The morning sun shone on the earth, and a group of generals on horses stepped on the morning dew, galloping from west to east, reaching the edge of the position in the south of Longyou City and gradually slowing down, slowly going east against the flow of thousands of captives.

The tall white horse in front of the horse team, wearing a yellow tweed cloak, a tall and extraordinary young general, was extremely eye-catching, he raised his proud head, glanced at the scene in front of him, smiled slightly, and continued to ride east into the core area of the position. The mighty soldiers on the white horses were none other than General Bai Chongxi, the former commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, the battle flag was held high on the position, waving in the wind, and the three loose long columns lined up by more than 4,000 unarmed prisoners slowly moved westward, and the reading regiment with loaded guns and live ammunition could be seen everywhere around the officers and soldiers, and the pack horses were loaded with heavy machine guns and boxes of ammunition, marching in the direction of the northwest city, and the captured 24 artillery pieces were lined up under the arduous drag of the horses, and they walked slowly, and the commanders of the reading regiments on war horses stopped from time to time on the wide positionFrom time to time, he galloped, closely monitored every movement on the battlefield, and severely corrected every omission of the officers and men under his command.

More than a dozen war horses galloped from the northwest direction, and soon came to General Bai Chongxi's horse team and stopped to salute.

Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao in front of the team were both riding jujube red horses, and the two of them had not slept all night, but they were full of energy and vigor at this time.

Liu Zhi put down his saluting hand, said some polite words to Bai Chongxi, and under Bai Chongxixiao's interested gaze, he motioned An Yi behind him to step forward.

Bai Chongxi looked at the heroic An Yi and the dark horse of the divine horse under his crotch and praised loudly: "Commander An is really extraordinary, he has made two great feats in a few days, moving like a tiger and quiet like a mountain, and has won the essence of the soldiers. ”

"Sir, you've won the prize! The subordinates thanked the commander for his encouragement and made persistent efforts. An Yi replied loudly, and his strong military temperament was clear at a glance.

Bai Chongxi suddenly felt that An Yi seemed to have matured a lot, and the natural temperament of being neither humble nor arrogant, calm and confident made Bai Chongxi secretly surprised, and there was a completely different change from the last time they met.

Bai Chongxi smiled and nodded, and spoke highly of An Yi's battle in a calm voice:

"Get off the horse and walk together, talking as we go...... This battle was fought quite beautifully, not only successfully prompted General Yang Shijun and his 3,500 officers and men to surrender to the righteous position, but also had insight into the opportunity and was able to firmly grasp it, with rapid speed and careful arrangement, suddenly exerted force, almost without bloodshed, and again captured more than 4,200 officers and soldiers of the two regiments of the Zhejiang Army in front of Zhou, forcing the enemy's tens of thousands of main forces to flee in embarrassment without a fight, and making great contributions to the occupation of the Tanglan line by the officers and men of our central route and the smooth realization of the established strategic objectives.

Through the large number of captures and replenishment of soldiers in this battle, the combat power of the Second Division will be rapidly improved, which will help a lot in future battles! I've heard that Regiment Commander An is very strict in selecting soldiers, and has a set of efficient and quick training methods, I wonder if you can reveal one or two to us? ”

After An Yi dismounted, he followed Bai Chongxi by half a step behind, and immediately replied when he heard the inquiry: "Sir, regarding the selection of soldiers, it is not that his subordinates are picky, but that he has to do this in the face of uneven soldiers. First of all, at present, there are a large number of opium addicts, morally corrupt people, and people suffering from infectious diseases in the armies of various warlord forces, and if these people enter our revolutionary army, not only will they not be able to increase their combat strength, but on the contrary, they will seriously weaken our army's combat effectiveness and undermine our army's revolutionary traditions. As for training and political and ideological education, our regiment is completely identical with all units in the army, and if there is really any difference, there are only two points: First, to ensure that the diet of officers and men is nutritious as much as possible, and second, to persist in high-intensity basic training. ”

"Well, this is indeed a common vice in the whole [***] world at present, and Chief An's rigorous attitude of preferring lack to excess, is worthy of recognition. In terms of training and education, the two points you mentioned seem to be easy, but it is difficult to do, and it is even more difficult to persevere. Personally, I believe that it is precisely these two points that make your unit's combat effectiveness and the quality of its officers and men far superior to those of other regiments, and even surpass those of serious division commanders who are known for their military training. In this, I'm afraid there is another important reason that you haven't said, and that is the scientific training that you advocate and adhere to, right? ”

Bai Chongxi naturally turned his head and smiled at An Yi.

An Yi was very surprised in his heart, but he still replied calmly: "The subordinates have been in the army for a short time, the experience is shallow, and the concept of governing the army advocated by them is flashy and unrealistic, detached from reality, and often hits a wall in the implementation, and the subordinates have to repeatedly confirm and summarize more, so there is still no set of practical and feasible methods, until now, the subordinates and colleagues are still struggling to explore." ”

Bai Chongxi nodded and smiled, and was about to ask when he heard the roar of an airplane in the sky, and a French reconnaissance plane slowly flew into the sky over the battlefield from east to west, and everyone looked up nervously, fearing that it was Sun Chuanfang or the Fengjun bombers who supported Sun Chuanfang to retaliate.

The officers and men on the position also looked nervously at the sky, and the vast majority of the officers and men saw the plane for the first time, and under the fright, the various formations were confused, and the exclamations of surprise rang out one after another, and the timid people looked for trenches and low-lying places everywhere and rushed into it.

An Yi strode out of a group of frightened generals, and whispered a few words to Shen Fengdao who was slowly following, Shen Fengdao nodded and flew on the horse, galloped to the beard in the middle of the position to convey quickly, the beard nodded a few steps to his newly captured big white horse and jumped up, his legs clamped the horse forward, the speed ran faster and faster, ran a beautiful arc on the uneven position, and shouted loudly as he ran:

"Friendly aircraft, don't panic...... Friendly aircraft, do not panic...... The commanders of each department immediately formed a team! The ministers immediately formed a team ......"

Bai Chongxi saw the bearded horse leaping over the obstacles and wide trenches, the superb horsemanship and mighty spirit of the commander of the army were vividly reflected, the originally panicked officers and soldiers quickly calmed down after he shouted, and the commanders of the various departments also stepped forward to restrain the officers and soldiers of the headquarters, and raised the horsewhip and pulled it down without a head or a brain, and the ignorant soldiers howled but it was very effective, and in less than five minutes, the entire position was restored to order again, and everything continued in an orderly manner. Seeing that Bai Chongxi and dozens of generals and schools around him were dumbfounded, Pan Yizhi, director of the Political Department, sighed in horror and said vigorously, he didn't expect the "model battalion" that was famous throughout the army to come to this set.

"Regiment Commander An is really clever, saying that the enemy's reconnaissance plane is his friendly plane, not only saves a lot of tongue discrimination, but also grows his own prestige, this machine has become amazing, haha!"

Bai Chongxi laughed heartily, and as soon as he was interested, he told an allusion to An Yi, who returned to him:

"At the beginning of October last year, Wuchang was still besieging the city, and I was ordered by the commander-in-chief to go to investigate and discuss with Tang Mengxiao (Tang Shengzhi), Zhang Xianghua (Zhang Fakui) and other generals the strategy of breaking the city. The planes really went out during the siege, but for some reason, the international flying team dropped all the bombs on the heads of the officers and men of the Eighth Army of our siege troops, and the only plane swayed around the sky twice, and then swooped down to strafe and help the battle, but swept down a large part of General Zhang Xianghua's siege soldiers, and the entire siege operation was aborted. ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then laughed, An Yi felt that it was incredible, only to hear Bai Chongxi continue:

"A month later, in the Battle of Nanchang, I was ordered to go to General Li Delin's (Li Zongren) Seventh Army to help in the battle, and General Delin told me that he had never seen aircraft bombing and strafing, and suggested that I make a request to General Gallen to send a few planes to bomb the Jiuxian Mountain defenders on the Nanxun Road to boost the morale of the army.

After the telegram consulted General Gallen, soon two planes of the international column flew in from the direction of Wuhan, one of which circled around our heads twice, and flew back without doing anything, and the remaining one suddenly dived down and fired a few bombs and flew away, not blowing up Jiuxian Mountain, but blowing up General Delin's machine-gun position, and more than 40 elite officers and men died in the blink of an eye, so angry that General Delin never mentioned the matter of planes helping the war again.

The officers and men guarding the plane saw that the plane rushed out of the runway before stopping, and immediately rushed over to rescue it, and the Russian pilot jumped off the plane happily, gave a thumbs up to the swarming rescue officers and soldiers, and proudly asked in half-baked Chinese: How is it, am I amazing? ”

The laughter sounded again, An Yi could no longer hold back the laughter gushing out of his chest and abdomen, and looked up to the sky and laughed: "Oh my God! Are you drunk? Haha......"

"I'm really right, the commander of the Seventh Army battalion guarding the airport reported that the pilot really drank too much, and when he came down, he was full of alcohol and walked almost a kilometer of 'zigzag' steps." Bai Chongxi didn't laugh, but said very seriously and calmly, but the more he was like this, the more everyone laughed, and it took a long time to calm down.

From this moment on, the entire battlefield patrol was carried out in a harmonious and pleasant atmosphere, Bai Chongxi walked into the trenches one after another, inquired in detail about the purpose and original intention of the construction, praised An Yi and his colleagues for their scientific and rigorous style, and asked the accompanying generals and colonels to take a serious look at it and bring back the advanced concepts and rigorous style of the Reading Force Regiment back to their own troops.

Farewell to General Bai Chongxi and his entourage to the Lanxi garrison under Xue Yue's division, Liu Zhi also led the 6th Regiment, the division's subordinate units and the Yang Shijun Brigade of Toucheng 3,500 officers and soldiers to the east of the Youbu camped and reorganized, the 5th and 4th regiments that set off in advance have been stationed around the Youbu and have made all the necessary preparations.

Xu Tingyao told An Yi in a low voice that in addition to letting the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Regiment take away more than 30 heavy machine guns and 64 light machine guns, all the seizures were left to An Yi's full authority, and the 50,000 yuan bonus given to An Yi as the last commander-in-chief award was distributed to the other three regiment commanders as compensation, and An Yi was instructed to complete the meritorious service statistics and promotion application reports of commanders at all levels as soon as possible.

An Yi thanked him very gratefully, and solemnly assured Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao that the reading regiment would follow the requirements of the division headquarters and select 1,000 qualified soldiers from the captives to be sent to the division headquarters within three days. In accordance with the instructions of the division headquarters, a company of officers and men was dispatched to escort General Yang Shijun to Nanchang to meet Commander-in-Chief Chiang on a truck from the military headquarters that would return to Nanchang in the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing the group of bosses go far to the east, An Yi rode back to the regiment headquarters in the north of the city proudly, looking at the mountains of seized materials in the courtyard and was excited, seeing that Yin Jinan and his brothers had been divided into more than a dozen groups to clean up guns, ammunition and various seizures, An Yi entered the main hall in a chic manner, walked into the backyard wing, and laughed loudly at Yang Shijun's master and servant who gathered together to drink tea and chat:

"Seniors, we have to have a good drink later, otherwise we will say goodbye tomorrow, and I really don't know if we meet again in the Year of the Monkey."

Yang Shijun's master and servant admired the young man in front of him very much, especially Yang Shijun's twelve guards, who admired An Yi's surname, mind and charm, seeing An Yi so capable of fighting, and his strong generals were like clouds of soldiers and strong horses, they all yearned for such a strong army, and they were very happy to hear An Yi's invitation to drink.

Yang Shijun waved his hand and motioned for An Yi to sit beside him, and everyone chatted and laughed loudly, as if they were old friends who had known each other for many years.

An Yi smiled with a humble smile and sincerity, but he knew very well in his heart that he had ensured the safety of General Yang Shijun and his entourage, and hid a total of 300,000 yuan of gold and silver treasures for them, which in exchange for their sincerity and recognition, and he also gained huge fame and fortune from it, far exceeding any combat capture since joining the army, which was enough for his reading group to easily sit and eat for more than two years.

That night, An Yi and seven of his confidants sat around the warm charcoal fire in the center of the main hall to listen to Yin Jinan's statistical report.

"The harvest of the first battle in the early morning was huge, and the brothers of the armory have selected 1,460 Hanyang-made and 113 shell guns with excellent surnames from the more than 3,200 long and short guns they have captured, and they have been equipped with the 1,600 captive brothers we have collected, and the rest of the guns have been temporarily stored for disposal in the next few days; 370,000 rounds of ammunition of various types were seized; 12 Shanghai-made 82mm mortars with 680 shells were seized; Twenty-four German-made and Liaoning-made 75mm guns with more than 1,440 shells. In terms of money, a total of 183,300 yuan of gold and silver were seized from the two regiments in front of Zhou, and 114 boxes of opium tobacco from Yunnan were obtained, which was equivalent to about 120,000 yuan at the lowest market price. A batch of other uniforms and other supplies and 500 tons of grain have been transported to Youbu by the Fourth Regiment. My headache now is how to keep this huge fortune and so much opium! ”

The brothers exclaimed in a low voice, and An Yi stretched out his hand to signal the brothers to be quiet:

"It's very simple, three big trucks will come from Quzhou tomorrow, according to the instructions of the division headquarters, we need to send a company of troops to escort General Yang Shijun and his party to Nanchang, General Yang is interesting enough for us, let us easily gain fame and fortune, we must not neglect him!

Tonight, the brothers of all the regiments worked hard, packed all the gold and silver seized twice, including opium, and transported all the surnames back to our old Nanchang base. The day after tomorrow, 26 trucks from the military headquarters will bring in a batch of supplementary ammunition, and I will find a way to get two turnaround trucks to transport back the more than 1,000 long guns that have been saved and the 30 or so light machine guns imitated by the Taiyuan Factory.

Ladies and gentlemen, the brothers of each battalion and company should immediately return to their respective stations, inspect the barracks, and send additional guard patrols. In addition, if anyone is short of money or needs money urgently, they can find me, beard, or Jinan, and they can receive it from our standing reserves, and those who marry daughters-in-law do not have to pay it back, and those who marry concubines must pay it back. ”

The brothers laughed, and then went to work according to An Yi's instructions.

(To be continued)