In the early morning of 19 August, the Battle of Pingjiang finally began. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The 80,000 soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army marched forward bravely in three directions, and the Seventh and Fourth Armies broke through the Miluo River defense line heavily defended by the enemy in only half a day.

Li Zongren commanded the middle column to occupy Pingjiang, and defeated the enemy's 25th Division commander and Pingtong town guard Lu Peng with hatred, and the entire army was annihilated. The left column commanded by Tang Shengzhi also crossed the Miluo River, routed the defending enemy, and occupied Changle Street.

Less than three days later, after fierce battles, the left column of the Northern Expeditionary Army once again defeated the Hunan Army's Dong Zhengguo Division and Sun Jianye's Division, and Yueyang City, which was defended by three enemy divisions, was immediately surrounded by four divisions of the Eighth Army.

Li Zongren's middle column took a short break and sent a regiment of troops to escort 5,000 prisoners and a large number of captures back to the rear.

Commander-in-Chief Chiang was in a good mood when he received the constant good news, and ordered two divisions of his lineage, which had been well stocked and well-fed, to attack north along the Hanchang Railway and enter Hubei Province with other columns.

With the rapid advance of the main army, all kinds of material resources of the Changsha military station were continuously transported to the north.

The brothers of the two companies under Zheng Yi's command, who were specially responsible for material management, were busy in the dark, and the prisoners of various units of the Seventh Army and the continuous transportation of a large number of captured materials made Zheng Yi, who was immersed in military training, have to urgently transfer two companies of the first battalion of Li Lianshan's garrison to assist.

On August 25, Hu Zongduo's brigade of the Seventh Army and Li Pinxian's division of the Eighth Army attacked and captured Puqi from the left and right.

On 26 August, Chen Keyu, deputy commander of the Fourth Army, commanded Chen Mingshu and Zhang Fakui's provisional division, and collided head-on with Song Dapei's division, Dong Zhengguo's division, Yu Yinsen's brigade, and Sun Jianye's brigade under Wu Peifu's command, and the two sides invested a total of 70,000 troops in a bloody battle at the Tingsi bridgehead.

When the battle was deadlocked, Li Zongren's three brigades of the Seventh Army arrived quickly, and launched a fierce attack with the friendly forces of the Fourth Army, crushing the enemy in front of them in one fell swoop, seizing the Tingsi Bridge, and then advancing non-stop with victory, until ten kilometers south of the Hesheng Bridge did not stop.

On 17 August, Commander-in-Chief Chiang, whose face was full of red light, led the General Headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army to leave Changsha and enter Yueyang City, which was captured by the Eighth Army without blood.

Under the orders of Commander-in-Chief Chiang, Zhu Peide's Third Army, Cheng Qian's Sixth Army, and Lu Diping's Second Army, which were stationed on the Hunan and Jiangxi borders, began to slowly advance towards Jiangxi Province.

After Commander-in-Chief Chiang and his headquarters left, Zheng Yi, who had been preparing for a long time, immediately summoned the local merchants who had already agreed to quietly hold a material supply meeting in the Changsha military station, and in only three days, he sold out a large number of cloth, ships, corn, steel, machinery, cattle and horses and other materials captured by the Seventh Army, in addition to distributing 150,000 oceans to the Seventh Army, Zheng Yi also earned 170,000 oceans, and there were more than 2,000 damaged rifles and nearly 100 light and heavy machine guns left in the warehouse.

In order to express his gratitude to the Seventh Army, Zheng Yi transferred 5,000 Mogan rifles and 200,000 rounds of ammunition allocated to the Seventh Army to the Fourth Army, 6,000 Mauser rifles and 200,000 rounds of ammunition allocated to the Fourth Army to the Seventh Army, and then gave the Fourth Army an additional 100 Browning Type 1918 light machine guns and 50,000 rounds of ammunition that could not be replaced.

Li Zongren was gradually replacing German-style equipment according to Zheng Yi and Bai Chongxi's suggestion, and obtained 6,000 Mauser rifles and ammunition.

Chen Keyu's Fourth Army is equipped with a large number of Russian-style Mogan rifles, and he has no opinion after obtaining 5,000 word Mogan rifles and 100 Browning light machine guns, the only thing that is a little dissatisfied is that Zheng Yi is unwilling to do business with the Fourth Army, but Zheng Yi never withholds the materials of the Fourth Army, and has a good relationship with the generals of the Fourth Army.

In September, after a fierce battle, the Northern Expeditionary Army finally conquered the Hesheng Bridge, and Wu Peifu lost his armor and fled to the Central Plains, bringing together a total of 100,000 soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ninth and Tenth Armies.

On September 3, Zheng Yi finally waited for a telegram from his big brother Zheng Heng to compare the grain prices in Wuhan and Changsha, and Zheng Yi called Yu Feipeng, who accompanied Commander-in-Chief Chiang to Wuchang outside the city.

Two hours later, Yu Feipeng's telegram arrived:

It was agreed that Zheng Yi would sell 40,000 tons of half of the grain in stock, and ordered Zheng Yi to prepare for the handover, and once the new Changsha Military Station Station Supervisor arrived, he must complete the handover of all materials within three days, and then lead the headquarters to Wuchang to serve as the colonel and station supervisor of the Wuhan Military Station, which was being prepared.

Zheng Yi was stunned for a long time after reading the telegram, and he didn't expect to transfer himself to Wuhan, not Nanchang as expected.

Zheng Yi deliberated several times, weighed it repeatedly, spent more than two hours, drank six cups of strong tea, and then gradually understood, and immediately called Cao Mancheng in, dictated two telegrams, and sent them to the cheap brother Zheng Heng and his immediate boss Yu Feipeng, and then called the two major grain merchants in Changsha who cooperated happily.

On the afternoon of the next day, a military convoy composed of thirty-seven fully loaded trucks drove into the Changsha military station, Zheng Yi led Cao Mancheng and four battalion commanders to stand solemnly in front of the warehouse to greet them, and saw the familiar figure who jumped out of the cab of the first car, Zheng Yi was pleasantly surprised: "Brother Chen, I didn't expect you to wipe the ass for the little brother, haha!" ”

Chen Shi, deputy director of the Quartermaster Department of the Military Academy, who had served as Zhou Junyan's secretary, laughed, stepped forward to salute, and then gave Zheng Yi a warm hug: "I heard that your kid has made a fortune, hasn't it?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, be careful that I sue you for slander, haha!" After Zheng Yi finished speaking, he gave Chen Shi a punch: "How is my Uncle Zhou Shi's health?" ”

Chen Shi waved his hand back, motioned for the adjutant to talk to Zheng Yi's subordinates, turned around and took Zheng Yi's hand, and walked to the side under the big tree: "His old man is in good health, but he has a little cough and is sick, give it to ...... This is the letter that his old man asked me to forward, and he praised you very much for several big moves over the past few months, saying that you kid is making rapid progress, and even I am jealous. ”

Zheng Yi put the letter in his pocket: "Let's go, go back to the office, have a cup of tea and have a good chat, I didn't expect you to be the chief of the major general to take over, what the hell is going on?" ”

Chen Shi explained as he walked: "I am also a temporary agent, and the next focus will be to shift to Nanchang or even my hometown in Zhejiang Province, didn't Uncle Yu tell you?" ”

Zheng Yi was a little annoyed: "Where did he have the time to tell me that from the time he came to Changsha until he left, he followed the commander-in-chief's ass every day, and he only met me five times, mostly giving orders on the phone, and he was so busy that he didn't touch the ground." ”

"Well, now that more than 100,000 people in the whole army have gone to Wuchang, the pressure on the Changsha military station has been greatly reduced, and I am finally much more relaxed. By the way, how is Uncle Zhou Shi's side? When to leave Guangzhou and go north? ”

Chen Shi sighed: "His old man fights with Wang Jingwei's gang every day, and he has to preside over negotiations with the British, in order to move the capital to Wuhan or Nanchang, the two factions are in trouble, and the acting chairman Mr. Jingjiang is almost sick, and it seems that it will be difficult ......to go north for a while."

"Alas, don't talk about it, let's talk about our affairs, the batch of materials I brought is estimated to be the last batch, the next batch will start to be transported directly into Jiangxi Province, take a break, I will give you the list of materials, you need to take it away, and then I will send it to the second and third divisions, and it must not be cheap outsiders."

"Is there a mortar?" Zheng Yi is most concerned about this.

"Three hundred, all of them are French Brandt 81mm mortars, with 15,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as 500 MP18 improved machine guns produced by Germany authorized by Belgium, 30 rounds of 9mm caliber magazines, the horizontal magazine on the left side of the bolt is changed to a vertical magazine below, it is estimated that this is suitable for you, if you want it, take the old one for it, anyway, I don't want to send out this batch of machine guns." Chen Shi replied generously.

Zheng Yi was overjoyed: "Great, my machine gun battalion can finally be established." ”

Chen Shi was curious: "Where did you come from the machine gun battalion?" The soldier who operates the mortar is not so easy to find, without more than a year of study and training, he can't play that guy at all, and even the graduates of the artillery department of the military academy know a little about it, but the infantry artillery is more familiar. ”

Zheng Yi laughed: "Don't care, I have a way, although I haven't played mortars, but I have at least fifty brothers who have played, and these brothers, like more than five hundred machine gunners and gunners, were all captured from the Hubei army under Wu Peifu and were taken under my command." ”

Chen Shi was dumbfounded, and after thinking about it again, he felt that it was very normal, with Zheng Yi's ability to lead troops, anyone who came to him had to obediently obey the command.

That night, the Changsha Military Station held a grand reception banquet, and Chen Shi and more than 500 of his subordinates were warmly entertained.

Since the garrison battalion attached to Chen Shi was still on the way, Zheng Yi had to wait for two days before leaving, and just went through the handover procedures with Chen Shi, taking the opportunity to receive 20 mortars and 2,000 shells, and exchanging 320 old machine guns for 350 improved MP18 machine guns.

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September 8, morning.

Zheng Yi led three battalions and all the horses and baggage, boarded a special train, bid farewell to Changsha and went north to Wuchang, Chen Shi sent fifteen trucks to help Zheng Yi transport his belongings to Wuhan, and the Ford car that Zheng Yi had not used several times was also driven to Wuchang by two old drivers of the transport team.

At eight o'clock in the morning of the next day, the train successfully arrived at Nanhu, the location of the headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Yu Feipeng was very happy to see Zheng Yi, and after listening to Zheng Yi's report, he pulled him into the office: "Drink a cup of tea to quench your thirst first, don't worry about your family, the commander-in-chief has already written an edict to your eldest brother, no one dares to be embarrassed, but I didn't expect that your father has been transferred to Hong Kong to take up his post." ”

"That's fine, with your father here, at least your Uncle Zhou Shishu can negotiate with the British in Guangzhou."

Zheng Yi was taken aback, he didn't expect Commander-in-Chief Jiang to give such a big face: "How is my work arranged?" ”

Yu Feipeng nodded with satisfaction: "The military station is set up in the old school yard near the railway in the west, where it was originally a large camp where the Manchu army and the horse army were stationed, after nearly 1,000 people and more than ten days of repair and reconstruction, it can basically meet the needs of the military station. ”

"Understood! Thank you, Uncle Shi. Zheng Yi is sincerely grateful.

Yu Feipeng said with a smile: "Don't thank me first, you will be tired when you go down, this is a top-secret document signed by the commander-in-chief, just read it here and return it to me after reading it." ”

Zheng Yi was taken aback, slowly took the file, and took a deep breath before slowly opening it.

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