What is the meaning of Sichuan army?

Sichuan army, for the Republic of China during the Sichuan warlord forces. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government organized the Sichuan New Army to become one of the sources of the Sichuan Army. The Xinhai Revolution overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and the Sichuan warlords arose from it. [1] During the Republic of China, the Sichuan warlords had a long period of melee, since the Xinhai Revolution to 1932, the Sichuan warlords melee **** about 470 times [2]. [3] In the fall of 1933, Liu Wenhui was defeated in Xikang after the battle of two Liu, Liu Xiang became the leader of the Sichuan army. [4]

In more than 20 years of warlords and warlords, the Sichuan army ministries, although the number of people, but discipline is not very good, not strong fighting force, the world called the smoking gun and rifle and have the "double gun soldiers". After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Sichuan army with a poor and weak division in the successive battles, outstanding performance, to give the Japanese invaders with a heavy blow, and become known as the division of iron blood.

During the war, the Sichuan army had 6 group armies and another 2 armies and 1 independent brigade to go out to fight the war, accounting for about 1/5 of the total number of troops in the country to fight the war, and it was the first big local armed forces in addition to the central army, and it took part in almost all the large-scale battles in the war. [5][6] During the Liberation War, on December 9, 1949, the Sichuan army generals Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, and Pan Wenhua issued a general telegram of uprising. Later, Fan Shaozeng, Leng Yindong, and Wang Zisu also declared an uprising. Some of the senior generals of the Sichuan Army, such as Liu Cunhou, Yang Sen and Sun Zhen, fled to Taiwan Province, and the history of the Sichuan Army came to an end.