opponent was no less numerous than himself, he dismissed the plan to attack.

It didn't take long for Cai and Chen Fuqin to return to the camp to make final preparations for the battle that was about to begin.

At present, an infantry division of the KPA has all the heavy weapons: 1 tank battalion, 1 air defense battalion and other units. There are more than 15,000 officers and men in the division, and the armament is 86 howitzers (58 105mm, 28 150mm), 165 mortars, 93 anti-tank guns, 663 rocket launchers, 950 machine guns, 76 tanks (medium), 49 armored vehicles, and 1,560 other vehicles.

In this battle, the First Front Army decided to devote one division of troops to participate in the frontal attack, two divisions to attack left and right, and one division to return to the rear of the Dian army to block the opponent's rear road. Moreover, this time the Yunnan army put the battlefield in the field, and was not afraid of hurting the people, the command of the first front army applied to the air force for bomber support, and concentrated all the howitzers of the two armies to crush the will of the Yunnan army with powerful firepower. Moreover, the place is open, and the armored regiment directly under the division will also participate in the attack.

The howitzers of more than 105mm in the two armies reached a terrifying 800, which can be compared with the number of a corps of the Soviet Union in World War II (the number of artillery guns owned by the Soviet Union in the late stage of World War II was 88,900 conventional artillery, 2,167 rocket artillery, and 1,000 artillery pieces directly under a corps).

Now Chen Shao is considered to have a lot of money, especially in terms of equipment and weapons, and basically he must be able to keep up with the logistics, and he can equip as much as he can. He has always advocated that firepower be exchanged for soldiers' lives, not to use soldiers to make up for the loopholes of insufficient equipment, and now armored divisions and heavy artillery divisions are massively equipped with tanks and artillery, which can be said to be armed to the teeth. Therefore, he did not pay attention to Wang Yunshan and Liu Deshui's proposal to expand the army at all, and now they are still all divisions, but the number of equipment is not less than that of a foreign army, and they are all the most advanced equipment in the world. The self-propelled guns that have just been developed have begun to be equipped with armored divisions, and heavy artillery divisions have also begun to be equipped with 203mm howitzers, which are equipped with engine-driven tracks, so it can be considered that the gun is a semi-self-propelled gun, which makes the gun have the ability to deploy quickly. Semi-self-propellant because the gun cannot move long distances on its own, can only move in small areas, and requires car traction when marching, and the speed of towing can only reach a maximum of 35 km / h. However, the number of this kind of artillery is not much now, and Chen Shao does not plan to equip too much, mainly because the logistics occupancy rate is too large, a shell has 133 kilograms, and the range of the gun has reached 29,400 meters.

After an hour of preparation, the KPA had all rested, the artillery positions had been constructed, and the three tank battalions responsible for the first wave had also been prepared. Infantry-tank coordination, artillery coordination, infantry-artillery coordination, and air-ground coordination are all skills that every soldier of the People's Army must master.