Qingxin, the Sichuan Army Headquarters, Xiong Kewu, Yu Peidi and other senior generals of the Sichuan Army, together with the main leaders of Zhuang Jihua, Jiang Xianyun and other work teams, held a reorganization meeting, which was attended by cadres above the company level of the Sichuan Army. Xiong Kewu had just announced the topic of the meeting, and there was silence at the venue. It took a long time for the middle-rank and lower-ranking officers to digest the shock caused by the news, and there was a buzz and whispering below.

"Quietly, let's give the floor to Lieutenant Colonel Zhuang Jihua, leader of the reorganization team, to speak." Yu Peidi, who presided over the meeting, stood up to stop the exchange of words below.

After the venue was quiet, Zhuang Jihua stood in front of the rostrum, he glanced at the nervous officers below, cleared his throat and said loudly:

"Comrades, since the Xinhai Revolution, there have been years of chaos in the country, the country has been ruined, and the people have been displaced, and the reason for this is that the military arbitrarily wields power, the generals regard the army as a private army, and the soldiers fight for the private interests of the generals, which is an important reason for the formation of warlords.

This situation cannot be reproduced under the national political axe, so the national political axe decided to reorganize the army, and the reorganization of the Sichuan army is only the first step in the reorganization of the Guangdong army, and the Hunan army, the Yunnan army, and the Guangdong army will all be reorganized in the future. Make it a unified national army, not an army of small groups or high-ranking generals, and nip the warlords in the bud.

General Xiong Kewu, Commander Yu Jitang, Commander Tang Zimo, Division Commander Yu Peidi and other generals of the Sichuan Army have set an example for us, and they resolutely support the national political axe and the reorganization of the Sichuan Army. On behalf of the National Government, I pay tribute to them. Saying that, Zhuang Jihua turned around and saluted Xiong Kewu and the others with a solemn military salute.

"Now I announce the specific method of the Sichuan army.

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Comrades, the Kuomintang has made great determination to not only allocate special funds from the treasury to resettle the officers and men who have been reorganized, but even revise the economic construction plan to cooperate with the reorganization of the army.

If the officers and men who have been reorganized from the army are willing to go home, the National Politics Axe will pay severance pay and settling-in allowances, and if they are unwilling to return home, the National Politics Axe will set up a new army, which is called the engineering unit, which is responsible for the construction of road traffic and other military and civilian buildings.

If neither of these is willing, the national political axe can also be recommended to work in some factories and mining enterprises, in short, let everyone go without food.

Officers at and above the regimental level will be admitted to the senior class of the Whampoa Military Academy, and junior officers will be admitted to the third phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. After graduation, he was assigned to work in the army.

In a word, it is necessary to satisfy all officers and men.

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Zhuang Jihua spoke in great detail, not only explaining the political significance of the reorganization, but also explaining in detail the methods and steps of the reorganization, as well as the way out for the officers and men who were reorganized out of the army. But before he finished speaking, someone stood up and asked loudly: "Transfer all the officers away, is this a big blood exchange, is it annexation?" ”

The atmosphere at the venue suddenly became solemn. Zhuang Jihua smiled faintly.

"Yes, you're not wrong, it's annexation." There was an uproar in the venue, and immediately several more people stood up and questioned loudly.

"We do not accept annexation."

"The reorganization is okay, but it must be the reorganization of our Sichuan army itself."

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After the officers finished speaking, Zhuang Jihua said solemnly: "This is annexation, but this annexation is not the annexation of warlords to warlords, but the annexation of the national political axe, and there is an essential difference between the two." Warlord annexation is to expand their own power, and national political axe annexation is to build a national army, the former is a small group, the latter is a state; The former is private, and the latter is public. ”

"Why can't we reorganize ourselves, is it because the newspaper says that we are the warlord's army?" Someone else stood up and asked. This question made the officers in the conference room excited again.

"To rectify the army is to rectify the bad habits in the old army and turn it into a new-style army that is completely loyal to the revolution. The Sichuan Army is an old army, and the purpose of rectifying the Sichuan Army is to turn the Sichuan Army into a new army, and this purpose cannot be achieved by yourself. As for saying that you are warlords,...., IMHO it should be said that all the old armies have the habits of more or less warlord armies, and the accusations against you in the newspapers refer mainly to the mistakes you made in the past few years, not to the present. ”

"Heh, so if you accept the reorganization, you are not a warlord, and if you don't accept it, you are a warlord. It's not up to you to decide whether a warlord is a warlord or not. Someone shouted.

"It's not for me to say whether a warlord is a warlord or not, and it's not for me to say in the newspapers;" Zhuang Jihua was still very calm, he expected that someone would stand up and question at today's meeting, and even create chaos: "It's you, what you do." What is the National Political Axe? The national political axe is a political axe on behalf of the state, not a private political axe, so it is a matter of course for revolutionary soldiers to accept the orders of the national political axe, what is the act of disobeying the order of the national political axe? It can only be a warlord! Zhuang Jihua finally shouted loudly.

"Why do you want to go to the Whampoa Military Academy for training? Ge Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu has fought for more than ten years, and he also learned a hammer. Someone scolded angrily.

"By the way, that Whampoa is only worthy of washing Lao Tzu's feet, and he wants to train Lao Tzu, but he doesn't have that one properly." It is clear that this officer was born in the army, and he scolded when he opened his mouth.

"Entering the Whampoa Military Academy to study is to learn revolutionary principles, and techniques and tactics are only secondary. I know that many of you here have fought much more than me, Zhuang Jihua, and have a much longer military experience than me, and their technical and tactical level is also higher than mine. Zhuang Jihua said unequivocally to the hundreds of Sichuan Army officers sitting in the audience.

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In the face of the indiscriminate bombardment of the Sichuan army officers, Zhuang Jihua calmly resolved them one by one, Xiong Kewu stood by and watched with the intention of watching the excitement, but as the meeting progressed, he became more and more surprised, no matter how the Sichuan army officers scolded and made things difficult, Zhuang Jihua was not angry, his tone was sometimes loud, sometimes gentle, but there was no insult, ridicule, and arrogance. "It's not unjust to lose." Xiong Kewu sighed in a low voice, looking at Zhuang Jihua's tall and thin back, he gritted his teeth and stood up and slapped the table with a slap, causing the teacups on the table to slam.

"What are you doing here!" The audience was silent again, Xiong Kewu's majestic gaze scanned the audience, and then he said coldly: "Look at you still like a soldier?" What are we doing in Guangdong? We are here for the revolution, and the reorganization of the troops is an order of the national political axe, and we should carry it out. If you don't want to do it, you can get out, and I, Xiong Kewu, will never stop it. ”

Xiong Kewu was about to sit down, when an officer stood up, rushed to the rostrum in a few steps and knelt down, crying: "Commander, no, this is the unit you pulled up with your own hands, and it can't be over like this." Commander!!! ”

"Yes, Commander, we have worked so hard to come to Guangdong, not to be fish and meat for them." An officer stood up and yelled.

"Kill them, and go out of Guangdong !!"

"yes, kill them."

Several young officers drew their pistols and brandished them in the air.

"Someone!" Xiong Kewu suddenly changed color and shouted, rushing in from outside the door of the two factions of soldiers, Xiong Kewu pointed to the officers and ordered: "Get off their guns, take them up, and wait for disposal." ”

The soldiers immediately seized the guns in the hands of several officers, and several officers turned around without fear and walked out.

"Liu Changqing, what is over, the reorganization of you will be over, and you will not be able to revolution? Fart. Xiong Kewu continued to curse the officer who was kneeling on the ground.

"Loyalty to the individual, disregard for the state; What is this not a warlord doing? Yu Peidi asked loudly.

"It is imperative to reorganize the troops, no one can have a second word, no one can tell right from wrong, and orders must be strictly implemented." Yu Peidi continued. The speeches of the core of the two units suddenly silenced some of the people who were eager to try.

Zhuang Jihua secretly rejoiced in his heart, fortunately he insisted that Xiong Kewu attend the meeting in front of Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek yesterday, otherwise this group of unruly generals in a hundred battles might really be desperate to provoke incidents, which would not only mean the complete failure of the reorganization plan, but also the complete destruction of the Sichuan army.

But he didn't expect that when he and Jiang Xianyun were making trouble with these people, the two of them looked calm and not worried, and Song Yunfei, Wu Ziniu and a few other guards who came with them stood aside without moving, as if it was not their commander who was threatened at all. Their performance made the generals of the Sichuan army admire, but also more and more convinced that the national political axe was fully prepared, and once there was chaos, the army of the national political axe would definitely be killed in the shortest possible time.

"Finally, I would like to add that not all officers will enter Whampoa, and some officers will leave the difference in price for reorganization. I live at the headquarters with Comrade Jiang Xianyun, a party representative, and you can come to me at any time if you have any questions. Zhuang Jihua raised his hand and saluted after speaking.

Subsequently, Xiong Kewu and Yu Peidi stepped forward to make speeches one after another, demanding that the officers and men of Sichuan abide by military discipline, obey orders, and conscientiously reorganize.

After the meeting, Zhuang Jihua convened a meeting of all the members of the task force.

Guangzhou Dongshan is a powerful area in Guangzhou, and it is also a villa area. Almost all of these villas are Western-style buildings, most of them are British-style, the villas are planted with all kinds of trees and flowers, with the lawn inside the door and the spacious road outside the door, the area appears clean and noble, most of the newly established heads of the national political axe live here, Hu Hanmin's residence is a two-story cyan small building here, and not far from him is the official residence of Wang Jingwei, the new chairman of the national axe.

Since the abolition of the base camp and the establishment of the Kuomintang, Hu Hanmin's family has gradually decreased in guests, but there are still some people who are regular visitors to his home.

"The reorganization of the Sichuan army is clever, Chiang Kai-shek and Liao Zhongkai are clever, and they can easily hold more than 20,000 troops in their hands." The speaker was Wei Bangping, the commander of the Guangdong Army, who was a native of Guangdong, studied in Yueben in his early years, and served as the commander-in-chief during the war against thieves.

"Xiong Kewu, fucking bear, just surrender!" Lin Zhimian was a little incomprehensible and a little incredible.

"Brother Shaoxuan, what can Xiong Jinfan do, people have already hollowed out his family, he has to run." Hu Hanmin leisurely exhaled the smoke ring, and then stared at the gradually expanding circle with some blankness, watching him slowly dissipate in the air.

(To be continued)