Yu Peidi was willing to serve as the commander-in-chief of the engineering troops, but he also put forward a condition, he wanted people, and it was impossible for him to lead this army alone. Zhuang Jihua generously agreed, and transferred him a 300-man escort team and 100 political workers, which were under his full command.

However, Zhuang Jihua was still not at ease, he accompanied Yu Peidi to take office, but when they received the troops in Mianyang, the hearts of the two sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

What kind of people are the eliminated people, they look at the young, healthy, strong and mighty soldiers at the base, they really can't accept it for a while, their faces are yellow and thin, and they yawn after standing for a while; an uncle with a scruffy beard and gray hair; There are also officers with unconvinced faces.

Zhuang Jihua sighed in his heart, but he also had to cheer up their spirits: "Brothers, this is a new army, the mission of this army is not to fight, but to support operations, so their name is the engineering corps, they are professional engineering troops, responsible for the construction of large-scale projects, such as airfields, combat roads, military bases, etc., you will be the first generation of engineering soldiers in the Chinese [***] team." ”

"General Zhuang, we are soldiers, not coolies, damn, we have fought for more than ten years, and finally became coolies, and you officials don't treat us as people!" A bearded officer shouted.

The officer's words did not provoke many soldiers to respond, these people have long been numb, as long as they can continue to receive that salary; But his words aroused a lot of response among the officers, who were gossiping, talking, and emotional.

The captain of the escort team in charge of the guard glanced at Zhuang Jihua and made a gesture with his hand, and the soldiers of the surrounding escort team immediately raised their vigilance and began to prepare for contingencies.

"Soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty," Zhuang Jihua said loudly, his eyes stared majestically at the officers who were talking in the queue, and the voices of these officers gradually became quieter, so Zhuang Jihua continued: "The second duty of a soldier is to protect the family and defend the country; The country is in trouble, we soldiers should rush to the front, and soldiers are not just holding guns. Brethren, engineers are also soldiers and soldiers! I want to make it clear to you that your work is very arduous, your mission is eternal, and when you are old, you can point to the map and say to your children and grandchildren, we built this road! We built this airport! We built this power station! We didn't fight much, but we changed the planet! ”

Zhuang Jihua's voice became louder and louder, his expression became more and more solemn, and the eyes of those officers became brighter and brighter, and his chest became higher and higher.

"Now I declare that anyone who does not want to participate in the engineering army can take off his military uniform and receive a severance pay of twenty fiat dollars per person, we don't want such cowards and cowards!"

The officers looked left and right, and no one moved, it was not a question of twenty dollars, it was a question of the dignity of men and their livelihood in the future.

This somewhat familiar scene made Yu Peidi very emotional, Zhuang Jihua was also like this back then, first to solve the officers, and then to control the troops, he seemed to have a way at any time.

Yu Peidi smoothly took over the engineering troops, but at this time the engineering troops could not be used, and they had to first detoxify and carry out ideological education; the escort corps and political workers were dispersed into the troops and began to conduct rectification and training; opium smokers were gathered together for compulsory drug rehabilitation, and the officers were organized into study teams to explain the importance of building the Sichuan-Tibet Highway. When Zhuang Jihua left Mianyang, the personnel who had been eliminated from various units began to be stationed in the engineering unit camp one after another, and Yu Peidi formed the command team of the engineering unit.

In Mianyang, Zhuang Jihua also made a special trip to visit Xue Yue, at this time Xue Yue was complacent, he commanded an army of 50,000 to pursue the Red Army, across seven provinces, a battle of Baizhang Pass, his flank attack for the final defeat of the Red Army made a special contribution.

Holding heavy troops, full of ambition, Xue Yue's arrogance also came up, and he looked down on the generals in Sichuan, and the generals in Sichuan did not like to take care of him, he was very lonely in Sichuan, and when he heard the news of Zhuang Jihua's arrival, Xue Yue immediately greeted the camp gate, which surprised the adjutant of the report.

However, Zhuang Jihua saw that Xue Yue had nothing to do, it was purely to visit old friends, and Niu Xing was bloody together, and the friendship of life and death broke out at the threshold of life and death. The two played inside and outside Mianyang City for two days before parting, and when they left, Zhuang Jihua told Xue Yue that he asked him to send someone to Yucheng to get a batch of ammunition, and he prepared a batch of weapons and ammunition for him, which made Xue Yue so happy that he almost jumped up, and after the battle of Baizhang Pass, his troops were still short of ammunition.

After Zhuang Jihua returned to Chengdu, he met with Liu Xiang and He Guoguang respectively, and he proposed to Liu Xiang to strengthen the verification of rent and interest reduction, and resolutely crack down on any action that undermines rent and interest reduction, and Liu Xiang hesitated to agree. Then Zhuang Jihua took Xiao Yisu away from He Guoguang, and He Guoguang was so angry that he scolded Zhuang Jihua for not being a friend enough, and dug the foot of the wall and dug into his head.

In 1936, the construction of the Yucheng area began a new round of expansion and new good news, the biggest news for the public is that the automobile factory in Yucheng produced the Qiangguo brand car off the assembly line, this car is very different from Zhang Xueliang's car that year, it is a completely domestic car, every part is produced domestically, smooth and full of wild appearance, the new paint can reflect the appearance of people, when the driver triumphantly boarded the cab, drove this look bulky car in the test field around the field quickly, The reporters could not help but applaud enthusiastically, China finally has its own car.

However, behind the warm applause, every technology of this car came from the United States, Chrysler Dodge, and Zhuang Jihua paid a lot of money to buy the technology of this car from them, and the car factory that Germany promised to build has not yet waited two months before it can be put into production.

However, Dodge eventually touched the Germans, who thought that Zhuang Jihua was ready to put aside their cooperation with the Americans, and based on this judgment, they quickly agreed to agree to transfer chassis technology, and at the same time make concessions on the steel plant project and transfer a number of technologies.

The sunshine of April spring was peaceful, in a mountain bag in Zhangguan Mountain, Jiangbei, surrounded by soldiers with loaded guns, and the villagers around were strictly forbidden to enter this area, several small cars rolled up long dust, and drove into the area that was enclosed by barbed wire, a group of officers got out of the car and walked quickly into the newly built hut on the hillside, not far from the hut stood a huge iron frame, which was still rotating.

"Direction xxx, height xxx, number x frames."

With the report of the worker, the room resounded with cheers, "Success!" It worked! ”。

"Thank you! Thank you! The ecstatic Zhuang Jihua hugged everyone in the room, whether it was a man or a woman, and everyone was infected by his joy: "I want to take credit for you!" I would like to ask the Chairman to award you this medal! Zhuang Jihua shouted: "We have a secret weapon to defeat the Yuben Air Force!" ”

"Puffy!" Yu Peidi opened a bottle of champagne, poured wine into the wine glass on the table, and then picked up a glass of wine, and everyone consciously went over to pick up the wine glass.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have opened a door to victory! Our hard work for more than a year has not been in vain! Cheers! Yu Dawei raised his wine glass high, with an extremely excited smile on his face.

"Cheers!" Joy pervades every corner of the room.

However, after leaving the room and getting in the car, Zhuang Jihua said to Yu Dawei comfortably: "Brother, can you send a telegram to the German [***] affairs advisory group and ask them to come and see this thing." ”

Yu Dawei was startled, and his originally somewhat lax body immediately tensed: "Cultural Revolution, what do you want to do?"

"Nothing, just trying to trade something with them." Zhuang Jihua said slowly: "For example, tanks, self-propelled artillery, aircraft factories and so on. ”

"You, what a merchant." Yu Dawei scolded with a smile and leaned heavily on the chair.

The car started, the mountain wind whistled into the car, along the rugged mountain road, the mountains and forests on both sides were lush, breathing the fresh air in the mountains, Zhuang Jihua couldn't help but be a little intoxicated, he saw the Germans send factories to him, and begged him to accept it.

"No," Yu Dawei suddenly shouted, startling the driver and couldn't help but pause.

"What's wrong?" Zhuang Jihua frowned, he was very dissatisfied with Yu Dawei interrupting his sweet dream: "You will scare people to death like this." ”

"Cultural Revolution, there's a big loophole in your plan, you know?" Yu Dawei said solemnly: "The relationship between Germany and Yueben is also very good, what should he do if he wants to sell the radar to Yueben?" ”

Zhuang Jihua was stunned for a moment, woke up from a sweet dream, the fresh air was not so fresh, and he looked out of the car window blankly. Yu Dawei's reminder was very timely, and it was not bad that with the relationship between Germany and Yueben, it was entirely possible to tell Yue himself the secret of the radar, and even transfer the manufacturing technology to Yue himself, so that more than a year's hard work would come to naught.

"You're really disappointed, you can't let me dream more." Zhuang Jihua said distressedly, he has no idea now.

"After all, a dream is also a dream, and you wake up whenever you wake up," Seeing Zhuang Jihua's somewhat painful look, Yu Dawei couldn't help but smile and said: "I think it's better to forget it, you can't take this risk." ”

Zhuang Jihua was speechless, he sighed heavily: "This radar can't replace tanks and armored vehicles, so what should I do?" ”

"Doesn't the United States have it?" Yu Dawei asked rhetorically: "These things are not unique to Germany, right? ”

"The Yankees are too stingy, and they are absolutely reluctant to spend so much money." Zhuang Jihua felt a little bored, and felt a little funny, holding a golden job bowl but having to beg for food, it's really funny, now there are a lot of tanks and armored vehicles in the world that can be built, but in addition to Germany, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, the protagonists of World War II, who are they blackmailing?

Soviet Russia, these two words jumped into Zhuang Jihua's head, he will not make a deal with Yuben, nor will he trade with Germany, out of the closed state of Soviet Russia, and at the same time extremely worried about their own safety, they should pay a lot of money.

Note: Britain set up the first coastal radar in 1936, so China was not the first country to invent radar, and once again the protagonist is poor historical knowledge.

Zhuang Jihua (furious): Who said I didn't know, it was the bastard who didn't let me know!!!!!!

(To be continued)