Liu Xiang's position and influence in the Sichuan Army is very large, it is precisely because of Liu Xiang's existence, the cohesion of the Sichuan Army will be stronger, and it is also because of Liu Xiang's existence that the Sichuan Army can become more regular and achieve countless exciting victories in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
In fact, in addition to his military ability, Liu Xiang was also very far-sighted in considering the future of the Sichuan army; when he was first ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to encircle and suppress the Red Army, Liu Xiang also specifically told his subordinate General Guo Xunqi: "To leave a way for the Red Army to live is to give yourself a way to live."
Liu Xiang told Guo Xunqi to leave a way for the Red Army to survive
The Sichuan army is very brave and good at war, in the era of warlord melee, they have always been able to occupy a place by their own ability, but unfortunately in the initial stage, the reputation and discipline of the Xiang army are not too good, although they are brave and good at war, but there are often internal struggles and other serious consumption of their own strength.
Fortunately, the appearance of Liu Xiang completely changed this phenomenon later, Liu Xiang was originally a person from a martial arts family, who had a lot of research on martial arts, plus he had received a good education since he was a child, so he understood more that a team wanted to develop for a long time, and the most basic point was that there needed to be certain rules and discipline, just as the so-called no rules were not square.
Liu Xiang relied on his own efforts and foresight to gradually have a place in the Sichuan Army, and later relied on his outstanding performance in the war and the personality charm of peacetime, won the respect and love of the soldiers, and eventually became the boss of the Sichuan Army, and led the Sichuan Army to continue to grow and develop, and constantly become more regularized, so that the Sichuan Army, an army full of combat effectiveness, truly became a frightening iron-blooded team.
At the same time as the development of the Sichuan Army, Liu Xiang's status also gradually increased, and eventually became a veritable "King of Sichuan" in Sichuan, whether in terms of fame or ability, Liu Xiang was able to convince people, so he led the Sichuan Army to live a happy life in sichuan. In the midst of chaos, Liu Xiang could not escape Chiang Kai-shek's calculations in the end.
Chiang Kai-shek's ability in power and strategy can be said to be almost unmatched, but his suspicious personality is also well known; he saw that the Red Army and the Sichuan Army were constantly developing and growing, and he was worried that they would eventually pose a threat to his own position, so after the failure of the Great Revolution, Chiang Kai-shek often "encircled and suppressed" the Red Army, wanting to completely wipe out the Red Army.
In view of the two forces of the Red Army and the Sichuan Army, Chiang Kai-shek, after careful consideration, came up with a one-stone two-bird plan, that is, to let Liu Xiang's Sichuan army pursue and suppress the Red Army; in this way, if Liu Xiang was unwilling to do his best, Chiang Kai-shek would be able to punish Liu Xiang and the Sichuan army in the name of "pursuing and confiscating unfavorably." If the Sichuan army did its best to pursue the Red Army, it would inevitably lose both sides in the war with the Red Army, and then the forces of both sides would seriously decline, and for Chiang Kai-shek, it would be nothing more than the best result.
In 1935, just as the Red Army was forced to choose the Long March after the failure of the fifth "anti-encirclement and suppression" campaign, Chiang Kai-shek began to calculate the Sichuan army, and he ordered Liu Xiang to arrange elite troops to pursue the Red Army with all his might and strive to wipe out the Red Army.
After receiving the order, Liu Xiang understood the main purpose of Chiang Kai-shek's move, as I said earlier, Liu Xiang was able to become the boss of the Sichuan Army, but not by luck, but by his own strength, he was originally a man of both culture and martial arts and far-sightedness, Chiang Kai-shek's plan, Liu Xiang saw through at a glance, but because Chiang Kai-shek was the actual ruler of the National Government at that time, Liu Xiang did not dare to directly offend him, so Liu Xiang could only pretend to accept the order, and then consider the long term.
After accepting the order, Liu Xiang after careful consideration planned to arrange for his love general Guo Xunqi to lead the elite of three brigades to pursue the Red Army, the reason for this arrangement, in fact, Liu Xiang also made two preparations, after all, Chiang Kai-shek had doubts about himself and wanted to take this opportunity to clean up himself, so he arranged the strength of the three brigades to let Guo Xunqi lead him, and he led the rest of the troops to stay in Sichuan, at least to ensure that Chiang Kai-shek was satisfied with his own troop layout, and at the same time Sichuan had its own seat, which could prevent Chiang Kai-shek from taking advantage of the void.
Moreover, even if the worst-case scenario is analyzed, if Guo Xunqi were to engage in a bloody battle with the Red Army in the process of pursuing the Red Army, the strength of the three brigades could at least persist until they arranged reinforcements to support them. Of course, in Liu Xiang's view, once there is a bloody battle with the Red Army, it will undoubtedly be the worst situation.
Because according to his analysis at that time, there were only two possibilities in total for the Red Army's Long March, one was that he had a great deal of knowledge in Sichuan, and after several turns, he came to Sichuan to establish a base area; in this way, it would have a direct impact on the interests of the Sichuan army, and then a vicious battle would inevitably occur; the second situation was that the Red Army only used Sichuan and would not stay in Sichuan.
After everything was clearly thought out, Liu Xiang found his favorite general Guo Xunqi and analyzed the future development of the Sichuan army with him, Liu Xiang told Guo Xunqi: "Now that the Red Army is in a worrying situation, Chiang Kai-shek will certainly not let go of the opportunity to eliminate them, so he will ask the Sichuan Army to pursue them with all his might, but once the Red Army is really destroyed, Chiang Kai-shek will turn his head against the Sichuan Army."
Hearing Liu Xiang say this, Guo Xunqi still didn't quite understand what he meant, and when Liu Xiang saw that Guo Xunqi seemed to understand something, he directly pointed out and said: "If the Red Army is completely eliminated, our good days will come to an end, so to leave a way for the Red Army to live is to give ourselves a way to live."
Hearing that Liu Xiang had spoken so clearly, Guo Xunqi suddenly realized that in fact, Guo Xunqi had long been dissatisfied with some of Chiang Kai-shek's practices, but because Liu Xiang was his immediate superior, he did not speak, and his subordinate could only carry out orders, and now that Liu Xiang had expressed such a meaning, Guo Xunqi understood what to do.
Guo Xunqi left a way for the Red Army to survive
Guo Xunqi was ordered to pursue the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek was staring at the every move of Guo Xunqi's army all the way, when Guo Xunqi took his men and horses to Wenshui, Guizhou, Chiang Kai-shek's urging of Guo Xunqi was even more obvious, basically every day he urged Guo Xunqi to seize the time to suppress the Red Army, but Guo Xunqi always remembered Liu Xiang's words when he set out, so he always ignored Chiang Kai-shek's orders, and his team always kept a distance of one or two days from the Red Army.
After all, the Red Army did not know what medicine guo Xunqi sold in the gourd at the beginning, and Guo Xunqi was also worried that the Red Army would directly enter Sichuan to establish a revolutionary base area, so in the process of pursuit, when it was found that the Red Army was heading in the direction of Sichuan, Guo Xunqi was more or less in a hurry, so the speed of the pursuit of the Red Army accelerated a little, thus causing Guo Xunqi's army and the Red Army to have a small war in Tucheng Qinggang, which not only allowed Guo Xunqi to see the firepower of the Red Army. It also made the Red Army probably understand Guo Xunqi's meaning.
After the end of this war, the Red Army changed direction and went to the other side of the Chishui River, after that, Guo Xunqi's pursuit of the Red Army was even more clear-purposed, once the Red Army ran in the direction of Sichuan, Guo Xunqi accelerated its pace to pursue the Red Army, if the Red Army went in the direction of Yungui, Guo Xunqi slowed down the pursuit speed, and soon the Red Army also understood Guo Xunqi's meaning, and finally left Sichuan safely under the escort of Guo Xunqi.
After the mission was completed, Guo Xunqi went back to find Liu Xiang to resume his life, and Liu Xiang was very satisfied with Guo Xunqi's performance in pursuing the Red Army along the way, and immediately decided to promote him to division commander, and Chiang Kai-shek was very dissatisfied with Guo Xunqi's performance, but because he could not find any handle, it was not easy to clean up the Sichuan army, and he could only secretly be hurt.
epilogue
Because this time Guo Xunqi left a way for the Red Army to live, so the Sichuan Army itself also had a retreat, plus later in the War of Resistance Against Japan, Guo Xunqi met Chen Yi and others, and helped the New Fourth Army, so considering these factors, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guo Xunqi was reused by the central authorities and had a good ending!
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