"Why are you here?" As soon as he put down his luggage, the door was pushed open, and Zhang Lingfu subconsciously tilted his body and looked at the door. After just one glance, Zhang Lingfu immediately stood up straight like a rabbit that had been hit by an arrow, and saluted the person who came in from outside the door. Coming in from outside the door was Yu Jishi, the commander of the 74th Army, for Zhang Lingfu, who was then the commander of the 153rd Brigade of the 51st Division of the 74th Army, Yu Jishi was his old commander.

"Why can't I come? Could it be that only you, Zhang Zongling, can be like the eyes of the chairman, and I Yu Jishi can't be regarded as a pillar? Yu Jishi was very rare to joke with Zhang Lingfu. While the two were talking, two people who were wearing shirts and military pants as Yu Jishi came in from outside the door, Zhang Lingfu fixed his eyes and saw that it was old acquaintances Dai Anlan and Yu Chengwan who dared to come in, and then laughed and greeted the two.

The four of them chatted in Zhang Lingfu's room for a while, and when they heard the dinner call ringing outside, the four of them immediately walked out of the room and walked towards the canteen. "Junza, what is the purpose of the chairman calling us here this time? Why don't I see that there are any simple people in our yard? When I was brought into the courtyard by the sentry, I also saw Sun Lianzhong of the Second Army. On the way to the cafeteria, Zhang Lingfu whispered to Yu Jishi, and among the four people present, he was the last to arrive, so he had to ask his old chief for news.

"You are also a brigade commander, don't call him by his name Sun Lianzhong's name, people's official rank is much higher than yours, let irrelevant people hear it, and they will only say that our 74th Army people don't understand etiquette." Although Yu Jishi is one year younger than Zhang Lingfu in terms of age, the coercion of the army for many years is not something that Zhang Lingfu can resist.

"Sun Lianzhong was also transferred by the chairman of the committee this time, I heard that he will still be in charge of the army alone this time, I heard that when he came, the chairman of the committee specially set up a family banquet for Sun Lianzhong to see him off." As Yu Chengwan, who is in the first phase of Huangpu, although he is not very good, his news is excellent, there are too many of his acquaintances in the Ministry of Military Affairs, and some gossip has never escaped his ears.

Walking into the canteen, Zhang Lingfu found that it was simply a hodgepodge, many acquaintances in the national army were here, and Zhang Lingfu even saw a lot of Eighth Route Army wearing coarse cloth uniforms in the canteen. "Lao Yu, why are there still CCP people here?" Coming here, Zhang Lingfu had too many questions in his heart, and when he followed Yu Jishi and the others to line up to receive food, Zhang Lingfu glanced at the Eighth Route Army very carefully, and then asked Yu Chengwan behind him in a low voice.

Yu Chengwan followed Zhang Lingfu's gaze and glanced at the officers of the Eighth Route Army in the cafeteria, and then smiled at Zhang Lingfu, "The Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperate, why can't people come here?" Besides, this is not the place of the National Government, this is the territory of the People's Umbrella Company to the Nationalist Government. Before the Japanese invaders were completely driven out, this was a camp rented from the government by the umbrella company, and we could only be regarded as guests of the umbrella company here. ”

This is the first time Zhang Lingfu has heard the name of the umbrella company, and with deep doubts, Zhang Lingfu ate his first meal here. "Stand up." The officer on duty wearing a red armband on his right arm suddenly shouted, and the cafeteria, which was still full of hustle and bustle just now, instantly fell silent, and Zhang Lingfu stood up like everyone else. A group of people came in from outside the cafeteria, and Zhuo Fei was at the front, followed by a team of guards.

"Hello everyone, please sit down." It wasn't until he walked to the small wooden podium on the east side of the cafeteria that Zhuo Fei stopped, and after greeting everyone in the cafeteria, Zhuo Fei motioned for everyone to take their seats. "There are a lot of people here, I think most of you don't know me, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if you recognize me or not, as long as I know you, it's enough." As soon as Zhuo Fei's words fell, some guards took out the roster that everyone had signed in and began to roll call.

The blonde foreigner named him in public in a straight and round Chinese dialect, which might have made everyone laugh if it had been placed elsewhere. But now, they don't think so, because the foreigner will soon be called by their own name. Every time the guards got a name, the corresponding person had to stand up and answer, and Zhuo Fei would also look at each other, the whole process was serious and dull, but the officers at all levels present did not dare to slack off in the slightest. Because the first person to be named was the famous Sun Lianzhong, and Sun Lianzhong just stood up and answered like a small soldier.

"Very well, in just a few minutes, I got to know all of you. Maybe some of you will say that it's not fair, why you already know us and we don't know you. Zhuo Fei said this, and suddenly laughed, "Okay, then I'll introduce myself, so that I, a stranger, can be remembered by you." My name is Zhuo Fei, I am a pure Chinese, this is Ruili, Yunnan, a training camp leased by the umbrella company from the national government, and I, Zhuo Fei, am the owner of the umbrella company. ”

Zhuo Fei's introduction made all the officers present in an uproar, how old can this young man in front of him be, maybe 20 years old, maybe more than 20 years old, but in their opinion, such an age should be the age to stay in the academy and study. Only a small number of people in the cafeteria knew Zhuo Fei's identity in advance, and Sun Lianzhong, the first person to be named, was one of them.

"Okay, now that we have a general understanding of each other, then, let's talk about something that is closely related to you." Zhuo Fei suddenly turned on his face and shouted at the officers in the cafeteria, "I have called you here because you are all famous generals in the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, no matter if you were a military commander, a division commander, a regiment commander or a battalion commander before, when you come here, you have only one identity, that is, students." Within a month from now, Umbrella will organize a group of European instructors to teach you in a targeted manner, and I hope you can cherish this opportunity. ”

Looking around at everyone and seeing that there were no whisperers at the scene, Zhuo Fei nodded with satisfaction and smiled, "The Kuomintang and the Communist Party have joined forces, and this cooperation is not just a literal kind of cooperation, but a thorough and all-round cooperation." Chongqing is about to set up a joint command center between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and our umbrella company will train 120,000 troops with a total of nine divisions in three group armies for the joint command in the first year in the future, and you will become commanders at all levels in these units. ”

Training the new army and accepting the new troops, Zhang Lingfu finally understood why he was transferred to Yunnan by the Ministry of Military Affairs, and before he could think of something deeper, he heard Zhuo Fei continue, "All the weapons and equipment of the new army will be provided by our umbrella company, all Mauser rifles produced by the original German factory, and a full set of German equipment. For some auxiliary armaments, you will be using new equipment and weapons designed and produced by our Umbrella Company. I can tell you responsibly that in the days to come, you will find that you are at the helm of the most well-equipped army in all of Asia. ”

All German armament troops, a full set of German equipment, just this point aroused the interest of Zhang Lingfu and others, and the performance of German armament divisions in the national army in the early stage of the war is obvious to all. The German armament units with a total of nine divisions of the three group armies will be doubly grateful just thinking about it, not to mention that Zhuo Fei, who was standing on the platform, said that it is simply great to equip these troops with such weapons as tanks and armored vehicles.

The selection of the first batch of 30,000 recruits has been completed, and the second batch of recruits is also coming to Ruili, and Zhuo Fei is actually half a month late in starting the reception plan at this time. According to Zhuo Fei's original plan, the second random selection of recruits should be completed by the actual commander of the receiving unit, but the speed at which the Ministry of Military Affairs issued the transfer order was half a beat, so that Zhuo Fei had to start the second round of selection for recruits on his own.

Zhuo Fei worked hard to match the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and made great efforts to train the first batch of recruits, so he couldn't watch these recruits finally become cannon fodder. Among the many candidate generals, Zhuo Fei has already chosen Sun Lianzhong as the commander of the first batch of 30,000 recruits, "Commander Sun, the First Army of the National Defense Force will be handed over to you, I hope to see a strong army that can fight and dare to fight appear on the battlefield, which is also the expectation of the chairman." Before Zhuo Fei left the cafeteria, he handed over a military flag to Sun Lianzhong in public, along with a list of officers.

The First Army of the National Defense Army has three divisions, and among these three divisions, the CCP occupies one seat, and the remaining two divisions, Sun Lianzhong himself commands one division, and the remaining one division is handed over to Dai Anlan. The officers sent by the CCP to Ruili are self-contained, and the leading figure of the CCP named by Zhuo Fei is the famous Lin Biao, and the officers below Lin Biao are all appointed and dispatched by Lin Biao himself, Zhuo Fei believes that with Lin Biao's ability, the division he commands will definitely become a great iron army.

"The Wehrmacht will only maintain the strength of three armies and nine divisions, and once the official name of the Wehrmacht appears on the battlefield, it will be the time for a full-scale counterattack. Ladies and gentlemen, for the sake of our motherland and nation, please cooperate with each other so that our soldiers can bring out their strongest combat effectiveness and let those weapons exert their due power. ”

The military flag that Zhuo Fei handed over to Sun Lianzhong only had the words "Temporary First Army" written on it, which made most of the officers present very puzzled, but Zhuo Fei's explanation made them have an epiphany. But there are also good people who think that Zhuo Fei is doing this too much, even if he directly shows the number of the Wehrmacht, but they don't know that Zhuo Fei's move is thinking about how to take advantage of the east wind in Europe.