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From 1930 to 1933, around the ruling power of Sichuan Province, Liu Wenhui and Liu Xiang's uncles and nephews fought a lot of fighting, known in history as "Two Liu Contending for Hegemony". The three-year-long Sichuan Civil War ended with Liu Xiang's victory over Liu Wenhui to unify all of Sichuan. After the war, Liu Xiang proudly said to Liu Wenhui's representative: "My father's waist rod cannot be too hard, and if the waist rod is hard, there will be an accident." I'm not trying to bring him down, I'm just trying to crush his arrogance. You can't write two Liu characters in one stroke, it's always a family! I asked him to keep 20,000 people and go when. "
Because Liu Wenhui was Liu Xiang's "father" (uncle), many people thought that Liu Xiang was suspected of disrespecting his elders in the Sichuan Civil War. In fact, although Liu Xiang's father and Liu Wenhui are cousins of the same generation, they are the same age difference. Even Liu Xiang, a nephew, was older than his father Liu Wenhui (Liu Xiang was born in 1888, Liu Wenhui was born in 1895, and his nephew was 7 years older than his uncle), and his seniority in the Sichuan Army was older than that of his father Liu Wenhui. When Liu Wenhui graduated from the Baoding Military Academy in 1917 and returned to Sichuan to develop, his nephew Liu Xiang was already a brigade commander of the Sichuan Army. It is no exaggeration to say that Liu Wenhui developed step by step under the care of Liu Xiang. Liu Wenhui was nominally Liu Xiang's father, but was actually Liu Xiang's subordinate. The two cooperated tacitly in the Sichuan civil war, and successively defeated Sichuan faction figures Luo Peijin, Xiong Kewu, Liu Cunhou, Yang Sen, Tian Songyao, Li Jiayu and others, becoming real power figures in Sichuan.
At the beginning of 1930, Sichuan became the domain of Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui. At this time, Liu Xiang controlled the rich areas in southeastern Sichuan, with an army of 160,000 people; Liu Wenhui controlled western Sichuan and northern Sichuan, with an army of 120,000 people. Liu Xiang served as the sichuan aftermath supervisor and commander of the 21st Army (Liu Xiang's 21st Army had 7 divisions and 3 mixed brigades), and Liu Wenhui served as the chairman of Sichuan Province and the commander of the 24th Army. Against Chiang Kai-shek's central army in the Central Plains, feng yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Li Zongren launched a warlord melee, and the ambitious Liu Wenhui was not willing to hide behind Liu Xiang as the second eldest, and proposed to let Liu Xiang take charge of Sichuan and support his dream of developing to Hubei and Hunan to compete for the world. Liu Xiang, believing that he did not have the talents and power of Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Li Zongren, did not agree with his father Liu Wenhui's proposal for external expansion, and the second Liu began to have contradictions. In order to realize his political ambitions, Liu Wenhui began to expand his army, co-opting the generals of the Baoding department of the Sichuan Army, and secretly implementing the plan to overthrow Liu Xiang.
At the beginning of 1931, Liu Xiang seized a large number of imported weapons and aircraft parts purchased from Japan and Britain in Wanxian County, Sichuan, with a total value of up to 2 million oceans. His father, Liu Wenhui, said bluntly that he had purchased this batch of weapons and equipment and asked Liu Xiang to return them. Liu Xiang is not a "Harr", in Sichuan, where he is in charge, subordinates buy a large number of weapons and ammunition without their own approval, which is not using themselves as "mallets". Liu Xiang resolutely refused to return it, and assembled this batch of weapons and equipment into his army. In May of the same year, Liu Xiang's mother died, and Liu Wenhui took advantage of the mourning opportunity to bribe Two division commanders under Liu Xiang, Fan Shaozeng and Chen Lanting, with 300,000 yuan and 150,000 yuan in the current ocean, to make them turn against him. Fan Shaozeng, the "Commander of the Hal Division", was not stupid, and directly handed over the money to Liu Xiang, reporting the fact that Liu Wenhui had bribed himself and Chen Lanting, and Liu Xiang rewarded Fan Shaozeng with the 300,000 modern oceans on the spot, and arrested Chen Lanting, who accepted Bribes from Liu Wenhui for 15 modern oceans. Seeing that the matter was revealed, Er liu du secretly subordinated his army to a strategic location in case of emergency.
At the end of 1931, Liu Wenhui asked his rich brother Liu Wencai to bribe the Assassins with a lot of money and went to Chongqing to assassinate Liu Xiang. After this assassin named Hu Wenpeng arrived in Chongqing, he assassinated Liu Xiang without success, but was captured, and the contradiction between the two Liu and Liu broke out in an instant. In order to weaken Liu Xiang's military strength, Liu Wenhui took the lead in cutting off chongqing's grain supply and transportation lines, and Liu Xiang sent troops to attack Nanchong, where Liu Wenhui's troops were stationed, and the Battle for Hegemony between The Two Lius in Sichuan was officially launched. Liu Xiang used money to bribe and contact other factional generals to jointly attack strategically and tactically, and soon gained battlefield superiority. Seeing that the situation was not favorable to him, Liu Wenhui accepted the mediation of the Kuomintang central government.
In October 1932, Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui's Sichuan Civil War was declared under the condemnation and appeal of the Kuomintang Central Committee and people from all walks of life in Sichuan. However, this kind of reconciliation was not the true intention of the parties concerned, and Er Liu Jun used the armistice period to replenish the supply of troops and logistical supplies, adjust strategic subordinates, and wait for the opportunity to fight again.
In May 1933, Liu Wenhui first went to war against his former ally Deng Xihou. The reason was that Deng Xihou delayed the fighters at both ends of the two wars in Luzhou and Rongwei, causing himself to lose the territory of several counties, and other generals also defected to Liu Xiang. Marquis Deng Xi was a widow, so he had to ask Liu Xiang for help with a thick skin. The enemy of the enemy is his own friend, and Liu Xiang also understood this truth, forgave Deng for his behavior of attacking him, and sent his troops to support Deng Xihou's department. Liu Wenhui did not expect that Liu Xiang would intervene, and his plan to quickly defeat Deng Xihou failed, and he also offended many influential figures in Sichuan. In June of the same year, Liu Xiang and Deng Xihou formed the Anchuan Army, and both defeated Liu Wenhui in one fell swoop. From June 6 to August 13, the main forces of the Anchuan Army and Liu Wenhui fought bloody battles in Qianwei, Jingyan, Renshou and other places in Sichuan. Liu Wenhui originally expected the Hubei warlords to enter Sichuan to rescue him, but as a result, Liu Xiang preemptively guarded the throat of Entering Sichuan, and foreign aid could not enter. Liu Wenhui lost the battle and led the main force to retreat into Ya'an. The Yaskawa army pursued and surrounded Ya'an.
At the moment of crisis, the Anchuan Army shelled Liu Wenhui on the smoke bed where he usually rested and smoked the ocean, killing a guard, and Liu Wenhui was not at the scene at the time and survived. The next day, a battalion commander of the guard battalion instigated two more battalions to surrender to Liu Xiang. Liu Wenhui rebelled and had to leave Ya'an with the remnants of the defeated army and retreat to Hanyuan. At this time, Liu Wenhui's 120,000-strong army was only more than 20,000 people, and there was no longer the capital to compete with Liu Xiang for hegemony.
In September 1933, Liu Wenhui's eldest brother Liu Wenyuan interceded with Liu Xiang, hoping that Liu Xiang would not kill him for the sake of the family. Liu Xiang asked Liu Wenhui to speak, and Liu Wenhui had no choice but to send his close deputy Leng Yindong to bring a message: confess his mistake to Liu Xiang and support Liu Xiang in unifying Sichuan. Liu Xiang triumphantly said to Leng Yindong: "My father's waist rod can't be too hard, and if the waist rod is hard, something will happen." I'm not trying to bring him down, I'm just trying to crush his arrogance. You can't write two Liu characters in one stroke, it's always a family! I asked him to keep 20,000 people and go when. "
After Liu Wenhui took charge of Xikang, the remnants continued to use the name of the 24th Army of the National Revolutionary Army. Because the 24th Army was deep in the northwestern frontier and had no combat effectiveness, it did not go to the battlefield from the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937 to the liberation of Xikang in 1950. The army was later reorganized into the 62nd Army of the People's Liberation Army.