The next day, when the weather was fine, Zhang Zizhong and Gao Quan took their respective attachés from the Laohekou Air Base to board the transport plane, and after the plane took off, it headed southwest and headed straight for Chongqing.

Through the porthole, looking at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, Gao Quanxin was in a mess, I can't say what it feels like, he used to be a scout elite, he has not been on a military transport plane in the past, military aircraft are not as stable as civil aviation, bumps are always inevitable, now it is 1939, for the transport aircraft of this era, Gao Quan does not have any extravagant expectations at all, he has long been prepared to be upside down, and when the plane really takes off, it feels like it is much more stable than imagined.

Since this transport plane was transferred by the Military Commission to take over a high-ranking front-line general like Zhang Zizhong, whether it is the performance of the plane or the quality of the pilot, it is counted in the whole country, Gao Quan has already been mentally prepared, the turbulence in the flight, of course, is not so serious, but the unpleasant smell of aviation gasoline in the cabin makes people who come into contact with it for the first time feel very unaccustomed.

Zhang Zizhong was okay, although his face was not too good, but he quickly adjusted, and it didn't take long for Gao Quan to resume talking and laughing.

After more than two hours of flight, the plane landed safely to accompany the Coral Dam Airport, and there was no imaginary welcome crowd, nor groups of reporters and flashing magnesium lights, this military airport located on Jiangxin Island seemed deserted, except for two military transport planes quietly parked on the tarmac, there were not too many people and vehicles, of course, there were still people who picked up the airport, outside the apron, more than a dozen soldiers stood in the distance with straight pen tubes, needless to say, this was all sent by the Military Commission to pick up Zhang Zizhong, the commander of the group army.

The plane stopped, the two generals got off the plane with more than a dozen guards, the pick-up team over there walked to the side of the plane, and a lieutenant colonel officer stepped out of the crowd, took two steps forward, raised his hand and saluted, "Welcome Commander-in-Chief Zhang and Senior Division Commander, and the humble Xie Zhongming was ordered to come to greet him." After explaining his intentions in one sentence, he stretched out his hand to give way, led the two generals and a group of attachés out of the airport, passed the pontoon bridge, and then went up the three hundred and twenty-two steps, before going up to the road leading to the city, where several black cars were parked on the side of the road, apparently brought by Lieutenant Colonel Xie to pick up the airport.

Zhang Zizhong had to pull Gao Quan to ride in the same car, Gao Quan originally felt that when he arrived in a place like Chongqing, he had to pay more attention to his words and deeds, and he and Zhang Zizhong were too different in terms of position and military rank, and the relationship was too close, which might cause unnecessary trouble, but Commander-in-Chief Zhang said that he wanted to refuse again, as if he was a little suspicious of not knowing how to lift.

The two got out of the airport in the second car, Zhang Zizhong seemed to have arrived in Chongqing, and he talked about some of his old friends of the Northwest Army in Chongqing, including his old commander Feng Yuxiang.

Gao Quan knew that this was a rare opportunity to understand the Northwest Army system, so he listened attentively to Zhang Zizhong's speech, and did not interject in the middle.

Chongqing is now the residence of the national government, the military and political dignitaries, rich businessmen and giants gathered in the mountain city, in Gao Quan's imagination, this well-deserved political, economic and cultural center in China, although it is not necessarily a forest of high-rise buildings, the lights are full of wine, at least it should be the street pedestrians, busy traffic, a prosperous scene, he actually really let himself bring these few this time, the personal guards who fight on the battlefield all the year round, take a good look around the metropolis, see the world, feel the meaning of prosperity.

The street of the capital is very different from the scene imagined by Gao Quan, the high-rise buildings are dilapidated, a huge pit appears in the wide street from time to time, fire trucks and ambulances pull the alarm and whizz past, there are not a few ordinary people on the street at all, and the few pedestrians are all in a hurry, full of seriousness, the most on the street are the police and gendarmes, as well as those plainclothes spies who wear dark tunics and look at the grass and trees around vigilantly.

On the big trees, on the houses, there are a lot of slogans and banners, such as "resist the war to the end", "the more you bomb, the braver" and the like slogans can be seen everywhere, on the way to the residence, the convoy was intercepted and interrogated many times, fortunately, the car in front of the road is the military commission, generally stop and show the certificate and let go directly.

This is Chongqing, is this the capital during the war, not only Gao Quan was stunned, but also Commander-in-Chief Zhang, who had seen a big scene in a car, was stunned.

Lieutenant Colonel Xie, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, saw many military generals who had just come to Chongqing, and when he saw this scene in surprise, he turned around and turned half of his body, and explained in a sad voice that since the beginning of last year, Chongqing has often been bombed by Japanese planes, and the bombing on the 3rd and 4th of last month was the most tragic, and the devil planes dropped a large number of incendiary bombs in the central area of Chongqing, and the urban area was burned by fire for two days, resulting in half of the city being burned to the ground, and tens of thousands of people were killed and wounded.

It is only June now, that is to say, on 3 and 4 May, the devil planes bombed Chongqing in a focused way, and this is another blood debt owed by the Japanese invaders to our people, the "5354 bombing of Chongqing."

The city is full of desolation, this is China's companion capital, the seat of China's government, the two generals who were talking very warmly just now, all of them have no interest in talking again, Gao Quan's face is as cold as ice, Zhang Zizhong looked out of the car window, a pair of tiger eyes sparkling.

This kind of thing, it's useless to talk too much, the facts are right in front of you, Lieutenant Colonel Xie just briefly introduced the situation, and let the two generals see the rest by themselves, they are from Chongqing, and Lieutenant Colonel Xie also had relatives and friends who died in the bombing, and he felt uncomfortable if he talked too much.

As the senior service personnel of the Military Commission responsible for ushering in the delivery, Lieutenant Colonel Xie's job is basically to pick up the airport, pick up the car, plus see him off, during this period of time, the senior officers in Chongqing, when they see this tragic scene, none of them have a peaceful mind, in case they meet the grumpy one, and after reading the street scene, they are in a bad mood, and then they say two unpleasant words to him, then it is not worth it, this kind of thing is not nothing.

In the dreary journey, the car sent the two generals and their attachés to the accommodation, because they were both from the Fifth War Zone, and the two arrived on the same plane, and the purpose was also the same, so the two of them were a general and a lieutenant general, although their positions were different, and their military ranks were almost the same, and the lieutenant colonel Xie of the Military Commission arranged the two generals in two adjacent houses.

Gao Quan naturally has no opinion on the arrangement of the accommodation, in fact, not to mention that this is still an independent apartment, even if he opens a single room in a guest house, he will not have any opinions, it is rare that Zhang Zizhong also expressed his satisfaction with this arrangement, and also expressed his gratitude to Lieutenant Colonel Xie.

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