When Yang Sen led people to make a revolution in Sichuan, Ouyang Yun didn't know which mountain Lu Dao was grazing on. If you talk about qualifications alone, it is not an exaggeration to say that Ouyang Yun is not qualified to lift Yang Sen's shoes. But fighting a war doesn't just depend on seniority. Modern warfare is completely different from the era of cold weapons, the human factor has been reduced to a very low level, on the contrary, weapons, those tools that should be completely controlled by people, sometimes become the balance that determines the outcome of a battle.

Sichuan traffic is blocked, therefore, to a certain extent, it determines the isolation and self-locking of the Sichuan army. The Scholar Army has only risen in recent years, and its rise speed is too fast, so when the news of the reorganization of the 26th Division and the 145th Division by the Scholar Army came after the Battle of Nanjing, Yang Sen didn't know what the Scholar Army was at first. As representatives of China's old-school warlords, Yang Sen and others have one thing in common, that is, they care about their own troops. In the minds of these veteran warlords, people and guns are directly proportional to status and power. Therefore, when this news reached Yang Sen's ears, he was so angry that he scolded at the time: Ge Laozi, Ouyang Yun is a ball, he actually dares to merge Lao Tzu's team, is he tired of being crooked?

From that time on, Yang Sen began to pay close attention to the movements of the Scholar Army, paying attention to Ouyang Yun's related news reports, and then, he was suppressed. That's right, Ouyang Yun is a junior character, and the student army also belongs to the new Ding, but these are not problems. It is not enough to launch a large-scale offensive at the junction of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi and take the initiative to provoke the Japanese, but they dare to put their hands into Taiwan, which is not something that anyone can do. Taiwan is a forbidden territory of the Japanese, and it has been regarded by the Japanese as a local existence, and Yang Sen thinks about it with his toes, and he can also think of the importance that the Japanese army attaches to Taiwan and the strength of the defense in Taiwan. Ouyang Yun is ruthless, he actually dares to send troops to Taiwan, that is, he is on the heads of the Japanese. The Cadet Army is amazing, and it really stood in Taiwan - after these things happened, Yang Sen was impressed by Ouyang Yun and the Cadet Army, and at the same time, the idea of asking for an explanation for the matter of the 26th Division and the 145th Division was also faint.

The telegram sent by Ouyang Yun to Li Zongren was very straightforward and directly explained the meaning. Yang Sen didn't know that Ouyang Yun's telegram meant to show favor to him, and he only thought that Li Zongren and Ouyang Yun had a good personal relationship. The student army has made so many achievements, and people like Yang Sen will naturally study it when they have something to do: What is this for? And he came to the conclusion that the student army has money and is well equipped, and this is the magic weapon that people can repeatedly defeat the Japanese army. At this time, the standard weapons of the Cadet Army had already flowed into the market on a certain scale. The cadet army has been developing steadily in Guangdong for more than two years, and after the production capacity of the arsenal has increased, it has more than enough to equip its own troops. Because of the cooperation between the Xuebing Army and the first party in Qingyuan tungsten mine, it has provided a lot of weapons and equipment for the first army. In addition, the Gui family and the old Northwest Army, who had a good personal relationship with Ouyang Yun, also obtained a lot of such weapons. The circulation of these weapons not only increased the combat effectiveness of the above-mentioned troops, but also made the cadet army famous.

Janssen had personally tried the Weiqing assault rifle and the disease-free general-purpose machine gun. He tried the oldest-fashioned style, but he was still squeezed. At that time, his evaluation of the Weiqing-style assault rifle was: Ge Laozi, is this a rifle? No, it's a light machine gun! Ge Lao Tzu, if Lao Tzu's team were all equipped with this kind of rifle?! Ge Lao Tzu, then Lao Tzu is invincible in the world!

Through various channels, Yang Sen has already used Weiqing-style assault rifles with half of the most elite guard regiments in his hands. He once had the idea that he would also get such equipment for a division if he was thrifty. However, the Weiqing-style assault rifle is simply priceless, so until now, he has still not been able to realize this ideal, which is not actually great.

But this time, here's the opportunity. Because of Ouyang Yun's various performances, Yang Sen once thought that he was a high-flying and domineering person, but now it seems that people are still very kind. Of course, considering the current strength of the Cadet Army, it can't be excessive, so ask Ouyang Yun to provide a division of assault rifles, and then a regiment of artillery.

The commander-in-chief along the Jiangnan line is Chen Cheng, Chen Cheng because he has just achieved the record of annihilating the 17th Division of the Japanese Army some time ago, this time he is full of spirit, very much lupine scarf, Xiao Qiao is high-spirited when he first marries, these days, he will give a notice to the north bank at every turn. said that it was an announcement, but it was actually similar to an order, because the five divisions of the Central Army did not listen to Li Zongren at all. They were from the same line as Chen Cheng, so now it seemed as if they had accepted the command of the south bank. Originally, Jiangbei and Jiangnan were two parallel command systems, but because they had won a big victory, their own side was tired of defense, so the Military Commission had already faintly expressed its intention to let Chen Cheng take charge of cross-strait defense in a unified manner. Li Zongren is not a person who is too enthusiastic about power, but considering the situation in Guangxi, he has to work hard to deal with it.

Li Zongren desperately wanted a victory to strengthen his position, but the only one he could really rely on now was the Sichuan army. As a result, helping Yang Sen plan the equipment of the student army has become his indispensable task.

Li Zongren knew Ouyang Yun far deeper than Yang Sen, and when he heard Yang Sen's offer, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly. He said, "Brother Zihui, you are too conservative. The rifles of a division, the artillery of a regiment, so many men of the 26th Division and the 145th Division, are worth this? He stretched out three fingers, "The Cadet Army is very rich, three divisions of rifles, one regiment of combat vehicles, and one division of artillery." In my opinion, this price point is not appropriate. ”

Li Zongren, as a middleman, actually asked for a sky-high price, but Yang Sen was very uncomfortable, this figure has far exceeded his psychological bottom line. In fact, what he had just opened was just a temptation, and all he could accept in his heart was a regimental rifle plus a few cannons. He stammered, "Isn't it too much, I'm afraid, I'm afraid it will backfire." I, I heard that Ouyang Yun, Ouyang Yun, this kid is very stingy! ”

"Ouyang Yun is stingy?" Li Zongren looked at Yang Sen with strange eyes, shook his head and said, "It depends on the person, let me tell you, as long as you have an appetite for Ouyang Yun, this kid is actually generous." Zihui, I treat you as a brother, and I won't hide some things from you, in fact, after the last Battle of Nanjing, our Gui family has existed in name only. But, hehe, because Ouyang Yun helped at a critical time, Guangxi is still firmly controlled by us. ”

Guangxi is so large, and the economic development is not very good, so the Gui system was only 50,000 elite soldiers at its peak. In the first battle of Nanjing, these 50,000 elite soldiers of the Gui family showed great bravery, but their equipment and tactics were far inferior to the Japanese army, so in the end they became ridiculous cannon fodder troops, and they were scattered by a few rounds of shelling by the little devils. At that time, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi thought that the Gui family was over, and Guangxi was going to return to Lao Jiang. At the critical time, it was Ouyang Yun who resolutely came forward to give support, and Li Bai and the others were able to re-raise the troops and consolidate the position of Guangxi.

Yang Sen was not very clear about the affairs of Guangxi, but this did not prevent him from humbly accepting Li Zongren's proposal. He thought about it for a while, and asked uneasily, "Really?!" ”

"Of course, you are here to fight devils, hehe, for this point, Ouyang Yun will not die without help."

Because of Li Zongren's advice, Yang Sen and Ouyang Yun reached an understanding and signed a verbal agreement. The two sides agreed to go hand in hand and support each other in the years to come. In order to express his apologies for taking the liberty of merging the 26th Division and the 145th Division, Ouyang Yun finally agreed to support the two divisions of the Sichuan Army free of charge. The training army-style equipment of the two divisions is not only a simple matter of more than 10,000 Weiqing-style assault rifles, because the student army is a full-scale division, and each division has more than 10,000 people in two brigades and six regiments. Moreover, in addition to rifles, there is also a regiment of tank units and a regiment of self-propelled artillery units in the corporate-style divisional formation. That is to say, the Cadet Army will eventually support the Sichuan Army with more than 20,000 guns, two regiments of combat vehicles and two regiments of artillery, Yang Sen has made a lot of money this time (here, Ouyang Yun is actually still a villain, because the real equipment of each division of the Cadet Army is the combat vehicles of one regiment and one regiment of artillery in each brigade, and if you count the chariots and artillery units directly under the division, they are actually already at the brigade level).

Ouyang Yun behaved too generously, far exceeding Yang Sen's expectations, not to mention, and even made him feel embarrassed. Therefore, considering that the soldiers of the tank unit and the artillery unit still need to go to Guangdong to participate in training, he finally decided to support the soldiers of the two divisions of the Cadet Corps free of charge.

In that time and space, in the most severe years of the Anti-Japanese War, Sichuan Province bore 30 percent of the national government's tax revenue and 10 percent of the soldiers' resources, which can be said to have made great sacrifices for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

Ouyang Yun generously supported the equipment of the Sichuan army, on the one hand, because the Sichuan army was indeed resolute in resisting Japan, and believed that it was obligatory to let those officers and soldiers who were enthusiastic in the war of resistance obtain better weapons and shed less blood, and on the other hand, he also had the intention of establishing a good image in the minds of the Sichuan people and recruiting troops in the future.

Facts have proved that Ouyang Yun's generosity was not in vain, and Yang Sen still knew how to repay his kindness. In fact, there is no shortage of soldiers in the Cadet Corps at present, but in the long run, the Cadet Corps still needs the soldiers of the two divisions. It's a win-win deal.