Liu Wenhui was furious when he received the news that more than eight million arms could no longer be recovered. However, he did not stop the bloody actions of hunting down Communists and killing progressive young students in Chengdu and southern Sichuan. Instead, he intensified

Butcher's knife. The reason why Liu Wenhui, who was born as a big landowner, did this is that Chengdu

The communist movement in the region was growing day by day. The slogan of dividing farmland and dividing family property greatly angered the Liu Wenhui family, which owned tens of thousands of acres of land, banks, mines, and workshops, and his powerful generals who were descended from landlords; secondly, through the suppression of the communist movement

Bloody suppression was used in exchange for the favor of the Nanjing government and Chiang Kai-shek, who were striving to suppress communism.

At this time, Xu Yuanquan, who was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the 16th Route Army, led two divisions up the river. After commander-in-chief Xu Yuanquan and other generals met with the commander of the Fifth Army, An Yi, and the director of the Yichang camp, He Guoguang, the division

Without making any stops, they continued to Enshi and began to encircle and suppress the He Long Corps active in the border area of ​​Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan.

Xu Yuanquan himself was very reluctant to come to the Western Hubei region to suppress the Communists. Many generals in the headquarters also blamed the Fifth Army for the suppression of the Communists in Western Hubei. Unfortunately, the commander of the Corps, An Yi, repeatedly emphasized that all three divisions of the 24th Army should

They are new divisions that are still undergoing training and have not yet formed combat effectiveness. The 16th, 17th, and 44th divisions are replenishing their troops and updating their equipment, and are unable to shoulder the important task of suppressing the Communists. Chiang Kai-shek did not inform

The important mission of the Fifth Army Corps, the headquarters general, only vaguely stated that An Yi's opinions deserved attention, and that the 24th Army belonged to the local army and did not have central funding, so it was understandable that the army's construction speed would be slower, so Xu

Yuanquan could only follow the orders of the general headquarters and lead the two divisions that had just recovered their breath to Enshi, and began to fight against the Red Second Army Corps, which had a sharp increase in numbers and doubled its combat effectiveness.

On the surface, the Fifth Army seemed to be in a leisurely and calm state, but secretly it was intensively preparing for the war: Zhu Shigui's 17th Division, which had been redressed, had begun to move south in batches, secretly opening up through the Public Security Bureau, Li County, and Changde.

Arrive at Gancheng in western Hunan to assemble; Gu Changfeng's 44th Division passes through Yidu and Shimen and heads to Huayuan in western Hunan to wait for orders.

The two main divisions, both with artillery regiments, marched day and night, moving slowly southward. Yin Jinan's 16th Division, stationed in Yichang, guarded Zigui, Yidu, and Dangyang counties. The three divisions of the 24th Army remained as they were and continued to work hard.

After hard training, the local people saw panting officers and soldiers on country roads and barren mountains every day. From time to time, the explosions of artillery shells and the sound of intensive shooting were heard from the valleys on the outskirts of counties that were temporarily conquered as shooting ranges.

On December 28, Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao, who were attached to Liu Wenhui's wing, were in an embarrassing situation without food or water. They had to lead thousands of soldiers under their command to go north to Shaanxi and Gansu, where the army was empty, to create new territory and find a way to survive.

, the opportunity that Liu Xiang had been waiting so hard for finally appeared.

In the 20th year of the Republic of China, that is, on New Year's Day 1931, the government again awarded honors to more than 80 generals including Zhang Xueliang, He Yingqin, Zhu Peide, Liu Zhi, An Yi, Gu Zhutong, Jiang Dingwen, etc., and then announced the appointment of Liu Xiang as Sichuan Commander-in-Chief.

The Provincial General Office for Rehabilitation was ordered to organize all military forces throughout Sichuan. Liu Xiang's long-awaited "righteousness" finally arrived.

The prudent Liu Xiang personally drafted a "Yaskawa Plan" and submitted it to Chiang Kai-shek, expressing his determination to firmly support the central government and emphasizing that the reason why Sichuan continued to have civil wars and was torn apart was because of the failure to achieve military unification and financial unification, which had been delayed.

This purpose was entirely due to Liu Wenhui's obstruction and the support of troops to separate the regime.

Chiang Kai-shek strongly agreed with Liu Xiang's opinions, praised him for his firm support of the central government and his anti-communist stance, and personally wrote a book to comfort and encourage him, implying that the post of chairman of Sichuan Province and director of appeasement after reunification was none other than Liu Xiang.

Liu Xiang received a personal reply from Chiang Kai-shek, and was reassured. He once again sent his confidant Qiao Yifu to Yichang to secretly meet with He Guoguang, who had always supported him in unifying Sichuan, and the Central Committee's special commissioner who was going to Chengdu to "inspect party affairs."

Zeng extended his invitation to Chongqing and began to work on political alliances, secretly mobilizing troops, uniting all forces, and began to launch an all-out war against Liu Wenhui.

On January 12, Luo Zezhou's 23rd Division stationed in Yingshan, under Liu Xiang's instruction, suddenly launched a violent attack on Liu Wenhui's Liu Yungen Brigade stationed in Shunqing Mansion (Nanchong), and the "Two Liu" War began.

As the war broke out, generals from the two factions, including Liu Yungen and Luo Zezhou, called the Central Committee one after another, accusing each other of provoking trouble and creating war, and asked the Central Committee to send personnel to mediate and stop it. Liu Xiang then appeared on stage and pretended to be fair and called Chiang Kai-shek: "Each party has its own reasons for the conflict.

Ci... try your best to eliminate it and don’t expand it.”

Chiang Kai-shek immediately issued a high-profile statement, advising both parties to the conflict to stay rational and wait for the central government to send personnel to mediate. The next day, 94 people under Liu Xiang and the generals of the alliance, including Tang Shizun, Sun Zhen, Li Jiayu, and Luo Zezhou, jointly issued a telegram, proposing that "

"Sixteen Points in the Outline of Sichuan Governance" invited warlords such as Liu Xiang, Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao, Yang Sen, Liu Cunhou and others to come to Suining to discuss the major plans.

Liu Wenhui was once again deceived by Liu Xiang's brilliant political skills. He thought that in order to survive, the various forces would not let Liu Xiang's family dominate. Therefore, he slowed down war preparations and cleared out his brother Liu Shengting to go to Chongqing.

Meet Liu Xiang and seek the right path to compromise and solution.

Unexpectedly, on the 19th, the powerful meeting under the control of Liu Xiang ended, and Liu Xiang was smoothly elected as the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan-Kanglan appeasement and the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Route Army.

Liu Xiang, who was recognized by both the central and local governments, finally showed his prowess, and immediately sent a message to the whole country, accusing Liu Wenhui of being "capricious and fond of using troops indiscriminately, causing harm to Bashu and the country", and expressed that he would "dedicate himself to defending the Tao and simply educating his masters and disciples.

Cooperate with the friendly forces on the left and right to stop it with all your strength." At this point, the "Er Liu War" was fully launched.

Liu Xiang and the coalition forces came well prepared and launched a sudden attack. In just one week, they defeated eight counties including Suining, Jiangjin, Tongnan, and Yongchuan. Liu Wenhui had to resist hard and retreat step by step. Because the battle line was too long, the east

It starts from Yongchuan and Jiangjin and ends at Shunqing and Chengdu in the north. Therefore, in the Liu Xiang tribe and the Lianhe

Under the fierce attack of the army, the defense line was instantly riddled with holes. They had to abandon nearly half of the area, shrink the defense line, and retreat to important strategic areas along the Tuojiang River. The main force gathered in Zizhong, Neijiang, Fushun, and Ziliujing (today's Zigong).

Only by resisting bravely did he stop his decline and gain a firm foothold.

Liu Xiang showed no mercy and continued to attack fiercely, sending planes to bomb indiscriminately and frequently assisting the battle. He fought hard for nearly ten days and at the cost of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, he finally crossed the Tuojiang River and occupied Neijiang, Fushun and Ziliujing counties, and quickly advanced.

Rongxian and Weiyuan front lines launched a fateful decisive battle with Liu Wenhui's five divisions who once again built a defense line.

While Liu Wenhui was eager to recruit soldiers to resist with all his strength, he regretted his generous support of two divisions of Hu Ruoyu's division of the Yunnan Army two months ago. When Long Yun led the main force in Guangxi and was defeated by Bai Chongxi's Gui army who turned around and fiercely attacked, he commanded his troops.

They were radical and attacked Kunming all the way. Now they are losing more and more troops. It is too late to bring the two divisions of Yunnan troops who have been living in their own territory to help in the battle.

When weapons and ammunition were severely consumed and could not be replenished, Liu Wenhui could only reluctantly spend 50,000 taels of gold, send a guard regiment to Gancheng in western Hunan to purchase weapons and ammunition, and strongly begged the 44th Army, which had always maintained a good cooperative relationship. Zhang Hongluan, the commander-in-chief, sent troops to assist in the battle.

Zhang Hongluan warmly received Liu Wenhui's special envoy, and quickly delivered 3 million rounds of ammunition, 10,000 rifles, and 300 light machine guns to Liu Wenhui's territory as quickly as possible. At the same time, he generously presented Liu Wenhui with 100 flower machine guns and 50 light machine guns. Thousands of artillery shells were fired, and he tactfully told the envoy that because Liu Wenhui's department was not recognized by the central government, even if the officers and soldiers of the 44th Army wanted to help, they had no choice but to provide full support in terms of weapons, ammunition and combat supplies.

A large amount of money was spent and a large amount of weapons and ammunition were quickly exchanged. Liu Wenhui, who had been fighting hard, was already satisfied. Originally, he had no extravagant expectations for Zhang Hongluan to send troops to help in the war, but he did not expect that Zhang Hongluan, who had always been friendly in business, was so interesting. Not only Instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to raise prices to add insult to injury, Liu explained the situation tactfully and generously supported many weapons and ammunition. Liu Wenhui's entire defense line, which was teetering on the edge of waiting for rice to be put into the pot, suddenly became full of vitality. He defeated Liu Xiang and other coalition forces' attacks that were twice his own several times, and gradually reversed the situation. The decline has dragged the war into a tug-of-war.

Liu Xiang did not expect that Liu Wenhui's resistance would be so tenacious, nor did he expect that Liu Wenhui's brother "Xunan King" Liu Wencai, a small security commander, could recruit more than 20,000 troops to the front line in just seven days. The various coalition forces that faced off against their own side and failed again and again suffered heavy losses in the fierce battles in October. On the surface, everyone vowed that they would move forward bravely and never retreat, but secretly they began to work hard to survive. What a pitiful force he has.

Seeing this situation, Liu Xiang had no choice but to postpone his offensive and sent another secret envoy, carrying a large amount of gold and silver, to Luzhou quietly to bribe Liu Wenhui's generals Yang Shangzhou and Tian Guanwu who were stationed in Luzhou. Before that, Liu Xiang's chief military advisor Dao Ye Liu Congyun led a division of "magic soldiers" to besiege Luzhou. They fought for more than 20 days and were unable to shake the city. Seeing that Liu Xiang sent a secret envoy to attack the city with a large amount of gold and silver, Liu Congyun, whose face was greatly damaged, did not hesitate to do so despite his reluctance. There is no way.

The news that Liu Xiang sent a secret envoy to Luzhou to bribe the guard was quickly learned by An Yi's secret intelligence system, and was quickly reported to Liu Wenhui by Zhang Hongluan.

The frightened Liu Wenhui immediately sent his nephew to lead a new brigade to Luzhou, and sent a deeply affectionate autograph letter and a hundred thousand cash to the guard generals Yang Shangzhou and Tian Guanwu who were about to open the city gate to surrender after running out of ammunition and food. As a reward, that night, five thousand soldiers from a brigade under Zhang Hongluan, who took off their military uniforms and disguised themselves as mountain people, rushed to Wuliting in the south of Luzhou City with heavy loads of dry food, canned food, ammunition and ten old and new Bayi mortars to deliver the supplies. They were all handed over to the defenders and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The morale of the defenders who had received a large amount of supplies was greatly boosted. The next day, when the sky was slightly bright, Liu Wencai's cousin Liu Zhenxian personally led the special agent company and quietly set up ten mortars, aiming at Liu Congyun's headquarters at the foot of Xueshi Mountain in the north of the city. Ten mortars came. Five rounds of volleys of fire blew away Liu Congyun and forty-nine disciples in strange costumes who were practicing sword-wielding exercises. They ran wildly and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The brave brigade commander Yang Shangzhou immediately led a death squad of 800 people to rush out of the city gate, roaring into the enemy formation, killing them fiercely with light machine guns, flower machine guns and swords. The leaderless "magic soldiers" fled in large numbers and were completely defeated. It took ten miles to stabilize the position and saw that the death squads were not chasing after them. Thousands of people were exhausted and all lay on the ground and turned into mud.

At the headquarters of the 44th Army in Gancheng, western Hunan, Zhang Hongluan and Deng Bin received the battle report from the forward reconnaissance unit, and finally felt relieved. Zhang Hongluan put his hand on his forehead and repeatedly praised it.
Chapter completed!