At this time, Gu Shutong was still staying in Wuhan.

Gu Shutong was woken up from his sleep, and as soon as he looked up, he saw the captain of the guard standing in front of his bed with a solemn expression, and as soon as he saw the face of the captain of the guard, Gu Shutong immediately knew that something was wrong.

Gu Shutong immediately turned over and sat up, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"That's right." Guard Captain Sun Changhe said in a deep voice, "Luo Feng has just issued a letter to the compatriots across the country in the name of the officers and soldiers of the Central Anhui Advance Brigade. ”

"What do you say? A letter to compatriots across the country?! ”

Gu Shutong suddenly felt a pang in his heart when he heard this, damn it, what the hell is Luo Feng doing?

What kind of bullshit did you little major general brigade commander post to his compatriots across the country? Are you qualified?

"What about the proclamation?" Gu Shutong hurriedly put on his military uniform, and he didn't even bother to button his shirt before he stretched out his hand and asked, "Hurry up and bring that proclamation to me to see." ”

Gu Shutong was anxious to see this proclamation, because he was faintly worried in his heart, he was worried that Luo Feng would put forward some unacceptable conditions in this proclamation, and even directly force the national government to force the palace, then the ball would be over, Chairman Jiang might not take Luo Feng, the little brigade commander, what to do, but he would definitely settle accounts with him afterwards.

Sun Changhe said: "The proclamation was followed by a list of the officers and soldiers of the Central Anhui Advance Brigade, so it is still being sent until now, but I have already asked people to copy the first few paragraphs. While talking, Sun Changhe took out a piece of letter paper from his jacket pocket and handed the copied proclamation to Gu Shutong.

Gu Shutong hurriedly read it, and immediately tore the letter to shreds in anger.

Gu Shutong's worst fear still happened, in the proclamation, Luo Feng's intention to ask for credit for the officers and soldiers of the Anhui Central Advance Brigade is simply obvious, and there is a faint threat in it, Gu Shutong believes that if the theater commander's department and the command department cannot respond, the Anhui Central Advance Brigade is very likely to passively avoid the war.

At this juncture, if the advance brigade in central Anhui passively avoids the war, then what else is there to fight?

Do you still want to encircle and annihilate the devils trapped in Fuyang and Mengcheng to go north? Dream your dreams!

"This Luo Feng, this Luo Feng, he is really good at picking the time, he is really good at picking the time to reach out!" Gu Shutong even had his nose crooked, and roared angrily, "He's forcing the palace, he's forcing the palace!" ”

Sun Changhe, as a grassroots officer from the army, has a different view.

"Boss, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not." Sun Changhe carefully considered his words.

For Sun Changhe, Gu Shutong still attaches great importance to him, not only because Sun Changhe is cautious and low-key, but also because Sun Changhe once saved his life on the battlefield.

At that moment, Gu Shutong said: "You say." ”

Sun Changhe said: "General seat, Feidong is lost, after the four detachments of the New Fourth Army let go of Kaichao County, the situation in Feicheng is already dangerous, and the Anhui Central Advance Brigade as a newly formed army, suddenly faced with such a situation, it will inevitably be fluctuating in the hearts of the people and shaking the morale of the army. ”

At this time, Gu Shutong had also calmed down, and nodded and motioned for Sun Changhe to continue.

Sun Changhe also said: "If the general seat can take advantage of the situation and give a guarantee to the officers and men of the Anhui Central Advance Brigade, ensure that their families can receive bereavement pensions after they die in battle, ensure that their wives and children will be supported, and ensure that their names will be engraved with a martyr's monument and accept the admiration and remembrance of future generations, then I think this army will definitely break out with unprecedented strong combat effectiveness, and the battle of Feicheng will be promising!" ”

Gu Shutong was silent, thinking about it calmly, what Sun Changhe said was not unreasonable.

The only difference is that it is a bit vulgar to use heavy rewards to motivate officers and men to kill the enemy, while to use aftermath to motivate officers and men to fight the enemy bravely, not only is the style much higher, but the effect will be more ideal.

But Gu Shutong always felt that it was not a good feeling in his heart.

Such a high-profile matter should have been proposed by him, the commander-in-chief of the theater of operations, rather than by a small brigade commander below, and use this matter to force the palace! If Luo Feng is sensible, he can send a secret telegram first, and then he, the commander-in-chief of the theater, will make a statement or announcement, so that he can go the right way.

The anger of Gu Shutong here had just dissipated, and Wan Xiangyun hurried over there again.

"Boss, I heard that Luo Feng published a letter to compatriots across the country, and this matter made the committee angry enough!" As soon as Wan Xiangyun entered the door, he roared and said, "This thing must have been done by Xu Rui, Luo Feng has no such heart, this thing must be instructed by Xu Rui, Xu Rui is obviously going to use this matter to force the palace, we must not agree to him!" ”

Gu Shutong was concerned about something else, and asked anxiously: "What did you just say, Lao Wan, and the commission also knows?" ”

"Can you know if you have a chance?" Wan Xiangyun said, "I knew it as soon as possible, I went to the official residence of the commission seat just now, and the chief of the guard Wang said privately that after the commission saw this thing, he was so angry that he dropped the teacup!" Oh yes, the commissioner has ordered a meeting of all military and political dignitaries, and the lowly is here to inform the commander-informed. ”

"Let's go, let's go." Gu Shutong sighed and said, "If you don't do it well this time, you will be criticized again." ”

By the time Gu Shutong and Wan Xiangyun arrived at Chairman Chiang's residence, all the party, government, and military officials of the Nationalist Government had already gathered together to discuss the letter issued by the Central Anhui Advance Brigade to compatriots across the country, and the opinions at the meeting were divided into two completely different factions.

One faction of opinions, headed by Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin, advocated a resolute rejection, and He Yingqin's reason was that if the forced palace of the advancing brigade in central Anhui was tolerated this time, would other troops follow suit? In case the troops of the whole country follow suit and force the palace to the central government, how can this battle be fought?

Bai Chongxi held that not only should we not refuse the request of the Central Anhui Advance Brigade, but the General Headquarters should also issue another letter to the compatriots throughout the country on the basis of this proclamation of the Anhui Central Advance Brigade, so as to give the officers and men of the whole army a guarantee for the aftermath! So that they have no worries!

After the fall of Shanghai, the country's tax revenue was reduced to six, and the Nationalist Government could no longer even guarantee basic military spending, but could only quench its thirst by constantly printing fiat currency.

Otherwise, even if the media in China and Western countries do not expose you, the media in small Japan will not miss such an opportunity, and once the matter is exposed, the morale of the front-line troops will inevitably suffer a heavy blow, and then there is no need to fight this war of resistance.

In the face of He Yingqin's questioning, Zhou Gong, who was stationed in Wuhan by the Chinese Communist Party, suggested that he could use this letter to the compatriots of the whole country in the Central Anhui Advance Brigade as an opportunity to let the media organizations in Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Kunming and other places follow up, first build momentum, and fully mobilize the people of the whole country to donate money and materials to the front-line troops.

In the end, Chairman Chiang made the final decision, and with the help of this incident, we must carry out nationwide propaganda, and we must make the momentum bigger, not only to do a good job in the aftermath of the advance brigade in central Anhui, but also to do a good job in the aftermath of the more than one million officers and men on the Xuzhou front, so that all officers and men can calmly step on the battlefield and fight to the death with little Japan!

When Chairman Chiang received instructions, all departments immediately began to take action.

The first to take action was the Confidential Department of the High Command, and more than a dozen civilian secretaries of the Confidential Department gathered together and began to search their stomachs to prepare the draft of the speech, and they wanted to prepare the draft of Chairman Chiang's speech before dawn and before the Central Radio Station began broadcasting for the day, and at 6 o'clock in the morning, Chairman Chiang was to give a nationwide radio speech.

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Stone was awakened from his sleep by a suppressed cry, turned his head to look, and saw that the recruit who had just joined the army for less than half a month was lying on the towel blanket, and from his constantly shrugging shoulders, he must be crying.

"Six pounds, homesick again?" The stone reached out and patted Liujin on the shoulder, and Liujin immediately stopped crying.

Liujin turned over and faced the stone, although it was in the dark, the stone could clearly see that Liujin's eyes were red, and there were tear stains on his face, obviously he had just cried.

The recruit's egg hiding under the covers in the middle of the night and secretly crying is not new at all.

Veterans are not born veterans, they are all from the new recruits, when the stone first enlisted in the army, just in time for the 128th Shanghai Anti-Japanese War, seeing the corpse carried down from the front line, the stone collapsed at that time, holding their squad leader's thigh crying and grabbing the ground, and refused to go to the battlefield when he died.

In the end, it was their squad leader who forced him to go to the battlefield with a bayonet.

At the end of the battle, they even more than 100 people died only nine, the old squad leader in order to save the stone, was also stabbed through the stomach by a devil officer, but the devil officer was also bitten to death by the stone, it was really bitten with teeth, at that time the stone was stunned, there was a gun in his hand and he didn't know how to use it, and he opened his mouth to bite in a hurry.

After that, the stone never cried again.

"Platoon commander, I'm afraid." Six catties said.

"Don't be afraid, you'll be a veteran after a battle."

"Platoon commander, I heard that the 1st Regiment made the devils fight miserably in Feidong, and only more than 100 people came back from one regiment?"

"How can there be immortals in war? You don't think about this all the time, I tell you, when you get to the battlefield, the more you are afraid of death, the faster you will die, and the less you are afraid of death, the more bullets will hide from you. ”

"Platoon commander, but I'm still afraid, I'm going to die, what should my mother do?"

The stone was silent, because he couldn't answer the question of six catties.

In fact, even Shi himself has the same question, if he dies in battle, what will happen to his parents who have been sick for a long time? And who will support the younger siblings?