At three o'clock in the afternoon, An Yi was ordered to come to the Kuomintang Central Party Headquarters in Dingjiaqiao to make a review, receive education, and was warmly received by Gong Qian and Chen Guofu.

Chen Guofu gave An Yi a task, asking him to select some talents from the officers of the old Nanchang Recruitment Office and the Preparatory Office of the Non-commissioned Officer School as much as possible to study in the first phase of the political training school of the party department. An Yi was worried about his new position, but although he didn't understand Chen Guofu's intentions, he still agreed to send a telegram to the old Nanchang base.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, An Yi led the guard chief Lin Yaodong and another guard to the Xiaguan Instructor Barracks to report, and saw the battalion commanders who came in to greet him, An Yi was immediately happy:

Du Yuming, who had been arranged to serve as a lieutenant colonel squadron leader at the Nanjing Huangpu School, temporarily served as the head of the second regiment of the instructor, Luo Qun and Li Zhengtao in the first phase, Liu Ziqing and Zheng Jiemin in the second phase, and more than a dozen Huangpu brothers were all concentrated here, and a large number of classmates in the third, fourth, and fifth phases served as company and platoon commanders in the various regiments of the instructor.

Zhang Zhizhong, the division commander and party representative, cared very much about his student An Yi, from meeting to instructing Du Yuming and Zheng Jiemin to take An Yi out to familiarize himself with the regiments and camps, he did not say a word of reproach, as if An Yi was originally the head of the regiment under him, and after asking An Yi's whereabouts, he did not deliberately ask An Yi to live in the barracks, and sent An Yi away with a few words of encouragement.

The field was full of companies and platoons of intense training, and the more than 5,000 newly recruited recruits mechanically repeated basic movements such as queue training and gun holding to the sound of the slogans of commanders at all levels.

Du Yuming saw the smile on the corner of An Yi's mouth and asked in a low voice:

"Xiao Yi, you must look down on these recruits, compared to the elites under your command who have survived a hundred battles, they must be far behind, right? It's a pity, I have never had the opportunity to come out to lead the troops, last year when the Northern Expedition began, many junior brothers and disciples have made many meritorious deeds, and have already stood out, but I have been left in the military academy to train recruits, I will only read the war newspapers about the soldiers, the actual combat experience is far worse than yours, you have time to teach me. ”

"Senior Brother Du, don't say that, only knowing soldiers can lead good soldiers, you, belong to the kind of doers who don't show the mountains and don't show their water, I believe that it won't be long before you will be on the front line, I believe that Senior Brother's future military position will never be under anyone in my Huangpu comrades, there is a saying that if you don't Ming, you have already made a blockbuster, it is a person like you, if you don't believe it, we can bet on it......" An Yi said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Du Yuming gave An Yi a punch: "Hmph, are you kid sarcastic about me?" When I was in Hangzhou, Brother Mu Yi (Zeng Kuoqingzi) asked me which division I wanted to go to? I said that I wanted your reading teacher to take up the post, even if it was a company platoon commander, Mu Yi also agreed, saying that he was drinking with you when he left Nanjing, and you once proposed to find a way to transfer me to your reading teacher, which made me secretly happy for a long time, but after the distribution plan was reported to the General Headquarters, I was forced to stay by Zhang Education, saying that I was needed to prepare for the military academy, Yaoquan (Zheng Jiemin) had just returned from studying in Russia, and was also temporarily transferred to the teaching instructor as the party representative, The battalion commanders of each regiment are basically our alumni of the 123rd phase of Whampoa, so as to maintain the purity of the team. Looking at this posture, I can't go to the front line for a year and a half, and I have to honestly nest in the back to lead newcomers, aggrieved! ”

"Probably not, isn't the military headquarters of our First Army now working on a plan to expand the army? It is almost completed, and the preliminary plan is to expand the first army into three armies, and I heard that the numbers of the other two new armies have been determined, but they have not been revealed, and when the time comes, all armies will need divisional, regimental, and battalion-level officers, and with the outstanding talents of the two senior brothers, it is not an exaggeration to be a division commander, and even the shallow qualifications of the younger brother are mixed with the division commander......"

Speaking of this, An Yi suddenly realized that he was no longer the teacher, smiled awkwardly, and continued: "The future of the two senior brothers is definitely better than that of the younger brother, but they need to be patient for a while, it's nothing, just rest assured!" ”

Zheng Jiemin shook his head: "We only learned that the punishment for you was so heavy this afternoon, and now it is a critical moment in the battle of Xuzhou, but you are not in your own reading teacher, which makes it very difficult for us brothers to understand, although your anti-British remarks are a bit excessive, but who doesn't know that these are facts?" Do you think that by punishing you, you can save the current bad situation? I really don't know what the headmaster thinks. ”

"You can't blame the principal for this, he has already withstood a lot of pressure for his little brother. You don't know, the old guys of the Central Political Axe who are vegetarian in the corpse originally had to expel the younger brother from the army and the party, as if Lao Tzu had shoveled out their ancestral graves, and hated the younger brother, if it weren't for the severe opposition of the principal and Minister Chen of the party department, I might have discharged my armor and returned to Nanchang now. ”

An Yi's resentment could not be suppressed, and the words he said were also very mean, seeing the smiles on the faces of the two senior brothers, he knew that his words were out of control, and he smiled, and immediately asked the two senior brothers to take him to see the supplementary group that was about to be in charge.

Du Yuming stopped and pointed to the training team in front of him: "Don't look for it, this is your supplementary regiment, there are only 800 people, and because it came relatively late, the queue has not been trained, so guns and ammunition have not yet been distributed...... Brother Tianyi, let's see who is coming? ”

Fang Tian, who was sweating profusely, saw An Yi and hurriedly ran over, and was just about to salute when An Yi stopped him: "Old Fang, don't make fun of your little brother, who are we with, salute each other!" ”

Fang Tian, whose ancestral home is in Ganzhou, laughed when he heard this, pointed at An Yi and said: "You guy is still that virtuous, as long as there is no division commander present, I won't see you passing by, haha!" Wait, I gathered the team and asked the brethren to welcome the leader. ”

After Fang Tian finished speaking, he turned around and left, several battalion commanders blew their whistles under Fang Tian's orders, and more than eight hundred tired and half-dead recruits lazily trotted together.

An Yi glanced left and right, frowned and whispered:

"The younger brother walked around, and the officers and soldiers he saw everywhere he went looked listless, and his mental outlook was very problematic! Is this still a teacher? What the hell is going on? ”

Du Yuming shook his head bitterly: "Many of these recruits came to join the army after graduating from middle school, even if they graduated from junior college, there are just ...... In the current chaotic situation, many people do not know which camp they belong to, why are they like fire and water with Wuhan, which is also a revolutionary army? Even the juniors and disciples of the fourth and fifth phases were worried and asked us regiment and battalion commanders whether they would go to war with the Wuhan army, what do you say we can say? Seeing the current chaotic state of mind, Education Chief Zhang and the division commander were helpless, and no one knew how to answer, which was nerve-wracking! ”

"I see, I see." An Yi nodded thoughtfully.

Zheng Jiemin asked curiously: "Xiao Yi, this won't be the case for your reading master, right?" ”

"It's different, it's completely different! On the front line, everything revolves around the war, and the officers and men are thinking about how to win the battle quickly and easily, how to avoid unnecessary casualties, and no one has time to consider such ideological differences. In addition, our political education work is also different, and we instill in our officers and men all day long the ideal of defeating the warlords and reunifying the motherland, so it is relatively easy to bring some of the troops; in addition, more than 60 percent of the soldiers in our reading division are illiterate, and their minds only think about how to make meritorious service and get promoted to an official position, and they have not thought of so many things for the time being. An Yi told the truth.

Zheng Jiemin said with a smile: "I heard that General Li Zongren's Seventh Army did just that, although they did not have a single Whampoa student in the whole army, but compared with us, they are better at controlling the thinking of officers and soldiers at all levels, and they also insist on the education of foolishness and loyalty, and the whole army only recognizes their commanders. ”

"Yes, I also know something, it's like this, almost all of them are illiterate, but the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and the officers and soldiers don't have any other ideas in their heads, and they are fighting in one place, and that's why they ...... Hey, the old man is here, and it seems that I have to say a few words. ”

An Yi saluted Fang Tian, who was trotting over, and strode to the front of the team of more than eight hundred people, Du Yuming and Zheng Jiemin stood in place with great interest, seeing what their little junior brother with great achievements would say.

An Yi strictly followed the military regulations, and saluted the three senior brothers and battalion commanders who came to report one by one, Fang Tian opened his voice and told everyone An Yi's identity, which immediately attracted the warm cheers of more than 800 soldiers, after all, it is really exciting to see the hero in his heart so closely, not to mention that An Yi, a great hero respected by the whole army, has now become his own regiment commander.

An Yi returned the salute, glanced around the venue, puffed up his chest and asked loudly, "Brothers, are you tired?" ”

"Not tired!"

The voice of the answer rang out, and a loud echo could be heard filled with joy.

An Yi nodded, with a hint of banter flashing in his eyes: "Very good!" Since you are not tired, then continue to practice, and run ten laps around the field to almost start eating. ”

So everyone was stunned, hundreds of officers and soldiers immediately quieted down, and the officers and soldiers all looked at An Yi incredulously, An Yi saw that several battalion commanders did not move, and couldn't help but sink his face and asked loudly:

"The first battalion commander, the second battalion commander, and the third battalion commander, didn't you hear my order?"

"Yes!"

Seeing that An Yi didn't seem to be joking, the three battalion commanders immediately saluted and ran back to the battalions as ordered, and after a while, more than 800 people ran around the 500-meter-long field.

An Yi whispered to Fang Tian to go and chat with Du Yuming, Fang Tianwan smiled and followed him: "Lao Tzu is considered to obey you, as soon as you come, I will give the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment a dismount, I think no one will dare to disobey your orders in the future." ”

"Hehe, who told them not to tell the truth? You deserve to run! An Yi walked up to Du Yuming and Zheng Jiemin, who were overjoyed, raised his head and said, "What are you laughing at?" Disappointed? ”

Du Yuming laughed: "I thought you would greatly motivate and boost the morale of the officers and soldiers, but I didn't expect you kid to be so vicious, and punish people for running as soon as you come, I'm afraid that the recruits' good impression of you will be lost all of a sudden, haha!" ”

"That's it, looking at you like this, there are many officers and soldiers under your command who have been tortured in the Reading Division, and I suddenly understand why your troops are so successful." Zheng Jiemin also smiled.

An Yi didn't mean to laugh at all, but frowned and said seriously: "The senior brothers are all wrong, when I was reading a force division, I often went down to the company to train with the officers and soldiers, and I didn't need to torture them at all, every company commander and platoon commander would be difficult and strict with their soldiers, and every time they trained, the commander at the battalion commander level must be in front of the soldiers, so the soldiers are all convinced, everyone is vying for the lead, where are they like these bastards, with a bitter face like I owe them money and don't pay it back, it's really useless!" ”

Fang Tian's eyes widened and he asked in great surprise, "Are you so strict?" ”

"Yes, it doesn't hurt to tell the senior brothers, the training volume and training intensity of the officers and soldiers of our reading division are the largest among all armies and divisions, and during the non-combat period, a five-kilometer fully armed cross-country thunder cannot be moved every day, and the officers and soldiers of the cooking squad have to carry the cauldron and run along, not to mention other combat units, one or two times a week at night, and once a month at the battalion level training competition, so this is a little bit of a record, otherwise where can the little brother use the limited officers and soldiers so easily?" An Yi explained with a sigh.

Du Yuming and others had always heard that the training of An Yi's troops was the most difficult in the whole army, but they didn't expect An Yi to say that it was much more difficult than they imagined, and they couldn't help but look at each other.

Du Yuming asked expectantly: "Can the officers and soldiers afford such a practice?" ”

"It's no problem at all, the first week was really uncomfortable, after this period of time, it's fine, I'll send a copy of the training manual compiled by Ji Nan to all the senior brothers, there are a lot of data in it that can be referenced, but there is one thing I don't know if the senior brothers can solve, that is, the supplement of nutrition and the prevention of injuries and diseases of officers and soldiers, this is very important, and the combat effectiveness will come up at once." An Yi has no selfishness.

Du Yuming nodded happily, the three of them were very eager to get the famous training manual of An Yi's troops, and after talking for a while, Zheng Jiemin said with some regret:

"I originally wanted to give you a drink tonight, but I happened to encounter the political study of officers at and above the company level in the whole division, so I can only change it to tomorrow night. You just came here and don't have to participate tonight, the division seat also gave you a holiday just now, you have just arrived in Nanjing to settle down and have a lot of things, come back tomorrow. ”

An Yi nodded, said goodbye after a few words of conversation with Fang Tian, walked out of the barracks and told Lin Yaodong to go back to greet the brothers of the Yangtze Hotel, and he would go to his sister's house to eat and discuss something.

Lin Yaodong naturally didn't say anything, and signaled the guard squad leader under his command to secretly follow and protect, and returned to the Yangtze Hotel alone to quietly arrange tonight's security tasks, Lin Yaodong thought that maybe An Yi would not go back to the hotel tonight.

(To be continued)