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Chapter 741: His Heart Can Be Punished (1)

On August 3, the 21st year of the Republic of China, An Yi led his staff team and the special service group led by Sun Desheng to leave Nanjing, and arrived in Bengbu by train at half past three in the afternoon. Wang Jun, deputy commander-in-chief of the Right Route Army, Wei Lihuang, commander of the column, Chen Jiji, and more than 1 www.biquge.info 00 generals under his command greeted him at the station.

Hughes, the leader of the advisory group who came with him, looked at him with a gloomy look and a cold face, in line with the usual rigor and solemnity of an English gentleman, he was very unhappy, and even a little annoyed, that An Yi did not introduce him and his companion Blante to the generals at the first time.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, after An Yi respectfully greeted Wei Lihuang, Chen Jiji, and several seniors in each division, he hugged and talked with Wang Jun, Li Shilong, Li Wenbin, Hu Zongnan, Li Yutang, Yuan Pu, Ding Delong, Li Xianzhou, Feng Jianfei and other generals, as well as his good brother Dongzi with tears in his eyes, as if he had completely forgotten the British advisers who were extremely respected by Chairman Chiang and the Central Military Commission. In the end, it was Wei Lihuang, who was old and serious, and Chen Jiji, who was careful, greeted him respectfully, and greeted them warmly.

After returning to the city headquarters and settling down, after An Yi finished washing, Chen Jiji asked privately: "Why are you so confused?" Even when the principal inspects the various armies, he first has to introduce the military advisers around him to the generals in the army, you are good, you only care about talking and laughing with Wang Jun and others of the Third Army and a group of Whampoa brothers, which makes the British advisers who come with you very embarrassed, if you are sued to the principal, you will feel good. ”

An Yi came to his senses and patted his forehead helplessly: "Oops, I forgot everything!" When I saw my senior brother and those old friends who had been absent for a long time, I couldn't control it all at once, and I forgot all the etiquette and everything. It was my fault, and I would have to apologize to Hughes and Mr. Blante at an opportunity. ”

"In this way, you can toast them at the reception banquet later, and explain it well, I guess Colonel Hughes won't care too much."

Chen Jiji shook his head and didn't mention it anymore, urging him to ask if the medicine and ammunition that needed to be replenished urgently had arrived. When he heard An Yi say that the supply train would arrive in Bengbu in the early morning of tomorrow, Chen Jiji was very happy: "It seems that you still have a way, since President Yu was promoted, the Quartermaster Administration led by General Zhu Kongyang has not supported my subordinate departments as much as before, urging him to strictly abide by the regulations and treat everyone equally, so that the commanders of our armies and divisions will not be able to speak out." ”

An Yi hurriedly explained: "Actually, Director Zhu is the same as me, yesterday I went to his yamen to ask him for help, and he also refused the request to give priority to our right army on the grounds that each army and column needed to be solved one by one, and I had no choice but to leave." Later, perhaps because he remembered that the Quartermaster Administration had purchased a lot of military materials and new weapons, and that he still needed to ask the Xiangxi Arsenal and the Jiangnan Group enterprises, he quickly called me and told me that it would be resolved within three days. Don't blame Lao Zhu, it's also difficult, our Huangpu descendants have not been less than those anxious brothers who have accused him of his black state in front of the principal, which makes him annoyed, think about it, every division in the army requires priority care, how many can he take care of? It was already very face-saving for him to be able to make a phone call to me, but I thought that three days was too slow, so I squeezed some out of the Nanjing military station of the 24 th Army and various units in the southwest, and then called General Huang Jikuan, acting minister of railways, to ask for a special train, and ordered the Nanjing military station to hurry up and load the train and send it over first. ”

Chen Jiji sighed very much: "This person is really dead compared to popularity!" That's you, I don't know when someone else will wait, and I have missed the opportunity because of supply problems several times in the past six months...... After the armistice in Songhu, Hu Shoushan's first division was transferred from Jiangnan to the front line of Bengbu and fought continuously, and the loss was great, because of the lack of mortar shells, half a month ago, when Xu Qianqian's 11th Division rushed several times, he could not rush up, but was hit by more than a dozen earthen cannons of the red bandits, and there were more than 300 officers and soldiers of the first division who were injured by the earthen artillery in that battle, and the iron sand picked out by the rescuers from the wounded soldiers with knives and tweezers weighed more than ten catties, and the howls in the wounded barracks that night spread all over a radius of ten miles, and even the wild wolves on the mountain were scared away, miserable! ”

An Yi was shocked, and just wanted to ask about the specific situation, he saw Wei Lihuang coming over, and hurriedly stepped forward, Wei Lihuang handed the telegram in his hand to An Yi, and smiled:

This is a telegram from the Central Committee that has just arrived, which was sent to all armies and columns, and the committee made clear demands at an enlarged meeting held in Hankou to suppress bandits, ordering all units to eliminate the communist bandits in the five provinces of Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, and Hunan within six months. The telegram was followed by a good report from Liu Xiang's division of the Sichuan army, Wang Jiling and Guo Xun's two divisions defeated He Long's army at Shayang, Jingmen, and He Long's army lost more than 2,000 people, and fled rampantly to the Qianjiang and Honghu lines. ”

After reading the message, An Yi shook his head and sighed: "Now the Left Route Army under the command of General He Chengjun is easy, the Helong Department that has been crisscrossing southwest Henan and western Hubei for several years has been repeatedly hit hard, and it is estimated that there are less than 5,000 men and horses left, under the blows of the three divisions of the Sichuan Army, the two divisions of General Xu Yuanquan and the two brigades directly under the Wuhan Xingying, they have no power to parry at all, and they can only hide in the Honghu area and use the wide lake and dense water network to fight guerrillas." In contrast, the task of our right-wing army is much heavier, and a consensus has not yet been formed on how to fight next. ”

Chen Jiji nodded: "Yes, after the main force of the red bandits in southern Gannan unexpectedly broke out of the encirclement of our army, the entire encirclement and suppression situation changed greatly, and our right army was also seriously affected. Brother Cixiu's three main divisions were disabled, so that the two divisions of General Zhou Hunyuan, who had just arrived in Anqing, were once again transferred to the southeast line of Jiangxi, and even the two garrison divisions in central Zhejiang were urgently transferred south to the Zhejiang-Fujian border. ”

Wei Lihuang hesitated, but still said bluntly: "Last night, my chief of staff returned from Wuhan and heard that there was such a motion from the top level of the General Command of the Suppression, which planned to redivide the theater of operations and transfer one or two columns that originally belonged to the Right Route Army to the unified command of the Central Route Army. ”

An Yi was stunned for a moment, then smiled after thinking about it, and smiled happily: "Hehe, in fact, it is long overdue to readjust the theater, for example, the three divisions of the Eighth Army of the predecessors are responsible for the first line of Huang'an and Macheng, which is closer to the Middle Route Army personally commanded by the principal, which is more convenient for command and coordination."

"As early as the operational meeting in May, the younger generation had proposed that it would be more prudent and appropriate to put the entire Hubei under the jurisdiction of the Central Route Army, but at that time, General He Jingzhi denied the opinions of the younger generation, and Mr. Hughes, the deputy head of the advisory group who came with me today, since last year, his group has carried out research on the communist army in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui region, and the operational guiding ideology and troop allocation of our Right Route Army this time are related to his opinions, and he also agreed with General He Jingzhi's opinions at that time, but he did not expect to readjust it now. It seems that the headmaster also knows that there is something wrong with the current distribution of troops! ”

Wei Lihuang looked at An Yi with appreciation: "As soon as you take office, you may be divided into one-third of your troops, it's rare that you are still so optimistic and open-minded!" ”

"Don't you see, while dividing one-third of the troops, one-third of the responsibility is also divided, and it is also the part where the terrain and environment are the most complicated, and the younger generation not only does not lose, but earns, can you not be happy? Besides, the younger generation is purely a temporary name, I believe that the general manager will soon send a respected senior to provoke the beam of the right road army, the younger generation is not familiar with the Hubei-Henan-Anhui theater, although he came hard, but he has never regarded himself as a commander-in-chief, he can do a good job as a grain supervisor, and it is good not to be scolded by the seniors and brothers! An Yile said happily.

Wei Lihuang smiled and said a few polite words, but Chen Jiji saw some abnormalities from the sudden changes at the top, it is reasonable to redivide the theater, especially after the failure of the siege of southern Jiangxi, it is definitely necessary to make a large adjustment, whether it is the division of the theater or the deployment of troops, the range will not be small, the focus is still the Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong theater, and now that An Yi has just taken office, the general manager will adjust the entire Hubei-Henan-Anhui theater, rather than the Jiangxi-Fujian-Guangdong theater that needs to be adjusted more preferentially.

Without waiting for Chen Jiji to figure it out, Wang Jun, the deputy commander-in-chief of the bearded Right Route Army, arrived in a hurry, said hello to the two, and took An Yi's hand and strode out, saying as he walked: "Let's go, the brothers and brothers of all armies and divisions are basically here, you can't be the commander-in-chief, who dares to move chopsticks?" Ha ha! ”

"The eldest brother missed two words, it is the acting commander-in-chief......" An Yi was more serious as he walked.

"It doesn't matter if he acts as an agent or not, he is the commander-in-chief anyway, and the official is ...... bigger than the foolish brother."

Wei Lihuang and Chen Jiji watched Wang Jun and An Yi talking nonsense intimately, shook their heads again and again, and Chen Jiji explained to Wei Lihuang in a low voice: Wang Jun's officers above the company commander of the Seventh Division have all listened to An Yi's lectures, and most of the grassroots non-commissioned officers are from the Nanchang Non-commissioned Officer School that An Yi prepared and built, and Wang Jun himself established a deep friendship with An Yi when he was under General Zhu Yizhi, so the two of them hooked up like this.

Wei Lihuang suddenly realized, saying that it was no wonder that the Seventh Division of the three armies performed so well, and that Li Wenbin, commander of the 75th Division and commander of the 21st Brigade, was the only general among the various units of the anti-bandit that had been commended three times by Chairman Chiang; in the past two years, whether in Jiangxi or southern Anhui, Li Wenbin's unit had always won more and lost less in battles with the Red Bandits, and on four occasions they had escaped when the Red Bandits were about to be surrounded by heavy troops, and on one of the occasions they even made a very bold counter-ambush, and the Red Bandit Units had a headache when they met him.

The reception dinner was lively and grand, the generals of all divisions and brigades of the Right Route Army came to come, the deputy commander-in-chief Wang Jun presided over the banquet without concessions, Wei Lihuang and Chen Jiji were dragged up by Wang Jun to make a speech, and when it was An Yi's turn to speak, he asked everyone very humorously not to drink too much, just mean it, otherwise he will definitely be scolded by himself.

An Yi raised his glass in the laughter, politely saluted the two British advisers, and then the three German advisers who had been fighting with the Right Route Army, and finally toasted everyone.

Despite this, An Yi couldn't stand it after a few rounds, but he still had to bite the bullet and continue to do it one cup after another. Wang Jun was even more excessive, while shouting that no one can get drunk, while constantly pouring An Yi, the generals and colonels of all divisions and brigades of the Third Army were also happy to come up and toast An Yi, so that An Yi didn't eat a bite of food and lay down, seeing that the British adviser Hughes on the side sneered and couldn't help shaking his head, his face was full of disdain.

The banquet dispersed, and Wei Lihuang, who had finished bathing, was not at ease, so he stopped and explained a few words to the adjutant, walked through the corridor alone, walked to the two-story building left for An Yi in the backyard, and came to the door of the main hall accompanied by An Yi's chief of guard, Lin Yaodong.

Lin Yaodong went in to report, Wei Lihuang stood at the door and saw Chen Jiji, Hu Zongnan, Li Yutang and a young brigade commander who had met several times but couldn't name him, and he didn't know when he had arrived.

Hearing Wei Lihuang's arrival, An Yi, Chen Jiji and others hurriedly walked out and warmly welcomed him into the main hall, and the guards quickly served fragrant tea.

Wei Lihuang walked to the map with a teacup, looked at it for a while, and asked in a low voice, "Are you talking about Luo Tian's enemy?" ”

Chen Jiji smiled bitterly: "The little brother's thoughts were seen by An Yi at a glance, he asked about the coordinated battle plan of my first army and the third army, and the little brother could only explain it to him, although this plan was not reported, but he still saw it, and there was no deficiency under the fame!" ”

Wei Lihuang knew the whole plan formulation process and details, Chen Jiji and Wang Jun asked for his opinion many times for this, Wei Lihuang took into account that the combat intentions of the two armies were very helpful to the theater he was responsible for, and the three armies benefited a lot, so he also joined in the active planning, after several days of hard work, basically came up with a preliminary plan, just waiting to determine the specific direction of the two main forces in front of Xu, he jointly reported to the general for approval, but he did not expect that at this time he was seen through by An Yi, who had just arrived.

Wei Lihuang was no longer polite, and together with Chen Jiji, he told An Yi all the before and after of the entire plan and the specific action plan to be taken.

After An Yi asked a few key points, he was full of praise for the plans of Wei Lihuang and Chen Jiji, but finally asked with a smile:

"Your style of play is to echo the three directions, advance in unison, and press forward step by step in an arc through unexpected joint attacks, and force the main forces of the two communist forces to respond to the battle in a hard-hitting way of attacking from three sides, and finally can only retreat to the narrow area west of the West River and north of Luotian.

"The guiding ideology of the general is 'separate and combined attacks', with the encirclement as the ultimate goal, and it is estimated that they will not agree to leave only one division of Li Mo'an in the direction of Macheng to ambush, because the vast majority of people think it is not safe, and they will not appreciate your good intentions of 'exchanging the minimum price for the maximum result'.

"The strength of our army's columns is distributed in various strategic points, and too much attention is paid to the gains and losses of one city and one place, so it is difficult for you to persuade the general to give up the monitoring and suppression of other parts of the communist army, and to draw troops from other places to launch a continuous large-scale attack on the two main forces of the communist army together with your six divisions.

Wei Lihuang sighed: "It is precisely because of this that we are indecided, we did not report in advance as usual, and there is no bottom on whether we can persuade the committee to make up our minds." I thought that my brother would be able to promote this battle after taking command this time, but now it seems that there are many difficulties! ”

Chen Jiji and the others also nodded in unison, and Li Yutang thought about it and suggested: "If Chief Wei, Junzao and Senior Brother Hu go to Hankou together, they may be able to solve the problem." ”

Wei Lihuang and the three of them glanced at each other, and finally everyone looked at Hu Zongnan, who was most valued by Chairman Jiang.

Hu Zongnan pondered for a moment, and immediately said: "If you can promote this matter, what harm is it to go to Hankou to meet the principal?" The headmaster has always respected the opinions of the chief of the guard and the military seat, and it is better for the chief of the guard and the military seat to lead his subordinates together. ”

"In this case, without further ado, let's leave tomorrow morning, take a train to Nanjing, and then find a way to apply for an airplane to the Aviation Administration through the Military Commission and fly directly to Wuhan, otherwise it will be delayed for three or four days." Chen Jiji said.

Hu Zongnan laughed: "You forgot the military seat? The second elder has his own special plane, which is better than the principal's special plane, please send his plane to do a favor, fly directly from his hometown Nanchang Airport to Bengbu, and take us to Wuhan. ”

Chen Jiji's eyes lit up, and he grinned: "It's decided, haha!" ”

An Yi readily agreed, and everyone spoke for a while before offering to leave. An Yi pointed to the young commander of the Fourth Brigade of the 1st Division on the side and asked Hu Zongnan:

"Senior brother, give Dongzi a night off, tomorrow at eight o'clock in the morning, I will ask him to go back on time to report, how about it?"

"That's what I brought him in, let's go! Send the plane early tomorrow, and don't forget what you promised me. ”

After Hu Zongnan finished speaking, he motioned for Wei Lihuang and Chen Jiji to go first, and An Yi, Shen Fengdao, Zhao Rui and others politely sent them outside the door, and then said goodbye to each other.

Walking out of the courtyard, Wei Lihuang asked Hu Zongnan: "What is the relationship between the commander of the Fourth Brigade named Dongzi under Shoushan and General An?" ”

"His name is Luo Shaodong, and he is the brother of Senior Brother An."

Hu Zongnan explained with emotion: "Senior Brother An was exiled to Guangzhou that year, just when the chaos of the merchant rebellion was cleared, he was almost cut down by the workers' pickets and the Red Guards as a merchant army, and Senior Brother An then fell seriously ill and fell on the street, and was pulled to the eastern suburbs as a dead body to be buried. Later, Dongzi was admitted to the fifth phase of Whampoa with excellent results, and after graduation, he was assigned to the subordinate department, starting from the trainee quartermaster, repeatedly made military exploits, and finally rose to the current colonel brigade commander, at the end of June, Ding Delong's independent brigade was surrounded by Xu Qian's two divisions, that is, Dongzi led the troops to rush to help, and successfully broke the siege after four hours of hard fighting, and the gun hole in his calf has not healed yet. ”

Wei Lihuang was greatly moved, and at the same time had another layer of understanding of the friendship between Hu Zongnan and An Yi.