Chapter 1 Winter Mountain Climbing
"It's been so long since the Battle of Changsha ended, why didn't the Central Daily recall you, a reporter accompanying the army? Did the leaders of your newspaper forget about you? Do you need me to find someone to help you go to the capital activities and let your leaders transfer you back? ”
"Humph! You've only been promoted for a few days, and you want to drive me away? There are no doors! The resources of the 500 army are mine alone! I made a report to the newspaper, and the newspaper approved it, and from now on I will be a special correspondent of the Central Daily Office stationed in the 500th Army! ”
The weather has entered winter, and Gao Quan's military uniform is covered with a thin cotton jacket. Hong Yingying and Huiqin changed into bloated winter clothes. Tang Wenjuan, who is not physically strong, insisted on not wearing the thick cotton military uniform issued by the army, only added a hand-knitted sweater to the single coat, and now standing next to him, he didn't know whether he was tired from climbing the mountain or frozen, and his delicate face was red.
In the mountainous area in early winter, the mountains were full of gloom, and Gao Quan couldn't resist the obsession of the reporters of the Central News Agency, so he had to agree to come out and climb the mountain. It's not a famous mountain and river like Mount Tai in Huangshan, what is there to do? The army is stationed on the mountain, and every day when you open your eyes, you see a big mountain, and you climb it every day, haven't you climbed enough?
In mid-October, the Japanese divisions withdrew to their original places, and the Battle of Changsha ended victoriously. The 500 Divisions were originally seconded to help temporarily, and the Ninth Theater did not prepare a place for them to be stationed. After the battle, the Military Commission issued an order, and the 500 divisions returned to the 5th theater.
In view of the fact that the 500th Division had achieved good results in the Battle of Changsha and had won glory and shown its face for the Fifth War Zone, Chief Li was overjoyed and finally allocated a piece of territory to Gao Quan. Due to the transfer of the 119th Division of the 68th Army originally stationed in Tongbai Mountain, after the commander Da ** Heng, Tongbai County was assigned to Gao Quan as the base camp of the 500th Division.
Tongbai County has jurisdiction over several towns and villages in the Tongbai Mountains, has a large area, although the mountainous area is barren, but the victory lies in the large territory, the population is also quite large, it is a good place for Gao Quan's training to strengthen itself.
A few days ago, Gao Quan went to Laohekou and received a double commendation from the theater and the Military Commission. Because Gao Quan had made outstanding contributions on the battlefield by killing the commander of the enemy's major general's brigade, Mitsuru Ushijima, and with the photo of Central News Agency reporter Tang Wenjuan as evidence, the Central Military Commission specially promoted Gao Quan to lieutenant general. The 500 divisions under his command were also upgraded to 500 troops at the same time.
Of course, there is also the meaning of selling well, after all, Gao Quan is also a Whampoa student! The commission is to use this way to tell the people of the world: as long as you are a brave general and have made meritorious achievements, you will inevitably have the opportunity to be promoted!
It is common sense that an army of others has several divisions under its jurisdiction. However, there is no mention of this in this commendation order of the Military Commission! As a result, under Gao Quan's 500 Army, there was still only one 500 division, and it became a corps-level unit with only one division.
Of course, the trip to the old estuary was not in vain. Chief Li also fulfilled his wish, and returned the new 501st Division and Zheng Guotai to Gao Quan, what was and is still what is now, and the mess you left behind, clean up by yourself!
The years have changed, and the time is no more. It's impossible for anything to remain the way it is. Zheng Guotai and his army, although there is no one less, is still very different from when he first came. At the very least, those sick wounded soldiers have healed their injuries one by one, and they can't say how energetic they are, and they have gained weight, which is even more impossible, but they are much stronger than the original honor.
For such a unit, if you want to maintain the number of another division, even if Chief Li is capable, it is also difficult, not to mention, why should people give him this skill?
As a result, the new 501st Division, which was seriously inconsistent in strength, was naturally withdrawn. In order to return this unit to Gao Quan in its entirety, Commander Li also deliberately organized these people into a supplementary battalion. As for Zheng Guotai, the commander of the major general and division, in order not to chill the puppet army who surrendered to Chengcheng, the Military Commission kept his rank of major general.
A major general of the national army, let the family take the position of supplementary battalion commander, no matter where he got it, it was unreasonable, and the commander simply gave Zheng Guotai a false position as a major general's staff officer, in fact, Zheng Guotai's daily work is still beckoning these hundreds of people.
Gao Quan went to Laohekou this time, in addition to receiving two commendation orders, as well as a letter of appointment from a military commander and a pair of lieutenant generals, it was these hundreds of soldiers, and the major general Gao Shen.
There is no problem with the soldiers, after going back, Gao Quan dispersed these hundreds of veterans to various units, but this major general Gao Shen is a troublemaker! Could it be that Zheng Guotai really stayed at the division headquarters as a staff officer? Zheng Guotai was calm and said to Gao Quan that he completely obeyed the arrangement of the military seat, and no matter what kind of work, he Zheng Guotai was willing to do it in a down-to-earth manner.
Gao Quan pondered that the Military Commission knew that Zheng Guotai would be given the rank of major general, and of course he didn't need to embarrass others. As a result, Zheng Guotai hung up the post of major general and deputy division commander in the 500th Division. Of course, he, as the deputy division commander, has absolutely no right to interfere in the military, and Deputy Division Commander Zheng's usual job is to handle the relationship with the local authorities and coordinate the conscription and grain transfer.
Today, Tang Wenjuan insisted on pestering Gao Quan to come out and climb the mountain. Of course, Commander Gao's physical strength to climb the mountain is no problem, but he is in the mountains, and in this season, he really can't be interested in climbing such a desolate and barren slope. Looking at the female reporter next to him who was blushing but still in high spirits, Gao Quan couldn't help but ask casually, how did he know that he had got such an answer!
Turning his head to look at Hong Yingying on the other side, he saw that Director Hong's face was not red and out of breath, and he looked ahead, as if he hadn't heard the conversation between the two at all. Hui Qin, who was two steps behind, also blushed on her face, but she was not as wheezing as Tang Wenjuan, and her physical strength was obviously stronger than that reporter.
Legend has it that in the past, someone saw a tiger coming down from this mountain, and there was a huge rock near the top of the mountain, which looked similar to a tiger coming down the mountain, so this mountain was called Xiahu Mountain.
From a distance, the tiger stone is a boulder, but when you come to the front, you only see a high protruding rock wall, you can't feel any tiger at all, and you don't know where the ancestors came from so rich imagination.
The Tiger Stone is at least 20 meters high! For such a tall boulder, Gao Quan really didn't have anything to climb up, and he had the idea of climbing up to see the small mountains, and turned his head to find that Tang Wenjuan was staring at the big stone and was distracted, Gao Quan hurriedly changed the topic, "Hey, are you all hungry?" I'm hungry! After climbing the mountain all morning, the meal I ate in the morning had already been digested. There are people over there, let's go to the mountain people's houses to rest and beg for a meal, right? ”
He didn't dare to let this crazy girl have the idea of climbing the Tiger Rock again, such a steep stone, if he slipped and stumbled, no matter how good his skills were, he would not have time to rescue!