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Chapter 1109 Sunny Day

In the golden autumn season of southern Yunnan, flowers are blooming, melons and fruits are fragrant, and Simao City, which has been doubled and expanded, is like a bright pearl, flashing in the green bushes. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After several years of silent development, the beautiful Simao City has 850,000 residents, the ancient city wall that has stood for hundreds of years has been completely preserved, the only change is that the four city gates in the east, west, north and south have been expanded several times, and the towering heavy eaves city tower is a four-lane cement pavement, which is connected with the ring road around the ancient city. With the rapid development of the city, the ancient city has become a city in the city, the newly built schools, hospitals, processing industrial areas, residential areas, farmers' markets, transportation stations, parks, etc. outside the city wall take the ancient city as the center, and diverge in a ring outward, all kinds of buildings with national characteristics are lined up one after another, scattered, between a piece of residential area and commercial street, the giant trees become forests, the flower beds stretch, the most prosperous west market in the center of the city, compared with the Nanjing Road in Shanghai, is not inferior at all.

Southern Yunnan has never been so prosperous since ancient times, and it can be seen in the smiling faces of people with different accents and costumes on the streets, from the buses, new trucks, off-road vehicles and motorcycles shuttling around, and from the singing of tape recorders in the close-knit shops on the streets.

Three military off-road vehicles of the South Yunnan Joint Logistics Command drove out of the airport, gradually accelerated, drove over the "Rainbow Bridge" on the Simao River, and then entered the Chengbei Avenue. As the convoy gets closer to Simao City, the pedestrians on both sides of the road become more and more bustling, and the shops on the street have gradually changed from sparse to closely connected, with grocery stores, clothing stores, restaurants, bicycle shops, motorcycle shops, audio-visual product stores, etc.

At this time, Gu Zhutong and Zeng Guangqing in the second car were already speechless in surprise, until the convoy turned south at an intersection with flashing traffic lights, and the majestic North City Tower appeared in front of them, and the two took their eyes back from the car window, glanced at each other, and slowly exhaled.

After getting off the plane, the scientific layout, huge scale and advanced facilities of Simao Airport are not inferior to Minjiang Airport, a famous large airport in the country, and it is within the sight of Gu Zhutong and Zeng Guangqing, which has made Gu Zhutong and Zeng Guangqing deeply surprised and sighed frequently. Everything they saw along the way out of the airport made the two of them dizzy, and they wondered if the city full of life and beauty like a garden was really the legendary wild place? How could all kinds of cars, motorcycles, and bicycles that come and go more than the streets of Nanjing City appear in this remote border area?

If it weren't for the people wearing their own national costumes on both sides of the avenue, the exotic buildings, and the cheerful crowds singing and dancing in some community squares with sheng flutes, pipes, flutes, huqins and zithers, Gu Zhutong and Zeng Kuoqing really wondered if they were in a dream.

"Chief Gu, Chief Zeng, enter the city through the north gate, and soon arrive at our appeasement office, the two commanders are tired from the journey, and it will be dinner time to rest for a while, tonight our Joint Logistics Command and the Pacification Office will work together to set up wine for the two commanders, you must appreciate your face, haha!"

Xia Jian, who was sitting in the front row, turned his head and said with a smile.

Gu Zhutong nodded, and then asked with a smile: "Thank you very much for your hospitality, the so-called local customs, we naturally want to attend." By the way, Commander Xia, I don't know if your Commander An can come back tonight? ”

Xia Jian said with some embarrassment: "Oh, it's hard to say this, Boss An only flew in the car early this morning (now Jinghong), at this time, I'm afraid he has arrived at Baimeng Town, which is adjacent to Myanmar to the south of the Nanlan River, and he won't be able to come back for a while!" At that time, Commander An was still inspecting the position of the air defense regiment at Simao Airport, and then he flew into the car, and the younger brother couldn't catch up even if he wanted to...... Alas, by mistake, I am always half a step late, ashamed! ”

"Bai Meng Town? There is no such place name on the map, before coming to Yunnan, I had specifically looked for a map of Yunnan to see, and I had no impression...... Oh yes, is this Baimeng Town a disputed area that you and the British are fighting for? I remember on the map of the British, it seemed to be called 'Mongla', right? ”

Zeng Guangqing secretly complained, but he didn't expect An Yi to go to such a distant disputed area on the Sino-Burmese border, especially when he heard the name of "Baimeng Town", which he had never heard before, he was very surprised. Gu Zhutong had also studied the map of southern Yunnan before leaving, so he also looked at Xia Jian in surprise, waiting for him to explain further.

Xia Jian shook his head again and again: "No, no, the two chiefs, like me, were fooled by the British before." That's right, that place did have a village called Mengla, but the villagers are all our Yunnan people, including Baimang Village across the river from Mengla, the two villages add up to more than 800 men, women and children, all of them are Chinese, there are Han, Pengyi and Hui, it has always been the land of China, the Manchu Qing Dynasty once erected a five-foot-high boundary monument there, but it was secretly moved to the east bank of the Taluo River by the British Yankees who did not want to face it, no one paid attention to this matter, and the Yunnan Provincial Government could not manage it at that time, In the end, the British brazen said that the territory on the west bank of the Taluo River was all theirs, and that over the past few decades, the crossing of the Taluo River has gradually become an important distribution center for the British to smuggle opium to Yunnan, Annam, and the Liangguang region. ”

"Hundreds of tons of smuggled opium every year? Obedient...... How do you come up with the numbers? ”

Gu Zhutong was taken aback, and suddenly understood in his heart why An Yi had so much money for the army and local construction, just judging from the huge changes in Simao Airport and Simao City, all kinds of black income were indispensable.

Xia Jian's eyebrows fluttered and said: "This figure is still a conservative estimate, it was investigated and counted by the headquarters *** department and the officials of the former Simao Reclamation Prefecture, first the opium trade volume calculated in kilograms was exchanged for kilograms, and finally such a data was obtained - the year before, for example, no less than 250 tons of opium were smuggled through this port, which is really a large number...... Ha ha! But now it's gone, let's settle down to protect the territory for the people, and we don't bother to do this kind of illegal trade at all! ”

Gu Zhu thought that the ghost would believe your words, Zeng Guangqing smiled slightly, and did not continue the topic, but asked about the origin of Bai Meng Town again.

Xia Jian shrugged his shoulders, "After the end of the Sino-Burmese border war, we began to overhaul the road, originally thought that Mengla was really the land of Myanmar, and hesitated to connect with the road built by the British, but when I inquired with the local people, I realized that we were fooled." After hearing the report of the southern Yunnan garrison force, the commander attached great importance to it and lost his temper with a cadre of generals, including the younger brother, saying how can this be done? Could it be that the British have drawn the capital of southern Yunnan into the territory of Burma, and we must also retreat? If you don't take back your own land, how can you go to see your ancestors? The younger brother did not dare to slack off, and ordered the 87th Brigade of the 30th Division to drive over that night, and the officers and men of a company of the Burmese army stationed in the village saw that our soldiers were strong and strong, and retreated to the south of the traditional border line, and then set up a simple sentry post there.

"After our troops were successfully stationed, they immediately built a checkpoint opposite the Burmese outpost, and then moved the boundary marker and placed it in the middle of the two checkpoints. It took only one night for the sappers to connect our highway with the road built by the British.

"Later, according to the commander's order, and the unanimous consent of the local people, we merged the two villages across the river into one, officially renamed Baimeng Town, after more than half a year of construction, in the 87th Brigade officers and soldiers, local villagers and 8,000 immigrants from northern Sichuan migrated to the joint efforts, now it is a prosperous town with a population of more than 20,000 people, with medical stations, schools, markets and a large number of shops and workshops, every day groups of Burmese and even British come to do business with our border people, all kinds of commodities transported from southern Sichuan, In the town of Bai Meng, almost all of them are sold to Taunggyi and Mandalay, where almost every household has built beautiful buildings, and large tracts of land on both sides of the river valley are planted with rice and sugar cane.

"It's funny to say that the Burmese on the other side of the checkpoint are very peaceful, and they don't dispute this, and they have built a large number of houses along the checkpoints and along the road, and it is now a small market town. Only the British are not convinced, but they don't dare to reason with us, so they can only go to Nanjing to croak, can they not be convinced? We're the *** act of recovering the land, haha...... Yo, it's here! The ancient building in front is now the Pacification Office, and the antique building we came in is the government guest house that has just been completed, and the military headquarters and joint logistics headquarters of the younger brother are on the bank of the Xima River in the east. ”

Gu Zhutong and Zeng Guangqing had no choice but to get out of the car, and instructed the adjutant guards in the car behind them to carry their luggage to the guest house and settle down first.

Deng Bin, deputy commander of the 26 th Army, Yu Zhixiang, commander of the 3rd Air Regiment, Ma Yuanjiang, deputy commander of the garrison headquarters, and Wang Buyun, chief of staff, and other generals and colonels had already greeted them, saluted and warmly greeted Gu Zhutong and Zeng Guangqing.

The next morning, Gu Zhutong and Zeng Guangqing, who were filled with a mess by the enthusiastic and hot girl of the Wuyi tribe, woke up, only to feel that their heads were heavy, and the surrounding scenery was still shaking.

Gu Zhutong scratched his head, suddenly remembered something, walked to Zeng Kuoqing next door, and asked, "What did Xiao Yi say when he called back last night?" ”

"Huh? Didn't that kid Xia Jian tell you? I want to ask you. ”

Zeng Guangqing opened his eyes and said in great surprise.

"His grandmother's An Yi! It must be that he is making trouble behind his back, so that his brothers and the gentry and celebrities in the public office get a group of female officials of the Wuyi tribe to irrigate us, saying that respecting national feelings and national customs, and not drinking is to hinder their work, and make us helpless...... Damn, only he can do this kind of thing! Gu Zhutong came to his senses and was annoyed.

Zeng Kuoqing's face was slightly red, he lifted his glasses, and asked in a low voice, "That'...... Chief Gu, what should we do? ”

"What to do? Immediately go to the 26th Army camp to find Xia Jian, first send a telegram to the principal, saying that everything is going well, and then let Xia Jian arrange it, we are in the flying car, we can't see An Yi's grandson, can we make a difference after we go back? ”

After Gu Zhutong finished speaking, he turned around and left, Zeng Guangqing hurriedly instructed the adjutant to prepare his suit, and he quickly chased Gu Zhutong who went downstairs.

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"Smack-"

After the gunshot, there was another loud cheer, An Yi handed the rifle to Lin Yaodong behind him, turned the brim of the training hat on his head to the front with great satisfaction, and watched a few soldiers of the 87th Brigade run towards the prey.

Under the bright sunshine, the Mengma Mountains are lush and green, the frightened eagles in the sky spread their wings and soared, and a group of wild birds in the southwest flapped their wings and flew together after the gunshots, a gentle whining, in the aftermath of the reverberating gunfire in the mountains, it looked very beautiful.

Pei Guangrong, the colonel of the 87th Brigade, who was also wearing a non-commissioned officer training uniform, approached An Yi and praised with great admiration: "The commander's marksmanship has not only not regressed, it seems to be more accurate than before, today the commander only fired three shots, and shot down two wild deer and a yellow sheep, the distance is two hundred meters away, and in such a high level of wind speed, I am afraid that my subordinates will not be able to practice for another ten years." ”

An Yi pointed at Pei Guangrong and smiled: "Glory, you are also from the special brigade directly under the headquarters, Xiao Jin said that your marksmanship can enter the top ten in the special brigade, and your command level and comprehensive ability are outstanding, which made you come to the 30th Division as a brigade commander, and Xia Jian and Deng Bin are very important to you, if you kid likes to pat the whiskers and horses, I will consider whether to transfer you to the *** department of the exhibition, I am afraid you will be more useful when you get there." ”

Pei Guangrong was shocked: "No, no! Don't, Commander, can't your subordinates know that they are wrong? Don't send your subordinates to the rear! ”

The generals on the mountainside laughed when they saw Pei Guangrong's anxious grandson, and before they could finish laughing, they saw Shen Fengdao walking up to An Yi and whispering a few words.

Pei Guangrong thought badly, if he let Lao Shen worry about it, this life would be over, but he found that An Yi did not look at him, but at the simple road under the mountain, and immediately looked down with everyone, only to see his chief of staff quickly jump out of the first car, and respectfully ran to the second car to stand.

The car door opened, and the sturdy figure of Xia Jian in the military seat got out of the front of the car, and then two strangers wearing straight general's uniforms got down from the back seat, and the two walked up the high hurdle on the side of the road with Xia Jian, raised their heads and looked up with their hands to cover the dazzling sunlight.

"Commander, you look like Chief Zeng, right?"

Garrison Commander Dai Zhengliang had seen Zeng Guangqing a few times, and at a distance of less than eighty meters, he could see at a glance that it was Zeng Guangqing, but he didn't know Gu Zhutong on Xia Jian's side.

An Yi nodded, and before he could speak, an angry scold came from the bottom of the mountain: "An Yi, your grandson, you get down for Lao Tzu-"

The generals on the mountain changed color, but they heard An Yi helplessly scolding his mother: "Xia Jian on the dog day can't even support it for two days, alas, ......"