The street battle in Chengdu has already beaten Tian Songyao miserably.
In addition to the familiar "Seven Heroes and Four Strongs", there were also the "Spring and Autumn Five Powers" earlier, namely Liu Xiang, Liu Wenhui, Yang Sen, Deng Xihou, and Tian Songyao. In these lists, although Tian Songyao is not ranked high, he cannot fall behind him every time, and the weight of the weight can be seen.
In Tian Songyao's heyday, he had more than 40,000 horses and horses, and the defense area included twenty-six counties in northern Sichuan, which was also an important reason why he dared to call Liu Wenhui. For a while, he even wanted to learn from Liu Xiang to build the Air Force, and set up an "Aviation Preparatory Office" in eight hundred places, and even the airport had been repaired.
After the chengdu street battle, although the winter melon is not as "fallen to the ground" as described in the current affairs cartoon, it has become a decadent image, and the clear-eyed people can see that Tian Songyao at that time has gradually become a stagnant trend.
Just when he was nervous and panicked, Chiang Kai-shek sent a letter of appointment, promoting him from military commander to "superintendent."
Of course, Chiang Kai-shek's black gauze hat was not given casually, and Tian Songyao's supervisor had a special name, called "Inspector of Suppression of Bandits", that is, to promote you to a higher position so that you could be more energetic in fighting the Red Army.
If the Red Army had "built defense" in some other air defense area, Tian Songyao might have felt that the hat was a little hot. Now what was taken away was originally his own defense zone, even if he did not promote himself, he had to do it, and then think about it, Liu Xiang climbed to such a high position, Zuo was just a "supervisor", Tian Songyao really had a feeling of being useless and happy to be in the sky, and immediately announced his inauguration with joy.
Tian Songyao's strength was not good, and Chiang Kai-shek also saw it. Along with the Wusha hat, nearly a million rounds of ammunition and 200,000 military expenses were sent, and at the same time Chiang Kai-shek also sent someone to inform Tian Songyao: "Hu Zongnan's garrison in the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region, if you feel that it is difficult, you can let Hu Zongnan send two brigades into Sichuan to fight together." ”
Hu Zongnan's troops, known as the "First Army under Heaven," are the elite of Chiang Kai-shek's lineage, and their combat effectiveness naturally has nothing to say, but Tian Songyao is afraid that Hu Zongnan will not leave after he comes, and the so-called "those who send away the sun and those who come to the sun again" -- it is just as difficult to deal with.
Therefore, Tian Songyao only sent a staff officer to Gansu and met Hu Zongnan, but he did not express his intention of welcoming the other party into Sichuan, which meant that he did not say anything, but only perfunctory Chiang Kai-shek.
Tian Songyao's side had just done a happy event, and the Red Army over there had also set up a bright spot and founded the Sichuan-Shaanxi Su District in Bazhong.
Obviously, this is to build a house on the beam, to do long-term living plans. Tian Songyao could no longer be at peace.
In terms of military and political talents, winter melon belongs to a relatively mediocre type, and he mainly relies on Sun Zhen to fight wars. Sun Zhen was named his deputy commander, but the actual power was very large, Tian Songyao's twenty-six counties, he himself was only directly in charge of the five counties, but Sun Zhen could directly manage the thirteen counties, in fact, he had formed a small prince below the princes.
In the long run, he was suspected of being a master of merit, and when he did not fight in peacetime, there would inevitably be all kinds of suspicions and conflicts between the generals and marshals, and Sun Zhen went to Shanghai with an illness in one breath.
When the war was about to be fought, Tian Songyao remembered this indispensable general, and he urgently recalled him before the battle in Chengdu Lane. Playing big cards is playing big cards, Sun Zhen also understands the truth that one loses and one wins, and when commanding a battle, he does not dare to be a little careless, and almost all the solutions that can be used are used.
Princes of the Sichuan Army: Tian Songyao (2) Serial, to be continued.......