The Sichuan Army refers to one of the warlord factions during the Republic of China period. Unlike other local factions, the Sichuan army has never formed a unified system, the early ones have Liu Cunhou and Xiong Kewu, the late ones have Liu Xiang, after Liu Xiang's death, the Sichuan army has formed a situation in which Deng Xihou, Yang Sen, Pan Wenhua, Liu Wenhui, and Wang Lingji are five generals competing for the throne, which outsiders call the Five Elements of the Sichuan Army. Internal factions are complex, and the defensive zone system prevails. The martyrdom of the civil war is well-known throughout the country, and sichuan paid 30% of the tax and 40% of the soldiers in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the Chongqing Anti-Japanese Victory Monument represents this most brilliant chapter.
Seventeen towns at the time of the Xinhai Revolution
The origin of the Sichuan Army can be traced back to the new army of the seventeenth town of Sichuan, which was organized and trained at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In 1901, the Qing government abolished the green camp system and established a new army, stipulating that all provinces in the country should be organized and trained in thirty-six towns (towns equivalent to later divisions). Due to the large number of provinces and autonomous regions in Sichuan, it was also decided to organize the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth towns. In order to cultivate military talents, Sichuan successively sent Zhou Daogang, Xu Xiaogang, Hu Jingyi, Zhang Yi, Liu Hongkui, and Xu Haiqing to study military affairs at the Japanese Non-Commissioned Officer School. At the same time, Sichuan has successively set up an armed weapons school, an army primary school hall, an official ben school, an army accelerated school, and an army lecture hall to train middle- and lower-ranking officers. However, on the eve of the Xinhai Revolution, the task of the three towns of the new army planned to be organized in Sichuan was not completed, and it was only organized into the seventeenth town.
Yin Changheng Governor Chuan
After Yin Changheng was promoted to governor because of his merits in quelling the chaos, he immediately began to organize a military government, and the heads of various departments were divided between revolutionaries and constitutionalists. The army was reorganized.
After the establishment of the Sichuan military government of the Han Dynasty, two military governments of Chengdu and Chongqing coexisted in Sichuan. Yin Changheng had planned to unify by force, and the Shu military government had also invited the Dian army to join Sichuan to help with reunification, and after mediation and consultation between the parties, the two sides agreed on February 2, 1912: with Chengdu as the political center, the Sichuan military government should be set up, and the governors of Chengdu and Chongqing would be appointed as the main and deputy governors; Chongqing would be an important town, and the town of Fufu would be set up. In this way, Sichuan was unified, yin Changheng was appointed as the governor of the Sichuan military government, Zhang Peijue was appointed as the deputy governor, and the Chongqing Zhenfu was the chief of the town fu in xia.
After the establishment of the Sichuan military government, in April, Yin Changheng reorganized the Sichuan Army into five divisions: Zhou Jun, commander of the First Division, Peng Guanglie, commander of the Second Division, Sun Zhaoluan, commander of the Third Division, Liu Cunhou, commander of the Fourth Division, and Xiong Kewu, commander of the Fifth Division. It was under the command of Hu Jingyi, the commander of the regiment.
In the summer of 1912, due to a riot in Tibet that endangered Sichuan, the governor Yin Changheng asked himself to supervise the western expedition. Yuan Shikai was invited to do so, and Yin Changheng personally conquered the Tibetan border, quelled the border riots, and stationed himself in western Sichuan. In March 1913, when the Soong Jiaoren case occurred, Sun Yat-sen decided to lead the Kuomintang to fight against Yuan Shikai and launch a second revolution. As Yin Changheng joined the Kuomintang, in June 1913, Yuan Shikai dismissed Yin Changheng from his post as Governor of Chuan and demoted him to the post of Governor of Chuanbian.
Xiong Kewu was anti-Yuan
In June 1913, Hu Jingyi was appointed by Yuan Shikai as the governor of Sichuan. The Fifth Division was an evolution of the Shu Army formed in Shanghai during the Xinhai Revolution by sichuan military cadets, and was more revolutionary. Xiong Kewu was faced with the oppression of Hu Jingyi, and he was hesitant whether to raise an army against Yuan, but the Chongqing revolutionaries and the officers and men of the brigade and regiment of the Fifth Division were angry and demanded to raise troops, and Xiong Kewu finally made up his mind to raise troops. On August 4, Xiong Kewu declared independence in Chongqing, an important region where the Second Revolution finally declared independence. The Battle of Sichuan against Yuan was defeated, and at the same time, the entire Second Revolutionary War was completely silent.
Chen Eun Tu Chuan
Subsequently, Yuan Shikai prepared to restore the imperial system, and in view of the opposition of the capitals of Yunnan and Qian, he specially sent his own close deputy chief of staff, Chen Eunuch, to Sichuan in March 1915 as an envoy who would handle Sichuan military affairs and inspectors in Sichuan. Hu Jingyi, on the other hand, was transferred to Beijing and has since lost power.
At the end of May 1915, Chen Washu was sent by Yuan Shikai to lead a mixed brigade of Wu Xiangzhen, Feng Yuxiang, and Li Bingzhi to Chengdu, and later served as a general in Sichuan (the governor was renamed a general). It controlled all the Sichuan Army and the administrative affairs of the whole province.
On May 22, 1916, Chen Announced the Independence of Sichuan and severed ties with Yuan Shikai. On June 6, Yuan Shikai fell ill and died, and the Patriotic War ended, chen eunuch was forced by the Sichuan army and the people of Sichuan to stay in office, so he had to lead his troops out of Sichuan, and Cai Yi became the governor of Sichuan and the chief of civil affairs. Soon, Cai Yi went to Japan for treatment due to illness, and Luo Peijin, chief of the general staff of the Izukawa-Dian Army, was appointed as the governor of Sichuan, and Dai Jie, commander-in-chief of the Izukawa Qianjun Army, was made the governor of Sichuan Province. In this way, Sichuan fell under the control of the Warlords of Yunnan and Qian.
Liu Cunhou chaochuan
In the winter of 1916, Luo Peijin held a dispatch meeting to reduce the Sichuan Army, which provoked the commanders of the Five Divisions of the Sichuan Army to jointly file a telegram and complain. In March 1917, Luo Peijin disbanded the Fourth Division of the Sichuan Army by force, and the general of the Sichuan Army was deeply troubled by himself, and liu Cunhou, the commander of the Second Division, took the opportunity to contact all the departments of the Sichuan Army to conspire to drive Luo. On April 18, 1917, Liu Cunhou led his troops to besiege the Luo Peijin Department stationed in the imperial city of Chengdu, and the Battle of Liu Luo broke out. On April 24, Luo Peijin was defeated and withdrew from Chengdu, and the Beijing government removed Luo Peijin from his post as governor of Sichuan and temporarily replaced him by Dai Jie. Immediately after that, the Battle of Liu Dai between Liu Cunhou and Dai Jian broke out, and as a result, the Qian army was driven out of Chengdu and annihilated, and Dai Jie was killed. In July 1917, the Beijing government appointed Zhou Daogang as the governor of Sichuan.
Shortly after Zhou Dao had just become the governor of Sichuan, the Yunnan warlord Tang Jiyao, in the name of protecting the Fa, launched the Jingguo War in Sichuan and led the combined forces of Yunnan and Qian to attack Sichuan. On December 3, the Sichuan Investigation Office caused Wu Guangxin to withdraw from Chongqing in defeat, and Zhou Daogang led the remnants to defeat Yongchuan and Zizhong, and has since been separated from the military. On December 8, the Beiyang government appointed Liu Cunhou as the governor of Sichuan, and on February 20, 1918, the Sichuan-Dianqian Jingguo coalition army invaded Chengdu, and Liu Cunhou and other troops retreated to the Hanzhong region of southern Shaanxi. The armament system is declining day by day.
Xiong Kewu period
On February 25, 1918, Tang Jiyao appointed Xiong Kewu as the governor and governor of Sichuan. Zhao was newly appointed to the Sichuan Military Affairs Council, Wang Wenhua was appointed as the town guard envoy of Chongqing, Gu Pinzhen was appointed as the town guard envoy of Xulu Town, Ye Quan was appointed as the guard envoy of The Town of Kuiwan, and Xiong Kewu did not have much real power. In order to firmly control Sichuan and further expand to Shaanxi and Hubei, Tang Jiyao, in September 1918, as the commander-in-chief of the Jingguo Coalition Army of the Five Provinces, held a coalition conference in Chongqing and threw out a "Plan for the Alliance of The Three Provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Qian". Xiong Kewu felt that this alliance letter was actually "dead river", and refused to sign it.
Between 1918 and 1919, the Kuomintang forces led by Xiong Kewu and Yang Shukan were in charge of Sichuan. However, the Kuomintang forces in Sichuan split into two factions, the "Nine-Man Regiment" and the "Industrial League." The two factions continued to rub and fight, and finally the Battle of the Bear Broke out, and the industrial group was expelled from Sichuan after a defeat.
The Nine-Man Regiment refers to the faction within the Sichuan Kuomintang headed by Xiong Kewu. The members include Xiong Kewu, Dan Maoxin, Li Weiru, Yu Peidi, Yu Jitang, Zhang Chong, Wu Bingjun, Liu Guanglie, Long Guang and nine others
The industrial group refers to the faction within the Sichuan Kuomintang headed by Xie Zhi. The members of the industrial group are mainly from the students of the Sichuan Higher School and the Tong Provincial Normal School in the League, as well as the members of the Sichuan Education League. The backbone figures are Xie Zhi, Zhang Peijue, Xia Shishi, Yan Deji, Huang Fusheng, Lu Shidi and so on.
The rise of the accelerated system
The Sichuan Accelerated System refers to the faction of the Sichuan Army that is mainly formed by soldiers from the Sichuan Army Accelerated School, and the backbone figures are Liu Xiang, Yang Sen, Tang Shizun, Pan Wenhua, Wang Yixu, Zhang Sixe, Xu Xiaogang, Wang Lingji, Qiao Yifu, Fu Chang, Xian Ying, and so on. At that time, the Wubei department had already been expelled from Sichuan with Liu Cunhou, and although liu Chengxun, the commander of the Third Army, was a wubei student, he did not use the wubei department but used the name of the Third Army to call on him. The Baoding Department and the Officer Department (both introduced later) have not yet formed a powerful force, and the only one that can compete with the Accelerated Department is Xiong Kewu's Nine-Man Regiment.
After the expulsion of Liu Cunhou, in June 1921, the generals of the Sichuan Army held an aftermath conference in Chongqing. At this meeting, Liu Xiang was elected commander-in-chief of the Sichuan armies. On June 24, Liu Xiang was elected governor of Sichuan Province by the Sichuan Provincial Assembly and the generals of the Sichuan Army. The commander of the Second Army was represented by Janssen. At this time, the Second Army had three divisions, four mixed brigades, and two independent brigades, and its strength was comparable to Xiong Kewu's.
Liu Chengxun briefly took charge
After the Battle of the First and Second Armies, Liu Chengxun, commander-in-chief of the Third Army, commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Army and governor of the province, presided over the military and political affairs of Sichuan. In October 1922, Liu Chengxun presided over the aftermath conference in Chengdu. Deng Xihou, commander of the Third Division, and Chen Guodong, commander of the Seventh Division, claimed their merits and demanded to be promoted to commander. In order to consolidate their existing forces, Liu Chengxun, Dan Maoxin, and Lai Xinhui, commander of the Sichuan Border Defense Army, did not want others to promote military commanders and compete with themselves, and proposed at the meeting a plan for abolishing the military chief system and reducing troops in stages. Deng Xihou, Chen Guodong, and Tian Songyao, commander of the Twenty-first Division, vigorously opposed it, but because there were many soldiers in the first, third, and border troops, they were approved, so that the two sides formed a vendetta.
The Battle of Sichuan
At this time, in order to unify China by force, the warlord Wu Peifu took the opportunity to mobilize the troops of the five provinces of Zhi, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, and Gansu to form a sichuan aid army, with Zhao Ronghua as the commander-in-chief, supporting Yang Sen to return to Sichuan, and Deng Xihou, Chen Guodong, Tian Songyao, Liu Cunhou and other Sichuan troops echoed, supported Liu Xiang out of the mountains, and elected him as the sichuan aftermath supervisor. In April 1923, Sun Yat-sen returned to Guangdong to resume his tenure as Grand Marshal and beged for thieves. Sun Yat-sen persuaded Xiong Kewu to join forces with the Sichuan Kuomintang Industrial Group to seek revenge on thieves, and both sides agreed. In June, Sun Yat-sen appointed Xiong Kewu as commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Thief Army, Liu Chengxun as commander-in-chief and governor of the Sichuan Army, and Lai Xinhui as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, commanding the first, third, and border armies with Shi Qingyang, Lü Chao, and Yan Deji. Yunnan Tang Jiyao and Guizhou Liu Xianshi also sent troops into Sichuan to help bears and thieves, forming a great war between the north and the south.
On January 27, 1924, Yang Sen surprised his troops and directly attacked the general headquarters of Xiong Kewu in Santai County, and Xiong Kewu escaped from the city. On February 2, Yang Sen and Liu Xiang besieged Chengdu. On 9 February, Chengdu was breached, and Liu Chengxun led the remnants to retreat to southern Sichuan and the Kangding region. Liu Xiang and Yuan Zuming led their troops to pursue the remnants of Xiong Kewu. In March, Xiong Kewu led the remnants of the Sichuan Thief Army to leave Sichuan and enter Guizhou, and went to Guangzhou. Since then, the First Army's power in Sichuan has collapsed. Sun Yat-sen's Battle for Thieves in Sichuan also failed. In May, the Beijing government appointed Yang Sen as the military governor of Sichuan, Deng Xihou as the governor of Sichuan, Liu Cunhou as the border defense inspector of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and Liu Xiang as the border defense inspector of Sichuan and Yunnan.
Unification of Liu Xiang
After the Battle of the Thieves, Yang Sen was appointed military governor of Sichuan and had great power. As a result, the accelerated system was split into two systems: Liu Xiang's Old Second Army and Yang Sen's New Second Army. As for Yang Sen's later superiority, Liu Xiang was quiet on the surface, but secretly contacted Liu Chengxun, Liu Wenhui, Lai Xinhui, etc., to form an anti-Yang alliance of "three Liu and one Lai", and plotted against Yang Sen's king, Mu Xu and other departments. In March, Liu Xiang and others jointly called the Duan Qirui government and asked yang sen to be transferred to Beijing. Yang Sen decided to launch a war of unification and unify Sichuan by force.
On September 4, Yang Sen was forced to send a telegram to hand over his troops to Liu Xiang and lead his disabled troops to Yibin. On September 9, Yang Sen ambushed and killed Li Shuxun, the commander of the Third Army, who had forced him to surrender his military power, and then fled to Hengjiang and Wanxian. On November 1, Yang Sen took a boat to Hankou from Fengjie and then surrendered to Wu Peifu.
Sichuan army yizhi
After the Battle of Yuan, Yang Sen controlled the eastern counties of Xiachuan, and his power was comparable to That of Liu Xiang, and they both sought to eat each other, and then dominated the whole of Sichuan. However, the development of the political situation throughout the country forced the generals of the Sichuan Army to make a choice about how to protect themselves. In June 1926, the National Revolutionary Army in Guangzhou sent its division to the Northern Expedition, penetrated deep into Hunan, conquered Changsha and Yueyang, and pointed directly at Wuhan and shook Sichuan Province. Intimidated by the power of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the Sichuan warlords also speculated on the revolution and sent representatives to contact the Northern Expeditionary Army. On August 13, Liu Xiang, Lai Xinhui, Liu Chengxun, and Liu Wenhui jointly sent a telegram against Wu Peifu. Despite this, the various units of the Sichuan Army still sat at both ends of the rat and sat and watched the changes in time. At that time, in order to prevent the Sichuan Army from assisting Wu Peifu, the Northern Expeditionary Army sent Zhu De and Chen Yi, members of the Sichuan Communist Party, to yangsen to do work. In early September, Liu Bocheng, one of the leaders of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and a former sichuan general, led the Lushun uprising and forced the Sichuan army to change banners by force. In October, the Northern Expeditionary Army conquered Wuhan, and the sichuan warlords saw the trend of the times and expressed their obedience to the Nationalist government. In November, the Guangdong National Government appointed Yang Sen, Liu Xiang, Lai Xinhui, Liu Chengxun and Liu Wenhui as commanders of the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th Armies of the National Revolutionary Army. In December, Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao were appointed as commanders of the 28th and 29th Armies. At this point, all the Sichuan army changed its banner (Liu Cunhou was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the newly organized 15th Division) in July 1929, and instead hung the red flag of the blue sky and the white sun, which came under the jurisdiction of the Nationalist government.
Liu Xiang failed
After the end of the Second Liu War, Liu Xiang was sworn in as the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan "suppression of bandits" in Chengdu, and at the behest of Chiang Kai-shek, he successively dealt with the Red Fourth Front army and the Central Red Army that entered Sichuan. In October, Liu Xiang organized the various armies in Sichuan into six roads, with Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao, Li Jiayu, Yang Sen, Wang Lingji, and Liu Cunhou as the commanders of the first to sixth roads.
In the sichuan army downsizing point test, Liu Xiang's twenty-first, twenty-third, and forty-fourth armies, a total of ninety-six regiments, were reduced to sixty regiments, but Liu Xiang incorporated the rest of the troops into the provincial government security forces and changed them into twenty-four security regiments, and their strength was weakened very little.
The day after the Outbreak of the Qiqilugou Bridge Incident, Liu Xiang sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek asking him to resist the war. At the same time, the whole country was electrified and called for unanimous resistance against Japan. On August 7, Liu Xiang flew to Nanjing to attend the National Defense Conference and vigorously advocated the War of Resistance. He said: "In the War of Resistance, Sichuan can send 300,000 troops, supply 5 million Zhuangding, and supply 10,000 stones of grain. "After returning to Chengdu, according to the arrangements of the Nanjing government, Jiang appointed Liu Xiang as the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Theater, and organized the Sichuan Army into two groups of the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Army, Deng Xihou, commander-in-chief of the Twenty-second Group Army, and Sun Zhen, deputy commander of the Twenty-first, Forty-fifth, and Forty-seventh Armies, and liu Xiang himself as the commander-in-chief of the Twenty-third Group Army. Jiang Xian transferred the Twenty-second Group Army from northern Sichuan to Shanxi and assigned it to the Yan Xishan Theater of World War II, and when the Twenty-Three Groups from the Sichuan River arrived in Hankou, Jiang assigned it to the First Theater of Operations and defended the outskirts of Nanjing. When Liu Xiang arrived in Nanjing, where was the defense zone of his Seventh Theater, the task was not known, the Sichuan army under his command was completely gone, Liu Xiang completely lost control of the Sichuan army, and soon fell ill and died.
Politics in Kawachu
The War of Resistance begins
After the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Xiang went out with an illness, and Sichuan was handed over to wang Yixu, commander of the Forty-fourth Army. In January 1938, after Liu Xiang died of illness in Hankou, Wang Yixu wanted to inherit Liu Xiang's military and political positions and actively carried out activities. Chiang Kai-shek planned to take over the post of Military and Political Officer of Sichuan as Zhang Qun, the director of the Chongqing camp, but was worried that the remaining soldiers in Sichuan would be dissatisfied. Later, Chiang Kai-shek listened to the suggestion of He Guoguang, chief of staff of the Chongqing camp, and let Wang Miaoxu, who was actually not popular, take over so that he could be replaced at any time. In March, Wang was promoted to commander-in-chief of the 29th Army. In April, he acted as chairman of Sichuan Province. In order to further control the political situation in Sichuan, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Deng Xihou as deputy director of the Chongqing Camp and director of the Sichuan Kang Appeasement Office in February of the same year. Soon, Deng Xihou returned to Sichuan from the front to preside over the military affairs of Chuankang.
Wang Yixuzhi was talented and had little prestige, and soon after becoming the chairman of the province, he forced Zhang Lan, a senior adviser of the provincial government, away. He used the rectification of the bureaucracy and finances, the appointment of cronies, and the exclusion of dissidents, which made not only Liu Wenhui and Deng Xihou's Baoding soldiers oppose him, but even Liu Xiang's soldiers who quickly became a family member were dissatisfied with him. In July 1938, Deng Xihou, Pan Wenhua, Wang Yixu, and Liu Wenhui, chairman of Xikang Province, secretly signed a pact of political, military, and economic cooperation between the three provinces of Sichuan, Kang, and Yunnan in Chengdu, with a view to supporting each other and resisting Chiang Kai-shek's slaughter. Afterwards, Wang Miaoxu made a comprehensive report to Chiang Kai-shek, which made Deng, Pan, and Liu hate him to the bone, so he instigated the Chuankang soldiers to oppose Wang Miaoxu. On August 10, 1939, Deng Xihou and others instructed Chuan Kang Peng Huanzhang, Chen Lanting, Liu Shucheng, Zhou Chenghu, Xie Dekan, Yang Xiexuan, and Liu Yuanyao to overthrow Wang, and sent a telegram listing Wang Miaoxu's ten major crimes. At the same time, the army was mobilized to force the provincial capital. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chiang Kai-shek, on the pretext of calming down the situation, persuaded Wang Miaoxu to lead his troops out of Sichuan to resist Japan and become the chairman of Sichuan Province. In 1940, Chiang Kai-shek handed over the post of provincial chairman to Zhang Qun (who was also the director of chengdu xingyuan). Zhang Qun's rule over Sichuan meant that Sichuan's government affairs were completely controlled by Chiang Kai-shek's central government. The only generals of the Sichuan Army who remained in Sichuan and had a certain amount of real power were Deng Xihou. Deng Xihou became the number one figure in the military circles in Sichuan and was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the director of the Chuankang Appeasement Office.
After Deng Xihou returned to Sichuan from the anti-Japanese front, Deng organized the first division and two brigades of the Forty-fifth Army left in Sichuan into the Ninety-fifth Army, with Huang Yin as its commander. In addition to instigating the commander of the Seventh Division of Chuan Kang to expel Wang Miaoxu, all subordinates of the concubine and non-concubine clans could be treated with the four words he said, "gong, sincerity, harmony, and faith", thus greatly enhancing their prestige. For the sake of the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese Resistance, he also often reconciled the contradictions between the Kuomintang central government and the Chuankang region and the local powerful factions. In addition, they have made positive contributions in mobilizing Sichuan's military and civilians to support the War of Resistance and to winning the assistance of the United States and India to Sichuan.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, on May 5, 1946, the Nationalist Government officially announced that it would return the capital from Chongqing to Nanjing. Deng Xihou continued to serve as the director of the Chuankang Appeasement Office. In the spring of 1948, Chiang Kai-shek abolished the Chuankang Appeasement Office, and Deng Xihou became the chairman of Sichuan Province, and the power to unify the army was greatly weakened. Soon, Chiang Kai-shek asked Deng Xihou to transfer 100,000 stones of military food from Sichuan and to recruit 120,000 Zhuangding to reinforce Hu Zongnan in the civil war. Deng Xihou was dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's harsh recruitment, and was worried about causing a situation in which officials forced the people to rebel, so he politely refused. Chiang Kai-shek was very angry, and coupled with Deng Xihou's ineffective handling of the student movement, he forced Deng Xihou to resign and "recuperate from illness." In April, Chiang Kai-shek made wang lingji, another of his closest generals in the Sichuan Army, chairman of Sichuan Province.
The sichuan army generals, who were as determined as Wang Lingji to fight for Chiang Kai-shek's life, included Yang Sen, mayor of Chongqing Municipality and commander of the garrison, Sun Zhen, deputy director of Chongqing Appeasement and director of appeasement in the Sichuan-Hubei Border Region, and Wang Yixu and Tang Shizun. After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the armies of the former Twenty-second Group Army were assigned to the command of Sun Zhen and fought in the Central Plains Battlefield, handed over to his nephew Sun Yuanliang before the Battle of Huaihai, and was eventually annihilated in Huaihai. At the same time, Wang Lingji's old army, the 72nd Army, and Wang Miaoxu's 44th Army were also destroyed. Yang Sen's 20th Army was handed over to his nephew Yang Hanyu, who was killed in battle. Liu Xiang and Tang Shizun's old 21st Army withdrew to Taiwan after the Battle of Shanghai.
In April 1949, Chiang Kai-shek changed the Southwest Appeasement Office into the Southwest Military and Political Governor's Office, with Zhang Qun as the chief. In order to win over the generals of the Sichuan Army, he successively issued Deng Xihou, Pan Wenhua, Yang Sen, Wang Miaoxu, and Tang Shizun as deputy commanders. Deng Xihou and Pan Wenhua did not have any real power, they saw that the final collapse of the Kuomintang rule was just around the corner, and they were not willing to be martyred for the Chiang Kai-shek clique; they and Liu Wenhui, chairman of Xikang Province and commander of the Twenty-fourth Army, received telegrams from zhou Enlai and others from the CCP, hoping that Liu, Deng, Pan and other Sichuan generals would lead an uprising. In addition, the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, the Democratic League, and the former Sichuan Army generals Xiong Kewu, Dan Maoxin, Lü Chao, Zhong Tiqian, Xian Ying, and others all gathered their old ministries in Sichuan to do counter-offensive work. Liu, Deng, and Pan were determined to follow the path of the uprising, and the three of them often met in secret to discuss the preparations for the uprising.
On December 9, Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, and Pan Wenhua jointly sent a telegram of uprising at Longxing Temple in Pengxian County, announcing their independence from the Kuomintang regime and accepting the leadership of the Central People's Government. The generals of the Sichuan Army who participated in the Pengxian uprising also included Tian Songyao, a general senator of the Military Senate of the National Government and one of the leaders of the Baoding department of the former Sichuan Army; Huang Yin, commander of the Ninety-fifth Army; Chen Lanting, deputy director of the Appeasement of the Sichuan-Xiang'e Border Region; and Deng Hanxiang, director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Finance and chairman of the Provincial Bank. Fan Shaozeng, commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Advance Army, also electrified an uprising in Quxian County in the same month. Chengdu Leng Yindong also announced an uprising. Fan Shaozeng, who has more than thirty aunts and wives, quit smoking and greeted liberation in his hometown, and the TV series "Silly Master" was written based on him.
Wang Miaoxu, deputy commander of the Southwest Military and Political Governor's Office and commander-in-chief of the First Guerrilla Crackdown in the Southwest, was forced by the situation to lead his troops to revolt in Chengdu on December 14. However, after the uprising, Wang Miaoxu himself refused to participate in the work arranged by the people's government by the word "old age". In 1957, Wang Washuxu sneaked to Shenzhen to attempt to cross the border, was arrested and imprisoned, and died of illness in prison in 1960, the most disgraceful of the generals of the Sichuan Army Uprising.
Tang Shizun, deputy chief of the Southwest Military and Political Governor's Office and commander-in-chief of the Southwest Guerrilla Second Road Bandit Suppression, had already retired from the army to run the Nanlin Academy in Chongqing, and was the most unwilling to be lonely, so he went to Xichang to ask Jiang for an empty title of chairman of Sichuan Province (at that time the whole territory of Sichuan had been basically liberated), saying that "It is better to be Wen Tianxiang than to be a general, as a Sichuanese, he will die in Sichuan", and as a result, he was killed in 1950. Wang Lingji, chairman of Sichuan Province and commander of the provincial security, after failing to resist stubbornly, fled in disguise as a military doctor on December 25, passing through Leshan and Yibin, and was arrested when he reached Jiang'an, becoming the highest-ranking Kuomintang war criminal (chairman of the provincial general). On December 28, 1964, he was granted an amnesty by the people's government. He died in Beijing on March 17, 1967.
Fled to Taiwan
The only senior generals of the Sichuan Army who were able to flee to Taiwan were Liu Cunhou, Yang Sen, and Sun Zhen. All three held idle posts such as national policy advisers to Taiwan's Presidential Office. Liu Cunhou died of illness in June 1960. Janssen died on 17 May 1977. Sun Zhen died on September 9, 1985. With the complete defeat of the Kuomintang in Chinese mainland, the history of the Sichuan warlords also came to an end.
Repeated defeats
When the Sichuan army left Sichuan, all walks of life generally believed that it was the "worst army" in China at that time, with insufficient equipment, lack of ammunition, supplies and medical equipment, and when fighting in Shanxi in winter, soldiers wore straw shoes on their feet. However, it was such a unit that made countless of the most arduous and tragic sacrifices in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and made great contributions to the cause of national independence of the Chinese nation. The Yang Sen Department of the 20th Army, which was notorious in the civil war, was the first Sichuan Army to spend the Sichuan War of Resistance in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; starting from the Battle of Songhu, it was the backbone corps of the Three Battles of Changsha, and the Kato Brigade of the Ninth Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army was completely annihilated in the Battle of Zhuyingshan in the Third Battle of Changsha. The 26th Division of the Sichuan Army, which participated in the Battle of Songhu, was one of the five divisions with the best record, with more than 4,000 officers and men in the division, and only more than 600 people remained when they withdrew from the battlefield, with more than 85% casualties. In the defense of Nanjing, the Twenty-first Army of the Sichuan Army defended the southern front, of which the 145th Division defended Guangde, and under the siege of the superior enemy, the position was lost, and the division commander Rao Guohua resolutely led the remaining battalion of troops to rush into the enemy position in an attempt to restore the position. Guo Xunqi, commander of the 144th Division, was also seriously wounded in the battle. At the end of 37, the Twenty-second Group was incorporated into the Li Zongren Miscellaneous Military Theater and participated in the Battle of Taierzhuang, and Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 12nd And 2nd Division, was ordered to garrison Tengxian County. After the martyrdom of Commander Wang, the officers and men of the army resisted house by house, fighting to the last person, and the wounded soldiers in the city did not want to be prisoners, and they died with grenades and the enemy who rushed in. In the Battle of Tengxian, almost all of the more than 5,000 people of the 122nd Division suffered casualties. Chen Libu, one of the three divisions deployed in the Jiehe and Longshan belts north of Tengxian County, also suffered 4,000 or 5,000 casualties. There are wins and losses in wars, but there is no shame in them. The 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army, under the leadership of Wang Mingzhang, died in Tengxian County. In a strictly military sense, it should have been a fiasco, because the sacrifice of 3,000 people was exchanged for only 66 Casualties of the Japanese Army. But in the eyes of all kinds of public opinion, the Sichuan Army has won respect. It was the great sacrifice of the Sichuan army that won the victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang, and Li Zongren once said with tears: "The Sichuan army, with its outnumbered enemies, did not hesitate to make major sacrifices, blocked the enemy from going south, completed the combat task, and wrote it into the most glorious one in the history of the Sichuan army." "Li Jiayu's Forty-seventh Army, which fought in southeastern Jin for a long time, was later organized into the Thirty-Sixteenth Group Army, stationed in Henan, and in the Battle of Yuzhong, the command of the Kuomintang upper echelons was ineffective, the various units in western Henan were transferred in chaos, and the Thirty-Sixteenth Group Army was ordered to serve as a cover because it was a miscellaneous card, and on the way to the transfer, the direct subordinate unit of the headquarters unfortunately encountered the Japanese interspersed detachment, and the commander-in-chief Li Jiayu was shot and killed on the spot, becoming one of the highest-ranking generals of the Sichuan Army who was martyred in the War of Resistance. Strictly speaking, the Sichuan Army during the War of Resistance was not strictly a regular unit of the Chinese army, but a local warlord armed force. Neither the equipment and military quality of the troops nor the treatment of the troops can be compared with the Kuomintang Central Army. However, in the War of Resistance Against Japan, this unit exchanged its fearless sacrifice for the reputation of "the Sichuan army can fight" and "no river can not become an army".
In 1926, the Sichuan Army was composed:
16th Division of the Chinese Army: Wang Zhanxu (1885-1957). He joined the uprising in 1949 and was arrested in 1957 for attempting to flee to Hong Kong. In September 1925, Wang Washuxu was appointed division commander.
20th Division of the Chinese Army: Tian Songyao (1888-1975). In December 1920, Tian Songyao was appointed commander of the 20th Division.
21st Division of the Chinese Army: Liu Cunhou (1885-1960). In January 1918, Liu Cunhou was appointed commander of the 21st Division.
30th Division of the Chinese Army: Deng Xihou (1889-1964). The 3rd Division of the Former Sichuan Army was formed in September 1923.
Chinese Army 31st Division: Liu Wenhui (1895-1976). The 7th Division of the Former Sichuan Army was formed in September 1923.
32nd Division of the Chinese Army: Tang Shizun (1885-1950). He was killed in Kawanishi. The 2nd Division of the Former Sichuan Army was formed in September 1923.
Chinese Army 33rd Division: Pan Wenhua (1886-1950). He joined the uprising in 1949. The 4th Division of the Former Sichuan Army was formed in September 1923.
1st Division of Sichuan Army: Lü Luming.
2nd Division of Sichuan Army: Li Yacai.
3rd Division of the Sichuan Army: Wang Lingji (1883-1967). Captured in December 1949.
Sichuan Army 4th Division: Luo Wei.
Sichuan Army 5th Division: He Guanglie.
Sichuan Army 7th Division: Feng Dezhai.
Sichuan Army 8th Division: Yang Qiwen.
Sichuan Army 9th Division: Fei Dongming.
Sichuan Army 10th Division: Xian Ying.
11th Division of the Sichuan Army: Luo Zezhou (1888-1950). In 1927, it was changed to the 23rd Division, and in 1928 it was defeated by Liu Wenhui.
In 1932, the old division was reorganized into the new 23rd Division. It was eliminated by the Red Army in 1934.
Sichuan Army 12th Division: Leng Fu Nan.
13th Division of the Sichuan Army: Wang Mingzhang (1893-1938).
14th Division of the Sichuan Army: Zhu Jiazong.
Sichuan Army 15th Division: Yang Chunfang.
Sichuan Army 16th Division: Lan Wenbin.
Sichuan Army 17th Division: Liao Weiyuan.
18th Division of sichuan army: Gong Bokai.
A number of mixed brigades.
In October 1926, the Nationalist government began to absorb the various units of the Sichuan Army and gave them the titles of 5 armies.
20th Army: Janssen (1884-1977). In August 1922, he was defeated by Liu Chengxun and retired to Yichang. Janssen's division was organized as the 16th Division.
He returned to Sichuan in February 1923. In August 1925, he was defeated by Liu Xiang and fled to the east.
21st Army: Liu Xiang (1888-1938).
22nd Army: Lai Xinhui (1884-1942).
23rd Army: Liu Chengxun (1885-1945). In 1924, he was defeated by Xikang. It was annexed by Liu Wenhui in 1927.
24th Army: Liu Wenhui.
In December 1926, it was reorganized into two more armies.
28th Army: Deng Xihou.
29th Army: Tian Songyao. He was dismissed in September 1934. He joined the uprising in December 1949.
At the same time, Liu Bocheng led two brigades of Lai Xinhui's 22nd Army to launch the Luzhou Uprising, which was organized into the New 15th Army by the Nationalist Government in Wuhan, but was soon defeated.
However, the strength of the 22nd Army was greatly damaged, and it was not recognized by the Wuhan government, and it flowed to the area of Youyang and Xiushan.
In May 1927, Janssen's 20th Army went out of Sichuan to attack the Wuhan government, and in July it was defeated.
In May 1927, the Nationalist government in Wuhan appointed Li Jiayu, commander of the Deng Xihou Division of the 28th Army, as the commander of the 22nd Army.
In June 1927, Liu Chengxun's 23rd Army was annexed by Liu Wenhui's 24th Army.
In January 1928, the Nationalist government in Nanjing publicly appointed Guo Rudong (1892-1952, resigned in 1939), the commander of the Yang Sen Division, as the commander of the 20th Army.
However, it was inevitable to go to The post of Janssen, so that the two 20th Armies coexisted.
In May 1930, Lai Xinhui's 22nd Army was reorganized into the New 11th Division and Guo Rudong's 20th Army (given the title of the 26th Division), and Dechuan participated in the Battle of the Central Plains. Never return to Sichuan again.
The new 11th Division was forcibly incorporated by Chen Cheng, and Lai Xinhui became the commander of the light pole. At the same time, Li Jiayu's 22nd Army was reorganized into the new 6th Division.
In May 1933, Liu Cunhou was given the title of 23rd Army. In October, it was defeated by the Red Army and the remnants were reorganized into the New 15th Division. He went to Taiwan in 1949.
In July 1933, the name of Guo Rudong's 20th Army was changed to the 43rd Army.
In January 1935, before the reorganization of the various Sichuan armies:
20th Army: Commander Janssen, 18 regiments
21st Army: Commander Liu Xiang, 125 regiments
23rd Army: Commander Liu Cunhou, 6 regiments, had been defeated by the Red Army.
24th Army: Commander Liu Wenhui, 27 regiments
28th Army: Commander Deng Xihou, 42 regiments
29th Army: Commander Sun Zhen, 24 regiments
New 6th Division: Division Commander Li Jiayu 19 regiments
New 23rd Division: Division Commander Luo Zezhou, 12 regiments, had been routed by the Red Army.
In March 1935, the reorganized Sichuan Army was organized in the following sequence:
20th Army: Commander Yang Sen, organized into three divisions of the 133rd, 134th and 135th, counting 6 brigades and 14 regiments.
21st Army: Commander Tang Shizun, organized into two divisions, the 146th and 147th.
23rd Army: Commander Pan Wenhua, organized into three divisions: 144, 145 and 148.
The 44th Army: Commander Wang Yixu, organized into two divisions, the 149th and 150th, all of which were under the direct command of Liu Xiang. A total of 83 regiments.
24th Army: Commander Liu Wenhui, organized into three divisions of 136, 137 and 138, a total of 16 regiments.
45th Army: Commander Deng Xihou, organized into five divisions of 125, 126, 127, 128 and 131, with a total of 24 regiments. In July 1937, the 131st Division was abolished. The 128th Division was abolished in February 1938.
The 41st Army, commander Sun Zhen, was organized into three divisions, 122, 123, and 124, with a total of 19 regiments.
The 104th Division, with Li Jiayu as the commander of the division, was organized into 3 brigades and 9 regiments, and another independent regiment, a total of 10 regiments.
In July 1937, the War of Resistance broke out. The Sichuan army went out to Fight in Sichuan.
In November 1937, the 71st Army (163rd and 164th Divisions) and the 72nd Army (161st and 162nd Divisions) were given the titles. In February 1938, the 71st Army was changed to the 56th Army as the garrison unit of Kawauchi.
The 72nd Army was abolished, and the two divisions under it were changed to the 67th Army of the Northeast Army and participated in the Battle of Wuhan.
In addition, the 144th Division of the 23rd Army was separately divided into the 50th Army, and the commander of the army, Guo Xunqi (1895-1959).
The 22nd Army: Deng Xihou, under the jurisdiction of the 41st (122nd, 124th Division), 45th (125th, 127th Division), 47th Army (i.e. 104th Division). Rushed to the front line in Shanxi.
The 22nd Group Army: Liu Xiang had jurisdiction over the 21st (146th and 147th Divisions), the 23rd (144th, 145th, and 146th Divisions), and the 43rd Army (i.e., Guo Rudong's 26th Division). Rushed to the front line in Shanghai.
20th Army: Commander Yang Sen (133rd, 134th, 135th Division), alone to the Shanghai front.
26th Division-49th Army
34th Division-72nd Army
20th Army: 133rd, 134th Division. Janssen
21st Army: 145th, 146th, New 7th Division. Liu Xiang
24th Army: 136th, 137th Division. Liu Wenhui
148th Division of the 25th Army. Liu Xiang
41st Army: 104th, 122nd, 124th Divisions. Sun Zhen
44th Army: 150, 162, New 25th Division. Liu Xiang
47th Army: 125th, 127th Division. Deng Xihou
26th Division of the 49th Army.
56th Army: 163rd, 164th Division. Liu Xiang
72nd Army: 34th, New 13th, New 15th Division. Liu Xiang
95th Army: 126th, New 9th Division. Deng Xihou
New 17th Division: Liu Xiang.
The most stubborn of the 20th Army
In late November 1948, the 20th Army was rapidly dispatched to the Jinpu Line (reinforcing the Battle of Huaihai). Bai Chongxi did not want the 20th Army to go. The 20th Army transferred the general battle sequence of The Chinese Central Expedition for more than a year, was able to listen to his command, sold some strength in several anti-people battles in Qishan, Liulin, and Xue Jiaji (Thesis Note: that is, won the battle), and received several commendations (Note: To prove that the battle performance was outstanding). The 20th Army set out for Zhongxiang, and Song Xilian rushed from Jingmen to comfort the whole army on behalf of Bai Chongxi, saying that although it was now separated, I believe there would be a period later. When the troops arrived in Hankou, Bai summoned officers at or above the group level to his headquarters to talk, expressing his reluctance to separate everyone and saying some words of encouragement. Yang Caigan We said: "In recent years, the 20th Army has always been driving here and there, and all it has done is hard work."
In mid-December 1948, the troops drove to Bengbu to relieve the siege of the 12th Corps (Huang Wei), but unexpectedly, just after starting from Bengbu and walking not far in front of the bridge, I saw Hu Lian, deputy commander of the 12th Corps, fleeing in a broken ox cart, and he said to us: "The troops are all gone, don't go." The troops stopped advancing and were stationed in the countryside on both sides of the railway. Subsequently, the 20th Army was transferred to Huaiguan and Mingguang. After the 20th Army arrived in Mingguang, Chiang Kai-shek specially summoned Chongqing Mayor Yang Sen to rush to Mingguang, and Yang Sen concentrated officers and non-commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers to speak for 2 hours at the Mingguang Grand Theater, congratulating everyone on behalf of President Chiang Kai-shek, and then talking about the domestic situation from the international situation and the situation of the 20th Army over the past few years, asking everyone to give their lives for the loyalty of the Yang family and the Chiang family, and playing a deceptive and paralyzing role in officers, especially middle- and higher-ranking officers (Note: Political and ideological work has been done in place).
In early January 1949, the 20th Army transferred chu county from Mingguang to protect the railway. Two divisions dispatched Zhang Baling, Huangnigang, Zilaiqiao, and Bantaji to sweep the Huainan guerrillas. The two divisions met in the ancient city and destroyed the guerrilla granary and related production equipment. After abandoning the Huai River defense line, the 20th Army took the final cover task.
In early March 1949, the 20th Army went to Wuhu and Lugang to serve as the defense of the Yangtze River, and stubbornly opposed the people in the Wuhu area. In mid-April, the troops of the 133rd Division of the 20th Army at Yuxikou on the north bank of Wuhu Lake conducted a day and two nights of anti-people operations against the People's Liberation Army. Not only did it use its existing fortifications to stubbornly oppose the people, causing the People's Liberation Army to suffer a lot of casualties, but it also brought the captured PLA fighters to Wuhu City to march inside.
Why did the 20th Army, when faced with the imminent end of the Chiang family dynasty, still stubbornly oppose the people? Because from my feelings, if the Communist troops once cross the river, they will only have to fight to the end. This is because in the past few years of fighting against the Communist forces, the Communist forces have been damaged; and they have also overestimated their strength, thinking that in many battles of the Communist army, they have not suffered losses, which has encouraged the arrogance of reaction.
On the evening of April 20, the Battle of the River Crossing began. At dawn on the 24th, the troops engaged in an encounter with the PLA not far from Wuhu County, and advanced by means of a fierce blow and a fierce charge, but before they could rush a few miles away, they were blocked by the main plausibus troops of the PLA on both sides of the road, and several regiments took turns to rush to form a position war. By noon, both sides had engaged in artillery battles, and the fighting was more intense. The commander of the army, Yang Caigan, personally came to the front to supervise the battle, and later rushed back several times in a row, and the casualties were relatively large. The PLA encirclement was even closer, and there was no way out at dusk, so they had to lay down their weapons. Yang Caigan was killed in the position (note: it was actually a suicide).
Although the combat effectiveness of the 20th Army is not as good as that of the 7th Army, due to its active participation in the civil war, its achievements not only far exceed those of the Sichuan Army, but also the miscellaneous cards of all roads, even most of the Central Army can not match it.
The 20th Army had 5 major victories in the civil war,
1, the Battle of Tengxian County; one of the four main forces of Huaye was severely damaged, one column.
2, the Battle of Liulin; encircled and destroyed one of Nakano's 10 columns, and the results were brilliant.
3, the Battle of Queshan; the joint operations of Huaye and Nakano were defeated, which curbed the development momentum of the two major field armies.
4, Xue Jiaji fought; again severely damaged Nakano.
5, the battle of Yuxikou and Xiliangshan on the north bank of Wuhu Lake; the delayed 30th Army crossed the river to fight, this battle I know is not detailed, which can be introduced in detail.
In addition, there are some small battles that are well fought, not only because of artillery, but also because of the guns of different levels of the nationalist army. But there are two main reasons, 1, the internal sichuan army, unity is good, closely reported into the regiment, desperately fighting. 2, as mentioned above, ideological and political work is done well, probably learn from the People's Liberation Army.
Not only did Nakano suffer losses, but Huaye also suffered a lot of losses, such as the Battle of Tengxian County, which was one of the four main forces of Huaye, the first battle of the 1st Column in July, 1 Column was strong and strong, and morale was strong, but it was heavily planted under the city of Tengxian, and had to go to the swamp of southwest Lu, a road that Ye Fei would never forget. 1 Indulgent obedience, there is nothing to say. This battle is at least a pamphlet to write, just like the Zhang Fengji I was writing recently, and more than a dozen pages are not enough.
The 20th Army is a strong brigade in Sichuan, and its successive commanders Yang Sen, Yang Hanyu, and Yang Caigan are all famous generals of the Sichuan Army. Although the weapons lagged behind the Central Army, the combat effectiveness was not inferior to that of other armies, otherwise it would not have been fought until 1949. Whether it is a war of resistance or a civil war, it is not ambiguous, and it is often alone. It is rare in the miscellaneous army. However, in chiang kai-shek's civil war of "eliminating dissidents," he was dispatched everywhere, exhausted, suffered heavy casualties and was not effectively replenished, and the situation deteriorated, and eventually it was almost destroyed at the same time as the Kuomintang government in Nanjing, and Yang Gancai, like Huang Botao and other miscellaneous and practical generals, was foolishly loyal to the "party-state" and "killed to become benevolent."
For example, Yang Gancai, like Deng Xihou, Pan Wenhua, and other generals of the Sichuan Army, who has achieved success in the victory of the War of Resistance and retired, waited for the People's Liberation Army to enter Sichuan, peacefully revolted, benefited the country and its reputation, and talked about the beauty of the ages, this is the best policy; if he fights with Wang Mingzhang and Li Jiayu in bloody resistance, sacrifices the battlefield, and is praised by future generations; he must change his heart and face, follow his grandfather Yang Sen to flee Taiwan with gold at the time of the collapse of the "state capital", be a public servant, and do not ask about political affairs, it is also fast!
wretched! lamentable!
After the Battle of Beidao, Li Jiayu withdrew to Yingshan and Peng'an Counties, and was actually dependent on Liu Xiang, and the officer department declined from then on. Deng Xihou lost his liu and Luo troops and their defensive positions, and his power was greatly weakened. However, Liu Wenhui took advantage of the situation to occupy the counties of Lezhi, Anyue, Suining, Tongnan, Pengxi, and Nanchong, and his power increased greatly, and Sichuan presented a situation of confrontation between the two Liu and Sichuan. As the saying goes: "One mountain is difficult to hide two tigers", although the two Liu are singing "unifying Sichuan government", but they do not give in to each other. In the summer of 1931, the two Liu negotiated cooperation, but to no avail. At that time, there were only three ways out in front of them: one was for one side to take the lead in power and the other was to be the deputy; the second was for one side to develop outside the direction, and the other side was to sit in Sichuan; and the third was to meet each other with soldiers and fight each other, and the winner was the king. As a result of the negotiations, there is only a third way to go, and both sides are fiercely fighting and dispatching troops and generals, preparing to see the high and low on the battlefield.
In the spring and summer of 1932, Liu Xiang, who had begun to show the hint of "King of Sichuan", received the support of Chiang Kai-shek and drew up a "Anchuan" plan to attack Liu Wenhui. Liu Xiang's political tactics were indeed clever, almost comparable to those of the old Chiang Kai-shek. While winning the trust of Chiang Kai-shek, he tried his best to win over and bribe the generals of the Sichuan Army and strengthen his own camp. Liu Xiang also took advantage of the contradiction between Liu Wenhui and Tian Songyao to win Tian Songyao against Liu Wenhui. He then stepped up contact with Deng Xihou, causing Tian Songyao and Deng Xihou to be willing to side with Liu Xiang, and the Baoding clan split. When everything was ready, Liu Xiang had made up his mind to start a war against Liu Wenhui. And Liu Wenhui has no choice but to actively respond. In October 1932, the Erliu War broke out. This was the largest warlord melee in Sichuan's history, with a front that stretched for more than a thousand miles, and the wars raged in northern Sichuan, western Sichuan, and southern Sichuan for more than a year, and Sichuan's warlords Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao, Yang Sen, Liu Cunhou, Li Jiayu, and Luo Zezhou were all involved. The two sides invested about 300,000 troops, more than 60,000 deaths, and cost 50 million yuan, and the tragic situation of the people of Sichuan can be imagined. After nearly a year of brutal competition, in September 1933, the two armies made peace, and Liu Xiang, who had already won a great victory, was quite benevolent and righteous, and agreed to assign Ya'an, Xingjing, Tianquan, Lushan, Baoxing, Mingshan, Hongya and other counties to his uncle Liu Wenhui, who was 5 years younger, so that Liu Wenhui, who had already gone, could finally take a corner of Anxikang and have a foothold. Liu Xiang, on the other hand, occupied more than 80 counties in the eastern, southern, and western Sichuan regions, and the army expanded to more than 100,000 people, ascending to the throne of Sichuan's hegemony, laying the foundation for the unification of the whole sichuan. At this point, the Erliu War was over, and the seventeen-year-long Sichuan warlord melee also ended.