After the attack on Jiujiang, the Japanese troops on the south bank were divided into two routes, and the 106th Division of Songpu attacked De'an along the Nanxun Road. The Hatada detachment and the Marines continued their march west along the river with naval vessels to attack the next point, Ruichang.

At this moment, the Third Army under the command of Sun Tongxuan was being ordered to be transferred to Ruichang, including of course the 20th Division, with Zhang Xiaohu as the acting commander.

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, the Japanese Sixth Division moved south from Hefei; Breaking through the defense of Xu Yuanquan's 26th Army, after capturing Tongcheng on the 13th, he turned to the southwest to attack, and fell into Qianshan on the 17th.

By the beginning of July, the Japanese army occupied Taihu Lake and east of Wangjiang in Jiangbei, and occupied the Yangtze River coastal area east of Hukou in Jiangxi in Jiangnan.

This unexpected situation made the old Jiang, who constantly received reports of defeat, angry and ashamed, and he was "Niang Xipi" every day.

On July 24, under the command of division commander Shiro Inaba, the Japanese Sixth Division attacked from Qianshan in Anhui to Taihu Lake, all the way like a bamboo, successively crushing the defense lines of the 31st, 68th and 84th armies, successively capturing Taihu Lake and Susong, and pointing directly at Huangmei, Hubei.

Such a large-scale force was organized, but even the vanguard of the Japanese army could not resist it, and Wuhan was about to be completely exposed to the guns of the Japanese troops in the north and south. Lao Jiang was furious, and finally remembered Sun Yumin, who had been surprising himself in southwest Lu in the past few months.

In fact, Lao Jiang knew that Sun Yumin's nickname of the god of war circulated among the people and the low-level officers and soldiers of the army, which was told to him by his nephew Yu Ji. After hearing this, Lao Jiang was not disgusted, but said to Yu Jishi with a smile: "Liangzhen, if you can have Sun Yumin's ability to fight, I will make you the commander of the theater." ”

Knowing that Sun Yumin was about to be discharged from the hospital, Lao Jiang deliberately asked the 12th Army to be transferred to the Jiangxi front, planning to wait for this interview with him, and then hand over the entire 12th Army to his command, as for Sun Tongxuan, let him continue to hang the title of the commander of the Third Army. Lao Jiang knew that Sun Yumin hated Sun Tongxuan's backstabbing in the Lanfeng Battle and transferring all the weapons and equipment personnel of the 58th Brigade of the 20th Division to the 22nd Division, in exchange for the indiscriminate behavior of a group of old and weak soldiers, so before the 12th Army was transferred, he found an excuse to transfer and withdraw the other two armies of the Third Army. Not only that, Lao Jiang has already asked the Ministry of Military Affairs to draft an order, intending to immediately appoint Sun Yumin as the lieutenant general, which can be regarded as some compensatory measures in order for him to accept this appointment. Lao Jiang's idea was very simple, with Sun Yumin on the front line in Jiangxi, and then let He Yingqin personally supervise and handle his military logistics, the Japanese vanguard in the south basically did not need to think about it. He can free up his hands and completely eat the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, which is full of evil. For this reason, he appointed Bai Chongxi as the deputy commander of the Fifth War Zone, and gathered a large number of troops, intending to let Xiao Zhuge once again reproduce the magic of the Gui army in Taierzhuang.

It's a pity that Sun Yumin didn't give Lao Jiang a chance to say these words, and directly said his physical discomfort.

Lao Jiang is actually quite protective of calves, as long as he is his own person, he will not shy away from blatantly partiality, which is also where many local warlords are dissatisfied.

Now seeing Sun Yumin's sick look, he couldn't hold back a lot of words without saying anything, his disappointed eyes were overflowing, and after asking a word, he asked Xiao Yuying to help Sun Yumin go to the reception area to sit down on the sofa, and he followed him here and sat down.

"Yumin, I really ...... some words" Old Jiang's appearance surprised him, and even Lin Wei on the side showed a surprised expression.

This look of wanting to speak and stopping made Sun Yumin vaguely guess something in his heart. The purpose of his coming is to resign, and he can't overturn everything that the brothers have discussed before because of what he said, and he has already arranged for Liu Wenzhi and them to go to Jiangxi first to avoid Dai Li's revenge.

If Sun Yumin hadn't experienced being shocked by his own business, didn't know the true inside story of the Huayuankou embankment, hadn't experienced Gui Yongqing's illegal arms sales, and hadn't been disappointed in this rotten Nationalist government, he might have taken Lao Jiang's advice, and then took a division or a brigade of troops to the front line to fight the devil to the death. Now, he is completely dead, even if he wants to fight devils, he will no longer stand in the ranks of the national army, and join forces with these people who only know how to get promoted and get rich, regardless of the life and death of the people.

Lin Wei does not have many scruples like Lao Jiang, in his world, a soldier like Sun Yumin was born to solve problems for the party and the state. As for whether you can still be moved or not, whether you can hold on, it has never been something he has considered, what he is thinking about is how to help the chairman solve problems, so many times he is more like Lao Jiang than Chen Bui.

"Sun Jiangjun, you can't help but hear about the movements of the Japanese army, and want to ask the chairman for his life and lead the troops to the front line to kill the enemy, right?"

As a figure who has been in the big dye vat of the high-level of the national government for a long time, Lin Wei's words often dig traps and set pits.

"Vice Chief Lin, as you said, Yumin is very eager to lead his troops to the battlefield and fight to the death against the Japanese invaders who invaded our land. Even if he dies on the battlefield, he will not hesitate to do so. ”

When the little girl heard this, her face changed slightly, and she couldn't help shaking his arm.

In the eyes of Lao Jiang and Lin Wei, this action is completely a grudge between little lovers, but they are all wondering, isn't this guy Chen Bui's son-in-law? So who is this beautiful female captain? They don't think about lovers or concubines or the like, concubines in the national army are punishable, no one dares to be arrogant and dare to bring out such invisible things in front of Lao Jiang, and a smart person like Sun Yumin who is good at thinking will definitely not make such a low-level mistake.

"It's a pity that Yumin has more than enough heart but not enough strength, and he has not recovered from his injury so far, and there are repeated signs, which has failed the expectations of Chairman Lin and Vice Minister Lin, and I am ashamed." Sun Yumin just glanced at the little girl who was pulling his clothes, and continued to finish speaking. Seeing the doubt in Lao Jiang's eyes, he explained: "Chairman, my sister is worried that I will drag my sick and disabled body to the front line, so I will have a gaffe, please read it in her young age, don't blame her." ”

Sun Yumin was very smart, and from Lin Wei's words, he had already heard some meanings, and he just took this opportunity to plug his mouth.

Lao Jiang heard Sun Yumin's words, and his doubts about the identity of this girl were eliminated, but his face began to become ugly, many previous plans have been implemented, and now there is a problem with the key link in this, how can this be good?

The vanguard of the Japanese army on the south bank was a little-known Botian brigade, but this army was rampage for hundreds of kilometers, and no one could stop it, and Lao Jiang would have thought that if Sun Yumin's 12th Division was here, this brigade that was nothing would have already become a corpse.

After having this idea, he always paid attention to Sun Yumin's injury, and told Lin Wei and Chen Bui to tell the hospital what drugs to use if they worked quickly. Although during his hospitalization, Lao Jiang only visited Sun Yumin once by visiting the wounded in the hospital, but this was already a great honor for his subordinate officers.

Seeing Lao Jiang's face change, Lin Wei knew what he had to do.

"General Sun, there are some things I want to say here, I hope you can seriously consider it." What Lin Wei wants to say, needless to say Sun Yumin, even the little girl knows.

Seeing that he did not object, Lin Wei continued: "General Sun, you may not know that today's army has reached Jiujiang, and although the troops on the south bank of the Yangtze River have resisted bloodily, they are still invincible, and even the Madang Fortress, which the chairman has painstakingly managed, has only lasted seven days. ”

When Sun Yumin listened to these words, his eyes kept looking at Lao Jiang, and when he heard the word Madang, he, who seemed to be a little energetic before, immediately looked like a deflated ball, and his disappointed expression was undoubtedly revealed.

"This is just the devil on the south bank, the other Japanese army on the north bank of the Yangtze River, has now broken through Taihu Lake and Susong, and the next step must be to capture Huangmei. In order to concentrate on dealing with the Japanese army along the way, the chairman of the NPC committee specially transferred Deputy General Bai to the Fifth War Zone, preparing to fight another victory like Taierzhuang. Lin Wei didn't care if Sun Yumin had the desire to listen, he still told the situation.

"Vice Chief Lin, I don't know what your intention is in telling these hostile states?" Sun Yumin said deliberately.

"Now that the Japanese army on the North Road poses a greater threat to Wuhan, although Deputy General Bai has gone to the Fifth War Zone to strategize, there is still a very serious task that requires a responsible person to take up this responsibility."

"What task?" Sun Yumin asked directly without thinking about it, and as soon as he said it, he immediately regretted it, and he secretly pinched his thigh, and said in his heart: It's so stupid, someone else dug a hole, and he jumped down.

"After the Japanese army's Botian Brigade on the south bank captured Jiujiang, the next target was Ruichang."

"Where?" As soon as this place name was said, Sun Yumin was shocked, because when he sent out Zhou Shanjun before, he told him that he wanted Liu Wenzhi and other brothers to go to Ruichang to rendezvous.

"Ruichang, a county below the Jiujiang River." Lin Wei thought he hadn't heard clearly, so he repeated it again. After seeing him nod, he said, "General Sun, the commission has transferred all the 12th Army to the vicinity of Ruichang. The purpose is for you to command, if you can eat the Potian brigade, it is better, it doesn't matter if you can't eat them, as long as you strangled them in Jiujiang and couldn't move, it would be a great achievement. He was afraid that Sun Yumin would refuse, so he directly threw out a big pie: "During the Battle of Xuzhou, Li Pinxian single-handedly resisted the Matsui Shigen Central China Dispatch Army, which made all the departments of the national army impressed, and no one gave a thumbs up when they mentioned it. The commission also looks at it, who can rob him of the commander of the 10th theater? ”

Hearing that Lao Jiang had transferred the Twelfth Army, Sun Yumin's face was full of consternation, and the surprise in his heart could not be described in words.

Could this be the arrangement of the heavens?

It was going to abandon it, but it was waiting where it was going, and it didn't plan to have anything to do with it anymore, but it didn't let itself have a chance to leave it.

Accept?

Let go?

Sun Yumin fell into extreme confusion, perhaps because of the extreme speed of his head, his face began to be a little ruddy, and his spirit seemed much better than before.

Seeing that Lin Wei's words seemed to have worked, Lao Jiang cast an appreciative look at him, if he could really make Sun Yumin agree to take the injury to the front line of Ruichang, he would really reward him.

"Report."

Just when Sun Yumin's determination was about to waver, a familiar voice at the door immediately pulled him back.

The owner of the voice is Dai Li!

How could you forget such a person? This is an unforgivable mistake. Sun Yumin called it lucky, if it wasn't for this voice that woke him up, maybe he was impulsive just now and agreed to what Lin Wei just said.

Suddenly, Sun Yumin found out that he almost fell into the pit again just now, all the words were said by the surnamed Lin, and Lao Jiang never mentioned a word from beginning to end, if something went wrong then, all the responsibility could be pushed to the director of the waiting room, and he could stay out of the matter and act as if he didn't know anything.

Thinking about this, Sun Yumin's face, which had already begun to turn red, turned pale again, and the previous little spirit seemed to be withdrawn, and the whole person's feeling became the same as when he just came in.

Lin Wei didn't notice this subtle change, but Lao Jiang could see it clearly, but he didn't understand why Dai Li, who suddenly spoke out, made him have such a change.

Seeing that the things that were about to succeed were about to come to an end, Lao Jiang's heart was slightly angry, he squinted at Dai Li, who was standing at the door, and said in a strong Zhejiang accent: "Don't you know that I have a guest here?" Do you have to come now? ”

Dai Li, who had been around Lao Jiang all the year round and knew that he was better than him, couldn't hear the anger in his words, and hurriedly said: "Commission, I have something urgent to report." ”

Seeing Dai Li's eager look, Lao Jiang was even more angry, and he almost didn't scold his mother.

"If you have something, just say it." In order to show Sun Yumin's sincerity and credibility, he directly threw this sentence to Dai Li. Where would he have thought that what this henchman of his wanted to say to him was the scar-faced teacher in front of him.

"This ......" Dai Li couldn't say anything, so he had to look at Sun Yumin and Lin Wei, wanting to remind this old Jiang who has always regarded himself as a dictator. But I didn't expect that the commission in front of me turned a blind eye to his reminder, which was not counted, and he actually let himself say it in front of outsiders.

Dai Li has been by Lao Jiang's side for many years, but he has never encountered such a situation, and he doesn't know what to do for a while.

At the embarrassing moment, Sun Yumin helped him out of the siege. He said: "Chairman of the Committee, I have come to disturb you today because I want to ask you to resign. ”

Lao Jiang and Lin Wei didn't expect Sun Yumin to say such a sentence, they thought that Sun Yumin came over, but he just wanted to find a place to recuperate, but they didn't expect his real purpose to be this. Both of them were stunned, and Dai Li, who didn't even stand at the door and didn't leave, was stunned, he came to prevent Lao Jiang from handing over the Twelfth Army to Sun Yumin, but he didn't expect that this Scarface would directly propose to resign from the military.

Although the division commander is not very big, starting from an ordinary soldier is also very difficult without more than ten or twenty years of hard work and good opportunities.

Sun Yumin is good, at the moment when he is about to be promoted, he resigned domineeringly, how can this not be shocking?

"Chairman, the humble position really needs to be recuperated, if you go to the battlefield and lose your life, it is a small matter, and you bury the elite of the national army, then the jade people will not be able to atone for their deaths." Sun Yumin didn't give them another chance to keep him, and said directly: "Chairman of the committee, since Director Dai has an urgent report, he won't bother with his humble duties, so I will leave." If Yumin is lucky enough not to die, he will serve the country again! ”

He didn't say the word party-state, but directly mentioned the country because he knew that he would never be able to return to this office and would never mix with these so-called party-state elites again.