After Wang Jingwei's telegram, the whole country condemned, Chiang Kai-shek held a special meeting of the Central Standing Committee, decided to expel Wang Jingwei from the party, wanted Wang Jingwei, Zhou Fohai and others, and then the German army swept through Western Europe, 300,000 British and French troops abandoned all heavy weapons and retreated from Dunkirk, France surrendered, and Hitler's Germany won an unprecedented brilliant victory.

After Long Yun issued a telegram in Yunnan in support of the national political axe, Yunnan quickly settled down, and the troops as defensive preparations were withdrawn to the garrison one after another, and Zhuang Jihua also went to southern Yunnan and western Yunnan to inspect the work, and the situation in western Yunnan made him particularly satisfied, and the rout of France once again confirmed Zhuang Jihua's judgment, and Li Anding began to prepare for war with all his might.

After Song Yun flew to western Yunnan, he recruited 600 special forces soldiers, and half of them had been eliminated in a few months, relying on this half of them, with the assistance of the garrison and the police brigade, most of the bandits in western Yunnan were exterminated, and the rest either fled to Burma or Laos, and the social order in western Yunnan was unprecedentedly good.

Li Anding attaches great importance to this school, not only serving as a teacher himself, but also transferring 10 teachers and 20 outstanding graduates from the Kunming Cadre School and the Xikang Cadre School. It must be explained here that the Xikang Cadre School, which was also built by Li Anding, was built for the purpose of training Xikang grassroots cadres and cadres of the Three Youth Leagues, but not long after the opening of this school, some Sinicized Tibetans and Yi people came to study in the school, and virtually reserved some ethnic minority cadres.

The western Yunnan Border Police Corps originally had more than 10,000 people, but in less than half a year, Shi Guantao had expanded to 6,000 people, a quarter of whom were ethnic minorities. However, after all, Shi Guantao did not lead troops for a long time, and the training methods and troop formation were still the old methods of the Whampoa period, and this had proved that he could not fight against the army. After Zhuang Jihua inspected the troops, he decided to transfer some officers from the 49th Group Army and the 47th Army.

After Li Jiayu was killed, Li Zongfang took over as the commander of the 47th Army, what made Li Zongfang a little chilled was that the 47th Army had fought hard and made heavy sacrifices, and even the army commander Li Jiayu was killed, but after the war, the base camp ordered the 47th Army to be downsized, from the original 50,000 to 36,000 in two divisions and one brigade.

The 49th Group Army had already provided Huang Botao with cadres once, and if all of them were transferred from there, the damage to the troops would be too great. Fortunately, Li Zongfang still obeyed the order and sent more than 20 cadres, plus more than 20 people provided by the 49th Group Army.

Zhuang Jihua did not disperse these more than 40 people to various units, but used them to establish a teaching team to train non-commissioned officers and company and platoon cadres in the whole army in rotation. It was at this time that he received a telegram from Chiang Kai-shek, telling him to return to Chongqing immediately and report to him.

The voice of the newsboy is still echoing, compared with these publicly disclosed reports, Zhuang Jihua knows more about the inside story, whether it is Fu Chang or Yang Sen Deng Xihou, they have kept in touch with him, and he knows that this major counteroffensive is not so much a military counteroffensive as a political show.

After the two battles in Wuhan and Nanchang, the troops suffered great losses, and they had not yet recovered their breath, and they were not able to carry out a counteroffensive at all, and the Ninth Theater said that it was to use three group armies to counterattack Nanchang, but in fact each group army only took out one division, and each division only took out one regiment, so it seemed that the scene was grand, but in fact there were not many people, and the results of the battle were not great.

"Cultural Revolution," a calm voice came from behind, Zhuang Jihua turned around, Yang Yongtai was looking at him with a smile behind him, and next to him was Song Ziwen, who he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Mr. Changqing, Mr. Ziwen, it just so happens that you also crossed the river?" To be honest, Zhuang Jihua was still a little surprised, how did these two come together.

"We had the same purpose, so naturally we bumped into each other." Yang Yongtai's Zhuang Jihua smiled and said: "Different paths lead to the same end, since this is the case, let's go together, Mr. Song will come back to replace Kong Yongzhi." ”

"It seems that you don't know yet," Song Ziwen's smile was a little strange: "The chairman of the committee wants to issue treasury bonds in the United States, and Kong Yongzhi will preside over it, he wants me to preside over the Executive Yuan, not concurrently the Ministry of Finance, and the Minister of Finance will appoint it separately, the Cultural Revolution, it shouldn't be you, right?" ”

Song Ziwen's words meant to be joking or tentative, Zhuang Jihua laughed at himself: "Don't be joking, I'm in charge of the Ministry of Finance?" It must be chaos in the world. ”

"Not necessarily." Song Ziwen stepped forward and stood beside Zhuang Jihua, but Zhuang Jihua flashed to the side and let Yang Yongtai stand between them.

The three of them were talking and laughing, watching the ferry gradually approaching, when suddenly, the fierce siren sounded, and the crowd waiting for the boat suddenly scattered in all directions in panic, and then automatically divided into several groups and ran along the road signs to the bomb shelter.

Yang Yongtai looked at his watch and said unhurriedly: "There are about twenty minutes left, let's find a place too." ”

"Then you two go, I'll find a place to see." Zhuang Jihua said lightly that this kind of bombing is mainly aimed at factories, commercial centers, and crowded areas, and no pilot will drop bombs on a person, unless he is determined to be an important target. Yucheng is known as a mountain city, full of slopes and woods, just find a forest to hide.

"In that case, then I won't go, there's a grove over there, let's go there." Yang Yongtai also refused to go, Song Ziwen did not object, the three of them took their entourage to the forest, there were already a few people in the forest, Wu Ziniu quickly arranged the guards, and surrounded the corner of the edge of the forest.

Zhuang Jihua paid attention to the sky, hundreds of air-proof balloons were rising one after another, arranged in an orderly manner over the city, boats on the Yangtze River were also quickly docked, and there was only a car on the empty highway.

There was a faint roar in the sky, the explosion came from a distance, and gradually got closer, and the machine with the red plaster finally flew overhead, and the anti-aircraft artillery on both sides of the strait roared in unison, and flowers suddenly bloomed in the sky.

"Boom!" "Boom!" Two bombs exploded on the riverside, and a large crater was blown up on the riverside beach. Then another bomb exploded on a hillside not far away, causing a stirring among the crowd hiding in the woods.

"Go and tell everyone not to panic, I didn't find us." Zhuang Jihua turned his head and said to Wu Ziniu, Wu Ziniu nodded, but did not move, but let the guards do it.

"Mayor Yang, is the air-raid shelter in Yucheng enough?" Zhuang Jihua asked.

"Enough," Yang Yongtai sighed: "Since last year, we have been digging air-raid shelters, each street has set a task, the air-raid shelters are dug under the guidance of experts, the municipal axe and the party department have organized joint inspections, you see, the road signs outside, every street, every intersection has that kind of road signs, the anti-aircraft guns were not enough, now there are more than 1,300 anti-aircraft guns and more than 4,000 anti-aircraft machine guns in the whole city, this year's anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns are all left in Chongqing, 2,000 anti-aircraft guns and 3,000 anti-aircraft machine guns were withdrawn from Wuhan, All key targets are protected by anti-aircraft guns, in addition, one hundred and forty of the two hundred aircraft purchased in the United States are already in place. ”

The situation seemed to be very good, but Zhuang Jihua's brows were furrowed more and more tightly, and Song Ziwen was the first to notice it, and he was a little curious: "What's wrong?" Cultural Revolution, isn't that right? ”

"I'm thinking, one hundred and forty P40s, plus our own production and leftovers, there are more than 200 planes in total, and the Air Force has basically recovered its strength, how can we still let the planes break into the city?" Zhuang Jihua shook his head and said.

"The Air Force is Qian Dajun's commander, right?" Song Ziwen's meaning is obvious, Qian Dajun is also a veteran of Whampoa, deeply trusted by Chiang Kai-shek, and the Air Force Command is transformed from the Aviation Committee, and the members of the Aviation Committee are all appreciated by Song Meiling.

Zhuang Jihua smiled bitterly, among the Huangpu veterans, Qian Dajun had the best relationship with him, better than his direct boss Wang Jun, Wang Jun did not directly lead troops over the years, but served as the chief of staff, and served as the first deputy director of the Military Commission after the Wuhan Defense War. Of course, Zhuang Jihua's current status has surpassed most Huangpu teachers.

"Cultural Revolution, how did you come up with the idea of issuing treasury bonds in the United States?" Song Ziwen asked.

"There is already a shortage of domestic funds, so we have to go to the United States to issue treasury bonds." Zhuang Jihua said indifferently.

"But do you know what restrictions there are on issuing Treasury bonds in the United States?" Song Ziwen asked again.

This time, Zhuang Jihua shook his head, he knew the method of listing in the United States, but he did not know how to issue treasury bonds.

Song Ziwen looked at him and shook his head slightly, and then explained: "Treasury bonds are essentially a kind of stocks, but this kind of stock is guaranteed by national credit, and the income is limited. Investors investing in this product mainly consider the economic situation of the country, and the United States has strict restrictions on the issuance of Treasury bonds by foreign political axes in the country, which must be approved by the Federal Reserve, the US State Department, the Senate House Finance Committee, and even the state of the country's finances must be reported to them in order to obtain such approval. ”

Zhuang Jihua shook his head: "This is actually a political issue. ”

"It's a political issue," Song Ziwen also nodded and admitted: "But it's also an economic issue, and it's an economic issue in the House of Representatives and the Senate." ”

"Roosevelt should be able to control both houses." Zhuang Jihua still didn't care.

"Boom!" A bomb exploded nearby, trees shuddered, green leaves fell, the crowd screamed, and several children cried loudly.

The sound of artillery became more violent, a plane dragged a long smoke into the Yangtze River, and the crowd watching the battle in the woods let out a burst of cheers, followed by another enemy plane dragging a long whistle and slamming into the ground.

A few brave young men ran out of the woods and went outside to watch the battle from a higher place. Seeing that the artillery fire below was so fierce, the planes raised their heights one after another, and the impact points became even more chaotic.

The bombing lasted for more than 30 minutes, and with the sound of three flutes, the air raid sirens were lifted, and everyone returned to the ferry one after another, Zhuang Jihua and they also returned to the highway, fortunately, the plane was not interested in a few cars on the road, and the dock workers shouted to the guests to board the boat.

(To be continued)