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At 9:10 p.m. the next day, the special train taken by Commander-in-Chief Chiang slowly entered the Zhengzhou Railway Station, and General Feng Yuxiang led more than 100 civil and military officials under his command to line up on the platform to greet him. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

This time, there was no military band, and there were no people holding slogans and pennants and cheering loudly, but as far as the eye could see, there were three steps and one sentry, and five steps and one post, and everywhere you could see groups of officers and men in the northwest who were neatly lined up with loaded guns and ammunition, showing the strong atmosphere of solemnity and majesty during the war.

The company that served as the honor guard was all outstanding officers and men who had been carefully selected and stood out from hundreds of thousands of people, and except for the captain who was holding a snowy saber and was a little shorter, none of the more than 130 members of the team was less than 1.8 meters tall. Each member of the honor guard carried a shell gun on his waist, a machine gun in his hand, a set of beautiful leather cartridge holders on his chest, a large-brimmed hat on his head, a wide belt around his waist, and high black and shiny boots.

Commander-in-Chief Jiang saw the peak military appearance of the honor guard in the car, but compared with the special brigade he saw with his own eyes, it seemed to lack something, so he shook his head and smiled, not surprised at all.

As soon as the train stopped, Chiang Kai-shek got off the train quickly, excitedly stretched out his hands early, and shook Feng Yuxiang's four hands tightly with Feng Yuxiang, who strode forward, and dozens of generals around him smiled in the call of Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yuxiang's affectionate "brother" and "virtuous brother".

An Yi standing behind Chiang Kai-shek. Seeing this "touching" scene, I couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in my heart, and admired the superficial kung fu of the two world-famous commanders and politicians in front of me.

Yu Jishi touched his side a little strangely. An Yi asked him in a low voice why he was laughing weirdly? An Yi hurriedly collected his mind and explained in a low voice: "Senior brother, look, I'm afraid that the honor guard of the Northwest Army will be reviewed soon.

When Yu Jishi heard this, he immediately looked ahead. The guard of honor behind the generals of the Northwest Army nodded slightly and smiled knowingly.

The important generals on both sides greeted each other and wore gray coarse cloth. General Feng Yuxiang, who was wearing a soldier's uniform and straw sandals with his toes exposed, accompanied Commander-in-Chief Chiang, who was dressed in a straight general's uniform, began to review the guard of honor.

The Northwest Army was the first in the country to send a telegram to support Chiang Kai-shek's return to the throne. The military group of the commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army was the first to be renamed the Second Army of the National Revolutionary Army, so Chiang Kai-shek was also the nominal commander-in-chief of the more than 300,000 Northwest Army.

After tens of meters of red carpet, the rest of the coaches on both sides will be. After saluting Feng Yuxiang and Lu Zhonglin, An Yi and Yu Jishi quickly returned to the train, led the guard regiment and the special brigade to take the lead out of the station, and walked to the hotel where Commander-in-Chief Jiang stayed to take over the guard task.

In the dim light, not many people paid attention to the Commander-in-Chief Guard composed of 1,800 officers and soldiers at first, but as An Yi and Yu Jishi led the guards out of the platform, the discussion of the officers and men of the Northwest Army became louder and louder, and the generals of the Northwest Army, who were walking behind the two commanders, Feng Yuxiang and Chiang Kai-shek, saw the guards of Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek, and stopped and watched with interest:

The officers and men of the guard regiment were in high spirits and well-armed, all of them were equipped with new machine guns and American pistols, wearing steel helmets, new yellow-green military uniforms, yellow-green leggings, and new-style green rubber-soled shoes, and marching silently with neat steps; The 300 officers and men who followed behind the 1,500 officers and men of the guards were wearing new-style camouflage combat uniforms without rank identification, and the steel helmets on their heads were also covered with camouflage cloth of the same color; behind each officer and soldier was carrying a huge camouflage marching bag, and there was a pistol with a green canvas wrapped holster and a sheathed dagger around his waist. At least twenty Czech light machine guns appeared on the shoulders of soldiers wearing new combat vests.

Another point that is completely different from the officers and men of the guard regiment in front is that the pace of these 300 officers and soldiers is not very neat, but the indifferent expressions of the officers and soldiers and the fierce murderous aura exuded from their bodies immediately made the officers and men of the Northwest Army who were present at the scene feel a chill in their hearts, and no one dared to despise this team with strange and unusual equipment, and they stopped and stared at each other to inquire about the reason, but it was a pity that the team left quickly, and after a while, it drove to the hotel by the Changchun Bridge ahead of the convoy.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, An Yi sat in the lounge opposite the conference room with Yu Jishi, Kang Ze, He Jinhan and other senior brothers and the generals of the headquarters chatting, waiting for the end of the secret meeting between Commander-in-Chief Jiang and General Feng Yuxiang.

At this time, confidential secretary Chen Bui quickly entered the lounge and called An Yi away, and after a while, the two entered the opposite door and walked through the wide conference room to the living room on the east side, where Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yuxiang, Lu Zhonglin, Kong Xiangxi, and Chen Guofu were sitting in a circle of leather sand and looked at An Yi with great interest.

An Yi was a little surprised by the strange expressions of everyone, but his face was not at all colorful, he took two steps forward to report, Feng Yuxiang shook his jaw again and again, and beckoned An Yi to sit diagonally opposite, An Yi thanked respectfully but did not move his steps, until Chiang Kai-shek nodded, then strode to the front of the sand, thanked again and sat upright, this move won Chiang Kai-shek a lot of face.

General Feng Yuxiang smiled and said heartily to everyone: "Humble and polite, behaving like an excellent soldier, he is really a rare talent, no wonder Brother Kai-shek is so concerned!" Our tiger will fight the two Northern Expeditions more beautifully than the other, and everywhere he goes, he will be invincible and attacked, Sun Chuanfang's Anhui army and Zhang Zongchang's Zhilu army are afraid of them like tigers, invincible, and the generals who have been famous for many years in Suzhou, Anhui, Lu and Hebei will fold in his hands in a snap of their fingers, and the future is terrifying! I met him once last year in Xuzhou, and at that time he was still childish and shy, and in a blink of an eye, he became a calm and well-known general, which shows that war can really hone people! ”

The audience laughed, and Lu Zhonglin, chief of general staff of Feng Yuxiang and former commander-in-chief of the Second Army, nodded: "General An's annihilation of the Ninth Division of the Anhui Army and the battle against Japan across the Yellow River at the beginning of the month are impressive, and now they have become the focus of heated discussions among the people." ”

Everyone echoed, Chiang Kai-shek showed a proud smile on his face, and Feng Yuxiang leaned forward: "General An, we asked your principal just now, I want to know what the First Army's record in fighting with the Japanese army across the river in the north of Jinan City at the beginning of the month was?" Your headmaster politely said that each has its own merits, and immediately hooked our addiction. We all know that this battle was specifically planned and commanded by you, the former chief of staff of the enemy, can General An tell me in detail? ”

When An Yi heard this, he immediately understood that Chiang Kai-shek did not tell Feng Yuxiang and others the truth, and his mind changed, and then he said modestly:

"Back to the predecessors, in addition to the independent division of the younger generation, there were two divisions of the 40th Army of the 3rd Army of He Guiyan's predecessor who participated in the battle on the north bank of the Yellow River that day, and the younger generation was in the remote control of Changqing County, 15 kilometers northwest of Dangjiazhuang, and did not come to the front line to command, the independent division withdrew to Jiyang in the later stage of the fierce battle, and the two divisions of the 40th Army withdrew north to Yucheng, so the specific situation is not very well understood, but from the battle report submitted by the independent division the next day, it can be learned that the independent division was killed 37 soldiers, and 141 people were seriously wounded, Twenty-eight of them were permanently deaf in both ears under heavy Japanese fire; The younger generation then led his troops south to Yanzhou to rest and replenish, the 40th Army hurriedly withdrew north, the battle report has not yet been accurately counted, and after the withdrawal of our army's three divisions, the Japanese army still carried out artillery fire covering our position on the north bank of our army for more than an hour across the Yellow River, and it is useless to count the battlefield afterwards, so the exact casualty figures of our army may have their own theories. ”

Feng Yuxiang and the others were all stunned, then looked at each other and smiled, Feng Yuxiang turned to Chiang Kai-shek and shook his head slightly: "Brother Xian, you are a student, you seem to have said everything for a long time, and when you look back, it means that you didn't say anything, no wonder you can't figure out the truth in the war, and it is really a famous teacher and a high apprentice!" ”

Chiang Kai-shek didn't care about Feng Yuxiang's words with a gun and a stick, but said happily: "Brother praises it!" An Yi is still young, and he still needs to exercise well, this time I asked him to go north again, learn from Brother Ruibo (Lu Zhonglin) and Brother Yizhi, increase knowledge, accumulate experience, and the future of the party-state depends on their generation! ”

Everyone laughed again, Chen Bui and Kong Xiangxi nodded secretly at An Yi's eagerness, but Lu Zhonglin, who had an extraordinary bearing and the demeanor of a Confucian general, asked An Yi again: "General An, the more than 300 elites wearing new military uniforms who have just been stationed here are under the command of the general, right?" ”

"General Hui, these 300 officers and soldiers are the brothers of the training regiment of the independent division under the command of the younger generation, and their main task is to protect the security and reconnaissance of the former enemy, so the military uniforms they wear are slightly different, and the purpose is to hide in the grass and bushes so that it is not so easy to expose the target, because of the particularity of the reconnaissance mission, each person's weapons and equipment are equipped according to the officers and men's own hobbies, and this time they went north to take the rare opportunity to go out to study and exercise, and broaden their horizons."

An Yi didn't hide much about this question, and it was Commander-in-Chief Jiang's idea to let the special brigade change into camouflage uniforms, An Yi felt that Commander-in-Chief Jiang should have introduced it just now, otherwise Chief of Staff Lu Zhonglin, who was only below General Feng Yuxiang in the Northwest Army, would not have this question.

Lu Zhonglin nodded with satisfaction, and said to An Yi kindly that they would soon be fighting side by side together, and he was very happy in his heart. An Yi hurriedly thanked Lu Zhonglin respectfully, and Commander-in-Chief Jiang and General Feng Yuxiang also stood up excitedly, greeted each other for a while, and went back to their rooms to rest. An Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and also went down to the first floor to check the security measures with Yu Jishi, Wang Shihe and others.

Commander-in-Chief Jiang returned to his suite with Kong Xiangxi and Chen Guofu, and praised An Yi's excellent performance just now, Kong Xiangxi smiled with relief and praised lightly:

"Nephew An Xian is quite smart and alert, he has a good grasp of what to say and what not to say, and it can be seen that Brother Huanzhang and Brother Ruibo are very impressed!"

"Not only was I impressed, but the younger brother could also see that they attached great importance to An Yi, otherwise they wouldn't have specially called in to meet before leaving." Chen Guofu said thoughtfully.

Chiang Kai-shek motioned for everyone to sit down: "This is a natural thing, with the fight of one big war after another, An Yi's fame is getting bigger and bigger, not only the Northwest Army has long attached importance to An Yi, the Japanese also attach great importance to An Yi, the national press is now regarded as the leader of the Young Zhuang faction, the Japanese are very aware of this, one of the conditions put forward by the Japanese in this negotiation is to severely punish An Yi and Brother Guiyan, disband the independent division and the 40th Army, and let the two publicly apologize to the Japanese army.

I didn't agree, I made it clear in my telegram to the Central Party Department and the Central Government that it was okay for me to apologize, but I must not agree to this condition of the Japanese, and I could not succumb to the pressure of the Japanese army to disband the Independent Division and Brother Guiyan's 40th Army, let alone remove them from their posts, otherwise how could I, Jiang someone, gain a foothold in the whole ** team?

However, under the pressure of the Japanese, the Military Commission finally had to transfer Brother Guiyan back to Nanjing, appoint Fang Boxiong (Fang Ding Yingzi) as the commander of the Third Army Corps, and appoint Mao Bingwen as the acting commander of the 40th Army. An Yi's post of commander of an independent division was already represented by Hu Jialin, and it would not hurt to remove him from his posts as chief of staff of the former enemy and commander of an independent division; this time he was allowed to go north as a member of General Zhu Yizhi's staff, and the Japanese had no choice but to reinstate them after the negotiations were over. ”

Chen Guofu nodded: "It's okay to take a step back, the key now is the last battle of the Northern Expedition, and if it is fought well, it will be announced that the victory and reunification of the Northern Expedition will be completed, and the League of Nations, which is discussing China's affairs, will change its view, and it is meaningless for the Japanese to try to prevent our reunification, and the governments of various countries will continue to recognize our Nanjing government, and the Japanese have little choice except to erect puppets in the three eastern provinces, unless he dares to brazenly launch a large-scale war of aggression and attack China in an all-out way, but this is by no means what the British and American powers want to see." ”

"Yes, the key now is to let the army led by Li Delin and Bai Jiansheng go north as soon as possible, so that the whole world can see that the more than 1 million officers and men of the four group armies of the National Revolutionary Army share the same hatred for the enemy, and this is the best political declaration.

Brother Yong, after the end of this meeting in Xuzhou, you still have to meet Brother Baichuan (Yan Xishan), bring him this month's military expenses, and let him lead the Third Army to attack Beijing in one go, so that in order to gain the territory of Zhili and Beijing and show his political reputation, Brother Huanzhang will urgently order his Second Group Army to speed up the offensive and offensive against the Feng system, and the Northern Expedition can be completed one day earlier, and Li Delin will not dare to live behind the three group armies, leaving the infamy of giving up halfway.

As long as the four group armies gather in the Zhili area, the tremendous military momentum will be transformed into a political momentum, which will be very beneficial to our negotiations and to our Nanjing Government. Chiang Kai-shek earnestly admonished.

Kong Xiangxi nodded: "Little brother understands, I will rush to Taiyuan tomorrow." ”