He Jianye, who arrived at the school, had a rare spirit, and bragged to his classmates in the dormitory until the lights went out, and then he fell asleep on the bed. He Jianye, who studyed, practiced and trained step by step every day, was unconsciously crazy under the leadership of the crazy energy of his classmates.

Nanjing, Chiang Chung-cheng's office of the Nationalist Government. Jiang Zhongzheng sat on a chair, and the room was full of people, except for a few people in tunics, all of them were senior generals in military uniforms, and the German military advisory group General Sickert sat on Jiang Zhongzheng's side.

Jiang Zhongzheng glanced at Zhang Zhizhong, who was standing opposite, and said slowly: "Wenbai, how are the preparations for the ninth phase of the academy's military exercises?" ”

Zhang Zhizhong immediately straightened up and reported: "Report to the principal, everything is ready!" ”

Jiang Zhongzheng looked at Zhang Zhizhong with satisfaction, then nodded, and said with an imperceptible smile on his mouth: "Well, this matter must be taken seriously, and when I have time, I will take a look and see how my ninth student is?" Is it possible to perform better than their predecessors? At present, the domestic situation is becoming increasingly tense, and after four times of fighting to suppress the Communist Party, no progress has been made, and the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign is about to be launched, and the attitude of the Japanese side is becoming more and more tough, and the form is urgent! Judging from the performance of the previous cadets, the quality of the Huangpu students is much better than that of ordinary officers; I hope that you will be able to train more talents for the party-state through this exercise. ”

Zhang Zhizhong said solemnly: "Never disappoint the principal's expectations!" "Everyone knows what Chiang Kai-shek started with, Whampoa, the Central Military Academy can be said to be a protégé of the Son of Heaven, and Chiang Kai-shek's favorite thing is that others call him the principal, so generally as long as he is a student of Whampoa, he will call the principal, regardless of the size of the official position.

At this time, General He Yingqin on the side also patted his ass and said: "The Central Military Academy, since its opening, has made remarkable achievements and has contributed a lot of outstanding talents to the party and the state. ”

When the highest authorities heard He Yingqin's words, their hearts bloomed, but they only smiled on the surface and said: "Jingzhi, what you said is also reasonable, our purpose is to cultivate outstanding talents for the party and the state, and we can't let talents be buried." Okay, that's all for this, Wenbai, you go and get ready, when the time comes, General Sickt and I will take the time to come to watch the exercise, we must behave well, and we must not release water to them. ”

"Yes, the students will do their best, please rest assured." After Zhang Zhizhong finished speaking, he saluted and walked out of the conference room of the headquarters, and at this time he felt that his pressure suddenly increased.

In the past, military exercises were all going through the motions, one side attacking, one side defending, basically the attacking side won, but this time the principal and General Sickert want to come to the scene in person, there is more meaning in it, if it is cheating, it will definitely be seen by General Sickert, then there is no face to stay in the military academy any longer, and the lightest estimate is to decentralize the troops.

However, Zhang Zhizhong still couldn't guess the true intention of the commission, and the distressed Zhang Zhizhong was ready to ask to see He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs, and carefully inquire about how to arrange it. Zhang Zhizhong, who had been in the living room of the Ministry of Military Affairs for an afternoon, finally waited for He Yingqin, and after careful interpretation, the two of them concluded together that the principal did not care about the victory of the party, and the main thing was to show the ability of the cadets of the Central Military Academy in front of the German military advisory group, show the best side, and give General Sickert a good impression for the subsequent reorganization of the troops.

In the playground of the Central Military Academy, the cadets of the first infantry brigade, the second infantry brigade, the third infantry brigade, the cavalry team, the artillery team, the engineer team, the traffic and communications district team, and the automatic vehicle team of the traffic team were divided into eight phalanxes and stood straight below, waiting for the speech of General Zhang Zhizhong, chief of education of the Central Army Officer Military Academy.

After about half an hour, a row of cars slowly drove into the playground. Zhang Zhizhong, surrounded by a group of people, walked to the stands.

Zhang Zhizhong stood in front of the microphone on the rostrum, and said loudly: "Students, after two years of study and training, there is no doubt that you have made significant progress, and I see your hard training in my eyes, I can tell you very responsibly, in the past two years, you have lived up to the country's training for you, and all of them are training and studying hard, this year's military exercise will be arranged in a week's time, and our opponent is my former instructor unit who served as a division commander. That is, the teaching corps with General Gui Yongqing as the general captain, many of the officers in it are your seniors, and there are many outstanding officers in the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, who are well-armed and have high morale. Now I would like to invite Captain Gui Yongqing to say a few words to you. ”

Gui Yongqing immediately stood in front of the microphone in a standard military posture and said loudly into the microphone: "Students, I won't talk too much about other nonsense, today I came to tell you that in a few days, our department and you will conduct a medium-scale offensive and defensive military exercise, the purpose of this is to make you adapt to the needs of the war, so that you can better command your troops in the future." Originally, this exercise was our main attack, and the cadet brigade was responsible for defense, but after the discussion between General Zhang Zhizhong and me, it was temporarily decided to change the strategy, this time there will be no attacker and defender, the attack mode is optional, any side that captures the enemy's headquarters is the winning side, and the trainees and officers who performed well in this exercise can not only increase the probability of going to Germany for exchange and study, but are also very likely to be personally received by the principal, so our department must strictly require the officers and soldiers participating in the exercise to show no mercy. I hope you can make good use of this opportunity and work hard to show yourself, and as an opponent, we will also use the brutal battlefield experience to teach you a good lesson. I hope you don't let me down, don't let the principal down. ”

Gui Yongqing's words stirred up a thousand waves for a while. The principal received such a high honor, which is not something that anyone can enjoy.

The next day, in the playground of the Central Military Academy, the instructors stood in front of all the cadets and announced the rules and organization of the exercise.

"All of your trainees, all disrupted and reorganized, each branch of the army must exist in the five companies after the formation, the company commanders of the five companies are recommended by our instructors, after the recommendation is completed, the list will be announced, and the students can sign up for one of the companies according to the situation, but it is not that you sign up for that company must be that company, the instructor will be adjusted according to factors such as the coordination of the troops, and the adjustment will be announced uniformly; As a soldier, you should obey orders, and I emphasize here that if you behave well, you can naturally be received by the commission, but if you don't behave well, be careful that you can't even get your graduation certificate. The instructor paused and continued, "All of our cadets wear blue armbands in this exercise, which is the blue team; The officers and men of the teaching corps wear red armbands and are the red team, and the total number of their participants is still five companies; I hope you keep it in mind. In addition, the instructors and some of the students formed the referees of the blue side to participate in the exercise, as supervisors, our supervision object is the teaching team, basically maintain each platoon has a supervisor, and the corresponding teaching team will also send supervisors to each of our platoons; The bullets used in the exercise were all empty bullets, and there were basically no casualties. Well, after the afternoon drill, all cadets are requested to go to the announcement area to check the appointment of the company commander. ”

After the afternoon drill, the cadets did not rush back to the dormitory to wash, and went to the announcement area to check the appointment of the company commander.

"The commander of the first company, the first team of infantry, the Patriotic Medal; Liu Bingde, the commander of the second company and the first infantry team; The commander of the third company, Ma Kuisheng of the second infantry team; He Jianye, the commander of the fourth company and the third infantry team; The commander of the fifth company, Deng Shixing, the cavalry team. ”

The cadets who learned of the company commander candidate muttered to the dormitory in a mixture of various emotions, and He Jianye, who returned to the dormitory, was about to wash up, and was surrounded by five hungry classmates in the dormitory.

"I said He Jianye! This time you have to cover the brothers, and we have decided to go to you en masse! Lenzaki said,

"Check it out! It's not me who has the final say, it depends on the assignment of the instructor. He Jianye said.

Thinking that this was indeed the case, the people went to wash up and prepare for supper.

Time passed quickly in the process of preparing the cadets and instructors of the Central Military Academy for military exercises. At the Central Army Military Academy, in the playground, under the rostrum, all the cadets automatically stood in their own company according to the instructor's detachment.

General Zhang Zhizhong, the chief of education, walked to the temporary podium, and today's General Zhang Zhizhong is wearing a brand-new military uniform and epaulettes, and the stars are shining.

"Students, this exercise, I have just received a notice from the Ministry of National Defense that the principal will come to the military exercise site to observe, this is an opportunity for you, and it is also an opportunity to prove our Central Military Academy, we cannot let the principal down, we cannot disappoint the instructors, and we cannot disappoint the 40,000,000 compatriots in China, so please apply what you have learned in the past two years to the battlefield." General Zhang's sonorous and powerful remarks drew bursts of applause from below.

"In this military exercise, I personally served as the commander-in-chief of the blue side, and the commander-in-chief of the red side was Captain Gui Yongqing, although this was only a small-scale simulated battle, and the use of empty bullets was also used, but it was a chance for everyone to actually fight, so that everyone could understand that war is not just talk on paper, but according to the continuous changes in the situation, and constantly make wartime adjustments, I hope that everyone can seriously sum up the lessons and lessons in this battle, and meet the challenges with the highest fighting spirit. Do you have faith? Hundreds of students of General Zhang Zhizhong roared: "Have confidence! The so-called newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, which refers to these baby soldiers, although they are child soldiers in military schools, but they are also full of enthusiasm when they are moved, as if they want to make up for their lack of battlefield experience with a momentum that crushes everything.