This is a Jianghuai squire's house, the tall gatehouse is connected to the red brick wall on both sides, the three steps made of bluestone slabs are very tightly connected with the wooden threshold, and a bluestone lion is placed on each side of the steps. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Inside the info gatehouse are two spacious and elegant upper rooms and wings paved with blue tiles and red bricks, as well as a relatively quiet backyard. This house is now occupied by the *** army, there are several gun-wielding sentries wearing steel helmets standing at the gate, the two gates are open, and *** soldiers come in and out from time to time.

A young woman in a boat-shaped hat, an American-style Ka Ji jacket uniform, and a captain's epaulette came out of the front row of the West Wing with a telegram in her twenties, her ears were permed, her skin was fair, her facial features were marked, and her body was well-proportioned. She is Liu Yan, secretary of the military department. At this moment, she walked along the cloister passage to the door of the front hall, and immediately said, "Report." ”

An officer was sitting on the chair in the center of the room, waving his hand and saying, "Come in." "He is in his early forties, with a rectangular face, a big nose, a tall figure, and two gold stars on his yellow tweed uniform, he is the commander of the *** 74th Army, Lieutenant General Tang Jinshan. His Sanqi development style was neatly combed and shiny, the beard on his upper lip, chin and cheeks was cleanly shaved and blue, and the military uniform was tightly buttoned, and there were no wrinkles on the military uniform.

At this moment, his two hands were on the Eight Immortals table, and across the Eight Immortals table sat a young woman wearing a lieutenant's military uniform and a camera around her neck, she was Xu Li, a reporter from the Central News Agency. Her facial features are handsome and beautiful, her figure is slender and well-proportioned, and her skin is white and delicate.

Tang Jinshan didn't speak immediately after seeing Liu Yan come in, so he said, "Miss Xu is a resident reporter assigned to our army by the Information Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense and the Central News Agency. So, she's not an outsider now. Miss Liu, if you have something to say, just say it. ”

Liu Yan walked to the table and put his high heels together, "Report to the military seat, our army's fourth attack on Lin He failed again today!" ”

"Got it." Tang Jinshan stretched out his hands and shrugged his shoulders at Xu Li, "The last time you interviewed me, I was in this room. It's been over a month now, and I'm still in this room. Your Miss Xu just asked me about the latest battle situation in Lin He, and lo and behold, Miss Liu has answered for me now. Write as you like. ”

Xu Li's white and red goose egg had a calm smile on his face, and he didn't speak immediately.

At the beginning of the second attack on Linhe, she came to the 74th Army as a resident reporter, and today, she came to the Tang Jinshan command room to interview Tang Jinshan and asked about the battle situation in Linhe. Tang Jinshan played a typical diplomatic rhetoric, "The troops are attacking and advancing, and Miss Xu will get the latest battle report." ”

Subsequently, Tang Jinshan joked to Xu Li: "Oh, Miss Xu, you put on a military uniform, and you have a heroic beauty, and you are worthy of being a lieutenant press officer appointed by the Information Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense." ”

Xu Li immediately said politely: "Thank you for the general's compliment, the military uniform was specially issued by the Ministry of Defense to war correspondents." In fact, I am also in vain. As for the lieutenant press officer, it is actually a military name temporarily given by the Information Bureau in order to facilitate reporters' battlefield coverage. ”

Tang Jinshan said with a smile: "Miss Xu, don't always feel that you are temporary, now you are a member of the 74th Army." Yesterday, Director Jiang of the Administrative Work Department of the Xingying Department called me to inform me that in order to facilitate your future coverage and reporting by Miss Xu as a resident reporter in our 74th Army, I am going to make you a lieutenant press officer of the 74th Army Military Department, and ask me what my opinion is. Oh, and the order for the Camp Administration will be issued soon. ”

Xu Li also smiled, "Thank you General Tang for your kindness, then I might as well be respectful in the future." While they were talking, Liu Yan came.

At this moment, Tang Jinshan lowered his head and only looked at the map spread out on the table, and did not speak for a while.

Liu Yan put down the telegram, combed his curved bangs, and a trace of dark clouds floated on his oval face, "Our 74th Army has never lost a battle in the past, and it has not encountered much trouble in recovering Chuzhou, the former capital of the puppet Jianghuai Communist Region, in October this year. But now he was pinned by this small Linhe City. The last time I fought for thirteen days without success, this time it is thirteenth day now, and if you still can't take it, I'm worried that the Communist Party's newspapers and radio stations will say that you-"

"What do you say about me?" Tang Jinshan raised his head suddenly.

Liu Yan glanced at Xu Li, hesitated for a moment, and did not speak.

Tang Jinshan waved his hand and said, "Miss Xu is not an outsider, Miss Liu, if you have something to say, just say it." ”

Liu Yan was bold at this time and said: "It is said that Tang Jinshan, the victorious general, has suffered another defeat!" ”

"Huh?" Tang Jinshan's face suddenly turned red, his eyes were round, and his lips jumped a few times, but he didn't say anything more, but lowered his head in despair and exhaled helplessly.

Liu Yan's words poked at a hidden pain that Tang Jinshan suppressed in the depths of his heart.

At the beginning of October, Tang Jinshan's troops captured Chuzhou, the capital of the Jianghuai Communist Region, and after resting for more than ten days, on the 19th, the troops attacked and advanced to the Lin River. On the same day, without the smooth situation of fierce resistance, the vanguard troops easily occupied a part of the southern part of Linhe County. The next day, in this large room, he was interviewed by some reporters. At that time, he was full of ambition and said to the reporters proudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, you are now interviewing me on the land of Linhe County, and our army is now attacking and advancing towards Linhe County. Since our army recovered Chuzhou, **** has been a frightened bird and a lost dog. Everywhere our army went, **** was invincible and collapsed. Within a few days, our army will be able to recover the Lin River. ”

Speaking of this, he stood up from the Taishi's chair and waved his hand proudly, "Oh, October 31 is Mr. Jiang's 60th birthday, and my 74th Army will congratulate Mr. Jiang on his birthday with the good news of the restoration of Linhe." ”

Xu Li, dressed in a gray muslin long-sleeved dress, sat with more than a dozen reporters on two rows of Taishi chairs while listening to Tang Jinshan's speech while holding a pen and recording in a notebook. Sitting next to Xu Li is a female reporter a few years older than her, she is of medium height, with slender eyebrows, slender eyes, double eyelids, wearing a dark green muslin long-sleeved cheongsam, covered with a white cotton vest, and wearing fashionable perms, she is Shang Xiaoqin, a reporter from the Central Daily.

At this moment, taking advantage of Tang Jinshan's pause, Shang Xiaoqin raised his head and asked, "General Tang, I heard that Linhe's flavor snacks are very local. Excuse me, as the new owner of Linhe, will you soon entertain us to taste Linhe-style snacks in Linhe County? ”

When Tang Jinshan heard this, he immediately burst out laughing, and after he sat down, he still had a smile on his face, "Miss Shang, don't worry, in a few days, you can taste delicious Linhe snacks in the recovered Linhe County." However, you can only be the second group of diners, and the first batch of diners who taste Linhe snacks are our soldiers who have made great contributions to the recovery of Linhe. ”

At that time, there were three American reporters and a British reporter to participate in the interview, after listening to Tang Jinshan's plan, four foreigners couldn't help frowning, one of them wearing a gray tweed suit and skirt, blonde hair and blue eyes of the American female reporter Erin Winston spoke, speaking in a not fluent Chinese dialect: "General Tang, I feel that your estimate of the war situation is too optimistic, although the **** army recently withdrew from Chuzhou due to military defeats, but if you think that the **** army is heading for destruction, it is obviously too early to draw conclusions." Before I left Nanjing, General Bargaut told me that after the **** army lost Chuzhou, it still had a certain counterattack ability militarily, and asked General Tang to pay attention to this. It's a pity that General Tang didn't care about this just now. Traditional Chinese architecture is to install a horizontal wooden threshold at the entrance of the house, whether Chinese or foreigners enter the gate, if they are not careful, they will trip over the threshold. Now, General Tang only saw tempting food on the table in the restaurant in Linhe County, but he didn't notice that there was also a threshold installed at the entrance of the hotel. General Tang will be so careless that he will trip over the threshold. ”

Tang Jinshan was stunned for a moment, and then put on a pretended smile, "I appreciate Miss Erin's Westerner straightforwardness, as for the threshold mentioned by Miss Aaron......"

"All of you," a sudden burst of rapid cannon sound came from a distance, which happened to interrupt Tang Jinshan's speech.

Hearing the sound of artillery, Tang Jinshan showed a sincere smile on his face, "Oh, everyone heard it, this is the threshold where my army's artillery is bombarding **** with 105mm howitzers." Miss Erin is right, if I don't knock down the threshold of ****, of course I won't go to the restaurant in Linhe County to eat recklessly. Please rest assured, our army will definitely knock down the threshold set in Linhe County. ”