It was early in the morning of June 3, 1925.

Zeng Kuoqing got up in the morning and received a telegram from Guangzhou, and when he saw that it was sent by Lao Jiang, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately found a codebook to translate it. The content is: "Auxiliary text my brother Junjian: Winter (Eryue) telegram Xifeng." Now the situation will change, Xiong Jinfan has been supported by Comrade Wang Zhaoming, and the aftermath of Sichuan may be co-presided over by his younger brother and Xiong Jinfan. For the sake of Yaskawa's great plan, I hope that my brother can expand our party's territory in Sichuan as soon as possible, and must control the salt tax, strictly prohibit opium, so as to strangle the finances of the generals of the Sichuan army, and eliminate its potential for development. Brother Zhongzheng. ”

It turned out to be Chiang Kai-shek's reply to Luo Yaoguo, and also revealed the news of the alliance between Xiong Kewu and Wang Jingwei, and gave Luo Yaoguo a clever plan on how to deal with the Sichuan warlords, which can be summarized as grabbing money and turf. The warlords could not do without money to maintain the army, and the most money in Sichuan was nothing more than salt and tobacco, the salt tax was more than 15 million a year, and the income brought by opium was not under the salt tax, and the two added up to more than 30 million, which became the main source of military spending for the Sichuan army. If Luo Yaoguo can now hold the Zigong Yantian, cut off the opium trade, and expand his territory as much as possible, he can make the Sichuan warlords decline due to financial depletion, and it will be much easier to divide and disintegrate at that time. Lao Jiang's strategy was really insidious, and he immediately took the lifeblood of the Sichuan army.

"Good!" Luo Yaoguo, who answered the camp director's office at the end of the morning exercise, seemed to be in a good mood after Lao Jiang's callback. While wiping his sweat with a towel, he said with a smile: "In this way, in less than two years, Sichuan will be stable, although it is a little slower, it is acceptable." Mu Yi, you go and gather everyone to the command room to discuss the new battle plan. ”

The Fifth Army and the Seventh Army were still recuperating after the Battle of Wusheng, and the Tenth Army was still near Yucheng and did not begin to pursue. Only Wang Zixing and Sun Zhen's troops were advancing in the direction of Daxian, preparing to expel Liu Cunhou from Sichuan. After reading Chiang Kai-shek's suggestion, Luo Yaoguo already knew what to do next.

After a while, Jiang Baili, He Guoguang, Yan Wu, He Jinhan and other staff members rushed to the command room one after another, gathered in front of the military map, and discussed that the territory was relatively fat, and it had to be taken.

"Now that Yang Sen has been defeated, the situation in Central Sichuan will change greatly." Luo Yaoguo took the red and blue pencils and lay on the military map to write and draw, and said with a smile while drawing: "We occupy most of Dongchuan and get stuck in Izukawa's throat. It is estimated that Jin Gong will join forces with Liu Wenhui and Lai Xinhui to plot against Xichuan, as well as Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao to occupy the northwest corner, hehe, there are some Three Kingdoms! ”

"Listen to the meaning of the auxiliary text, Xiong Jinfan has already entered the opponent's camp?" He Guoguang's tone was calm, not at all surprised.

Luo Yaoguo stood in front of the sketched military map, sighed softly, and replied: "This Sichuan is one of the three points in the world!" Who is willing to give up? I plan to visit Jin Gong again today and have a good talk with him to see if I can make peace. ”

"It's the best." This is a family matter of the Kuomintang, and it is inconvenient for Jiang Baili to say much if he thinks he is an outsider, so he just gently echoed it.

Luo Yaoguo said again: "Let the Seventh Army finish its rest and set off to occupy Rongchang, Longchang, Neijiang, and Zigong, there are two or three hundred kilometers of road!" It's going to be hard for Li Delin again. "However, it is worth the hard work to win Zigong, although the National Revolutionary Army cannot interfere in civil affairs now, most of the big salt merchants in Zigong will still have rich gifts.

Jiang Baili used a blue pencil to outline the march route of the Seventh Army on the military map, and when he drew Zigong, Jiang Baili frowned slightly, and said: "Yang Sen's main force seems to be also going to Zigong, I don't know if there will be another big war there?" ”

"No, I guess Yang Zihui is also making plans for Sichuan now." He Guoguang shook his hand with a smile, and asked again: "Fuwen, most of Yang Sen's subordinates and I are classmates of the accelerated department, do you want to recruit them?" ”

"No need." Luo Yaoguo said in his heart that he had recruited them and did not organize them to raise them, so it was better for them to go out of Sichuan to fight the world. Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo smiled and said: "Why don't Brother Yuanzhang go to see General Hui for a while, and ask him to leave Sichuan as soon as possible, we will never embarrass him, and don't make the lives of the people in Sichuan miserable." ”

"Then Chengdu is not for the Fifth Army to rob?" Jiang Baili finished delineating the route of the Seventh Army and asked about the whereabouts of the Fifth Army.

"The Fifth Army left one division in Shunqing to monitor Huang Yin's division going north." Luo Yaoguo stared at the map, hesitated for a while, and then said: "The main force of the Fifth Army will advance to Suining first, and I will discuss it with Xiong Jinfan in Chengdu before making a conclusion, after all, he is the chairman of Sichuan Province and always has to go to Chengdu to work." ”

"And the Eighth Army will arrive one after another the day after tomorrow, how should we arrange for them?" Jiang Baili remembered that one of Yang Jie's troops was on the way, and he didn't catch up with the big war, so it seemed that he had to use it to grab territory.

"Let them approach Luzhou and Syria after they arrive in Yucheng." Luo Yaoguo thought about it, and arranged Yang Jie's Eighth Army to grab the territory of southern Sichuan.

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The atmosphere in the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee in the Lotus Pond in Yucheng is good, and the situation of the Sichuan revolution is about to go further. Thanks to the alliance of Liu Wenhui and Xiong Kewu, Xiong and Liu have become good friends with GCD, and together with Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao, who have already raised the banner of "aiding the Shaanxi National Army" in northern and northwest Sichuan, the leftist forces in central Sichuan can almost compete with the rightists. It's just that the forces of the left are scattered, and how to coordinate them is a problem.

Today, Xiong Kewu's secretary Chen Guzhi made a special trip to Lotus Pond to meet with Huang Muyan, a representative of Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao, and to discuss cooperation with the leaders of China and G.

In the conference room, the representatives of the three parties sat around a round table, on which was also placed a military map of Sichuan, which was also drawn in red and blue pencils.

"Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province, and the provincial chairman of Jingong is definitely going to work there, and we want Lai Dexiang's troops to be stationed." Chen Guzhi picked up a red pencil and wrote Lai Xinhui's font number on the Chengdu part of the map. "We have to take more than a dozen counties around Chengdu, and we plan to give them Luzhou and Fushun. They have been busy for a long time, and they have no place to work, and I am afraid they will not give up. ”

They were referring to the right wing of the Kuomintang, and it was true that Xiong Kewu still wanted to be the hegemon of one side, but he did not want to break with the right wing of the Kuomintang. If that's really the case, Wang Jingwei won't be able to keep him. In fact, in his opinion, Sichuan was originally his territory, and he now gave half of Sun Yat-sen's descendants to repay them for helping him fight back, and he still has to keep the remaining half to play slowly.

"General Liu Ziqian wants to take the riverside, that is Liu Chengxun's territory, it has nothing to do with them, it shouldn't be a problem, right?" Wu Yizhang still represents Liu Wenhui, who is now fighting with GCD, so he simply appointed Wu Yizhang to represent him.

"No problem." Chen Guzhi didn't think much about it, so he agreed for Xiong Kewu. The mountains and roads in that place are dangerous, and there is not much oil and water, so it doesn't make much sense to take it. I guess the Kuomintang won't be too interested, right?

Seeing Chen Guzhi so cheerful, Yang Agong sighed softly, and the instructions given to them by the Central Committee were to try to help the Kuomintang leftists develop in Sichuan, especially to control the Sichuan border and northwest Sichuan, hold the channel for the Kuomintang rightists to expand to the northwest, and at the same time contain their forces. As for Xiong Kewu, hehe, after in-depth research by Comrade Mao Zd and Comrade Zhou Elai, I feel that this person is a warlord, and it must be tragic. So just take advantage of it, don't invest too much, and save yourself from folding yourself in. The GCD, for its part, now wants to contain the right wing of the Kuomintang from aiding the reactionary warlords in the north, but does not intend to break with it. So I'm still very careful not to touch the other party's bottom line. Similarly, the right wing of the Kuomintang was also relatively restrained in this era, and it was too late to win half of China and enjoy the glory and wealth, and no one was interested in thinking about the affairs of Suiyuan and northern Shaanxi.