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Chapter 683 Disarmament (Part 1)

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    "Unified military order" is a necessary policy for establishing a centralized government. When the military in the southeast is gaining successive victories, the call for international disarmament cannot be ignored.  The international community expressed support for Duan Qirui's ruling government, but also called on China to reduce its troops - a country that is not rich actually has an army of 1.2 million people at this time!

    The Feng Faction also needs to reduce the number of troops: in the process of the growth of the Feng Army and the People's Army, a large number of captured officers and soldiers have been absorbed, and it is inevitable that there will be a mixture of good and bad.  In addition, because the supply of military and political cadres trained by the Northeast Military Lecture Hall and the People's Army Political Training Corps exceeds demand, many troops need to be improved in terms of combat effectiveness and political literacy.

    Since China has reached formal unification, it is expected that domestically, the People's Army will have full capabilities to suppress any opposition forces.  In this case, it makes little sense to continue to simply compare the numbers of armies.

    It is also very difficult to continue to support such a large army financially: with the expansion of five-year compulsory education in centrally controlled provinces, thousands of machine tools imported from Germany have arrived in Hong Kong, and the expansion and construction of Hanyang Arsenal and Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau,  The construction of military projects such as the Xi'an Aircraft Manufacturing Plant, the Shenyang Aircraft Manufacturing Plant, and the Harbin Seaplane Manufacturing Plant costs a lot of money.

    And after experiencing a series of wars, all parts of the Central Plains need to recuperate, and maintaining such a large number of troops is indeed financially powerless.

    The international situation in the 20th century was dominated by rest and recuperation. All countries did not have the ability or suitable soil to support the government's military actions. Therefore, the next period of time will be a golden period for China's economic development.

    Therefore, the improvement of military strength and reduction of government affairs quickly became an important issue at this stage, and the country invested its limited financial resources in economic construction.  The Kuomintang still agrees with this point - anyway, Mr. Sun Yat-sen currently has no soldiers, so let's thoroughly seek peace for the country and welfare for the people!  The People's Party wants to cut off its own arms, which is what it wants.

    Therefore, according to Zhang Hanqing¡¯s opinion, after more than a month of deliberation and negotiation, the ¡°National Defense Committee¡± set the tone and convened a meeting of all parties to discuss troop reduction matters.

    At the request of the dominant People¡¯s Army Headquarters and the National Defense Commission, local forces in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou sent representatives to Beijing to hold talks.

    Since the beginning of the Republic of China, Sichuan has experienced Yin Changheng's administration of Sichuan, Xiong Kewu's rebellion against Yuan, Chen Huan Tuchuan, Liu Cunhou's chaos in Sichuan, Xiong Kewu's period, the rise of the Succeeding Clique, Liu Chengxun's short-term administration, and the war against thieves. The Beijing government appointed Yang Sen as the Sichuan Military Affairs Officer.  Supervisors: Deng Xihou is the governor of Sichuan, Liu Cunhou is the supervisor of the Sichuan-Shaanxi border defense, and Liu Xiang is the supervisor of the Sichuan-Yunnan border defense.

    Yang Sen was appointed as the Military Superintendent of Sichuan and held great power.  As a result, the express system split into two systems: Liu Xiang's Old Second Army and Yang Sen's New Second Army.  Regarding Yang Sen's coming from behind, Liu Xiang remained calm on the surface, but secretly contacted Liu Chengxun, Liu Wenhui, Lai Xinhui, etc. to form an anti-Yang alliance of "three Lius and one lai", and instigated rebellion against Yang Sen's king Zanxu and others.

    The civil war in Sichuan is inevitable. Zhang Hanqing doesn't care about the chaos in central Sichuan. Let it be chaos. He can defeat it one by one.

    After the Guizhou Army responded to Sun Yixian's crusade against Gui Clan Lu Rongting, the Guizhou Army returned to Yuan Zuming.  After Yuan became the commander-in-chief of the Guizhou Army, he organized the Guizhou Army into six divisions.  How can we bear to abandon the army that we finally expanded?  However, the "Disarmament Committee" headed by Zhang Zuoxiang had unquestionable perseverance. Yuan Zuming had no choice but to swallow his saliva, but said that he had few people and had to wait for the People's Army to disband first.

    The predecessor of the Yunnan Army was the Yunnan New Army in the late Qing Dynasty.  At the beginning of the 20th century, the Qing government established two New Army towns in Yunnan to guard the border and strengthen its rule. Unexpectedly, they were overthrown by the New Army.  Subsequently, under the leadership of General Cai E, the Yunnan Army took the lead in opposing Yuan Shikai's proclaimed emperor and fired the first shot in the war to protect the country. It became famous throughout the country and achieved the earliest glory of the Yunnan Army.

    When Tang Jiyao took office as the governor of Yunnan, the Yunnan Army expanded from an army of only two divisions to three armies in a short period of time, with a number of about 100,000 people. The army was enriched with advanced military theory and technology and excellent military leaders.  At that time, 80% of the key command personnel of the Yunnan Army came from the Yunnan Military Academy. The significance of the Military Academy to the Yunnan Army was no less than that of the Whampoa Military Academy to the Kuomintang army.

    After Tang Jiyao took office as the governor of Yunnan, he organized the army and organized military operations. In the name of running a training group, he defrauded a lot of weapons and equipment from the Beiyang warlords (before the War to Protect the Country).  In addition, he also sent people everywhere to purchase a lot of weapons from Germany, Japan, and France (French weapons were mainly shipped to Yunnan from Vietnam, the then French colony). These weapons were enriched into the Yunnan Army, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Yunnan Army.  .

    Tang Jiyao also did a lot in terms of administrative management, such as establishing a Copper Co., Ltd. in Huize, implementing unified management of mining in the province, encouraging commercial activities, etc.  TheseThis policy effectively guaranteed the province's fiscal revenue and became an important economic support for the subsequent war to protect the country.

    Under such a situation, if they were unified under the central government, they would undoubtedly have spent many years of hard work making wedding clothes for others, which would make Tang Ziran feel unhappy.

    Regarding the Guangxi Clan, Li Zongren¡¯s Dinggui Army and Huang Shaohong¡¯s Guangxi Army against Bandits once united to form the Dinggui Army Against Bandits, which defeated Lu Rongting and Shen Hongying¡¯s troops, ending the rule of the old Guangxi warlords.

    The Gui Army was later reorganized into the 1st and 2nd Corps of the Guangxi Army. Li was appointed as the Supervisor of the Guangxi Appeasement Office and Commander of the 1st Army, Huang was appointed as the Council Office and Commander of the 2nd Army, and Bai Chongxi was appointed as the Chief of Staff of the Office.  This army has a total of 12 columns, 1 independent brigade and 1 detachment, with about 30,000 people.

    Although there are few soldiers, the Guangxi army is the most capable of fighting among the southern provinces. There is a saying that describes it well: "The Guizhou army and the Dian army are two sheep, and the Hunan army is a wolf; the monkeys of Guangxi are the Gui army, as fierce as tigers and as evil as wolves!"  "

    The reason is that Guangxi is located in a borderland and its economy and culture have been relatively backward since ancient times.  After Qin Shihuang annexed the six kingdoms, he sent troops to Baiyue. The Qin army fought hard for three years but made no progress. He was forced to use all his national resources to dig the Ling Canal and conquer this "barbaric land".  Because it was far away from the center of the empire, Guangxi became a place of exile. Coupled with the wars between successive dynasties and Vietnam, Guangxi's folk customs were brave, fierce, and fierce.

    In modern times, Guangxi soldiers gradually showed strong combat effectiveness: when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom swept across China, Hong Xiuquan initially relied on a "militia" composed of more than 20,000 men, women, and children. They fought all the way from Jintian, Guangxi to Nanjing, Jiangsu, and almost overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty.  But in the end, the "old brothers" in Guangxi were exhausted, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also moved towards its final defeat.

    In the official history of World War II, even the famous American general Stilwell once admitted: "Guangxi soldiers are the best soldiers in the world."

    Even so, Li Zongren, the leader of the Guangxi clique, did not dare to stand up to the overwhelming power of the Kuomintang. He took the initiative to send representatives to participate, and even told Zhang Hanqing that "the Gui army will follow the lead of the young commander." (Remember the website address:  www.hlnovel.com
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