On 30 October, Liu Wuguang, Yang E, and Deng Donghou sent telegrams on behalf of various units to join the revolutionary army.

Prior to this, several of their envoys met Xie Niancheng in Chengdu, but Xie Niancheng's reply to them was almost exactly the same as the one he gave to Liu Sen.

The families of these warlords are not in Xie Niancheng's hands, so they naturally refuse to give up their territory and army.

After thinking about it, these warlords resorted to this trick.

"The smoke is everywhere, the mountains and rivers are broken, and the same kind of killing is especially painful! We soldiers would rather die to foreign enemies than hurt our compatriots; Now that the revolutionary army is thriving, and the rejuvenation of China is expected, we will change our flag and change our banner, and we are willing to be the pawns of the revolutionary army......"

Looking at the telegram that Yang Yuwei handed him, Xie Niancheng smiled contemptuously.

What do these guys think, they call and say that they are a revolutionary army, so are you a revolutionary army?

"Proposed telegram: The 17th Army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army has written to the world that the old warlords such as Liu Wuguang, Yang E, and Deng Donghou have brutalized the townships, preyed on the common people, raped and plundered, and committed all kinds of evil. It is hoped that the officers and men of the old warlords will see clearly the ugly features of the old warlords' fake revolution and real warlords as soon as possible, and abandon the darkness and turn to the light. ”

"Xie's child, pretending to be revolutionary, since entering Sichuan, the people have not been able to make a living; Our true revolutionary army swears to fight to the end! ”

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Today you will be electrified, and tomorrow I will be electrified, but it will be lively.

Everyone understands that in the end, the solution of the Sichuan incident still has to be done with guns.

The revolutionary armies of Yunnan and Guizhou saw that the shape of Sichuan was very delicate, and the whole army turned to the direction of Lianghu.

Wang Zhongzheng telegraphed to support the 17th Army in eliminating the old warlords. Jiang Wei's attitude was **, and he did not make a clear statement. This also made Xie Niancheng hate Jiang Wei from the bottom of his heart.

Throughout November, the 17th Army was busy reorganizing its troops. By the end of November, the force was organized as follows:

Xu Geng of the 1st Division, Peng De of the 2nd Division, and Su Huaiyu of the 3rd Division, each division of 8,000 people, was composed of a full-fledged German armament regiment, two compendium regiments and an artillery battalion, of which the compendium regiment used the equipment of the old Sichuan Army;

Su Xiangzhi of the Fourth Division, Zhang Chengyue of the Fifth Division, and Wu Yongqiang of the Sixth Division, each with 6,000 men, each had three condensed regiments and a small number of artillery.

In addition, the artillery regiment directly under the military headquarters is equipped with 105-mm howitzers, 85-mm field cannons and 120-mm mortars, and the regiment commander is Wen Deyun.

Mangzi, the head of the secret service group.

The total army is nearly 50,000 people.

this month. Several warlords also expanded their armies one after another, and Liu Wuguang's headquarters expanded to eight divisions and 26 regiments of nearly 60,000 people in one go; Yang's army expanded to five divisions and sixteen regiments, with 38,000 men; Deng Donghou had three divisions and ten regiments, with 24,000 men.

There are more than 120,000 people in total.

In terms of troops, the 17th Army fell behind.

In the eyes of outsiders, the 17th Army may be more than lucky. The reason seems very simple, among the 50,000 horses of the 17th Army, 40,000 are newly surrendered soldiers, and eighty percent of the soldiers in an army have surrendered. Can it still have combat effectiveness?

Xie Niancheng's officers did not have this worry, because their commander once again came up with a shocking method and quickly gathered the morale of the army.

Please look at Huang Shi, then commander of the 1st Regiment and 1st Battalion of the 6th Division, on the reorganization of the troops: "Return to Chengdu from Meishan. I was overjoyed that I had been appointed battalion commander, even though our battalion was a compendium. It can't be compared to the old camp. ”

"There are more than 400 people in my battalion, and after the troops. The instructor and I met with three company commanders, who were natives from Sichuan. He was young and very educated, and he was sent to the army by the National Salvation Association. Among the three company commanders, one was the squad leader under me before, one was from the Su family's troops, and the other was from Huaxing. We all come from different backgrounds, but when we meet, we have a good temper with each other, which also makes me confident about my future work. ”

"The cadres are almost all reliable people, and among the soldiers, there are many new members of the revolutionary army. When I first came into contact with these fighters, I felt that they did not have a clear purpose for joining the army, and in the words of the instructor, they just didn't know what they were fighting for. A few of our military cadres could not solve this problem, and only took the fighters to train military skills. ”

"The army has a whole set of methods on how to raise the revolutionary consciousness of the soldiers, and our battalion, under the organization of the instructors, has also carried out corresponding activities in accordance with the instructions given by the army."

"The cultural literacy of the fighters is not high, so the first thing we carried out was the grievance campaign."

"After the platoon was assembled, our platoon commander and squad leader spoke first, talking about their origins and what happened to them when they were young. Our soldiers were all from poor families, and when they listened to the platoon commanders and squad leaders talk about how they were exploited by landlords and warlords before joining the army, they all felt the same way, and often cried when they listened to it. ”

"After listening to the squad leader and platoon commander, the soldiers began to take turns to speak, and I almost burst into tears when I heard it: some of the fighters were really miserable. There are family members who were starved to death, brothers and sisters who were sold by their parents because they were poor, and there were people who were humiliated by the officials in the old army......"

"After the grievances were over, the battalion instructors and company instructors began to give lectures to the soldiers, publicizing the military style of our revolutionary officers and men being the same and equal among officers and soldiers, the discipline of the revolutionary army in treating the common people like their own parents, the battlefield discipline in which the officers of the revolutionary army took the lead in the charge, and the fighting purpose of the revolutionary army in fighting for the people of the whole world to live a good life."

"After the grievance meeting was held, many grassroots officers and soldiers approached instructors and instructors one after another, asking to join the National Salvation Association."

"The last activity of the ideological work in the reorganization was to visit the Invalides Farm and the Great Black Mountain Martyrs Cemetery, and when they saw that the brothers who were seriously injured in the past were able to have a stable life, and the martyrs who died could also have a good home, the last worries in the hearts of the soldiers were gone."

"Fighting for the revolutionary army is fighting for your father, even if you die, you will glorify your ancestors. This is not only a matter of lip service, but also a firm belief in it myself. ”

"We have done a good job in political education, and we have not pulled down military training."

"The military department issued the 'six tactical principles': one point and two sides, three three systems, three fierce, three situations and three ways of playing, four fast and one slow, and four groups and one team, all of which need to be mastered. Our battalion is a lightly armed battalion. The most practiced is the three-three system and the three-fierce. ”

"After this month's training, our battalion has enough momentum to fight, rush, and chase. In the big competition of the whole division, our battalion can be regarded as showing its face. The commander himself praised, 'This battalion is good, it looks like a tiger descending from the mountain'. After listening to the commander's words, all the officers and men of our battalion were excited and held their breath in their hearts, and they must show their majesty on the battlefield and strive to win the title of 'Tiger Battalion.' ”

"To motivate the soldiers, I often told the troops, 'Look at me, Yellowstone. Now I am the battalion commander, but I, the battalion commander, did it with one knife and one shot...... Why was I a platoon commander before? It's because I participated in the white-knuckle battle in Xishan, picked and killed five enemies, and made special merits! Why can I be a battalion commander? It was because in Deyang, I led the team to capture more than 200 prisoners, and made special merits. ’”

"In our revolutionary army, it is not difficult to be promoted, as long as you make meritorious service on the battlefield, you will make a special meritorious service. to move up the next level; Three first-class merits are equivalent to one special meritorious service; If you want to be promoted, go to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions! ”

"In just one month, my battalion has undergone tremendous changes. Knowing that several warlords refused to surrender, and the soldiers came to fight every day, in fact, I was also anxious. I still want to be the head of the regiment! ”

The people who can feel the changes in the troops the most are still Su Xiangzhi.

At the Su family banquet. Su Xiangzhi said: "Before, I thought that our Su family's army was strong in combat. Even when I saw the soldiers brought by Commander Xie from Guangdong, I thought that they were just better weapons, but now when I see the soldiers we brought ourselves, I can't believe that these soldiers will be soldiers who have only joined the revolutionary army for a month. ”

Su Chaoming admired Xie Niancheng so much: "Commander Xie really doesn't know how to grow this head, and his methods of leading troops make me never dream." ”

As Xie Niancheng's woman, Su Wanyun has more special feelings for Xie Niancheng: "I'll say it earlier, follow Commander Xie, that's right." ”

Mrs. Su was a little worried: "But the troops are doing this, we are all rich people, can the soldiers listen to us?" Will it cause us to rebel? ”

Su Wanyun said with a smile: "Mother, the propaganda of the army defeated those local tyrants and inferior gentry and black-hearted old wealth, but I didn't say that the rich are all bad people...... Think about it, in the whole of Sichuan, who can be richer than the military commander's family? I didn't hear any soldier say that he was going to divide the commander's wealth. ”

Mrs. Su patted her heart, "That's good, that's good." ”

Xie Niancheng naturally wouldn't instill in the soldiers the concept that "rich people are not good things", otherwise, wouldn't it be unpleasant for himself?

In the military department, Xu Wenchang was very proud: "Commander, how is it?" I'm doing a good job. ”

This month's political education, the big concept was put forward by Xie Niancheng, but how to do it, Xu Wenchang and his salvation club played the biggest role.

"Yes, Lao Xu, you did a very good job."

"Commander, I have something to mention to you."

"You say."

"You must be the president of the Salvation Association."

Xie Niancheng has considered this problem, in the future political structure, he also needs to have an organization, now that the National Salvation Association has been established, it is logical for him to be the president.

"Okay, but I don't have time to take care of the meeting, and you'll do the details."

"Want, want."

The speed at which the Salvation Association is developing in the Seventeenth Army is staggering.

After learning that Xie Niancheng was the president of the Salvation Association, all the middle and senior military officers expressed their intention to join the Salvation Association within a few days, and at this time, the Salvation Association had not even formulated its constitution!

German instructors from various units also expressed satisfaction with the spirit of the 17th Army.

"Commander Xie, the morale and spirit of the Seventeenth Army now, even compared with our most elite troops in Germany, are not bad!"

Many German instructors also wanted to be incorporated into the troops, but Xie Niancheng thought about it again and again, but did not let them go directly to the troops, but set up a new teaching regiment and let the instructors go to the regiment to train technical troops. (To be continued......)