When Chu Zian heard the news that Xichang City had been taken down, he could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. As long as he took down Xichang City, it meant that the area south of Kangding would belong to him.
However, the military pressure he would have to face next would not be small. The strength of a division was definitely insufficient, and he had to continue to expand the army. However, it was not a problem to recruit soldiers in this era. He did not expect these newly recruited soldiers to have strong combat strength, as long as they could defend their territory.
Next, he would not only have to face Liu Wenhui from the back. He would definitely want to take back Xichang City. However, he did not have much scruples about Liu Wenhui. As long as he was given some time, taking down Liu Wenhui would not be a problem.
Liu Xiang would probably make a move as well. This was what he was most concerned about. With the current strength of the Red Police Corps, it was not a big problem to take down the entire territory of Liu Wenhui. However, if Liu Xiang was added, there would be a lot of pressure.
If he had two divisions, he wouldn't have to worry about an additional infantry regiment.
Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui were uncle and nephew. Although they had fought to the death before, they were still family. If Chu Zian wanted to attack Liu Wenhui, how could Liu Xiang sit still? Moreover, it could be seen from history that after Liu Wenhui retreated to Kangding, Liu Xiang did not continue to attack. It was obvious that he still considered this relationship.
The Liu family was a big family in Sichuan. To a certain extent, they even replaced the landlord class in Sichuan. This gave Chu Zian a headache.
Fortunately, the traffic situation in Sichuan was very bad. At present, Chu Zian's territory was not connected to Liu Xiang's department. If Liu Xiang wanted to attack Xichang, he could only go through two places. One was the road from Kangding to Xichang, and the other was the small road from Luzhou to Xichang. Chu Zian only needed to set up defenses in Zhaojue County, which was dozens of kilometers away.
Regardless of whether it was time to consider this problem, the 2nd Regiment had already fought with the two regiments from Panhua. Due to the timely support of the air force, they had already defeated the enemies in this direction and captured many prisoners.
At present, the Second Regiment was approaching Panzhi Hua City quickly. With their speed of about 15 kilometers per hour, they would be able to reach Panzhihua City in 8-9 hours and launch an attack.
In fact, there were quite a lot of troops in Panzhihua City at the moment. This was the border with the Dian Army, but most of them were concentrated in the Yongren County area in the southern part of Panzhi City. As long as Panzhi City was taken down, these people would not pose any threat. Instead, they could be recruited.
The 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment arrived at Panzhihua City that night. However, Panzhi City had no idea about the arrival of the 2nd Regiment. Because the 2nd Regiment was fast enough, the soldiers who escaped were caught on the way. They could not outrun the motorised troops.
At present, Panzhihua City was actually empty. Liu Wenhui himself did not have many troops. In the southern region, there were only six or seven regiments of troops. At present, five of them had been defeated. There were only two regiments of troops at the junction with the Dian Army. Therefore, Panzhi City did not have any defensive forces at the moment.
After the commander of the Second Regiment and First Battalion heard the news, he decisively launched an attack on Panzhihua City. Panzhi City was actually very dilapidated. The western part of Sichuan had not been developed much. It was called an urban area, but its area was actually smaller than the current Yanyuan County.
If it wasn't for the border with the Yunnan Army, Liu Wenhui wouldn't have been able to deploy four regiments of nearly 10,000 soldiers here.
The 1st Battalion had taken over the entire Panzhihua City. They had only exchanged a few small skirmishes with the city defense forces before taking it down.
The 2nd Regiment rested for a night in Panzhi Hua before heading to Yongren County and Yongsheng County. Under the threat of strong firepower, the soldiers of the two regiments surrendered to the 2nd Regiment. Although they did not have the support of the artillery unit directly under the division, the 2nd Regiment had 18 75mm field artillery.
At this time, the advantage of the cannon's lightness was reflected to a large extent. This type of cannon still followed the main force forward, unlike the two 105mm artillery battalions behind, which were still some distance away from Panzhi.
The regimental artillery battalion played a big role at this time. It was precisely because of the deterrence of artillery that they took down these places. At present, Chu Zian's strategy was basically completed. The next step was to clean up the mess.
Liu Wenhui also received the news on the second day after Xichang City fell. He was immediately furious. In his opinion, Chu Zian was just a nameless soldier who suddenly appeared. Now, he actually dared to occupy Xichang City. This was completely to take over the base.
Other than the 1st regiment, he had also mobilized two divisions to move closer to Xichang City. Of course, he wasn't stupid. Since Xichang City had already fallen, the enemy had plenty of time to set up their formation. Therefore, he had the 1st regiment stop moving forward and wait for the main force to follow up. This way, they wouldn't be defeated one by one.
He had mobilized two divisions and his most elite brigade, a total of nearly 30,000 people. This was also the largest force he could bring out at the moment.
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