At night, the battlefield within a radius of four kilometers was filled with blazing bonfires and long dragon-like torches, and the officers and men of the 5th Regiment, 6th Regiment, and Supplementary Regiment of the 1st Army were nearing the end of their work of clearing out the remnants of the enemy and cleaning up the battlefield.

The 3,000 officers and men of Gao Zhihua's unit had already stopped, gathered together, and watched the body of their commander being carried onto the truck transferred by Cai Zhonghu, and the staff of the supplementary regiment, Colonel Yang Bin, Gao Zhihua's adjutant Colonel Chen, and the commander of the second battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Lu Mingdi, and other alumni silently boarded the carriage and sent Gao Zhihua's body back to the headquarters in Jinxian County for parking, and quickly reported it to the headquarters of the Revolutionary Army, waiting for orders.

The truck started slowly, 3,000 officers and soldiers and Lu Mingdi's company followed behind the truck and returned to Jinxian, and more than 20 generals, including Li Yannian, the commander of the fifth regiment, Guo Jun, the commander of the sixth regiment, Cai Zhongwat and An Yi, rode out of the three miles to Shiqiaotou before returning, and the results of the battle were also roughly counted at this time.

In this battle, more than 4,000 enemy troops were annihilated, more than 17,000 enemy troops were captured, 81 light machine guns, 27 Shanghai-made 82 mortars, and long and short guns were piled up. Among them, An Yi's regiment annihilated more than 2,200 enemies, captured more than 4,200 enemy soldiers, 135 war horses, and more than 2,000 officers and soldiers pursued all the way and captured gold, silver, and money, which was equivalent to as much as 32,000 yuan.

To the envy of the regimental commanders, An Yi's regimental deputy beard led the model battalion to chase at high speed to the shore of Junshan Lake, and saw that the enemy had robbed the villagers of more than 100 large and small fishing boats desperately rowing towards the center of the lake, and immediately transferred mortars to shoot with artillery, and then ordered dozens of Jiangxi brothers to shout loudly to persuade them to surrender, the enemy fled in panic and ignored them. More than 700 remnants of more than 60 large and small fishing boats were forced to return and surrender, including more than 20 school officers.

What the regiments and departments did not know was that Hu Zi quickly removed 12 large boxes and 25 light machine guns that had run out of ammunition on two of the large ships, and immediately ordered the old brothers of a company to carry them to the rear of the battlefield and hide them among the dozens of wounded brothers and quartermaster baggage in the headquarters.

It was late at night, and the commanders and deputies of each regiment gathered around the bonfire, and you bargained with me to divide the spoils. After arguing for a moment, An Yi said very generously:

"The junior brother suggests that the prisoners, long and short guns, and horses captured by each ministry should be handled by each ministry itself, and the twenty-seven mortars and eighty-one light machine guns piled up together, just let the junior brother take away twenty of them first, and everything else will be distributed by the bosses themselves, how about it?"

Guo Jun and Li Yannian agreed after a little discussion, and An Yi ordered Gu Lao Er to lead a platoon of brothers from the guard company to go together, select twenty of the latest light machine guns and return immediately, and the other two regiments were half of one person, and soon the spoils were divided, and each led his subordinate to escort the prisoners back to the camp in Nanchang City.

Cai Zhonghu's two trucks have driven to Jinxian County, and the remaining 14 have become the best means of transporting the wounded. After carrying hundreds of wounded brothers onto the carriage, the convoy set off for Nanchang, while Cai Zhongwat and his adjutant's retinue led their unwounded but well-harvested infantry company to Nanchang County, 28 kilometers northwest of An Yi's supplementary regiment.

At ten o'clock in the morning the next day, Cai Zhonghu, who woke up, still did not get rid of the sadness of losing his friend, he and An Yi hastily drank two bowls of porridge in the temporary camp on the shore of Chengbi Lake, ordered the adjutant and the guards to carry the ammunition box containing 3,000 oceans to wait out of the camp, and discussed with An Yi for more than ten minutes, and then said goodbye to Hu Zi, Yin Jinan, Gu Laoer and others at the adjacent table, led all the 16 vehicles and his infantry company to the west camp outside Nanchang City 18 kilometers to the north to rest.

Seeing off Cai Zhonghu and his entourage, An Yi at the gate of the camp shouted to prepare his horses, and led Hu Zi, Gu Lao Er and more than 200 brothers from the first company of the model battalion to the county government of Nanchang County in the south of Chengbi Lake.

An Yi has coveted this county government with its back to Chengbi Lake and covering an area of more than 50 acres, and when he arrived at four o'clock in the morning, in order not to disturb the people, An Yi could only order his brothers to escort thousands of prisoners into the wide carriage and horse shop in the east of the lake, and erect only more than 30 large and small tents around the carriage and horse row in a circle, and the brothers of each battalion withstood the cold wind, sleeping under the gatehouses and verandahs of rows of houses and shops, finally stopped at the largest county government in the county.

Through questioning the local people and prisoners, An Yi learned that there is a courtyard in the courtyard of the county government surrounded by high walls, with complete facilities, with more than 160 large and small houses, and a military camp that can accommodate 1,000 people, a school field and two arrow roads in the 10-acre backyard near the lake, the west courtyard is the county police station and prison cell, and the east courtyard is the luxurious courtyard where the county lord's family lives.

An Yi immediately decided to take the county government as his own camp, thinking that military law strictly prohibits disturbing the people, but there has never been a rule strictly prohibiting disturbing officials, since now every regiment is running through the back door, and is anxiously trying to rush into the north of the most prosperous and lively Nanchang City, and without pity, he drove his supplementary regiment to the old county town far away from the city, especially after the big men of the Political Department and the Logistics Department divided their battalions here, they just simply reported and it was over. The whole fucking crowd into the city of Nanchang to enjoy the fruits of the victory of the revolution, so far no one has come to see the supplementary regiment that has been working hard for several days and nights, so don't blame Lao Tzu for not being polite to improve the living and living conditions! Although this county magistrate surnamed Jiang set off cannons and put up a sign of "National Political Axe, Nanchang County, Jiangxi Province" yesterday afternoon, Lao Tzu also had to find ways to drive him out.

More than 200 heavily armed and energetic officers and men marched in orderly steps, followed by more than 10 war horses, turned into the street in front of the county government and trotted, and the pedestrians on the street fled one after another, watching in astonishment.

An Yi came to the county yamen, reined in his horse and ordered loudly: "Row by row, block the police station in the West Courtyard, disarm all the people inside, and take over the prison immediately." ”

"Yes!"

The platoon leader drew his shell gun and led more than 30 brothers to the west.

"The second platoon, the third platoon, and the sixth platoon of the guard company, disarmed Lao Tzu with the two pseudo-policemen at the door, and the rest of the brothers entered the courtyard to carry out a search, and those who resisted were killed!" An Yi gave the order fiercely.

"Yes!"

The three platoon commanders shouted in reply, and the two brothers in the sixth platoon had already rushed forward and put the two guard policemen to the ground, and more than 100 brothers quickly rushed into the vermilion wide yamen.

An Yi and Hu Zi and the others turned over and dismounted, and walked in with their whole clothes, and the chickens and dogs in the county government jumped and exclaimed.

The short and thin county magistrate who was over forty years old ran to An Yi tremblingly, plucked up the courage to protest loudly: "You can't do this! I'm also an official appointed by the National Government, so I can't do that myself......"

An Yi ignored it, walked to the county government hall, glanced at the high throne and the gold-lettered plaque on the blue background of the "mirror hanging" directly above, and suddenly had a sense of time and space trance, he shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly, climbed the three steps of the high platform, walked to the treasure case that was more than two meters long and one meter wide, slowly sat on the wide chair with exquisite carving, looked at the four treasures of the study room on the table, picked up the thick shocking wood and looked at it carefully, smiled slightly and suddenly slapped it on the case, "pop-" A crisp sound, It startled everyone in the hall, including Hu Zi and Gu Laoer.

"Haha! Your surname is Jiang, right? First of all, I am An Yi, the colonel of the Second Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and I was ordered to be stationed in this county and maintain law and order and establish defense. Mr. Jiang, you said that you are an official appointed by the National Political Axe, please show me the letter of appointment, and since you said that you are an official of the National Political Axe, please also report the name of your superior department and the chief official. An Yi said politely.

County Magistrate Jiang was suddenly in a hurry, and a layer of sweat appeared on his forehead in the cold temperature: "Sir, it's like this, the lower official accepted a verbal appointment from Wuhan, and the letter of appointment came later, and the upper peak who appointed the lower official was...... It's the party department...... Right! It's the Central Party Department of the Kuomintang! Yesterday morning, Commissioner Zhang personally came here and promised that within a week, the Jiangxi Provincial Party Department in Nanchang City would set up an office, and the letter of appointment of the lower official would be served. ”

An Yi laughed, and after a while, he stopped laughing, and said kindly:

"Mr. Jiang, do you know that all county magistrates appointed by the Kuomintang must go through the Organization Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee? And it must be signed by the Minister to be legally valid, you know? Minister Chen and the others are still in Guangzhou, and Wuhan is only the Wuhan camp of the General Headquarters of the National Revolutionary Army, which is responsible for military affairs rather than civil affairs, how can they appoint you? Moreover, the establishment of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Department has not been completed in a month, so I think that if you are either deceived or entrusted to a non-person, I hereby advise you to leave as soon as possible, and everything in this county will be taken over by the National Revolutionary Army from now on.

Ha ha...... Let's go, take everything you can and leave as soon as possible, my more than 6,000 officers and soldiers will drive into this place, and it will not be good to disturb Mr. Jiang's family then. After you pack up, I will send someone to send you out of the city, so that you will not be interrogated and intercepted by our army's security sentry. ”

After hearing this, the county magistrate Jiang almost collapsed, and after a while, he choked up and stumbled out of the lobby and walked towards the east courtyard, and half an hour later invited four carriages and five sedan chairs from the carriage shop in Hudong, moved out a few large cars and finished loading the cars, and led his three wives and concubines and two children to his own courtyard in Nanchang City.

At the same time, the engineer company had already completed the widening of the eastward passage of the Beiyuan barracks along the lake, the officers and men of the third and fourth battalions and pack horses and baggage directly under the regimental headquarters were continuously marching in from the Hudong camp and the carriage shop, 4,213 prisoners began to be screened and reorganized after lunch, sentry posts had been set up at all major entrances and exits and strategic points in the city, and the units of the first and second battalions were stationed in various defense areas on the outskirts of the city, and the barracks and defenses of each department were under intense construction.

At noon, An Yi, who had finished arranging everything, was discussing with Hu Zi, Gu Laoer, and Yin Jinan in the lobby about the reorganization of prisoners, when Huang Yingwu, an instructor of the first battalion, came to report that the director of the county police station wanted to avenge the grievances of his forty-five brothers.

An Yi discussed with the brothers a little, and instructed Huang Yingwu to invite him over for tea and chat slowly, since the county police chief has grievances, it seems that there is no one in Nanchang County who is not wronged.

After a while, the police chief, who was about thirty-five or sixteen years old, was brought in, he stood three meters away from An Yi, stood upright, gave a standard military salute, took out a blue-covered ID, and asked An Yi to check in a low voice.

An Yi stood up quite surprised, stared at his kind eyes and quite handsome face, took the document and opened it, and immediately smiled, and asked him to sit down and drink tea with a smile, and then introduced it to Hu Zi and Yin Jinan and others:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the official who is really appointed by our Central Party Department, I didn't expect my eldest sister's confidential bureau to be ahead of us a long time ago, Brother Chao, please take a seat...... This is Lieutenant Colonel Chao Guoqing of the Second Bureau of the Party Department, this is the deputy of Hu Jialin, this is Yin Jinan, the instructor of our regiment and the commander of the first battalion, this is Gu Changfeng, the commander of the guard company of our regiment, and behind you is Huang Yingwu, the instructor of the first battalion, haha! I'm sorry, I shut you up for a morning, and the water washed away the Dragon King Temple! ”

Secretary Chao politely greeted everyone, drank a cup of tea and chatted for a while, and then made a suggestion:

"Commander An, when the two armies confronted each other a while ago, Deng Ruzhuo of Sun Chuanfang's department was worried that he would betray the intelligence of the defense, and he arrested more than 300 people in each town within a radius of 100 miles, many of them were tortured into tricks, most of them have been ransomed by their respective families with heavy money, and more than 100 people are detained together with the original more than 300 prisoners of all kinds, the two rows of cells behind the police station in the West Courtyard are very crowded, or some are expected to cause people to die if they are released quickly, I suggest that Regiment Commander An according to the military management regulations during the war, In his capacity as the military commander of the garrison and the local temporary civil affairs officer, I organized the political instructors of your department to interrogate and screen them together, and let them go when they should be released, and they should be closed, so that my brother and I would be too busy to be busy, and I would have delayed all other important work, and if I waited for the party headquarters in Nanchang City to do it, I am afraid that it would be postponed for two or three months. ”

An Yi didn't expect this to happen, and when he saw Yin Jinan nodding to himself, he understood that there was indeed such a relevant law, so he turned to Secretary Chao and asked:

"Brother Chao, where can the junior brother try any case at this level? said that the war was barely enough, and this trial of the case is another science, so you can handle it, and a few of our brothers can just sit next to you and study. ”

"No, no! You come to trial, anyway, it's like that, the dynasty has changed, as long as it is not heinous, it will be released as usual, just go through the motions, those who were originally killed for cheating, disabled in a fight, captured and sentenced to one-legged thieves and other prisoners are useless to keep, as long as their families have money to redeem them, let them go. In addition, there is an important reason, my identity needs to be concealed for a period of time for the time being, and when Director Gong or the upper peak of the bureau arrives in Nanchang, I can know what I will do next, if the organization needs me to continue to stay in this place as a police chief, I will continue to hide it, and please keep it a secret for me. Secretary Chao explained in a low voice.

An Yi and the others looked at each other, only then did they know that it was so easy to work in this small county government to make money, An Yi saw the excited eyes of the brothers, and he also felt fresh, thought about it and happily agreed: "Okay, let's go to the court to judge the case after lunch, and Lao Tzu will also be the county master, haha!" ”

Secretary Chao nodded with satisfaction: "Tonight, brother respectfully invites you to go to the Xiaoyao Building by the lake, drink a glass of wine to catch the wind, and bring a few big businessmen in this county to meet by the way."

Judging from the current situation, it is estimated that your ministry will have to be stationed for a month, and let these businessmen help with any grain and meat, so that they can save trouble and money and make friends. ”

An Yi laughed: "Okay! Brother Chao said that the little brother is in his heart, you should know that the little brother was in business before he joined the army, and he has this hobby, haha......"

(To be continued)