In the chaotic era of the Republic of China, if you want to have a voice, you must have your own army, and to paraphrase the great man, it is to get power out of the barrel of a gun.

And there are two kinds of people who need to have a say in this era, one is the warlord, they need the warlord to grab benefits, the desire to enjoy power and the desire in other aspects. On the other side is the political team, which does not necessarily depend on the military to exist, but the political team must be strong because of the political team.

People with the military may not necessarily become a team, but the political team with the army often has more right to speak, and the army is often just the voice of the political team.

For example, after the disgrace of Jingkang, the central government of the Southern Song Dynasty did not want to continue the Northern Expedition, because if it wanted to restore the economy of the enemy-occupied areas, it would cost a lot of government funds at that time, so the central government gave up.

But at that time, there was a "political team" that did not form an alliance called the Northern Expeditionary faction, because they had an army in their hands, so they could continue the Northern Expedition, and when the core of their political team, Yue Fei, died, they had no military power, and they had no right to speak in the government.

Therefore, Liu Yuan knows better than anyone how important it is to master an efficient and combat-effective army, so the first thing he did to stabilize himself in Sichuan was to develop army building.

A large number of leftist Kuomintang members from Jiangxi formed the most basic management force, and they talked about assisting Liu Yuan, formed party branches, entered the rural areas, and established a dual system in which village chiefs and village committees worked together.

Before setting out, every village chief took Liu Yuan's first point as a special commissioner of the Party Central Committee to issue a "plan for assembling the militia in Sichuan Province," requiring each village to have its own militia platoon and each town to have its own militia battalion. Firearms supplies are distributed by the government.

In peacetime production, every party party secretary brought a veteran who had been on the battlefield, and they said that they were responsible for the training of the militia, and they were responsible for production in peacetime, and they set aside one day a week for training.

Liu Yuanyao's regular troops are a highly mobile, combative, and combat-minded troops, so he has very high requirements for the regular troops.

Counting the local troops of the Sichuan Army, the troops under Liu Xiang's control, including the Tenth Front Army, Liu Yuan's troops temporarily controlled more than 300,000, according to the discussion between Liu Yuan and the Sichuan generals, the troops of more than 150,000 people will be transformed from regular combat troops to construction troops, because in the near future Liu Yuan will carry out large-scale construction, so it is inevitable that a large number of manpower will be needed, and the future war also needs a professional engineering team, and they will be the predecessor of this engineering team.

Not only the native troops of the Sichuan Army, but also a large number of troops of the Northwest Army and the Guizhou Warlords incorporated by Liu Yuan, as well as the wounded of the Tenth Front Army, also became members of the Construction Corps.

The remaining 150,000 troops became the essence, and most of them had a strong sense of combat and skills, so Liu Yuan left them in the regular army and declared the Sichuan National Field Army to the outside world.

The corps was a wartime combat unit, and most of the units began to reorganize as the fighting stopped.

The only remaining military-level combat unit is the Sichuan National Guard, with Liu Yuan as the commander, Du Yuming, the deputy commander, and Nie Rongzhen, the party representative. A large number of unqualified operational commanders were transferred out of the Guards, while officers in other armies were generally demoted one level and transferred to positions in the Guards.

The Guards were subordinate to three divisions, each with 13,000 men, with independent artillery brigades and armored brigades.

As for the other troops, they also began to adopt a lean policy, and the other units were changed into divisions, and at the same time, the number of troops began to be reduced accordingly, but although the number of troops was weakened, the supply of weapons and ammunition remained unchanged, and the combat effectiveness was improved due to the elimination of soldiers with low combat effectiveness.

President Chiang had just entered the central government, and he urgently needed the support of the local powerful faction, because although Liu Yuan was gone, Mrs. Soong Ching-ling still existed, and although Chiang Ching-kuo began to manage the government affairs of Jiangxi, Mrs. Soong Ching-ling still had unparalleled control over Jiangxi's politics.

Jiangxi is okay, after all, there is no longer Liu Yuan's army there, but Sichuan and Jiangxi are still a huge hidden danger, originally according to Liu Yuan's intentions, the Gui army should also be eradicated, but Chiang Kai-shek used the strategy of driving wolves and chasing tigers, only weakened the Gui army in disguise, and also weakened Liu Yuan.

Chiang Kai-shek, who was prepared to take advantage of the left-handed fisherman, found that he could not eliminate Liu Yuan no matter what, but let him travel to most of the southern country, especially the Battle of Chishui, which made Chiang Kai-shek see Liu Yuan's attainments in command.

Coupled with the rise of the Red Party, Chiang Kai-shek had to give up the elimination of local powerful factions, and instead put his strength on the Red Party, and he could only have an attitude of recognition towards Liu Yuan.

The troops that Liu Yuan had reorganized in Sichuan were officially recognized by the Nationalist Government, and Chiang Kai-shek gave a number of the Tenth Route Army, and the commander-in-chief was still Liu Yuan.

And the condition is that Liu Yuan will stay in that poor place in Sichuan, and don't come out to make trouble for himself.

Of course, Liu Yuan is definitely not an idle person, the first thing after rectifying the army is to reopen the military school, but this time the principal of the military school is still Liu Yuan, but there is one more vice principal, Mr. Jiang Fangzhen, and Nie Rongzhen and others also hold positions in the military school.

The name of the teaching brigade has completely disappeared, and even officers like Zang Kejia and Lin Huiyin, who have begun to work, have returned to the campus, and the future white horse general Zhao Yiman has been promoted to regiment commander and put on the rank of colonel because of his combat bravery, and he has to return to the military academy.

Many of the young faces of the commanders of the Beishang Legion, who had suffered heavy losses, also became new cadets, and Yang Chengwu, who had just passed the age of fifteen, became a low-key member of the academy.

As for Xu Zheng's return to school, he did not re-study special operations, but operational command, and he firmly believed that he could grow into a qualified commander and fulfill his brother's last wish.

As for the cadets represented by Hua Luogeng, who were very good at military operations research, they left the military academy and received special appointments, perhaps saying that they disappeared from the army.

Western military academy students have completed their studies, except for Rommel, so the students have left China, and the second group of students will come to China, and they are new exchange students.

At the same time, a large number of officers (non-cadets) with excellent combat skills and good cultural knowledge were selected and transferred to the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Military University of Munich in Germany, and the Military Command Academy in Berlin in Germany for further study.

He Yingqin, who learned the news, also approached Chiang Kai-shek, hoping to send officers to study abroad, but the United States and Germany politely refused and only gave a small number of places.

Chinese military students began to step onto the international stage with their unique attitude, they are down-to-earth, serious, and brave, and they will become excellent members of the War of Resistance Against Japan.