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Chapter 400: A Silent Proclamation

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the jubilant city of Nanjing is full of a festive and festive atmosphere, and on the narrow wasteland near the Yangtze River in the southeast corner of Baguazhou, which is separated by a river, a team of more than 2,000 people has emerged at some point, and all of this team wear black uniforms that have never been seen before, and wear black hats inlaid with blue sky and white sun emblems, and hold a grand sacrificial ceremony in the cold wind, and then spend half a day to set up dozens of colorful tents. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, under the guidance of a group of Taoist priests, this group of people and horses held a sacrificial ceremony again, set off firecrackers for more than an hour, poured out hundreds of bottles of good wine, and then began excavation and construction work.

The townspeople and the passing ships began to be very strange, and when they saw this group of men and horses silent, they were only engaged in their work, and no one dared to approach, let alone ask them what they were doing in this wilderness overgrown with weeds and bones.

Over the next few days, when the improvised wooden docks were repaired and ships laden with cement, steel, stone and supplies were piled up, it became known that the team was building on the ground.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the front page of the Oriental News newspaper published an article entitled "Monument to the Northern Expedition" and related editorials, and people learned that these people were the 2,000 surviving veterans of the famous Northern Expedition heroic unit An Yi Division, who were building a monument to the 8,000 comrades-in-arms who died in battle, and were searching everywhere for the remains of the dead soldiers.

This news quickly caused a sensation, and all major newspapers across the country reprinted the articles of the "Oriental News" and traced the many battles of the An Yi division and the commanders at all levels, and one by one senior commentators boldly predicted that the An Yi Independent Division, which had been canceled in the camp of the National Revolutionary Army, would be reorganized, and many articles even interpreted the meaning behind "2,000 veterans built a monument to 8,000 dead comrades-in-arms" from the political level, and emotion and praise became the mainstream of public opinion.

Within a few days, representatives from all walks of life and citizens in Nanjing flocked to the city, and the young students of the schools who returned home for the holiday were excited after seeing the report, and rushed back to Nanjing to rush to Baguazhou after saying goodbye to their families, and the originally deserted Baguazhou was full of people who came to help and condole, and the representatives of the garrisons around Nanjing also came to mourn and condole, and the villagers of several surrounding villages took the initiative to take on the work of cooking and delivering water to the two thousand veterans, and the battle flags of the model battalions and the regiments and battalions of the independent division were full of holes. Once again, flagpoles were erected high in front of the main tent, and passing ships sounded their whistles as they passed the channel ahead.

Hundreds of young students rushed to the construction site, and were moved to see the veterans sweating profusely with scars on their hands and faces, dozens of veterans with broken arms with empty sleeves silently undertaking the work within their capabilities, and piles of white bones neatly placed in the largest tent.

Reporters from major newspapers and news agencies rushed to interview Yin Jinan, the former deputy commander of the Independent Division, and several veteran squad leaders, who led the construction of the team, and the "Oriental News", "Declaration", and "Central Daily", which had a good relationship with the officers and men of An Yi's Independent Division, continued to report on a large scale, and quickly pushed this incident to the top of the world, and the social effect and political influence produced far exceeded all the current news events.

Hee Garden, Office of the Commander-in-Chief.

Commander-in-Chief Chiang, who had worked out bills one by one through a series of meetings and re-established his unshakable position, came back from the meeting, picked up the newspaper of the day on the table, sat on a chair, hurriedly glanced at the headline, motioned to Chen Lifu, Yu Jishi, He Jinhan and Kang Ze, who had been waiting, to sit down, put down the newspaper and asked kindly: "Lifu, how is Yin Jinan's project going?" ”

"The progress is very fast, especially after the 50-meter small pier is cast and put into use, all kinds of raw materials can be quickly sent to the construction site, the foundation of the monument has been built, and more than 100 stonemasons are carving the names of 17,659 sacrificed soldiers." Chen Lifu replied in detail.

Chiang Kai-shek raised his head in surprise: "Where did so many come from?" ”

"Ji Nan said that this number is from the beginning of the Northern Expedition to the present with the number of all the soldiers who have sacrificed under their command, and since the formation of the An Yi Engineer Company in the West Battalion of Guangzhou, every officer and soldier has established a file, so the statistics are very detailed and there is no omission." Chen Lifu replied.

Chiang Kai-shek sighed: "Good, good...... I didn't expect them to do it so carefully, and no one usually pays attention to it, but when I hear this number, I am full of emotion, An Yi and a few of them are so smart in battle, and the casualties have always been the least in the whole army, but they have also killed more than 17,000 people, almost the number of two regular divisions, and the other departments can be imagined, how many soldiers have died along the way! From here, we can also see An Yi's rigorous style and military strategy, from the Northern Expedition to the present, our military and political departments have not even had a rough overall casualty statistics, which is dereliction of duty! ”

"Back to the principal, the students have submitted this matter to the Ministry of Military Affairs in the form of a report, and the Ministry of Military Affairs is also preparing to submit casualty statistics to the ministries below." Kang Ze reported in a low voice.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded: "Although it is a little late, but it is still in time, at present, all parts have reached a consensus on mutual humility, and several armies with duplicate numbers have also been adjusted, and the construction of our First Army, Ninth Army, and Thirty-second Army must be accelerated, and you must pay close attention to the dispatch of party representatives in all armies and divisions...... How is the reconstruction of An Yi's independent division going? ”

Yu Jishi presented An Yi's letter: "Senior Brother An said that everything went well, he thanked the principal, and the letter said that his reputation had been restored, and all the soldiers were inexplicably grateful and their morale was high. ”

Chiang Kai-shek frowned after reading the letter: "He only likes Lu Yixuan and Zhao Rui, and strongly recommends the two to be the head of the regiment, what does this guy think?" He was given a list of 300 people, but he actually only picked eight people, and six of them were engaged in political work......"

"Lu Yixuan and Zhao Rui both graduated from my Whampoa, and they are both top people who went to Russia to study and came back, but they are introverted and mediocre, so they probably haven't had the opportunity to display their talents. The two followed Ji Shi and Zhen Han to Nanchang and met An Yi twice, one of which went up to the mountains to hunt together, and it is estimated that they fell in love with each other at first sight!

Judging from the list of An Yi's dignitaries, he attaches great importance to political education, attaches great importance to the inheritance of the spirit of Huangpu, and has a good understanding of the principal's army building spirit and ardent expectations. ”

Chen Lifu praised An Yi's clever move of absorbing a large number of political workers.

"Speaking of which, Lu Yixuan and Senior Brother An are still senior brothers......

He Jinhan immediately made a detailed report to Chiang Kai-shek on the situation of An Yi and Lu Yixuan studying under the Russian shooting instructor Liushenkov.

Chiang Kai-shek smiled slightly: "It turns out that there is such a relationship, no wonder An Yi is so supportive of Lu Yixuan, it is understandable!" ”

He Jinhan carefully suggested: "Principal, the student thinks that what Senior Brother An said is quite reasonable, his internal officer training has always been fruitful, in the original independent division, in addition to the veterans who have accumulated meritorious service and promotion, most of the chief officers above the battalion level are my Huangpu comrades, and a small part are graduates of Jiangwutang in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, like his chief of staff Yang Bin and artillery battalion commander Liao Minlin, who were born in Jiangwutang and graduated from Baoding Military Academy, and the military quality of the chief officers at all levels of Senior Brother An's department is very high, otherwise there is no series of outstanding military exploits.

In this reorganization of the independent division, there are still 17 veterans above the battalion commander level under Senior Brother An, of whom six including Huang Hanqian are from Huangpu and four are from the Baoding Military Academy.

The principal may not have read the third page of Senior Brother An's letter, but he suggested that the principal send 12 Huangpu brothers to take over the Nanchang Recruitment Office as the director and the chief and deputy section chiefs of each section, and then send 12 people to the preparatory office of the garrison division of Senior Brother Yin Jinan, and participate in the entire construction process of the unit from the recruitment of soldiers.

The students felt that this proposal was very good, that such an opportunity for training was very rare, and that Senior Brother An had a complete set of excellent systems that had passed the test of time from conscription to training to political and ideological education, and the level of management and training was far above that of the various armies. ”

Chiang Kai-shek slowly put it down after reading the letter: "It makes sense, An Yi is still very thoughtful, but he has only recruited 7,000 people now, and it seems that he still adheres to his strict recruitment standards, which is too slow!" If you want to urge him to speed up the progress, he must complete the formation and report to Nanjing before the end of February, and he cannot delay it for a day. ”

Kang Ze said with a smile: "Don't worry, principal, no matter how high Senior Brother An's requirements are, there will be no shortage of soldiers, since he got the approval of the principal to establish a monument to the sacrificed soldiers, major newspapers have widely reported that Bagua Continent is now like a bazaar, overcrowded, and there are more than 5,000 young students from all over the country who rushed to Bagua Zhou to volunteer for labor, and half of them pestered Senior Brother Yin every day to ask to join the model battalion and join the independent division.

When more than 2,000 veterans of the Independent Division who had been separated on the way to escape heard the news, they rushed from all over Jiangbei to rejoin the team, and many of them were followed by dozens to hundreds of young men, and when more than 2,000 veterans met each other, they hugged their heads and cried as if they were seeing each other in a lifetime, and the voices of grief were all over the field, and thousands of people around them were moved to tears. ”

Everyone smiled, and Chiang Kai-shek looked at the ceiling with satisfaction: "Good job!" Very good! An Yi's silent announcement has achieved the effect we expected, and An Yi has no shortage of soldiers because of this righteous act, which complements each other! ”

Kang Ze continued to report: "Principal, Brother Yunong told the students last night that in the past half a month, Senior Brother Yin didn't know how to use to let more than 1,200 male and female students from various colleges and universities go back to carry their luggage, and happily took a chartered boat to Lao Nanchang yesterday evening to transfer to the Jiangnan Medical College and the Institute of Science and Technology that are about to open to continue their studies.

In the past three days, Senior Brother Yin had sent more than 1,300 young men to the cargo ship sent by Jiangnan Company to send supplies, apparently to go to old Nanchang to receive recruit training.

From today, there will be half a month for the completion of the project, and it will be easy to recruit four or five thousand recruits during this period, and judging from this situation, the students think that it is very likely that Senior Brother An has predicted the impact a long time ago, otherwise it would not be possible to do such a clean and beautiful job. ”

Everyone echoed one after another, saying that An Yi was becoming more and more cunning, and as long as there was an opportunity, he would not miss it.

Chiang Kai-shek laughed rarely: "Don't forget what your junior brother came from, even the seniors and celebrities such as Jing Lao and Mr. Yongzhi have praised his business talent, will he do a loss-making business?" Ha ha...... That's it, send Lu Yixuan and these eight people to Nanchang immediately, and let them report to An Yi, in addition, when you send a telegram to An Yi, just say that I agreed to his request and agreed to the one in 'Yiyi. Huang Yingwu, who made outstanding contributions to the party-state in the '22 Incident', served as his party representative, and his military rank was promoted from colonel to major general.

This Huang Yingwu joined the army at the age of 16, experienced a hundred battles, had a long military experience, made outstanding achievements in the Northern Expedition, and was the first graduate of the political school. ”

"Yes!"

Yu Jishi replied in a low voice, and quietly left with the brothers, and the last difficulty of An Yishi's reorganization was easily overcome.