Although he became the deputy commander of the Southwest Military Region, Li Qiufan has not intervened in the military region's decision-making and has always stayed in Yunnan.
During this period, Li Qiufan was mainly responsible for the affairs of the army. Although no combat missions were assigned, the soldiers had to practice.
Especially in the southwest region, Li Qiufan mainly trained the troops' mountain combat capabilities.
Moreover, when he destroyed the Eighth and Twenty-sixth National Army, Li Qiufan captured a lot of good things.
At the beginning, these two armies gathered many troops who fled, and these troops who fled to Yunnan also brought a lot of good things with them.
These include seven M5 Stuart light tanks and five Type 97 medium tanks.
The five Type 97 Chinese tanks were once the equipment of the Japanese. Although their performance was lagging behind American tanks, Li Qiufan and the others were not rich enough to be picky about them.
In addition to the existing eighteen tanks in the armored division, Li Qiufan now has thirty tanks. The original tank company has also been expanded into a tank battalion by Li Qiufan.
In this way, the armored division has two heavy artillery brigades, an anti-aircraft artillery regiment, plus a tank battalion, as well as special units such as engineer reconnaissance.
However, within a few months of a stable life, another big thing happened.
On this day, Li Qiufan was studying the army's training plan in the headquarters, and suddenly Zhao Gang ran in from outside in a hurry.
"Qiu Fan, something big happened!"
After Zhao Gang entered the door, he came directly to Li Qiufan, and then said to him seriously.
"What happened?"
Li Qiufan looked at Zhao Gang with some confusion, wondering what big thing had happened.
"There's a fight on the peninsula, and I heard that the beautiful country is also involved!"
Seeing that Li Qiufan still didn't know what happened, Zhao Gang hurriedly explained to him.
"This is what I thought happened."
After hearing that Zhao Gang was talking about the situation on the peninsula, Li Qiufan suddenly realized after thinking about it.
He didn't pay attention to these things during the whole day of training, and since he was now in Yunnan, he didn't need to think about these things.
So Li Qiufan simply forgot about the matter there, and now the time calculated is exactly the time period for the beautiful country to intervene.
"That's it? Aren't you surprised?"
After seeing Li Qiufan's reaction, Zhao Gang was stunned. It was completely different from what he imagined.
"Why are you surprised? I said, Lao Zhao, we are in Yunnan, why are you worrying about the peninsula!"
Li Qiufan shook his head at Zhao Gang helplessly and smiled bitterly. It didn't matter whether they fought over there or not, and the distant water could not save the nearby fire.
"That's right, we are in this southwest, why should we worry about the peninsula?"
After hearing what Li Qiufan said, Zhao Gang felt that it made sense and immediately calmed down.
"That's right. When you have time, you should worry more about people's livelihood issues and don't worry about this mess!"
Seeing that Zhao Gang had calmed down, Li Qiufan smiled and nodded at him.
"Report to the Commander, there is an urgent message from the Military Commission!"
The two had just finished talking about the peninsula when suddenly a correspondent hurried in.
"Run slowly, isn't it just a power outage...where did it come from?!"
After seeing the anxious look on the correspondent's face, Old God Li Qiufan scolded him.
But then he noticed something was wrong. What the correspondent said seemed to be an urgent telegram from the Military Commission.
"Report to Commander, this is from the Military...Military Commission!"
The correspondent also received a telegram from the Military Commission for the first time and stammered to explain to Li Qiufan.
"Bring it quickly!"
After hearing the correspondent's confirmation, Li Qiufan immediately stood up and took the telegram from his hand.
Although Li Qiufan is now the deputy commander of the Southwest Military Region, normally the Military Commission will not give him direct orders, which is somewhat overstepping his rank.
But the Military Commission definitely sent him a telegram, and Li Qiufan guessed that something big was going to happen.
The outcome was not what he expected. The Military Commission ordered Li Qiufan to lead the First Army, Mountain Division and Armored Division to Chongqing, and then take a train north to the northeastern border.
Li Qiufan was stunned after seeing the order. He couldn't figure out why he was asked to run from Yunnan to Northeast China.
"What's going on, Qiu Fan, don't be in a daze!"
Seeing Li Qiufan stunned, Zhao Gang on the side pulled his sleeve curiously.
"Old Zhao, the Military Commission asked me to lead the troops to the Northeast!"
After his sleeves were pulled twice by Zhao Gang, Li Qiufan came back to his senses, then turned his head and said to him.
"What?! Go to the Northeast?!"
Zhao Gang was also stunned. He looked exactly like Li Qiufan just now. He never expected that the Military Commission would ask them to go to the Northeast.
"This...is this true?"
After being stunned for a long time, Zhao Gang asked Li Qiufan in disbelief.
"The order is true, but I can't figure out the reason."
After hearing Zhao Gang's words, Li Qiufan nodded towards him and said.
But he was very curious about the reason why he was asked to go, because Yunnan was too far from the northeast, and there were so many troops in the north that were not needed, so he was transferred there.
What Li Qiufan didn't know was that all this was due to the boss's words, which led to the Military Commission calling him to transfer to the Northeast.
When the new government was established, the boss also rushed over from the northwest.
Then when talking to many senior officials, Li Qiufan's troops were mentioned inadvertently, and he focused on his First Army and Armored Division.
After that, the situation of Li Qiufan's troops was remembered by everyone. It was not until the outbreak of the Peninsula War that the United States intervened, and the Military Commission established the Northeast Border Defense Force to defend the Northeast border and enter the peninsula to participate in the war when necessary.
Facing the enemy of the beautiful country, everyone knows that its weapons and equipment are advanced, and everyone is very afraid of this enemy.
So when the Northeast Frontier Defense Force was established, someone remembered the boss's words and remembered Li Qiufan's troops, and that's when the Military Commission issued an order for them to go north.
However, Li Qiufan didn't know all this. He would never have thought that this happened because of his boss.
Now that the Military Commission's order had reached him, he had to implement it no matter what the reason was. Then Li Qiufan asked Zhao Gang to notify the military cadres to come to Kunming for a meeting.
After receiving Li Qiufan's order, everyone rushed to Kunming from all over Yunnan.
Two days later, everyone arrived in Kunming and stood at the entrance of the headquarters talking about the past.
"What are you doing standing here? Are you here to hold a party for me?"
As soon as Li Qiufan arrived at the entrance of the headquarters from his residence, he saw a market-like scene, and then he shouted at everyone.
After hearing Li Qiufan's voice, the originally lively crowd suddenly fell silent, and then followed him into the headquarters.
