Seeing that Tutor Liu Sen returned to Chengdu like this, Xu Geng also let the troops withdraw. Huaxing's people were staring all the way, so they weren't afraid that someone in Chengdu would attack at night.

It was almost midnight, a fire dragon came from the south, and Xu Geng, who had not slept all the time, was relieved, it seemed that a large army was coming.

Walking in the front was Peng De, who was anxious, and ran over as soon as he saw Xu Geng, "Old Xu, how is it?" Can it stand up? Do we need to put the troops on top now? ”

Xu Geng held Peng De's hand tightly: "Old Peng, you hurry up and rest, you haven't started here yet." ”

Hearing Xu Geng say this, Peng De also let go of his heart that had been hanging for a day.

The independent regiment, that is, the light infantry battalion of the newly formed 1st Regiment of the Sichuan Column of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, arrived one after another.

Xu Geng personally led people to settle the infantry who had been walking all day, and he was relieved to sleep.

On the whole day of the 16th, there was no movement in the soldiers in Chengdu, and Huaxing and the people from the Secret Service began to spread rumors in the city, and the rumors became more and more outrageous, and finally reached Yang Yuan, which became such a passage: "Division commander, let's go, there are more than 100,000 people in the revolutionary army entering Sichuan, and Commander Liu's side has been blocked, and now there are 50,000 people outside the city, let's flee quickly." ”

The city was in chaos, and in the evening, Xie Niancheng also arrived with the main force and baggage.

Xie Niancheng first went to the old house in Shuangyang to meet his father and third uncle, and then went to the barracks.

According to the telegram sent by the Secret Service, Sichuan troops are advancing in the direction of Chengdu in the three directions of Guangyuan, Xichang, and Chongqing, but it is estimated that there will be three days to arrive at the earliest.

After getting such information, I learned about the combat effectiveness of the Chengdu defenders from Xu Geng and others. Xie Niancheng was not in a hurry to let the troops attack.

Now that Xie Niancheng's troops have just been assembled, there is really some chaos.

Early in the morning of the 17th. Xie Niancheng convened a meeting of all the senior officers in Shuangyang.

This meeting was attended by the largest number of participants in the previous meeting, and all officers at and above the battalion level of the 1st and 2nd regiments participated. The leaders of the three regiments, Xu Wenchang of the Great Black Mountain garrison, and the commanders of the militia regiments of the two counties all came.

Seeing that everyone was gathered, Xie Niancheng spoke first: "Comrades, today's meeting is to discuss the reorganization of the troops, and I have decided to reorganize the troops into the 17th Army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. ”

This number is what Xie Niancheng asked for Wang Zhongzheng.

The Northern Expeditionary Army progressed smoothly. There were old warlords who defected all the way, and now the number has been assigned to the 16th Army, the number of Xie Niancheng's troops, that is, the 17th Army.

This bombshell news made the officers present suddenly become excited.

They are now battalion commanders, if the army is expanded into an army, they can at least get a regiment commander, who doesn't like to be promoted and get rich?

The officers of the 2nd and 3rd regiments did not have the discipline of the first regiment, after getting the news. They were all extremely excited and began to exchange ears.

Xie Niancheng slapped the table: "What's the trouble?" ”

Although the officers of the Second and Third Regiments had never seen Commander Xie's strength, his power still made these old fritters and green forest bearers in the army silent.

"We are here today. It is not necessary to continue to serve as an officer in the 17th Army...... Our 17th Army now has only three regiments, and if you can sit down in front of me in the future, we will see if you can defeat the Sichuan Army in front of you! This time. Well done, be the division commander. If you don't do a good job, Lao Tzu will kill him! ”

Seeing Xie Niancheng angry. No one dared to answer.

This reaction made Xie Niancheng, who exuded the aura of Wang Ba for the first time, feel very satisfied.

Su Wanyun was the first to stand up and say: "Whatever Commander Xie says, we will fight, our second regiment has followed Commander Xie for the longest time, let us go to Daoshan and get off the oil pot, and we will go too!" ”

As soon as Su Wanyun said this, Fan Pengju stopped doing it, and he also stood up: "That's not what I said, what is the longest time that the Second Regiment has followed Commander Xie?" Our three regiments are the teams brought out by Commander Xie! ”

Zhou Shisheng got up and said: "Commander Xie, our three regiments will always be the most obedient to you, back then, more than a dozen of us dared to fight the bandits' nest, and now there are 3,000 people in our three regiments!" Let the first and second regiments rest first, and we will be on top of the third regiment! ”

The officers of the first regiment are all graduates of Qingpu Military Academy, it is the age of youth and vigor, when Su Wanyun spoke, they were hindered by Xu Geng's face, they couldn't say anything, and at this time, they saw that these Jianghu men in the third regiment who didn't even have military uniforms began to scream, and they couldn't help it.

"How do you talk? Where did you put our mess? Our regiment followed the commander out of the pile of dead, and this time we came all the way to Chengdu, was it to watch the play on the side? You are all resting in the siege of the city, we are fighting in Chengdu, let you see, who is the soldier brought out by Commander Xie! Su Wei also stood up.

At this time, the house was in chaos, and the officers of several regiments all stood up and said that they would take their troops to the battlefield first and serve as the commandos attacking Chengdu.

Seeing that the officers were arguing about this, Xie Niancheng naturally wouldn't be angry, and it was a good thing that the army had the will to fight.

Xie Niancheng analyzed the combat effectiveness of the three regiments under his subordinates, and it can be said that each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage of a regiment is that it has good weapons and high officers, but it is not without weaknesses, such as many recruits, many of whom have never been on the battlefield. Even if it is a great victory in Tamsui, it is the combat effectiveness that the troops have already fallen into a dead place, and there is no way to retreat. This time in the field battle on the western Sichuan Plain, it is doubtful how strong the fighting spirit can be.

The advantage of the Second Regiment is that the officers and men have been together for a long time, they have the most training in peacetime, and their combat effectiveness has been improved after the distribution of new weapons. The weakness is that it has never fought a hard battle, and then all the officers and soldiers are acquaintances, and if the casualties are too great in the fight, the troops are in danger of collapsing.

The advantage of the three regiments is that the officers and soldiers are all from the green forest, and their physique, marksmanship, and even the kung fu of white-knuckle combat should be good, and the men of the green forest are not afraid of death, and they should have a lot of momentum in battle. The weakness is that they have never fought regular battles, the command ability of officers is not good, and the tactical ability of soldiers is not strong, so they can only fight with courage.

After the officers quarreled for a while, Xie Niancheng slapped the table again to silence everyone.

"Everyone is their own person. What is the quarrel of your own people? Better than whom, right? Than from the Sichuan army! ”

"Now I announce the abolition of the regimental structure. The whole army has 10 infantry battalions, 1 special service battalion, 1 artillery battalion, and 1 engineer baggage battalion under its direct jurisdiction, all of which are under the direct command of the military headquarters. ”

"Xu Geng. The militia regiments of the two counties and the garrison of Montenegro will be organized into the tenth battalion, and you will be the battalion commander. ”

"Yes! Captains. ”

This battalion has 1500 people, which is the largest in terms of numbers.

"Huang Yingjie, the people of your secret service go down to each company to record the combat situation of each unit, and by the way, implement military regulations and military discipline. Direct kill. ”

"Yes!"

"Xu Wenchang, you come to the military staff headquarters and cooperate with Chief of Staff Huang's work."

"Yes!"

"In this battle, we are 10,000 against 100,000, but I am confident that I will defeat the enemy! I am confident, not because I am so great Xie Niancheng, but because you are amazing! I believe in you, I believe in your subordinates, all of them are heroes! After the end of this operation. Each battalion will be expanded into a regiment, and the best one will be the first regiment of the 17th Army, and later the first division and the first army. Do you understand? ”

The officers stood up together: "Understood! ”

Xie Niancheng's words were simple and clear, this Sichuan operation was to rank all the troops.

Who wouldn't want to be the commander of the first division in the future?

A short military meeting ended. The officers rushed out and took the logistics officers of their own units to get weapons and ammunition. Especially the officers and soldiers of the original three regiments. After getting the brand-new German-made weapons, they all screamed. Looking at their momentum, they can't wait for the next day, and they have the momentum to attack Chengdu overnight.

Throughout the afternoon, outside the city of Shuangyang County, there was the sound of gunfire from officers and soldiers who had received new weapons to shoot targets.

The dense sound of gunfire could be faintly heard in the city of Chengdu, and with the help of Han Xing and the Secret Service personnel, the entire city of Chengdu was in chaos. Many large families packed up and fled in the direction of northern and eastern Sichuan. Ordinary small families could not escape, and they also closed their doors one after another.

Yang Yuan was in a hurry, he ordered his subordinates to set up defenses, but in half a day, more than 2,000 instructors escaped, and more than 5,000 logistics officers and soldiers of Liu Sen's department fled even more than 3,000, and their homes around Chengdu basically escaped.

Yang Yuan didn't dare to let the troops go out of the city to defend again, but there were only 5,000 people in total, how could he defend a huge Chengdu city?

The last few cronies came up with an idea, and Yang Yuan commanded the remaining 5,000 people to flee to the Qingcheng Mountain area in the west overnight.

When he arrived at Qingcheng Mountain, Yang Yuan sent a report to Liu Sen: "The enemy is 50,000, besieging on all sides, bullets are raining down, my instructor, the left-behind troops in Chengdu have suffered more than half of the casualties, and they are overwhelmed, and they have now broken through to Qingcheng Mountain." Our troops are determined to defend the mountain and wait for reinforcements! ”

Before receiving Liu Sen's call, Yang Yuan smashed the transmitter to pieces.

The next day, in addition to Liu Sen, the battalion commanders of the 17th Army who wanted to kill Yang Yuan, all of them did the pre-war mobilization for so long impassionedly, and Chengdu turned out to be an empty city.

This made the reckless man who took the lead and led the cavalry of the special service battalion to be the first to enter the city, and he was embarrassed to say what kind of combat feats this was.

After the troops entered the city, Xie Niancheng ordered Huaxingshe to immediately set up a Chengdu police station, which was responsible for maintaining law and order in the city and taking over all warehouses and ammunition depots.

With the full help of the Xie Group, Chengdu quickly stabilized.

The officers and men of the 17th Army were stationed outside the city, seizing the last two days of training, and the bullets and shells were sent out without money.

Under the double temptation of the grand military appearance of the 17th Army and the settling-in allowance of 50 oceans, in just two days, more than 3,000 people joined the revolutionary army, and these people were organized into supplementary regiments and stationed in the city, together with the police, to take charge of the garrison in the city.

On 21 October, Tian Geyao's two divisions had already stopped at Deyang, which was 120 miles away from Chengdu.

Liu Sen's six divisions arrived in Ya'an, three hundred miles away from Chengdu. Yang E's three divisions still have one day to go to Suining, and more than 300 miles to Chengdu.

It seems that this is going to attack Chengdu with 80,000 horses on three routes.

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