September 6, 1923

After receiving Tang Jiyao's telegram, Yan Yanhong, the governor of Hunan Province and the commander-in-chief of the Hunan army in Hengyang, did not immediately reply to him. At this time, he was also in the battle between heaven and man, and not long after the battle with Zhao Hengti ended, the soldiers under his command were exhausted. But for the Gui family, he admired and scrupled, if the previous battle for Hunan was not for the Gui family to sell a large number of his weapons, it would be difficult for him to keep the territory of half the province. He Zhao Hengti has direct support, he is single, and he originally wanted to talk to Tang Jiyao about the cooperation between the two armies. However, Tang Jiyao was fighting against Qian before, and he was almost like himself, and he was caught in the flames of war. Now that he Tang Jiyao has obtained the territory of the Guizhou system again, and he has also guarded the territory of half of the province, he was about to send someone to Yunnan, but he didn't expect that Tang Jiyao would come to find him. If you don't have anything to say about dealing with Zhao Hengti yourself, but if you deal with the Gui family, then you have to think about it.

He has two or three hundred thousand people in the Yunnan line, and he himself has sixty or seventy thousand (there are not so many in history), and the army of the Gui family is only a hundred thousand. But I don't know why, as soon as Yan Yanmin remembered that the Gui family always had an uneasy feeling, he touched the Wang Ba box on his waist (angry little Japan), and the feeling of uneasiness became even stronger. Maybe he was too worried, thinking that the Gui family had made a lot of money selling weapons over the years, and he had an urge to cooperate with the Yunnan family in his heart.

Born in a literati, Tan Yanmin is a person who likes to speculate, and now his official position and identity are given by Nanjing, because of Zhao Hengti's military advice, Tan Yanmin stepped down in disgrace, fled to Shanghai, and joined the Nanjing government. With the support of Nanjing, he returned to Hunan, and only today did he pull up his own team. Although it did not gain a foothold in Hunan, it finally brought out an army. With the army, there is political capital, and with this Hunan army, he was appointed by Nanjing as the commander-in-chief of the Hunan army and the secretary general of the generalissimo's base camp.

Just when Tan Yanmin was undecided, his old subordinate Lu Diping walked in, and Lu Diping said to Yan Yanhong: "Commander, haven't you thought about it yet?" If you want me to say, the Gui family is not a big deal, if he is really that powerful, he will come over a long time ago, and he will stay quietly in Liangguang. ”

"I don't think things are so simple, if the Gui system is not powerful, then the Yue army can be wiped out in just a few days, when Zhao Hengti wanted to get a piece of the pie, it was too late to send troops, and the Yue system would be over." Tan Yanmin has never dared to underestimate the Gui system.

Wu Jianxue opened his mouth and said: "Commander, no matter how powerful the Gui family is, it is not as powerful as the Yunnan and Hunan alliances, and it was he Chen Jiongming who was careless and was killed by a sneak attack, and the Gui family is not necessarily very powerful." ”

Tan Yanhong: "Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years." ”

"Actually, we all thought wrong, commander, now is the battle of Guidian, and his Gui family is at most to guard against us, I don't think there will be too many people. And didn't Tang Jiyao's telegram say that he was going to have a decisive battle with the Gui family? We can wait for most of the forces of the Gui system to be held back by the Yunnan system, or wait for the results of the battle of Gui and Yunnan, and then decide whether to send troops or not. Don't forget that the choice is ours, and it's up to us to decide whether to help the Gui or Yunnan families at that time, right? Chen Jiayou said slowly.

"That's right! It was I who fell into the wrong place, so that we were invincible. Tan Yanmin said excitedly.

"But Commander, if you really want to unite one side, I still suggest cooperating with the Dian system, he Gui is a tiger, and I'm a little worried that the Gui family will also take advantage of us. And the Yunnan system has gone through the battle of Yunnan and Guizhou, and because the Yunnan-Guizhou region is a poor place, even if he defeats the Gui family with us, his Yunnan army does not have much strength to provoke us, and once the Gui family's belongings are really divided, that little Zhao Hengti is not afraid. Chen Jiayou spoke again.

"It makes sense, but everything depends on how the battle of Guidian goes, if the situation is really wrong, then we won't help each other." Tan Yanmin finally clapped his head.

Wu Jianxue: "Commander, then how do we reply to Tang Jiyao." ”

"It's a little vague, but there is one point, if the Yunnan system is victorious, then we will help them." Tan Yanmin thought about it and said.

In fact, what they didn't know was that if it weren't for the appearance of the Gui family, Tang Jiyao would be ready to compromise with Yuan Zuming, the Guizhou army who entered Sichuan, and enter Hunan together. (1925 First Battle of Yunnan and Guizhou)

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Yunnan Overseer's Mansion, Tang Jiyao read Yan Yanhong's callback, snorted, and expressed his dissatisfaction. At this moment, a staff officer ran in in a panic.

"Report to the Overseer, the deserters who came back were not in good spirits, apparently irritated, but they all asked. One of Li Yanping's divisions was completely annihilated yesterday afternoon when it was engaged in a battle with the militia regiments. Moreover, there was also a plane of the Gui Army during the battle, and Division Commander Li Yanping was directly killed by the plane. ”

"What." Tang Jiyao snatched the report from the staff officer's hand, and when he saw that the content on it was the same as what the staff officer said, Tang Jiyao felt a palpitation. A division had no power to resist in the face of a regiment, and even the commander was directly killed. Airplanes that can drop bombs, cars that can't be punched, are sharpshooters. After Tang Jiyao read it, he smashed the report directly on the ground in a fit of rage, panting heavily. The staff officer saw that Tang Jiyao was angry, so he didn't dare to stay longer, so he directly picked up the report on the ground and ran out.

"Chen Shao, are you really that powerful? A division is gone. Tang Jiyao sat on the chair with his head and muttered to himself.

Raising his head and looking at the ceiling, thinking about the next battle or not, fighting, it is difficult to win, and if he does not fight, he will surrender. Brother Songpo, no wonder you and Baili are willing to succumb to Chen Shao, it's not easy! It's really not that simple. But if I want Tang Jiyao to surrender without a fight, it's not that simple.

Thinking of this, Tang Jiyao directly picked up the phone and said: "Send a report to Yuan Zuming in my name, and say: The land of Guizhou is governed by the people of Guizhou themselves, and I can give him Guizhou, but he must help me fight against the Gui family." ”

After finishing speaking, he made another phone call: "The telegram ordered Liu Xianshi to gather all the soldiers in Guizhou and wait for the order." Send a report to Tan Yanhong again, if he doesn't cooperate, then I will choose Zhao Hengti. ”

After giving the order, Tang Jiyao suddenly felt a sense of relief, if this failed, then he had nothing to say. It's not that I didn't work hard and did my best to obey the destiny of heaven.

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Seeing the information gathered from all over the place, Chen Shao shrugged indifferently. Chen Shao has always held a state of contempt for the warlords in China, if it weren't for the common people, he is now fully capable of unifying half of China. Moreover, from the establishment of the People's Army, the imaginary enemy of the army was not the warlords at home, but the major powers of the world. Therefore, the number of weapons and equipment sold to warlords in recent years will be so large, and now the domestic warlords are basically equipped with their own weapons and equipment, except for the direct line and the troops there in Nanjing, which have a lot of equipment equipped with Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, and other military weapons are produced by themselves.

In addition, there are many large weapons warehouses in the Liangguang region, and these weapons are specially produced, ranging from small bullets and rifles to large airplanes and tanks. Of course, these are all prepared for World War II, and there are many kinds of rifles alone, both long and short. According to Chen Shao's plan, he will grab the title of the world's largest arms dealer in World War II in the future, and it is not surprising that he is now piling up weapons.

At this time, Wang Jie knocked on the door and walked in, handing Chen Shao a secret telegram, which was densely filled with various symbols. This symbol is only known to Chen Shao except for biochemical spies. Waving his hand to call Wang Mingli to go, he sat at the desk, picked up the pen and looked at the symbols and slowly wrote. After writing, I looked at the news on the paper: Yunnan and Tang united with Guizhou Yuan and Xiang Tan to resist Gui, and Qian Yuan and Xiang Yan agreed to Yunnan and Tang, and now the three are officially allied.

After reading it, pick up a lighter, light two pieces of paper, and put them in an ashtray. Looking at the burning flames, Chen Shao said, "It's much easier this way." ”

After the burning, he picked up the phone and called directly to the war department: "Baili, how is the expansion of the troops?" ”

"Commander, the expansion of the Guards is complete, and the rest of the dead army is about the same."

"Has Du Yuming's supplementary troops arrived?"

"Commander, it's already here, and it's being reorganized."

"The situation has changed, and we are now facing three enemies, Yuan Zuming of the Guizhou army and Yan Min and Tang Jiyao of the Hunan army. Your battle plans will also need to be adjusted. ”

"Commander, there is no problem, it seems that things are much simpler, and they are just right to be solved together."

"I also think so, in this battle, the Guards not only have to defend Fujian, but also take Hunan."

"Commander, what about Zhao Hengti, he still occupies half of Hunan Province now."

"From now on, Hunan is ours, I really hope that he will move, if he dares to come, even Hubei will be taken for me."

"Commander, the current Zhao Hengti has direct support behind him, and Hubei is now the territory of the direct line, so is it not even a direct line. If you are directly related, you have to fight Jiangxi and Fujian together, so the pressure is not too great for us. Jiang Baili's question came from the phone.

"Be prepared to start a war with the direct line, first settle the Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan provinces, and then see whether the direct line is fought or not."

"Commander, I want to ask about it."

"Say it!"

"Why do you want to sell weapons to them, isn't this a breeding tiger?"

Hearing Jiang Baili's words, Chen Shao smiled and said, "Are they tigers?" Even if we don't sell weapons to them, they can buy them abroad, so that the money of the Chinese people will flow into the pockets of foreigners, and now we are selling, and the money is still circulating in the country, and you compare our equipment with what we sold. ”

"That being said, it will also increase the casualties of our soldiers."

"Casualties are inevitable, but I believe in our soldiers, their enemies have never been domestic warlords, and this intensity of fighting can only be regarded as raising soldiers."

After talking to Jiang Baili on the phone, Chen Shao picked up a plan and read it, this plan is very thick, it is all written by Chen Shao one by one, and after continuous improvement in the past few years, it has such a scale. He is the only one who knows about the existence of this plan, and he can imagine how much of a sensation it will cause if this plan is passed out.