In December 1928, the southwest, which had been silent for three years, finally sounded the clarion call for its own military offensive.

1928 was destined to be an extraordinary year.

First of all, athletes from southwest China achieved an unprecedented Chinese-style Olympic record with a jaw-dropping performance at the 9th Olympiad. A total of 25 people won a total of 3 individual gold medals, 1 team gold medal, 5 silver medals and 7 bronze medals. A total of 16 medals have attracted the attention of the whole world to the Chinese Olympic team. Although the United States and other traditional sports powers have won most of the medals, they are really insignificant compared to the Chinese team that really made a contribution to the Olympics for the first time.

“…… Although the Chinese have won unprecedented medals, their events are not very high-tech events, such as traditional fencing, rowing, football, etc., and they have not even signed up! A team of 25 people is enough to form a football team......"

Some sour Western media evaluate the achievements of the Chinese in this way, but they themselves dare not imagine whether the Chinese will still have only 25 people in the next Games, and perhaps, they will multiply again.

The huge victory of the Olympic Games was transmitted back to China by Song Ruhai as soon as possible, and at the same time, major newspapers and broadcasts in the southwest released the good news for the first time.

“…… Facts have once again proved that it is not that the Chinese cannot do it, but that the Chinese do not try to do it. The rise of the field of sports represents the awakening of our national sportsmanship......"

Su Shanxing, the first Chinese to win a gold medal and the first to break the sprint world record, became a national hero at the first time. Yes, for many years, the Chinese have been able to defeat foreigners, and it was at the National Games. The Chinese not only defeated all their opponents and won the gold medal, but also broke the world record. The great victory of the Olympic delegation has inspired almost all Chinese who care about current affairs. The declaration and the Southwest News even published such an article on the front page: The Southwest Athletes won the championship in the World Games and the Olympic Games had just ended, and the late autumn had just arrived, and another shocking news was transmitted back to China.

In October 1928, the Swedish Nobel Committee officially announced that the Biology and Medicine Prize, one of the major Nobel Prizes, would be awarded to two Chinese for their great medical contributions to the discovery and application of penicillin to clinical treatment.

Compared with the first sports victory, this time the emergence of science and technology has squeezed out newspapers and magazines all over the world and in China for the first time.

Chinese can also win the Nobel Prize, and Chinese have made such great contributions in the field of cutting-edge medicine. Penicillin was discovered by Chinese first, not plagiarized!!

First of all, Westerners, many people began to pay attention to the penicillin pill box pasted on a few Chinese, and asked people who knew Chinese to know that the magic drug penicillin that they often used was actually produced by Chinese. It reads: Made in China!!

"The revival of the Southwest has shocked the world with penicillin."

"Penicillin, the new gold of the Chinese."

"Penicillin is just one of China's achievements in the field of new drugs."

"Southwest, the epitome of rising China."

"Southwest, China's hope for the future."

…… The country was completely boiling, and some newspapers even listed the earth-shattering achievements made in the southwest in recent years, with the result that even the writers themselves were surprised to find that when the eyes of the Chinese people were still fixed on the situation between the north and the south, the southwest had already done too much.

It is an indisputable fact that modern industry has been established in the Southwest.

The southwest defeated the British and French, and tens of thousands of prisoners are ironclad proof.

Southwest has developed a series of advanced products, which have even been sold all over the world.

Land reform has been carried out in the southwest, and every peasant family has land, no money is required for seeds and fertilizers, and every family has rice for every meal.

Southwest can go to school for free.

…… There are too many, and it seems that the southwest was completely placed in front of the Chinese at this time. Correspondingly, under Zhang Shusheng's instructions, the major newspapers and broadcasters in the southwest also began to publicize the development and achievements of the southwest.

"Niang Xipi, this Zhang Shusheng is a wolf ambition!!"

In Nanjing, the official residence of Chiang Kai-shek, the new head of the Kuomintang, Mr. Chiang was furious because of the newspaper in his hand.

This is a southwestern newspaper, and it is actually distributed in Shanghai. The front page of the newspaper was a huge photograph of a seven or eight-year-old child standing in front of a paddy field with a large bowl full of white rice and two slices of meat on top.

The caption of the picture reads: Chinese, need to eat.

The annotation is: The land reform in Liujia Village was successfully completed, and the peasants were allocated their own fertile land last year, and they even exchanged half a catty of pork for the festival from the township government axe by relying on the surplus grain.

"Darling, what's wrong?"

Song Meiling walked in with a bowl of bird's nest porridge, and saw that Chiang Kai-shek was in a rage, so she carefully put down the bowl and picked up the newspaper on the ground, and saw the eye-catching front page headlines.

The national political axe has just been established in Nanjing, for Song Meiling, it is tantamount to the most proud, the person she married has a successful career, and she has just come to the thousand-year-old capital, and she thought that he was angry because of the front-line war, but she didn't expect it to be because of Zhang Shusheng in the southwest.

"Niang Xipi, this Zhang Shusheng is the best at showmanship, and he wants to rely on small favors and small favors to stir people's hearts." Chiang Kai-shek had just received a report from the front in the morning that the Northern Expeditionary Army had marched unusually smoothly, and that he had successfully established power in Nanking with the joint support of the large landlord class and the big capitalists.

The spring breeze is proud, this year should be the most proud year, seeing that half of the country is in hand, and there are the victories of the Northern Expedition, although there is a little trouble in Jiangxi halfway, but he is the most hopeful person to win the rivers and mountains.

But at this time, Zhang Shusheng in the southwest became more and more powerful.

The original plan was to pacify or divide Zhang Shusheng's forces by means of dealing with other warlords, however, before his own actions were launched, he staged a vigorous political offensive across the country.

In addition, the land reform in the three provinces won over the peasants, and the reform of workers' wages won over the workers, and then the commercial law was promulgated, which clarified the surname and nature of the individual private economy. Not to mention these, I didn't see any trouble in China, but he was able to show off in the international limelight, and even everyone's newspaper put Zhang Shusheng's personal photo on the cover, hailing him as an "Oriental reformer".

The peasants have no food to eat, don't they know? Know.

Workers are bleeding and sweating but have no wages to pay, don't they know? Know.

Students don't have the money to go to school, and national education fails, don't you know? Equally know.

The Olympics need to be in the limelight and show off the country's prestige, don't you know? Know!

The Nobel Prize is an honor for the world, don't you value it? Value!

However, he really lacks the skills to do this, and only by reunifying China can he have the energy to do this.

"Darling, in fact, I believe you can do these things too. We can ask for the support of the Americans, my father has a good personal relationship with several congressmen in the United States, and I can help you. Song Meiling looked like a big guy, just smiled lightly, and didn't take this southwest warlord leader seriously. In her opinion, only her own Darling is the future ruler of China. As for Zhang Shusheng, he will also be divided or defeated. Darling is more of a potential politician than his brother-in-law.

"Zhang Shusheng is very deeply hidden, and I have a hunch that he will become the biggest stumbling block on my political road."

Chiang Kai-shek sighed slightly, as a mature politician, it was not the first time he had come into contact with the Southwest. Not to mention anything else, when he was in charge of the Whampoa Military Academy, he felt the pressure from the No. 1 Military Academy in the southwest everywhere, and after taking office, he felt the pressure from the joint political axe of the three southwestern provinces.

"Report!"

While the two were talking, the secretary's voice sounded outside, and Chiang Kai-shek asked that it was the confidential secretary who came.

"Report to the committee, in the early hours of yesterday morning, Zhang Shusheng's forces in the southwest suddenly launched a rapid attack on Sichuan."

When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, a Qing Dynasty porcelain cup in his hand fell to the ground with a bang, this Zhang Shusheng actually started it so quickly. He had just made a new move, and after he had been heavily armed in Nanchang, Jingdezhen, Shangrao, and other places in Jiangxi, he took advantage of the bankruptcy of his family and even did not hesitate to seek loans from the Shanghai Bank Group under harsh conditions to rearm the new Northern Expeditionary Army, and once again launched a rapid attack on the north, and fought fiercely with the Northern Army in Anhui. How can this Zhang Shusheng take advantage of the fire to rob? How could they be so careless.

"Bastard, the leader of the warlords in the southwest, he dares to disregard the lives of the people and start a war in vain, do you really think that no one in the world can touch him?"

Chiang Kai-shek was already so angry that he blew his beard and glared, seeing that the victory was in his hands, just waiting for the Northern Expedition to stop, deterring the north, and after the negotiations were completed, he would concentrate on dealing with the southwest, but he did not expect Zhang Shusheng to launch the Sichuan campaign at this juncture.

He didn't want to, he could start a war, why couldn't Zhang Shusheng, but he scolded too much.

"How's it going?"

"Commission, according to Liu Xiang's report for help, Zhang Shusheng's actions this time are very resolute. The A Route Army set out from the direction of Panzhihua, which he had occupied earlier and had a firm operation, and about two divisions of troops marched towards the west of Sichuan with lightning speed. The troops of the three divisions of the B Route Army entered Sichuan from the direction of Pingshan and Yibin, and marched to Chengdu along the line of Yibin-Zigong-Weiyuan-Zizhong. The C Route Army set out from Guizhou, and about two divisions marched towards Yucheng from the direction of Qijiang. ”

The confidential secretary briefly analyzed the information and waited for the commission's order, "Liu Xiang means that we should put pressure on Zhang Shusheng from the direction of Guangdong and Hunan, and it is best to send troops into the three provinces to support the operation." ”

"Support?"

Chiang Kai-shek was slightly stunned, and came back to his senses from his anger, as a ruler, he still understood the minimum situation, and couldn't help but reprimand: "Niang Xipi, support, how to support?" Seven divisions in the southwest are 100,000 elites, and our army has not yet set off, and Liu Xiang is afraid that he has surrendered. ”

"Darling, don't be angry......"

Chiang Kai-shek shook his hand slightly, and said hatefully: "It's a pity, it's a good southwest, and the surname is Zhang from now on." ”

With Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, it is impossible to see that Zhang Shusheng's three-way army entered Sichuan, not to fight a tough battle, and how can the small warlords in Sichuan who are in chaos be his opponents.

He's going to force him down!!

In front of this 100,000 army, the southwest will be completely connected by Zhang Shusheng.

(To be continued)