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The next day after the Japanese retreated to the periphery of Shuozhou, they drove into Shuozhou with a train carrying the first part of the Seventh Army of the New Guangxi and Li Zongren, one of the soul figures of the Guangxi Army, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone.

After learning on the road that the siege of Shuozhou had been lifted, Li Zongren was a little disappointed, but seeing a group of troops in Shanxi and reinforcements mobilized from various places on the map, Li Zongren believed that Shanxi had great potential.

During the training of the Seventh Army in Beiping, Li Zongren met the 17th Army of the Central Army (Li Zongren led another Seventh Army of the Guangxi Army during the Northern Expedition). The advanced equipment and powerful firepower of the reorganized Seventh Army surprised Li Zongren. In the Northern Expedition, Li Zongren also thought he had seen the predecessor of the Seventh Army (now the 25th Division of the 25th Division of the 2nd Division of the 2nd Division of the 2nd Division). Li Zongren, who originally thought that he was on the same starting line, understood that he was behind and the Seventh Army was also behind.

The reorganized 17th Army, which had more than 100,000 people, was equipped with less than 50,000 rifles. What were the remaining people equipped with light and heavy machine guns, various artillery, anti-aircraft cannons, box cannons, submachine guns, and even tanks. This is an iron guy that Li Zongren had never seen in Guangxi.

Although the proportion of rifle-carrying personnel was reduced in moderation after the more than 50,000 people in the Seventh Army had been replaced, 30,000 people were still equipped with rifles. As for heavy artillery and tanks, neither trainers nor road conditions in Shanxi were used.

In Peking, Li Zongren understood that continuing to stay in Guangxi would only fall further and further. In the past, the New Guangxi clique was indeed not a rival to the Central Army, but the gap was not so big. Now, in terms of infantry equipment alone, the Central Army has fallen behind the two streets of the New Guangxi clique, plus the advantages of the Air Force and the Navy (Guangxi is also a province near the sea, so Yan Xishan doesn’t have to be afraid of warships). Li Zongren couldn’t even see any hope for warlords from all over the country after the Central Army.

If it weren't for the external instability, Nanjing would not dare to give up the title of provoking civil war first. I guess the warlords would have been pacified one by one - the principal was ready to complete at least sixty reorganization troops before doing it.

Li Zongren knew that the future of the new Guangxi clique of the Seventh Army of the Steel Seventh Army had a lot to do with whether he could fight this battle here. As a result, the Seventh Army of the Steel Seventh Army was the second 29th Army. Even if it was submitted to the Central Committee in the future, Nanjing would not annex or disband the troops directly because of the title of heroic troops.

When the Seventh Army of the Steel Army wanted to make a name for themselves, they had to start from Shanxi. Shaanxi now mostly concentrated the Central Army and pro-Central Army troops. Even if the Seventh Army of the Steel Army enters Shaanxi, it is not Li Zongren's turn to command the Central Army.

The Guangxi clique originated in Guangxi. Due to historical reasons, the equipment of the Seventh Army was mainly French. Fortunately, the Seventh Army of the Steel was trained and replaced with formal rifles made in Hanyang and some of the Chinese-Chinese rifles. None of the three existing domestic military factories produced French-caliber bullets and shells. Whether it was bought or manufactured by the Seventh Army of the Steel, it would cause logistics chaos.

After the Seventh Army of Steel, Peking directly supplies unified rifle bullets to Shanxi - made in Hanyang, Zhongzheng, Czech Republic, and Maxim heavy machine guns all use one kind of bullet (the current mainstream is the steel core pointed bullet sold by Nanyang military industry).

This benefit is obvious. When the machine gun is completely shot, you just need to ask who has bullets around you. In this regard, the Japanese are a little sad. They only have the general purpose of rifles (38 large covers) and light machine guns (crooked handles). The Type 92 heavy machine gun uses 7.7 bullets.

However, as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone, Li Zongren can now command the Seventh Army under his command. If he wants to fight this battle well in Shanxi, he also needs the cooperation of the principal and Yan Laoxi.

It's okay for the principal to say that Huang Shaoheng, one of the three giants of the New Guangxi clan, became a bridge between the New Guangxi clan and Nanjing after he defected to the Central Committee a few years ago. There is no direct central army in Shanxi now. As long as Yan Xishan is involved, the two of them can control the battle situation in Shanxi.

But although Li Zongren was very familiar with Yan Xishan - these two were formerly generals of the Anti-Chiang Alliance, they knew that Yan Laoxi was not so easy to talk to. For the future of the new Guangxi clique and the future of the Seventh Army of the Steel, Li Zongren invited Zhuge Bai Chongxi to do the ideological work of Yan Xishan.

Speaking of which, Zhuge Bai Chongxi was the deputy chief of staff at the Nanjing General Staff Headquarters. According to his own words, he was a clay bodhisattva. Everyone was polite when they saw Bai Chongxi and offered Bai Chongxi like a Bodhisattva. As for Bai Chongxi's suggestion, it was naturally necessary to consider it. However, the Chief of Staff is Jiang Baili, a senior adviser to the Military Commission. There are more than a dozen people with the title of Deputy Chief of Staff. The degree of attention can be imagined.

Bai Chongxi agreed with Li Zongren's suggestion. Bai Chongxi, who walked out of Guangxi, received only a greater visual impact in Nanjing than Li Zongren. Every day, a new aircraft with blue sky and white sun flags were flying on the head mountain, warships anchored on the Nanjing river, and a new large-caliber artillery in the river defense fortress. Teams of troops were reorganizing training and changing clothes outside Nanjing.

Huang Shaohong mentioned some of the letters to Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren before, but Bai Chongxi and others chose to forget them after reading them. To say that the human brain is actually a very complex structure, which will make a person selectively believe in something, forget something, and not believe in something.

But Bai Chongxi has not yet practiced to the point where his brain can deceive his eyes. What Bai Chongxi is sure of is that in recent years, the Seventh Steel Army of the Steel Army was still the original Seventh Steel Army, but the Central Army is no longer the original Central Army.

So after Huang Shaohong and the principal communicated, Bai Chongxi flew to Taiyuan as the chief of staff of the Second War Zone. The principal did not want Shanxi to be destroyed. The Japanese were happy to weaken the miscellaneous cards, but then again, the miscellaneous cards could be eliminated without the Japanese. If Shanxi was destroyed, it would be in his own hands.

During these two contacts, Li Zongren was not in a hurry to command the vanguards of the Seventh Army of the Steel and Seventh Army to attack the Japanese. First, the Seventh Army of the Steel and Seventh Army had not yet arrived in Shuozhou, and second, the 21st Army formed in Guangxi (the Seventh Army of the Guizhou Army belonged to the 21st Army) was also on the way to Shanxi. In addition, the 22nd Army of the Sichuan Army formed by Deng Xihou's troops was also allocated to the Second War Zone.

The vanguard of the 22nd Army is now crossing the Yellow River, and the vanguard of the vanguard of the 22nd Army has entered Shanxi. Deng Xihou also served as the commander of the 45th Army of the 22nd Army. The 41st Army in Peiping was assigned to the 22nd Army to fight in Jin. In this way, with the 100,000 Jinsui Army and Sun Lianzhong's troops and Sun Liren's troops who had already entered Jin, there were more than 500,000 troops in Shanxi to command. Li Zongren had quite confident that he would lead these more than 500,000 miscellaneous troops to win a battle.
Chapter completed!